Ten years in the making, this feature-length documentary was filmed during nine remarkable journeys throughout Tibet,



India & Nepal, chronicling the dark secrets of Tibet's



recent past through interviews, personal stories & archival images. Martin Sheen



narrates, & Susan Sarandon



& Ed Harris



provide voice-overs for this powerful film that takes viewers to the long-forbidden "rooftop of the world" with an unprecedented richness of imagery.



Rated UR 1 hour 40 minutes 2003

5-STARS...Amazing, eye-opening, enlightening experience. A reminder of what we as people are capable of, whether it be us at or darkest or us when we are at our best. We truly hope there can one day be peace in the world. We never realized 1.2 million Tibetans have died since the occupation by the Peoples Republic of China, a little more than 50 years ago. Half of them died from torture and execution and the other half from starvation. Yet they do not hate the Chinese and are willing to be tortured and die for there beliefs. Overtaken and sent into exile, not allowed to say they are Tibetan. They must assimilate or be exterminated. I kept being reminded of all the other moments of our human history where one culture destroys another. Some good subtle reminders that we too are being taken over by the Chinese commercially. Hopefully it will not only remind you of compassion, peace, and that true happiness is not always about what you posses materially but what you poses spiritually. Makes us never want to buy anything made in China again. Not only are there worries about what chemicals are in it, but now we will think of all the oppressed Tibetans.