Mao’s Bloody Revolution Revealed : Documentary on Five.tv

Another documentary from Five, Mao’s Bloody Revolution Revealed, is on this Thursday 24th May at 7.15pm. Its an hour and forty five minutes, so get your cocoa ready before it begins..

“A documentary offering a portrait of Mao Tse-Tung, one of the 20th century’s most controversial leaders. Author and former BBC correspondent Philip Short looks at Mao’s life from his childhood and rise to power to his death in 1976. The programme examines the legacy of Mao’s rule of China and features exclusive interviews with some of Mao’s inner circle, as well as dramatic unseen footage from the period of the ‘cultural revolution‘.”