The Three Gorges Dam is the world’s largest hydroelectric dam and also the world’s largest electricity-generating plant of any kind. In addition to generating more energy than the combined total of 15 nuclear power plants, the Three Gorges Dam was designed to moderate the annual flooding that has plagued the Yangtze River. But scientists are already calling the whole project a unprecedented environmental disaster. The project costs have now exceeded 30 billion dollars. Over two million Chinese peasants were displaced by the construction, this documentary tells their story.
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