List of Indian documentary films

This is a list of Indian documentary films arranged in alphabetical order.

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Title | Year | Language | Director(s) | Notes

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3D Stereo Caste | 2012  | Malayalam  | A. S. Ajith Kumar  |
7 Notes to Infinity | 2012  | English  | Shrenik Rao |
Abode of Kings: Rajasthan | 1990  | English  | Shyam Benegal |
About Love | 2019  | Marathi, English  | Archana Atul Phadke  |
A Child of the Streets | 1967  | English  | Shyam Benegal |
A Historical Sketch of Indian Women | 1975  | English  | Mani Kaul |
Amar Lenin (My Lenin)  | 1970  | Bengali  | Ritwik Ghatak |
And the Show Goes On | 1996  | English  | Mrinal Sen |
An Encounter with Faces | 1978  | English  | Vidhu Vinod Chopra |
Animal Reproduction and Artificial Insemination in Bovines | 1983  | English  | Shyam Benegal |
An Insignificant Man | 2017  | English, Hindi  | Khushboo Ranka  |
A Treasure in the Snow (Sikkim)  | 2002  | English  | Goutam Ghose |
A Tribute to Odissi | 1986  | English  | Goutam Ghose |
Arrival | 1980  | Hindi  | Mani Kaul |
A Quilt of Many Cultures: South India | 1990  | English  | Shyam Benegal |
Ancient River & Ancestors | 2016  | English  | AjuKarthick G  |
Baavra Mann | 2013  | English  | Jaideep Varma |
Bala | 1976  | English  | Satyajit Ray |
Bal Sansar | 1974  | Hindi  | Shyam Benegal |
Before My Eyes | 1989  | English  | Mani Kaul |
Beyond Genocide: Bhopal  | 1986  | Hindi
English  | Tapan Bose | [1]
Beyond the Himalayas | 1996  | English  | Goutam Ghose |
Bombay: Our City | 1985  | English, Hindi  | Anand Patwardhan |
Books That Talk | 1981  | English  | Sai Paranjpye |
Born into Brothels | 2005  | Bengali, English  | Zana Briski |
Bunkar: The Last of the Varanasi Weavers | 2018  | English, Hindi  | Satyaprakash Upadhyay |
Calcutta My El Dorado (City Life)  | 1990  | English  | Mrinal Sen |
Celluloid Man | 2012  | English, Hindi, Kannada, Bengali  | Shivendra Singh Dungarpur  |
Chains of Bondage | 1974  | English  | Goutam Ghose |
Children of the Pyre | 2008  | Hindi  | Rajesh S. Jala |
Chitrakathi | 1977  | Hindi  | Mani Kaul |
Chooriyan | 1993  | Hindi  | Sai Paranjpye |
Classic Dance Forms of India: Koodiattam | 1986  | Hindi  | Prakash Jha |
Climate's First Orphans | 2005  | English  | Nila Madhab Panda |
Close to Nature | 1967  | English  | Shyam Benegal |
Dabcherry Milk Project | 1976  | English  | Sai Paranjpye |
Daughters of Mother India | 2014  | Hindi, English  | Vibha Bakshi |
Development in Irrigation | 1981  | English  | Goutam Ghose |
Dhrupad | 1983  | Hindi  | Mani Kaul |
Didi | 1994  | Hindi  | Prakash Jha |
Ek Ghat Ki Kahani | 1987  | Hindi  | Goutam Ghose |
Epilepsy | 1976  | English  | Shyam Benegal |
Faces After the Storm | 1981  | English  | Prakash Jha |
Father, Son, and Holy War | 1995  | Hindi, English  | Anand Patwardhan |
Festival of India | 1985  | French, English  | Shyam Benegal |
Final Solution | 2003  | English, Hindi  | Rakesh Sharma |
