Ukhrul Medical Tour
1934 · 11m · Documentary
A doctor and party visit the villages of eastern Manipur in India's far north east.
More Like This
Jewelry Of India
★ 6
Mother India is home to many castes, tribes and religions and one common factor that brings this diverse country all together is Jewelry. Come explore the deep history and culture of the jewelry of India dating back more than 5000 years. As we explore the history we also take you into Bangalore, India and talk to local Jewelry Stores and Jewelry Artisans as they share their stories and their family history of their involvement in jewelry going far back into their family ancestry.
More info →
Arcadia
2017 · ★ 7.1
A provocative and poetic exploration of how the British people have seen their own land through more than a century of cinema. A hallucinated journey of immense beauty and brutality. A kaleidoscopic essay on how magic and madness have linked human beings to nature since the beginning of time.
More info →
A Native Street in India
1906 · ★ 4
Early film of a crowded street scene in an unidentified Indian city.
More info →Antarctica: Journey into the White Desert
2009
A vast white wilderness that stretches across the south of our planet; a giant natural laboratory that has long occupied the human psyche. Antarctica is a continent of remote natural wonder. For brief moments each year this hauntingly beautiful landscape opens up, beckoning scientists and explorers from around the world to investigate its frozen secrets. 'Journey into the White Desert' takes us on a mesmerizing visual adventure into this mysterious continent, introducing us to a team of South African scientists, researchers and explorers who have braved the inhospitable continent in the quest to learn its secrets. The film explores South Africa's role in the greatest wilderness on earth and showcases some of the groundbreaking research that could make the difference to our survival on this planet.
More info →Seil und Tau Fabrikation in Howrah bei Kalkutta
1909 · ★ 6
A short film showing the industrial process of jute works in India.
More info →
Picturesque India or, In and About Calcutta
1913 · ★ 5
Botanical gardens in Bombay plus the highly decorative Jain Temple in Calcutta.
More info →Jute
1923
The film show the day to day running of the Titaghur Jute company, which is in Bengal on the banks of the river Hooghly. Opening shot 360 degree pan of industrial buildings. 7000 Indian workers are employed, mostly women and children. There parks for the children to play. We follow the process from jute to cloth women working at looms in the factory (very dark), shots of power plant. Schools and workers accommodations. Shots of trains and boats, loading.
More info →
Dams: The Lethal Water Bombs
2011 · ★ 6
Documentary short about the disastrous dangers of aging, ailing dams.
More info →Buzz
2025
The anti-Slumdog Millionaire in documentary form, "Buzz" charts the tumultuous rise of India's most famous tattoo artist as he struggles to overcome the demons of his poverty-stricken childhood through art.
More info →Safari Ya Gari
1961
This early travelogue film, made in a Kenyan train station, captures an impromptu musical performance. Some passengers eagerly join in while others sleep—blissfully unaware of the performance taking place around them.
More info →