List of documentary films about China

This is a list of documentary films about China. Some included works may be alternatively classified as television documentaries or television series episodes.

List

• Ascension (2021)
• Behemoth, 2015, Director: Zhao Liang - documentary about miners
• Behind the Strings (2020), the westward journeys of Shanghai Quartet's members out of the Cultural Revolution ^[1]
• BBC Reggie in China (2020)
• Guangzhou Dream Factory (2016)
• The Chinese Mayor (2015)
• China Remix - African Hip-Hop Artists in China (2015)
• BBC Secrets of China (2015)
• China Rising, Latest World News (Al Jazeera), 4 episodes ^[2]
• Diaoyu Islands - The Truth (2014 Film) (2014)
• Human Harvest (2014)
• TIBET - The Truth (2013)
• Living with Dead Hearts (2013)
• Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (2012)
• Restoring the Light (2011)
• Dreamwork China (2011)
• China's Century of Humiliation - Documentary Film (2011)
• The Warriors of Qiugang (2011)
• China Wow! (2010-?)
• The Ditch (2010) (Chinese:告别夹边沟)
• China: The Rebirth of an Empire (2010)
• Beijing Taxi (2010) ^[3]
• Transmission 6-10 (2009)
• Last Train Home (2009)
• People's Republic of Capitalism (2009)
• China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province (2009)
• Tongzhi in Love (2008)
• Dynamic China (2007)
• Up the Yangtze (2007)
• Mao’s Bloody Revolution Revealed / Mao, une histoire chinoise (2007)
• The Blood of Yingzhou District (2006)
• China from the Inside (2006)
• Discovery Atlas: China Revealed (2006)
• Tibet: Murder in the Snow (2006)
• Declassified: Chairman Mao (2006)
• Declassified: Tiananmen Square (2006)
• The Tank Man (2006)
• Mardi Gras: Made in China (2005)
• China Blue (2005)
• Seoul Train (2005)
• China's Lost Girls (2004)
• From China with Love (2004)
• China in the Red (2003)
• Morning Sun (2003)
• China 21 (2001)
• American Experience: Nixon's China Game (2000)
• Citizen Hong Kong (1999)
• Comrades (1999)
• Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square (1998)
• China: A Century of Revolution – Part Three: Born Under the Red Flag 1976-1997 (1997)
• The Gate of Heavenly Peace (1995)
• Moving the Mountain (1995)
• The Dying Rooms (1995)
• Chinese Roots (1994)
• China: A Century of Revolution – Part Two: The Mao Years 1949-1976 (1994)
• Timewatch Chairman Mao: The Last Emperor (1993)
• China: A Century of Revolution – Part One: China in Revolution 1911-1949 (1989)
• China Diary (1989)
• River Elegy (Chinese:河殇)
• China Rises
• Mao Tse Tung: China's Peasant Emperor
• How Yukong Moved the Mountains(1976), a series of 12 documentary films about the Cultural Revolution
• Chung Kuo, Cina , an Italian documentary directed by Michelangelo Antonioni (1972)
• Report From China (3 part series, 90 minutes total runtime) Originally titled "Country of Dawn" (1966/1967)
• China: The Roots of Madness (1967)

References

1. "Behind the Strings Documentary: A Review". Universal Cinema. 2020-09-22. Retrieved 2022-03-10.
2. Aljazeera.com
3. Hale, Mike (9 December 2010). "Bystanders to China's Transition". The New York Times.

External links

• worldcat.org - worldwide library search engine, can be used to locate above titles for inter-library exchange
• China Documentaries - a collection of links to documentary films and media reports about the People's Republic of China
• China Documentaries - a collection of links to documentary films and media reports about the People's Republic of China
• - a collection of films about the People's Republic of China. Also listed on IMDB.