Ghandi

In the last 10 years we have seen many very good biopics. Walk the Line and Ray telling the stories of Johnny Cash and Ray Charles are just two of those.

This movie, Ghandi, is a wonderful movie. It is, also, a great history lesson.

Ghandi was certainly not a figure that we learned about in school. Perhaps a passing reference but that was it. This man was incredible.

His influence on Martin Luther King is well known, and the fact is, that it worked.

My son was a little put off by the hunger strikes such as after independence when the Muslims and Hindus were on the verge of a civil war during the partition of India and the formation of Pakistan.

As India grows more and more into a power of the 21st century and Pakistan is one of the mote's in the United States eyes. So the history matters.

Ben Kingsley is wonderful in this movie. He won the Oscar and it was well deserved. Martin Sheen had a very good role in this movie. Candace Bergen also appears.

It is a bit over three hours but the story movies as did Ghandi's life. A very very good movie.