37 years after the crackdown and massacre: New footage from Tiananmen Square revealed

British network ITN has released four hours of rare recorded footage from Tiananmen Square, 37 years after the protest crackdown and massacre. The materials, secretly filmed and smuggled out of China, include about two hours of the crackdown on the night of June 3, 1989, and an hour and a half of raw footage from the following days, documenting military trucks on the streets of Beijing and crowds in the streets.

British network ITN released on Sunday four hours of rare recorded footage from Tiananmen Square, 37 years after the protest crackdown and massacre that took place there in June 1989. The materials were secretly filmed by a crew that documented the events and smuggled the recordings out of China afterward. The collection includes about two hours of the crackdown and massacre that occurred on the night of June 3, 1989, and an hour and a half of raw footage from the following days, documenting military trucks on the streets of Beijing, crowds in the streets, and the aftermath of the protest. The recordings were stored for about 35 years before being published now. These are rare historical materials revealing additional documentation of one of the key events in modern Chinese history.