The Long Way Home
Sep 19 1997
•2h 0m
•Documentary, History, War
The story of the post World War II Jewish refugee situation from liberation to the establishment of the modern state of Israel.
Cast
See allMorgan Freeman
Narrator (voice)
Ed Asner
George Patton / Immigrant to USA / David Ben-Gurion / Holocaust Survivor (voice)
Sean Astin
Earl G. Harrison, Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization (voice)
Martin Landau
(voice)
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