China: Beyond the Clouds
1994, English. Directed by Phil Agland.
Documentary series made in China in the early 90s. Agland was an anthropologist and he’d already made a wonderful series in the 80s about the Baka tribe in Cameroon. For Beyond the Clouds, he spent several years in a small town in Yunnan province telling the stories of various characters he met. He focuses on normal people but in doing so tells us about China’s past as well as its present and the monumental change that was coming.
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- 4h 0m
- Post-credits
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- Language
- English
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- 1 January 1994
- Country
- United Kingdom
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China: Beyond the Clouds runs 240 minutes (4h 0m).
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China: Beyond the Clouds isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 January 1994. (Checked 9 November 2026.)
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Who directed China: Beyond the Clouds?
China: Beyond the Clouds (1994) was directed by Phil Agland and stars Lisa Lu.