Battle for Byzantium: The Board Game- Trailer No Budget Films 2023-05-25 | Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/ByzantinetimetravellerLike us on Facebook: No Budget Films: facebook.com/nobudgetfilms55Byzantine Time Traveller: facebook.com/ByzantineTimeTravellerHere's the trailer for our upcoming Byzantine themed board game "Battle for Byzantium" which is set to be released in a month's time! "Battle for Byzantium" is our first board game project which is a historical action/ conquest board game with a fictional plot-line taking place in a real historical setting being the year 1025 following the death of the great emperor Basil II wherein the Byzantine Empire is at its height of power and influence as a medieval empire. In this alternate timeline of history, following the emperor's death, 4 ambitious warriors from within and beyond the Byzantine Empire compete with each other in capturing the most number of cities within the empire. This is a 2-4 player game wherein players can relive the action and excitement of 11th century Byzantium by choosing between 4 characters- a Byzantine commander, Arab general, Norman adventurer, and Varangian warrior- which all have their own special abilities. The objective of the game is to capture all 18 cities in the map of the Byzantine Empire in 1025 and the winner is the player with the most number of cities. Although the game's objective is to conquer cities, several obstacles occur along the way wherein players get the plague, restart at their base, or lose a city by rebellion. The game is now ready for pre-orders, and for more details about it please check out our website below:byzantinetimetraveller.comGame Design and Development by Powee CeldranGame Art by Chrysa Sakel and Alessia Valastro Layout Art by Arjun Altomonte Storyline by Franco Gallardo Trailer Script by Mario Puyat #boardgames #boardgame #byzantium #byzantine_empire #byzantine #actiongames #history #medieval
The Most Shocking Moments in Each Century of Byzantine History No Budget Films 2024-12-15 | Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/c/ByzantinetimetravellerLike us on Facebook: No Budget Films: facebook.com/nobudgetfilms55Byzantine Time Traveller: facebook.com/ByzantineTimeTravellerAs the final video for this year, I have prepared something special! Here I will discuss what are my 12 most shocking moments in Byzantine history, therefore one shocking moment for each of the 12 centuries. This video will be in a chronological pattern wherein we will go over each century in Byzantine history beginning with the 4th and ending in the 15th century. These shocking moments per century include major battles, disasters, and certain laws issued by emperors that may have changed the course of Byzantine history as a whole. Additionally, this video will include short performances before I discuss the main event with voice overs portraying certain figures in Byzantine history as well as short clips from previous Lego films by this channel No Budget Films. If you have any thoughts about my choices for this list or want to suggest something, please say so in the comments. 00:00 Intro01:09 4th Century- The Battle of Adrianople, 378 02:33 5th Century- The Fall of Western Rome, 476 04:08 6th Century- The Plague of Justinian, 542 05:21 7th Century- The Battle of Yarmuk, 636 07:04 8th Century- Iconoclasm, 730 08:41 9th Century- The Sack of Amorion, 838 09:55 10th Century- The Death of Nikephoros II Phokas, 96911:45 11th Century- The Conquest of Bulgaria, 101413:16 12th Century- The Battle of Myriokephalon, 117615:20 13th Century- The Reconquest of Constantinople, 126117:13 14th Century- The Death of Andronikos III Palaiologos, 134118:32 15th Century- The Fall of Constantinople, 1453 19:55 Extro and Credits Check out related videos from my channel No Budget Films: My Top 10 Underrated Byzantine Emperors youtube.com/watch?v=-iTb2lTBavM&t=64sMy Other Top 6 Byzantine Military Units youtube.com/watch?v=bW0EynFgvY4&t=52sMy Top 6 Byzantine Military Units youtube.com/watch?v=iX8OGdjxvdA&t=18s10 Surprising Facts About Basil II youtube.com/watch?v=1h4jAar87-s&t=71s5 Times to Feel Bad for Justinian II and 5 Times to Hate Him youtube.com/watch?v=5vtw0PdEBUo&t=928sTop 10 Unknown Facts About Justinian the Great youtube.com/watch?v=NcOfeWvBA34&t=5sMy Personal Top 8 Byzantine Naval Battles youtube.com/watch?v=C4vP_YAZ0LI&t=0s10 Most Decisive Battles in Byzantine History youtube.com/watch?v=Crz7M4QNXFk&t=0s10 Byzantine Contributions to the World youtube.com/watch?v=T-exxhc_vUw&t=0sA Tour of the Land Walls of Constantinople youtube.com/watch?v=ruz_PLs-KhM&t=167sThe History of Byzantium in 63 Minutes youtube.com/watch?v=6CSAuwUMXk0&t=2016sRanking the 12 Centuries of Byzantine History youtube.com/watch?v=IDVg978A9kU&t=9sMy Personal Top 10 Byzantine Empresses youtube.com/watch?v=zbAcaWYSA_8&t=522sMy Top 10 Byzantine Literary Works youtube.com/watch?v=mDRotcmpRQo&t=30sMy Top 12 Byzantine Emperors youtube.com/watch?v=USCcrNA33Wo&t=0sMy Top 10 Worst Byzantine Emperors youtube.com/watch?v=ToWJt4t81j8&t=0sRanking the 15 Byzantine Imperial Dynasties youtube.com/watch?v=9kyq_dJfNOA&t=0sThe Deaths of All 90 Byzantine Emperors youtube.com/watch?v=diqnJa77mbI&t=0sClips from previous Lego films are included from:"Killing a Byzantine Emperor" (2019) youtube.com/watch?v=csRWxtUKsaY"Summer of 1261: A Byzantine Epic" (2019) youtube.com/watch?v=Sas5oC4Dui8&t=1062s"House Komnenos: A Byzantine Epic" (2022) youtube.com/watch?v=AfrW5SkT-BoVideo produced/ written/ narrated by Powee CeldranThe Voice Cast:Powee Celdran as Archer, Zeno, Justinian I, Leo III, Constantine XICarlos Francisco as Valens, Vahan, Al-Mu'tasim, John Kantakouzenos Igi Rollan as Khalid Ibn al-Walid, Mehmed II, Byzantine soldiers Daniel de Cervantes as Fritigern, Odoacer, Basil IIMiguel Abarentos as Romulus Augustus, Theophilos Justinianus Byzantinus as Theodora, Anna od Savoy Milica Babic as Iconophile woman Video includes artworks from various online artists.
My Top 10 Underrated Byzantine Emperors No Budget Films 2024-10-27 | SUPPORT US ON PATREON: patreon.com/c/ByzantinetimetravellerLike us on Facebook:No Budget Films: facebook.com/nobudgetfilms55Byzantine Time Traveller: facebook.com/ByzantineTimeTravellerIn this video, I will be doing a top 10 list of who I think are the most underrated Byzantine emperors. This video will go over these 10 emperors in a chronological pattern which in the traditional Byzantine sense begins at the 4th and ends at the 15th century. The 10 emperors featured in this video are those that may have done quite a lot for the Byzantine Empire and may have even been great ones yet are not as well remembered as emperors like Justinian I the Great and Basil II. If you have any thoughts about my choices for this list or want to suggest something please say so in the comments. 00:00 Intro 01:16 Constantius II (r. 337-361)- Constantinian Dynasty 02:18 Zeno (r. 474-475/ 476-491)- Leonid Dynasty 03:14 Anastasius I (r. 491-518)- Leonid Dynasty 04:17 Maurice (r. 582-602)- Justinian Dynasty 05:36 Constantine V (r. 741-775)- Isaurian Dynasty 06:54 Romanos I Lekapenos (r. 920-944)- Macedonian Dynasty 08:25 Isaac I Komnenos (r. 1057-1059)- Komnenos Dynasty 09:40 John II Komnenos (r. 1118-1143)- Komnenos Dynasty 10:52 John III Vatatzes (r. 1222-1254)- Laskaris Dynasty 12:17 Andronikos III Palaiologos (r. 1328-1341)- Palaiologos Dynasty 13:39 Extro and Credits Check out related videos from my channel No Budget Films:My Other Top 6 Byzantine Military Units youtube.com/watch?v=bW0EynFgvY4&t=52sMy Top 6 Byzantine Military Units youtube.com/watch?v=iX8OGdjxvdA&t=18s10 Surprising Facts About Basil II youtube.com/watch?v=1h4jAar87-s&t=71s5 Times to Feel Bad for Justinian II and 5 Times to Hate Him youtube.com/watch?v=5vtw0PdEBUo&t=928sTop 10 Unknown Facts About Justinian the Great youtube.com/watch?v=NcOfeWvBA34&t=5sMy Personal Top 8 Byzantine Naval Battles youtube.com/watch?v=C4vP_YAZ0LI&t=0sTop 10 Decisive Byzantine Battles youtube.com/watch?v=Crz7M4QNXFk&t=0s10 Byzantine Contributions to the World youtube.com/watch?v=T-exxhc_vUw&t=0sA Tour of the Land Walls of Constantinople youtube.com/watch?v=ruz_PLs-KhM&t=167sThe History of Byzantium in 63 Minutes youtube.com/watch?v=6CSAuwUMXk0&t=2016sRanking the 12 Centuries of Byzantine History youtube.com/watch?v=IDVg978A9kU&t=9sTop 10 Byzantine Empresses youtube.com/watch?v=zbAcaWYSA_8&t=522sTop 10 Byzantine Literary Worksyoutube.com/watch?v=mDRotcmpRQo&t=30sTop 12 Byzantine Emperors youtube.com/watch?v=USCcrNA33Wo&t=0sTop 10 Worst Byzantine Emperors youtube.com/watch?v=ToWJt4t81j8&t=0sRanking the 15 Byzantine Imperial Dynasties youtube.com/watch?v=9kyq_dJfNOA&t=0sThe Deaths of All 90 Byzantine Emperors youtube.com/watch?v=diqnJa77mbI&t=0sVideo produced/ narrated/ written by Powee CeldranIncludes artworks from various online artists, namely @byzansimp
My Other Top 6 Byzantine Military Units (Part II) No Budget Films 2024-09-20 | SUPPORT US ON PATREON: patreon.com/ByzantinetimetravellerLike us on Facebook:No Budget Films: facebook.com/nobudgetfilms55Byzantine Time Traveller: facebook.com/ByzantineTimeTravellerIn this video, I am following up last video's topic on my top 6 Byzantine military units from throughout Byzantine history. Like in the last video, in this one, I will also go over my other top 6 Byzantine military units in a chronological pattern, 4th-15th centuries in the traditional Byzantine sense. Here, we will go over some underrated but effective units in the Byzantine army such as the Antesignani, Akritai, and Tzoknes. I too will discuss their weapons and armor as well as their fighting tactics. If you have any thoughts about the army units here or want to mention another, please say so in the comments. 00:00 Intro01:24 The Limitanei 02:49 The Foederati 05:38 The Bucellarii 06:55 The Antesignani 08:10 The Akritai 10:01 The Tzakones11:25 Extro and Credits Check out related videos from my channel No Budget Films: My Top 6 Byzantine Military Units youtube.com/watch?v=iX8OGdjxvdA&t=18s10 Surprising Facts About Basil II youtube.com/watch?v=1h4jAar87-s&t=71s5 Times to Feel Bad for Justinian II and 5 Times to Hate Him youtube.com/watch?v=5vtw0PdEBUo&t=928sTop 10 Unknown Facts About Justinian the Great youtube.com/watch?v=NcOfeWvBA34&t=5sTop 8 Byzantine Naval Battles youtube.com/watch?v=C4vP_YAZ0LI&t=0sTop 10 Decisive Byzantine Battles youtube.com/watch?v=Crz7M4QNXFk&t=0s10 Byzantine Contributions to the World youtube.com/watch?v=T-exxhc_vUw&t=0sA Tour of the Land Walls of Constantinople youtube.com/watch?v=ruz_PLs-KhM&t=167sThe History of Byzantium in 63 Minutes youtube.com/watch?v=6CSAuwUMXk0&t=2016sRanking the 12 Centuries of Byzantine History youtube.com/watch?v=IDVg978A9kU&t=9sTop 10 Byzantine Empresses youtube.com/watch?v=zbAcaWYSA_8&t=522sTop 10 Byzantine Literary Works youtube.com/watch?v=mDRotcmpRQo&t=30sTop 12 Byzantine Emperors youtube.com/watch?v=USCcrNA33Wo&t=0sTop 10 Worst Byzantine Emperors youtube.com/watch?v=ToWJt4t81j8&t=0sRanking the 15 Byzantine Imperial Dynasties youtube.com/watch?v=9kyq_dJfNOA&t=0sThe Deaths of All 90 Byzantine Emperors youtube.com/watch?v=diqnJa77mbI&t=0sVideo produced/ written/ narrated by Powee Celdran
My Top 6 Byzantine Military Units No Budget Films 2024-08-23 | SUPPORT US ON PATREON: patreon.com/ByzantinetimetravellerLike us on Facebook:No Budget Films: facebook.com/nobudgetfilms55Byzantine Time Traveller: facebook.com/ByzantineTimeTravellerI'm happy to announce that I will be returning to this channel for the time being... And so to mark my return I have released this video featuring my top 6 military units of the Byzantine Empire! In this video, I will go over my top Byzantine army units in a chronological pattern beginning with the late Roman Comitatenses and ending with the Varangian Guard. I too will briefly discuss their battle tactics, arms and armor, and history. If you have any thoughts about the army units here or want to mention another, please say so in the comments. 00:00 Intro01:39 The Comitatenses03:22 The Excubitors05:56 The Tagmata07:15 The Skoutatoi 08:55 The Cataphracts 11:24 The Varangian Guard 14:34 Extro and Credits Check out related videos from my channel No Budget Films:10 Surprising Facts About Basil II youtube.com/watch?v=1h4jAar87-s&t=71s5 Times to Feel Bad for Justinian II and 5 Times to Hate Him youtube.com/watch?v=5vtw0PdEBUo&t=928s10 Unknown Facts About Justinian the Great youtube.com/watch?v=NcOfeWvBA34&t=5sTop 8 Byzantine Naval Battles youtube.com/watch?v=C4vP_YAZ0LI&t=0sTop 10 Decisive Byzantine Battles youtube.com/watch?v=Crz7M4QNXFk&t=0s10 Byzantine Contributions to the World youtube.com/watch?v=T-exxhc_vUw&t=0sA Tour of the Land Walls of Constantinople youtube.com/watch?v=ruz_PLs-KhM&t=167sThe History of Byzantium in 63 Minutes youtube.com/watch?v=6CSAuwUMXk0&t=2016sRanking the 12 Centuries of Byzantine History youtube.com/watch?v=IDVg978A9kU&t=9sTop 10 Byzantine Empresses youtube.com/watch?v=zbAcaWYSA_8&t=522sTop 10 Byzantine Literary Works youtube.com/watch?v=mDRotcmpRQo&t=30sTop 12 Byzantine Emperors youtube.com/watch?v=USCcrNA33Wo&t=0sTop 10 Worst Byzantine Emperors youtube.com/watch?v=ToWJt4t81j8&t=0sRanking the 15 Byzantine Imperial Dynasties youtube.com/watch?v=9kyq_dJfNOA&t=0sThe Deaths of All 90 Byzantine Emperors youtube.com/watch?v=diqnJa77mbI&t=0sVideo produced/ written/ narrated by Powee CeldranThis video contains artworks depicting the Byzantine Empire from various online artists (notably @byzansimp and @byzantinetales).
