Most Viewed From The British Council

The race is on - for the Viceroy's Cup.

Salvation Army General Commissioner Edward Higgins features in the this film of a brass band parade through a village.

Film showing the Viceregal party entering Delhi on lavishly decorated elephants, as part of the Coronation durbar of 1903.

Amateur film of a road trip through northeastern India, showing traditional dances and a gigantic flower float.

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

Motorcars take shape - outdoors in a Kolkata yard.

Grand buildings and missionary work come together in the 1947 Indian tour of construction magnate John W. Laing.

A rendition of the traditional English folksong ‘Widdicombe Fair’, accompanied by drawings.

Julian Henriques' urban musical showcases the style, vernacular and vibrancy of British Caribbean Dancehall culture. Filled with undeniable style,...

The Maharajah of Jind inspects the guard of honour.

An astonishing English tourist’s view of street life in pre-partition Srinagar and Kashmir.

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

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.

This amateur film gives us a fair idea of the opulent life enjoyed by members of the British government in India.

Amateur travelogue of the Kagan Valley and Darband, Pakistan.

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

Dignitaries including the Nizam of Hyderabad gather to celebrate the Durbar in honour of George V, who arrives by boat in Bombay.

Gorgeously dreamlike colour images of (then) French India – present-day Puducherry.

A Technicolor film on the principles and practicalities of crop rotation, illustrated with diagrams and models.