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Captain John Miller must take his men behind enemy lines to find Private Ryan, whose three brothers have been killed in combat. Faced with impossible odds, the men question their orders. Why are eight men risking their lives to save just one? Surrounded by the brutal realities of war, each man searches for his own answer and the strength to triumph over uncertain future with honor, decency and courage.
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In 1943, the Germans opened Stalag Luft III, a maximum-security prisoner-of-war camp designed to hold even the craftiest escape artists. In doing so, however, the Nazis unwittingly assembled the finest escape team in military history-who worked on what became the largest prison breakout ever attempted.
Publication Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Based on the classic novel by Väinö Linna, it tells the story of an infantry unit's three-year tour of duty during the Finnish Continuation War. The film follows the story of Rokka, Kariluoto, Koskela, Hietanen, and their brothers-in-arms. It shows how friendship, humor, and the will to live unite these men on their way to the battlefront and back. The war changes the lives of each of the soldiers as well as the lives of those on the home front...
Publication Date
[2016]
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1 videodisc (75 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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The story of the incredible efforts made by British cameramen to film and document the unbelievable atrocities the Allies encountered during the Liberation of the German Concentration camps in 1945 at the end of World War II.
7) Jojo Rabbit
Publication Date
[2020].
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1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy named Jojo whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler, Jojo must confront his blind nationalism.
Publication Date
[2015]
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1 videodisc (114 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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"During the winter of 1952, British authorities entered the home of mathematician, cryptanalyst and war hero Alan Turing to investigate a reported burglary. They instead ended up arresting Turing himself on charges of "gross indecency," an accusation that would lead to his devastating conviction for the criminal offense of homosexuality - little did officials know, they were actually incriminating the pioneer of modern-day computing. Famously leading...
9) Dunkirk
Publication Date
[2017]
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A World War II thriller about the evacuation of Allied troops from the French city of Dunkirk before Nazi forces can take hold.
10) The war
Publication Date
[2007]
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6 videodiscs (840 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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Tells the story of ordinary people in four quintessentially American towns - Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama; Sacramento, California; and Luverne, Minnesota - and examines the ways in which the Second World War touched the lives of every family on every street in every town in America.
12) The dirty dozen
Publication Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A World War II drama in which an army major selects 12 men convicted for crimes of violence and offers them their freedom if they will complete a dangerous mission behind Nazi lines.
13) Midway
Publication Date
2020.
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1 videodisc (ca. 138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Centers on the Battle of Midway, a clash between the American fleet and the Imperial Japanese Navy which marked a pivotal turning point in the Pacific Theater during WWII. The film, based on the real-life events of this heroic feat, tells the story of the leaders and soldiers who used their instincts, fortitude, and bravery to overcome the odds.
14) Price for peace
Publication Date
2001
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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Chronicles the unforgettable events in the Pacific Theater of World War II, from the bombing of Pearl Harbor through the American occuption of Japan in 1945. The film consists of interviews with war veterans, both American and Japanese, from all branches of the military. It features testimony from medics, nurses, dog handlers, and Japanese Americans who were imprisoned at interment camps in the United States. The film also includes a first-hand account...
Publication Date
c2000
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1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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Stryker (Wayne), a hard-nosed Marine sergeant prepares a company of recruits for combat in World War II's Pacific Theater. The new unit's training is soon put to the test in a full-scale battle against the Japanese on Iwo Jima. The famous flag-raising on Mt. Suribachi is depicted near the film's conclusion.
16) Summerland
Publication Date
[2020]
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1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
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Alice is a reclusive writer, resigned to a solitary life on the seaside cliffs of Southern England while World War II rages across the channel. When she opens her front door one day to find she's to adopt a young London evacuee name Frank, she's resistant. It's not long, however, before the two realize they have more in common in their pasts than Alice had assumed
Publication Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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June 1944. Allied Forces stand on the brink: a massive army is secretly assembled on the south coast of Britain, poised to re-take Nazi-occupied Europe. One man stands in their way: Winston Churchill. An impulsive, sometimes bullying personality; fearful, obsessive and hurting. Fearful of repeating, on his disastrous command, the mass slaughter of 1915, when hundreds of thousands of young men were cut down on the beaches of Gallipoli. Obsessed with...
18) One life
Publication Date
2024
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1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tells the true story of Sir Nicholas 'Nicky' Winton, a young London broker, who, along with Trevor Chadwick, and Doreen Warriner of the British Committee for Refugees in Czechoslovakia, rescued 669 children from the Nazis in the months leading up to World War II. Fifty years later, it's 1988 and Nicky lives haunted by the fate of the children he wasn't able to bring to safety in England, always blaming himself for not doing more. It's not until a...
19) Unbroken
Publication Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
20) Phoenix
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Publication Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Set in a rubble-strewn Berlin in 1945, is like no other film about post-World War II Jewish identity. After surviving Auschwitz, a former cabaret perfromer, her face disfigured and reconstructed, returns to her war-ravaged hometown to seek out the gentile husband who may or may not have betrayed her to the Nazis. Without recognizing her, he enlists her to play his wife in a bizarre hall-of-shattered-mirrors story that's as richly metaphorical as it...






