rococod-208-935697 Very real and well acted drama. I have never fully understood Bosnian war and UN peacekeepers role until I watched this movie. It really shows how hopeless and inhumane were those times. It is movie to remember for me. I give it a 10 out of 10 since acting is excellent and scenes are real and it has very strong message as an anti war movie. I am very glad I watched this excellent movie. I would recommend this to anyone that wants to learn more about what war is like, what "ethnic cleansing" is like or what went on just 15 years ago in very central part of Europe. Shocking what humans can do to each other, hope that Bosnian country never experience any war again.

paulpickering_18 This film dramatisation tells a story about the lives of some British soldiers serving on a United Nations "peace-keeping" mission at the time of the dissolution of Yugoslavia.The tale is told from the perspective of British army officers and enlisted men who are well trained in the art of warfare, but are unfamiliar with, and frustrated by their "observer" role in the troubled region. The British soldiers are are forced to stand by and witness the murder of innocents at the hands of Serb and Croat militias while they themselves are constantly intimidated by these armed gangs who exploit the weakness and inertia of the United Nations to bully and hamper the British peace-keeping mission at every turn.This film leaves the viewer with a feeling of total disgust at the weakness of the United Nations and the British government for sending troops as peace-keeping observers who are forbidden to "shoot back" unless they consider their own lives are at risk. The Serb and Croat militias who are only too aware of the United Nations mandate, for the most part, only target and murder the innocent "ethnic minority" civilian population, thereby perpetuating the carnage.The good consciences of the soldiers are not left unaffected. After witnessing so much horror, they return to England suffering with severe emotional problems and post traumatic stress disorders. The soldiers' plight is compounded further by an unsympathetic British government and a public who have no concept of how bad the situation is, back in the former Yugoslav republic. The men are welcomed back as if they had just returned from a standard "tour of duty" abroad. They are patted on the back for a "job well done" and expected to simply integrate back into normal home life - with dire consequences for some of these men.This is a remarkable British film which has been shot in typical BBC documentary style. It is a sad and sobering thought that these horrific atrocities were committed within a supposedly, "civilized" European country, by Europeans, at the end of the twentieth century.Superb film-marking - very powerful, harrowing and thought-provoking.

adwilliams134 Warriors is a drama, but every incident you see in it is factual. The makers interviewed Infantry soldiers from UNPROFOR1 (The Cheshire Regiment) and UNPROFOR2 (The Prince Of Wales Own Yorkshire Regiment).The MoD gave the makers permission to approach soldiers who had been involved in incidents so that they could replicate them for the screen, along with what the soldier's were actually thinking and feeling at the time.A lot of incidents were rejected on the grounds that they would not be believed by the viewing public or were just to 'bloody'.In addition, soldiers helped the actors wear their equipment properly, act properly etc.How do I know this? Two of the incidents depicted I was involved in. I was in the Cheshire Regiment. I have since testified in 2 war crimes trials at the Hague.No matter what you think, believe me it was far worse than what you see. You only see it, you don't smell it.To this day (2007) most of us that were their in that first year still have a feeling that somehow we failed those poor people and our politicians were weak.It is very, very well made and very, very realistic as to what it was like.

Isobel Swan 'Warriors' (Bosnië 1992, a film by Peter Kosminsky). It is about man's inhumanity to man. Set during 1992 in the war in Bosnia and how the British Army were sent over to the war in the now former Yugoslavia as UN Peacekeepers. As UN Peacekeepers, the soldiers were not allowed to open fire unless their own lives were directly threatened. However this also meant that the soldiers were powerless to interfere in events even if it meant saving innocent lives. The film portrayed Serbian soldiers taking Bosnian Muslims (young and old) away and shooting them or burning them alive in their homes. There was one scene in which one of the soldiers, who was from Liverpool (played by Matthew Macfadyen) took a 14 year old boy into the back of an army truck in order for him to escape being executed by the Serbs. However, he was ordered to hand the boy over to the Serbs by his Commanders because moving a Bosnian from one area to another was regarded as 'ethnic cleansing' (ironic?) even though it was saving the boy's life. This film is about ethnic intolerance and hatred and the international communities' lack of an adequate response (until years later).