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Meet the team still cleaning up after World War I
Directed by Dominique van Olm, Darren Snowden · 2019
In France's Zone Rouge, a specialist team still works to clear lethal shells and debris left behind by the First World War.
A striking reminder that a war ended a century ago is still being cleaned up, shell by shell.
Meet the team working tirelessly to clear the Zone Rouge in northeastern France from the deadly debris of the First World War.
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