IU Bloomington: Russian and East European Institute

THE BALTIC TRAGEDY (BAL1)
1985, 148 min., English subtitles.
Hitler's war on Russia is graphically portrayed in eleven original German wartime newsreels. The northern sector of the German's eastern front, where ferocious battles were fought in Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, and Finland, is featured. Four additional international documentaries - including a Soviet one - present a well-rounded picture of the tragic plight of the Baltic people's during World War II.

DESTINATION: LITHUANIA (DES1)
1992, 21 min.
In 1991, Lithuania became the first republic to declare its independence from the Soviet Union, sparking one of the most dramatic upheavals in recent history.

EXPANDING EUROPE: ESTONIA AND THE EUROPEAN UNION (EXP7)
25 min.
Committed to swift national reform, Estonia is retooling itself into a free trade-driven parliamentary democracy. This program examines the economic, environmental, and judicial challenges facing the small but dynamic Baltic country in its efforts to become eligible for membership in the E.U. Fiscal and monetary policies, pollution, and legal reform are high on the agenda, as Estonia's young visionaries pursue strategic partnerships abroad while tackling domestic issues such as more fully integrating the country's ethnic Russians. The comments of Prime Minister Mart Siimann round out the program.

ESTONIA: A TALE OF TWO NATIONS. (EST)
1990, 45 min.
This film is an informative profile of the continual struggle for freedom in Estonia, the smallest republic in the USSR. Interviews with the Estonian prime minister, politicians of all persuasions, economists, journalists, and veterans along with archival footage provide background and context.

FOREST OF VALOR (FOV)
1991, 52 min., In English.
This film documents the story of the Jews, who fought the German army in the Rudniki and Nalibuki forests of Eastern Europe, during World War II. Previously inaccessible to cameras, the forests unfold their secrets to you. Rare footage, obtained from the restricted archives of the former Soviet military museums explores the partisan's hiding places and discloses their weapon caches. The Israeli camera team exposes the dark and damp labyrinth of sewage canals beneath Vilna, through which the underground fighters made their escape from the Ghetto. Filmed for the first time is the "Ninth Fort," a prison which served as a center for the mass murder of Jews.

GOD'S MOTHER IS THE MORNING STAR: THE LIFE AND ART OF JOSEPH MENDER (GOD)
1990, 29 min., Directed by Karen Taussig-Lux and Peter Biella.
A documentary video about a 92-year-old Lithuanian immigrant, Joseph Mender, living in upstate New York. The film, created by a professional American folklorist with the support of the New York Folklife Council, documents Mender's biography including activism in the American labor movement, his traditional art (carved canes and elaborate colored icon-like pictures), and a mythological worldview inherited from his traditional upbringing in Lithuania.

KOVNO GHETTO: A BURIED HISTORY (KOV)
1997, 100 min., Narrated by Sir Martin Gilbert.
This video pieces together the story of the Jews of Kovno from the first stirrings of war to the annihilation of the ghetto just days before the city's liberation. Eighteen survivors, including photographer Zvi Kaushin, tell their harrowing stories for the first time.

LOST LOST LOST (LLL)
1976, 178 min.
"These six reels of my film diaries come from the years 1949-1963. They begin with my arrival in New York in November 1949. The first and second reels deal with my life as a young poet and a Displaced Person in Brooklyn. It shows the Lithuanian immigrant community, their attempts to adapt themselves to a new land and their tragic efforts to regain independence for their native country. It shows my own frustrations and anxieties and the decision to leave Brooklyn and move to Manhattan. Reel three and four deal with my life in Manhattan on Orchard Street and East 13th Street. First contacts with New York poetry and filmmaking communities. Robert Frank shooting The Sin of Jesus. Leroi Jones, Allen Ginsberg, Frank O'Hara reading at the Living Theater, etc. The period I am dealing with in these six reels was a period of desperation, attempts desperately to grow roots into the new ground, create new memories. In these six painful reels I tried to indicate how it feels to be an exile, how I felt in those years." (Jonas Mekas) Country of Origin American/Lithuanian.

ONE WORLD: THE BALTIC STATES (ONE)
1997.
A PBS documentary by Ward Television Corporation. A recent documentary on the post-Soviet Baltic States, presenting multiple views on current issuesthe Soviet heritage, historical memories, ethnic minorities, business developments. Interviews include the President of Estonia, US Ambassador to Latvia, the Rector of Vilnius University and other national and international leaders, scholars, and cultural figures.

REMINISCENCES OF A JOURNEY TO LITHUANIA (REM)
1971, 82 min.
This diary film begins with footage shot by Mekas in New York in the early 1950's. Then a trip back to his native Lithuanian village in 1971 shows his reaction to the changes experienced by his homeland. Finally a sequence shot at the camp where Mekas was interned during the war and a trip to Austria end this poetic film experience.