10 Surprising Facts About Basil II- Byzantine Empire No Budget Films 2024-04-12 | Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/ByzantinetimetravellerLike us on Facebook: No Budget Films: facebook.com/nobudgetfilms55Byzantine Time Traveller: facebook.com/ByzantineTimeTravellerThis video is a commentary of mine on Basil II (r. 976-1025), one of the most renowned Byzantine emperors both as a warrior and statesman. Basil II is possibly the next most famous Byzantine emperor after Justinian I the Great (r. 527-565) and his reign had achieved a lot for Byzantium. His reign saw the Byzantine Empire at its height as a military and cultural superpower of the Middle Ages all while its borders greatly expanded especially due to Basil's conquest of the Bulgarian Empire which was thus annexed into Byzantium. Aside from his famous conquests, Basil II too was a great reformer and politician whose reign saw the empire undergo major reforms and developments. As an overall commander and administrator at the same time, Basil II's rule was a highly active one which thus makes him the best example of what a Byzantine emperor is. In this video, I will go over 10 surprising facts about the life and reign of the legendary Basil II and if you have any thoughts about him or suggestions, please leave it in the comments. 00:00 Intro01:38 His Reign was Longer than You Think 03:15 He did not Rule Independently until Later in Life05:08 He Established the Legendary Varangian Guard Unit 06:42 His Physical Appearance and Personality 08:15 His Campaigns Against the Arabs 09:35 His Campaigns Against Bulgaria 10:55 His Conquest of Bulgaria 12:26 His Campaigns Against Georgia 13:47 His Military and Social Reforms 15:09 He Never Married 16:54 Extro and Credits Check Out Related Videos from my Channel No Budget Films:5 Times to Feel Bad for Justinian II and 5 Times to Hate Him youtube.com/watch?v=5vtw0PdEBUo&t=928sTop 10 Unknown Facts about Justinian the Great youtube.com/watch?v=NcOfeWvBA34&t=5sTop 8 Byzantine Naval Battles youtube.com/watch?v=C4vP_YAZ0LI&t=0sTop 10 Decisive Byzantine Battles youtube.com/watch?v=Crz7M4QNXFk&t=0s10 Byzantine Contributions to the World youtube.com/watch?v=T-exxhc_vUw&t=0sA Tour of the Land Walls of Constantinople youtube.com/watch?v=ruz_PLs-KhM&t=167sThe History of Byzantium in 63 Minutes youtube.com/watch?v=6CSAuwUMXk0&t=2016sRanking the 12 Centuries of Byzantine History youtube.com/watch?v=IDVg978A9kU&t=9sTop 10 Byzantine Empresses youtube.com/watch?v=zbAcaWYSA_8&t=522sTop 10 Byzantine Literary Works youtube.com/watch?v=mDRotcmpRQo&t=30sTop 12 Byzantine Emperors youtube.com/watch?v=USCcrNA33Wo&t=0sTop 10 Worst Byzantine Emperors youtube.com/watch?v=ToWJt4t81j8&t=0sRanking the 15 Byzantine Imperial Dynasties youtube.com/watch?v=9kyq_dJfNOA&t=0sThe Deaths of All 90 Byzantine Emperors youtube.com/watch?v=diqnJa77mbI&t=0sVideo produced/ written/ narrated by Powee CeldranThis video contains artworks depicting the Byzantine Empire from various online artists (notably @byzansimp and @byzantinetales)
5 Times to Feel Bad for Justinian II and 5 Times to Hate Him No Budget Films 2024-03-22 | Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/ByzantinetimetravellerLike us on Facebook: No Budget Films: facebook.com/nobudgetfilms55Byzantine Time Traveller: facebook.com/ByzantineTimeTravellerThis video is a commentary of mine on the highly controversial reign of the Byzantine emperor Justinian II (685-695/ 705-711) and more particularly on his character. Justinian II is often remembered as one of Byzantium's most despicable emperors that many would come to hate for his cruel deeds as well as for losing his nose but regaining the throne with a fake nose as a replacement. However, when getting deep into the story of Justinian II, there is more to him than just being a bloodthirsty evil monster historians portray him as. This video thus aims to highlight the times when we would come to have sympathy for him and thus feel bad for him but also the times we would come to hate him. Aside from having done some cruel things as emperor including massacres and purges on political enemies, there are some moments when Justinian II too was the victim such as when he was deposed as emperor in 695 wherein his nose was removed and his eventual execution in 711 where not only he but his family were put to death. In this video, I will go over times we felt bad for Justinian II and times we hated him in an alternating pattern and if you have any thoughts on Justinian II or suggestions, please leave it in the comments. 00:00 Intro01:34 Felt Bad- He Grew up in Difficult Times 03:22 Hated Him- His War Against the Arabs and Massacre of the Slavs04:33 Felt Bad- He was Provoked by Caliph Abd al-Malik 05:48 Hated Him- His Strict Religious Policy and Harsh Taxation 06:58 Feld Bad- He was Deposed and his Nose Mutilated 08:09 Hated Him- His Return to Power and Purge 09:48 Felt Bad- He was Hunted Down even in Exile 11:19 Hated Him- He Turns on an Ally and Sends one of his Men to Die13:19 Felt Bad- The Bloody End of his Life and Dynasty 15:08 Hated Him- His Brutal Suppression of Ravenna 16:23 Extro and Credits Check Out Related Videos from my Channel No Budget Films: Top 10 Unknown Facts about Justinian the Great youtube.com/watch?v=NcOfeWvBA34&t=5sTop 8 Byzantine Naval Battles youtube.com/watch?v=C4vP_YAZ0LI&t=0sTop 10 Decisive Byzantine Battles youtube.com/watch?v=Crz7M4QNXFk&t=0s10 Byzantine Contributions to the World youtube.com/watch?v=T-exxhc_vUw&t=0sA Tour of the Land Walls of Constantinople youtube.com/watch?v=ruz_PLs-KhM&t=167sThe History of Byzantium in 63 Minutes youtube.com/watch?v=6CSAuwUMXk0&t=2016sRanking the 12 Centuries of Byzantine History youtube.com/watch?v=IDVg978A9kU&t=9sTop 10 Byzantine Empresses youtube.com/watch?v=zbAcaWYSA_8&t=522sTop 10 Byzantine Literary Works youtube.com/watch?v=mDRotcmpRQo&t=30sTop 12 Byzantine Emperors youtube.com/watch?v=USCcrNA33Wo&t=0sTop 10 Worst Byzantine Emperors youtube.com/watch?v=ToWJt4t81j8&t=0sRanking the 15 Byzantine Imperial Dynasties youtube.com/watch?v=9kyq_dJfNOA&t=0sThe Deaths of All 90 Byzantine Emperors youtube.com/watch?v=diqnJa77mbI&t=0sVideo produced/ written/ narrated by Powee Celdran This video contains artworks depicting the Byzantine Empire from various online artists.
Top 10 Unknown Facts about Justinian the Great No Budget Films 2024-02-22 | Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/ByzantinetimetravellerLike us on Facebook:No Budget Films: facebook.com/nobudgetfilms55Byzantine Time Traveller: facebook.com/ByzantineTimeTravellerThis video is a commentary of mine on the spectacular reign of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I the Great (527-565) and more particularly on the rather unknown facts about his impressive life and reign. This video thus covers what in my opinion are top 10 unknown facts about Justinian the Great beginning with his humble origins and then to his pre-imperial career, long and eventful reign which saw many milestone moments in Byzantine history, and finally to his death and succession. Many of course would remember Justinian I for constructing the cathedral of the Hagia Sophia, commissioning his famous code of laws known as the "Corpus Juris Civilis", and his reconquests of North Africa and Italy from barbarians. However, there are many lesser known facts about Justinian such as his other construction projects, religious policy, other conquests, economic reforms, and surviving the plague of 542. In terms of ranking the top 10, in this video I am more or less doing it in chronological order and if anyone has thoughts or suggestions about this video or on Justinian please leave it in the comments. Additionally, this video too is a commentary on the new Justinian book by Peter Sarris which I recently finished reading. 00:00 Intro01:25 The Name of Justinian02:29 The Power Behind the Throne 04:14 Construction Projects 05:57 The Emperor who Never Slept 06:55 The Plague of Justinian08:09 The Religious Fanatic 09:35 The Emperor that Never Left the Capital 11:05 The Reconquest of Spain 12:46 The Imperial Silk Industry 14:10 Death and Succession 16:11 Extro and Credits Check out Related Videos from my Channel No Budget Films:Top 8 Byzantine Naval Battles youtube.com/watch?v=C4vP_YAZ0LITop 10 Byzantine Battles youtube.com/watch?v=Crz7M4QNXFk&t=0s10 Byzantine Contributions to the World youtube.com/watch?v=T-exxhc_vUw&t=0sA Tour of the Land Walls of Constantinople youtube.com/watch?v=ruz_PLs-KhM&t=167sThe History of Byzantium in 63 Minutes youtube.com/watch?v=6CSAuwUMXk0&t=2016sRanking the 12 Centuries of Byzantine History youtube.com/watch?v=IDVg978A9kU&t=9sTop 10 Byzantine Empresses youtube.com/watch?v=zbAcaWYSA_8&t=522sTop 10 Byzantine Literary Works youtube.com/watch?v=mDRotcmpRQo&t=30sTop 12 Byzantine Emperors youtube.com/watch?v=USCcrNA33WoTop 10 Worst Byzantine Emperors youtube.com/watch?v=ToWJt4t81j8Ranking the 15 Byzantine Imperial Dynasties youtube.com/watch?v=9kyq_dJfNOAThe Deaths of All 90 Byzantine Emperors youtube.com/watch?v=diqnJa77mbIVideo produced/ written/ narrated by Powee Celdran This video contains artworks depicting the Byzantine Empire from various online artists.
A Recap of No Budget Films 1984 films No Budget Films 2024-01-25 | Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/ByzantinetimetravellerLike us on Facebook:No Budget Films: facebook.com/nobudgetfilms55Byzantine Time Traveller: facebook.com/ByzantineTimeTravellerAs our first video for the year 2024, this one is a blast from the past! In the early days of our channel No Budget Films, we did a film on George Orwell's famous novel "1984" back in 2015 which we further expanded by creating a fan fiction universe to the original novel with sequel films, a prequel miniseries, and spin-offs. This video now will do a recap of all the 1984 media we did in chronological order in term's of story- not in order of which came out first to last. No Budget Films' 1984 story chronologically begins during World War II and ends with the fall of the Oceanian superstate in 1985. Below, we will list all the 1984 media we did and the links to watch them. 00:00 Intro02:11 Birth of the Totalitarian State Episode I: Operation Breakout (2018)youtube.com/watch?v=9R8aRDqLJqo&t=494s03:15 Birth of the Totalitarian State Episode II: Aftermath of the War (2018)youtube.com/watch?v=0lNaBoScWVs&t=624s04:57 Birth of the Totalitarian State Episode III: The June Revolution (2018)youtube.com/watch?v=oWrJSFh_TUw&t=709s07:08 Birth of the Totalitarian State Episode IV: Cold War (2018)youtube.com/watch?v=y3yD5Wun54Y09:36 Birth of the Totalitarian State Episode V: The New Resistance (2018)youtube.com/watch?v=2D-YxSsOKgI11:34 Birth of the Totalitarian State Episode VI: Battle of Andorra (2018)youtube.com/watch?v=9LHIGeNV29c14:55 Operation Tinian: A 1984 Story (2017)youtube.com/watch?v=BlJUnZQABJY&t=134s17:01 1984 (2015) youtube.com/watch?v=YTfG9VFbOZM&t=959s20:58 1984 Part II: Eurasia Rising (2016) youtube.com/watch?v=g-wuRO4cyt8&t=448s26:32 Whiteforest: A 1984 Story (2017) youtube.com/watch?v=8lPvqf7JOw432:59 1984 Part III: End of Empire (2016) youtube.com/watch?v=rXD40yS6KPc38:20 Conclusion Produced and Narrated by Powee Celdran
The End of Antiquity: A Byzantine Epic- Lego film No Budget Films 2023-12-15 | Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/ByzantinetimetravellerLike us on Facebook: No Budget Films: facebook.com/nobudgetfilms55Byzantine Time Traveller: facebook.com/ByzantineTimeTravellerRated P-G: This movie contains some violent and disturbing scenes not fit for young viewers. This Lego film is based on historical characters and settings from the era of the Byzantine Empire (330-1453) taking place in the late 6th and early 7th centuries wherein the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) Empire is troubled both financially and by facing invasions on all sides. This Lego film now centers around the reign of the Byzantine emperor Maurice (582-602) which has seen the Byzantine Empire make peace with its mortal enemy the Sassanid Persian Empire in the east in 591 wherein the Byzantine emperor Maurice agreed to help place the young Sassanid prince Khosrow II in power as the Sassanid ruler and in return, Khosrow would come to Maurice's aid whenever he is in trouble. 11 years later in 602, the Byzantine army stationed in the Danube frontier in the north have managed to expel the invading Avars and Slavs, however the troops are troubled by the emperor Maurice's policy of forcing them to stay at the frontier during the winter. Although the Byzantine forces may have been victorious, they are upset with the emperor who they now aim to overthrow feeling things would be better if he no longer reigned. The soldiers in the Danube frontier thus choose one of their own, the rather uneducated provincial centurion Phocas both as their leader in their rebellion against the emperor who they feel is too distant from them and overall as their new emperor. As Phocas is proclaimed emperor by his troops, the people in the Byzantine capital Constantinople too begin rioting against the unpopular regime of Maurice who they seek to overthrow and replace. However, the rioting escalates to the point of bloodshed resulting in the centurion Phocas taking over the Byzantine throne in a bloody manner where not only Maurice but his entire family will be affected. In this difficult situation, Maurice thus turns to an old ally, the Sassanid ruler Khosrow II for help but it is too late as Phocas has already seized Constantinople with his troops and so Maurice and his family's lives are all doomed. This event being the fall of the emperor Maurice in 602 is often known as the event that marked the "end of antiquity" hence the name of the film. Directed/ Produced/ Written by Powee Celdran Voice Cast:Powee Celdran as Emperor Maurice Damien Claudio as Phocas Carlos Francisco as Priscus Igi Rollan as PeterErmioni Andreopoulou as Empress Constantina Miguel Abarentos as Philippicus Joaquin Cabangon as Theodosius Daniel de Cervantes as DemetriosJustinianus Byzantinus as Tiberius and Dylan Claudio of @Mrgunplamador as Khosrow IISets by LegoFrom No Budget Films (2023)
My Personal Top 8 Byzantine Naval Battles No Budget Films 2023-10-03 | Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/ByzantinetimetravellerLike us on Facebook: No Budget Films: facebook.com/nobudgetfilms55Byzantine Time Traveller: facebook.com/ByzantineTimeTravellerIn this video, we will go over what I think are the 8 most crucial naval battles in Byzantine history all from the entire lifespan of the Byzantine Empire- 4th-15th centuries. For these naval battles to qualify for this video, they have to be from within the time period of the existence of the Byzantine Empire from the 4th-15th centuries and must be only fought at the sea, although some sieges will be mentioned here as long as they were mostly naval ones. However, all battles covered in this video are all fought between the Byzantines and foreign enemies, so no civil war battles are covered in this video too. Now, naval battles in Byzantine history happen to be very underrated compared to land battles and it is for this reason why I decided to create a video on Byzantine naval battles. The Byzantines were sure enough a maritime power in the Mediterranean Sea and due to this they surely had a lot of naval battles throughout their history. In terms of ranking, I will be ranking the battles here from 8 to 1 with 1 being the naval battle I think is the most important. The ranking system in this video now however is based on my own opinions, and thus if anyone has thoughts or suggestions about how I ranked the naval battles here, please say so in the comments. 00:00 Intro01:42 The Battle of Kardia, 87302:57 The Battle of the Masts, 655 04:17 The Battle of the Straits, 965 05:41 The Battle of Demetrias, 1275 06:56 The Battle of Sena Gallica, 551 08:14 The Siege of Constantinople, 94109:37 The Battle of Cape Bon, 468 11:36 The Siege of Constantinople, 674-678 13:18 Extro and Credits Check out Related Videos from my channel No Budget Films:Top 10 Byzantine Battles youtube.com/watch?v=Crz7M4QNXFk10 Byzantine Contributions to the World youtube.com/watch?v=T-exxhc_vUw&t=0sA Tour of the Land Walls of Constantinople youtube.com/watch?v=ruz_PLs-KhM&t=167sThe History of Byzantium in 63 Minutes youtube.com/watch?v=6CSAuwUMXk0&t=2016sMy Personal Ranking of the 12 Centuries of Byzantine History youtube.com/watch?v=IDVg978A9kU&t=9sTop 10 Byzantine Empresses youtube.com/watch?v=zbAcaWYSA_8&t=522sTop 10 Byzantine Literary Works youtube.com/watch?v=mDRotcmpRQo&t=30sThe Last Roman Dynasty Part II: Michael VIII Palaiologos' Redemption youtube.com/watch?v=IZ-Fdb8XyDoVideo produced/ written/ narrated by Powee CeldranThis video contains artworks depicting the Byzantine Empire from various online artists namely @byzansimp
My Personal Top 10 Byzantine Literary Works No Budget Films 2023-09-09 | Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/ByzantinetimetravellerLike us on Facebook:No Budget Films: facebook.com/nobudgetfilms55Byzantine Time Traveller: facebook.com/ByzantineTimeTravellerThis video is our 700 subscribers special!! Here, I will go over what I consider to be my top 10 literary works written during the era of the Byzantine Empire. These 10 literary works featured in this video range from epic poems such as the "Song of Digenes Akritas" and the "Alexiad" to military manuals like the "Strategikon" to history accounts such as Procopius' "History of the Wars" and Niketas Choniates' "Historia". The 10 books featured in this video are what I consider to be my top 10 Byzantine literary works and for them to be able to qualify for this video they have to be written during the Byzantine Empire's lifespan from the 4th-15th centuries AD and must be written by a Byzantine (Roman) author, and not something written about Byzantium by a foreign author as well as not something written in the present day about Byzantium. Here for this video, I will be ranking these Byzantine books from 10 to 1 with 1 being my top choice. This video now is aimed to show how diverse the Byzantines were in producing a wide range of literary works, and here is what we will be covering in this video:00:00 Intro 01:43 "De Ceremoniis" by Constantine VII02:38 "The Chronicle" by John Malalas 03:49 "The History of the Wars" by Procopius 05:04 "The Chronographia" by Michael Psellos06:09 "Historia" by Niketas Choniates 07:23 "De Administrando Imperio" (DAI) by Constantine VII08:58 "The Madrid Skylitzes" by John Skylitzes 10:23 "The Song of Digenes Akritas" 11:48 "The Strategikon" by Maurice 13:03 "The Alexiad" by Anna Komnene 14:35 Extro and CreditsThis video contains artworks by various artists, most notably by the Byzantine history channel @byzansimp. Check out related videos from my channel No Budget Films:10 Byzantine Contributions to the World youtube.com/watch?v=T-exxhc_vUw&t=1sA Tour of the Land Walls of Constantinople youtube.com/watch?v=ruz_PLs-KhM&t=167sMy Personal Ranking of the 12 Centuries of Byzantine History youtube.com/watch?v=IDVg978A9kU&t=537sMy Personal Ranking of the 15 Byzantine Imperial Dynasties youtube.com/watch?v=9kyq_dJfNOA&t=6sMy Top 12 Byzantine Emperors youtube.com/watch?v=USCcrNA33Wo&t=2sMy Top 10 Worst Byzantine Emperors youtube.com/watch?v=ToWJt4t81j8&t=8sMy Top 10 Byzantine Battles youtube.com/watch?v=Crz7M4QNXFk&t=20sMy Top 10 Byzantine Empresses youtube.com/watch?v=zbAcaWYSA_8&t=522sVideo written, produced, edited, and narrated by Powee Celdran
My Personal Top 10 Byzantine Empresses No Budget Films 2023-08-19 | Please subscribe to my channel to see more Byzantine related content including Lego films! Please support us on Patreon: patreon.com/ByzantinetimetravellerLike us on Facebook: Byzantine Time Traveller: facebook.com/ByzantineTimeTravellerNo Budget Films: facebook.com/nobudgetfilms55Watch our latest Lego film "The Imperial Heir: A Byzantine Epic" here:youtube.com/watch?v=NS_5qfIANJE&t=1301sThis video is basically my own personal ranking list of my top 10 Byzantine empresses from my 10th best to #1 favorite. Please keep in mind that the info here is based on my OWN opinions. This video will discuss about who I think are the most interesting Byzantine empresses from the 4th to 15th centuries AD, therefore for this video, these empresses are included here not much for being great leaders but for having interesting stories which is basically how I will rank them here. True enough, the Byzantine Empire has had its fair share of powerful and interesting women wherein some even practically ran the empire themselves. Some of my choices here for some empresses may turn out to be very surprising to you viewers! This means that I will not spoil anything about who are my top 10 empresses by putting their names on a list below. Instead, you can guess which empresses are part of my top 10 list by looking at the illustrations found in the thumbnail! This video contains artworks by various artists, most especially by @byzansimp. Similar Videos by No Budget Films:Byzantine History in 63 Minutes: youtube.com/watch?v=6CSAuwUMXk0&t=18sMy Personal Ranking of the 12 Centuries in Byzantine History: youtube.com/watch?v=IDVg978A9kU&t=535sMy Personal Ranking of the 15 Byzantine Imperial Dynasties: youtube.com/watch?v=9kyq_dJfNOA&t=1sMy Personal Top 12 Byzantine Emperors: youtube.com/watch?v=USCcrNA33Wo&t=2sMy Personal 10 Worst Byzantine Emperors: youtube.com/watch?v=ToWJt4t81j8&t=7sVideo written, produced, edited, and narrated by Powee Celdran
