Film · 1982 · Films · 1980s
Gandhi
Scored from 251 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).
Summary
Richard Attenborough's biographical epic follows Mohandas K. Gandhi, played by Ben Kingsley, from his years as a young barrister in South Africa — where being thrown off a train for sitting in a first-class carriage pushes him into organising against racial laws — to his return to India as a leader of the independence movement. There he develops satyagraha, a discipline of nonviolent resistance, and applies it in campaigns against British rule, among them the 1930 Salt March to the sea. The film sets his growing moral authority against colonial repression, the Amritsar massacre, and the communal tensions between Hindus and Muslims that shadow the drive toward independence.
Gandhi (1982) is a film IMDb files under the biography, drama and history genres. It is rated PG. It was made in the United Kingdom and India. The runtime is 191 minutes.
251 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 261 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where Gandhi lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 1980s (3,141 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 251.
Cohort: Films · 1980s
