Film

Partition: The Day India Burned

2007 · 1h 30m · Documentary · History

IMDb

8.4

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

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Narrator

Roedad Khan

Self

Som Anand

Self

Nayantara Sahgal

Self

Jawaharlal Nehru

Self (archive footage)

Mahatma Gandhi

Self (archive footage)

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Self (archive footage)

Golok Majumdar

Self

Pran Chopra

Self

Ashoka Gupta

Self

Shankar Ghosh

Self

Pamela Hicks

Self

Narendra Singh Sarila

Self

Louis Mountbatten

Self (archive footage)

Aridaman Singh Dhillon

Self

Satish Gujral

Self

• Ricardo PollackDirector

Release date

January 1, 2007

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 30m

Rated

U

Genres

Documentary, History