Please refer to the following web page for information about the documentary series 'The Slavs':

The Slavic Ethnogenesis: Identifying the Slavic Stock and Origins of the Slavs
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Information about the documentary series 'The Slavs'

Many of the images displayed on this web page are from the documentary series The Slavs (1984), directed by Folco Quilici. All images are used for educational purposes only.

From time to time I receive e-mails from people asking about the documentary series. Unfortunately the series is not commercially available and it does not exist anywhere on-line. It was broadcast on the ABC television network in Australia in the mid 1980s (when I was about 5 years old) and fortunately my father taped all 8 episodes that were aired. In 2009 I was contacted by the University of Virginia in the United States and with the permission of the director Folco Quilici I provided copies to the university for their Slavic Studies courses. Luckily the director replied as in previous years he had been unresponsive to e-mails about the series. It is a very rare documentary series and even the original production companies and director himself did not have copies. As part of the agreement I provided copies to the director. I have thought about uploading the series on YouTube however I have not requested permission to do this but one day it may happen.

The entities involved in the creation of the documentary series are the original production companies and copyright owners who are RAI (Italy) and ITC Entertainment (UK) (now owned by ITV) and Bulgaria Television. The University of Virginia and myself had correspondence with these entities when the university wished to acquire the series however these entities no longer have the documentary series in their archives and it is officially 'lost'. As I receive e-mails asking me what the documentary is like I decided to provide the opening sequence of the documentary under the fair use doctrine. This video clip is an excerpt of the first episode of the documentary and is intended to be used for educational purposes only.

The following is information about the documentary series from the Folco Quilici website: [ Ссылка ]

CIVILTA' SLAVA (1976-1984)
L'epoca di grandi migratori dell'Est e la complessa vicenda del loro insediamento in Europa.
Dieci episodi di 26 minuti distribuiti nel mondo in lingua inglese dalla I.T.V. di Londra e mai trasmessi in Italia.

English translation from Italian (using online translator):

SLAVIC CIVILIZATION (1976-1984)
The era of the great migration of the East and the complex history of their settlement in Europe.
Ten episodes of 26 minutes distributed worldwide in English from I.T.V. London and never broadcast in Italy.

From the above information it seems that there are 10 episodes altogether, though I only have 8 - which was the number of episodes broadcast on the ABC television network in Australia back in the mid 1980s. In the early 2000s, I also made a transcript of the series for research purposes. Below is some information about the series and the episodes:

I.T.C. Entertainment Limited
R.A.I.-Radiotelevisione Italiana Rete 1
Bulgaria Television
Present

A programme by Folco Quilici

THE SLAVS
Copyright © I.T.C. Entertainment Limited MCMLXXXIV

Photography by Riccardo Grassetti
Original music by Stefan Ribarov

Directed by Folco Quilici
with the collaboration of Mihail Atanassov Stoikov

Historical Advisors
Gino Arnaldi
Boian Biolcev
Mario Bussagli

A Moana-Roma Production
From ITC Entertainment

Language: English

Episode 1: The Slavs
Episode 2: Slavic Beliefs, Rituals and Festivities
Episode 3: Exoduses, Migrations and Conquests
Episode 4: Cyril and Methodius and the Birth of an Alphabet
Episode 5: Times of Change and Hardship
Episode 6: Slavic Fortified Towns
Episode 7: Slavic Arts and Religion
Episode 8: The Slavic Bastion as the Bulwark of Europe

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