(70 min; 1995; English)
A film by Francis Gerard 

Filmed on location at the famous Imperial Palace complex in Beijing, the documentary dramatizes scenes of daily life at the palace during the Qing dynasty (1644–1911). Using footage of palace interiors, period paintings, archival material, and readings from over a thousand years of diaries to present a dramatic portrayal of the “Forbidden City”, the symbolic heart of Imperial China. The film focuses on the last 150 years, concluding with Pu Yi, the last emperor in the 1920s.