Censored Voices (2015)

Days after the end of the 1967 Six Day War, a pair of kibbutzniks travelled to other kibbutzim and recorded testimonials from soldiers who were returning from battle. These conversations were heavily censored by the Israeli army until this film was produced. The audio from the interviews is paired with archival footage and current mostly nonverbal reactions from the men who provided the interviews. Almost universally the men agree with the common narrative that it was a just war, but that is juxtaposed with the feelings they have regarding the actual fighting of the war and especially the aftermath. I try to keep a mostly neutral view with regards to conflicts in the Middle East as I have never been there and have little knowledge of the history, but I can understand why the Army tried to suppress this material as it offers an unflattering version of events and questions some of the legends that spurned from that war.