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Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 8 hr., 37 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Zero killer: No Allied aircraft can match Japan's deadly Zero until the American Navy deploys the fearsome F6F Hellcat. Strap in with legendary dogfighters Robert Duncan, Hamilton McWhorter, and Alex Vraciu to relive the epic dogfights of 1943 that wrote a new chapter in the annals of aerial combat. The last gunfighter: Tackle the fierce North Vietnamese MiG in the Navy's best fighter, the F8 Crusader, alongside jocks Paul Speer and Phil Wood,...
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This story of the American Revolution uses reenactments, commentaries by historical and military advisers and historical materials featuring the people, places and events from 1773 to the end of the war.
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...
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002], c1988
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (ca. 6.5 hrs.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
One week after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, sweeping the United States into World War II, the Henry family is forever changed by the war in the Pacific, and the horror of the Holocaust. Features spectacular reenactments of the event at Midway, Yalta, Guadalcanal and El Alamein.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (171 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In September 1942 at the height of the battle for the Atlantic, a German U-boat torpedoed the RMS Laconia, sinking the British ship without knowing that it carried more than 2,000 passengers, many of them civilians. What followed is a harrowing true story of heroism, heartbreak, and unexpected humanity in the midst of the bloodiest conflict in history.
Publisher
Distriuted exclusively by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (12 hr., 48 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"The groundbreaking Combat! offers a gritty, unflinching look at American soldiers battling in Europe during World War II, confronting imposing odds and demonstrating remarkable levels of ingenuity and courage"--Container.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (ca. 12.75 hrs.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Colonel Robert Hogan and his gang of merry saboteurs have new plots, plans and schemes ready to unleash on the German war machine at Stalag 13. That means more headaches, frustrations and irrations for the POW camp's incompetent commandand, Colonel Wilhelm Klink and his bumbling sidekick, Sergeant Hans Schultz.
Publisher
Amc
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (ca. 450 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It's 1777 as the second season begins, with the rebellious colonists under the leadership of Gen. Washington reeling from the loss of Philadelphia to the British. As such, the efforts of spy Abraham Woodhull and his coconspirators become especially important, as he pretends to be a loyal Tory while seeking to ferret out information about the occupying force's plans.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (approximately 435 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It takes viewers into the stirring and treacherous world of the Revolutionary War and America's first spy ring. This season returns with an epic ten-episode season that builds towards one of the most notorious moments in American history, the treasonous defection of Benedict Arnold. Behind enemy lines on Long Island, Abe Woodhull is a spy for the Patriots, reporting directly to George Washington. Embedded within the Continental Army, Benedict Arnold...
15) The war
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (840 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tells the story of ordinary people in four quintessentially American towns - Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama; Sacramento, California; and Luverne, Minnesota - and examines the ways in which the Second World War touched the lives of every family on every street in every town in America.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (290 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
With her English accent and her London ways, Rose Coyne is the only 'stranger' in her rural Northern Ireland town, until 4,000 Americans arrive at the nearby WWII airbase. As Rose finds herself acting as peacekeeper between the disgruntled locals and the soldiers, she is also drawn to the engaging young Captain Dreyfuss. Will Rose risk her family for this forbidden love?
17) First air war
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Documents the technological revolution and impact of fighter planes during World War I.
18) Danger UXB
Publisher
Distributed by New Video
Pub. Date
p2005, c1978
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 10 hrs. 50 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Lieutenant Brian Ash and the brave men of the 97th Tunneling Company must defuse unexploded bombs. During WWII, the Nazi's dropped some bombs that were not designed to detonate on imact. These unexploded time bombs, UXBs, posed one of the greatest risks to the people and property of England. It was the job of real-life heroes of the bomb disposal squads to defuse them. Danger UXB is the story of the loves and lives, victories and defeats, played...
19) 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,...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Season two picks up directly from the dramatic events and the end of the season one finale, continuing to explore the growing chaos within Alexandria, the complicated interpersonal dynamics of Dr. Foster, Nurse Mary and the Mansion House staff, the increasingly precarious position of the Green family and the changing predicament of the burgeoning black population.
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