One Child Nation
The truth beyond the propaganda.
Directed by Nanfu Wang, Zhang Jialing
Produced by Next Generation, ITVS
A harrowing documentary investigation into China's one-child policy that combines personal testimony with systemic critique to expose the human cost of state-mandated population control.
Through interviews with both victims and instigators, Nanfu Wang, a first-time mother, breaks open decades of silence on a vast, unprecedented social experiment that shaped — and destroyed — countless lives in China.
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