Watchers of the Sky

Name: Watchers of the Sky
Genre: Biography, History, Documentary, News
Released: October 17, 2014
Duration: 120 min
Rating: 85

2014

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Music Box Films | Release Date: October 17, 2014 | Not Rated

Summary: Watchers of the Sky interweaves four stories of remarkable courage, compassion, and determination, while setting out to uncover the forgotten life of Raphael Lemkin - the man who created the word "genocide," and believed the law could protect the world from mass atrocities. Inspired by Samantha Power’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, A ProblemWatchers of the Sky interweaves four stories of remarkable courage, compassion, and determination, while setting out to uncover the forgotten life of Raphael Lemkin - the man who created the word "genocide," and believed the law could protect the world from mass atrocities. Inspired by Samantha Power’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, A Problem From Hell, Watchers of the Sky takes you on a provocative journey from Nuremberg to The Hague, from Bosnia to Darfur, from criminality to justice, and from apathy to action.… Expand

Director: Edet Belzberg

Genre(s): Biography, History, Documentary, News

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 120 min

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RogerEbert.com Sheila O'Malley

Oct 17, 2014

Watchers of the Sky, an intricate and immensely powerful documentary, directed by Edet Belzberg, is both the story of Raphael Lemkin as well as a harrowing examination of genocide, past, recent, and ongoing. Read full review

Chris Nashawaty

Oct 16, 2014

Tough to watch, but essential. Read full review

Peter Rainer

Oct 17, 2014

Edet Belzberg’s documentary Watchers of the Sky, which was a decade in the making, reclaims the reputation of Raphael Lemkin, a Polish Holocaust refugee who not only coined the term “genocide” but also invented the concept of categorizing mass murder as an international crime. Read full review

Dennis Harvey

Oct 8, 2014

An impressive and artful cinematic thesis of palpable substance. Read full review

Stephanie Merry

Oct 23, 2014

Editing these unwieldy stories into a cohesive, meaningful way must have been a massive undertaking. Editors Jenny Golden and Karen Sim did such an impressive job that even at two hours — an eternity for a doc — the movie never feels too long. Read full review

Keith Phipps

Oct 16, 2014

It isn’t a hopeful story, but it is a story of how committed people have fought and struggled to create the possibility for hope in the future. Read full review

Chuck Bowen

Oct 13, 2014

This is, to put it mildly, a lot of information for one documentary, which inevitably devolves to resemble not so much an anthology as a slideshow of genocide's greatest hits. Read full review

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