Admittedly I haven't done much external research on Operation Thunderbolt (at least not yet) but the consensus view is that Raid on Entebbe is an accurate historical film. It's also weird to think that not one but two films about Operation Thunderbolt came out the same year that it occurred, in 1976. So as a result they made an accurate film with the exception of a few details that hadn't come out yet (such as the murder of Dora Bloch). In 1976 terrorists from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacked an Air France flight from Tel Aviv to Paris shortly after a layover in Athens. Owing to sympathy offered by Idi Amin the plane was rerouted to Uganda and Israeli passengers were forced into a hangar where they still held as hostages. With pressure mounting, Israel launched Operation Thunderbolt to free the hostages. And that's more or less what the film portrays. Charles Bronson and other, less famous names star in the picture like Peter Finch, Yaphet Kotto, Sylvia Sydney, Martin Balsam, Jack Warden, and a very young James Woods. The film also manages to keep up the suspense, not always easy for thrillers based on real events. One somewhat major problem is that the quality (at least on the copy I watched) was fuzzy and looked like the screen of a TV that was playing this film in the '70s. Other than that it's a fairly solid film.
Review of Raid on Entebbe
