Video Documentaries

This episode looks at the wider Ottoman world, taking in superb merchants' houses in Birgi (Anatolia) and Damascus. At the edge of empire, on the Persian border near Mt. Ararat, we discover how the Ottoman's controlled the extremities of Empire at Ishak Pasha's magnificent palace. [video width="1280" height="720" mp4="https://video-clump.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/East-to-West-–-A-Force-from-the-Desert-ep.7.mp4"][/video]   The programme then explores the growing European fascination with 'The Orient' throughout the 19th century, both as a place of culture and also as a trading partner and market for mass produced western goods. We end by tracing the decline of the Ottoman Empire in the dying days of the19th century, a time when the Sultans still managed to achieve great feats, including the building of the great Hejaz Railway across the Arabian desert. East to West is an exciting seven part series charting the birth and flourishing

At the time of Elizabeth I, the greatest power in the world was not England or France , it was the Ottoman Empire – one of the world's first truly global and multicultural Empires. [video width="1280" height="720" mp4="https://video-clump.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/East-to-West-–-A-Force-from-the-Desert-ep.6.mp4"][/video]   The film follows the rise of the Ottomans in the Anatolian city of Bursa and tells the dramatic story of how they conquered Byzantium and transformed Istanbul. The great Topkapı Palace of Istanbul is the stage on which we describe the growth of the Ottoman Empire and hear of the unprecedented developments in science and the arts ushered in by the rule of enlightened Sultans. East to West is an exciting seven part series charting the birth and flourishing of civilization in the Near and Middle East, and its huge influence on the West. A largely untold story, and a fresh perspective, the series charts the spread of civilisation ac