Speaking Tree

2007

An unusual destiny of man named Deva who lost his mind while grazing camels in the desert of northwestern India. He was tied to the only tree in his village for years. Deva's wife left him,......

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Gujarati   2007   65 min   Documentary Movies from India   2023-10-07

AFSPA, 1958

2006

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Manipuri, English   2006   52 min   Documentary Movies from India   2024-11-23

The Journalist and the Jihadi: The Murder of Daniel Pearl

2006

A documentary on the murder of journalist Daniel Pearl....

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English   2006   80 min   Documentary Movies from India   2024-10-12

On Life and Enlightenment: Principles of Buddhism with His Holiness the Dalai Lama

2006

Practices of Tibetan Buddhist monks, from meditation to diet, are presented in this 5-part special featuring the Dalai Lama and other renowned spiritual leaders....

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English   2006   255 min   Documentary Movies from India   2024-10-31

Riding Solo to the Top of the World

2006

Riding Solo To The Top Of The World' is the unique experience of a lonesome traveler, who rides his motorcycle all the way from Mumbai to one of the remotest places in the World, the Changthang Plateau, in Ladakh, bordering China.......

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English   2006   94 min   Documentary Movies from India   2025-01-13

Men of Burden: Pedaling Towards a Horizon

2006

Set in Pondicherry, India, the documentary uncovers the story of disappearing cycle rickshaw drivers living in abject poverty. Over time, the number of cycle rickshaws have reduced greatly thereby diminishing the rickshaw-men's chanc...

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Tamil   2006   77 min   Documentary Movies from India   2024-11-14

The Celestial Brides

2006

Nestles in the Southern Indian State of TamilNadu, India is the village Koovagam, where every year, thousands of Eunuchs, gather for the Aravani Festivaland marry warrior - God Aravan. "The Celestial Brides" brings to the forefront t...

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English, Tamil   2006   24 min   Documentary Movies from India   2024-11-17

Kalamandalam Ramankutty Nair

2005

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Malayalam   2005   73 min   Documentary Movies from India   2024-03-15

John & Jane

2005

A entirely original blend of observational documentary and tropical science-fiction, John & Jane (2005) follows the stories of six "call agents" that answer American 1-800 numbers in a Mumbai call center....

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English   2005   83 min   Documentary Movies from India   2024-03-21

Harsh Beauty

2005

For centuries, Eunuchs have been an important part of Indian society. But the elevated role they once held has now faded. Today they live in isolated communities, working as prostitutes and beggars. A warm, poignant, revealing por......

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Tamil, English, Hindi   2005   53 min   Documentary Movies from India   2024-03-24

Mystic India

2005

11-year old Neelkanth has long dreamed of being a Yogi, and in the darkness of the rainy evening of June 29, 1792 he secretly leaves his family behind in the Northern India city of Ayodhya by plunging himself into the Saryu river ......

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English   2005   40 min   Documentary Movies from India   2024-01-27

Mother Ganga: A Journey Along the Sacred Ganges River

2005

The film portrays a pilgrimage, starting at the Bay of Bengal where the Ganges enters the sea, to Gangotri in the Himalay where the Ganges appears. Along the journey, one can see images from significant places on Ganges....

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Bulgarian, Czech, Russian, English, Hindi   2005   55 min   Documentary Movies from India   2024-12-13

Maratonautas

2005

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Spanish   2005   30 min   Documentary Movies from India   2024-11-13

Unseen to Be Seen

2005

This film shows the places in Sri Venkateshwara (Balaji) Temple (Richest Temple in the World), Tirumala, Andhra Pradesh, India usually not access to all....

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Telugu, Tamil, English, Kannada, Hindi   2005   42 min   Documentary Movies from India   2025-01-13

Voices in Exile

2005

Most film and photography on Tibet is from "The West" or "Western Eye" looking in. This film 'Voices in Exile' by Tibetan and first time director Tenzin Wangden Andrugtsang, presents the ......

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English   2005   65 min   Documentary Movies from India   2024-03-13

Tibetan Refugee

2004

Tibetan refugees in Dharamsala, the vast majority of whom are children and monks, are the subject of interviews....

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English, Tibetan   2004   60 min   Documentary Movies from India   2024-02-13

Final Solution

2004

A study of politics of hate, examining the rise and entrenchment of right-wing politics in India, by documenting the 2002 Gujarat riots and their aftermath. It specifically examines political tendencies reminiscent of early Nazi G......

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Gujarati, Hindi, Urdu   2004   149 min   Documentary Movies from India   2024-01-28

Highway Courtesans

2004

In rural India, 6 years in the life on young Guddi Chauhan are examined, as she struggles against the centuries-old tradition of prostitution she's expected to honor....

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English, Hindi   2004   71 min   Documentary Movies from India   2023-12-24

Still, the Children Are Here

2004

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N/A   2004   85 min   Documentary Movies from India   2024-02-18

Notes from Rishikesh

2004

About travellers who disappear in India and following the making of 'Letters From Rishikesh', the fiction feature film about the same subject shot in India in 2003....

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Hebrew, English   2004   27 min   Documentary Movies from India   2024-02-21

Tedhi Lakeer

2004

Two portraits of gay Indian men. One lives an openly gay life and the other is married but has had a long term relationship with a man....

