Director: Peter Kosminsky
Script: Leigh Jackson
Photography: Richard Greatrex BSC
Editor: Chris Ridsdale
Music: Debbie Wiseman
Production Design: Phil Roberson
Principal Cast: Ioan Gruffud, Matthew Macfadyen, Damien Lewis, Tom Ward
Producer: Nigel Stafford-Clark
Executive Producers: Jane Tranter, Gareth Neame
Production: BBC in association with Deep Indigo Productions
Distribution: ITEL
First Broadcast: 20.11.1999, 21.00 BBC1
Selected Filmography Peter Kosminsky: No Child of Mine, 1997; Wuthering Heights, 1992; The Dying of the Light, 1992; Shoot to Kill, 1990; Falklands War: The Untold Story, 1987.
Late 1992: the warriors we are dealing here are four professional soldiers, members of a British Blue Helmet Regiment in Bosnia. Highly qualified and armed to the teeth, they crawl through the wintry landscape on UN tanks, passing by burning houses and straggling refugees on the side of the road, traces of the atrocities carried out by Serbian and Croatian militias. In spite of this, the UN troops are not allowed to intervene because their mandate is purely humanitarian. "Warriors" does without the shoot-outs and showdowns of conventional films. Instead, it describes the impotence of the Bosnia mission because of the system it was launched under, a sequence of humiliations and frustrations forced by the political circumstances surrounding the deployment. An outstanding, award-winning and deeply moving piece of television history.