The Imperial Heir: A Byzantine Epic- Lego Film No Budget Films 2023-07-31 | Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/ByzantinetimetravellerCheck out our Website: byzantinetimetraveller.comLike us on Facebook: No Budget Films: facebook.com/nobudgetfilms55Byzantine Time Traveller: facebook.com/ByzantineTimeTravellerRated P-G: This movie contains some violent and disturbing scenes as well as the use of language not fit for young viewers. This Lego film is based on historical characters and settings from the era of the Byzantine Empire (330-1453). This is No Budget Films' 12th feature film and a prequel to our previous Lego film "House Komnenos: A Byzantine Epic" (2022). This political, war, and family drama takes place in 12th century Byzantium during the reign of Emperor Manuel I Komnenos (1143-1180) and focuses on his rule as Byzantine emperor as well as his domestic and foreign policies and more specifically the lesser-known story of his intended heir the Hungarian Bela, future King Bela III of Hungary who for a time lived in Constantinople during Manuel's reign. This film is based on historical characters and settings although it contains a few alterations to real history. This 12th century Lego epic film is directed by Powee Celdran and takes place right before the setting of "House Komnenos: A Byzantine Epic", check the link below to watch the film. youtube.com/watch?v=AfrW5SkT-BoThis film set in the 12th century from 1163 to 1172 is divided into 6 parts, each with its own different story. The film opens in 1163 wherein the Hungarian prince Bela, brother of the King of Hungary Stephen III is brought to Constantinople, the Byzantine capital and is presented to the emperor Manuel I. As Bela arrives, Manuel who at this point does not have a son yet considers adopting Bela as his heir with the intention for Bela to one day inherit both his Kingdom of Hungary and the Byzantine Empire itself while Bela is also arranged to marry Manuel's daughter Maria Komnene. Although Manuel's choice for Bela to succeed him is absolute considering he is the emperor, this decision of his is challenged by others including his wife the empress Maria of Antioch who resents Bela. As the years progress, this film shows Byzantium in the perspective of a foreigner being Bela who witnesses Manuel's successful military campaign against Hungary at the Battle of Sirmium in 1167 as well as the failed Byzantine-Crusader operation to recapture Egypt from the Arabs in 1169. Eventually, Bela's position as the imperial heir is challenged when Manuel and Maria of Antioch finally have a son being Alexios, thus the future of Bela as a ruler remains unstable, though Bela still remains in Constantinople as he is still needed. As the emperor Manuel provokes the Republic of Venice to declare war on Byzantium in 1172, Bela is tasked to lead the Byzantine forces together with the 2 formidable generals Andronikos Kontostephanos and Andronikos Angelos against an invading Venetian force both as an act to prove himself as a worthy successor and to show that Byzantium is still a superpower in the medieval world. Directed/ Written/ Produced by Powee Celdran Voice Cast:Powee Celdran as Manuel I Komnenos Yves Fernando Teran Gutierrez as Bela of Hungary Gen Maramba as Maria of Antioch Carlos Francisco as Andronikos Kontostephanos @igirollan365 as Andronikos Angelos Ermioni Andreopoulou as Maria Komnene Mario Puyat as Enrico Dandolo Patrick Claudio as Amalric of Jerusalem @MrsNTok as Agnes of Antioch Miguel Abarentos as Stefan Nemanja of Serbia with Andre Martin as Andronikos Komnenos and @UntoldHistoryAnimations as Doge Vitale II Michiel of Venice Additional Voice Cast: Kyle Kane, Daniel de Cervantes Sets by Lego From No Budget Films (2023) #byzantine_empire #byzantine #legofilm #lego
Battle for Byzantium: The Board Game- Instruction Video No Budget Films 2023-07-07 | Check out our website and order the game here: byzantinetimetraveller.comSupport us on Patreon: patreon.com/ByzantinetimetravellerLike us on Facebook:Byzantine Time Traveller: facebook.com/ByzantineTimeTravellerNo Budget Films: facebook.com/nobudgetfilms55As this board game "Battle for Byzantium" has already been released, here is a short 7-minute instruction video that will help players understand the mechanics of the game. Although it may be a simple game to play, there are some parts that need to be clearly explained through a video. "Battle for Byzantium" is our first board game project which is a historical action/ conquest board game with a fictional plot-line taking place in a real historical setting being the year 1025 following the death of the great emperor Basil II wherein the Byzantine Empire is at its height of power and influence as a medieval empire. In this alternate timeline of history, following the emperor's death, 4 ambitious warriors from within and beyond the Byzantine Empire compete with each other in capturing the most number of cities within the empire. This is a 2-4 player game wherein players can relive the action and excitement of 11th century Byzantium by choosing between 4 characters- a Byzantine commander, Arab general, Norman adventurer, and Varangian warrior- which all have their own special abilities. The objective of the game is to capture all 18 cities in the map of the Byzantine Empire in 1025 and the winner is the player with the most number of cities. Although the game's objective is to conquer cities, several obstacles occur along the way wherein players get the plague, restart at their base, or lose a city by rebellion.
10 Most Decisive Battles in Byzantine History No Budget Films 2023-04-27 | Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/ByzantinetimetravellerLike us on Facebook: No Budget Films: facebook.com/nobudgetfilms55Byzantine Time Traveller: facebook.com/ByzantineTimeTravellerIn this video, we will go over 10 of the most crucial and decisive battles in Byzantine history in which all 10 had an impact in changing the course of Byzantium's history itself. This video will cover 10 select battles- all being highly important ones- from the 4th to 15th centuries, basically from the entire 1,100-year lifespan of the Byzantine Empire. Some battles covered in this video are very well known ones such as Yarmuk, Manzikert, and the fall of Constantinople in 1453 wherein these battles changed the course of Byzantium's history itself. Some battles though that will be covered here will also be ones people may be unfamiliar with such as Ongal and Taginae, though no matter how obscure they are they still had a great impact in changing the course of Byzantine history itself. However, this video will only cover battles the Byzantines (or rather the Eastern Romans) fought against foreign enemies, thus this video will not cover any civil war battles. Lastly, this video will go over the battles ranking them from the least important to the most important one. The ranking system for the top 10 battles in this video however is simply based on the opinion of the creator. If anyone has any thoughts or suggestions about Byzantine battles and their placement here, please feel free to say so in the comments. Now, here's the top 10 list of battles by ranking of importance, with the most important as the last. 00:00 Intro01:24 The Battle of Ongal, 680 02:46 The Battle of Taginae, 552 04:55 The Battle of Nineveh, 627 06:52 The Battle of Kleidion, 1014 09:25 The Battle of Adrianople, 378 11:27 The Siege of Constantinople, 717-718 14:00 The Battle of Manzikert, 1071 17:28 The Sack of Constantinople, 1204 20:13 The Battle of Yarmuk, 636 23:29 The Fall of Constantinople, 1453 26:53 Extro and Credits Check out related videos from my channel No Budget Films:10 Byzantine Contributions to the World youtube.com/watch?v=T-exxhc_vUwTour of the Land Walls of Constantinople youtube.com/watch?v=ruz_PLs-KhM&t=167sThe Deaths of all 90 Byzantine emperors (and how they died) youtube.com/watch?v=diqnJa77mbI&t=3sThe History of Byzantium in 63 Minutes youtube.com/watch?v=6CSAuwUMXk0&t=2016sMy Personal Ranking of the 15 Byzantine Imperial Dynasties (worst to best) youtube.com/watch?v=9kyq_dJfNOA&t=1sMy Top 12 Byzantine emperors youtube.com/watch?v=USCcrNA33Wo&t=1sMy Top 10 Worst Byzantine emperors youtube.com/watch?v=ToWJt4t81j8&t=0sMy Personal Ranking of the 12 Centuries of Byzantine History (4th-15th) youtube.com/watch?v=IDVg978A9kU&t=9sThe Last Roman Dynasty Part IX- 1453: The Fall of Constantinople youtube.com/watch?v=Haj9Dgym8JUThe 57 Years: Byzantium in Exile Part 1- Aftermath of the 4th Crusade youtube.com/watch?v=aT7KUmKVjPc&t=6sVideo produced/ written/ narrated by Powee CeldranThis video contains artworks depicting the Byzantine Empire from various online artists.
10 Byzantine Contributions to the World (feat. @UntoldHistoryAnimations) No Budget Films 2023-03-17 | Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/ByzantinetimetravellerLike us on Facebook: No Budget Films: facebook.com/nobudgetfilms55Byzantine Time Traveller: facebook.com/ByzantineTimeTravellerA big shoutout to channel @UntoldHistoryAnimations for contributing to half of the video featuring some really cool and entertaining animations! This video which is a collab project with the channel Untold History Animations is a top 10 list on the greatest and possibly unheard of contributions of the Byzantine Empire to the rest of Europe and the world. Now, many may not know that the Byzantines have actually contributed quite a lot to today's world from larger than life things such as legal systems, hospitals and universities, hydraulics, alphabets, diplomacy, and preserving Classical knowledge to smaller everyday things such as the use of the fork, castle walls, and ship mills. This video will go over 10 highly important contributions that the medieval Byzantines have given to the world with a quick and interesting backstory behind each of them. Here, we will begin from the smallest contributions the Byzantines have given to us and will end with perhaps the greatest contribution they had. Overall, the point of these contributions is to show how advanced the Byzantine Empire was during their time- from the 4th to 15th centuries- that they were able to influence the rest of Europe and perhaps the rest of the world with earthshaking inventions and ideas. Such items and concepts here include hydraulics that were able to make thrones elevate and fire be emitted from a machine before modern machinery was invented, the creation of an item that makes eating so convenient, an organized system for compiling laws and state administration, and revolutionary ideas such as having facilities for education and healthcare long before the rest of the world had them, the use of clever diplomacy rather than war, and impressing foreign powers to the point of converting them in terms of religion. When watching, you may be simply surprised at how many things the Byzantines have not only created but preserved and spread out of their empire! 00:00 Intro (featuring Untold History Animations) 01:39 Ship Mill (presented by myself) 03:04 Castle Walls (presented by UHA) 04:05 Hospitals and Universities (presented by myself) 05:56 Hydraulics and Greek Fire (presented by UHA) 07:35 Silk (presented by myself) 09:03 The Fork (presented by UHA) 10:46 Diplomacy (presented by myself)12:11 Bureaucracy and Roman Law (presented by UHA)13:23 Orthodox Christianity (presented by myself)14:45 Preserving Classical Greek and Roman Knowledge (presented by UHA)15:45 Extro and Credits (presented by myself) Check out related videos from my channel No Budget Films:Tour of the Land Walls of Constantinople youtube.com/watch?v=ruz_PLs-KhM&t=167sThe Deaths of All 90 Byzantine Emperors (how and how old they died) youtube.com/watch?v=diqnJa77mbI&t=3sThe History of Byzantium in 63 Minutes youtube.com/watch?v=6CSAuwUMXk0&t=2016sMy Personal Ranking of the 15 Byzantine Imperial Dynasties (worst to best) youtube.com/watch?v=9kyq_dJfNOA&t=1sMy Top 12 Byzantine Emperors youtube.com/watch?v=USCcrNA33Wo&t=1sMy Top 10 Worst Byzantine Emperors youtube.com/watch?v=ToWJt4t81j8Video produced/ written and narrated by Powee Celdran with assistance from Untold History Animations
My Personal 10 Worst Byzantine Emperors No Budget Films 2023-01-31 | Please subscribe to my channel to see more Byzantine related content including Lego films! Please support us on Patreon: patreon.com/ByzantinetimetravellerLike us on Facebook: Byzantine Time Traveller: facebook.com/ByzantineTimeTravellerNo Budget Films: facebook.com/nobudgetfilms55Similar videos by No Budget Films: My Personal Top 12 Byzantine Emperors: youtube.com/watch?v=USCcrNA33Wo&t=4sMy Personal Ranking of the 15 Byzantine Imperial Dynasties:youtube.com/watch?v=IDVg978A9kU&t=535sMy Personal Ranking of the 12 Centuries in Byzantine History: youtube.com/watch?v=IDVg978A9kU&t=535sA Tour of the Land Walls of Constantinople:youtube.com/watch?v=ruz_PLs-KhM&t=142sByzantine History in 63 Minutes:youtube.com/watch?v=6CSAuwUMXk0&t=18sThis video is basically my own personal ranking list of my top 10 worst Byzantine emperors from my 10th worst to absolute worst. Please keep in mind that the info here is based on my OWN opinions. Now, from the 4th to 15th centuries, the Byzantine Empire (330-1453) has had a fair share of great emperors and some terribly awful ones too. This video will discuss 10 emperors who I think are the worst in Byzantine history. To qualify for this video, the emperors have to come from the time period from 330 with the founding of Constantinople as the new capital of the Roman Empire to the Fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans in 1453. Some of my choices here for emperors may turn out to be very surprising to you viewers! Therefore I will not spoil anything about my top 10 Byzantine emperor choices by putting a list below. Instead, you can guess their names by looking at the illustrations 10 emperors at the thumbnail! This video contains artworks by various artists, a lot of them provided by @byzansimp! Video written, produced, edited, and narrated by Powee Celdran
My Personal Top 12 Byzantine Emperors No Budget Films 2022-12-07 | Please subscribe to my channel to see more Byzantine related content including Lego Films! Please support us on Patreon: patreon.com/ByzantinetimetravellerLike us on Facebook:Byzantine Time Traveller: facebook.com/ByzantineTimeTravellerNo Budget Films: facebook.com/nobudgetfilms55Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/byzantine_time_traveller/?hl=enSimilar Videos by No Budget Films:My Personal Ranking of the 15 Byzantine Imperial Dynasties:youtube.com/watch?v=9kyq_dJfNOA&t=1sMy Personal Ranking of the 12 Centuries in Byzantine History:youtube.com/watch?v=IDVg978A9kU&t=535sA Tour of the Land Walls of Constantinople:youtube.com/watch?v=ruz_PLs-KhM&t=142sByzantine History in 63 Minutes:youtube.com/watch?v=6CSAuwUMXk0&t=18sThis video is basically my own personal ranking list of my top 12 Byzantine emperors from my 12th best to #1 favorite. Please keep in mind that the info here is based on my OWN opinions. Now, from the 4th to 15th centuries, the Byzantine Empire (330-1453) has had a fair share of great and terrible emperors. This video will discuss 12 emperors who I think are the best. To qualify for this video, the emperors have to come from the time period from 330 with the founding of Constantinople as the new capital of the Roman Empire to the Fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans in 1453. Some of my choices here for emperors may turn out to be very surprising to you viewers! Therefore I will not spoil anything about my top 12 Byzantine emperor choices by putting a list below. Instead, you can guess their names by looking at the illustrations 12 emperors at the thumbnail! This video contains artworks by various artists, a lot of the illustrations here were provided by @byzansimp! Video written, produced, edited, and narrated by Powee Celdran Video written, produced, edited, and narrated by Powee Celdran
My Personal Ranking of the 15 Byzantine Imperial Dynasties (Worst to Best) No Budget Films 2022-11-23 | Please subscribe to my channel to see more Byzantine related content including Lego Films! Please support us on Patreon: patreon.com/ByzantinetimetravellerLike us on Facebook:Byzantine Time Traveller: facebook.com/ByzantineTimeTravellerNo Budget Films: facebook.com/nobudgetfilms55Check out No Budget Films' other Lego epics below:Summer of 1261 (2019): youtube.com/watch?v=Sas5oC4Dui8&t=0sWar of the Sicilian Vespers (2020): youtube.com/watch?v=ut8-a1W3KMA&t=0sHouse Komnenos (2022): youtube.com/watch?v=AfrW5SkT-Bo&t=0sRevolution in Constantinople (2022): youtube.com/watch?v=Vrm62zXVT9A&t=1sSimilar Videos by No Budget Films:My Personal Ranking of the 12 Centuries in Byzantine History: youtube.com/watch?v=IDVg978A9kU&t=535sA Tour of the Land Walls of Constantinople: youtube.com/watch?v=ruz_PLs-KhM&t=142sByzantine History in 63 Minutes:youtube.com/watch?v=6CSAuwUMXk0&t=18sThis video is basically my own personal ranking list of all 15 ruling dynasties of the Byzantine Empire (330-1453). Having such a long lifespan, the Byzantine Empire in 1,100 years was ruled by 90 different emperors coming from 15 different dynasties. Some of these dynasties were short-lived ones lasting for only a few decades while others were long ones that they ruled for almost 2 centuries. Some dynasties in Byzantine history though may have done a terrible job in running the empire and some did a great job. However, some short-lived dynasties happened to be great whereas some longer ones weren't, although very few dynasties in Byzantine history ruled for a long time. However, the one thing all 15 dynasties in Byzantine history went through no matter how great or how terrible they were was that they all underwent great challenges as not a decade in Byzantine history went by without wars or political unrest. In this 40 minute video, I will be ranking all the 15 dynasties in Byzantine history from my own personal WORST to BEST, so please keep in mind that this video is very much just based on my OWN OPINIONS on each dynasty. Now, here is how I ranked all 15 of them:00:00 Intro 01:17 XV- The Nikephorian Dynasty (802-813) 03:07 XIV- The Angelos Dynasty (1185-1204) 06:15 XIII- The Doukas Dynasty (1059-1081) 09:00 XII- The Valentinian Dynasty (364-392) 11:21 XI- The Isaurian Dynasty (717-802) 13:31 X- The Laskaris Dynasty (1204-1261) 15:39 IX- The Constantinian Dynasty (293-363) 17:48 VIII- The Heraclian Dynasty (602-711) 20:16 VII- The Theodosian Dynasty (379-457) 22:45 VI- The Leonid Dynasty (457-518) 25:04 V- The Justinian Dynasty (518-602) 28:04 IV- The Amorian Dynasty (820-867)30:38 III- The Komnenos Dynasty (1081-1185) 33:17 II- The Palaiologos Dynasty (1261-1453) 36:42 I- The Macedonian Dynasty (867-1056)40:37 Extro and Credits This video contains artworks by various artists, a lot of the illustrations here were provided by @byzansimp! Video written, produced, edited, and narrated by Powee Celdran
