Mao Zedong Movies

A documentary examining Maoism and its consequences for China

Through abrupt soundtrack shifts, this short film jumps between historical political imagery to explore the cinematic language of propaganda,...

One Country, Two Systems? No Way! say the youth of Taiwan. But China under President Xi Jinping wants more than ever to bring the island of Taiwan...

Looks at how attitudes to sex have changed in China over the years.

Short film directed by Walter Knoop

CCTV Production celebrating Deng's life, accomplishments, and paving the way to modern China

An overview of the lives of Richard Nixon and Chairman Mao, focusing on the geopolitical forces that led to their meeting in 1972 and the resulting...

A documentary about American journalist Edgar Snow's experiences in China, made up of footage he personally shot in the 1930s and during his 1964 and...

1979 Soviet film criticizing the internal situation and expansionist policies of post-Mao China

1966 - when Bob Dylan visits Sweden and Prime Minister Erlander has a difficult time with questions about housing. A special evening at the opera is...

October 1st, 1957. Dusk descends on Tiananmen Square, Peking. Fireworks crackle light across the night sky, above a city alive with National Day...

A film-détournement biography of Mao Tse-tung in which the life of the recently deceased Great Helmsman is told in his own words, using quotes...

Delving beneath the hype of Barack Obama's historic bid for the U.S. presidency, this documentary takes a close look at Obama's work in the Illinois...

Never before seen Super 8 home movies filmed by Richard Nixon's closest aides - and convicted Watergate conspirators - offer a surprising and...

What is the connection between the bloody gang war that once raged over control of the Chicago fish market, the decades of terror perpetrated by the...

French documentary from 2013. Mao Zedong and his fourth wife Jiang Qing were married for 37 years, from 1939 until Mao's death in 1976. After his...

The true story of Mei Lanfang, China's greatest opera star; a husband and father whose world-wide fame came from the portrayal of women. His...