The 400 Million (1939)

193953mdir. Joris IvensUnited Statesdocumentary film

With Chiang Kai-shek, Fredric March, Morris Carnovsky, Sidney Lumet, Soong May-ling, Sun Yat-sen, Zhou Enlai

Directed by Joris Ivens

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The 400 Million, also known as China in 1938, was a 1939 black-and-white documentary film by Dutch filmmaker Joris Ivens about the Second Sino-Japanese War, part of the East Asian theater of World War II. The filmmaker moved between the Republican, Communist, and guerrilla forces of the Chinese resistance to Japanese invasion. Their dialogue in Mandarin is accompanied by English translations read by American actors.

Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Streaming from YouTube.

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