AMERICAN FACTORY
Netflix, 3:00 a.m. ET
MOVIE PREMIERE: The documentary American Factory already had appeared at Sundance, in finished form, but without a distributor or production financial deal. That changed when Barack and Michelle Obama selected it as the first project to be presented under their new TV production deal with Netflix. Their backing gives American Factory a much higher profile, but it’s the story that counts. The documentary tells of a General Motors factory in Dayton, OH, shuttered for years until a Chinese company came in, revived the factory, and hired 2,000 American blue-collar workers to work alongside Chinese immigrant factory workers. American Factory is a story of survival and assimilation, but it’s also a story of culture clashes, learning from one another, and the importance and value of the ability and willingness to adapt.