Question: Do both Up The Yangtze and Bitter Victory films have the directors from the same country?

The Yangtze Patrol, also known as the Yangtze River Patrol Force, Yangtze River Patrol, YangPat and ComYangPat, was a prolonged naval operation from 1854–1949 to protect American interests in the Yangtze River's treaty ports. The Yangtze Patrol also patrolled the coastal waters of China where they protected U.S. citizens, their property, and Christian missionaries. The Yangtze River is the longest river in China and it plays an important commercial role, with ocean-bound vessels proceeding as far upstream as the city of Wuhan. This squadron-sized unit cruised the waters of the Yangtze from Shanghai on the Pacific Ocean into the far interior of China at Chungking. Initially, the Yangtze Patrol was formed from ships of the United States Navy and assigned to the East India Squadron. In 1868, patrol duties were carried out by the Asiatic Squadron of the United States Navy. Under the unequal treaties, the United States, Japan, and various European powers, especially the United Kingdom, which had been on the Yangtze since 1897, were allowed to cruise China's rivers. In 1902, the United States Asiatic Fleet took control of the operations of the Yangtze Patrol. In 1922, Yangtze Patrol was established as a formal component of the United States Navy in China. In 1942, at the beginning of World War II, the Yangtze Patrol effectively ceased operations in China because of the limited resources of the United States Navy, which needed the patrol crews and their ships elsewhere in fighting Japanese forces throughout the Pacific. Following the end of World War II, the Yangtze Patrol resumed its duties in 1945, but on a more limited basis with fewer ships during the Chinese Civil War. When the Chinese Communist forces eventually occupied the Yangtze River valley in 1949, the United States Navy permanently ceased operations and disbanded the Yangtze Patrol. <SEP> Ray is also appreciated for many narrative features produced between 1947 and 1963 including" Bigger Than LifeJohnny GuitarThey Live by Night", and" In a Lonely Place", as well as an experimental work produced throughout the 1970s titled" We Ca n't Go Home Again", which was unfinished at the time of Ray's death from lung cancer. Ray's compositions within the CinemaScope frame and use of color are particularly well- regarded. Ray was an important influence on the French New Wave, with Jean- Luc Godard famously writing in a review of" Bitter Victorycinema is Nicholas Ray." Nicholas Ray( born Raymond Nicholas Kienzle Jr., August 7, 1911 – June 16, 1979) was an American film director best known for the movie" Rebel Without a Cause." <SEP> The film focuses on people affected by the building of the Three Gorges Dam across the Yangtze river in Hubei, China. Up the Yangtze is a 2007 documentary film directed by Chinese- Canadian director Yung Chang. The theme of the film is the transition towards consumer capitalism from a farming, peasant- based economy as China develops its rural areas. The film is a co-production between the National Film Board of Canada and Montreal's EyeSteel Film with the participation of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, National Geographic Channel, P.O.V., SODEC, and Telefilm. The film is being distributed in the USA by Zeitgeist Films. The United Kingdom distributor is Dogwoof Pictures. <SEP> Jinshaia sinensis is a species of loach endemic to the Yangtze and the Jinsha Jiang drainages of China. <SEP> Chang is a graduate of Concordia University's Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema in Montreal( BFA 99), the Neighbourhood Playhouse School of the Theatre( 2003), the Canadian Film Center( 2009), and the Directors and Screenwriters Lab at the Sundance Institute( 2015). He was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2013 and is currently an active member. Yung Chang( born 1977) is a Chinese Canadian film director and was part of the collective member directors of Canadian film production firm EyeSteelFilm. <SEP> Set in World War II, it stars Richard Burton and Curt Jürgens as two British Army officers sent out on a commando raid in North Africa. Bitter Victory( French title Amère victoire) is a 1957 black and white Franco- American international co-production film, shot in CinemaScope and directed by Nicholas Ray. Ruth Roman plays the former lover of one and the wife of the other. It is based on the novel of the same name by René Hardy.