This video is from BBC Cats documentary (''Aristocats'') made in 1991 by Roger Tabor. I will shortly explain why the information in video is not accurate.

At first we see the views from Ankara city and the video says ''when cats trave
led from the ancient Egypt''. Today archeological and genetic evidence goes against the belief that cats were first domesticated in Egypt. In contrary, cats were domesticated in Fertile Crescent, particularly Anatolia and only later moved to Egypt.

We could see some angora cats in the video, however the authors of the video only focused on very young, teenager and nursing female cats, which were abnormally slim and ignored the healthy adult cats. Why? Because they have a stereotypical idea coming from a cat fancy that Angora must be ''slender, thin boned and elegant''. The grey cat shown in the video is a very unusually looking, maybe due its young age.

The second part of video takes place in Van city. Roger Tabor travels to see ''a special type of Angora'' the Van cat. He expected to see the cats with auburn markings like those''Turkish Vans''; however people of Van city made clear that only solid white cats are considered as Van cats there. Roger Tabor then concluded, that ''It seems we gotta wrong Vans''.

Later the video shows a footage of ''swimming cat'' a cat that was taken somewhere far from the shore and was forced to swim back. All cats can swim; any cat thrown to the water, of course, will swim! But does it enjoy swimming? If the author of video wants to convince us that Van cats love swimming, they should show the cat willingly entering to water without any help from humans not being thrown into the water and trying to escape!

The video ends with ''Persian cats'', which never existed in İran, but were...Angoras. Pietro Della Valle who invented the term the Persian cats, described them as ''grey colored'' (he obviously meant white cats with dirty coats!). Historically the longhair cats from Anatolia were often brought to Iran and even to India via trade ways.