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- A frustrated writer struggles to keep his family alive when a series of global catastrophes threatens to annihilate mankind.
- Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian climber, breaks out of prison and travels to the holy city of Lhasa. He is employed as an instructor to the 14th Dalai Lama and soon becomes his close confidante.
- Siberian gulag escapees travel four thousand miles by foot to freedom in India.
- A year after their father's funeral, three brothers travel across India by train in an attempt to bond with each other.
- After New York City receives a series of attacks from giant flying robots, a reporter teams up with a pilot in search of their origin, as well as the reason for the disappearances of famous scientists around the world.
- From childhood to adulthood, Tibet's fourteenth Dalai Lama deals with Chinese oppression and other problems.
- Based on the very underground comic book of the same name, a Tibetan monk becomes a mentor to a young street punk and tries teaching him how to protect the scroll of ultimate power from a secret Nazi organization bent on world domination.
- Mr. Link recruits explorer Sir Lionel Frost to help find his long-lost relatives in the fabled valley of Shangri-La. Along with adventurer Adelina Fortnight, this trio of explorers travel the world to help their new friend.
- A father and son argue over whether they should kill a snow leopard that broke into their home and killed 9 sheep.
- A spiritual love-story set in the majestic landscape of Ladakh, Himalayas. Samsara is a quest; one man's struggle to find spiritual Enlightenment by renouncing the world. And one woman's struggle to keep her enlightened love and life in the world. But their destiny turns, twists and comes to a surprise ending...
- In a Himalayan polyandrous village, pregnant PEMA faces scrutiny as her husband vanishes. With her monk brother-in-law, her de facto spouse, she seeks him in the wild, unraveling her own self-discovery along the journey
- The four members of the China Everest Climbing Commando confront the most difficult mount. The first four failures have cost them too much physical strength until the wind and snow stop the gap.
- An aging chief's last stand, lessons for the new, and the education of a young chief-to-be played against harsh Nature in Nepal's Dolpo. When his son dies returning from Tibet's salt lakes, Tinle blames Karma, his son's friend, refuses to give Karma his blessing as the new chief, and organizes a rival caravan to take the salt to lower Nepal to trade for grain. He, a few old men, his son's widow, his grandson, and his second son, a monk, set out on the arduous journey. Fearing storms, Karma has led his caravan out of the village before the auspicious day ordained by the lamas. Tinle's group catches Karma's before the final pass; the two stubborn men lock wills with Tinle's grandson watching.
- Milarepa is a tale of greed and vengeance - demons, magic, murder and redemption. It is the story of the man who became Tibet's greatest mystic.
- While the soccer World Cup is being played in France, two young Tibetan refugees arrive at a monastery/boarding school in exile in India. Its atmosphere of serene contemplation is somewhat disrupted by soccer fever, the chief instigator being a young student, the soccer enthusiast Orgyen. Prevented by various circumstances from seeing the Cup finals on television in a nearby village, Orgyen sets out to organize the rental of a TV set for the monastery. The enterprise becomes a test of solidarity, resourcefulness and friendship for the students, while the Lama, head of the monastery, contemplates the challenges of teaching the word of Buddha in a rapidly changing world.
- Wheel of Time is Werner Herzog's photographed look at the largest Buddhist ritual in Bodh Gaya, India.
- When a series of visions send a skeptical entrepreneur to seek spiritual advice, an eccentric Buddhist monk predicts his imminent death, unless he can locate an elusive lady with fangs.
- On an isolated road passing through the vast barren plains of Tibet, a truck driver who has accidentally run over a sheep chances upon a young man who is hitching a ride. As they drive and chat, the truck driver notices that his new friend has a silver dagger strapped to his leg. He comes to understand that his man is out to kill someone who wronged him earlier in life. As he drops the hitch-hiker off at a fork in the road, little does the truck driver realize their short time together has changed everything, and that their destinies are inexorably intertwined.
- A Tibetan man struggles to provide for his family.
- A mountain cabin manager is visited by one man after another on a snowy mountain where poaching is widespread.
- A family struggles against the conflicting dictates of nature, spirituality, politics, and free will.
- A moving true story about volunteers protecting antelope against poachers in the severe mountains of Tibet.
- A series of strange events is happening in a peaceful village, including a corpse that is resurrected from its grave and ran away. As the villagers investigate, a villain dies and the village head also goes missing. Police investigation ensues, but as things start to unveil, another mysterious find is uncovered.
- Kong, who comes to Tibet for the first time as a government official, is in desperate need of a translator, and finds Jigme.
- A group of Tibetans make a 1200 kilometer pilgrimage to Lasa.
