Heinrich Harrer fue un famoso alpinista austríaco, que intentó la ascensión al Nanga Parbat; pero, desgraciadamente, su aventura se vio bruscamente interrumpida por el estallido de la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Tanto él como su compañero Peter Ausehnaiter fueron recluidos en un campo de concentración, del que lograron escapar a través de las montañas.
Wheel of Time is Werner Herzog's photographed look at the largest Buddhist ritual in Bodh Gaya, India.
En 1937 un niño tibetano es elegido por un grupo de monjes para representar a su pueblo y convertirse en el decimocuarto Dalai Lama, la más alta figura del budismo en el Tibet. El sistema es expeditivo: el niño, de dos años, es arrebatado a su familia y llevado al palacio de Potala para ser educado y preparado para asumir el liderazgo político y espiritual.
Documental del cineasta Rick Ray en el que el director examina algunas de las cuestiones fundamentales de nuestro tiempo a través de las observaciones de sus propios viajes en India, Oriente Medio y de la sabiduría de un líder espiritual extraordinario.
Buddhist monks open up about the joys and challenges of living out the precepts of the Buddha as a full-time vocation. Controversies swirling within modern monastic Buddhism are examined, from celibacy and the role of women to racism and concerns about the environment.
A Tibetan immigrant returns to her home country to witness the Chinese occupation.
Karma, a Tibetan filmmaker from New York, goes to Dharamsala, the Dalai Lama's exile headquarters in northern India, to make a documentary about former political prisoners who have escaped from Tibet. She wants to reconnect with her roots but is also escaping a deteriorating relationship back home.One of Karma's interviewees is Dhondup, an enigmatic ex-monk who has just escaped from Tibet. He confides in her that his real reason for coming to India is to fulfill his dying mother's last wish, to deliver a charm box to a long-missing resistance fighter. Karma finds herself unwittingly falling in love with Dhondup even as she is sucked into the passion of his quest, which becomes a journey into Tibet's fractured past and a voyage of self-discovery
Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian moutain climber, escapes from a British POW camp in India and flees north across the Himalayan mountains into Tibet. There he meets and befriends the young Dalai Lama.
Two-part documentary about the Tibetan refugee community in India. Feingold interviews Tibetan philosophers and former political prisoners. Part One (60 mins.) "Body, Speech, and Mind: Conversations with Tibetan Philosophers". Part Two (30 mins.) "Resisting the Chinese Occupation: Personal Accounts of Tibetans".
Nepal 1950. A mysterious, unexplored country. The Swiss geologist Toni Hagen, was the first European to pass through the "forbidden" kingdom. He doesn't discover any mineral resources there. Yet he does uncover the mysteries of life and penetrates towards a more profound truth which lends a new dimension to his life. In the spring of 1999, Hagen returns to Nepal to keep a promise of almost 50 years: At that time a Buddhist monk had presented him with the gift of a valuable and mystical ring.
June 16, 2011 Chenrezig Institute hosted the inaugural visit of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, Tenzin Gyatso. Founded in 1974 by Lama Thubten Yeshe, the Institute in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland was one of the first centres for Tibetan Buddhism in the Western World and remains one of the largets
The main characters of the film are two small boys who share the throne of Karmapa, the highest office of one of Tibetan Buddhism's main sects and the third in line after the Dalai Lama and Panchen Lama. As with the Dalai Lama, Karmapa is the same soul which reincarnates in each successor to the office, who is identified by omens, portents and other signs. The Karmapa line actually pre-dates the Dalai Lama's, and their respective importance has alternated in the course of history with either the Karmapa or Dalai Lama holding precedence. Only one of the current Karmapas lives in Tibet, who is recognized by the Dalai Lama but controlled by the Chinese government for political ends. The second Karmapa lives in New Delhi, India and was selected by a Tibetan group in exile. The film was shot in India, Nepal and Tibet and features the Dalai Lama as narrator, providing an incisive spiritual and political view of occupied Tibet.
This documentary is the third part of The Yatra Trilogy created by John Bush. Vajra is the Sanskrit word signifying the thunderbolt of illumination, and yatra is the word for pilgrimage or spiritual journey. This film offers a cinematic pilgrimage to central Tibet, bearing witness to the indomitable faith of its endangered Buddhist community and the imminent threat to its very survival.
The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special – In 3-D! On Ice! is a documentary special that examined the "cultural phenomenon" of the American animated television series The Simpsons.
Los fanáticos de "Los cazafantasmas", el super éxito de los ochenta, se disfrazan de sus ídolos para reunirse en convenciones y hacer obras de beneficencia.
Una recopilación de imágenes con música, entrevistas, y las historias de 250 conciertos de los Beatles, de 1963 a 1966 encontrado.
A short documentary about the making of Jennifer Kent's 'The Babadook'.
Sylvester Stallone y John G. Avildsen narran imágenes detrás de escena de la realización de "Rocky" para conmemorar el 40 aniversario de la película.
