The 400 Million (1939)

Title: The 400 Million

Original Title: The 400 Million

Release Date: 1939-03-07

Status: Released

Rating: 5.9/10 (from 7 votes)

Language: EN

Genres: Documentary

Production Companies: Unknown

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.