100 Years

As the Communist Party of China celebrates its 100th anniversary this documentary looks back at the partys history from the 1920s to the Civil War the Great Leap Forward the Great Famine the Cultural Revolution and the reforms by Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping Did the Great Famine cost more than 15 million lives How does the Cultural Revolution continue to shape Chinese politics today What was capitalism like after Maos death Through rare and neverbeforeseen historical footage expert interviews and eyewitness accounts of the Great Famine Tiananmen incident and the Cultural Revolution get to know how one party has so profoundly shaped China