Tank Man - the Movie

[snowdog2012]

On June 5, 1989, one day after the Chinese army's deadly crushing of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing, a single, unarmed young man stood his ground before a column of tanks on the Avenue of Eternal Peace. Captured on film and video by Western journalists, this extraordinary confrontation became an icon of the struggle for freedom around the world.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tankman/view/

Seventeen years later, veteran filmmaker Antony Thomas goes to China in search of "The Tank Man." Who was he? What was his fate?

PBS Frontline - The Tank Man

[anarchir]

Spoiler: Nobody knows who he is. Just some guy who was coming home from some shopping, and decided he had enough. I do think someone knows obviously, but not the public.

[alaric89]

The hero wasn't "tank man" it was either the driver refusing orders or the TC ordering him not to flatten the dumbass like a waffle.