India – land of culture, vivid history, and elegant progress. A land, whose mystery and elegance entranced visitors, statesman, and royalty alike, and whose cultured society drew in Jacqueline Kennedy. “Jacqueline Kennedy’s Asian Journey,” focuses on her 1962 visit to the land of spices, showing her meeting with the likes of Mohammad Ayub Khan, Indira [...]
In 1958 Mao Zedong implemented ‘The Great Leap Forward,’ a social and economic plan to transform Chinese society from agrarian to modern communist. “China Leaps Forward,” is one American news reporter’s take on the program, as he documents the patriotism, culture and industry of the Chinese people in Tianjin and Bejing. The reporter, having spent time [...]
A rapid descent into madness was how the Americans viewed China’s policies in the 1950s and 1960s as they waged a Cold War on Communism. “China: The Roots of Madness,” picks apart the rising tensions between what was once America’s greatest ally in Asia, starting as far back as one hundred and seventy years prior [...]
“While Russia continues her aggressive attitude towards free nation’s world peace, your peace and mine, will hang very precariously in the balance,” states the narrator of, “Answer to Stalin.” Propaganda circles around the issues of communism and America’s response to the “Russian aggression,” as the narrator breaks down the Cold War conflict. Under the supposition [...]
Post WWII China was a nation rocked by turmoil as they tried to recuperate, the Japanese invasion leaving the country scarred and searching for an answer to poverty and famine. Mao Zedong created one answer with the “The Great Leap Forward,” a communist social and economic plan. “Chinese Policy and Government Programs of the 1950s [...]
China was one of many countries in the nations allied against the spread of Nazi Germany’s tyranny. Invaded by the empire of Japan their losses and wartime destruction during World War II were as great as any other country touched by the largest war in mankind’s history. “WWII – China,” shows bomb damage in China [...]
Korea – a place where childish laughter once ruled the streets and byways of a once peaceful nation were transformed into a nation entrenched in bitter resistance and war, in the summer of 1950. Acclaimed director John Ford brings a sad realism to, “This is Korea,” a look at how Korea became embroiled in Cold [...]
“The Barefoot Doctors of Rural China,” shows how the medical profession has evolved in China. The growth of the medical profession was explosive – there were an estimated 20,000 doctors in 1949 compared to 200,000 in the 1960s. It shows how China is coping with the growth, explaining how most of that 200,000 are in [...]
After the Second World War relations between Japan and the United States were understandably tense “Post WWII American and Japanese Relations,” documents the took years of effort and struggle to mend the relationship between the two superpowers. Focused mostly on breaking down American prejudices and stereotypes, it is an interesting glimpse into the varied cultures [...]
