List of documentary films about China

This is a list of documentary films about China. Some included works may be alternatively classified as television documentaries or television series episodes.


 * Ascension (2021)
 * Behind the Strings (2020), the westward journeys of Shanghai Quartet's members out of the Cultural Revolution
 * BBC Reggie in China (2020)
 * Guangzhou Dream Factory (2016)
 * The Chinese Mayor (2015)
 * China Remix - African Hip-Hop Artists in China (2015)
 * BBC Secrets of China (2015)
 * China Rising, Latest World News (Al Jazeera), 4 episodes
 * Diaoyu Islands - The Truth (2014 Film) (2014)
 * Human Harvest (2014)
 * TIBET - The Truth (2013)
 * Living with Dead Hearts (2013)
 * Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (2012)
 * Restoring the Light (2011)
 * Dreamwork China (2011)
 * China's Century of Humiliation - Documentary Film (2011)
 * The Warriors of Qiugang (2011)
 * China Wow! (2010-?)
 * The Ditch (2010)
 * China: The Rebirth of an Empire (2010)
 * Beijing Taxi (2010)
 * Transmission 6-10 (2009)
 * Last Train Home (2009)
 * People's Republic of Capitalism (2009)
 * China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province (2009)
 * Tongzhi in Love (2008)
 * Dynamic China (2007)
 * Up the Yangtze (2007)
 * Mao’s Bloody Revolution Revealed / Mao, une histoire chinoise (2007)
 * The Blood of Yingzhou District (2006)
 * China from the Inside (2006)
 * Discovery Atlas: China Revealed (2006)
 * Tibet: Murder in the Snow (2006)
 * Declassified: Chairman Mao (2006)
 * Declassified: Tiananmen Square (2006)
 * The Tank Man (2006)
 * Mardi Gras: Made in China (2005)
 * China Blue (2005)
 * Seoul Train (2005)
 * China's Lost Girls (2004)
 * From China with Love (2004)
 * China in the Red (2003)
 * Morning Sun (2003)
 * China 21 (2001)
 * American Experience: Nixon's China Game (2000)
 * Citizen Hong Kong (1999)
 * Comrades (1999)
 * Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square (1998)
 * China: A Century of Revolution – Part Three: Born Under the Red Flag 1976-1997 (1997)
 * The Gate of Heavenly Peace (1995)
 * Moving the Mountain (1995)
 * The Dying Rooms (1995)
 * Chinese Roots (1994)
 * China: A Century of Revolution – Part Two: The Mao Years 1949-1976 (1994)
 * Timewatch Chairman Mao: The Last Emperor (1993)
 * China: A Century of Revolution – Part One: China in Revolution 1911-1949 (1989)
 * China Diary (1989)
 * River Elegy
 * China Rises
 * Mao Tse Tung: China's Peasant Emperor
 * How Yukong Moved the Mountains(1976), a series of 12 documentary films about the Cultural Revolution
 * Chung Kuo, Cina, an Italian documentary directed by Michelangelo Antonioni (1972)
 * Report From China (3 part series, 90 minutes total runtime) Originally titled "Country of Dawn" (1966/1967)
 * China: The Roots of Madness (1967)