Why hasn't Tibet been freed? Who is keeping the movement from going forward? From director Dirk Simon When The Dragon Swallowed The Sun is a groundbreaking documentary that examines these questions in a quest to understand why the world is still dealing with unsettled issues like the Tibetan cause and what can really be done to eradicate them. Seven years in the making When The Dragon Swallowed The Sun is the first inside look at the Tibetan movement to free Tibet from Chinese occupation its internal conflicts and contradictions. The combination of full HD footage... from India China Tibet and the US along with a prologue narrated by Dennis Haysbert and an original soundtrack by Philip Glass Thom Yorke and Damien Rice make this the first film that presents the complexity of the struggle with such emotional impact. The film features Richard Gere Archbishop Desmond Tutu the 14th Dalai Lama the newly crowned 18th descendant of the Great Religious Kings of Tibet some of the most prominent Chinese contemporary artists and all the key figures of the exiled Tibetan freedom movement and their followers. [show more]
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Documentary about the Tibetan people and their struggle to free their homeland from its Chinese rule. In 1950 Tibet was incorporated by the People's Republic of China and later lost its automony after the 1959 Tibetan Rebellion which saw the Dalai Lama government flee to India in exile. Decades later the people of Tibet continue their fight for freedom, but with conflicting political and religious views the correct strategy by which to achieve their goal is much debated. The film includes a number of interviewees who have varying opinions on the issue and features music by Philip Glass, Thom Yorke and Damien Rice.
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