The Weight of Chains

Well documented story! The author was very young during the war, so rather the being emotional for the sake of his Serbian "fraternity", he chose obvious facts, lots of audio and video recordings that cannot be propaganda. Propanada is not what this documentary is about, because it would be useless when too much damage has already been done, and propaganda can fix a zero thing right now. This not being just a lament over the sad old times is also an attempt to reconcile the people who certainly all have been victims, regardless of their ethnicity. The author tried to show the position of the people of the Balkans in general, taking about the geopolitical position, which is something other authors before him missed to do.

This is a Serbian documentary but anybody who watches it from the area of former Yugoslavia will learn that everything is not black and white and it never is.

Not many Croats will have the willpower to watch the whole documentary but they should not because of the part about politics before the war and war itself but for the second part that talks about economy and what has happened to us all after the wars.

Pay attention to the graph of the Yugoslavia and the debt that each country accumulated.

Shame that the author was not more neutral because many people will not see it because of it.

At the end its better to be a colony then to kill each other.

Pretty special, whether you are looking for hopelessly paranoid ramblings or wildly inaccurate facts (population of the EU is 1 Billion, and the Slovenes are hopelessly unhappy with their current prosperity) - you are well served by this title.

The film makers, as commented on by other reviewers, display a worrying Serbian tendency to rationalise the war without accepting even partial reponsibility. Of course it wasn't all the Serbs, or the Croats or the Bosniaks, all shared in the blame, just as the West could rightly be criticised for it's own mismanagement of the crisis. But deny even a portion of the blame to Serbia is just ridiculous.

I can understand an anti-Nato bias, a Serbian friend of mine lived two hundred yards from a Nato precision bomb on a TV station that killed his neighbour. That isn't going to endear Nato to anyone. But with delusional propaganda like this... reconciliation isn't going to be made any easier.

Great documentary! Shall we no more hear "What happened to Yugoslavia"! Love it that it is done in English with a plethora of people knowledgeable about this issue and not just people who second guess. Facts presented in this movie are too hard to ignore considering their sources and it is all well tied in with never-before-seen footage, chronology of the events and Boris's great sense of humor. The message being "real heroes are not the top heads who started the whole war, but rather every day people who didn't want the war" it is hard not to sit down and loose yourself in this movie and the history. May we have more coming from Boris. :)

I have just watched this, and i have to say that it is very good documentary.

From my point of view as a Serb, when i hear all of these lies, delusions, that lead to massive wars, i feel such an anger, and i'm asking myself, how can someone betray everything that we are, because of the money, and personal good, what happened to moral, what is going on with f....ng world!? Yes i know, this is happening from the beginning of the world, but still.. overall everyone who is interested why and how it really happened, just watch this, maybe not 100% objective as i read in some comments from other people view, but none the less, very informative.

I hope one day we all realize what is really going on, and turn to the right direction.