The Death of Yugoslavia | |
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Narrated by | Robin Ellis (BBC version)[1] Christiane Amanpour (Discovery Channel version)[2] |
Music by | Debbie Wiseman |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original languages | English, Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian, Slovene, Albanian, Italian, German, French, Russian, Spanish |
No. of series | 1 |
No. of episodes | 6 |
Production | |
Executive producers | Brian Lapping Nicholas Fraser |
Producer | Norma Percy |
Cinematography | Robert Andrejas Ray Brislin François Paumard Markan Radeljić Alexandar Stipić |
Editor | Dawn Griffiths |
Running time | 50 minutes |
Production company | Brian Lapping Associates |
Original release | |
Network | BBC2 |
Release | 3 September 1995 6 June 1996 | –
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The Death of Yugoslavia (broadcast as Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation in the US)[2] is a BBC documentary series first broadcast in September and October 1995, and returning in June 1996. 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.[3] It also won the 1995 Peabody Award and the 1997 Gold Baton at the Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Awards.[2][4] Interviews for the series have been used by ICTY in war crimes prosecutions.[5]
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.[6]