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 death, she was tried and imprisoned where, at the age of 77, she committed suicide. All the official portraits of her were removed after her death and she became a scapegoat of the things for which Mao was ultimately responsible.

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An inside look at China working towards the goal of becoming a superpower by the year 2000 via educa...

At the peak of Perestroika, in 1987, in the village of Gorki, where Lenin spent his last years, afte...

How do you reconcile a commitment to non-violence when faced with violence? Why do the poor often se...

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An account of the life and work of the Polish writer Stanisław Lem (1921-2006), a key figure in scie...

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Short biographical documentary about the life of Alfred Florstedt and his life as a progressive comm...

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