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Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 400 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Foyle, a veteran detective is persuaded to remain on duty at home rather than join the troops at the front as World War II begins. But home is on the vulnerable southern English coast and the chaos, danger and venality of war seep into everyday events.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2005], c2004
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (400 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This is the gripping third series that airs 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.
3) Unbroken
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (138 min.) sound, color 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Olympian and war hero Louis Zamperini survived in a raft for 47 days after a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, only to be caught by the Japanese Navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.
Series
Film Movement volume 5, film 4
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Finnish
Description
When nine-year-old Eero's father is killed at the beginning of World War II his mother, broken by grief, is unable to care for him. She sends Eero out of Finland to live with a family in Sweden, away from the conflict. Feeling abandoned by his biological Finnish mother, he cannot quite attach to his Swedish surrogate mother. When the war ends, and he returns to his mother in Finland, his confusion intensifies.
Uncle: Biography of a humble man, retold...
5) Jojo Rabbit
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 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.
6) The Pacific
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (videodisc) (460 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Pacific is an epic ten-part miniseries which tracks the intertwined real-life stories of three U.S Marines - Robert Leckie, John Basilone, and Eugene Sledge - across the vast canvas of the Pacific Theater during World War II. The miniseries follows these men and their fellow Marines from their first battle with the Japanese on Guadalcanal, through the rain forests of Cape Gloucester and the strongholds of Peleliu, across the bloody sands of Iwo...
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
During the winter of 1952, British authorities entered the home of mathematician, cryptanalyst and war hero Alan Turing to investigate a reported burglary. They instead ended up arresting Turing himself on charges of "gross indecency," an accusation that would lead to his devastating conviction for the criminal offense of homosexuality - little did officials know, they were actually incriminating the pioneer of modern-day computing. Famously leading...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (168 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Recounts the problems faced by three returning veterans of WWII as they attempt to pick up the threads of their lives. Captain Derry is returning to a loveless marriage, Sergeant Stephenson is a stranger to a family that's grown up without him, and sailor Parrish is tormented by the loss of his hands
10) D-day to Berlin
Series
Publisher
Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 150 min.) : sd., col. & b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follow one of the greatest military campaigns ever, as this documentary tracks the invasion of the Allied troops at Normandy all the way to the final assault on Berlin.
Publisher
Miramax
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
During World War II an Italian Jewish man uses his vivid imagination to convince his son they're playing a game at a concentration camp in order to keep his son's spirits up.
"***1/2 Highly recommended."--Video Librarian
"A modern masterpiece."--Chicago Tribune
"Two thumbs up."--Siskel & Ebert
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (435 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Intelligence officer Captain Callum Ferguson, is tasked by the army to ensure that a captured German scientist, Dieter, starts working for the British RAF on urgently developing the jet engine. With the background of the emerging Cold War, it's crucial for British national security that cutting-edge technology is made available to the armed forces as quickly as possible.
13) Dunkirk
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From filmmaker Christopher Nolan comes the epic action thriller Dunkirk, starring Fionn Whitehead, Kenneth Branagh, Mark Rylance and Tom Hardy. The story unfolds on land, sea and air, as hundreds of thousands of British and Allied troops are trapped on the beaches of Dunkirk with enemy troops closing in. RAF Spitfires engage the enemy in the skies above the Channel, trying to protect the defenseless men below. Meanwhile, hundreds of small boats manned...
Series
Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival volume 2019
Publisher
Pat Productions
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) (Blu-ray): sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young woman joins a group of D-Day veterans on a 70th anniversary pilgrimage to retrace their route from the beaches at Normandy during World War II. Sunken Roads: Three Generations After D-Day follows their journey, painting an intimate portrait of these soldiers during their final return to that hallowed ground. Providing a new perspective through the eyes of a 20-year old woman, a story of intergenerational friendship blossoms from the memories...
15) Hart's war
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
Widescreen version (2.35:1)
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Honor, courage, and sacrifice are revealed in unexpected ways as a ranking U.S. prisoner in a Nazi POW camp is joined in December 1944 by a law-student lieutenant who'd been captured despite his father's powerful military connections. When a black pilot from the famous Tuskeegee airmen is falsely accused of murdering a fellow prisoner, Lt. Hart tries his case and discovers the real motivation behind the ranking officer's kangaroo court.
Publisher
No Shame Films
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
Violent summer: In the final days of Mussolini's reign, Carlo, the hedonistic son of a high-ranking Fascist, falls in love with a Navy officer's widow. Fleeing the wrath of the Anti-Fascists for the safety of Southern Italy, the lovers are stranded by the masses of the dead and dying and must confront the horrors of war previously kept from them by a life of privilege.
Girl with a suitcase: 16-year-old Lorenzo falls in love with cabaret singer Aida,...
Publisher
Distributed by RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 274 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
World War II is over, but the Cold War simmers in 1946 London. DCS Christopher Foyle has retired from police work when Britain's secret intelligence service compels him to join its ranks. Reunited with his former colleague, newlywed Sam Wainwright, Foyle faces new--but no less deadly--threats in the world of spies and counterintelligence.
Series
Captain America volume 1
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
March, 1942. 90-pound weakling Steve Rogers doggedly attempts to enlist in the army, only to be repeatedly classified 4F. Rogers' determination and decency come to the attention of Dr. Abraham Erskine of the Strategic Scientific Reserve. Rogers is the first test subject for Erskine's super-soldier serum, which transforms him utterly. When the program is abruptly ended, Rogers becomes Captain America--touring America to sell war bonds. On a USO tour...
20) South Pacific
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
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