Golda

There has been controversy around the casting of Helen Mirren in the lead role, who is neither Israeli nor Jewish, and was made up with heavy prosthetics to look like the Jewish Israeli prime minister. Director Guy Nattiv is from Israel, as are numerous supporting actors who play roles within the Israel Defense Forces, including Rami Heuberger, Lior Ashkenazi, Rotem Keinan, and Dvir Benedek. The portrayal of the Yom Kippur War is very much from the Israeli point of view, given the focus on Golda and those around her. She is a woman in a position of power who shows strength and achieves a great deal, though her real-life counterpart was a controversial figure in her home nation.

Explosions and gunfire seen in news footage. Much violence is heard through army communications, rather than seen on-screen, including screaming, verbal descriptions of battle, gunfire, and further explosions. Character is treated for lymphoma cancer, with scenes involving injections and hospital scans, a person in bed hooked up to machines, as well as hair falling out and throwing up blood. Reference to nuclear weapons. Character scratches own hands until they bleed. Mention of prisoners of war being treated badly and having fingernails torn out, and Jews beaten to death in the street. Dead bodies shown under sheets in a morgue, and coffins laid out on airport tarmac. A character's hand falls to the side of the bed, indicating they have died.

Occasional language includes "damn" and "hell."

The main character smokes cigarettes almost constantly, as do others around her. Drinking, mostly in the form of spirits, but not to the point of intoxication. Codeine and other drugs taken in a medical context.