#11. One Child Nation (2019)
March 25, 2021
– Directors: Nanfu Wang, Jialing Zhang
– Metascore: 85
– IMDb user rating: 7.5
– Runtime: 83 minutes
Filmmaker and first-time mother Nanfu Wang documents China’s one-child policy and its history. The film explores the fallout of this social experiment and its effect on generations of families. The horrors uncovered by Wang are a valid argument against governments restricting the reproductive rights of its citizens and reveal the disastrous impact such government intrusions can have.