Documentaries Tagged “genocide”
The Devil Came On Horseback
The Devil Came On Horseback
The Devil Came on Horseback presents a first-person account of the genocide in Darfur. Former Marine Captain Brian Steidle joined the African Union in 2004 to help monitor the cease-fire in Sudan. As he puts it, All I had was a camera, a pen, and paper. I was totally unprepared for what I’d see.
An unarmed military civilian, he desc...
The Death of Yugoslavia
The Death of Yugoslavia
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 the former Yugoslavia. It is notable in its combination of never-before-seen archive footage interspersed with interviews of most ...
Ghosts of Rwanda
Ghosts of Rwanda
When the United Nations sent peacekeepers to this small, Central African nation — with the full support of the U.S. government — most of the policy-makers involved believed it would be a straightforward mission that would help restore the U.N.’s battered reputation after failures in Bosnia and Somalia. Few could imagine that, a decade ...
Yugoslavia: The Avoidable War
Yugoslavia: The Avoidable War
If anyone doubts that it is time for a clear and critical look at Western intervention in the Balkans, consider this: The forces that the US supported in Bosnia and Kosovo were and are closely allied with Osama Bin Laden’s al-Qaeda network.
Bin Laden, himself, was a regular visitor in the office of Bosnia’s President Alija Izetbegov...
Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death
Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death
Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death describes how King Leopold II of Belgium turned Congo into its private colony between 1885 and 1908.
Under his control, Congo became a gulag labor camp of shocking brutality. Leopold posed as the protector of Africans fleeing Arab slave-traders but, in reality, he carved out an empire based...
Srebrenica: A Cry from the Grave
Srebrenica: A Cry from the Grave
Srebrenica, Bosnia, the world’s first United Nations Safe Area, was the site of the worst case of genocide in Europe since World War II.
In July 1995, the Bosnian Serb army staged a brutal takeover of the small, intimate spa town and its surrounding region.
Over a period of five days, the Bosnian Serb soldiers separated Muslim fa...