The 400 Million (1939)

Directed by Joris Ivens54mDocumentary

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.

Year
1939
Country
US
Language
English
Release date
7 March 1939
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6.2 (8)
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Fredric March
Fredric March
Narration (voice)
Morris Carnovsky
Morris Carnovsky
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Sidney Lumet
Sidney Lumet
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Robert Q. Lewis
Robert Q. Lewis
Additional Voice (voice)
Alfred Ryder
Alfred Ryder
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A
Adelaide Bean
Additional Voice (voice)
L
Lai Sek
Himself (archive footage)
M
Madame Chiang
Herself (archive footage)

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