India Movies

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

Glow Worm in a Jungle is about Hema Sane, a retired botany professor, who has never used electricity in her life. Living surrounded by nature, amidst...

Can Aji's talent and triumphs elevate him from his poor, Tamil background to succeed on the national stage at Mr India? Or will his dreams be...

Lord Lytton takes up the post of Governor of Bengal.

An evocative and unsettling journey through christian and also deeply communist Kerala. Amidst red flags and altar boys, between the sea and the...

It's an ordinary winter's day when disillusioned Police Inspector Azaad Singh is tasked with delivering a very important file to his superior....

A documentary about Hindu cow worship and the British BSE crisis.

From Jaipur to Agra and Calcutta is a wonderful trip, and Burton Holmes shows some of the quaintest and queerest sights in the world, among them the...

Richly detailed amateur ethnographic film on the agrarian economy and society in rural Punjab.

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

Short documentary on India

In 1968, a convoy set off to transport a Calandria, the 70-ton core of a Canadian nuclear reactor, to Rajasthan in India. Even the largest...

Set in Varanasi, an ancient city of India, Tana Bana offers a rare look at the hidden world of Moslem weavers and Hindu traders and how their lives...

The Taj Mahal and shots of Jalandhar nestle between footage from Canada and Africa.

Documenting the production of kerosene tins and their reuse in rural India, this early short by Bimal Roy observes industrial labor and everyday life...

An emotional film on how much did an innocent single father suffer, when his daughter was sold to a brothel. Father spends his life searching for her.

This portait of life on the tea plantations is decidedly rosy – clearly, there are no exploited workers here. However, the film provides an...

Unethical Clinical Trials have been the silent killers for generations. It is everywhere at all times, just like the virus. One such trial has torn...

On the banks of the Cauvery River in southern India, wildlife filmmaker Sugandhi Gadadhar studies the behavior of Asian otters. On one of the...