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Today I saw the movie Kundun, a movie about the 14th Dalai Lama. I will not review the movie here except to say it was full of stunning images. It's a great movie for viewing long hair, too (men, women, and horses). All the actors were Tibetan. Average hair length on women was waist length or a bit longer. Average hair length on men was also waist length if you exclude the shaved men. And it wasn't just long hair. The hair was styled in various kinds of braids, wraps, etc. Some of the elders associated with the Dalai Lama wore their hair braided with a ribbon and then carefully wrapped around their heads.
I searched for pictures on the web but found none. The trailer is 7 Mb, and I haven't looked at it yet (still downloading).
Kundun was released to US audiences on Christmas Day 1997 and is still showing here in Austin. Two months earlier, Seven Years in Tibet, starring Brad Pitt came out. I saw it after I posted my original Kundun message, curious how much the stories matched, (I'm woefully unschooled on Tibet). I found very few contradictions between the two movies. As far as hair goes, Kundun has better shots of long hair on men, but Seven Years in Tibet has a character not in Kundun: a female tailor with many butt-length braids. She plays a significant part in the movie, so you get to see her marvelous locks many times.
In both movies, the various styles of braiding and tying up the hair is fascinating.