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1) 1917
Publisher
Universal
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Formats
Description
At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers, Schofield and Blake are given a seemingly impossible mission. In a race against time, they must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers, Blake's own brother among them.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A powerful story of love, war, and remembrance, based on the World War I memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman's point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of despair and back again, a film about young love, the futility of war, and how to make sense of the darkest times.
"This is Vikander's film and she is very good here."--Toronto Star
"Tough-minded and sometimes...
Series
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, Llc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
During World War I, British and American ships were painted with bold colors and crazy patterns. Discover why such eye-catching designs were put on ships.
"Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Books; New York Public Library Best Books for Kids; Orbis Pictus Award Honor Book; Dilys Evans Founder's Award"--Awards.
"[A] conversational, compelling, and visually arresting story..."--Publisher's Weekly, Starred Review
"...A fascinating selection that...
4) War requiem
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
British cinema's enfant terrible teams with his muse Tilda Swinton and Laurence Olivier, for a spectacular and moving interpretation of composer Benjamin Britten's 1961 orchestral masterpiece.
Publisher
Timeless Media Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen edition; The uncut edition.
Language
English
Description
At the rise of what would become known as World War I, German patriot Paul Baumer and his friends enlist in the Imperial German Army. In search of adventure and eager to assert the superiority of their nation, the young men endure a brutal training camp and soon find themselves face to face with the full horrors of war when they are sent to the front lines to fight, and likely die.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Missing Presumed Dead is Gerard Reed's personal journey to discover what became of Heinrich Bornkamp, a German soldier of World War One, whose wallet he discovered in a collector's shop window in Adelaide, South Australia. Gerard felt connected to past lives as the wallet revealed its secrets, telling a story of loss and love thwarted by war. Bornkamp's wallet was a link to a loss in Gerard's family as his great uncle Pat Murphy was 'missing presumed...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Marking the centenary of the First World War, internationally renowned director Peter Jackson uses the voices of the veterans combined with original archival footage to bring to life the reality of war on the front line for a whole new generation. Footage has been colorized and transformed with modern production techniques to present never-before-seen detail.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
In Northern Italy, WWI has turned into a bloody stalemate. Bogged down in their trenches on a barren highland, the men of an Italian infantry division have been given one objective: retake a commanding height from the enemy. Unfortunately, the tactical ingenuity of general Leone, the unpopular division commander, consists of supplementing frontal attacks against machine-guns with medieval fighting schemes. His dispirited troops must be prodded with...
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
Français
Description
A Scottish soldier is assigned the task of disarming a bomb in a small French town at the close of World War I. The townspeople have deserted the town leaving behind the inmates of the local insane asylum who embrace the soldier as their king.
10) In love and war
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999.
Edition
Widescreen and fullscreen.
Language
English
Description
The epic love story about Ernest Hemingway and the romance which inspired him to write his masterpiece "A farewell to arms". A story of desperate love and imminent danger, it chronicles the relationship between the 18-year-old Hemingway and Agnes von Kurowsky, the medical aide who nursed him back to health after a devastating battlefield injury.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Marking the centenary of the First World War, internationally renowned director Peter Jackson uses the voices of the veterans combined with original archival footage to bring to life the reality of war on the front line for a whole new generation. Footage has been colorized and transformed with modern production techniques to present never-before-seen detail.
12) Hell's angels
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Three Oxford buddies fight on opposite sides during WWI. Each is torn between obedience to his country and that of his conscience.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In a tented field hospital on the coast of France, doctors, nurses, and volunteers work together to heal the bodies and souls of men wounded in the trenches of WWI. The hospital is a frontier: between the battlefield and home front but also between the old rules, hierarchies, class distinctions, and a new way of thinking.
14) Sunset song
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
After World War I, a Scottish farm girl's husband returns a different man to the one who left.
15) Westfront 1918
Series
Criterion collection volume 907
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Full screen.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Follows the lives of four soldiers stationed in France in the final months of World War I.
16) ANZAC girls
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the nurses that served with the Australian Army Nursing Service on the Western Front during World War I.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen édition.
Language
Français
Description
An affecting human drama of love, loss, and strength unfolds against the backdrop of World War I. The women of the Paridier farm, under the deft hand of Hortense, the family's matriarch, must grapple with the workload while the men are off at the front. New tools allow the women to triumph over the land, newfound independence is acquired, yet emotions are stirred, especially when the men return.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
The incredible true story of a stray dog who became a hero of the First World War. For his keen instincts and fierce loyalty, Stubby is still recognized today as the most decorated canine in American history and the first promoted to the rank of Sergeant in the U.S. Army.
19) Frantz
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Description
In post-World War I Germany, a young woman mourning the death of her fiancé meets a mysterious Frenchman who comes to lay flowers on his grave and claims to be his old friend.
20) A call to spy
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
At the beginning of WWII, with Britain becoming desperate, Churchill orders his new spy agency, SOE, to recruit and train women as spies.
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