The Gate of Heavenly Peace (documentary)
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The Gate of Heavenly Peace | |
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Directed by | Richard Gordon Carma Hinton |
Written by | Geremie Barmé John Crowley |
Narrated by | Deborah Amos |
Starring | Dai Qing Ding Zilin Han Dongfang Wang Dan Wuer Kaixi |
Music by | Mark Pevsner |
Release date(s) | 1995 |
Running time | 180 min |
Country | United States |
Language | English Mandarin |
Official website | |
IMDb profile |
The Gate of Heavenly Peace (simplified Chinese: 天安门; pinyin: Tiānānmén) is a 1995 documentary film, produced by Richard Gordon and Carma Hinton, about the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
The film premiered at the New York Film Festival in October 1995 and has been widely and positively reviewed in the press.[1] It also received a George Foster Peabody Award and both the International Critics Prize and the award for Best Social and Political Documentary at the Banff Television Festival.
The film was banned in China.[citation needed]
[edit] References
- ^ The Gate of Heavenly Peace - Reviews. www.tsquare.tv. Retrieved on 2007-01-29.
[edit] External links
- The Gate of Heavenly Peace website
- The Gate of Heavenly Peace at the Internet Movie Database
- worldcat.org - worldwide library search engine, can be used to locate the film for inter-library exchange