Tenzin Gyatso

Wisdom of Happiness (2024)

A deeply intimate and highly cinematic documentary featuring the Dalai Lama, who, at nearly ninety year of age, offers practical advice for navigating the 21st century's challenges. ...

The Secret of Death (2024)

This feature-length documentary embarks on an adventurous journey to questions about death and the fear associated with it. Through Jaroslav Dušek's acting guide, he explores how we can use and control people's behavior through fear of death. The film loo ...

Tukdam: The Point Of Death (2023)

Irish director Donagh Coleman explores the extraordinary phenomenon of Tukdam, whereby some Tibetan Buddhist practitioners are able to forestall physical decay at the point of clinical death for days, even weeks, by entering a deep meditative state. Suppo ...

King Charles III: The New Monarchy (2023)

Prince Charles was always destined to wear the crown. From the royal childhood in Buckingham Palace to his naval career and life as the Prince of Wales, he's had his successes and hardships. From a young prince to now the king, he's been a constant in the ...

A Case for Kindness (2022)

A Case For Kindness is a journey to understand the true nature of Kindness, making a case for why it is our best way forward as a society. The film will examine different themes of kindness while exploring various stories, cultures and conversations. We th ...

Amala (2022)

Amala tells the story of the Dalai Lama's younger sister Jetsun Pema, her struggles, loss and success that earned her the epithet Amala or 'mother'. Using rare footage from her historic visit to Tibet in 1980, the film also gives insight on the state of ed ...

Tukdam – Between Worlds (2022)

Most of us think of death as something clear-cut, and that medical science has it neatly figured out. This feature documentary explodes such assumptions through its exploration of a phenomenon that blurs life and death to an unprecedented degree. In what ...

Mission: Joy - Finding Happiness in Troubled Times (2022)

An exploration of the remarkable friendship between Archbishop Desmond Tutu and His Holiness the Dalai Lama. ...

Never Forget Tibet (2022)

The story of the Dalai Lama's journey and escape into exile in 1959. ...

The Art of Dissent (2021)

"The Art of Dissent" celebrates the resilience and power of artistic engagement in Czechoslovakia before and after the 1968 Soviet-led invasion. The documentary's main protagonists - Václav Havel, banned singer Marta Kubisová, and the underground rock gr ...

Upper Story: On the Road to Well-Being (2020)

Today, over 10% of the global population suffers from mental health problems. This documentary reveals three decades of collaboration between Western scientists and Buddhist scholars. The meeting of their minds and scientific research reveals how mental tr ...

Infinite Potential: The Life & Ideas of David Bohm (2020)

INFINITE POTENTIAL takes us on a mystical and scientific journey into the nature of life and reality with David Bohm, the man Einstein called his "spiritual son" and the Dalai Lama his "science guru." A physicist and explorer of Consciousness, Bohm turned ...

Beastie Boys Story (2020)

Here's a little story they're about to tell... Mike Diamond and Adam Horovitz share the story of their band and 40 years of friendship in a live documentary experience directed by friend, collaborator, and their former grandfather, Spike Jonze. ...

But Beautiful (2019)

In his new film, Erwin Wagenhofer is looking for the good and beautiful in this world. ...

An Officer & His Holiness: The Dalai Lama's Secret Escape into Exile (2019)

Told in his own words on film, the documentary reveals how in 1959, His Holiness the Dalai Lama escaped from Tibet into India on foot over the Himalayas. This perilous trek took 13 days, with the Dalai Lama only able to travel at night to evade detection. ...

The Great 14th: Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama In His Own Words (2019)

"The Great 14th: Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama In His Own Words", uniquely and exclusively features Tenzin Gyatso as both subject and narrator as he presents the full arc of his epic and very public life as the 14th Dalai Lama. Based on intimate conve ...

AUTARK - Leben mit der Energiewende 4 (2018)

The Mayo Clinic (2018)

The Mayo Clinic tells the story of a unique medical institution that has been called a "Medical Mecca," the "Supreme Court of Medicine," and the "place for hope where there is no hope." The Mayo Clinic began in 1883 as an unlikely partnership between the S ...

Why Are We Creative? (2018)

A 30 years odyssey: the world's most intriguing artists and thinkers from the fields of visual art, music, filmmaking, acting, literature, philosophy, politics, business and science, are asked the same question: "Why are you creative? ...

The Enlightenment (2017)

Immersed in the colorful and vibrant setting of Dharamsala (India), four individuals from very different backgrounds come together to face their deepest fears as they approach the transformational power of the Kalachakra initiation, led by the Dalai Lama. ...

