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1) 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.
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.
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.
12) 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
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[c1989]
Language
English
Description
Drama about life in the Army in the days prior to World War II. Shows the effect of Army discipline on an individualistic former boxing champion who defies the attempts of officers and men to break him when he refuses to fight on the company's boxing team. Includes actual scenes of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
14) The young lions
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
15) Kelly's heroes
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
A group of soldiers set out to rob a bank and almost win World War II.
16) 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...
18) Commandos
Publisher
Digiview Productions
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
In 1942, Commandos are ordered to capture an oasis controlled by the Italians and hold it until the Allies land.
19) Midway
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
2001, c1976
Language
English
Description
The leaders of the U.S. Navy in the Pacific prepare for and fight the pivotal Battle of Midway in 1942.
20) 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.
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