The Czech Republic

AFTER THE VELVET REVOLUTION (AFT)
1993, 58 min.
This PBS broadcast provides a first-hand look at the reality of what happened to the people of the former Czechoslovakia in the first three years of democracy. The film follows the lives of five different families and individuals.

BORN OUT OF DARKNESS (VOL, in REEI faculty collection) (DVD)
2005, English. Directed by Bronislava Volkova.
A multimedia performance of poetry, art, music, and expressive movement, Born Out of Darkness is a series of nine collages set to poetry.

CZECH REPUBLIC AND SOUTHERN POLAND (CZH)
2002, 50 min.
Traveler Justine Shapiro starts her journey in the Czech capital of Prague. Traveling north through Teplice she visits the beautiful spa town of Karlovy. After spending the night in a medieval castle she crosses the border into Poland where she visits the historic city of Krakow. She ends her journey in Zahopane and the beautiful Tatras mountains.

CZECH WOMEN: NOW WE ARE FREE (CZE)
1993, 60 min.
The peaceful "Velvet Revolution" of November 1989, which put an end to decades of communist rule in Czechoslovakia, has led to a remarkable transformation of people's day-to-day lives. This documentary profiles a variety of Czech women--a rock singer, a factory worker, a private farmer, the wife of a former Communist Party leader, and the owner of a small business, among others--to show the ways their lives are changing. Relations with men, family life under communism, the influence of Western feminism, a sudden end to government censorship, the demands of career and family--their candid discussion of these and many other issues reflect the difficulties and rewards of a newly democratic society.

ENTERING LIGHT (VOL, in REEI faculty collection) (DVD)
2005, English. Directed by Bronislava Volkova.
A multimedia performance of poetry, art, music, and expressive movement, Entering Light is a series of eight collages set to poetry.

EXPANDING EUROPE: THE CZECH REPUBLIC AND THE EUROPEAN UNION (EXP6)
25 min.
Since the Velvet Revolution, the western portion of what used to be Czechoslovakia has set its sights on integrating its economy into world markets. Using profiles of car manufacturer Skoda, brewery Pilsner Urquell, and up-and-coming fashion designer Klara Nademlynska, this program assesses the Czech Republic's assets and liabilities as it moves toward joining the ranks of the European Union. It is hoped that E.U. membership will help stabilize the economy, but can challenges such as the environmental remediation of the Black Triangle and the integration of the republic's Roma (Gypsy) minority be met in time?

ORATORIO FOR PRAGUE (ORA)
1990, 26 min.
One of the most powerful documentaries ever made: Jan Nemec's unique document of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.

PRAGUE '68: SUMMER OF TANKS (PRAG)
1968, 37 min., In Czech with English subtitles.
An amazing piece of cinema verité, Prague '68 features raw footage of Soviet troops invading Czechoslovakia and the resistance from Czech youth and workers. It was filmed by a number of Czechoslovakian cameramen, shooting undercover and on the run, on whatever 16mm film they could lay their hands on. The footage was subsequently smuggled out of the country and assembled by a production team in Paris. From the early '70s to 1987, this movie was believed lost, but it was recovered by a Philadelphia antiques salvager. It is a vital record of one of the definitive episodes of the Cold War, capturing the brute force and incomprehension of the Soviet occupiers and the shock, anger and courage of the Czech people.

PRAGUE SPRING (PRA1)
1999, 29 min.
This program provides insight into the dissent expressed within the Eastern Bloc countries in the 1960's and its swift and violent suppression. It presents both the political dé tente behind Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev's policies with the West and the dissent in the Warsaw Pact alliance that was silenced by Soviet tanks. In addition to archival footage, this video includes contemporary interviews with Eastern Bloc personalities like Vasil Bilák and Jirí Pelikán.

THE SWEET CENTURY (SWE1)
1998, 58 min.
Not much is known in the West of opposition to the communist dictatorship that swept central Europe after World War II. This portrait of several women who endured harsh imprisonment for their beliefs is a tribute to their strength, as well as their support of one another. Their stories of the horrors of communist prisons are intercut with propaganda films and archival footage. Awarded Best Documentary, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, 1998.

WE DON'T WANT TO LIVE ON OUR KNEES (WED)
1988, 20 min.
This documentary examines the Czechoslovak 1968 experiment in "Socialism with a human face." Alexander Dubcek's relaxation of control, the organization of alternative political parties, the sudden about-face of Soviet foreign policy, and the invasion and subjugation of the Czechoslovakia are all closely examined in this program.

Hungary

BEYOND OUR BORDERS: HUNGARY (BEY-1) (DVD)
30 min.
A new cultural geography series geared toward teaching students about the geography and history of the world's major countries. Helps students understand other peoples' environments, values, and significant historical contributions. The DVD also features maps that clarify geographical data such as a country's global location, major regions, and important cities. Here one can see not only the beautiful capital city on the Danube, but also the Hungarian "Riviera" on Lake Balaton, the medieval city of Pecs, the porcelain factory of Zsolnay, and csikos cowboys on the Great Plain.

