Pbs: The Armenian Genocide

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Фильм: http://www.yerevanarmenia.com/TempMovies/P...ocide(2006).avi

Описание:

On Monday evening, April 17, many PBS-affiliated television stations across the country — including nine of the top 10 TV markets — will air an hour-long documentary on "The Armenian Genocide" produced by the independent, New York-based filmmaker Andrew Goldberg.

The new documentary deals with an old, and very sore, subject: the deaths, mostly between 1915 and 1918, of anywhere from several hundred thousand to perhaps 1.5 million Armenian civilians living in the eastern Anatolia region of Turkey during the rule of the "Young Turks" of the Ottoman Empire as World War I engulfed Europe. The program will air a week before the annual "Armenian Remembrance Day" is marked in this country.

PBS officials, in a statement, said they "accepted 'The Armenian Genocide' for the schedule based on its merits and because the information it presents is an important part of recent world history. Implicit in PBS's decision to accept" the film for distribution, the statement says, is PBS's "recognition that the overwhelming majority of historians have concluded that a genocide took place."

Nevertheless, despite that recognition, PBS also went ahead and commissioned Oregon Public Broadcasting to produce a 25-minute panel discussion — which is already taped and scheduled to air immediately after the documentary — that includes two scholars who support the view implicit in the film's title, and two who question, among other things, the accuracy and use of the label "genocide." The panel discussion is called "The Armenian Genocide: Exploring the Issues." It is moderated by National Public Radio correspondent Scott Simon.

Details:

http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/2006/03/comin...e_armenian.html