Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play 1966s Cast a Giant Shadow is based on Ted Berkmans biography of Colonel " Mickey" Marcus the American soldier who served as an adviser in the fight to establish the state of Israel in 1948 It stars Kirk Douglas as the likeable "stiffneck" & WWII veteran persuaded to take up the cause Israel back then was depicted as a negligible military force under threat of extinction at the hands of its Arab neighbours hamstrung by a UN embargo on arms supplies It takes Douglas at his most square-jawed to see off the Egyptian military & defy a blockade to beat a path through to Jerusalem