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1) Korkoro
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
During the Second World War, a Gypsy family travels the roads of France before learning that the Vichy regime no longer gives them the right to travel freely.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Deutsch
Description
In a small town, everyone has tried to forget what happened shortly after WWII. That is, until a stranger finds a book that Jadup gave to the young refugee, Boel, over 30 years ago. This subject matter was considered so controversial by GDR authorities thatJadup and Boel℗ was banned and not released until 1988. Painful memories of the period after the war and of Boel and her disappearance begin to surface. Jadup, now the town's respected and popular...
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999], c1997
Language
Italiano
Description
A charming but bumbling waiter who's gifted with a colorful imagination and an irresistible sense of humor has won the heart of the woman he loves and has created a beautiful life for his young family. Then that life is threatened by World War II.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
This film re-creates the greatest air battle in history, when the outnumbered British Royal Airforce battled and fought off the powerful German Luftwaffe at the beginning of World War II. For this film more than 100 vintage aircraft were assembled to re-enact the historic battle in the skies over England.
8) The sun
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The final portrait in a series on the lives of dictators by Alexander Sokurov, The sun is a re-imagining of Emperor Hirohito's final days in power during the waning days of WWII. Hirohito wanders through his palace in a child-like state of denial. But reality soon intrudes as American soldiers overrun his manicured gardens and visions of Hiroshima invade his dreams. No longer a God among men, Hirohito is forced accept the terms of the occupation...
Publisher
Fortress Press
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
What is a moral person to do in a time of savage immorality? That question tormented Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German clergyman of great distinction who actively opposed Hitler and the Nazis. His convictions cost him his life. The Nazis hanged him on April 9, 1945, less than a month before the end of the war. Bonhoeffer's last years, his participation in the German resistance and his moral struggle are dramatized in this film. More than just a biographical...
10) 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.
12) A bridge too far
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
A dramatic recreation of an Allied airdrop behind German lines in Holland, and the subsequent disastrous Battle of Arnhem.
13) Little boy
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Little Pepper Busbee enjoys an idyllic life in an American small town, but his world is shattered when his beloved father is sent off to fight in World War II. But a chance encounter with a stage magician awakens his dormant abilities and clues him into the power of faith. Now his devotion to his father will extend past time and space and into the realm of miracles.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Gregor is a young soldier entering Germany with the victorious Soviet troops at the end of WWII. But he is also the child of left-wing Germans who fled from Hitler and spent the war in the Soviet Union. As a result, his return to Germany is ambivalent; he finds he is a stranger in his own land. Film critics rank Konrad Wolf's most autobiographical film among the 100 Most Significant German Films of all time. As they enter Germany, Gregor begins to...
18) Stars =: Sterne
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Stationed in a secluded Bulgarian village in 1943, Walter, an artist and sergeant in the Wehrmacht, lives an almost idyllic life far away from the war. Then one day a transit camp is set up for Jews arriving from Greece. Ruth, one of the Greek Jews, asks Walter to help a pregnant woman in the camp. At first he refuses, but then changes his mind and sends a doctor into the camp ... Stars, based on scriptwriter Angel Wagenstein's personal experiences...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Deutsch
Description
In his bittersweet comedy loaded with human quirks and nuance, Jacob invents news reports to bolster the spirits of the other Jews living in his Polish ghetto under Nazi occupation. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 1977, the story was remade in Hollywood starring Robin Williams in 1999. In a Polish ghetto in 1944, Jacob Heym is summoned to the police station. While there, Jacob overhears on the radio that "the Russians are twenty...
20) Little boy
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Little Pepper Busbee enjoys an idyllic life in an American small town, but his world is shattered when his beloved father is sent off to fight in World War II. But a chance encounter with a stage magician awakens his dormant abilities and clues him into the power of faith. Now his devotion to his father will extend past time and space and into the realm of miracles.
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