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- A family struggles against the conflicting dictates of nature, spirituality, politics, and free will.
- A young Tibetan monk go back home for the New Year's celebrations. Fascinated by television, he wants to bring his family's television to the monastery to show it to his master.
- A Han man named Zhong Ken, Insisted on becoming a singer of the story of King Gesar. Eventually because of the encountered people and things, gradually put down the obsession.
- The Chinese national cycling team takes on French coach, Pierre, in order to help them become a more professional unit. But his training methods are not understood or accepted.
- For centuries, Tibetan nomads have coped with all kinds of difficulties on the high grasslands of the former Tibetan Kham province. Now they are facing a completely new challenge: modern education. The nomads all agree that their children have to attend school, that they deserve a better education than they themselves could have, that they need a modern education to come to terms in our changing world. But can traditional nomad lifestyle go together with modern education? What happens to nomad families who move to town for the sake of the children's education? Can there be an alternative to abandoning nomad lifestyle?
- A story about the changes in the grassland of the Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai Province in the late 1990s, the growth of Tibetan children on the prairie, the yak, the flock, and the snow mountain in this change.
- On the grassland in the southeastern part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, a first-rate shepherd at the State-run Sheep Farm, Gyabo and his wife have been worried about his melancholy son Tenzin, but Tenzin grew up with the unexpected black sheep. More than three years passed peacefully. By the fall of 1999, Gyabo hoped to follow the tradition and complete the marriage for his 14-year-old son, Tenzin, and to train him to be his inheritor, as a shepherd, then he received notification from the government, his son must go to school. Tenzin and his black sheep run to their unknown destiny.
- A yak hearding monk makes some Tsampa, the staple food of many rural Tibetans.
- In the summer of 2004, filmmaker Yiqing Zhao traveled to Labrang Monestary on a pilgrimage. She went to find a deeper understanding of the age old truths of Buddhism, of all religions. What is the meaning of life? What is a purposeful life? She expected to find the answers among the lamas and temples. Instead, she found it in the works of a simple country doctor. High maternal death rate. High infant mortality rate. High disease rate. Little or no education. Poverty. Women on the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau face incredible hardships. Often living in very isolated areas, health care is unavailable or inadequate. This situation is made worse by lack of resources, traditional practices, local superstitions, and cultural taboos. In the midst of a genuine health care crisis, one doctor struggles to make a difference.
- A journey into the hidden plateaus of Qinghai to discover the mystery and innate spirituality of young orphaned monks high atop the mountains of Tibet. This unique music driven documentary profiles the first ever visit by outsiders to temple Ga'tuo; and was shot in one day while entirely on location.
- China is growing at a breakneck pace and racing to keep up with demand. As new cities are built and current ones expand, the country is pushing the limits of technology and innovation. On an aerial tour over megacities like Shanghai and Beijing, discover how the population works, travels, plays, and adapts to China's exploding economy and massive urban transformation.