Joseph Buljan Terrible. The movie barely touched on key parts of the war. Barely mentioned Bosniak and Croat deaths and sensationalized the Serbian point of view. But if you do want to see a Yugoslavian nationalist, ultra Serbian POV of the war this is the movie for you. This movie was very one sided and was not in a neutral POV. Some of the facts seem to be taken from wrong sources. It just has the feel of a propaganda movie. The biggest reason I give the movie a 1 out of 10 ( if I could I would give a 0) is because the whole movie tends to completely wipe out the crimes committed by Serbia(JNA) and emphasizes crimes committed by the Croats and Muslims. The movie tries to cleanse the JNA of wrong doing and clearly favors a Serbian point of view, would have been much better if it stood in a neutral view and covered all sides.

DA A An interesting try to show the role of the "International community" in the breakup of ex Yugoslavia. Probably there is some truth in it (economic interest, military lobby, NATO, etc.), but the documentary is far-stretched in explaining historic facts from within ex Yugoslavia. Causality between most of the events is misinterpreted and even though the movie points out the power of propaganda in conflicts, its intention and the way it was produced is not far from propaganda. A poor try of the author and other individuals participating to present the answer to "why it happened". A simple answer such as "bad Americans wanted to colonize peaceful and once prosperous piece of heaven in the Balkans" that this documentary tries to give is simply not good enough for anyone who wants to understand the complexity of the events in the late 20th century in ex Yugoslavia.

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.

nanajbg The person that made this movie is either very evil or very uninformed. This is an insult to all the people that survived the war. And they know what a big lie this is! I was there, I was a child and they took my childhood, they took my family members, and now they want to take the truth. I hate no one, and everyone knows in a war is nothing just black or just white, every side had it's wrong doings, but this film isn't saying that. This film is trying to erase the guilt of Serbia and put it on others. For everyone who doesn't know the facts, here is a fact that will make everything much clearer and no one (Croate, Muslim or Serb) can say it's not true: The Serbian army fought on Croatian and Bosnian ground. The war happened in Croatia and Bosnia. Were there Croatian and Bosnian soldiers fighting on Serbian ground? No! Was there war on Serbian ground? No! Nationalism is never good, but truth isn't nationalism, and the truth should not be forgotten. So, don't let us forget! Don't allow them to take the truth and the past from us!