Sentences with phrase «land mines buried»

Powell has a 20 - year history of training dogs to detect land mines buried throughout war - ravaged countries.

Land of Mine (R for violence, profanity and grisly images) Fact - based World War II drama, nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, recounting how Denmark forced thousands of German POWs to defuse millions of land mines buried on its beaches during Nazi occupation.

Because so many mines in recent years are made from plastics to avoid location by metal detectors, based on United Nations research it will take 1,100 years to clear the world's existing inventory of 110 million land mines buried in 70 countries.

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Danish director Martin Zandvliet brilliantly explores a little - known episode in 1945 when more than 2,000 German POWs were forced to clear almost two million land mines that had been buried on the beaches of the west coast of Denmark in anticipation...

The slate of 12 international titles vying for a $ 25,000 prize include «High - Rise,» a British adaptation of J.G. Ballard's dystopian novel, and «Land of Mine,» a Danish - German post-World War II thriller about a team of schoolboy POWs who are tasked with the removal of still - active buried land miLand of Mine,» a Danish - German post-World War II thriller about a team of schoolboy POWs who are tasked with the removal of still - active buried land miland mines.

There are few beats that you won't see coming from a mile away in this Danish movie about a sergeant assigned a squad of teenage German POWs to dismantle the land mines that the Nazis buried on a beach.

Apparently, the Germans — wrongly thinking that the Allied invasion might come through Denmark — buried some 2 million land mines along the beaches of Denmark's west coast.

These fast - learning rodents, dubbed HeroRATs (which incidentally are too light to set off land mines), are being trained at the humanitarian organization APOPO to sniff out buried explosives.

It just shows where some of the land mines are buried, and gives direct and unapologetic advice on how to avoid stepping on them.