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

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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