Foundations of Progress | 1972  | English  | Shyam Benegal |
Friends Together | 1978  | Hindi  | Prakash Jha |
Growth for a Golden Future | 1982  | English  | Shyam Benegal |
Gulabi Gang | 2012 in Dubai;
2014 in India  | Hindi, Bundeli  | Nishtha Jain |
Horoscope for a Child | 1969  | English  | Shyam Benegal |
Hungry Autumn | 1974  | English  | Goutam Ghose |
I Am 20 | 1967  | English  | S. N. S. Sastry |
I Can Love Too | 2011  | English, Kannada  | Mrinmoy Bhowmick  |
Indian Youth: An Exploration | 1968  | English  | Shyam Benegal |
India's Struggle for National Shipping | 1947  | Hindi  | Paul Zils  |
India's Daughter | 2015  | English, Hindi  | Leslee Udwin |
India's Forbidden Love | 2018  | English, Tamil  | Sadhana Subramaniam  |
Inshallah, Football | 2010  | Kashmiri, Urdu, English  | Ashvin Kumar |
Inshallah, Kashmir | 2012  | Kashmiri, Urdu, Hindi,English  | Ashvin Kumar |
Interdependence Film 2019 | 2019  | English, French, Italian  | Nila Madhab Panda |
I Want to Be an American | 2013  | English, Spanish  | Qaushiq Mukherjee |
Jai Bhim Comrade | 2011  | English, Hindi, Marathi  | Anand Patwardhan |
Jawaharlal Nehru | 1982  | Hindi  | Shyam Benegal |
Jeevan Smriti (On Rabindranath Tagore)  | 2013  | Bengali, English  | Rituparno Ghosh |
Jyanto Durga (Durga Live)  | 2010  | Bengali  | Arin Paul |
Kakkoos | 2017  | Tamil  | Divya Bharathi  |
Kalahandi | 2001  | Odia  | Goutam Ghose |
L'archivio a oriente | 2012  | Italian, Persian, Chinese  | Goutam Ghose |
Ladies First | 2018  | Hindi  | Uraaz Bahl  |
Laloorinu Parayanullathu | 2012  | Malayalam  | Sathish Kalathil |
Land of Sand Dunes | 1986  | English  | Goutam Ghose |
Learning Modules for Rural Children | 1974  | English  | Shyam Benegal |
Loknayak | 2004  | Hindi  | Prakash Jha |
Love in India | 2009  | Tamil, Bengali, English, Hindi  | Qaushiq Mukherjee |
Machines | 2016  | Hindi  | Rahul Jain |
Mati Manas (The Mind of Clay)  | 1985  | Hindi  | Mani Kaul |
May I Think, Sir? | 1983  | English  | Prakash Jha |
Menstrual Man | 2013  | Hindi, Tamil, English  | Amit Virmani  |
Mohor | 1990  | Hindi  | Goutam Ghose |
Moving Perspectives | 1964  | English  | Mrinal Sen |
My Mother: A Freudian introspection | 1997  | Bengali  | Sandip Ray |
Naga Story: The Other Side of Silence | 2003  | Nagamese, Meitei, English and 14 Naga languages  | Gopal Menon  |
Nature Symphony | 1990  | English  | Shyam Benegal |
Nehru | 1984  | English  | Shyam Benegal |
New Earth | 1973  | English  | Goutam Ghose |
New Horizons in Steel | 1977  | English  | Shyam Benegal |
Notes on the Green Revolution | 1972  | English  | Shyam Benegal |
Ode to a Child | 1979  | English  | Prakash Jha |
Parampara | 1985  | Hindi  | Goutam Ghose |
Pas de deux | 1981  | English  | Prakash Jha |
Power to the People | 1972  | English  | Shyam Benegal |
Pregnant Silence: Conception of a Genius | 1991  | English  | Sandip Ray |
Puppeteers of Rajasthan | 1974  | Hindi  | Mani Kaul |
Quest for a Nation | 1970  | English  | Shyam Benegal |
Rabindranath Tagore | 1961  | English  | Satyajit Ray |
