Smyrna: The Destruction of a Cosmopolitan City - 1900-1922

Its highly informative recounting of this little-known tragic tale provides a vivid reminder of the ephemerality of civilizations.

A sobering study in how individual human beings can become afterthoughts in the face of broad movements like nationalism, a phenomenon that is still much in evidence almost a century later.

Filmmaker Maria Ilioú's uninspired flake of talking-head Wikipedia cinema focuses on the forgotten Anatolian port city's post-World War I years.