The Israeli/Palastinian Conflict
A list of non-fiction programming on the conflict. PLEASE SUGGEST MORE TITLES!!!
List activity
7.3K views
• 0 this weekCreate a new list
List your movie, TV & celebrity picks.
21 titles
- DirectorLina MakboulStarsUri Bar LevMoshe DayanShadia Abu GhazaliA Swedish film-maker profiles the life of Jordan-based Leila Khaled - the first female hijacker.
- DirectorDonia MiliStarsNoam ChomskyLeila KhaledChoice is a luxury the Palestinians cannot afford: if they cease to resist, they cease to breathe, they cease to live.
- DirectorMasao AdachiKôji WakamatsuStarsMustafa Abu AliMasao AdachiGeorge HabashIt was a milestone of film as activism, cinema as movement in Japan's context. Adachi and Wakamatsu went to Beirut on the way back from the Cannes Film Festival. There, in collaboration with the Red Army members and PFLP, they produced this newsreel film depicting the everyday activities of Arab guerrillas as a cinematic narrative on the world revolution.
- DirectorAbdallah OmeishSufyan OmeishStarsJames AkinsArik AschermanBishop Barltlett Jr.A thought-provoking and powerful documentary film on the current and historical root causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and U.S. political involvement.
- DirectorJames MillerStarsJames MillerSaira ShahThe harrowing documentary that portrays the horror of the Israeli conflict and the resulting death of its director, James Miller.
- DirectorMohammad BakriDocumentary about the 2002 deadly confrontations between armed Israeli soldiers and Palestinians in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin.
- DirectorJennifer HitchcockDreams Deferred highlights the voices, opinions, and actions of Israelis and Palestinians who are struggling to nonviolently end the Israeli occupation and achieve a just resolution to the conflict. By dodging Israeli soldiers and Border Police, this film also gives audiences a first-hand tour of the West Bank, illustrating elements of the occupation that make Palestinian life there increasingly difficult, with revealing footage and discussion of checkpoints, curfews, land confiscation, settlements, the separation barrier, and other details of Palestinian life in various parts of the West Bank. By exposing viewers to seldom-heard voices of nonviolent resistance, this film goes beyond the headlines to offer a unique and valuable perspective on a complex situation.
- DirectorShane O'SullivanStarsUlrike MeinhofFusako ShigenobuMei ShigenobuInspired by the student revolutions of 1968, two women in Germany and Japan set out to plot world revolution as leaders of the Baader Meinhof Group and the Japanese Red Army. What were they fighting for and what have we learned?
- DirectorJonathan DemmeStarsJimmy CarterRosalynn CarterLillian CarterA chronicle of the former president's tour recent for his book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid."
- DirectorYoav ShamirDocumentary filmmaker Yoav Shamir's depiction of the checkpoints that the Israel Defense Forces man in the Palestinian Authority.
- DirectorVibeke LøkkebergIn a rough style, by way of unique footage, the brutal consequences of modern wars are exposed. The film also depicts the ability of women and children to handle their everyday life after a dramatic war experience. Many of them live in tents or in ruins without walls or roofs. They are all in need of money, food, water and electricity. Others have lost family members, or are left with seriously injured children. Can war solve conflicts or create peace? The film follows three children through the war and the period after the ceasefire.
- DirectorMark Jonathan HarrisStarsMorgan FreemanIsrael LauLivia ShacterThe story of the post World War II Jewish refugee situation from liberation to the establishment of the modern state of Israel.
- DirectorDahna AbourahmeSet during the current Intifada, this documentary follows four Palestinian families living in Dheisheh Refugee Camp near Bethlehem. Fadi is 13 and cares for his 4 younger brothers, the Hammashes are a close-knit family who pass on the lessons of life with humor and passion, Sana is a single woman who endures long commutes to do community work, and Emad and Hanan are a young couple trying to shield their daughter from the harsh realities of the occupation. They talk about their past and discuss the future with humor, sorrow, frustration and hope. Until When paints an intimate in-depth portrait of Palestinian lives today.
