SoftInloveRox Horrible, fascist and poorly acted

Monkeywess This is an astonishing documentary that will wring your heart while it bends your mind

Helllins It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

Beulah Bram A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

buiger Now this is what I call a good mini-series. It is interesting, realistic, believable and touching. Very well directed, filmed and acted.Above all, it also gives the viewer an insight into one of the great battles of the first world war, which, especially for the Australians, has legendary status. It is also very interesting how the movie vividly depicts the divide between the classes present at the time. The film's portrayal of the generals is phenomenal... The generals and their staffs where so distant and alienated from their troops that most of the time, they had no clear idea of what was really going on on the battlefield!All in all, mini-series very well made. Highly recommended.

kelapco you should listen Gallipoli (kanlİ Sirt) battle from M.Kemal ATATÜRK the Turkish great leaderENGLİSHTHE DİSTANCE between trench is 8 meter it means the death is absolute the men in the first trench are absolutely become ŞEHİD(THE men who died for Islam country or family) other soldier run to the instead of Deads and they See dead people they know they will die but they don't show hesitation some soldier who knows read Arabic reading Quran(the holy book of Islam)and they are preparing for heaven for Allah some other soldier saying Kelimei Sehadet(the holiest word in Islam) this is a great example for power of the TURKS and these thing help Turk for win (I am sorry my English is not good enough I tried to help) Atatürkçülük,C1,s. 463

Baris reviews I think this series is a colossal failure for two simple reasons: One-dimensional story with awfully inadequate character development and --even more important-- enormous historical errors.But before the negatives, let me write about the positives in the story. First the casting of Australian actors... Instead of fancy-looking over 30 years old established actors, the series made a good job in hiring young talented actors for depicting the ordinary "diggers" in the front. It definitely gives an authentic feel to the series. Second is the music. It is simply eloquent and captivating.Unfortunately apart from these, there are not much to say good about the series.As I said, in the Gallipoli, there is not any character development, no person to really empathize with, no multi-dimensional feelings, --in short-- no real war experience. Instead, what we have is the cacophony of privates, generals,journalists and ill-represented enemies.While it does not glorify the war, it is still caught in many militaristic myths. For instance, it depicts the young Anzac soldiers as war-machines from the first day of the battle without leaving any room for their transformation throughout the battle. We are expected to believe that seventeen year old skinny kid without any combat experience bayonets and kills countless enemies from the day one in the peninsula. Unlike The Pacific's Eugene Sledge, who became proficient in war as he gained experience and got more scared, Gallipoli's Thomas "Tolly" Johnson snipes and bayonets well from the first day to the last while keeping his child-like innocence. (any soldier's diary would testify how unlikely it is)There are also many small yet important historical inaccuracies. In Episode 1, the series depicts a handful of ANZAC soldiers (seemed like understrength battalion) were pushing on to the hills on the first day of attack. While in reality, about ten-thousand soldiers were fully committed to an assault on that day and --miracolously-- could not capture the hill thanks to the efforts of two Turkish regiments (27th and 57th), who were numerically far outnumbered by the Anzacs. Instead of Turkish efforts, the series decided to blame it on the incapability and confusion among the Allied commands while keeping the heroic and capable image of ordinary soldiers.Second, in Episode 4, all of a sudden, Tolly decides to go to sniping trip and suddenly we see him outside of the overcrowded trenches, which --in reality-- surrounded entire Anzac front, in an open field with no men around. (note that, in reality, unlike Western Front, there was not no-men's land in this war.) Moreover he can get a clear view of the Turkish HQ tent and shot half a dozen of Turkish soldiers including the commander. There is obviously no trench, no guard, no outside post in a surrounding area. Anyone with a basic knowledge of the Gallipoli war and the topography of the peninsula, would know that it is impossible.In conclusion, this series is not an accurate nor fair representation of the Gallipoli war. It is rather a melodrama of it. Considering the money and effort spent on it, it is sad.

turindebrouche First of all, Gallipoli campaign was one of the most epic battle in WWI. As we all know the total casualties of both side almost 500.000 man including my grandfather's uncle. Considering these informations, the series look like pale in comparison to reality mostly because of the budget i suppose. if they could manage to increase the budget it would be much more satisfying, so we don't have to see maximum 15 dead body lying down in a battle like that.I also made a quick research about the casts, especially the Turkish actors. And I never heard of them before. I made this research because of their accent, I am Turkish but some of them did not even sound like Turk.There are lots of Turkish actors which can participate in a production like this and that would be much better. Also I think that the actor, who plays Mustafa Kemal is a bit inadequate and doesn't look like him as well.So in conclusion, while the main characters and the Australian & New Zellander characters are well placed and good in acting, Turkish characters are not. Musics are so so, could be better. And the story looks like progressing well for now.