WWI's Tunnels of Death: The Big Dig

• Documentary
• War & Politics

Two-part documentary following World War I's biggest archaeological dig, taking place at Messines in Belgium, uncovering some of the best-preserved trenches, bunkers and tunnels ever discovered on the Western Front and revealing the realities of trench warfare, a Christmas football match and poison gas.

First aired

8 November 2012

Network

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