Xu Xin’s film “Dao Lu” (China 2012) offers an exclusive “in camera” encounter with Zheng Yan, an 83 year-old veteran of the Chinese Red Army, who calmly relates how he has navigated his country’s turbulent history over three-quarters of a century.Born to a wealthy family in a foreign concession, Yan joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1941 because he sincerely believed in the socialist project, and in its immediate capacity to free China from the Japanese yoke and eradicate deep-rooted corruption.
Taking stock of the extraordinary adventure of "Pif Gadget", a French publishing phenomenon of the 1...
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, is remembered as the instigator of the October Revol...
How do you reconcile a commitment to non-violence when faced with violence? Why do the poor often se...
A documentary about Caroll Spinney who has been Sesame Street's Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch since ...
Chinese teenagers from the wealthy elite, with big American dreams, settle into a boarding school in...
The Gate of Heavenly Peace is a feature-length documentary about the 1989 protest movement, reflecti...
10 May 2007 - China's staggering economic growth has overshadowed a more subtle shift in Chinese soc...
Starting in 1881 this film shows the personal battle between Lenin's Ulyanov family and the royal Ro...
Director Philip Haas and artist David Hockney invite you to join them on a magical journey through C...
As a decades-old state-run aeronautics munitions factory in downtown Chengdu, China is being torn do...
This revealing portrait of Cuba follows the lives of Fidel Castro and three Cuban families affected ...
Amidst the grand walls of the Forbidden City, the film takes us on a deep journey through the ceremo...
In a quiet village in southern China, Fang Xiuying is sixty-seven years old. Having suffered from Al...
Follows Long Island’s Mary Lamont Band on their groundbreaking 23,000-mile tour in six cities and pr...
MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES is the striking new documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edw...
The absorbingly cinematic Ascension explores the pursuit of the “Chinese Dream.” Driven by mesmerizi...
In the 19th century, China held the monopoly on tea, which was dear and fashionable in the West, and...