Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

The Armenians: A Story Of Survival

In 301 A.D., Armenia became the first nation to adopt Christianity. Commemorating this anniversary 1,700 years later, The Armenians: A Story of Survival, tells the tale of these people. This compelling documentary explores the journey and struggle of the Armenian people – from their humble beginnings near the Middle East through their Christian conversion in 301, their near elimination during the first Genocide of the 20th century to the birth of the Armenian nation.

results.listIds.year : 2001

results.listIds.duration : 80

results.listIds.lang : English

Ararat

The film within a film in Ararat examines the often-overlooked Armenian holocaust (1915-17) in the Ottoman Empire. The story revolves around Ani (Arsinee Khanjian), an art history professor who is hired as a consultant on Ararat, an epic movie about the genocide being made by an Armenian director (Charles Aznavour). Meanwhile, Ani's 18-year-old son, Raffi, just back from shooting additional footage in Turkey, has a run-in with a customs official (Christopher Plummer) at the Toronto airport.

results.listIds.director : Atom Egoyan

results.listIds.year : 2002

results.listIds.duration : 116

results.listIds.lang : English

After The End Of The World

סרט עלילתי באורך מלא. זהו סיפור מצחיק ומצער, הדומה לאנקדוטה יהודית ישנה, שמטרתה לעטוף מסגרת קומית סביב הצד האפל של החיים. באותה תקופה, השכונה הענייה ביותר בפלובדיב (עיירה עתיקה בבולגריה) ייצגה הפסקה אירופאית ייחודית, תחום של הרמוניה אתנית מושלמת בקרב בולגרים, ארמנים, טורקים, יהודים, צוענים ויוונים. כומר, רב והדג'ה ואנטיכריסט שכונה "הבוזר" מרביצים באותה אותה טורקיה בעלת חזה מלא. יחד עם היריבות שלהם, המריבות והחברות הטובה, נער יהודי ונערה ארמנית מתאהבים לראשונה. הרוחות הפוליטיות של העידן יפוצצו את האידיליה המפרידה בין האוהבים בני 12. לאחר שנים רבות, היהודיה והאישה הארמנית נפגשים שוב בעולם אחר.

results.listIds.director : Ivan Nitchev

results.listIds.year : 1999

results.listIds.duration : 112

results.listIds.lang : Bulgarian, Greek, Romanian, Romany, Turkish

1915 I was six years old in Arménie: Virginie-Jija Mesropian

Testimony of Virginie-Jija Mesropian who as a 6 year old child was witness fo the Armenian massacre in 1915. Includes photographs, drawings by Charles Berbérian and historical analyses.

results.listIds.director : Pierre Anhoury, Claire Mouradian, Charles Berbérian

results.listIds.year : 2007

results.listIds.lang : French

ABC World News Tonight - The Armenian Genocide, 30.4.1999

ABC’s World News Tonight item about the Armenian Genocide. Including archive footage, testimonies, and historians’ commentaries. Presented by journalist Peter Jennings. Broadcasted on April 30th, 1999.

results.listIds.year : 1999

results.listIds.duration : 5

results.listIds.lang : English

Wasted Lives

A short publicity film that describes the genocides of the 20th century, preceding signs that they had and the ways of preventing genocide. The film was produced by the Aegis Foundation, an independent humanitarian educational organization that tries to investigate every mechanism that leads to mass murder and afterwards to develop strategies for prevention and involvement. The policy of the Aegis organization is based not on opinion but on methodical and scientific analysis. Some of the patrons of the organization are Prof. Yehuda Bauer, Prof. Elie Wiesel, Bob Geldof, Desmond Tutu.

results.listIds.director : Stephen D. Smith

results.listIds.year : 2000

results.listIds.duration : 14

results.listIds.lang : English

The Forgotten Genocide

This documentary discusses th first genocide of modern times; the attempt to completely wipe out the Armenian race. The film won critical acclaim, including two Emmys for the writing and production.

results.listIds.director : J. Michael Hagopian

results.listIds.year : 1975

results.listIds.duration : 47

results.listIds.lang : English

A Wall of Silence - The Unspoken Fate of the Armenians

Documentary film that deals with the Armenian Shoah. The film surveys the topic through focusing on the differences between the Jewish Holocaust and the Armenian Holocaust, the taboo and silence in Turkey regarding the massacre of the Armenians, breach of human rights in Turkey at the beginning of the 1980s and the conflict with the PKK, violence and riots against the Armenians in the days of the Ottoman Empire, roots of the conflict that led to the Armenian massacre, independence of modern Armenia, rescue of Armenians by individual Turks, a slight change in the Turkish approach, and attempts at coping with the...

results.listIds.director : Dorothee Forma

results.listIds.year : 1997

results.listIds.duration : 52

results.listIds.lang : English, Turkish

The Cut

A feature film. The Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire 1915, which resulted in the forced migration and diaspora of the Armenian minority. A young family man gets deported by the Turkish authorities together with all the other Armenian men from his native village. He becomes a forced laborer and only survives the mass murder by chance and an act of kindness, but loses his family, speech and faith. One night he learns that his daughters may still be alive and didn't die like his wife from starvation, violence or rape on death marches. He goes on a quest to find them and travels from his small village...

results.listIds.director : Fatih Akin

results.listIds.year : 2014

results.listIds.duration : 138

results.listIds.lang : Arabic, Armenian, English, Turkish

Screamers

Internationally 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.

results.listIds.director : Carla Garapedian

results.listIds.year : 2006

results.listIds.duration : 96

results.listIds.lang : English

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