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In 1965, it was announced that Joseph E. Levine and his Embassy Productions would be filming th [...]	D
Sir Richard Attenborough first offered Candice Bergen her cameo role in 1966 while they were fi [...]	D
Sir Richard Attenborough and his wife Sheila Sim owned a share of the rights in Britain's longe [...]	D
Actor John Hurt has related a story where he was asked to put on a diaper and wear dark body ma [...]	D
During the funeral scenes, Sir Richard Attenborough sensed the estimated 300,000 extras were be [...]	D
The scene where the crowd is encouraged to burn their British clothing may well have inspired a [...]	D
In 1962, Sir Richard Attenborough received a phone call from an Indian civil servant called Mot [...]	D
Theatrical movie debut of Daniel Day-Lewis (the young hoodlum, Colin).	D
Martin Sheen appeared in Apocalypse Now (1979), in a role originally written for Steve McQueen. [...]	D
Sir Ben Kingsley's (born Krishna Bhanji) paternal family was from the Indian state of Gujarat, [...]	D
Sir John Hurt and Sir Tom Courtenay were among the actors approached by Sir Richard Attenboroug [...]	D
Included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by Steven Schneider.	D
Gandhi's funeral scene employed 300,000 extras, which makes it into the Guinness Book of World [...]	D
Holds the record (as of 2020) for the most BAFTA Film Award nominations received by a single fi [...]	D
In the DVD director's commentary, Sir Richard Attenborough mistakenly says that Ian Charleson d [...]	D
In 1952, Gabriel Pascal secured an agreement from the then Prime Minister of India, Pandit Nehr [...]	D
Steven Spielberg lost Best Picture and Best Director to Richard Attenborough for this film. Sev [...]	D
At one stage, during the 20 year long development history of this movie, Sir Richard Attenborou [...]	D
Dustin Hoffman had expressed an early desire to play the title role in this movie, but was offe [...]	D
Sir Ben Kingsley learned to spin cloth in the same way that Gandhi did. He didn't find this to [...]	D
Included among the American Film Institute's 1998 list of the four hundred movies nominated for [...]	D
For the funeral scene, advertisements calling for 300,000 extras were either distributed in pam [...]	D
It was Michael Attenborough, Sir Richard Attenborough's son, who recommended Sir Ben Kingsley t [...]	D
Part of an early 1980s cycle of British productions set in India. The others being Calore e pol [...]	D
Mohandas K. Gandhi's last words "Oh God!" are inscribed on his memorial in India in Hindi.	D
Steven Spielberg, who lost the Best Picture and Best Director awards to Sir Richard Attenboroug [...]	D
Sir Ben Kingsley studied for the part by watching five hours of newsreel footage of Gandhi in o [...]	D
Filming took twelve months and used up twenty-three thousand feet of film.	D
By the late 1960s, Sir Richard Attenborough was still struggling to get this movie made. Figuri [...]	D
The twelfth highest grossing film in the U.S. in 1982.	D
Sir Ben Kingsley looked so much like Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, many natives thought him to be [...]	D
The cover of the VHS double cassette incorrectly states that the film won 9 Academy Awards, inc [...]	D
Sir Richard Attenborough won the Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director for this movie, even [...]	D
In John Ratzenberger's brief scene, his voice was dubbed by Martin Sheen.	D
According to Geoffrey C. Ward's essay about this movie in Mark C. Carnes' book "Past Imperfect: [...]	D
Sir Alec Guinness, Albert Finney, Peter Finch, Sir Tom Courtenay, Sir Dirk Bogarde, and Sir Ant [...]	D
The film cast includes four Oscar winners: Sir Ben Kingsley, Sir John Gielgud, Sir John Mills, [...]	D
Naseeruddin Shah and the late Smita Patil auditioned for the roles of Mohandas Karamchand Gandh [...]	D
Last English-language theatrical movie of Dominic Guard (Subaltern). He has since had a long ca [...]	D
Gerald Sim (Magistrate) was the brother-in-law of the director Richard Attenborough.	D
As Gandhi leads the march to the sea, he enters a village and turns a corner. Just as he does, [...]	D
