A fun tour of 1950s West End with international film star Yoko Tani.
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The future Edward VIII visits Malakand, Kapurthala and opens the Royal Military College at Dehra Dun
Amateur footage of a trip into the Himalaya.
A scenes from a tour of Manipur State and a women's bazaar in Imphal.
Amateur film featuring government buildings in Delhi, a shooting party in Malakand and winter in Abbottabad.
Amateur film of fishing and geese-shooting trips by a British party in India.
Two sides of Mysore: down to earth with the field workers and an Indian spectacle for the Maharaja.
A trip to the spectacular city of Bundi and a Kathakali dance performance, filmed in vivid colour.
Traditional games, dancing and music among the people of Sikkim - in vivid colour.
The future Edward VIII opens a durbar and enjoys a day at the races before inspecting the fire brigade in Calcutta.
Snapshots of colonial life around Tamil Nadu, plus a visit to the Toda tribe.
This official travelogue of a royal tour follows the Prince on a series of regimental displays and a tiger hunt.
Millions of Muslims flee to Lahore in the newly created state of Pakistan, prompted by the partition of British India.
Amateur shots of pilgrims and temples at Haridwar, followed by rural scenes and the Gorrie family at home.
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 colonials lived.
Rare amateur footage of East India.
Armoured elephants, sacred monkeys and a camel carriage from Rajasthan.
Rural life in the mountainous valley near Gilgit - now in the Northern areas of Pakistan.
Tourist promo film extolling the delights of Birmingham and the Midlands, with a sprinkling of arch one-liners.
The poignant journey of a transgender actor unfolds, as twenty-three years after last performing on stage as a man, she makes her return in the iconic role of Aunt Eller in an LGBTQ+ production of the Rogers and Hammerstein classic Oklahoma! at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
As part of the 2017 UK-India Year of Culture, the British Council and British Film Institute share a unique collection of films documenting the sights and culture of a bygone India. Filmed between 1899-1947, and preserved in the BFI National Archive since then, these rare films capture many glimpses of life in India, from dances and markets, to hunts and pageantry.
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