Una ambiciosa versión de la vida del célebre Gandhi, que logra la victoria sobre los ingleses con su sistema de la "no violencia". Galardonada con infinidad de oscars.
 | Ben Kingsley | Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi |
 | Candice Bergen | Margaret Bourke-White |
 | Edward Fox | General Dyer |
| John Gielgud | Lord Irwin |
 | Martin Sheen | Vince Walker |
| Richard Griffiths | Collins |
| Trevor Howard | Juez Broomfield |
| John Mills | Lord Chelmsford |
| Ian Charleson | Reverendo Andrews |
| Athol Fugard | General Smuts |
| Günther Maria Halmer | Dr. Herman Kallenbach |
| Saeed Jaffrey | Sardar Valabhhai |
| Geraldine James | Meerabahen |
| Amrish Puri | Khan |
| Roshan Seth | Pandit Jawaharlal |
| Rohini Hattangadi | Mrs. Kasturba M. Gandhi |
| Ian Bannen | Policía |
| Michael Hordern | Sir George Hodge |
| Michael Bryant | Secretario |
| John Clements | Abogado |
| Nigel Hawthorne | Kinnoch |
| Om Puri | Nahari |
| Richard Vernon | Sir Edward Gait |
| Harsh Nayyar | Nathuran Godse |
| Vijay Kashyap | Apte |
| Supriya Pathak | Manu |
| Neena Gupta | Abha |
| Winston Ntshona | Portero de tren |
| Marius Weyers | Conductor |
| David Gant | Daniels |
 | Daniel Day-Lewis | Colin |
| Avis Bunnage | Madre de Colin |
| John Ratzenberger | Teniente americano |
| Bernard Hill | Sargento Putnam |
