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The Long Way Home( 1997)

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For the survivors of the Holocaust, liberation was only the beginning.

Overview

The story of the post World War II Jewish refugee situation from liberation to the establishment of the modern state of Israel.

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      Morgan Freeman

      Narrator (voice)

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      Ed Asner

      George Patton / Immigrant to USA / David Ben-Gurion / Holocaust Survivor (voice)

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      Sean Astin

      Earl G. Harrison, Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization (voice)

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      Martin Landau

      (voice)

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      Miriam Margolyes

      (voice)

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      David Paymer

      (voice)

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      Nina Siemaszko

      (voice)

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      Helen Slater

      (voice)

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      Michael York

      (voice)

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    A review by CinemaSerf

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    Written by CinemaSerf on Sat Oct 18 2025
    I don’t think I’ve seen a documentary that has attempted to follow the period immediately after the liberation of the death camps at the end of WWII through to the establishment of the Israeli state in 1948, and this makes good use of a wide array of archive material to illustrate just how torturous this process was for many. With most of Europe in ruins and even the victors on their economic knees, the problem of what to do with tens of thousands of displaced persons was one that nobody had a straightforward solution for. Tired of being shunted from pillar to post, the Jewish people increasing...

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

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