The Long Way Home

Movie Title-- The Long Way Home

Release Year-- 1997

Running Time-- 2 Hours

Film Type-- Documentary

Director-- Mark Jonathan Harris

Cast-- Morgan Freeman, Edward Asner, David Payner, Sean Astin, Martin Landau, Miriam Margolyes, Nina Siemaszko, Helen Slater, Michael York

A documentary about the Jew's after they were liberated from concentration camps in 1945 until they were given their own homeland back in 1948.

I have to admit that the beginning of this movie was hard to watch. I think that anyone with any kind of soul or conscious can agree with me. It shows the Jews that were in the concentration camps and just seeing them is a little disturbing (but then again, anyone that has ever watched any kind of movie about the holocaust in school knows how hard it is to see some of these images). The cast mentioned above obviously are not in the film but are used as voice overs and Morgan Freeman is the narrator of the film.

This film goes into how the Jew's were treated after the war and I have to say, there are a lot of things that I am pretty sure I never learned in school. The Jews were a people that everyone wanted to help but no one wanted them around. America and the British did what they could for the Jews but in the end, while waiting for entry into Palestine, they ended up getting put back into the very concentration camps they were liberated from after the war.

It is a hard film to watch but sometimes we need to know what happened in the past in order to prevent it from happening in the future. This is a good film to watch to learn about the creation of Israel. Not only that, it seems that this documentary won an Oscar, it is worth taking a look at. Until next time, Don't forget the popcorn!