44 Films & TV Shows Set In Palestine
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Abraham
🇹🇷 Turkey 🇮🇱 Israel 🇯🇴 Jordan 🇵🇸 Palestine 🇪🇬 EgyptThis engrossing dramatization of the life of Abraham, the most tested servant of God and the father of Judaism, spans from the patriarch's quest for the Promised Land to the sacrifice of his son, Isaac.
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The Lighthorsemen
🇵🇸 Palestine The 1910sThey did what they were told... They didn't know it was impossible! — Palestine, 1917. The British advance has been stopped by the Turkish line running from Gaza to Beersheba. The latest attack on Gaza has failed. The attacking forces included a regiment of Australian mounted infantry, the Light Horse... Lighthorseman Frank is wounded in a skirmish with Bedouin. He is replaced by a young soldier, Dave, who proves to be a crack shot, but reluctant to fire at the enemy. Dave proves himself during a German biplane attack. Recuperating in hospital, he meets a sympathetic nurse, Anne... The regiment is called upon for a bold flanking attack on Beersheba. But how do you convince the Turks the main attack will come at Gaza? And how do you attack across a desert without water?
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The Dreamers
🇵🇸 Palestine The 1910sSet in the Middle East in 1919, a group of European Jews planning on settling in the Sinai Desert are attacked by Bedouin tribesmen. As they fight for their lives they realize that they are beginning a struggle for a new Jewish nation. This film chronicles the beginning of the modern Jewish struggle for a homeland.
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The Dawn
🇵🇸 Palestine The 1940sIn a drama in which even God has a role (Philippe Leotard) as well as Michael York, it is certain that serious issues are at stake. Set during the time before the state of Israel was created and established, a British officer has been captured by a band of Jewish resistance fighters with the intent of killing him at dawn. One of the Jews was sentenced to die after being captured by the English, and this death will be in retaliation. The trouble is that a young and ambivalent fighter is left holding the officer captive with orders to shoot him at the pre-arranged time. It is a long night of soul-searching before the Jewish soldier comes up with a solution to his quandary.
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The Little Drummer Girl
England 🇩🇪 Germany 🇬🇷 Greece 🇵🇸 Palestine The 20th CenturyShe will become their most deadly weapon. As long as they can make her fall in love. — An American Actress with a penchant for lying is forceably recruited by Mosad, the Israeli intelligence agency to trap a Palestinian bomber, by pretending to be the girlfriend of his dead brother.
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Quarter to Two Before Jesus Christ
🇵🇸 Palestine 🇮🇹 Italy The 1st Century BCIn antique Rome, a simple pepboy for chars becomes involved in a coup against Cesar. Rahatlocum is a North African Roman colony where Julius Caesar came to spend an expensive holiday. The revolt rumbles among the small people who find a leader in the person of Ben-Hur Marcel.
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Life of Brian
🇮🇱 Israel 🇵🇸 Palestine 🇮🇹 Italy The 1st Century The 1st Century BCHe wasn't the messiah. He was a very naughty boy. — Brian Cohen is an average young Jewish man, but through a series of ridiculous events, he gains a reputation as the Messiah. When he's not dodging his followers or being scolded by his shrill mother, the hapless Brian has to contend with the pompous Pontius Pilate and acronym-obsessed members of a separatist movement. Rife with Monty Python's signature absurdity, the tale finds Brian's life paralleling Biblical lore, albeit with many more laughs.
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Karunamayudu
🇮🇱 Israel 🇵🇸 Palestine 🇮🇹 Italy The 1st CenturyA 160-minute version of the life of Jesus Christ filmed entirely with a cast and crew of Christian Indians in India.
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Thomasleeha
🇮🇱 Israel 🇵🇸 Palestine 🇮🇹 Italy Ancient History1975 Indian Film
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The Dupes
🇮🇶 Iraq 🇯🇴 Jordan 🇰🇼 Kuwait 🇵🇸 Palestine The 1950s The 1940sThe film follows three Palestinian refugees brought together by dispossession and hope for a better future. Hiding in the tank of a truck, the men attempt to make their way across the border into Kuwait, the "promised land." A masterful adaptation of Ghassan Kanafani's novel Men Under the Sun, The Dupes is also one of the first Arab films to address the Palestinian predicament.
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Jesus
🇮🇱 Israel 🇵🇸 Palestine 🇮🇹 Italy Ancient HistoryKing Herod has ruled Judea for over 37 years and believes himself to be supreme. When three wise men from the Far East come to visit him, he is initially pleased, but this pleasure turns to anger when he finds out that they have traveled all the way to witness the birth of the son of God. After they depart, he instructs his Prime Minister to kill all children under the age of 2 years. Herod's instructions are carried out, but they don't find the baby Jesus, born in a stable in Bethlehem. Jesus, son of Joseph and virgin Mary, has been destined to lead mankind to a better path but must face many challenges, temptations and betrayal from ones he trusted the most, humiliation, torture, crucifixion, and resurrection.
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Cast a Giant Shadow
🇮🇱 Israel 🇵🇸 Palestine The 1940sOutnumbered - unarmed - unprepared - they stunned the world with their incredible victory! — An American Army officer is recruited by the yet to exist Israel to help them form an army. He is disturbed by this sudden appeal to his jewish roots. Each of Israel's Arab neighbors has vowed to invade the poorly prepared country as soon as partition is granted. He is made commander of the Israeli forces just before the war begins.
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Judith
🇵🇸 Palestine The 1940sA Jewish woman is recruited to help track down a German commander who was her former husband.
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Snapaka Yohanan
🇮🇱 Israel 🇵🇸 Palestine 🇮🇹 Italy Ancient History1963 film starring Thikkurisi Sukumaran Nair and Prem Nazir
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The Inspector
🇳🇱 Netherlands 🇵🇸 Palestine 🇲🇦 Morocco The 1940sHunted... From London... Amsterdam... The Casbah... To The Beaches Of The Middle East... A Strange Pursuit... And An Even Stranger Liaison! — At the end of WW2, a compassionate Dutch policeman helps smuggle a Jewish woman into British Palestine.
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Exodus
🇨🇾 Cyprus 🇮🇱 Israel 🇵🇸 Palestine The 1940sBased on Leon Uris' novel, this historical epic provides a dramatic backstory to the creation of the state of Israel in 1948, in the aftermath of World War II. Ari Ben Canaan (Paul Newman), a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport 600 Jewish refugees on a dangerous voyage from Cyprus to Palestine on a ship named the Exodus. He faces obstruction from British forces, who will not grant the ship passage to its destination.
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Sword in the Desert
🇵🇸 PalestineTheir story is written in the burning sands and Bullets Sing the Fame of Their Deeds ! — First American film about the conflict between Jewish nationalists and the British in the creation of the state of Israel.
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The Earth Cries Out
🇮🇱 Israel 🇵🇸 PalestineTwo Jews and their former British comrade land on opposite sides of the Palestine issue following World War II.
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Shanti Sandesham
🇮🇱 Israel 🇵🇸 Palestine 🇮🇹 Italy Ancient HistoryIndian version of the Jesus story. Following Jesus' birth he performs many miracles and gathers a band of followers. He runs into trouble with the authorities and the Romans execute him. He rises again and ascends to heaven.
