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1) Blood Alley
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
A merchant marine captain, rescued from the Chinese Communists by local visitors, winds up transporting an entire Chinese village to Hong Kong on an ancient paddle steamer.
Series
Lions Gate volume VM8238D
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
"Chronicles a unit of Auschwitz [II]'s Sonderkommando, a special squad of Jewish prisoners, who staged the only armed revolt that would ever take place at Auschwitz"--Container.
3) Downfall
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Takes you into Hitler's bunker, in 1945, during the brutal and harrowing last days of the Third Reich. Seen through the eyes of Hitler's infamous secretary Traudl Junge, optimism crumbles into grim realization and terror as it becomes clear that Germany's defeat is inevitable. As the Russian army circles the city, the dimly lit halls of the underground refuge become an execution chamber for the Fuhrer and his closest advisors.
5) Why we fight
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Reflects the sharp divide that exists among the American people on why we are in Iraq. Also asks some pertinent questions about the economic necessities of war.
Series
Criterion collection volume 330
Publisher
Criterion
Pub. Date
2006, 1987
Language
Français
Description
Based on the director's life, this film chronicles Malle's experiences during the German occupation of France in World War II.
8) Paradise now
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006
Language
Arabic
Description
The story of what may be the last 48 hours in the lives of two Palestinian men who have been recruited as suicide bombers. When they are intercepted at the Israeli border, a young woman who discovers their plan causes them to reconsider their actions.
Series
Criterion collection volume 385
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Français
Description
A civil engineer who is one of the French Resistance's chiefs is given away by a traitor and interned in a camp.
10) Housewife, 49
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Soon after England declared war on Germany in 1939, Lancashire housewife Nella Last began writing a diary as part of a public project. She was 49 and fearful that she wouldn't be able to cope with her son's enlistment and life alone with her domineering husband. Recounts her experience of wartime privations, but also her dawning sense of independence. Amid the hardships of food rations and air raids, Nella's volunteer work for the war effort fills...
11) Australia
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
In northern Australia at the beginning of World War II, an English aristocrat inherits a cattle station the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn stock-man to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier....
13) Carrie's war
Series
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
At the start of World War II, 14-year-old Carrie and her younger brother Nick are separated from their mother and evacuated from war-torn London to a rural village in Wales, where they now live with a puritanical shopkeeper and his spinster sister.
14) Jarhead
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Follows "Swoff," a third-generation Marine enlistee, from a sobering stint in boot camp to active duty, sporting a sniper's rifle and a hundred-pound ruck on his back through the Middle East deserts. There is no cover from intolerable heat or from the Iraqi soldiers, who are always potentially just over the next horizon. Swoff and his fellow Marines sustain themselves with sardonic humanity and wicked comedy on blazing desert fields in a country they...
15) Swing shift
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A vivid look at the wartime conditions that stood society on its head. Kay Walsh had never held a wrench before but you're never too pretty to learn. The women and men that stayed home during World War II worked in the factories that turned out the weaponry to turn the tide of battle.
16) Exodus
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
This film dramatizes part of the Israeli independence moment, dealing with various factions involved in the internecine struggle between the moderate Haganah and the radical terrorist Irgun Zvai Leumi. Interspersed throughout are segments showing the migration of European Jews to the new land, paying special attention to the ragged survivors of Nazi death camps on board the vessel Exodus, blockaded in a Cyprus harbor by British warships. The film...
17) Beyond the gates
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In April 1994 the airplane of the Hutu President of Rwanda crashes and the Hutu militias slaughter the Tutsi population. In the Ecole Technique Officielle, Christopher, a Catholic priest and Joe Connor, an idealistic English teacher give sanctuary to twenty-five hundred Rwandans survivors in the school, which is under the protection of the UN Belgian force and under siege from the Hutu militia. When the Tutsi refugees are abandoned by the UN, they...
18) Victory
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
50,000 fans are on hand for a match in occupied Paris between German all-stars and a pick-up team of Allied POWs. In an attempt to demonstrate the Aryan superiority, the Germans unwittingly set up a means of prisoner escape.
19) Rescue dawn
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
When U.S. fighter pilot Dieter Dengler escapes death after being shot down over one of the most intense front lines in the Vietnam War, his troubles were just beginning. He is taken captive by the Vietnamese Army and is forced to endure a harrowing stint in a Vietnamese prison camp. Dengler and a small band of his fellow captives stage a death-defying escape. Based on a true story.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner, Elektra, Atlantic
Pub. Date
[2007], c2005
Language
Italiano
Description
Soon after the start of hostilities in Iraq, Rome-based, love-struck poet and lecturer Attilio heads to Baghdad when he learns from his friend, an Iraqi poet, that the woman he loves has been critically injured in a bomb explosion. Attilio does everything in his power to save her, risking his own life amidst the chaos of war.
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