Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi state

March 27, 2011
Auschwitz – Inside the Nazi State
Call Number: DVD00657
by Laurence Rees; David Orenstein; Martina Balazova; Dominic Sutherland; Detlef Siebert; KCET (Television station : Los Angeles, Calif.); British Broadcasting Corporation.; Warner Home Video (Firm); BBC Video (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: In English, German and Polish with English voiceover translation and optional English SDH subtitles; closed-captioned.
Publisher:   [London] : BBC Video ; Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2005]
Notes: Originally broadcast in 2005. Bonus features: interview with Laurence Rees; a series of six follow-up discussions hosted by award-winning journalist Linda Ellerbee; Running Time Approx (2 Discs) 300 min. Alternate Title: “Auschwitz: The Nazis and the ‘Final Solution'”.
Summary: Auschwitz occupies a chilling and disturbing place in the history of humankind … This six-part series presents an in-depth examination of the camp’s evolution and the decisions that enabled such an incomprehensibly inhuman place to come into being. ‘Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State’ is the result of three years of research, drawing on the close involvement of world experts, recently discovered documents and nearly 100 interviews with camp survivors and perpetrators, many of whom are speaking on the record for the first time. Disc 1. Surprise beginnings; Orders and initiatives; Factories of death –disc 2. Corruption; Murder and intrigue; Liberation & revenge; bonus features.
OCLC #: 63149055
Added: March 27, 2011
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Letters from Iwo Jima

Letters from Iwo Jima
Call Number: DVD00995
by: Tadamichi Kuribayashi; Ken Watanabe; Kazunari Ninomiya; Tsuyoshi Ihara; Iris Yamashita; Paul Haggis; Clint Eastwood; Steven Spielberg; Robert Lorenz; Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- ); Dreamworks Pictures.; Malpaso (Company); Amblin Entertainment (Firm); Warner Home Video (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: Japanese
Publisher: Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, ©2010.
Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 2006; Based on the book “Picture letters from Commander in Chief” by Tadamichi Kuribayashi. Running Time Approx 140 min. Nominated for 4 Academy Awards in 2007.
Summary: Sixty-two years ago, U.S. and Japanese armies met on Iwo Jima. Decades later, hundreds of letters are unearthed from that stark island’s soil, giving faces and voices to the men who fought there and more. Includes several bonus documentaries.
OCLC #:614521655
Added: March 27, 2011
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Brothers

Brothers 
Call Number: DVD00699 Copy 1, DVD00699 Copy 2
by: Ryan Kavanaugh; Sigurjon Sighvatsson; Michael De Luca; David Benioff; Jim Sheridan; Tobey Maguire; Jake Gyllenhaal; Natalie Portman; Sam Shepard; Mare Winningham; Carey Mulligan; Ethan Suplee; Thomas Newman; Relativity Media.; Sighvatsson Films (Firm); Michael De Luca Productions (Firm); Lions Gate Films.;
Format: DVD
Language:English
Publisher: Santa Monica, Calif. : Lionsgate, [2010]
Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 2009. Based on the Danish motion picture “Brødre” by Susanne Bier and Andrers Thomas Jensen. Special features: “Remade in the USA, how Brødre became Brothers” featurette; “Jim Sheridan, film and family” featurette; feature audio commentary by director Jim Sheridan, theatrical trailer. Running time Aprox 105 min.
Summary: Captain Sam Cahill is embarking on his fourth tour of duty, leaving behind his beloved wife and two daughters. When Sam’s Blackhawk helicopter is shot down in the mountains of Afghanistan, the worst is presumed, leaving an enormous void in the family. Despite a dark history, Sam’s charismatic younger brother steps in to fill the family void.
OCLC #: 502160740
Added: March 27, 2011
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Operation Petticoat

