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4) Korkoro
Publication Date
2014.
Description
During the Second World War, a Gypsy family travels the roads of France before learning that the Vichy regime no longer gives them the right to travel freely.
Publication Date
2014.
Description
In a small town, everyone has tried to forget what happened shortly after WWII. That is, until a stranger finds a book that Jadup gave to the young refugee, Boel, over 30 years ago. This subject matter was considered so controversial by GDR authorities thatJadup and Boel℗ was banned and not released until 1988. Painful memories of the period after the war and of Boel and her disappearance begin to surface. Jadup, now the town's respected and popular...
8) The sun
Publication Date
2014.
Description
The final portrait in a series on the lives of dictators by Alexander Sokurov, The sun is a re-imagining of Emperor Hirohito's final days in power during the waning days of WWII. Hirohito wanders through his palace in a child-like state of denial. But reality soon intrudes as American soldiers overrun his manicured gardens and visions of Hiroshima invade his dreams. No longer a God among men, Hirohito is forced accept the terms of the occupation...
9) Air strike
Publication Date
[2018]
Formats
Description
As a U.S. Army colonel trains Chinese aviators to battle Japanese fighters, a hotheaded pilot begs to fly a powerful bomber that could stop the attacks. Meanwhile, a team of spies and refugees must carry a game-changing decoder device through the war-torn countryside.
12) Lifeboat
Publication Date
[2005]
Description
When an their vessel is torpedoed in the Atlantic Ocean during WWII, eight survivors find refuge in a lifeboat. Short on food and water, their situation is further complicated when they rescue a crew member from the German submarine that sank their ship.
13) Greyhound attack
Publication Date
[2019]
Description
U.S. Army Air Corp pilots hunt the skies of World War II Europe for the most dangerous weapon the Germans have in the air, the Me262, the first operational jet fighter. Two brothers, one a Thunderbolt pilot and one a B-17 tail gunner, face off against their nemesis on the German side, the first jet ace in history who just might have had a hand in the death of their father in the First World War.
Publication Date
2014.
Description
Gregor is a young soldier entering Germany with the victorious Soviet troops at the end of WWII. But he is also the child of left-wing Germans who fled from Hitler and spent the war in the Soviet Union. As a result, his return to Germany is ambivalent; he finds he is a stranger in his own land. Film critics rank Konrad Wolf's most autobiographical film among the 100 Most Significant German Films of all time. As they enter Germany, Gregor begins to...
17) Stars =: Sterne
Publication Date
2014.
Description
Stationed in a secluded Bulgarian village in 1943, Walter, an artist and sergeant in the Wehrmacht, lives an almost idyllic life far away from the war. Then one day a transit camp is set up for Jews arriving from Greece. Ruth, one of the Greek Jews, asks Walter to help a pregnant woman in the camp. At first he refuses, but then changes his mind and sends a doctor into the camp ... Stars, based on scriptwriter Angel Wagenstein's personal experiences...
Series
Criterion collection volume 523
Publication Date
[2010], c1940
Description
Nazis pursue a Czech scientist and his daughter while an undercover British agent tries to protect them.
Publication Date
2014.
Description
In his bittersweet comedy loaded with human quirks and nuance, Jacob invents news reports to bolster the spirits of the other Jews living in his Polish ghetto under Nazi occupation. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 1977, the story was remade in Hollywood starring Robin Williams in 1999. In a Polish ghetto in 1944, Jacob Heym is summoned to the police station. While there, Jacob overhears on the radio that "the Russians are twenty...
20) The winds of war
Publication Date
[2004], c1983
Description
It is Spring 1939, and the winds of war which will soon engulf the world are stirring. U.S. Navy Commander, Victor "Pug" Henry (Robert Mitchum) arrives in Berlin to assume his new appointment as naval attache in the U.S. Embassy, unaware that he and his family are about the experience the most harrowing years of their lives.
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