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Publisher
Treeline Films
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
A mix of war movies and documentaries that detail great battles and campaigns. Stars like Sidney Poitier, Van Johnson, John Ireland, and Montgomery Clift bring the immediacy of conflict to life and celebrity narrators like Ronald Reagan, Clark Gable, and Burgess Meredith helm classic documentaries that convey key military campaigns.
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
Set in 1944 France, in the Ardennes forest region, an American Intelligence Squad locates a German platoon wishing to surrender rather than die in Germany's final war offensive. The two groups of men, isolated from the war at present, put aside their differences and share a Christmas celebration. The surrender plan includes a mock battle that turns bad when one of the soldiers is unaware of the surrender plan.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Finnish
Description
UNKNOWN SOLDIER by award-winning Finnish director Aku Louhimies follows a platoon of Finnish soldiers on a tour of duty that lasts for more than three years at the end of World War II. The film tells the story of Rokka, Kariluoto, Koskela, Hietanen, and their brothers-in-arms, showing how friendship, humor, and the will to live unite these men on their way to and from the battlefield. The war changes each of the soldiers, as well as the lives of those...
5) Jack Strong
Publisher
Level 33 Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The most spectacular Polish spy of the Cold War era, colonel Ryszard Kuklinski, informs Americans about the communist block's top secrets in the face of the upcoming martial law. Nominated for Best Film at the **Polish Film Awards** and the **Polish Film Festival**. "*With its solid performances, nice attention to period detail and a foreboding rumble of a symphonic score by Jan Duszynski, Jack Strong adds a unique Eastern Bloc POV to the enduring...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1981.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Foreign Language Film (1981), THE BOAT IS FULL is a tense and heartbreaking drama that captures the plight of refugees during WWII. A ragtag band of exiles from Germany sneak into Switzerland seeking asylum. They are allowed to stay at an isolated inn as long as they pretend to be a family. In order to maintain this deception they must communicate with a young French-speaking boy, who cannot understand the...
7) Lila & Eve
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Struggling to cope with the loss of her 18-year old son Stephon to drug violence in the neighborhood, a grieving mother Lila (Academy-Award Nominee Viola Davis), attends a support group for mothers whose children have been murdered. There she meets Eve (Jennifer Lopez), a candid kindred spirit. Lila commiserates with Eve on her desire for justice and the fact that the local police lack the resources necessary to pursue her son’s case. Encouraged...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
Arabic
Description
At the center of the Middle East conflict, hearts beat in tragic comedy and deadpan irony: a young Palestinian woman defies Israeli soldiers and struts through a check-point as if it were the catwalk of a fashion show, Santa Claus is chased up the sun-drenched hills of Nazareth by a gang of knife-wielding school kids, Israeli police use a blindfolded prisoner to provide directions to tourists in Jerusalem and a female ninja descends from the sky,...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2014
Language
English
Description
Von Ryan's express (widescreen, 1965, 117 min.): Ryan, an American POW, leads his fellow prisoners on a dangerous escape from the Germans in Italy. Having seemingly made errors of judgment, Ryan has to win the support of the mainly British soldiers he is commanding.
Tora! tora! tora! (widescreen, 1970, 144 min.): A dramatization which chronicles the bombing of Pearl Harbor from both the Japanese and American points of view.
Blue Max (widescreen,...
11) War Witch
Publisher
Giant Interactive
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Lingala
Description
Forced into a rebel army during a bloody civil war, a young African girl with a unique gift finds hope for survival in a tender relationship with a fellow soldier. Nominated for an **Academy Award** for Best Foreign Language Film. Nominated for a **Film Independent Spirit Award** for Best International Film. Winner of two prizes at the **Berlin International Film Festival**. "*War Witch is a remarkably mature portrait that trusts its audience to have...
12) Underground
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
In the midst of war, Marko and Blacky - two opportunistic buddies sharing a spirited lust for women, booze and madcap brawling - attain riches and heroic praise dealing arms to the war's resistance fighters. When things get too hot, they move into an intricate cellar packed with refugees whom Marko encourages to manufacture the contraband. With Blacky convinced he should remain hidden in the cellar until the war ends, Marko conspires to leave him...
13) SS-GB
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
History is turned on its head in this gripping thriller, an adaptation of Len Deighton's 'alternative history' novel about Nazi occupied London. The Second World War's Battle of Britain has ended in victory for Hitler's Germany and the population of 1940s Britain struggles to adjust to life under Nazi occupation. Detective Douglas Archer, forced to work under the brutal SS in London, is determined to continue to do his job in the service of his country....
14) A bridge too far
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©1998
Language
English
Description
A dramatic recreation of an Allied airdrop behind German lines in Holland, and the subsequent disastrous Battle of Arnhem.
15) Alias María
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
Maria, a thirteen-year-old guerilla soldier, is given the mission to bring a commander's newborn baby to safety in a neighboring town. But nobody knows the secret that she is pregnant with her own baby. Despite the prohibitions against it, Maria decides to keep the baby and is forced run away. A vision of the devastating results of Colombia's armed conflict through the eyes of a young female soldier finding the strength to look for a new life.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©2013
Language
English
Description
Mister Roberts (1955, 122 min.): Stir-crazy crew members of the USS Reluctant watch WWII pass them by as they suffer not war's dangers but its indignities.
No time for sergeants (b & w, 1957, 119 min.): Georgia farm boy Will Stockdale is busting with pride now that he's been drafted but is Uncle Sam ready for him? Wearing a friendly, wide grin, he ambles into the U.S. Air Force and lots of folks will never be the same.
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