Before the Flood

Name: Before the Flood
Director: Yu Yan
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2005-02-16
Rating: 10.0

2005 · 150 min · ★ 10.0 · Documentary

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.

Directed by Yu Yan

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