Indian Life

A 1962 West German documentary film directed by Hermann Leitner and Rudolf Nussgruber.

In the heyday of the jute industry, millions of people in Bengal made their living doing this laborious work, which has hardly changed since the...

A documentary portrait of Calcutta

Varanasi is the Indian city where Hindus go to die. Stretching along the Ganges, Varanasi holds great spiritual significance because Hindu...

From dawn till dusk in the bohemian heart of London’s West End. This 1979 portrait of the people and places of Soho catches the neighbourhood...

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

Charming 60s travelogue inviting us to enjoy the delights of Eastbourne, where the sun always shines!

A jetliner spans the miles, sheering through clouds to open sky and scenic vistas of the provinces below. Glimpses of town and country, of people of...

"Rock Garden", a hidden paradise, tells the inspiring tale of Nek Chand, a government official who secretly transformed a dense forest into a...

Vaastu Marabu documents the theory and practice of the Vaastu tradition of Indian art, architecture, craft and design. One of the foremost shilpis...

Documentary on the construction of Chandigarh, the new capital of the Indian Punjab region, planned by Albert Mayer and Swiss architect Le Corbusier.

Traveling the length and breadth of the country, S. Sukhdev constructs, a panoramic, non-narrated study of Indian life in the late 1960s. Shot across...