American Factory

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The Obamas’ First Netflix Movie Spotlights an Art-Collecting Chinese Billionaire – 

Netflix debuted a new documentary on Wednesday that presents portrait of the ground-level workers at a new factory in post-industrial Ohio. It’s a factory reopened by a Chinese billionaire amid the ruins of a shuttered General Motors plant whose closing hammered the Ohio town around it — as well as the thousands of workers laid-off as a result.

What this new documentary American Factory offers is a look at the lives of 2,000 of those blue-collar workers who take jobs at the new factory under the Chinese owner. The owner brings in some of his Chinese employees to work side-by-side with the Americans, and you see what happens when high-tech, uber-efficient Chinese productivity clashes with working-class America.

The Obamas’ company got the American Factory after its Sundance debut earlier this year — the movies that the Obamas are planning for the rest of their Netflix productions is that is devoid of a political message (at least an overt political message).

 American Factory is streaming now on Netflix.