Bringing Down a Dictator
title: "Bringing Down a Dictator" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["documentary-films-about-elections", "2002-television-films", "2002-films", "american-documentary-films", "films-about-dictators", "films-set-in-serbia", "documentary-films-about-revolutions", "overthrow-of-slobodan-milošević", "peabody-award–winning-broadcasts", "films-directed-by-steve-york", "2002-documentary-films", "cultural-depictions-of-slobodan-milošević", "documentary-films-about-serbia", "2000s-serbian-language-films", "2002-american-films"] topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bringing_Down_a_Dictator" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
Bringing Down A Dictator is a 56-minute documentary film by Steve York about the nonviolent defeat of Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic. It focuses on the contributions of the student-led Otpor! movement. The film originally aired on national PBS in March 2002. It was narrated by Martin Sheen and won the George Foster Peabody Award.
Other awards include:
- ABCNews VideoSource Award --- The International Documentary Association
- Silver Chris Award --- Columbus International Film and Video Festival
- Bronze Plaque: Scriptwriting --- Columbus International Film and Video Festival
- Silver Plaque --- The Chicago International Television Festival
- Gold Remi --- Worldfest Houston International Film Festival
- Best Documentary --- Sedona International Film Festival
Screenings
- 2010 Zagreb International Film Festival
- 2010 Swarthmore College Peace Week
- 2008 Cairo Human Rights Film Festival
- 2007 Harvard University Program on Negotiation
- 2007 7islands Film Festival, India
- 2002 UCLA International Institute
- 2002 The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
- 2002 G6 Summit, Calgary, Canada
References
References
- "ZagrebFilmFestival | film programme | Bringing Down a Dictator".
- Swarthmore Peace Week 2010, http://calendar.swarthmore.edu/calendar/EventList.aspx?fromdate=4/25/2010&todate=4/25/2010&display=Day&type=public&eventidn=5969&view=EventDetails&information_id=19372
- Cairo Human Rights Film Festival, http://www.cairofilm.org/filmfestival.html {{Webarchive. link. (2010-03-30)
- "PON Film Series: Bringing Down a Dictator".
- 7islands Film Festival, http://www.7islands.in/schedule_detail.html {{Webarchive. link. (2011-07-21)
- "UCLA International Hosts L.A. Preview Screening of Bringing Down a Dictator, UCLA International Institute".
- "Archived copy".
- G6 Summit, Calgary, Canada, http://www.david-kilgour.com/mp/film.htm
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