This film was made on the occasion of the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Ilinden (St. Ellias Day) Rebellion. This panoramic film depicts the most significant historic figures and places situated in the Aegian, Pirin and Vardar regions.

In 1908, Sultan Abdul Hamid rules the Turkish Empire, but he is faced with the threat of revolt by the Young Turk party. He allows Hilmi Pasha, the leader of the Young Turks, to return from exile and form the country's first constitutional government. With tensions still growing, chief of police Kadar Pasha assassinates Hassan Bey, the leader of the Old Turk party, and makes it look as if a Young Turk committed the crime, in order to give Abdul an excuse for arresting the Young Turk leaders. Meanwhile, Abdul becomes infatuated with a visiting Austrian singer. When she rejects his advances, she endangers both herself and her fiancé, a Turkish officer who also knows who really shot Hassan Bey.

The process of fraudulent seizure of the inheritance left to a minor Russian girl in a case led by an Islamic judge.

The events taking place around an illegitimate child named Tosun.

Follows the Bulgarian people's struggle for national independence in the period from 1875 to the Liberation from Otoman bondage.

Antar is sent by Suleiman, head of the Ottoman Empire, to Bagdad to prevent Hammam, Pasha of Bagdad, from purchasing the services of local leader Mustapha to unite the hill tribes and overthrow the emperor. The intrigue mounts as Antar falls in love with dancer Selima, who tries to avenge her father's death against Hammam's right-hand-man Kasseim, whose wife Rosanna has fallen in love with Antar!

Story of the revolt of the people of Serbia against the Turks, who ruled the country for four centuries. The battle and the fall of the fortress of Belgrade in 1806.

Taras, un paysan ukrainien, envoie son fils dans une école polonaise pour qu'il reçoive la meilleure formation chez ceux qui occupent son peuple et qu'il espère un jour renverser. Sur place, tout ne se passe pas comme prévu. Le fils tombe amoureux de la fille d'un noble polonais, une idylle mal perçue des deux familles.

Le destin hors du commun de l’officier britannique T. E. Lawrence, qui mena la révolte arabe contre l’oppresseur turc au cours de la Première Guerre mondiale.

Au début du siècle, un jeune Anatolien fuit un pays où Grecs et Arméniens sont persécutés par les Turcs. Il désire émigrer en Amérique, mais s'aperçoit bien vite que ce périple vers la terre promise est un parcours semé d'embûches.

Hüseyin's father, who is a member of the Kozanoglu tribe, dies when he does not pay the fee requested by the Bey. Upon this situation, Hüseyin takes an oath to avenge.

Monsieur Jourdain est un nouveau riche, un parvenu à la fois naïf et prétentieux qui rêve d'être reconnu dans la haute société. Il engage pour cela des maîtres de musique, de danse et même de philosophie. La folie des grandeurs s'est emparée de lui, mais il ne se rend pas compte qu'il est devenu la risée de tous.

Vlad Tepes, otherwise known as Vlad the Impaler and Dracula, fights the Ottoman Turks on the battlefield and the Hungarian Boyars in his court.

Film about the famous Battle of Vienna and the events surrounding it.

In the 17th century, a Bulgarian Christian region is selected by the Ottoman rulers to serve as an example of conversion to Islam. A Janissary who was kidnapped from the village as a boy is sent to force the reluctant inhabitants to convert. The Turkish governor seeks a peaceful solution, but ultimately torture, violence, and rebellion break out.

En 1600, un jeune noble anglais, Orlando, devient le favori d'Elisabeth 1er. Sur son lit de mort, elle l'implore de rester toujours jeune. Orlando traverse les époques, changeant de sexe, sans jamais vieillir.

A documentary on how British double-dealing during the First World War ignited the conflict between Arab and Jew in the Middle East. The bitter struggle between Arab and Jew for control of the Holy Land has caused untold suffering in the Middle East for generations. It is often claimed that the crisis originated with Jewish emigration to Palestine and the foundation of the state of Israel. Yet the roots of the conflict are to be found much earlier – in British double-dealing during the First World War. This is a story of intrigue among rival empires; of misguided strategies; and of how conflicting promises to Arab and Jew created a legacy of bloodshed which determined the fate of the Middle East.

Constantinople, 1401. The emperor of Byzantium asks the famous knight Tirant lo Blanc to free the city from the siege of the Turks. After his victory, Tirant will have to face a more difficult task: to overcome the natural opposition of Carmesina, heiress to the Ottoman Empire, to surrender her most precious treasure.

Monsieur Jourdain, parvenu enrichi et naïf, rêve d'être reconnu dans la haute société. Il engage à cet effet des maîtres de musique, de danse, de philosophie. La folie des honneurs, des décorations, de la puissance s'est emparée de notre bourgeois...