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Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2015]
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.
2) The war
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[[2006] 2006]
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
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Follows the lives of Women's Institute members in rural England during World War II.
Great Paxford's inspirational band of women return for more incredible stories from the home front as they deal with imminent threat during the Battle of Britain. As the nation finds itself increasingly beleaguered, relationships, friendships, and loyalties within the community will be tested as never before. The women find they must heighten their efforts to boost...
4) D-Day 360
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
It D-Day back to its raw data to reveal how the odds of victory, in the greatest gamble of World War II, swung on what happened over a five-hour period on a five mile stretch of French coastline. Data gathered though forensic laser scanning, 3D computer modeling, and eye-witness accounts bring the battlefield to life as never before.
6) Land girls
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Set in England during the Second World War, a five-part drama that captures the sacrifices and experiences of four young women in the Women's Land Army. Sharing hardships and working alongside captured POWs, Annie, Bea, Joyce and Nancy toil in the fields to grow food for the war effort.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
On Thanksgiving Day, 1950, US Army troops pushed north through the Korean peninsula to drive North Korea's Communist army out of democratically held South Korea. Within days, they were surrounded by more than 85,000 Chinese soldiers in the mountains by the Chosin Reservoir. View the intense battle in intimate detail in this vivid narrative of combat and survival in the first major military clash of the Cold War.
8) Home fires
Series
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Bitter rivals fight for control of the Women's Institute in a rural English town as it struggles with the onset of World War II. Separated from husbands, fathers, sons and brothers for years at a time, some permanently, they find themselves under extraordinary pressures in a rapidly fragmenting world.
Series
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In August 1914, the people of Europe were swept into the first of the wars that would make this century the bloodiest ever. Soldiers from all sides remember the trenches and the tactics and scale of the slaughter that shattered the old world order.
Publisher
Public Broadcasting Service
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Long before 9/11, a far deadlier, little-known attack from the ocean depths struck our shores, lasting three-and-a-half years and claiming 5,000 lives. Now, famed undersea explorer Bob Ballard, discoverer of the Titanic, investigates the wreck of one attack craft, a German submarine that lies at the bottom of the gulf just a few miles off the coast of New Orleans. U-166 was part of Operation Drumbeat, a highly successful German U-boat operation that...
11) 14 war stories
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Experience fourteen true and emotional accounts of World War One from the letters and journals of those that actually lived it.
13) Catch-22
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Follows bombardier John Yossarian and his misadventures as part of a United States air squadron in Italy during World War II.
14) Gettysburg
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Examines the events of the three-day Battle of Gettysburg.
Publisher
Sterling Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
A simple Southern girl is thrown into adulthood when she marries a Civil War veteran haunted by nightmares of the war. Years later she looks back on the events of a life filled with drama, pain, joy, hardship and triumph.
16) The Vietnam War
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A combination of archival photos and voice-overs reading letters, diaries, and documents telling the story of the Vietnam War from beginning to end.
17) Mercy street
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
It takes viewers beyond the battlefield and into the lives of Americans on the Civil War home front as they face challenges of one of the most turbulent times in our nation's history. This series is about the drama and unexpected humor of everyday life behind the front lines. It's a fresh twist on an iconic story, one that resonates with larger themes we still struggle with today.
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Hitler's Britain: Examines one of the most intriguing questions in history: What would the Nazis have done if they had conquered Britain?
Desert victory: Documents the clash of Germany's General Rommel and Britain's General Montgomery as their militaries collide in battle under harsh desert conditions. Britain's defeat at El Alemein is only a stumbling block on the road to victory as they ultimately conquer the Germans at Tripoli. Utilizes actual...
19) Legacy of war
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Details the successful launch and execution of the Marshall Plan - America's expansive commitment to re-build Europe at the end of the war. Walter Cronkite traces the complex and changing relationship between the United States and England and explores the dramatic shifts of the Cold War from the end of the war up to the present.
20) Band of brothers
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Easy Company, 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, U.S. Army, an elite rifle company that parachuted into France early on D-Day morning, fought in the Battle of the Bulge, captured Hitler's Eagle's Nest at Berchtesgaden, and suffered heavy casualties. Also includes a documentary about the soldiers in Easy Company.
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