Released
American Factory
August 21 2019 (about 5 years ago)Rating
72
Based on
448 reviews
Cultures collide. Hope survives.
- Directors: Julia Reichert, Steven Bognar
- Genre: Documentary
- Runtime: 1 h 50 m
- Country: United States of America
- Companies: Higher Ground, Participant, Field of Vision
In post-industrial Ohio, a Chinese billionaire opens a new factory in the husk of an abandoned General Motors plant, hiring two thousand blue-collar Americans. Early days of hope and optimism give way to setbacks as high-tech China clashes with working-class America.
