What Happened in Beijing in 1900? The truth and the facts about the so-called Siege of the Legations have become obscured by misconceptions and reporting that was aimed at the prejudices of the day. The reality in Beijing was not as clear cut as reported by European correspondents. There was no siege as portrayed in the Hollywood movie, 55 Days at Peking. There were no Chinese batteries of big guns, no attacks on the walls, no heavily-armed attackers in uniform. One of the participants of the events in Beijing of June/August 1900 was a young language student who took over a hundred photographs and recorded the scenes of events. His records, discussed in this documentary, present a different version of events.