1. "North American Land"
Discovery Channel's first independently produced series, which took three years to produce, spanned all over North America, from the Canadian tundra of minus zero to the tropical rainforest of Panama, showing that in the treacherous terrain and harsh climate, survival of the fittest is the unchanging law of nature.
2. National Geographic: Rivers and Life Series
The documentary, from the National Geographic Documentary Channel, introduces six of the world's most famous rivers: the Amazon, the Nile, the Mississippi, the Ganges, the Yangtze and the Rhine, looking for the source, history and changes of these great rivers.
3. "Beautiful China"
It was the first joint production by China Central Television (CCTV) and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). The film begins in the rice country south of the Yangtze River, to the sweltering Xishuangbanna rainforest, the extremely cold Mount Everest, the Great Wall, the symbol of China, the Yellow River Valley, the birthplace of Chinese culture, and the winding 18,000 kilometers of coastline.
4. "The Power of the Earth"
Also known as "Autobiography of the Earth", the documentary was filmed by a BBC team over a three-year period, traveling the world to explore the process and causes of the Earth's evolution over the past 4.5 billion years. The narrator of the documentary, Dr. Iain Steward, is a well-known British geographer who tells us the story of the earth in detail, explaining it in an easy-to-understand way, interspersed with live demonstrations.
5. Aerial Photography of China
Produced by CCTV, this documentary overlooks the land of China from an aerial perspective for the first time, using 16 helicopters and 57 drones, with a total range of about 150,000 kilometers, showing China's historical and cultural landscapes and natural geography in an all-round and three-dimensional way.