EXPANDING EUROPE: HUNGARY AND THE EUROPEAN UNION (EXP4)
25 min.
Although Hungary appears to have entered a period of sustainable economic growth, its average standard of living is still relatively low. In this program, representatives from both ends of Hungary's business spectrum consider the country's prospects as a future E.U. state. A young artisan, a self-employed machinist, an elderly street vendor, and an elderly farmer express their concerns over price inflation, low pensions, and an expected flood of imports while a board member of flagship telecom corporation Matav stresses the vital importance of foreign investment to improving life in Hungary. Temporarily missing from our collection

THE HUNGARIAN UPRISING: 1956 (HUN)
1993, 12 min.
This program shows the aftermath of Imre Nagy's announcement that Hungary was withdrawing from the Warsaw pact. This pronunciation led to a Soviet invasion in which the Soviets crushed the uprising. Thousands of Hungarians were killed and 150,000 fled the country.

HUNGARY: PUSHING THE LIMITS (HUN3)
1986, 60 min.
This program follows a return visit to Hungary by a Hungarian exile, now a U.S. citizen, who fled his native land in 1956 after taking part in the uprising there. As he retraces his part in the battle against the Hungarian Communist government, he encounters modern Hungarians who allow the viewer an insight into the country today.

THE LAST DAYS (LAST) (DVD)
1997, 87 min., English
An emotionally powerful look at one of the darkest periods in human history, this unforgettable documentary shares the stories of five survivors of Hitler's brutal war on Hungarian Jews during the last months of World War II. This horrific and senseless final assault of the Nazi regime tore families apart and subjected its victims to unimaginable torture and death. Fifty years after their liberation, the survivors return to their hometowns and the concentration camps that took so many of their loved ones. Presented by the Shoah Foundation and Steven Spielberg. "Beautifulheart rendingand essential film" (Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune). Academy Award winner for Best Documentary Feature.

VILLAGE LIFE & MUSIC IN HUNGARY (VIL)
1992, Music and Society Series, A-Fm Recordings.
This video provides scenes from Budapest and surrounding villages, a Transdanubian village named Sarpilis and the Great Hungarian Plain, . Life in Hungarian villages is portrayed through folk songs and instrumental music played on the nothched flute furulya, the bagpipe duda, and the zither. A special feature takes place in the gypsy village of Lake Balaton, where musicians play gypsy tunes and Hungarian folk-song melodies on the concert harp.

Poland

BEYOND OUR BORDERS: POLAND (BEY-2) (DVD)
30 min.
A new cultural geography series geared toward teaching students about the geography and history of the world's major countries. Helps students understand other peoples' environments, values, and significant historical contributions. The DVD also features maps that clarify geographical data such as a country's global location, major regions, and important cities. Here one can see how Warsaw, the capital city of Poland, is being restored, or how Krakow and Gdansk show off the country's rich culture. Strong Roman Catholic roots are seen in the Black Madonna pilgrimages, Auschwitz reveals darker aspects of history, while pristine natural areas such as the Tatras Mountains show Poland's variety and vitality.

CITIZEN (CIT)
2002, 58 min., Directed by Richard Adams.
This video portrays human dimensions of Poland’s Solidarity movement in 1980-81 that were obscured by Cold-War rhetoric: the efforts of workers, artists and intellectuals who joined together to create a thriving civil society within a totalitarian state. Solidarity activists describe how they learned that to protect their own interests they had to fight for the interests of Polish society as a whole. Their self-governing trade union won the trust and support of virtually all segments of society by providing the only available channel for the local grass-roots initiatives, open debate, and democratic action that ultimately led to non-violent systemic change in Poland and beyond.

COMMUNISM: LEGACY OF POLLUTION (COM)
1997, 25 min.
In the wake of communism's decline in Eastern Europe, the environmental legacy of communism has been revealed. The Czech Republic, Poland, and Germany form a black triangle of aggressive air pollution with which these newly democratic states must now contend. This film outlines the work of the European Union to help these countries moderate their industrial pollution.

DESTINATION: POLAND (DES)
1993, 16 min.
Prepared by World Wise Schools and the United States Peace Corps. Activity guide accompanies video with materials written for three grade levels: 3-5, 6-9, and 10-12. The goal of the guide and video is to present basic information on the geography of Poland; political and economic changes currently taking place; and to introduce to aspects of Polish culture: history and symbols.

EXPANDING EUROPE: POLAND AND THE EUROPEAN UNION (EXP5)
25min.
In this program, a diverse cross-section of Poles ranging from President Aleksander Kwasiniewski to laborers, farmers, and students talk about Poland's preparations for entry into the European Union. While the construction and shipbuilding industries are especially optimistic, other groups - most notably the power generation industry and farmers - are less so, citing concerns over meeting E.U. standards while dealing with layoffs and rising debt. Improved relations between Poles and ethnic Germans and the issue of restitution of or compensation for property confiscated from Jews during World War II are also addressed.

