Hu Jie Movies

Dissident artist Hu Jie has managed to make more than 30 documentaries. Films like Though I Am Gone and Searching for Lin Zhao's Soul are vital to...

Spark was an underground publication that emerged in Gansu province in 1960, and was centered on the ongoing famine and the Great Leap Forward....

This landmark documentary reveals the tragic life of a gifted young woman who was executed for speaking out during the height of Chairman Mao’s...

The launch and development of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution not only has a series of CCP Central Committee documents that have promoted...

Wang Keqin was a reporter who dared to expose corrupt officialdom. Because his articles directly exposed stock market corruption and local government...

By following the case of Huang Jing, a woman teacher who died of date rape, this documentary captures changes in China between 2003 and 2005, before...

One of Hu Jie's 'Farmers Working in the City' films. The city is developing rapidly, with tall buildings and highways. Behind this bustling city,...

This is a documentary about coal miners. In the Qilian mountains of Qinghai Province, where the altitude is over 3,600 meters and the air thin, there...

Despite the increasing number of people entering the field of documentary filmmaking, historical subjects are less popular due to limited materials...

In the years before 1995, young artists who pursued free creativity came from all over the country to Yuanmingyuan, in the western suburbs of...

This film tells the story of a war in Tibet in 1912 through information and descendants of the Western Expeditionary Army.

Because of difficulties where they live in the north east of China, a husband and wife go back to their hometown in Shandong Province and settle in...

Folk theater is a representation of local culture in China — a reflection of its characteristics. Hu Jie filmed a mobile theater troupe's...

Unreleased Hu Jie film.

In the spring of 2004, a female graduate student was killed at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, but it was confirmed on the school's website that...

Original version of Hu Jie's film The Vast Suffering (辽阔之痛).

Short documentary by Hu Jie about his own 2014 art exhibition of the same name, curated by art critic Li Xianting.

Filmmaker Hu Jie uncovers the tragic story of a teacher beaten to death by her students during the Cultural Revoution. In 1966, the Cultural...

The Great Leap Forward of the People's Republic of China was an economic and social campaign led by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 1958 to...

This is a poem that asks about human nature, the world, friendship, love and faith.