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.

Satyajit Ray's poetic documentary was commissioned by the Chogyal (King) of Sikkim at a time when he...

The highest mountain range in the world, the Himalayan range is far reaching, spanning thousands of ...

The American mountaineer Gary Hemming marked the era of the 1960s. The story of this "exceptional" c...

How do you reconcile a commitment to non-violence when faced with violence? Why do the poor often se...

An epic story of adventure, starring some of the most magnificent and courageous creatures alive, aw...

Buddhist monks open up about the joys and challenges of living out the precepts of the Buddha as a f...

High up on the Tibetan plateau. Amongst unexplored and inaccessible valleys lies one of the last san...

Brilliant Moon chronicles the life of the writer, poet, and meditation master Khyentse Rinpoche, one...

In his lifetime, Thomas Merton was hailed as a prophet and censured for his outspoken social critici...

In a battle for El Cap’s coveted Nose speed record, rock legends Tommy Caldwell and Alex Honnold go ...

Brian Blessed plays George Mallory in this intrepid recreation of his ill fated 1924 climb to Everes...

Six blind Tibetan teenagers climb the Lhakpa-Ri peak of Mount Everest, led by seven-summit blind mou...

Hamburg, Germany, 1939. Getting a passage aboard the passenger liner St. Louis seems to be the last ...

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

As a boy, Dawa was an illiterate Tibetan nomad whose life revolved around herding yaks. At 13, his l...

The explorers Bruce Parry and Mark Anstice climb the remote and little known mountain Puncak Mandala...