User Reviews

A hard to watch must see if you care enough to make ethical decisions. Not exactly the best documentary production but none-the-less the topic and subjects make for compelling watching and listening. It made me think twice about doing any business or travel to China. Have suspected these types of human rights violations existed but had no idea how systemic they are, nor how complicit the rest of the world is in ignoring or even participating in them. The poem at the end is an ominous reminder of the issues that can arise if we ignore these atrocities! I was discussing the 40,000 children that are stolen or go missing in China every year the other day and we where left wondering why the government and the people do nothing about that issue. This documentary helps understand why that issue too is not addressed. Public opinion is so depressed and controlled that there is no internal willingness or pressure to change. If you are particularly sensitive to human suffering you probably should avoid watching this movie.

"Red Reign" soberly, expertly, and convincingly exposes the barely believable - but completely documented FORCED and DEADLY organ harvesting, currently taking place in China, of prisoners of conscience, (primarily from members of the popular exercising group, FALUN GONG, whose tenets are healthy exercises, truth, compassion, and tolerance - (and who GREATLY out number the members of the Communist Party in China). Membership ALONE has led to LIFE SENTENCES and DEATH SENTENCES of MANY thousands. The several thousand victims' organs (eg. Hearts, livers, pancreases, and corneas) were quite often removed without using any anesthesia; (they just tied them down and proceeded with whatever surgeries). The harvested organs were promptly sold for very large profits by the government. As investigated and told by the scholarly Nobel Prize nominee, David Matas. Written and directed by Masha Savitz.