Film · Documentary
Exodus 1947 (1997)
★ 8.0 · 1 votes56 minDocumentary1997
The ship that launched a nation
Exodus 1947 is a one hour PBS documentary narrated by Morley Safer with a score by Ilan Rechtman. The Exodus 1947 voyage acted as a catalyst in forming the new State of Israel. The documentary focuses on clandestine and "illegal" American efforts to finance and crew the most infamous of ten American ships that attempted to bring Jewish refugees to Palestine.
- Director
- Elizabeth Rodgers, Robby Henson
- Writers
- Robby Henson, Elizabeth Rodgers
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Release date
- July 6, 1997
Cast
- Murray AronoffSelf
- Ike AronowitzSelf
David Ben-GurionSelf- Eli BergmanSelf
- Moe BernsteinSelf
- Ruth GruberSelf
Morley SaferNarrator (voice)
