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An Armenian Journey

198858m
DocumentaryHistory
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Armenian-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.

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58m
Released
1988

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Release year: 1988

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Armenian-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.

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