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1990s · United Kingdom · documentary

The Dying Rooms (1995)

Directed by Kate Blewett with Brian Woods

Year
1995
Countries
United Kingdom
Languages
English
People's Republic of China, the film's subject
People's Republic of China, the film’s subject — not a still from the film. Photo: CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

About the film

The Dying Rooms is a 1995 television documentary film about Chinese state orphanages. It was directed by Kate Blewett and Brian Woods and produced by Lauderdale Productions. It first aired on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom and then, re-aired on Cinemax.

A follow-up film, Return to the Dying Rooms, was released in 1996. That same year, the film won a Peabody Award. It also won a News & Documentary Emmy Award.

From the film's Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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