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Above and Beyond

Harold Livingston (Actor), Paul Reubens (Actor), Roberta Grossman (Director) Rated:
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4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 1,642 ratings
IMDb7.7/10.0
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In 1948, just three years after the liberation of Nazi death camps, a ragtag group of skilled American pilots - both Jewish and non-Jewish, answered a call for help. In secret and at great personal risk, they smuggled planes out of the U.S., trained behind the Iron Curtain and flew for Israel in it's War of Independence. This band of brothers not only turned the tide of the war, they also embarked on personal journeys of discovery and pride.

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  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 3.2 ounces
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ 35228032
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Roberta Grossman
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Multiple Formats, Color, NTSC, Widescreen
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 19 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ October 13, 2015
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Harold Livingston, Paul Reubens, Jd Roth-round
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Team Marketing
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00XZCK67W
  • Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
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5.0 out of 5 stars Inspiring
Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2024
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This is s great movie. Historical .
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John W.
5.0 out of 5 stars God at Work !
Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2023
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With the present conflict between Gaza and Israel, everyone should see this DVD. Biblical history puts the state of Israel in its present location. This DVD shows the hand of God working in the lives of WW 2 U.S. & Canadian Jewish fighter pilots to bring about the establishment of the Jewish homeland in 1948. Many were non- believers but all said that in landing there, there was an overwhelming feeling of coming home. A number of them gave their lives for Israel's statehood. God can use anyone willing to carry out His work !!
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SaguaroGeorge
5.0 out of 5 stars Superb, and often moving, documentary
Reviewed in the United States on December 24, 2016
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A wonderful documentary about foreign Jewish pilots who saved the remnant of Judaism living in Palestine in 1947 from certain annihilation.

When the British decided to leave Palestine, they turned it over to the UN. The UN passed a partition resolution giving most of the center of the land, including all the land around Jerusalem, to the Arabs, while cutting the Jewish state into three pieces, a thin slice of land along the coast from Haifa to Tel Aviv, a bit of land east of Jerusalem, and part of the arid Negev desert. The Jews, some 600,000 people, many of them survivors of the Nazi camps who were in terrible physical shape, having few weapons with no planes and no tanks, and surrounded by five Arab nations armed to the teeth, felt they had no choice and accepted the UN partition plan. The Arabs refused and, as soon as the British left, descended upon the Jewish areas in force, their avowed purpose to finish the job Hitler started and throw the Jews into the sea. Today, when the Palestinians speak bitterly about Israeli failure to comply with UN resolutions, they of course do not mention the 1947 partition resolution, which they rejected; instead, they start from 1967, when Israel fought off an anticipated invasion and in the process gained control over Jerusalem inter alia. Had the Arabs accepted the UN partition resolution, they would not have suffered all the years of occupation and living in refugee camps, and would have had more territory than they could ever hope to get now in any peace treaty with Israel. Instead, they defied the UN in the expectation of winning it all.

The UN, of course, did nothing to protect the Jews, who had accepted its resolution, when the combined armies of Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan (Transjordan) and Iraq, thousands of trained soldiers with modern military equipment, invaded the Jewish enclaves as soon as the British left. The Israelis fought back with small weapons but were on the point of being overwhelmed when a few Jewish pilots from the US, Canada, South Africa and elsewhere, smuggled planes out of the West and flew into Israel to help stop the Arab onslaught. This movie is their story, and it was made just in time to be able to interview some of those pilots who are, of course, very old now. It is very exciting and in places very moving. Superbly done.
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Len Forster
4.0 out of 5 stars Mazal Tov! Eretz Israel Gets An Air Force
Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2016
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Very informative look into the development of the Israeli Air Force immediately after WW II. Even though a good sized part of it is shot in black and white, it is an interesting and entertaining look at the problems facing Israel immediately following the U.N. decision for partition, and then the announcement by the British of their final day of occupation. Israel's days were numbered. It had no guns, not many bullets, a tank or two, and NO airplanes. Certainly, of the millions of Arabs arrayed against them, determined to ensure their destruction, only the Egyptians had a significant air force. They were flying the most modern airplanes available. The Israelis didn't even have a Piper Cub.

Through a lot of hard work on the part of many people and after David Ben Gurion begged Truman for the right to purchase American military surplus, a plan was developed to "smuggle" in plain sight a major number of airplanes from the U.S. But, they were big planes, not fighters. Later, when these planes had been smuggled to Czechoslovakia, military fighter planes were acquired, dismantled, put inside the bigger planes and flown at the last minute to Israel.

