Join Talents - Tiananmen Mission

In this raw, fast-moving and soul-stirring film, Zhang shares, without reservation, the whole truth about the 1989 Tiananmen Student Movement and the state in China. Only 17-years-old at the time, he was the only student leader to survive, and took three bullets at the Tiananmen Square during the night of massacre.

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"These videos brought tears to my eyes." ~ Brad Smith, Historian

"I was moved by the young man's expressed hope at the end to the effect that perhaps his generation should be looked upon as paving stones set in place to pave the way to a better future." ~ Duane Schultz, Historian and Author

Tiananmen Mission

A Hero in Making

For the first time, the film captures its audience with unmasked and raw storylines from China. Zhang Jian was the only student leader who survived three bullets during the massacre, he was only 17 years old in 1989. He later endured 16 years in hiding, before we recorded his story in 2005. Through years of struggle and awakening, Zhang emerged again as a Chinese thought leader, and a Christian to challenge the most sinister regime - Chinese Communist Party.

Crowds of people watch the unveiling of the "Goddess of Democracy" sculpture in Tiananmen Square. The Monument to the People's Heroes and Mao Zedong Mausoleum are visible in the background.

The day after the Chinese government declared martial law, students, protesters, and thousands of Beijing residents and workers in sympathy with them flooded the streets and peacefully persuaded the troops not to continue on to Tiananmen Square. They often gave the troops food.

Students from a Beijing nursing school look after hunger strikers during the protests.

Waving banners, high school students march in Beijing streets near Tiananmen Square on May 25, 1989, during a rally to support the protest against the Chinese government.