Assembled almost entirely from archival newsreel and photographs, this film traces Mohandas Gandhi's life from his birth in Porbandar in 1869 through his assassination in 1948. It follows him from a London-trained lawyer to his years in South Africa, where his experience of racial discrimination on the trains hardened into the philosophy of nonviolent resistance he called satyagraha. Back in India, the footage moves through the Salt March to Dandi, the campaigns against British rule, the mass arrests, and the fasts he used as political weapons. The film does not skip the ugliness around independence, showing the Hindu-Muslim violence of Partition that Gandhi spent his final months trying to stop, walking through riot-torn villages preaching reconciliation. Narration stitches together decades of footage into a single continuous record rather than a modern retrospective, so the images carry the weight of having been shot as it happened. It closes on his death at the hands of a Hindu nationalist, an act the film treats as the last, harshest test of everything he had argued for.