Movies: Cultural revolution
- 2018
Dead Souls (2018)
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In Gansu Province, northwest China, lie the remains of countless prisoners abandoned in the Gobi Desert sixty years ago. Designated as ultra-rightists in the Communist Party’s Anti-Rightist campaign of 1957, they starved to death in the reeducation c...
- 2024
Welcome to Babel (2024)
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Chinese-Australian artist Jiawei Shen's plans to create an epic work depicting his homeland's tumultuous recent history....
- 2022
Rock Family Trees (2022)
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More than two decades after it left our screens, BBC Two’s iconic and much-loved music documentary series, Rock Family Trees, is back for a one-off special. The iconic music documentary series returns to examine the real story behind the birth of Bri...
- 2003
Morning Sun (2003)
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The film Morning Sun attempts in the space of a two-hour documentary film to create an inner history of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (c.1964-1976). It provides a multi-perspective view of a tumultuous period as seen through the eyes—and ...
- 2009
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder (2009)
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The poet and painter, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, is among the world's living monuments to arts and letters. For well over a half century, Ferlinghetti helped shape the currents of poetry and literature with his forceful engagement with society and an ide...
- 1965
The East Is Red (1965)
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Pre-Cultural Revolution propaganda at its most lavish, this model opera depicts the history and evolution of the Communist Party of China under Mao Zedong from its founding in July 1921 to the establishment of "New China" in 1949. Detailed in the mu...
- 2022
Kekaiulu Hula Studio (2022)
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Kekaiulu Hula Studio follows the Proclaimed Hula Halau of the same name, showcasing their twist on what the real reason for hula is and what life as a dancer in the halau is really like. Something previously unseen in the public eye....
- 2007
Sparkling Red Star (2007)
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An animated remake of the 1974 children's movie "Shan shan de hong xing"...
- 1980
Traitors (1980)
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1975 on the south west border of China...
- 2015
Counting from Infinity: Yitang Zhang and the Twin Prime Conjecture (2015)
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In April 2013, a lecturer at the University of New Hampshire submitted a paper to the Annals of Mathematics. Within weeks word spread: a little-known mathematician, with no permanent job, working in complete isolation, had made an important breakthro...
- 2002
Chen Mo and Meiting (2002)
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- 2013
Star Trek: The True Story (2013)
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Documentary covering the current state of both the theoretical and practical development of the various scientific basic principles that served, as per Gene Roddenberry's dictum, as a believable basis at the time for The Original Series. Several real...
- 2009
Turning Point 1977 (2009)
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At the close of the Cultural Revolution, a group of young idealists battle for the right to return home and restart their lives after years of toil on a state run re-education farm in China....
- 2004
Searching for Lin Zhao's Soul (2004)
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This landmark documentary reveals the tragic life of a gifted young woman who was executed for speaking out during the height of Chairman Mao’s rule....
- 2016
The Barefoot Doctor (2016)
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This documentary film recounts Dr. Sun Lizhe's remarkable experience as a barefoot doctor in rural China and offers a glimpse of China's healthcare condition during and shortly after the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). Described as "Chinese Dr. Zhiv...
- 2021
100 Years (2021)
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As the Communist Party of China celebrates its 100th anniversary, this documentary looks back at the party’s history, from the 1920’s, to the Civil War, the Great Leap Forward, the Great Famine, the Cultural Revolution and the reforms by Mao Zedong a...
- 1982
Ta men bing bu shi mo sheng (1982)
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After the cultural revolution...
- 2020
Heidi in China (2020)
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In 1946, Heidi is entrusted to a Swiss family by her father. He will never come back for her. Today, François Yang questions his mother about her past. What follows is a journey to China, a quest to reconstruct memory. Through contact with her brothe...
- 2016
Songs of the Youth 1969 (2016)
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It is the year of 2010, Xue Beijing, a 50-year-old director, is preparing to make a film about his youth and remarkable ages in late 60's....
- 2007
In the Footsteps of Bembeya Jazz (2007)
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A portrait of the mythical band Bembeya Jazz, which contributed to the heyday of Sekou Touré’s cultural revolution in Guinea. Created in 1961 in the heart of the rainforest, Bembeya Jazz rapidly became modern Africa’s greatest orchestra. 50 years lat...