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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 World Heritage has become the greatest international cooperation in the 21st century. Due to weathering or human destruction, heritage may not last forever, but with the help of digital technology, once captured in images, it can be reproduced in high definition and preserved permanently. Almost every crew member has had close encounters with death, and sometimes we marvel at the fact that we are still alive, which seems almost miraculous. The hardships of the past now seem like amusing stories to Hiroshi Murakuni (senior producer at Japan's TBS Television), but in reality, behind each of theseWonderful. photos lies a great deal of unknown hardships and even dangers. When people think of World Heritage, they often think of China's Forbidden City, the 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, some of which are even remote and difficult to access. Hiroshi Murakuni recalls that a filming crew went to a certain place in Cambodia, only to later learn that the area where they got off the car was mined with landmines, and if they 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 off the plane during aerial photography. Not to mention that each group needs to carry over 500 kilograms of filming equipment, just the filming itself is full of difficulties, such as some mountains being very high and difficult to climb; for World Heritage sites like the Great Wall, not only do you need to film it itself, but you also need to show the culture and traditions behind it; it was quite a challenge to produce a 30-minute documentary on a small wooden church in Norway with just one simple subject.