Based on Ambassador Avner's best-selling book, The Prime Ministers, the film examines Rabin's election as the country's first native-born Israeli leader in 1974, his negotiating the first bilateral treaty between Israel and Egypt in 1975, the dramatic events surrounding Israel's rescue of hostages in Entebbe in 1976, the tense relationship between newly elected US President Jimmy Carter and Rabin, and Rabin's subsequent downfall in a financial scandal involving his wife, Leah. 

 

The movie also explores Ambassador Avner's decision to 
work for Menachem Begin when he surprised the world in 1977 by being elected the Prime Minister of Israel. It looks at the drama behind Anwar Sadat's historic visit to Jerusalem, the Camp David negotiating process, the difficult relationship between President Carter and Menachem Begin, as well as the tense relations that rose between Begin and President Reagan over the 1982 Lebanon War.

The documentary also recounts Begin's decline after the death of his beloved wife, Aliza, and Yehuda Avner's career as a diplomat in the UK and Australia before returning to Israel to work with Yitzhak Rabin not long before his assassination in 1995, after he had been elected a second time as Israel's Prime Minister. 

Starring the voices of Michael Douglas as Yitzhak Rabin and Christoph Waltz as Menachem Begin, The Prime Ministers: Soldiers and Peacemakers is full of emotion and rich history with rare, never-before-seen photos and film footage.