A classic documentary can expand horizons, increase knowledge, and cleanse the soul. A good documentary can open a door for children to enter a broader landscape of life. Thematic documentaries need to be cited from the sidelines, and they need to focus on research for a long time.
During the Spring Festival, we have collected these 16 excellent documentaries for you, so take your children and look at it! One. Gardens.
*The documentary "Gardens - Gardens in the Great Wall" is a total of 8 episodes, each about 50 minutes long, starting from the gardens of the pre-Qin, Han, Tang, Song and Ming dynasties to modern times. Through storytelling, the slow life in the garden is concretely expressed.
For the first time in China, the Han, Wei, Jin, Tang, Song, Ming and Qing dynasties, and the present are connected in series in the form of a documentary, presenting China's unique garden culture from the span of history, and exploring the important cultural proposition - Chinese aesthetics in the garden from the spiritual perspective.
Audience comment: "Different from ordinary documentaries, it does not focus on the introduction of garden knowledge, but promotes a kind of artistic conception and beauty." ”
Two. Forbidden City 100 - Seeing the Forbidden City Invisible
"The Forbidden City 100" is another video work with the theme of the Forbidden City after the 12-episode large-scale documentary "The Forbidden City" was filmed in 2005. It took several years of planning and preparation, and after nearly a year of filming and production. Each episode tells the story of the 100 spaces of the Forbidden City with a duration of 6 minutes, interpreting the practical and aesthetic value of the "invisible" Forbidden City architecture through the "visible" space, and creating a video museum that transcends time and space for the Forbidden City.
The audience commented: "The picture is very beautiful, the truth is very profound, and the great beauty of the building is in the bits and pieces." ”
Three. National Palace in Taipei.
The National Palace Museum in Taipei has a total of 12 episodes, tracing the history of the relocation of cultural relics to Taiwan and the current situation of the National Palace Museum in Taipei, and introducing the national treasures in the collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei, such as calligraphy, paintings, bronzes, porcelain, and treasures. Since 2006, the film crew of "Taipei National Palace" has gone to Taiwan four times in two years to interview, interviewing more than 60 people, and it is very rare to interview three old people who experienced the relocation of cultural relics to Taiwan: Gao Renjun, Suo Yuming and Peter Chang, from which they have obtained a large number of details of the process of relocating cultural relics to Taiwan. For various reasons, the crew of "Taipei National Palace" finally failed to enter the Taipei National Palace Museum for filming, but this did not affect the ideology and profundity of this **.
The National Palace Museum in Taipei deals with history and contemporary, focusing on the development of human civilization in China over the past 5,000 years, as well as the flow of history and culture. The National Palace in Taipei preserves the thousand-year-old art treasures painstakingly accumulated by the Chinese emperors for hundreds of years, and is the epitome of the 5,000-year civilization history of the entire Chinese nation.
"Taipei National Palace" tells you not only some stories, some emotions, but also a sigh and a lot of expectations.
Audience comment: "I watched it in Nanjing in the first half of 2010. I love this genre of documentary. It sounds good, and the seemingly long wait is the eternal future. ”
Four. I repair cultural relics in the Forbidden City.
The Forbidden City, which spanned the Ming and Qing dynasties and was built for nearly 600 years, has a collection of more than 1.8 million precious cultural relics, including the "Five Oxen Picture" and the "Qingming Riverside Map". After a hundred years of vicissitudes, these common treasures of mankind have been more or less covered in dust and damaged. Since the day the Palace Museum was founded, generations of cultural relics restorers have walked into the red walls of the Forbidden City, and through their skillful hands to transform decay into magic, they have re-injected the vitality of life into cultural relics. Woodware, ceramics, bronze, lacquerware, clocks, weaving and embroidery, calligraphy and painting, different cultural relics have different characteristics, and also have their own difficulties in restoration. And these restorers are willing to be lonely, willing to be bland, and carefully feel the faint pulse from antiquity in the dialogue with cultural relics. Cultural relics have souls and life, and they are closely connected with the inner beauty of human beings.
When the dusty cultural relics regain their dazzling brilliance, we should not forget the hardships paid by those ordinary and great craftsmen!
