Wikipedia's own article on Richard Attenborough's 1982 film Gandhi is a tertiary encyclopedic source. Its strength is that it records the ordinary production and reception facts cleanly, its eight Academy Awards including Best Picture, Ben Kingsley's performance, and it names historians' own published objections to how faithfully the film renders Gandhi's life rather than staying silent about them. Its limit is the ordinary one for a crowd edited encyclopedia entry: it reports that a historical debate exists rather than adjudicating it, which is the right role for a source at this tier.
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Reliability Tier3
A continuously revised, community-edited encyclopedia article, reliable for standard production and reception facts and honest about naming that a historical fidelity debate exists without adjudicating it, matching this corpus's settled precedent for Wikipedia citations. NotesEncyclopedic production, reception and historical-accuracy facts for Richard Attenborough's 1982 film: its eight Academy Awards including Best Picture, Ben Kingsley's performance, and named historians' published objections to how faithfully it renders Gandhi's own life.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi_(film)
Source Typereference
Claims Backed By This Source (24 claims)
This source backs 24 claims across the atlas. As facts: 17 well-attested. As cited relationships: 4 holds, 2 connected. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Screen Works, 14 claims: 7 well-attested, 4 holds, 2 connected, 1 general references.
- Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
- Articles, 2 claims: 2 well-attested.
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