Gandhi (1982)

The quest to know more about the vast country that is India continues, even after we returned home.  We had seen Ghandi when it came out 35 years ago, but not since, and it really chronicles an amazing story that inspired a number of people who followed his recipe for success overcoming a tyrannical force with nonviolence.
Ben Kingsley plays Gandhi, starting as a young man, and following his transformation from a young Indian who was educated in the West and wore Western clothing into the man who wore traditional clothing of a low caste that he wove himself.  He felt increasingly that he needed to identify with the millions of Indians who were living in poverty, and that non-violence was the only way to win the war with the British, who were like the Romans at their peak.  Fighting them would be an unsinkable battle.  Instead they tolerated beatings and killings, massacres that were reported world wide, and in the end they prevailed. The story ends with Muslims fighting Hindus, which was a grizzly end to an otherwise inspiring story.