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The Gate of Heavenly Peace is a three-hour documentary film about the 1989 protests at Tiananmen Square, which culminated in the violent government crackdown on June 4.The film uses archival footage and contemporary interviews with a wide range of Chinese citizens, including workers, students, intellectuals, and government officials, to revisit the events of “Beijing Spring.”
The Tiananmen Square protests, known in Chinese as the June Fourth Incident, [1] [2] [a] were student-led demonstrations held in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, lasting from 15 April to 4 June 1989.
On 13 June 1989, the Beijing Public Security Bureau released an order for the arrest of 21 students who they identified as leaders of the protest. [3] [4] These student leaders were part of the Beijing Students Autonomous Federation [3] [4] which had been an instrumental student organization in the Tiananmen Square protests.
A group of independent filmmakers are set to direct “Tiananmen” (working title), a film paying homage to Hong Kong’s golden age of cinema in a story set against the backdrop of the ‘June 4 ...
Crushed, Lan Yu left Chen's apartment. They would not meet again until 4 June 1989, when Chen went looking for Lan Yu, fearing for the youth's safety amid the army's Tiananmen Square crackdown. Finding Lan Yu dishevelled and distraught, the incident reunited the two and opened a new chapter in their relationship.
China still gets annoyed with images showing the famous Tiananmen Square ‘Tank Man,’ 30 years after he became a symbol of the government’s brutality Archived June 2, 2019, at the Wayback Machine; Raw video of the Tank Man incident (CNN on YouTube) The Stuart Franklin photo at Life magazine 100 photos that changed the world.
Hong Kong film censors issued a warning to the city’s hospital workers union on Thursday evening over the screening two films related to the 1989 June 4 Tiananmen Square crackdown. “I Have ...
On June 3 to 4, 1989, by the order of the Chinese government, heavily armed soldiers set their aim on the demonstrators in Beijing, killing and wounding thousands of them. The crackdown is known as the June 4th Massacre. To memorialize the events of 1989, a June 4th Museum was established in Hong Kong in 2012.