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"American Factory"
Buyer: Netflix
Release date: N/A
Netflix spent a reported $3 million on worldwide rights to this culture-clash documentary. It focuses on post-industrial Ohio, where a Chinese billionaire opened a new factory in an abandoned General Motors plant, hiring 2,000 blue-collar Americans. But early optimism give way to setbacks as high-tech China clashed with working-class America.
Buyer: Netflix
Release date: N/A
Netflix spent a reported $3 million on worldwide rights to this culture-clash documentary. It focuses on post-industrial Ohio, where a Chinese billionaire opened a new factory in an abandoned General Motors plant, hiring 2,000 blue-collar Americans. But early optimism give way to setbacks as high-tech China clashed with working-class America.