Cold War China (Season 1, Episode 15)
TV Episode | 47 min | Documentary, History

Cold War

China (Season 1, Episode 15)

TV Episode | 47 min | Documentary, History

Chinese Communists are victorious in the longest civil war in 20th century history. Mao Zedong's reforms are popular, but in 1958, he embarks on a series of catastrophic changes. A famine that kills 30 million people follows.

Writers

Ted Turner (series concept) | Ian Buruma

Producer

Neil Cameron

Composer

Carl Davis (music)

Cinematographers

Jim Howlett (photography) | Robert Payton (photography)

Editor

Cathy Houlihan

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Edit Released

Updated Dec 31, 1998

Release date

1998 (United States)

Awards

Series awards

2 wins & 2 nominations

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Cast	+ Add Cast
37 cast members

Name	Known for
Kenneth Branagh Self - Narrator (voice) Self - Narrator (voice) See fewer	Henry V (1989)
Ivan Arkhipov Self Self See fewer	Shchelchok (2013)
Liu Binyan Self Self See fewer	Cold War (1998)
Tim Boggan Self Self See fewer	Cold War (1998)
Robert Bowie Self Self See fewer	Sinful Deeds 2 (2003)
Youwei Chen Self Self See fewer	Cold War (1998)
Stepan Chervonenko Self Self See fewer	Cold War (1998)
John Paton Davies Self Self See fewer	Cold War (1998)
Lev Deluisin Self Self See fewer	Cold War (1998)
John Foster Dulles Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	See It Now (1951)
George Elsey Self Self See fewer	Churchill (2003)
Nikolai Fedorenko Self Self See fewer	Cold War (1998)
Marshall Green Self Self See fewer	Cold War (1998)
Lyndon B. Johnson Self (archive footage) (as President Lyndon Johnson) Self (archive footage) (as President Lyndon Johnson) See fewer	Spartamerika
Henry Kissinger Self Self See fewer	Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
Winston Lord Self Self See fewer	Cold War (1998)
Ruan Ming Self Self See fewer	Cold War (1998)
Fyodor Mochulski Self Self See fewer	Cold War (1998)
Richard Nixon Self (archive footage) (as Vice President Richard Nixon) Self (archive footage) (as Vice President Richard Nixon) See fewer	Frost/Nixon (2008)
Su Shaozhi Self Self See fewer	Cold War (1998)
Petr Simchenkov Self Self See fewer	Goryachiy sneg (1972)
Oleg Vaskov Self Self See fewer	Cold War (1998)
Ningkun Wu Self (as Professor Wu Ningkun) Self (as Professor Wu Ningkun) See fewer	One Day When We Were Young (2021)
Ge Yang Self Self See fewer	Cold War (1998)
Shi Zhe Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Capsules (2022)
Kai-Shek Chiang Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	The People Between (1947)
Gerald Ford Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	Dynasty (1981)
Andrei Gromyko Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	Dead Man's Letters (1986)
Hubert H. Humphrey Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	The Candidate (1972)
Nikita Khrushchev Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	This Hour Has Seven Days (1964)
Aleksey Kosygin Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	Tasavallassa tapahtuu (1975)
Zedong Mao Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	The New China (1951)
Pat Nixon Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	The Magical World of Disney (1954)
Dean Rusk Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	Santo Domingo: War Among Friends (1965)
Nikolai Simonov Peter the Great (archive footage) (uncredited) Peter the Great (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	Peter the First (1937)
Joseph Stalin Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	One Inch from Victory (1944)
Enlai Zhou Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	China (1965)