Franjo Tuđman

Acting

Franjo Tuđman

Born — Died

1922-05-14 — 1999-12-10

Place of birth

Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria

Known for

Acting

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Franjo Tuđman (14 May 1922 – 10 December 1999) was a Croatian politician and historian who became the first president of Croatia, from 1990 until his death in 1999. He served following the country's independence from Yugoslavia. Tuđman also was the ninth and last president of the Presidency of SR Croatia from May to July 1990. Tuđman was born in Veliko Trgovišće. In his youth, he fought during World War II as a member of the Yugoslav Partisans. After the war, he took a post in the Ministry of Defence, later attaining the rank of major general of the Yugoslav People's Army in 1960. After his military career, he dedicated himself to the study of geopolitics. In 1963, he became a professor at …

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Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World? poster
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No easy answers? Decision-makers from Kissinger to Rice revisit how the US responded to conflicts from Rwanda to Iraq. Faced with human suffering - who has responsibility to act?

Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World?

2024

The Death of Yugoslavia poster
7.4

The Death of Yugoslavia is a BAFTA-award winning BBC documentary series first broadcast in 1995. It covers the collapse of the former Yugoslavia. It is notable in its combination of never-before-seen archive footage interspersed with interviews of most of the main players in the conflict, including Slobodan Milošević, the then President of Serbia. Norma Percy won the 1996 BAFTA TV Award for 'Best Factual Series' for the documentary. However, it has been argued that it presents a potentially slightly biased point-of-view; for instance during the trial of Milošević before the ICTY in The Hague, Judge Bonomy called the nature of much of the commentary "tendentious" (partisan).

The Death of Yugoslavia

1995

The Death of Yugoslavia poster
9.5

History of the political events and the wars which broke the former state of Yugoslavia into several nations and caused an international political and humanitarian crisis. Using interviews with all the major participants and archive footage of the events, the series impressively performed the double feat of making understandable something which had appeared intractable and of producing 'immediate' history.

The Death of Yugoslavia

1995

Once Upon a Time in Croatia poster
5.4

Docu-drama about Croatia's first President, Franjo Tudjman.

Once Upon a Time in Croatia

2022

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9.0

A documentary about Croatian politician Franjo Tudjman.

Tudjman

1997

I Was a Paid Propagandist poster
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An American filmmaker returns to the Balkans to confront his personal failings where 24 years ago he became a paid propagandist for a foreign country.

I Was a Paid Propagandist

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