FRONTLINE investigates China’s rule over Tibet, including how the Communist regime controls Tibet’s Buddhist population, and the battle over the succession of its spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.

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It’s been 75 years since China invaded Tibet, the mountain territory it has long claimed as its own.

China heavily restricts the international media’s access to the region. It insists that human rights are at their “historical best,” and that Tibetans’ religious freedoms are being protected, but the footage and first-person accounts from exiled Tibetan interviewees in FRONTLINE’s “Battle for Tibet” paint a different picture.

The documentary investigates the Chinese Communist Party’s rule over the tightly-controlled territory and the struggle over the survival of Tibetan language, culture and religion.

The film examines China’s branding of the Dalai Lama as an anti-China separatist, despite his repeated statements that he is no longer seeking Tibetan independence and would accept self-rule within China — and explores China’s pursuit of a campaign to choose his successor.

China insists that life in Tibet is “significantly better” for the people there because of its rule, which it says must continue.

“Battle for Tibet” is a Hardcash production with GBH/FRONTLINE and ITV. The director and producer is Gesbeen Mohammad. The senior producers are Dan Edge and Eamonn Matthews. The editor-in-chief and executive producer of FRONTLINE is Raney Aronson-Rath.

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FRONTLINE is produced at GBH in Boston and is broadcast nationwide on PBS. Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Additional support for FRONTLINE is provided by the Abrams Foundation, Park Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Heising-Simons Foundation, and the FRONTLINE Journalism Fund, with major support from Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation, and additional support from Koo and Patricia Yuen.

CHAPTERS:

00:00 – Prologue
01:35 – A Woman Who Fled Tibet Recounts Her Experiences
09:30 – How China Views the Dalai Lama & Tibet
14:06 – An Undercover Look at Life in Tibet: Surveillance and Control
23:43 – A Tibetan Who Left His Homeland Describes It as ‘A Big Prison’
26:44 – China’s Influence on Tibetan Buddhism
40:31 – How Tibetan Children Learn in Chinese-Run Boarding Schools
48:57 – The Struggle Over Choosing the Dalai Lama’s Successor & Tibet’s Future
52:17 – Credits