Viewer commented: "There's a passage in it that says it very well, 'Cultural relics are not meant to keep an object there, but to spread culture.'" The restoration of cultural relics is not only valuable because the items are repaired, but also the communication with people and things and the understanding of things in the process of repair, and they are also integrated into it. 'The spirit of Chinese Gewu. A group of real craftsmen. After reading it, I regretted that I missed the 90th anniversary celebration, and I hope to go when I am a centennial. ”
Five. I came from the Han Dynasty.
"I Came from the Han Dynasty" is a large-scale original documentary work launched by CCTV Documentary Channel in 2015. The film takes the important image historical materials of the Han Dynasty and the cultural heritage "Han Portrait Stone" as the core clue, and visits more than 100 historical sites in three years, and uses images to restore the historical events recorded by the portrait stone, various scenes and characters such as banquets, labor, family life, etc., and even reproduces the immortal world imagined by the ancestors. The film is divided into six episodes: "Memories of Home", "The Glory of the Man", "Living Like a Fairy", "Women Are Good", "Banquet and Drink", and "A Lesson in the Han Dynasty".
Audience comment: "The whole process focuses on the theme of the tomb, which is very professional. ”
Six. Eight hundred years of the state of Chu.
As early as more than 3,600 years ago, Zhurong, the god of fire who once lived in the Central Plains, was expelled by the Shang Dynasty, so the people moved south, and after a lot of hardships, they finally settled in the humid and hot barbarian area in the south. They named themselves "Chu people", and although they were on the border, they always had the idea of returning to the Central Plains. The Chu chieftain Manxiong assisted the Zhou dynasty in overthrowing Shang rule, but he was not given the respect and feudalism he deserved, and King Zhao's southern tour completely shattered their hopes for the Son of Heaven. Represented by Xiongqu, Xiongtong, King Chuzhuang and other promising emperors, the Chu people began to try to expand to the Central Plains. The Duke of Qi Huan came to attack, the battle of Chengpu, and the battle of Wu Chu. Hundreds of years of brutal warfare have tempered the iron will of the Chu people, and the 800-year-old foundation has gradually moved towards prosperity, but also towards decline and extinction.
Based on a large number of historical records and unearthed cultural relics, this film reproduces the magnificent history of the Chu Kingdom for the audience.
Viewer commented: "I saw that my eyes were hot at the end of the last episode. ”
Seven. Resurrected Legion.
Divided into six episodes and three hours, this documentary shows the former glory of the Qin Army.
The King's Division: The Qin people rose from the northwest pastures, and were awarded the title for their meritorious service in protecting the Zhou, and conquered and unified China in 550 years. The excavation of the terracotta warriors and horses in the seventies restored the mysterious army of the Qin State. Scarlet bronze: Although the bronze of the Qin army lagged behind the iron tools, the swords, crossbows, and arrows that had been reasonably designed were continuously produced in the standardized military factory. Land of Life and Death: Taking the Battle of Changping as an example, the composition of the Qin army's troops and combat methods are reproduced. The infantry of the Qin army consisted of crossbowmen and a phalanx of soldiers of different lengths, the cavalry used crossbow arrows to harass, and the chariots could break away from the infantry to form a group to fight at high speed. Guanshan Feidu: After Qin unified the six countries, Kailing Canal entered and occupied Lingnan, and opened the straight road to the north to resist the Xiongnu, and the transportation system and advanced car-making technology throughout the country provided a guarantee for the logistics of the empire. Battle of the Whole Kingdom: The legal provisions of the Qin state recorded in the unearthed bamboo slips show the specific content of the Qin state's cultivation strategy, and the Zhengguo Canal and Dujiangyan created the granary of the Qin state. Enmity with the son: The Shang Jun Law provided for a system of awarding military merits, which indirectly cultivated the martial temperament of the Qin people.
Comment: "Informative and interesting, with a thick and far-reaching style, it is rare to see an excellent historical documentary." ”
Eight. Daming Palace.
