{"id":8568,"date":"2010-06-02T22:50:54","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T21:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=8568"},"modified":"2010-06-02T23:06:31","modified_gmt":"2010-06-02T22:06:31","slug":"people-of-the-exodus-adam-curtis-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2010\/06\/02\/people-of-the-exodus-adam-curtis-bbc\/","title":{"rendered":"People of the Exodus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/blogs\/adamcurtis\/2010\/06\/21_miles_off_the_coast_of_pale.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8569\" title=\"People of the Exodus\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/People-of-the-Exodus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/blogs\/adamcurtis\/\">BBC blog<\/a> director <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adam_Curtis\">Adam Curtis<\/a><\/strong> has posted a fascinating documentary called <strong>People of the Exodus<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Made in 1973, it tells the story of a Jewish refugee ship named the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SS_Exodus\">Exodus<\/a> which tried to break the British blockade of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/British_Mandate_of_Palestine\">Palestine<\/a> in 1947.<\/p>\n<p>Featuring interviews from both sides, it has many striking parallels with <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/middle_east\/10195838.stm\">recent events off the coast of Israel<\/a>: a blockade; soldiers boarding the ship; deaths on board and international outrage.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch the film on Curtis&#8217; blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/blogs\/adamcurtis\/2010\/06\/21_miles_off_the_coast_of_pale.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[Via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/thedailyMUBI\/statuses\/15273968184\">The Daily MUBI<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SS_Exodus\">Find out more about the Exodus<\/a> at Wikipedia<br \/> &gt; Adam Curtis at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/blogs\/adamcurtis\/\">BBC<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0193231\/\">IMDb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On his BBC blog director Adam Curtis has posted a fascinating documentary called People of the Exodus, which has striking parallels with current events in the Middle East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1309,1452],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8568"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}