Vazgen: The Last Sparapet tells the remarkable true story of Vazgen Sargsyan, the writer, soldier, and national leader who helped forge modern Armenia. After surviving a near-fatal accident as a child, Vazgen grows into a passionate writer, intellectual, and visionary driven by an unwavering love for his homeland. When the […]
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Softly spoken, in a man’s world, Emma Darling Cushman was an American nurse who crossed the world to serve in the Ottoman Empire – then war came, disease spread, and families were torn from their homes, turning her into the woman everyone ran to when the world broke apart. Locals
Erhan Arik, a Turkish photographer, grew up in a house previously inhabited by Armenians who were driven out by the massacres in 1915. He was never interested in this episode of history until he heard a voice in a dream asking him: “Why did you turn that room into a
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A genocide survivor becomes a silent movie star. At only 14 years old, Aurora loses everything during the horror of the Armenian Genocide. But with luck and extraordinary courage, she escapes to New York, where her story becomes a media sensation. After publishing a memoir of her experiences, Aurora goes
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