China: The Roots of Madness (1967)
1967 · Newsreel · 77 min · dir. Mel Stuart
- Documentary
- TV Movie
Synopsis
China: The Roots of Madness is a 1967 Cold War era, made-for-TV documentary film produced by David L. Wolper, written by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Theodore H. White with production cost funded by a donation from John and Paige Curran. The film has been released under Creative Commons license. It won an Emmy Award in the documentary category.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Mel Stuart
- Writer
- Theodore H. White
- Released
- 1967-01-31
- Running time
- 77 minutes
Cast & crew
Mel Stuart Director
David Barrett- Stephen Becker
Pearl S. Buck
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · The End of Mystery · Brickenwood22 · 2013-11-24
Theodore White includes a strong focus on the old theme and thesis that China - and the East in general - is a mysterious place and of a mysterious civilization, culture, society. We recognize this today as racism and as explainable for its time. Since roughly 1980 China has become increasingly less mysterious as Western people, from the USA especially, interact with China on a daily basis. We see China on 24 hour news channels and can live there to work in various capacities. Many universities now have China studies programs of study that are much higher quality and scope. So a great asset…
★★★★ · US-centric view of China in 1st half of 20th century · OrionPozo · 2010-05-01
Filled with archival film footage, this US history of China is interesting because of its 1967 perspective. Mao had just started the Cultural Revolution, the "Madness" of the title, and the film is a US attempt to explore recent history to try to understand. It is a good look at US policy toward China in the first half of the 20th Century.
★★★★ · Better than the Title · ax-11 · 2013-02-12
A lot better than the title might let you think. Not so much "madness" but a rather unexcited and informative walk through Chinas long history. Kind of US-centric, of course, but that does not really hurt.
★★★★ · Must watch · Beldapriest · 2018-11-30
This helps put China into perspective. You need to know these things when you think about what is going on there today. They love Mao because before him they were starving. I also understand why China hates Japan so much now.
★ · Communism is Judasim and Mao Tse Tung was a Kaifeng Jew - Moses Tung · Jimmy7398 · 2025-04-28
Jew CHINA Communist China was created by the Jews and serves their interests. Mao would murder sixty million innocent Chinese people under his rule mainly to destroy traditional Chinese culture in order to gain total control. As with Christianity, any practitioners of spiritual systems where outlawed, killed, and thrown into gulags, to die a slow death through slave labor, starvation and torture. The Communistic systems became the new culture of control. With China under their flag, Tibet was next on the list as being the last bastion of spiritual and historical knowledge. All the Jewish…