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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.
In China, it is simply known as “The River.” But the Yangtze—and all of the life that surrounds it—is undergoing a truly astonishing transformation wrought by the largest hydroelectric project in history, the Three Gorges Dam.
13 mar 2007 · Item Size. 103.8M. The Explore team heads up the Yangtze River to investigate one of the world's largest, most ambitious, and most controversial projects: the building of the Three Gorges Dam.
Currently you are able to watch "Up the Yangtze" streaming on Filmzie for free with ads or buy it as download on Apple TV. It is also possible to rent "Up the Yangtze" on Apple TV online.
Up the Yangtze. This documentary examine China's rapidly changing economy by focusing on the construction of the Three Gorges Dam. For the government, the dam stands as a symbol of progress; but it displaces hundreds of families during its creation.
Up the Yangtze: Directed by Yung Chang. With Jerry Bo Yu Chen, Campbell Ping He, Cindy Shui Yu. At the edge of the Yangtze River, not far from the Three Gorges Dam, young men and women take up employment on a cruise ship, where they confront rising waters and a radically changing China.
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.
