HOW & WHY The Crimean War (1853-56) Started!

The Crimean War didn't start in Crimea — it started with a church key in Bethlehem and the 'massacre' at Sinop. This film traces how six Russian warships destroyed fifteen Ottoman ships at Sinop in November 1853 and how London papers turned a battle into a massacre to push Britain to war. It covers the Eastern Question, the Treaty of Kuchuk Kainarja, the Holy Places dispute, Tsar Nicholas I's 'sick man' talks, and why the 1856 Treaty of Paris failed to settle it.