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The large-scale series documentary on World Heritage produced by Japan's TBS Television has been broadcasting one episode per week since 1996, and to date, it has continuously aired 465 episodes. World Heritage belongs to the Earth and humanity, and protecting it has become the largest international cooperation in the 21st century. Due to erosion or human destruction, heritage sites may not last forever, but with the help of digital technology, once captured in images, they can be reproduced in high definition and preserved permanently. Almost every crew member has had brushes with death, and sometimes we marvel at the fact that we survived, which seems almost miraculous. The hardships of the past are now considered amusing anecdotes by Hiroshi Murakuni (a senior producer at Japan's TBS Television), but in reality, behind each breathtaking photograph lies a great deal of unknown hardship and even danger. When people think of World Heritage, they often think of China's Forbidden City and Great Wall, Egypt's pyramids, but in fact, there are many places that are not well known, such as a communication broadcasting station established in 1930 that spans the Atlantic and Sweden, the site of the Japanese atomic bombing, vineyards in France, Hungary, and Poland, and some places that are almost uninhabited and difficult to reach. Hiroshi Murakuni recalls that a photography team went to a certain place in Cambodia, only to later discover that the place where they got off the car was actually a minefield, and if it had exploded, the consequences would have been unimaginable; in the African forest, a director was bitten by a venomous insect and almost lost his life; a staff member almost fell out of the plane during aerial photography, not to mention that each team needs to carry over 500 kilograms of photographic equipment, and the filming itself is full of difficulties, such as some mountain peaks being very high and difficult to climb; for World Heritage sites like the Great Wall, not only do you need to film the site itself, but you also need to showcase its cultural and traditional background; for a small wooden church in Norway, how to produce a 30-minute documentary on such a simple subject is also quite challenging.