High Train To Tibet (2014)

In the summer of 2006 the Chinese government fulfilled a fiftyyear plan to build a railway into Tibet As noted by Abrahm Lustgarten in his book Chinas Great Train Since Mao Tse Tung first envisioned it the railway line had grown into an imperative component of Chinas breakneck economic expansion and one of the first technological maneuvers in strengthening Chinas grip over Tibet this remote and often mystical frontier which promises rich resources and geographic supremacy over South Asia The documentary High Train to Tibet examines the impacts of the train on the Tibetan land and the nomadic and semi nomadic communities who inhabit it from a environmental social and cultural point of view