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Pub. Date
2023.
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Description
Traza el efecto domin̤ de la guerra y la inmigraci̤n en dos nįos: Samuel, de cinco ąos, cuya madre lo mete en un tren Kindertransport desde la Austria ocupada por los nazis a Inglaterra en 1938, y Anita, de siete ąos, que aborda otro tren ocho ďcadas m̀s tarde a los EE.UU., donde se separa de su madre.
Traces the ripple effects of war and immigration on two children--five-year-old Samuel, whose mother puts him on a Kindertransport train...
Pub. Date
©2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (135 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Twenty-four hours out of San Francisco, submarine captain Cassidy unseals his top-secret orders and reads two fateful words: Destination Tokyo. Set during the second World War, depicts the story of a submarine and its crew as they sail to Tokyo, Japan to sink Japanese warships.
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
During the last perilous months of World War II, Vienna's famed Spanish Riding School is threatened by devastating bombing raids and indifferent Nazi commanders. Despite the dangers involved in evaculating the Lipizzan stallions, the school's director and a handful of heroic citizens attempt a daring plan to move the stallions away from the ravages of war and keep the historic breed alive.
7) Hart's war
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Honor, courage, and sacrifice are revealed in unexpected ways as a ranking U.S. prisoner in a Nazi POW camp is joined in December 1944 by a law-student lieutenant who'd been captured despite his father's powerful military connections. When a black pilot from the famous Tuskeegee airmen is falsely accused of murdering a fellow prisoner, Lt. Hart tries his case and discovers the real motivation behind the ranking officer's kangaroo court.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xix, 332 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"Combinando de forma magistral la ficción con datos históricos, Mario Escobar sitúa al lector en la terrible situación de los judíos polacos y su lucha por la supervivencia en el Gueto de Varsovia. Varsovia, 1939 Agnieszka Ignaciuk y su hijo, Henryk, llegan al orfanato de Korczak poco antes de estallar la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Allí, conocen y son testigos de la vida y obra de Janusz Korczak, el heroico maestro y autor que dedica su vida...
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young American man, with the help of a local who speaks weirdly broken English, journeys to find the woman who saved his grandfather during World War II in a Ukrainian village that was ultimately razed by the Nazis.
10) The sea chase
Pub. Date
©2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
German naval officer Karl Ehrlich loves his country and hates Hitler. As World War II erupts, Ehrlich defies orders and takes his freighter on a fox-and-hound pursuit from the Germans and the British.
11) 1941
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (2 hr., 26 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4
Description
This comedy is set in Los Angeles days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, when the fear of a Japanese invasion hung over the city.
12) Nicky's family
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Nicky's Family tells the nearly forgotten story of Nicholas Winton, an Englishman who organized the rescue of 669 Czech and Slovak children just before the outbreak of World War II.
13) Charlotte Gray
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Its World War II and Charlotte has been trained to be an undercover courier for England. She straps on a parachute and falls from the sky into Vichy France. There she will assist the French Resistance in its defiance of Nazi occupation. Once behind enemy lines, she keeps secret her personal mission to find her lover, an RAF pilot downed over France.
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"George Takei ha capturado corazones y mentes en todo el mundo con su cautivadora presencia en el escena y su compromiso incondicional con la igualdad de derechos. Pero, mucho antes de alcanzar nuevas fronteras en Star Trek, se despertó de niño, a los cuatro años, para encontrar a su país natal en guerra con el de su padre... y a su familia entera forzada a abandonar su hogar, rumbo a un futuro incierto. En 1942, bajo órdenes del presidente...
16) Mrs. Miniver
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (133 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"This story of an average English middle-class family begins with the summer of 1939; when the sun shone down on a happy, careless people, who worked and played, reared their children and tended their gardens in that happy, easy-going England that was so soon to be fighting desperately for her way of life and for life itself." - title screens. Mrs. Miniver dramatizes the effect of the Second World War on the English at home. Mrs. Kay Miniver's tranquil...
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (153 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
During World War II, a group of Jewish-American guerilla soldiers, led by Lt. Aldo Raine, become known as "The Basterds." They are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon cross paths with a French-Jewish woman who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers. A plot is set in motion to kill the Nazis at the theater's movie premier, including Adolph...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (160 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
August 1944. Follows four black soldiers of the all-black 92nd Infantry Division who get trapped near the small Tuscan village of Sant'Anna di Stazzema on the Gothic Line during the Italian Campaign of World War II. One of the men will risk his life to save an Italian boy who lives in the city where the Waffen-SS have massacred most of the citizens of the town in retaliation for Italian partisan activity. A sculpted head from the Ponte Santa Trinita...
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 146 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Rachel is the daughter of an affluent Rotterdam Jewish family who are ambushed while trying to escape into Allied territory. She alone survives, and ends up in the Dutch Resistance, transformed into blond Ellis de Vries, playing Mata Hari to high-ranking German officer Ludwig Müntze. The officer can feel the Allies closing in, and is eager to forge a separate peace with the resistance fighters who may soon become the Dutch government, and keeps...
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