Winner of the Golden Rooster Award in 1982 for Best Film

A general depiction of the famous 1930's Long March of the Chinese Red Army.

In the spring and summer of 1949, the People's Liberation Army launched an offensive under the orders of Mao Zedong and Zhu De, they crossed the Yangtze River and Nanjing was liberated on April 23 which signaled the fall of the KMT regime, Chiang Kai-Shek fled to Taiwan; on October 1, 1949, Mao Zedong standing on the rostrum of Tiananmen, solemnly declared the foundation of the People's Republic of China.

A set of ancient Chinese chimes are kept intact and whole throughout the Northern Expedition, WWII, and Chinese Civil War.

The life of senior Kuomintang generals inside the Gongdelin Prison in Beijing after losing the civil war.

After the defeat of the Japanese, the leadership of the Communist forces are invited by Chiang Kai-shek to "discuss the state of affairs" in Chongqing, with the goal of avoiding civil war.