History of the political events and the wars which broke the former state of Yugoslavia into several nations and caused an international political and humanitarian crisis. Using interviews with all the major participants and archive footage of the events, the series impressively performed the double feat of making understandable something which had appeared intractable and of producing 'immediate' history.
Slobodan Milošević
Franjo Tuđman
Borisav Jović
Momir Bulatović
Stipe Mesić
Alija Izetbegović
Radovan Karadžić
Haris Silajdžić
Aleksandar Vasiljević
Naser Orić
Milan Kučan
Andrija Rašeta
Petar Gračanin
José María Mendiluce
Janez Janša
Milan Martić
Vojislav Šešelj
Philippe Morillon
Milan Aksentijević
Branko Kostić
Branko Mamula
Sefer Halilović
Momčilo Krajišnik
Peter Carrington
Vasil Tupurkovski
Peter Galbraith
Života Panić
Malcolm Rifkind
Warren Christopher