A FORCE MORE POWERFUL: POLAND "WE'VE CAUGHT GOD BY THE ARM" (FOR1)
2000, 31 min.
This program tells the story of how nonviolent power overcame oppression and authoritarian rule in Poland. In August 1980, workers at the Gdansk shipyard went on strike. Their main demand, free trade unions, was unprecedented in a country where communist party supremacy did not allow the existence of any independent organizations. Lech Walesa, a wily 37-year-old electrician, was the chief negotiator for the workers, who avoided the mistakes of earlier strikes by maintaining strict nonviolent discipline - and by occupying their shipyard, to deter a violent crackdown by authorities. The strike quickly spread to factories and workers throughout the country, magnifying their leverage. Their persistence paid off as government granted most of their demands. A new union was born named "Solidarity."

A GENERATION (AGEN)
85 min., In Polish with English subtitles.
First film in Wajda's war trilogy (including Kanal, Ashes and Diamonds). Appraisal of heroism in the tale of a Polish youth who fights the Nazis after he falls in love with a Resistance leader. The two approach their first mission like a game of cops and robbers. The game turns deadly and the innocence of a generation is lost under the grueling conditions of war. Features Roman Polanski in the cast.

IMAGE BEFORE MY EYES (IMA)
90 min., In English.
Prior to World War II, Jewish Poland was a rich civilization, the largest and most important center of Jewish culture and creativity in the world. This remarkable documentary about Polish Jewry in the decades that preceded the Second World War utilizes a skillful mixture of rare film footage, memorabilia, photographs, music and interviews to portray a rich and varied way of life. The "old world" romanticized in folk literature is made quite real in this memorable film. The film is about rich and poor; the religious and secular; the shtetl and city; the worldly and the provincial.

ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER (ISA)
1985, 28 min.
This documentary portrays the life and work of Isaac Singer, Polish Jew and author. In 1978 Singer received the Nobel Prize for Literature "for his impassioned narrative art which, with roots in Polish-Jewish cultural tradition, brought universal human conditions to life." Though he emigrated to America in 1935 (at the age of 31), Singer wrote most of his works in Yiddish for the New York paper the Jewish Daily Forward. Singer's influence spans many cultures and nations, from Jewish communities across the globe, to local communities in both Poland and the United States.

LODZ GHETTO (LOD)
1992, 120 min.
This film chronicles the besieged and doomed city in Poland which held the second largest concentration of Jews in Nazi Europe. The lives and stories of the 200,000 Jews who were trapped in the Ghetto are told solely with authentic writings from secret journals, archival photographs and footage shot by German soldiers.

NOTHING TO LOSE (NOT)
1990, 56 min.
The filmmaker traveled throughout Poland in late 1988, where he gained access to Solidarity wildcat strikers, young people, and underground activists. His lively video journal portrays these ordinary, thoughtful people, who stood up to oppression and forced the Polish government to negotiate for democracy.

POLAND--THE MORNING AFTER (POL)
1984, 60 min.
Poland was the first to astonish the world when the once-outlawed independent trade union Solidarity took power in a new coalition government and change from communism to capitalism. But the people of Poland discovered that overnight the price of bread and gasoline had doubled, train tickets tripled, and electricity quadrupled. FRONTLINE examines the new phenomenal pressures on Poland's young democratic government and the consequences of its crash economic reform program.

POLAND: THE NEWS IN UNIFORM (POL1)
1982, 30 min.
Martial law in Poland has dealt a blow to the free flow of information in that country. INSIDE STORY examines journalism in the present situation in Poland compared to the relative freedom reporters enjoyed for sixteen months under Solidarity.

THERE ONCE WAS A TOWN (THER)
2000, 90 min., In English.
In 1941, the German army invaded the small town of Eishyshok, Poland (now Lithuania) and brutally murdered nearly all 3,500 residents. Fifty-six years after the massacre, There Once Was a Town chronicles the remarkable journey of four of the town's survivors and their families as they return home. Edward Asner, a descendant of an Eishyshok family, narrates the film.

VISIONS OF WAR: BATTLE FOR WARSAW (VIS)
1988, 50 min.
This outstanding documentary traces the tragic story of the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, which cost the lives of almost 250,000 Poles. Armed with only homemade or captured weapons and outnumbered more than three to one, the citizens of Warsaw held out for over two months against the German forces, struggling to liberate their capital before the Russians came.Although the Red Army was only ten miles away when the uprising began, Stalin delayed the capture of Warsaw. The film contains rare archival material and eyewitness accounts.

THE WARSAW FILE (WAR)
1983, 30 min.
The continuing story of Poland and its struggle for freedom are the focus of this INSIDE STORY as viewers get a closer look at the daily problems American correspondents face as they try to cover Polish national events.

THE WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING (WAR2)
1997, 49 min.
This program details the 1943 Polish uprising against the Nazis in the Warsaw ghetto. More than fifty years later, five of the surviving Polish "freedom fighters" provide an eyewitness account of the uprising. Archival footage is mixed with their story to enhance their descriptions.

