YUGOSLAVIA (Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Monte Negro, Slovakia)
Serbia (& others):
X Boj na Kosovu (translation Battle of Kosovo) (1989) – a Serbian film that depicts the historical Battle of Kosovo between Medieval Serbia and the Ottoman Empire, 1389
X Banovic Strahinja (1983) – late 14th century. medieval Serbia. attacked by Ottoman invaders; nobleman Banovic Strahinja searches for his kidnapped wife
X Seljacka buna 1573 (1975) -- peasant revolt of 1573 in Croatia and Slovenia (being heavily taxed to fight off the Turks)
X Konjanik (2003) – Croatian film about a Muslim girl and a Christian guy fall in love despite it being forbidden; set in 18th c. on the border of Bosnia and Dalmatia, Ottoman Empire and Venetian Republic
X Timocka buna (1983) -- set at the time of the Timok Rebellion, 1883, in Serbia; nationalist peasant anarchism
Assassination of Archduke Franz-Ferdinand:
Fall of Eagles (1974) (TV miniseries) -- fall of Habsburg, Hohenzollern and Romanov dynasties in WWI
X De Mayerling a Sarajevo (From Mayerling to Sarajevo) (1940) -- lead-up to the assassination of the Archduke Franz-Ferdinand and his wife
Sarajevski atentat (The Day that Shook the World) (1975) -- events leading up to the assassination of Archduke Franz-Ferdinand
X Sarajevski atentat (1972) -- events leading up to the assassination of Archduke Franz-Ferdinand
X Sarajevski atentat (1968) -- events leading up to the assassination of Archduke Franz-Ferdinand
X Gavre Princip - Himmel unter Steinen (Death of a Schoolboy) (1990) –assassin of Archduke Ferdinand
X Weltuntergang (1984) – a local doctor is put in charge of the investigation into the assassinated of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie by Gabriel Princip
And the Ship Sails On (1983) -- Serbian war refugees
Carlston za Ognjenku (Tears for Sale) (2008) – after WWI 2/3 of Serbian men were killed; two sisters plan to kidnap some men
WWII.
The Balkans: Yugoslavia and Albania
The Battle of Neretva (1969) -- Nazi invasion of Yugoslavia and 1943 victory of Tito's partisans
X The Fifth Offensive (1973) -- this film deals with the climactic battle between the Yugoslavians and the Germans along the Sutjeska River
X Uncerdoaver (1943) -- Yugoslavian family fights guerrilla warfare to stop the Germans from taking their town
X Pad Italije (The Fall of Italy) (1981) -- in Yugoslavia a Partisan commander fighting the Italians goes overboard with his men during and after the war
X Il generale dell'armata morte (The General of the Dead Army) -- an Italian general is sent to Albania with an army chaplain to bring back the remains of 3,000 of their soldiers; a German is there doing the same thing; but can it be done?
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X Bombaski proces (1978) --Tito from history as young communist to communist president of Yugoslavia
X Cetverored (1999) -- based on the Bleiburg massacre May 1945 toward the end of WWII of fascist Croatians by Yugoslavian communists under Tito
Tito i ja (Tito and Me) (1992) -- a small boy writes the best essay in honor of Tito, Yugoslavia's strong man
Otac na sluzbenom putu (When Father Was Away on Business) (1985) -- boy whose father was sent to prison by Tito thinks he's away on business
Welcome to Sarajevo (1997) -- journalists in war in Bosnia become emotionally involved
Harrison's Flowers (2000) -- woman searches for her photographer husband in war-torn Yugoslavia
Grbavica (Esma's Secret: Grbavica) (2005) -- systematic rapes of Bosnian women by Serbian troops has terrible after effects
Where Eskimos Live (2002) -- man and war orphan bind to each other while on a journey through war-torn Bosnia
No Man's Land (2001) -- a Bosnian & a Serbian soldier, both wounded, find themselves together stranded in no man's land
Savior (1998) -- a hard-hearted Foreign Legion mercenary softens his heart when confronted with atrocities during the fighting in Bosnia
Shot Through the Heart (1998) -- two friends on opposing sides in the Bosnia-Serbia conflict find themselves at odds
Lepa sela lepo gore (Pretty Village, Pretty Flame) (1996) -- two men who grew up together find themselves on opposing sides in the Bosnia-Serbia conflict
Guerreros (Warriors) (2002) -- Spanish soldiers at war in Kosovo in 2000
Go West (2005) -- a homosexual couple wants to flee Serbia for western Europe to escape all the violence
Behind Enemy Lines (2001) -- American pilots downed behind Serb lines
Chico (2001) -- a determined communist filled with rage sees the overthrow of Allende in Chile, becomes an idealistic political journalist and ends up fighting for Croatia against the Serbs
X Tirana, année zéro (Tirana Year Zero) (2002) -- problems of a young couple in post-communist Albania considering moving out of the country like so many others
X Burgu i Mërgimit (The Prison of Migration) -- 1990s Albania; suffering of ex-patriate Albanians including staying out of jails of ex-Yugoslavia
X Savrseni krug (The Perfect Circle) (1997) – Bosnian poet befriends two orphans and they all try to survive the hell of the siege of Sarajevo (currently unavailable)
The Hunting Party (2007) -- in search of a Serbian war criminal that the CIA, etc. can't (or won't?) catch
X Résolution 819 (Resolution 819) (2008) -- the Bosnia War's Srebrenica massacre
X Alia: A Bosniac Rhapsody (2008) -- Bosnian War
X The Living and the Dead -- Bosnian Croat Army defends its homeland in the Yugoslavian Civil War
Stille Sehnsuchi (Warchild) (2006) -- a mother searches for her daughter taken from her when the family was forced into an internment camp
X Armin -- a father takes his son Armin on a trip from Bosnia to Croatia
Peacekeepers (Warriors) (1999) -- British soldiers sent to Bosnia on a peacekeeping mission and from the start they are up to their necks in troubling situations
X War Crimes (2005)-- six recent British graduates travel to Bosnia and are confronted by the war there; they desperately try to get out of Bosnia alive
Mathilde (2004) -- during the Balkans War, in Croatia Colonel Pertis of the U.N. falls in love with Mathilde, a local girl, and he loses his perspective on his duties
X Special Relationship (2010) -- Pres. Clinton of the USA dominates the close relationship he has with British P.M. Tony Blair; but with the Monica Lewinsky Affair, Clinton takes a back-set to Blair
Demony wojny wedlug Goi (Demons of War) (1998) -- Polish UN peacekeepers in the Yugoslavian civil war (the Balkan War)
Jours tranquilles à Sarajevo (Quiet Days at Sarajevo) (1999) -- the quiet hours enjoyed by city residents in spite war and death raging around them