- When the windshield of his commercial airplane shatters at 30,000 feet in the air, a pilot and his flight crew work to ensure the safety of the passengers and land the plane.
- In Nepal, a venerable monk, Geshe Lama Konchog, dies and one of his disciples, a youthful monk named Tenzin Zopa, searches for his master's reincarnation. The film follows his search to the Tsum Valley where he finds a young boy of the right age who uncannily responds to Konchog's possessions. Is this the reincarnation of the master? After the boy passes several tests, Tenzin takes him to meet the Dalai Lama. Will the parents agree to let the boy go to the monastery, and, if so, how will the child respond? Central to the film is the relationship the child develops with Tenzin.
- Ala Changso is the transliteration of a Tibetan folk song's title meaning please drink up this cup of good wine. It tells the story of a woman who conceals her illness and the secret between her and her ex-husband and decides to go on a pilgrimage to Lhasa. The long pilgrimage reveals her inner secrets one by one. These secrets include entanglements and perplexities of love, morality, responsibility and belief between her and her ex-husband and between her and her second husband.
- Six blind Tibetan teenagers climb the Lhakpa-Ri peak of Mount Everest, led by seven-summit blind mountain-climber Erik Weihenmayer.
- Unfortunately, the 14th Dalai Lama and the Tibetan people receive little political support in their drive to put an end to the Chinese brutal regime, as international governments are seemingly motivated by economic interests in China. The lack of progress toward a free, or even a truly autonomous Tibet, urges more and more young Tibetans to consider alternatives to the Dalai Lama's Middle Way Policy, a compromise on Tibet's Independence. The controversial discussion about the right strategy for achieving a free Tibet - non-violent or violent, autonomy or complete independence - is becoming more emotionally charged day by day. Monks have been leading Tibet and Tibetans for generations, not only in religious, but also in worldly matters. But monks have vows that bind them. And often those vows conflict with the needs of politics. The Tibetan movement today is divided and weakened by an ongoing argument whether the Dalai Lama"s Middle Way Policy is the right strategy or not. Tibetans are torn between their religious beliefs and their desire to free their homeland. In November 2008, the Dalai Lama acknowledged for the first time the failure of his policy and that the situation for Tibetans in Tibet has worsened. His unprecedented call for a special meeting upon 500 Tibetan leaders from all over the world led to a discussion about the future of the movement and a way to re-unite all Tibetans behind one goal.
- A killer is entrusted with a sacred mission.
- In a nunnery in the high desert mountains of Mustang, a revered abbess dies, leaving signs that she will be reborn in the precious human form. Prayers and ritual must be done to help her consciousness into its next rebirth, but the nunnery coffers are empty. The senior nuns decide that the only way out is get back money loaned out by the nunnery. A mysterious loan was made out to an equally mysterious Mr. Tashi who visited the senior nun in her last days. Given the shady rumours about Mr. Tashi, the nuns are convinced he took advantage of her in her dying state. Two nuns are assigned to retrieve the money; Karma, a free-spirited nun, and her opposite, a textbook-sort of nun called Sonam. They journey from the cloistered world of the high mountains, to the faraway cities of sin, to find the elusive Mr. Tashi.
- This is the story of Kunsang Wangmo, a 100-year-old Buddhist nun exiled from Tibet in 1959 to escape the Chinese occupation. Mola entered a monastery at six years old, the beginning of a life-long dedication to prayer and daily observance of Buddhist teachings and rituals. While in Tibet, she married a monk and gave birth to two girls. The Chinese invaded Tibet in 1950, and after a decade of war and oppression, the family escaped - crossing inhospitable mountains on foot. Mola and her family ended up in India enduring the dangers and intense difficulties of life as refugees. There she lost one of her daughters, as well as her husband and was left only with her remaining daughter, Sonam Dolma. Slowly, their situation improved, and in 1972, Sonam fell in love with Martin Brauen, a Swiss anthropology student studying in India. They married, and Mola and Sonam both moved with Martin to Switzerland. When the film begins, they have lived together in Bern for 45 years, with Mola continuing her daily Buddhist rituals and prayers. Mola is very energetic and spirited for her age, and we get to see her humorous and feisty approach to life. Still, she is an old woman and needs complete, selfless care from Sonam. We get glimpses of Mola's backstory in evocative "dreams" of her time in the monastery and as a refugee. When Mola celebrates her 100th birthday, she reveals to Sonam that she wants to die "in the religious paradise of Tibet". After caring for Mola for all these years, the prospect of having her return to Tibet for this important phase in her life has a very emotional impact on Sonam. Despite their misgivings, Martin and Sonam begin the challenging months-long process of acquiring a visa from the Chinese embassy. As they navigate this frustrating bureaucracy, life goes on in their household. Mola continues her devotion to her Buddhist rituals while mother and daughter navigate the prospect of their separation and the end of Mola's life. Eventually, Mola is allowed to travel to Tibet, and Sonam and Martin adapt to life alone while watching videos of Mola enjoying life with her relatives. But in a surprising turn of events, after 6 months, Mola's visa is not extended and she is forced to fly back to Switzerland. When Mola returns, it is clear that she has aged and become much more frail. With the reality of Mola's mortality becoming clear, the beauty of this mother/daughter relationship comes to a powerful resolution. This film is the story of a devout and charismatic woman who, like millions of others, ends up displaced due to political upheaval, creating a life of dignity and meaning far from home. It is also the intimate and universal story of a mother and daughter, with all the love and challenges of an entire life together.