Raga and Melody | 1972  | English  | Shyam Benegal |
Ram ke Naam | 1992  | Hindi, English  | Anand Patwardhan |
Ramkinkar Baij | 1975  | Bengali  | Ritwik Ghatak |
Reaching Out to People | 1979  | English  | Shyam Benegal |
Reason | 2019  | English, Hindi  | Anand Patwardhan |
Red Ant Dream | 2013  | Gondi, Odia, Punjabi  | Sanjay Kak |
Rhythms of a Land and Its People | 1976  | English  | Prakash Jha |
Riding Solo to the Top of the World | 2006  | English  | Gaurav Jani  |
Rubaro Roshni | 2019  | Hindi  | Aamir Khan Production  |
Sachin: A Billion Dreams | 2017  | English, Marathi, Hindi  | James Erskine  |
Sangathan | 1983  | Hindi  | Shyam Benegal |
Sange Meel Se Mulaqat (On Ustad Bismillah Khan)  | 1989  | Hindi  | Goutam Ghose |
Sarimen | 2020  | English  | Qaushiq Mukherjee |
Satyajit Ray | 1982  | English, Bengali, Hindi  | Shyam Benegal |
Shreevatsya | 1983  | English  | Prakash Jha |
Siddeshwari | 1990  | Hindi  | Mani Kaul |
Sikkim | 1971  | English  | Satyajit Ray |
Silent Ghungroos | 2006  | English  | Gauri Warudi  |
Sinhasta, or The Path to Immortality | 1968  | English  | Shyam Benegal |
Sonal | 2002  | Hindi  | Prakash Jha |
Steel: A Whole New Way of Life | 1971  | English  | Shyam Benegal |
Suee | 2009  | Hindi  | Sai Paranjpye |
Suhani Sadak | 1973  | Hindi  | Shyam Benegal |
Sukumar Ray | 1987  | Bengali  | Satyajit Ray |
Swajaldhara | 2002  | Hindi  | Nila Madhab Panda |
Tailing Pond | 2020  | English  | Saurav Vishnu  |
Tala and Rhythm | 1971  | English  | Shyam Benegal |
Tata Steel: Seventy Five Years of the Indian Steel Industry | 1983  | English  | Shyam Benegal |
Thariode | 2020  | Malayalam  | Nirmal Baby Varghese |
The Bird of Time | 1991  | English  | Goutam Ghose |
The Inner Eye | 1972  | English  | Satyajit Ray |
The House That Ananda Built | 1968  | English  | Fali Bilimoria  |
The Little Tea Shop | 1972  | English  | Sai Paranjpye |
The Pulsating Giant | 1971  | English  | Shyam Benegal |
The Raag Imam Kalyan | 1972  | English  | Shyam Benegal |
The Shruti and Graces of Indian Music | 1972  | English  | Shyam Benegal |
The Quiet Revolution - Part-1 | 1974  | English  | Shyam Benegal |
The Quiet Revolution - Part-2 | 1975  | English  | Shyam Benegal |
Tomorrow Begins Today: Industrial Research | 1976  | English  | Shyam Benegal |
Tripura Prasanga (About Tripura)  | 1982  | Bengali  | Mrinal Sen |
Valley of Hope - Amar Seva Sangam A Journey | 2019  | English, Tamil  | Arin Paul  |
Vande Mataram | 1990  | Bengali  | Rituparno Ghosh |
Veenavaadanam | 2008  | Malayalam  | Sathish Kalathil |
Violence: What Price? Who Pays? No. 5 | 1974  | English  | Shyam Benegal |
War and Peace | 2002  | English, Hindi  | Anand Patwardhan |
Why Export? | 1970  | English  | Shyam Benegal |
You Can Prevent Burns | 1974  | English  | Shyam Benegal |
Zindagi Ek Safar (On Kishore Kumar)  | 1991  | Hindi  | Sandip Ray |

## References

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1. ^ Ninan, Sevanti (10 January 2025). "The most comprehensive film on Bhopal". Down To Earth. Retrieved 10 June 2025.