Gallipoli

Gallipoli (Turkish title Gelibolu) is a 2005 film by Turkish filmmaker Tolga Örnek. It is a documentary about the disastrous Battle of Gallipoli, narrated by both sides, the Turks on one side and the British soldiers and ANZACs (the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) on the other side. Through the use of surviving diaries and letters of the soldiers, the film shows the bravery and the suffering on both sides. For this film, Tolga Örnek has be... more

Gallipoli (Turkish title Gelibolu) is a 2005 film by Turkish filmmaker Tolga Örnek. It is a documentary about the disastrous Battle of Gallipoli, narrated by both sides, the Turks on one side and the British soldiers and ANZACs (the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) on the other side. Through the use of surviving diaries and letters of the soldiers, the film shows the bravery and the suffering on both sides. For this film, Tolga Örnek has been awarded an honorary medal in the general division of the Order of Australia.. Some of the items in the production have little to do with the story. The first deals with the training of the Light Horsemen, a unit of ANZAC soldiers. A small clip was shown with the commentary that the clip relates to Light Horse training prior to going to Gallipoli. In fact, the film clip shown is of the 8th ALHR (Australian Light Horse Regiment) putting on a show for the cameras near Heliopolis on Wednesday, 23 February 1916. The irony was that the 8th ALHR... less