Exodus 1960

How historically accurate is the movie Exodus starring Paul Newman and Eva Marie Saint? It's a historical drama. All the major events described happened, but some are descriptions of the actual events, such as the Acre prison escape, or the bombing of the British military offices in the King David hotel.

Exodus, American epic film, released in 1960, that was Otto Preminger's big-budget adaptation of Leon Uris's best seller about the founding of the modern state of Israel in 1948.
Based on Leon Uris' novel, this historical epic provides a dramatic backstory to the creation of the state of Israel in 1948, in the aftermath of World War II. Ari Ben Canaan (Paul Newman), a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport 600 Jewish refugees on a dangerous voyage from Cyprus to Palestine on a ship named the Exodus. He faces obstruction from British forces, who will not grant the ship passage to its destination.