A bold plan to sail a fleet of battleships through the narrow Dardanelles to the gates of Istanbul and knock Turkey out of the war fails. The battleships are repelled before the massive Turkish forts guarding the Dardanelles. Following this defeat there is a poorly planned and under resourced campaign created to land an army and capture the forts. At dawn on Sunday April 25th 1915 an Army of many nationalities landed on the Gallipoli peninsula- their mission to create another war front on Turkey's strategic waterways The Dardanelles leaving the German lines weakened... in the east and west. During the ensuing ferocious battle which lasted nine long months 450 000 men would be killed or wounded before Allied troops were finally withdrawn in what would be the only successful operation of the campaign. The documentary lays the responsibility for the catastrophe mainly with Winston Churchill Lord Kitchener and Sir Ian Hamilton. Revealing Gallipoli tells the story of what happened on Gallipoli from many perspectives including a Turkish farmer a Melbourne railway worker and an Irish poet. This programme follows the campaign from the very beginnings at the War Council Of London through to the eventual evacuation and the beginning of a legend which for Australians and New Zealanders is seen as a founding event in the story of their nations. [show more]
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Documentary telling the story of the doomed landing at Gallipoli in 1915 by Allied forces trying to gain strategic advantage in the First World War. Bogged down in battle on the peninsula for close to nine months, many thousands of men died before the British led forces staged a withdrawal, an episode which caused damage to the reputation of one of the invasion's planners, Winston Churchill. Told through its three main presenters from a British, Irish and Turkish perspective, this documentary takes a wide ranging look at an important military conflict.
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