The Armenian Genocide - The Critically Acclaimed PBS Documentary by Emmy Award Winner Andrew Goldberg
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Director: Andrew GoldbergBrand: Two Cats Productions / PBS
Producer: Andrew Goldberg
Narrator: Julianna Margulies
Narrator: Ed Harris, Orlando Bloom, Jared Leto, Laura Linney and others. Julianna Margulies with Natalie Portman
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled)
Format: Full Screen, NTSC
Running Time: 60 minutes
Published: 2006
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Model: TCP103DVD
Studio: Two Cats Productions
Movie Reviews of The Armenian Genocide - The Critically Acclaimed PBS Documentary by Emmy Award Winner Andrew Goldberg
Movie Review: IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is no joke people, this was the first genocide of the 20th century! Hitler even asked rhetorically as he was about to invade Poland, "Who today remembers the annihilation of the Armenians?" This movie was heartbreaking to watch and I've watched it over three times to get a closer look at it and see if I could ever side with the Turks again. Simple answer...no! What happened to the Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks was horrible and a crime against humanity. There is still pain going on within the Armenian community, they're wondering why their own conquerors turned their back on them and tried to drive them to extinction! Now I understand why the Greeks hate the Turks, I've heard many jokes about how blood-thirsty Turks were in movies, and why the cinema has depicted them as being evil, unfeeling things! My point being that if you're going to cover the truth up, it better not being a huge mess like the Armenian Genocide, people are going to find out eventually, they always do!
Here is some excuses that Turks will make up...which I'm now going to debunk.
1) There was no genocide!
A: Yes there was a genocide, they have proven it in this video! My dad even said it happened after he watched it! My grandparents told me there was a genocide against the Armenians, my Russian tutor who happens to be married to a Muslim from Iran told me it happened! My best friend in the world watched this with me and he cried for hours because he felt so sorry for those Armenians! In fact the Turkish Government wastes too much money trying to cover this genocide up!
2) Its an insult to Turkish Pride and Islam!
A: Don't fall for it, they even tell Muslim Pakistanis that they're an insult to Turkish Pride whenever they read about the Armenian Genocide (which is very little). They'll tell the same thing to Arabs, other muslims and Kurds! Remember that this did not happen because of Islam, Islam only was used as an excuse along with "Turkish Pride" to commit these horrible atrocities.
3) What about the millions of Turks that died by Armenian hands?
A: Actually in all honesty it was the Eastern Armenians (Russian Armenians) that killed the majority of Turks, not Western Armenians (Ottoman Armenians), in fact I've only known a little number of Western Armenians to murder Turks, in self defense that is.
4) A bunch of rebel groups killed innocent millions of Turkish civilians.
A: How wrong is that? I don't recall once about women and children being a part of these "rebel groups" which happened to be mostly in the Turkish imagination.
5) It was a civil war that caused all this trouble, along with ethnic dispute!
A: Civil War my behind! This was created by the Turkish Government to get people to act hostile towards non-Turks!
6) The women and children were being relocated to remote villages and will return!
A: Most of them never returned or knew what fate awaited them! Also consider the fact that they drove these caravans filled with pregnant women, children, young women, along with old people out into the desert and nowhere near remote villages. They fed them no food, they let them starve to death and they also pushed them off of cliffs and into the sea! So if you ask me they lied to these people and did nothing to stop them from dying! I'm pretty sure that 1.5 million Armenians did not dye by accident!
7) The survivors are liars!
A: No they're not! I'm pretty sure if I saw my aunt and mom get slaughtered right in front of me, I too would remember a gruesome detail like that.
There are plenty of more myths I have to debunk, but have no time to do, so I think that everyone should know about the genocide regardless if it gets recognized by USA or not. This is just wrong and it needs to be talked about no matter how long ago it happened!
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Summary of The Armenian Genocide - The Critically Acclaimed PBS Documentary by Emmy Award Winner Andrew Goldberg
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)Similar DVD Movies
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