Movies TV Shows Popular People
Genres
The 400 Million
The 400 Million
Documentary 03/07/1939

The 400 Million (1939)

59%
User
Score

Overview

Joris Ivens’s wartime documentary of China’s resistance to the Japanese invasion, cross-cutting civilian exodus and bombing with the Nationalist state’s mobilization—schools, industry, dispersed war production, foreign relief—and guerrilla fighting. Framing an ancient nation of “400 million,” it contrasts tradition with modernization and closes on the unresolved question of victory.

Joris Ivens

Director

John Fernhout

Director

Joris Ivens

Writer