在这部潜龙之殇：一战中的华工军团纪录片片中,这是一段鲜为人知的历史：第一次世界大战期间，85,000名中国劳工被秘密地通过加拿大转运，输送到欧洲的前线战场；这也是一段被忽视的历史：第一次世界大战期间，中国派遣了140,000劳工远赴欧洲，为战争的进程和结果作出了决定性的贡献。中加合拍史实纪录片《潜龙之殇:一战中的华工军团》，不仅首次揭秘历史真相，更努力从当代视角对过去作出新的诠释。该片由中央电视台科教频道、稀土媒体、Omni Television、ECPAD France联合制作，历时四年。
In the years following the 1911 Xinhai revolution in China, the country was rapidly emerging into international affairs for the first time. The First World War erupted in 1914 and by 1916 British, French and Chinese states had signed agreements to send almost 140,000 indentured Chinese labourers to the battlefields of Europe. 85,000 of this newly formed 'Chinese Labour Corps' were secretly transported across Canada in locked CPR trains on the very railway built by their countrymen. They were then shipped to Europe where thousands died but until recently remained largely unacknowledged. So the question of this unusual journey still remains today: 'What were the Chinese doing in an imperialist war in Europe?' Zhang Yan, a young Chinese history student who is from the same Shandong villages as the Chinese labourers in 1916, sets out to answer this question and find out what really happened to the men of the Chinese Labour Corps. Discovering clues from the diary of Chinese interpreter Gu ...
重拾起的历史。
