I can't remember any documentaries at the moment, but there are several really good books. I am currently reading Leslie Peirce's 'Empress of the East' and 'Imperial Harem'. Two very good books about the harem in particular. Then there are books like Caroline Finkel's 'Osman's dream, the Story of the Ottoman Empire 1300-1923' and Colin Imber's 'The Ottoman Empire, 1300-1650'. The latter ones are more general books about the Ottoman Empire.

I do not recall this from anything I've read about the Ottomans. I know that men from the outside were not allowed to enter the harem, therefore none of them knew what the concubine consorts looked like. The only men who were allowed in the harem were the male slave servants (eunuchs), the princes, and the Sultan himself. The paintings we see of the Ottoman concubines were all made by non-Ottomans (most of them), usually from Europe, who had never entered the harem. They imagined what these women looked like based on letters and rumours which described them.

They are updating the translations, they are reuploading the episodes with much improved subtitles.

One of my favorite historical figures. A slave girl who created one of the most fascinating periods in Ottoman history known as the 'Sultanate of Women', where consorts and mothers of the kings (often former slaves and concubines) had incredible amount of power.