Up the Yangtze
Sep 30, 2007 | IMDB 7.3
93 min Watch NowDocumentary
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.
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