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Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The profoundly moving story of a girl who transforms the lives of those around her during World War II, Germany. Although Liesel is illiterate when she is adopted by a German couple, her adoptive father encourages her to learn to read. Ultimately, the power of words helps Liesel and Max, a Jew hiding in the family's home, escape from the events unfolding around them.
Publisher
Hen's Tooth Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two weeks after the start of WWII, a powerful German pocket battleship, the Graf Spee, sails the South Atlantic, destroying Allied merchant ships at will. Captained by one of Germany's most brilliant naval officers, the Graf Spee, with her superior speed and artillery, appears and disappears, sinking ship after ship. When the Allies are finally able to pinpoint its location a trap is set, pitting British Intelligence against a wily and powerful military...
Series
Criterion collection volume 560
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([20 p.] ; 19 cm.)
Description
Maria is an entitled white woman living in Africa, desperately unwilling to give up her family's crumbling coffee plantation despite the civil war closing in on her. A gripping evocation of the death throes of European colonialism and a fascinating look at a woman lost in her own mind.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Colin Spence has never been a brave man - in life or in love. But when he impulsively enlists in the Army, he comes face to face with his worst nightmare. Lost behind enemy lines, and in reluctant command of his platoon, Colin begins to see that the only thing that can save his unit is the one weapon he never knew he had-- courage"--Container.
8) The Rifleman
Publisher
Omnibus Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story pays stark witness to the horrors and brutality of the First World War, as seen through the eyes of an innocent seventeen-year-old farm-boy turned soldier. Though he is underage, and his dad, a former marksman, is over age for the army, they are both conscripted into one of Latvia's first national battalions. The thrill of training is soon followed by reality, as shells burst around them in the endless mud. He grows up on the battlefield,...
9) Fury
Formats
Description
April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theatre, a battle-hardened army sergeant named Wardaddy commands a Sherman tank and her five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Outnumbered and outgunned, and with a rookie soldier thrust into their platoon, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany.
Formats
Description
The story begins with World War II's historic D-Day invasion of Normandy beach. Once the men move beyond the beach, Captain John Miller must take his men behind the German lines to find Private James Ryan, whose three brothers have already been killed in combat. Faced with impossible odds, the men question their orders. Why are eight men risking their lives to save just one? Surrounded by the brutal realities of war, each man searches for his own...
12) The king's man
Formats
Description
One man must race against time to stop history's worst tyrants and criminal masterminds as they get together to plot a war that could wipe out millions of people and destroy humanity.
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.
14) Schindler's list
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD(ca. 196 min.) : sd., b&w with col. sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of a Catholic war profiteer, Oskar Schindler, who risked his life and went bankrupt in order to save more than 1,000 Jews from certain death in concentration camps. He employed Jews in his crockery factory manufacturing goods for the German army. At the same time he tries to stay solvent with the help of a Jewish accountant and negotiates business with a vicious Nazi commandant who enjoys shooting Jews as target practice from the balcony...
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