British Raj Movies

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

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

Attractive travelogue filmed in and around Delhi's Qutb complex.

Kathakali performance featuring the great Indian dancer Guru Gopinath.

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

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...

Fashionably attired folk attend the races in Kolkata.

Amateur film of a road trip through northeastern India, showing traditional dances and a gigantic flower float.

Indian elephants in action as working animals and in hunting.

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

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

What’s the hidden message inside this intriguing film, shot at a Salvation Army establishment in western India?

Boats and steamers on the mud flats and lakes of the Assam district, India.

A state welcome for a Handley Page aircraft arriving in Kolkata.

A scenes from a tour of Manipur State and a women's bazaar in Imphal.

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

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

The Maharajah of Kapurthala and guests travel on elephants and men catch fish on the River Bias.

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

The Mysore Palace shines with 100,000 lights in a dazzling 400-year-old celebration.