This Free China media record documents the 2000 documentary Freedom Fighter: The Story of Lian Shengde.
- Featured person: Lian Shengde
- Producer: Yellow Cat Productions
- Director: Mary Flannery
- Year: 2000
- Runtime: approximately 50 minutes
- Verification: Indiana University catalog record, contemporaneous Radio Free Asia coverage, and Cinema Guild’s educational-distribution catalog verify the documentary and its subject.
- Rights: third-party production; no FCM self-hosting is authorized by the currently verified records.
Educational and institutional reception
Cinema Guild’s current educational catalog classifies the film under Political Science, Sociology, and Asian Studies and offers it for classroom/library licensing. The catalog also preserves review excerpts from School Library Journal, Library Journal, and Video Librarian, providing additional evidence that the documentary circulated as an educational resource rather than only as an activist-media item.
Original and archival sources
- Indiana University catalog record
- Radio Free Asia, Nov. 29, 2000 — documentary feature
- Cinema Guild educational distribution record
The exact online player or YouTube item from the historical FCM playlist is still being recovered. Until that exact source is verified, this page documents the film without claiming an unverified online copy.
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