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Season 21 Episode 13 - Up the Yangtze
Nearing completion, China's massive Three Gorges Dam is altering the landscape and the lives of people living along the fabled Yangtze River. Countless ancient villages and historic locales will be submerged, and 2 million people will lose their homes and livelihoods. The Yu family desperately seeks a reprieve by sending their 16-year-old daughter to work in the cruise ship industry that has sprung up to give tourists a last glimpse of the legendary river valley. With cinematic sweep, Up the Yangtze explores lives transformed by the biggest hydroelectric dam in history, a hotly contested symbol of the Chinese economic miracle. An official selection of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. An EyeSteelFilm/National Film Board of Canada production in association with American Documentary | P.O.V. A co-presentation with the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM).
Episodes in Season 21
Traces of the Trade: A Story From the Deep North
60 min
Election Day
60 min
The Ballad of Esequiel Hernández
60 min
The Last Conquistador
60 min
9 Star Hotel
60 min
Campaign
60 min
Johnny Cash: The Man, His World, His Music
60 min
Belarusian Waltz
60 min
The Judge and the General
60 min
Calavera Highway
60 min
Critical Condition
60 min
In the Family
60 min
Up the Yangtze
60 min
Soldiers of Conscience
60 min
Inheritance
60 min
