One Child Nation
Season 21 Episode 12 | 1h 26m 5sVideo has Closed Captions
Filmmaker Nanfu Wang explores the devastating impacts of China’s one-child policy.
After the birth of her first child, filmmaker Nanfu Wang returns to China to speak with her family and explore the ripple effect of that country's devastating social experiment, the one-child policy. At its core, One Child Nation is a riveting personal story revealing shocking human rights violations and forces us all to reckon with the consequences of blind obedience.
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One Child Nation
Season 21 Episode 12 | 1h 26m 5sVideo has Closed Captions
After the birth of her first child, filmmaker Nanfu Wang returns to China to speak with her family and explore the ripple effect of that country's devastating social experiment, the one-child policy. At its core, One Child Nation is a riveting personal story revealing shocking human rights violations and forces us all to reckon with the consequences of blind obedience.
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Clip: S21 Ep12 | 2m 35s | How a network in China worked to find babies for orphanages during the "one-child" era. (2m 35s)
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