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1) Dunkirk
Language
English
Description
The story unfolds on land, sea, and air, as hundreds of thousands of British and Allied troops are trapped on the beaches of Dunkirk with enemy troops closing in. RAF Spitfires engage the enemy in the skies above the Channel, trying to protect the defenseless men below. Meanwhile, hundreds of small boats manned by both military officers and civilians are mounting a desperate rescue effort, risking their lives in a race against time to save even a...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Complete UK broadcast ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Foyle investigates strange happenings at a manor house converted to a burn unit for RAF pilots. The brilliant, unconventional surgeon who heads the unit has drawn the ire of his superiors for disregarding regulations that conflict with patient welfare.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Complete UK broadcast ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Still trying to get closer to the war effort, Foyle asks his well-connected brother-in-law to help him get a job with a naval command center. Meanwhile, a local murder investigation puts him in a dangerous bind between rival spy agencies.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2005.]
Edition
Complete UK broadcast ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Foyle and Milner capture two German soldiers who survive the crash landing of their plane in the Hastings countryside. Nearby, two nights later, a farmer is discovered shot dead in his armchair.
5) Midway
Publisher
Lionsgate
Language
English
Description
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.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Complete UK broadcast ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a month that begins with the fall of Crete and ends with the German invasion of the Soviet Union, Foyle and Milner crack down on an organized crime racket operating in a local shipyard.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 minutes) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a company of American soldiers get lost behind enemy lines during the Battle of the Bulge, they make a horrific discovery-- that the Germans have a super bomb in development. Against all odds, they set out to find the scientist in charge of the program who is looking to defect.
8) The way back
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 DVD (133 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by an incredible true story beginning in 1940 when seven prisoners attempt the impossible: escape from a brutal Siberian gulag. Thus begins a treacherous 4,500-mile trek to freedom across the world's most merciless landscapes. They have little food and few supplies. They don't know or trust each other. But together, they must withstand nature at its most extreme. Their humanity is further tested when they meet a teenage runaway who begs to...
9) Darkest hour
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
As Hitler's forces storm across the European landscape and close in on the United Kingdom, Winston Churchill is elected the new Prime Minister. It's up to Churchill to lead his nation and protect it from the most dangerous threat ever seen.
10) Woman in gold
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Sixty years after she fled Vienna during World War II, an elderly Jewish woman, Maria Altmann, starts her journey to retrieve family possessions seized by the Nazis, among them Klimt's famous painting Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I. Together with her inexperienced but plucky young lawyer Randy Schoenberg, she embarks upon a major battle which takes them all the way to the heart of the Austrian establishment and the U.S. Supreme Court.
11) Zoo
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 96 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Tom and his misfit friends fight to save Buster the baby elephant during the air raids on Belfast in 1941.
12) Memorial Day
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Language
English
Description
SSgt. Kyle Vogel leaves a handwritten letter on the seat of his car, grabs a pistol, and steps into a Minnesota forest. Flash back a few months as Vogel lies wounded in a hospital near Anbar Province, Iraq. The night before he's due to return to combat, his doctor, Lt. Kelly Tripp, presses him on why he's so obsessed with collecting battle souvenirs. Kyle proceeds to tell her what happened on Memorial Day, 1993, when, as a 13-year old boy, he discovered...
13) The book thief
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Wide screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (131 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based upon the best-selling novel. The profoundly moving story of a girl who transforms the lives of those around her during World War II, Germany. Although Liesel is illiterate when she is adopted by a German couple, her adoptive father encourages her to learn to read. Ultimately, the power of words helps Liesel and Max, a Jew hiding in the family's home, escape from the events unfolding around them.
14) Unbroken
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 digital videodisc (138 minutes) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Complete U.K. broadcast ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
While investigating gambling and sabotage, Foyle takes in his troubled goddaughter and her severely traumatized son, who refuses to speak.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Complete U.K. broadcast ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As the first American GIs arrive to build an airbase near Hastings, the murder of a barmaid further strains already-tense relations between the locals and the Yanks.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Complete U.K. broadcast ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The death of a young munitions worker and the murder of Paul Milner's wife seem linked, and Foyle strives to clear his sergeant from suspicion.
18) Red tails
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Italy, 1944. As the war takes its toll on Allied forces in Europe, a squadron of black pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen are finally given the chance to prove themselves in the sky, even as they battle discrimination on the ground. Featuring jaw-dropping aerial action and thrilling special effects, Red Tails is a breathtaking tribute to the unsung heroes who rose above extraordinary challenges and ultimately soared into history.
19) Emperor
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 digital videodisc (106 minutes) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Immediately after Emperor Hirohito's World War II surrender, General MacArthur suddenly finds himself the de facto ruler of a foreign nation. He challenges his expert on Japanese culture, General Fellers to provide evidence in ten short days to decide if the Japanese Emperor, worshipped as a god by his people but accused of war crimes, should be punished or saved, as the fate of a nation waits.