Biography
Season 7 Episode 2 - Mao Tse Tung: China's Peasant Emperor
“For 25 years Mao Zedong ruled one quarter of the world’s population. This is the extraordinary story of a farmer’s son who became a God in his life time but in private never shook off his peasant roots; a man who presided over one of the most radical experiments in social reform ever seen in human history but who will be remembered as one of the bloodiest dictators of the twentieth century. This program–told through the accounts of those who have met and studied him, loved and loathed him–includes archive film and pictures going back to the very earliest days of Mao’s life, as well as unique film of China at the turn of the century and during key episodes in Mao’s communist revolution. It includes harrowing and eye-witness accounts of such momentous events as the cultural revolution, the Great Leap Forward and the most severe man-made famine ever recorded.”
Episodes in Season 7
David Berkowitz: Son of Sam
60 min
Mao Tse Tung: China's Peasant Emperor
60 min
Amelia Earhart: Queen of the Air
60 min
Angela Lansbury: A Balancing Act
60 min
Anne Frank: The Life of a Young Girl
60 min
Beethoven: The Sound and the Fury
60 min
Colonel Sanders: America's Chicken King
60 min
Dwight D. Eisenhower: Commander-in-Chief
60 min
Ernest Hemingway: Wrestling With Life
60 min
Evel Knievel: Hell on Wheels
60 min
Howard Carter: Triumph and Treasure
60 min
Jackie Kennedy Onassis: In a Class of Her Own
60 min
Jim Jones: Journey into Madness
60 min
John Wayne: American Legend
60 min
P.T. Barnum: The Greatest Showman on Earth
60 min
Ray Kroc: Fast Food McMillionaire
60 min
Satan: Prince of Darkness
60 min
Vincent Van Gogh: A Stroke of Genius
60 min
Charles Lindbergh: Against the Wind
60 min
Fred Gwynne: More than a Munster
60 min
John Wayne Gacy: A Monster in Disguise
60 min
Nicolae Ceausescu: The Unrepentant Tyrant
60 min
The Tiffanys: Mark of Excellence
60 min
Dean Martin: Everybody Loves Somebody
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
46 min
Nostradamus: Prophet of Doom
47 min
