Años 20, durante los últimos días del Imperio Otomano. Michael (Oscar Isaac), un brillante estudiante de medicina, y Chris (Christian Bale), un prestigioso periodista americano de la agencia de noticias AP, se enamoran de la misma mujer, la bella y sofisticada Ana (Charlotte Le Bon), en una zona del mundo que se derrumba.
En París, el poeta obrero Missak Manouchian encabeza un heterogéneo grupo de partisanos (22 hombres y una mujer) que luchan clandestinamente contra la ocupación nazi con la esperanza de recuperar la libertad. La información sobre sus osadas acciones, que incluyen el asesinato de un general de las SS, termina por llegar a Berlín. Siguiendo órdenes de la Gestapo, la policía francesa y los colaboracionistas asediarán a Manouchian y a sus compañeros de la Resistencia.
Though both the historical and modern-day persecution of Armenians and other Christians is relatively uncovered in the mainstream media and not on the radar of many average Americans, it is a subject that has gotten far more attention in recent years.
Explores the Ottoman Empire killings of more than one million Armenians during World War I. The film describes not only what happened before, during and since World War I, but also takes a direct look at the genocide denial maintained by Turkey to the present day.
Exactamente 100 años después del genocidio armenio, un director de teatro estrena una obra para llevar a los fantasmas del pasado de nuevo a la vida.
Robert Sternvall, a German journalist, returns to Artsakh in 2016 to cover the war which has been reignited after a 22-year ceasefire. In the result of his journalistic investigation, Robert meets Sophia, a young opera singer, who happens to be the daughter of missing photojournalist Edgar Martirosyan, whom Robert abandoned in captivity during the fall of the village of Talish in 1992. Robert and Sophia’s frequent rendezvouses ignite a passionate romance...
Durante más de cuarenta años, el periodista británico Robert Fisk ha informado sobre algunos de los conflictos más violentos del mundo, desde Irlanda del Norte hasta Oriente Medio, siempre con los pies en el suelo y un cuaderno de notas en la mano, viajando a paisajes devastados por la guerra, investigando los hechos y enviando informes a los medios de comunicación para los que trabaja con la ambición de captar el interés de una audiencia de millones de personas.
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 Valley and the role faith and family plays in Armenian culture is also explored. Over 20 individuals and organizations are featured in this documentary.
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.
Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918). En una pequeña ciudad turca, la guerra y las persecuciones contra la minoría armenia parecen muy lejanas. Después de haber emigrado a Italia, el hijo mayor de una familia armenia, intenta volver a su casa para reunirse con los suyos. Los esfuerzos de su familia por darle una calurosa bienvenida se ven truncados al intervenir Turquía en la guerra. Comienza entonces el éxodo armenio, una odisea marcada por el hambre, la sed y la voluntad desesperada de las mujeres de esta familia por salvarse de la muerte y de la indignidad
La historia tiene lugar en la aldea turca de Mardin en 1915: en una noche en la que la policía turca está atrapando a todo hombre armenio, el joven herrero Nazaret es separado de su familia. Años después, tras sobrevivir al horror del genocidio, recibe noticias de que sus hijas gemelas también están vivas. Obsesionado con la idea de encontrarlas, sigue el camino que, ojalá, desemboque en un reencuentro.
Casimê Celîl was born into a Yezidi Kurdish family in 1908, in a village called Kızılkule, located in Digor, Kars. The village and family life, which he longed to remember throughout his life, ends with the massacre they endured in 1918. During his long road to Erivan, Armenia, he lost all his family members. Left all alone, Casim was placed into an orphanage and was forced to change his name. To remember who he was and where he came from, every morning he repeated the mantra “Navê min Casim e, Ez kurê Celîlim, Ez ji gundê Qizilquleyê Dîgorê me, Ez Kurdim, Kurdê Êzîdî me”, which translates to: “My name is Casim, I am the son of Celîl, I come from the village of Kızılkule in Digor, I am a Kurd, and I am Yezidi”. He clings to every piece of his culture he can find, reads, and saves whatever Kurdish literature or art he comes across. As the year’s pass, Casim finds himself with an impressive collection of Kurdish culture and history.
The Grammy-winning lead singer of System of a Down, Serj Tankian helps to awaken a political revolution on the other side of the world, inspiring Armenia's struggle for democracy through his music and message.
Turkey's history has been shaped by two major political figures: Mustafa Kemal (1881-1934), known as Atatürk, the Father of the Turks, founder of the modern state, and the current president Recep Tayyıp Erdoğan, who apparently wants Turkey to regain the political and military pre-eminence it had as an empire under the Ottoman dynasty.
U.S. Ambassador Henry Morgenthau risks his job and his reputation by leaking memos to the New York Times and becoming the first whistleblower of the Armenian Genocide. (Based on "Ambassador Morgenthau's Story" by Henry Morgenthau)
2010 documentary film 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.
The destiny of a happy Armenian family will change forever in 1915, Ottoman Empire, (Armenian land), now Turkey and whose beautiful dreams will become memories in the eyes of the most famous Armenian American painter, who lives to paint the story of his shattered childhood.
On July 5th, 1922, Norwegian explorer, scientist and diplomat Fridtjof Nansen creates a passport with which, between 1922 and 1945, he managed to protect the fundamental human rights as citizens of the world of thousands of people, famous and anonymous, who became stateless due to the tragic events that devastated Europe in the first quarter of the 20th century.
La sorprendente historia de cómo Aurora Mardiganian (1901-94), superviviente del genocidio armenio perpetrado por el Imperio otomano (1915-17), se convirtió en una estrella del cine mudo hollywoodiense.
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.