Title:OPERATION AGRICOLA IV, KOSOVO, 2000-2001 (TAPE 32) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFM 413
Other titles:COLLECTION OF ROYAL MARINES TAPES [Allocated Title]
Summary: Sequences showing KFOR and 3 Commando activities in Kosovo, September 2000.
Description: The Medical Squadron sets up a field dressing station near Podujevo; the station is contructed of interlocking tents held up by inflatable curved tubes and is secured to the ground by guy ropes. Long shots of the first stages of tent erection. A KFOR Land Rover has a communications aerial attached to it, an FV432 troop carrier (in ambulance role) drives past.
Views from moving Land Rover as it passes through a village.
Royal Marines on guard outside Serb block of flats.
Civilians stand near a power station (Obilić ?); nearby is a vehicle checkpoint manned by members of the Kosovo Police Service and UNMIK officers (one is American).
Group of children pose for the camera.
Political rally at Pristina Gymnasium by the LDK (Lidhja Demokratike e Kosovës, the Democratic League of Kosovo), 27 September 2000. Crowds gather outside: cars drive past sounding their horns and flying Albanian flags. Second cameraman (possibly Lance Corporal Jim Martin) can briefly be seen walking alongside, as the camera is moved into the stadium (shaky shots, largely obscured by the close proximity to the crowds).
Alternative Title:COLLECTION OF ROYAL MARINES TAPES [Allocated Title]
Production Details: Royal Marines Video Production Unit (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Navy, Royal Marines, Medical Squadron (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, Royal Marines, 45 Commando, Z Company (regiment/service)
Kosovo Police Service (regiment/service)
Keywords: Podujevo, Kosovo (geography)
Pristina, Kosovo (geography)
Obilić, Kosovo (geography)
Kosovo intervention (event)
Balkans post-1991 (theme)
Royal Marines (theme)
