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The Story of India - Freedom (2007)
Directed by Michael Wood
Overview
This last episode tells how a foreign multinational (the East India Company) thousands of miles away gradually and almost by chance took power over great swathes of the Indian subcontinent; how after the horrendous shock of the 1857 “Mutiny” the British state took over and turned this supremacy into the Raj, the jewel in the crown of the greatest empire the world had ever seen; and how the Freedom Movement delivered Independence to India in 1947, albeit a divided India. The series ends by acknowledging the extraordinary achievements of Indian democracy over sixty years and flags India’s predicted rise to be the largest country and the second largest (or even the largest) economy in the world in the next three decades.
Rated PG | Length 55 minutes