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Taming the Tigers – Thailand
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Taming the Tigers – Thailand

2013 · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]

Thailand's Tiger Temple, a Buddhist monastery outside Kanchanaburi that doubles as one of the country's biggest tourist draws, lets visitors pose for photos with full-grown tigers chained in the open air. The film follows the money and the animals behind the spectacle, talking to monks who run the operation and to activists who allege the cats are drugged, beaten, and bred for profit rather than conservation. Cameras get close to the daily routine: keepers hauling tigers on leashes past paying tourists, cubs bottle-fed for the cameras, and staff defending the temple's claim to be a sanctuary. Former volunteers and wildlife campaigners lay out evidence of a black-market trade in tiger parts operating in parallel with the tourist show, a charge the temple denies. The result is a straightforward look at how an animal attraction marketed as spiritual and benevolent can also function as a business with a much darker set of incentives underneath it.