Al Nakba: The Palestinian Catastrophe 1948

58 minutes, documentary,, 1997, Hebrew and Arabic with English subtitles

Arguably, the first documentary film that seriously tackles the historic events that led to the creation of over 700,000 Palestinian refugees and the destruction of about 400 Palestinian villages at the end of the first Israeli-Arab war of 1948. Based on historian Benny Morris’ book ‘The birth of the Palestinian refugee problem, 1947-49’.