"The river that erased her past will write her future"30 September 2007Factual93 mins
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Up the Yangtze Official Film Trailer
DVD AVAILABLE AT THE ULTIMATE INDIE STORE A film by Yung Chang "An astonishing documentary of culture clash and the erasure ...
IDFA 2007 | Trailer | Up the Yangtze!
International premiere at IDFA 2007 A luxurious cruise ship sails down the mythical Yangtze River amidst a ...
IDFA 2007 | Trailer | Up the Yangtze!
International premiere at IDFA 2012 A luxurious cruise ship sails down the mythical Yangtze River amidst a ...
UP THE YANGTZE (U.S. trailer)
A luxury cruise boat motors up the Yangtze navigating the mythic waterway known in China simply as "The River." In the biggest engineering endeavour since ...
UP THE YANGTZE trailer
An award-winning feature-length documentary in which the Three Gorges Dam forms an unsettling backdrop to a richly detailed narrative of life inside ...
Up the Yangtze - Trailer - POV | PBS
Nearing completion China's massive Three Gorges Dam is altering the landscape and the lives of people living along the fabled Yangtze River. Countless ...
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