Eye of the Lammergeier Trailer
Thirty years in the making, Eye of the Lammergeier opens with two American mountaineers, John Ackerly Esq. and Blake Kerr M.D., trying to get as high as they can on the Tibetan side of Everest, in sneakers. When Chinese police open fire on unarmed Tibetans in the capital of Lhasa, Ackerly photographs the largest independence demonstration against Chinese rule since the Dalai Lama fled to India in 1959. After documenting 12 deaths, Kerr sneaks out to treat the wounded hiding in their homes and monasteries, and meets the victims of torture and sterilization.
The underside of China's military occupation of Tibet is powerfully revealed by Kerr and Ackerly's repeated returns (seven times) to document Chinese prisons, China's national policy of coerced abortions, eugenics and forced sterilizations at People's Hospitals in Lhasa and remote regions throughout Tibet.
Despite Dr Kerr's assistance, attempts by the Comite de Apoyo al Tibet to charge China's former leadership with genocide were met with powerful resistance: in July 2014, China convinced Spain to reverse Judge Ismael Moreno's finding that China is committing genocide in Tibet and successfully terminated the National Court's pursuit of Universal Jurisdiction.
Hidden camera footage that has never been seen before graphically illustrates the Tibetans' plight.