Arturo Mio - Mao's Great Famine (2012)

Posted By: vivid23
Date: Jan. 15, 2013

Arturo Mio - Mao's Great Famine (2012)
HDTV | 1280x720 | MKV/x264 @ 4190 Kbps | 52mn | Audio: English AC3 192 kbps, 2 channels | Subs: None | 1.64 GB
Genre: Documentary

Between 1958 and 1962, China lived through tragedy on an epic scale. The Great Leap Forward conceived by Mao so that China could drive industrial output ahead of Great Britain and achieve autonomy from the might of the neighbouring USSR led to a catastrophic famine resulting in the death of between 36 and 55 million people.

Three years of natural disasters: it is in these terms that the Chinese Communist Party today justifies this terrible outcome. But the tragedy was masked by an official lie, because while China was starving to death, the grain stores were full.

Based on previously unheard testimony by survivors, rare archive footage, secret documents and interviews with the leading historians on this catastrophe, this film provides, for the first time, an insight into the folly of the Great Leap Forward. It examines the mechanisms and political decisions that led to famine, stripping away the incredible secrecy surrounding the campaign, and exposing the lie which continues even today as to who was responsible, and the true human cost

Video
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Duration : 52mn 26s
Bit rate : 4 190 Kbps
Width : 1 280 pixels
Height : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Color space : YUV
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Scan type : Progressive
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Stream size : 1.53 GiB (94%)
Language : English

Audio
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Duration : 52mn 26s
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Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 72.0 MiB (4%)





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