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Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In England in 1940, shipyard worker Joe Maddison felt depressed and past his prime because he was too old to serve in World War II. Shocked when his wife leaves him for a sailor, Joe and his friend Harry decide they need a new challenge and volunteer to join the Home Guard which is headed by local pharmacist Mr. Simpson. This decision will lead Joe on a journey of self-discovery, involving lessons in friendship, bravery, and love.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 360 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Great Paxford's inspirational band of women return for more incredible stories from the home front as they deal with imminent threat during the Battle of Britain. As the nation finds itself increasingly beleaguered, relationships, friendships, and loyalties within the community will be tested as never before. The women find they must heighten their efforts to boost morale amidst the chaos and uncertainty enveloping the village.
Publisher
Distributed in the U.S. by New Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (200 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Formats
Description
Loyalty: Peacetime (1803) Hornblower is forced to make a living at the gaming tables and is caught up in a budding romance with his landlady's daughter, Maria. Hornblower goes on a reconnaissance mission that uncovers French perfidy, leading to renewed war. Complications arise when he is betrayed and temporarily imprisoned. Hornblower and Maria get married -- Duty: Admiral Pellew's sends Hornblower off in search of his old mate Bracegirdle, whose...
4) WW II in HD
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (455 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The only people to see the war like this were the ones who lived it. Until now. Seventy years in the making. Three thousand hours of color footage few knew existed. The first documentary to show original color footage of World War II in immersive HD, the world premiere History series WWII in HD uses the journals and accounts of those who served in the war's biggest battles to create a personal, introspective and detailed look at life on and off the...
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (approximately 450 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A historical thriller set during the Revolutionary War. Abe Woodhull is a farmer living in British-occupied Long Island who bands together with his friends to from the Culper Ring, an unlikely team of secret agents who not only went on to help George Washington turn the tide of the war, but also gave birth to modern spycraft.
Publisher
distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approx. 82 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dr. Robert Ballard leads a team of experts and four World War II veterans to Midway Island where the U.S. and Japan fought one of the fiercest battles of the war. They're in a race against time to find at least one of the downed aircraft carriers including the U.S.S. Yorktown.
8) Parade's end
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (300 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A repressed man is torn between being faithful to his vindictive wife and being with the woman he loves in England in the midst of World War I.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (ca. 300 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DCS Christopher Foyle investigates wartime crimes in the English coastal town of Hastings. With the end of World War II slowly but inevitably approaching, Foyle and his fellow citizens learn the price of victory and face a peace that will transform their lives in unexpected ways. Plan of attack: April 1944. DS Milner's investigation of a transportation fraud sets in motion a series of events that brings Foyle back to the force. As Hastings hosts an...
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
During the London Blitz of 1940 Dr. Lennox Collins and his secretary Molly Cooper work to discover a serial killer who is at large and using the Blitz to cover his crimes.
Publisher
Distributed by WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (86 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
December 1944, Hitler wages one more desperate bloody attack. Hitler struck back with a brutal counterattack and the Battle of the Bulge was the single biggest and bloodiest battle U.S. soldiers have ever fought. Almost 80,000 Americans were killed, injured, or captured in an infernal test of courage and endurance that ultimately ended with a hard-won victory for the Allies. Told through the eyes of the U.S. soldiers and combat officers in the field....
14) The Pacific
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (ca. 530 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The extraordinary experiences of three men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, through the killing fields of Okinawa, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day.
15) Mercy Street
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 360 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Alexandria, Virginia, 1862. Mary Phinney, a staunch New England abolitionist, and Emma Green, a native Confederate belle, collide at Mansion House, the Green family's luxury hotel that has been transformed into a Union Army hospital. Ruled under martial law, the border town in Alexandria is now the melting pot of the region, filled with soldiers, civilians, female volunteers, doctors, wounded men from both sides, runaway slaves, prostitutes, speculators,...
Series
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (49, 72 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
War game: A dramatization of the possible effects of nuclear warfare on Great Britain. Explores the physical damage effects, the psychological effects on the survivors, the societal logic for the existence of nuclear arms, and the attempts to understand how the balance of power keeps atomic weapons in check.
Culloden: In 1746, Scots fighting for Bonnie Prince Charlie lose to English forces in Scotland at the brutal battle of Culloden.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
©2006
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (ca. 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 character guide ([8] p. : color illustrations. color ports. ; 17 cm.)
Description
Four hundred years after the founding of the Republic, Rome is the wealthiest city in the world, a cosmopolitan metropolis of one million people, epicenter of a sprawling empire. The Republic was founded on principles of shared power and fierce personal competition, never allowing one man to seize absolute control. But now, those foundations are crumbling, eaten away by corruption and excess. After eight years of war, soldiers Lucius Vorenus and Titus...
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (367 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Desert victory: Documents the clash of Germany's General Rommel and Britain's General Montgomery as their militaries collide in battle under harsh desert conditions. Britain's defeat at El Alemein is only a stumbling block on the road to victory as they ultimately conquer the Germans at Tripoli. Utilizes actual German footage of Rommel and Hitler that was confiscated during the skirmish by the British.
The Nazis strike: Masterfully compiled by Col....
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (300 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Detective Chief Superintendant Christopher Foyle is a police investigator in the British coastal community of Hastings. In the immediate aftermath of World War II, Foyle finds his longed-for retirement interrupted by cases involving international intrigue, military racism, and an accused traitor all too willing to go to the gallows.
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