# Nixon's China Game

In February 1972, after a quarter-century of mutual antagonism between the United States and China, President Richard Nixon traveled to Beijing for an historic encounter with Chairman Mao Tse-tung. The climax of a secret White House initiative headed by Henry Kissinger, the diplomatic breakthrough shocked both America's allies and its enemies. Drawing on recently declassified records and key eyewitnesses, the program recreates, step by dangerous step, the events leading up to what Nixon called "the week that changed the world. 1 videocassette (57 min.) : 1/2 in VHS; stereo; widescreen Host, David McCullough ; narrated by David Ogden Stiers Camera, Ray Brislin, Yang Zhiju, Ed Kadysewski (BLP); on-line editor, Adrian Brindle (BLP), Mark Steele (WGBH); music by Michael Whalen (WGBH); consultant, James Mann (BLP), Stanley Karnow (WGBH) Originally produced for television broadcast as a segment of The American experience in 1999

- Kind: Film
- Year: 2000
- By: Bill Lattanzi (Screenwriter) (Producer) (Editor of moving work.), Michael Simkin (Director), Norma Percy (Producer), Brian Lapping (Procuder.), Mark Anderson…
- Genres: History, Travel
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/NixonsChinaGame)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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