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[1] [4] The film, Interviews Before Execution: A Chinese Talk Show, produced in association with LIC China, was aired on BBC Two in the United Kingdom on 12 March 2012. [5] [6] On 12 March the BBC reported that Chinese authorities had cancelled the programme as a result of the documentary and the international attention it had attracted.
The Gang of Four (simplified Chinese: 四人帮; traditional Chinese: 四人幫; pinyin: Sì rén bāng) was a Maoist political faction composed of four Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials. They came to prominence during the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) and were later charged with a series of treasonous crimes due to their ...
Though I Am Gone (Chinese: 我虽死去; pinyin: Wǒ suī sǐ qù) is a 2007 Chinese documentary film directed, written, and edited by Hu Jie.The film centers on Bian Zhongyun, [1] [2] the vice principal of the Girls Middle School attached to Beijing Normal University, [3] who was beaten to death by her students on August 5, 1966 during the Red August of Chinese Cultural Revolution. [4]
The suspended death sentence in Chinese law gives the accused a two-year reprieve from being executed, after which it is automatically converted to life imprisonment, or more rarely, fixed-term ...
The Dying Rooms is a 1995 television documentary film about Chinese state orphanages. [1] It was directed by Kate Blewett and Brian Woods and produced by Lauderdale Productions. It first aired on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom and then, reaired on Cinemax. [2] [3] A follow-up film, Return to the Dying Rooms, was released in 1996. [4]
An 88-year-old former boxer has been found not guilty in a retrial of a 1966 quadruple murder in Japan, ending his ordeal as the longest-serving death row inmate ever.
Chol Soo Lee (August 15, 1952 – December 2, 2014) was a Korean American immigrant who was wrongfully convicted for the 1973 murder of Yip Yee Tak, a San Francisco Chinatown gang leader, and sentenced to life in prison.
Universal Pictures Content Group and Passion Pictures have wrapped on a new documentary about the nun who inspired 1995 Oscar-winning hit “Dead Man Walking,” Variety can exclusively confirm.