The Red Detachment of Women

The Red Detachment of Women (1971)

September 16th, 19711h 45min

Drama, War
53%

Overview

A filmed 1970 performance of the China Central Ballet Troupe. Adapted from the film of the same title, The Red Detachment of Women was first staged in Beijing in 1964 and was one of the Eight Model Operas which dominated the national stage during the Cultural Revolution.


Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!

Trailer

Similar Movies

The Travelling Players

The Travelling Players


Released on: 1975-07-01
Drama, War, History

This expansive Greek drama follows a troupe of theater actors as they perform around their country d...

Billy Elliot

Billy Elliot


Released on: 2000-09-28
Drama, Comedy, Music

County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up f...

Short Working Day

Short Working Day


Released on: 1995-11-02
Drama, TV Movie

A dramatisation of the workers' protests in June 1976 in Radom, seen from the perspective of the loc...

Bolshoi Ballet: Jewels

Bolshoi Ballet: Jewels


Released on: 2014-01-19
Music, Drama

George Balanchine's jewel-themed triptych, strikingly choreographed to the music of Faure, Stravinsk...

White Nights

White Nights


Released on: 1985-11-22
Drama, Thriller

After his plane crashes in Siberia, a Russian dancer, who defected to the West, is held prisoner in ...

An American Girl: Isabelle Dances Into the Spotlight

An American Girl: Isabelle Dances Into the Spotlight


Released on: 2014-07-22
Family, Drama

Isabelle is an inspired dancer, but when her sister and a classmate make her doubt herself, she's mo...

As Long as There’s Life in Me

As Long as There’s Life in Me


Released on: 1965-09-09
Drama

This is part one of a two-part biopic about Karl Liebknecht. In 1914, Germany is arming itself for w...

Accident

Accident


Released on: 1977-01-24
Crime, Thriller, Drama

Three young man run in the rain with a borrowed car. The first accident, whose victim is a girl, giv...

The Girls

The Girls


Released on: 2014-06-27
History, Documentary, Drama

Four lucid grandmothers tell their story forgotten by history: the militancy and resistance of the y...

Romeo and Juliet: Beyond Words

Romeo and Juliet: Beyond Words


Released on: 2019-12-16
Drama, Music

As members of the feuding Capulet and Montague families, Romeo and Juliet should be sworn enemies, b...

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold


Released on: 1965-12-16
Drama, Thriller

British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the Cold War during the 1960s, choosing to face an...

My Own

My Own


Released on: 2021-03-26
Drama

This short film tells the story of Bianca, a nonbinary person, struggling to find the place for gend...

The Motorcycle Diaries

The Motorcycle Diaries


Released on: 2004-02-06
Drama

Based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recoun...

The Woman from the Great Bear

The Woman from the Great Bear


Released on: 1982-09-27
Romance, Drama

A construction site is set up next to a colony of forest workers. Murgu, a worker on the constructio...

Center Stage

Center Stage


Released on: 2000-05-12
Drama, Music

A group of 12 teenagers from various backgrounds enroll at the American Ballet Academy in New York t...

The Way We Were

The Way We Were


Released on: 1973-10-17
Drama, Romance

Opposites attract when, during their college days, Katie Morosky, a politically active Jew, meets Hu...

An Urban Allegory

An Urban Allegory


Released on: 2024-12-18
Drama, Fantasy

A ballet dancer is late for an audition for a show inspired by Plato's Allegory of the Cave. She arr...

Flight of the Swan

Flight of the Swan


Released on: 1992-10-09
Drama

A young girl leaves her Nigerian village to attend a ballet school in England. Fascinated by Tchaiko...

Russian Dolls

Russian Dolls


Released on: 2005-06-15
Comedy, Drama, Romance

Five years after their summer together in Barcelona, Xavier, William, Wendy, Martine and Isabelle re...

Save the Last Dance

Save the Last Dance


Released on: 2001-01-12
Drama, Family, Romance, Music

After the death of her mother, Sara moves to the South Side of Chicago to live with her father and g...