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This historical documentary tracks the rise of Chairman Mao during the revolution and illustrates the Communist Party's struggle and cultural upheaval.

Jiang Qing - wife of Chairman Mao Zedong and known as Madame Mao - was the most infamous woman of 20th-century China. She was ambitious, sensual, clever, devious, and vengeful. This biopic unravels the complexities of her colorful life, through interviews of the people close to her and exclusive archival footage. It shows continuity between her acting and political careers. Throughout, she demonstrated ambition, a need for adulation and a drive to...

This episode of Declassified examines Mao Zedong: a brilliant tactician, political and economic theorist, and a statesman who ruled a billion people for three decades. In death he has become divine, worshiped as a god in a godless country.

First, an essay stresses Mao's varying relationship to the Communist party of China from the period of the first civil war to the Cultural Revolution. Excerpts from Mao's writings on nationalism and revolution are followed by critiques on the man and the -ism.

This major new biography of Mao uses extensive Russian documents previously unavailable to biographers to reveal surprising details about Mao's rise to power and his leadership in China.