Dong Yachun (Director)

Northwest Years

Amid the upheaval of Chiang Kai-shek’s 1927 coup, young revolutionary Xi Zhongxun defies political terror and emerges as a leader. Inspired by Liu Zhidan’s uprising, he joins forces to establish the Shaanxi-Gansu Red Army. During the Anti-Japanese War, he strengthens the revolutionary base and fosters its development, earning Mao Zedong’s praise for his loyalty to the cause. After Japan’s surrender, Xi Zhongxun fiercely defends the Northwest, helping to lay a foundation for national progress.

Release Date2024-11-05

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count39

Vote Count1

Cross the Yalu River

Amid the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950, China decisively intervenes, deploying the Volunteer Army under Mao Zedong’s strategic guidance. Facing fierce battles and shifting leadership on both sides, the war culminates in prolonged negotiations.

Release Date2020-12-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count40

Vote Count4

Decisive Engagement: The Liaoxi Shenyang Campaign

First part of the Decisive Engagement trilogy. Directed by Pingfen Li et al.

Release Date1991-01-01

DepartmentCamera

JobAdditional Camera

Vote Count18

Amnesty 1959

Release Date2019-07-29

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count39

Vote Count1

长沙保卫战

Release Date2014-01-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count36

Vote Count2

生命中的好日子

Release Date2016-03-07

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count1

天下同心

In 1948, amid political turmoil, the Chinese Communist Party invited democratic leaders and even Nationalist defectors to collaborate on building a new China. Led by Mao Zedong, their vision of unity, democracy, and peace inspired figures across political divides to establish an independent and united nation.

Release Date2024-12-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count21

Vote Count1

Life Guard

Release Date2016-10-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count32

Decisive Engagement: Beiping-Tianjin Campaign

Winner of the Golden Rooster for Best Film in 1992

Release Date1992-01-01

DepartmentCamera

JobAdditional Camera

Vote Count12

Crossing the Yalu River

"Crossing the Yalu River" is a monumental war epic that offers a comprehensive and visually stunning portrayal of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army's involvement in the Korean War. Directed by Dong Yachun, the film is a tribute to the heroes and veterans who fought with unwavering courage and sacrifice.

Release Date2021-12-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

Axis of War: The First of August

The year is 1927 and the Alliance moves triumphantly from victory to victory in an epic and bloody civil war campaign against the uprisings of brutal warlords and feudal barons that has left the country on the brink of total collapse. With the nation's fate hanging in the balance, a rebel revolt in the stronghold city of Nanchang threatens to give the insurgents the upper hand and as the first day of August dawns the Alliance, led by some of the bravest soldiers and greatest tacticians the world has ever seen, face their deadliest and most monumental battle yet.

Release Date2007-09-21

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count5

The Great Military March Forward: Engulf the Southwest

In the later stage of the Liberation War, with the victory of the three major battles over, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and Chairman Mao Zedong made strategic decisions, ordering Liu Bocheng (played by Fu Xuecheng) and Deng Xiaoping (played by Lu Qi) to lead a group of the Second Field and Fourth Field to advance towards Hunan, Hubei, Guizhou, and Sichuan, and annihilate the remaining enemies in the southwest. On his way south, Deng Xiaoping asked railway experts he met about the construction of the Chengdu Chongqing Railway and gave political education classes to the troops heading south in a timely manner, implementing Chairman Mao's great teachings of "carrying out the revolution to the end"...

Release Date1998-01-01

DepartmentCamera

JobDirector of Photography

Vote Count1

Ballet in the Flames of War

Release Date2015-06-21

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1