Movie
The China Story: One Fourth of Humanity
1968 · 74 min
A sober, firsthand historical travelogue that asks you to watch closely as a reporter witnesses a nation remaking itself.
- Directed by
- Edgar Snow
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Edgar Snow, Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai
- Overview
- A documentary about American journalist Edgar Snow's experiences in China, made up of footage he personally shot in the 1930s and during his 1964 and 1966 trips to the country, paired with archival materials supplied by the Central Newsreel Studio. Snow was a groundbreaking reporter who introduced the world at large to Mao's communist revolution through his seminal book, Red Star Over China.
- How it feels
- Earnest, melancholic and tense. Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Politics, power, media, memory
- Content
- Mild violence. No gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Edgar Snow
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Edgar Snow, Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai
