One reel at a time: the thing at the centre of the story, drawn in ink, with the entry behind it.
These are previews. The written notes, narration and sources are here now; the reels themselves are not out yet.
Why do so many Sikh men share the name Singh? The reel follows the shared name back to Vaisakhi 1699 at Anandpur, the five men initiated into the Khalsa, and the Guru who asked them to initiate him in turn.
read the full entry: Creation of the Khalsa
on the map →
PREVIEW
41 seconds
The reel asks why so many Sikhs live where Parmesan is made. The answer it gives is a job at four in the morning, and the house that came with it.
read the full entry: The Gurdwara at Novellara Opens
on the map →
PREVIEW
57 seconds
The reel tells the 1914 voyage of the Komagata Maru, hired by Gurdit Singh to test Canada's rule that people from India must arrive by one unbroken voyage. It follows the ship to Vancouver, the two months at anchor and the forced return, and ends with the 2016 apology in the House of Commons.
read the full entry: The Komagata Maru
on the map →
PREVIEW
67 seconds
The reel follows Puran Singh and the disabled boy he named Piara, left at a gurdwara door in Lahore, whom he carried on his back for fourteen years. It ends at Pingalwara in Amritsar, the home that grew from that work.
read the full entry: Bhagat Puran Singh
PREVIEW
61 seconds
The reel is about the plain brick hall in Woolgoolga, Australia's first gurdwara, built by Sikh banana growers and opened in 1968 without a dome. It tells of the split in the community, the brick through the window the night before the opening, and the ten domes of the new gurdwara beside it.
read the full entry: Australia's First Gurdwara at Woolgoolga
on the map →
PREVIEW
64 seconds
The reel is stitched in the manner of phulkari, the embroidery of Punjab's women, and tells the Sikh memory behind Bandi Chhor Divas. As Sikhs remember it, Guru Hargobind Sahib Ji left Gwalior Fort with fifty-two kings holding a robe made with fifty-two strings, and came home to Amritsar at Diwali.
read the full entry: Guru Hargobind Ji
PREVIEW
60 seconds
The reel follows Bhagat Singh Thind through three citizenships: granted in 1918, revoked four days later, and held from 1936. At its centre is the Supreme Court's one-word answer in 1923, quoted without endorsing the race or caste arguments made on either side.
read the full entry: Bhagat Singh Thind
PREVIEW
66 seconds
The reel tells, as Sikh tradition remembers it, how Bhai Ghanaiya carried water to the wounded of both sides during the siege of Anandpur. When he was reported to the Guru, he said he had seen only the Guru's face, in everyone.
read the full entry: Bhai Ghanaiya
PREVIEW
58 seconds
The reel asks why Sikhs look at the shrine at Kartarpur through binoculars. It follows the viewing platform at the border, the corridor that opened in 2019 and closed in May 2025, and says plainly that it was still closed when the reel was made in October 2026.
read the full entry: Kartarpur Corridor Opens
on the map →
PREVIEW
63 seconds
The reel follows Bhai Mardana, the rabab player who travelled with Guru Nanak Dev Ji, to the Muslim rababi families who sang Sikh hymns at the Golden Temple until 1947. It closes on a word that stayed: Bhai, brother.
read the full entry: Bhai Mardana
PREVIEW
62 seconds
The reel asks whether the Golden Temple was always golden. It follows the outer gold laid again in 1995 to 1999, the walls rebuilt after 1762, and the first Harmandir Sahib of 1604, set lower than the ground around it so that everyone steps down to enter.
read the full entry: Installation of the Adi Granth
on the map →
PREVIEW
63 seconds
The reel follows Duleep Singh, proclaimed Maharaja of the Punjab at five, to the treaty of 1849 whose third clause named the Koh-i-Noor, then to the diamond's journey to London and his own return to the Sikh faith at Aden.
read the full entry: Maharaja Duleep Singh
PREVIEW
56 seconds
No. 13 · with the next reel