They Shall Not Perish: The Story of Near East Relief (2016)

Directed by

George Billard

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

53 min

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This film documents how the Near East Relief organization provided aid during the Armenian genocide. It follows the humanitarian efforts that saved thousands of lives.

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What happens

They Shall Not Perish: The Story of Near East Relief is a film about Near East Relief (NER)'s efforts to counter the Armenian genocide. Shant Mardirossian, the chairperson emeritus of the organization, produced it, doing so through the company Acorne Productions. The writer and director is George Billard. Victor Garber serves as the narrator. A slogan on a NER fundraising poster was used for the film's name. The film was first aired in the Scottish Rite Masonic Museum (previously the National Heritage Museum) in Lexington, Massachusetts (Boston metropolitan area) on October 13, 2017. On January 1, 2018 it was released on Netflix. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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