Where can I find it?

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I doubt that much more will be found of this film. The film itself was nitrate based and prone to decomposition after ~30 years of so. Depending on where this film was stored it could have lasted longer than 50 years (one reel certainly did) but after 80 years I doubt if anything is still left of the remaining film. In fact, most silent films (from the silent film era) were lost of the years due to this problem, and we cannot view them now. The silent films we have today were either stored quite well or, more likely, transferred to safety film after WWII. As stated before, most silent films were not transferred to safety film and have "self destructed" due to nitrate decomposition.

This film had a bad reputation for decades; hence the reason why it was practically abandoned. Now, I do not mean to deny or repudiate the Armenian holocaust. It definitely did happen and it was a terrible event. However, this film had some historical inconsistencies in it with the crucifixion scene of the young women being the most noted. The author of the book that was the basis of the film, herself, stated that this scene was inaccurate. Given the morality of 1919~1920 it is somewhat amazing that the scene was even allowed to be filmed at all. It was probably given an exemption as it was based on a true event (how accurate it was actually depicted has been debated for over 90 years), but still was not allowed to be shown at times due to the controversy surrounding it. After the Hayes Moral Code was instituted in 1934 the history exemption was denied and this film, due to the crucifixion scene as well as the other explicit torture scenes, became "unwelcome" to any organization that might want to store it. It was considered pornography in that day and age and blasphemous pornography at that due to the crucifixions. I, personally, due not consider it pornography but in the mid 1930s to mid 1950s possession of material deemed pornographic carried substantial civil and criminal penalties.

There are no photographs or other documentation of the Turks committing crucifixions. Armand Wegner, the German photographer, took some disturbing photographs documenting the atrocities but none of these showed anything like crucifixion. Reports of Armenians being nailed to boards did reach the U.S. Ambassador and his staff but no confirmation was ever provided. I think Hollywood became somewhat jaded when Aurora denied that the crucifixions she reported looked like what the movie depicted. As there was no actual documentation of this event (though I am sure something terrible did happen to the sixteen teenage girls that Aurora mentions) the film crossed over from being an historical depiction of some brutal events to being considered pornography.

What little has been found of this film was found in an old barn (from what I have read anyway); indicating that somebody did not want to destroy the part of the film that explicitly showed the horrible events, but could not find anywhere else to put it. No organization wanted to deal with such a touchy subject so into the barn it went. Where the other reels were stored remains a mystery that is not likely to be solved.

There is a version on youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTnCaW-Uo_s

My great grandfather was Greek and lived in Constantinople aka Istanbul during the Armenian genocide. He was chased by crazed Turks with machetes who mistook him for an Armenian and hid in a shopkeeper's wicker basket.