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In addition to being a documentary, the film is
also a drama that presents historical
personalities in depth, with their characteristic
features.
Each episode contains a conflict, a climax, a
node and a resolution, a hero and an anti-hero
to keep the viewer engrossed.
In writing the chapter scripts, we have utilised
historians of the period such as Choniates, Ibn
al-Athir, Matthew of Edessa, Anna Komnene
and William of Tyre. We analysed and
compared modern historians' commentaries on
these records.
Finally, we have written a "Seljuk and Byzantine
history" book in our own style.
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