HISTORY

October 1949: Parade Of The Waking Giant

IN PRODUCTION

October 1949 is a definitive account of how Mao Zedong orchestrated and carried out a victory parade in Tian'amnen Square, announcing to the world the creation of a Peoples Republic of China, all the while facing thearts of an on-going civil war.

Duration
1x60'
Production Company
LIC China
Original Language
English
YOP
2010
Definitions
HD
Contemporary History
Political
Streaming
coming soon

synopsis

On October 1, 1949 Mao Zedong held a victory celebration parade in Tian'amen Square and announced to the world the creation of a People's Republic of China. China had awakened, and the decades since have given truth to Napoleon's prophetic words. Interestingly, very few people actutally understood Mao's speech, and only one sentence has ever been translated and synched to audio - until now. October 1949 is a definitive account of how Mao orchestrated and carried out this spectacular parade, all the while facing thearts of an on-going civil war. Go behind the scences of this parade with filmmaker Peter Du Cane as he unearths rare archive footage and pieces togther the remainder of this historic speeah and makes it whole for the first time ever.

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