This fast-paced chronicle of the first two decades of Israel's turbulent history was produced by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, so it should come as no surprise that, despite a few passing attempts at objectivity, the story is pretty much told from one side of the dispute. It's something of a sequel to 1997's THE LONG WAY HOME, Mark Jonathan Harris's Academy Award-winning documentary about the post-WWII Jewish diaspora, which ended with the arrival of Holocaust survivors in Palestine. This film, directed by LONG WAY HOME producer Richard Trank, opens with the 1947 UN resolution to form the state of Israel by partitioning Palestine, and the violence that quickly erupted...
Released:
2001
Rated:
NR
Length:
105 mins