This historical drama tells the story of Qin Shihuang, who unified China's vast territory and declared himself emperor in 221 B.C. During his reign, he introduced sweeping reforms, built a vast network of roads and connected the Great Wall of China. From the grandiose inner sanctum of Emperor Qin's royal palace, to fierce battles with feudal kings, this film re-creates the glory and the terror of the Qin Dynasty, including footage of Qin's life-sized terra cotta army, constructed 2,200 years ago for his tomb.

Abbot Hai Teng of Shaolin is a documentary starring Jet Li

Biography of famous ancient Chinese poetess Li Qingzhao who lived in the Song Dynasty.

Newsreel of the trail for gang of four.

1988 feature documentary on the history, culture and people of Tibet.

Documentary on the political topic of economic reform.

The 1987 Vienna New Year's Concert was the first and only New Year's Concert conducted by Mr. Herbert von Karajan, the "Emperor of Conducting" and the "General Director of Music in Europe", and of course, the only New Year's Concert ever held.

A young aristocrat is seduced by a young man who appeared to her in a dream one spring afternoon. Captive of this impossible love, the young girl is dying of melancholy. But the constancy of her love is stronger than death; she wins the pity of the judge of the underworld, manages to find her lover and come back to life. The opera "The Peony Pavilion" was composed in 1598 by the poet Tang Xianzu (1550-1617), one of the greatest playwrights of the Ming period. Of all the forms of Chinese opera that have followed one another since the 12th century, the kunqu is the one that best preserves the image of a classical art highly appreciated in educated circles for its musical, literary and gestural refinement.

Part Two: SMALL HAPPINESS - Despite the tremendous advances women in China have made, serious problems continue. Long Bow women talk about love, marriage, work, birth control, birth customs and the now outlawed custom of foot binding. Truly moving interviews with Lingqiao and her mother-in-law draw us into their lives.

A version of Tiananmen that aired as a 'commemorative topic film' on CCTV-1, most likely in or around National Day, 1989.

A documentary report on Hu Jieqing, Lao She's wife.

A short documentary film produced by Xinhua News Agency in an effort to disseminate historical truth about the 1937 Nanjing Massacre to international audiences.

Educational film about the scenery and people at the Kanas Lake region.

Part Three: TO TASTE 100 HERBS - Dr Shen Fasheng discusses his Catholic religion, medical ethics, rural health services, centuries-old knowledge of herbal treatments and Western medical practices. The warmth, closeness and traditions of family life in China are wonderfully captured in scenes of prayer, play, chores and celebrations.

Documentary about sculptor Liu Huanzhang.

The village elders of Long Bow recount tales of famine, drought, disease, and exploitation before explicating various shifts in the political line - from the land reforms of 1949 and the collectivization of the early 50s, through the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and the current Four Modernizations.

Educational documentary film produced in 1989.

Documentary on the Caohai Lake of Guizhou Province, how it was destroyed in the past and restored later.

Documentary on Tibet co-directed by Chen Zhen and Li Ying.

First Moon (37 min., 1987) looks at lunar New Year celebrations in the Chinese countryside.

Director Anthony Ramos joins his good friend, painter Frederick J. Brown, on a trip to Beijing for a retrospective of Brown’s work at the National Museum of China in Tiananmen Square in 1988, the first retrospective of an American artist in China.

Documentary on the couple working as herdsmen on Qilian Mountains.

Educational documentary film produced in 1989.

Educational film on various aspects about anorectal disorders.

Documentary short on the military training for the 1989 freshmen of Beijing Broadcasting College.

Documentary report on Gao Yizheng, a female in her 40s, working to support her family.

Two-part TV report aired on the "Home of Elderly People" (老年之家) program on Beijing Television, about old people who still practice martial arts and their lives.

Documentary about the Mosuo people, an ethnic group living in China's Yunnan and Sichuan Provinces.

Documentary about the lone soldier who works as a cattle herder on the Horqin grassland.

Educational film about different kinds of the gemstones.

"Secrets of China's Three Armies" is a late 80s PRC military documentary film co-produced by the August 1st Film Studio of the Chinese People's Liberation Army and Hong Kong Silver Capital Company.

Ren Shulin's graduation film, shot on 16mm during a summer camp in July 1982.

The film is in two parts and focuses on the Mongols living in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China. Part One (28 minutes) follows the life of a nomadic Mongol family on their yearly journey following their herds across north China. Part Two (28 minutes) gives a more contemporary view of the Mongols trying to reclaim the desert in a more sedentary lifestyle currently encouraged by the Chinese government. The second section highlights disturbing environmental issues regarding the destruction of these northern grasslands.

This early Chinese ethnographic film documents festivals of the Yiche people of the Hani ethnic group -- their folklore and cultural phenomena, such as reproductive worship dance; their collective socializing on festival nights and marriage customs; and the "haruzhe," which has both characteristics of blood sacrifice and prayer, a ritual to offering for a good harvest. The directorial debut of documentarian Hao Yuejun, the film uses the language of documentary but with a specifically ethnographic focus on history and customs, and is recognized as an important historical work in its own right for 'restarting' ethnographic filmmaking after the end of the Cultural Revolution; in fact, this particular method of had never been used in China before.