The Last Dalai Lama? (2017)

In his 1992 documentary "Compassion in Exile", filmmaker Mickey Lemle created a groundbreaking portrait of the 14th Dalai Lama. His new film takes a fresh look at what is important for His Holiness, who is now in his 80s: the historic confrontation between ...

State of Control (2016)

Two American filmmakers travel undercover in China and Tibet during one of the most precarious times in the country's recent history. Their journey begins in hot-bed areas of Tibetan activism in India and Nepal, before continuing into the most closed off r ...

Earth Sutra (2016)

'Earth Sutra' is the documentary that will change your vision of Tibet after six decades of control under Chinese oppression. Dare to reflect on your relationship with the Earth and your relationship with other humans through Earth Sutra, a portrait of Tib ...

The Dance of Infinity (2015)

True happiness is based on the realized life and development of humanity to the Highest. The film tells us about the Great Search for Paradise, Happiness, Love, Truth, Freedom, Holiness, Joy, Knowledge, Creativity and High Perfection carried out by humanit ...

Tibetan Warrior (2015)

The true story of one man's fight for freedom. For more than 60 years Tibetans have been fighting Chinese oppression. But their non-violent struggle appears to be in vain. Now, as a new form of peaceful protest, Tibetans are setting themselves on fire. Lot ...

Monk with a Camera (2014)

Nicholas Vreeland walked away from a worldly life of privilege to become a Tibetan Buddhist monk. Grandson of legendary Vogue editor Diana Vreeland and apprentice of photographer Irving Penn, Nicholas' life changed drastically upon meeting one of the Dalai ...

The Dialogue (2014)

Interviews with Dalai Lama and some Chinese intellectuals about Tibet/China relations and related issues. ...

Nelson Mandela: The Myth and Me (2013)

Khalo Matabane spent two years making the film, interviewing those who knew and loved Mandela, and also those who criticised him. Global thinkers, politicians and artists including the Dalai Lama, Henry Kissinger and Ariel Dorfman talk about the effect of ...

14th Dalai Lama (2013)

Owned & Operated (2012)

Owned & Operated is a mosaic of the world through the lens of the internet. Showing our lives as consumers, under the thumbs of privileged individuals and their methods of control. But the world is awakening, and the experience is something outside the ...

Souls of Zen: Ancestors and Agency in Contemporary Japanese Temple Buddhism (2012)

The Japanese population's reaction to the catastrophe of March 2011 has been described as "stoic" by the Western media. The Japanese code of conduct is indeed deeply rooted in their Buddhist traditions, and young filmmakers Tim Graf and Jakob Montrasio obs ...

Flipside: A Journey into the Afterlife (2012)

Award winning filmmaker Richard Martini examines the work of Michael Newton who pioneered deep hypnosis over 30 years; thousands of his patients claim the same information about the afterlife. ...

One Day on Earth (2012)

Recording a 24-hour period throughout every country in the world, we explore a greater diversity of perspectives than ever seen before on screen. We follow characters and events that evolve throughout the day, interspersed with expansive global montages th ...

4:44 Last Day on Earth (2012)

A look at how a painter and a successful actor spend their last day together before the world comes to an end. ...

Happy (2012)

Happy is a 2011 feature documentary film directed, written, and co-produced by Roko Belic. It explores human happiness through interviews with people from all walks of life in 14 different countries, weaving in the newest findings of positive psychology. D ...

Project Happiness (2011)

Happiness, I want more! From the alleys of Nigeria and the beaches of California to the mountains of India, ordinary young people lead us on an extraordinary journey to explore the nature of lasting happiness and end up starting a movement. ...

Jan Paweł II: Szukałem Was... (2011)

Nicky's Family (2011)

Nicky's Family is a gripping documentary from the International Emmy Award winning producers Patrik Pass and Matej Minac about a rescue operation of the "British Schindler" - Sir Nicholas Winton who will celebrate this year 103rd birthday. His story has n ...

Compassion in Emptiness (2011)

Over the course of a three-day series of teachings and a public lecture, the Dalai Lama discusses numerous Buddhist tenets, such as maintaining compassion despite the pressures of modern society, achieving inner peace and living a responsible life. ...

Francisco Cisco Pancho (2011)

AUTOBIOGRAPHY: The personal history of Francisco Varela as told by him on his veranda in Monte Grande, Chile, on February 17, 2001 when he was already greatly weakened by chemotherapy but still extremely present and awake, three months before he died on Ma ...

