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3 Days That Stopped The World

In mid-January of 2020, as the festivities of the Chinese New Year begin, two journalists head from Beijing to Wuhan to cover a story on a new type of pneumonia.

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Burn With Us

It was only until 1997 that the former British colony of Hong Kong was handed back to the People’s Republic of China.

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Iron Hands

This short film tells the story of a 12-year-old girl who wants to make it into the Chinese youth Olympic weight-lifting team.

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Hard to Believe

China is one of the countries with the largest number of organ transplants per year. Although the statistic sounds noble, very little is known about the source of these organs.

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AlphaGo

The ancient Chinese game of Go has long been seen as a challenge to artificial intelligence. It’s intensely contemplative and almost hypnotic.

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Trapped in the City of a Thousand Mountains

Chongqing is a metropolis that lies deep in the Chinese heartland, along the Yangtze River. This place has been an inspiration to poets for years, but now things are changing radically and instead of being known as the Mountain City, Chongqing has become Trap City.

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Cannabis: A Lost History

After 75 years of prohibition, Colorado and Washington State legalized recreational marijuana in 2012. For hundreds of years Cannabis had been an integral part of human civilization.

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An Inconvenient Border: Where China Meets North Korea

China and North Korea share a border split by the rivers Yalu and Tumen. At night you can stand on one side and experience the complete darkness on the other side.

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DPRK: The Land of Whispers

North Korea, officially the DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea), has been called the land of whispers for a long time and it’s because people just don’t say things in public.

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Dwarf in China

This documentary tells the story a Dutch street performer who travels throughout rural China telling an unusual story that touches the hearts of young and old.

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What is Kung Fu?

This short documentary film explores the diversity that is found within the Chinese martial art of Kung Fu. Seven practitioners and masters were interviewed for the film and each one described what the art means to him or her personally. 

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China’s Digital Detox

A Life Reboot for Internet Gaming Addicts

Internet addiction is a growing threat to society in this century. In China, there are over 700 million Internet users and the number is continually growing.

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Death by China

One Lost Job at a Time

In 2001, China joined the World Trade Organization with the support of a Democratic US president and a Congress that was controlled by Republicans.

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Legend of a Warrior

Frank Lee arrived in Canada in 1960. He was Grandmaster White Crane Kung Fu who devised his own style for contact fighting.  

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Green Gold

The story of how modern man is slowly exhausting the planet is not a new one. Deserts are advancing, water is becoming scarce, and every twelve years the Earth’s population increases by 1 billion people.

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Legalize Democracy

Democracy is in trouble and there are many signs to prove this. According to David Cobb of the  Move to Amend Leadership Team, democracy is not a noun, it’s a verb.

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Who’s Afraid of Ai Weiwei?

This is the story of Ai Weiwei, one of the most intriguing people in China. This man has emerged in recent years as China’s first global art star.

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They Chose China

21 American soldiers came to an astonishing decision following the Korean War: they chose to stay in China and build a life there.

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The Silk Road

Glories of Ancient Chang-An The Silk Road or Silk Route refers to a network of interlinking trade routes across the Afro-Eurasian landmass that connected East, South, and Western Asia with the Mediterranean and European world, as well as parts of North and East Africa.

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China’s Bleak House

Thousands of poor Chinese workers wait years to petition against injustices suffered in their home districts with the court of the plaintiffs in Beijing – often the last resort for those seeking redress for dismissals, land confiscations, beatings and arrests.

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Second Skin

Second Skin takes an intimate, disturbing look at three sets of computer gamers whose lives have been transformed by the emerging genre of computer games called Massively Multiplayer Online games (MMOs).

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Please Vote For Me

Chinese Director Weijun Chen’s charming film takes us into the world of Chinese schoolchildren, learning about democracy for the first time as they try to vote for their class monitor.

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