Gandhi (DVD)

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.

Theatrical Trailer
The Making Of Gandhi - Photo Montage
The Words of Mahatma Gandhi - Featurette
Ben Kingsley talks about Mahatma Gandhi
Newsreel Footage - Gandhi goes to England, Gandhi's farewell talk to Europe, Gandhi begins Death Fast
Gandhi talks - first talking picture made by the Gandhi
Weblink
Filmographies - cast and crew
Interactive menu
Scene access