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BBC hit Tibet documentary to be shown on China's CCTV

The production team of "A Year in Tibet", a five-episode documentary on Tibet that became a hit after it was shown on BBC in 2008, announced Thursday that the movie will "soon" be broadcast on CCTV and other Chinese TV channels. Timed at 60... ...full story at People's Daily

from People's Daily on Thu, Jul 16 2009

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19 Apr 08 visit The Past of Tibet (3/3)  »  YouTube videoThis is a 25-minute-long documentary portraying life of people in the autonomous region between 1951 and 1959, a period when Tibet was still under a feudal system. http://www.cctv.com/english/special/t ibetriots/01/index.shtml
22 Oct 09 visit 'A Year in Tibet' wins positive feedback  »  People's Daily The five-episode documentary series "A Year in Tibet" telling true life of Tibetans wins positive feedback from domestic film industry. The director Sun Shuyun on Oct. 20 arrived in Lhasa, capital city of Tibet and held a seminar on the documentary. ...
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16 Feb 09 visit Documentary on Tibet premieres  »  People's Daily A short documentary film titled "Tibet of China: Past and Present" premiered here Sunday to mark the 50th anniversary of the democratic reform of the Tibet Autonomous Region. Featuring a large amount of precious historical audio and visual files,...
05 Sep 07 visit The massacre of “Nanking” in Chinese cinemas  »  Beijing Newspeak Ted Leonis, producer of “Nanking”, wants one billion Chinese people to see his film. Wildly optimistic of course, although apparently it will be shown on CCTV in six months’ time. However, the way in which the documentary has bee...
03 May 09 visit Before 798: the industrial history of 718  »  Danwei Sinopop reviews a CCTV documentary on 798, the showpiece "cultural production zone" in Beijing: The documentary is a rather sobering look at the quickly vanishing former life of "798″--Factory 718. In the 1950s it was a state of the art center ...

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