Six Days in June (2007)
Alma Films

Description

Although the fighting lasted for only six days in June of 1967, the effects of the Six Day War are still apparent today. On its 40th anniversary, the region remains trapped in conflict and is every bit as explosive as it was then. For Israel, the 1967 war was a military success. But it also redrew the map of the Middle East and mired the region in a never-ending cycle of occupation, terrorism 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. It gave rise to a Palestinian nationalist movement and helped unleash the fury of fundamentalism.

Tags

1960s, Middle East, Israel, Six Day War, Jordan, Egypt, Syria

Collected reviews and ratings

10 Amazon user reviews

This is an excellent presentation of the events leading up to and including the historic six-day war between Israel and the surrounding Arab nations in June, 1967.
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9.2 Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

Six Days, though, makes the potent case that in taking over all of Jerusalem, Israel turned its greatest military triumph into a Pyrrhic victory.
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8.0 Variety | Joe Leydon

In his well-balanced and lucidly constructed documentary about the Six Day War of 1967 - helmer Ilan Ziv provides invaluable perspective and fresh insights while offering an enlightening history lesson with the narrative momentum of an engrossing drama.
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5.0 Slant Magazine | Ed Gonzalez

For all its good intentions, the documentary absurdly presupposes that we have knowledge of the Middle East prior to 1967 before bombarding us with a whirlwind of names, anecdotes, and connections drawn between incidents that are almost impossible to keep up with, leaving novices feeling more confused than ever.
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