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Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Based upon the best-selling novel. The profoundly moving story of a girl who transforms the lives of those around her during World War II, Germany. Although Liesel is illiterate when she is adopted by a German couple, her adoptive father encourages her to learn to read. Ultimately, the power of words helps Liesel and Max, a Jew hiding in the family's home, escape from the events unfolding around them.
5) Summerland
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alice is a reclusive writer, resigned to a solitary life on the seaside cliffs of Southern England while World War II rages across the channel. When she opens her front door one day to find she's to adopt a young London evacuee name Frank, she's resistant. It's not long, however, before the two realize they have more in common in their pasts than Alice had assumed.
6) Das Boot
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.
7) Shadow
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Chinese
Description
In Pei, a kingdom ruled by a young and unpredictable king, the military commander faces peril both inside and outside the palace walls. But he has a secret weapon: a look-alike who can fool both Pei's enemies and the King himself.
8) Castle keep
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Toward the end of World War II, a small company of American GI's occupy an ancient castle. Their commander has an affair with the countess in resident. One guy falls in love with a Volkswagen. A baker among them moves in with another baker's wife. A group of shell shocked holy rollers wander the bombed out streets. A GI art historian tries vainly to protect the castle and its masterpieces.
11) Taking Chance
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The remarkable true story of one soldier's death in battle, another soldier's journey of discovery and a nation's reverence and gratitude toward its war dead. After hearing of the heroic death of a young Marine in Iraq, veteran officer Lt. Colonel Michael Strobl volunteers to escort the remains of Lance Corporal Chance Phelps back to his hometown in Wyoming. As Strobl crosses America's heartland, he will find himself on an unexpectedly emotional journey...
13) Grand illusion
Series
Criterion collection volume 1
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
Français
Description
Classic film of adventure in which duty and honor conflict in a German prisoner of war camp during World War I.
14) The legion
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
During the invasion of Parthia, two Roman legions have been brought to a standstill in the snowy mountains of Armenia, leaving them slowly dying in the cold. The rest of the Roman army is two weeks march away, and the region swarms with Parthian patrols. Their only hope for survival is Noreno, a half-Roman soldier, who is entrusted with the impossible mission of crossing the deadly terrain to seek help for his men and turn the tide of the battle.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
From the acclaimed filmmaker behind Mr. Six comes a riveting war epic. In 1937 during World War II, eight hundred Chinese soldiers fight under siege from a warehouse in the middle of the Shanghai battlefield, completely surrounded by the Japanese army. Based on an incredible true story.
16) Gallipoli
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Two young men become part of the fateful battle of Gallipoli, the World War I confrontation between Australia and German-allied Turks.
Two friends are involved with the battle between Australia and the German-occupied Turks in this commentary on the wastes of war.
17) Yanks
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
An American GI finds love in Britain during World War II.
19) Mister Roberts
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A comedy-drama about life aboard a Navy cargo ship in Pacific waters during World War II. The monotonous non-combat duty of a fun-loving crew is enlivened by a feud between the petty, intolerant captain and an impetuous, highly-respected cargo officer whose continuous efforts to get a transfer to combat duty are blocked by the captain.
20) Love and honor
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
After being dumped by his girlfriend, a solider returns home from Vietnam and tries to win her back.
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