Top 20 movies like Calcutta, Darjeeling & Bihar

Rare amateur footage of East India.

Calcutta, Darjeeling & Bihar is of 0 hour(s) and 13 minute(s). It is Produced By: BFI. It was released on 1947-06-08. It has an average vote of 3 on TMDB.

Genres: Documentary

Top 20 Movies like Calcutta, Darjeeling & Bihar

1. Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids

Documentary depicting the lives of child prostitutes in the red light district of Songachi, Calcutta. Director Zana Briski went to photograph the prostitutes when she met and became friends with their children. Briski began giving photography lessons to the children and became aware that their photography might be a way for them to lead better lives.

It has an average vote of 6.861 on TMDB.

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2. Mai (Mai)

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3. Japan in Nagaland

This movie follows the growth and influence of anime culture in Nagaland, India.

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4. The River of Life and Death (Řeka života a smrti)

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5. If Not For You

A tribute film on Bob Dylan, depicting Calcutta's affinity with Dylan through cityscape and interviews of notable Indian musicians who were inspired by him. The film also draws parallels between Dylan's body of work and the Baul tradition of Bengal.

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6. The Shepherdess of the Glaciers

She is one of the last shepherdesses who still lives with her flock in the heights of the Gya-Miru valley in Ladakh. At the age of 50, Tsering is the youngest in her village to drive her 350 goats and sheep at the expense of transhumance in this region of the Himalayas, located between 4000 and 6000 meters above sea level. A harsh and precarious life, often solitary, mishandled by difficult climatic conditions and a sometimes hostile nature, which does not prevent this tiny bit of woman to sing, laugh and ... philosophize.

It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.

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7. India Speaks

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8. Coda Lunga

A double journey into Kerala in India. Ghedalia Tazartes dips himself into the sea of Indian traditions in Kerala, from Katakhali dance and music to field recordings on location. A fantastic journey beyong India, through countries of the imagination. Another genre and cross cultural experience by the French master.

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9. Land of the Taj Mahal

A brief but colorful travelogue of India's biggest cities following the partition of the country in 1947 at the end of the British Raj.

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10. The Last Days of the Raj

Lord Louis Mountbatten arrives in India in March 1947 as Britain's Last Viceroy. He is committed to transfer administrative and authoritative power to an independent and sovereign India. Six months later India indeed was set free, but it had also been partitioned and overwhelmed by an orgy of sectarian violence involving Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs.

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