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Series
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 1/2 in.
Description
A comic, poignant story of WWII as seen through the eyes of a seven-year-old boy. Bill is stuck at home with his mother, aunts and bratty sisters while epic battles are raging within earshot of his home.
2) Coming home
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 202 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
England between the wars is the starting place for this epic tale of love, friendship and the discovery of womanhood. Judith Dunbar is left behind at boarding school by her parents and sister, who are posted overseas in the days leading up to World War II. She comes of age in a time of turbulence and danger, but finds comfort in the wealthy Carey-Lewis family, whose estate on the Cornish coast, Nancherrow, becomes her surrogate home.
5) Lifeboat
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When their vessel is torpedoed in the Atlantic Ocean during WWII, eight survivors find refuge in a lifeboat. Short on food and water, their situation is further complicated when they rescue a crew member from the German submarine that sank their ship.
7) Jojo Rabbit
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020].
Formats
Description
A World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy named Jojo whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler, Jojo must confront his blind nationalism.
8) Inside WWII
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2013], ©2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Day by day. Hour by hour. Second by second. This is the story of last century's bloodiest conflict told in a concise and compelling 3 hour special. Includes personal accounts, strategic analysis and rare footage and provides a new and intimate perspective on the experience of war.
Publisher
Delta Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001, c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (52 min.) : sd., b&w & col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This examination of one of the most important battles of WWII originally aired on the Discovery Channel. Studying the events in the Pacific in June of 1942, this documentary explains how the undermanned U.S. forces were able to eke out a victory over the Japanese Navy. Using interviews and archival footage, the film demonstrates how compiling a few secrets from breaking codes coupled with aggressive attacks based on vague intuition proved to be the...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (45 min.) : sd., col. & b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In March 1939, Hitler's army marched into Prague, Czechoslovakia. Jan Boden, a young, blond-haired, blue-eyed captain in the Czech Army, was recruited to join the Nazis. He promptly fled and joined the resistance movement instead, and was later selected to help in the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the notorious "Butcher of Prague."
13) Father Goose
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
During World War II, a South Seas wanderer is compelled by the Australian navy to act as a sky observer on a small island, where he finds himself in charge of six refugee schoolchildren and their headmistress.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (400 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This is the gripping third series that airs on PBS. Michael Kitchen plays a veteran detective whose job on the home front in southern England is complicated by WWII raging over Europe. DVD includes behind the scenes documentary and cast reflections.
Series
Criterion collection volume 378
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + booklet (17 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
The chilling story of a Japanese soldier facing death and cannibalism in a Philippine jungle, after he is denied treatment for tuberculosis. Japanese troops are in retreat in the Philippines. Supplies run out and discipline crumbles.
16) Hanover Street
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An American bomber pilot falls in love with a British nurse, and then must escort her husband on a mission behind enemy lines.
17) 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...
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (71 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young boy kills his sickly father and then, unable to live with his action, kills himself. Set in ruined Berlin shortly after World War II. The third part of the trilogy following Paisa, and Roma citta aperta.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 400 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Foyle, a veteran detective is persuaded to remain on duty at home rather than join the troops at the front as World War II begins. But home is on the vulnerable southern English coast and the chaos, danger and venality of war seep into everyday events.
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