China Movies

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...

Explores the plans for the construction of the monumental dam on China's Yangtze River, the structure that when completed in 2009 will become the...

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....

The many faces of China put together like a puzzle.

French documentary from 2013. Mao Zedong and his fourth wife Jiang Qing were married for 37 years, from 1939 until Mao's death in 1976. After his...

"Disturbing the Peace" is a documentary of an incident during Tan Zuoren's trial on August 12, 2009. Tan Zuoren was charged with inciting subversion...

Rong Chen would like to keep her place in the recorder group, Shao Yu wants to give up playing. She asks him for tips, and by practicing together,...

The Chinese global machine has been invited to revitalise the ailing Swedish town of Kalmar. The town's mayor has invited a Chinese company to build...

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

This documentary reviews and summarises the development of homosexuality as an issue in the past three decades in China. We interviewed thirty...

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...

In the 1920s Pat Jackson destroys a Chinese post and is discharged from the Navy. Li Po Chang hires him to run a gunboat up the river. He drops...

Chai Jing's documentary about the massive smog problem in China. Chai Jing started making the documentary when her as yet unborn daughter developed...

Exploring the secrets of China to reveal the beauty of its hidden kingdoms, with unique access to locations across the country.

The Forbidden City is the world’s biggest and most extravagant palace complex ever built. For five centuries, it was the power center of...

An biography of Zhou Enlai through the Cultural Revolution.

In China, a singer and a journalist meet while traveling on a train attacked by bandits.

Sir Ian McKellen reads the poetry, Michael Wood traces the journey on the ground. Together they conjure up the extraordinary life, times and words of...