109 minutes / Color/B&W
English; Hebrew; Arabic; Russian / English subtitles
Closed Captioned
Release: 2007
Copyright: 2007
Although the fighting lasted only six days in June of 1967, the effects of the Six Day War are still apparent today. The region remains trapped in a conflict as explosive as it was then. For Israel, the 1967 war was a military success, but it also redrew the Middle East map and mired the region in a never-ending cycle of occupation, resistance and reprisal. The Six Day War forever changed the politics of the Middle East by helping to destroy the secular basis of Pan-Arab nationalism and transform secular Zionism, cementing the fusion between nationalism and religion. It also accelerated the Palestinian national movement.
Shot on location in Israel, Palestine, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Moscow and Washington, SIX DAYS IN JUNE takes us through the weeks that preceded the war, its six days of fighting and the aftermath that still lingers today.
Interviews include:
Abdel Meguid Farid - Nasser's Personal Secretary
Gen. Shlomo Gazit - Israel's Head of Intelligence Research 1967
Indar Jit Rikhye - UNEF Commander 1968
Amin Howeidy - Egypt's Minster of State 1967
Michael Bar-Zohar - Dayan's Spokesman 1967
Zvi Dinstein - Israel's Deputy Minister of Defence 1967
Said Al Rifai - King Hussein's Personal Secretary
“In his well-balanced and lucidly constructed documentary about the Six Day War of 1967 -- a flashpoint event that continues to inflame passions and impact politics in the Middle East and beyond -- helmer Ilan Ziv provides invaluable perspective and fresh insights while offering an enlightening history lesson with the narrative momentum of an engrossing drama.” —Variety
“Frequently absorbing and almost always thought provoking.” —George Robinson, The Jewish Week
“[An] intricate, propulsive explication…gives The Battle of Algiers a run for its money.” —Mark Holcomb, Time Out
“The best documentary on Israeli history that I’ve ever seen!” —Richard Von Busack, Metro Archive