China Movies

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

During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Kuomintang negotiated cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party while...

Tibetan writer Tsering Woeser's efforts to document and present the reality of Tibet were considered a "political problem" by the Chinese Party-state...

Secluded from view by nine-meter-high walls and composed of 980 buildings, the Forbidden City in Beijing is the largest imperial palace ever built in...

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...

In America, everyone has a family story of immigration. Every family, at some point, has had somebody leave their native country behind to search for...

Over the last 40 years, China has been transformed out of all recognition. The scale of its growth and the sheer speed of change has been...

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

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

The documentary film of the brief window of artistic freedom and democracy movement 1978 - 1982 following China's brutal cultural revolution.

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

Travelogue released on the 29th of December, 1918. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Darkly humorous reinterpretation of the zombie film, set in Beijing. Here the undead are real estate agents, nouveau riche businessmen, security...

An inside look at China working towards the goal of becoming a superpower by the year 2000 via education as the key to modernization. Filmed in...

Short film directed by Walter Knoop

A documentary from 1987 featuring the life of early Chinese immigrants to the island of Newfoundland.

This tells events of the 26th year of the Ganlu era, during which the Emperor Long Aotian of the Ye Dynasty fell seriously ill. Suddenly, Lu Sha, the...