Second Season of Prisoners of War Available On July 28 In New Boxed DVD Set

Arrow Films' Noir label has revealed that the second season of Prisoners of War (Hatufim) will release on July 28th in a boxed DVD set. Read on to learn more.


From the Press Release
Arrow Films’ Noir label is pleased to confirm the Monday July 28th DVD box set release of the second season of PRISONERS OF WAR (Hatufim), Gideon Raff’s dark Israeli drama that inspired the US television smash Homeland.

Broadcast in Hebrew with English subtitles, and currently airing on the Sky Arts channel, PRISONERS OF WAR, or Hatufim (which stands for “abductees” in Hebrew), tells the story of three Israeli Defence Force reservists who are captured behind enemy lines in Lebanon. Their fate is unknown until seventeen years later, when they mysteriously return to their homeland – two of them alive, the third in a coffin.

The series explores the soldiers' reintegration into Israeli society on both a national and personal level. However, while the soldiers are acclimatising to their lives, a secret investigation begins to unfold about the truth of their capture, and the many discrepancies in the soldiers' stories.

When the first season of Hatufim originally aired in Israel in 2010, it became the country’s highest-rated drama of all time. The script was snapped up by Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa, the writers of 24, who began work alongside Gideon Raff on a US counterpart, Homeland.

PRISONERS OF WAR gives the UK public the chance to see, with shocking honesty, where Homeland came from... Hatufim is the real deal.