Reminiscences of Kim Il Sung
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Chapter 1: The Country in Distress
1.1 My Family
Length: 33:21
1.2 My Father and the Korean National Association
Length: 37:37
1.3 An Echo of Cheers for Independence
Length: 31:45
1.4 Repeated Removal
Length: 45:52
1.5 The Song of the River Amnok
Length: 44:15
1.6 My Mother
Length: 20:22
1.7 The Inheritance
Length: 43:32
Chapter 3: In Jilin
3.1 The Pursuit of Progressive Thoughts
Length: 43:19
3.2 Mentor Shang Yue
Length: 26:01
3.3 The Young Communist League of Korea
Length: 31:10
3.4 The Expansion of the Organization
Length: 38:18
3.5 The Demonstration of Unity
Length: 20:19
3.6 An Chang Ho Delivers a Political Lecture
Length: 29:10
3.7 The Merger of the Three Nationalist Organizations
Length: 20:00
3.8 The Path Taken by Cha Kwang Su
Length: 35:12
3.9 The Lessons of Wangqingmen
Length: 22:45
3.10 Behind Bars
Length: 30:11
Chapter 4: Seeking a New Path
4.1 The Rev. Son Jong Do
Length: 32:41
4.2 Spring of Trials
Length: 32:34
4.3 The Kalun Meeting
Length: 34:03
4.4 The First Party Organization
Length: 29:03
4.5 The Korean Revolutionary Army
Length: 43:19
4.6 Revolutionary Poet Kim Hyok
Length: 30:43
4.7 The Summer of 1930
Length: 42:35
4.8 Crossing the River Tuman
Length: 32:26
4.9 An “Ideal Village” Is Transformed into a Revolutionary Village
Length: 46:32
4.10 Unforgettable Men and Women
Length: 32:00
Chapter 6: The Year of Trials
6.1 To South Manchuria
Length: 33:42
6.2 The Last Image
Length: 34:57
6.3 Joy and Sorrow
Length: 29:43
6.4 Is a Joint Operation Impossible?
Length: 43:27
6.5 With an Ideal of Unity
Length: 35:31
6.6 Together with the National Salvation Army
Length: 26:21
6.7 Autumn in Xiaoshahe
Length: 29:51
6.8 On the Heights of Luozigou
Length: 42:51
Chapter 8: Under the Banner of the Anti-Jananese Struggle
8.1 Ri Kwang
Length: 51:00
8.2 Negotiations with Wu Yi Cheng
Length: 40:04
8.3 The Battle of the Dongning County Town
Length: 38:25
8.4 A Comment on Ultra Democracy in the Army
Length: 38:15
8.5 Operation Macun
Length: 1:09:59
8.6 Arsenals in the Thick Forests
Length: 46:45
8.7 An Immortal Flower
Length: 55:34
Chapter 9: The First Expedition to North Manchuria
9.1 The Korean People's Revolutionary Army
Length: 42:46
9.2 The Haves and the Have-nots
Length: 37:49
9.3 Crossing the Laoyeling Mountains
Length: 39:02
9.4 The Sound of the Mouthorgan Ringing across Ningan
Length: 35:59
9.5 The Snowstorm in the Tianqiaoling Mountains
Length: 47:06
9.6 In the Bosom of the People
Length: 48:59
Chapter 10: With the Conviction of Independence
10.1 A Raging Whirlwind
Length: 56:26
10.2 A Polemic at Dahuangwai
Length: 1:17:46
10.3 Revolutionaries Born of the Young Communist League
Length: 57:47
10.4 An Answer to the Atrocities at Sidaogou
Length: 50:51
10.5 The Seeds of the Revolution Sown over a Wide Area
Length: 1:01:20
Chapter 12: To Hasten the Liberation of the Country
12.1 The Birth of a New Division
Length: 1:01:56
12.2 20 Yuan
Length: 1:00:24
12.3 Revolutionary Comrade-in-Arms Zhang Wei-Hua (1)
Length: 1:03:48
12.4 Revolutionary Comrade-in-Arms Zhang Wei-Hua (2)
Length: 42:43
12.5 The Association for the Restoration of the Fatherland
Length: 58:25
Chapter 13: Towards Mt. Paektu
13.1 We Struck Commander Wang and Won Over Wan Shun
Length: 31:40
13.2 In the Dear Walled Town
Length: 42:19
13.3 Premiere of The Sea of Blood
Length: 43:23
13.4 The Women's Company
Length: 40:29
13.5 The Secret Camp on Mt. Paektu
