The must-see documentaries are as follows:

1. "Hexi Corridor"

This documentary has always been the highest-rated domestic documentary on Douban, with a high score of 9.7, which can be said to be zero. Negative review, the film takes the Hexi Corridor, an important passage in western China and the golden section of the Silk Road, as the narrative object. It presents the story from the Han Dynasty to today from multiple perspectives such as politics, military, economy, culture, and religion.

The history of the Hexi Corridor and the connected western China, as well as the unique role it played in the process of Chinese history and civilization. The story structure of the whole film is tightly logical, and the image expression shows a very high professional level.

2. "If National Treasure Could Talk"

It is a very highly rated CCTV documentary series. The Douban score of each season is above 9.4. The film crew traveled all over the country and filmed nearly Hundreds of museums and archaeological institutes, more than 50 archaeological sites, tell the story of a cultural relic for 5 minutes in each episode, introduce the Chinese spirit, Chinese aesthetics and Chinese values ????behind the national treasure, leading the audience to understand Chinese culture.

3. "A Bite of China"

It can be said to be a smash hit. The documentary focuses on the Chinese people's pursuit of good food and life, and uses specific character stories to connect the delicious food from all over China. Ecologically, people regardless of class, ethnicity and age can find the joy of food in this work, which is known as the "Foodie Bible".

4. "Polar"

It is one of the must-see domestic documentaries. The film mainly tells the story of 21 people of different ages, genders and occupations in Tibet. Touching stories, the scenery in this area is elevated to the ultimate visual experience, the towering snow-capped mountains, azure holy lakes, and green forests show the breathtaking beauty of Tibet.

5. "Beautiful China"

This film is the first joint production by CCTV and the BBC. It took 4 years to shoot and used aerial photography, infrared, high-speed, time-lapse and Underwater and other advanced photography technologies. One *** six episodes. He won the 30th "Emmy News and Documentary Awards" for Best Natural History Documentary Cinematography, Best Editing and Best Music and Sound Effects.

6. "Xuan Zang's Road"

This documentary is also one of the Chinese documentaries with the highest rating on Douban, as high as 9.5. The work does its best to restore a true Xuanzang to the world. Master, in order to pursue the righteous Mahayana Buddhism, he secretly crossed Yumen Pass and crossed the snow-capped mountains and deserts despite the court's ban. He spent nineteen years and traveled to 110 countries.

7. "Aerial Photography of China"

This is a documentary series worth watching. It overlooks China from an aerial perspective and displays China's historical and cultural landscapes and natural geography in an all-round and three-dimensional way. It is a documentary about economic and social development and changes. The images will all be completed by aerial photography. Each episode selects the most representative and ornamental historical, cultural, natural and modern landscapes in each province and city.

8. "I Repaired Cultural Relics in the Forbidden City"

This film focuses on recording the Forbidden City's calligraphy and painting, bronzes, palace clocks, woodware, ceramics, lacquerware, treasure inlays, palace weaving and embroidery, etc. The restoration process of rare and precious cultural relics and the life stories of the restorers. For the first time, the film fully presents the world's top restoration process and technology of Chinese cultural relics, showing the original state and collection status of the cultural relics.

9. "Shu Jian Yue China"

Douban score is 9.3. The film focuses on six warm and passionate perspectives: minor characters, love, friendship, life wisdom, family tradition, and family and country. Set out and carefully selected 30 letters from ancient people. Each of the 5 letters explains a different theme. From these 30 letters, the audience can get a glimpse of world affairs in different historical periods and appreciate the magnanimity and sentiments of Chinese culture.

10. "Blue Land"

It is a Chinese documentary that is worth watching. This work is the first domestic documentary to comprehensively and systematically shoot the ocean in the way of a natural documentary. The story is also the largest, most extensive and most comprehensive ocean photography operation in our country so far.