Discover the Gift (2010)

Within each of us, there are special Gifts simply awaiting discovery. The sense of joy, power, fulfillment, freedom, and unconditional love that we experience in our lives is directly related to these Gifts, yet so many of us have yet to unlock their full ...

The Invocation (2010)

An exploration of the notion of 'God' and World Peace through Religion, Spirituality, History, Science, Politics and Arts. ...

When the Dragon Swallowed the Sun (2010)

The Buddha (2010)

This documentary for PBS by award-winning filmmaker David Grubin and narrated by Richard Gere, tells the story of the Buddha's life, a journey especially relevant to our own bewildering times of violent change and spiritual confusion. It features the work ...

The Sun Behind the Clouds: Tibet's Struggle for Freedom (2010)

Fifty years after the fall of his country, can the Dalai Lama make a breakthrough in his efforts to find a solution to the Tibet question? ...

Brilliant Moon: Glimpses of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (2010)

Brilliant Moon chronicles the life of the writer, poet, and meditation master Khyentse Rinpoche, one of Tibet's most revered 20th-century Buddhist teachers. Spiritual guide to His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Royal Family of Bhutan, his life and teachin ...

Happiness Is (2009)

Happiness Is is a road trip documentary that explores American's "pursuit of happiness". ...

Eine Reise in die Welt des Dalai Lama (2009)

Mustang: Journey of Transformation (2009)

Lost in time, the Himalayan Kingdom of Mustang is one of the last sanctuaries of authentic Tibetan Buddhist culture. But, long isolated by geography and politics, the people struggle to survive and the center of their culture, the fifteenth century monaste ...

Sunrise/Sunset. Dalai Lama XIV (2008)

The daily life of the Dalai Lama is brought home with remarkable intimacy in SUNRISE/SUNSET. Granted total access to His Holiness for 24 hours, this is a day in the life of the Dalai Lama from when he wakes up at 3 a.m. until his bedtime at dusk. ...

The Unwinking Gaze: The Inside Story of the Dalai Lama's Struggle for Tibet (2008)

A rare behind-the-scenes glimpse into the life of Tibet's revered leader, the Dalai Lama. ...

Buddha Wild: Monk in a Hut (2008)

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 ...

Women of Tibet: A Quiet Revolution (2008)

In 1959 thousands of unarmed Tibetan women took to the streets of Lhasa to oppose the violent Chinese occupation of their country. For the first time on film, three generations of Tibetan women and His Holiness the Dalai Lama recount one of the great movem ...

The Dalai Lama: Peace and Prosperity (2008)

In this sold-out 2007 lecture recorded at Radio City Music Hall, the esteemed Dalai Lama speaks with grace and humor to a receptive audience about how all people can foster peace and create prosperity in their lives -- and in the world at large. The insigh ...

The Lost World of Tibet (2008)

Through vintage amateur movies as well as archival Communist propaganda documentaries, this program turns back the clock to see what Tibet was like from the 1930s to 1950. After the popular and successful TV and DVD collaborations The Lost World of Mitche ...

Jesus in India (2008)

A seeker's quest across 4000 miles of India in search of answers about where Jesus was during the "Hidden Years" from ages 12 to 30. ...

In God's Name (2007)

Asking important questions about the nature of God, this National Geographic program compiles interviews from a range of religious and spiritual leaders around the world, adding the perspective of everyday people to paint a global portrait of faith. Topics ...

Dalai Lama Renaissance (2007)

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A Path to Happiness: His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2006)

Listen in as one of the world's most recognized and charismatic spiritual leaders discusses the recipe for living peacefully and joyfully in this multipart series. The key, the Dalai Lama says, is truly knowing one's self and understanding personal foibles ...

10 Questions for the Dalai Lama (2006)

How do you reconcile a commitment to non-violence when faced with violence? Why do the poor often seem happier than the rich? Must a society lose its traditions in order to move into the future? These are some of the questions posed to His Holiness the Dal ...

Mystical Brain (2006)

Is it possible to shed light on the states of grace experienced by mystics and meditators? Mystical Brain shows us the most recent discoveries of scientific research on this phenomenon in North America and abroad. It seems that mystical ecstasy is a profou ...

Monte Grande: What is Life? (2005)

Documentary account of a man's life in the face of imminent death – Francisco Varela's story told affectionately and gently, touchingly and astutely. Varela spent his life building bridges: between Western science and Eastern wisdom, neurobiology and ph ...