- DirectorGerd SchneiderStarsRamadan Mohammed AffanahIn summer 2005 Israel withdraws from the Gaza-strip. While the world has its eyes fixed on the small area on the Mediterranean, life goes on in its own absurd way in the Westbank. The focus is on a 35 year old Palestinian named Ramadan, who is living in Qalandia refugee-camp, even though he has a good job: He is camera-operator for Al-Jazeera at the Ramallah office of the well-known Arabian network. The camera gives him the feeling of producing something meaningful while his homeland is caught in daily absurdities. "Daily life has a completely different meaning in Palestine. Commented by Ramadan the film delivers insight into a life under occupation. It's a life running in circles with hope for better times but no belief that these will come - it's the edge of hope.
- DirectorJames LongleyStarsMohammed HejaziFocuses on 13-year-old Mohammed Hejazi, a second-grade dropout the filmmaker encountered at the Karni crossing in the Gaza Strip, where Palestinian children often gather to throw stones.
- DirectorPierre BjörklundPer-Åke HolmquistJoan MandellStarsBinyamin Ben-EliezerYitzhak RabinReuven RozenblatIn the first documentary feature film made in Gaza, Gaza Ghetto highlights the historical precedents of war, dispossession and military control that influence a family's daily life in Jabalia Palestinian refugee camp. Intimate scenes --a child is born, a grandmother dies -- are inter-cut with visits to the architects of the Israeli military occupation. Ariel Sharon, Benyamin Beneliezar and soldiers on patrol candidly discuss their responsibilities.
- DirectorHerb KrosneyStarsMartin GilbertDavid Ben-GurionSir Martin Gilbert, author of over sixty books and the host of A&E's JERUSALEM, hosts this gripping account of Israel's difficult first years. Filled with rare footage, photographs, and interviews with participants in the War of Independence, this is the definitive document of one of the turning points in modern history. Extraordinary footage filmed by Bernard Beecham, a British soldier, shows the reality of life in the fledgling nation, when all efforts were devoted toward winning the war.
- DirectorStephen CrismanIf Chaucer had lived to write The Canterbury Tales around Jerusalem and the present conflict in the Holy Land, his collection of stories might resemble our documentary, Jerusalem, Stories From the Street. In the same way that Chaucer's England comes to life through the tales of vocal commoners traveling the road to Canterbury, the crisis in the Holy Land comes to life through candid stories told from the streets of Jerusalem. The storytellers in this documentary, though, don't tell tales. Their histories, told with heart and authority, describe life as they know it, in the Holy Land.
- DirectorJean Khalil ChamounIn WOMEN BEYOND BORDERS, acclaimed director Jean Chamoun (In the Shadows of the City) looks at the lives and works of some of the women who have joined in the fight for their Palestinian homeland, such as young resistance fighter Kifah Afifi's experience as a survivor of the 1982 Shatila massacre in Lebanon when she was just 12 years old. She tells about fighting the Israeli occupation of South Lebanon in the 1990s and of her imprisonment in the Khiam detention facility, which was run by Israel's auxiliary militia, the South Lebanon Army. Chamoun also explores the pioneering contributions of other Palestinian women, such as activist Samiha Khalil, also known as Um Khalil, who spoke out against the Balfour Declaration and the British occupation of Palestine at an international women's demonstration in 1936, when she was just 13. She founded the welfare organization Inaash al-Usra in her garage in 1965 and ran for president against Yasser Arafat in 1996, earning 12% of the vote.
- DirectorEmad BurnatGuy DavidiStarsEmad BurnatSoraya BurnatMohammed BurnatA documentary on a Palestinian farmer's chronicle of his nonviolent resistance to the actions of the Israeli army.
- DirectorYael KlopmannStarsWalfisch AsafUri Bar LevHagay DotanA documentary on Israel's disengagement from Gaza from the point of view of several Israeli Army officers and members of the police border unit.