Mao Zedong
Birthday: 1893-12-26
Place of Birth: Hunan Province, China
Biography: Mao Zedong or Mao Tse-tung (also known as Chairman Mao) was a Chinese communist revolutionary and founding father of the People's Republic of China. His Marxist–Leninist theories, military strategies, and political policies are collectively known as Maoism or Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. A controversial figure, Mao is regarded as one of the most important individuals in modern world history, and is also known as a theorist, military strategist, poet and visionary.
Movies
Korea, A Hundred Years of War
A contemporary history of Korea(s) from a unique point of view that embraces the inner history of bo...
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Inside Red China
October 1st, 1957. Dusk descends on Tiananmen Square, Peking. Fireworks crackle light across the nig...
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Mao Tse-Tung and the Cultural Revolution
Nagisa Oshima's documentary details the rise of Chairman Mao during the revolution and shows the Com...
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Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
"Trinity and Beyond" is an unsettling yet visually fascinating documentary presenting the history of...
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Human Remains
Human Remains is a haunting documentary which illustrates the banality of evil by creating intimate ...
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Our Nixon
Never before seen Super 8 home movies filmed by Richard Nixon's closest aides - and convicted Waterg...
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China Strikes Back
Raw footage received from photographer Harry Dunham revealed never before seen images of Mao Tse-Tun...
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China: The Uighur Tragedy
A relentless chronicle of the tragedy of the Uighurs, an ethnic minority of some eleven million peop...
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Mao by Mao
A film-détournement biography of Mao Tse-tung in which the life of the recently deceased Great Helms...
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The Cultural Revolution: Mao's Last Battle
This series presents the definitive history of the Cultural Revolution, its background, and aftermat...
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Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
From 1971 to 1973, Richard Nixon secretly recorded his private conversations in the White House. Thi...
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The Battle Of Chosin
An amazingly harrowing story of the 17 day engagement of bloody combat and heroic survival in subart...
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A Home Far Away
The extraordinary destiny of two people. After the Second World War, Lois is an actress in Broadway ...
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Mao’s Last Dancer
At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and ...
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The Man Who Defied Beijing
A portrait of Chinese writer Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017), a witness of the Tiananmen Square massacre (198...
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André Malraux: Writer, Politician, Adventurer
Writer, journalist, explorer, filmmaker, communist militant, freedom fighter. Truths and lies. A plo...
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All Eyes and Ears
A timely exploration into the complex links between the U.S. and China. Interspersed with remarks fr...
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Korea: The Never-Ending War
Shedding new light on a geopolitical hot spot, the film — written and produced by John Maggio and na...
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Madame Mao
French documentary from 2013. Mao Zedong and his fourth wife Jiang Qing were married for 37 years, f...
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Sputnik Mania
Fifty years ago, at the height of the Cold War, the USSR launched Sputnik, the first satellite to or...
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De Gaulle, the Last King of France
Charles de Gaulle, the first president (1958-1969) of the Vth Republic, France’s current system of g...
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JFK to 9/11: Everything is a Rich Man's Trick
The real reasons and orchestrators behind Hitler, to an incredible theory of the JFK assassination, ...
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The Worlds of Mei Lanfang
The true story of Mei Lanfang, China's greatest opera star; a husband and father whose world-wide fa...
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Naqoyqatsi
A visual montage portrait of our contemporary world dominated by globalized technology and violence....
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Taiwan: A Digital Democracy in China's Shadow
One Country, Two Systems? No Way! say the youth of Taiwan. But China under President Xi Jinping want...
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A Grin Without a Cat
Chris Marker’s A Grin Without a Cat is an epic political essay tracing the rise and decline of the g...
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Velikoye proshchaniye
March 9th, 1953. A gray, sad day. Clouds float low over the Kremlin towers. A city that unrecognizab...
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Året var 1966
1966 - when Bob Dylan visits Sweden and Prime Minister Erlander has a difficult time with questions ...
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Nixon
A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while bat...
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Political Cinema
Through abrupt soundtrack shifts, this short film jumps between historical political imagery to expl...
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Hype: The Obama Effect
Delving beneath the hype of Barack Obama's historic bid for the U.S. presidency, this documentary ta...
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The death of the Conducător (a Christmas film)
A visual collage following the rise and fall of infamous 20th century Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceau...
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Mao, the Real Man
What is the connection between the bloody gang war that once raged over control of the Chicago fish ...
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