Movies: Jinchuan Duan
- 1993

1966, My Time in the Red Guards (1993)
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More preoccupied with "history" than Wu's other works, My Time in the Red Guards is a record of his fascination with the missed moment, Mao's Cultural Revolution. In 1966, the Red Guards ironically represented the official avant-garde, a movement car...
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- 1994

The Square (1994)
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The film documents a day in the life of Tiananmen Square in 1994, a mere five years after the crushing of a student-led democracy movement in 1989....
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- 2008

Crane City of the North (2008)
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Documentary about the history and development of Qiqihar city....
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- 2002

Sweat (2002)
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Never broadcasted feature film by Chinese documentary filmmaker Kang Jianning....
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- 1993

The Sacred Site for Asceticism (1993)
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Qingpu is a famous sacred mountain in Tibet, where countless monks have practiced for thousands of years. In 1989, Wen Pulin and Duan Jinchuan followed several monks up the mountain and took video of them. After three years, they revisited the same p...
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- 1989

The Great Earthquake (1989)
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On Tomb Sweeping Day, in 1988, a film crew set out for the monument of the Tangshan earthquake to shoot a memorial ceremony for the victims. This marked the beginning of shooting for a documentary called "The Great Earthquake." The crew continued to ...
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- 2002

Interesting Times: The Secret of My Success (2002)
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Interesting Times: The Secret of My Success is a 2002 Chinese documentary film by director Duan Jinchuan about China's contemporary politics of democracy and the realities of the one child policy. The director shows how this policy is being implement...
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- 1986

Highland Barley (1986)
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Early short documentary film by Duan Jinchuan. It is considered by the filmmaker to be lost....
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- 1996

No. 16 Barkhor South Street (1996)
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No.16, Barkhor Street is an old courtyard in the heart of Lhasa and the site of the office of the Barkhor Neighborhood Committee. This masterful cinema verité documentary, the landmark work in the history of independent documentaries about Tibet, pro...
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- 2010

Trip to Heilongjiang (2010)
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Documentary on the nature scenery of Heilongjiang....
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- 1997

Men and Women in Gada Village (1997)
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Documentary film by Duan Jinchuan...
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- 1997

The Ends of the Earth (1997)
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Documentary which follows the lives of a group of Tibetan herdsmen living on the Phala Grasslands in the northwest Tibetan plateau. This film follows the decision of a Tibetan nomad living far from any town who has invested money in a truck that does...
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- 2002

The War of Love (2002)
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A film by Chinese documentary filmmaker Jinchuan Duan....
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- 2005

The Storm (2005)
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This documentary is named after the well known novel (and later propaganda film) of the same title, which offered a telling of an historic event in 1946 in Northeastern China, when the CCP initiated Land Reform as a means of attracting peasants to jo...
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- 2007

Revitalize the Northeast (2007)
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Propaganda documentary on the Northeast Area Revitalization Plan....
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- 1988

Blue Mask Offering (1988)
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Early TV documentary short film by director Duan Jinchuan about traditional Tibetan opera performances....
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- 1999

Shipwreck—The Story of 1997 (1999)
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A documentary film by Duan Jinchuan....
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