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Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Language
English
Description
The true glory (80 min.): A documentary account of the allied invasion of Europe during World War II compiled from the footage shot by nearly one thousand four hundred cameramen.
The first forty days in Korea (28 min.): several companies of the 24th Division fight the Communist Chinese against great odds.
Vietnam! Vietnam! (58 min): shot on location in Vietnam in October-December 1968.
"An Emmy and Peabody award-winning TV series chronicling naval...
Language
English
Formats
Description
During World War II, a group of Jewish-American guerrilla soldiers, led by Lt. Aldo Raine, become known as "The Basterds." They are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon cross paths with a French-Jewish woman who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers. A plot is set in motion to kill the Nazi leadership, including Adolph Hitler, at a movie premiere....
Language
English
Description
Captain John Miller must take his men behind enemy lines to find Private Ryan, whose three brothers have been killed in combat. Faced with impossible odds, the men question their orders. Why are eight men risking their lives to save just one? Surrounded by the brutal realities of war, each man searches for his own answer and the strength to triumph over uncertain future with honor, decency and courage
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approx. 116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
American combat pilot Col. Joseph Ryan (Sinatra) is shot down over Nazi-controlled Italy and joins U.S. and English WWII troops in a prison camp during the summer of 1943. Given the insulting nickname "Von Ryan" because he initially seems more concerned with surviving than escaping, the colonel eventually leads Allied prisoners, as their new top ranking officer, in a daredevil race for freedom by commandeering an entire German freight train bound...
Publisher
Film is Forever Productions
Pub. Date
p2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (67 min.) : sd., col. & b&w ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
During WWII, the Japanese military developed a new weapon intended to strike directly at the American continent -- the balloon bomb. High school girls across Japan were conscripted into factories where they built thousands of balloons made of paper. These balloons were then attached to bombs and launched into the jet stream to drift toward North America. This is the story of four Japanese women who worked on balloon bombs, the families of those killed...
Series
Publisher
Eagle Media, a division of Eagle Rock Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2003
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (229 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Gives the history of four WWII airplanes: the Supermarine Spitfire, the Hawker Hurricane, the Messerschmitt BF 109, and the Focke-Wulf FW 190.
Series
Publisher
Eagel Rock Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Kamikaze prompts questions such as: How were the Japanese soldiers inspired to commit to suicide bombing in 1940s. Was it genuine national fervor or fear and the desire to belong that drove them to throw their lives away? War in the Pacific features the fighting that swept back and forth across the pacific between the fanatical Japanese and the industrially and ultimately militarily superior US forces was some of the most intense.
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (400 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This is the gripping third series that aired on PBS. Michael Kitchen plays a veteran detective whose job on the home front in southern England is complicated by WWII raging over Europe. DVD includes behind the scenes documentary and cast reflections.
10) The war
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (840 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in
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
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of how London nearly perished under the German's most concentrated aerial barrage of WWII. On the evening of December 29, 1940, the German Luftwaffe dropped tens of thousands of incendiary bombs on the heart of London, hoping to break the spirit of the British people and leave them begging for peace. As firemen and workers fought all night to control the burning, many risking their lives, Londoners fled to shelters, uncertain if their...
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
©2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1944 and 1945 Japan launched more than 9,000 Fugo Balloon Bombs into the jet stream, hoping that 10% of them would reach the United States and Canada. This film takes a look at that offensive and highlights its place in WWII history.
13) Jojo Rabbit
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy named Jojo whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler, Jojo must confront his blind nationalism.
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
©2005.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"When allied troops invaded Germany and liberated Nazi death camps at the end of World War II, they found unspeakable horrors that still haunt the world's conscience. In 1945, British and American film crews accompanying the troops liberating the camps captured these atrocities firsthand. The resulting film directed in part by Alfred Hitchcock but never finished, was discovered by Frontline in 1984 in the archives of the Imperial War Museum. Sixty...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 290 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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?
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 82 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the throes of World War II, Captain Maude Garrett joins the all-male crew of a B-17 bomber with a top-secret package. Caught off guard by the presence of a woman on a military flight, the crew tests Maude's every move. Just as her quick wit is winning them over, strange happenings and holes in her backstory incite paranoia surrounding her true mission. But this crew has more to fear; lurking in the shadows, something sinister is tearing at the...
17) Darkest hour
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
During the early days of World War II, the fate of Western Europe hangs on the newly appointed British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Hitler, or fight on against incredible odds.
18) Malèna
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
Italiano
Description
Set in a small Sicilian town during WWII, the story centers on Renato, a 13-year-old boy with a coming of age fantasy life who falls hard for the town's ultra-beautiful twentysomething, Malena
Publisher
Waterfront Soundings Productions
Pub. Date
©2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 57 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Recounts the activities and importance of the underappreciated men who crewed the merchant marine ships which carried supplies to Allied troops during World War II.
20) Midway
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
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