How Did the Trojan War Really Happen?

For centuries, the story of the Trojan War was dismissed as pure myth—gods walking among mortals, impossible heroes, and a giant wooden horse. Scholars and historians alike scoffed, convinced that Homer’s Iliad was nothing more than poetic imagination. But beneath the verses and legends lies a far more complex truth. Archaeological excavations at Hisarlik revealed layers of destroyed cities, evidence of siege warfare, and signs of a sudden Bronze Age collapse. This documentary explores how oral tradition preserved real events, how myths became cultural memory, and how the city of Troy—long thought to be imaginary—stood at the heart of political, economic, and military struggles of its time. From the rise of Mycenaean Greece and the power of the Hittite Empire to the trade routes and strategic choke points that shaped the ancient world, we reconstruct a war beneath the poetry. Join us as we uncover the human cost behind legendary heroes, the reality behind symbolic stories, and the tragic collapse of a civilization remembered more in myth than in fact.