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1) Patton
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (171 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A dramatization of the experiences of General George S. Patton during World War II.
3) WWII in HD
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (455 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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...
4) Resistance
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It's 1944 and D-Day has failed. The women of a remote British village awake to find their husbands gone to fight with the resistance. Soon after Nazi soldiers arrive to occupy the village and the women must boldly form their own resistance.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 195 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Includes an overview of World War II from the German Blitzkeieg to the Allies' bloody battle for Berlin, as well as the desert war in northern Africa, the landing of the Allies and the brutal German counterattack at Anzio, and the largest amphibious assault in world history, the Normandy invasion.
7) Canopy
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Singapore 1942. The Japanese invasion is underway. An Australian fighter pilot is stranded in a vast jungle overrun by hostile forces, thus beginning his journey for survival amidst the collision of war, nature and its impact on humanity.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 290 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
With her English accent and her London ways, Rose Coyne is the only 'stranger' in her rural Northern Ireland town, until 4,000 Americans arrive at the nearby WWII airbase. As Rose finds herself acting as peacekeeper between the disgruntled locals and the soldiers, she is also drawn to the engaging young Captain Dreyfuss. Will Rose risk her family for this forbidden love?
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (62 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
They may have busted out of prison, but the World War II battle for freedom has just begun for Alcatraz convicts Champ Larkin and his pal Jimbo. Eluding the Rock's patrol boats, the fugitives capture a lighthouse, taking the denizens prisoner while plotting their mainland escape. But among the captives, a veteran skipper, his flinty daughter, a chatty assistant and a wily radio operator; is a Nazi spy who's key to a German plot to attack San Francisco....
14) South Pacific
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A nurse is among the American forces waiting for World War II to arrive on an isolated Pacific island where she finds love with a mysterious French planter. At the same time, a Navy officer falls under the spell of an island girl and the warm tropical sea breezes.
15) Task force
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. "Told in flashback, Task force stars Gary Cooper in a wide-ranging performance taking him from brash young aviator to command of an aircraft carrier. Also on deck are Walter Brennan as a veteran navy sea dog and Jane Wyatt as Cooper's valiant, uncomplaining wife. The movie's other star attraction is actual World War II combat footage putting you in the middle of the chaos of a carrier deck strewn with flaming wrecks or the nail-biting tension...
16) WWII from space
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A 2-hour special, delivers the 10 key tipping points in World War II as they've never been seen before. The key is an all-seeing CGI eye; a satellite, flying above Earth, bringing a new visual approach to the biggest conflict of all time. That view means WWII can be interpreted as never before; placing key events in perspective, flying around the world revealing the hidden ripple effects of crucial incidents, and re-creating ground-breaking moments...
19) Tokyo Joe
Pub. Date
©2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An ex-war hero returns to Tokyo to search for his missing wife and daughter.
20) Into the white
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
At the beginning of World War II a hostile chance encounter in the skies above the harsh Norwegian wilderness leaves two aircraft, one British, one German, shot down in a remote and isolated region. By strange coincidence the crews seek shelter in the same cabin. They must battle to survive the brutal winter in order to get back to the war and to fighting one another. Although war has made them enemies, as the days go by animosity proves hard to maintain....
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