China: The Roots of Madness (1967)
- Directed by
- Mel Stuart
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 17m
- Rating
- 7.5 of 10 from 2 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This documentary from 1967 looks at why China turned against the West. It covers 170 years of Chinese political history from the Boxer Rebellion to the Cultural Revolution and focuses on the power struggle between the Kuomintang and the Chinese Communist Party.
informativehistoricalsobercold war perspectiveeducationaldetachedanalytical
What happens
China: The Roots of Madness is a 1967 Cold War era made-for-TV documentary film produced by David L. Wolper, written by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Theodore H. White with production cost funded by a donation from John and Paige Curran. The film has been released under Creative Commons license. It won an Emmy Award in the documentary category. The film attempts to analyze the anti-Western sentiment in China from the official American perspective, covering 170 years of China's political history, from Boxer Rebellion of the Qing Dynasty to Red Guards of Cultural Revolution. The film focuses on the power struggle between the Kuomintang and the Chinese Communist Party, amid heavy political intervention from Moscow, with Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong playing the pivotal role at the center stage. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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The New China (1950)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.