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At the height of the movement, over one million people marched in the streets of Beijing. The movement ended with the government's crackdown and the Beijing massacre of June 4.</p> <p>Witnessed on television by millions around the world, the Tiananmen protests were one of the most watched, yet least understood, stories of our time. This website explores the <a href="/web/20120108101250/http://www.tsquare.tv/chronology/">origins and history of the protests</a>, the intense <a href="/web/20120108101250/http://www.tsquare.tv/themes/04_MakingTheNews.php">international media coverage</a>, and underlying <a href="/web/20120108101250/http://www.tsquare.tv/themes/">themes such as democracy, human rights, reform and revolution, and nationalism</a>. The site contains <a href="/web/20120108101250/http://www.tsquare.tv/links/">articles, essays, and book excerpts</a>, a <a href="/web/20120108101250/http://www.tsquare.tv/tour/">tour of Tiananmen Square</a>, and a <a href="/web/20120108101250/http://www.tsquare.tv/media/">Media Library</a> with posters, photographs, music, and videos.</p> <p>This site also includes extensive information about the feature-length documentary <b><a href="/web/20120108101250/http://www.tsquare.tv/film">The Gate of Heavenly Peace</a></b>, "a deep, powerful and rivetingly complex study of Tiananmen." (<i>Newsweek</i>, October 9, 1995) </p> <div class="center">  <p><a href="film/gateExcerpts.php">View excerpts</a> from <strong>The Gate of Heavenly Peace</strong></p> </div> <hr class="content_divider"/> <div class="center"> <br/> Updates: </div> <p>In December 2010, <a href="film/About_Liu_Xiaobo.html">Liu Xiaobo</a>, one of China's most prominent intellectuals and a key participant in the events of 1989, was awarded the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120108101250/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2010/" target="_blank">2010 Nobel Peace Prize</a> "for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China." With Liu imprisoned in China, his absence at the December 10, 2010 Nobel Peace Prize ceremony</a> was symbolized by an empty chair. In his stead, the actress Liv Ullmann read Liu's own words from his essay, "<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120108101250/http://www.hrichina.org/public/contents/article?revision_id=174000&item_id=173747" target="_blank">I Have No Enemies: My Final Statement</a>," including the lines:</p><blockquote><blockquote> Freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights, the source of humanity, and the mother of truth. To strangle freedom of speech is to trample on human rights, stifle humanity, and suppress truth.</blockquote></blockquote></p> <div class="center"><p><a href="film/xiaobo.php">View excerpts</a> from <strong>The Gate of Heavenly Peace</strong> featuring Liu Xiaobo.</p></div> <hr class="content_divider"/> <p> 20 years after the events of June 4, 1989, one of the student movement's most prominent characters attempted to censor this website. 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