Overview

A brilliant documentary about the growth of Israel into the Jewish homeland. Seventy-three years of struggle for religious freedom is vividly recorded using rare archive film footage and photographs of historic events in the development of 20th century Israel. Beginning with the Dreyfus Affair in 1894, the film covers Theodor Herzl, founder of modern Zionism; the earliest immigration and settlements; the formation of kibbutzim; the Balfour Declaration; the rise of European anti-Semitism; the British occupation of Palestine; Arab confrontations; the United Nations resolution; the "Exodus" incident, and the Six Day War.

Genres

Cast

Georges Descrières

Narrator (voice)

Bérengère Dautun

Narrator (voice)

Michel Bouquet

Narrator (citations) (voice)

David Ben-Gurion

Self (archive footage)

Richard Burton

Narrator (English version) (voice)

Neville Chamberlain

Self (archive footage)

Winston Churchill

Self (archive footage)

Édouard Daladier

Self (archive footage)

Moshe Dayan

Self (archive footage)

Adolf Eichmann

Self (archive footage)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Self (archive footage)

Hermann Göring

Self (archive footage)