Repository – Learning history that is not yet history

The database (REPOSITORY) is devoted to teaching about the wars of 1990s on the territory of the former Yugoslavia. It contains materials that can be used in elementary and secondary schools devoted to learning about the wars of the 1990s. Among the materials, users can find: teaching materials, historical sources, databases of historical sources, literature, websites, projects and initiatives of relevant organizations, museum exhibitions, documentaries and feature films ….

By using the key words in the cloud, you can search for materials based on: chronology, material type, personality, geographic characteristics, as well as the specificity of the material itself (for example – war sufferings, refugees, public representation of wars, war victims). Each processed material contains: the name of the material, the type of the material, the description (context), the link / availability, the original language.

Search can also be performed through the browser by entering specific terms and is made easier by grouping them into several categories based on topics.

This database represents the starting point for further research and requires further upgrading. Users can propose new materials they believe should be part of the database, making it open to public. All suggested materials that meet the teaching application criteria can find their place in the database.

Disclaimer: The selected materials available in the database do not reflect the views of the participants in the project.

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“Batajnica Initiative for a Memorial”, web portal of the Humanitarian Law Center -
The “Batajnica Initiative for a Memorial” is a web project of the Fund for Humanitarian Law, with the aim of ...
“Crime Without Punishment – the Suffering of Serbs in the Middle Podrinje” -
A documentary about the suffering of Serbs during the war in the Bosnian territory of the municipalities of Bratunac, Skelani, ...
“Rimtutituki” -
The project of the anti-war campaign “Rimtutuitki” was created on the proposal of the Center for antiwar activity in the ...
“Tudjman, Milosevic: A War Agreement”? -
Documentary dealing with relations between Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and Croatian President Franjo Tudjman. It is based on the testimonies ...
15 minutes – Massacre in Dvor -
Documentary “15 Minutes – Massacre in Dvor” (58: 39, 2015) directed by Georg Larsen, Kasper Vedsmand and the production Final ...
3 days -
A documentary about civilians that on 7 May 1991 used trucks to prevent the tenks of the JNA from the ...
A Storm above the Krajina -
In the summer of 1995, the Operation Storm ended with the final liberation of occupied Croatian territories. The film reconstructs ...
Abuse of history in the processes that led to the last war in Bosnia and Herzegovina -
The focus of the material is the period immediately preceding the war. The central position of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the ...
Aleksandra Zec -
The book was created as a project with the play “Aleksandra Zec” by Oliver Frljić premiered in April 2014. The ...
Ante Lešaj: Bookocide – the destruction of books in Croatia in the 1990s -
Ante Lešaje’s research was published in 2012 in cooperation with the publishing house Profil and the Serbian National Council. The ...
Balkan research network in Bosnia and Herzegovina -
The Balkan Research Network in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIRN BiH) is a non-governmental media organization based in Sarajevo, specializing in ...
Bora Radovic: Yugoslav Wars 1991-1999 and some of their social consequences -
Radović’s work is the first part of the Monograph “Torture in War, Consequences and Rehabilitation: Yugoslav Experience” and gives a ...
Boris Dežulović – “Fuck now a thousand dinars” -
The action takes place in one day, from morning till dusk on Sunday, August 29, 1993, and the entire plot ...
BORIS DEŽULOVIĆ ABOUT SAYING FAREWELL TO A FRIEND: Miro Bogdanović was the bravest man in the city! -
The commemoration of Miro Bogdanovic, a famous Split caterer who in the 1990s, because of his blood count being deemed ...
Bosnian Book of the Dead – War Losses in Bosnia and Herzegovina 1991 – 1995 -
Bosnian Book of the Dead (2012) a list of 95,940 names of the killed and missing in the war of ...
Bridge -
The story of life in post-war Mostar is told from the perspective of two young people. The story of the ...
Camp Dretelj a place of untold crime -
The former fuel store of the Yugoslav People’s Army in the village of Dretelj near Capljina in the spring of ...
Children -
Documentary produced by Radio Television of Republika Srpska. The author of the film is Denis Bojic. Bojić’s documentary “Children” is ...
Circles -
“Circles” is a feature film shot in 2013 directed by Srdan Golubovic, written by Srdjan Koljevic and Melina Pota Koljevic. ...
