Students! It is a great idea to watch one or more of these movies, preferably each film two or more times, so that you become familiar enough with the story that you can pay attention to the language. Use a subtitled version if there is one available. A quick survey of DVD delivery services suggests that some of these titles are readily available to rent if your school library doesn't own them. Sites for ordering films are given at the end of the list.

Please let us know about other films we might include.

Balkan Spy • Balkanski špijun (1983)
    director Dušan Kovačević and Božidar 'Bota' Nikolić
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086935/

Do You Remember Dolly Bell? • Sjećaš li se Dolly Bell? (1981)
    director Emir Kusturica
    http://www.kustu.com/

Fuse • Gori Vatra (2003)
    director Pjer Žalica
    http://www.refresh.ba/gorivatra/

Grbavica (2005)
    director Jasmila Zbanić
    http://www.coop99.at/grbavica_website/

Hey, Babu Riba • Bal na vodi (1987)
    director Jovan Aćin
    http://www.1worldfilms.com/Yugoslavia/heybaburiba.htm

How the War Began on My Island • Kako je rat počeo na mom otoku (1996)
    directory Vinko Brešan
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116739/

In the Jaws of Life • U raljama života (1984)
    director Rajko Grlić
    http://poll.imdb.com/title/tt0088312/

Loving Glances • Sjaj u očima (2003)
    director Srđan Karanović
    http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=296379

The Melody Haunts my Reverie • Samo jednom se ljubi (1981)
    director Rajko Grlić
    http://www.1worldfilms.com/Yugoslavia/melodyhauntsmyreverie.htm

Montenegro (1981)
    director Dušan Makavejev
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082770/

No Man's Land • Ničija zemlja (2001)
    director Danis Tanović
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0283509/

Perfect Circle • Savršeni krug (1997)
    director Ademir Kenović
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117555/

Pretty Village, Pretty Flame • Lepa sela lepo gore (1996)
    director Srđan Dragojević
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116860/

Underground • Bila jednom jedna zemlja (1995)
    director Emir Kustirica
    http://www.kustu.com/

Virginia • Virdžina (1991)
    director Srđan Karanović
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105761/

We Are All Neighbors (1993); Returning Home: Revival of a Bosnian Village (2001)
    director Tone Bringa, with Peter Ljoizos in 2nd film
http://condor.depaul.edu/~rrotenbe/aeer/aeer12_1/neighbrs.html
http://www.osa.ceu.hu/filmlibrary/browse/director?starting=L&val=5743

What is a Man Without a Mustache? • Što je čovjek bez  brkova (2006)
    director Hrvoje Hribar
    http://movies2.nytimes.com/2006/05/25/movies/25man.html

When Father Was Away on Business • Otac na službenom putu (1985)
    director Emir Kusturica
    http://www.kustu.com/

What Iva Recorded on October 21, 2003 • Što je Iva snimila 21. listopada 2003 (2005)
    director Tomislav Radić
   http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117928525?categoryid=31&cs=1
   http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=334221

Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation (1996)
    Brian Lapping Associates for Discovery Channel, BBC and ORF.
This is an excellent film in six parts on three videocasettes. It is difficult to buy, but many public and university libraries have copies.

On the cinema:
Horton, Andrew James, ed., The Celluloid Tinderbox.
    The book has been published on the web and can be downloaded from: http://www.kinoeye.org/03/10/celluloidtinderbox.php
Goulding, Daniel, Liberated Cinema: the Yugoslav experience 1945-2001, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 2002.

Bosnian, Serbian and Croatian movies on video and DVD
Croatian movies on videos and DVD
Yugoslav films
http://www.yu4you.com/eng/dvd/