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1) 1917
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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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.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman2s point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of despair and back again, a film about young love, the futility of war and how to make sense of the darkest times.
Publisher
Monterey Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
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World War I Collection Spotlight - Films
World War I Collection Spotlight - The Fight on Water and in the Air
World War I Collection Spotlight - The Fight on Water and in the Air
Description
Europe, 1916: Baron Manfred von Richthofen is a crack pilot of the German aerial combat forces, a legend in his own time, a hero at home, and a man both feared and respected by the enemy. Von Richthofen and his fellow officers see their duels in the sky as tactical, almost sportsmanlike, challenges. But, when he falls in love with Kate, she opens his eyes to the fact that there is more to war than dogfights and he becomes aware of his role in the...
6) Frantz
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
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World War I - Recent Additions to the Library Collection
World War I Collection Spotlight - Aftermath
World War I Collection Spotlight - Films
World War I Collection Spotlight - Aftermath
World War I Collection Spotlight - Films
Description
Set in Germany and France in the immediate aftermath of the First World War (1914-1918), the film recalls the mourning period that follows great national tragedies as seen through the eyes of the war's 'lost generation': Anna, a bereft young German woman whose fiancé, Frantz, was killed during trench warfare, and Adrien, a French veteran of the war who shows up mysteriously in her town, placing flowers on Frantz's grave.
7) ANZAC girls
Publisher
Screentime Pty Ltd
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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World War I - Women's Experience
World War I Collection Spotlight - Films
World War I Collection Spotlight - Medicine
World War I Collection Spotlight - Films
World War I Collection Spotlight - Medicine
Description
Based on true events, this uplifting drama tells the story of five Australian and New Zealand nurses during World War I. Drawing on the real participants' diaries and letters, this six-part drama celebrates the contributions of women to the war effort.
8) Wings
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
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World War I Collection Spotlight - Classics
World War I Collection Spotlight - Films
World War I Collection Spotlight - The Fight on Water and in the Air
World War I Collection Spotlight - Films
World War I Collection Spotlight - The Fight on Water and in the Air
Description
Two young men, one rich, one middle class, are in love with the same woman, but must leave her behind when they become fighter pilots in World War I.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Deutsch
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Description
G. W. Pabst brought the war movie into a new era with his first sound film, a mercilessly realistic depiction of the nightmare that scarred a generation, in the director's native Germany and beyond. Digging into the trenches with four infantrymen stationed in France in the final months of World War I, Pabst illustrates the harrowing ordeals of battle with unprecedented naturalism, as the men are worn away in body and spirit by firefights, and the...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
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Description
The Great War rages across Europe, and not even the serene Yorkshire countryside is free from its effects. The men and women of Downton are doing their part: heir Matthew Crawley and footman Thomas Barrow are off fighting, while Lady Grantham and Isobel Crawley are squabbling over whether Downton should be used as a hospital. Lady Mary is seeing a wealthy newspaper magnate while Lady Edith becomes much warmer and Lady Sybil seeks to ingratiate herself...
11) A call to spy
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
At the beginning of WWII, with Britain becoming desperate, Churchill orders his new spy agency, SOE, to recruit and train women as spies.
12) Theeb
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2016].
Language
Arabic
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World War I Collection Spotlight - Films
World War I Collection Spotlight - Homefront
World War I Collection Spotlight - Middle East, Africa, and Asia
World War I Collection Spotlight - Homefront
World War I Collection Spotlight - Middle East, Africa, and Asia
Description
1916. While war rages in the Ottoman Empire, Hussein raises his younger brother Theeb in a traditional Bedouin community that is isolated by the vast, unforgiving desert. The brothers' quiet existence is suddenly interrupted when a British Army officer and his guide ask Hussein to escort them to a water well located along the old pilgrimage route to Mecca. So as not to dishonor his recently deceased father, Hussein agrees to lead them on the long...
13) Journey's end
Publisher
Good Deed Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
The Great War, March 1918. C-company arrives to take its turn in the front-line trenches of northern France, led by the war-weary Captain Stanhope. With a German offensive imminently approaching, the company anxiously awaits their unknown fate.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The incredible true story of a stray dog who became a hero of the First World War. For his keen instincts and fierce loyalty, Stubby is still recognized today as the most decorated canine in American history and the first promoted to the rank of Sergeant in the U.S. Army.
15) War horse
Publisher
distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
Set against a sweeping canvas of rural England and Europe during the First World War, begins with the remarkable 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 extraordinary 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....
16) Private peaceful
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Description
Private Peaceful details the gritty rural lives and loves of Tommo and Charlie - two young brothers - and their poor Devonshire family from 1909 until 1916, when the outbreak of war destroys their country idyll. Both join up (one under age) leaving behind the beautiful Molly who is the love of both their lives. The young men survive gas attacks, shelling, German troops and the appalling deaths of their close friends. But one thing they cannot escape...
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Description
In 1919, an Australian farmer travels to Turkey after the Battle of Gallipoli to try and locate his three missing sons. With insurmountable obstacles he must travel across the battle-scarred Turkish landscape to find the truth and his own peace.
18) Sunset song
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Description
Follows the life of a Scottish farm girl, Chris, as she searches for her independence against the odds, in an epic rite of passage story set just before the First World War. %x;The war and the struggles Chris endures test her resolve for love and her idyllic country farm life.
20) Dishonored
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In 1915, the Austrian Secret Service sends its most seductive agent, a former prostitute, to spy on the Russians.
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