Death of Yugoslavia
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| Death of Yugoslavia | |
|---|---|
| Produced by | Norma Percy Executive producer Brian Lapping Nicholas Fraser Associate producer Tihomir Loza |
| Starring | Blagoje Adžić Jasushi Akashi |
| Music by | Debbie Wiseman |
| Cinematography | Robert Andrejas Ray Brislin François Paumard Markan Radeljic Alexandar Stipic |
| Editing by | Dawn Griffiths |
| Distributed by | BBC |
| Release date(s) | September 3 1995 |
| Running time | 50 min (6 parts) |
| Country |  |
| Language | English |
| IMDb profile | |
The Death of Yugoslavia (Serbian, Bosnian, Croatian and Slovenian: Smrt Jugoslavije) is a BBC documentary series first broadcast in 1995. It covers the collapse of the former Yugoslavia. It is notable in its combination of never-before-seen archive footage interspersed with interviews of most of the main players in the conflict, including Slobodan Milošević, then President of Serbia. This format, pioneered by the programme's production company, Brian Lapping Associates, was very influential and the company produced many others in similar style.
The six parts were entitled:
- Enter Nationalism
- The Road to War
- Wars of Independence
- The Gates of Hell
- A Safe Area
- Pax Americana
The programme has been re-edited in three parts:
And was later broadcast as a feature-length single documentary.
All the papers relating to the documentary series, including full transcripts of the many valuable interviews conducted with participants, are lodged at the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives at King's College, University of London. The catalogue can be examined here
During the trial of Milošević before the ICTY Judge Bonomy called the nature of the much of the commentary "tendentious".[1] This was because there were instances in which an interview in the Serbian language was subtitled incorrectly and often in a misleading manner.[2]
