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Paths of the Soul
(གངས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ)
A journey into humanity and faith.
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- China • 2015
- Director Zhang Yang
- Cast Yang Pei, Nyima Zadui, Tsewang Dolkar, Tsring Chodron, Seba Jiangcuo
- Genre Adventure, Drama, Documentary
- Available on Amazon Video, Hoopla
Last Train Home
(归途列车)
A documentary portrait of a Chinese family where the parents status as migrant workers only allow them to travel to their children once a year.
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- Canada, China, United Kingdom • 2009
- Director Lixin Fan
- Cast Changhua Zhang, Suqin Chen, Qin Zhang, Yang Zhang, Tingsui Tang
- Genre Documentary, Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Kanopy
Behemoth
(悲兮魔兽)
A sobering Chinese documentary about the environmental, sociological, and public health effects of coal-mining in China and Inner Mongolia.
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- China, France • 2015
- Director Zhao Liang
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Fandor, Apple TV, Kanopy
Our Time Machine
When an influential Chinese artist realizes his father is suffering from Alzheimer's, he invites him to collaborate on an ambitious project.
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- China, United States • 2019
- Director S. Leo Chiang, Yang Sun, Shuang Liang
- Cast Tong Zhengwei
- Genre Documentary, Drama, Family
- Available on Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, Eventive, Kanopy
Ascension
An exploration of contemporary China through the lens of consumerism, innovation, and pursuit of the "Chinese Dream."
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- China • 2021
- Director Jessica Kingdon
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Paramount Plus, Paramount+ Amazon Channel, Paramount+ Roku Premium Channel, Paramount Plus Apple TV Channel , Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube
Seven Worlds, One Planet
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- United Kingdom, China, United States • 2019
- Creator Emma Napper, Giles Badger, Chadden Hunter, Fredi Devas
- Cast David Attenborough
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Discovery +, Discovery+ Amazon Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max
I Wish I Knew
(海上传奇)
The stories of Shanghai – its history, its people, and its architecture -- spanning over more than a century.
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- China • 2010
- Director Jia Zhangke
- Cast Zhao Tao, Chen Danqing, Toon Wang, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Wei Wei, Rebecca Pan
- Genre Documentary, History
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy
Chinese Portrait
(我的镜头)
Wang Xiaoshuai's personal portrait of contemporary China.
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- China • 2018
- Director Wang Xiaoshuai
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on OVID, Apple TV, Fandango At Home, Kanopy
城市24小时
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- China • 2019
- Creator
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Hooligan Sparrow
Maverick activist Ye Haiyan and her colleagues protest the sexual abuse of six elementary school girls by their principal.
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- China, United States • 2016
- Director Nanfu Wang
- Cast Ye Haiyan
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, YouTube, Kanopy
Human Flow
When there is nowhere to go, nowhere is home.
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- Germany, United States, China • 2017
- Director Ai Weiwei
- Cast Boris Cheshirkov, Marin Din Kajdomcaj, Princess Dana Firas of Jordan, Abeer Khalid
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, FlixFling, Kanopy, Hoopla
Mrs. Fang
(方绣英)
Having suffered from Alzheimer's for several years, Fang Xiuying, now bedridden, is surrounded by her relatives and neighbors as they witness and accompany her through her last days.
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- China, France, Germany • 2018
- Director Wang Bing
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
People's Republic of Desire
What Will You Find If You Pin All Your Hopes Online?
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- China • 2018
- Director Hao Wu
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube
China Heavyweight
In southwestern China, state athletic coaches scour the countryside to recruit poor, rural teenagers who can throw a good punch.
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- Canada, China, Finland • 2012
- Director Yung Chang
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Apple TV, Kanopy
Summer Pasture
A young Tibetan family struggles to reconcile their traditional way of life with a rapidly modernizing world.
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- China, United States • 2011
- Director Nelson Walker
- Cast Locho, Yama
- Genre Documentary, Drama
- Available on OVID, Amazon Video, Hoopla, myfilmfriend
Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case
While under house arrest, artist Ai Weiwei continues to challenge the Chinese government in his fight for human rights.
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- Denmark, China, United Kingdom • 2013
- Director Andreas Johnsen
- Cast Ai Weiwei, Jerome A. Cohen, Feng Wang, Pan Haixia, Yunchang He
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube
Present.Perfect.
(完美現在時)
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- China, Hong Kong, United States • 2017
- Director Zhu Shengze
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue
(一直游到海水变蓝)
A deeply insightful portrait of four important Chinese authors and the forces that shaped them.
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- China • 2020
- Director Jia Zhangke
- Cast Huifang Duan, Liang Hong, Pingwa Jia, Hua Yu
- Genre Documentary
- Available on OVID, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube
T-Rex
The story of Claressa "T-Rex" Shields and her quest to win the first ever Olympic gold medal in women's boxing.
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- United Kingdom, China, Canada • 2016
- Director Drea Cooper
- Cast Claressa Shields
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube
Red Obsession
A turn to a new wine market.
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- Australia, China, France • 2013
- Director David Roach
- Cast Debra Meiburg, Sara Eisen
- Genre Documentary, History
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Web Junkie
An uninhibited look at what goes on in a Beijing treatment center tasked with “deprogramming” internet-addicted minors.
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- Israel, United States, China • 2014
- Director Shosh Shlam
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Kino Film Collection, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy
Before the Flood
(淹没)
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- China • 2005
- Director Yifan Li, Yu Yan
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Amazon Video
Convergence: Courage in a Crisis
While Covid-19 exacerbates vulnerabilities worldwide, unsung heroes at all levels of society help turn the tide toward a brighter future.