In 618 AD, the Tang Empire, which occupies the most important position in Chinese history, was established. Soon after the establishment of the empire, Li Shimin, the second son of Tang Gaozu Li Yuan, the king of Qin, launched the Xuanwumen Rebellion, killed his compatriots and brothers, and sat on the throne of the emperor as he wished. In order to show filial piety to his father, Tang Gaozong presided over the construction of Daming Palace in the northeast of Chang'an City as a summer palace for the emperor. In 664 A.D., the majestic Daming Palace was completed, which covers an area of more than 5,000 acres, equivalent to the size of 500 football fields. Starting from Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, the supreme power center of the empire has witnessed the ups and downs of the Tang Dynasty in 222 years.
The war and dust have taken away the disillusionment, and people today can only imagine the prosperity and ...... of thousands of years from the ruins of the broken well in the half-buried earth
Viewer commented: "Tears rained down. The country is broken by mountains and rivers, the city is deep in spring, the flowers splash tears, and the hatred of farewell birds is frightening. I have been to the withered Daming Palace, and I understand the desolation of this poem better. ”
Nine. Beautiful China.
From the brightly lit metropolis to the sparsely populated deep mountains and old forests; From the vast prairie to the desert Gobi; From high-altitude mountains covered with snow all year round to endless plains; From the vast land to the blue sea and blue sky, ......China, this ancient and magical land, contains a variety of unique landforms, feeding children of all ethnic groups, and also giving birth to all kinds of rare beasts, exotic flowers and plants. This time, through the lens, we will visit the beautiful wonders scattered throughout this land. Along the Yangtze River Basin, go to see the strange rocks and strange forests created by karst landforms; Go to the tropical rainforests of Yunnan to look for Asian wild elephants and Yunnan golden snub-nosed monkeys; When you come to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, you can go to the grasslands of Inner Mongolia, climb the mountains, and look at the western border. Here, you and I are familiar with the beautiful China.
This is the first joint production of CCTV and BBC, which took four years to shoot, using advanced photography technologies such as aerial, infrared, high-speed, time-lapse and underwater. There are six episodes in total, namely "Rich South China", "South of the Clouds", "Qinghai-Tibet Plateau", "Beyond the Great Wall", "Dragon's Territory" and "Noisy Coast".
Audience comment: "The wild China of de-urbanization not only has beautiful and colorful natural landscapes, but also harmonious and delicate humanistic care. filmed a conscience drama, and there were a few places where it was really tearful and downpouring.
Ten. Hexi Corridor.
"Hexi Corridor" is a ten-episode documentary series jointly produced by the Propaganda Department of the Gansu Provincial Party Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Science and Education Channel of **TV Station, and produced by Beijing Bojing Cultural Communication. The film takes the Hexi Corridor, an important passage in western China and the first section of the Silk Road, as the object of storytelling, presents the history of the Hexi Corridor and its connected western China from the political, military, economic, cultural, religious and other perspectives from the Han Dynasty to the present, as well as the unique role it has played in the process of Chinese history and civilization. "The Hexi Corridor is related to the national economy" is the theme that runs through the whole article.
Audience comment: "* The biggest attraction is the reproduction of the scene, the actors' temperament and costumes are similar to historical figures, the picture soundtrack is excellent, and there is a sense of blockbuster déjà vu, **Take you through time and space to watch and feel all this in the long river of history." ”
Eleven. Song of the Forest.
The large-scale documentary "Song of the Forest", jointly produced by ** TV, the State Forestry Administration and the Ministry of Finance, was released to the audience on December 1, 2007. This 11-episode documentary, which took four years to shoot and produce, is the first large-scale ecological documentary in China, filling the gap in the field of ecological documentaries in China.
"Song of the Forest" has a total of 11 episodes, each episode is 50 minutes, and is produced by the Cultural Topics Department of the Social Education Center of ** TV Station. Since 2003, the film crew has gone through hardships and dangers to go to typical forest areas such as Xinjiang, North China, Qinling, Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, Northeast China, Hainan, and Fujian to shoot a large number of first-hand information and exquisite pictures. The program discusses the relationship between forests and human civilization and Chinese civilization, and expounds the harmonious coexistence of humans, animals and forests.
Audience commented: "In the episode of Wuyi Mountain phoenix butterfly, in the secluded bamboo sea, the phoenix butterfly stopped on the bamboo, let the rain wet its wings, ** sounded. Life is so small, in order to survive and reproduce, silently sticking to it. This is the first documentary in my life that made me cry, and the theme song will never be forgotten in my life. ”
Twelve. The third pole.
