In China more people are on death row than the rest of the world combined. The children of the convicts are often left alone, stigmatized and living in the streets. Grandma Zhang, as the kids call her, is a former prison guard who has founded an orphanage in Nanzhao.

The absorbingly cinematic Ascension explores the pursuit of the “Chinese Dream.” Driven by mesmerizi...

Poignant postwar appeal for Britain’s Jewry to support orphaned Jewish children rescued from Europe.

In Uganda, AIDS-infected mothers have begun writing what they call Memory Books for their children. ...

Director Philip Haas and artist David Hockney invite you to join them on a magical journey through C...

Arresting early film images of both northern India and central and south western China.

How do you reconcile a commitment to non-violence when faced with violence? Why do the poor often se...

In their infinite quest for virgin big walls, adventurers Sean Villanueva O’Driscoll, Nicolas Favres...

Mao Zedong was not only a revolutionary leader and thinker, he was also a poet. In poems written in ...
Red Guards were a student movement supported by Mao Zedong in 1966-67 during the Cultural Revolution...

China is the only civilization that continues to hold sway throughout its entire territory as define...

Examines the early 1980s Hong Kong filmmaking community. Tony Rayns interviews some of the new gener...

The story of a six year old boy from Phoenix, Arizona whose dreams of becoming a Kungfu master lead ...

A documentary about Caroll Spinney who has been Sesame Street's Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch since ...

In a quiet village in southern China, Fang Xiuying is sixty-seven years old. Having suffered from Al...

The film's protagonists are the orphaned children taken into custody by the state and institutionali...