China Movies

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

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

Featuring rare archive and powerful testimony from former Red Guards and Rebels, CHINA’S 3DREAMS takes us directly to the perspectives of...

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

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....

“Are you a man, or a woman?” In a world built on binaries, this is the question every trans soul must learn to answer—again and...

The life and trials of You Tianming, a young suona apprentice who forms his own suona troupe at a time when the traditions of suona music are...

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

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...

As a doctor, Zhiyuan Wang spent 30 years studying how to save lives. He never imagined that he would spend another 10 years investigating how Chinese...

For Chinese parents, finding out that their kid is gay usually presents a major tragedy, with the big majority utterly unable to accept the...

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...

A Swedish singer trades Europe for China. Like a blonde nephew of Bryan Ferry, he enters the burgeoning music scene in Shanghai, where electronic...

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

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

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...