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ABOVE AND BEYOND
Directed by Roberta Grossman
Produced by Nancy Spielberg
 

 

 

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. -- per imdb.

You will also find a six-minute clip from the film at https://vimeo.com/97415014.

For more information about this film, please visit http://aboveandbeyondthemovie.com/about.

 

 


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