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Partition: The Day India Burned (2007)

Documentary about the effects of Britain's withdrawal from India in 1947 which triggered one of the biggest migrations in history. 15 million were displaced and more than a million lost their lives. The story is told through the testimony of people who lived together for centuries, but were forced out of their homes as one of the largest and most ethnically diverse nations in the world was divided. Dramatised reconstructions evoke some of the mistrust, violence and upheaval that ensued

Release: 2007-01-01
Runtime: 90 min
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Chiwetel Ejiofor
Chiwetel Ejiofor
Narrator
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Roedad Khan
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Som Anand
Self
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Nayantara Sahgal
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Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru
Self (archive footage)
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
Self (archive footage)
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Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Self (archive footage)
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Golok Majumdar
Self
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Pran Chopra
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Ashoka Gupta
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Shankar Ghosh
Self
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Pamela Hicks
Self
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Narendra Singh Sarila
Self
Louis Mountbatten
Louis Mountbatten
Self (archive footage)
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Aridaman Singh Dhillon
Self
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Satish Gujral
Self