Movies & Videos
Laogai Musem – Living Testimony to the Chinese Gulag
This film is an official documentary about the Laogai Museum by the Laogai Research Foundation in 2014. From the historical background, this film introduces the Laogai system in detail, revealing that it is actually the inheritance and development of the Nazi concentration camp in the 20th century and the Gulag of Stalin. The film also traces the birth of the Laogai system in the CCP’s series of political movements – from the Land Reform to the Cultural Revolution. The film effectively exposes the ugly facts of the Communist Party of China and its leader Mao Zedong not only using the Laogai system to maintain totalitarian dictatorship, but also extracting the blood and sweat of prisoners for seeking economic profits. Through a series of examples, such as Zhang Zhixin, Wu Hongda, Hu Weiwei, etc., this film also vividly describes the specific evils of the Laogai. All of this led the Laogai Research Foundation and its founder to decide to establish this special museum as a living testimony to the Chinese Gulag.
Historical Source of the Laogai
This short film was produced by the Laogai Research Foundation. It uses the numerous official documents of the Chinese Communist Partyto elaborate on the historical sources of the Laogai.
LAOGAI – The Machinery of Repression in China
This film is a short documentary produced by the Laogai Research Foundation around 2015. Its basic materials are a hundred strictly forbidden photos by the Chinese government, but they have been successfully taken out of the country. Those photos. These photos have never been seen before and reveal the truth of the Laogai. With these shocking mirrors and some additional on-site interviews, the film successfully exposed the brutality of Laogai as one of the CCP’s repressive mechanisms. So the film vividly answered the question “What is Laogai?”
The Unknown Qincheng Prison
Qincheng Prison, named after the coordinates of Qincheng Village, Xingshou Town, Changping District, Beijing. It is a secret political prison directly controlled by the CCP Cental. In 1958, it was designed and built by the Soviet Union. For sixty years, it has been detained from the Kuomintang war criminals; the Communist Party’s high-level purged targets; the 1989 Tiananmen incident’s student leaders, and now failed in the power struggle, and sentenced senior officials in the name of economic criminals. The film introduces this special prison, the epitome of the CCP’s criminal system, by the form of an animated cartoon.
Life Inside China’s “Re-Education” Camps
A Wall Street Journal investigation reveals what goes on inside China’s growing network of “Re-education” camps, where hundreds of thousands of ethnic Uyghurs are believed to have been detained. Through a large number of secret visits and tracking, the film effectively unveiled the truth about compulsory labor, brainwashing and torture in the CCP labor camp.
Juvenile Laborers Confined in Dabao by XieYihui
The documentary filmed by Chinese independent female director XieYihui. It is the testimony of the survivors of Chinese juvenile prisoners. Thefilm has pursued the investigatory journey by the young journalist Zeng Boyan, who was labeled as a rightist in 1958. As a result, the film has revealedan unbelievable historical tragedy. More than 2,000 innocent teenagers were sent to the Laojiao (Reeducation through Labor) camp in the Dabao operation area of Shaping Farm in Ebian County, Sichuan Province, and theyfinally died in the Great Famine. Thus, the documentary has effectively revealed the cruelty and terror of the Chinese Laojiao system.
China’s “Black jails’”could Evade New Criminal Law
China plans to pass a landmark new criminal procedure law that would prevent evidence collected under torture from being used. But that may not apply to people held in what are known as black jails. AlJazeera reporterin Beijing eyewitnesses the Black Jails conducted by Chinese authority.
Testimony from Laogai Survivors
This documentaryproduced by the Laogai Research Foundation in 2008 to interview Laogaisurvivors. Those testimonies reveal the truth of several CCP’s political campaigns including ion in the Anti-rightist movement, the Great Famine, and the Cultural Revolution. There are eight people were interviewed including Zhou Daiwei, Gao Ertai, Ye Huiming, Feng Guoqiang, Bai Yuehan, XiongGuangzu, MiaoYongnian and Wu Huanxiang.
