CCTV’s Top Ten Outstanding Documentaries

The top ten excellent documentaries of CCTV include: "Travel with the Book", "If National Treasures Could Talk", "Forbidden City 100", "Dunhuang", "I Repair Cultural Relics in the Forbidden City", "Aerial Photography of China", "Book Brief Review of China", "Zicong Meets You", "A Feast of Insects", "Tea, the Story of a Leaf".

1. "Travel with the Book"

"Travel with the Book" is a large-scale experiential cultural documentary planned by CCTV. Since its launch in December 2019, it has been broadcast every week 4-5 episodes, hundreds of episodes have been aired. Although each episode is only 20 minutes long, the density of knowledge is amazing.

2. "If the National Treasure Could Talk"

"If the National Treasure Could Talk" has 100 episodes, divided into four seasons, with 25 episodes per season, and each episode is only 5 minutes long , very suitable for watching in fragmented time.

3. "Forbidden City 100"

"Forbidden City 100" has 100 episodes. Each episode takes 6 minutes to tell the story of 100 spaces in the Forbidden City, including the first display of the Forbidden City. There are many non-open areas, such as royal private spaces, religious places, etc.

4. "Dunhuang"

The 10th episode of "Dunhuang" shows the history and life of Dunhuang for more than a thousand years by describing the fate of ten characters. The film premiered on CCTV News Channel every night from February 14 to 23, 2010.

5. "I Repair Cultural Relics in the Forbidden City"

"I Repair Cultural Relics in the Forbidden City" is a three-part cultural relic restoration film directed by Ye Jun and Xiao Han and produced by China Central Television documentary, broadcast on CCTV’s TV program “Documentary Editorial Room”. The film focuses on recording the restoration process of rare and precious cultural relics in the fields of Forbidden City calligraphy and painting, bronzes, palace clocks, woodware, ceramics, lacquerware, treasure inlays, palace weaving and embroidery, and the life stories of the restorers.

6. "Aerial Photography of China"

The 34 episodes of "Aerial Photography of China" select the most representative and ornamental historical, humanistic, and Natural and modern landscapes are presented from a "God's perspective".

7. "Shu Jian Yue China"

The CCTV documentary "Shu Jian Yue China" starts from the six perspectives of small figures in history, love, friendship, wisdom, family tradition, and family and country. , carefully selected 30 letters from ancient people to explore the ups and downs of individuals and times behind the letters, and to understand the wisdom of the sages in the letters.

8. "Zi Cong Meets You"

"Zi Cong Meets You" is a documentary series produced by the China Central Radio and Television Station's Film and Television Drama Documentary Center. Starting from the most basic Chinese characters, the program tells the origin and cultural development of Chinese characters in a story-like manner, explores the cultural codes behind Chinese characters, presents the beauty of Chinese characters, and unifies the image, philosophy and artistry of Chinese characters.

9. "A Feast of Insects"

"A Feast of Insects" is a documentary produced by the Film and Television Drama Documentary Center of China Central Radio and Television, with 10 episodes. Through the story of how insects obtain food, the documentary shows one aspect of the biological chain relationship between insects and other organisms, and also shows a diverse and colorful world of insects.

10. "Tea, the Story of a Leaf"

"Tea, the Story of a Leaf" is an original documentary launched by CCTV Documentary Channel, and is also China's first comprehensive exploration of the world's tea. Cultural documentaries.