Byzance (1964)
• January 1st, 1964 • 0h 11min
Documentary
Overview
Byzance uses a text by Stefan Zweig to describe the Ottoman conquest of the city in 1453. Before he turned to feature filmmaking in 1968 with Naked Childhood, Pialat worked on a series of short films, many of them financed by French television. Byzance is one of Pialat’s six Turkish shorts.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
The Spectre of Marxism
Released on: 1983-10-15
History, Documentary
The impact of Marx on the 20th century has been all-pervasive and world-wide. This program looks at ...
Operation Stonehenge: What Lies Beneath
Released on: 2014-01-01
Documentary, History
Stonehenge is an icon of prehistoric British culture, an enigma that has seduced archaeologists and ...
World War Two: A Timewatch Guide
Released on: 2016-02-25
Documentary, History, War
Professor Saul David uses the BBC archive to chart the history of the world's most destructive war, ...
Reconstruction
Released on: 2002-06-01
Documentary
Filmmaker Irene Lusztig unearths a dark family secret in search of answers and reconciliation in her...
The Wars of the Roses: A Bloody Crown
Released on: 2002-01-01
Documentary, History
Using historically-accurate, battle-filled re-enactments and interviews with expert historians and n...
Unsere Städte nach '45
Released on: 2017-02-06
Documentary, History
A documentation about the reconstruction and destruction of german cities after the 2nd World War.
The Lost World of the Seventies
Released on: 2012-05-13
Documentary
Michael Cockerell sheds new light on the tragi-comedy of the 1970s by focusing on some of its most c...
Images of the Estado Novo 1937-45
Released on: 2016-04-15
Documentary
Resorting on a vast archive material of newsreels, photographs, letters, family videos, fiction movi...
Jews
Released on: 1984-02-01
Documentary
JEWS excavates a lost world of manners and ritual in home movies shot by several Chicago families fr...
Big Family: The Story of Bluegrass Music
Released on: 2019-08-30
Music, Documentary
Examine the history of bluegrass music, from its origins to its eventual worldwide popularity, and h...
Twenty Years After
Released on: 1944-01-01
Documentary
This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then ...
The Viking Sagas
Released on: 2011-05-10
Documentary, History
Dr Janina Ramirez travels across glaciers and through the lava fields of Iceland to find out about o...
Cyprus 1974: Landing For Peace
Released on: 2024-07-19
Documentary, History
On the 50th anniversary of the Cyprus Peace Operation, TRT World revisits the island's turbulent his...
Raphael: The Lord of the Arts
Released on: 2017-04-03
Romance, History, Documentary
Raphael: The Lord of the Arts is a documentary about the 15th century Italian Renaissance painter Ra...
When We Were Kings
Released on: 1996-10-25
Documentary, TV Movie, History, Music
It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years ...
Resistance at Tule Lake
Released on: 2017-07-19
History, Documentary
The long-suppressed story of 12,000 Japanese Americans who dared to resist the U.S. government's pro...
Blue
Released on: 2017-04-11
Documentary, Music
A thorough look at the 90's Turkish rock scene, one legendary stage band and its two members: Kerim ...