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Unearthing evil : archaeology in the cause of justice / produced by Paul Schneller ; directed by Karren Ruff.
Penn Museum Library - Desk DVD GN69.8 .U54 2005
Available
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Quantum.
- Quantum
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Forensic anthropology.
- Forensic osteology.
- Human remains (Archaeology).
- War crimes--Ukraine--Sernyki.
- War crimes.
- War crimes--Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- Wright, Richard.
- Ukraine.
- Genre:
- Educational films.
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (28 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Archaeology in the cause of justice
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences [distributor], [2005]
- System Details:
- DVD.
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- By grim coincidence, archaeologists are ideally suited by their conventional techniques to determine whether or not war crimes have been committed. This program looks at forensic archaeologist Richard Wright, whose work has greatly helped the international community in the pursuit of justice. The program shows details of his team's findings at the Ukrainian village of Serniki, proving with such evidence as bullet manufacture and carbon dating that the SS had carried out the executions, not Stalin's soldiers. Based on this work, Wright was asked by the UN to investigate 29 mass graves in Bosnia. The excavations helped convict the perpetrators of some of the most heinous ethnic cleansing in the Balkans.
- Participant:
- Presenter: Adam Spencer; Reporter: Leigh Dayton.
- Credits:
- Editor, Christopher Spurr.
- Notes:
- Originally produced by ABC-TV Science, Sydney, N.S.W. Australia as an episode of the television program Quantum. Broadcast date: 1.6.00.
- On disc: Films Media Group.
- Includes public performance rights for University of Pennsylvania only. Streaming not allowed without a separate license.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1421303094
- 9781421303093
- OCLC:
- 62928319
- Publisher Number:
- ffh 29952 Films for the Humanities & Sciences
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