Movies and Documentaries on China - available at Knight

Title	Running Time	Call Number
Great Wall Across the Yangtze (PBS)	60 min.	VIDEOTAPE 04463
In Search of China (PBS production) (2000)	87 min.	VIDEOTAPE 06949
World in the Balance – on Environmental Problems in China and India (Nova) (2004)	120 min.	VIDEO DVD 00681
China: the Dragon’s Ascent (2004)	6 discs – 480 min.	VIDEO DVD 00599
Blending with nature : classical Chinese gardens in the Suzhou style (2003)	53 min.	VIDEOTAPE 06749
I.M. Pei (designer of the Louvre and Cleveland’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame) (2005)	54 min.	VIDEO DVD 01337
The Great Step Forward – China’s Women in the 20th Century (CCTV production) (2002)	(2 tapes)	VIDEOTAPE 06373
China: The South (2002) (brief intro to Guangzhou, Guilin, Shenzhen and Hong Kong)	26 min.	VIDEOTAPE 06852
Ancient Chinese Inventions	(4 tapes)	VIDEOTAPE 06841
China: Heritage of the Wild Dragon – Provides History of the Yellow River Basin which includes Shandong! (2000)	59 min.	VIDEOTAPE 06372
China (Ambrose Video) (2000)	31 min.	VIDEOTAPE 06842
Yangtze: New China and the Old River (1999)	84 min.	VIDEOTAPE 06368
The Play’s the Thing: China’s Cultural Revolution (1999)	26 min.	VIDEOTAPE 06369
Path of the Dragon (1999)	26 min.	VIDEOTAPE 06845
From Yao to Mao – History Lectures with Prof. Ken Hammond (dry)	6 discs – 1080 min.	VIDEO DVD 00806
China’s Lost Girls (Nat. Geographic) (China’s unbalanced male/female birth ratio)	43 min	VIDEO DVD 01307
Confucianism and the Taiwan Experience (Confucian Values and their connection to wealth and industrial strength)	27 min	VIDEOTAPE 02746
China in Transition 581-1279 (Time Atlas) 1984	26 min	VIDEOTAPE 06844
Religions of the World (Daoism is tape 11)	52 min	VIDEOTAPE 01681
In Tune with Tomorrow, the Taiwan Experience	56 min	VIDEOTAPE 01024
What is the Chinese Opera? (Kwang Hwa)	57 min.	VIDEOTAPE 01023
Carved in Silence (Chinese Immigration to the US in the 1880s) (1987)	45 min.	VIDEOTAPE 01556
The Forbidden City (1987) Monterey Home Video	60 min.	VIDEOTAPE
Heart of the Dragon (Time Life) 12 Videos on China: Tape 11: “Creating” Discusses creativity in Chinese Culture, Folk Tales and Western Art (1985)	60 min each.	VIDEOTAPE 00252
Small Happiness: Women of a Chinese Village (1984)	58 min.	VIDEOTAPE 00440

A Day on the Grand Canal With the Emperor of China (1991) (the Kangxi Emperor)	47 min.	VIDEOTAPE 03793
Mao (1990)	30 min.	VIDEOTAPE 03634
Mao (1996)	25 min	VIDEOTAPE 03637
The Chinese Revolution (1990) documents the political history of China from 1949 - 1989		VIDEOTAPE 03638
The Challenge from Asia (1989)	53 min	VIDEOTAPE 01064
Preschool in three Cultures (Japan, China and the US)	58 min.	VIDEOTAPE 02780
The Pacific Century (1992) 10 tapes – see tape 1 : the Two Coasts of China; and Tape 6: Big Business and the Ghost of Confucius	60 min each	VIDEOTAPE 01692
China’s Cosmopolitan Age: the Tang (618-907) (PBS) 1992	60 min	VIDEOTAPE 01772
Sun Yat-Sen and the 3 Principles of the Revolution	14 min.	VIDEOTAPE 03633
Chinese Paper Cuts (1991)	27 min	VIDEOTAPE 01707
Satya – a prayer for the enemy (story of Tibetan Nuns and their resistance)	28 min.	VIDEOTAPE 02234
Confucius: Words of Wisdom (1997) (A&E)	50 min	VIDEOTAPE 05494
Emerging Powers: China, India, Mexico, Brazil (1996)	4 tapes – each 50 min.	VIDEOTAPE 02945
The Gate of Heavenly Peace (on the events in Beijing of 1989)	112 min, 77 min.	VIDEOTAPE 03016
Nature Perfected – 6 tape series on the Garden (tape 1 is on China and Japan) (1995)	60 min	VIDEOTAPE 02848
Art in the Cultural Revolution (1997)	33 min	VIDEOTAPE 05099
China: A Century of Revolution (1997) China’s History from 1911-1949	120 min.	VIDEOTAPE 05446
The Republic of China on Taiwan: Challenges and Rebirth (1997)	29 min	VIDEOTAPE 03763
The Immortal Emperor (BBC) (1998)	50 min.	VIDEOTAPE 06370
Great Leap (Communism in China) (1998)	60 min	VIDEOTAPE 06975
Legacy: the Origins of Civilization (2002) (Iraq, India, China, Egypt and Central America) Disc 2 is on China	120 min	VIDEO DVD 01245

Chinese Movies

Title	Running Time	Call Number
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	1 disc	VIDEO DVD 01087
The Port of Last Resort (Zuflucht in Shanghai) on Jewish Refugees in Shanghai in the 1930s	79 min	VIDEOTAPE 05290
Lan Yu (about a closeted middle aged man and his gay lover, set in the context of Tiananmen) (2003)	1 disc	VIDEO DVD 00510
The Chinese Connection (1972)	106 min.	VIDEO DVD 01230
Farewell My Concubine (1993)	2 discs.	VIDEO DVD 00846
2046 (2004) (Wang Jiawei as Director)	129 min	VIDEO DVD 00827
Unknown Pleasures (features romance and an attempted bank robbery) (2004)	113 min.	VIDEO DVD 00717
Quitting (about a Chinese actor’s struggles with Heroin) (2003)	112 min.	VIDEO DVD 00341
Black Cannon Incident (1985) (“a story of intrigue and romance”)	96 min	VIDEOTAPE 04394
Shaolin Temple (Kungfu revenge story)	90 min	VIDEO DVD 01229
The Good Earth (based on Pearl Buck’s novel) (1937)	138 min.	VIDEOTAPE 04741
Huang He Jue Lian (a WWII romance between a stranded American Pilot and Communist partisan) (1999)	110 min	VIDEODVD 00494
Huozhe (to Live) (1994) (Historical Fiction set in rural China – 1940s-1970s)	132 min.	VIDEOTAPE 04377 VIDEODVD 01718
Eat Drink Man Woman (romantic comedy set in Taiwan)	1 disc	VIDEODVD 01084
Zui Hao de Shi Guang (2006) a set of love tales held in 1911, 1966 and present day Taipei	135 min.	VIDEODVD 01236
The Wedding Banquet – Garcon d’Honneur (directed by Ang Lee) (2005)		VIDEO DVD 01083 PAL
Shou ji – Cell phone (Comedy about a modern day Chinese big shot who loses his cell phone, and has trouble managing his wife and mistress)	104 min.	VIDEO DVD 01089 PAL (may not have English subtitles)
Yu Kuaile Yu Duoluo (Hold you tight) (2002) (romance / drama set in modern day PRC)	93 min.	VIDEO DVD 01090