Exodus 1947

Name: Exodus 1947
Director: Elizabeth Rodgers
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1997-07-06
Duration: 56 min
Rating: 8
Cast: Murray Aronoff, Ike Aronowitz, David Ben-Gurion, Eli Bergman, Moe Bernstein

“The ship that launched a nation”

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Directed by Elizabeth Rodgers

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.