Though I Am Gone
A true heartbreaker of a film, and a welcome first-hand account of the full impact of Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution.
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Searching for Lin Zhao's Soul
Lin Zhao, a top student from Peking University, was imprisoned in the late 1950s for defending students and leaders persecuted during Mao Zedong's Anti-Rightist Movement. A gifted writer, Lin composed endless articles and poems from her cell. Forbidden to use a pen, she wrote with a hairpin dipped in her...Start your free trial to watch
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Though I Am Gone
In 1966, the Cultural Revolution exploded throughout China as Mao’s Red Guards persecuted suspected Rightists. Bian Zhongyun, the vice principal of a prestigious school in Beijing, became one of the first victims of the revolutionary violence that would engulf the entire nation when she was beaten to death...Start your free trial to watch
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Searching for Lin Zhao's Soul
While revealing the life of an aristocratic populist who rebelled unto death, this documentary also shows a country partly still immersed in anti-intellectual terror and partly freed from it. Some...