Documentary

Tiananmen Tonight

Name: Tiananmen Tonight
Director: Bestor Cram
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2025-07-31
Duration: 84 min
Cast: Dan Rather, Susan Zirinsky, Bob Woodruff, Wang Dan

July 31, 2025

1h 24m

In these perilous times for American journalism comes a story of truth telling in service to democracy. Tiananmen Tonight reveals the powerful human drama of Dan Rather and the CBS Evening News team battling for life and reputation while courageously reporting the extraordinary student uprising in 1989 that brought China to the brink of democratic reform.