Documentary channel
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Actor Manav Kaul talks to writer Vinod Kumar Shukla and a film is born
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‘Marching in the Dark’ review: A moving account of a woman farmer coping with suicide and neglect
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What a film about Nazi-era director Leni Riefenstahl tells us about the present
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In ‘A Fly on the Wall’, a man plans his exit from life and a film comes into being
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Watch: Guilt and redemption in an investigative film on midwives in Bihar
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‘Angry Young Men’ review: The iconic Salim-Javed dish out warm anecdotes and some insights
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‘Modern Masters: S.S. Rajamouli’ review – A puff piece about an already celebrated filmmaker
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Unearthed: The documentary on the Dalit movement made by a French filmmaker in 1985
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In an Indian film about Iranian cinema, poetry, protest and connections across language
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In documentary on legendary Hollywood director Frank Capra, a lesson in ‘how to hope’
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‘To Kill a Tiger’ review: Bravery and dilemmas in a rape survivor’s battle for justice
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The passion and patience that led to the award-winning documentary ‘Nocturnes’
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Aparna Sen’s decades-long journey as a director is focus of documentary ‘Parama’
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Review: A rush to judgement in ‘Curry & Cyanide: The Jolly Joseph Case’
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A new Annapurna Devi film could be the last word on the recluse – or the start of a new quest
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New documentary ‘Chaityabhumi’ reveals Ambedkar memorial’s centrality in the Dalit imagination
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Documentary on Madhukar Zende goes beyond his image as the captor of serial killer Charles Sobhraj
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In a film about Mumbai’s Koli community, resilience in the age of climate change
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Watch: Gigi Scaria’s film revisits memories of meeting Mahatma Gandhi
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In Anand Patwardhan’s new documentary, a rare personal journey
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In film about Ravish Kumar and TV news crisis, ‘an ode to idealism through extremely hard times’
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‘Stan Lee’ review: A fond tribute to the legendary creator of Spider-Man
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A documentary revisits legendary studio potter Gurcharan Singh’s journey of utility and beauty
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Oscar-nominated film ‘The Elephant Whisperers’ is cuteness unlimited
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In documentary ‘Invisible Demons’, the grim poetics of pollution
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Kerala documentary festival preview: Films range from ecology to farming, caste to trans lives
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Ajay Raina on filming the Kashmiri Pandit crisis: ‘An act of asserting and reclaiming identity’
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A documentary turns the spotlight on Hindi cinema’s unsung cinematographers
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MIFF 2022: Top prizes for ‘Turn Your Body to the Sun’ and Indian documentary ‘Admitted’
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‘Scope for improvement’: Films Division’s director general outlines plans for the revamped outfit
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In ‘A Night of Knowing Nothing’, the hopes and dreams of young Indians
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Anand Patwardhan interview: ‘I would be thrilled if my films became obsolete, but sadly they don’t’
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Khabar Lahariya says Oscar-nominated documentary misrepresents its journalistic work
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In a documentary from Pakistan, worrying lessons for India
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In film about women’s compartments in Mumbai’s trains, portraits of resignation and resilience
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In ‘All That Breathes’, brothers who rescue birds and a struggle for human survival
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Also famous: ‘Urf’ examines the lives and dreams of Hindi movie star lookalikes
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Why Films Division matters: It’s the largest moving-image repository of Indian history
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In documentary on Mumbai film critic Rashid Irani, fond nostalgia and creeping loss
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At Kerala documentary fest, journeys into hell, the soul and the imagination
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On the trail of The Beatles in India, a reminder of the paths that led them here
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Watch: A dramatisation of the life and works of the writer Premchand
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Watch: Documentary on writer, poet and lyricist Gopaldas Neeraj is out on YouTube
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Magic and resilience in documentary about the puppeteers of Odisha
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Documentary event pays tribute to filmmaker and biker Gaurav Jani
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Documentary on pop star Pink explores creativity and motherhood
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‘Alma Matters’ review: This insider look at IIT-Kharagpur lacks the outsider’s curiosity
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In documentary on end-life cancer patients, despair, courage, grace – and angels
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In documentary ‘Bela’, a timeless dance and the pressures of the present
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The final edition of the Rising Gardens festival has films about solidarity between women
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‘1232 KMs’ review: A timely reminder of the perilous journeys of migrants during the 2020 lockdown