Romania

CHILDREN UNDERGROUND (CHUN) (DVD)
2001, 104 min, Romanian with English subtitles.
A shocking look at the lives of homeless children in Bucharest, Romania, whose lives consist of begging, inhalant drug use, and living in subway tunnels. The film examines the political and social conditions that led to these troubling conditions.

DAYS OF THE MINERS (DAYS) (DVD)
2003, 43 min.
Romania's Jiu Valley shares much with declining coal regions throughout the twentieth century in Europe and the US. Since the end of socialism in 1989, but especially since 1997, the Valley mining industry has been greatly cut back in size, leaving many mining families in a dire economic situation. At the same time, in recent years there has been a spate of serious mine accidents and fatalities. Jiu Valley miners are reeling from pain and interpret their current labor and economic difficulties as an attack on their physical health and well-being.
Five-page study guide for Days of the Miners also available.

DIAMONDS IN THE DARK (DIA)
1999, 60 min. Directed by Olivia Carrescia.
From a traditional village bordering Ukraine, to the relatively sophisticated city of Bucharest, this video tells the stories of ten Romanian women. We see and hear how they lived under the old regime, and how they are confronting the new problems of the post-communist era.

LAST JEWS OF RADAUTI (SONG OF RADAUTI) (LAS1)
28 min., Directed by Laurence Salzmann.
In this film study of Jews in a small Rumanian town, we meet members of this dwindling community, including the rabbi and shokhet. Observed are the intimate expressions of Jewish life, preparing for the Sabbath, making challah, immersions in the mikveh.

VIDEOGRAMS OF A REVOLUTION (VID)
1992, 107 min, English subtitles. Directed by Harun Farocki and Andrej Ujica
In ten days, a popular rebellion in Romania overthrew the government, executed the ruler, and the demonstrators occupied the television station and broadcast continuously for 120 hours. They established a new historical site: the television studio.

WHEN PROPAGANDA RULED: NICOLAE CEAUSESCU, "KING OF COMMUNISM" (WPRR) (DVD)
2004, 60 min.
Life in Romania during the regime of Nicolae Ceausescu was at once tragic and absurd as the nation's head of state erected a cult of personality that literally turned his country into a stage show. Tapping Ceausescu's video archives and drawing on interviews with many of the talented people who made Ceausescu's political theater come to life, this program examines the creation and application of propaganda within the context of Romanian political history during the 1960s, '70s, and '80s. Ceausescu scripted an epic with himself as the star, but others wrote the inevitable denoument that brought down the curtain on him and his wife, Elena, a "scientist of world renown."

Slovakia

SLOVAK SUNSHINE: THE SIGHTS AND SOUNDS OF SLOVAKIA (SLO)
60 min., in English. Directed by Ed Konecnik.
An emigre look at Slovakia. Not recommended for academic use.

Slovenia

EXPANDING EUROPE: SLOVENIA AND THE EUROPEAN UNION (EXP3)
25 min.
Geographically perceived as part of the Balkans, Slovenia is striving for statehood in the E.U. in the hope of differentiating itself from its bellicose neighbors. This program describes Slovenia, a politically stable democracy on a sound financial footing, as a special case among E.U. applicants. The country's record of respecting the rights of its ethnic minorities and its prime location as an economic gateway to southeastern Europe are points in its favor, although the country's low agricultural output and difficult transition to industrial privatization may become stumbling blocks. Observations by Foreign Minister Boris Frlec are included.

LAIBACH (LAI)
1993, 60 min., Directed by Daniel Landin and Chris Bohn.
Regimes have fallen all across Europe and the Soviet Union. Laibach's music, theater and art keep burning the enduring values lost to communist and capitalist states East and West. But their vision of Utopia as the exact negative of totalitarianism drew flak in ex-Yugoslavia, Europe and America and their challenging montages of totalitarian imagery and brute rock and disco rhythms aroused both anger and guilty pleasure. Paradoxically, the Laibach issue seeded the democratic debates that led to the declaration of Independent Slovenis, forcing their critics to revise their opinions of this most controversial group.

The former Yugoslavia

BOSNIA: PEACE WITHOUT HONOR (BOSP)
1999, 39 min.
This program traces the roots of the Bosnian conflict through the 1992-1995 efforts of America's Cyrus Vance and Britain's David Owen to negotiate a lasting peace. Both diplomats expose the role of world powers in brokering, mediating, and at times, exacerbating the regional conflict. Owen attributes failures to establish an equitable regional government to the election of Bill Clinton and the resulting American policy shifts - particularly the placement of UN troops in strategic Serbian sites. A BBC Production.

