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Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
1973
Language
English
Description
Unsurpassed in depth and scope, its 26 hour-long programs feature an extraordinary collection of newsreel, propaganda, and home-movie footage drawn from the archives of 18 nations, including color close-ups of Adolf Hitler taken by his mistress, that present an unvarnished perspective of the war's pivotal events. Penetrating interviews with eyewitness participants--from Hitler's secretary to Alger Hiss to ordinary citizens who stood outside the battle...
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1971]
Edition
Widescreen enchanted musical ed.
Language
English
Description
An amateur witch, along with three precocious orphans, flies into one fantastic adventure after another aboard a bewitched bed to save the country from hostile invaders.
3) The war
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of ordinary people in four quintessentially American towns - Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama; Sacramento, California; and Luverne, Minnesota - and examines the ways in which the Second World War touched the lives of every family on every street in every town in America.
Series
Publisher
Candlelight Media Group
Pub. Date
[2006], c2001
Edition
Full screen and widescreen versions.
Language
English
Description
When John Barnes acquires an old book filled with intriguing handwritten notes, he begins a correspondence with its previous owner -- and it promises to be more than just an exchange of letters.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
D-Day 60th anniversary commerative ed.
Language
English
Description
In the last great invasion of World War II, a squad of American soldiers embark on a special mission ... to find Private Ryan. Faced with impossible odds, surrounded by the brutalities of war, each man searches for his own answer and the strength to triumph over an uncertain future with honor, decency and courage.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by VCI Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Nurse Jean Paget is one of a small band of women trekking through the Japanese-occupied Malayan jungle, where they are befriended by Joe Harman, a tough Australian P.O.W. Later each learns that the other has survived the horrors of the war, and they set out separately to find each other.
8) Paradise
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
Russian
Description
PARADISE tells the compelling story of three individuals, Olga, Jules and Helmut, whose paths cross amidst the devastation of war. Olga, a Russian aristocratic immigrant and member of the French Resistance, is arrested by Nazi police for hiding Jewish children during a surprise raid. As her punishment, she is sent to jail where she meets Jules, a French-Nazi collaborator who is assigned to investigate her case. Jules grows fond of Olga and offers...
Publisher
Entertainment One
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Language
English
Description
Determined to join the fight against Nazi Germany, Earl Kir, a young South African pilot, volunteers his services to the Royal Air Force. While in combat, Kirk and his crew are forced to parachute into Nazi occupied territory, where they are hunted by a vengeful German SS Officer, who will stop at nothing than to find, capture and kill them all.
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Set in Hiroshima during World War II, an eighteen year old girl gets married and now has to prepare food for her family despite the rationing and lack of supplies. As she struggles with the daily loss of life's amenities she still has to maintain the will to live.
11) Band of brothers
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
The story of Easy Company of the US Army Airbourne Paratrooper division and their mission in WWII France during Operation Overlord.
12) Midway
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
Centers on the Battle of Midway, a clash between the American fleet and the Imperial Japanese Navy which marked a pivotal turning point in the Pacific Theater during WWII. The film, based on the real-life events of this heroic feat, tells the story of the leaders and soldiers who used their instincts, fortitude, and bravery to overcome the odds.
13) Resistance
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Follows aspiring mime artist Marcel Marceau as he joins the French Resistance during World War II to help save thousands of orphaned Jewish children.
Publisher
Excel Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
During the very last days of WWII, American soldiers fight their way through Germany against small pockets of resistance from remnants of the German forces. During the struggle, two American M18 tank destroyers are sent to root out a die hard group of Nazis holed up in the Harz Mountains as racial tensions mount amid the crew.
15) Mister Roberts
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005, c1955
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
A comedy-drama about life aboard a Navy cargo ship in Pacific waters during World War II. The monotonous non-combat duty of a fun-loving crew is enlivened by a feud between the petty, intolerant captain and an impetuous, highly-respected cargo officer whose continuous efforts to get a transfer to combat duty are blocked by the captain.
Publisher
[PBS]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
With her English accent and her London ways, Rose Coyne is the only 'stranger' in her rural Northern Ireland town, until 4,000 Americans arrive at the nearby WWII airbase. As Rose finds herself acting as peacekeeper between the disgruntled locals and the soldiers, she is also drawn to the engaging young Captain Dreyfuss. Will Rose risk her family for this forbidden love?
17) South Pacific
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
A nurse is among the American forces waiting for World War II to arrive on an isolated Pacific island where she finds love with a mysterious French planter. At the same time, a Navy officer falls under the spell of an island girl and the warm tropical sea breezes.
Publisher
[Entertainment One]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Set in post-World War II America, Wings of the Wind follows the journey of Rose Cornell (Nicole Mauck) in her search to find an answer to the age-old question, If God is in control, why do bad things happen? Rose struggles with her faith after a series of painful events. She has been abandoned by her mother, her brother is addicted to illegal gambling, and a near tragic crash has taken away her favorite pastime of flying airplanes. As Rose reaches...
19) Hacksaw Ridge
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
[DVD].
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
During the bloodiest battle of WWII, in Okinawa, Desmond Doss saved 75 men without firing or carrying a gun. He was the only American soldier in WWII to fight on the front lines without a weapon, as he believed that while the war was justified, killing was nevertheless wrong. As an army medic, he singlehandedly evacuated the wounded from behind enemy lines, braved fire while tending to soldiers and was wounded by a grenade and hit by snipers. Doss...
20) Home fires
Series
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
U.K. edition, widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Bitter rivals fight for control of the Women's Institute in a rural English town as it struggles with the onset of World War II. Separated from husbands, fathers, sons and brothers for years at a time, some permanently, they find themselves under extraordinary pressures in a rapidly fragmenting world.
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