Before the Flood (2005)
• February 16th, 2005 • 2h 30min
Documentary
Overview
Before the Flood is a study of the final weeks of a dying city, as thousand-year-old Fengjie on the Yangtze River is reduced to rubble and its inhabitants uprooted to make way for the new Three Gorges Dam that will flood the entire valley.
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