Intent to Destroy

Intent to Destroy: Death, Denial, & Depiction is a 2017 documentary film directed by Joe Berlinger about the Armenian genocide.

[1] Berlinger declined an invitation to travel to Ankara, Turkey to interview officials of the Turkish government.

Turkish officials did not say who he would meet, and had he gone, he would not have been allowed to bring his film crew nor any recording devices.

[5] Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter stated that it was "excellent and informative", though he argued that at times the film "plays like a special feature for the DVD edition of The Promise", an aspect he was critical of.

He also praised the film for its use of varied source material and expressed that film may be a better medium for capturing the horrors of genocide than written text, stating, "What on the printed page can possibly match the panoramic view, shot from above by a camera mounted on a drone, of a column of desperate, bereft Armenians marching to their death?