March 23, 2011

Operation Petticoat
Call Number: DVD01081
by: Blake Edwards; Cary Grant; Tony Curtis; Joan O’Brien; Dina Merrill; Gene Evans; Dick Sargent; Arthur O’Connell; Gavin MacLeod; Marion Ross; Universal-International (Firm); Granart Company.; Republic Entertainment Inc.; Artisan Entertainment (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: [United States] : Republic Entertainment ; Santa Monica, Calif. : Distributed by Artisan, [2001]
Notes: Originally released in 1959 (120 min.); Nominated for one 1960 Academy Award;
Summary: World War 2 comedy about a submarine commander who finds himself stuck with a decrepit (and pink) sub, a con-man executive officer and a group of Army nurses.
OCLC #: 49504064
Added: March 23, 2011
Also: Available on VHs at VHS001356
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Greatest Classic Films Collection – War Collection: Battlefront Asia

March 18, 2011
Turner Classic Movies Greatest Classic Films Collection – War Collection: Battlefront Europe
Call Number: DVD00891
by:Robert Taylor; John Wayne; Anthony Quinn; Cary Grant; John Garfield; Franz Waxman; Miklós Rózsa; Robin Moore; Turner Classic Movies (Television network); Warner Home Video (Firm
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2009].
Notes: Films Released between 1943 and 1968, (486 mins. Black and White & Color);
Films:
Bataan: A U.S. Army sergeant fights a rear-guard action in the Philippine jungle in order to cover MacArthur’s retreat. His platoon of 13 soldier, including a few veterans, a couple of green recruits, and other assortments of soldiers and officer types, are sensable enough to follow the sergeant’s judgment. The group is whittled down through misadventure, disease, and skirmishes with the ever-advancing Japanese, till only a handful remain for a still-shattering last stand.
 
Back to Bataan: Colonel Joe Madden is an American soldier who stays behind to organize a ragtag guerrilla army in the forests and hills of the Philippines. At his side is Captain Andres Bonifacio, grandson of a legendary revolutionary martyred in the nation’s old war against Spanish colonialists. Joe, Andres, and their fearless irregulars sap the enemy’s resolve through hit-and-run missions. As time passes the locals wonder why America doesn’t return with troops and weapons.
 
Destination Tokyo: Captain Cassidy and his crew of submariners are ordered into Tokyo Bay on a secret mission. They are to gather information in advance of the planned Doolittle air raid on Tokyo. After getting the information they need, they face the harrowing task of getting out of Japan once their presence is detected.
 
The Green Berets: Col. Mike Kirby picks two teams of crack Green Berets for a mission in South Vietnam. Their first mission is to build and control a camp that is trying to be taken over by the enemy. The second mission is to kidnap a North Vietnamese general.
Also see The Green Berets on DVD00897
 
OCLC #: 375827363
Added: March 18, 2011
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Greatest Classic Films Collection – WWII Battlefront Europe

Turner Classic Movies Greatest Classic Films Collection – WWII Battlefront Europe
Call Number: DVD00895
by: Gabriel Katzka; Harold Loeb; Troy Kennedy Martin; Sidney Beckerman; Brian G Hutton; Kenneth Hyman; Nunnally Johnson; Lukas Heller; Robert Aldrich; Clint Eastwood; Telly Savalas; Don Rickles; Carroll O’Connor; Donald Sutherland; Lee Marvin; Ernest Borgnine; Charles Bronson; Jim Brown; John Cassavetes; Richard Jaeckel; George Kennedy; Trini Lopez; Ralph Meeker; Robert Ryan; Clint Walker; Robert Webber; E M Nathanson; Richard Burton; Mary Ure; Patrick Wymark; Michael Hordern, Sir.; Van Johnson; John Hodiak; Ricardo Montalbán; George Murphy; Marshall Thompson; Jerome Courtland; Don Taylor; Bruce Cowling; James Whitmore; Douglas Fowley; Leon Ames; Guy Anderson; Thomas E Breen; Denise Darcel; James Arness; Scotty Beckett; Brett King; Jerry Gershwin; Elliott Kastner; Alistair MacLean; Dore Schary; Robert Pirosh; William A Wellman; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.; Turner Entertainment Co.; Warner Home Video (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, ©2007.
Notes: Films Released between 1949 and 1970, (566 mins. Black and White & Color);
Summary: Kelly’s heroes: World War II soldiers learn of a fortune of gold bars that the Germans have stashed in enemy territory, and decide to steal the loot. The dirty dozen: Twelve tough criminals are offered absolution if they undertake a suicide mission into Nazi Germany. Where eagles dare: Commandos charged with freeing a U.S. general from an Alpine fortress should also be told to trust nothing, including the search-and-rescue order just issued to them. Battleground: The gripping tale of 101st Airborne troops resisting Hitler’s fierce, final counteroffensive at Bastogne. A feisty sergeant and a wisecracking private show a rugged and unsparing look at men in combat.
OCLC #: 422596010 & 704115891
Added: March 18, 2011
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Greatest Classic Films Collection – Best Picture Winners