Tour of the Land Walls of Constantinople (feat. @byzansimp) No Budget Films 2022-10-12 | Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/ByzantinetimetravellerLike us on Facebook: No Budget Films: facebook.com/nobudgetfilms55Byzantine Time Traveller: facebook.com/ByzantineTimeTravellerA big shoutout to channel @byzansimp for providing some really cool and detailed illustrations of certain landmarks of the Land Walls of Constantinople and some Byzantine emperors which appear in this video!00:00 Intro01:37 Facts about the Walls 03:58 A Brief History 08:47 A Chronology of the Walls 10:23 Marble Tower to the Golden Gate 15:18 Belgrade to Pege Gates 17:50 Rhegion to St. Romanos Gates 20:07 Mesoteichion to the Palace of the Porphyrogenitus 22:55 Blachernae Walls 29:38 Conclusion and Credits This video will take you all through a tour of the Land Walls of Constantinople today- also known as the Theodosian Walls- first discussing a few important facts about these famous massive walls and a brief history of it. Constantinople's land walls overall stretch for some 5.7km and have 3 layers which thus made it a symbol of Byzantium's power, and true enough the Walls of Constantinople was always synonymous with being something so powerful that it could not be breached. These walls were surprisingly built in only less than 10 years (404/405-413)! The man responsible for its construction was the Prefect (Mayor) of Constantinople then which was Flavius Anthemius, and the walls were named for the young ruling emperor Theodosius II (r. 408-450). In the long history of Byzantine Constantinople, several invading armies whether foreign ones like the Huns, Avars, Arabs, Bulgarians, and Rus' or rebel Byzantine armies failed to breach the walls, however very few succeeded in doing so but through other means such as trickery or sneaking. When Constantinople fell to the Latin army of the 4th Crusade in 1204, they did not attack the land walls but rather they passed through the lower sea walls along the Golden Horn. The Byzantines although recapturing Constantinople from the Latins in 1261 also did not heavily attack the land walls but rather sneaked beneath it and opened it from within. It was only the Ottomans that successfully breached these mighty walls during the ultimate siege of Constantinople in 1453 by the use of the cannon. To put it short, it had to take the invention of gunpowder weapons for these walls to be breached. In this video, as we go through the tour of the land walls, we will go from south to north beginning at the Marble Tower along the Marmara coast and then to the Golden Gate which was once the triumphal gate for Byzantine emperors marching into the city which is now at the Ottoman era Yedikule Fortress, and from there north through the Belgrade Gate, the Pege (Silivri) Gate where the Byzantines took back Constantinople from the Latins in 1261, the St. Romanos Gate where it was believed that the last Byzantine emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos made his last stand against the Ottomans in 1453, then to the lowest section of the walls known as the Mesoteichion, the Charisius (Edirne) Gate where the Ottoman sultan Mehmed II rode into Constantinople in 1453 when conquering the city, and then finally to the Palace of the Porphyrogenitus (Tekfur Saray). The last part of this video will cover the land walls in the Blachernae Palace area featuring the Palace of the Porphyrogenitus, the late Byzantine imperial residence being the Blachernae Palace, the 12th century Walls of Emperor Manuel I Komnenos, Prison of Anemas, the additional Wall of Emperor Leo V built in the 9th century, and will end where the land walls end meeting the shorter sea walls along the Golden Horn harbor. Additionally, this video will discuss a bit about how the walls are like in today's Istanbul wherein although being a UNESCO world heritage site, some areas of it appear to be sketchy and unpleasant especially due to the very long length of the walls. Keep it in mind, this video contains a lot of surprises too! This video contains illustrations from various artists, photographs by several photographers photographing today's Istanbul, historical maps and images, screen recordings of Google Maps on Istanbul, and my own photos and videos of the walls of Istanbul today. Check out related videos from my channel No Budget Films:"Summer of 1261" Lego film (2019): youtube.com/watch?v=Sas5oC4Dui8&t=1736s The Fall of Constantinople audio epic (2021): youtube.com/watch?v=Haj9Dgym8JUVideo produced/ written/ and narrated by Powee Celdran with assistance from Byzansimp
Revolution in Constantinople: A Byzantine Epic- Lego Film No Budget Films 2022-09-12 | Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/ByzantinetimetravellerLike us on Facebook: No Budget Films: facebook.com/nobudgetfilms55Byzantine Time Traveller: facebook.com/ByzantineTimeTravellerCheck out this channel for making this film possible:@HellenicHistorySeries for providing soundtracks Rated P-G: This movie contains some violent and disturbing scenes not fit for young viewers. This Lego film is based on historical characters and settings from the era of the Byzantine Empire (330-1453) and is a follow-up to our latest Lego film "House Komnenos: A Byzantine Epic", although unlike that said film, this one is not a work of alternate history but almost entirely based on real historical events. Like "House Komnenos", this film is also a stand-alone and not related in storyline to any previous No Budget Films movie except "House Komnenos". Now, this film is set in the year 1185 focusing on the event that led to the sudden and dramatic fall of the once glorious Komnenos Dynasty with the brutal execution of the emperor Andronikos I Komnenos coincided with the rise of a new dynasty being the Angelos Dynasty beginning with Isaac II Angelos. As its title "Revolution in Constantinople" suggests, its story features basically a revolution of Constantinople's people which took place in 1185 which led to the dramatic fall of the Komnenos Dynasty and rise of the new Angelos Dynasty in the course of only a few days, and as this event in history took place on September 12 more or less, this was the chosen date for release! This 12th century Lego epic film is directed by Powee Celdran and is a collaborative project with other international Byzantine history content creators. Please check out its fan fiction prequel "House Komnenos: A Byzantine Epic" below:youtube.com/watch?v=AfrW5SkT-Bo&t=6sThis film is set in the year 1185 and here the 67-year-old Andronikos I Komnenos rules as the Byzantine emperor. Previously just 3 years earlier in 1182- as seen in the film "House Komnenos"- Andronikos who was once blacklisted and banished by his family members, the Komnenos Dynasty that ruled Byzantium had returned due to massive popular support, and to reward Constantinople's native Greek people for supporting him, Andronikos allowed them to carry out a brutal massacre of Constantinople's Latin inhabitants. The massacre was carried out and thus Andronikos moved a step further by executing the teenage reigning emperor and his nephew Alexios II Komnenos in 1183, and with no more emperor, Andronikos at 65 took the throne for himself after marrying the late young emperor's teenage wife Agnes of France. As emperor, Andronikos would rule the next 2 years with such brutality wherein he swore to end Byzantium's aristocracy and corruption by literally torturing and killing off any aristocrat he suspected of being corrupt while those who said the slightest thing about Andronikos too were tortured and killed. Although Andronikos was popular among his subjects that hated the corrupt elite and foreign influences in Constantinople coming from Western Europe, Andronikos true enough was not really true to his word as he only used the people's anti-Western (Latin) sentiments to put himself in power. Andronikos' rule would then be tested in 1185 when the Normans of Southern Italy suddenly invaded Byzantine Greece in retaliation for Andronikos' massacre of the Latins in 1182 and thus captured the empire's second city Thessaloniki. The fall and sack of Thessaloniki then turned the people against Andronikos who they ironically just supported 3 years earlier all while Andronikos paranoid as ever ordered the arrest of a young and potentially harmless aristocrat named Isaac Angelos who was a relative of his too. The arrest of Isaac however was not successful as after Isaac killed the henchmen sent to arrest him, he fled to the cathedral of Hagia Sophia where he eventually convinced the disgruntled people of the capital to switch their support from Andronikos to him. In the course of only a few days, Andronikos had fallen from power as the mob took over Constantinople and brought their emperor Andronikos to face his brutal end as payback for his brutal reign, and thus began the rule of Isaac II Angelos and the Angelos Dynasty itself. Directed/ Produced/ Written by Powee CeldranCo-producer: @byzansimp Voice Cast: Andre Martin, Powee Celdran, Carlos Francisco, Justinianus Byzantinus, Kyle Kane, Miguel Abarentos, Pat Claudio, Jon Cabrera, Nilay Tokaoglu, Igi Rollan, Daniel de CervantesSets by LegoFrom No Budget Films (2022)
My Personal Ranking of the 12 Centuries of Byzantine History (4th-15th Centuries) No Budget Films 2022-07-29 | Please subscribe to my channel to see more Byzantine related content including Byzantine Lego films! Please support us on Patreon: patreon.com/ByzantinetimetravellerAnd like us on Facebook tooNo Budget Films: facebook.com/nobudgetfilms55Byzantine Time Traveller: facebook.com/ByzantineTimeTravellerCheck out No Budget Films' Lego Byzantine epics below:Summer of 1261 (2019): youtube.com/watch?v=Sas5oC4Dui8War of the Sicilian Vespers (2020): youtube.com/watch?v=ut8-a1W3KMAHouse Komnenos (2022): youtube.com/watch?v=AfrW5SkT-BoThis video is basically my own personal review of the 12 centuries of the whole history of the Byzantine Empire. Since the Byzantine Empire spanned a lifetime from 330-1453 with so much ups and downs, it lived throughout 12 centuries. Each century in Byzantium's history had its own story to tell, and to discuss the history of Byzantium, it is best told per century. Of course, some centuries had more to tell than others, others were full of bright ones, others full of dark ones, others so eventful, and others so static, but at the end each century had its own unique story to tell. In this video, I will be ranking all the 12 centuries the Byzantine Empire had (from 4th-15th) from my personal best to personal worst, therefore this entire video is all just basically based on my OWN OPINIONS on each century's story, so keep that in mind! And this is how I rank each of the 12 centuries from best to worst:1) 10th Century2) 5th Century 3) 6th Century4) 13th Century 5) 11th Century6) 4th Century7) 12th Century 8) 15th Century 9) 9th Century 10) 7th Century 11) 14th Century 12) 8th Century 00:00 Intro01:07 10th Century 02:36 5th Century 05:02 6th Century 07:07 13th Century 09:35 11th Century 12:00 4th Century 14:18 12th Century 15:50 15th Century 17:10 9th Century 19:05 7th Century 20:44 14th Century 23:04 8th Century 24:54 Extro and credits This video includes artworks by various other artists and soundtracks from certain movies, video games, series, and bands. Please check out Youtube channel Byzansimp here to learn more about Byzantine history:youtube.com/channel/UCRpS2QujXWWMmimZTIiMVmgVideo produced and narrated by Powee Celdran
The Deaths of All 90 Byzantine Emperors and the Ages they Died No Budget Films 2022-06-27 | Please subscribe to my channel to see more Byzantine related content including Byzantine Lego Films! Please support us on Patreon: patreon.com/ByzantinetimetravellerAnd like us on Facebook tooByzantine Time Traveller: facebook.com/ByzantineTimeTravellerNo Budget Films: facebook.com/nobudgetfilms550:00 Intro0:24 The Constantinian Dynasty0:59 The Valentinian-Theodosian Dynasties01:42 The Leonid Dynasty02:18 The Justinian Dynasty03:05 The Heraclian Dynasty03:48 The Anarchy Period 04:24 The Isaurian Dynasty 05:06 The Nikephorian Dynasty05:40 The Amorian Dynasty06:04 The Macedonian Dynasty08:00 The Komnenos-Doukas Dynasty 08:36 The Komnenos Dynasty 09:12 The Angelos Dynasty09:42 The Emperors of Nicaea 10:11 The Palaiologos Dynasty 11:18 Extro This video is a special addition to our channel's Byzantine portfolio as part of No Budget Films' Byzantine epics. This one rather than being a Lego film with a Byzantine setting Byzantine or a narrated Byzantine audio epic, is a quick and easy to watch video on the 90 emperors of the Byzantine Empire. This video discusses all 90 Byzantine emperors from the first emperor Constantine I the Great (r. 306-337) to the last emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos (r. 1449-1453) in less than 12 minutes. Now in the entire 1,100-year long history of the Byzantine Empire, there had been 90 emperors- at least senior emperors- and a total of 15 dynasties, plus 9 emperors without a dynasty. When it comes to what ages these emperors died, the average age of death for a Byzantine emperor is 53. Now a total of 49 Byzantine emperors died of natural causes or sicknesses, 13 were executed by their enemies, 10 had unknown causes of deaths which are still not yet discovered until this day, 6 were assassinated, 6 died from a sort of accident, 4 were killed in battle against an enemy, and 1 committed suicide. Of course, not all Byzantine emperors died in power, though many did, but many emperors were overthrown and died when no longer in power. This video now will mention all Byzantine emperors from 330-1453 including the emperors of Nicaea from 1204-1261 that ruled the Byzantine Empire in exile when the Latin Empire took over Constantinople. This video however will not mention any rulers of breakaway states such as the Latin Empire, Empire of Trebizond, Despotate of Epirus, Western Roman Empire, etc. On the other hand, this video contains artworks by myself and other artists and notable soundtracks including "Running up that Hill" by Kate Bush (1985) and "Frozen" by Within Temptation (2007). Please also keep in mind, I made a few mistakes with the grammar and word choices in the text, since I edited this video in such a quick amount of time :) Please also check out the channel of Byzansimp here:youtube.com/channel/UCRpS2QujXWWMmimZTIiMVmgVideo put together by Powee Celdran
House Komnenos: A Byzantine Epic- Lego film No Budget Films 2022-05-11 | Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/ByzantinetimetravellerLike us on Facebook: No Budget Films: facebook.com/nobudgetfilms55Byzantine Time Traveller: facebook.com/ByzantineTimeTravellerCheck out these other channels who took part in making this film possible.youtube.com/user/kalavrita1821/videos for providing some of the soundtracks. youtube.com/user/TFTBasileus for a guest role in the film. youtube.com/channel/UCRpS2QujXWWMmimZTIiMVmg for their support.youtube.com/channel/UCalwX7xjG1kg2i3DObNr7tg for their support. Rated P-G: This movie contains some violent and disturbing scenes as well as the use of language not fit for young viewers. This Lego film is based on historical characters and settings from the era of the Byzantine Empire (330-1453). This is No Budget Films' 11th feature film but a stand-alone not related in any way to all previous films from the channel save for its Byzantine setting. This political, war, and family drama film takes place in the late 12th century where the Byzantine Empire under the Komnenos Dynasty is about to face political turmoil following the death of a capable leader, Emperor Manuel I Komnenos (r. 1143-1180). At the same time, keep in mind that this film is a work of ALTERNATE HISTORY wherein the story begins with events that actually took place in real history but as it progresses, the film would change the course of history itself becoming a "fan fiction" story. This 12th century Lego epic film is directed by Powee Celdran and is No Budget Films' first international collaboration project. Its story is based on an alternate history story I previously wrote, read it below: https://byzantium-blogger.blog/2021/07/19/byzantine-alternate-history-chapter-ix-preventing-the-catastrophic-4th-crusade-in-advance/This film opens in the year 1180, the Byzantines had lost a strong and capable, although arrogant and overambitious emperor, Manuel I Komnenos (voiced by Angelo Lacson) who had a successful reign of almost 40 years. Manuel's death too would signal the end of this Byzantine golden age known as the "Komnenian Restoration" that Manuel, his father Emperor John II (r. 1118-1143), and grandfather Emperor Alexios I (r. 1081-1118) ruled over. With Manuel's only son Alexios II (Mario Puyat) being a young child at only 11 when succeeding his father in 1180, he is under the regency of his mother Empress Maria of Antioch (Gen Maramba) who is not accepted by the empire's people for her Western Latin heritage as she is for one from the Crusader Principality of Antioch and a Norman by blood, which was a historical enemy of the Byzantines. With a child and his unpopular and incompetent Latin mother in charge of the empire and talks of the Bulgarians attempting to separate from the empire too, two powerful generals who belong to the imperial Komnenos Dynasty as well- Andronikos Kontostephanos (Carlos Francisco) and Andronikos Angelos (Igi Rollan)- must make the bold move of betraying the empress and her son and supporting the claim of the people's champion, Andronikos Komnenos (Andre Martin), the estranged cousin of the late emperor Manuel who as a conman and ex-convict had been banished from the empire for years for treason against the late emperor. As the rivalry between the empress-regent and her stepdaughter Maria Komnene (Jen Tarnate)- daughter of Manuel I from his first marriage- begins to dominate the empire, the people rally behind Andronikos Komnenos seeing him as a champion of their Greek identity and their anti-Western sentiments, namely their hatred towards the empress-regent. Little do the people and even the generals Kontostephanos and Angelos know that the handsome and charming yet sly Andronikos has his own ulterior motive to seize the throne and rule to have revenge on the memory of Manuel, the cousin he so hated by going as far as letting the people carry out a bloody massacre of the imperial capital Constantinople's Latin population, killing off Manuel's entire bloodline, and ridding the empire of the aristocracy as well in order to plunge Byzantium into a totalitarian dictatorship. With Andronikos gaining ground and the Normans of Sicily too declaring war on Byzantium, the young emperor Alexios II's position and that of his closest family members is in danger and only a twist of fate could turn their situation around, hence the usage of the movie's slogan "Deus ex machina". Directed/ Produced/ Written by Powee Celdran (Co-Written by Justinianus Byzantinus)Voice Cast: Mario Puyat, Andre Martin, Gen Marmba, Carlos Francisco, Igi Rollan, Jon Cabrera, Jen Tarnate, with Manskee Nascimento, and Powee Celdran Supporting Cast: Angelo Lacson, Justinianus Byzantinus, Francis Ventura, Emanuele Rizzardi, Achilies Khan, Daniel de Cervantes, Miguel Abarentos, Felipe Chuidian, Fabiana Mariosdottir Sets by Lego From No Budget Films (2022)
The Story of the Byzantine Empire in 63 Minutes- audio epic No Budget Films 2022-03-07 | Support No Budget Films/ Byzantine Time Traveller on Patreon: patreon.com/ByzantinetimetravellerLike us on Facebook:No Budget Films: facebook.com/nobudgetfilms55Byzantine Time Traveller: facebook.com/ByzantineTimeTravellerThis video is set between the 4th and 15th centuries.00:00:00 Intro 00:01:04 The 4th century story, Constantine I to Theodosius I00:06:33 The 5th century story and the Fall of Western Rome 00:12:26 The 6th century story and Justinian the Great 00:18:07 The 7th century story, Sassanid War, and the Rise of the Arabs00:24:20 The 8th-9th century story and Iconoclasm 00:31:43 The 9th-10th century story and the Byzantine Renaissance00:38:35 The 11th century story and the Rise of the Seljuks00:44:28 The 12th century story, Komnenian Restoration, and the 4th Crusade00:51:52 The 13th century story, Byzantium in Exile and the Reconquest 00:55:39 The 14th-15th century story, Palaiologos Dynasty and Fall of Constantinople01:02:54 Extro and Credits This video is a stand-alone Byzantine history audio-visual epic by No Budget Films. It summarizes the entire history of the Byzantine Empire from 330-1453 in a total of 63 minutes. As a historical summary video, this video only tells the highlights of Byzantine history and its emperors. This video was created as many fans previously requested me to cover different eras of Byzantine history in my videos, and now this is it. My previous Byzantine history epics on the other hand only covered Byzantine history from the 4th Crusade's attack of Constantinople in 1204 up to the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans in 1453, now this will be the first time I will be covering all other periods of Byzantine history in my videos mixed together with periods and settings I already covered in the past. This audio epic is based on historical events and characters, although it tells the story of Byzantium from the No Budget Films perspective. Keep in mind that this video contains some references that could be culturally offensive to some. It consists of mixed media including photographs of real locations, historical illustrations, and artworks from various online artists. Produced and Narrated by Powee CeldranThank you to my patrons on Patreon!
