Begins with the 1947 U.N. decision to partition Palestine and charts the ensuing half-century of enmity, warfare, mediation and negotiations. Includes interviews and news clips of heads of state and other military and intelligence leaders. Episodes on the first disc cover Israel's struggle for statehood, including the victories against Arab armies in 1948 and 1967, and the history of the Palestinian Liberation Organization. The concluding program looks at the Yom Kippur War in 1973, the Camp David peace accord in 1978, the start of the Palestinian "Intifada" uprising in 1987, the Oslo agreement in 1993, and the current attempts to consolidate a shaky reconciliation.

Videodisc release of the 1998 television documentary by WGBH, Boston and Brian Lapping Associates in association with BBC and La Sept/ARTE. Book supplement: The fifty years war / by Afron Bregman and Jihan El-Tahri.

Disc 1. pt. 1.Land divided, 1947-56 -- pt. 2. The six day war, 1967 -- pt. 3. Palestinian exiles, 1970-82 -- Disc 2. pt. 4. Peacemaking, 1970-79 -- pt. 5. Banging heads, 1987-91 -- pt. 6. Land divided, 1992-98.