The Gate of Heavenly Peace (1995)

Directors

Carma Hinton, Richard Gordon

The story

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." From the beginning of the protests in mid-April to the night of June 3–4, the film provides a "meticulous day-by-day chronicle of the six-week period... This unglamorous but absorbing film interweaves videotaped scenes of the demonstrations and conversations with…

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