The Last Roman Dynasty Part IX - 1453: The Fall of Constantinople (Finale) No Budget Films 2021-12-15 | Support No Budget Films/ Byzantine Time Traveller on Patreon: patreon.com/ByzantinetimetravellerLike us on Facebook: No Budget Films: facebook.com/nobudgetfilms55Byzantine Time Traveller: facebook.com/ByzantineTimeTravellerThis video is set between the years 1451 and 1461.0:00 Intro and origins story of Constantine XI 1:02 Constantine XI and Mehmed II, 1451 3:30 Preparations for the siege, 14527:48 The last attempt for Church unity and the road to the siege, 1452-145312:11 The first wave of the siege, April 5- 22, 145315:40 The second wave of the siege and Mehmed's tricks, April 22- May 23, 145318:57 Preparations for the final attack, May 24- 29, 145321:26 Final speech and last stand of Constantine XI, May 29, 145328:10 The Byzantine Epilogue and Mehmed the "Conqueror", 1453-146133:19 Extro and Credits This is the 9th and final episode of No Budget Films' 2nd season of its Byzantine history audio epics "The Last Roman Dynasty", a sequel to the 2020 Byzantine history audio epic "The 57 Years: Byzantium in Exile". This series now centers on the last dynasty of the Byzantine Empire, the Palaiologos Dynasty beginning with its founder Michael VIII Palaiologos in 1261 and ending here in 1453 with the fall of the Byzantine Empire. The series' title refers to the Byzantine Empire as the direct continuation of the old Roman Empire except this time based in Constantinople as the "New Rome". This episode (Episode IX) as the finale of this series focuses almost entirely on the highly climactic 1453 Ottoman Siege of Constantinople that ended the 1,100 year old Byzantine Empire. This episode begins with Constantine XI Palaiologos in 1451 now being Byzantine emperor for 2 years (since 1449 succeeding his brother John VIII), and little does Constantine know that as prophecy said, he would be the last Roman (Byzantine) emperor. Meanwhile in 1451 as well, the young Mehmed II comes to power as the Ottoman sultan and therefore makes his primary objective nothing else but the capture of Constantinople. As Mehmed II spends all his time raising a massive army including siege weapons like no other including 69 regular cannons and one massive one intended to break Constantinople's walls, Constantine XI too does all he can to defend his city, therefore attempting to unite with the Latin Church and end all their centuries old bad blood in order to gain military support from the more powerful kingdoms of Western Europe. Although it may have seemed that both Latin and Byzantine Churches have united, Constantine XI by 1453 did not get the desired Western military aid he asked for while neither his brothers the Despots of the Morea Demetrios and Thomas Palaiologos came to his aid, instead only a few Genoese, Venetian, and other Italian troops came for Byzantium, and although Constantine XI was given the offer by Mehmed II to surrender, he declined instead willing to fight to the end. Constantine XI and the Genoese general Giovanni Giustiniani turn out to successfully defend Constantinople's walls against Mehmed II's army of 80,000 including cannons, however as the days go by the results will turn out to go very differently. The rest is all history as we all know that on May 29, 1453 the Byzantine Empire had fallen as the Ottomans had taken over Constantinople. This audio epic is a work of historical fiction which tells a true story set in the 15th century, though in the No Budget Films perspective. Keep in mind that this video contains some references that could be culturally offensive to some. It consists of mixed media including No Budget Films' Lego characters, photographs of real locations, historical illustrations, and artworks from various online artists. Produced and Narrated by Powee CeldranVoice Cast:Powee Celdran as Constantine XI Igi Rollan as Mehmed IICarlos Francisco as Giovanni Giustiniani Mario Puyat as Loukas NotarasRelated No Budget Films Byzantine Epics: The Last Roman Dynasty Part VIII (2021)- youtube.com/watch?v=k2ppSiKjKNs&t=9s
The Last Roman Dynasty Part VIII- Schisms at the Verge of Extinction (Byzantine audio epic) No Budget Films 2021-11-25 | Support No Budget Films/ Byzantine Time Traveller on Patreon: patreon.com/ByzantinetimetravellerLike us on Facebook:No Budget Films: facebook.com/nobudgetfilms55Byzantine Time Traveller: facebook.com/ByzantineTimeTravellerThis video is set between the years 1425 and 1451.0:00 Intro and recap of the previous episode0:35 John VIII Palaiologos and his brothers, 1425-14273:17 Byzantine conquest of the Morea, 1428-14328:00 John VIII's journey to Italy and the Church Council, 1432-144011:59 Constantine Palaiologos as Despot of the Morea and Demetrios Palaiologos' rebellion, 1441-144315:32 Ottoman Balkan conquests and Constantine's wars in Greece, 1444-144718:55 Constantine XI's rises to the throne, 1448-145122:25 Extro and Credits This is the 8th episode of No Budget Films' 2nd season of its Byzantine history audio epics "The Last Roman Dynasty", a sequel to the 2020 Byzantine history audio epic "The 57 Years: Byzantium in Exile". This series now centers on the last dynasty of the Byzantine Empire, the Palaiologos Dynasty beginning with its founder Michael VIII Palaiologos in 1261 and ending in 1453 with the fall of the Byzantine Empire. The series' title refers to the Byzantine Empire as the direct continuation of the old Roman Empire except this time based in Constantinople as the "New Rome". This episode (Episode VIII) begins in 1425, the long reigning Byzantine emperor Manuel II Palaiologos dies leaving the empire in a much worse state than he had founded it. John VIII Palaiologos, the eldest of his 6 sons comes to power as emperor inheriting a broken and severely reduced empire, much worse is that his 5 younger brothers never see eye to eye. Among his brothers, John VIII highly favors Constantine Palaiologos, the 4th son of Manuel II who is a highly capable warrior and leader unlike the rest of the brothers. Due to his bravery despite his very young age in defending Constantinople in the 1422 Ottoman siege, Constantine is immediately given high positions in the empire by his eldest brother the emperor, and when the 2nd brother Theodore who rules the Byzantines' last remains in the Morea (Southern Greece) as its despot fails to stop pirate attacks, Constantine coming to the rescue saves the Morea in one stroke to the envy of Theodore who refuses to step down as Despot of the Morea, thus having to rule it together with Constantine and their youngest brother Thomas. With not enough land left in the Morea, the 3 brothers Constantine, Theodore, and Thomas attack and successfully conquer the last Latin state in the Morea which is the Principality of Achaea. Although the Byzantines are successful in their conquest, the Ottomans who have the Byzantines as their vassal attack the Byzantines for disobeying them by attacking a fellow Ottoman vassal (Achaea) without the Ottoman sultan Murad II's permission. Back in Constantinople, John VIII fearing the Ottomans would turn on them one day decides to travel to Italy and attend the ongoing Church Council in Florence to once and for all unite Byzantium's Church with the Latin Church, however as usually the case of these attempts to unite the Churches, all turns sour when the proud Orthodox people once again riot preferring to stay Orthodox until the end rather than giving up their faith and submit to the pope. Much worse for the emperor John VIII is that the one behind all the trouble in the capital is his brother Demetrios, the 5th son of Manuel who uses the people's discontent and the faith of Orthodoxy as an opportunity to seize the throne from his eldest brother. All while the Byzantines are either busy in once again consolidating their rule over Greece and being torn apart by the age old problem of religious schisms, the Ottoman Empire under Murad II regains its power and expands across the Balkans wiping out all external threats to pave the way for their ultimate goal, the conquest of Constantinople. This audio epic is a work of historical fiction which tells a true story set in the 15th century, though in the No Budget Films perspective. Keep in mind that this video contains some references that could be culturally offensive to some. It consists of mixed media including No Budget Films' Lego characters, photographs of real locations, historical illustrations, and artworks from various online artists. Produced and Narrated by Powee CeldranRelated No Budget Films Byzantine Epics: The Last Roman Dynasty Part VII (2021)- youtube.com/watch?v=8i3FSneEG0s&t=5s
The Last Roman Dynasty Part VII- Byzantiums Last Respite (Byzantine audio epic) No Budget Films 2021-10-07 | Support No Budget Films/ Byzantine Time Traveller on Patreon: patreon.com/ByzantinetimetravellerLike us on Facebook:No Budget Films: facebook.com/nobudgetfilms55Byzantine Time Traveller: facebook.com/ByzantineTimeTravellerThis video is set between the years 1391 and 1425.0:00 Intro and the early reign of Manuel II, 1391-13943:51 The Ottoman Blockade of Constantinople and the Crusade of Nicopolis, 1394-13997:37 Manuel II's European tour, 1399-140210:59 The Battle of Ankara and Bayezid I's fall, 140212:12 The Ottoman Interregnum, 1403-141315:42 Byzantium's last respite, 1413-142218:52 The last years of Manuel II and the return of the Ottomans, 1422-1425 21:07 Extro and Credits This is the 7th episode of No Budget Films' 2nd season of its Byzantine history audio epics "The Last Roman Dynasty", a sequel to the 2020 Byzantine history audio epic "The 57 Years: Byzantium in Exile". This series now centers on the last dynasty of the Byzantine Empire, the Palaiologos Dynasty beginning with its founder Michael VIII Palaiologos and ending in 1453 with the fall of the Byzantine Empire. The series' title refers to the Byzantine Empire as the direct continuation of the old Roman Empire except this time based in Constantinople as the "New Rome". This episode (Episode VII) starts off in the year 1391 whereas the once powerful Byzantine Empire had turned into a vassal of the ever expanding Ottoman Empire ruled by the powerful Sultan Bayezid I. In 1391, the Byzantine emperor John V Palaiologos kills himself out of the humiliation of being an Ottoman vassal, and hearing of his father's death, Manuel Palaiologos who is a hostage in Sultan Bayezid's court rushes to Constantinople to be crowned. At first the new emperor Manuel II and Sultan Bayezid maintain friendly ties with each other until both have falling out where Manuel II decides to stop paying tribute to the Ottomans leading Bayezid to put Constantinople under siege with the intention to end Byzantium once and for all. Meanwhile as Bayezid I puts the Byzantine capital under siege in 1394, rulers of Europe such as King Sigismund of Hungary grow worried of the expanding Ottoman threat that he organizes a Crusade with the intention to defeat the Ottomans once for all, but at the end his efforts are in vain, as the Ottoman army of Bayezid I destroys Sigismund's Crusade at the Battle of Nicopolis in 1396. Bayezid's siege of Constantinople however continues to go on, and in 1399 Manuel decides to leave the besieged Constantinople for a long trip around Europe to ask for aid from the more powerful kings there. While Manuel is away, he receives some relieving news, which was that the undefeatable Bayezid was for once defeated and gone forever at the Battle of Ankara in 1402 against Timur, the most powerful conqueror of the time. With Bayezid I gone as he was captured by Timur, the Byzantines are saved once again, thus Manuel II who returns home would rule the empire at its last period of peace, as it would only be a matter of time for the Ottomans to get their act back together again. This audio epic is a work of historical fiction which tells a true story set in the 14th and 15th centuries, though in the No Budget Films perspective. Keep in mind that this video contains some references that could be culturally offensive to some. It consists of mixed media including No Budget Films' Lego characters, photographs of real locations, historical illustrations, and artworks from various online artists. Produced and Narrated by Powee CeldranRelated No Budget Films Byzantine Epics: The Last Roman Dynasty Part VI (2021)- youtube.com/watch?v=G8MnpDpSO9k
The Last Roman Dynasty: Part VI- The Tragedy of John V Palaiologos (Byzantine audio epic) No Budget Films 2021-08-20 | Support No Budget Films/ Byzantine Time Traveller on Patreon: patreon.com/ByzantinetimetravellerLike us on Facebook: No Budget Films: facebook.com/nobudgetfilms55Byzantine Time Traveller: facebook.com/ByzantineTimeTravellerThis video is set between the years 1355 and 1391.0:00 Intro0:37 John V as sole emperor, 1355-13593:00 The Ottoman Conquest of the Balkans, 1360-13686:32 John V's journey to Italy and rebellion of his son, 1369-137310:44 Venice-Genoa War and the Reign of Andronikos IV, 1373-138113:33 The Events of the 1380s and Kosovo, 1381-138916:32 The Last Days of John V, 1390-139118:51 Extro and Credits This is the 6th episode of No Budget Films' 2nd season of its Byzantine history audio epics "The Last Roman Dynasty", a sequel to the 2020 Byzantine history audio epic "The 57 Years: Byzantium in Exile". This series now centers on the last dynasty of the Byzantine Empire, the Palaiologos Dynasty beginning with its founder Michael VIII Palaiologos and ending in 1453 with the fall of the Byzantine Empire. The series' title refers to the Byzantine Empire as the direct continuation of the old Roman Empire except this time based in Constantinople as the "New Rome". This episode (Episode VI) starts off in 1355 when the young but soft rightful emperor John V after years of civil war takes back the throne in Constantinople from his father-in-law Emperor John VI Kantakouzenos who had sidelined him for the past 7 years. Though fully secure in power, John V takes over a Byzantine Empire severely damaged from years of civil war and plague, while the growing power of this time being the Ottomans have finally got their first holding in Europe, now beginning to expand rapidly with nothing stopping them considering that the Serbian Empire after the death of its powerful emperor Dusan in 1355 lost all its power and influence making them an easy prey for the expanding Ottomans. Fearing the rise of the Ottomans and their expansion into Europe now that they are ruled by the ambitious Sultan Murad I, John V for the survival of his empire travels west to seek military aid from the more powerful rulers of Western Europe including the pope, but in return he gets humiliated more and more. John V in his reign as sole emperor perhaps had one of the most tragic in Byzantine history by being turned down every time he asked for assistance from the west, having a son that rebelled against his rule and for 3 years ousted him from power, and worse was forced to become an Ottoman vassal to protect his empire. This audio epic is a work of historical fiction which tells a true story set in the 14th century, though in the No Budget Films perspective. Keep in mind that this video contains some references that could be culturally offensive to some. It consists of mixed media including No Budget Films' Lego characters, photographs of real locations, historical illustrations, and artworks from various online artists. Produced and Narrated by Powee CeldranRelated No Budget Films Byzantine Epics: The Last Roman Dynasty Part V (2021)- youtube.com/watch?v=BCf46lnFHJ8&t=41s
The Last Roman Dynasty: Part V- Double Disaster: Civil War & Black Death (Byzantine audio epic) No Budget Films 2021-07-30 | Support No Budget Films/ Byzantine Time Traveller on Patreon: patreon.com/ByzantinetimetravellerLike us on Facebook:No Budget Films: facebook.com/nobudgetfilms55Byzantine Time Traveller: facebook.com/ByzantineTimeTravellerThis video is set between the years 1341 and 1354.0:00 Intro 0:49 Beginning of the Civil War, 13414:10 Civil War Phase 1, 1341-13438:55 Civil War Phase 2, 1343-1347 14:01 The Reign of John VI and Black Death, 1347-135018:41 Civil War Phase 3, 1350-135423:42 Extro and CreditsThis is the 5th episode of No Budget Films' 2nd season of its Byzantine history audio epics "The Last Roman Dynasty", a sequel to the 2020 Byzantine history audio epic "The 57 Years: Byzantium in Exile". This series now centers on the last dynasty of the Byzantine Empire, the Palaiologos Dynasty beginning with its founder Michael VIII Palaiologos and ending in 1453 with the fall of the Byzantine Empire. The series' title refers to the Byzantine Empire as the direct continuation of the old Roman Empire except this time based in Constantinople as the "New Rome". This episode (Episode V) begins in the year 1341 wherein the Byzantine emperor Andronikos III who right when reviving the Byzantine Empire to its old glory suddenly dies, thus his dream of a new strong Byzantium is never achieved, and the worst part was that he died without even naming his young son John V Palaiologos as his successor. The sudden death of Andronikos III and a lack of a succession plan leads to a new civil war to rise between the faction backing young John V led by his mother the late emperor's wife Anna of Savoy and the late emperor's most trusted friend the general John Kantakouzenos, who believed he should be the rightful ruler of the empire. This new conflict rises into a deadly civil war that involves the social classes of Byzantine society against each other whereas the commoners and merchants support the more progressive empress and regency of young John V while the old fashioned military aristocrats of the provinces back John Kantakouzenos all while the neighboring powers of Serbia, Bulgaria, the Turkish Beyliks of Asia Minor, the new Ottoman Empire, and the Italian republics of Venice and Genoa take sides in the civil war as well. The worst part however is to come later wherein the deadly plague of Black Death arrives in the war torn Byzantine Empire and as the Byzantine Empire falls apart due to the civil war and Black Death, Serbia has the advantage when its powerful and ambitious king Stefan IV Dusan transforms the Serbian Kingdom into the Serbian Empire due to the disintegration of Byzantium while at the same time, the Ottomans use the chaos in Byzantium to their advantage and settle in Europe for the first time. This is then perhaps the beginning of the end for the Byzantine Empire. This audio epic is a work of historical fiction which tells a true story set in the 14th century, though in the No Budget Films perspective. Keep in mind that this video contains some references that could be culturally offensive to some. It consists of mixed media including No Budget Films' Lego characters, photographs of real locations, historical illustrations, and artworks from various online artists. Produced and Narrated by Powee Celdran Related No Budget Films Byzantine Epics:The Last Roman Dynasty Part IV (2021)- youtube.com/watch?v=TJIqDuQGlWw&t=104s
