Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Richard Attenborough&s award-winning epic recounts the life & times of Mahatma Gandhi In South Africa a young Indian lawyer is booted off a train for refusing to ride second-class Upon his return to his native India & fed up with the unjust political system he joins the Indian Congress Party which encourages social change through passive resistance When his "subversive" activities land him in jail masses of low-skilled workers strike to support his non-violent yet revolutionary position Back in India Gandhi renounces the Western way of life & struggles to organize Indian labor against British colonialism A strike costs many British soldiers their lives so the crown responds by slaughtering 1500 Indians Enraged the ascetic spiritual leader continues to preach pacifism until he has lead India out from under the tyranny of British imperialism