Gandhi

Richard Attenborough's award-winning epic recounts the life and times of Mahatma Gandhi. In South Africa, a young Indian lawyer is booted off a train for refusing to ride second-class. Upon his return to his native India and fed up with the unjust political system, he joins the Indian Congress Party, which encourages social change through passive resistance. When his subversive activities land him in jail, masses of low-skilled workers strike to support his non-violent yet revolutionary position. Back in India, Gandhi renounces the Western way of life and struggles to organize Indian labor against British colonialism. A strike costs many British soldiers their lives, so the crown responds by slaughtering 1,500 Indians. Enraged, the ascetic, spiritual leader continues to preach pacifism until he has lead India out from under the tyranny of British imperialism. Special Features: Lord Attenborough Audio Commentary An Introduction from Lord Richard Attenborough Blu-Ray Exclusive: Gandhi's Legacy - A Picture-in-Graphics Track Ben Kingsley Talks About Gandhi Designing Gandhi From the Director's Chair In Search of Gandhi Looking Back Madeleine Slade: An Englishwoman Abroad Reflections on Ben Shooting an Epic in India The Funeral The Making of Gandhi Photo Montage The Words Of Mahatma Gandhi Vintage Newsreel footage Vintage Newsreel Footage