Coalition for RECOM -
Web portal of the Regional Commission for establishing facts about war crimes and other serious human rights violations committed in ...
Crime and punishment / Srebrenica -
A documentary directed by Maria Fuglevag Varsinski from 1998. The film, about 75 minutes long, shows personal testimonies of survivors ...
Crimes in front of the eyes of the tribunal: Central Bosnia -
“Crimes in front of the eyes of the tribunal: Central Bosnia” deals with some of the gravest crimes committed against ...
Cry from the grave -
A two-hour documentary film about the crime in Srebrenica. The documentary contains testimonies of survivors and their relatives, as well ...
Dealing with the past -
“Dealing with the past” is the platform of Forum Ziviler Friedensdienst e. V. (forumZFD) with the topic of dealing with ...
Digital Library – Montenegrina -
Montenegrin Digital Library is an independent initiative to preserve the Montenegrin science and cultural heritage. In one of its sections ...
Do you remember Sarajevo? -
“Do you remember Sarajevo” is a film made from amateur video works by brothers Sead and Nihad Kreševljaković and Nedim ...
Documenta – Center for dealing with the past -
Documenta – The Center for dealing with the past in Croatia is a web portal that contains documentary material, publications, ...
Documentaries by the Center for Nonviolent Action -
“Fortress” – memory of war, author Nenad Vukosavljevic, shot in 2013, voice: Sanja Burazerovic from Zavidovici, duration: 4:27 minutes “Visits of ...
Dragan Markovina – Between red and black: Split and Mostar in the culture of memory -
The book talks about the culture of remembrance. It is a critique of ideologically motivated inventing of (nationalistically colored) mythology ...
DRAGO PILSEL: Can a Serb be a Croatian martyr: The first victim of the Homeland War is not Josip Jovic but Goran Alavanja -
Josip Jovic died on March 31, 1991 during a “Plitvice” action when special members of the Croatian MUP re-established a ...
Dubrovnik in Homeland War 1991-1995 -
In the exhibition, more than 350 items from museum collections were presented in the copies and original, and documentary videos ...
Events, narratives and interpretations of 1992: Prijedor case -
Adis Hukanović describes war crimes committed in the territory of Prijedor municipality in 1992. Places of suffering, places of exhumation ...
Fall of the Krajina -
Filip Svarm’s documentary from 2007 gives an impression of the war in the Krajina, as well as the political and ...
Fama Collection -
The siege of Sarajevo is told through the experience of ordinary people – citizens of Sarajevo. Most of the recorded ...
Feature History – Fall of Yugoslavia -
Feature History presents a youtube channel, in which in 10 minutes authors try to present, through graphics and animation, complex ...
Feral Tribune -
Feral Tribune (Split, Croatia) a digital edition of a weekly magazine on four (4) DVDs with a program that allows ...
Fortress -
The documentary “Fortress” (2013) is about the memory of the war-time childhood of Sanja Burazerovic from Zavidovici during the wars ...
FUCK YOU, LEONE! A letter of disapproval from HV Colonel to the actor Leon Lucev -
Colonel Zeljko Petko, a war member of the Fourth Guard unit, sent an open letter to actor Leon Lucev as ...
Gorazde: Protected zone -
Joe Sako shaped his newspaper report in the graphic novel “Gorazde: Protected Zone”. Sako describes his four-month stay in Gorazde ...
Halima’s road -
“Halimin put” is the feature film by director Arsen Anton Ostojic inspired by a true story, written by Feđa Isovic. ...
He -
“He” is a monograph by the famous cartoonist Predrag Koraksic Koraks. The monograph contains a collection of caricatures in which ...
Heroes in white -
Documentary was produced by the Association for the Protection of Historical Values of BiH “Haber” from Sarajevo led by producers ...
Home in a foreign land -
Documentary “Home in a foreign land” is about the people (refugees) who, after the war, exchanged their apartments and houses ...
Homeland War -
The exhibition in its introductory part presents the reflection of the Homeland War 20 years later in the Croatian everyday-life ...
How did the war on my island begin? -
War comedy about the beginnings of war in Croatia. In a comical way, with the presentation of numerous stereotypes, it ...
How to creatively approach history teaching -
Auxiliary teaching material “How to creatively approach history teaching” contains written preparations for teachers, students in the teaching of teaching ...
