Architects of Denial

I live down the street and this was playing this week, so my wife and I saw it this weekend. Having known nothing about the subject before seeing this documentary, I found it extremely informative and makes the clear case that there was an Armenian Genocide, it laid the groundwork for the Jewish holocaust, and now there is a clear effort by US politicians to cover it up and ignore it. It's actually so effective that whenever a congressman is interviewed in the movie and they deny it, it's laughable because we now have been shown the truth and evidence. Julian Assange comes off very well as does George Clooney. Nice shots of an area of the world that people don't typically experience.

If you don't know about Armenian Genocide, this is the fastest way to get a pretty good idea about it, so watch it. If you know about it, and you know it happened, then this will just bring up some memories and also some tears, so you choose. If you know about it, but you think it had never happened, then most likely you're from Azerbaijan or Turkey, and you have to watch this.

For more serious people interested in world history, this is a really good collection of facts expressed by famous as well as ordinary people who witnessed or who heard the stories from witnesses. One cannot remain indifferent while watching this film and imagining what really happened, what can still happen if people keep on caring only about money.

I have always known of the Armenian genocide of 1915, but not the extent of persistent hatred and persecution that they have had to endure for the past 100 years. It is not unimaginable to think that rogue nations such as Turkey or Azerbaijan are able to inflict such persecution without consequence, due to their geo-political and financial relevance to senior western nations.

This documentary does extremely well to show the despair on one side, anger on the other, and provoke the mind into sharing the grief of the unfortunate. A powerful showing that has moved all those I have recommended to see it. Well done Montell and Dean for crafting such a powerful message. I would love to see you apply your talent to message of the Assyrian genocide.

I live in Los Angeles and I have lots of Armenian friends so I saw a lotto documentaries about this subject but this one is the best so far. It's even better then the movie The Promise. It presents the problem so well and the whole history of it. My Armenian friends that I went with to see it were very impressed and said that they enjoyed a lot. So if you are Armenian this is the documentary for you. And if you are not Armenian this is a good documentary to go and watch to learn about this people.

I just saw this documentary and I cried so hard. I learned so much about genocides around the world and I don't understand why we don't here about any of this on the news. This was all new to me. Great documentary. If you want to see something informative but at the same time emotional go and see this documentary.