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The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)

by Ellen Kuras, Thavisouk Phrasavath

Premiere: July 21, 2009

This Academy Award-nominated film chronicles Thavisouk Phrasavath and his family’s escape from Laos after the Vietnam War. In America, they find a different kind of war.

Up the Yangtze

by Yung Chang

Premiere: October 8, 2008

Nearing completion, China's massive Three Gorges Dam is altering the landscape and the lives of people living along the fabled Yangtze River. Countless ancient villages and historic locales will be submerged, and 2 million people will lose their homes and livelihoods.