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 – an event that is still denied by Turkey to this day. This film features 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. The documentary includes never-before-seen historical footage of the events and key players including Rafael Lemkin telling the story of how he invented the word Genocide in the 1940s.
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Press
“Painstakingly makes the case that a genocide did take place, relying on archival photographs, victims' memoirs and the horrified first-hand accounts of diplomats, missionaries and reporters”
The New York Times
“Details both the horrors of that ethnic-cleansing campaign and the Turkish government's efforts to deny that what occurred qualifies as genocide”
The Wall Street Journal
“A powerful and skillfully edited production”
PBS
Evocative
The Weekly Standard
“Fascinating and informative”
Cleveland Jewish News
PBS Panel on Armenian Genocide Stirs Protest
The Washington Post
Documenting and Debating a ‘Genocide’ Yet, as the title of the documentary implied, this was no on-the-one-hand, on-the-other-hand account. This was a film that...
PBS
Balanced Portrayal an Extremist’s Worst Nightmare Emmy Award-winning producer Andrew Goldberg tells as big a story as possible, showing not just what happened, but why, not...
The Cincinnati Enquirer
The Price of Denial The one-hour program provides a compact, evocative, and visually rich treatment of the massacres by the Ottoman...
The Weekly Standard
Hitting a nerve Moving through the end of the 19th century, the documentary explains how things just kept getting worse for the Armenians,...
The Star Ledger
A PBS Documentary Makes Its Case for the Armenian Genocide, With or Without a Debate One of the film’s merits is that it tries to explain both the circumstances that led to the atrocities of 1915 and...
The New York Times
Armenia, Revisited Narrated in somer tones by celebrities such as Juliana Margulies, Ed Harris and Natalie Portman, the film presents evidence...
The Wall Street Journal
The Armenian Genocide, One of the Greatest Untold Stories While Goldberg avoids drawing direct parallels, no student of World War II history can mistake the eerie resemblances...
Cleveland Jewish News
PBS Panel on Armenian Genocide Stirs Protest Thousands of Armenian Americans are protesting the Public Broadcasting Service’s planned panel-discussion program...
The Washington Post
Credits
Written, Produced and Directed by
Andrew Goldberg
Field Producer/Associate Producer
Jeremy Rocklin
Editor
Hope Litoff
Narrator
Julianna Margulies
Production Assistant
Nyeri Stepanian
Original Music
John Rinehimer
Editorial Consultant/Additional Writer
Peter Balakian
Additional Writer
Phyllis Magida
Additional Field Producer/Associate Producer
Chandra Simon
Editorial and Historical Consultants
Ron Suny, Fatma Muge Gocek, Ara Sarafian, Aram Arkun, Taner Akcam, Vahakn Dadrian, Michael Gunter, Matthew Levinger and Steve Talbot
Cinematography
Maciej Bugajak, Ruben O’Malley, Steve Cocklin, Elliot Klayman, Steven Giodani, Zack Levy, Ronnie Hernandez, Scott Beardslee and Mumtaz Al-Baloua
Sound
Mark Maloof, Paul Bang, Anne Cocklin, Phil Vahn, Tim Bintrim and Saead Huzany
Photo Retouching and Motion Graphics
Mitch Butler
Sound Editor
Barbara Parks
Re-Recording Mixer
Peter Levin
Produced in Association with
Oregon Public Broadcasting
Executive in Charge for OPB
David Davis