Product Details

• Directors: Andrew Goldberg
• Producers: Andrew Goldberg
• Format: NTSC, Full Screen
• Subtitles: English
• Region: All Regions
• Number of discs: 10000.0
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: Two Cats Productions
• Run Time: 60 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000FIFHZ0
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #26,086 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

The Armenian Genocide is the complete story of the first Genocide of the 20th century  when over a million Armenians died at the hands of the Ottoman Turks during World War I. This unprecedented and powerful one-hour documentary, which aired April 17th, 2006 on PBS, was written, directed and produced by Emmy Award-winning producer Andrew Goldberg of Two Cats Productions, in association with Oregon Public Broadcasting. Featuring interviews with the leading experts in the field such as Pulitzer Prize-winning author Samantha Power and New York Times best-selling author, Peter Balakian, this film features never-before-seen historical footage of the events and key players of one of the greatest untold stories of the 20th century. The Armenian Genocide is narrated by Julianna Margulies and includes historical narrations by Ed Harris, Natalie Portman, Laura Linney and Orlando Bloom, among others. "Powerful. The film honors the victims of the Armenian Genocide" (The New York Times) "Serious, literate and ultimately heartbreaking." [made with] "...intelligence and precision." (The New Jersey Star Ledger) "Evocative" [The Weekly Standard) "Powerful and skillfully made" (The PBS Ombudsman)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

32 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Review of WWI Genocide to Present Turkish Government Denial, February 9, 2007

By	S. Carpenter (Houston, Texas) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The one-star reviews are by Turks who might as well be Nazis denying the Jewish Holocaust or Shoah during WWII. Germany was an ally of the Ottoman Empire in WWI, and thousands of German soldiers observed these massacres of disarmed labor battalians of Armenian men, or women, and children and helpless old men walked to their death, or murdered in many horrible ways. See also "Germany and the Secret Genocide" DVD, which illustrates how the truth has disappeared. The one-star reviews are highly offensive. In Germany Jewish Genocide denial is against the law. In Turkey Armenian Genocide denial is the law, and selling this DVD in Turkey would be against Turkish law, article 301. A Turkish-Armenian newspaper editor was murdered in Istanbul in January 2007 who had been prosecuted by the Turkish government for expressing this truth about history. Everyone should see this documentary to help combat evil. "All it takes for evil to win is for good people to do nothing!"

32 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WATCH IT AND JUDGE FOR YOURSELF, December 19, 2006

By	George Taylor (Denver Colorado USA) - See all my reviews

This is a great movie that everyone should watch. Don't believe the Turkish reviews complaining about the movie. I am sure they haven't even seen it. The reason why I liked this movie is because it tries to explain both sides, in a balanced way. This was the first time I heard anyone explain the reason why the Turks were mad -- because they had just faced a major defeat.

17 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Detailed, objective, and important history, September 9, 2007

By	Charles (Santa Cruz, CA USA) - See all my reviews

Adolf Hitler, in writing about his decision to initiate the Holocaust, said "Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?" This documentary assures that Hitler's observation is wrong and that nobody will forget the first genocide of the 20th Century.

Just as there are those who, amazingly, seek to deny the Holocaust, there are even more subtle and vicious voices seeking to deny the Armenian Genocide committed by the Turks during World War I. This systematic murder, forced starvation, rape, and torture of more than a million Armenians introduced into the American language the phrase "starving Armenians," but modern understanding of the origin of that phrase is lacking. This documentary reminds us all of the reality of what was perpetrated by a nation against its own citizens, and it should be required viewing in civics and history classes.