Did you know that the website of the Indian Directorate of Film Festivals has an
archives page with scanned images of programs for the Indian National Film Awards from present day back to the first awards ceremony in 1954?! The scans are of the actual, physical programs that were printed and they are rich sources of film descriptions, stills, and photos, many of which are quite obscure! It's an amazing resource for not only confirming what Wikipedia and other online sources claim about National Film Awards but also for learning about films that have been mostly forgotten or are very difficult to find information on online. There are also some humorous pictures of directors and actors back when they were significantly younger. :) I've had the funnest time simply browsing. Do note that the archive is quite disorganized; sometimes the year link is for the year of the awards ceremony and other times for the year of the films recognized (and then the programs themselves sometimes change if they state the awards year or the film year on the front cover-confusing!)
Most of the awards ceremonies recognize lesser-known regional films such as Punjabi, Assamese, and Oriya films. The Second and Fourth National Film Awards programs (for 1954 and 1956 films) feature lists of all "Feature Films Approved for Public Exhibition" for that year and include the small regional industries! This is a great research and film/dance-discovery tool because it's difficult to find lists of all Assamese, Oriya, etc., films from those years online.
