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1) Birdsong
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Stephen Wraysford fights on the Western Front where he once had a love affair, and must learn to endure the ravages of war and make peace with his feelings for his lost love.
3) The Pacific
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
A ten-part miniseries that delivers a realistic portrait of WWII's Pacific Theatre as seen through the intertwined odysseys of three U.S. Marines - Robert Leckie, John Basilone, and Eugene Sledge.
Publisher
A&E Television Networks, LLC
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Adolf Hitler. Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Benito Mussolini. Winston Churchill. Charles de Gaulle. George Patton. Before they were the giants of WWII, they were infantrymen and privates in WWI, the war to end all wars. The story of the devastating three decades of twentieth-century world war is told through the eyes of the men whose characters were forged in the trenches before they commanded a world on the brink of disaster.
10) Andersonville
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
The Civil War explodes, air thick with musket fire, soil drenched with the blood of kinsmen, bodies piling up like cords of wood. In the madness and fury, a small group of Union soldiers fall into the hands of the Confederate army. Overnight, they find themselves herded aboard a prison train bound for the deepest regions of the South, to a slice of Hell carved out of the Georgia clay known as Andersonville. A moving drama that tells the most tragic...
12) Sharpe's rifles
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
The adventures of a maverick British officer who fights behind French lines in Spain and Portugal during the Napoleonic wars.
13) Sharpe's eagle
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
When the incompetent Sir Henry Simmerson (Cochrane) loses most of his men and his regimental flag during battle, Sharpe (Bean), spurred by the memory of a friend who was recently killed sets out for revenge. He is determined to capture the French mascot, a carved golden eagle which is carried into combat. Sharpe is also looking to a settle a personal score with two arrogant officers who have angered him at their mistreatment of the elegant widow Josefina...
14) Sharpe's company
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Follows the exploits of Richard Sharpe, a soldier who rises from the British ranks to become an officer during the Napoleonic Wars. In this episode, Sharpe faces the return of his sworn enemy.
15) Sharpe's sword
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
Continues the exploits of Richard Sharpe, a soldier who rises from the British ranks to become an officer during the Napoleonic Wars. In this episode Sharpe is assigned to protect Wellington's spy, El Mirador, against the French swordsman, Leroux.
16) Sharpe's enemy
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
The adventures of a maverick British officer who fights behind French lines in Spain and Portugal during the Napoleonic wars.
17) Sharpe's honour
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
British officer Richard Sharpe must disguise himself as a Spanish rebel and slip behind enemy lines to search for the one person who can clear him of allegations of deceit and dishonour.
18) Sharpe's battle
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
British officer Richard Sharpe is given the task of preparing the hitherto purely ceremonial Royal Irish Company for real battle. The commander's ambitious wife and false rumors of a massacre in Ireland complicate the job.
19) Sharpe's gold
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Continues the exploits of Richard Sharpe, a soldier who rises from the British ranks to become an officer during the Napoleonic Wars. In this episode Sharpe becomes involved in the partisan gun trade while searching for hidden Aztec gold.
20) My boy Jack
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
It's 1915 and the British Empire's greatest supporter, Rudyard Kipling, is at the peak of his literary fame. Kipling's son, Jack, is determined to play his part in the immiment war with Germany but finds himself rejected due to his poor eyesight. Kipling uses his influence to land Jack a commission in the Irish Guards. Kipling's wife, Caroline, is bitterly upset, failing to see the glory in losing her only son to the war. How will the great writer,...
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