Croatia: Defining a Nation (2022)

How a group of footballers became iconoclasts and defined a new nation through football.

Run Time: 1h53m | Release: 30 May 2022

Production Countries: Croatia, United Kingdom

10 / 101 Vote Count

Overview:

Croatia’s achievement in coming 3rd at the 1998 World Cup in France was staggering. A nation barely established took on and beat the world’s powerhouse nations, coming within a whisker of lifting the trophy. But, this is much more than just a story about a talented football team, it is the tale of a nation emerging from the wreckage of the Balkan war and the disintegration of Yugoslavia to stand proudly as an independent country on football’s grandest stage.