Product Description Filmed over three years on China's railways, J. P. Sniadecki's masterful documentary traces the vast interiors of a country on the move: flesh and metal, clangs and squeals, light and dark, language and gesture. Scores of rail journeys come together into one, capturing the thrills and anxieties of social and technological transformation. THE IRON MINISTRY immerses audiences in fleeting relationships and uneasy encounters between humans and machines on what will soon be the world's largest railway network. Review Critics Pick! A work of art vivid and mysterious and full of life. --A. O. Scott, The New York TimesCritics Pick! Moving, revelatory, and often funny. --Alan Scherstuhl, The Village VoiceThe real focus of THE IRON MINISTRY isn't the train but the world zipping past it. --Eric Kohn, Indiewire