It is based on eyewitness reports by European and American personnel stationed in the Near East at the time, Armenian survivors and other contemporary witnesses which are recited by modern German actors.

The visual material partly consists of secretly shot photographs of the death marches, Turkish atrocities and suffering of the Armenian deportees.

According to its director, German journalist Eric Friedler [de], the documentary was presented to many members of the US Congress and US Senate who have expressed astonishment on how well documented the genocide actually is.

[4] Aghet won the 2010 Armin T. Wegner Humanitarian Award in Los Angeles and received international recognition on the Montreal World Film Festival the same year.

[1] The documentary has been praised for introducing "Aghet", the Armenian term for the Turkish massacres, to an international audience.