Catalog Search Results
1) 1917
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
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 among them.
2) Jojo Rabbit
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy named Jojo whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler, Jojo must confront his blind nationalism.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs : sd., col./b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Discs three and four in The War, a seven-part documentary series directed and produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, that explores the history and horror of the Second World War from an American perspective by following the fortunes of so-called ordinary men and women who become caught up in one of the greatest cataclysms in human history.
5) Home fires
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2015
Physical Desc
2 video discs (ca. 6 hrs.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Home Fires follows a group of women in a rural English community where the shadow of World War II is casting a dark cloud over their lives. As the conflict takes hold and separates the women from their loved ones, the women find themselves under increasing and extraordinary pressures in a rapidly fragmenting world.
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The inspiring true story behind the beloved Christmas carol and its author, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Known as America's Poet, Henry leads an idyllic life, until the day his world is shattered by tragedy. With a nation divided by the Civil War and his family torn apart, Henry puts down his pen, silenced by grief. But it's the sound of Christmas morning that reignites the poet's lost voice as he discovers the resounding hope of rekindled faith.
8) The covenant
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
1 videodisc : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story follows Sgt. John Kinley, who is on his last tour of duty in Afghanistan when is teamed with local interpreter Ahmed to survey the region. When their unit is ambushed on patrol, Kinley and Ahmed are the only survivors and with enemy combatants in pursuit, Ahmed risks his own life to carry an injured Kinley across miles of grueling terrain to safety. Back on U.S. soil, Kinley learns that Ahmed and his family were not given passage to America...
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (148 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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 first-hand 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.
13) Midway
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Centers on the Battle of Midway, a clash between the American fleet and the Imperial Japanese Navy which marked a pivotal turning point in the Pacific Theater during WWII. The film, based on the real-life events of this heroic feat, tells the story of the leaders and soldiers who used their instincts, fortitude, and bravery to overcome the odds.
15) Bridge of spies
Language
English
Description
James Donovan (Tom Hanks) is a Brooklyn lawyer who finds himself thrust himself into the center of the Cold War when the CIA sends him on a nearly impossible mission to negotiate the release of a captured American U-2 pilot.
16) Darkest hour
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
As Hitler's forces storm across the European landscape and close in on the United Kingdom, Winston Churchill is elected the new Prime Minister. It's up to Churchill to lead his nation and protect it from the most dangerous threat ever seen.
17) Devotion
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 139 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Elite fighter pilots Jesse Brown and Tom Hudner become the U.S. Navy's most celebrated wingmen during the Korean War.
Language
English
Description
The real-life story of one working wife and mother who became a hero to hundreds during World War II. In 1939 Poland, Antonina Zabinska and her husband, Dr. Jan Zabinski, have the Warsaw Zoo flourishing under his stewardship and her care. When the Germans invade their country, they are forced to report to the Reich's newly appointed chief zoologist, Lutz Heck. To fight back on their own terms, Antonina and Jan covertly begin working with the Resistance....
19) Indivisible
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of Army Chaplain Darren Turner and his wife Heather. With a strong, faith-filled marriage, the Turners are ready to follow their calling: serving God, family, and country. Fresh from seminary and basic training, Chaplain Turner and his family arrive at Fort Stewart. Before the Turners can even unpack, Darren is deployed to Iraq. Heather is left taking care of their three young children alone; as well as serving the families...
20) I.S.S
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Tensions flare in the near future aboard the International Space Station as a worldwide conflict breaks out on Earth. Reeling from this, the astronauts receive orders from the ground: take control of the station by any means necessary.