Best Chinese documentary series

Delve into the delectable world of Chaoshan cuisine, explore its unique ingredients and hear the stories of the people behind its creation. In the second series of "Flavorful Origins", we discover the cuisine of Yunnan . The third series of Flavorful Origins takes us around the cuisine of Gansu.

This series explores the history, traditions and culture of Chinese food. Filmed at over 160 locations across China, this series truly is a feast for the senses. The seven-episode documentary series introduces the history and story behind foods of various kinds in more than 160 locations in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. The documentary has also been actively encouraged as a means of introducing Chinese food culture to those unfamiliar with local cuisine.

"The Story of Chuaner" is the first special program in China that presents the Chinese people's barbecue culture. It focuses on showcasing the unique barbecue culture from various regions across the country and covers over 500 legendary barbecue stalls in nearly 30 cities. Unlike previous barbecue programs, "Life on a Skewer" has a strong sense of grassroots and shifts its focus from the grand halls to the ordinary stalls, truly showcasing the carefree spirit and distinctive flavor of barbecue.

Filmed over a period of four years, this food documentary journeys to 22 countries across six continents, focusing on areas where “East meets West” in the dining scene and delves into the rise and changes in Chinese cuisines worldwide.

China Before China, an eight-episode documentary that tells stories of the origins and early development of Chinese civilization based on key archaeological findings.

Shot over 2 years and edited from 500 hours of footage. This is a 13 episode series expanded from the documentary film of the same name. The series follow the ins and outs of the Maternity Ward at Zhongnan Hospital in Wuhan, following the doctors, nurses, and patients.

A nature documentary produced by the China National Geographic Integrated Media Center. Approaching the Medog Forest, a rare primeval forest in China, generations of biologists risked death to sneak into this secret land. Here, you will feel the huge altitude difference. In half a day, you can travel from the alpine ice and snow belt to the tropical seasonal rainforest. In subsequent films, we will continue to go into unknown corners and explore the mysteries of nature.

Chai Jing returns with her six-episode documentary series on European Terrorism

Embark on a journey across China to explore the country's regional specialty hot pot and how this heartwarming dish brings people together.

At the beginning of the reform and opening up, the special geographical environment of the mountain city of Chongqing gave birth to a special industry - the mountain city great army. Climbing up the ridge, carrying more than 30 years of weight-bearing, hundreds of thousands of great army not only picked up the sweat-soaked years, but also took away their own age. At the end of the year, a few backs will soon say goodbye to the industry that is dying. A retired lieutenant colonel has set off a stick and started his own pursuit - brilliant and embarrassing, tough and helpless, their lives need not be commented, their The story is worth remembering.

Human beings have been exploring the profound meaning of nature. We explore the way of harmonious coexistence between people, animals and nature by exploring various extreme natural landforms and the life on this land. This time, we crossed the different ecology in the four corners of China, and tried to communicate with heaven and earth by exploring four awesome animals, by trying to feel them. They used to be totems in ancient times, and they were the animals at the top of the food chain - the Siberian tiger, the king of the forest, the white dolphin, the sea elf, the giant Asian elephant in the rainforest, and the wild yak, the messenger of the snow mountain. These four animals, known as flagship species, coexist with heaven and earth, coexist with human beings, and help human beings to dialogue with nature in a special way. The Land of the Gods is where those magical communications take place.

The large-scale aerial documentary "Aerial China", produced by CCTV and contracted by CCTV Records International Media Co., Ltd., is a documentary film that overlooks China from an aerial perspective and comprehensively and stereoscopically displays History of China's historical and cultural landscape, natural and geographical features, and economic and social development and changes. The series consists of 34 episodes, each lasting 50 minutes, covering 23 provinces, 5 autonomous regions, 4 municipalities, and 2 special administrative regions across the country. This film will be entirely completed through aerial photography, with each episode selecting the most representative and ornamental historical, cultural, natural, and modern landscapes from various provinces and cities. Using aerial flight routes as clues, it will showcase a beautiful China, ecological China, and civilized China that the audience is familiar with and full of freshness through storytelling.

"And Yet the Books" takes books as its subject matter, and strives to record the various book lovers in this era and capture the wonderful stories related to books in the current era of diversified and fragmented reading.

It's the start of another year at the elite public college Harrow School. We follow West Acre boarding house and its arrival of 66 new inhabitants. See how the boys get on througout the school year as House Master Martin Smith helps the freshman "shells" adapt to the demands of a busy new regime.

