In Popular Culture
- The Greek refugees and their tragedy was depicted in the Closing ceremony of the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.
- Various successful Greek singers have sung songs about the refugees and the Asia Minor Catastrophe (mainly Haris Alexiou, George Dalaras, Eleftheria Arvanitaki, Nikos Xilouris, Glykeria).
- The refugees have been the main theme of many Greek movies, since the 1920s, and especially during the Golden Age of the Greek cinema in the 1960s and 1970s.
- The film America, America by Elia Kazan presents the harsh situation and the uprooting of Asia Minor Greeks in the years preceding World War I.
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