Last Roman Dynasty: Part IV- Andronikos III: The Last Revival (Byzantine audio epic) No Budget Films 2021-06-22 | Support No Budget Films/ Byzantine Time Traveller on Patreon:patreon.com/ByzantinetimetravellerLike us on Facebook:No Budget Films: facebook.com/nobudgetfilms55Byzantine Time Traveller: facebook.com/ByzantineTimeTravellerThis video is set between the years 1320 and 1341.0:00 Intro 0:53 The Rise of Andronikos III, 1320-13213:15 Civil War between Andronikos II and Andronikos III, 1321-1328 7:30 Andronikos III saves the Empire, 1328-1332 11:35 Andronikos III against Thessaly, Epirus, and Serbia 1332-1337 15:45 The Last Years of Andronikos III, 1338-134118:13 Extro and Credits This is the 4th episode of No Budget Films' 2nd season of its Byzantine history audio epics "The Last Roman Dynasty", a direct sequel to the 2020 NBF Byzantine history 3 episode audio epic series "The 57 Years: Byzantium in Exile". This series now centers on the last dynasty of the Byzantine Empire, the Palaiologos Dynasty beginning with its founder Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos and ending in 1453 with the fall of the Byzantine Empire. The series' title refers to the Byzantine Empire as the direct continuation of the old Roman Empire except this time based in Constantinople as the "New Rome". This episode (Episode IV) begins in the year 1320 where the Byzantine Empire that had been restored in 1261 falls into a state of ruin, economic crisis, and corruption and its old emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos proves to nothing more but ineffective in running the empire. In this dark time, an unlikely hero rises to save the empire from corruption and military defeats when there is still a chance to do so and this unlikely hero is the emperor's grandson also named Andronikos who however does not have a heroic start but rather is a wasteful, arrogant, and pleasure loving young man. However in 1320, one day everything turns around for young Andronikos when after a night of gambling and not paying his debts, he is ambushed by the man he owes his debts to but is mistaken for his younger brother who is killed by that man. Thinking young Andronikos caused his brother's death his father the co-emperor Michael IX dies from a heart attack while the grandfather emperor Andronikos II is furious thus removing his grandson from the succession. The grandson Andronikos too is furious and declares civil war against his grandfather to save his position but soon enough comes to realize that his rebellion against his grandfather was not just for his personal gain but for the good of the people of the empire, especially the younger generation whose hopes and dreams had been destroyed by the corruption and disasters of the old Andronikos II's reign. The grandson Andronikos manages to defeat his grandfather and oust him out of power in 1328 and becomes Emperor Andronikos III Palaiologos vowing to restore the empire when there is still a chance to do so. In Andronikos III's reign, he embarks on a mission to reform the empire after years of corruption and sets off to reconquer lands the Byzantines had lost in Greece and Asia Minor. Though Andronikos III would face a number of difficulties, betrayals, and defeats, his ambitions show that Byzantium even though weakened still had a chance to become strong again, though unfortunately the dreams of Andronikos III would never be achieved as death came too soon for him in 1341, thus it will be all downhill for Byzantium from here on. This audio epic is a work of historical fiction which tells a true story set in the 14th century, though in the No Budget Films perspective. Keep in mind that this video contains some references that could be culturally offensive to some. It consists of mixed media including No Budget Films' Lego characters, photographs of real locations, historical illustrations, and artworks from various online artists. Produced and Narrated by Powee Celdran Related No Budget Films Byzantine Epics: The Last Roman Dynasty Part III (2021)- youtube.com/watch?v=X4yHVSkgbvU&t=1289sThe Imperial Epilogue: A Byzantine Epic (2020)- youtube.com/watch?v=LAsQMLIF46E
Last Roman Dynasty: Part III- The Beginning of the Decline (Byzantine audio epic) No Budget Films 2021-05-15 | Support No Budget Films/ Byzantine Time Traveller on Patreon:patreon.com/ByzantinetimetravellerLike us on Facebook:No Budget Films: facebook.com/nobudgetfilms55Byzantine Time Traveller: facebook.com/ByzantineTimeTravellerThis video is set between the years 1282 and 1320. 0:00 Intro, 1282-12834:20 Andronikos II's early reign, 1284-12899:55 Turkish conflict in Asia Minor and Alexios Philanthropenos' Rebellion, 1290-129915:48 The Catalans and Bulgarians, 1300-130520:33 Byzantine-Catalan War and Andronikos II's latter reign, 1305-132026:09 Extro and CreditsThis is the 3rd episode of No Budget Films' 2nd season of its Byzantine history audio epics "The Last Roman Dynasty", a direct sequel to the 2020 NBF Byzantine history 3 episode audio epic series "The 57 Years: Byzantium in Exile". This series now centers on the last dynasty of the Byzantine Empire, the Palaiologos Dynasty beginning with its founder Michael VIII Palaiologos and ending in 1453 with the fall of the Byzantine Empire. The series' title refers to the Byzantine Empire as the direct continuation of the old Roman Empire except this time based in Constantinople as the "New Rome". This episode (Episode III) begins after the death of the Palaiologos Dynasty's founder Michael VIII and the ascension of his son Andronikos II as Byzantine emperor in 1282 where the last episode had left off. Andronikos II has a promising start as the empire he inherited from his father has been spared from the threat of the west as Charles of Anjou, the French King of Sicily that had troubled the restored Byzantium has been dealt with together with his army, and now the rising kingdom of Aragon in Spain as an ally of the Byzantines now occupy Sicily. Andronikos II also begins his reign well as when coming to the Byzantine throne, he cancels his father's infamous and unpopular Church Union returning his empire to Orthodoxy again and making his people happy but on the negative side, Andronikos II also inherits and almost bankrupt empire as his father had spent almost all of the treasury on foreign wars and making alliances. As an artist and intellectual and not a tough soldier-politician emperor the way his father Michael VIII was, Andronikos II came to the throne at a wrong time as even though the empire was spared from external threats, it now had a damaged economy that would take so much to rebuild it and for Andronikos, his only solution to keep his empire's economy still running is to disband the army and navy, instead resorting to hiring foreign mercenaries to fight his wars. His decision to disband the army and navy too came at such a bad time as by 1299, the new power of the Turkish Beylik of Osman later the Ottoman Empire had risen and immediately posed a threat to the dying Byzantine Empire. In his reign, Andronikos II would face the unexpected rise of the Ottomans from a small Turkish state in Asia Minor to the dominant power of Asia Minor, the inevitable collapse of Byzantine rule in their heartland being Asia Minor, a great number of military defeats, and the betrayal of the Catalan army he hired that was even more devastating than the rising threat of the Ottomans. With all these problems of war and political infighting surrounding him, Andronikos II as an inept leader instead put his attention to promoting art and learning in the Byzantine capital Constantinople. This audio epic is a work of historical fiction which tells a true story set from the 13th-14th centuries, though in the No Budget Films perspective. Keep in mind that this video contains some references that could be culturally offensive to some. It consists of mixed media including No Budget Films' Lego characters, photographs of real locations, historical illustrations, and artworks from various online artists. Produced and Narrated by Powee CeldranRelated No Budget Films Byzantine Epics: The Last Roman Dynasty Part II (2021)- youtube.com/watch?v=IZ-Fdb8XyDo&t=136sWar of the Sicilian Vespers: A Byzantine Epic (2020)- youtube.com/watch?v=ut8-a1W3KMA&t=1093s
Last Roman Dynasty: Part II- Michael VIII Palaiologos Redemption (Byzantine audio epic) No Budget Films 2021-04-07 | Subscribe to No Budget Films/ Byzantine Time Traveller on Patreon:patreon.com/ByzantinetimetravellerLike us on Facebook: facebook.com/nobudgetfilms55facebook.com/ByzantineTimeTravellerThis video is set between the years 1274 and 1283.0:00 Intro 3:43 Byzantine affairs and War with the Latins, 1275 8:13 Cold War Conflict between Michael VIII and Charles of Anjou, 1276-1277 12:04 The Bulgarian Civil War, 1277-1280 18:34 Conflict between Byzantium and Sicily resumes, 1279-128223:05 The Sicilian Vespers Rebellion and Byzantium's role in it, 128227:43 War of the Sicilian Vespers and its ending, 1282-1283 30:30 Extro and Credits This is the 2nd episode of No Budget Films' 2nd season of its Byzantine history audio epics "The Last Roman Dynasty", a direct sequel to the 2020 NBF Byzantine history 3 episode audio epic series "The 57 Years: Byzantium in Exile" This series centers on the last dynasty of the Byzantine Empire, the Palaiologos Dynasty beginning with its founder Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos in 1261 and ending in 1453 with the fall of the Byzantine Empire. The series' title refers to the Byzantine Empire as the direct continuation of the old Roman Empire except this time based in Constantinople as the "New Rome". This episode begins in 1274 where the last episode left of and here the Byzantine emperor and founder of the dynasty, Michael VIII Palaiologos is in a troubled situation. Previously, he signed an agreement to unit the Church of the East or Orthodox Church with the west, the Catholic Church, and though this may be beneficial for the survival of the empire, this decision was not well received by his Orthodox subject who would view it better to die and lose their empire rather than losing their soul, which is their Orthodox faith. From being the hero of 1261 that liberated Constantinople from the Latins, Michael in an instant turns into his own people's worst enemy and becoming paranoid as ever, Michael VIII turns into a tyrannical ruler ruthlessly crushing opposition against him while his empire is also externally threatened. While internal conflicts erupt in the restored Byzantine Empire, external forces attack too including some unrest in Bulgaria, the remaining Latin states in Greece, rebellious Byzantine leaders outside the empire putting their claim to the throne, and the deadliest of all being the French king of Sicily Charles of Anjou who would stop at nothing to destroy and claim the newly restored Byzantine Empire. As for Michael VIII, he must do all he can to save his empire and in it, he would go through a journey of redemption making up for all his past cruelties by getting his empire's mortal enemy finished off for good. As a Byzantine emperor, Michael VIII would stick to where he is good at which is diplomacy, scheming, warfare, betrayal, and threatening in order to save the empire he worked so hard to restore. In history, Michael VIII would go down as one of Byzantium's most controversial rulers but also one of its most brilliant in terms of diplomacy and in mastering the complexities of Byzantine politics. This audio epic is a work of historical fiction in which tells a true story set in the 13th century, though in the No Budget Films perspective. It consists of mixed media including No Budget Films' Lego characters, PC game footage, photographs of real locations, historical illustrations, and artworks from various online artists. Produced and narrated by Powee CeldranGaming Footage from HybridNinja Related No Budget Films Byzantine Epics:War of the Sicilian Vespers (2020)- youtube.com/watch?v=ut8-a1W3KMA&t=1093sThe Last Roman Dynasty Part I (2021)- youtube.com/watch?v=VQqYSHf_g5k
Last Roman Dynasty: Part I- Michael Palaiologos Imperial Restoration (Byzantine audio epic) No Budget Films 2021-02-23 | Support No Budget Films/ Byzantine Time Traveller on Patreon: patreon.com/Byzantinetimetraveller?fbclid=IwAR2Z2n02egwQSq06s9PIVbmbQcnMgml2KRKO-ES5gYJI2Wp7RP06kZQhZ8ULike us on Facebook:No Budget Films: facebook.com/nobudgetfilms55Byzantine Time Traveller: facebook.com/ByzantineTimeTravellerThis video is set between 1261 and 1274. 0:00 Intro2:27 Byzantium Restored, 126114:08 Michael VIII consolidates his rule, 126219:57 The Byzantine Campaign against Achaea in Greece, 126326:47 The Seljuks and Mongols, 1264-1265 29:43 The Mongols and the new Western threat, 126633:21 The Rise of Charles of Anjou and Asia Minor problems, 1267-1269 37:02 The conflict between Michael VIII and Charles of Anjou grows, 1270-127340:10 The Attempt for Church Unity, 127442:52 Extro and Credits This is the first part of No Budget Films' new season of its Byzantine history audio epics following the previous 3 episode series "The 57 Years: Byzantium in Exile". This new series is entitled "The Last Roman Dynasty" which centers on the last ruling dynasty of the Byzantine Empire, the Palaiologos Dynasty, better known as the last Roman dynasty- as the Byzantine Empire was in fact the Roman Empire that survived through the middle ages- from their rise in 1261 to the end of the Byzantine Empire in 1453. This new series begins in 1261, right after the last series ended and here the 57 years of the Byzantine Empire in Nicaea is over as the Byzantine army recovers their old capital, Constantinople that had fallen to the armies of the 4th Crusade back in 1204 establishing the Latin Empire there. In 1261, the Latin Empire had met its end after only 57 years, the Byzantine Empire was once again restored to its capital, and a new emperor, Michael VIII Palaiologos was crowned, thus establishing his new dynasty. However, despite Michael's triumphs, having restored empire is a great burden on him as even though they have Constantinople back, he has enemies on all sides both Byzantine Greeks and Latin powers that still remain in Byzantine lands ever since their conquest of 1204. Other than having his own imperial rival the boy emperor of Nicaea John IV Laskaris still around, Michael has more enemies than anyone can think of including the deposed last Latin emperor Baldwin II, a remaining Latin prince in Greece, the Seljuk Turks of Asia Minor, the Mongols, and ambitious rulers of Western Europe. In his early reign as the restored Byzantine emperor, Michael VIII does whatever he can no matter how dirty and vicious his means are in order to save keep his empire alive. As emperor, Michael VIII masters the art of diplomacy, warfare, scheming, betrayal, and threatening to make sure not only he stays in power but for the empire he worked so hard to restore stay alive. This is an audio epic is a work of historical fiction in which tells a true story set in the 13th century, though in the No Budget Films perspective. It consists of mixed media including No Budget Films' Lego characters, PC game footage, photographs of real locations, historical illustrations, and artworks from various online artists. Produced and narrated by Powee CeldranGaming footage by Hybrid Ninja Related No Budget Films Byzantine Epics:Summer of 1261 (2019)- youtu.be/Sas5oC4Dui8The 57 Years: Byzantium in Exile Part 3 (2020)- youtube.com/watch?v=QVDoXf7gOZg
The Imperial Epilogue: A Byzantine Epic No Budget Films 2020-12-22 | Support No Budget Films/ Byzantine Time Traveller on Patreon:patreon.com/Byzantinetimetraveller?fbclid=IwAR2Z2n02egwQSq06s9PIVbmbQcnMgml2KRKO-ES5gYJI2Wp7RP06kZQhZ8ULike us on Facebook: No Budget Films: facebook.com/nobudgetfilms55Byzantine Time Traveller: facebook.com/ByzantineTimeTravellerFollow the Masked Ninja Hybrid: twitch.tv/maskedninjahybridRated P-G. A No Budget Films One-Shot (short film) directed by Powee Celdran, set in the Byzantine Empire timeline in collaboration with Twitch live streamer The Masked Ninja Hybrid. A Byzantine Lego epic set in the early 14th century featuring a civil war within Byzantium's ruling Palaiologos family between the longtime reigning emperor Andronikos II and his grandson also named Andronikos. This short film is our final film for 2020 and the conclusion to our story of Byzantium's Palaiologos family. This is supposed to be an experimental film based on historical characters and settings but not all is historically accurate. "The Imperial Epilogue" is set a full 38 years since the events of the previous film "War of the Sicilian Vespers: A Byzantine Epic" (2020) and the restored Byzantine Empire of 1261 or at least what remains of it is still ruled by Andronikos II Palaiologos. Back in 1282, the Byzantine people had once again felt liberated with both a potential invasion from the west stopped at Sicily and with the death of their autocratic emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos who although liberated Constantinople from the Latins but his decision to suppress his people's Orthodox beliefs to unite with the Latin Church for the survival of his empire led him to crush all opposition to his rule thus making him hated by his own people. With Michael VIII dead and his body denied a proper burial by the Orthodox Church of Constantinople, absolutely no one is in mourning and all are happy to be under the rule of his young son Andronikos II, a true Orthodox supporter but little do they know that their new emperor would soon enough prove to be a weak ruler and his reign would mark the end of their empire. 38 years later, Andronikos II is now an old man and his reign was the complete opposite of what everyone expected as it has seen such great failures including the rise of a real enemy will the full potential to destroy Byzantine civilization, the Ottomans. Andronikos II though was not a bad emperor but was oblivious to the sufferings of his empire and people and his reign too saw corruption grow strong in the empire and the economy collapse due to constant war. While the empire is in ruin and the younger generation of Byzantines have no future, an unlikely savior comes to their aid which is the emperor's rebellious and excessive young grandson also named Andronikos. The young Andronikos though despite his lose lifestyle of gambling and drinking has the potential to be a good ruler but when his brother being mistaken for him was killed by an assassin sent to kill the young Andronikos who refused to pay up after losing a gambling match, his grandfather the emperor is enraged. The old emperor Andronikos II is convinced that his grandson Andronikos killed his brother and caused his father's death in the process which makes the old emperor see him as nothing more but another challenge to his long and tragically painful reign making the old emperor declare his grandson a public enemy. The grandson Andronikos however turns out to be a popular figure among the younger generation of Byzantines as he envisions that dying Byzantine Empire will rise again as a strong military power and in 1320, the grandson Andronikos declares a civil war against his own grandfather for the good of the empire. The old emperor meanwhile is indecisive on what to do with his grandson, thus the civil war goes on for 7 years but the end only one faction will win and it is either corruption will continue to live on or the old Byzantine glory returns. Directed by Powee CeldranVoice Cast: Mario Puyat, Angelo Lacson, Miguel Abarentos, Igi Rollan, Carlos Francisco, Caleb Acorda, Francis Ventura, Felipe Chuidian, Gen Maramba, Alej Consing, and Powee CeldranSets by LegoMerry Christmas! Happy Holidays!