Laogai: The Tragic History of China’s Secret Labor Camps
This is a short documentary produced by REASON TV in 2015. The film starts with a series of CCP paintings propaganda and revolutionary songs, but ironically uncover the tragic truth of the Chinese Laogai camp behind these lies. The first, China’s Laogai camps were designed and built by Soviet experts in the form of the Gulag concentration camp just after the red China established. Secondly, the purpose of these secret Laogai camps is not only to force prisoners to do heavy work, but also to “brainwash” them – to transform them into so-called “socialist newcomers.” Finally, these Laogai camps have created an abnormal death for millions of prisoners. Wu Hongda, the founder of the Laogai Research Foundation, appeared in the film and vividly exposed the daily life of the Laogai camp and the CCP’s crime of stealing dead and dead organs.
Wei Jingsheng Talks about His Experience of Laogai
Wei Jingsheng, a famous Chinese democracy activist, recalled his life history from 1978 to 1997, especially the 18 years in Chinese jail and as a Laogai prisoner.
LRF Documentary on Public Executions in China
China executes more people than the rest of the world combined. The video shows that public execution is a method for Chinese government to control over the citizens. The inhumane methods for the government to control the people should be eliminated.
Harvested alive -10 years investigation of Force Organ Harvesting
This is a five-time awarded documentary film. It discloses that a doctor, Zhiyuan Wang spend 10 years investigating how Chinese government/doctors take innocent lives. 95% of his evidencecomes directly from China. His research reveals an inconceivable truth – China’s hospitals, judiciary, and military worked together under the authority of the previous Chinese president
Jiang Zemin to mercilessly slaughter a large number of prisoners through the harvesting of their organs.
Jiang Zemin to mercilessly slaughter a large number of prisoners through the harvesting of their organs.
Chinese Government Illegally harvested and sold Prisoners’s Organs
This short documentary is produced by the Laogai Research Foundation, whichexposes the truth that Chinese government illegally sold prisoners’ organs to wealthy people.
Documentary Exposes Masanjia Women’s Labor Camp
Masanjia Labor Camp is a re-education through labor camp located in the Yuhong district near Shenyang, in the Liaoning of China. The facility is sometimes called the Ideology Education School of Liaoning Province.It was first established in 1956 under China’s re-education through labor, or laojiao policy, and was expanded in 1999 in order to detain and “re-educate” followers of the Falun Gong spiritual practice. In addition to performing forced labor, prisoners are allegedly tortured using electric batons, force-feeding, prolonged solitary confinement, and other forms of abuse. In 2013, a magazine expose on Masanjia was published—and then quickly removed—after China issued a directive prohibiting the publication and reporting of the story.
The CCP’s Prisons are the Darkest and the Most Brutal Prisons in the World
This is a news clip which is based on the title of a well-known Chinese writer Tie Liu’s article. It reveals that the Chinese prisons and their prisoners’ Laogai life constitute the most ruthless prison in the world.
Tie Liu was labeled as a rightist in 1957 and experienced jail life. However,for generations, prisoners from generation to generation have witnessed that the darkness and brutality of Chinese prisons have not changed.
Tie Liu was labeled as a rightist in 1957 and experienced jail life. However,for generations, prisoners from generation to generation have witnessed that the darkness and brutality of Chinese prisons have not changed.
Slavery Thrives in Chinese Prisons
This is a documentary by Al Jazeera English TV. It reveals that slavery is illegal in every country, but some have allowed slave-like conditions in certain situations. In China, slavery in prisons is still alive and thriving, to provide cheap goods for major companies and corporations in the West.
Secret Letter from Chinese Prison
This is a CNN report. In October 2012, when an American Lady Julie Keith, in Oregon, opened a Halloween decoration box for her daughter’s birthday party, she didn’t realize what she was going to see would come to be known around the world. This letter exposed China’s forced labor and abuse of slave labor in labor camps. In fact, behind the four words of “Made in China,” it has been a black curtain of blood and tears.
China’s Internet Censorship Explained
This documentary is produced by The Daily Conversation, which reveals how does the CCP build the “Great Firewall“ to censor and control the Internet in detail.
