Shocking and Heartbreaking Trailer for ONE CHILD NATION Documentary About China's One Child Law

We have a captivating and heartbreaking trailer for you today for the documentary One Child Nation about the policy in China which restricted families to only one child per household. The doc was created and directed by Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang. Here’s a summary of the documentary from film producer Lucy Mukerjee who viewed the film at the Tribeca Film Festival:

Becoming a mother prompts filmmaker Nanfu Wang to examine China’s past, specifically the One Child Policy that was in place from 1979 to 2015 and how it had repercussions on her own family. The legislation, which prohibited households from having more than one child, was introduced as a way to halt the rapid population growth in China under the guise of making life better for all its citizens. 

The film reveals the lengths that the government went to enforce the policy, from billboards plastered with only-child propaganda, to mandatory sterilization, forced abortions, threats of jail time, huge fines, and even rewards being offered to anyone who exposed a family with multiple children. As a result, hundreds of thousands of Chinese families were forced to give their children away—and worse. Brace yourself for chilling revelations in this groundbreaking and eye-opening Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning documentary. 

The doc has gotten fantastic reviews, including a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Watch the trailer below and let us know if you’ll be catching this incredibly important documentary before the next awards season.

One Child Nation is in theaters on August 9th.

China's One Child Policy, the extreme population control measure that made it illegal for couples to have more than one child, may have ended in 2015, but the process of dealing with the trauma of its brutal enforcement is only just beginning.