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Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
While subjected to the horrors of World War II Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. In the basement of her home, a Jewish refugee is being sheltered by her adoptive parents.
2) 12 strong
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of the first Special Forces team deployed to Afghanistan after 9/11; under the leadership of a new captain, the team must work with an Afghan warlord to take down the Taliban.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A gripping true story of six elite ex-military operators assigned to protect the CIA who fought back against overwhelming odds when terrorists attacked in the U.S. diplomatic compound on September 11, 2012. When everything went wrong, six men had the courage to do what was right.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's the extraordinary true story of Desmond Doss who, in Okinawa during the bloodiest battle of WWII, saved 75 men without firing or carrying a gun. He was the only American soldier in WWII to fight on the front lines without a weapon, as he believed that while the war was justified, killing was nevertheless wrong. As an army medic, he singlehandedly evacuated the wounded from behind enemy lines, braved fire while tending to soldiers and was wounded...
5) Dunkirk
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A World War II thriller about the evacuation of Allied troops from the French city of Dunkirk before Nazi forces can take hold.
6) Unbroken
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Olympian and war hero Louis Zamperini survived in a raft for 47 days after a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, only to be caught by the Japanese Navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.
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. In 1943, however, after Italy surrenders to the Allies and changes sides in the war, Captain Corelli must defend the Greek island against a German invasion.
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1919, an Australian farmer travels to Turkey after the Battle of Gallipoli to try and locate his three missing sons. With insurmountable obstacles he must travel across the battle-scarred Turkish landscape to find the truth and his own peace.
9) Atonement
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
When a young girl catches her sister in a passionate embrace with a childhood friend, her jealousy drives her to tell a lie that will irrevocably change the course of all their lives forever.
"Rarely has a book sprung so vividly to life, but also worked so enthrallingly in pure movie terms..."--Variety
"How fitting, somehow, that a novel so devoted to the precision and passionate love of language be captured in a film that is simply too exquisite...
10) The great raid
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of American Rangers who rescue the survivors of the Bataan Death March from the Cabanatuan Prison Camp during WWII. When the Philippines fell to the Japanese, the remnants of Gen. MacArthur's Army were forced down the Bataan Peninsula where they were surrounded and cutoff with no hope of rescue. They were starving and dying of disease. Gen. Wainwright eventually surrendered and the troops were marched off to prison. Along the...
11) 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. When a black pilot from the famous Tuskeegee airmen is falsely accused of murdering a fellow prisoner, Lt. Hart tries his case and discovers the real motivation behind the ranking officer's kangaroo court.
Publisher
Sentai Filmworks
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
As the Empire of the Sun crumbles upon itself and a rain of firebombs falls upon Japan, the final death march of a nation is echoed in millions of smaller tragedies. Seita and his younger sister Setsuko are two children born at the wrong time, in the wrong place, and now cast adrift in a world that lacks not the care to shelter them, but simply the resources. They are forced to fend for themselves in the aftermath of fires that swept entire cities...
14) The Great escape
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
A high-security German prisoner-of-war camp in 1942 holds only known troublemakers and risk-takers, all of whom are determined to pull off the war's most daring escape.
15) Blood diamond
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
Set against the backdrop of civil war and chaos in 1990's Sierra Leone, Blood Diamond is the story of Danny Archer - an ex mercenary from Zimbabwe - and Solomon Vandy - a Mende fisherman. Both men are African, but their histories as different as any can be, until their fates become joined in a common quest to recover a rare pink diamond that can transform their lives. While in jail for smuggling, Archer learns that Solomon - who was taken from his...
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Takes viewers to the front lines of the European, the Pacific and the African theatres of the deadliest conflict in human history. This comprehensive 10-part series chronicles the second half of this global military conflict in a masterfully scripted presentation filled with rare and authentic archive footage produced by internationally acclaimed documentarians, Pacific Media.
18) Sophie's choice
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2007?]
Language
English
Description
A haunting modern tragedy about Sophie Zawistowska, a beautiful Polish Auschwitz survivor settled in Brooklyn after WWII. She has intense relationships with a schizophrenic genius and an aspiring Southern writer.
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
From the acclaimed filmmaker behind Mr. Six comes a riveting war epic. In 1937 during World War II, eight hundred Chinese soldiers fight under siege from a warehouse in the middle of the Shanghai battlefield, completely surrounded by the Japanese army. Based on an incredible true story.
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