"Gandhi" is the tale of the "half naked fakir" (quote courtesy W.L.Churchill) who took on an Empire with nothing but truth, non-violence and indomitable will as weapons...and won.


Books with substantial mentioning of Gandhi

Jürgen Müller
Die besten Filme der 80er
Köln - London - Los Angeles - Madrid - Paris - Tokyo, 2005

Peter W. Engelmeier (ed.)
Icons of film, The 20th century
Munich; New York, 2000

Jonathan Hacker and David Price
Take 10, Contemporary British Film Directors
Oxford, New York, 1992

David Robinson
Richard Attenborough
London, 1992

Jean-Pierre Frimbois
Les 100 chefs-d'oeuvre du film historique
Alleur (Belgique), 1989

Anthony Slide
Fifty Classic British Films Films 1932-1982, A Pictorial Record
New York, 1985

Frank N. Magill (ed.)
Magill's Cinema Annual 1983, A Survey of 1982 Films
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1983
pp. 183-188 info

Reviews

Pat Anderson, Gandhi, in: Films in Review, vol. 34, 1983 pp. 45-46