BOSNIA'S RITE OF RETURN (BRR)
1999, 48 min.
What is it like when tens of thousands of refugees return home from several years of exile to rebuild their lives? In this program, Muslim refugees from the village of Stolac describe the challenge of living with their wartime enemies; Croat refugeees, preparing to celebrate Easter, seek guidance from a clergy that is itself divided between a desire for reconciliation and a belief in racial supremacy; and Bosnia's major religous leaders in Sarajevo discuss the struggle to keep the nation''s multi-ethnic society alive.

BRINGING DOWN A DICTATOR: THE FALL OF "SLOBO" (BRI)
2002, 55 min.
On October 6, 2000, Slobodan Miloševic conceded the national election to Vojislav Koštunica, culminating an incredible campaign spearheaded by a student movement called Otpor!, Serbian for "resistance." Armed only with rock concerts and ridicule, the Internet and e-mail, spray-painted slogans and a willingness to be arrested, Otpor! students became the shock troops in an army of pro-democracy, anti-war, and opposition parties. This program chronicles Miloševic’s spectacular defeat, showing in detail how a broad-based coalition and nonviolent protest swept away a decade-long dictatorship. Documentary footage of the unfolding events is combined with interviews of the founding members of Otpor! and its chief architects.

CALLING THE GHOSTS (CAL)
1996, 60 min., In Serbo-Croatian with English subtitles.
Calling the Ghosts tells the story of two women interned in the Serbian concentration camp of Omarska during the Bosnian conflict. Like other Muslim and Croat women interned there, Jadranka Cigelj and Nusreta Sivac were systematically tortured and humiliated by their Serb captors. Once released, both women turned their personal struggles into a larger fight for justice, aiding other women who were similarly brutalized. Cigelj and Sivac, both lawyers, successfully lobbied to have rape included in the international lexicon of war crimes by the UN Tribunal at Hague.

CASTING (CAS/PAL) (PAL DVD)
2001, 51 min. In English and Serbian with English subtitles. Directed by Goran Radovanovic.
**Special note: this film may be viewed only on PAL or multi-standard DVD players. One such player is now available in BH 506. Instructional Support Services can also offer assistance (855-8065).**
Sex, survival, Serbia, pantyhose…what do they have in common? The girls that came for a part in the pantyhose commercial with the slogan: THE MOST BEAUTIFUL LOOK IN EUROPE! PANTIES FOR EVERY OCCASION: EUROLOOK FINALLY IN SERBIA TOO! suddenly became protagonists of a documentary entitled CASTING!, reflecting the problems of transition societies.

COLLATERAL DAMAGE: THE BALKANS AFTER NATO'S AIR WAR (COLL)
1999, 53 min.
Six months after NATO ended its air war against Yugoslavia, two of Washington's new breed of hands-on policy analysts, Gary Dempsey and Aaron Lukas, flew to the Balkans to document the "unintended consequences" of NATO's bombing campaign. Equipped with the latest in mini-digital camera technology, they traveled through the region, filming patrols in Kosovo cities where NATO troops are stationed, inspecting bombed-out industrial complexes in Serbia, and interviewing Macedonians, Romanians and Bulgarians who have suffered because of the war. Collateral Damage: The Balkans after NATO's Air War is a record of their findings.

CRISIS IN KOSOVO (CRI)
1999, 20 min.
Crisis in Kosovo explores the bombing of Yugoslavia and asks questions about how and when the U.S. should be involved in foreign crises. The activity guide (available from the REEI library) encourages students to further research and consider this issue. Eight activities are designed for students to organize and complete on their own. Other activities are designed for classroom participation and teacher presentation

THE ETHNIC CLEANSERS AND THE CLEANSED: THE UNFORGIVING (CLE)
1998, 70 min.
In Serb-held Eastern Bosnia, a Serbian couple desperately try to learn how their 11-year old son was murdered and where his remains might be. The program follows the inexorable process of human self-destruction - but there is no catharsis here, for we are observing not myth, but contemporary history. As this harrowing documentary makes clear, unspeakable grief in time becomes commonplace and atrocities are not the preserve of one side or another.

FAREWELL BOSNIA (FAR)
1995, 19 min.
An introduction to the war intended for young people. This film focusses on the lives of two teenage students who left their homes and families in Bosnia and came to the United States. They reflect on what it was like to live in the midst of a war, with the use of their home videos and other war footage.

HUMAN TRAGEDY: THE FACES OF KOSOVO WITH HARRY SMITH (HUM)
1998, 50 min.
"It's a sad moment for me. I never met a Serb Schindler." "When the police question you, there are no right answers-only beatings." "When the Serbs came, they burned our hearts like our homes." In this affecting video, CBS News correspondent Harry Smith visits ethnic Albanians driven from Kosovo and forced to live in tent camps inside Macedonia. Their stories, their voices reveal what it means to be a refugee, to hold the hope of someday going home, and to seek respite from memories crowded with pain. Concentrating on human stories instead of politics or global issues, the program illustrates the resilience of the Kosovars and their unremitting optimism that where they end up will be better than where they've been.

