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Filmmaker Irv Drasnin interviews Sidney Rittenberg, an American citizen who became the only foreign member of China's Communist Party.
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- Sidney Rittenberg
- Don Sellers, Lucy Ostrander
- Stourwater Pictures
- Misunderstanding China — CBS News
- Shanghai — CBS News
- After Mao — CBS News
- Looking For Mao — PBS Frontline
- China After Tiananmen — PBS Frontline
- The Revolutionary — Independent Documentary Feature
American perceptions and misperceptions historically influenced and distorted America’s understanding and expectations of China. These ideas and images were both reflected and reinforced in our popular culture and media, and in the ambitions of American missionaries, merchants and politicians — attitudes and assumptions that made China a subject of...
A new opening in the US-China relationship made it possible for the first time in a quarter-century to film and report in-depth from inside China. In legend and in fact, Shanghai was central to the foreign experience in China and in the history of China’s communist revolution, including the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s-70s. This was filmed over...
An obituary of Mao Zedong, the Chinese leader whose revolution was one of the pivotal events of the 20th century, broadcast on the night of his death.
The 1980s seemed a decade of possibility and new beginnings in China, a time to confront the toll taken by Mao’s so-called Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) – a decade of political combat and violence during which at least a million had died and the lives of millions more had been shattered. Six years after Mao’s death, Chinese were willing to talk a...
The possibility of reform and more open political discourse in the China of the 1980s was crushed on June 4, 1989 with the government’s violent crackdown on dissent and demonstrations in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. This was the first opportunity for an in-depth report for American television following those dramatic and tragic events, covering the ...
The story of an American in Mao’s China who joined the Chinese Communist Party and assumed an unprecedented role for a foreigner in Chinese politics, achieving prominence in the Cultural Revolution of the 1960’s, until he crossed paths with Mao’s wife and ended up in Beijing’s Prison #1 for ten years. A revealing and cautionary tale of the American...
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As part of their generous gift to establish the UCLA Drasnin Communication Archive, Irv and Xiaoyan Drasnin provided UCLA with copies of dozens of Irv’s documentaries and an extensive array of supporting background material (raw footage, scripts, edits, etc.), which will be digitized and hosted on this page in the future.
The Revolutionary (2011) starring Irv Drasnin and directed by Irv Drasnin.
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- Irv Drasnin
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- Irv Drasnin
Jul 10, 2012 · I had no doubt that the filmmaking team at Stourwater Pictures responsible for the documentary (Irv Drasnin, Lucy Ostrander, and Don Sellers, a trio who share producing credits) had found a...
The Revolutionary - produced by Stourwater Pictures in association with Irv Drasnin. Stourwater Pictures is an award-winning documentary production company that specializes in historical documentaries on Pacific Rim and Pacific Northwest subjects.
