British Raj Movies

The timber trade calls on animal help.

Stately scenes in India, likely filmed during the 1903 Delhi Durbar.

The Maharajah of Jind inspects the guard of honour.

Lord Lytton takes up the post of Governor of Bengal.

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

Amateur footage of Delhi and Jaipur, from a military review to an atmospheric torchlit procession - and some armour-plated elephants.

Scenes at a garden party given by Earl Lytton, Governor of Bengal, at Government House, Calcutta.

Indian freedom fighter Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated on 30 January 1948. Why was he killed and what events occurred before and after his murder?...

Tigers in the Himalayan foothills, filmed by famous hunter and conservationist Jim Corbett.

Richly detailed record of the Prince of Wales' Indian tour.

Aristocracy, army, elephants and more mark the start of the 1903 Durbar.

Kathakali performance featuring the great Indian dancer Guru Gopinath.

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...

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

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

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

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

The future Edward VIII visits Malakand, Kapurthala and opens the Royal Military College at Dehra Dun

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

The future Edward VIII opens a durbar and enjoys a day at the races before inspecting the fire brigade in Calcutta.