Kingdoms of Fire (2019)

Original title

ممالك النار

Genre

historical television series, historical drama

Country

Tunisia, United Arab Emirates

Length

1 season, 14 episodes

Rating

9.3 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The series follows the conflict between Ottoman Sultan Selim I and Mamluk Sultan Tuman Bay II. It portrays their military campaigns and political struggles in the early 16th century.

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What happens

Kingdoms of Fire (Arabic: ممالك النار, romanized: Mamalik Al-Nar) is an Arabic Anti-Ottoman historical drama television series about the reign of the Ottoman Empire's Selim I and the Mamluk Sultanate's Tuman bay II, created by Muhammed Abdulmalik and directed by British director Peter Webber. The 14-episode series was produced by Genomedia Studios with a budget of $40 million, financed and supported by the government of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, the originator of the series, and filmed in Tunisia. It debuted on MBC channels on 17 November 2019. Fatima Bhutto of Foreign Policy wrote that the show is "an expensive salvo against Turkey’s cultural neo-Ottomanism" and that the director was chosen for "added cachet". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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