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1) King Rat
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
In Singapore's Changi Gaol during WWII, Corporal King, a thoroughly unscrupulous and opportunistic American POW, makes shabby deals with the camp guards in order to make his confinement more comfortable. King delights in rising above his military rank and social class as he uses his streetwise tactics to "rule" over his fellow Allied prisoners and his Japanese captors.
2) Windtalkers
Language
English
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Description
During the brutal fighting of the World War II in the Pacific Theater, the U.S. Intelligence services desperately seek a fool-proof encryption code. A code immune to the code breakers of the Japanese. The solution is the ancient language of the Navajo. Enlisted into the Marine Corps are several 'Windtalkers' who are deployed to front lines of the Pacific, to use their language as an impossible-to-crack secret code. A drawback, however, is that the...
Language
English
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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
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Deutsch
Description
It tells the gripping story of a young German soldier on the Western Front of World War I. Paul and his comrades experience firsthand how the initial euphoria of war turns into desperation and fear as they fight for their lives, and each other, in the trenches. The film from director Edward Berger is based on the world-renowned bestseller of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque.
It tells the gripping story of a young German soldier on the Western...
7) 1917
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
During World War I, two British soldiers race against time to deliver an important message to an isolated regiment calling off the attack that would lead it into a trap.
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...
8) Sarah's key
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
Français
Description
In modern-day Paris, a journalist finds her life becoming entwined with a young girl whose family was torn apart during the notorious Vel d'Hiv round up, which took place in Paris, in 1942. She stumbles upon a family secret which will link her forever to the destiny of a young Jewish girl, Sarah.
9) The 12th man
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
After an anti-Nazi sabotage mission leaves his eleven companions dead, a Norwegian resistance fighter goes on the run from the Gestapo through the Arctic reaches of Scandinavia.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The harrowing true story of the crew of the USS Indianapolis, who were stranded in the Philippine Sea for five days after delivering the atomic weapons that would eventually end WWII. As they awaited rescue, they endured extreme thirst, hunger, and relentless shark attacks.
11) Indivisible
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Upon returning from Iraq, an Army chaplain experiences a faith crisis that threatens to derail his marriage.
12) The yellow birds
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When tragedy strikes two soldiers in the Iraq war, one of them returns home to find the truth behind the incident and help a grieving mother find comfort.
13) Sophie's choice
Language
English
Formats
Description
A drama set in post-World War II Brooklyn revolves around Sophie, a Polish Catholic beauty who survived Auschwitz, her lover, Nathan, and Stingo a would-be writer. As the three grow closer, Stingo discovers the captivating and moving truths that each harbor.
14) T-34
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Russian
Formats
Description
In 1944, a group of Russian soldiers escape a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp in a T-34 tank used for target practice.
17) Atonement
Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
When 13-year-old Briony Tallis, sees her older sister Cecilia and Robbie Turner at the fountain in front of the family estate she misinterprets what is happening thus setting into motion a series of misunderstandings and a childish pique that will have lasting repercussions for all of them. Robbie is the son of a family servant toward whom the family has always been kind. They paid for him to attend Cambridge and now plans on going to medical school....
18) Megan Leavey
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on the true life story of a young Marine Corporal whose unique discipline and bond with her military combat dog saved many lives during their deployment in Iraq. When she is assigned to clean up the K9 unit after a disciplinary hearing, Leavey identifies with a particularly aggressive dog, Rex, and is given the chance to train him. Over the course of their service, Megan and Rex completed more than 100 missions until an IED explosion injures...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A gripping true story of six elite ex-military operators assigned to protect the CIA who fought back against overwhelming odds when terrorists attacked in the U.S. diplomatic compound on September 11, 2012. When everything went wrong, six men had the courage to do what was right.
20) Night will fall
Pub. Date
2014
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.
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