One Child Nation

2019

Documentary / History

Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 86% · 102 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 86% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.5/10 10 7737 7.7K

woman director people's republic of china 计划生育 一胎

Plot summary

Through interviews with both victims and instigators, Nanfu Wang, a first-time mother, breaks open decades of silence on a vast, unprecedented social experiment that shaped — and destroyed — countless lives in China.

Director

Nanfu Wang Photo
Nanfu Wang

Top cast

Yueneng Duan Photo
Yueneng Duan as Self
Brian Stuy Photo
Brian Stuy as Self
Meilin Duan Photo
Meilin Duan as Self
Longlan Stuy Photo
Longlan Stuy as Self
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813.87 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 28 min
Seeds 1
1.63 GB
1920*1080
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us   es   fr   id   it   pl   pt   sv   tr   ru   ar   in   ta   te   th   cn   kr  
23.976 fps
1 hr 28 min
Seeds 4

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by hongh 6 / 10

I expected a broader perspective

I don't like Communist China and many of its policies, including one child policy. I have the same overall view as the documentary. However, to make a more powerful documentary, they should have applied more scientific storytelling method and interviewed people from broader range of background. Moreover, the film should have involved less of her family and relatives to make it more objective.
Reviewed by sc-11528 7 / 10

Damn if you don't, damn if you do

There are always two side to a policy, however one need to understand the context which resulted in this "one child" policy. China was struggling to feed its people. Its either mass starvation or mass migration. In fact, many had left and these are the Chinese living all across South East Asia. Imagine there was no policy and the people did not leave. How many more millions would have died of starvation. So before anyone condemn this "one child" policy claiming that many unborn children aborted, think of the millions who could have died due to starvation. This story depict the evil of "one child" policy but there is another side of story that is untold.
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