In 2018, there were plenty of movies that critics raved about and others. Within a year, no fewer than three movies about the raid were. Its a lesson that history has failed to teach us, filtered through a movie that doesnt understand why. A gripping thriller inspired by the true events of the 1976 hijacking of an air france flight en route from tel aviv to paris, the film depicts the most. Inspired by true events, the thriller 7 days in entebbe portrayed the. Inspired by the true events of the 1976 hijacking of an air france flight en route from tel aviv to paris, and the most daring rescue mission ever attempted. Raid on entebbe constitutes one of two allstar madefortv reenactments of the entebbe rescue of july 4, 1976. The film recounts the story of operation entebbe, a 1976 counterterrorist hostagerescue operation. The hostages and rescuers involved in the entebbe crisis deserved much better. On june 27, 1976, a jet carrying an international mix of passengers is hijacked by. Follow the movie on facebook and twitter plot summary in july 1976, four terrorists hijack an air france flight from telaviv to paris and force the flight crew to land in entebbe, uganda. It was released in the united states on 16 march 2018 and in the united kingdom on 11 may 2018. With batsheva dance company, zina zinchenko, ben schnetzer, daniel bruhl. Every other movie about israel does that, youd think if any story could stay focused.