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- DirectorAram ShahbazyanIn the upheaval of the Armenian genocide, five European missionary women bring salvation and consolation to thousands of Armenian orphans.
- DirectorCarla GarapedianStarsTaner AkçamHrant DinkJohn DolmayanInternationally known director Carla Garapedian follows the rock band System of a Down as they tour Europe and the US pointing out the horrors of modern genocide that began in Armenia in 1915 up though Darfur today.
- DirectorHrach KeshishyanStarsArtashes AleksanyanMikhail EfremovRobert HakobyanIt's about the Armenian commander Garegin Nzhdeh, his life and fights against the Turkish army.
- DirectorAndrew GoldbergStarsJulianna MarguliesRon SunyPeter BalakianThe first Genocide of the 20th century when over a million Armenians died at the hands of the Ottoman Turks during World War I, between 1915 and 1918.
- DirectorLaurence JourdanThis is the story of the first genocide of the 20th century; when the Young Turks at the end of the Ottoman Empire systematically exterminated 1.5 million Armenians during World War One.
- DirectorJ. Michael HagopianStarsMark Andrew ReyesProduced in a joint project by J. Michael Hagopian's production company the Armenian Film Foudation (which was created to promote Armenian cultural awareness) and the Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials of the State of California to use the Armenian genocide as a teaching tool for high school students. The film progresses through small human rights violations all the way through to full blown genocide, showing viewers how, left unchecked, small violations can become deadly violations quite quickly. The movies is designed to help viewers understand how they can recognize the signs of human rights violations and what they can do to aid in stopping them before they turn deadly. It is left open ended, so as to provide an opportunity for discussion after the film has ended.
- DirectorJ. Michael HagopianThe River Ran Red, part of The Witnesses Trilogy, is a 60 minute documentary about the epic search for survivors of the Armenian Genocide of 1915. Using eyewitness testimonies, the filmmaker, himself a survivor, weaves a story of terrifying intensity, from the highland waters of the Euphrates to the burning deserts of Syria, to the final resting place of those who died in and around the river.
- DirectorMark BedrosianStarsPaul SchaeferThe iconic "1915 Armenian Genocide" was originally produced in 1980 (digitally restored and re-released in 2010) is based on the eyewitness accounts of four survivors whose compelling story of the mass exterminations of the Armenian race (1915-1923) by the Turkish government provides the timeline for the anatomy of the first genocide; from this crime against humanity, in 1944 Raphael Lemkin coined the word Genocide.
- DirectorHenri VerneuilStarsClaudia CardinaleOmar SharifNathalie RousselThe saga of an Armenian family that immigrated to France after the break-up of the oppressive Ottoman Empire.
- DirectorPaolo TavianiVittorio TavianiStarsPaz VegaMoritz BleibtreuAlessandro PreziosiA stirring and stunning story of an aristocratic family who is unexpectedly swept into the ravages of World War I and a forbidden passion that may be the family's only hope.
- DirectorSuzanne KhardalianStarsMaria VardanyanReveals the fate of thousands of forgotten women, mostly teenagers and young girls, who survived the 1915 Armenian Genocide but were forced into prostitution by their captors.
- DirectorFatih AkinStarsTahar RahimSimon AbkarianMakram KhouryIn 1915 a man survives the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire, but loses his family, speech and faith. One night he learns that his twin daughters may be alive, and goes on a quest to find them.
- DirectorEric FriedlerStarsHermann BeyerSamuel FinziMartina Gedeck"Aghet - A Genocide" - On the Armenian Genocide by the Young Turk government of the Ottoman Empire during World War I. It is based on eyewitness reports by European and American personnel stationed in the Near East at the time, Armenian survivors and other contemporary witnesses which are recited by modern German actors.