TURKEY
Helen of Troy (2003) -- Troy falls to the Greeks (with Sienna Guillory)
Helen of Troy (1956) -- with Rossana Podesta
X La guerra di Troia (The Trojan Horse (1961) -- stars Steve Reeves and Edy Vessel
X The Trojan Women (2004) -- with Shelley Delayne
The Trojan Women (1971) -- grieving women after fall of Troy (with Irene Papas)
X Troy (2004) -- Troy VII (1275-1240 B.C.) with Diane Kruger
X Troy (2004) -- starring Brad Pitt
X The Odyssey (1977)
X The Odyssey (1997) TV miniseries -- based on the return voyage of the Greeks from Troy
Ulysses (1954)
Constantine and the Cross (1962) -- 4th c. A.D. emperor battling Romans
Attila (2001) -- the famous barbarian (died 453)
Attila (1954) --
Sign of the Pagan (1954) Attila the Hun threatening Rome
BYZANTINE EMPIRE (476-1453)
Last Roman (1968) -- Gothic kingdom falls to famous Byzantine General Belisarius
Teodora Imparatrice Di Bisanzio (Theodora Queen of Byzantium) (1954) Italian -- Teodora (500-548), wife of Emperor Justinian I (483-565)
X Didgori: Land of Sacrificed Knights (2009) – 1121 AD, 56,000 Georgian warriors under King Davit IV battle 500,000 Seljuk Turks on the Didgori battlefield
Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula (2000)-- 1456-1476 Vlad Dracula of Transylvania fights Ottoman Turks; Ottoman Empire (1299-1922)
Mihai Viteazul (aka Michael the Brave) (1970) -- the king who united three provinces into Romania in the 17th century despite opposition from the Ottoman and Austrian Empires
X Nemuritorii (The Immortals) (1974) -- warriors of Romanian lord Mihai (1611) attacked by Turks while bringing the lord's battle flag back from Austria
X Stefan cel Mare (Stephen the Great) (1974) – Stephen the Great or the 'Saint' ruled Moldavia, 1457-1504; fought the Ottoman Empire and Hungary
X Seljacka buna 1573 (1975) -- peasant revolt of 1573 in Croatia and Slovenia (being heavily taxed to fight off the Turks)
X Konjanik (2003) – Croatian film about a Muslim girl and a Christian guy fall in love despite it being forbidden; set in 18th c. on the border of Bosnia and Dalmatia, Ottoman Empire and Venetian Republic
X Gültekin amazon kizlara karsi (1969) – 1400s Turkey Medieval period
X Istanbul'un fethi (The Conquest of Constantinople) (1951) – Turks attack and take Constantinople of the Byzantine Empire, 1453
X Estergon kalesi (Estergon Castle) (1972) – Estergon Castle in Hungary conquered by Turkish Invaders under Sultan Suleiman II in 1543
X Suleiman the Conqueror (1961) -- Suleiman the Magnificent, leader of the Ottoman Empire in the 16th century
I Tartari (Tartars) (1961) -- Burundai, head of Tartar invasion of Volga River area
Conqueror (1956) -- Mongols under Genghis Khan vs. Tartars
Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula (2000)-- 1456-1476 Vlad Dracula of Transylvania fights Ottoman Turks; Ottoman Empire (1299-1922)
Peter the Great (1986)-- 1689-1725, Russian Czar; 1710-11 war with Ottoman Empire
Young Catherine (1991) 1762-1796, Catherine the Great of Russia; 1768 war with Turkey
X I megali stigmi tou '21: Papaflessas (1971) – the Greek revolution against the Turks (1821)
CRIMEAN WAR -- Russia (under Nicholas I & Alexander II) vs. Turkey (Ottoman Empire), England and France (under Napoleon III)
Charge of the Light Brigade (1968) -- Crimea, 1854-1856
Charge of the Light Brigade (1936) -- love triangle in India solved by British involvement in the Crimean War
Charge of the Lancers (1954) -- affairs set against the Crimean War
Florence Nightingale (1986) -- the great nurse at work during the Crimean War fighting against prejudice to be of service to the soldiers
Lady with a Lamp (1951) -- nurse-crusader Florence Nightingale
X The White Angel (1936) -- Florence Nightingale ($45)
X Bronte (1983) -- Irish film
X Les Soeurs Bronte (Bronte Sisters) (1979) French film
X Devotion (1946) -- Bronte sisters
X The Brontes of Haworth (1973) -- TV mini-series about the Brontes
Russo-Turkish War
X Geroite na Shipka (Heroes of Shipka) (1955) -- Bulgarian/Soviet Union film about the Battle of Shipka Pass during the Russo-Turkish War (1877-78)
