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Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square

1998 short film
Movie short_film Q1279480
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Summary

Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square is a short film[1]. It ranks in the top 6% of short film entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (38 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Director: Shui-Bo Wang[3]
  • Genre: documentary film[4]
  • Production company: National Film Board of Canada[5]
  • Original language of film or TV show: English[6]
  • Color: color[7]
  • Country of origin: Canada[8]
  • Publication date: January 1, 1998[9]
  • Distributed by: National Film Board of Canada[10]
  • Main subject: People's Republic of China[11]
  • Work available at URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thrT8hmh8CI[12], http://www.nfb.ca/film/sunrise_over_tiananmen_square/[13]
  • Nominated for: Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)[14]
  • Title: Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square[15]
  • Duration: 29 minutes[16]

Why It Matters

Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] It is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

Related Entities

Canada People's Republic of China

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . nytimes.com. Retrieved . nytimes.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 1d ago · Quesotiotyo · 2026-10-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['de', 'en', 'pt', 'sv', 'zh']
    Ampas collections film id → W063317
    Claims rich → —
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  2. 7w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Filmová databáze film id → 71404
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  3. 22w ago · Reinheitsgebot bot · 2026-05-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Youtube video id → thrT8hmh8CI
    Publication date → —
    Publication date → +1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
    Country of origin → Canada
    + 15 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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