Going back five thousand years, the "China" is a tragic China? The first season of the large-scale humanistic history documentary "China" will explore Chinese historical stories from the Spring and Autumn to the Tang Dynasty, digging out people and events that have a profound impact on China today, telling Chinese stories, spreading the voice of China, and showing the great evolution of Chinese civilization.

Imperial Mausoleums is China's first epic documentary in large-scale chronological format, jointly produced by Shaanxi Publishing Group's digital publishing base with an investment of 10.6 million yuan. The film combines the cultural characteristics of emperors and their tombs in Shaanxi Province, using a combination of micro landscapes, maps, murals, three-dimensional architecture, and live shooting forms to complete the perfect interpretation of the film.

A behind-the-scenes documentary of the movie YOLO, which truthfully chronicles director Jia Ling's unknown behind-the-scenes stories while filming. Divided into 4 episodes, it serves not only as a documentary of the behind-the-scenes work of the movie but also as a full account of Jia Ling's adventurous and tumultuous journey to shape her character.

A documentary on the history of surgery.

After a plane crash, a devoted wife learns that her life and marriage is all a lie.

Set in the Palace Museum of the Forbidden City, this series follows generations of skilled conservators who restore China’s cultural treasures, from paintings and bronzes to textiles and ceramics. Across centuries of history and hardship, these artisans revive the soul of each artifact, transforming decay into beauty and revealing the quiet dedication behind the preservation of humanity’s shared heritage.

The in-depth stories of some of the most notorious murderers in recent history. Using dramatic reconstruction and expert testimony, this is a forensic account of the perpetrators and the detectives in the crimes that shook the world.

Ray Mears is on a journey of discovery among the landscapes and wildlife of China.Starting in the capital Beijing, and taking in wonders of the world like the Great Wall of China, Ray walks with elephants in the country's tropical rainforest, joins rangers rewilding the nation's giant pandas, searches for the elusive snow leopard, explores one of its most famous landscapes in Karst country, comes face to face with a brown bear, and treks in the foothills of the Himalayas alongside herbal medicine experts, uncovering secrets of its plants.

In this five-part documentary series, take a deep dive into an unassuming but profoundly impactful food in Chinese cuisine: rice noodles.

From its highest mountains and plateaus, to its thickest jungles and bamboo forests, CHINAS HIDDEN KINGDOMS will reveal the wild side to China that few knew existed.

"Every Treasure Tells a Story" has a total of 100 episodes, divided into four seasons. To shoot this documentary, the film crew traveled all over the country, filming nearly a hundred museums and archaeological institutes and more than 50 archaeological sites.

Paul Salopek, a National Geographic explorer and Pulitzer Prize winner, treks through the mountains of Yunnan in southwest China, to the neighbouring province of Sichuan with his Chinese partners.

Popular Youtube vloggers, SerpentZA & Laowhy86, head to the northernmost point of China on their most grueling and punishing adventure to date.

The documentary by gourmet Shen Hongfei, Chen Xiaoqing as the general counsel; Visit the streets, smell and taste, with simple images and family taste, looking for authentic Chinese breakfast. Each episode features a traditional breakfast, an interesting shop, a group of self-indulgent diners, and the owner's "breakfast philosophy."

This program is directed by Chen Xiaoqing for the first time, stepping from behind the camera to in front of it, presenting his own perspective to explore food and delve into the stories behind it. In this show, Chen Xiaoqing travels to eight different regions in China, embarking on a flavorful exploration journey accompanied by various guides. Among these guides are both Chen Xiaoqing's old friends and new acquaintances. They come from diverse backgrounds and identities, including philosophers, archaeologists, anthropologists, musicians, professional chefs, economists, writers, and more. Chen Xiaoqing uses food as a means to bring more people together, believing that "food is not only delicious but also a kind of adhesive that enables people to have greater understanding and communication."

Documentary series exploring the science behind the science fiction of the award-winning writer Liu Cixin, author of "The Three-Body Problem".

Life originated from water, and civilization was born from rivers. As the birthplace of the Yangtze River and the Yellow River, the source of the Three Rivers, located in the hinterland of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, has the dual significance of ecology and civilization for China. This is the region with the largest and most active large animals in China, and one of the regions with the highest concentration of biodiversity in the plateau. But it is also a sensitive area and an important starting area for global climate change. Here, people, animals and plants coexist and coexist, taking care of this sacred place that affects the fate of the whole world.