
15 Feb 2016

Crosscurrent
A voyage between a woman searching for the meaning of life and a man holding a book of poems on the longest river of Mainland China.

In the spring of 1949, a war is about to happen between the Liberation Army and Kuomintang Army on the Yangtze River. The Liberation Army dispatches a reconnaissance to scout the southern parts of the River, whose work is actually full of hardships and dangers. However, with the help of the local crowd and the guerrillas, finally, the members of the reconnaissance succeed in the commission and offer valuable information to the Liberation Army, making great contributions in the war.

Lian-Zhang Li

Lao-Gui Wu

Ma Xiao

Changxi Zhou

Mou-Zhang Can
Scout Head

Grandma Chen

Si-Jie Liu

Father Chen

Enemy Information Head

Enemy Corps Commander
Enemy Battalion Commander
Enemy Scout Commander
Enemy Artillery Advisor

Deng-Ke Hou

Hou's Wife
Qi Hou

15 Feb 2016

A voyage between a woman searching for the meaning of life and a man holding a book of poems on the longest river of Mainland China.

30 Sep 2007

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.

12 Apr 2024

Takeuchi Ryo revisited the protagonist of the documentary many years ago and completed his ten-year promise with the Yangtze River.

24 Jun 1997

Documentary on water usage, money, politics, the transformation of nature, and the growth of the American west, shown on PBS as a four-part miniseries.
01 Jan 1998
Explores the plans for the construction of the monumental dam on China's Yangtze River, the structure that when completed in 2009 will become the Three Gorges Dam. It is slated to be 610 feet high, 1.3 miles across, creating a reservoir 400 miles and the largest power plant in the world.

18 Jul 2016

A new film compiled from the BFI National Archive's unparalleled holdings of early films of China, features films from 1900-48 filmed across China. The cinematic journey of Around China with a Movie Camera contains many films which may never have been seen in China, or at the very least not for over 70 years. These travelogues, newsreels and home movies were made by a diverse group of British and French filmmakers, some professionals, but mainly enthusiastic amateurs, including intrepid tourists, colonial-era expatriates and Christian missionaries.

30 Sep 2023

Swimming, Dancing examines audiovisual representations of the Yangtze (1934–present), from silent film to video art to the contemporary vlog. Inspired by the city symphonies of the 1920s, Swimming, Dancing pieces together a “river symphony”, evoking the images, sounds and contradictions that make up the river’s turbulent history.

07 Aug 1983

The Yangtze River is the largest river in China. Every Chinese is familiar with the theme song of the film - "Song of the Yangtze River", which was written by children soaked in their mother's milk. He wrote about the inexplicable and unclear love: the Yangtze River is the mother river of the Chinese nation, and the Yangtze River belongs to the Chinese nation. There are countless natural and cultural deposits on the Yangtze River and its banks. Everyone can listen to "Song of the Yangtze River" and follow "Talk about the Yangtze River" to understand its magic and magnificence.

01 Jan 1998

The construction of the Three Gorges Dam will force nearly a million people on both sides of the river to relocate from their villages. This film follows several local families as they face the fate of leaving their villages, complaining about being forced to leave their ancestral homeland, resigning themselves to the situation, and reluctantly reacting.

05 Mar 1998

In March 1997, a teaching and research team led by Professor Zhuang Kongshao came to the Tujia area along the middle reaches of the Yangtze River to conduct anthropological research, with the aim of establishing a link between anthropological academic knowledge and field studies, as well as finding valuable research points to achieve the possibility of interdisciplinary collaborative research. "Field Study Along the Yangtze River" is a synchronous film and television work based on this survey. Now re-edited and transferred to today's university classroom, it is intended to facilitate anthropology students who are preparing to enter the field study phase, and by watching this film, it will trigger them to think about the opportunity of academic docking between theory and research sites, and further transition them into their own fieldwork thinking.

01 Jan 1949

The plot takes place during the Civil War in Greece, and it shows the fight of communist partisans, against the pro-Western, monarchist government. During the shooting, there was a discord between Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union because of the famous IB resolution, which caused Yugoslav authorities to stop supporting Stalinists. Tito's government acknowledged Greek monarchists as a legitimate government, and not wanting to remind the public of their ideological discrepancy, bunkered "Majka Katina" for a few decades.

01 Oct 2014

When the suspect of an arson case refuses to cooperate with the investigation, the detectives search his house and find a locked-up little girl. She doesn't talk and there are no clues to her identity, so assistant psychology professor Narumi Saku is asked to counsel her.

22 Sep 2017

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22 Sep 2017

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15 Nov 2009

In a Mars base, the inhabitants are being infected by a mysterious water creature which takes over its victims. The Doctor is thrust into the middle of this catastrophe, knowing a larger one is waiting around the corner.