Gardens of the Orient (1936)

This portait of life on the tea plantations is decidedly rosy – clearly, there are no exploited workers here. However, the film provides an intriguing overview of tea production – from the planting of tea seeds to the final shipping of the precious leaves across the globe.

Released Jan. 1, 1936 10 min None+

Genres: Documentary

Keywords: tmdb.plantation, tmdb.agriculture, tmdb.sri-lanka, tmdb.india, tmdb.colonialism, tmdb.british-colonial, tmdb.british-colonialism + 3 more, tmdb.colonial-india, tmdb.tea, tmdb.british-raj