Voice of America: How does China’s Great Wall of Fire spread across the globe?
China’s domestic censorship system is known as the “Great Firewall”. However, in the past few years, China has gradually built the Great Firewall the whole world, and has self-censorship, fake news, strategies favorable to China, etc., with China’s soft power as a package, affecting the whole world.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo Discusses Freedom of Expression in Chinaduring his lifetime
The video was produced by Pen America in which Liu Xiaobo talks about freedom of expression in China.
Self-Censorship：How China limits freedom of expression
This documentary is made by director Kevin Lee, who won the Press Award at the 2016 Taipei Film Award ceremony. The film reveals that unless you have chosen to reject the financial temptations offered by the Chinese government and are determined to live as your own person and as a free individual, you will have no chance escaping from their control and your own self-censorship.
CCP’S POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS AFTER FOUNDING OF COMMUNIST CHINA
The film uses very precious audio-visual materials to count the evils and killingsby the CCP’s political campaigns since its founding of the communist China.
JIABIANGOU ELEGY
This is an award winningdocumentary by the famous film director and scholar Ai Xiaoming. It recorded that in 1957, the Chinese authorities classified more than 3,000 people as Rightists, Counter-revolutionaries, and Anti-party Elements, and sent them to labor camps in the Jiabiangou farm in Jiuquan, Gansu. As of 1960, more than 2,000 people died of abuse and hunger, and only a few hundred survived.
MAO’S GREAT FAMINE
Through historical archives and on-site interviews, the film reveals that there was a man-made famine in China between 1959 and 1961, causing 30 to 40 million people to be starved to death, and a large area of cannibalism. Overseas scholars believe that the General Line, the Great Leap Forward and the People’s Commune are the root causes of the Great Famine, and Mao Zedong is the main initiator and promoter of these policies.
THE MORNING SUN
This is an award-winning documentary. It shows people from an objective perspective how the young people of the Revolution first pursuedUtopia, and finally lost their ideals and suddenly awakened. At the same time, the film also comprehensively explores the causes, background and far-reaching effects of the Cultural Revolution.
“REVOLUTION” FROM LAOGAI PRISONERS IN THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION
The CCP has put the cloak of “remolding the mind and being a new man” for reform through labor, but in more than 70 years, which Laogai prisoner has been transformed into a person whom the CCP trusts? In the Cultural Revolution, the Laogai prisoners also had their own Cultural Revolution, that is, the majority of counter-revolutionary struggles and the minority of counter-revolutionaries. This was both a farce and a tragedy.
In 1983, Campaign of “Strike Hard” insider: 24,000 People were Secretly Executed
An objective introduction to the so-called campaign of “Severe Crackdown on Criminal Activities” in 1983. It was originally intended to contain criminal offences nationwide, but it was launched in the style of a Mao’s political campaigns. The result was a large number of defamation and wrong cases, killing at least 24,000 people.
JUNE 4TH EVENT: SQUARE MEMORANDUM
This is a documentary filmed by the British National Broadcasting Corporation. The film is more objectively described in Beijing in 1989, in Tiananmen Square,how the Chinese government used the military to shoot unarmed students and citizens, and the political reforms that have filled the hopes of hundreds of millions of people have come to an abrupt end.
REBIYA KADEER TALKS ABOUT HER EXPERIENCE IN PRISON
Originally a Xinjiang Uyghur merchant, Rebiya was later sentenced to imprisonment by the Chinese government and went to the United States in 2005. Now she is an overseas dissident and a leader of the Xinjiang Independence Movement. She was elected the second president of the World Uyghur Congress in 2006-2009. She was also nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005-2010.
XI JINPING RISKS TALKING CHINA WHERE IT HAS BEEN BEFORE
The study of Mao Zedong and his Chinese revolution is a linchpin of “Xi Jinping Thought,” the Chinese president’s political philosophy which has now been written into the country’s constitution. Xi’s recent consolidation of power suggests he takes Mao’s leadership example very, very seriously.