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This documentary film is a collection of 8 films which offer persuasive evidence that, so far, these standards have not been met. Films cover events from the onset of violence in Kosovo (preceding the NATO intervention in 1999), until the most recent terrorist attacks committed by Albanian extremists in 2005, and are, in fact, a unique and exclusive video document about some of the crucial aspects of the current Kosovo crisis.

Director : Ninoslav Randjelovic

Production Year : 2007

Duration : 160

Language : English, Serbian

The Shooting - Part 2

The documentary deals with the problem of the Holocaust. The Second Word War was finished more then 60 years ago but many victims of the fascism are not buried up to now. On December 1941 more tan four thousand five hundred Russian Jews were shot by German troops in the city of Yalta in Crimea. For many years the human rests of the victims were not buried

Director : Mikhail Degtiar

Production Year : 1995

Duration : 20

Language : Russian

To Know and Remember

סרט תעודה על 50 שנות לטבח בבאבי יאר

Director : Zvi Salfon

Production Year : 1992

Duration : 30

Language : Russian

John Rabe

A feature film. The story of John Rabe. Rabe was manager of Siemens China when the Japanese attacked the then capital Nanjing in 1937. Appalled by events and driven by simple humanitarian concerns, Rabe helped create a safety zone that’s said to have saved the lives of around 200,000 people.

Director : Florian Gallenberger

Production Year : 2009

Duration : 134

Language : Chinese, English, German, Japanese

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.

Production Year : 2001

Duration : 80

Language : 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.

Director : Atom Egoyan

Production Year : 2002

Duration : 116

Language : English

The Armenian Americans

The Armenian Americans hears voices from a generation invigorated by Armenia’s independent status speak with unprecedented candor about the 1915 Genocide that scattered survivors around the world and the ways in which Armenian American families have tethered this cultural identity for generations to come. The program illuminates a fascinating journey from the top of Mount Ararat to the top of America’s most successful industries in a very personal nostalgic family album.

Production Year : 2000

Duration : 80

Language : English

Images Of The Armenian Spirit

Images of the Armenian Spirit transports the viewer to today’s Republic of Armenia and, through this journey, explores the spirit of what it means to be Armenian. Some of the highlights offered in this documentary include rarely seen photographs of the rescue, by the French, of the Armenian residents of Musa Dagh during the genocide, as well as footage shot undercover in Eastern Turkey showing the devastated areas that were once historic Armenia.

Production Year : 2003

Duration : 80

Language : English

The Legacy of Jedwabne

The story of the Jedwabne massacre continues to be a painful wound in the hearts and minds of both Polish Christians and Jews. One can only hope that true history reveals itself in all of our lives, even if this occurs several generations later. This thought-provoking film will spark dynamic dialogue about the importance of historical memory for negotiations of cultural identity and for Jewish-gentile relations; by initiating and encouraging this dialogue, this film will increase tolerance and understanding, thereby forging new alliances between Jews and non-Jews.

Director : Slawomir Grunberg

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 72

Language : English, Polish

Sometimes in April

In 1994, in the African country of Rwanda, over the course of 100 days, 800,000 people from the Tutsi tribe were brutally murdered by their fellow countrymen from the Hutu tribe. This drama tells the story of two brothers from the Hutu tribe, a soldier and a radio broadcaster, that are affected by the events. The film, directed by Raoul Peck who was born in Haiti, was filmed in the places where the massacres were carried out.

Director : Raoul Peck

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 147

Language : English

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