British Raj Movies

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

Girl guides on parade at a rally in southern India attended by Olave Baden-Powell.

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

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.

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

Motorcars take shape - outdoors in a Kolkata yard.

A Christian take on 'Edenless' India, where heathens are unafraid of snakes, and build 'interesting' temples to their gods.

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

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

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

Early film of a crowded street scene in an unidentified Indian city.

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

Amateur travelogue of the Kagan Valley and Darband, Pakistan.

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...

Fashionably attired folk attend the races in Kolkata.

The Maharajah of Jind inspects the guard of honour.