- Country: China
- Genres: Drama, History, Music
- Release: 1985-09-10 (Toronto Film Festival), 1986-04-11 (New York New Directors and New Films Festival), 1986-07-12 (Japan), 1986-10-29 (Sweden), 1987-05-18 (West Germany), 1987-11-04 (Finland), 1988 (USA), 1991-02-25 (Portugal)
- Director: Chen Kaige
- Writers: Chen Kaige , Lan Ke , Ziliang Zhang (1941–2007)
- Language: Mandarin
- Stars: Wang Xueqi , Bai Xue , Quiang Liu , Tuo Tan
- Runtime: 89 min
- Awards: 8 wins & 2 nominations
- AKA: Yellow Earth , Terra gialla (Italy) , Huang tu di , 黃土地 (Hong Kong) , Yellow Earth (United Kingdom) , Huang Tudi (United States of America) , Hoàng Thổ Địa (Vietnam) , Den gule jord (Norway) , Yellow Earth (United States of America) , Terre jaune (France, French Republic) , Terra Amarela (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , Sárga föld (Hungary) , Желтая земля , Żółta ziemia (Poland) , Keltainen maa (Finland) , Den gula jorden (Sweden) , Terra Amarela (Brazil) , 黄土地 (China) , 黄色い大地 (Japan) , Yellow River , Yellow Earth (Canada) , Tierra amarilla (Spain)Den gula jorden, Huang tu di, Keltainen maa, Sárga föld, Terra Amarela, Terra gialla, Tierra amarilla, Zólta ziemia, 黄土地, 黄色の土地
- Plot:
Yellow earth focuses on the story of a Communist soldier who is sent to the countryside to collect folk songs for the Communist Revolution. There he stays with a peasant family and learns that the happy songs he was sent to collect do not exist; the songs he finds are about hardship and suffering. He returns to the Army, but promises to come back for the young girl, Cuiqiao, who has been spellbound by his talk of the freedom women have under Communist rule and who wants to join the Communist Army.
- IMDB:tt0087433