Turner Classic Movies Greatest Classic Films Collection – Best Picture Winners
Call Number: DVD00886
by: Humphrey Bogart; Ingrid Bergman; Paul Henreid; Claude Rains; Conrad Veidt; Sydney Greenstreet; Peter Lorre; Greer Garson; Walter Pidgeon; Teresa Wright; May Whitty, Dame; Reginald Owen; Henry Travers; Richard Ney; Henry Wilcoxon; Leslie Caron; Maurice Chevalier; Louis Jourdan; Hermione Gingold; Eva Gábor; Jacques Bergerac; Isabel Jeans; Gene Kelly; Oscar Levant; Georges Guétary; Nina Foch; Murray Burnett; Joan Alison; Jan Struther; Colette; Hal B Wallis; Julius J Epstein; Philip G Epstein; Howard Koch; Michael Curtiz; Sidney A Franklin; Arthur Wimperis; George Froeschel; James Hilton; Claudine West; William Wyler; Arthur Freed; Alan Jay Lerner; Vincente Minnelli; Max Steiner; Herbert Stothart; Frederick Loewe; Ira Gershwin; George Gershwin; Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967); First National Pictures, Inc.; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.; Loew’s Incorporated.; Arthur Freed Productions.; Warner Home Video (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, ©2009.
Notes: Films Released between 1942 and 1958, (462 mins. Black and White & Color); Casablanca is based on the play by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison, Mrs. Miniver is based on the book by Jan Struther, Gigi is based on the novel by Colette; Special features: Disc 1, Side A: 2 commentaries with critic Roger Ebert and historian Rudy Behlmer; introduction by Lauren Bacall. Side B: Greer Garson Academy Awards footage; photo gallery; 2 World War II-era shorts: “Mr. Blabbermouth” and “For the common defense.” Special features: Disc 2, Side A: Commentary by historian Jeanine Basinger with Leslie Caron; vintage short “The million dollar nickel;” classic CinemaScope cartoon “The vanishing duck;” theatrial trailer. Side B: Commentary hosted by Patricia Ward Kelly and featuring rare interviews with Gene Kelly, Vincente Minnelli, Arthur Freed, Alan Jay Lerner, Johnny Green, Saul Chaplin, Michael Feinstein, Preston Ames and Irene Sharaff, and new observations by Leslie Caron and Nina Foch; vintage FitzPatrick Traveltalks short “Paris on parade;” classic cartoon “Symphony in slang;” theatrical trailer
Summary: [Disc 1]: Casablanca: Casablanca, WWII. Rick Blaine is an exiled American who owns the most popular nightclub in town, Rick’s cafe. He comes to have possession of two valuable letters that German couriers were killed trying to deliver to the German high command. Ilsa Lund re-enters Rick’s life to purchase the letters he has obtained. Mrs. Miniver: The Miniver’s are an English ‘middle-class’ family who, together, experience life in the first months of World War II. While dodging bombs. The Miniver’s son beings courting Lady Beldon’s granddaughter. A rose is named after Mrs. Miniver and it is entered into a competition where her rose will go up against Lady Beldon’s rose.
[Disc 2]: Gigi: Gaston is the scion of a wealthy Parisian family who finds emotional refuge from the superficial lifestyle of upper class Parisian 1900s society with the former mistress of his uncle and her outgoing, tomboy granddaughter, Gigi. When Gaston becomes aware that Gigi has matured into a woman, her grandmother and aunt, who have educated Gigi to be a wealthy man’s mistress, request he become her provider. An American in Paris: Jerry Mulligan is a struggling American painter in Paris who is ‘discovered’ by an influential heiress. She just happens to an interested in more than Jerry’s art. Jerry in turn falls for Lise, a young French girl already engaged to a cabaret singer. His relationshp with Lise is filled with romantic complications.
OCLC #: 312174857
Added: March 18, 2011
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Fight for Freedom – The Major Battles of WWII

