Documentary by Alon Schwarz investigating the massacre of Palestinians in the coastal village of Tantura during the 1948 Nakba. It begins with the story of Teddy Katz, an Israeli graduate student at Haifa University, who produced a master's thesis on the massacre of Tantura, a Palestinian village, at the hands of the Israeli military's Alexandroni Brigade during the 1948 war. Although his research was based on oral history interviews with the brigade members who committed the massacre and survivors, his thesis became the subject of a controversy in Israel, the removal of the thesis from Israeli libraries, a lawsuit against Katz by Alexandroni veterans, a forced public apology, and the author's retraction of his own academic research. Tantura uses the story of Katz's thesis (interviewed in the documentary) as a starting point to examine this event. Using the oral history interviews of the Israeli perpetrators and Palestinian survivors of the Tantura massacre conducted by Katz for his thesis research, in addition to other sources, Schwarz's documentary revisits the events of this massacre. This source is valuable for context on the Tantura massacre, war crimes in 1948, the erasure of Palestinian history, Zionist militias, the Alexandroni Brigade, and Palestinian oral histories.