On the day the war began, Israel barely had a handful of planes. With each day, their situation improved, and, in this film, you will meet meet"alive and in color" the men and women who made the Israeli Air Force a reality. You will be amazed by the tremendous acts of courage and determination they manifested to assure that Air Force came into existence. If you just happen to be Jewish, you will also be proud, not just of the Jews who helped, but the gentiles as well, and those from the United States who were never ever able to go home again (they committed a crime by fighting for Israel).

If you have an hour and a half to spend learning about the creation of the "nation" of Israel in post-WW II middle east, you will really enjoy this film. I highly recommend it.
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JDay
5.0 out of 5 stars Relevant even today
Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2023
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The issue of Palestine is not new. The new country of Israel is able to resist takeover by neighboring countries thanks to WWII pilots and an amazing as collection of surplus planes.
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Kenneth
5.0 out of 5 stars Great movie
Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2023
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Gives a unique historical perspective of the pilots and crews that served Israel in the late 1940's.
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7G44ght
5.0 out of 5 stars American Jewish pilots flying Nazi fighter planes to defend Israel against the Arabs? Amazing.
Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2023
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Well done. Lot's of great video and photo footage. Amazing first-person interviews. Watched on Memorial Day weekend 2023 to remember those who gave the last full measure.
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JT
5.0 out of 5 stars The definitive doc about Mahal and the birth of the IAF
Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2018
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Brilliant. I am a pilot, have read extensively about the Mahal pilots who helped give birth to the Israeli Air Force in 1948, and this is the best account of that dramatic effort that I have encountered. Bob Vickman was also a family friend, but there was more about him in this one film than our family had known. The IAF surely opened its otherwise sacrosanct archives for the filmmakers; there was a great deal of precious footage that may never have been publicly available before, including extensive video of the treacherous Avia S-199's, the ersatz Czech Me-109's that formed 101 Squadron, the first combat unit of the IAF. The rare archival video is enhanced at times by Lucasfilm effects, but it is the interviews with the pilots themselves--who seem surprisingly youthful, perhaps the interviews were done some time ago--that carry the day. The producer is Steven Spielberg's sister Nancy, which may explain apparently excellent IDF cooperation. Now if Steven could make a feature film based on this documentary. . .
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Alberto7
4.0 out of 5 stars Amazing documentary
Reviewed in Canada on February 17, 2017
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Amazing documentary. Some terrific interviews intercut with rare archival footage of the era. A must if you are interested in the history of Israel.
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Robert S
5.0 out of 5 stars If you like documentaries about Air Forces &/or Israel
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 26, 2017
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If you like documentaries about Air Forces this is an excellent one about the start of the Israeli Air Force at the birth of the State in 1948.This force was manned by mainly Jewish veterans of World War 2 using clapped out surplus second hand aircraft .It follows a number of personal histories and also that of the State which on Independence was invaded by a number of mainstream Arab armies (including Air Forces).The odds against them were huge but they started to dominate the Middle East skies even if only psychologically by scaring the Arab armies to halt their advances and probably saved the new State and people (many of whom were refugees)from annihilation.Ironically the first fighter aircraft were ex-German Messerschmitt 109's used against Egyptian and others' Spitfires.It was only later on that Israel acquired their own Spitfires.
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TJ
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in Australia on August 6, 2018
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v. good
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julietta gabriel
5.0 out of 5 stars The men who founded the Israeli Air Force - great film
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 31, 2018
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Excellent film documenting the history of the creation of the Israeli Air Force - a moving account of the pioneering passion, courage and bravado of the young men who were the foundation of a fighting force which enabled Israel to win the War of Independence - in which five Arab nations determined to obliterate the embryonic State. Seen through interviews with these same men in their mature years, and original photos and footage - the humour and poignancy with which they describe their exploits shines through to make a really gripping movie.
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Giulio Morpurgo
5.0 out of 5 stars Well done, touching and powerful
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 3, 2016
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Very well done and sober documentary, witnessing the heroic acts of a bunch of pilots, veterans from WW_II, who risked (and in some cases lost) their lives to follow their conscience and defend the newly born state of Israel. Their intervention was decisive for the victory and survival of Israel. Also the way in which the airplanes were recuperated here and there from different places, in some cases reassembled, and finally flown to Israel is a very Interesting story.
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