Four Corners Season 2019 Episode 17 - Tremble and Obey

Airdate: 2019-Jun-03

Episode summary:

Thirty years ago, in the centre of China's communist capital, millions of students and citizens staged weeks of protests calling for democracy.The students and their fellow protesters stared down their government in the full gaze of the world's media, demanding an end to totalitarian rule.Then, the People's Liberation Army turned its guns, and its tanks, on its own people.Three decades on, Four Corners vividly brings the story of these momentous times to life, drawing upon a trove of vision and audio captured by ABC reporters and crews in that astonishing spring of 1989.

About Four Corners series:

Four Corners is Australia's premier television current affairs program. It has been part of the national story since August 1961, exposing sca...Show more >