Even at the indie box office, it seems that Iraq War movies can't catch a break. The weekend's highest-profile documentary, Errol Morris' Standard Operating Procedure (Sony Pictures Classics), couldn't keep up with the relatively unheralded Up the Yangtze (Zeitgeist). Up the Yangtze, the debut feature from Yung Chang and the latest in a recent wave of films dealing with the impact of the massive China's Three Gorges Dam project, brought in $15,851 on its one screen, the highest per-screen take by a documentary so far this year.
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