Uploaded December 2023 | Updated September 2026, 21 minutes ago

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David Adams, the photo-journalist at the center of the film, has to travel through what was a dangerous and pretty unyielding country, starting from Kabul and making a detour round the country to eventually end up just a couple of hundred kilometres north of Kabul. We therefore get to see some of the last footage of the Bamiyan Buddha statues, and their environment in the Bamiyan Valley, before they were blown up by the Taliban.

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