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Publisher
Janus Films (The Criterion Collection)
Pub. Date
1940.
Language
English
Description
In his controversial masterpiece The Great Dictator, Charlie Chaplin offers both a cutting caricature of Adolf Hitler and a sly tweaking of his own comic persona. Chaplin, in his first pure talkie, brings his sublime physicality to two roles: the cruel yet clownish "Tomainian" dictator and the kindly Jewish barber who is mistaken for him. Featuring Jack Oakie and Paulette Goddard in stellar supporting turns, The Great Dictator, boldly going after...
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The Hiltons are an average family living in a Midwestern town. The father of the household has waived his 3A status and enlisted to go overseas. His wife must now act as father and mother to their two daughters and keep their father's memory alive.
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Natalie and Aaron undergo a terrifying physical ordeal. General Eisenhower prepares for D-Day. Conspirators in Germany plot to assassinate Hitler. Rahm brutalizes Natalie and her son Louis to ensure her cooperation during an upcoming Red Cross tour.
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Aaron, Natalie and Natalie's young son Louis are held in the Theresienstadt "Paradise Ghetto." Berel Jastrow escapes from the Germans. Aaron bribes the sadistic commandant Rahm to prevent Natalie's deportation to death camps in the east.
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Louis is stricken with a high fever. The assassination plot against Hitler fails. As the Allies advance on the western and eastern fronts, the Germans begin to pull out of a crumbling Theresienstadt. Natalie and Aaron begin a horrifying train journey to the death camp of Auschwitz.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
Weaving together interviews, official photos and documents, home movies, and archival film, this 90-minute film explores the complex social and political factors that shaped America's response to the Holocaust. The story of Kurt Klein, who struggled with State Department red tape to free his parents from Europe, represents America's reaction to European Jews clamoring for rescue.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Complete UK broadcast ed.
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.
13) Victory at sea
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Language
English
Description
"An Emmy and Peabody award-winning TV series chronicling naval warfare during WWII. Originally aired on NBC and developed with full cooperation from the US Navy, this 26 episode program includes 13,000 hours of wartime footage and features the major battles such as the Battle of the North Atlantic, the attack on Pearl Harbor and the Battle of Midway."--Container insert.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[c1989]
Language
English
Description
Drama about life in the Army in the days prior to World War II. Shows the effect of Army discipline on an individualistic former boxing champion who defies the attempts of officers and men to break him when he refuses to fight on the company's boxing team. Includes actual scenes of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Episode Three “A Deadly Calling" November 1943-June 1944 In fall 1943, after almost two years of war, the American public is able to see for the first time the terrible toll the war is taking on its troops when Life publishes a photograph of the bodies of three GIs killed in action at Buna. Despite American victories in the Solomons and New Guinea, the Japanese empire still stretches 4,000 miles, and victory seems a long way off. In November, on...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Episode Seven “A World Without War" March 1945-September 1945 In spring 1945, although the numbers of dead and wounded have more than doubled since D-Day, the people of Mobile, Sacramento, Waterbury and Luverne understand all too well that there will be more bad news from the battlefield before the war can end. That March, when Americans go to the movies, President Franklin Roosevelt warns them in a newsreel that although the Nazis are on the verge...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Episode Six “The Ghost Front" December 1944-March 1945 By December 1944, Americans have become weary of the war their young men have been fighting for three long years; the stream of newspaper headlines telling of new losses and telegrams bearing bad news from the War Department seem endless and unendurable. In the Pacific, American progress has been slow and costly, with each island more fiercely defended than the last. In Europe, no one is prepared...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The War is a story of the Second World War through the personal accounts of a handful of men and women from four American towns. The war touched the lives of every family on every street in every town in American and demonstrated that in extraordinary times, there are no ordinary lives.A Letter from the Directors Ken Burns and Lynn Novick: In the spring of 1945, as the war in Europe drew to a close, the CBS radio correspondent Eric Sevareid was troubled....
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Episode Two “When Things Get Tough” January 1943-December 1943 By January 1943, Americans have been at war for more than a year. The Germans, with their vast war machine, still occupy most of Western Europe, and the Allies have not yet been able to agree on a plan or a timetable to dislodge them. For the time being, they will have to be content to nip at the edges of Hitler’s enormous domain. American troops, including Charles Mann of Luverne,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Episode Four “Pride of Our Nation” June 1944-August 1944 By June 1944, there are signs on both sides of the world that the tide of the war is turning. On June 6, 1944 — D-Day — in the European Theater, a million and a half Allied troops embark on one of the greatest invasions in history: the invasion of France. Among them are Dwain Luce of Mobile, who drops behind enemy lines in a glider; Quentin Aanenson of Luverne, who flies his first combat...
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