The Massacre That Shook the Empire (2019)

Peter McGinn

9.0

Apr 5, 2020

I found this to be an informal and interesting documentary, as much about the presenter as about the historical incident he describes. I stumbled across this documentary while looking for something to watch recently. It was much better than I expected it to be, considering it concerns a very grim and violent incident in British history, one that many at the time, and perhaps even now, would rather not talk about. The incident in question is the massacre at Amritsar in 1919. But the program was not boring or tedious thanks to the inherent charm of the presenter, journalist Sathnam Sangher…