Name: Ottoman Empire by Train with Alice Roberts
Released: 2024-01-19T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Alice Roberts

Available on Channel 4

Professor Alice Roberts takes a train ride covering 600 years of the Ottoman Empire. Starting in south east Turkey going to through to Budapest, her mission is to learn about this vast empire that started with a dream in the 14th century.

Documentary · 2024 · 47 min

Starring Alice Roberts

Director Paul Crompton

EPISODE 1

Episode 1

Alice starts her journey in Adana, near Syria. She visits a historic mosque and uncovers the origins of Turkish delight. Alice catches a train across the Taurus Mountains to Konya, to learn about the Ottoman leaders' elaborately decorative tombs.

45 min · 19 Jan 2024
EPISODE 2

Episode 2

In Ankara, Alice visits the tomb of Kemal Ataturk, who ended the Ottoman Empire. After a train ride to Bursa, she visits the tomb of Osman, the empire's founder, and learns about wool from a special breed of goats that made the Ottomans a fortune.

45 min · 26 Jan 2024
EPISODE 3

Episode 3

Professor Alice Roberts arrives in Istanbul, and examines the creative tactics that the Ottomans employed to wrestle the impregnable city from the Romans. She takes a boat ride on the Bosphorus to experience how the city was conquered.

46 min · 2 Feb 2024
EPISODE 4

Episode 4

In Sofia, Alice learns how the empire was controlled from Istanbul and how today the city's landscape is almost entirely Soviet. In Serbia, Alice encounters the shocking Skull Tower, which was once used as a grim warning.

46 min · 9 Feb 2024
EPISODE 5

Episode 5

Alice takes a train to the westernmost point of the Ottoman Empire, to Budapest, where she learns how close the Ottomans came to conquering all of Europe, and how it all ended. In Timisoara, Alice forensically pursues Ottoman remnants.

46 min · 16 Feb 2024