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Hindi   2004   27 min   Documentary Movies from India   2024-02-03

Stars in der Manege 2004

2004

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German   2004   N/A   Documentary Movies from India   2024-10-01

Staying Alive: An MTV and CNN News Special

2004

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English   2004   30 min   Documentary Movies from India   2024-03-01

Journeyings and Conversations

2004

A documentary on Howrah Station in Calcutta, one of the biggest and busiest railway stations in the world....

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Hindi   2004   88 min   Documentary Movies from India   2024-01-19

A World Without Pity

2004

An exploration of the parallel increase in awareness of HIV/AIDS in India and of gays and lesbians. Unlike elsewhere the disease is NOT seen as a 'gay' disease....

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English, Hindi   2004   30 min   Documentary Movies from India   2024-02-03

Beyond Rainbows: The Quest & Achievement of Dr. C.V. Raman

2004

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English, Hindi   2004   N/A   Documentary Movies from India   2024-01-27

Seven Deadly Arts with Akshay Kumar

2004

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English, French   2004   N/A   Documentary Movies from India   2024-02-08

Zero: The Inside Story

2004

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English   2004   52 min   Documentary Movies from India   2024-02-12

Some Roots Grow Upwards

2003

What is the relevance of theatre (or all art, for that matter) to the crisis of our times? The film explores the creative canvas & politics of Ratan Thiyam, celebrated Manipuri theatre director, against the backdrop of this query....

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Manipuri   2003   52 min   Documentary Movies from India   2024-12-13

Chale Chalo: The Lunacy of Film Making

2003

An account of the making of the Lagaan, by director Satyajit Bhatkal, who served as a production assistant on the film....

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English, Hindi   2003   150 min   Documentary Movies from India   2024-02-08

Shabana! Actor, Activist, Woman

2002

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English   2002   30 min   Documentary Movies from India   2023-12-14

Paradise on a River of Hell

2002

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English   2002   29 min   Documentary Movies from India   2024-11-28

Parivaar Vichhoda

2002

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Panjabi   2002   N/A   Documentary Movies from India   2024-03-04

DAM/AGE: A Film with Arundhati Roy

2002

DAM/AGE traces writer Arundhati Roy's bold and controversial campaign against the Narmada dam project in India, which will displace up to a million people....

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English   2002   50 min   Documentary Movies from India   2024-02-06

War and Peace

2002

The danger of a nuclear conflict between India and Pakistan....

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Hindi, Urdu, English, Pashtu, Japanese   2002   148 min   Documentary Movies from India   2023-11-26

The Living Moghuls: From Royalty to Anonymity

2002

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English   2002   N/A   Documentary Movies from India   2024-01-24

Kalahandi

2001

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Oriya   2001   45 min   Documentary Movies from India   2024-01-05

Jari Mari: Of Cloth and Other Stories

2001

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N/A   2001   N/A   Documentary Movies from India   2023-12-06

Shere Punjab

2001

Highway no. 8 is one of the main thoroughways that link Ahmedabad with the rest of India. Trucks ply day and night on the highway, carrying goods to and from places as far as Mumbai, Bangalore and Punjab. Along the highway are che......

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Hindi   2001   12 min   Documentary Movies from India   2024-11-25

For Straights Only

2001

When her brother comes out to her as a homosexual, the film maker is motivated to survey the conditions and attitudes encountered by gays and lesbians in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and the rest of Southern Asia....

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English   2001   22 min   Documentary Movies from India   2024-01-18

My Friend Su

2001

My Friend Su is a heart warming documentary that follows the conversations between two young men in New Delhi. They talk to each other of Art, Life, and Sex. It is a poetic character study of Su from the eyes of Neeraj Bhasin, the......

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N/A   2001   55 min   Documentary Movies from India   2023-12-30

Silent Voices

2001

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N/A   2001   26 min   Documentary Movies from India   2024-01-01

The Laughing Club of India

2001

Portrait of the first laughing club in India, its founding by a doctor who believes that laughter is the best medicine, his outreach to schools, interviews with club members, scenes of outdoor sessions, and shots of billboards and......

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English   2001   28 min   Documentary Movies from India   2023-11-06

Ayurveda: Art of Being

2001

Ayurveda is science of life and art of healing; where body, mind and spirit are given equal importance. This voyage of thousands of miles across India and abroad takes you on a unique poetic journey, where we encounter remarkable ......

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English, Hindi   2001   102 min   Documentary Movies from India   2023-09-24

The Roshans: Hrithik Live in Concert

2001

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Hindi, English   2001   N/A   Documentary Movies from India   2023-11-09

King of Dreams

2000

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N/A   2000   N/A   Documentary Movies from India   2023-12-06

Food? Health? Hope?

2000

The film seeks to understand the issue of food security in the Indian context. It raises questions about bio-safety and bio-ethics and the entry of MNCs into a country that still looks ......

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English, Kannada   2000   N/A   Documentary Movies from India   2024-11-26

Homi D. Sethna, Film-maker

2000

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N/A   2000   60 min   Documentary Movies from India   2023-12-26

Palathulli Peruvellam

2000

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Malayalam   2000   N/A   Documentary Movies from India   2024-01-20

The War Zone

2000

In June 1999 during the India - Pakistan War in Kargil every filmmaker around the world wanted a glimpse of the action. The Army Headquarters in Delhi were inundated with requests from ......

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English   2000   90 min   Documentary Movies from India   2024-03-13