March 16, 2011
Fight for Freedom – The Major Battles of WWII – 10-Part Documentary Series
Call Number: DVD00847
by:  Mill Creek Entertainment.;
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher:  Mill Creek Entertainment, 2010.
Notes: Originally released in 2010[?] (523 mins.);
Chapters: PROGRAM 1: The Decline of Fascism – Invasion of Sicily, Mussolini’s downfall, Ploesti, Invasion of the Italian Peninsula.
PROGRAM 2: The Slow Italian Campaign – Cassino, Anzio, Liberation of Rome, The Gothic Line, Liberation of Italy.
PROGRAM 3: The Road to Tokyo – The battles for Guadalcanal, Munda, Bougainville and the South-Pacific area launch the thrust to the Japanese Empire’s capital city.
PROGRAM 4: The Pacific in Flames – The Central Pacific areas, with its huge distance ranges, rekindle the war between the Japanese and the Americans.
PROGRAM 5: D-Day – Allied invasion of Normandy, Liberation of Paris.
PROGRAM 6: The Battle of Kursk – The greatest armored cars’ battle in history eased the way for the Soviet troops on the road to Berlin.
PROGRAM 7: The Battle for Germany – Eastern and Western offensives of the Allied and Soviet armies in their way to Berlin, Operation Market Garden.
PROGRAM 8: The Agony of the Third Reich – The Battle of the Ardennes (the Battle of the Bulge), Conquest of Berlin, Hitler’s death, Surrender and end of the war in Europe.
PROGRAM 9: Leyte, Imperial Destiny – Several naval clashes in the Gulf of Leyte led to the liberation of the Philippines. Along with the British victory in Burma, they opened the way to Tokyo.
PROGRAM 10: The Peace of the Atomic Bomb – Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Atomic bombs and the surrender of the Japanese army bring to a close the greatest disaster so far known to mankind – World War II.
OCLC #: [Additional information taken form publisher website]
Added: March 16, 2011
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A Bridge Too Far

March 15, 2011
A Bridge Too Far
Call Number: DVD00693
by: Richard Attenborough; Joseph E Levine; Richard P Levine; William Goldman; Dirk Bogarde; James Caan; Michael Caine; Sean Connery; Edward Fox; Elliott Gould; Gene Hackman; Anthony Hopkins; Hardy Krüger; Laurence Olivier; Ryan O’Neal; Robert Redford; Maximilian Schell; Liv Ullmann; Cornelius Ryan; United Artists Corporation.; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.; MGM Home Entertainment Inc.;
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher:  Santa Monica, CA : MGM Home Entertainment (1166), [2005], ©1977.
Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1977. Running Time Aprox 176 min. Based on the book by Cornelius Ryan.
Summary: An historic telling of the failed attempt to capture several bridges to Germany in World War II in a campaign called Operation Market-Garden.
OCLC #: 40842922
Added: March 15, 2011
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Triumph of the will

February 15, 2011
Triumph of the will
Call Number: VHS01478
by: Leni Riefenstahl; Crown Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: German with English subtitles
Publisher: New York, NY : Crown Video, [198-?]
Notes: Approx 120 min. “872234.” Cataloged from container.
Videocassette release of the 1934 film documentary produced by Leni Reifenstahl.
Summary: A film commissioned by Adolph Hitler as the official record of the Nuremberg Party Rally of 1934. Produced as an important piece of political propaganda to introduce the new German leaders to the nation and to impress foreign audiences.
OCLC #: 12189911
Added: February 15, 2011
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Hong ying tao

