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.
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
 Robin EllisNarrator | Narrator |
 Slobodan MiloševićHimself | Himself |
 Borisav JovićHimself | Himself |
 Momir BulatovićHimself | Himself |
 Stipe MesićHimself | Himself |
 Alija IzetbegovićHimself | Himself |
 Radovan KaradžićHimself | Himself |
| HHaris SilajdžićHimself | Himself |
 Aleksandar VasiljevićHimself | Himself |
| NNaser OrićHimself | Himself |
| MMilan KučanHimself | Himself |
| AAndrija RašetaHimself | Himself |
| PPetar GračaninHimself | Himself |
| JJosé María MendiluceHimself | Himself |
| JJanez JanšaHimself | Himself |
| MMilan MartićHimself | Himself |
| VVojislav ŠešeljHimself | Himself |
| PPhilippe MorillonHimself | Himself |
| MMilan AksentijevićHimself | Himself |
| BBranko KostićHimself | Himself |
| BBranko MamulaHimself | Himself |
| SSefer HalilovićHimself | Himself |
| MMomčilo KrajišnikHimself | Himself |
| PPeter CarringtonHimself | Himself |
| VVasil TupurkovskiHimself | Himself |
| PPeter GalbraithHimself | Himself |
| ŽŽivota PanićHimself | Himself |
 Malcolm RifkindHimself | Himself |
 Warren ChristopherHimself | Himself |
 Franjo TuđmanHimself | Himself |