In 2021, we solemnly celebrate the centenary of the Party.
A series of major events marked the important position of 2021 in China's time coordinates, giving this year an extraordinary and profound meaning.
Narrate the history of the country and the narrative of the times.
Documentarians use the mirror in their hands to explore the history of the millennium, present the history of the Red Party, show the diverse world and the ordinary life of fireworks.
Driven by technology empowerment and integrated communication, Chinese documentaries have continuously achieved new breakthroughs in documentary aesthetics, and have reached new heights in image expression and communication influence.
This year, documentary quality has appeared frequently, and the overall level of creation has been greatly improved.
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Documentary on party history documents
Phenomenal works set a new example
Focusing on the major historical node of the centenary of the founding of the party, a large number of documentaries on revolutionary history themes will be produced and broadcast in 2021, and some of these works have set a new model with a new creative paradigm.
Historical truth and aesthetic expression blend and penetrate
"Dare to Teach the Sun and The Moon for a New Heaven" can be called an audiovisual biography of the history of the Party for a hundred years.
The film was broadcast on the China Central Radio and Television Corporation's General Channel (CCTV-1) and the Documentary Channel (CCTV-9).
It realizes the creative transformation of the aesthetics of documentary films from rational elaboration to perceptual narrative, and also achieves the unity of academic value and artistic value of documentary literature.
In the course of 24 episodes, the film focuses on the key events and nodes in the history of the party in the past century, breaking the conventional linear narrative mode, starting from a contemporary perspective, showing the far-reaching impact of these events on the process of China's history and social development.
"Dare to Teach the Sun and Moon for a New Day" is another innovative practice of CCTV in actively building a new pattern of "5G+4K/8K+AI", and also changes the traditional concept of time and space of documentary narrative.
The film's related content has reached 1.98 billion hits across the network, setting a new benchmark for the media dissemination of documentaries.
"Mountains and Rivers Years" is produced by the Central Radio and Television Station and produced by the Film and Television Drama Documentary Center.
It is the largest red documentary in capacity to date.
With affectionate brushstrokes and a large number of vivid details, the film focuses on the core image represented by the mountains and rivers of the motherland, witnessing the great course of the Communist Party of China in the past century of wind and rain and steel refining.
A hundred years of unity, mountains and rivers for the sake of.
The film digs deep and uses a large number of video materials that have never appeared or rarely appeared in the public eye before, organically connecting, group narratives, and the whole film is 100 episodes, showing more than 620 party history stories.
It represents a new achievement in the creation of documentaries on major revolutionary historical documents in the new era.
Macro narratives go hand in hand with micro insights
"Hot Snow - The Great War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea" creates a novel script structure compared with traditional documentaries on the theme of historical war.
The film transforms the positioning of documentary images from spatial reality to psychological reality.
It not only completes the archival significance of the historical documentary, but also reflects the creator's deep respect for the hero individual.
"Shining Memory" and "Red Secret File" select "revolutionary cultural relics" and "archives" as narrative carriers respectively, presenting the high-burning moments of the lives of historical figures;
"Absolute Pen" uses the letter as the medium to lead the audience to relive the moving stories and home and country feelings behind the heroic "absolute pen".
The angle is novel and refreshing
"The Journey of the Brave" retraces the path of the Red Revolution by surviving in the wilderness;
"The Daughter of the Party" selects a hundred female party members to tell the story of the revolution with delicate emotions;
"How the C bit is made" overlooks the red footprint from space, "satellite image + drone aerial photography", with a unique perspective, forming a big "C", cleverly conceived, and the image is shocking.
Under the panoramic interpretation of the history of the party in the documentary, the century-old party history presents a discourse style with open imagery and majestic narrative.
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Natural Charm and Oriental Wisdom
Present a real three-dimensional China
Eco-tech documentary
Let the world fall in love with the lovely and respectable China
"The Frozen Kingdom of the Snow Leopard", "The Same Elephant Line" and "Wilderness Supreme" present the life story and living environment of wild animals from different perspectives, and reflect on the relationship between man and nature.
"The Frozen Kingdom of the Snow Leopard" refreshes the heights of Chinese nature documentaries, contributing a real snow leopard documentary, the protagonist is the snow leopard, rather than the story of humans looking for snow leopards.
The film crew lasted two years to capture a female snow leopard from pregnancy, childbirth, hunting, feeding two cubs to the baby snow leopard growing up and about to start an independent life, leaving the audience with wonderful details to leave a moving visual spectacle and emotional experience.
In the form of a 5-minute micro-documentary per episode, "Tongxiang Xing" records several international stars, that is, a group of Asian elephants in Yunnan, China, who have traveled more than 1,300 kilometers.
This is a classic example of cultural output.
Following in the footsteps of this group of Asian elephants, the people of the world saw a lovely and lovely China.
"Song of the Yangtze River" takes the Haohao Yangtze River as the object of expression, and constructs a Chinese water image system with rich connotations and multiple meanings.
The film not only depicts the picture of the Yangtze River in the new era, but also tells people: we must respect nature and vigorously build an ecological civilization in order to better protect our mother river and live in harmony with nature.
Series of works such as "National Parks: Wildlife Kingdoms", "Qinghai Our National Parks", and "Qilian Mountain National Park" reflect the work being built by the mainland to build a "nature reserve system with national parks as the mainstay".
