In this era when vision is king, 4K ultra-high-definition images are becoming more and more popular with audiences for their delicate pictures and shocking visual effects. Today, let's explore some of the best-made 4K UHD documentaries that will take you on a journey through humanity. If you are curious about human history, these documentaries will satisfy your visual and spiritual needs.
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Tea industry China
The 10-episode large-scale humanistic documentary "Tea China" tells the story of the ancient Chinese civilization contained in Chinese tea and the profound influence of Chinese tea on the world for more than 400 years. Looking east to Jiangsu and Zhejiang, west to Lhasa, south to Hainan, north to Shandong, Taiwan, Japan, United Kingdom, Kenya, Africa, joint BBC team, 11 film crews, 3 years, transnational shooting. For the first time, I visited every place of origin of Chinese tea. Purify the source, explore the most authentic taste of tea, strive to convey the most correct tea cognition for the audience, and advocate the healthiest way to drink tea. The film shoots nearly 100 tea people, tea farmers, tea makers, sellers, and tea culture researchers, interpreting tea from a new perspective and showing a cultural self-confidence that belongs to China at present. The whole film is divided into ten episodes, which show China's good tea from ten entry points.
Visitors from the sea
"Visitors from the Sea" consists of three episodes, each of which is 50 minutes, namely "Double Mission", "Exploration of the Business Capital" and "Changing Storm". The 4K documentary "Visitors from the Sea" tells the legendary story of the "Amphitlet", the first France merchant ship to trade in China three hundred years ago.
Four major department stores
At the beginning of the 20th century, four large department stores appeared in Nanjing Road, Shanghai, including Sincere Department, Yong'an, Xinxin and Daxin, which were called the "Four Department Stores". The four major department stores have left a colorful page in the history of China's commercial development, especially the business philosophy they founded such as "no two prices" and "customers are always right", which have a positive and far-reaching impact on the commercial development at that time and even now.
"The Four Department Stores" has a total of 4 episodes, which are divided into "Jinshan Dream", "Glowing Rixin", "Smooth Flow", and "Yongdian Tai'an". Through multiple perspectives such as history, culture, fashion, and business, we look for little-known historical details, excavate vivid and tortuous human feelings, refine history into stories according to the needs of the theme, and vividly express them based on emotions. It not only introduces the process of the establishment and development of the four major department stores, but also explores the core of their innovative ideas such as concepts and methods; It not only shows the status and influence of the four major department stores in the history of China's commercial development, but also reflects the risks and hardships experienced by entrepreneurs and the ideals they pursue, so as to build the depth of content and ideological height of this film.
Wedding flowers
In the land of Wuxi, there are two geographical lines, the back salt line and the Yangtze River water line, and now, they record the traces of history and time with the shadow of skills or relics, and at the same time converge into the unique geographical and cultural environment of Wuxi. The Wu culture line connects people's understanding and snooping into the future.
Time and life stories are intertwined, making the story of Wuxi wonderful and magical. We bring together 5 character stories representing different life processes, focusing on the five intangible cultural heritage symbols of marrying flowers, grilled fish, five-sentence mountain songs, witch dances, and salt making, connecting love, entrepreneurship, family, life and death, inheritance, and five topics about life, with the bridge of time as the intention, telling the cultural context and human power of Wuxi. The vastness of the waters of the Yangtze River, with its endless flowing water, symbolizes the passage of time. The Yangtze River rolls forward, taking away the past years, but it also gives birth to countless stories and emotions. In this river of time, the people of Wuxi weave a unique life trajectory with their lives and culture.
The torch is passed down from generation to generation
The film is based on Song Zhenqi, the first academician of China's coal industry, with the technique of primary school students visiting scientists, and through the visit of 18 scientists including three academicians from the perspective of children, it tells the moving story of the hard work and dedication of several generations of the mainland coal industry.
Our Tai Chi
"Our Tai Chi - Inheritance in Fashion" focuses on a group of "post-90s" with big brains, who integrate modern and fashionable dance and music into the ancient and mellow Tai Chi, looking for a new way out of Tai Chi in the collision of tradition and modernity. "Our Tai Chi - Inheritance in Fashion" won the Special Jury Award in the documentary category of the Shenzhen Youth Film Festival. Previously, the film also won the 11th "Light and Shadow Chronicle Academy Award".
Dunhuang School
The 6-episode high-definition documentary "Dunhuang Painting School" consists of 6 episodes, including "Daqian Wall", "Book of Art Poetry", "Dunhuang Smile", "Flowers Bloom Dunhuang", "Rock Color Road", and "Pilgrimage to Dunhuang". As the first large-scale TV documentary in China to deeply interpret the historical origin and inheritance and development of Dunhuang murals and painted sculptures from the perspective of fine arts, "Dunhuang School" starts from the profound art heritage and historical inheritance of Dunhuang, selects the classic murals and sculptures of Mogao Grottoes across 10 dynasties, and makes authoritative analysis by first-class Dunhuang scholars and artists at home and abroad, highly refines and summarizes the spirit of Dunhuang art, and also makes a statement for the Dunhuang School of painting, and explores a new path for the innovation and development of Chinese art in the 21st century. A large number of precious photographs are displayed in the film.
The Four Treasures of Chinese Study
The vicissitudes of 5,000 years have precipitated a broad and profound Chinese culture and achieved countless dazzling and astonishing inventions. Among them, the pen, ink, paper and inkstone, known as the "Four Treasures of the Study", carries the development and changes of Chinese culture, cultivates Chinese unique cultural feelings, and also creates unique conditions for Chinese calligraphy and painting art in the world. According to the four dimensions of history, emotion, culture and reality, it reflects the historical context of the evolution of the four treasures of the study, the rich emotions, the rich cultural traditions and the diverse realistic ecology.
Each of the 4K ultra-high-definition documentaries released by Jingshang Media recommended above is a treasure of image humanities and is worth savoring repeatedly. They not only show the skills of documentary filmmakers, but also give us a deeper understanding and appreciation of the world.
If you are also a lover of video art, you might as well take a break and enjoy the ultra-high-definition visual enjoyment brought by these documentaries. I believe that in the process of watching, you will be deeply attracted by the wonderful content and sigh the charm of Chinese humanities. Don't hesitate to start your 4K UHD documentary journey!
The above documentaries are distributed by Jingshang Media.