This is a list of documentary films about the People's Republic of China. Included works are limited to those that discuss or take place in the People's Republic of China (founded in 1949). Some included works may be alternatively classified as television documentaries or television series episodes.
- Aiweiwei:Never Sorry (Main Stream Distribution TBD)
- Living With Dead Hearts (To be released)
- China's Century of Humiliation - Documentary Film (2011)
- China Wow! (2010-?)
- The Warriors of Qiugang (2011)
- The Ditch...(2010) (Chinese:告别夹边沟)
- China: The Rebirth of an Empire (2010)
- Transmission 6-10 (2009)
- Last Train Home (2009)
- People's Republic of Capitalism (2009)
- China's Unnatural Disaster (2009)
- Tongzhi in Love (2008)
- Up the Yangtze (2007)
- The Blood of Yingzhou District (2006)
- China from the Inside (2006)
- China Revealed (2006)
- Mao’s Bloody Revolution Revealed..(2007)
- "Declassified: Tiananmen Square" (2006)
- "Declassified: Chairman Mao" (2006)
- The Tank Man (2006)
- Mardi Gras: Made in China (2005)
- China Blue (2005)
- Seoul Train (2005)
- China's Lost Girls (2004)
- From China with Love (2004)
- China in the Red (2003)
- Morning Sun (2003)
- China 21 (2001)
- American Experience: Nixon's China Game (2000)
- Citizen Hong Kong (1999)
- Comrades (1999)
- Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square (1998)
- The Gate of Heavenly Peace (1995)
- Moving the Mountain (1995)
- The Dying Rooms (1995)
- Chinese Roots (1994)
- China Diary (1989)
- River Elegy (Chinese: 河殇)
- China Rises
- Mao Tse Tung: China's Peasant Emperor
- China: The Roots of Madness...A 1967 film about China
- Chung Kuo, Cina...An Italian Documentary directed by Michelangelo Antonioni (1972)
- Tibet: Murder in the Snow (2006)
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