A Cry from the Grave

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A Cry from the Grave
Directed by Leslie Woodhead
Written byLeslie Woodhead
Produced byLeslie Woodhead
Narrated byLeslie Woodhead (UK)
Bill Moyers (US)
Production
companies
Distributed by BBC Worldwide
Release date
  • 27 November 1999 (1999-11-27)
Running time
104 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguagesEnglish
Serbo-Croat

A Cry from the Grave or Srebrenica: A Cry from the Grave is a 1999 British documentary film about the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. The film was directed and produced by Leslie Woodhead.

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Using testimony of survivors and relatives the documentary tells the story of the massacre of over 8,000 Bosnian men and boys by the Bosnian Serb Army. [1] The documentary was used in the war crimes trial at The Hague. [1]

Awards

The documentary won the Special Jury Award for Feature-Length Documentary at the 12th International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam in December 1999. [2] [3] At the 13th Biarritz International Festival of Audiovisual Programming in January 2000 the documentary won the silver FIPA award in the Documentary and Essay category. [4] [5] The documentary won the Mayor of Prague award at the second One World Film Festival in Prague in April 2000. [6] [7]

In June 2000 the documentary won the Air Canada Grand Prize and the Best History or Biography Programme award at the 21st Banff Television Festival. [8] [9] In September 2000 the documentary won the Information category award at the fifth Gouden Beelden. [10] It won first prize in the International Television category at the 33rd Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award in 2001. [11] The documentary was nominated for the Outstanding Background/Analysis of a Single Current Story - Programs award at the 22nd News & Documentary Emmy Award in September 2001. [12]

Broadcast

The documentary was broadcast on BBC Two in the UK on 27 November 1999 as part of the Storyville series. [13] In the Netherlands, the documentary was broadcast on Ned 3 on 6 December 1999. [14] In the US, the documentary was broadcast on PBS on 17 January 2000 and narrated by Bill Moyers. [15] [16]

The broadcast of the documentary on Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) in the summer of 2001, on the sixth anniversary of the massacre, resulted in a storm of protests, including opposition politicians calling for the dismissal of senior RTS staff. [17] [18]

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