Partition: The Day India Burned

Partition: The Day India Burned (2007)

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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

Director: Ricardo Pollack

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	Chiwetel Ejiofor as Narrator
	Roedad Khan as Self
	Som Anand as Self
	Nayantara Sahgal as Self
	Jawaharlal Nehru as Self (archive footage)
	Mahatma Gandhi as Self (archive footage)
	Muhammad Ali Jinnah as Self (archive footage)
	Golok Majumdar as Self
	Pran Chopra as Self
	Ashoka Gupta as Self
	Shankar Ghosh as Self
	Pamela Hicks as Self
	Narendra Singh Sarila as Self
	Louis Mountbatten as Self (archive footage)
	Aridaman Singh Dhillon as Self
	Satish Gujral as Self

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