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Pub. Date
1940.
Language
English
Description
In his controversial masterpiece The Great Dictator, Charlie Chaplin offers both a cutting caricature of Adolf Hitler and a sly tweaking of his own comic persona. Chaplin, in his first pure talkie, brings his sublime physicality to two roles: the cruel yet clownish "Tomainian" dictator and the kindly Jewish barber who is mistaken for him. Featuring Jack Oakie and Paulette Goddard in stellar supporting turns, The Great Dictator, boldly going after...
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
Weaving together interviews, official photos and documents, home movies, and archival film, this 90-minute film explores the complex social and political factors that shaped America's response to the Holocaust. The story of Kurt Klein, who struggled with State Department red tape to free his parents from Europe, represents America's reaction to European Jews clamoring for rescue.
4) Land girls
Series
Language
English
Description
Set in England during the Second World War, a five-part drama that captures the sacrifices and experiences of four young women in the Women's Land Army. Sharing hardships and working alongside captured POWs, Annie, Bea, Joyce and Nancy toil in the fields to grow food for the war effort.
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Clair Kelly's beloved husband Joe is a pilot in World War II. He survives the crash of his B-24 but he's lost his memory. Clair is determined to find him but the search will test her capacity for courage, understanding, and loyalty. How will Clair's undying love for her husband help her to overcome all of the obstacles she encounters on her journey?
Author
Series
America at War volume VIII
Language
English
Description
The Last Days of World War II Defeat after defeat sent Hitler's plans for global domination spinning inexorably out of control, and Nazi leaders scrambled to protect their treasures and secrets at all costs. Meanwhile, the advancing Allied forces discovered the unimaginable depth of Nazi depravity as they liberated the infamous extermination camps hidden in plain sight throughout eastern Europe. A string of strategic, political, and diplomatic blunders...
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Desert Victory: Follows the conflict between the opposing forces of German General Erwin Rommel and British General Bernard Montgomery from El Alamein to Tripoli.
The Great Battle of the Volga: The Russian forces heroic battle to stop the invading German army from taking Leningrad.
Prelude to War: How diplomatic and political snafus made in the wake of WWI planted the seeds of WWII.
The Nazis Strike: An assembly of newsreel footage tracing the...
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Set in rural England during the Second World War, this highly popular and award-winning drama returns for a second 5-part series and continues to follow the lives and loves of the Land Girls who are working the fields for their country in the Women's Land Army. Bea (Jo Woodcock) and Joyce (Becci Gemmell) are now joined by feisty, opinionated new Land Girl, Connie (Seline Hizli).
9) Swing Kids
Language
English
Description
The story of a close-knit group of young kids in Nazi Germany who listen to banned swing music from the US. Soon dancing and fun leads to more difficult choices as the Nazi's begin tightening the grip on Germany. Each member of the group is forced to face some tough choices about right, wrong, and survival.
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