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2) Jojo Rabbit
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
A World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy named Jojo whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler, Jojo must confront his blind nationalism.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The story of the incredible efforts made by British cameramen to film and document the unbelievable atrocities the Allies encountered during the Liberation of the German Concentration camps in 1945 at the end of World War II.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1989]
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.
6) The war
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment [distributor
Pub. Date
2007]
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of ordinary people in four quintessentially American towns - Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama; Sacramento, California; and Luverne, Minnesota - and examines the ways in which the Second World War touched the lives of every family on every street in every town in America.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2006/2007
Language
English
Description
Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle, a long time veteran of the Hastings police force, is persuaded to remain on duty at home rather than join the troops at the front as World War II begins. But home is on the vulnerable southern English coast and the chaos, danger and venality of war seep into everyday events.
Publisher
Greenwich Entertainment
Language
Français
Description
It is not widely known that a handful of prisoners in the Nazi death camps managed somehow to take clandestine photographs of the hell that was being hidden from the world. Director Christophe Cognet retraces the footsteps of these courageous men and women in a quest to unearth the circumstances and the stories behind their photographs.
9) Patton
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Story of General Patton in World War II whose military brilliance was balanced by his inability to deal with the social and political aspects of war, causing him difficulties in his dealings with the War Department.
12) Mother of mine
Series
Film Movement volume 5, film 4
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
Finnish
Description
Uncle: Biography of a humble man, retold by an anonymous nephew, who strings together a collection of his uncle's passions, failings and beliefs.
When nine-year-old Eero's father is killed at the beginning of World War II his mother, broken by grief, is unable to care for him. She sends Eero out of Finland to live with a family in Sweden, away from the conflict. Feeling abandoned by his biological Finnish mother, he cannot quite attach to his Swedish...
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
The Lost Evidence revisits the 1945 battle on the Rhine River, and captures the entire operation, the single largest offensive against the Germans since D-Day, with a combination of archival material, dramatic re-enactments, and high-tech computer modeling.
15) Sobibor
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Language
Russian
Description
A war drama based on the history of the Sobibór extermination camp uprising during WWII and focuses on Soviet officer Alexander Pechersky. When he was a POW in SOBIBOR, he managed to do the impossible - to organize a revolt and mass escape of the prisoners. Many of the escapees were later caught and died - the rest led by Pechersky managed to join the partisans. Official Selection at the **Cannes Film Festival**.
16) Apocalypse '45
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Recounts the end of World War II. With never-before-seen restored footage and the voices of 24 men who lived through these events, this timely documentary highlights the experiences of the last of the Greatest Generation.
17) The longest day
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Re-enacts the military operation of D-Day from four points of view--the workings of the high commands of the American, English, French, and German forces in their battle scheme for Normandy. Largely filmed on actual invasion sites in France.
19) Broken silence
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
©2004
Language
Español
Description
Some who lived weaves together testimonies of Holocaust survivors now living in Argentina and Uruguay with archival and contemporary footage; it also draws parallels between the Nazi regime and the government of Argentinean president, Juan Perón.
In Eyes of the Holocaust, survivors describe the slow erosion of their lives followed by panic when the Nazis took over and attempted to liquidate the Hungarian Jewish population.
Children from the abyss...
20) Overlord
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
American paratroopers are dropped behind enemy lines to carry out a mission crucial to the invasion's success, on the eve of D-Day. But as they approach their target, they begin to realize there is more going on in this Nazi-occupied village than a simple military operation. They find themselves fighting against supernatural forces, part of a Nazi experiment.
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