Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989

About Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989

Archival film maestro Göran Hugo Olsson has assembled—from a vast catalogue of footage in the vaults of Sweden’s national television service SVT—accounts of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as witnessed and represented by Swedish journalists. Stories of the beginning of the Israeli state interwoven with the Palestinian struggle for independence.

Göran Olsson's Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989 is a 2024 documentary history film. At 206 minutes long, it arrived in October 2024.

Its themes are war, archive footage, social & cultural documentary, and historical documentary.

Yasser Arafat takes the lead as Self (archive footage), David Ben-Gurion as Self (archive footage), Abba Eban as Self (archive footage), and Per-Åke Holmquist as Self (archive footage). The screenplay is by Göran Olsson. In the United States it streams on OVID.

TINA, All That's Left of You, and The Butler make useful companions to Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989, all filed under 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. It carries a NR rating.