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1) War requiem
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
British cinema's enfant terrible teams with his muse Tilda Swinton and Laurence Olivier, for a spectacular and moving interpretation of composer Benjamin Britten's 1961 orchestral masterpiece.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
In Northern Italy, WWI has turned into a bloody stalemate. Bogged down in their trenches on a barren highland, the men of an Italian infantry division have been given one objective: retake a commanding height from the enemy. Unfortunately, the tactical ingenuity of general Leone, the unpopular division commander, consists of supplementing frontal attacks against machine-guns with medieval fighting schemes. His dispirited troops must be prodded with...
4) 1917
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
During World War I, two British soldiers race against time to deliver an important message to an isolated regiment calling off the attack that would lead it into a trap.
5) 1917
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers, Schofield and Blake are given a seemingly impossible mission. In a race against time, they must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers, Blake's own brother among them.
6) Ithaca
Publisher
Momentum Pictures
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Homer Macauley is determined to be the best and fastest bicycle telegraph messenger anyone has ever seen. His older brother has gone to war, leaving Homer to look after his widowed mother, his older sister and his four-year-old brother, Ulysses. And so it is that as Spring turns to Summer, 1942, Homer Macauley delivers messages of love, hope, pain, and death, to the good people of Ithaca. And Homer Macauley will grapple with one...
7) Wonder Woman
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When an Allied pilot crashes on the secluded island of Themyscira and tells of war in the outside world, Amazon warrior princess Diana leaves her home to fight evil and becomes Wonder Woman in the process.
8) Wonder Woman
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
Before she was Wonder Woman she was Diana, princess of the Amazons, trained warrior. When a pilot crashes and tells of conflict in the outside world, she leaves home to fight a war to end all wars, discovering her full powers and true destiny.
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Full U.K.-length edition.
Language
English
Description
In a tented field hospital on the coast of France, doctors, nurses, and volunteers work together to heal the bodies and souls of men wounded in the trenches of WWI. The hospital is a frontier: between the battlefield and home front but also between the old rules, hierarchies, class distinctions, and a new way of thinking.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A ravishing adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's legendary novel, A farewell to arms stars Gary Cooper (High noon) as Lt. Frederic Henry, a young ambulance driver for the Italian army in WWI, more interested in chasing women than the enemy. When seeking cover during an air raid, he encounters Nurse Catherine Barkley (a radiant Helen Hayes), and the world shifts under his feet. They fall in love, but the war keeps wrenching them apart. These painful separations...
13) The world wars
Publisher
A&E Television Networks, LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen
Language
English
Description
Adolf Hitler. Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Benito Mussolini. Winston Churchill. Charles de Gaulle. George Patton. Before they were the giants of WWII, they were infantrymen and privates in WWI, the war to end all wars. The story of the devastating three decades of twentieth-century world war is told through the eyes of the men whose characters were forged in the trenches before they commanded a world on the brink of disaster.
14) War horse
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Set in rural England and Europe during the First World War, the story begins with the friendship between a horse named Joey and a young man called Albert, who tames and trains him. When they are forcefully parted, the film follows the journey of the horse as he moves through the war, changing and inspiring the lives of all those he meets; British cavalry, German soldiers, and a French farmer and his granddaughter.
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
2002, c1974
Language
English
Description
(A patriotic offering) With James at the front, Hazel is convinced to help the war effort by hosting a family of Belgian refugees. (News from the front) James is in line for an award for bravery but confides this information to Sir Geoffrey Dillon. When the press finds out, James' military career is in jeopardy. (The beastly Hun) A mob burns down the shop of the Schoenfelds, German bakers who have supplied bread to the Bellamy household for years....
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
2002, c1974
Language
English
Description
(Missing believed killed) Georgina looks for James among the thousands of wounded and, miraculously, finds him. (Facing fearful odds) Virginia Hamilton, an attractive and intelligent widow Richard has helped before, comes to ask for his assistance with her son, who is to be court-martialled for cowardice. Edward deserts, but Hudson convinces him to return to his post. (Peace out of pain) The Great War comes to an end. Edward and Daisy plan their new...
17) Tolkien
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Explores the formative years of the renowned author's life as he finds friendship, courage, and inspiration among a fellow group of writers and artists at school. Their brotherhood strengthens as they grow up and weather love and loss together, including the author's tumultuous courtship of his beloved Edith Bratt, until the outbreak of the First World War which threatens to tear their fellowship apart. All of these experiences would later inspire...
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
2002, c1974
Language
English
Description
(The glorious dead) Rose's fiancé is killed in battle, and Hazel learns that Dyson, with whom she had an affair while James was away, has also been killed. (Another year) Edward returns from the front, and the servants throw a party for him, but his nerves are shot and he collapses. Ruby, who had left the house to work at a munitions factory, returns to Eaton Place when the factory explodes. (The hero's farewell) An explosion during Lady Prudence's...
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
2002, c1974
Language
English
Description
(Tug of war) James, frustrated with his staff posting, fights to be reassigned to a frontline unit, and Georgina begins training for duty in France. (Home fires) Rose's old flame, the Australian Gregory Wilmot, proposes to her again. Lady Prudence complains to Richard that Hazel is running the household improperly.
Series
Publisher
Distibuted by Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
1914. War has broken out in Europe. A group of German college students are convinced to enlist after their teacher, Professor Kantorek, gives an impassioned speech about the honor of dying for their Fatherland. Paul Baumer--sent to the Western Front where the fighting is most severe--is soon stripped of illusions about war being glorious. There is nothing but fear, pain, and the randomness of death. Paul is the sole survivor of his group and when...
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