A classic documentary can expand horizons, increase knowledge, and purify the soul. A good documentary can open a door for children and enter a broader landscape of life.
Today, Xiaobian has carefully sorted out 40 high-quality cultural documentaries for everyone, leading children to approach history and understand the profound Chinese culture.
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museum
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Forbidden City 100
Douban score: 9.3 points
Release date: 2012
Collection of documentary "Forbidden City 100" (100 episodes in total)
Recommendation: This film tells the story of the 100 spaces of the Forbidden City in 6 minutes of each episode, creating a video museum for the Forbidden City that transcends time and space.
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The Forbidden City
Douban score: 9.1 points
Release date: 2005
Collection of documentary "Forbidden City" (12 episodes in total)
Recommendation: This film comprehensively shows the civilization of the Forbidden City from the aspects of the architectural art of the Forbidden City, its use functions, the cultural relics in its collection and the historical evolution of the process from the Imperial Palace to the Museum.
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Taipei National Palace
Douban score: 8.5 points
Release date: 2020
Documentary "Taipei National Palace" Collection (12 episodes)
Recommendation: The film traces the history of cultural relics relocation and the current situation of the National Palace museum in Taipei, and introduces the national treasures collected by the National Palace Museum in Taipei, such as calligraphy, paintings, bronze, porcelain, and treasures
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When the Louvre Meets the Forbidden City
Douban score: 8.5 points
Release date: 2010
Documentary "When the Louvre Meets the Forbidden City" Collection (12 episodes)
Recommendation: This film interprets the history of the evolution of eastern and western art in different time and space backgrounds, interspersed with the latest comments of experts and scholars in various fields, and presents the exquisite ideas and creativity of the Louvre And the Forbidden City to set up a museum based on the palace building.
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《Qing Palace Secret File》
Douban score: 8.1 points
Release date: 2004
Documentary "Qing Palace Secret Files" Collection (28 episodes in total)
Recommendation: For the first time, the documentary published more than 10 million pieces of the Great Inner Secret File in the Forbidden City, exposing these extremely precious original records and related historical figures and historical events, solving various fogs and mysteries, and returning the true face of history.
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The Forbidden City
Douban score: 7.7 points
Release date: 2015
Documentary "The Forbidden City" Collection (13 episodes)
Recommended: "The Past of the Forbidden City" is the first record of the life of the Imperial Palace, and it is also the first long volume of modern Chinese history with the Forbidden City as the historical stage.
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"New Things in the Forbidden City"
Douban score: 8.8 points
Release date: 2017
Documentary "New Events in the Forbidden City" Collection (5 episodes)
Recommendation: This film focuses on the 2016 "YangxinDian Research Conservation Project", 18 ancient buildings, more than 2,000 rare cultural relics, such a complicated palace, how will it be restored to the hands of the craftsmen of the Forbidden City.
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"I have been in the Forbidden City for 600 years"
Douban score: 8.0 points
Release date: 2010
Documentary "600 Years of My Life in the Forbidden City" Collection (3 episodes)
Recommendation: The documentary has a total of three episodes, and the main clues of each episode are the "Danchen Yonggu" exhibition, the yangxin hall overhaul, the maintenance of the year repair, etc., mainly telling the audience about the things that the ancient building repaired.
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"Eight Masterpieces"
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"National Pulse - 100 Years of the National Museum of China"
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cultural relic
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"If National Treasures Could Talk"
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"Treasures of China"
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"I repair cultural relics in the Forbidden City"
Douban score: 8.9 points
Release date: 2016
Documentary "I Repair Cultural Relics in the Forbidden City" Collection (3 episodes in total)
Recommendation: This film enters the ancient Forbidden City from a young perspective, systematically sorts out the historical origin of China's cultural relics restoration for the first time, and reveals the "resurrection" technology of the world's top cultural relics.
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"I Came from the Han Dynasty"
Douban score: 6.7 points
Release date: 2015
Documentary "I Came from the Han Dynasty" Collection (6 episodes)
Recommendation: The documentary takes the important pictorial historical materials and cultural heritage of the Han Dynasty "Han Portrait Stone" as the core clue, and restores the historical events recorded by the portrait stone with images.
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Ancient Chinese Jade Culture
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Porcelain Road
Douban score: 8.3 points
Release date: 2014
Documentary "Porcelain Road" Collection (6 episodes in total)
Recommendation: The film focuses on the profound impact of Chinese ceramic culture on the world, from the Tang Empire to the Opium War, from Central Asia to Rome, important landmarks and time points in history have been marked by the story of Chinese ceramics.
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《China Porcelain》
Douban score: 7.8 points
Release date: 2012
Documentary "China Porcelain" Collection (2 episodes)
Recommended: "China Porcelain" tells the story of the contact and mutual influence between Chinese export porcelain and the whole world hundreds of years ago, especially during the Ming and Qing dynasties.
