Partition: The Day India Burned

Partition: The Day India Burned

90 mins | Documentary, History | Jan. 1, 2007

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

Partition: The Day India Burned

90 mins | Documentary, History | Jan. 1, 2007

Partition: The Day India Burned
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
IMDb rating 8.5
Producers BBC One
Original title Partition: The Day India Burned
Directors Ricardo Pollack
Writers

Cast

Chiwetel Ejiofor

as narrator

Roedad Khan

as self

Som Anand

as self

Jawaharlal Nehru

as self (archival footage)

Mahatma Gandhi

as self (archival footage)

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

as self (archival footage)

Golok Majumdar

as self

Pran Chopra

as self

Ashoka Gupta

as self

Shankar Ghosh

as self

Pamela Hicks

as self

Louis Mountbatten

as self (archival footage)

Satish Gujral

as self