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Pub. Date
2004
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (46 minutes) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 12 cm
Language
English
Description
"Think of World War II Europe and black-and-white newsreel images likely come to mind. But the war unfolded in color. And that's how Academy Award-winning director George Stevens captured it in this acclaimed compilation of the personal wartime diary he filmed while on the front lines."--Container.
2) Enigma
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Still reeling from the disappearance of his lover, a brilliant code-breaker is summoned to Blechley Park, Britain's top-secret intelligence campus. Now he must face his toughest assignment--crack the Nazis' infamous Engima codes. Putting together the pieces of a puzzle, he discovers the reason for his lovers' disappearance to U-boats closing in on Allied cargo ships to a mass grave in Poland.
Publisher
Digiview Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (150 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Archival Department of Defense footage from both American and Japanese recordings give detailed information of World War II showing both points of view from the Pacific Theater.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Day by day. Hour by hour. Second by second. This is the story of last century's bloodiest conflict told in a concise and compelling 3 hour special. Includes personal accounts, strategic analysis, and rare footage and provides a new and intimate perspective on the experience of war.
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (660 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Includes 13 episodes of television's most popular series. Combat! offers a gritty look at American soldiers battling in Europe during World War II, confronting imposing odds and demonstrating remarkable levels of ingenuity and courage.
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (600 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Includes 12 episodes of television's most popular series. Combat! offers a gritty look at American soldiers battling in Europe during World War II, confronting imposing odds and demonstrating remarkable levels of ingenuity and courage.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A small American army intelligence squad locates a German platoon wishing to surrender rather than die in Germany's final war offensive. The two groups, isolated from the war at present, put aside their differences and spend Christmas together before the surrender plan turns bad and both sides are forced to fight each other.
Series
Documentary collection volume 11
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (527 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From award-winning documentarians David L. Wolper and Creation Films comes an in-depth view of the events and circumstances that led to the deadliest attack on American soil and propelled the United States into action. Through post-war interviews with Japanese leaders, rare color footage and exclusive eyewitness accounts this 11 part documentary chronicles the circumstances that led to the attack on Pearl Harbor, the battles and events during the...
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (12 hr., 48 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"The groundbreaking Combat! offers a gritty, unflinching look at American soldiers battling in Europe during World War II, confronting imposing odds and demonstrating remarkable levels of ingenuity and courage"--Container.
10) Land girls
Series
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 223 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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
2005
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (12 hr., 42 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"The groundbreaking Combat! offers a gritty, unflinching look at American soldiers battling in Europe during World War II, confronting imposing odds and demonstrating remarkable levels of ingenuity and courage"--Container.
13) Victory at sea
Publisher
New Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Fiftieth anniversary collector's edition.
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (11 hr., 30 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The most famous historical war series ever made. A sweeping record of the naval battles of World War II.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 118 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Drama about life in the Army in the days prior to World War II. Shows the effect of Army discipline on an individualistic former boxing champion who defies the attempts of officers and men to break him when he refuses to fight on the company's boxing team. Includes actual scenes of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
16) 5 fingers
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In Turkey, the valet of the British ambassador offers the German ambassador priceless documents about the Allies for fantastic fees. But the British soon suspect the leaks and dispatch an investigator to learn the spy's identity. Based on the memoirs of a German agent.
Series
Publisher
Disney DVD
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (210 min.) : sound, black and white, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
See never-before-seen Disney war effort productions, including exclusive declassified material, training, propaganda and educational films. Includes "Victory Through Air Power, " Disney's 27th animated classic. First hand accounts of the work at Disney.
18) Red Ball Express
Series
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (84 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"During the height of the war, Patton's Third Army is in desperate need of supplies after a successful invasion of Paris. An elite military truck force is established to deliver the goods to the soldiers. Members of this platoon must not only withstand minefields and Nazi resistance, they must also learn to overcome their personal and racial prejudices towards one another."
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Having grown up despising everything British, a young Birdie Quilty leaves her hometown hoping to join the IRA, but naively gets caught up with a Nazi spy. She is eventually helped to escape authorities by a British officer who has fallen in love with her.
20) Battle cry
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2003, 1955.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (149 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Marine Corps heroism in the Pacific theatre during World War II: the training, the trial by combat, and their wives and sweethearts who waited for them to return.
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