The 57 Years: Byzantium in Exile Part3- Road to the Reconquest (1254-1261) No Budget Films 2020-12-07 | Support No Budget Films/ Byzantine Time Traveller on Patreon:patreon.com/ByzantinetimetravellerLike us on Facebook: No Budget Films: facebook.com/nobudgetfilms55Byzantine Time Traveller: facebook.com/ByzantineTimeTravellerPart 3 of No Budget Films' Byzantine history audio epic "The 57 Years: Byzantium in Exile" set between the fall of the Byzantine capital Constantinople to the 4th Crusade in 1204 and the reconquest of 1261. The story of part 3 begins in 1254 just 7 years before Constantinople was eventually recaptured by the Byzantines and here the Crusader Latin Empire based in Constantinople has been reduced so severely that it could fall at any moment if anyone dared to conquer it, however things go the other way around in the exiled Byzantine Empire of Nicaea when their beloved emperor John III Doukas Vatatzes died after ruling for 32 years. John III is then succeeded by his only son Theodore II Laskaris Vatatzes, a philosophical scholar but the kind of ruler feeling he is above everyone else. Theodore II's rule causes such tension in his empire the moment he tries to replace the existing aristocracy with his commoner friends who he puts into high ranking military positions under his rule. The reign of Theodore II though will not only be challenged by their neighbors like the 2nd Bulgarian Empire, Latins, Seljuks, Despotate of Epirus, and even the Mongols but within the empire by his long-time rival Michael Palaiologos who had so quickly gained so much power and influence as a general. Though the Empire of Nicaea has gained so much success, Theodore II as its new ruler does not prioritize the reconquest of Constantinople, thus giving the Latin emperor Baldwin II an opportunity to rebuild his empire. While Theodore II runs the now successful Nicaean Empire, Michael from behind the scenes starts a plot to remove Theodore and make his way to the throne with the single objective of taking back Constantinople from the Latins. There is only 7 years left before the reconquest and already having a sickness, will Theodore II die sooner before the objective is achieved and be taken over by the ambitious Michael Palaiologos or not? This here is the 3rd and final part of our Byzantine history audio epic between 1204 and 1261 and the last years of the Empire of Nicaea would see a bitter rivalry between 2 powerful men being the emperor Theodore II Laskaris and the influential general Michael Palaiologos who plots to make himself an emperor. Directed and narrated by Powee CeldranArtworks from various online artistsNo Budget Films Byzantine History Lego Epics:Summer of 1261: youtu.be/Sas5oC4Dui8War of the Sicilian Vespers: youtu.be/ut8-a1W3KMA
The 57 Years:Byzantium in Exile Part2- The Race to take back Constantinople (1222-1253) No Budget Films 2020-11-19 | Support No Budget Films/ Byzantine Time Traveller on Patreon:patreon.com/ByzantinetimetravellerLike us on Facebook: No Budget Films: facebook.com/nobudgetfilms55Byzantine Time Traveller: facebook.com/ByzantineTimeTravellerPart 2 of No Budget Films' Byzantine history audio epic "The 57 Years: Byzantium in Exile" set between the fall of the Byzantine capital Constantinople to the 4th Crusade in 1204 and the reconquest of 1261. The story of this video begins in 1222 with the Byzantines now establishing their temporary Empire of Nicaea in Asia Minor whereas a new ruler John III Doukas Vatatzes comes to power and will prove himself to be a successful ruler despite the challenging times. With Constantinople lost to the Latins, the Byzantine state broke apart and in Western Greece, the rebel Byzantine state of Epirus begins having ambitions to dominate Greece and rebuild the old empire challenging the growing empire of Nicaea which also has the same dream but other than them, even non-Byzantines particularly the new 2nd Bulgarian Empire and its ruler Ivan Asen II also has the dream to rebuild Byzantium. Meanwhile, the Crusader Latin Empire based in Constantinople despite just starting out is already weakened as John III of Nicaea, Theodore Komnenos Doukas of Epirus, and Ivan II of Bulgaria all race to see which of them will take Constantinople. The 57 years between 1204 and 1261 were possibly one of the most chaotic times in Byzantine history and here at No Budget Films, we are retelling the story of this time in our perspective with some made up stories and characters blended into this era of 13th century Byzantium. Directed and Narrated by Powee CeldranArtworks from various online artistsNo Budget Films Byzantine History Lego Epics:Summer of 1261- youtube.com/watch?v=Sas5oC4Dui8&t=340sWar of the Sicilian Vespers- youtube.com/watch?v=ut8-a1W3KMA&t=288s
The 57 Years: Byzantium in Exile Part1- Aftermath of the 4th Crusade (1204-1221) No Budget Films 2020-10-27 | Support No Budget Films/ Byzantine Time Traveller on Patreon:patreon.com/ByzantinetimetravellerLike us on Facebook: No Budget Films: facebook.com/nobudgetfilms55Byzantine Time Traveller: facebook.com/ByzantineTimeTravellerWelcome to No Budget Films' 1st audio epic! Previously, we have done many Lego epic films set in Byzantine history, now it is about time for a new and much easier medium to retell the history of Byzantium. This is the 1st episode in our new webseries "the 57 Years: Byzantium in Exile" set between the year 1204 when Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire itself fell to the 4th Crusade and 1261 when the Byzantines took back Constantinople from the Crusaders. This video's story starts back in 1180 to give a background of the 4th Crusade and the events that led to it then continues to the fall of Constantinople in 1204 and its chaotic aftermath which created many Byzantine states but out of these states, the state of Nicaea under the Byzantine noble Theodore I Laskaris became the most successful as the Empire of Nicaea while Constantinople was to be under a soon enough failed state known as the Latin Empire ruled by several incapable leaders between its founding in 1204 and 1221. This video tells the story of possibly one of the most chaotic periods in Byzantine history in the perspective of our channel No Budget Films featuring characters and stories made up by us blended into 13th century Byzantium. Also, this video tells its story through a series of artworks and images to help you viewers visualize the time.Note: Some elements may be historically accurate, others just made up as part of No Budget Films lore. Directed and Narrated by Powee Celdran
War of the Sicilian Vespers: The Untold Byzantine Epic (Deleted Scenes) No Budget Films 2020-06-12 | Warning, spoiler alert! Before you watch this, watch the main movie "War of the Sicilian Vespers: A Byzantine Epic" (2020) first: youtu.be/ut8-a1W3KMALike us on Facebook: facebook.com/nobudgetfilms55Here is the director's cut one-shot film of the previous movie features 4 short story scenes not included in the movie but explains what has happened behind the story of the 1282 War of the Sicilian Vespers in Byzantium and in Western Europe. The 4 parts of this one-shot include:Chapter 1- In 1273, the former ousted Latin emperor of Constantinople Baldwin II dies in Sicily leaving his only son Philippe Courtenay his heir under the protection of Sicily's French king Charles I of Anjou. Chapter 2- Fast-forward to 1282, as Byzantine emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos briefs his men including his old time general Alexios Caesar before their first mission to Sicily (before the opening of the movie) he discovers the relics he took for himself in Nicaea back in 1261 are fake. Chapter 3- At the end of 1282, Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos of Byzantium had died travelling, meanwhile his son Andronikos returns to Constantinople after disappearing for 6 months to ascend to the imperial throne shocking his mother Theodora who had thought he died. While away, Andronikos out of frustration destroyed Nicaea, the former capital of the exiled Byzantium, however to his surprise he gets advice from the ghost of an old Byzantine emperor. Chapter 4- Fast-forward to 1299, while Andronikos II turns out to be a weak emperor, Byzantine territory collapses in Asia Minor allowing a Turkish to conquer Byzantium. This Turkish warlord Osman Gazi dreams a mysterious dream of a tree which means he destined to destroy Byzantine civilization and found a new empire. Directed by Powee CeldranVoice Cast: Powee Celdran, Mario Puyat, Alina R. Co, Santiago Roxas, Igi Rollan, Angelo Lacson, JC Santos, Caleb Acorda, Cedric Parra, Carlos Francisco, with Andre Martin, and RJ Celdran Sets by Lego
War of the Sicilian Vespers: A Byzantine Epic- Lego Byzantine film No Budget Films 2020-05-27 | Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/ByzantinetimetravellerLike us on Facebook:No Budget Films: facebook.com/nobudgetfilms55 Byzantine Time Traveller: facebook.com/ByzantineTimeTravellerRated P-G: The movie contains some violent and disturbing scenes not fit for young viewers. This Lego movie is based on historical characters and settings from the era of the Byzantine Empire (330-1453). This here is No Budget Films' 10th feature film, sequel to No Budget Films' 2019 Lego film "Summer of 1261: A Byzantine Epic". The setting of this movie takes place in 1282, 21 years after the Byzantines reclaimed their capital Constantinople after 57 years of Latin occupation but in the west the Latins are once again planning to launch a Crusade to once and for all take Constantinople as theirs again. This 13th century Lego epic film is directed by Powee Celdran and produced amidst the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 yet had still pushed through. 21 years have passed since the Byzantines of the exiled Empire of Nicaea reclaimed their capital Constantinople from the Latins in the Summer of 1261. The Latins who had captured the city back in the 4th Crusade of 1204 had been shamefully chased away back to west where they came from after ruling the city for 57 years, and as they flee back to the west, the general Michael VIII Palaiologos (voiced by Powee Celdran) is crowned the emperor of the new Byzantine Empire. At first the new restored Byzantium seems to be expecting a new golden age, but things go the other way around. In 1270, the king of France Louis IX, who had agreed to leave Byzantium alone after 1261, after leading the failed 8th Crusade is affected by a plague and dies in North Africa, thus Byzantium is vulnerable to Latin conquest once again. Meanwhile, Louis IX's younger ambitious brother Charles of Anjou (RJ Celdran) has recently become king of Sicily after taking it for himself in order to use Sicily as his base for planning an offensive on Constantinople and the new Byzantine Empire. Back in Byzantium, the empire despite its return is in great trouble with a poor economy, near bankruptcy from constant war, collapsing borders in Asia Minor from the rise of the Turkish states, and its people disunited and in complete distrust with their emperor. As emperor, Michael VIII rules Byzantium with an iron fist but despite his great feat in recapturing the city from the Latins in 1261, he is no hero to the people because of an unpopular Church union he agreed to some years earlier to unite the Byzantine Church with the Latin Catholic one wherein Byzantium would submit to the pope. This Church union may be beneficial for Michael and the survival of his empire but to his people this has has caused such anger as the faithful Byzantine Orthodox Christians would choose to die than give up their faith and submit to the faith of their enemy, the Latins which is what had indeed caused their hated to their emperor. However in Sicily, the people too are unhappy being under French occupation and after the Vespers one day in 1282, the people of Panormos (Palermo) having enough of the bad behavior and racism of French suddenly rise up and massacre the French soldiers in the city, while at the same time a Byzantine task force consisting of the veterans of 1261 including the liberator general of Constantinople Alexios Strategopoulos (Santiago Roxas) intervenes and uncovers the plot that Charles of Anjou is really determined to retake Byzantium. Hearing the news, Michael is enraged but is willing to help the Sicilians by paying them off to overthrow the French together with the help of a powerful ally, the army of the Spanish kingdom of Aragon. Michael, now old and tired meanwhile is not only facing a troubled empire and opposition against him but his own family opposes his too for his controversial Church unity but his personal problems are even greater facing guilt for blinding the blinding the boy emperor John IV Laskaris in 1261 to take the throne for himself. Now since Sicily has long been part of the Byzantine Empire and its people have Byzantine Greek routes, Michael now sends a task force under the command of his inexperienced son Andronikos (Mario Puyat) who is destined to the Byzantine throne. The Byzantines now must move quick and assist the people of Sicily in overthrowing their French overlords or else everything they fought for in 1261 is wasted as Charles of Anjou and his French forces do actually set off for Constantinople and annihilate the Byzantine Empire once and for all.Directed/ Produced/ Written by Powee CeldranVoice Cast: Powee Celdran, Mario Puyat, Jon Cabrera, Pat Claudio, Carlos Francisco, Nuni Celdran, Angelo Lacson, Alej Consing, Monica David, Miguel Abarentos, with Santiago Roxas, and RJ CeldranSupporting Cast: Alina R. Co, Francis Ventura, Anton Diño, Igi Rollan, Jerome Ray, Tony Sawyer, JC Santos, Haci Bekir, Caleb Acorda, and André MartinSets by Lego
Remnants of Empires- Lego One-Shot Film No Budget Films 2019-12-20 | Like us on Facebook: facebook.com/nobudgetfilms55Rated P-G. A No Budget Films one-shot Lego film and prequel to the 1984 prequel miniseries "Birth of the Totalitarian State: A 1984 Story". Set in the World War I era more than 2 decades before the Birth of the Totalitarian State miniseries, more than 60 years before the actual 1984 story, and almost 7 centuries after the era of No Budget Films' Byzantine epics. This Lego one-shot film is based on historical characters and settings. Watch this for the sequel to this one-shot, the "Birth of the Totalitarian State miniseries: youtube.com/watch?v=9R8aRDqLJqo&t=497sIn the year 1919, World War I that has brought such devastation has come to an end but bringing so much drastic change that Russia has changed very quickly from an empire ruled by a tsar to a totalitarian socialist state. Meanwhile in the sleepy town of Cherson along the Black Sea in Ukraine, a small team of 5 badly equipped treasure hunters have no idea that the army of the new Russian state has a secret underground base beneath the Byzantine ruins they are excavating. The small team of 5 is plainly here in Cherson only to look for Byzantine era treasures for their own wealth, mainly the shield that the emperors of Byzantium stood on during their coronations in the past 1,100 year that the Byzantine Empire reigned. However, it's been almost 5 centuries since the Byzantine Empire vanished which means these artifacts have long been faded out from the earth and worse, 2 years previously, Byzantium's successor in legacy, the Russian Empire has vanished too. Though both empires of the same traditions have vanished, the artifacts remain and these treasure hunters are on the lookout for them at Cherson. Part of this team is the British World War I veteran Sean Smith (father of Simon and Cornelius Smith from the Birth of the Totalitarian State series and grandfather of the 1984 protagonist Winston Smith) and the 14-year-old Edward James Carter, the future supreme leader of Oceania. Both Smith and Carter do not get along as the war veteran Smith suffers from war trauma while Carter does nothing but order the team around without doing anything mainly because his family had paid for the mission. Beneath the ruins of Byzantine Cherson, the shield actually happens exist and still remaining intact but to the surprise of the team, the Russian army under the command of Yakov Yurovsky, the tsar's murderer has already located the shield and has a base beneath the ruins claiming he has an object of the Byzantine era even more powerful than the shield which was kept by the tsars of Russia for centuries as an item of such high value. Now, even 3 centuries before the Oceanian party was born, Russia already had plans in building a totalitarian superstate and beneath the ruins of Cherson, the ideas have been born giving birth to the rise of the world's first superstate. Both the Byzantine and Russian Empire are gone, but leave behind a lot remnants.Directed by Powee CeldranVoice Cast: André Martin, Mario Puyat, Pat Claudio, Jasper Bravo, Igi Rollan, and Jonathan Cabrera Sets by Lego
Summer of 1261: The Untold Byzantine Epic- A No budget Films Lego One-Shot No Budget Films 2019-10-11 | Like us on Facebook: facebook.com/nobudgetfilms55/?ref=bookmarks "Summer of 1261: A Byzantine Epic", the actual movie: youtu.be/Sas5oC4Dui8It's been more than a month since No Budget Films' release of its latest Lego film, the Byzantine epic "Summer of 1261", now here's an extender to the movie that explains more that the movie did not. This director's cut one-shot film of the previous movie features 8 short story scenes not included in the movie but explains what has happened behind the glorious and unexpected recapture of Constantinople by the Byzantines in 1261. The 8 parts of this one-shot include:Chapter 1- The exodus of the surviving Byzantine people from Constantinople to Nicaea following the fall of the city to the 4th Crusade in 1204. The boy Georgios Doukas sees an opportunity despite loosing his family as he meets the man who will rule the exiled Byzantines. Chapter 2- Fast-forward to 1258, the emperor of Nicaea Theodore II Laskaris had just died and his young son John IV takes the throne, however at the late emperor's funeral, a random man comes claiming to have been appointed as the boy's regent creating suspicion among the exiled Byzantine nobility. Chapter 3- Fast-forward to 1261, the small Byzantine army under Alexios Strategopoulos sent by Michael Palaiologos make their way into Latin occupied Constantinople by swimming through the sewers. Chapter 4- Summer of 1261, back in Nicaea the boy emperor John IV Laskaris confronts his regent Michael Palaiologos suspecting Michael of causing the boy's mother Elena of Bulgaria's disappearance. Chapter 5- On the night before the reconquest of Constantinople in July 1261, Alexios stops over at the site of the famous battle during the 4th Crusade to pay respects to the 6 heroic Byzantine generals who died in the 4th Crusade, though Georgios and Michael discredit their heroic deeds for those 6 men no matter how brave failed to save Constantinople's population from the massacre. Chapter 6- The reconquest of 1261 has been completed by the Byzantines and the Latins including their emperor Baldwin II is forced to flee Constantinople injured having to take the long way back to France. Chapter 7- 29 years later in 1290, the Byzantine Empire is restored though Michael VIII had already died, his son Andronikos II makes a personal quest to visit a long lost rival of his father. Chapter 8- The secret ending Directed by Powee CeldranVoice Cast: Powee Celdran, Santiago Roxas, Igi Rollan, Alej Consing, Andre Martin, Carlos Francisco, JC Santos, Xyrven Blue, Haci Bekir, Francis Ventura, and Mario Puyat Sets by Lego