February 11, 2011
Red Cherry
Call Number: VHS01474
by :Ying Ye; Keyu Guo; Xiaoli Xu; Fox Lorber Home Video (Firm); Beijing dian ying xue yuan.
Format: VHS
Language:  English
Publisher: New York : Fox Lorber Home Video, [1998]
Notes: Approx 120 min.Originally released in 1995. Nominatied for 5 awards.
Summary:Follows two orphaned Chinese friends as they struggle to survive in the Soviet Union during World War II.
OCLC #: 39666691
Added: February 11, 2011
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Good Morning, Vietnam

February 9, 2011
Good Morning, Vietnam
Call Number: VHS01461
by :  Mitch Markowitz; Mark Johnson; Larry Brezner; Barry Levinson; Robin Williams; Forest Whitaker; Tung Thanh Tran; Chintara Sukapatana; Bruno Kirby; Noble Willingham; Robert Wuhl; J T Walsh; Richard Edson; Richard Portnoy; Floyd Vivino; Peter Sova; Stu Linder; Alex North; Touchstone Pictures.; Silver Screen Partners III.; Rollins, Morra and Brezner (Firm); Touchstone Home Video (Firm); Buena Vista Home Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher:Burbank, Calif. : Touchstone Home Video : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video, [1987]
Notes: Originally released in 1987 (121 mins.); Nominated for one 1988 Academy Awards;
 Summary:Imported by the Army for an early morning radio show in Vietnam, disc jockey Adrian Cronauer blasts the formerly staid, sanitized airwaves with a constant barrage of rapid-fire humor and the hottest hits from back home. The G.I.’s love him, but the brass is up in arms!
OCLC #: 20239137
Added: February 9, 2011
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The Birth of a Nation

January 26, 2011
The Birth of a Nation
Call Number: DVD00682
by  D W Griffith; Frank E Woods; G W Bitzer; Lillian Gish; Mae Marsh; Ralph Lewis; Wallace Reid; Henry B Walthall; Thomas Dixon; Alpha Video Distributors.;
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Narberth, PA : Alpha Video, 2005
Notes: Approx. 192 min. Black and white. Silent film. Originally produced as a silent motion picture in 1915. Based on the novel The Clansman, by Thomas Dixon.
Summary: Recounts the events leading up to and immediately fter the Civil War. Ben Cameron, a brave yet disillusioned Confederate soldier, creates a covert group of impassioned Southerners called the Ku Klux Klan as an answer to the supposed problem of the rise and rule of blacks and carpetbaggers. Bent on revenge, Ben leads his KKK followers in a war to suppress the black threat to white society, ultimately restoring “order” to his beloved South
OCLC #: 60756779
Added: January, 26 2011
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Paths of Glory

November 23, 2010

Paths of Glory
Call Number: DVD01094
by Stanley Kubrick; Calder Willingham; Jim Thompson; James B Harris; Kirk Douglas; Ralph Meeker; Adolphe Menjou; Gerald Fried; Humphrey Cobb; Bryna Productions, Inc.; Criterion Collection (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English  
Publisher:  [Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, 2010
Notes:  Originally released in 1957 (88 min.);
Summary: During WWI, a French battalion is ordered on a suicide mission that is likely to fail. When it does, the general that planned the mission selects three soldiers from the battalion to be executed for cowardice, and selects their leader as their attorney.
OCLC #: 664880050
Added: November 23, 2010
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Iwo Jima: 36 Days of Hell: The True Story

November 17, 2010
Iwo Jima: 36 Days of Hell: The True Story
Call Number: DVD00950
by Timeless Media Group.;
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Eugene, OR : Timeless Media, 2006.
Notes: Originally released 2006 (4 hours 6 mins).
Summary:

 
The story of the battle for Iwo Jima through the eyes of those who lived through it.
OCLC #: 172654509
Added: November 17, 2010
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War Movies: WWII Collection

