Tenzin Gyatso: movies and TV shows
Tenzin Gyatso has 114 credits in the archive: 95 films and 19 TV series, from 1956 to 2026. Highest rated: maybrit illner (9.0/10).
Career timeline
1956 – 2026 · busiest year: 2008 (8 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Dalai Lama - Ocean of Wisdom | Himself | Film | — | 90 |
| 2025 | Dalai Lama - The Fateful Years of a Chosen One | Self | TV | 7.0 | 89 |
| 2025 | The Dalai Lama's Gift | Self | Film | — | 89 |
| 2025 | Battle for Tibet | Self | Film | — | 89 |
| 2024 | Wisdom of Happiness | Self | Film | 7.3 | 88 |
| 2024 | The Secret of Death | Self | Film | — | 88 |
| 2023 | King Charles III: The New Monarchy | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.0 | 87 |
| 2023 | Tukdam: The Point Of Death | Film | 8.0 | 87 | |
| 2022 | A Case for Kindness | Self | Film | 10.0 | 86 |
| 2022 | Amala | Self | Film | — | 86 |
| 2022 | Mission: Joy - Finding Happiness in Troubled Times | Self | Film | 5.2 | 86 |
| 2022 | Tukdam – Between Worlds | Self | Film | 8.0 | 86 |
| 2022 | Never Forget Tibet | Self | Film | — | 86 |
| 2021 | The Art of Dissent | Self - Subject (archive footage) | Film | — | 85 |
| 2020 | Beastie Boys Story | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.5 | 84 |
| 2020 | Upper Story: On the Road to Well-Being | Self | Film | 6.0 | 84 |
| 2020 | Infinite Potential: The Life & Ideas of David Bohm | Self - 14th Dalai Lama | Film | 8.0 | 84 |
| 2019 | But Beautiful | Film | 7.7 | 83 | |
| 2019 | The Great 14th: Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama In His Own Words | Self | Film | — | 83 |
| 2019 | An Officer & His Holiness: The Dalai Lama's Secret Escape into Exile | Self | Film | 9.0 | 83 |
| 2018 | The Mayo Clinic | Self | Film | 7.0 | 82 |
| 2018 | Why Are We Creative? | Self | Film | 7.5 | 82 |
| 2018 | Mega Icons | Self | TV | 5.0 | 82 |
| 2018 | AUTARK - Leben mit der Energiewende 4 | Self | Film | — | 82 |
| 2017 | The Enlightenment | Self | Film | 10.0 | 81 |
| 2017 | The Last Dalai Lama? | Self | Film | — | 81 |
| 2016 | Quotidien | Self - Guest | TV | 5.3 | 80 |
| 2016 | Earth Sutra | Self | Film | — | 80 |
| 2016 | State of Control | Self | Film | 7.2 | 80 |
| 2015 | Tibetan Warrior | Self | Film | 10.0 | 79 |
| 2015 | The Dance of Infinity | Self | Film | — | 79 |
| 2014 | Monk with a Camera | Self | Film | 7.2 | 78 |
| 2014 | The Dialogue | Self | Film | — | 78 |
| 2013 | Nelson Mandela: The Myth and Me | Self | Film | 6.4 | 77 |
| 2013 | 14th Dalai Lama | Self | Film | 10.0 | 77 |
| 2012 | 4:44 Last Day on Earth | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | Film | 4.8 | 76 |
| 2012 | Happy | Self | Film | 7.1 | 76 |
| 2012 | Owned & Operated | Dalai Lama | Film | 8.8 | 76 |
| 2012 | One Day on Earth | Self | Film | 7.5 | 76 |
| 2012 | Bön: Mustang to Menri | 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso | Film | — | 76 |
| 2012 | Souls of Zen: Ancestors and Agency in Contemporary Japanese Temple Buddhism | Self | Film | 8.0 | 76 |
| 2012 | Flipside: A Journey into the Afterlife | Self | Film | — | 76 |
| 2011 | Nicky's Family | Self | Film | 8.7 | 75 |
| 2011 | Project Happiness | Self | Film | 6.0 | 75 |
| 2011 | Francisco Cisco Pancho | Self | Film | — | 75 |
| 2011 | Compassion in Emptiness | Self | Film | — | 75 |
| 2011 | Jan Paweł II: Szukałem Was... | Self | Film | — | 75 |
| 2010 | Talk im Hangar-7 | Self | TV | — | 74 |
| 2010 | The Buddha | Self | Film | 6.2 | 74 |
| 2010 | Brilliant Moon: Glimpses of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche | Self | Film | 7.0 | 74 |
| 2010 | The Invocation | Self | Film | 4.4 | 74 |
| 2010 | When the Dragon Swallowed the Sun | Self | Film | — | 74 |
| 2010 | The Sun Behind the Clouds: Tibet's Struggle for Freedom | Self | Film | 6.0 | 74 |
