China: A Century of Revolution

China: A Century of Revolution is a six-hour award-winning journey through the country’s most tumultuous period. First televised on PBS, this award-winning documentary series presents an astonishingly candid view of a secretive nation with archival footage, insightful historical commentary and stunning eyewitness accounts from citizens who struggled through China’s most decisive century.

China in Revolution details the decades of leading up to the bloody battle for power between Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek. The Mao Years examines Mao’s attempts to forge a “new China” from a nation ravaged by war and poverty. Born Under the Red Flag follows the country’s new leadership under Deng Xiaoping and China’s first stirrings of a free-market economy.