The Other Half Of The Sky (2016)
• September 22nd, 2016 • 2h 0min
Documentary
Overview
They are four of the most successful businesswomen in China: Belonging to a generation who experienced the austerity of China's cultural revolution, followed by the subsequent economic boom, they have worked their way to the very top in a patriarchal society. Today, Yang Lan is the owner of one of the leading private media companies. Dong Mingzhu is a tenacious female CEO, heading up the world's largest manufacturer of air conditioning systems. Zhang Lan is a tycoon in the luxury restaurant business. Zhou Yi is a top manager working for a big american IT company. How were these careers built? What are the social and economic contexts in which they operate? And what do these women think about the political, social and cultural state of their country?
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
New Generation Queens: A Zanzibar Soccer Story
Released on: 2015-07-01
Documentary
On an island where religion bars women from playing soccer, the Queens resist cultural norms and cha...
I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story
Released on: 2015-05-06
Documentary
A documentary about Caroll Spinney who has been Sesame Street's Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch since ...
Holy Land: Startup Nations
Released on: 2017-03-28
Documentary
With the most tech startups and venture capital per capita in the world, Israel has long been hailed...
The Comeback
Released on: 1980-05-12
Documentary
After an absence of five years, six times Mr Olympia winner Arnold Schwarzenegger makes a comeback a...
China: A Class By Itself
Released on: 1979-01-01
Documentary
An inside look at China working towards the goal of becoming a superpower by the year 2000 via educa...
Crocodile in the Yangtze
Released on: 2012-04-12
Documentary
Crocodile in the Yangtze follows China's first Internet entrepreneur and former English teacher, Jac...
Mankiller
Released on: 2017-06-19
Documentary
The story of an American hero and the Cherokee Nation's first woman Principal Chief who humbly defie...
Earth: Muted
Released on: 2021-09-20
Documentary, Drama, TV Movie
Three farming families in Hanyuan, China, strive to give their children a good life in the midst of ...
China Jam
Released on: 2014-04-01
Adventure, Documentary
In their infinite quest for virgin big walls, adventurers Sean Villanueva O’Driscoll, Nicolas Favres...
Railroad of Hope
Released on: 2002-12-09
Documentary
Railroad of Hope consists of interviews and footage collected over three days by Ning Ying of migran...
Home and a Distant Archive
Released on: 2021-05-01
Documentary
A poetic, experimental portrait of four Hong Kong women in London working to digitise records of the...
Heidi in China
Released on: 2020-04-21
Documentary
In 1946, Heidi is entrusted to a Swiss family by her father. He will never come back for her. Today,...
Tibet - The Truth
Released on: 2013-09-20
Documentary
The accumulated history of Tibet and other issues contributing to the current situation in the regio...
The Last Blockbuster
Released on: 2020-12-15
Documentary
A documentary on the last remaining Blockbuster Video in Bend, Oregon.
Flood
Released on: 2008-02-14
Documentary
It has been forty years since the Sanmen Gorge project, a great dam high across the Yellow River at ...
A Small Town in China
Released on: 1933-01-01
Documentary, History
Shot by Methodist missionaries, this is an incredibly charming record of small-town life in an unide...
This Is China
Released on: 1946-01-01
Documentary
A fascinating compilation of scenes showing diversity and disparity in 1940s China. The ancient Forb...
Spellbound
Released on: 2002-03-14
Documentary
This documentary follows 8 teens and pre-teens as they work their way toward the finals of the Scrip...