| 2010 | Discover the Gift | Self - Spiritual Leader of Tibet | Film | 6.7 | 74 |
| 2009 | MasterChef Australia | TV | 7.0 | 73 | |
| 2009 | Happiness Is | Self | Film | 6.0 | 73 |
| 2009 | Eine Reise in die Welt des Dalai Lama | Film | — | 73 | |
| 2009 | Mustang: Journey of Transformation | Film | 7.8 | 73 | |
| 2008 | The Unwinking Gaze: The Inside Story of the Dalai Lama's Struggle for Tibet | Self | Film | 7.0 | 72 |
| 2008 | Buddha Wild: Monk in a Hut | Self | Film | 9.5 | 72 |
| 2008 | Sunrise/Sunset. Dalai Lama XIV | Self | Film | 8.0 | 72 |
| 2008 | One Water | Self | Film | — | 72 |
| 2008 | The Lost World of Tibet | Film | 7.7 | 72 | |
| 2008 | Jesus in India | Self - His Holiness the 4th Dalai Lama | Film | 7.0 | 72 |
| 2008 | Women of Tibet: A Quiet Revolution | Film | 6.0 | 72 | |
| 2008 | The Dalai Lama: Peace and Prosperity | Self | Film | — | 72 |
| 2007 | In God's Name | Film | — | 71 | |
| 2007 | Dalai Lama Renaissance | Self | Film | 7.0 | 71 |
| 2006 | Refuge | Self | Film | — | 70 |
| 2006 | Mystical Brain | Self | Film | 7.0 | 70 |
| 2006 | On Life & Enlightenment | Self | Film | — | 70 |
| 2006 | 10 Questions for the Dalai Lama | Self | Film | 7.3 | 70 |
| 2006 | A Path to Happiness: His Holiness the Dalai Lama | Self | Film | — | 70 |
| 2005 | Monte Grande: What is Life? | Self | Film | 9.0 | 69 |
| 2004 | What Remains of Us | Self | Film | 7.0 | 68 |
| 2004 | Impermanence | Self | Film | — | 68 |
| 2004 | Short Cut to Nirvana: Kumbh Mela | Film | 9.0 | 68 | |
| 2004 | Dalai Lama: Discourse on the Heart Sutra | Self | Film | 8.0 | 68 |
| 2004 | Tibetan Refugee | Self | Film | 9.0 | 68 |
| 2003 | The Ring of the Buddha | Self | Film | 7.0 | 67 |
| 2003 | Women of K2 | Self (archive footage) | Film | 9.5 | 67 |
| 2003 | Wheel of Time | Self | Film | 6.4 | 67 |
| 2002 | Naqoyqatsi | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | Film | 6.2 | 66 |
| 2002 | Tibet 2002 | Self | Film | — | 66 |
| 2001 | Tibet's Stolen Child | Self | Film | — | 65 |
| 1999 | maybrit illner | Self | TV | 9.0 | 63 |
| 1999 | Beckmann | Self | TV | 4.3 | 63 |
| 1998 | Free Tibet | Self - The Dalai Lama | Film | 8.0 | 62 |
| 1998 | In Search of 'Kundun' with Martin Scorsese | Self | Film | 7.3 | 62 |
| 1998 | Karmapa - Two Ways of Divinity | Film | 7.7 | 62 | |
| 1998 | The Jew in the Lotus | Self | Film | 9.0 | 62 |
| 1997 | HARDtalk | TV | 8.7 | 61 | |
| 1997 | Kreuz & Quer | Self | TV | 7.0 | 61 |
| 1997 | The Knowledge of Healing | Self | Film | 8.0 | 61 |
| 1997 | The Four Noble Truths | Self | Film | — | 61 |
| 1995 | Spirit of Tibet: Journey to Enlightenment, the Life and World of Dilgo Kyentse Rinpoche | Self | Film | 8.7 | 59 |
| 1994 | The Himalayas | Self | TV | 10.0 | 58 |
| 1994 | The Tibetan Book of the Dead: The Great Liberation | Self | Film | 6.6 | 58 |
| 1993 | Compassion in Exile: The Story of the 14th Dalai Lama | Self | Film | 8.0 | 57 |
| 1992 | Gaia Symphony | Self | TV | 10.0 | 56 |
| 1992 | Ian Stevenson Reincarnation Research Documentary | Film | — | 56 | |
| 1991 | El mirador | Self | TV | 2.0 | 55 |
| 1991 | Galahad of Everest | Self | Film | 8.7 | 55 |
| 1988 | Walking After Midnight | Self | Film | 9.0 | 52 |
| 1987 | Dispatches | TV | 6.5 | 51 | |
| 1984 | Merton: A Film Biography | Self - The Dalai Lama | Film | 8.5 | 48 |
| 1983 | Frontline | Self (archive footage) | TV | 6.6 | 47 |
| 1982 | Wortwechsel | Self | TV | — | 46 |
| 1977 | Everyman | TV | 10.0 | 41 | |
| 1976 | 30 millions d'amis | Self | TV | 6.2 | 40 |
| 1976 | Club 2 | Self | TV | 9.0 | 40 |
| 1975 | Apostrophes | Self | TV | 8.5 | 39 |
| 1966 | The Message of the Tibetans | Self | Film | 9.5 | 30 |
| 1956 | The Road Leads to Tibet | Self | Film | — | 20 |