Tiananmen Square

It started out as China’s answer to Woodstock, but it ended like Kent State. Here, using unseen footage and declassified diplomatic sources, we present a previously shrouded story of the battles and deaths of hundreds of young Chinese students in June 1989 — martyrs for democracy at Tiananmen Square — and the imprisonment of many others. Watch the birth and death of a movement, and learn how the demonstrators changed China forever.