The 400 Million (1939)
- Directed by
- Joris Ivens
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 52 min
- Rating
- 6.2 of 10 from 8 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A documentary about China during the Second Sino-Japanese War. It follows resistance forces from different Chinese factions as they fight the Japanese invasion.
politically-chargedobservationalurgenthistoricalsobergrittyinformative
What happens
The 400 Million, also known as China in 1938, was a 1939 black-and-white documentary film by Dutch filmmaker Joris Ivens about the Second Sino-Japanese War, part of the East Asian theater of World War II. The filmmaker moved between the Republican, Communist, and guerrilla forces of the Chinese resistance to Japanese invasion. Their dialogue in Mandarin is accompanied by English translations read by American actors. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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