Ottoman Studies

Harem Suare is a 1999 Turkish drama film directed by Ferzan Özpetek. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.

A film in six parts about the life and work of Mimar Sinan, chief architect to Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent of Turkey (15th century).

A story about the tragedy and the danger of humor and the humorist - A comedy as grand as the Lands of Rome.

Değirmen, yönetmenliğini Atıf Yılmaz' ın yaptığı ve başrollerde Şener Şen, Serap Aksoy ve Levent Yılmaz'ın yer aldığı 1986 yapımı bir filmdir. Film, Reşat Nuri Güntekin'in aynı adlı romanından uyarlanmıştır.

Istanbul Beneath My Wings (Original Turkish title: İstanbul Kanatlarımın Altında) is a 1996 Turkish film, written and directed by Mustafa Altıoklar. It is a dramatization of Hezarfen Ahmet Çelebi's reported flight across the Bosphorus from Galata.

The Water Diviner is a 2014 drama film directed by and starring Russell Crowe, in his directorial debut, and written by Andrew Anastasios and Andrew Knight. The film is loosely based on the book of the same name written by Andrew Anastasios and Dr Meaghan Wilson-Anastasios. It follows an Australian farmer, Joshua Connor (Crowe), who travels to Turkey soon after World War I to find his three sons who never returned.

120 is a 2008 Turkish war film directed by Murat Saraçoğlu and Özhan Eren based on the true story of 120 children who died in 1915 carrying ammunition for the Battle of Sarikamish against the Russians during World War I.

1910s, the last days of the Overthrowing, the Ottoman lands, the years of the First World War. Mahmut has a different problem; he has been burning in a painful love. The price of this love is very heavy in Mesopotamia, the south east of Anatolia, and today's Syrian territory those days. He got a raw deal. He wants revenge, but he does not want to be a killer. To stay away from the murder he leaves everything he likes and possesses. But he hopes to return to his loved one. Of course, he wants to pay for the injustice done to him, but with his own methods.

Gallipoli is a 1981 Australian war drama film directed by Peter Weir and produced by Patricia Lovell and Robert Stigwood, starring Mel Gibson and Mark Lee, about several young men from rural Western Australia who enlist in the Australian Army during the First World War. They are sent to the peninsula of Gallipoli in the Ottoman Empire (in modern-day Turkey), where they take part in the Gallipoli Campaign. During the course of the movie, the young men slowly lose their innocence about the purpose of war. The climax of the movie occurs on the Anzac battlefield at Gallipoli and depicts the futile attack at the Battle of the Nek on 7 August 1915. It modifies events for dramatic purposes and contains a number of significant historical inaccuracies.

This Ottoman royal residence became a museum after the founding of the Turkish Republic in 1923. In 1990, its doors were opened to film crews for the first time. This series is based on the latest available historical documentation. Pt. 1 offers the viewer general information about the history of the palace, buildings and functions and the customs and ceremonies of the palace. PPt. 2 shows the inner palace and its pavilions. t. 3 shows items which are acknowledged to be the world's richest collection of sacred relics. Pt. 4 shows masterworks from thousands of Chinese, Japanese and European porcelain. Pts. 5 and 6 acquaint viewers with the extremely private women's quarters.

The story of T.E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole), the heroic and troubled man who organized the Arab nations to fight the Turks in World War I and then, having reached a pinnacle of power in Mideast politics, retired to postwar military obscurity.

Osmanlı Hanedanının hüküm sürdüğü yıllarda sıradan bir mahalleye yeni taşınan Cihanyandı Kanlı Nigar , uzun zaman önce kötü yola düşürülmüş, artık ekmeğini bu işten çıkaran bir kadındır. Bu mahallede yeni bir genelev açan kadının bu mahalleyi seçmesinin altında özel nedenler yatmaktadır. Yıllar önce masum bir kadınken kendisini kirletip bu yola düşüren yakınlarından intikam almayı aklına koyan kadın kurduğu türlü plan ve tuzaklarla masumiyetinin peşine düşecektir.

The Ottomans: Europe's Muslim Emperors is a 2013 BBC Two documentary in three parts presented by Rageh Omaar. The series covers the origins of the Ottoman Empire; contrasts the empire under Suleiman the Magnificent with that of Abdul-Hamid II; and covers the demise of the Empire after the First World War.

The amazing journeys of Baron von Munchausen, who sets sail in a hot air balloon in search of his old comrades-at-arms with the object of saving a European city from the superior forces of a Turkish sultan.