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1947, thousands of Jews holocaust survivors were held by the British. Ari Ben, a rebel, obtained a cargo ship and smuggled 611 Jewish inmates to Palestine, under impossible circumstances.

Based on Leon Uris' novel, this historical epic provides a dramatic backstory to the creation of the state of Israel in 1948, in the aftermath of World War II. Ari Ben Canaan (Paul Newman), a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport 600 Jewish refugees on a dangerous voyage from Cyprus to Palestine on a ship named the Exodus. He faces obstruction from British forces,

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