- A road-movie and a time-travel in the footsteps of the rebellious Tibetan monk Gendun Choephel - revealing a face of old & present-day Tibet that goes against popular clichés.
- 20111h 26mNot Rated7.1 (210)48MetascoreCrazy Wisdom is the long-awaited feature documentary to explore the life, teachings, and "crazy wisdom" of Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche, a pivotal figure in bringing Tibetan Buddhism to the West. Called a genius, rascal, and social visionary; 'one of the greatest spiritual teachers of the 20th century,' and 'the bad boy of Buddhism,' Trungpa defied categorization. Raised and trained in the rigorous Tibetan monastic tradition, Trungpa came to the West and shattered our preconceived notions about how an enlightened teacher should behave - he openly smoked, drank, and had intimate relations with students - yet his teachings are recognized as authentic, vast, and influential. Twenty years after his death, with unprecedented access and exclusive archival material, Crazy Wisdom looks at the man and the myths about him, and attempts to set the record straight.
- A group of Tibetan kids embarking on an odyssey, each for a different reason.
- Tenzin struggles to come to terms with the loss of his brother who self-immolates as a form of nonviolent protest of the treatment of Tibetans living under the current Chinese occupation.
- Tibetan Buddhist Master Choogyal Namkhai Norbu watches as his western-born son, Yeshi, who was recognized at birth as the reincarnation of a famous spiritual master, considers departing from tradition to embrace the modern world.
- Set in a beautiful Himalayan valley, it's a journey of a neglected and abandoned mute boy, who loses his mother at birth and is furiously neglected by his father. When his father goes behind bars, the boy stares at a lonely and deserted life ahead. His relationship with an elderly Buddhist monk helps him to detach from his voiceless suffering and to explore the bond that each creation shares with nature. With nowhere to go, he joins a Budhist monastery even as he fights an inner battle of unrequited love.
- The evolution of the People's Republic of China is told in this spectacular song and dance production, 'Dongfang hong' or 'The East is Red'. Vast, solemn, and glorifying the progress towards Communist victory, this cornucopia of purposeful entertainment, ostensibly presented in the Great Hall of the People, is pre-Cultural Revolution propaganda at its most lavish.
- Three young Tibetans struggle for freedom against the Chinese communist regime. Windhorse was filmed clandestinely inside Tibet and in Nepal. It was the first digital feature film, shot in 1996 on a Sony DVW-700WS and a consumer Sony DCR-VX1000 and edited on avid with digital finishing and color correction at RolandHouse in Washington, DC.
- Tharlo is an orphan who lives a simple life, but could a brief encounter with a woman in his local town change his life for ever?
- At the age of eight, Dolkar fled her home with her father to escape Chinese armed forces, and faced an arduous journey across the Himalayas. Now 26, she lives in a Tibetan refugee colony in Delhi, where an unexpected encounter with a man from her past awakens long-suppressed memories, propelling Dolkar on an obsessive search for the truth.
- The film is a journey through some twenty countries where existential issues are addressed and the participants have all taken a stand against modern society and trying to make human life better.
- After a Buddhist boy in the highlands of northern India discovers that he is the reincarnation of a centuries-old Tibetan monk, his godfather takes him on a journey to discover his past.
- With the high development of human civilization there is less and less pure land on the earth. The conflict between humans and nature keeps intensifying. Many primitive cultures and beliefs are gradually disappearing. "The Soul of Himalaya" is a story of the Lhoba people's legends and customs. The film portrays a warrior's journey to save an ancient tribe whose way of life is threatened.
- A married couple lives happily in Singapore but than someone try to come between them.
- The Sherpa family break a taboo and take part in the Himalayan expedition to Kumbhakarna,the holiest of mountains, to earn money for their son's school and cut him from their tradition. They accompany the leading world class alpinists.
- A documentary on the life story of Desmond Tutu and his journey during the crucial years of anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa.