 Bataković is also the author of the historical TV documentary "Crveno doba" (The Red Epoch), which aired on Serbia's public broadcaster, RTS, in 2004.Combining testimonies of witnesses with historic narrative the film was the first to open the question of the crimes of the communist Yugoslav authorities (the "red terror") against their political and class enemies in post-World War II Serbia and Montenegro (1944–1947).In October 2005 Bataković became Director of the Institute for Balkan Studies of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and editor-in-chief of the Institute's annual "Balcanica" journal as well as of its "Special editions".