The Tank Man (China Documentary - Tiananmen Square)

DVDrip, 86 minutes, Xvid, MP3 sound. My rip for Demonoid. Feel free to upload on other sites.

PBS documentary on the Tiananmen Square 'incident' and the search for the man who stood in front of the tank. The documentary also examines life in China since 1989, including Google's Internet censorship in China banning images of Tank man.

Tank Man, or the Unknown Rebel, is the nickname of an anonymous man who became internationally famous when he was videotaped and photographed during the protests at Beijing's Tiananmen Square on June 5, 1989. Several photographs were taken of the man, who stood in front of a column of Chinese Type 59 tanks, preventing their advance. One of the most widely reproduced versions of the photograph was taken by Jeff Widener of the Associated Press from the sixth floor of the Beijing Hotel, about half a mile (800 meters) away from the scene, through a 400-millimeter lens.

Another version was taken by photographer Stuart Franklin of Magnum Photos. His has a wider field of view than Widener's, showing more tanks further away. Charlie Cole, working for Newsweek, won a World Press Award for a similar photo. It was featured in Life's "100 Photographs That Changed the World" in 2003. Variations of the image were also recorded by CNN and BBC film crews and transmitted across the world. One witness recounts seeing Chinese tanks early on June 4 crushing vehicles and people under their treads, just one day before this man took his stand in front of this tank column.