Some historians consider this movie to be propaganda. According to Ranjan Borra's article "Subh [...]	D
Sir David Lean and producer Sam Spiegel planned to make a movie about Gandhi with Sir Alec Guin [...]	D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2005 list of 250 movies nominated for AFI's 100 Ye [...]	D
Some say that Steven Spielberg cast Sir Richard Attenborough as John Hammond in Jurassic Park ( [...]	D
Selected by the Vatican in the "values" category of its list of forty-five "great films".	D
Upon this movie's release in 1982, there were some strong criticisms against it. Richard Grenie [...]	D
A duplicate of this movie's Best Picture Oscar is on display at the "World of Coca-Cola" exhibi [...]	D
Trailer narrated by Hal Douglas.	D
Sir Ben Kingsley prepared for his role by studying newsreel footage of Gandhi, reading books on [...]	D
Illness prevented cinematographer Billy Williams from completing this movie. Ronnie Taylor flew [...]	D
This first of the three movies in which Roshan Seth played Nehru. The others being Bharat Ek Kh [...]	D
Daniel Day-Lewis, Roshan Seth, and Saeed Jaffrey appeared in My Beautiful Laundrette - Lavander [...]	D
While filming in some of the more rural villages in India, with Sir Ben Kingsley in full make-u [...]	D
After he won the part, Sir Ben Kingsley decamped to India and lived as best he could as Gandhi. [...]	D
Ian Charleson and Sir John Gielgud appeared in Momenti di gloria (1981), also a Best Picture Os [...]	D
Sir Winston Churchill and Charlie Chaplin were mentioned in this movie. Sir Richard Attenboroug [...]	D
No studio was interested in financing this movie. Sir Richard Attenborough said that most of th [...]	D
Martin Sheen donated his salary to charity.	D
Robert Bolt initially considered Marlon Brando for the lead. "He might allow the part to eat hi [...]	D
Being told, but never shown, that Gandhi meets Mohandas K. Gandhi. Sir Ben Kingsley appeared in [...]	D
The part of Charlie Andrews was first intended for Michael Denison.	D
Edward Fox's brother, James, appeared in Jinnah (1998).	D
It was originally intended in the funeral scene to use a wax figure of Sir Ben Kingsley as Gand [...]	D
Featured Bernard Hill in the small role of Sergeant Putnam. Hill appeared in other Best Picture [...]	D
Dominic Guard appeared in Ralph Bakshi's Il signore degli anelli (1978). Sir Michael Hordern ap [...]	D
Paramahansa Yogananda wrote a chapter about meeting Gandhi in "Autobiography of a Yogi." Some o [...]	D
Sir Laurence Olivier was announced for General Dyer in 1980. Before Sir David Lean had to abort [...]	D
Trevor Howard shot his cameo as Judge Broomfield in two days.	D
General Reginald Dyer, the "Butcher of Amritsar", retired from service without receiving punish [...]	D
The Indian government provided one third of this movie's budget.	D
When Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi travels to London, he stays at Kingsley Hall, Powis Road, Broml [...]	D
Final film of Mabel Etherington.	D
The only Best Picture Oscar nominee that year to be also nominated for Best Art Direction, Best [...]	D
The view of Ghandi's face surrounded by flowers during his funeral procession might have been a [...]	D
The last movie of John Boxer (Court Reporter) and Sir John Clements (Advocate General).	D
Over 300,000 extras appeared in the funeral sequence. About 200,000 were volunteers, and 94,560 [...]	D
Before his son Michael Attenborough brought Ben Kingsley to his attention, Richard Attenborough [...]	D
After plans for the film were announced, Sir Richard Attenborough held a press conference in De [...]	D
Anupam Kher auditioned for the role of Nehru but lost out to Roshan Seth.	D
A musical theme that can be heard during the march to the sea and later, in a more developed fo [...]	D
Ben Kingsley won Best Actor for this film, while the following year the award went to Robert Du [...]	D
Gandhi's burning of his pass is portrayed here as a move towards racial equality. In fact, he d [...]	D
Before filming, Sir Richard Attenborough turned down Geraldine James' request to have an audio [...]	D
The film takes place from June 7, 1893 to January 31, 1948.	D

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