Movies: Armenian genocide

More than one million Armenians perished between 1915 and 1916 in massacres or brutal deportation programs. Turkey still denies it ever happened. Laurence Jourdan examines massacres of Armenians in the decades leading up to the mass murder, and the g...

Stony Paths is the story of a walk across Anatolia. Arnaud Khayadjanian starts a trek in Turkey, on the land of his forefathers who survived the Armenian Genocide. Starting from a painting, from encounters and from accounts by his relatives, he goes ...

INTENT TO DESTROY embeds with a historic feature production as a springboard to explore the violent history of the Armenian Genocide and legacy of Turkish suppression and denial over the past century....

A family story that reveals the fate of the Armenian women driven out of Ottoman Turkey during the First World War. The story of "Grandma's Tattoos" is a personal film about what happened to many Armenian women during the genocide In 1919, just at th...

In 2015, we created this cell animation short to commemorate the Armenian Genocide Centenary. To the date, the Turkish government still denies the genocide took place, dodging their responsibility. 100 years will have passed this April 24th, and Arme...

Raphael, Yervant Gianikian's father, survived the Armenian genocide in 1915 in Eastern Turkey. In April 1988, while living in Venice, he sat for his son's camera and read an excerpt from his memoirs, translated from Armenian into Italian....

The War Diary is a contemporary road movie that confronts history with the current reality of Russia, Ukraine, Armenia and Georgia. An extraordinary document leads Hakob Melkonyan to undertake the journey of a lifetime:...

From the beaches of Rio de Janeiro to a cafés in Paris, Armenia Sings On in Our Hearts explores the diversity of the Armenian diaspora. When the massacres forced many Armenians to find a new home, they struggled to overcome numerous difficulties to m...

ValleyPBS marks the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide with a special production. The stories of the victims of the genocide are told through interviews with survivors’ children and grandchildren. The success of Armenians in the Central Valle...

Can a government aligned with a pro-Turkish vector force the abandonment of Ararat, a symbol of the Armenian people? Could their efforts succeed over time in leading to the forgetfulness of national values such as the Armenian language, Christianity,...