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Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Foyle, a veteran detective 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.
Fifty ships: After his driver's boarding house is hit by bombs, things go missing pointing Foyle to an organized ring of looters.
Among the few: A scheme involving missing fuel, RAF pilots, a bar,...
2) Jojo Rabbit
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
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Formats
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.
3) The train
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
In August 1944 the Allied army is closing in on Paris. German commander and art fanatic Colonel Von Waldheim steals a vast collection of rare French paintings and loads them onto a train bound for Berlin. When a beloved French patriot is murdered while trying to sabotage Von Waldheim's scheme, Labiche, a stalwart member of the Resistance, vows to stop the train at any cost.
5) Darkest hour
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
During the early days of World War II, the fate of Western Europe hangs on the newly appointed British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Hitler, or fight on against incredible odds.
6) Unbroken
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Olympian and war hero Louis Zamperini survived in a raft for 47 days after a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, only to be caught by the Japanese Navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.
7) Key Largo
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Company
Pub. Date
2000-
Language
English
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Description
A disillusioned returning World War II veteran has lost the will to fight ... until he arrives at a rundown hotel in Key Largo. There a mobster holes up against a raging storm, holding the veteran, the hotel owner and the owner's widowed daughter-in-law at gunpoint.
A hurricane swells outside, but that is nothing compared to the storm that rages inside the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up, holding hostage the hotel...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Dramatizes the life of Moe Berg, a baseball player and spy who became an OSS operative in World War II gathering information about Germany's progress towards the development of an atomic bomb.
The true story of Moe Berg, professional baseball player, Ivy League graduate, attorney, and a top-secret spy who helped the US win the race against Germany to build the atomic bomb.
10) White Christmas
Publisher
Paramount
Language
English
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Description
Two song-and-dance men team up in show business after the war. Joining forces with a sister act, they trek to Vermont for a white Christmas. The real adventure starts when Crosby and Kaye discover that the inn is run by their old army general who's now in financial trouble.
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