The Death of Yugoslavia
The Death of Yugoslavia | |
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Produced by | Norma Percy Executive producer Brian Lapping Nicholas Fraser Associate producer Tihomir Loza |
Cinematography | Robert Andrejas Ray Brislin François Paumard Markan Radeljic Alexandar Stipic |
Edited by | Dawn Griffiths |
Music by | Debbie Wiseman |
Distributed by | BBC |
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Running time | 50 min per episode |
Country | United Kingdom |
Languages | English, Croatian,(Serbian), Macedonian, Slovene, Albanian, Italian, German, French |
The Death of Yugoslavia is a BBC documentary series first broadcast in 1995, and it is also the title of a BBC book by Allan Little and Laura Silber that accompanies the series. It covers the collapse of Yugoslavia, the subsequent wars and the signing of the final peace accords. It uses a combination of archived footage interspersed with interviews with 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 the 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][non-primary source needed]
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 holds its first free parliamentary election. Ethnic Serbs in Croatia feel threatened by the nationalist tone of Croatia's newly elected President Franjo Tuđman and they begin a Log Revolution in August 1990. On 19 May 1991, Croatia holds an independence referendum, which is approved by a wide majority. The Battle of Vukovar of August 1991 is the first major battle in the Croatian War of Independence. |
3 | Wars of Independence | 1995 | Slovenia and Croatia soon declare their independence and ask for international recognition. But Belgrade (the capital of both Serbia and Yugoslavia) does not see it this way because it soon means the collapse of Yugoslavia. |
4 | The Gates of Hell | 1995 | After the war between Serbia and Croatia ends with the signing of an 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 | As the situation in Bosnia worsens, there is further conflict between the Serb and Bosnian forces. There is increasing UN involvement and NATO begin to step in. The Bosnians and Croats reach an agreement mediated by the UN whilst another UN agreement falls through, despite being signed by all parties. The suffering and persecution of Bosnian Muslims by Serb forces is featured. |
6 | Pax Americana | 1995 |
Edits
The series was later re-edited and released in three parts:
In another edit, it was broadcast as a feature-length single documentary.
Interviewees
- Diego Arria
- Blagoje Adžić
- Milan Aksentijević
- Milan Babić
- Igor Bavčar
- Mate Boban
- Bogić Bogićević
- Dragoslav Bokan
- Josip Boljkovac
- Momir Bulatović
- Peter Carington
- Warren Christopher
- Vitaly Churkin
- Dobrica Ćosić
- Mile Dedaković
- Slavko Degoricija
- Gianni De Michelis
- Jovan Divjak
- Rasim Delić
- Raif Dizdarević
- Murat Efendić
- Peter Galbraith
- Ejup Ganić
- Hans-Dietrich Genscher
- Mate Granić
- Petar Gračanin
- Mustafa Hajrulahović
- Sefer Halilović
- David Hannay
- Christopher R. Hill
- Richard Holbrooke
- Larry Hollingworth
- Douglas Hurd
- Alija Izetbegović
- Janez Janša
- Žarko Jokanović
- Borisav Jović
- Perica Jurić
- Radovan Karadžić
- Donald Kerrick
- Nikola Koljević
- Branko Kostić
- Momčilo Krajišnik
- Milan Kučan
- Milutin Kukanjac
- Zlatko Lagumdžija
- Anthony Lake
- Lewis MacKenzie
- Branko Mamula
- Milan Martić
- Mirjana Marković
- Josè Maria Mendiluce
- Stjepan Mesić
- Slobodan Milošević
- Dušan Mitević
- Philippe Morillon
- Naser Orić
- David Owen
- Života Panić
- Rosemary Pauli
- Serbian Patriarch Pavle
- Ilijaz Pilav
- Biljana Plavšić
- Slobodan Praljak
- Armin Pohara
- Ivica Račan
- Andrija Rašeta
- Charles Redman
- Jadranka, widow of Josip Reihl-Kir
- Malcolm Rifkind
- Michael Rose
- Zulfo Salihović
- Vojislav Šešelj
- Haris Silajdžić
- Miroslav Solević
- Martin Špegelj
- Ivan Stambolić
- Shashi Tharoor
- Franjo Tuđman
- Vasil Tupurkovski
- Miloš Vasić
- Aleksandar Vasiljević
- Alexander Vershbow
- Azem Vllasi
- Michael Williams
- Franci Zavrl
- Warren Zimmermann
- Slavko Degoricija
References
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0283181/awards
- ^ "Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation". peabodyawards.com. Retrieved 20 May 2015.
- ^ ICTY
- ^ here
- ^ [1] (see page 48683, line 9 onwards)
External links
- Use dmy dates from December 2012
- 1995 television films
- 1995 in British television
- 1995 television series debuts
- BAFTA winners (television series)
- BBC television documentaries about history
- British television documentaries
- Documentary television series about war
- English-language television
- Second Yugoslavia
- Television series about Yugoslavia
- Works about the Bosnian War
- Works about the Croatian War of Independence
- Works about the Yugoslav Wars
- Works about Yugoslavia