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- DirectorElia KazanStarsStathis GiallelisFrank WolffElena KaramA young Greek stops at nothing to secure a passage to America.
- DirectorHenri VerneuilStarsClaudia CardinaleOmar SharifNathalie RousselThe saga of an Armenian family that immigrated to France after the break-up of the oppressive Ottoman Empire.
- StarsClaudia CardinaleOmar SharifZabou BreitmanThe story of an Armenian man and his family who are forced to flee their country and live as refugees in a foreign country.
- 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.
- DirectorOscar ApfelStarsAurora MardiganianIrving CummingsAnna Q. NilssonThe story about the Armenian Genocide based on the account of survivor Aurora Mardiganian.
- DirectorAtom EgoyanStarsCharles AznavourBrent CarverEric BogosianInterrogated by a customs officer, a young man recounts how his life was changed during the making of a film about the Armenian genocide.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorJ. Michael HagopianStarsMike ConnorsArmin T. WegnerDocumentary by Armenian born J. Michael Hagopian, who now films and lives in the United States, detailing the Armenian genocide by Turks through eyewitness accounts and interviews with survivors, combined with rare archival film footage.
- 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.
- DirectorHenrik MalyanStarsSos SargsyanSofik SarkisyanFrunzik MkrtchyanThis story of a strong-willed man, Nahapet, who lost his family during the Armenian Genocide in 1915, is an eternal story of resurrection.
- DirectorTed BogosianStarsTed BogosianArmenian-American film maker & journalist Theodore Bogosian takes on the controversial subject as to weather the deaths of over 1 million Armenians in eastern Turkey during the first world war was as a result of the war itself, or was a deliberate and systematic extermination by the Turkish government to rid their land of a race of people they found troublesome. Turks claim that it was the war; Armenians say they can prove ti was genocide. For the first time an Armenian is taking on the subject in film.
- DirectorFrunze DovlatyanStarsRafael AtoyanGalya NoventsAshot MelikdzhanyanReal life tragic story of Arakel whose anguish towards lost homeland made him cross Soviet-Turkish border during Stalin era.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorMarty CallaghanStarsSeçil Karal AkgünAram ArkunDavid FromkinA balanced view of the struggle between the Ottoman Empire and the Armenians in the Eastern Anatolia during the late 19th century what is considered by some today, a genocide. This in-depth documentary is based on two years of research in the United States, Russia, Germany, Romania, England, and Bulgaria with historical footage and images from the national archives of the United States, Romania, Bulgaria, Russia and Germany with participation of an international team of experts.
- DirectorLaert VagharshyanStarsGurgen TonuntsDavid MalyanS. MargaryanTwo brothers were separated after the Armenian genocide of 1915. One of them crossed the ocean, the other died during the World War II. The survived brother returns to Armenia to find his nephews.
- DirectorKhoren AbrahamyanFrunze DovlatyanArkadi HayrapetyanStarsFrunze DovlatyanKhoren AbrahamyanGurgen JanibekyanCivil war in Armenia after the Russian Revolution divides the country and - two brothers.
- DirectorSarky MouradianStarsManuel KichianLana WoodPeter Lorre Jr.Set around 1908, the "Sons of Sassoun" follows a group of Armenian freedom fighters defending themselves and their village from the invading forces of the Ottoman Empire.
- DirectorZhirayr AvetisyanStarsR. AbrahamyanA. AvetisyanH. GaloyanThe hero of the film loses his family during the 1915 genocide in the Ottoman Empire and fights against Turkish militiamen. Disappointed in his life, Miro finds refuge in Soviet Armenia. His love for a refugee girl sparks his willingness to create a family and start a new life.
- DirectorSarky MouradianStarsKabir BediRonnie CarolGuy StockwellArmenian guerrilla troops fight against the Turkish forces on the mountain of Musa Dagh.
- DirectorEdwin AvanessSerj MinassiansA documentary about the trials and tribulations of Hollywood's multiple attempts to produce an epic movie based on Franz Werfel's worldwide bestseller, "The Forty Days of Musa Dagh". Undertaken by veteran producer Irving Thalberg and MGM in the 1930s to unknown millionaire John Kurkjian in the 1980s, the project faced enormous foreign intervention and blackmail, preventing it from reaching the silver screen. According to Variety, this novel has become the most on-again-off-again motion picture production in Hollywood history.