British Raj Movies

Actuality film showing a busy Salvation Army parade in a rural village under the British Raj.

The film explores the tragic fall of feudalism in Bengal during the British Raj. The title of the movie and the story is a reference to the plot...

Amateur film featuring government buildings in Delhi, a shooting party in Malakand and winter in Abbottabad.

Accompany a couple on their visit to a local wildlife park.

Lady Pamela Lytton, wife of the Governor of Bengal, visits the grand marble Victoria Memorial in Calcutta.

The thronging streets of Chennai in festive mood are captured by this lively amateur film.

From the arrival of a new viceroy to street markets, this amateur film captures the diversity of life in colonial India.

Rare stencil-coloured images of early 20th century Delhi during a Muslim festival.

Armoured elephants, sacred monkeys and a camel carriage from Rajasthan.

Made by an English family living in north India during the heyday of the Raj, this amateur film reveals the grandeur in which middle-class English...

The Maharajah of Jind inspects the guard of honour.

Rural life in the mountainous valley near Gilgit - now in the Northern areas of Pakistan.

A film produced to celebrate the coronation of George V as King-Emperor at the Imperial Durbar of 1911.

Amateur footage of the devastation caused by one of South Asia's worst earthquakes.

Lord Lytton takes up the post of Governor of Bengal.

Amateur footage of a trip into the Himalaya.

Motorcars take shape - outdoors in a Kolkata yard.

A stunning display by Nyishi tribesmen from the hills of Arunachal Pradesh, north-eastern India.

Amateur film of fishing and geese-shooting trips by a British party in India.

Life on the road in India, showing the traffic, people and animals.