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Regional civilization
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The Maritime Silk Road
Douban score: 7.6 points
Release date: 2016
Documentary "Maritime Silk Road" Collection (7 episodes)
Recommendation: This film traces back the glory and civilization of the Maritime Silk Road, and highlights the style and achievements of the construction of the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road today.
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The New Silk Road
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《Dunhuang》
Douban score: 8.9 points
Release date: 2010
Documentary "Dunhuang" Collection (10 episodes in total)
Recommendation: The film focuses the camera on Dunhuang and the people who once lived in this land, breaks through the layers of history, and re-presents the forgotten civilizations in the audience's vision.
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Dunhuang School of Painting
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The Mysterious Western Xia
Douban score: 8.8 points
Release date: 2015
Documentary "The Mysterious Western Xia" Collection (10 episodes)
Recommendation: Based on historical records and archaeological evidence, this film reproduces the origin, glory, demise of the regime and cultural regeneration of the Dangxiang clan, and shows the brilliant achievements of the Western Xia Dynasty in politics and economy.
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Hexi Corridor
Douban score: 9.7 points
Release date: 2015
Documentary "Hexi Corridor" Collection (10 episodes)
Recommendation: This film presents the history of the Hexi Corridor and its connected western China from the Han Dynasty to the present day from many angles, and its unique role in the process of Chinese history and civilization.
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《Jincheng Lanzhou》
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The Historical Imprint of Xinjiang, China
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China Grotto Corridor
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"Imperial Capital Xianyang"
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Ancient tombs
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Valley of the Kings of the East
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Excavations
Douban score: 8.4 points
Release date: 2021
Documentary "Excavations" Collection (5 episodes)
Recommendation: The documentary "Excavations" starts from the perspective of "people", and each episode revolves around an archaeological team and a group of archaeologists, deeply presenting the living group behind each site and each cultural relic that really makes history and culture come alive
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"Crane Dance Mountain"
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"The Marquis of the Sea"
Douban score: 8.7 points
Release date: 2019
Collection of documentary "The Marquis of the Sea" (3 episodes in total)
Recommendation: This film records the whole process of archaeological excavations in the tomb of Marquis Haixia for more than three years, taking the dramatic life of Marquis Haixia as a clue, telling the rich content of political and social life in the Western Han Dynasty.
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Archaeology in China
Douban score: 9.1 points
Release date: 2004
Documentary "Archaeology of China" Collection (42 episodes in total)
Recommendation: The camera will be buried in the ground, with thousands of years of cultural relics treasures, through a surprising cultural relics, unveiled a mysterious puzzle that has been lost in the dust of history for thousands of years.
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world heritage
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《Daming Palace》
Douban score: 9.1 points
Release date: 2009
Documentary "Daming Palace" Collection (6 episodes in total)
Recommendation: This film takes the Daming Palace, the power center of the Tang Empire, as the main line, and tells the historical situation of the early Tang Dynasty' majestic health, the grandeur of the Tang Dynasty, and the decline of the Late Tang Dynasty through the whole process of self-construction, glory and destruction of this unprecedented huge palace group.
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《Old Summer Palace》
Douban score: 8.6 points
Release date: 2006
Collection of documentary "Yuanmingyuan" (5 episodes in total)
Recommendation: This film adopts a linear narrative, telling the architectural history and fate of the Yuanmingyuan in the way of "his words", and truly reproducing the Yuanmingyuan and the characters and historical vicissitudes hidden behind it.
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Grand Canal of China
Douban score: 7.8 points
Release date: 2014
Documentary "China's Grand Canal" Collection (8 episodes)
Recommendation: The documentary comprehensively and meticulously sorts out the history of the Grand Canal, tells the story of the life of the Grand Canal and the people along the route, and reveals the unique special status of the Grand Canal in thousands of years of Chinese history.
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《Chinese Handmade Woodwork》
Douban score: 8.9 points
Release date: 2018
Documentary Collection of Chinese Handmade WoodWorks (5 episodes in total)
Recommendation: This film is a documentary that excavates from an innovative perspective how intangible cultural heritage enters the current life, as well as the cultural self-confidence of craftsmen in the inheritance and innovation of intangible cultural heritage, and is a product of the collision between traditional handicrafts and modern life.
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Handmade China
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"Maijishan Grottoes"
Douban score: 7.4 points
Release date: 2015
Documentary "Maijishan Grottoes" Collection (5 episodes)
Recommendation: This film interprets the Maijishan Grottoes from archaeology, Buddhism, aesthetics, literature and other angles, fields and in all directions not only as a large grotto on the Silk Road, but also as a microcosm of history and a witness of oriental civilization.
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World Heritage in China
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Human Memory : A World Heritage Site in China
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I hope that after enjoying these 40 high-quality documentaries, more parents can take their children into the museum, while appreciating the beauty of cultural relics, understand the splendid civilization carried by cultural relics, and feel the spiritual core of the continuation of Chinese culture.
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