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Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Danny Archer is an ex-mercenary turned smuggler. Solomon Vandy is a local Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join together for two dangerous missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son. The son was conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed across the alternately beautiful and ravaged countryside....
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
The love of Hawkeye, rugged frontiersman and adopted son of the Mohicans, and Cora Munro, aristocratic daughter of a British colonel, blazes amidst a brutal conflict between the British, the French and Native American allies in colonial America.
5) Das Boot
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Follows the daring patrol of the U-96, one of the famed German U-boats known as the "gray wolves." The crew is graphically portrayed in a life-and-death struggle, challenging the British Navy at every turn.
Publisher
Sixteen Films
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Ireland, 1920. Damien O'Donovan is leaving for London for an internship, until the dreaded Black and Tans attack his hurling mates, killing one for not speaking English. Thus sidetracked by the Irish War for Independence, Damien is convinced by his brother Teddy to throw his lot in with the IRA. Damien is a purist, an idealist, and therefore marked for a tragic destiny, while Teddy is a fatefully pragmatic politician. These differences between the...
7) Birdsong
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Birdsong is the story of Stephen Wraysford, a young Englishman who arrives in Amiens in Northern France to stay with the Azaire family and falls desperately in love with Isabelle Azaire. They begin an illicit and all-consuming affair, but the relationship falters. Years later, Stephen finds himself serving on the Western Front in the very area where he experienced his great love. He must learn to endure the ravages of war and make peace with his feelings...
9) Carrie's war
Series
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
At the start of World War II, 14-year-old Carrie and her younger brother Nick are separated from their mother and evacuated from war-torn London to a rural village in Wales, where they now live with a puritanical shopkeeper and his spinster sister.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
Français
Description
Based on a true event that occurred on the Western Front during World War I, German, French, and Scottish soldiers call an unauthorized truce on Christmas Eve, meeting each other in No Man's Land to peacefully celebrate.
Series
Publisher
RB Media
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
Arabic
Description
"During a cease-fire in the Lebanon-Israel conflict of 2006, Tony, a Christian taxi-driver, brings Zeina, a Shiite woman from Beirut, to the heart of the conflict in the country's south. While they scour the rubble of local towns for Zeina's son, they discover that despite their very different backgrounds they have much in common. During their trip through the desolate countryside, the two travelers develop a deep bond as a response to the death surrounding...
12) The general
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
After being rejected by the Confederate Army, Johnny's locomotive, the General, is stolen and he sets out to get it back and once again win the heart of his beloved Annabelle.
Series
Mercy street volume Season 2
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Follows the staff of a Civil War hospital placed in a former hotel.
14) Memorial Day
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c[2012]
Language
English
Description
SSgt. Kyle Vogel leaves a handwritten letter on the seat of his car, grabs a pistol, and steps into a Minnesota forest. Flash back a few months as Vogel lies wounded in a hospital near Anbar Province, Iraq. The night before he's due to return to combat, his doctor, Lt. Kelly Tripp, presses him on why he's so obsessed with collecting battle souvenirs, so Kyle tells her what happened on Memorial Day, 1993, when, as a 13-year old boy, he discovered...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
2001
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.
16) Casablanca
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
In World War II Morocco, seething with European refugees desperate for passage to neutral Lisbon, only a world-weary and bitter nightclub owner can help his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.
18) Frantz
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Description
Set in Germany and France in the immediate aftermath of the First World War, (1914-1918), the film recalls the mourning period that follows great national tragedies as seen through the eyes of the war's 'lost generation': Anna, a bereft young German woman whose fiance, Frantz, was killed during trench warfare, and Adrien, a French veteran of the war who shows up mysteriously in her town, placing flowers on Frantz's grave.
19) Beirut
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entert
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Set during the time of the Lebanese Civil War, tells the story of a former American diplomat who returns to Beirut to rescue his friend who was taken hostage by a terrorist group.
20) 1918
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Set in early 20th century Texas. At the hight of World War I, Elizabeth and her husband face hard times when her previously dispproving father steps in to take care of her children so her beloved can go off to war.
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