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Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Four hundred years after the founding of the Republic, Rome is the wealthiest city in the world, a cosmopolitan metropolis of one million people, epicenter of a sprawling empire. The Republic was founded on principles of shared power and fierce personal competition, never allowing one man to seize absolute control. But now, those foundations are crumbling, eaten away by corruption and excess. After eight years of war, soldiers Lucius Vorenus and Titus...
2) 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
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Season two returns as the Great War rages across Europe, and not even the serene Yorkshire countryside is free from its effects. The men and women of Downton are doing their part both on the front lines and the home front, but the intensity of war only serves to inflame the more familiar passions of love, loss, blackmail, and betrayal.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
DCS Christopher Foyle investigates wartime crimes in the English coastal town of Hastings. With the end of World War II slowly but inevitably approaching, Foyle and his fellow citizens learn the price of victory and face a peace that will transform their lives in unexpected ways. Plan of attack: April 1944. DS Milner's investigation of a transportation fraud sets in motion a series of events that brings Foyle back to the force. As Hastings hosts an...
5) 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.
10) Fail_safe
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The retelling of the classic Cold War doomsday thriller. A computer malfunction triggers the transmission of nuclear-attack codes to a U.S. bomber squadron. The orders are irreversible, the primary target is Moscow, and the President, his advisors and military leaders race time to head off global catastrophe. Recalling the adrenaline-rush of early TV drama, this movie was staged and telecast live in black-and-white, establishing an immediate sense...
Publisher
MHZ Networks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016
Language
Français
Description
Beginning with the Germans arrival in June 1940, they endure five years of rationing, fighting and betrayals, and strain to keep some semblance of their existence intact. The war shatters all their lives, but a few of them, even in the shadow of destruction, reach out to find fleeting moments of connection and love.
15) Generation kill
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Presents a uniquely epic and intimate portrait of the first 40 days of the Iraq war from the perspective of the Marines of the First Recon Battalion--a new breed of American soldiers.
16) We'll meet again
Publisher
Distributed by BFS Video
Pub. Date
[199-?], c1982
Language
English
Description
The complete television series We'll meet again, in which American troops are stationed at a base near a quiet English market town during World War II.
Publisher
MHZ Networks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Français
Description
It chronicles the impact of World War II on a small village in central France. The series follows the lives of the villagers during the war as their lives become irrevocably changed by the German occupation and its aftermath. The Germans arrive in June 1940; the occupation will go on for five years and will reveal the strengths, weaknesses and secrets of the characters as they come under the pressures of war.
20) Mercy Street
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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,...
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