One Child Nation

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2019

1h 28m

English

Documentary

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Through interviews with both victims and instigators, Nanfu Wang, a first-time mother, breaks open decades of silence on a vast, unprecedented social experiment that shaped — and destroyed — countless lives in China.

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One Child Nation

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2019

1h 28m

English

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Directed By: Nanfu Wang, Zhang Jialing

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claudiaihdz says...

4 years ago

It was incredibly sad and horrific. The images of dead babies thrown in the streets will never leave my mind. The toll this took on these families was immense but I was incredibly angry at them at the same time because they were willing to kill a girl just to have a boy.

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Belenus says...

4 months ago

A captivating documentary that explores how the one-child policy caused suffering for an entire generation. He highlights how a dictatorship may not consider people's well-being, but rather maintain power, using methods to control and impose its will. It's a shocking analysis that evokes memories of the dystopia of "1984."

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2016moonlight says...

3 years ago

Wang took a topic that has so many possible angles to be approached from, and managed to explore a hand-full of them while still maintaining great cohesion and a very human sense of empathy for all sides involved. It felt genuine, like a story that truly mattered to the filmmaker and was handled with the care and sensibility it deserved. It was shocking at times, and brought tears to my eyes at others. A paradigmatic example of what documentary filmmaking is all about.

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Poizonb0x says...

4 years ago

Well, China is not to blame but the China Communist Party, a evil institution that threatens not only China but the whole World. In the last 10 minute the filmmaker said a very dumb thing. A baby isn't a part of the woman's body, is other body, other life, distinct DNA. Imagine finding a baby's DNA at a crime scene or on Mars. When analyzing the DNA does anyone have any doubt that it will be a DNA belonging to a human being? If a baby's DNA is found on any planet, they will say that there was life or is life on that planet.

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4 years ago

As a personal journey, an investigative exposé, and a warning, 'One Child Nation' is an informative, affecting and important film that documents a dark chapter of Chinese history that shouldn't be forgotten.
- Jake Watt

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