Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

drazenn-95891 Start slaughtering innocent people in places in Croatia where there was a similar number of Croat and Serbian people, start attacking them, burning their houses, slaughter them if they don't want to leave alone, and then blame everything on a fear from WW2 which ended 70 years ago. Serbs from Croatia and Bosnia forced almost 2 million people to flee their cities,towns,villages, and now they try to blame not only WW2 and fear from it but West and western governments too because of that. The simplest fact which puts all of their so called evidences to a garbage is their SANU memorandum made in the 80's which was actually a plan made by their most honorable scientists, wrighters, artists, how to,(step by step) blame other nationalities for everything Serbs didn't like, how to rule the whole Yugoslavia without giving rights to other etnic minorities,etc. And it was written step by step! (SANU actually means Serbian Academy of Science and Arts, and it was open only for the academic people). Even after they lost the war and the plan about Great Serbia became big BS, SANU made SANU memorandum nr.2 where they again have build a plan how to equalise the guilt of all nations in this region, and they are still pushing it by repeating their lies about fear of what happened in WW2. After the WW2, Serbian comission counted all the Serbian victims name by name, and number was around 70 000 (yes, very high number, but every victim was named,and in those 70 000 people, TITO and partisans included even the names of people who died of old age, sickness, or died in some other part of country so Yugoslavia would get more money from Germany) 20 years later, Serbs started talking about 100 000 victims. 25 years after the war, number of Serbian victims was almost 200 000. 30 years after the war, number of Serbian victims was close to 500 000. 40 years after the war, they simply rounded that number to a 1 000 000 (1 milion) 45 years after the war, they raised the number to a 1 500 000 (1,5 milion victims) Now, 70 years after the war, they are talking about almost 2 000 000 Serb victims in Croatia. In that time, whole Croatia didn't have so many people. In 1931. people counting gave us a number of 710 000 Serbs in Croatia. In 1948 ( first people counting after the ww2) gave us a number of 921 000 Serbs in Croatia. So how is it possible to have 700 000 people, then kill 2 000 000. and after all the killings yet again you have 200 000 people more that you use to? Lame Serbian propaganda which never stops :)

Niksa From the beginning is obvious that this is biased "documentary"... You don't have to wait long to hear blatant lies. In first few minutes author glorifies first Yugoslavia as some great solution in which everyone was so happy and it was so sad it lived only until WWII... In fact it was great deception, and after promises of equality of all nations and constitutional monarchy, it turned out to be Serbian hegemony. On the first day of new state some Croats were killed on main square in Croatian capitol for protesting by Serbian army. 4 Croatian parliamentarians were killed in national parliament by some Serbian representative. After that, Serbian King proclaims dictatorship. After that he changes the name of the state from Kingdom of Serbs Croats and Slovenians to Kingdom of Yugoslavia, with new motto "One nation, one King, one state." What to say, paradise for all... Author forgot to mention how loved was King. So much that he was assassinated...As to reasons for breakup of the second Yugoslavia, I can agree that economic troubles were one factor that contributed, but to say it was the sole reason is ridiculous. Something like that could say only someone that wasn't there, or someone who is crazy... Or just lying.Why doesn't author mention infamous "Memorandum of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts" from 85/86? Or "organized spontaneity" that Milosevic used to abolish autonomy of Kosovo and Vojvodina? And same "yogurt revolution" approach in Montenegro?And there it is, plain and simple, main reason for breakup... Suddenly, Serbia has 4 automatic votes in Presidency. Other 4 Republics have 1 each. WHO would want to stay in such "equality"??????? Economy?!? Come on... In 89 Markovic even made famous reforms and stabilized Dinar, and situation was much better. And besides that, Yugoslavia was in much better position than rest of communist states of former Soviet block... Did Czech and Slovak's breakup violently?And claim that Serbs just wanted to protect parts of land where they were majority is like fairytale for little kids. We all remember famous cry "Where is one Serb, it is Serbia!". For example, I'm from Dubrovnik and I wonder where is Serbian majority there? Those Serbs in Dubrovnik I know were hiding in basements from "Peoples" army relentless shelling's, just like I did. What was the point of 10 days war in Slovenia? Who was protected there? Sibenik? Zadar? Vukovar? Sarajevo? Tuzla?....Why doesn't author admit what was Serbian story then? That they will stop only when they reach "Virovitica - Karlovac- Karlobag" line... That's all of Bosnia and 90% of Croatia.Author makes note that Croats acquired some weapons illegally, but forgets to mention that weapons of "territorial defense" which belonged to Croatia was illegally confiscated by Yugoslav Peoples Army and given to local Serbs who used it to start armed rebellion on 17. of August 1990. And he forgets to explain how suddenly peoples army which was multinational and had barracks in every corner of Yugoslavia, in just few days become purely Serbian?To be honest I watched first 45 minutes or so, couldn't stand it any more. Just another try to equalize guilt, with the spin this time... It's a world conspiracy, we couldn't do anything to stop it!Well, for sure every side is guilty of something, BUT guilt is not equal, and never will be, we all know it. We all know who started it, who was armed to the teeth and how many shells fell on Serbia until finally world and UN understood who is warmonger in ex Yugoslavia and bombed it silly.BTW, to see that here Izetbegovic is portrayed as the bad boy, the worst one, is simply hilarious. Poor guy didn't know what hit him, Slobo, Karadjic and co. on one side, and Tudjman, Mate Boban and co. on the other. "He wanted all..." Funny!If you look for objective story, look elsewhere...

