Title:OPERATION AGRICOLA IV, KOSOVO, 2000-2001 (TAPE 35) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFM 416
Other titles:COLLECTION OF ROYAL MARINES TAPES [Allocated Title]
Summary: Sequences showing KFOR and 3 Commando activities in Kosovo, October 2000.
Description: Kosovo Police Service officer directs traffic as a black official (UNMIK police ?) observes.
Quarry in Kosovo, where gravel is being gathered to be used in road building. Drilling machine. A large tipper truck is filled with gravel; camera zooms back to show the entire quarry site. Gravel crusher in operation.
Royal Marine on guard outside general store (Fatlumi) in Pristina. The Serb YU Project, an apartment block complex in Ulpiana which is a Serb enclave; Commandos keep guard. A bus arrives under escort to pick up passengers.
Aerial views from helicopter as it flies over Pristina and surrounding countryside areas, past a power station, villages (signs of the devastation from the earlier conflict can clearly be seen. Flight over Gračanica, where the Serbian Orthodox Gračanica Monastery (the Holy Virgin's Temple) is circled. Flight back to base.
Road building in Serb areas. Digger lays gravel; further gravel is delivered by tipper truck and deposited.
Football match between KFOR soldiers and local Serb children; large Swedish and Union flags can be seen in the crowd. One of the participants is Brigadier Robert Fry RM, Commander of the Multinational Brigade (Centre), is among those taking part.
Alternative Title:COLLECTION OF ROYAL MARINES TAPES [Allocated Title]
Production Details: Royal Marines Video Production Unit (Production company)
Martin, Jim (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Fry, Robert Alan (person)
Royal Navy, Royal Marines, 45 Commando, Z Company (regiment/service)
Kosovo Police Service (regiment/service)
Keywords: Pristina, Kosovo (geography)
Gračanica, Kosovo (geography)
Kosovo intervention (event)
Balkans post-1991 (theme)
Royal Marines (theme)