Victorious Mehmets (Seasons 1–2)

Mehmetçik: Kut'ül-Amare — Victorious Mehmets (2018) — is a Turkish war series you can watch online on iFILM. It reconstructs one of the lesser-known Ottoman victories of the First World War: the five-month siege of Kut-al-Amara in what is now Iraq, which ended with the largest single British military surrender of the entire conflict.

Command of the operation falls to Mehmet, a driven Turkish officer played by İsmail Hacıoğlu, who sees the battle as both a military necessity and a matter of national honour. Directors Kamil Aydın and Mustafa Şevki Doğan keep the focus on the grinding reality of siege warfare — cut supply lines, failed British relief columns, and weeks of waiting that test everyone in the encirclement. For viewers interested in a WWI story told from a different angle than the Western Front, this is a rare and substantive take. Stream Victorious Mehmets online on iFILM.