India

Gandhi (1982)

This biographical film picked up 8 Oscars including one each for director Richard Attenborough and star Ben Kingsley. Starting out in South Africa Gandhi fights for equality and then home rule for India.

As the opening credits state you can not fit a whole persons life into a film but this film does a pretty good job of covering the main parts of Gandhi's work even if it does ignore his early life. It is easy to see why Ben Kingsley got his Oscar for his great portrayal of the title character and this is probably the stand out element of the film. There are some really great sequences that capture the landscape and life of people in India.

While this is a well made film and tells the story of a really interesting and important subject it maybe falls a little short in exploring some of the details that surround the story of Gandhi, such as how the independence movement became split and lead to the religious turmoil that followed partition.

4/5 a good film about a great man.