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Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002], c1988
Language
English
Description
One week after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, sweeping the United States into World War II, the Henry family is forever changed by the war in the Pacific, and the horror of the Holocaust. Features spectacular reenactments of the event at Midway, Yalta, Guadalcanal and El Alamein.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story begins with World War II's historic D-Day invasion of Normandy beach. Once the men move beyond the beach, Captain John Miller must take his men behind the German lines to find Private James Ryan, whose three brothers have already 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...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
Description
In 1941, on a remote Greek island, an Italian artillery garrison is established to maintain order. One Italian officer, Captain Corelli, adopts an attitude of mutual co-existence with the Greeks and engages in such activities as music festivals and courting the daughter of a local doctor.
7) Copenhagen
Publisher
distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
A television adaptation of Michael Frayn's play about the 1941 meeting between Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg, longtime friends whose work had opened the way to the atomic bomb, but who found themselves on opposite sides of World War II.
8) Hart's war
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Honor, courage, and sacrifice are revealed in unexpected ways as a ranking U.S. prisoner in a Nazi POW camp is joined in December 1944 by a law-student lieutenant who'd been captured despite his father's powerful military connections.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A young secretary of a multinational corporation falls to her death in London and a member of the Home Guard is shot to death in the south of England. Finding how these deaths are related and how business and politics can be deadly Foyle finds who killed these people and why.
12) 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.
13) Windtalkers
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
In the Pacific theater during World War II, a Marine is assigned to protect a Navajo codetalker.
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
The Bismarck was the fabled German battleship of World War II. Traces the "life" of the Bismarck from its launching (courtesy of newsreel footage) through its many battles and narrow escapes, concluding with its far-from-inevitable sinking in the Spring of 1941. The story concentrates on the human element, specifically a British intelligence captain, who has lost his family in the London blitz and thus has a personal reason for seeing the Bismarck...
16) A bridge too far
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
At Arnheim in 1944, the Allies suffered a disasterous defeat attempting to airdrop in Holland behind German lines. Based on a true story.
19) Sword of honour
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
A war story and a love story, as well as a biting satire on the emergence of the world we live in today.
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...
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