China: A Century of Revolution

Interpretations of modern Chinese history are often twisted, biased, or perverted one way or another. This rare and unique gem does China's craziest century justitice, with seemingly endless unique video footage and interviews with survivors.

Lenin said that there's decades where nothing happens, and weeks where decades happen. This documentary shows how in China, there's decades where millenia happened.

This documentary has 3 crucial strengths: (1) It's unbiased, showing events as they happened from both sides. (2) It relies heavily on unique primary sources, from multiple sides. (3) It takes the required time to tell everything.

Released in 1989, there were still living sources who had witnessed the end of the Qing empire first hand. It mixes the traumatic retellings of women who suffered through cruel japanese occupation, and that of Japanese soldiers who committed unspeakable horrors. We see rebels and empire supporters, fascisrs and communists, partisans and oppressors, landlords and communal farmers, and eventually Mao Zedong and the people who put a ticket booth next to his coffin.

This is the one must see piece about China's history.