Learn how the film’s success, Bhanu Athaiya’s win, and India’s later Oscar achievements shaped Indian cinema’s global journey ...

Richard Attenborough, the U.K. movie director who chronicled the end of British colonial rule in India with his Oscar-winning epic “Gandhi” and performed in more than 50 films, has died. He was 90.

When Richard Attenborough first read Louis Fischer’s biography of Indian activist and attorney Mahatma Gandhi in the early 1960s, he was around 20 years into an acting career that included work with ...

First-time director Robert Redford set the bar for the decade with the family drama “Ordinary People” (1980), for which he also won the Oscar for directing. Richard Attenborough — another actor-turned ...