Dalai Lama: Discourse on the Heart Sutra (2004)

The Heart Sutra is the shortest and the most popular sutra in Buddhism and is regarded as a summation of the wisdom of Buddha. It expresses perfectly the insight attained by non-attachment, the doctrine of emptiness. In Buddhism, reciting Buddha-name and s ...

Short Cut to Nirvana: Kumbh Mela (2004)

Every 12 years over 70 million pilgrims gather at the meeting of India's holiest rivers, the Ganges and the Yamuna, for a spectacular spiritual festival: the Kumbh Mela. This documentary takes a voyage of discovery through this colorful event through the e ...

What Remains of Us (2004)

A Tibetan immigrant returns to her home country to witness the Chinese occupation. ...

Tibetan Refugee (2004)

This documentary tells the tragic story surrounding one of the world's most influential spiritual leaders, the Dalai Lama, and the lengths to which people will go in order to experience his power Tibetan Refugee film. After the Chinese government forced hi ...

Impermanence (2004)

A documentary about HH the Dalai Lama. ...

Women of K2 (2003)

On some peaks in 2003, the statistics are impressive. For the K2 dubbed "wild mountain" or "ruthless mountain", only 240 reached the summit and more than 60 perished in the ascent. An unimaginable rate of one death in four to survive. And these statistics ...

Wheel of Time (2003)

Wheel of Time is Werner Herzog's photographed look at the largest Buddhist ritual in Bodh Gaya, India. ...

The Ring of the Buddha (2003)

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 ...

Naqoyqatsi (2002)

A visual montage portrait of our contemporary world dominated by globalized technology and violence. ...

Tibet 2002 (2002)

Tibet's Stolen Child (2001)

A film about the abduction of Tibet's second highest ranking Lama by the Chinese authorities. ...

In Search of 'Kundun' with Martin Scorsese (1998)

In Search of Kundun, a "making-of" documentary that is so much more, follows Scorsese as he plans his epic film and shoots in Morocco, and continues on to an audience with the Dalai Lama himself in the foothills of the Himalayas. Edited from over a hundred ...

Free Tibet (1998)

A film about the Tibetan Freedom Concert in San Francisco in 1996. ...

The Jew in the Lotus (1998)

Tells how Rodger Kamenetz, author of the best-selling 1994 book by the same title, found his way back to Judaism - the tradition of his birth. ...

Karmapa - Two Ways of Divinity (1998)

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 whi ...

The Four Noble Truths (1997)

Filmed in London in 1997, this documentary chronicles a series of lectures given by the 14th Dalai Lama. Over the course of six hours, he covers the four basic principles of Buddhist thought: The existence of suffering, the cause of suffering, the cessatio ...

The Knowledge of Healing (1997)

A documentary film about Tibetan traditional medicine. ...

Spirit of Tibet: Journey to Enlightenment, the Life and World of Dilgo Kyentse Rinpoche (1995)

An intimate glimpse into the life and world of one of Tibet's most revered teachers: Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (1910-1991). A writer, poet and meditation master, Khyentse Rinpoche was an inspiration to all who encountered him. His many students throughout t ...

The Tibetan Book of the Dead: A Way of Life (1994)

Narrated by Leonard Cohen, this two-part series explores ancient teachings on death and dying and boldly visualises the afterlife according to Tibetan philosophy. Tibetan Buddhists believe that after a person dies, they enter a state of "bardo" for 49 days ...

The Tibetan Book of the Dead: The Great Liberation (1994)

The Tibetan Book of the Dead remains an essential teaching in the Buddhist cultures of the Himalayas. ...

Compassion in Exile: The Story of the 14th Dalai Lama (1993)

A portrait of His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama, which includes historical footage of China's repression of Tibetan Buddhism in 1959. ...

Galahad of Everest (1991)

Brian Blessed plays George Mallory in this intrepid recreation of his ill fated 1924 climb to Everest. Meeting Sir Chris Bonington, Rheinhold Messnerhe learns of the pitfalls that await him before setting off for his epic struggle with the mountain. ...

Walking After Midnight (1988)

Explores the past-life experiences of various celebrities. ...

Merton: A Film Biography (1984)

In his lifetime, Thomas Merton was hailed as a prophet and censured for his outspoken social criticism. For nearly 27 years he was a monk of the austere Trappist order, where he became an eloquent spiritual writer and mystic as well as an anti-war advocate ...

The Message of the Tibetans (1966)

In 1963, for the first time, the Dalai Lama allowed a Westerner, Desjardins, to film the heart of the Tibetan tradition. These two films were originally shown on French television in the 1960's and are a wonderful testimony, revealing some of Tibet's forem ...

The Road Leads to Tibet (1956)