Mao Zedong or Mao Tse-tung (also known as Chairman Mao) was a Chinese communist revolutionary and founding father of the People's Republic of China. His Marxist–Leninist theories, military strategies, and political policies are collectively known as Maoism or Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. A controversial figure, Mao is regarded as one of the most important individuals in modern world history, and is also known as a theorist, military strategist, poet and visionary.

Filmography

• 2025Chine, la fabrique d'une nation — Mao Zedong
• 2025Political Cinema — Mao Zedong
• 2025伟大的胜利——苏联摄影师镜头里的中国抗战 — 毛泽东
• 2024Simon Leys, l'homme qui a déshabillé Mao
• 2012Mulberry Child — (archive footage)
• Broken Knife: Great Reversal of the Korean Battlefield — 毛主席
• 一九四九大迁徙
• 2006Deng Xiaoping : A Legend
• 2000The Worlds of Mei Lanfang
• 1995Ernesto Che Guevara — Self(archive footage)
• 1995Ernesto Che Guevara - Uomo, Compagno, Amico
• 毛泽东
• 1968The China Story: One Fourth of Humanity
• 1959中华人民共和国成立10周年国庆大阅兵
• 1958中华人民共和国1958年国庆阅兵
• 1957中华人民共和国1957年国庆阅兵
• 1956中华人民共和国1956年国庆阅兵
• 1955中华人民共和国1955年国庆阅兵
• 1954中华人民共和国1954年国庆阅兵
• 1953Velikoye proshchaniye
• 1953中华人民共和国1953年国庆阅兵
• 1952中华人民共和国1952年国庆阅兵
• 1951中华人民共和国1951年国庆阅兵
• 1950中华人民共和国1950年国庆阅兵
• 中华人民共和国大阅兵合集 — 主演
• 1949开国大典 — Director
• Mao, le dernier empereur

Appearances as themselves (49)

• 2026Mao vs Nixon: Game Theory — Self
• História do Comunismo — Self
• Laogai: Prison Nation - Inside China's Ruling System — Self (archive footage)
• 2022China: The Uighur Tragedy — Self - Politician (archive footage)
• The Century of Icons — Self (archive footage)
• 2021Taiwan: A Digital Democracy in China's Shadow — Self (archive footage)
• History 101 — Self (archive footage)
• 2020Korea, A Hundred Years of War — Self (archive footage)
• 2019André Malraux: Writer, Politician, Adventurer — Self - Politician (archive footage)
• 2019Korea: The Never-Ending War — Self (archive footage)
• 2019The Man Who Defied Beijing — Self - Politician (archive footage)
• 2017De Gaulle, the Last King of France — Self (archive footage)
• The Vietnam War — Self - Politician (archive footage)
• 2016The Battle Of Chosin — Himself (archive footage)
• 2016Året var 1966 — Self (archive footage)
• 2015All Eyes and Ears — Self (archive footage)
• Mao In Colour — Self
• 2014JFK to 9/11: Everything is a Rich Man's Trick — Self (archive footage)
• 2014Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words — Self (archive footage)
• 2013Our Nixon — Self
• 2012A Home Far Away — Self
• 2011Bokassa Ier, empereur de Françafrique — Self (archive footage)
• Mentiras verdaderas — Self (archive footage)
• 2010Madame Mao — Himself
• 2008China's Sexual Revolution — Self (archive footage)
• 2008Hype: The Obama Effect — Self (archive footage)
• 2007Sputnik Mania — Self (archive footage)
• Medium — Self (archive footage)(uncredited)
• 2003The Cultural Revolution: Mao's Last Battle — Himself
• 2002Naqoyqatsi — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Faith of the Century: A History of Communism — Self (archive footage)
• 1998Human Remains — Self (archive footage)
• 1998Kırmızı Gül Buz İçinde — Self (archive footage)
• 1995Mao, the Real Man — Self (Archive)
• 1995Nixon — Self (Archive Footage)
• 1995Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie — Self (archive footage)
• 1990Nixon — Self (archive footage)
• 1982Trial — Self (archive footage)
• 1979Beijing's Cards — Self (archive footage)
• 1979Incendiaries from the Celestial Empire — Self (archive footage)
• 1978Maoism: A Tragedy for China — Self (archive footage)
• 1977A Grin Without a Cat — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 1977Mao by Mao — Himself
• 19757 Days in Beijing — Himself
• 1974Maos China, Protokolle einer Revolution — Self (archive footage)
• 1974The Society of the Spectacle — Self (archive footage)
• 1969Mao Tse-Tung and the Cultural Revolution — Self (archive footage)
• 1958Inside Red China — Self
• 1937China Strikes Back — Himself