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Publisher
Arrow Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
"On common ground is the true story of a battlefield reunion of American and German soldiers nearly 55 years after they fought in the Huertgen. This time they meet in the spirit of reconciliation, but vivid memories from the war and unanswered questions are never far beneath the surface. On common ground includes commentary from NBC news correspondent Tom Brokaw, CBS WWII correspondent Walter Cronkite, John Kenneth Galbraith, and never before seen...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
The account of a Dutch girl growing up in Nazi-occupied Holland and her family who helped hide Jewish people. The account of a Dutch girl growing up in Nazi-occupied Holland & her family who helped hide Jewish people. Corrie Ten Boom stood naked with her older sister Betsie, watching a concentration camp matron beating a prisoner."Oh, the poor woman," Corrie cried."Yes. May God forgive her," Betsie replied. And, once again, Corrie realized that it...
3) WW II in HD
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
The only people to see the war like this were the ones who lived it. Until now. Seventy years in the making. Three thousand hours of color footage few knew existed. The first documentary to show original color footage of World War II in immersive HD, the world premiere History series WWII in HD uses the journals and accounts of those who served in the war's biggest battles to create a personal, introspective and detailed look at life on and off the...
Publisher
Disney/Fox Searchlight
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Based on real events, this is the story of an unsung hero, Franz Jgersttter, who refused to fight for the Nazis in World War II. When the Austrian peasant farmer is faced with the threat of execution for treason, it is his unwavering faith and his love for his wife Fani and children that keep his spirit alive.
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
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
2001
Language
Czech
Description
During World War II and the Nazi occupation of Czechoslavakia, a couple, Josef and Marie, decide to hide a young Jewish neighbor in their small apartment. They keep getting a visit from their neighbor, Horst, who is a German sympathizer and has his eye on Marie. When she rejects his advances he seeks revenge by trying to move a Nazi clerk into their home, forcing the couple to tell a lie that will change their lives forever.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
World War II rages across the Pacific and Lt. Cmdr. Duke E. Gifford (John Wayne) is in the thick of it. He evacuates children from enemy-held islands ; oversees the research and development of torpedoes at Pearl Harbor ; and prowls the depths in the submarine Thunderfish, hoping for a chance to aim his improved "tin fish"--Torpedoes - at the hulls of the enemy fleet.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2000, c1945
Language
English
Description
In the early days of World War II, the Japanese navy pressed relentlessly into the Philippines. Two American skippers are determined to prove that their small PT boats can be shaped into an effective battle fleet against the larger Japanese cruisers.
11) Pearl Harbor
Publisher
Distributed in the U.S. by New Video Group
Pub. Date
2001, 1996
Language
English
Description
Part one documents the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Part two examines the life of Chester Nimitz, fleet admiral and leader of the campaign in the Central Pacific during World War II.
12) Hacksaw Ridge
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
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 by...
13) Dunkirk
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire and France are surrounded by the German Army, and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II.
Intense war experience and some language.
15) Schindler's List
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2013], c1993
Language
English
Description
The story of a Catholic war profiteer, Oskar Schindler, who risked his life and went bankrupt in order to save more than 1,000 Jews from certain death in concentration camps. He employed Jews in his crockery factory manufacturing goods for the German army. At the same time he tries to stay solvent with the help of a Jewish accountant and negotiates business with a vicious Nazi commandant who enjoys shooting Jews as target practice from the balcony...
16) Anthropoid
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Based on the extraordinary true story of Operation Anthropoid, the code name for the secret Czechoslovakian mission to assassinate Nazi SS officer Reinhard Heydrich. Heydrich, the main architect behind the Final Solution to the Jewish question, was the Reich's third in command and the leader of Nazi forces in Czechoslovakia.
17) Land of mine
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Deutsch
Description
In the aftermath of World War II, a group of surrendered German soldiers are ordered by Allied forces to remove their own landmines from the coast of Denmark.
18) Windtalkers
Language
English
Description
A battle-weary Marine Sergeant guards and ultimately befriends a young Navajo trained in the one wartime code never broken by the enemy, the Navajo Code.
Publisher
Inception Media Group
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Untold and lost history. A true story of the American Pathfinders, the volunteer paratroopers whose deadly mission was to land 30 minutes before the Normandy invasion, locate and mark strategic "drop zones" and set up the top-secret navigation equipment needed to guide the main airborne assault on D-Day.
20) SSGB
Publisher
BBC Worldwide Limited
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
What if Germany had won the war? This story explores an alternative timeline in which the United Kingdom is occupied by Nazi Germany, during the Second World War. Based on the novel by acclaimed spy novelist Len Deighton, this exciting mini-series follows detective Douglas Archer as he investigates a murder that draws him in to a web of political intrigue.
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