The BBC documentary we were assigned to watch was definitely an interesting perspective into the life of Confucius and why he believed the things he believed. In the documentary, at one point it said something along the lines of how he believed that in order to properly respect those who have died, we need to respect the living. To me, this is the classic example of filial piety of respecting those older than you, particularly parents, grandparents, and other authority figures such as teachers.
I found the documentary particularly interesting because while I had learned about Confucius and the idea of filial piety many times before, I never really heard any backstory on it, or what his childhood was like. I thought it was interesting to learn about the state that China was in as a country at the time he was growing up, and how that may have influenced the way he saw the world and his ideas that came later in his life. He is definitely an influential person, not only to Chinese society, but he was clearly influential enough here in the US that we often learn about him and what he stood for.