Science and technology documentaries are also remarkable, especially in the CCTV-9 film and television drama documentary center record channel (CCTV-9) hit "Our Journey", which is the first panoramic documentary to show the history of China's lunar exploration project.
It is also an "exclusive memory" that tells the modern version of the "Chang'e, Jade Rabbit" lunar exploration trip.
The film adopts the recording method of follow-up shooting throughout the whole process and close to the scene, presents precious first-hand real information, takes the seventeen years of "lunar exploration project" as the background, leads the audience to go deep into the historical context of the lunar exploration project, listens to the emotional narratives of several generations of astronauts, witnesses several major moments, and experiences the ups and downs with them and moves towards glory.
Historical and cultural documentaries
The modern spread of Oriental wisdom
Through 30 stories told in 30 letters, "A Brief Reading of China" opens the window for us to enter the inner world of historical figures.
The film deliberately grafts the topic interests of contemporary people into the production of documentaries, using the dramatization method of scene reproduction and the expression of two-dimensional comics to make the narrative young.
"Cao Xueqin and the Dream of the Red Chamber" makes the literary masterpiece "Dream of the Red Chamber" appear in the documentary for the first time in the form of animation, which is the first image in the history of red studies.
The film takes the fate of the author and the characters of the novel as the dual narrative thread, and with a heavy posture, not only explains "who Cao Xueqin is", tells many character stories in "Dream of the Red Chamber", but also tells the audience how to appreciate this "humane training" of the emperor's masterpiece.
For the first time, the film brings together the latest research results on "Dream of the Red Chamber" by literary figures and red scholars on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, as well as famous foreign sinologists.
Present another video feast in the history of red studies.
2021 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Chinese archaeology, and "Excavations" presents the emergence and development of Chinese civilization from the perspective of the history of global civilization by recording the excavation activities of archaeological teams.
Cultural documentaries such as "Science in Allusions", "Chinese Micro Business Cards, World Heritage Sites", and "Traveling with Tang Poems" excavate traditional culture from a contemporary perspective, disseminate oriental wisdom, and realize the co-learning and integration with other civilizations, beauty and beauty.
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The world's taste and social concerns
Resonates with the pulse of the times
Food documentary
The smell of the world in fireworks
Produced and broadcast on the occasion of the 22nd anniversary of Macau's return to the motherland, Taste of Macau tells the story of Macau behind food through the "meaningful form" of food.
From one side, it truly reflects the great achievements of the successful practice of "one country, two systems" with Macao characteristics.
Compared with previous food documentaries, the most prominent feature of "Sounds Delicious" is the emphasis on food.
Through the sound narrative, the film enhances the vitality of food and enhances the interest of food as a culture.
Films such as "The Taste of Lao Guang" (Season 6), "Zhiwei Xinjiang", "Millennium Shaanxi Cuisine", and "Hunan Cuisine of Proud Pepper" also grasp the entry point of food and show the regional culture.
Social documentaries
Real questions are real concerns
"How Do We Fight Depression", as the first large-scale and all-round interpretation of depression in China, truly enters this group with real depressed patients, typical anti-depression stories, and rigorous medical and scientific research practices.
"I am not a stupid child", "Incontinence Life", "Wonderful Egg Birth", "Born to the Sun" and other works, respectively, focusing on children with dyslexia, urinary incontinence, female fertility, organ donation issues, and in-depth cooperation with experts.
Present the problem with courage, interpret the problem professionally,
In the empathy of empathy, guide the audience to fight with the patients, and with the strength of the group, get out of the shadow of the shame!
"Ideal Answers For Reference Only" (Season 2) and "Hi New Career" show young people's exploration and thinking about the relationship between career and life.
There is a body of confusion, there is a persistence in choice, and there is a responsibility for responsibility.
The expression of these social reality problems also shows the temperature and calm and objective attitude of the documentarians from the side.
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Tell the story of China's ice and snow
Share the sportsmanship of the Winter Olympics
In early 2021, on the first anniversary of the countdown to the Beijing Winter Olympics, the China Central Radio and Television Station Documentary Channel (CCTV-9) broadcast documentaries focusing on China's ice and snow sports, such as "Snow Yao China" and "Top of ice and snow" (season 2).
Build up the screen for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
Through the speed and passion between the ice and snow, we will show the ice and snow dreams and Olympic expectations of the Chinese in an all-round way!
"Snow Glory China" takes the stories of witnesses as the carrier, from the oldest ski cultural memory to the emergence and development of the modern ice and snow industry, so that the audience can fully understand the history and style of China's skiing.
The theme of "Top of ice and snow" (season 2) is chinese ice and snow sports, telling a number of brave stories that challenge the limits.
With the opening of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, documentaries such as "Flying Over the Ice and Snow Line", "From Beijing to Beijing", "Great Winter", "Below Zero" and other documentaries have formed a relay with the 2021 ice and snow documentaries.
Through a moving story, the highlight moments of the athletes in the Beijing Winter Olympic Venue that exploded in 2022 echoed and together built a complete and three-dimensional Winter Olympic video collection.
The most fundamental value of documentaries lies in the recording.
The 2021 documentary completes this social function from multiple dimensions, expressing the current pluralistic values:
A historical retracement of Red China;
In-depth care for special groups;
A diverse display of ecological China.
The technological empowerment in 2021 has also strongly boosted the artistic expression wings of documentaries.
The deep integration of multimedia has increased the communication potential of documentaries.
The Chinese story is also undergoing better international expression...
Commentator He Suliu Dai Xiaoya