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Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment [distributor
Pub. Date
2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
During WWII two pilots, one American and one Japanese, crash on a small uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean. There, they must let go of their hostility and cooperate in order to survive, but will they?
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 177 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Hiltons are an average family living in a Midwestern town. The father of the household has waived his 3A status and enlisted to go overseas. His wife must now act as father and mother to their two daughters and keep their father's memory alive.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner, Elektra, Atlantic
Pub. Date
[2007], c2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Soon after the start of hostilities in Iraq, Rome-based, love-struck poet and lecturer Attilio heads to Baghdad when he learns from his friend, an Iraqi poet, that the woman he loves has been critically injured in a bomb explosion. Attilio does everything in his power to save her, risking his own life amidst the chaos of war.
5) Up periscope
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Navy frogman under secret orders is whisked from a stateside romance to the perils of warfare in the South Pacific in 1942.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Three Australian lieutenants are court martialed for executing prisoners as a way of deflecting attention from war crimes committed by their superior officers. Based on a play and true story.
8) Australia
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Formats
Description
In northern Australia at the beginning of World War II, an English aristocrat inherits a cattle station the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn stock-man to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier....
9) 36 hours
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (115 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The clock is ticking for the Nazis trying to dupe Jefferson Pike (James Garner) into giving up war secrets. They pose as U.S. physicians to convince the supposedly amnesiac Pike to unlock his memory by recalling his last assignment: planning for D-Day.
Series
Criterion collection volume 441
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([14 p.] ; 19 cm.)
Description
Details the professional and personal travails of a troubled, alcoholic research scientist and military bomb-disposal expert who, while struggling through a relationship with his girlfriend, is hired by the government to advise on a German weapon.
Publisher
distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Poland, World War II. Innocent and naive 8-year-old Bruno is bored and restless in his new home. Ignoring his mother, he sets off on an adventure in the woods. He comes across a high fence which separates him from the people he can see through it. Soon he meets a young boy in striped pajamas, and a surprising friendship develops.
13) One man's hero
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the true story of the Saint Patrick Battalion, a group of soldiers enlisted from Ireland to fight in the Mexican War. When they are treated harshly for their religious convictions, they escape across the border into the enemy territory of Mexico, where they must convince a Mexican rebel leader to let them fight against the U.S. so they can protect their beliefs.
14) Europa
Series
Criterion collection volume 454
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (107 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (11 p. : ports).
Description
Leo Kessler, an American of German descent, visits Germany in 1945. He works as a night conductor on the Zentropa Railway Line, owned by a Nazi sympathizer. Leo attempts to remain neutral to the ongoing purguing of loyalists by the Allied forces, but he falls in love with the railway magnate's daughter.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 126 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"An elaborate adaptation of Dickens' classic tale of the French Revolution. Dissipated lawyer Sydney Carton defends emigre Charles Darnay from charges of spying against England. He becomes enamored of Darnay's fiancée, Lucie Manette, and agrees to help her save Darnay from the guillotine when he is captured by Revolutionaries in Paris"--Marg Baskin in the IMDB, viewed Dec. 12, 2006.
16) Exodus
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (208 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This film dramatizes part of the Israeli independence moment, dealing with various factions involved in the internecine struggle between the moderate Haganah and the radical terrorist Irgun Zvai Leumi. Interspersed throughout are segments showing the migration of European Jews to the new land, paying special attention to the ragged survivors of Nazi death camps on board the vessel Exodus, blockaded in a Cyprus harbor by British warships. The film...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A scientist and his colleagues hire an ex-Naval officer to lead an expedition in an Alaskan submarine to stop a Red Chinese anti-American conspiracy that could lead to WW III.
18) Sophia Loren
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 448 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Attila: In this dramatic war epic, Sophia Loren promises to marry Attilla the Hun if he topples her hated brother, the Emperor of Italy, from power; I girasoli (Sunflower): After her husband is declared MIA while fighting in Russia during World War II, his widow searches records and cemeteries, only to learn he is alive and remarried; Madame Sans-Ge?ne: Sophia Loren, the outspoken, rambunctious laundress of an unknown lieutenant, Napoleon, later...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 119 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
WWII is entering its last phase: Germany is in ruins, but does not yield. The US Army lacks crucial knowledge about the German units operating on the opposite side of the Rhine, and decides to send two German prisoners to gather information.
Publisher
Vanguard Cinema
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Journey of German soldier Clemens Forell in his dramatic escape from a Siberian labor camp after World War II. Through bitter cold and life-threatening adventures, Forell is determined to reunite with his family.
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