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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
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...
4) 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
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...
6) 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,...
9) Kabullywood
Publisher
Under the Milky Way
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A group of young Afghan artists decide to open a cultural center in the heart of Kabul.
10) Legion of Honor
Publisher
Filmhub, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Rebuffed in love and uncertain of life, Simon is a young Englishman who goes through a physical and spiritual journey during Algeria's battle for independence from France.
11) Phoo Action
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Based on the original comic strip from Jamie Hewlett (creator of Tank Girl and Gorillaz) this live action drama follows the exploits of Terry Phoo, a hapless Buddhist Kung-Fu law enforcement cop and Whitey Action, an enigmatic young anarchist heroine turned super-cop. Together they form an unlikely but effective crime-fighting team in the face of a super-vile, super-famous army of mutated criminals.
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,...
13) 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...
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.
16) 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....
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.
20) Hellboy
Publisher
Revolution Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Born in the flames of hell sixty years ago during World War II, Hellboy (Ron Perlman) was brought to Earth by evil madman Grigori Rasputin (Karel Roden) to perpetrate evil. Destined to be a harbinger of the apocalypse, Hellboy was instead rescued by Allied Forces led by Professor Broom (John Hurt), founder of the clandestine B.P.R.D. (Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense), who raised him like a son and developed his extraordinary paranormal...
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