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Valley of Tears
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2020 · TV series · 45 min episodes · 1 season
Created by Gal Zaid, Amit Cohen, Ron Leshem, Yaron Zilberman
On October 6th 1973, the Middle East was shaken by the biggest war it had ever seen. A war that should have been the last one, and that forever changed the region.
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Pachinko was big in South Korea when both season 1 and 2 were released, and plenty of ad time was given to it in SK.
Arguably Tehran was in a similar position as well, but it was an already existing show on Kan 11 that Apple got the international licensing rights for - same way HBO Max got Sha'at Ne'ila/Valley of Tears.
War movies produced in Israel are also a distinctly different experience from American ones.
They tend to be made by veterans of those wars, after the ~20 year gap that seems pretty standard for the PTSD barrier to crack. e.g. the best ones made about the Lebanon War (what Israel calls its intervention 1982-2000 in the Lebanese Civil War) all came out within a couple of years of each other:
* Lebanon (2009)
* Waltz with Bashir (2008)
* Beaufort (2007)
And the first of the good Yom Kippur War (1973) films is probably Kippur (2000), with the long-development-time miniseries Valley of Tears (Sha'at Ne'ila) only coming out last year.
Not quite enough time has passed for films about the heaviest fighting of the 2nd Intifada to be made - the closest thing I can think of is the TV show Fauda (2015-present) but that's a somewhat different genre.