Drama with Michael Caine as Captain Douglas a BP employee seconded to the Royal Engineers to oversee handling incoming fuel supplies for the British 8th Army in North Africa. It is a comfortable life until a Popski's Private Army style colonel is told he must put a regular officer to lead one of his units on a dangerous mission to destroy an Afrika Korps fuel depot 400 miles behind enemy lines.
1. Der lange Weg nach Jerusalem Im ersten Teil seiner Betrachtungen wendet sich Peter Scholl-Latour dem Konflikt um das heilige Land zu. Der irakische Diktator Saddam Hussein, der sich selbst als "neuer Nebukadnezar" von Babylon bezeichnet, hat schnell begriffen, daß seine einzige Chance, die arabische Nation und einen großen Teil der islamischen Gemeinschaft auf seine Seite zu bringen, darin liegt den Staat Israel als Verantwortlichen aller Unruhen und allen Elends im Nahen- und Mittleren Osten anzuprangern. Zwischen Arabern und Israeli, Muslimen und Juden wird ein geradezu biblischer Streit ausgetragen, in dem...
This documentary tells of Mahal, about 3,000 volunteers, both Jewish and non-Jewish, who fought in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War for the new state of Israel. They were mostly World War II veterans from American and British armed forces. The largest presence of Mahal was felt in the Israeli Air Force (IAF). A total of 119 Mahalniks were killed in battle. After the end of the war in 1949, the majority of the Machal returned to their home countries. Some remained to live in Israel. Twenty two veterans recollect the conflict, including Israeli President Ezer Weizman. Other international volunteers who contribute to this...
Crafted in a cinematic manner, this television documentary explores the Munich massacre of the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, when 11 members of the Israeli Olympic team were killed by palastinians terorists of Black September organization. Director Macdonald, a British filmmaker, uses a compilation of archival footage, music and interviews with many of the central characters – including Jamal al Gashey, the only surviving terrorist, who does not reveal his face to the cameras, Ankie Spitzer, widow of Andre Spitzer, the Israeli fencing coach who died at the hands of his captors, and Gad Zabari, an...
Two reports aired by Israel’s Channel One “Mabat Sheny” program, which deal with the Holocaust and Arab Israelis. The reports include the following: A group of Arab Israelis visit Auschwitz-Birkenau; studio discussion led by Orit Lavi Nashiel, with Ester Webman, a Doctoral candidate at The Institute for Research of Anti-Semitism and Racialism and with M.K. Issam from the Hadash Party; knowledge and interest of Israeli Arabs in the Holocaust; Abu Mazen and his understanding of the Holocaust.
Director : Dafna Kaplansky, אבי יששכרוף, Sima Cohen