Length: 49:22
13.6 Patriotic Landowner Kim Jong Bu
Length: 47:53
Chapter 15: Expansion of the Underground Front
15.1 The Indomitable Fighter, Pak Tal
Length: 1:07:01
15.2 Homeland Party Working Committee
Length: 52:43
15.3 Fighting at the Foot of Mt. Paektu
Length: 51:18
15.4 Tojong Pak In Jin
Length: 57:45
15.5 On Chondoism, a National Religion
Length: 53:35
15.6 A Written Warranty for a Good Citizen
Length: 1:02:49
Chapter 16: Crossing and Recrossing the River Amnok
16.1 Expedition to Fusong
Length: 37:57
16.2 Hundreds of Miles from Xiaotanghe at One Go
Length: 40:35
16.3 Guardsmen
Length: 37:59
16.4 Across the Whole of Korea
Length: 44:33
16.5 Kwon Yong Byok
Length: 47:21
16.6 Events to Which I Could Not Remain Indifferent
Length: 28:58
16.7 The Mother of the Guerrilla Army
Length: 37:38
Chapter 17: Korea Is Alive
17.1 Flames of Pochonbo (1)
Length: 32:24
17.2 Flames of Pochonbo (2)
Length: 24:41
17.3 Joint Celebration of Army and People at Diyangxi
Length: 30:04
17.4 Photographs and Memory
Length: 26:44
17.5 The Battle of Jiansanfeng
Length: 24:23
17.6 The Boys Who Took Up Arms
Length: 1:00:54
17.7 My Thought about Revolutionary Obligation
Length: 54:18
Chapter 18: In the Flames of the Sino-Japanese War
18.1 To Meet a New Situation
Length: 35:22
18.2 Kim Ju Hyon
Length: 32:30
18.3 Getting the Peasantry Prepared
Length: 42:28
18.4 Choe Chun Guk in His Days in the Independent Brigade
Length: 42:48
18.5 The September Appeal
Length: 36:49
18.6 My Experience of the "Hyesan Incident"
Length: 1:00:21
Chapter 19: Overcoming Trials
19.1 The Matanggou Secret Camp
Length: 43:26
19.2 The Weasel Hunter
Length: 26:55
19.3 The Last of the Independence Army Forces
Length: 35:58
19.4 Village Headman Wang and Police Chief Wang
Length: 29:47
19.5 Expedition to Rehe
Length: 32:39
19.6 My Meeting with Yang Jing-yu
Length: 27:41
19.7 Grandmother Ri Po Ik
Length: 40:01
19.8 In the Forest of Nanpaizi
Length: 37:48
Chapter 21: Roar of Gunfire in the Large-Unit Circling Operations
21.1 A Woman Came to Visit the Secret Camp
Length: 28:16
21.2 Chinese Landlord Liu Tong-shi
Length: 37:46
21.3 Confronted by Hundreds of Thousands of “Punitive” Troops
Length: 43:08
21.4 O Jung Hup and His 7th Regiment
Length: 44:19
21.5 The Man from Phyongan Province
Length: 20:08
21.6 "Let Us Defend the Soviet Union with Arms!"
Length: 38:30
21.7 The End of the "Maeda Punitive Force"
Length: 29:51
Chapter 23: In Alliance with the International Anti-Imperialist Forces
23.1 The Khabarovsk Conference
Length: 37:04
23.2 The Revolutionary Kim Chaek
Length: 57:23
23.3 Greeting the Spring in a Foreign Land
Length: 42:46
23.4 The Days of Small Unit Actions
Length: 50:00
23.5 Trust and Treachery
Length: 47:28
23.6 Formation of the International Allied Forces
Length: 36:52
23.7 With My Comrades in Arms of the Northeast Anti Japanese Allied Army
Length: 47:42
23.8 Fighters from Northern Manchuria
Length: 44:12
23.9 Nurturing the Root of the Revolution
Length: 42:39
Chapter 24: Nationwide Resistance against the Japanese
24.1 In Anticipation of the Day of Liberation
Length: 42:39
24.2 The Flames of National Resistance Flare throughout the Country
Length: 40:32
24.3 The Breakthrough in the Operations against Japan
Length: 38:05
24.4 The Spirit of the Nation
Length: 35:40
24.5 For Unity with the Anti Japanese Patriotic Forces
Length: 37:04
24.6 Across the Korea Strait
Length: 36:58
24.7 The Final Campaign
Length: 48:33
24.8 The Triumphal Return
Length: 51:54