JUSTICE UNSEEN (JUST) (DVD)
58 min.
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was established by the United Nations to provide justice to victims of war crimes which were committed during the 1990s, and to help the reconciliation process in the region. Eleven years and more than $830 million later, this film examines the situation in two Bosnian communities, Prijedor and Konjic. has the ICTY achieved what it was set up to do or was it just an expensive legal experiment?

KILLING MEMORY: BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA'S CULTURAL HERITAGE AND ITS DESTRUCTION (KIL)
1994, 50 min.
A slide lecture on video with stunning views of Bosnia-Herzegovina's artistic and cultural heritage, including the destructive results of the war.

KOLO (KOL)
1987, 60 min.
An ensemble of Yugoslavian national dances performed by the Yugoslav National Ballet. Can only be used with PAL SECAM videotape player.

KOSOVO: OF BLOOD AND HISTORY (KOBH)
1999, 40 min.
To fully understand the recent bloodshed in Kosovo, one must go back 600 years and trace the causes of the underlying hatreds that permeate Serbia and the surrounding region. Using eyewitness accounts, maps, and footage both of historic events and of Serbian life, this program examines the ethnic nationalism and religious extremism that has resulted in the long-standing hatred between Serbs and Kosovar Albanians - a hatred that continues to destabilize the Balkans during the Milosevic regime.

MODEL HOUSE (MOD/PAL) (PAL DVD)
2001, 21 min. In English and Serbian with English subtitles. Directed by Goran Radovanovic.
**Special note: this film may be viewed only on PAL or multi-standard DVD players. One such player is now available in BH 506. Instructional Support Services can also offer assistance (855-8065).**
MODEL HOUSE follows a Serbian cleaning woman who is a refugee from the Krajina region. Although she is grateful to be working, taking care of the homes of others reminds her of the home she lost during the war. Her narrative is juxtaposed with scenes from the NATO bombing, visuals of dingy refugee camps, excerpts from state television broadcasts spewing inane propaganda, and a voiceover of Milosevic intoning, among other things, "All must be sacrificed for the people, except the people." This is the story about an ex-Yugoslav refugee who wants to be what she once was: an ordinary woman with her own home.

MY COUNTRY (MYC/PAL) (PAL DVD) 2000, 24 min. In English and Serbian with English subtitles. Directed by Goran Radovanovic.
**Special note: this film may be viewed only on PAL or multi-standard DVD players. One such player is now available in BH 506. Instructional Support Services can also offer assistance (855-8065).**
Serbia 1999: extreme poverty, corruption, authocracy, ethnic problems, NATO aggression, manipulation of the population through mass media controlled by the state and…hunger for democracy…

RETURNING HOME: REVIVAL OF A BOSNIAN VILLAGE (RETH/PAL) (PAL DVD)
2001, 48 min. In English and Bosnian-Croatian with English subtitles. Directed by Tone Bringa and Peter Loizos.
**Special note: this film may be viewed only on PAL or multi-standard DVD players. One such player is now available in BH 506. Instructional Support Services can also offer assistance (855-8065).**
Filmed between 1999 and 2001, RETURNING HOME documents the return of the internally displaced Muslims or Bosniaks to their homes seven years after being expelled from an ethnically mixed (Bosniak/Croat) village in central Bosnia. The film is a sequel to WE ARE ALL NEIGHBOURS, produced in 1993 by Granada Television in co-operation with Tone Bringa. The earlier film chronicles the breakdown in personal relationships between Muslims and Croats, and eventually the expulsion of the Muslim population, and the destruction of their homes by Croat (HVO) forces as war overtook the village of "Dolina." RETURNING HOME shows the how the dream of getting back to their village was a constant in the refugees' lives. Following some of the same families featured in the 1993 film, this film highlights the significant contribution of the United Nations (OHR), the European Union and foreign donors in making possible the returns to this village. Above all, however, it talk to the determination and will of the displaced villagers to rebuild their pre-war lives, and surprisingly shows how the Bosniak refugees found common understanding based on shared experience with Croat refugees who had taken over their homes.

THE ROAD TO NOWHERE: YUGOSLAVIA (ROA)
1994, 50 min.
This documentary uses the country's first highway, the Highway of Brotherhood and Unity, as a symbol for everything that has gone wrong in the former Yugoslavia. This highway has turned into a road "impassable for both Serb and Croat--a road to nowhere."

ROMEO AND JULIET IN SARAJEVO (ROMJ)
1994, 100 min., Produced by Frontline.
Admira and Bosko, a Muslim and a Serb, died in each other's arms trying to escape Sarajevo, just yards away from freedom and safety.

SARAJEVO: THE LIVING AND THE DEAD (SAR1)
1994, 60 min., Produced by Frontline.
Meet ordinary people living extraordinary lives. Discover the beauty that survives amidst the rubble in Sarajevo, the hope amidst the agony.

