One grandmother, one rabbi, one anarchist, and one ex-soldier comprise four Israelis trying to put an end to the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territories. The documentary Israel vs Israel is a film about Jewish peace activists who in both words and actions...
For the first time, six former heads of the Shin Bet agency, Israel’s secret service in charge of overseeing Israel’s war on terror, publicly share their reflections on their actions. Year: 2013 Time: 101 minutes Watch the film’s trailer:...
The New York Times Critic’s Pick Disturbing the Peace follows Israeli soldiers and Palestinian fighters who have decided to join together as nonviolent peace activists and demand an end to the conflict. They form a grassroots organization called Combatants for Peace,...
This documentary is filmed in the West Bank, Gaza, and Rafah and concentrates on three children and their lives under occupation. While filming, the producer and director James Miller was killed by an Israeli soldier, and these circumstances are explained in the film...
In the January 2009 offensive on Gaza, over 1,300 Palestinians were killed. More than 300 of them were children. This award-winning documentary follows the lives of four Gazan children over the course of a year and gives unique insight into the impacts of war. Year:...
This award-winning documentary by Israeli filmmaker Yoav Shamir shows everyday interactions between Israeli soldiers and Palestinians at Israel Defense Forces military checkpoints in the Palestinian Authority. The film shows how both the Palestinian civilians subject...
One week after the 1967 Six-Day War, a group of young kibbutzniks recorded intimate and revealing conversations with returning soldiers. The Israeli army censored the majority of these recordings; now, this documentary shares the rare, original footage and includes...
As he is preparing to join the Israeli army for his national service, Joseph discovers he is not his parents' biological son, and that he was inadvertently switched at birth with Yacine, the son of a Palestinian family from the West Bank. This revelation turns the...
Breaking the Silence is an organization of Israeli military veterans who share their stories to the Israeli public about their experiences as soldiers facing civilians in the Occupied Territories. The organization collects video testimonials from these soldiers for...
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) website describes its official doctrine of ethics, “The Spirit of the IDF,” as the army’s moral compass, which includes their three core values: The defense of the state, its citizens, and residents; Patriotism and loyalty to the state;...
Video Title: “How Palestinians Are Becoming Doctors in Cuba for Free” One of the largest contingents of medical students at Cuba’s free medical schools are from Palestine. BreakingThrough News journalist Kei Prisker speaks to Palestinian medical students at Cuba’s...
Farha is a historical drama based on a true story of a Palestinian girl’s coming-of-age during the Nakba, which is the 1948 displacement of Palestinians from their homes. The film was directed by Darin J. Sallam and premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in 2021....
The G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection—formerly known as the Matson Photo Service Collection—contains more than 23,000 glass and film negatives, transparencies, and photographic prints. The photos were created by the American Colony Photo Department, which...
David Serry had taken thousands of photos over his lifetime between 1913 and 1981, which feature his Jewish perspective of Middle Eastern descent community in Palestine and Israel. His son, Shlomo Serry, discovered the negatives in the early 2000s and has been working...
Curator Limor Cohen searched dozens of archives in Israel for photos of Jewish life in Palestine prior to the creation of the Israeli state. The photos were presented at the 10th annual PHOTO ISRAEL International Photography Festival in Tel Aviv in conjunction with...