La Zone Rouge

The Zone Rouge is a 42,000-acre area of France that was No Man’s Land in World War I. A century after that global conflict it remains littered with unexploded ordnance and too hazardous for human habitation. A short video by Dominique van Olm.

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“A century on from WW1, 100 years of work remains to clear munitions,” Claudia Wyatt, Reuters

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Tags: battlefields, documentaries, France, undetonated explosives, unexploded munitions, videos, World War I, WWI, Zone Rouge