1948: Creation & Catastrophe (2017) Poster

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8/10
Interesting Fair and Balanced
quitwastingmytime14 March 2021
Warning: Spoilers
Some reviews are apparently in shock to hear both sides for a change. They demand we dehumanize one side.

Veteran fighters and refugees from both sides give their stories. Haganah, Irgun, and Arab army veterans. Holocaust refugees and refugees driven out by Israeli attacks.

I found it interesting because so many other documentaries in America are one sided hagiography.
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9/10
Honest testimonies
fadi-hani15 June 2019
Has lots of testimonies from jewish ex militias at the time and they were quite frank. It really puts things in perspective of what really happened away from media and propaganda and sensation. I wish it expanded more on what happened the years BEFORE and also I wished there was more testimonies from fighters on the Arab side. Still this documentary is a treasure for the facts it pacts and documents in a conflict where fact and fiction are often exchanged.
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10/10
Engaging, gut-wrenching, but extremely informative
tawfiqzayyad4 May 2022
1948 is a masterpiece in accurately portraying the historical events that occurred in Palestine in ways that are emotionally captivating and informative. Objective but not neutral, it centers the victims of the Zionist project that explains where we are today.
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10/10
Watch and Learn
mustaja24 May 2019
Very accurate documentary with incredibly moving testimony from those that were actually present during the catastrophe of 1948.
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2/10
Definitely NOT a documentary
pgeary60019 May 2023
While claiming to be a documentary, it becomes clear within minutes that this is a hit piece on Israel, with no intent of presenting a balanced account. The heavily one-sided narrative is so clumsily executed that anyone with a modicum of sophistication will instinctively recognize that there must be another side to these events.

Much like news accounts that report on Israeli military actions while omitting mention of the terrorist acts which prompted them, the film neglects to mention the desperate plight of Holocaust survivors who were turned away from country after country before finally turning to their ancestral Jewish homeland.

Similarly, the film complains of Israel building a wall while omitting to mention the acts of Palestinian terrorists which necessitated the building of the wall as a defensive measure.

In short, this is a dishonest and biased polemic with the clear intent of inciting antipathy to Israel and the Jewish people. It is unworthy of your time unless you're an anti-Semite who hasn't yet got their fill of Israel bashing, to which we are already constantly bombarded.
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