Above and beyond / a Playmount production in association with Katahoin productions ; written by Sophie Sartain ; produced by Nancy Spielberg ; directed by Roberta Grossman.
Bonus features : bonus scenes, deleted scenes, photo gallery. Originally released as a motion picture in 2014.
Summary:
In 1948, a group of World War II pilots volunteered to fight for Israel in the War of Independence. As members of 'Machal' -- volunteers from abroad -- this ragtag band of brothers not only turned the tide of the war, preventing the possible annihilation of Israel at the very moment of its birth; they also laid the groundwork for the Israeli Air Force. ABOVE AND BEYOND is their story. The first major feature-length documentary about the foreign airmen in the War of Independence, ABOVE AND BEYOND brings together new interviews with pilots from the '48 War, as well as leading scholars and statesmen, including Shimon Peres, to present an extraordinary, little-known tale with reverberations up to the present day.
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