In the 400 years of Ottoman rule, Greeks had staged numerous revolutions, but they were all drowned in blood. Which factors contributed to the success of the Liberation Struggle of 1821?
Social & External
In the fourth and fifth centuries, B.C., the Greeks built an empire that stretched across the Mediterranean from Asia to Spain. They laid the foundation of modern science, politics, warfare and philosophy, and produced some of the most breathtaking art and architecture the world has ever seen. It was perhaps the most spectacular flourishing of imagination and achievement in recorded history.
Georgios Babiniotis, professor of linguistics at the University of Athens, explains and comments on words and common linguistic mistakes, helping us to use the Greek language more correctly.
Every time a daughter was born, the father of Eleni, Asimina and Froso planted a poplar tree at the edge of their orchard to commemorate the arrival of the new child. As they grew and grew tall and slender, he boasted of them as his daughters. In the proudest poplar, however, Helen's poplar, a swarm of wild bees had already nested. "You will be happy, my daughter, and life will be as sweet as this honey. You'll see," her father used to tell her. But, the years passed and Eleni looked at the poplar and listened to the hum... "How do you know, father... How do you know that life has written only bitterness for my root".
The new drama series "An August Night", which is a continuation of "The Island" takes us back to the 50s. Spinalonga closes and a feast follows in the village. The healthy meet the newly cured and all together celebrate freedom from fear and disease. But everything freezes with the murder of a woman by her husband, when he learns that his best friend had a lover.
How well do you think you know your closest people? How confident can you be for them? How easy is it to overtake your emotions and see things clearly, with the eyes of truth, but also to manage the consequences? After the success of family stories, Alpha introduces us to "doubts", the new series that is successfully promoted in 16 countries worldwide. Stories full of tension and constant upheavals, police cases sowing doubts about the protagonist who is confronted with the suspicion that a beloved man has committed a crime. The plot moves around the hero's attempt to find out what really happened and to manage the truth, but also the next day - when nothing will be as before in his family.
"Our family" has everything. Real, modern people, real relationships, funny but also emotionally charged moments. Relationships that are built daily, grow, strengthen and become a point of reference. With those we already know, but also with others we have never met. Which sometimes operate in a completely realistic context and sometimes escape into "surreal" situations.
From Ancient Greece to the frozen North, rulers have always needed their elite troops – men trained to perfection, skilled with a devastating array of weaponry – men who will track down their leader’s enemies and kill them. All assassination teams faced one big problem: getting close enough to kill. No one in the ancient world had sniper rifles. As a result even the most formidable Japanese Ninjas got captured and tortured. This series brings some of the most dramatic tales of antiquity to life with a mixture of dramatic reconstruction, documentary filming and expert testimony. Each episode details the intricate complexity of the elite troops who performed the assassination missions and how they worked. It shows what they had to do to achieve elite status, how they could dress, and the weapons they got to use when they completed their first mission.
Mary is a good wife, mother and… lover. Mary is a proper housewife, with a mother-in-law… malama. Mary is nice and plays it fatally. Three women, three different lives. The only thing they have in common is their name: Mary. Vaso Laskaraki, Katerina Zarifi and Niki Lami play the three heroines in the new comedy series.
"Orpheus", always noble and well-dressed, has his own way with people. He knows how to charm men and women, how to make people trust him and open their hearts to him. After all, that's his job, professional friend!
A motley group of five living in a neighborhood of modern Athens, founds a company that provides an alibi for extramarital affairs. With the launch of the company, the company takes on one strange case after another, getting involved in comic-tragic situations. Everything turns upside down when the 5 associates are at the police station accused of a murder case. Who is to blame?
"Storgi" is the name of SKAI's social drama that deals with abuse, the trauma that hides in childhood and often defines adulthood and our ability to love ourselves and others. At a time when anger has become a movement and domestic violence is on the rise, we need to better understand the root cause of the problem of violence but also to destigmatize psychotherapy which is not a taboo but a path that can lead us to self-awareness, redemption and balance.
The new 24-episode musical comedy is a hybrid of comical situations, heaps of satire and musical spectacle, based on Foivos Delivorias and Spyros Krimpalis' original idea and directed by Grigoris Karantinakis. An original fiction series, in which reality will be defeated by surrealism.
Nikolas, a charismatic high school teacher sees his life fall apart violently and unexpectedly. During an intense crisis in his marriage, Nicholas becomes romantically involved, for one night, with the mother of one of his students who exhibits behavioral problems. A few days later, his wife is murdered during an armed robbery in their own home and his daughter is transferred to the intensive care unit in critical condition.
A story of love and mystery
A quiet village in the middle of nowhere, where crime is an unknown word, is thrown into turmoil when a notice comes from police headquarters that their Police Station must be closed due to inactivity and that its officers will be transferred, unknown to where.
"Erotas Fygas" travels us to Greece in the 50's that overcomes its darkness, moves forward and evolves, through a fatal love, an exciting plot, moral crossroads that we still meet today, intense characters, emotions, and stormy twists .