Tianamen Square: The Tank Man
Tuesday 7th November at 8.30pm
On Tuesday, 11 November at 8.30pm on SBS Television, Cutting Edge reveals the mystery behind the stance of one unarmed man before a column of tanks in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, in what represents one of the most startling and confronting acts towards sovereignty ever filmed in Tiananmen Square: The Tank Man.
Captured by Western photographers watching nearby, this confrontation on June 5, 1989 became an icon for the fight for freedom around the world. Just as the cameras rolled on that day, veteran filmmaker Anthony Thomas returns to China 17 years later to recall the importance of this defiance.