Journalist Shi Wenjing
During the May Day holiday, many people choose to chase dramas and watch movies, in fact, watching documentaries is also a good choice. This documentary list is a collection of documentaries specially presented by CCTV-9 during the May Day period, as well as documentaries with high reputation in the past two years that are worth watching.
CCTV-9 premiered several new films
The reporter learned that during the May Day holiday, many new CCTV-9 films premiered.
"Endeavor China", broadcast at 12:50 noon every day from April 30 to May 4, "Endeavour China" was filmed by the Film and Television Documentary Center of the General Station and the local main stations of the General Station, the film adopts aerial photography, ground shooting, underwater photography and other methods, documentary shooting of major projects and node projects in the fields of energy, science and technology, transportation, and people's livelihood.
"Characters" from Meet You (the first season of the collection version) from April 29 to May 3 every night at 19:24, this film from the five perspectives of philosophy, life, culture, communication, animals, trying to restore some long-gone civilization picture, showing the unique characteristics of Chinese characters - the long-lost civilization clues, now quietly preserved in ancient texts.
"Chinese Imagination" will be broadcast every night from April 30 to May 7 at 19:55, from science fiction writer Liu Cixin to Beidou navigation system scientist Xu Ying; from traditional Peking Opera performance artist Wang Peiyu to architect Ma Yansong... Through the exploration of eight pioneers in their respective fields, the film inspires the national pride of contemporary youth, sets a good example for young people, and presents the imagination that belongs to China!
"See also Sanxingdui" from April 29 to May 4 every night at 20:00 broadcast, this film is based on the excavation of Sanxingdui New Sacrifice Pit (No. 3-8 pit), with archaeologists and important cultural relics as the story fulcrum during the excavation process, comprehensively recording the process of cultural relics excavation and cultural relics restoration, scientific research and judgment, objectively showing archaeologists' interpretation of archaeology in the new era, gradually solving the mystery of the Sanxingdui civilization that has been silent for thousands of years, and outlining the historical background of the ancient country more than 3,000 years ago.
"Liangzhu Civilization" was broadcast at 22:00 every night from May 2 to May 6, "Liangzhu Civilization" retraced history, observed ancient and modern times, showed the unique demonstration of Liangzhu civilization in urban construction, earth construction, rice cultivation, jade work and many aspects, presented the brilliance of this Jiangnan civilization ahead of time and with the times, explored the influence of Liangzhu cultural genes spanning 5,000 years on the Chinese nation, and composed a song of civilization praise of the Chinese land with deep feelings.
Broadcast at 19:02 every night from April 29 to May 10, "Fresh History" is based on historical materials and works, showing the wonderful interaction between characters and food. Interpreting the local food culture and the concept of ownership in reality, the traditional Chinese culture has shaped the gastronomic concept that raises delicious to the cultural level, and also shaped a "non-lonely gourmet" in the long river of history, which flows over time and is passed down from generation to generation.
Wild Horizon Africa aired daily at 21:00 from April 30 to May 5. African elephants, spotted wildebeests, lions, and copper butterflies living in Watberg; The Friedberg Crater in South Africa has a unique landscape and vegetation and is home to wildlife; the Okavango River flows for about 1,600 kilometers and flows into the Kalahari Desert Basin, creating the Okavango Delta...
Multi-genre documentaries are worth paying attention to
At a time when documentaries are becoming the new favorite of young people, documentary creation can more and more capture the diversified personality needs of the young generation, output high-quality, tasteful humanistic content, and show the power of images.
The documentary "China" is a large-scale documentary that wants to make a five-thousand-year civilization, and has the ambition to create an epic documentary. It recreates the vast picture of Chinese civilization by presenting the spiritual world of representative figures such as Lao Tzu, Confucius, and Mencius. What is most talked about by the audience is its ultimate "sensational aesthetic", the visual is a cinematic picture, and every frame is worth collecting.
Two other critically acclaimed documentaries on human history are "Tomb of the Tang Emperor" and "From Chang'an to Rome".
