China Movies

Despite being pregnant, A female commissar continues to resist the Japanese invasion and forward the communist cause.

Shot over the course of ten years on both film and video, the film consists of a series of carefully composed tableaux of people and environments....

Filmed inside Pharmacy No. 3 in Shanghai, Joris Ivens and Marceline Loridan-Ivens document the daily work of a state pharmacy that functions as both...

Doctor and whip-wielding Hero Chai Tin-sum travels to an isolated village where he finds the population dying of the plague while being oppressed by...

SHANGHAI GHETTO recalls the strange-but-true story of thousands of European Jews who were shut out of country after country while trying to escape...

How do you reconcile a commitment to non-violence when faced with violence? Why do the poor often seem happier than the rich? Must a society lose its...

At Evergreen Primary School in Wuhan, China, a Grade 3 class learns what democracy is when an election for class monitor is being held. Three...

In 1946, Heidi is entrusted to a Swiss family by her father. He will never come back for her. Today, François Yang questions his mother about...

Crocodile in the Yangtze follows China's first Internet entrepreneur and former English teacher, Jack Ma, as he battles US giant eBay on the way to...

Presented by the British Museum this is the story of the most famous army in the world. A triumph of early mass production and craftmanship, they...

When Isa is not at school or working on his parents' farmyard, he spends carefree days with his friends - until the outside world starts forcing him...

Dan Snow, Dr Alice Roberts and Dr Albert Lin investigate a series of earth-shattering discoveries at a mighty tomb guarded by the Terracotta Warriors...

The life and trials of You Tianming, a young suona apprentice who forms his own suona troupe at a time when the traditions of suona music are...

THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE presents Nixon’s China Game, the story of an operation so secret that it managed to elude the international press, the...

A documentary chronicling the coming of age of a young chinese man.

In 1994, the oil-rich city of Karamay in Northwest China was the site of a horrible fire that killed nearly 300 schoolchildren. The students were...