What CCTV documentaries are worth recommending?

1. Beautiful China

"Beautiful China" is the first large-scale TV documentary to show China's wildlife and natural and cultural landscapes. It shows China's beauty to TV audiences from an unprecedented perspective. charm. The film consists of six episodes, starting from the rice land south of the Yangtze River, to the scorching Xishuangbanna rainforest, the extremely cold Mount Everest, China's iconic Great Wall, the Yellow River Basin, the birthplace of Chinese culture, and the winding 18,000-kilometer coastline. It uses the world's most advanced filming equipment to show China's unknown charm. It is the first joint production by China Central Television (CCTV) and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). "Beautiful China" won the 30th "Emmy News and Documentary Awards" for Best Natural History Documentary Cinematography, Best Editing, and Best Music and Sound Effects.

2. The Power of Nature

"The Power of Nature" is a six-episode nature documentary launched by CCTV Documentary Channel on December 31, 2016, with Li Wenju as the director. Director, Fang Liang serves as narrator. The film records rich and colorful ecological stories such as Tibetan antelopes, snow leopards, wild yaks, gibbons, Asian elephants and the South China Sea, presenting China's rare ecological diversity, which is unique in the world. The film started production in 2012 and took five years to complete. The film was shot using internationally accepted natural documentary shooting techniques and technical standards. It was shot at more than 50 locations, including China's four major uninhabited areas and other inaccessible areas. It traveled hundreds of thousands of kilometers and took a total of more than 500 days of field shooting. .

3. The Power of a Company

"The Power of a Company" is a large-scale TV documentary launched by CCTV in 2009. It will be broadcast grandly on CCTV Financial Channel (CCTV-2) from August 23, 2010. This is China’s first TV documentary that deeply explores the company system, created by CCTV and Kingdee Software. It takes the world modernization process as the background, sorts out the history of the company's origin, development, evolution, and innovation, and discusses the mutual promotion and influence between company organization and economic systems, ideological and cultural, scientific and technological creation, social life and many other levels, aiming to use the company's It serves as a carrier to observe the evolution of the market economy and explore the development path of growing Chinese companies.

4. The Rise of a Great Power

"The Rise of a Great Power" is a 12-episode historical TV documentary premiered on China Central Television's Economic Channel (CCTV-2) in 2006, recording Portugal's , Spain, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan, Russia, and the United States, and summarized the historical laws of the rise of great powers. The film premiered at 21:30 prime time on November 13-24, 2006 (CCTV-2), with each episode approximately 45 minutes. After the film was broadcast, CCTV and China Democracy and Legal Publishing House cooperated to launch an eight-volume book series of the same name, with the content greatly expanded.

5. Gardens

"Gardens" is a CCTV documentary. This film starts from gardens and tells the lives, stories, and stories of people who lived in gardens throughout the past dynasties in eight episodes. dream. Gardens are a way of life, a wonderland and a place of spiritual peace that Chinese people have long dreamed of. Garden is an emotion that embodies the imagination of Chinese people for an ideal and beautiful living environment for generations. Garden is also a thinking space for dialogue between man and nature and himself, integrating things and me, and taking care of life. Garden legends from the mythical era, the best gardens in history, royal gardens, literati gardens and private gardens will all be reappeared in the film. Looking at each other from ancient times to the present, great beauty has returned.

6. The Long River in the Desert

"The Long River in the Desert" is a documentary produced by CCTV. The film focuses on a topic that is paying attention to the whole world, through geology, history, and reality. From many angles, it explores the causes of China’s deserts, analyzes the sources of sand and dust, shows the dangers of desertification, records the living conditions of people in China’s arid and semi-arid areas, and shows the struggle between humans and desertification. The film cleverly combines detailed narration with macroscopic discussion. While tracing the stories and fate of the characters, it also runs through national policies and desert common sense, awakening people's high attention to the issue of "desertification."

