List of Indian documentary films

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

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (October 2014)

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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 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