“Every skeleton we find, every skull with a bullet hole in it, adds a little more knowledge of how this system of repression and mass murder operated.”

Dr. Clyde Snow’s statement can be read as a guiding credo of the world-renowned Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF for its Spanish acronym), a pioneering scientific organization that has worked in the search, recovery, analysis, and restitution of human remains all over the world.

Snow, a top forensic anthropologist who helped identify the victims of the Argentine military dictatorship and was instrumental in the creation of EAAF, is now the main narrator of El Equipo, a thorough and moving documentary about the organization, now streaming for free on PBS until the end of October.

Relying on great original archive footage, sharp editing, and first hand testimonies, El Equipo, directed by Bernardo Ruiz, depicts the creation and evolution of the EAAF. Since its inception in 1984, they have conducted research on behalf of victims’ interests across the globe. From genocide victims in Darfur to the 43 missing students in Ayotzinapa, Mexico, as well as high-profile cases like the bodies of Chilean president Salvador Allende and guerrilla icon Ernesto Che Guevara.

Back in 1984, democracy had been reinstated in the country after the 1976–1983 military dictatorship. Snow came to the country together with a delegation of American........

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