AFTERMATH: THE REMNANTS OF WAR

The twentieth century was the most violent century in the history of mankind. In the countless wars waged, a total of one hundred million people were killed. What most people don’t know is that a war does not end with the signing of a peace treaty. Based on the book by Donovan Webster, Aftermath presents the individuals whose job it is to clean up after all these wars. In France, the demineurs continue to remove landmines and artillery shells from both World Wars; there are over 12 million pieces of unexploded ordinance left in the ground from World War I alone! Bosnia, too, is full of land mines; in Sarajevo alone, some 18,000 minefields have been mapped. In Russia, Valery Shtrykov is the lonely guardian of a vast field of human bones, belonging to both Russian and German soldiers who fell during the 1943 Battle of Stalingrad. In Vietnam today, the toxic remnants of war are written on the DNA of newborn babies deformed by Agent Orange. A shocking documentary, Aftermath is a reminder that we will continue to pay for the last century’s legacy of war for decades to come.