Summer of 1261: A Byzantine Epic- Reconquest of Constantinople Lego film No Budget Films 2019-09-06 | Support No Budget Films/ Byzantine Time Traveller on Patreon:patreon.com/Byzantinetimetraveller?fbclid=IwAR2Z2n02egwQSq06s9PIVbmbQcnMgml2KRKO-ES5gYJI2Wp7RP06kZQhZ8ULike us on Facebook:No Budget Films: facebook.com/nobudgetfilms55Byzantine Time Traveller: facebook.com/ByzantineTimeTravellerThis Lego movie is based on historical characters and settings from the era of the Byzantine Empire (330-1453). This is No Budget Films' 9th Lego feature film and is a sequel to No Budget Films' 2015 Lego film "The 4th Crusade" but is set 57 years after its 4th Crusade prequel. The setting of the story is set 57 years after the brutal sack of Constantinople by the Crusaders in 1204 where the Byzantines being exiled in Nicaea have the upper hand to recapture their city from the Latin (Western) occupiers, although chances for the Byzantines are very limited, and all it takes is a stroke of luck to take back their old capital. Like its 4th Crusade prequel, this film is also directed by Powee Celdran and is set in the 13th century. For the 2015 prequel film "1204: The 4th Crusade", watch:youtube.com/watch?v=3RVq4j_5yLoyoutube.com/watch?v=gwlAsn9M03o&t=536sWatch this for the 2017 Louis de Blois 4th Crusade spin-off:youtube.com/watch?v=ESSTCVZ9XIsIn April of 1204, the army of the 4th Crusade consisting of the Latins (French, Venetians, and Germans) end up sacking Constantinople, the Byzantine Empire's capital and the "Queen of Cities". Because of a lack of payment from their supposed Byzantine allies and encouragement from western church and political leaders, the 4th Crusade army siege the walls, loot the city's relics and treasures, burn everything they see, and kill almost half its population. The crusaders are then victorious, the Byzantines are forced out of their capital while the crusaders establish the Latin Empire with Constantinople as its capital. 57 years later, in 1261 Constantinople still under the Latins becomes a desolate dump where the once proud imperial city has been desecrated and left in ruin. Although, the Byzantines with their empire exiled to Nicaea, a nearby city in Asia Minor and its territories have grown more powerful over the years already having surrounded Constantinople, in fact having besieged it a couple of times but ended up failing. The small army of the Byzantines under the command of their general (strategos) Alexios Strategopoulos (voiced by Santiago Roxas) have been consistently winning battles against the Latins to the point where they have pushed them completely out of Asia Minor. In Nicaea however, the empire is ruled by John IV Laskaris (Alej Consing), a young boy without much experience leaving all the work to his ambitious and scheming co-emperor Michael Palaiologos (Powee Celdran), a Byzantine noble. All of Nicaea's victories have been attributed to Michael Palaiologos and in this process, he aims to make himself the true emperor of a restored Byzantine Empire without the boy John Laskaris knowing. While Michael schemes for power, he has also been trying to undermine and eliminate the boy emperor, which he does by ordering a reconquest of Constantinople. For the weakened Latins remaining at Constantinople on the other hand, their emperor Baldwin II (Igi Rollan) still believes their empire despite being so reduced can still push away the Byzantines as they have successfully defended their capital against previous Byzantine reconquests. However, the main Latin army is dispatched by Baldwin II on a raid on an island belonging to Nicaea in the Black Sea leaving Constantinople undefended and open to an attack. True enough, with the small Byzantine army of Alexios consisting also of Cuman, Armenian, Genoese, Rus, and even Indian and Chinese mercenaries crossing the sea to Europe, they learn from a mysterious old man happening to be a survivor of the Sack of Constantinople 57 years ago that they have the right moment to strike at Constantinople as the main Latin army had left. Meanwhile, within the Latins, their army commander a French knight named Valentin (Anton Diño) has his own personal problems against the Byzantines, particularly Alexios, who happens to have the gift of seeing into the past. For Michael on the other hand, the time is right for him to be the full time Eastern Roman emperor himself, especially if Alexios' reconquest goes their way. For the Byzantines, all it takes is to strike at the right moment while Constantinople is deprived of defending troops and if so, Constantinople will once again be returned to the sneaky intellectual Byzantines with barbaric uneducated Latins expelled from all of Greece and Asia Minor. Directed by Powee CeldranVoice Cast: Santiago Roxas, Powee Celdran, Carlos Francisco, Anton Diño, Alina R. Co, Igi Rollan, and Gen Maramba, with Alej Consing, Xyrven Blue, Daniel Rueda, Miguel Abarentos, JC Santos, Marc Kierulf, and Haci Bekir Sets by Lego
Killing a Byzantine Emperor- Lego One-Shot Film No Budget Films 2019-07-20 | Support No Budget Films/ Byzantine Time Traveller on Patreon:patreon.com/Byzantinetimetraveller?fbclid=IwAR2Z2n02egwQSq06s9PIVbmbQcnMgml2KRKO-ES5gYJI2Wp7RP06kZQhZ8ULike us on Facebook: No Budget Films: facebook.com/nobudgetfilms55Byzantine Time Traveller: facebook.com/ByzantineTimeTravellerRated P-G. A No Budget Films One-Shot Lego film and a short sequel to No Budget Films' one-shot "The Rise of Phokas (2019), taking place 6 years after it. Set in the era of the Byzantine Empire, based on historical characters and settings. Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=b7LN7dJpwlQ for "The Rise of Phokas" Constantinople, December 969- 6 years have passed since Nikephoros II Phokas became the emperor of Byzantium. The Byzantine Empire has been regaining its old glory and things seem to be going stable after Nikephoros' previously successful military campaigns. Although in the eve of December 10, 969, the emperor Nikephoros II senses a plot in the imperial palace directed against him causing him to have troubles sleeping. However, the emperor is told by one of the palace guards that there is no sign of any plot, therefore the emperor can sleep peacefully. Meanwhile, a group of conspirators led by someone unlikely execute their plot by crossing the Bosporus in a small boat in order to infiltrate the imperial palace by the sea. Nikephoros has no idea about the plot coming from elsewhere but the conspirators on the other hand have actually set up a murder scheme with Theophano, the empress. Directed by Powee CeldranVoice Cast: Carlos Francisco, Powee Celdran, Igi Rollan, Alej Consing Sets by Lego
The Rise of Phokas- Lego One-Shot (short film)- Nikephoros Phokas story No Budget Films 2019-05-15 | Support No Budget Films/ Byzantine Time Traveller on Patreon:patreon.com/Byzantinetimetraveller?fbclid=IwAR2Z2n02egwQSq06s9PIVbmbQcnMgml2KRKO-ES5gYJI2Wp7RP06kZQhZ8ULike us on Facebook: No Budget Films: facebook.com/nobudgetfilms55Byzantine Time Traveller: facebook.com/ByzantineTimeTravellerRated P-G. A No Budget Films One-Shot (short film) directed by Powee Celdran, set in the Byzantine Empire timeline. A Lego Byzantine epic set in the 10th century starring Nikephoros II Phokas, one of Byzantium's most successful generals as well as emperor. This one-shot Lego film is No Budget Films' first Byzantine epic story fully centered on Byzantium, based on historical characters and settings, but not entirely historically accurate. "The Rise of Phokas" takes place in the year 963 when the Byzantine Empire, a major power in the Eastern Mediterranean is on its way to becoming a global power. Although, in Constantinople, the capital, the young emperor Romanos II dies from mysterious circumstances and his children are too young to succeed him, which means the most suitable candidate for the imperial throne is the successful Byzantine general Nikephoros Phokas of Cappadocia. At the same time as Romanos II's death, Nikephoros is a couple hundred kilometers away battling the Arabs in Aleppo to recapture the city for the Byzantines. At the end, the formidable battle tactics of the Phokas brothers, Nikephoros and Leo end up in successfully retaking Aleppo after killing the Arab governor in charge. It is only after retaking the city that Nikephoros learns of Romanos II's death and that he was appointed to succeed the late emperor, but in order to do it, he must marry the late emperor's widow Theophano. Using the absence of Phokas from the capital after the emperor's death, the eunuch court secretary, Joseph Bringas uses this as an opportunity to take the throne for himself. Nikephoros and his men must quickly return to the capital before he is denied entry by Bringas and the imperial court. Sequel Film: "Killing A Byzantine Emperor" youtube.com/watch?v=csRWxtUKsaY&t=3sDirected by Powee Celdran Voice Cast: Powee Celdran, Alej Consing, Igi Rollan, Carlos Francisco, Patrick Claudio, with Dia Sosa, JC Santos, and Anton Diño Sets by Lego
Revenge of Germania- Lego One-Shot (short film)- Romans in Germania Fanfiction No Budget Films 2018-12-19 | Like us on Facebook: facebook.com/nobudgetfilms55Rated P-G. Warning: This film contains some strong language and violent scenes not suitable for young viewers. Based on historical settings and characters. This Lego film is set in the year 16AD during the early years of the Roman Empire in the Roman province of Germania (Germany). This is No Budget Films' 6th one-shot Lego film and the 5th one to be set in the Roman Empire timeline. This one-shot film is set within the period of No Budget Films' 1st movie "Some Justice" (2015) and details what happens during 16AD in Rome's last military campaign to retake Germania. Part of the story revolves around Agrippina the Elder, the wife of the Roman general Germanicus and how she is able to survive the attacks of the Germanic tribes and defend herself against them. For more information on the movie watch for "Some Justice" (2015):youtube.com/watch?v=vqO9HIRHdFAyoutube.com/watch?v=DXHxLFzoobk&t=502syoutube.com/watch?v=2r2ChBwOxeUFor the 2018 one-shot "Retaking Teutoburg":youtube.com/watch?v=2r2ChBwOxeU&t=29sIt is 16AD in the newly formed Roman province of Germania (Germany) and 7 years earlier, 3 entire Roman legions have been massacred at the Battle of Teutoburg Forest in September of 9AD. This massive defeat has led Rome's military strength to be humiliated until in 14AD when the young general Germanicus began his campaigns in retaking Germania before the death of Rome's 1st emperor, Augustus. 2 years into the reign of the new emperor Tiberius, Germanicus (voiced by Cedric Parra) continues his campaigns in Germania and will not rest until all the Germanic tribes are put down and Rome controls most of the German woodlands. But before he could conquer the lands across the River Rhine, Germanicus and his trusted centurion Cassius Chaerea (Carlos Francisco) must put down a mutiny in his army. Meanwhile, Germanicus' wife Agrippina the Elder (Nuni Celdran) is stationed in the small Roman settlement of Bonn along the Rhine in charge of taking care of the town and training the younger soldiers of the 2nd legion while the older ones join her husband in his campaigns. Agrippina happens to live life normally even after recently giving birth to her 5th child but on a normal day at Bonn, the settlement is suddenly attacked by the Barbarian Germanic Chatti tribe. Agrippina with a few soldiers are able to defend the bridge entering Bonn but one the other hand, the Chatti warriors have breached the settlement from the other side. With much of the settlement destroyed, the war chief of the Chatti, Hanse (Chuppy) plans to capture Agrippina to get Germanicus to cross the Rhine so that Hanse could finish off the Roman occupation of Germania for good. However, Hanse also has his own personal quest of revenge against the Germanicus and the Romans while Germanicus and the Romans also have their own quest to avenge Rome after the disaster at Teutoburg. Directed by Powee CeldranStarring: Nuni Celdran, Cedric Parra, with Carlos Francisco, Igi Rollan, Jonathan Cabrera, Miguel Abarentos, Xyrven Blue, Powee Celdran, and ChuppySets by Lego
Birth of the Totalitarian State: A 1984 Story- Deleted Scenes No Budget Films 2018-12-07 | Like us on Facebook: facebook.com/nobudgetfilms55A compilation of 5 deleted scenes from No Budget Films' miniseries, "Birth of the Totalitarian State: A 1984 Story". Featuring events not seen in the series including the United States' surrender to Oceania and Goldstein's escape after the Brotherhood's defeat at Andorra; also introducing back stories of characters from the original 1984 trilogy. Directed by Powee CeldranVoice Cast: Andre Martin, Haci Bekir, Miguel Abarentos, Igi Rollan, Allesund Ang, and Francis Ventura Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=9R8aRDqLJqo&t=474s youtube.com/watch?v=y3yD5Wun54Y&t=37syoutube.com/watch?v=2D-YxSsOKgIyoutube.com/watch?v=9LHIGeNV29c&t=155s
Birth of the Totalitarian State: A 1984 Story- Episode VI: Battle of Andorra (Finale) No Budget Films 2018-10-18 | Like us on Facebook: facebook.com/nobudgetfilms55Now on the final episode of No Budget Films' Lego miniseries "Birth of the Totalitarian State: A 1984 Story", entitled "Battle of Andorra", the Oceanian party makes its final decision to track the New Resistance known as the Brotherhood to Andorra and wipe them out there. This miniseries is a work of fiction but based on historical characters and settings, as well as some characters and settings from George Orwell's novel "1984".Previously: youtube.com/watch?v=2D-YxSsOKgIIn October 1955, shortly after the Brotherhood agents have vacated the hidden Kisimul Castle in Scotland, they all head to a hidden semi-abandoned 12th century monastery in the small country of Andorra, hidden within the mountains between France and Spain. As they reach Andorra, the 10 Brotherhood agents who have made it there by a small bomber plane given to them by the Eurasians, their plan is to hide important historical relics before the Oceanian army finds and destroys them. For the Brotherhood agents, they are in constant fear of the Oceanians being able to locate them and kill them all but are also in despair as their leader, Emmanuel Goldstein and an agent, Simon Smith have not arrived yet. Meanwhile in the Oceanian Party, even if the army had a successful return conquering South America, their supreme leader, Edward James Carter has become disable and fell into a comma, making his right-hand-man, Olajide Aaronson assume command ordering the Oceanian troops under General Withers to breach into Andorra and find the Brotherhood. Earlier on, Olajide was able to locate the Brotherhood's base in Andorra after searching through the papers of Ishwar Mody, the Brotherhood spy the Oceanians tortured. Although Carter has already warned Aaronson previously to not take the fight against the Brotherhood and especially not against his mortal enemies, the Smith twin brothers Simon and Cornelius, however Aaronson still follows his desires and orders Withers to prepare the army to come with him to attack Andorra. Back in Andorra, the Brotherhood is assembled at the 12th century Romanesque Sant Joan de Caselles Monastery where they hid valuable relics, but for them things are going well in keeping things safe under the care of their deputy leader Salvatore Vespucci and Frédéric Clovis, though at the same time Simon and Goldstein are expected to follow up. On the other hand, little does the Brotherhood know that Olajide Aaronson has launched an invasion on Andorra with 6 tanks and have been searching every monastery in the small country. It's only a matter of time before the Oceanians are able to defend themselves against waves of Oceanian soldiers or Olajide Aaronson succeeds in wiping out the Brotherhood, getting his revenge by killing the Smith brothers, and destroying the relics in order to destroy history again and make it under the name of Oceania. Directed by Powee CeldranVoice Cast: Miguel Abarentos, Igi Rollan, Alej Consing, Haci Bekir, Francis Ventura, Carlos Francisco, Cédric Parra, Powee Celdran, Ali Calleja, Kyle Guevara, Patrick Claudio, Dia Sosa, Xyrven Blue, Gen Maramba, with Santiago Roxas, and André Martin
Birth of the Totalitarian State: A 1984 Story- Episode V: The New Resistance No Budget Films 2018-10-07 | Like us on Facebook: facebook.com/nobudgetfilms55Now on the 5th episode of No Budget Films' Lego miniseries "Birth of the Totalitarian State: A 1984 Story", entitled "The New Resistance", Britain has now become the powerful superstate of Oceania but at the same time, a new resistance known as the Brotherhood is on its rise and is beginning to strike against the ruling party. This miniseries is a work of fiction but based on historical characters and settings, as well as some characters and settings from George Orwell's novel "1984".Warning: This episode contains some graphic and offensive scenes. Previously: youtube.com/watch?v=y3yD5Wun54Y&feature=shareUp Next: youtube.com/watch?v=9LHIGeNV29c&feature=youtu.beIt is now 1955 and Oceania has rapidly become successful in growing its empire not only in Britain but also by adding the United States to their rule as well as conquering South America by force. The Oceanian Army led by General Withers having returned to England from their conquest in South America is greeted by their Supreme Leader, Edward James Carter now with the title "Big Brother", although not all goes well here as at this point someone disguised as an Oceanian officer attempts to assassinate Carter by using a poisoned fish. The suspected assassin is tortured and revealed to be a spy named Ishwar Mody sent by the Brotherhood, the New Resistance which is working secretly to overthrow the Oceanian party but makes up an answer saying that the Brotherhood is assembled at Aix-en-Provence. Meanwhile, in the remote Kisimul Castle in an island in Scotland, the New Resistance is actually on the rise with the party's public enemy #1 Emmanuel Goldstein leading it and public enemies #2&3 the twins Simon and Cornelius Smith with them too. As the Brotherhood is forming, it aims to fight for freedom and individuality while the Oceanian party is now tightening its grip in trying to control the minds of the population throughout its empire not only now by erasing history but by killing religious beliefs as well. Part of the Oceanian conquest of South America also involves the mass execution of hundreds of Paraguayan priests not only for putting them down for their rebellious acts in Paraguay but for killing off their false teachings, as the party has now come up with the idea that Big Brother must be worshiped. Although the Oceanian party at this point is more focused on building its image, expanding the empire, and fighting the Eurasian superstate, one person in particular which is the supreme leader's right hand man, Olajide Aaronson is more focused on his personal problems and would not rest until he tracks the Smith brothers and kills them. However to Carter, the supreme leader, Aaronson's problems are nothing but for Aaronson, he thinks that the party must attack the Brotherhood first even if their location is uncleared all for the reason of the Smith brothers personally betraying him years ago. Back in the Brotherhood, Goldstein has made an alliance with the Eurasian troops under Commander Ivan Vasilyevich mainly because their common enemy is Oceania but at the same time Simon Smith is faced with bigger personal problems especially that his marriage with Estelle is falling apart due to his advocacies in the Brotherhood. Now it is either the Oceanians successfully find the location of the Brotherhood and wipe them out or the Brotherhood can keep growing until they have enough members to fight against the party and assassinate the supreme leader. Directed by Powee CeldranVoice Cast: André Martin, Miguel Abarentos, Igi Rollan, Haci Bekir, Alej Consing, Carlos Francisco, Gen Maramba, Francis Ventura, Cédric Parra, Patrick Claudio, Ali Calleja, Nuni Celdran, Powee Celdran, Dia Sosa, Xyrven Blue, with Kyle Guevara, and Santiago Roxas