"Tombs of the Tang Emperors" systematically tells the tombs of the Tang Emperors and the historical stories behind them in the way of high-quality animation and dubbing, and "interprets" the different fates of the Tang Emperors one by one. The film also involves many aspects of society, economy, culture, art, architecture, life and many other aspects of the Tang Dynasty, but on the whole, the story of the Tang Emperor, especially tang Gaozu, Tang Gaozong, and Wu Zetian, is too much, and it is legendary and interesting, but the rigor is not enough.
"From Chang'an to Rome" is a Co-production documentary, each episode is only five minutes, fast-paced, with points, the thousand-year-old Chang'an and Rome "disassembled" into several parts such as civilization code, social life, millennium art garden, Silk Road trade, military exploration, etc., to explore the inextricable connection between the two cultures, and to tell the history of the dragonfly, easy to understand.
Documentaries on literature and traditional art are still wonderful, attracting attention from "If National Treasures Can Talk", "Chinese Beauty", "China in the Yanglian", "Friends with the Ancients", "Cultural Relics Online", "Looking for Craftsmanship" and so on.
In the traditional Yanglian, there are the great beauty of the motherland, the feelings of the celebrities and the country, and the vicissitudes of history, which are all captured and presented by "China in the Yanglian".
In the third season of "Looking for Craftsmanship", director Zhang Jing has sold his house, accepted donations, and is in debt, but this cannot stop him from continuing to look for pure folk traditional craftsmen, and traditional old craftsmen such as basket weavers, umbrella makers, and guqin makers have left precious images.
"Chinese Beauty" is filmed by Artists such as Xu Bing, Ye Jintian, bai Xianyong, etc., and tells the story of architecture, calligraphy and painting, opera, dance, music and other traditional Chinese aesthetics in the contemporary world.
"The Great Pet Doctor" presents the daily work of the pet doctor group, their love and patience for the pets who "will not express", the professionalism and concentration in the practice of medicine, all let the audience re-understand this group and the industry.
"Middle Life" is the first domestic real estate agent workplace documentary, after watching the film, an impression is "not bitter, look at the life of the agent".
"The First Time in Life" focuses on all aspects of people from birth to death, each episode focuses on a major life event, birth, school, work, buying a house, marriage until pension, death, etc., trying to pay attention to the survival situation of most people through the lives of different individuals.
"Love Letter to the Land" tells the customs and customs of ice picking and winter fishing in the black land of Northeast China through more than a dozen ordinary people, and the unique charm of folk duo to art, and the optimistic and strong spirit of the folk duo who is suffering from cancer in the film is very infectious.
Each of these documentaries opens a "question of life", focusing on the problems of ordinary ordinary people and depicting the lives of ordinary people.
Recent high-scoring natural and humanistic documentaries include "The Blue Realm", "Aerial Photography of China", "Secret Planet", "The Source of the Three Rivers", "The Most Beautiful China" and so on.
"Blue Land" shoots China's long and rich coastline, respectively from the seasons, trends, wetlands, islands, bays, survival challenges and other angles to tell the story of marine life, with an interesting perspective to present the marine animals "fighting", "love", "lost" and other daily life, the film is known as the "ceiling" of domestic nature documentaries, with a "BBC visual sense", the richness of the material, watchability are very strong.
"The Source of Three Rivers" is a folk custom on the plateau, telling the story of yaks, sheepdogs and wild animals, so that the audience can feel the simple and true feelings of people and animals.
Food documentaries are difficult to produce national hits at the moment, but every year there will be a large number of works, "Flavor of the World", "Breakfast China", "Towards the Direction of Supper", "Street Chef", "Jianghu Restaurant", "Boiling Bar Hot Pot", "Early Jianghu" and so on.
Recent music documentaries include "Treading Songs", "New Four Seasons Song", "Seven Thousand Miles and What"; literary documentaries include "The Daily Life of Literature", "The Hometown of Literature", "But There Are Books", "Water Moon in Hand" and so on. The audience follows musicians, writers, and literati on a journey, pondering one question after another about the mind. Literature and art illuminate life and soothe people's hearts.
"Under Zero" has a total of 15 episodes, focusing on popularizing the 15 competition sub-events of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, including ice hockey, figure skating, snowboarding, freestyle skiing, cross-country skiing, curling, ski jumping, etc., through the ultimate lens design, microscope-style details, aiming to show the unimaginable cool actions of ice and snow sports, and show the sports world beyond the limits.