Is this worth a watch, or is it just old Oscar-Bait?

yes to both, movies that won oscars used to be good.

the 20 minute monologue about how blacks are subhuman and Indians are superior was a bit much for me.

Best scene is when he demolished the toilets build by the British colonists.

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>An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind

Yeah, if both eyes are in the same head. Otherwise it leaves two people with one eye each.