The Death of Yugoslavia

The Death of Yugoslavia
Produced by Norma Percy
Executive producer
Brian Lapping
Nicholas Fraser
Associate producer
Tihomir Loza
Music by Debbie Wiseman
Cinematography Robert Andrejas
Ray Brislin
François Paumard
Markan Radeljic
Alexandar Stipic
Edited by Dawn Griffiths
Distributed by BBC
Release dates
  • 3 September 1995 (1995-09-03)
Running time
 50 min per episode
Country United Kingdom
Language English, Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian, Slovene, Albanian, Italian, German, French, Bosnian language

The Death of Yugoslavia is a BBC documentary series first broadcast in 1995, and is also the name of a BBC book by Allan Little and Laura Silber that accompanies the series. It covers the collapse of Yugoslavia and the subsequent wars and final peace accords. It uses a combination of archive footage interspersed with interviews of most of the main players in the conflict, including Slobodan Milošević, Radovan Karadžić, Franjo Tuđman and Alija Izetbegović, as well as members of the International political community, who were active in the various peace initiatives.

The series was awarded a BAFTA award in 1996 for Best Factual Series.[1] It also won the 1995 Peabody Award.[2] Interviews for the series have been used by ICTY in war crimes prosecutions.[3]

All the papers relating to the documentary series, including full transcripts of the interviews, are lodged at the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives at King's College, University of London.[4]

During the trial of Slobodan Milošević before the ICTY, Judge Bonomy referred to "the tendentious nature of much of the commentary".[5]

Episodes

Number Title Originally broadcast Overview
1 Enter Nationalism 1995 After the death of Josip Broz Tito, rising nationalism gets Yugoslavia in its grips. This is exacerbated after Slobodan Milošević takes power in Serbia and turns against the Kosovar Albanians.
2 The Road to War 1995 In April 1990, Croatia held its first free parliamentary election. Ethnic Serbs in Croatia feel threatened by the nationalist tone of Croatia's newly elected President Franjo Tuđman and begin a Log Revolution in August 1990. On 19 May 1991, Croatia held an independence referendum, which was approved by a wide majority. The Battle of Vukovar of August 1991 was the first major battle in the Croatian War of Independence.
3 Wars of Independence 1995 Slovenia and Croatia soon declared their independence and ask for international recognition. But Belgrade (both capital of Serbia and Yugoslavia) does not see it this way as it soon means the collapse of Yugoslavia.
4 The Gates of Hell 1995 After Serbia and Croatia ends to agreement, Serbia involves itself in Bosnia where a lot of things are at stake. Here begins the longest and the most tragic part of the conflict.
5 A Safe Area 1995
6 Pax Americana 1995

Edits

The series was later re-edited and released in three parts:

  1. "Enter Milošević"
  2. "The Croats Strike Back"
  3. "The Struggle for Bosnia"

In another edit, it was broadcast as a feature-length single documentary.

Interviewees

References

  1. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0283181/awards
  2. ↑ "Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation". peabodyawards.com. Retrieved 20 May 2015.
  3. ↑ ICTY
  4. ↑ here
  5. ↑ (see page 48683, line 9 onwards)

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