Exodus 1947

Genre: Documentary
Run time: 56 min
Premiere: 1997. July 6.

Director: Elizabeth Rodgers Robby Henson
Writer: Robby Henson Elizabeth Rodgers
Starring: Murray Aronoff Ike Aronowitz David Ben-Gurion Eli Bergman

Exodus 1947 is a one hour PBS documentary narrated by Morley Safer with a score by Ilan Rechtman. The Exodus 1947 voyage acted as a catalyst in forming the new State of Israel. The documentary focuses on clandestine and "illegal" American efforts to finance and crew the most infamous of ten American ships that attempted to bring Jewish refugees to Palestine.