ditto94 Not sure why this movie has high ratings despite of negative comments; I am giving it a 1 because the narrator's voice is too obnoxious and his snarky attitude is the least bit flattering to even attempt to sit through a "serious" documentary for two and a half hours. Although it deemed to have good points I was interested in hearing, such as on economy and the overall involvement from the west, the movie is blatantly biased. Even though his overall "thesis" was to present the fall of Yugoslavia, he clearly has his topics mixed up when he switches gears and ultimately tried to "debunk" the Serbian involvement and proclaim innocence in the wars. Thank you Malagurski for teaching us the things we should have known (sarcasm implied), should have stuck to economy and not downplayed the Chetnik atrocities during the war!

fulcrum-262-916011 Movie: Copy of Michael Moors funny input of movie clips in "original" movie. Story: If you want historical objective view, don't watch that. The most objective movie on that subject is "The Death of Yugoslavia" made by BBC. I would give it 7/10 because there is not origin of problem. If you compare these two movies "The Weight of Chains" and "The Death of Yugoslavia" you can see the main difference: In the first one there is no single important person speaking from that time, in second one, there are key players of that time. There are not mentioned bad things about Yugoslavia and people could really believe that it was heaven. Freedom of speech, freedom of journalism, political opponents were killed or imprisoned. Movie is on purpose dealing with falls history data in favor of Serbia. They didn't say that 1st Yugoslavia after WWI was dictatorship of Serbian king, who suspended parliament in which Croatian leaders were killed in Belgrade. They have put that Germany was in control of Serbia during WWII that is not truth. They have Nedic state which was the Nazi-state like CIS. They did not say that Chetniks were supported by fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. And the first partisans in Europe were Croatians with Tito, who was also Croatian. In Jasenovac were killed people of all nationalities and Jews were deported from all parts of Yugoslavia, number is proved few times less then mentioned in the movie. Albanians are called minority and they made 88% of Kosovo population. They didn't mentioned that Milosevic terminated autonomy of Kosovo and Vojvodina. Croatian liberation of occupied parts of it country they called occupation. They didn't say which civilians were killed in Vukovar. Hundreds of catholic churches and Muslim mosques were destroyed, but they are showing Serbian orthodox church. The "great economic strength"of Yugoslavia should be watched on economic data of individual state. Google it. Slovenia was the most developed, Kosovo as part of Serbia least. Majority of budget was spent for army and development of Kosovo. You still wander why some republics wanted independence? Don't. Conclusion: The plain propaganda Serbian movie.