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- United Kingdom, United States • 2021
- Director Orlando von Einsiedel
- Cast Wenhua Lin, Sara Khaki, Mohammad Rezi Eyni
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
Genesis 2.0
After the discovery of a well-preserved mammoth carcass, scientists hope it could be a major step forward in bioengineering.
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- Switzerland, China, Russia • 2018
- Director Christian Frei, Maxim Arbugaev
- Cast Peter Grigoriev, Semyon Grigoriev, George Church, Spira Sleptsov, Woo Suk Hwang
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Kanopy
Maineland
In this documentary, two Chinese teenagers move to rural Maine and enroll in private school.
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- China, United States • 2017
- Director Miao Wang
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Amazon Video
On the Way to School
(Sur le chemin de l'école)
Children from four different corners of the Earth travel great distances to get to school in this inspiring documentary.
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- France, China, South Africa • 2013
- Director Pascal Plisson
- Cast Noura Azzagagh, Zahira Badi, Carlito, Zineb Elkabi, Emmanuel J. Esther
- Genre Documentary
- Available on OVID, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, VUDU Free, Kanopy, Hoopla, Plex, Plex Channel
Born in China
An epic journey into the Chinese wilderness that follows the adventures of three animal families: panda, golden monkey, and snow leopard.
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- United Kingdom, China, United States • 2016
- Director Lu Chuan
- Cast John Krasinski, Zhou Xun
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Disney Plus, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand, AMC on Demand
High Tech, Low Life
Two Chinese bloggers, one self-interested and the other motivated by change, each cover stories not reported on by official media.
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- China, United States • 2012
- Director Stephen T. Maing
- Cast Shuguang Zhou, Shihe Zhang
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube
The Human Scale
Humanity's rapid shift toward urbanization may not be entirely positive.
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- Denmark, Bangladesh, China • 2013
- Director Andreas Dalsgaard
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on OVID, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy, Hoopla
Xuanzang's Journey
(玄奘之路)
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- China • 2011
- Creator Jin Tiemu
- Cast Xu Tao
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Blue Planet II
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- United Kingdom, United States, China • 2017
- Creator
- Cast David Attenborough
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Discovery +, Discovery+ Amazon Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max
The Green Planet
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- United Kingdom, China, Germany • 2022
- Creator
- Cast David Attenborough
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Discovery+ Amazon Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max
Two Hundred Years of Surgery
(手术两百年)
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- China • 2019
- Creator 陈子隽
- Cast 姜广涛
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Mediterranean: Life Under Siege
(Méditerranée: L'odyssée pour la vie)
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- China • 2022
- Creator
- Cast Camélia Jordana
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Freevee, BBC Select Apple Tv channel, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
Every Treasure Tells a Story
(如果国宝会说话)
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- China • 2018
- Creator
- Cast Yang Chen
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
National Treasure
(国家宝藏)
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- China • 2017
- Creator Zhang Guoli, Yu Lei
- Cast Zhang Guoli, Zhou Shen
- Genre Reality
- Available on No streaming locations found.
HeXi Corridor
(河西走廊)
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- China • 2015
- Creator
- Cast Su Yang
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Will to Fly
Journey into the mind of a champion
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- Australia, China, Finland • 2018
- Director Katie Bender
- Cast Lydia Lassila
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Apple TV
Madame
(姑奶奶)
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- China • 2010
- Director Qiu Jiongjiong
- Cast Fan Qihui
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Restoring the Light
(启明)
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- China • 2011
- Director Carol Liu
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Amazon Video
Singing in the Wilderness
(旷野歌声)
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- China • 2021
- Director Chen Dongnan
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Inmates
(囚)
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- China • 2017
- Director Li Ma
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Once Upon a Bite
(风味人间)
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- China • 2018
- Creator Chen Xiaoqing
- Cast Li Lihong
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks
(铁西区)
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- China, Netherlands • 2003
- Director Wang Bing
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Inside Fur
(Pels)
Undercover in the fur industry
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- Norway, Denmark, China • 2014
- Director Ola Waagen
- Cast Odd Harald Eidsmo, Per Arne Tøllefsen, Frank Nervik
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
This Is Life
(生门)
We may not know how we'll leave, but we should know where we came.
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- China • 2016
- Director Weijun Chen
- Cast 李家福, 夏锦菊, 陈小凤
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Falling From the Sky
(天降)
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- China • 2009
- Director Zanbo Zhang
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
My Chief and My Regiment
(我的团长我的团)
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- China • 2009
- Creator Kang Honglei, Lan Xiaolong
- Cast Duan Yihong, Zhang Yi, Zhang Guoqiang, Jerry Lee, Jonathan Kos-Read, Luo Jingmin
- Genre Drama, War & Politics
- Available on No streaming locations found.
人间世
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- China • 2016
- Creator
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Da Ming Palace
(大明宫)
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- China • 2009
- Creator Jin Tiemu
- Cast Huang He, Bai Yu
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Medal of the Republic
(功勋)
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- China • 2021
- Creator
- Cast Wang Lei, Lei Jiayin, Huang Xiaoming, Guo Tao, Jiang Xin, Tong Dawei
- Genre Drama, Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Good Education
(La Bonne Éducation)
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- China, France • 2017
- Director Yu Gu
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on GuideDoc, DOCSVILLE, Tubi TV
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