Mao Zedong
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.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 3.311 |
Birthday | 1893-12-26 |
Place of Birth | Hunan Province, China |
Also Known As | Mao Tsé Tung, 毛澤東, 마오쩌둥, 毛泽东, Mao Tsé-Toung, |
2020
Korea, A Hundred Years of War
5.5/2
A contemporary history of Korea(s) from a unique point of view that embraces the inner history of both South and North Korea in a single narrative.
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Korea, A Hundred Years of War
1958
Inside Red China
8/1
October 1st, 1957. Dusk descends on Tiananmen Square, Peking. Fireworks crackle light across the night sky, above a city alive with National Day festi...
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Inside Red China
1974
The Society of the Spectacle
6.7/23
Guy Debord's analysis of a consumer society.
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The Society of the Spectacle
1969
Mao Tse-Tung and the Cultural Revolution
0/0
Nagisa Oshima's documentary details the rise of Chairman Mao during the revolution and shows the Communist Party's struggle and cultural upheaval. Mad...
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Mao Tse-Tung and the Cultural Revolution
1995
Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
7.2/58
"Trinity and Beyond" is an unsettling yet visually fascinating documentary presenting the history of nuclear weapons development and testing between 1...
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Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
1998
Human Remains
7.3/14
Human Remains is a haunting documentary which illustrates the banality of evil by creating intimate portraits of five of the 20th century's most revil...
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Human Remains
2013
Our Nixon
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Never before seen Super 8 home movies filmed by Richard Nixon's closest aides - and convicted Watergate conspirators - offer a surprising and intimate...
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1974
Maos China, Protokolle einer Revolution
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Short film directed by Walter Knoop
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1937
China Strikes Back
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In 1936 and 1937 Harry Dunham shot "several hundred feet of film," being the first cameraman to penetrate into the Shensi region and obtain footage of...
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China Strikes Back
2022
China: The Uighur Tragedy
7.5/6
A relentless chronicle of the tragedy of the Uighurs, an ethnic minority of some eleven million people who live in the Xinjiang region of northwest Ch...
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China: The Uighur Tragedy
1977
Mao by Mao
5/2
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 culled...
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Mao by Mao
2003
The Cultural Revolution: Mao's Last Battle
0/0
This series presents the definitive history of the Cultural Revolution, its background, and aftermath, blending an incredible array of documentary foo...
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The Cultural Revolution: Mao's Last Battle
1995
Ernesto Che Guevara - Uomo, Compagno, Amico
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2014
Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
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From 1971 to 1973, Richard Nixon secretly recorded his private conversations in the White House. This film chronicles the content of those tapes, whic...
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Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
2016
The Battle Of Chosin
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An amazingly harrowing story of the 17 day engagement of bloody combat and heroic survival in subartic temperatures. UN forces largely outnumbered and...
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2012
A Home Far Away
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The extraordinary destiny of two people. After the Second World War, Lois is an actress in Broadway theatre, television and Hollywood films. Her husba...
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2009
Mao’s Last Dancer
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2019
The Man Who Defied Beijing
6.5/2
A portrait of Chinese writer Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017), a witness of the Tiananmen Square massacre (1989), a dissident, a woodpecker who tirelessly pecke...
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The Man Who Defied Beijing
2019
André Malraux: Writer, Politician, Adventurer
5/2
Writer, journalist, explorer, filmmaker, communist militant, freedom fighter. Truths and lies. A plot twist. Politician. General De Gaulle's shadow. O...
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All Eyes and Ears
6/2
A timely exploration into the complex links between the U.S. and China. Interspersed with remarks from journalists and experts, All Eyes and Ears inte...
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China: A Century of Revolution
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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-wi...
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2019
Korea: The Never-Ending War
7.9/11
Shedding new light on a geopolitical hot spot, the film — written and produced by John Maggio and narrated by Korean-American actor John Cho — confron...
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Korea: The Never-Ending War
2010
Madame Mao
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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 deat...
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Madame Mao
2007
Sputnik Mania
7/1
Fifty years ago, at the height of the Cold War, the USSR launched Sputnik, the first satellite to orbit the earth, bringing America to its knees in aw...
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Sputnik Mania
2011
Bokassa Ier, empereur de Françafrique
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De Gaulle, the Last King of France
8/1
Charles de Gaulle, the first president (1958-1969) of the Vth Republic, France’s current system of government, left his mark on the country . He was s...
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2014
JFK to 9/11: Everything is a Rich Man's Trick
7.6/9
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2000
The Worlds of Mei Lanfang
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2002
Naqoyqatsi
6.119/134
A visual montage portrait of our contemporary world dominated by globalized technology and violence.
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Naqoyqatsi
2021
Taiwan: A Digital Democracy in China's Shadow
6.3/3
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 bac...
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1977
A Grin Without a Cat
7.7/22
French essay film focusing on global political turmoil in the 1960s and '70s, particularly the rise of the New Left in France and the development of s...
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1953
Velikoye proshchaniye
5.5/1
March 9th, 1953. A gray, sad day. Clouds float low over the Kremlin towers. A city that unrecognizably grew, prettier and matured - this Moscow froze...
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