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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Based on the records of the Nuremberg trial of the chemical giant IG Farben; a story about the collaboration between international corporations and Nazi scientists, whose research contributed to the death of millions. Musical score by Hanns Eisler, electronic sound by Oskar Sala (Hitchcock's The Birds) and script by Friedrich Wolf. The chemist Dr. Hans Scholz lives through a tortuous political transformation and maturation process. Eventually, he...
Publisher
BBC US / Canada
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
The story of author PG Wodehouse who came to face a charge of treason during the Second World War. The master of fanciful plots had become a pawn in one of the biggest propaganda battles of the war between Germany and the Allies over the entry of the United States into the conflict.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The stakes were never higher or more dangerous for Eric Erickson, an American business man turned Swedish oil trader. Erickson finds his life and fortunes held hostage when he's blackmailed by British agents and forced into the perilous arena of World War II espionage. Based on a true story.
84) The men
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
An ex-WWII GI, Ken returns home after he's paralyzed in battle. Residing in the paraplegic ward of a veteran's hospital and embittered by his condition, he refuses to see his fiancé and sinks into a solitary world of hatred and hostility. Head physician, Dr. Brock cajoles the withdrawn Ken into the life of the ward, where fellow patients Norm, Leo, and Angel, begin to pull him out of his spiritual miasma.
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Icon (2005, 173 min.): The manifesto of a new Russian presidential candidate has been found--a disturbing blueprint for returning his country to a military dictatorship. Only one ex-CIA operative is qualified to stop him.
The Holcroft covenant (1985, 112 min.): After the death of his father, a former adviser for Adolf Hitler, Noel Holcroft learns he is $4 billion dollars richer. Now, Noel must execute the orders of his late father's dying wish--spend...
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©2014.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
A happy-go-lucky American naval officer with no appetite for war discovers to his horror that he may be the first casualty of the Normandy invasion as part of a PR effort. He also tries to catch the eye of Emily, a depressed English woman.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
The Special Air Service is the world's most famous combat unit, with the motto 'Who Dares Wins,' but the story of how it came into existence has been, until now, a closely guarded secret. For the first time, the SAS has agreed to open up its archive and allow Ben Macintyre to reveal the true story of their formation during the darkest days of World War II.
89) Hacksaw Ridge
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
It's the extraordinary true story of Desmond Doss who, in Okinawa during the bloodiest battle of WWII, 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...
90) Suite française
Publisher
distributed by Entertainment One
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Based on the best-selling book by Irene Nemirovsky and set during the German occupation of France in the 1940's. Lucille Angellier awaits news from her prisoner of war husband. As Parisian refugees pour into their small town, soon followed by a regiment of German soldiers who take up residence in the villagers' homes, Lucille's life is turned upside down--further complicated by the arrival of refined German officer, Bruno.
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
This film presents the "true story of the outnumbered and under-equipped Chinese soldiers heroically defending the Sihang Warehouse from 20,000 members of the formidable Imperial Japanese Army during the bloody Battle of Shanghai." --container
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
Hitler's Britain: Examines one of the most intriguing questions in history: What would the Nazis have done if they had conquered Britain?
How Hitler lost the war: Examines the theory that Germany essentially won and then lost World War II before 1942. A riveting and revealing alternative look at the theories behind and the flaws within Hitler's strategy, which ultimately resulted in Germany's defeat and the downfall of his regime.
Series
Criterion collection volume 283
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Full screen.
Language
Polish
Description
The story of a cocky Polish youth who decides to fight the Nazis after he falls for a pretty resistance leader. As he and his friends help escapees during the Warsaw ghetto uprising, the innocence of a generation is lost under the grueling conditions of war.
Series
Legacy volume 2nd
Publisher
San Leandro Public Library
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"Experience first-hand accounts of life in the American World War II internment camps and of Nisei soldiers who fought for the United States while their families were interned in camps throughout the United States. Included are stories of love and marriage, the MIS and 100th/442nd, resistance to the draft and the lives of young people caught up in the government action that followed the bombing of Pearl Harbor."
95) Two women
Publisher
Alpha Video ; Miracle Pictures
Pub. Date
p2001.
Language
English
Description
Seeking escape from city bombing, an Italian mother and daughter travel war-torn Italy during World War II trying to survive near-starvation, rape by wandering soldiers and other horrors of war.
Publisher
Distributed by Garden Thieves Pictures
Pub. Date
[2010], c2003
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
When the Final Solution was attempted in Denmark the plan was averted and over 95 percent of the country's Jewish population survived the war. Examines how and why the Jews, helped by a massive citizen-driven action, escaped the Nazi's blueprint for their extermination.
97) White Christmas
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
Widescreen
Language
English
Description
Two song-and-dance men team up in show business after the war. Joining forces with a sister act, they trek to Vermont for a white Christmas. The real adventure starts when Crosby and Kaye discover that the inn is run by their old army general who's now in financial trouble.
98) Zoo
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story, twelve-year-old Tom and his misfit friends fight to save Buster the baby elephant during the air raids on Belfast in 1941.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the war ended, his battle began. Based on Laura Hillenbrand's bestselling book, this begins where Unbroken ends, sharing the next amazing chapter of Olympian and World War II hero Louis Zamperini's powerful true story of forgiveness, redemption, and amazing grace.
100) Ashes and diamonds
Series
Criterion collection volume 285
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Polish
Description
Rural Poland, on the last days of World War II. The Nazis have surrendered, and the Red Army has criss-crossed the country. With the battle against the Nazis over, a new struggle emerges against the communists. A group of Polish patriots boldy set out to assassinate a mid-level communist-party functionary. Macick is the trigger man, but when he spots a blonde behind the bar, his priorities change.
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