X Yuliya Vrevskaya (1978) – for reasons of love Russian nurse Yuliya Vrevskaya follows the troops in the war between Russia and Turkey (1877-1878)
X The Turkish Gambit (2005) -- spy story set in the War between Russia and Turkey (1877-1878); no English subtitles
X V nachale slavnykh del (At the Beginning of Glorious Days) (1981) -- Russo-Turkish War
World War I
Gallipoli and Turkey:
Gallipoli (1981) -- British, New Zealander and Australian troops against Turkey (Ottoman Empire), 1915
X Chunuk Bair (1997) -- a New Zealand film about the Wellington Regiment of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force at Gallipoli (currently unavailable)
1915 (1982) -- two Australian country boys vie for the same girl, but their world changes when they land in Gallipoli
X The Battle of Gallipoli (Tell England) (1931) -- Battle of Gallipoli 1915
ANZACs: the War Down Under (1985) -- Australian-New Zealand Army Corps head for disaster in Gallipoli and then on to France and the battles of Ypres and Amiens, among others
X The Battle of Broken Hill (1981) -- prelude to Gallipoli; a mass killing near Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia on January 1, 1915 carried out by Muslims to support the Ottoman Empire
Son Osmanli Yandim Ali (The Last Ottoman: Yandim Ali) (2007) -- veteran wants to meet Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk), who wants to start a resistance against the occupiers
X Cumhuriyet (The Republic) (1998) – foundation of Turkish Republic between the years of early 1920's to 1933
X 1922 (1978) -- Asia Minor Disaster and Asia Minor Greeks, arrested and led to death by Kemal's troops and armed groups of Muslims
X Abdul the Damned (1935) -- in Turkey, 1908, Sultan Abdul Hamid resists the Young Turk party
Harem Suare (Last Harem) (1998) -- effects of the decline of the Ottoman Empire on the harem
Foundation of Modern Turkey
X Cumhuriyet (The Republic) (1998) – foundation of Turkish Republic between the years of early 1920's to 1933
X 1922 (1978) -- Asia Minor Disaster and Asia Minor Greeks, arrested and led to death by Kemal's troops and armed groups of Muslims
X Abdul the Damned (1935) -- in Turkey, 1908, Sultan Abdul Hamid resists the Young Turk party
Ararat (2002) -- Turkish atrocities committed against Armenians
X Huso astgh (Star of Hope) (1978) -- David Bek and Mkhitar Sparapet lead the Armenian liberation movement , XVIII century
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) -- Arab revolt against Turkey (Ottoman Empire) 1916
X 120 (2008) – Turkish film about the Battle of Sarikamish between Russia and Ottoman Empire from December 22, 1914 to January 17, 1915
Politiki Kouzina (A Touch of Spice) (2003) -- unrequited love for a young Greek-Turkish boy who has to leave his love when his family is deported from Turkey back to Greece
X Otkradnati ochi (Stolen Eyes) (2005) -- Bulgarian man who loves a Turkish woman is caught in the "regeneration process" in Bulgaria; ethnic Turk names were forcibly changed to Bulgarian ones
X Salkim hanimin taneleri (Mrs. Salkim's Diamonds) (1999) – high tax on Islamic Turks, but much higher ones on non-Muslims leads to minoritization in Turkey
Günese yolculuk (Journey to the Sun) (2001) -- prejudice and discrimination against the Kurds in Turkey
Yol (1982)-- virtual police state in Turkey in the 1980s
X Babam ve Oğlum (My Father, My Son) (2005) -- a politically active Istanbul University student runs afoul of his father and the military dictatorship in Turkey (currently unavailable)
Eve Dönüş (Home Coming) (2006) -- a movie about the 1980 Turkish coup d'état
Beynelmilel (2006) -- a group of street musicians in Adiyaman (southeastern Turkey) cannot earn their living after the 1980 military coup
Nassereddin Shah, Actor- e Cinema (Once Upon a Time, Cinema) (1992) – one of the last of Iran's extravagant shahs of the Qajar Dynasty (of Turkic descent, 1795-1925) falls in love with the newly invented movies, as well as an early Iranian screen heroine
Modern Turkey
Journey to the Sun (2001) -- prejudice and discrimination against the Kurds in Turkey and Iraq
Yol (1982)-- virtual police state in Turkey in the 1980s
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