I want the truth about what happened to my neighbors Serbs in Sarajevo -
The letter was published by Haris Jusufovic, a history teacher in Sarajevo. It is an attempt by an individual to ...
ICTY: Kosovo case 1998-1999. -
An interactive narrative shows how the crimes committed in Kosovo in 1998 and 1999 were investigated, reconstructed and prosecuted by ...
Ilija T. Radakovic: Meaningless YU warfare 1991-1995 -
The book by a former JNA officer and veteran of the National Liberation Army gives a critical review of the ...
In the name of father and son -
The Yugoslav feature film from 1999, featuring stereotypes and myths used in war propaganda in Montenegro during the 1990s. Availability: online Language: Montenegrin, ...
It’s time to stop the silence. So that the war veterans wake up -
The actor Leon Lucev wrote from his war veteran experience, as well as the experience of working with the Croatian ...
Knin fell in Belgrade -
In the book “Knin fell in Belgrade”, the author, who was also JNA General, is trying to assess the tragedy ...
Konjic (Celebici 92, Without any doubt) -
Video material was created based on the conference organized by the Fund for Humanitarian Law of Serbia in Belgrade on ...
Kosovo book of remembrance -
The Kosovo Book of remembrance (2015) is a database of the Humanitarian Law Center and the Humanitarian Law Center for ...
Lessons from the ’91. -
The Traveling Exhibition (2016 – 2017) “Lessons from the ’91” is the project of the Society for European Consciousness in ...
Library – Humanitarian Law Center -
The Humanitarian Law Center has a specialized library dedicated to the collection and preservation of materials related to areas of ...
Lora testimonies -
A film about the prison located in the Split war port of Lora, through which from 1992 to 1996 passed ...
Mapping of camps / detention sites in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1992-1995. -
The project “Mapping of camps / detention sites” aims to document the existence of the camps, the number and names ...
Media in Serbia: Chronicle of Decline -
Documentary series about the media in Serbia produced by the Ministry of Culture and Education of the Republic of Serbia ...
Memorandum of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU Memorandum), 1986. -
The Memorandum of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU Memorandum) is a draft document made by a committee ...
Memorandum, sin of the unfinished text, part one -
Documentary program “Memorandum, sin of the unfinished text” was made in the production of Radio Television of Serbia. The author ...
Memorandum, sin of the unfinished text, part two -
The second part of the documentary “Memorandum, sin of the unfinished text” was produced by Radio Television of Serbia in ...
Memorial home Ovčara -
Ovčara is the name of a farm within Vupik, located five kilometers southeast of Vukovar. Today known for the crime ...
Memory on the move – a pedagogical tool on the culture of remembrance -
Workshops prepared for working with students aged 15+ years. It also includes short films. The manual is structured as an interactive ...
Men do not cry -
Feature film from 2017. The film is a story of several war veteran from BiH, Serbia and Croatia, who took ...
Monuments on gunpoint -
The exhibition consists of photographs, videos, eyewitness accounts and documents about the destruction of cultural heritage during armed conflicts in ...
Museum of War Childhood -
Jasminko Halilović is the author of the project “Childhood in War”, which in June 2010 published an online call to ...
Nafaka -
In Sarajevo in 1992, a group of friends believed that their nafaka, fate, is waiting for them. They have enough ...
News from the past: knowledge, ignorance, use and misuse of history -
News from the past is a product of research conducted by the Belgrade Center for Human Rights within a project ...
No Man’s Land -
“No Man’s Land” is a motion picture shot in 2001 and directed by Danis Tanovic. It shows the events of ...
Once Brothers -
Documentary about basketball stars Drazen Petrovic and Vlado Divac. Although once great friends, the war that broke out in Yugoslavia ...
One history, several histories -
The publication “Annex to the Textbooks for the Newest History” was published by Documenta (2008) – The Center for Dealing ...
Outreach program of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia -
The Outreach program (1999) of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia is a program aimed at young people, ...
Pavilion 22 -
Pavilion 22 deals with one of the dark episodes of recent Croatian history – events in the notorious pavilion at ...
Permanent exhibition of the Historical Museum, National Museum of Montenegro -
The permanent exhibition represents historical periods from prehistory to 2006. The disintegration of Yugoslavia and the role of Montenegro, is ...
