The future Edward VIII visits Malakand, Kapurthala and opens the Royal Military College at Dehra Dun
The Taj Mahal and shots of Jalandhar nestle between footage from Canada and Africa.
A humorous documentary about a historic hunt in 1929 through the African savannah and Indian jungle with lots of animal footage.
Film of local events in Ajmer province including the fair at Pushkar.
Amateur footage of a trip into the Himalaya.
Hear the Lama band, see the sacred dances: welcome to Sikkim, in the shadow of the Himalayas.
Boys’ canoe trip on the Thames in London.
The race is on - for the Viceroy's Cup.
Aristocracy, army, elephants and more mark the start of the 1903 Durbar.
Rural life in the mountainous valley near Gilgit - now in the Northern areas of Pakistan.
A fun tour of 1950s West End with international film star Yoko Tani.
Richly detailed record of the Prince of Wales' Indian tour.
This official travelogue of a royal tour follows the Prince on a series of regimental displays and a tiger hunt.
Amateur film of fishing and geese-shooting trips by a British party in India.
The Real Story of Fake Democracy. Filmed over three years in five countries, FREEDOM FOR THE WOLF is an epic investigation into the new regime of illiberal democracy. From the young students of Hong Kong, to a rapper in post-Arab Spring Tunisia and the viral comedians of Bollywood, we discover how people from every corner of the globe are fighting the same struggle. They are fighting against elected leaders who trample on human rights, minorities, and their political opponents.
Two sides of Mysore: down to earth with the field workers and an Indian spectacle for the Maharaja.
A scenes from a tour of Manipur State and a women's bazaar in Imphal.
A film about memory, identity and the overwhelming power of love. One-year-old Devi was found starving at a railway station in Delhi. The police took her to Palna, an orphanage, where she lived for a year. When Devi learned to talk she often wanted to talk about Amma, her first mother. In the film, the 6-year-old Devi journeys to her own past, as her family adopts another daughter from Palna, a baby sister for Devi.
Jugaad is a Hindi word that can be translated as "innovative or effective solution that bends the rules". It refers to the extreme capacity developed by Mumbai's inhabitants to adapt and get around any type of constraint or obstacle posed by the city's urban structure. In a relatively small piece of land where 21 million people live today, the inhabitants of Mumbai demonstrate great creativity when it comes to managing the spaces (for sale, for prayer, for traffic) and the flows that cross them every day. Without using language, Hong Kong artist Chak Hin Leung brings together in this video a dozen unique situations in which people, animals, vehicles and natural elements intermingle and brush up against each other, without ever colliding.
From the arrival of a new viceroy to street markets, this amateur film captures the diversity of life in colonial India.