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
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Roedad Khan
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Som Anand
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Nayantara Sahgal
Jawaharlal Nehru
Mahatma Gandhi
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Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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Golok Majumdar
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Pran Chopra
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Ashoka Gupta
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Shankar Ghosh
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Pamela Hicks
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Narendra Singh Sarila
Louis Mountbatten
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Aridaman Singh Dhillon
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Satish Gujral