SERBIA: NATION OF NEW BEGINNINGS (SERB) (DVD)
2008, 27 min, English. Directed and narrated by Judy O’Bannon.
An episode of Judy O’Bannon’s Foreign Exchange, “Serbia: A Nation of New Beginnings” takes viewers to fascinating places around the world and introduces them to people who are finding new ways to use mind, body, and spirit to help change their world for the better. Serbia’s story is one of turmoil and uncertainty that seems, at first, far removed from the lives we live here in Indiana. But as Judy O’Bannon discovered when she went to Serbia, the basic needs and desires that shape us—Serb or Hoosier—are universal, and we can see ourselves in their experiences. Judy led a delegation from Ambassadors for Children to Serbia, at the invitation of the Crown Prince and Princess of Yugoslavia, who have recently repatriated to their homeland. The hope of the royalty is shared by Serbians: to make a transition from their war-torn past to become a peaceful, prosperous part of mainstream Europe.

TRUTH UNDER SEIGE (TRU)
1994, 68 min., Directed by Gladsjo/Borgers.
This feature-length documentary chronicles the heroic efforts of independent journalists in Serbia, Croatia, and Bosnia who resist the nationalist propaganda put forth in the official media. Their struggle for the democratic ideal of a free press is waged with courage, irreverence, and often rebellious glee. Despite siege conditions, sanctions and government repression, these individual provide voices of sanity amid the hysteria of war.

WE ARE ALL NEIGHBORS: BOSNIA (BOS)
1993, 52 min., English.
In a Muslim/Catholic village near Sarajevo, rumors fly and suspicions spread. When Catholic Croats assert control, Muslim businesses are attacked, villagers arrested and harassed, and homes threatened. Three weeks later, neighbors who had been close friends for 50 years no longer speak to each other, and the peaceful coexistence between Croats and Muslims disintigrates into mutual distrust and fear.

WHAT WE HAVE AT STAKE IN THE BALKANS (WHAT)
1999, 27 min.
Pro and Con episode taped at Indiana University. President Myles Brand interviews Bernd Fischer (IPFW), Dina Spechler (IU), Francine Friedman (Ball State), and former Congressman Frank McCloskey.

WHILE AMERICA WATCHED: THE BOSNIA TRAGEDY (WHI)
1991, 47 min.
Peter Jennings narrates from the beginnings of troubles in 1992 between the Serbs, Muslims, and Croats. Several figures who first sought out aid from the United States speak out, citing atrocities such as widespread genocide and Serbian death camps.

YUGOSLAVIA: THE AVOIDABLE WAR (YUGA1, YUGA2, YUGA3)
2002, 135 min. Produced by George Bogdanich and Martin Lettmayer.
This documentary presents a history of the breakup of Yugoslavia, including the fascist antecedents of many separatist elements, and the role of German and US intelligence in arming and training them today. It examines the secession of Croatia and Slovenia from Yugoslavia, their swift recognition by Germany, and the ethnic strife that unleashed; the civil war in Bosnia, including the atrocities (real and imagined) of Muslims, Croats and Serbs, and manipulation of same in the media; US support for Croatian forces and Operation Storm in the Krajina; US support for Bosnian Muslim forces and the prolonging of the Bosnian war; the nature of the Dayton settlement; the onset of the war in Kosovo. It presents a devastating critique of US and European (notably German) policy, from interviews with sources such as Hans-Dietrich Genscher (former German FM), Lord Peter Carrington (former UK FM), David Owen (UK diplomat), George Kenney, Lawrence Eagleburger and James Baker (ex-US State Dept), James Jatras (US Senate foreign policy staffer), Susan Woodward (Brookings Institution), Nora Beloff (late UK historian), David Binder (NY Times), John MacArthur (Harper's), David Hackworth (Newsweek), UN forces commanders Lewis Mackenzie and Michael Rose; and numerous others.

YUGOSLAVIA BEFORE THE FALL (YUG4)
1994, 29 min.
Termed "the ideal introduction" to the current situation in the former Yugoslavia, this program examines the history and people of the fragile federation of Serbs, Croats, Bosnians, Montenegrans, Macedonians, and Slovenians. By looking at the history of this federation, the current situation can be truly understood.

YUGOSLAVIA: DEATH OF A NATION (YUG1, YUG2, YUG3)
1995, 60 min. each episode.
Five part Discovery channel series hosted by Christiane Amanpour.

YUGOSLAVIA: ORIGINS OF A WAR (YUG5)
1992, by Christophe Talczewski.
This film examines the conflict in Yugoslavia from the beginning of the twentieth century with the creation of Yugoslavia, the second World War, and the arrival of Tito. The program continues, outlining the rise of nationalism in the early 1980s, the outbreak of civil war, and the destruction of the state of Yugoslavia.

YUGOSLAVIA: THE SUMMER OF 1953 (YUG6)
1986, 40 min.
Scenes from Yugoslav life as seen by a professor of Slavic languages during his first visit to Yugoslavia in 1953. Produced by Pennsylvania State University.