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Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
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.
Publisher
Distributed by New Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Contains seventeen programs that examine different aspects of World War II, featuring color footage and photographs from national archives and private collections, excerpts from the letters and diaries of participants, and sounds and songs of the era.
Publisher
Washington State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Personal recollections of life during World War II from women of Washington State who were involved in all aspects of the war effort. Bonus materials include recollections of women from overseas during the war, some of whom were children at the time, a slide show of personal photographs from the women interviewed, and a 1943 newsreel.
8) Catch-22
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Based on the acclaimed Joseph Heller novel, Catch-22 follows the adventures and misadventures of a US air squadron in Italy in World War II, where the real enemy of the soldiers is actually the bureaucracy of the military.
10) Woman in gold
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Sixty years after fleeing Vienna during World War II, a Jewish woman begins the arduous task of retrieving family possessions seized by the Nazis with the help of an inexperienced, young lawyer.
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Captain John Miller must take his men behind enemy lines to find Private Ryan, whose three brothers have 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 answer and the strength to triumph over uncertain future with honor, decency and courage.
12) Transit
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Georg, a German refugee, flees to Marseille assuming the identity of a recently deceased writer whose papers he is carrying. There he delves into the delicate and complex culture of the refugee community, becoming enmeshed in the lives of a young mother and son and falling for a mysterious woman named Marie.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
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.
14) Summerland
Author
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When a reclusive writer living in southern England during World War II agrees to take in an evacuee from London, she finds herself opening her heart to him.
17) The great escape
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
A high-security German prisoner-of-war camp in 1942 holds only known troublemakers and risk-takers, all of whom are determined to pull off the war's most daring escape.
18) Above and beyond
Publisher
Timeless Media Group
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
In 1940 German U-boats destroy new shipments of British aircraft as quickly as the U.S. factories supply them. The Royal Air Force comes up with a bold new plan--engage the new planes using Newfoundland as its base.
19) Dunkirk
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A World War II thriller about the evacuation of Allied troops from the French city of Dunkirk before Nazi forces can take hold.
Publisher
Distributed by New Video Group
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 1942, more than 110,000 American citizens of Japanese ancestry were uprooted from their lives and incarcerated in relocation camps. Their stories, along with those who refused to go, are told in this Oscar nominated film.
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