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The Diary of a Young Girl is the record of two years in the life of a remarkable Jewish girl and one of the most moving and eloquent accounts of the Holocaust, Frank's triumphant humanity in the face of unfathomable deprivation and fear has made the book one of the most enduring documents of our time. This edition reprints the Definitive edition authorized by the Frank estate, plus a new introduction, a bibliography, and a chronology of Anne Frank's...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Physical Desc
13 sound discs (15 hrs. 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
British pilots James Teasdale and Bryan Young have been chosen to conduct a special photo-reconnaissance mission near Dresden, Germany. Intelligence believes the Nazis are building new factories that could turn the tide of the war. When their plane is shot down, James and Bryan know they will be executed if captured. With an enemy patrol in pursuit, they manage to jump aboard a train reserved for senior SS soldiers wounded on the eastern front. In...
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) The postcard
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Anne Berest's The Postcard is among the most acclaimed and beloved French novels of recent years. Luminous and gripping to the very last page, it is an enthralling investigation into family secrets, a poignant tale of mothers and daughters, and a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life. January, 2003. Together with the usual holiday cards, an anonymous postcard is delivered to the Berest family home. On the front,...
6) 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.
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
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.
9) 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...
11) The lily pond
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having left Nazi-occupied Vienna a year ago, thirteen-year-old Jewish refugee Stephie Steiner adapts to life in the cultured Swedish city of Gothenburg, where she attends school, falls in love, and worries about her parents who were not allowed to emigrate.
12) 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
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.
14) A faraway island
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1939 Sweden, two Jewish sisters wait for their parents to flee the Nazis in Austria, but while eight-year-old Nellie settles in quickly, twelve-year-old Stephie feels stranded at the end of the world, with a foster mother who is as cold and unforgiving as the island on which they live.
15) Stalag 17
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two worthy **Academy Award** nominees from 1950's *Sunset Boulevard* - actor William Holden and director Billy Wilder - re-teamed three years later for the gripping World War II drama, STALAG 17. The result was another Best Director nomination for Wilder (his fourth), and the elusive Best Actor Oscar for Holden. Holden portrays the jaded, scheming Sergeant J.J. Sefton, a prisoner at the notorious German prison camp, who spends his days dreaming up...
16) 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.
Publisher
Facets Video
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (925 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (31 p.)
Language
Deutsch
Description
A massive chronicle of life in Germany, from 1919 to 1982, as reflected in the fluctuating fortunes of the members of one family, initially peasant-farmers, in the fictitious village of Schachbach in the Rhineland. An extraordinary succession of mostly ordinary events and characters--history seen from ground level--vividly acted by a huge cast of both professional and nonprofessional actors.
18) The exception
Publisher
A24
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (107 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Nothing is as it seems in this riveting World War II thriller as a wary soldier (Jai Courtney) goes to investigate a mysterious German monarch (Christopher Plummer) at his secluded mansion, leading him into a web of deceit and a dangerous love affair with a local Jewish woman (Lily James). Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival**. "*The superb English stage director David Leveaux keeps the pacing taut while creating space...
19) Home fires
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
U.K. edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
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...
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