The voice-over ends with a warning: ‘These are dangerous times, for we have created wars that never end. In Tu Du hospital, researchers are examining the long-term effects of dioxin. The documentary makers also traveled to Vietnam, where mutilated and blind children are still being born as a result of the use of Agent Orange, a herbicide that causes defoliation, by the Americans. Three million men fought there, two million of them were killed. In Russia, an elderly man called ‘the guardian of ghosts’ is searching the invisible graves of the soldiers who perished in masses during the battle of Stalingrad. If you have access to a journal via a society or association membership, please browse to your society journal, select an article to view, and follow the instructions in this box. A Muslim refugee is clearing them against his will he calls it ‘the lousiest job imaginable’. Access to society journal content varies across our titles. In Sarajevo alone, some 1,800 minefields have been mapped. Estimates claim that ten million of them are still underground. In the woods northeast of Verdun, workers of the explosives unit are still locating mines from World War I. Based on Donovan Webster’s book of the same name, this documentary follows a number of people who are involved daily in past wars. And in many cases, war does not end by signing a peace treaty.
In the countless wars waged, a total of one hundred million people were killed.
The twentieth century was the most violent century in the history of mankind. The Viet Nam section focuses on Agent Orange with highlights of Hatfield Consultants’ work in central Viet Nam. A 75 minute documentary by the National Film Board of Canada (2001) examining the “aftermath” of war in France, Russia, Viet Nam, and Bosnia.
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