The Twenties In Colour
Season 1 • Episode 2: Middle East: The Birth of Nations • Watch with subtitles
Episode 2: Middle East: The Birth of Nations
November 15, 2007 • 60 min
The First World War led to the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire and its former provinces came under the control of France and Britain. Though as the occupying troops arrived, the people of present-day Syria, Lebanon and Palestine were already entertaining hopes that they would be able to govern themselves. Albert Kahn's cameras were there to record the establishment of new nations.
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