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American Factory is a Netflix Original documentary produced by Higher Ground Productions and Participant Media. Directed by Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar (Last Car, The Last Truck: The Closing of a GM Plant, A Lion in the House, Seeing Red), the film was nominated for an Academy Award® and won an Emmy®. This critically acclaimed film delves into post-industrial Ohio, where a Chinese billionaire opens a new factory in a shuttered General Motors plant and hires 2,000 American blue-collar workers. As a high-tech Chinese company clashes with the American working class, initial hopes and optimism are met with setbacks.