Videos on Mohenjo-daro in the ancient Indus Valley Civilization.
The talented filmmaker Saqib Mausoof's work on Mohenjo-daro integrates the ancient into lived experience from individual viewpoints of a range of people inspired by Mohenjodaro, ideas about it, and its iconic artifacts; Mohenjo-daro ought to be far better known, and conserved and it can mean many things to us.
Walking tour of Mohenjo-daro in 2013. High Quality footage, some captions, no commentary, very useful for education purposes - to introduce the site, and promote discussion of its key features and buildings. Includes the Museum & shows damage done by erosion.
A well-done National Geographic piece introducing the ancient city with excellent aerial views and the compelling factoid that Mohenjo-daro's size was 5x that of Vatican city.
A beautiful, patient aerial tour of the site that contextualizes the relationship of the stupa mound, Great Bath and other areas to each other in a way no other way of visiting the site can.
A critical news report from Al-Jazeera about the state of the site in 2017, with footage which shows the difference between the city these days, and the relatively recent past.
Sir Mortimer Wheeler's tour, though outdated in many aspects, has some great footage, close shots of Indus objects, presented by this charismatic archaeologist and co-founder of the Institute of Archaeology, UK.
A somewhat melodramatic recreation of the discovery of Harappa and Mohenjo-daro, with actual scholars like Michael Jansen and Nayanjot Lahiri and actors playing Wheeler, Banerjee, Marshall and other pivotal figures recreating scenes from the discovery of the ancient Indus civilization.
A short documentary of Indian history from the civilisations of Mohenjo Daro and Harappa through the ages until Islamic Imperialism. Featured historians include Sunil Kumar, Dr Vivek Nanda of UCL, Dr David Hardiman of Warwick University.
A lecture on the brilliance behind Indus architecture and civil engineering, with a focus on Dholavira. Michel Danino is an advocate of the Vedic origins of the Indus Civilisation.
Michael Wood's BBC Documentary series on the history of India, blocked to UK viewers for copyright reasons, viewable elsewhere.
