Moving the Mountain

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Moving the Mountain tells the story of the 1989 pro-democracy movement in China that culminated in a massive uprising in Tiananmen Square. The student-led movement came to a tragic end when the People's Liberation Army violently cracked down on protesters firing live ammunition into the crowd and leaving hundreds dead. Through stock footage, personal interviews with witnesses, and re-enactments of events, Moving the Mountain uses the students' points of view to relive history and contemplate the future.

Tiananmen Square Revisited
(Film Review by KenG - 6/14/11) At a time when Facebook and other social media weren't at our fingertips, how did national protest movements manage to takeoff? It wasn't easy. In Michael Apted's gripping and prescient doc, MOVING THE MOUNTAIN, we get a first-hand account of China's 1989 Tianamen Square protest from five of the leading student participants. All of them became fugitives on China's "Most Wanted" and either fled to the United States or ended up in prison...(read more)

A discussion with the makers of Moving the Mountain

Don't miss this eye-opening panel discussion between director Michael Apted, the film's producer Trudie Styler, and Executive Director of Amnesty International USA Larry Cox. The discussion, a Link TV and Culture Project co-production, took place in December of 2010 and focused on Nobel Peace Prize winner Lui Xiaobo, one of the Tiananmen Square protesters and a longtime political activist who is was prevented from receiving his prize freely and in person due to a 10-year prison sentence for co-authoring "Charter 08", which calls for political and legal reform in China. Watch online now!