Desc: 1915 Armenian Genocide: Directed by Mark Bedrosian. With Paul Schaefer. The 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.