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....

Tom Radford's documentary chronicles the life of Chester Ronning, best remembered for his close and longstanding relationship with China. Over the...

A look at the man behind the legend, capturing the real Andy Warhol, as an artist and as a person, as he travels through China, from Hong Kong's...

An overview of the lives of Richard Nixon and Chairman Mao, focusing on the geopolitical forces that led to their meeting in 1972 and the resulting...

A Chinese drama set in 1966, during the Cultural Revolution.

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

This documentary takes an economic perspective, painting a candid picture of how the Dutch chain store HEMA has had to adapt to modern times and...

Leading Chinese Sixth Generation filmmaker Jia Zhangke returns home to Fenyang in Shanxi province after winning the Golden Lion Award at the Venice...

Crocodile in the Yangtze follows China's first Internet entrepreneur and former English teacher, Jack Ma, as he battles US giant eBay on the way to...

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...

Highlights the rebellious young generation of artists in China fighting for political emancipation, artistic freedom and creating a cultural golden...

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....

At Evergreen Primary School in Wuhan, China, a Grade 3 class learns what democracy is when an election for class monitor is being held. Three...

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...

Ivo, a young Argentine of Chinese descent, dreams of becoming a filmmaker, but his family's supermarket leaves little room for his ambitions. Caught...

A poetic, experimental portrait of four Hong Kong women in London working to digitise records of the handover agreement between the United Kingdom...

In China more people are on death row than the rest of the world combined. The children of the convicts are often left alone, stigmatized and living...

This three-part film explores homosexuality in communist China.