The first documentary "The Third Pole", which comprehensively reflects the harmony between man and nature on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, is 46 minutes per episode, with a total of 6 episodes, telling the beauty of Qinghai-Tibet with nearly 40 stories. The film shows the human beings living on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the highest altitude in the world, the survival of the individual and the happiness of the family, the amazing balance between man and nature, and the tenacity of human life in this extremely harsh natural environment, and the kindness, wisdom and friendship of the soul forged by it.
The audience commented: "Looking at it, tears fell from it. Only to find out that after visiting once, this place will take root in your heart (although you keep shouting that the conditions are too bad when you are there). The charm of the third pole, the shock to people, not only comes from the majestic mountains and rivers, but also the harmony between man and nature, and the admiration for tenacious life. ”
A baker's dozen. Cloth cloth China.
In 2015, ** TV station and Shenzhen Yuezhong Film and Television Co., Ltd. co-produced a ten-episode TV documentary "Cloth China", focusing on "millennium beautiful clothes, telling the story of spring silk and winter cotton and the cold and warm of the years." This film travels up and down, north and south, showing the generation of Chinese clothing and the fate of the characters behind the clothing and the changes of the times.
The audience commented: "CCTV's copywriting and soundtrack really don't say anything, this kind of material acquisition and different weaving methods across the north and south, east and west are also amazing, and the people are really the creators of history." Dressing and eating, ordinary but the cohesion of emotions and the promotion of history, is great. ”
Fourteen. Chinese characters are 5,000 years old.
The large-scale humanities documentary "5,000 Years of Chinese Characters" vividly shows the process of the generation, evolution and development of Chinese characters and their important role in the inheritance of 5,000 years of Chinese culture, highlighting the unique charm of Chinese culture and eulogizing the excellent traditions of Chinese culture.
"5,000 Years of Chinese Characters" presents a magnificent history of language and cultural development, outlining a clear context of China's historical and cultural development with 32 representative Chinese characters. The whole film includes eight episodes of "The Wonder of Mankind, The Long River of the Sky, The Light of the World, Inner Transcendence, Hanmo Feelings, The World's Treasure, Rebirth from the Fire, and Eternal Beauty".
The audience commented: "I am very proud and ashamed, I have seen too little ancient text." When I was in school, I really regretted that I didn't memorize Chinese well. ”
Fifteen. Great country craftsmen.
"Great Country Craftsman" is the beginning of the "May Day" in 2015, and CCTV News launched an eight-episode series of programs. The first season of "Craftsman of the Great Country" tells the myth created by 8 craftsmen "8 pairs of working hands". Courage is not afraid, great ingenuity is difficult to overcome, and great responsibility is ......They have been pursuing the perfection of professional skills for decades, relying on inheritance and research, focusing and perseverance, to create one after another "Made in China". After the show was broadcast, the story of the craftsman quickly aroused heated discussions in the society.
The audience commented: "Do a line of love, work hard for a lifetime without asking for anything in return." ”
Sixteen. Tea, the story of a leaf.
Tea is one of the most representative cultures in China. For thousands of years, tea culture has been inherited, experienced and transformed several times, radiating a different kind of brilliance and charm. This documentary explores the tea-producing areas of Yunnan, Fujian and Sichuan, and records how a small piece of young leaf is harvested through wind and rain, and roasted into a fragrant product through complex processes and craftsmanship. Following the footsteps of the film crew, the audience visited China, Japan, India, Thailand, and Kenya, and appreciated the different cultural heritages that have been nourished by the flowering of tea in Asian and African countries for thousands of years. Tea not only nourishes the soil and water, but also connects the soul and emotions of all human beings from the East to the West, from ancient times to modern times.
It was originally a green leaf, but after encountering humans, it went through a long journey, and finally rose to a ...... of love and faith in life
Audience comment: "I thought that I would only introduce tea from all over China, but I didn't expect it to look at the world and tell about the tea and tea culture of different countries, and the heart of tolerance is very valuable." Whether it is from China, Japan, or the United Kingdom, India, etc., people are full of strong emotions for this leaf, tea carries our livelihood, culture, history, and people's pain and pride in life are concentrated in this tea. ”