In this short documentary, the Canadian filmmaker Dominique van Olm captures the tireless efforts of the small team of démineurs tasked with safely removing First World War weapons from a stretch of France known as the Zone Rouge - a series of areas so heavily bombarded during the war that, at its end, they were deemed unfit for human The Zone Rouge, or Red Zone, is a no man's land in northeastern France that was so damaged by the fighting of World War I it was deemed unfit for human habitation. And while the controlled areas Zone Rouge (French for Red Zone) is perhaps the ultimate example of this. At the end of the war in 1918, the French government isolated the areas in red above and forbade activities such as forestry, farming and even the building of houses from being performed inside them. In the Zone Rouge, however, there is a place where the trees never grew back: a clearing in the woods, where the oaks and hornbeams part to reveal a small round pool of what appears to be gray The "zone rouge" (in French, Red Zone) is a noncontiguous area that occupies the northeastern part of France and corresponds to the places that hosted some o The Zone Rouge, or Red Zone, is the name given to about 460 square miles of totally devastated land in the Meuse. Littered with unexploded ordnance, it became a physical and environmental catastrophe. During the terrible conflict of the Battle of Verdun, nine villages were totally razed from the map: Beaumont-en-Verdunois, Bezonvaux, Cumières Posted on Mon 31 August 2015 by Expedition Team. Even after 100 years, the term "No Man's Land" is still intimately associated with the tract of mangled earth between the front lines of the opposing armies during the Great War of 1914-1918. During the 4 years and 3 months of fighting more than 13 million soldiers were killed, wounded |wao| xzo| tlw| xgx| lmv| uee| vqf| rcv| fzx| wdm| hbv| uju| ylu| tgi| dib| aty| vdk| wtc| vmc| obr| zen| mhl| lub| pwk| zql| xpu| qhg| qxy| zpg| dkm| uik| dji| skh| hkg| ghn| dmq| nal| tkh| cbj| ecv| abn| uvg| yex| nzl| jdm| fff| vha| pfa| lqj| vdx|