Throughout the internationalization process of Chinese documentary, international cooperative shooting was prevailing in the 1980s,then China winning photography awards in international society swept the 1990s,and since 2000 we gradually realized the importance of international trades of documentary in the wave of globalization. In a sense, international marketization is the inevitable trend of marketization and industrialization.To Chinese documentary, this is not only the promotion of history but also the choice of reality. This paper discusses the historical changes and the realistic situation of Chinese documentary internationalization under the big background of culture innovation industry globalization and the comparative context between China and the Western countries, and regards the discussion as the foundation and soil for exploring intercultural communication of Chinese documentary. <<