India Movies

Stately scenes in India, likely filmed during the 1903 Delhi Durbar.

The Little Ballet Troupe of Bombay performs a "puppet ballet" of the Hindu epic, the Ramayana.

In the holy city of Varanasi, 16-year-old Ali has one of the most dangerous jobs in the world – catching poisonous snakes. The boy balances...

Chokkalingam, an old man, moves out of town after his wife's death and goes to live with Vasu, his nephew in Chennai. However, Vasu struggles to bear...

Bones of the Buddha is a 2013 television documentary produced by Icon Films and commissioned by WNET/THIRTEEN and ARTE France for the National...

Each year, groups of Tibetan children secretly flee their homeland over the Himalayas to reach schools in India founded by the government in exile....

Documentary short about the disastrous dangers of aging, ailing dams.

Shot over 3 months through the Monsoon, Nick Read's film captures the unvarnished reality of life for four children living in the slums and on the...

Chaudhary Karnail Singh is a 1960 Indian Punjabi movie based in the pre-partition times of India. The film was one of the earliest works of Prem...

The film starts in the early 1950s showing Sreedharan, the protagonist, as a very popular communist leader and trade union activist. He is forced to...

Indian elephants in action as working animals and in hunting.

Traveling the length and breadth of the country, S. Sukhdev constructs, a panoramic, non-narrated study of Indian life in the late 1960s. Shot across...

A young woman researches the hidden story of Indian soldiers who came to fight in France and Belgium during the World War I. The presence of these...

In Punjab’s Doaba region, a rooftop sculptor grapples with leaving home as his art and community reflect the hopes and sacrifices of migration.

From respected forgers of Armour for Hindu kings in the 16th century through to impoverished nomadic blacksmiths who forge and sell items from waste...

A documentary about the life and work of seminal mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.

During the Kargil War of 1999, an Indian army colonel wages war against the army of Pakistan as retaliation for the murder of his country's soldiers.

Against the backdrop of Partition, independent India’s first hockey team defeats England, their erstwhile coloniser, to win the Gold at the...

A Bangladeshi American undertakes a journey to learn about the liberation war in his native country, traveling there for the first time in nearly two...