The extras include more than 90 minutes of new material, including interviews with director Lord Richard Attenborough; actors Geraldine James, Saeed Jaffrey, and Edward Fox; Diana Hawkins (Director of Publicity), Terry Clegg (Executive in charge of production), Billy Williams (Cinematographer) and Stuart Craig (Production Designer). The DVD includes a Director?s commentary with Attenborough, who also filmed a personal introduction to the film. The featurettes include In Search of Gandhi, Reflections on Ben, Madeleine Slade: An Englishwoman Abroad, The Funeral, Shooting an Epic In India, Looking Back, Designing Gandhi (3 mini featurettes) and From the Director?s Chair (2 mini featurettes).

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The Films of Ben Kingsley

Gandhi (Widescreen Two-Disc Collector's Edition)

• A Man for All Seasons (Special Edition)
• Chariots of Fire (Two-Disc Special Edition)
• Amadeus
• Lawrence of Arabia (Single Disc Edition)
• Out of Africa
• The Mission (Two-Disc Special Edition)
• Gandhi An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth
• Doctor Zhivago (Two-Disc Special Edition)
• A Passage to India
• Malcolm X

It left a lasting impression on me. This movie is a timeless lesson on world views regarding politics,as well as social, and spritual tasks ahead of us. I would recommend this movie to anyone interested in learning more about the journey of the human condition. It reminds one of how we are all connected. Maria Brullo. I remember when the movie first came out. It demonstrates how one visionary can change a society for the benefit of all.

Each time I see it, I enjoy it more than the last time, perhaps because I am older and can understand his significance better now. I'm sure everyone knows the story of Gandhi, so I won't go into that. GANDHI is a long movie (more than 3-hours) so this was my third viewing of it (theater, VHS tapes, and now DVD. If you are not moved by this film, they need to check your heart, because you died sometime ago.

In the Collector's Addition there is an entire second DVD of Special Features that is almost as interesting as the movie itself and that is saying something. There is nothing to say about the acting in this film, because they are so good in their roles that it is like living through his world. How, through non-violent resistance, he achieved independence for his country (India) from the British Empire, and how he influenced not only his country, but the world by his actions. Ben Kingsley IS Gandhi.

It was on two VHS tapes in those days, and now 1 DVD has the entire movie. I first saw this movie many years ago in theaters, and a few years after that when I bought it for my library. Now, more than ever, we Americans should see this movie, because Gandhi, perhaps more than anyone else, influence Doctor Martin Luther King Jr and the Civil Rights Movement in this country that has just seen the ultimate achievement of having a black American elected President of the United States.

The movie has something of an epic quality about it and encapsulates the spirit of Gandhi. Ben Kingsley makes you believe that he is indeed the little brown man who changed history. It is a "must see.".

But this movie re-awakened a very important part of world history for me. I would recommend this movie to anyone. But like most of us, as a child things going on around you don't actually sink in. I had not seen this movie since it first came out and it is still a superb movie. As a child, I can recall news articles about Gandih.

Kudos to film makers who go to great lengths to cast an actor who more than just resembles the person being depicted. With Ben Kinglsey playing the role, they couldn't have done a better job: he IS Gandhi.