Personal memories of wars and other forms of political violence from 1941 to the present day -
The Personal Memories Project (2010) is a web portal of testimonies of witnesses of historical events in Croatia during the ...
Place of Remembrance Vukovar Hospital 1991 -
“Place of Remembrance Vukovar Hospital 1991” is a permanent museum exhibition located in the basement and atomic shelter of the ...
Planet Sarajevo -
Documentary consisting of several stories about the siege of Sarajevo. Shot without narration and interviews – it shows everyday struggle ...
Pretty Village, Pretty Flame -
“Pretty Village, Pretty Flame” is a feature film shot in 1996, directed by Srdjan Dragojevic. The script was written by ...
Rambo Amadeus interrupted the Festival Belgrade Spring in 1992. -
In 1992, a rock concert titled “Belgrade Rock Winner” was held during the Festival Belgrade Spring. The concert was broadcasted ...
Robert Donia, “From the Assembly of the Republic of Srpska 1991-1996”, excerpts from the presentation of the Republika Srpska MPs as evidence at the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague, University Press, Sarajevo-Tuzla 2012. -
The book by American historian Robert Donia brings transcripts of parliamentary speeches, as well as the statements of the top ...
Ron Haviv: Blood & Honey (photo essay) -
Ron Haviv is an American photographer who recorded many important events during the wars in the former Yugoslavia. His photographs ...
Sarajevo Romeo and Juliet -
A documentary made by PBS television in 1994 about the death of Boško Brkić and Admira Ismić. They were both ...
Sarajevo Roses -
Photographer and director from Virginia, Roger M. Richards was the witness of the siege of Sarajevo in the period from ...
Sarajevo’s most famous public secret: Confronting Caca, Kazani and crimes committed against Serbs in besieged Sarajevo, from war time until 2015. -
The key issue the author asks is “to which extent are social groups and societies generally willing, not only to ...
Sarajevo’s War Surrealists -
During the siege of Sarajevo, former members of the popular TV show Top List of Surrealists gathered and initially broadcasted ...
See you in the Obituary -
Documentary directed by Janko Balka from 1994. Based on the book “Criminal which Changed Serbia” by Aleksandar Knezevic and Vojislav ...
Sense Agency (Sense Tribunal) -
The specialized information agency, which provides regular, comprehensive information on developments in the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia ...
Serbian side of the war: trauma and catharsis in historical memory (proceedings) -
Proceedings in the field of history, sociology, anthropology, etc. devoted to the wars of the 1990s and the “Serbian issue” ...
Slobodan Milosevic’s Speech at Gazimestan, June 28, 1989 -
Speech was held on the occasion of the 600th anniversary of the Kosovo Battle on June 28, 1989. Availability: online Language: Serbian Key ...
Srđo – A documentary -
A film about Srđan Aleksić, a young man from Trebinje, member of the Republika Srpska Army who was killed by ...
Srebrenica: Genocide in eight acts -
“Srebrenica: Genocide in eight acts” (2016) is an interactive narrative in the production of the SENSE agency. The narrative contains ...
Stefan Jankovic: Politicization of cultural differences: the break-up of Yugoslavia in post-socialist emigrant prose -
In the given article, attempts are made to analyze cultural differences as one of the main reasons for the collapse ...
Stories from Vukovar, Sinisa Glavašević -
Twenty four short lyrical stories about Vukovar, childhood, friends, life, war and the world surrounding us are the only legacy ...
Storm in The Hague -
“Storm in The Hague” (2015) is an interactive narrative produced by the SENSE Center for Transitional Justice (Pula) and the ...
Suppression of history and remembrance -
An interactive narrative “Suppression of history and remembrance” (2016) produced by the Center for Transitional Justice SENSE, is dedicated to ...
Survival in Sarajevo – friendship in the time of war -
A documentary provides an insight into one segment of life and the survival of the civilian population in the besieged ...
Teacher TV: How to teach history in Bosnia and Herzegovina -
The Teachers TV production company from Great Britain recorded a documentary film on the teaching of history in Bosnia and ...
Teaching Contemporary Southeast European History: History, Volume 2: Wars, Divisions, Integration (1990-2008) -
A collection of historical sources, organized by a group of historians from the region, called Wars, Divisions, Integrations, covers the ...
