In the documentary, the life of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the last period of the Ottoman Empire, the War of Independence and the developments in the first years of the Republic of Turkey are told in parallel. The documentary prepared by Michael Adams consists of recordings made by the BBC in 1970 in Çanakkale, Samsun, Amasya, Sivas and Ankara, as well as historical footage.

• BBC TV
• Michael Adams
• Süreyya Agaoglu
• Osman Okyar
• A.J. Toynbee
• Bernard Archard
• Alethea Charlton
• Richard Hurndall
• Gary Watson