

Les camps, secret du pouvoir chinois
After the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Mao Tsetung established a system of labor camps for systematic repression, known as Laogai, an abbreviation for "Reform Through Labor". In such camps, forced labor and physical and mental torture were used to bring about a so-called mental reform, re-education in the spirit of the Chinese Communist Party. Millions of Chinese were affected. Many were executed. In hundreds of camps, the Party took advantage of the prisoners' free labor to build the economy. Self-criticism and denunciation were often the only way to escape martyrdom. Successive waves of purges culminated in the Cultural Revolution, which saw massive human rights abuses, political assassinations, massacres, and exiles in remote parts of the country. Using unreleased archive footage, the documentary tells the story of the invention, development and improvement of China's totalitarian system of surveillance and repression up to the present day, never told before.

Season 1
2 episodes · 2023-03-28
If you want more shows like this, continue via related genre, network, and premiere-year archive pages.
2021 · ★ 7.4
How to Become a Tyrant
2021 · ★ 7.4
ShowCal
YOUR SHOW TIMELINE
Next episodes and updates
Laogai: Prison Nation - Inside China's Ruling System
REMINDER ON
Get notified before airing
SHOWCAL APP
Track together
Keep every show on one timeline
Local time
Schedules adapt to your timezone
Episode alerts
Know when a new episode arrives
iPhone opens the App Store, Android and other devices open Google Play.