Champion of freedom

A biography of Mohandas Gandhi, discussing his early life in India, his move to England to study law, the incident in South Africa that set him on the path to developing his philosophy of nonviolent resistance, his leadership in trying to free India from British rule, and his assassination in 1948.

Chronicles the life of the Nobel Peace Prize laureate from Burma who has spent much of her recent life under house arrest for promoting democracy against the ruling military regime.

A biography of Dietrick Bonhoeffer, a German minister, discussing his childhood and education, his position in the Nazi Germany's military intelligence agency working as double agent, his complicity in multiple assassination attempts, and his eventual imprisonment and execution.