British Raj Movies

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

Gorgeously dreamlike colour images of (then) French India – present-day Puducherry.

Fashionably attired folk attend the races in Kolkata.

Amateur footage of a trip into the Himalaya.

Anti-Congress propaganda film made by a District Officer in India.

Jaw-dropping acrobatics for royal visitors.

Extraordinary footage of prayers in the Punjabi capital.

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

The timber trade calls on animal help.

Amateur travelogue of the Kagan Valley and Darband, Pakistan.

Motorcars take shape - outdoors in a Kolkata yard.

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

Happy farmers, a wedding and some giant cauliflowers...

The race is on - for the Viceroy's Cup.

Romantic, atmospheric travelogue capturing some of northern India’s most iconic places – not least the Taj Mahal.

Indian elephants in action as working animals and in hunting.

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...

Military occasions around India and Pakistan, featuring the Khyber Pass, Srinagar, Rawalpindi and Peshawar.