War Movies: WWII Collection
Call Number: DVD00603
by Dana Andrews; Randolph Scott; Van Johnson; Otto Kruger; Roger Corman; Glenn Ford; George Montgomery; Umberto Lenzi; Richard Arlen; Anna May Wong; Lee Van Cleef; Jim Brown; Bekim Fehmiu; Klaus Kinski; Stephen Boyd; John Litel; Robert Mitchum;
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: [S.I.] : TGG Direct, LLC, 2008..
Notes: 20 movies.
Summary:  Great World War II era movies projecting the spirit and solidarity of Allied forces in the European and Pacific theaters.
OCLC #: 318542417
Added: November 17, 2010
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Life is Beautiful

October 15, 2010
Life is Beautiful
Call Number: VHS01392
VHS01392 Copy 2
by Roberto Benigni; Nicoletta Braschi; Giustino Durano; Sergio Bustric; Lydia Alfonsi; Giorgio Cantarini; Marisa Paredes; Horst Buchholz; Miramax Films.; Cecchi Gori Group (Firm); Melampo cinematografica.; Miramax Home Entertainment (Firm); Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher:  [Calif.] : Miramax Home Entertainment ; Burbank, Calif. : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [1999]
Notes: Originally a feature film in 1997 (116 min). 1998 Academy Awards: Best actor (Benigni), Best foreign language film, Best dramatic score.
Summary: A Jewish man has a wonderful romance with the help of his humour, but must use that same quality to protect his son in a Nazi death camp.
OCLC #: 84542056
Added: October 15, 2010
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WWII: The World in Conflict, 1931-1944

October 14, 2010
WWII: The World in Conflict, 1931-1944
Call Number: DVD00598
by Timeless Media Group (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Eugene, OR : Timelesss Media Group, ©2006
Notes: Archival footage
Summary: This is the whole story, beginning in the 1930’s with Japan’s invasion of China and Germany’s buildup and Blitzkrieg into neighboring Czechoslovakia and Poland in 1939. Contains historic newsreels and rare footage – a must have for the serious collector.
OCLC #: 223466198
Added: October 14, 2010
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WWII: The World in Conflict, 1944-1945

WWII: The World in Conflict, 1944-1945
Call Number: DVD00599
by Timeless Media Group (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Eugene, OR : Timelesss Media Group, ©2006
Notes: Archival footage
Summary: This is the whole story, beginning in the 1930’s with Japan’s invasion of China and Germany’s buildup and Blitzkrieg into neighboring Czechoslovakia and Poland in 1939. Contains historic newsreels and rare footage – a must have for the serious collector.
OCLC #: 223473197
Added: October 14, 2010
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Hollywood Goes to War

Hollywood Goes to War
Call Number: DVD00921
by Peter Ustinov; Frank Capra; John Huston; Clark Gable; John Ford; Louis Hayward; William Wyler; Ronald Reagan; Gene Kelly; James Stewart; Garson Kanin; Burgess Meredith; Mill Creek Entertainment.;
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: [Minneapolis, Minn.] : Mill Creek Entertainment, [2007]
Notes: contains 4 discs
Chapters: disc 1. This is the army (1943) (115 min.) ; Divide and conquer (1943) (57 min.) ; Submarine warfare (1987) (53 min.) ; December 7th, 1941 (1942) (34 min.) ; After Mein Kampf (1940) (54 min.) —
disc 2. Attack! The Battle for New Britain (1944) (59 min.) ; Thunderbolt (1947) (45 min.) ; The Battle of Russia (1943) (83 min.) ; The Battle of Britain (1943) (53 min.) ; The Battle of San Pietro (1945) (38 min.) —
disc 3. Marines on Tarawa-Return to Guam (1944) (40 min.) ; Combat America (1943) (62 min.) ; Prelude to war (1943) (52 min.) ; The Nazi strike (1943) (43 min.) ; The true glory (1945) (81 min.) —
disc 4. Report from the Aleutians (1943) (47 min.) ; Tunisian victory (1944) (76 min.) ; The Memphis Belle (1944) (42 min.) ; The Battle of China (1944) (63 min.) ; The Stilwell Road (1945) (51 min.).
OCLC #: 213410715
Added: October 14, 2010
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