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2) Taking sides
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2004], c2001
Language
English
Description
After Hitler took over power in 1933, many Jewish artists were forced to leave Germany. Wilhelm Furtwängler choose to stay. Though never a member of the party, he was a receipient of honors associated with party membership. However, the conductor often used his position and contacts to save hundreds of Jewish musicians from concentration camps. When U.S. Major Steve Arnold is tasked with the pre-trial investigations, his aim is to prove that the...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2003], c2001
Language
Deutsch
Description
Martha is the chef who fusses and obsesses over each dish before it leaves the kitchen. The demands of her job and her natural shyness keep her from meeting new people. When her sister suddenly dies, Martha adopts Lina, her eight-year-old niece, completely changing both lives. Martha gets unexpected help from Mario, Martha's hunky new sous chef, who is not only a whiz on the chopping block but knows sundry magic tricks and jokes to keep Lina's spirits...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Two wealthy, handsome couples--one English, one American--meet at a German spa and forge an immediate bond. Through nine seasons at the spa, the splendid foursome share the same tastes, the same desires, and the same elegantly perfect lives. But in a series of startling time and perspective shifts, we learn, little by little, just how far short of perfection their lives really were.
7) Traffik
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2001], c1989
Language
English
Description
Docudrama following all aspects of the international illegal heroin industry.
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005, c2001
Language
Deutsch
Description
Swimming champion Harry Melchoir, having narrowly escaped being trapped in East Germany by the communist regime just after the completion of the Berlin Wall, joins with other freedom seekers to dig a tunnel by which he hopes to rescue his beloved sister.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ted Mundy, former student radical and Cold War spy for the British, is living a quiet life as co-principal of an English-language school and tour guide in Germany when he is contacted by an old friend and colleague who tries to persuade Ted to accept a too-good-to-be-true offer from a mysterious philanthropist who is putting up $500,000 to turn the school into a vehicle for promoting international peace and understanding in the post-9/11 world.
10) Nuremberg
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Dramatization of the war crime trials of Nuremberg.
11) In enemy hands
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
American P.O.W.'s on a German U-boat fight for their lives against an outbreak of meningitis.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
For fifty years, Anna Schlemmer has refused to talk about her life in Germany during World War II. Her daughter, Trudy, was only three when she and her mother were liberated by an American soldier and went to live with him in Minnesota. Trudy's sole evidence of the past is an old photograph: a family portrait showing Anna, Trudy, and a Nazi officer, the Obersturmfuhrer of Buchenwald.
Driven by the guilt of her heritage, Trudy, now a professor of...
14) Beerfest
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Jan and Todd Wolfhouse are given the task of taking their grandfather's ashes to be settled in the family plot in Germany. Little do they know, the family plot is actually Beerfest, an Olympic-like test of a beer gamer's mettle. When they get there and are accused by their German cousins of having stolen the family beer recipe, they are quickly humiliated in a drinking contest and sent back to America with their tails between their legs. They vow...
15) Bent
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Pursued and captured by the Nazis because he is gay, Max is placed in a concentration camp where he pretends to be Jewish to avoid even worse persecution. There he meets another gay prisoner and learns a life-altering lesson about human love.
16) The reader
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Post-WWII, Germany. Michael Berg is a teenager who becomes ill and is helped home by Hanna, a stranger twice his age. Michael recovers from scarlet fever and seeks out Hanna to thank her. The two are quickly drawn into a passionate but secretive affair. Michael discovers that Hanna loves being read to and their physical relationship deepens. Hanna is enthralled as Michael reads to her from different works of literature. Despite their intense bond,...
18) Das boot
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
Deutsch
Description
Follows the daring patrol of U-96, one of the famed German U-boats known as the "gray wolves."
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2006
Language
Deutsch
Description
Pool shark and hustler Jaeckie Zucker is up to his ears in debt. In a stroke of luck, his mother dies and leaves an inheritance. Before he can cash in, his mother has requested the difficult task of reconciling with his estranged Orthodox brother Samuel.
20) Wings of desire
Publisher
Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
Multiple
Description
Based on poems by Rainer Maria Rilke.
A romantic fantasy about an angel who wishes he were mortal and is willing to fall from the sky if it means a chance to fall in love. Set in modern day Berlin, the film follows angel Damiel's path from heavenly flight to earthly delight in a manner that's comical, touching and entertaining.
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