People's century: ordinary people, extraordinary times

Freedom Now talks to the people who witnessed and participated in the struggle for independence in India and Africa. (60 min.).

Overview of Communism in China from 1949, the fall of Nationalism, to 1976, the death of Mao. Explores Mao's Great Leap, the cultural revolution and other political programs. Features historic footage and interviews. (60 min.).

Tracks the building tension over ideology between Soviet and American superpowers in the post-war world till the early 1960s. (60 min.).

Eyewitnesses explain how communism appealed to their deepest hopes and dreams, and how leadership under Lenin and Stalin eventually gave way to despair. (60 min.).

Eyewitnesses tell the story of how the Communist system collapsed, and the extraordinary weeks around the fall of the Berlin Wall. See the events in Poland, Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union. (60 min.).