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Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based upon the best-selling novel. The profoundly moving story of a girl who transforms the lives of those around her during World War II, Germany. Although Liesel is illiterate when she is adopted by a German couple, her adoptive father encourages her to learn to read. Ultimately, the power of words helps Liesel and Max, a Jew hiding in the family's home, escape from the events unfolding around them.
4) Father Goose
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
During World War II, a South Seas wanderer is compelled by the Australian navy to act as a sky observer on a small island, where he finds himself in charge of six refugee schoolchildren and their headmistress.
5) Summerland
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alice is a reclusive writer, resigned to a solitary life on the seaside cliffs of Southern England while World War II rages across the channel. When she opens her front door one day to find she's to adopt a young London evacuee name Frank, she's resistant. It's not long, however, before the two realize they have more in common in their pasts than Alice had assumed.
7) Das Boot
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Follows the daring patrol of the U-96, one of the famed German U-boats known as the "gray wolves." The crew is graphically portrayed in a life-and-death struggle, challenging the British Navy at every turn.
11) Gallipoli
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Two young men become part of the fateful battle of Gallipoli, the World War I confrontation between Australia and German-allied Turks.
Two friends are involved with the battle between Australia and the German-occupied Turks in this commentary on the wastes of war.
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Español
Description
Mendoza, a landowner, tries to maintain friendships with both the leader of the government forces and the general of the Zapatista rebels during the Mexican Revolution. This film is part of a trilogy along with El prisionero trese (1933) and Vámonos con Pancho Villa (1935).
14) Love and honor
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
After being dumped by his girlfriend, a solider returns home from Vietnam and tries to win her back.
15) The outpost
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on true events. A team of U.S. soldiers stationed at the deadliest outpost in Afghanistan is relentlessly attacked by an overwhelming force of Taliban insurgents. Their fight for survival is the ultimate display of American valor.
16) The nun's story
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Audrey Hepburn portrays a nun whose life journey takes her from the staff of a mental asylum to a surgical nurse in the Belgian Congo. She returns to Belgium as WWII breaks out and is torn between the needs of the Resistance and the church's neutrality.
17) Sergeant York
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Story of a boy drafted into the military who begins his career as a pacifist and then soon sees the justification for fighting.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Español
Description
Un columnista de periódico es sostenido en la prisión después de que su columna es vista como un ataque sobre el gobierno. Él enseña a su compañero de célula más jóven un juego de guerra y estrategia, que causa una revolución fuera de las paredes de cárcel cuando su cellmate se escapa.
A newspaper columnist is held in prison after his column is seen as an attack on the government. He teaches his younger cell mate a game of war and strategy,...
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Deutsch
Description
It tells the gripping story of a young German soldier on the Western Front of World War I. Paul and his comrades experience first-hand how the initial euphoria of war turns into desperation and fear as they fight for their lives, and each other, in the trenches. The film from director Edward Berger is based on the world-renowned bestseller of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The greatest battles of World War II and the most devastating human losses which the modern world has ever seen occurred on Russian soil during 1941-45, on a battlefield that is unknown to most Americans: the conflict between Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia. The Unknown War is a landmark television series that includes footage edited from over 3.5 million feet of film taken by Soviet camera crews from the first day of the war, 22 June, 1941,...
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