A campaign has taken root to stop a huge dam project on the upper Yangtze river in China. Featuring archival footage never seen outside China, and interviews with a government insider, this extraordinary documentary tells the history of Chairman Mao’s campaigns to conquer nature in the name of progress. A new law now gives citizens the right to speak out, with the potential to transform China.

A campaign has taken root to stop a huge dam project on the upper Yangtze river in China. Featuring archival footage never seen outside China, and interviews with a government insider, this extraordinary documentary tells the history of Chairman Mao’s campaigns to conquer nature in the name of progress. A new law now gives citizens the right to speak out, with the potential to transform China.