7. Dunhuang

Dunhuang is another masterpiece launched by CCTV after "The Forbidden City". It aims to record the development of the history and culture of the Dunhuang area and reveal more than 2,000 people in Dunhuang in depth. cultural connotation over the years. The camera focuses on Dunhuang and the people who once lived on this land, clearing away the fog of history and re-presenting the forgotten civilizations to the audience's vision one by one. The main creators strive to create a documentary that reflects the history and culture of Dunhuang in an all-round way, comprehensively records the magnificent historical process of the Dunhuang area in 2100 and the stories scattered therein; and comprehensively displays the tireless exploration of this desert treasure house by Dunhuang scholars over the past 100 years. Results.

8. Nanhai No. 1

"Nanhai No. 1" is a three-part documentary jointly produced by CCTV and the State Administration of Cultural Heritage. It was broadcast in China from December 2 to 4, 2011. Broadcast on CCTV Documentary Channel. The documentary will show the history of "Nanhai No. 1" for more than 20 years from its accidental discovery by the Sino-British joint salvage team in 1987 to the start of large-scale exploration in 2001. Chief director Liu Wen said that in 2012, CCTV Documentary Channel will also broadcast a number of self-made documentaries.

For the first time, this documentary comprehensively and meticulously shows the salvage process of the Southern Song Dynasty merchant ship "Nanhai No. 1" and the story behind the sunken ship. "Nanhai No. 1" is not only CCTV's first original high-definition documentary, but also the first time that "salvage a sunken ship" has been released. Come to the context of the development of China's underwater archaeology.

9. When the Louvre Meets the Forbidden City

"When the Louvre Meets the Forbidden City" is a humanistic history jointly produced by Shanghai Oriental Media Group Co., Ltd., Central News Documentary Film Studio, etc. Documentary, directed by Xu Huan and Zhou Bing. The film premiered on the Shanghai Radio and Television Station Documentary Channel on October 2, 2010, and was broadcast on the China Central Television Documentary Channel (CCTV-9) on February 17, 2011. "When the Louvre Meets the Forbidden City" has 12 episodes, each 40 minutes long, which interpret the evolution history of Eastern and Western art in different time and space backgrounds such as ancient Central Asia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, and the Middle Ages and Renaissance, interspersed with experts in various fields The latest analysis by scholars also presents the exquisite ideas and creativity of the Louvre and the Forbidden City in establishing museums based on palace architecture.

10. A great country values ??weapons

In order to fully demonstrate the great achievements of China's equipment industry in the past 30 years, record and disseminate advanced figures and deeds that have made outstanding contributions to the revitalization of China's equipment industry, The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and China Central Television jointly launched the TV documentary "Great Powers Weapons". The TV documentary "Great Powers Weapons" was organized and implemented by China Industrial Newspaper and "Equipment Manufacturing" magazine, and was jointly shot. The broadcast of this film will encourage and encourage the "Chinese Dream" of realizing the localization of major technical equipment and the development of my country's industry. Liu Baoheng told reporters: "It is the dream of generations of equipment workers in our country to shoot such a TV documentary.

11. Military Industry Memory

The filming crew of "Military Industry Memory" lasted ten months , traveled tens of thousands of miles. It is a series of TV documentaries jointly produced by the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense and CCTV, and jointly produced by the News and Publicity Center of the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense and the CCTV Record Channel. It was first released in January 2013. , won the 19th China TV Documentary Top Ten Works Award. Subsequently, the series was launched every year. Each episode focuses on a certain theme. The military industry memory series was launched for the first time in January 2013. The content includes rich and authentic historical materials. Underwater Long March, Iron Horse, Leopard Roaring in the Sky, East Wind Breaking at Dawn

12. The Generation That Changed the Earth

"The Generation That Changed the Earth" is produced by CCTV Documentary Channel and the British BBC. *** is jointly invested and co-produced by ***. It is divided into three episodes: "Where to Live", "The Road to Travel", and "Food, Fire and Water". By showing innovative ways to solve urbanization problems, it focuses on introducing the world's most important The revolutionary changes brought about by the most spectacular and challenging modern engineering projects show that our generation is reshaping the earth at an unprecedented speed and in ways that our ancestors could not imagine. This documentary was released in March 2013. It will be broadcast on the "Charm Record" column of CCTV-1 at 10:30 every night from the 11th to the 13th.