One Friday in the autumn of 1905, Hiralal Sen took his cinematograph to the Calcutta Town Hall. For the previous eight years, he and his brother had carried the device all over Eastern India. It was ...

Far from the bright lights of Bollywood, the indomitable Indian documentary filmmaking industry has been making waves globally. The recent past has several examples of India‘s international success.

Far from the bright lights of Bollywood, the indomitable Indian documentary filmmaking industry has been making waves globally. The recent past has several examples of India’s international success.

Not all films are made to amuse — some are born to disrupt, to question, and to illuminate the cracks we’re taught to ignore. Documentaries are that rare form of storytelling that refuse to look away.