The 400 Million (1939)
Overview
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.
Cast
Fredric March
Narration (voice)
Morris Carnovsky
Additional Voice (voice)
Sidney Lumet
Additional Voice (voice)
Robert Q. Lewis
Additional Voice (voice)
Alfred Ryder
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Extremis
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Directed by John Ford