China: A Century of Revolution Collection
CHINA: A CENTURY OF REVOLUTION is a six-hour tour de force journey through the country's most tumultuous period. First televised on PBS, this award-winning documentary series presents an astonishingly candid view of a once-secret nation with rare archival footage, insightful historical commentary and stunning eyewitness accounts from citizens who struggled through China's most decisive century. CHINA IN REVOLUTION charts the country's most violent era where decades of civil war and foreign invasions led to the bloody battle for power between Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek. THE MAO YEARS examines the turbulent era of Mao's attempts to forge a "new China" from the war-ravaged and poverty-stricken nation. Mao's death begins BORN UNDER THE RED FLAG, which follows the country's new leadership of Deng Xiaoping and its unlikely transformation into an extraordinary hybrid of communist-centralized politics with an ever-expanding free market economy.
Watch China in Revolution: 1911-1949
In 1911, China's centuries old history of imperial rule was overthrown and replaced with a republic. But the weak and ineffectual government that now ruled the massive country gave way to Japanese invasion and civil war.
Watch The Mao Years: 1949-1976
China: A Century of Revolution - The Mao Years, 1949-1976 is the second in the series of three films depicting the struggle of China to realize its economic and political goals.
Watch China: Born Under the Red Flag
Following the death of Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping emerged as China's new leader and launched an ambitious path of economic reform. But he also oversaw one of the most infamous episodes of political repression in the 20th Century.
