Assignment China: Tiananmen Square (2014)

25 years ago, student-led demonstrations in Tiananmen Square turned into the largest political protest in the history of the People's Republic. The bloody crushing of the movement had far-reaching consequences, not only for China's development, but for its relations with the rest of the world, because Tiananmen was also a watershed moment in media history, generating unparalleled international coverage, and becoming a defining moment in the Information Age. Assignment China: Tiananmen Square takes viewers behind-the-scenes with the journalists who covered the crisis. Through interviews and archival footage, some of it never before seen, the film offers important insights about an event which redefined the relationship between the press, public opinion, and foreign policy, and continues to influence both Chinese politics and international perceptions of China.