Above and Beyond | movie | 2015 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

In 1948, a group of World War II pilots volunteered to fight for Israel in the War of Independence. | dG1fSUxlYUJoN1NkOWc

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00:00I grew up in an age of very virulent anti-semitism.

00:13I didn't deny my Judaism, but I wasn't happy about being Jewish.

00:20What changed me was knowing what Hitler did to the Jews.

00:27I couldn't live with myself if I didn't do this.

00:33It was desperation time in Palestine, and I said, look, I know there's going to be a

00:38war there, and I'm a fighter pilot, and I want to go there.

00:41The 1948 war was the most significant of the Israeli-Arab wars.

00:46It was a matter of life and death.

00:48I was going to help the Jews out.

00:51I was going to help my people out.

00:55We landed at Natal, Brazil, got to Casablanca, Rome.

00:59We headed one of the town.

01:01We weren't looking for trouble, but we were always looking for action.

01:04We were young, good-looking, had hair.

01:06We had a lot of testosterone, and we didn't want to waste it.

01:13The airplane just sunk like this.

01:15We were flying wild-tough cocktail.

01:19I knew, actually, you're going to die.

01:28You want to stop us, shoot us down.

01:30I knew what had happened to other downed pilots, and I wasn't going to be taken prisoner.

01:44I said to the guys, we will never surrender.

01:47There will not be another Holocaust.

01:51Maybe God spared us in World War II so that we could help the remnants of our people survive.

01:57I was born to be here in that moment of history.

02:13How to live?