Mao Tse Tung: China's Peasant Emperor

Mao presided over the most radical experiment in social reform in history and is considered one of the bloodiest dictators of the 20th century. Narrated by those who met and studied him, loved and loathed him, Mao Tse Tung: China's Peasant Emperor includes archival film and photography tracing back to the earliest of days of his life, as well as unique footage of China at the turn of the century and key episodes in Mao's communist revolution. Witness harrowing, first-hand accounts of such events as the Cultural Revolution, the Great Leap Forward, and the most severe man-induced famine ever recorded.