Inside Red China October 23, 2009

Inside Red China is a 1957 film directed by Robert Cohen. In 1957 U.S. Army veteran Robert Carl Cohen was studying Social Psychology in Paris. While visiting the U.S.S.R. he was assigned by NBC-TV's Moscow Chief Irving R. Levine to film a group of young Americans touring China in defiance of the U.S. State Department's travel ban. Arriving in Beijing after a nine day 6,000 mile trip on the Trans-Siberian Railway, he convinced the authorities to permit him to air express his uncensored film via Moscow to NBC in New York. During a 45 day tour he became the first American to film China since the 1949 Communist victory, documenting forbidden things such as bridges, aircraft, tanks and the "brain washing" of political prisoners.