FORBIDDEN CITY- The Great Within (Full Documentary)

In 1995 Francis Gerard produced FORBIDDEN CITY, The Great Within - a dramatised documentary. The hour long film was a behind the scenes history of the great Imperial Palace in Beijing from which the Ming and Qing dynasty ruled China for over 500 years. The film was produced by the Discovery Channel.

[@Bnio]

Rod Steiger's narration is sublime.

[@CARLOBOYS]

The background music is beautiful.

[@forlessthanthecost]

im sorry but for the love of god PLEASE turn captions on from 11:30 to 11:58, i haven't laughed this hard in a while

[@ahmadnazri4673]

"holla, 20 dollar. warranty parma"

[@jonaha502]

it literally said "ching chong" lmao

[@shadowwarrior2030]

Can't believe Twitter already exists even back in those days.

[@AmericanFUBAR33]

This man's voice put to asleep and so soothing.

[@Tom-xl6wq]

Great documentary!

[@dmimz8593]

I like The architecture , would love to see it with my own eyes . Maybe someday

[@monarsinghhijam5685]

Same

[@leldevaza]

Thank you

[@AnastasiaRomanov-w9x]

This documentary fails to say that Verbiest was an RCC Jesuit priest. There were actually several priests who came to Beijing during the Ming and early Qing dynasty. among the more notable was Fr. Matteo ricci who came to china during the Ming dynasty.

[@everythingaffectseverythin3281]

Our history teacher said that we'll have an exam about this on friday. But I am still confused about the whole situations. Damn

[@imyourworstnightmare4740]

Nice one 41

[@everythingaffectseverythin3281]

K

[@kozokreds]

happie gummie Hope both of you enjoyed the below 15 scores. Must be really "fun" -31 2.0 ;)

[@imyourworstnightmare4740]

AyyItsOmega how do you know we got that score

[@islandgirl9833]

pila diay inyong score??😝😝😝

[@randylachance]

eunuchs 6:43Kangxi & mandate of heaven 7:45imperial concubines 20:37Qianlong 31:27

[@PrettyFourU1]

I adore traditional values beliefs as long your not hurting innocent people children or over stepping boundaries between theirs and yours.

[@SuperGreatSphinx]

God Save The Emperor!

[@Julusyehenara]

The Emperor of Qing dynasty is not chinese, they are manchurian.

[@qiuchong5435]

So what you are saying is manchurian are not Chinese ?

[@Julusyehenara]

Qiu Chong yes they are not Han Chinese.

[@jiraiyasannin2643]

still its chinese. manchurian is a chinese tribe

[@Pyotr_Wrangel_1920_Crimea]

Чудесная документальная передача о Запрещенном городе и маньчжурских правителях Китая (династия Цин, 1611-1913).

[@davidmichael937]

Great Documentary- I don't suppose you know what the name of the music at the beginning is called, I hear it a lot in documentaries but can never find the name.

[@sacredphalaenopsis8071]

And it's meaningless if you find it,cause it's nonsense in any kinds of Chinese classical music type,not famouse and not authentic but useless.

[@childoftheking74]

I found the soundtrack on Spotify. Search for "The Great Within". There are 17 tracks. The first is entitled Sons of Heaven. Or search KZbin with The Great Within Pingxin Xu, Harry Gregson Williams. Hope this helps.

[@SciFi2285]

The whole prison aspect is somewhat overstated. Seasoned rulers like Kangxi and Qianlong went wherever they pleased. These emperors would leave the Forbidden City for months at a time. Decamping to the less formal Summer Palace or Mountain Resort (hunting lodge) in Chengde. They also went on pilgrimages and inspection tours to other parts of the empire.

[@sacredphalaenopsis8071]

The characters mess up the entire documentary.

[@TylerDurden404]

quality of the video is so bad, can you upload a better one?

[@CARLOBOYS]

Emperor Chien Lung was the emperor in the old Manchu Tradition

[@andrewcolinwilson1]

34:06, Dashed to pieces on the shore? That's awful!

[@Brad-rk1jz]

come here bc of hw

[@dekubaner]

is castrated eunuch redundancy? if the person is an eunuch, he has to be castrated...

[@eave01]

Maybe. A eunuch may have either the testes only removed or the testes and penis. These may have been removed in childhood, in which many physiological changes would be affected. Or they may have been castrated as a punishment.

[@locdinh5819]

Can you handle the truth?? .....Read!!! “The Cambridge History of China Volume 7: The Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644, Part 1,” (p. 240-241): "The chief architect was an Annamese eunuch named An Nguyen, Juan An (d. 1453), who also played a major role in the rebuilding of Peking during the Cheng-t’ung reign.” Annamese was what the Chinese used to call Vietnamese.

[@robotpanda77]

It must have been great being emperor of china. All the rice you can eat and supreme ruler of all the rice patties and gay dudes in dresses. Plus you get to wear a cool hat and yellow dress!