China Movies

A new film compiled from the BFI National Archive's unparalleled holdings of early films of China, features films from 1900-48 filmed across China....

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...

After being suddenly struck with amnesia, an old man is brought to a dilapidated house and ordered to harvest corn by a man who claims to be his son.

The Greek shadow puppetry began 130 years ago. A student of Greek shadow puppetry travels to China, where shadow puppetry began over 2000 years ago....

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

A documentary about Peking in the dawn of the new Millenium. Contains interviews with Jia Zhangke and dj Gaohu

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

A documentary following Zhou Yuanquiang, a cultural worker in Jingdezhen, China who makes movies with untrained local actors.

September 2019. China inaugurates the largest airport terminal in the world, which covers 700,000 m2, the equivalent of 98 football pitches. Built in...

A high school movie project from Beijing that tells the story of transgender girl Zhang Wangan.

A report on the demographic impact of China’s one-child policy.

A film about fireworks, the people who make them and the cultures behind them across the globe.

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 a quiet village in southern China, Fang Xiuying is sixty-seven years old. Having suffered from Alzheimer's for several years, with advanced...

"Beethoven in Beijing" starts with a forgotten moment in history —the first American orchestra's visit to communist China. The Philadelphia...

In recent years, Chinese investment has poured into Southeast Europe, offering access to desperately-needed development financing. But at what cost?...

This landmark documentary reveals the tragic life of a gifted young woman who was executed for speaking out during the height of Chairman Mao’s...

During the brutal invasion of China in 1937 by Imperial Japanese forces, tens of thousands of civilians and prisoners of war are murdered and women...