Teaching History in Bosnia -
Documentary produced by Teacher tv. The film shows how history shapes national identities and what impact it has on the ...
Textbooks of History in Post-Conflict Societies: Education for Reconciliation? -
Title: V Transitional Justice Forum: History Textbooks in Post-Conflict Societies: Education for Reconciliation?, Humanitarian Law Center, Belgrade 2015. Editor: Marijana Toma Authors: ...
The Bosnia list -
“The Bosnia list” is a book written by Kenan Trebincevic together with journalist Suzan Sapiro, who helped organize his writings ...
The boy in a hurry -
The personal story of the director Biljana Cakic-Veselic about the search for a brother who disappeared in the war in ...
The breakup of Yugoslavia -
Belgrade’s lawyer Srđa Popovic’s book looks at the breakup of Yugoslavia from a legal point of view. In this publication ...
The Death of Yugoslavia -
Documentary series of six episodes, produced by the BBC in 1995. The series includes the period of breakup of Yugoslavia, ...
The Depth Two -
“The Depth Two” is a documentary about the mass grave discovered in Batajnica in 2001, in which bodies of Kosovo ...
The overthrow of ’89 -
The documentary produced by RTCG about the collapse of the Communist Party in Montenegro and the arrival of new people ...
The process of dealing with the past in Montenegro – Morinj case -
The Center for Civic Education from Podgorica created the publication “The Process of Dealing with the Past in Montenegro – ...
The project “Historija, istorija, povijest” -
The project “Historija, istorija, povijest” on the territory of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Macedonia. It included the production ...
The suffering of children in Slavonski Brod -
Statistical data on wounded and dead children in the municipality of Slavonski Brod during the Homeland War. Availability: https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stradavanje_djece_u_Slavonskom_Brodu Language: Croatian Key words: ...
The testimony of Marija Oljače -
Testimony about the beginnings of conflict and about life in Vukovar during the 1991 war conflict. Availability: http://os-sijana-pu.skole.hr/zsv_povijest Language: Croatian Key words:
The Unforgiven -
Documentary “The Unforgiven” of Danish director Lars Feldbale Petersen. Esad Lando has been trying to reconcile with his war-past for ...
They sort-of want to secede, and we sort-of prevent them! -
Jutel Television – statement by JNA soldier (corporal) Bahrudin Kaletović during the war in Slovenia, Krakovski Gozd, June 27, 1991. ...
Tour -
The feature film “Tour” was premiered in 2008. It was produced in co-production with Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia. ...
Untold history, anti-war campaign 1991-1991 -
The book was published on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the founding of the Antiwar Campaign of Croatia. ...
Untold stories -
“Untold stories” (2014) is a research project of the Vojvodina Civil Center (VGC) that deals with the issue of warfare ...
Untold stories (documentary) -
The documentary “Untold Stories” (2008/2009) is about people who risked their lives by helping their fellow citizens of other ethnicities ...
War for Dubrovnik -
Documentary series from 2010 in the production of Radio Television of Montenegro. The film gives an overview of the official ...
War for peace -
Documentary from 2004 which provides a detailed insight into the attack on Dubrovnik, by the Montenegrin journalist Koca Popovic. This ...
War in Mostar -
Documentary produced by the British BBC. British journalists documented daily life in the eastern part of Mostar. The film is ...
War of memories. Research on places of sufferings and memories of the war in BiH -
The publication was created as part of the project “War memorials in BiH (since 1991)”. The aim was to explore ...
War photo Limited -
War photo Limited is a web portal containing war photographs of war photographers exhibited in the War Photo Gallery in ...
What we (do not) teach children -
The material represents an analysis of the content of the textbooks of the national group of subjects in elementary schools ...
Yugoslavia – a country that has died -
Publication written in a style of popular science, using archive sources and historical material, as well as quoting the main ...
Yugoslavia from the beginning to the end -
The exhibition “Yugoslavia From the Beginning to the End” is part of a project lasting several years, on which experts ...
Zetra – days of Hope -
The memories of ordinary people of the Peace Movement and of the Peace Concert held in July 1991 in the ...
Zlata Filipovic: Zlatin dnevnik -
Zlata Filipovic was a twelve-year-old girl during the siege of Sarajevo in 1992. The teacher persuaded her to begin to ...