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Oscars 2021: Three of the nominated documentaries are a click away for Indian viewers
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‘Framing Britney Spears’ review: Documentary traces the journey from pop princess to train wreck
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In third edition of Rising Gardens festival, films about women, food and livelihood
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In ‘Notturno’ documentary, vignettes of war and the eerie calm between the storms
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The IAWRT festival is back – and here is what you need to watch
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Watch: A documentary revisits S Sukhdev’s life and career
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In film festival on women and farming, portraits of struggle, strength and wisdom
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In documentary ‘Rock Disco Tabla’, a look at Karsh Kale’s multicultural musicality
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‘A Rifle and a Bag’ documentary: Surrendered Naxalites wonder about the road taken
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Powerful and harrowing documentary ‘76 Days’ pays tribute to the ‘Covid warriors’ of Wuhan
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Documentaries by Rahul Roy and Saba Dewan to be streamed at online solidarity event
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Fifty years after shooting The Beatles in India, Paul Saltzman is out with a film on the encounter
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Documentary on Kanwar Yatra examines the throb and thrum of the annual pilgrimage
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Watch: ‘Jai Ho’ documentary is a reminder of AR Rahman’s many achievements
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Watch: Documentary on Saroj Khan follows the choreographer’s life and work in the movies
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Vikalp documentary group is moving its screenings online till the end of the lockdown
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In short films about Bengaluru’s migrant Metro workers, dreams of home and a better life
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Watch: Netflix puts documentaries on YouTube to help teachers during Covid-19 lockdown
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Documentary ‘If Not For You’ finds that Bob Dylan is ‘like a local resident of Calcutta’
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Documentary on Goan bread is also the story of Goa’s insider-outsider politics
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Watch: In documentary from 2005, the story of another rape case and another hangman
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Documentary on gallerists Kekoo and Khorshed Gandhy is a portrait of the home they created for art
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Film series ‘Madhosh Balhami’ brings a Kashmiri poet’s 30-year journey into the limelight
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In Oscar-nominated ‘The Cave’, chaos and bravery reign in an underground hospital in Syria
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Documentary on Kolkata’s Jewish community is ‘a story of a diaspora of hope’
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In a documentary on the British view of India before freedom, the Empire strikes back
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Many major titles missing from programme as Films Division’s biannual documentary festival returns
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In documentary ‘Wild Karnataka’, a rich portrait of creatures great and small
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In documentary on Tibetan Buddhist nuns breaking a glass ceiling, echoes of other struggles
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Documentary on disgraced yoga guru Bikram Choudhury uncovers a trail of hot air and half-truths
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Documentary on Sona Mohapatra is about the singer who refuses to ‘shut up’
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Film on a Manganiyar musician traces how the folk tradition survives and adapts to the digital age
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Documentary on Sudanese cinema is a tribute to the filmmakers who chose to stay behind and fight
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Finally, a film about Annapurna Devi that unpacks the legend behind the Hindustani musician
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In documentary on football legend Diego Maradona, a portrait of a ‘rebel, hero, hustler, god’
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In film ‘Sikhirini Mwasani’, the attempt to keep a Bodo performance tradition from dying out
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In documentary ‘About Love’, a filmmaker’s family that could well be our own
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Documentary ‘Starring Sharmila Tagore’ is an incomplete portrait of a life less ordinary
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‘Kings of Horror’ documentary revisits the forbidden wonders of the Ramsay films
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Documentary about two elderly sisters reveals an unbreakable bond: ‘We can’t do without each other’
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‘Rockumentary’ film chronicles the highs and lows of Indian rock through eight decades
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Classic documentary ‘Kamlabai’ is a beguiling portrait of one of India’s first film actresses
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A spiritual leader and classical artists make music in documentary ‘Sangeet Saroop Satgur’
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In documentary ‘Tigerland’, two men, two countries and the fight to save the big cat
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Behind that ‘giant leap for mankind’: Discovery documentary sheds new light on 1969 moon landing
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Documentary on farming in Uttarakhand celebrates the one who stayed behind
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‘A great time to be alive’: Rapper Divine on his music and new documentary ‘Gully Life’
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Mumbai housing colony that Charles Correa designed as ‘a mirror of the nation’ is focus of new film
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In documentary on Karachi ambulance drivers, death merges with dreams