The Death of Yugoslavia
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| The Death of Yugoslavia | |
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| 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 |
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Release dates
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3 September 1995 |
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Running time
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50 min per episode |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English, Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian, Slovene, Albanian, Italian, German, French |
The Death of Yugoslavia is a BBC documentary series first broadcast in 1995, and is also the name of a book written by Allan Little and Laura Silber that accompanies the series. It covers the collapse of Yugoslavia and the subsequent wars that followed. 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, Radovan Karadžić, Franjo Tuđman and Alija Izetbegović.
The series was awarded with a BAFTA award in 1996 for Best Factual Series.[1] Because of the series large amount of interviews with prominent leaders and commanders of the conflict, it has been frequently used by ICTY in war crimes prosecutions.[2]
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.[3]
During the trial of Slobodan Milošević before the ICTY, Judge Bonomy called the nature of much of the commentary "tendentious".[4] This was because there were instances in which an interview in the Serbian language was subtitled incorrectly and often in a misleading manner (for example, the subtitling translated an interviewee saying that "Milosevic always won the elections on a nationalistic platform and nothing else", rather than "... on a national platform... ").[5]
Episodes
| Number | Title | Original airdate | Overview | Contributors |
| 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. | Ivan Stambolić Slobodan Milošević |
| 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. | Aleksandar Vasiljević Martin Špegelj Stjepan Mesić Milan Martić |
| 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 has later been re-edited and released in three parts:
In another edit, it was broadcast as a feature-length single documentary.
Interviewees
See also
Other BBC documentaries also produced by Norma Percy include:
- Putin, Russia and the West (2012)
- Iran and the West (2009)
- Israel and the Arabs: Elusive Peace (2005)
References
External links
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