China Movies

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

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...

My father was a landowner’s son and an ex-Kuomintang Air Force pilot, who remained in mainland China after 1949. For survival, he tried to...

Su has set up a restaurant without a permit. Unsurprisingly, the authorities send him away. Su then decides to go back home to the countryside, where...

Doctor and whip-wielding Hero Chai Tin-sum travels to an isolated village where he finds the population dying of the plague while being oppressed by...

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...

Behind his polite exterior lies a formidable leader with a ruthless character, ready to do anything to make China the world's leading power by the...

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

A cicada is resting high on a tree. It is chirping for all it’s worth and drinking in the dew, oblivious of a mantis behind. The mantis,...

The Chinese company Huawei wants to expand 5G worldwide and is well advanced in the development of the technology. With the help of 5G, entire...

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

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

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...

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

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

A family (mother, daughter and son) tries to survive their loneliness and obsessions by going through different sexual experiences and relationships...

"Beethoven in Beijing" starts with a forgotten moment in history —the first American orchestra's visit to communist China. The Philadelphia...

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...