China Movies

Red Guards were a student movement supported by Mao Zedong in 1966-67 during the Cultural Revolution. A group of students at Qinghua University who...

China is pushing hard into German and European markets. Furthermore, Beijing is developing into an increasingly powerful military power. An...

A desperate cry for help written in Chinese was discovered in a pregnancy test sold in France and made in a Chinese factory. It revealed a hidden...

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...

A highway is waiting to go through a quiet village in Hunan, a province in central China where Mao was from. Due to the high cost of construction,...

FRONTLINE examines the rise of Xi Jinping, his vision for China and the global implications. Correspondent Martin Smith traces the defining moments...

Nana Xu travels to the place built by her father as a prisoner during the Cultural Revolution: first a work camp, later a prison, fruit farm and...

Mist swirls around the base of Shanghai's skyline. From the city, tigers and monkeys seem as unreal and distant as dragons and mermaids emerging...

Documentation of a journey along the Great Wall of China to the Ku-Pei-Kuo pass fortress.

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...

Young Masters is an original series commissioned by NOWNESS China focusing on traditional Chinese cultures, and how they continue to be defined by a...

A man returns to his hometown in northeast China and meets a restaurateur of the same age. They discover a deep connection with each other through...

A report on the detention of Uyghurs in Xinjiang, China.

For the first time, a French director-journalist will join an official trip to the heart of one of the most secret regions in China: Xinjiang....

To really understand China, you have to get to know its people! Winston "SerpentZA" Sterzel travels across China’s first tier cities –...

The dysfunctional Chinese justice system allows citizens with grievances against their local governments to petition the court to clear or correct...

China’s President Xi Jinping is a force to be reckoned with. As leader of the Communist colossus, he commands the world’s attention, but...

A young huntress with a hidden secret learns to accept her true self, while helping to defend her new animal companion. If they are not careful, the...

A cicada is resting high on a tree. It is chirping for all it’s worth and drinking in the dew, oblivious of a mantis behind. The mantis,...