Aftermath: The Remnants of War (2001)

Directed by

Daniel Sekulich

Genre

documentary film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 14m

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary visits the sites of past wars to show the lasting damage they leave behind. It follows people who clean up unexploded bombs, dig up skeletons, and help victims of chemical weapons in Russia, France, Bosnia, and Vietnam.

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What happens

Aftermath: The Remnants of War is a 2001 Canadian documentary film about the painful legacy of war directed by Daniel Sekulich. Based on the Lionel Gelber Prize winning book of the same name by Donovan Webster, it is co-written by Sekulich and Allen Abel, and co-produced by the National Film Board of Canada and Aftermath Pictures. Based on the award-winning book by Donovan Webster, this film exposes the human remains, environmental damage, and psychological trauma of military conflict which remain after the fighting stops and the troops go home. The program features interviews with individuals involved with the reparation of the residual devastation - people who destroy unexploded munitions at Verdun and in Sarajevo, recover and identify skeletons of battlefield casualties at Stalingrad, and help victims of Agent Orange in the A Luoi Valley, Vietnam. Archival footage sets each segment in its historical context. Filmed on location in Russia, France, Bosnia and Vietnam, the documentary features personal accounts of individuals involved in the cleanup of war: from de-miners, psychologists working with distraught soldiers, a treasure hunter turned archeologist in Stalingrad, and scientists and doctors struggling with the contamination of dioxin used in the Vietnam War. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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