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KL studio classicsSummary: "In harm's way": An epic treatment of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, details the devastating sneak attack on the Naval base as well as the explosive behind-the-scenes stories, and the counter-offensive. (167 min.).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AMESummary: American judge Daniel Haywood presides over the trial of four German jurists accused of "legalizing" Nazi atrocities. But as graphic accounts of sterilization and murder unfold in the courtroom, mounting political pressure for leniency forces Haywood into making the most harrowing and difficult decision of his career.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA JUDSummary: Rio bravo : On one side is an army of gunmen dead-set on springing a murderous cohort from jail. On the other is Sheriff John T. Chance and his two deputies: one a recovering drunkard, the other a crippled codger. Also in their ragtag ranks are an unseasoned, trigger-happy youth and a woman with a past-- and her eye on Chance.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie RioSummary: This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be King of England, Robert Devereux, the Earl of Essex. Ever the victor on the battlefield, Devereux returns to London after defeating Spanish forces at Cadiz. Middle-aged Elizabeth, so attracted to the younger Devereux but fearful of his influence and popularity, sends him on a new mission: a doomed...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2005
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2 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE PRISummary: Set in 1940 London, the story is an ode to how women played a major role in boosting national morale during the Blitz of London in the second World War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY THESummary: This film dramatizes part of the Israeli independence moment, dealing with various factions involved in the internecine struggle between the moderate Haganah and the radical terrorist Irgun Zvai Leumi. Interspersed throughout are segments showing the migration of European Jews to the new land, paying special attention to the ragged survivors of Nazi death camps on board the vessel Exodus,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA EXOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Exodus 2002Summary: Based on a true story, twelve-year-old Tom and his misfit friends fight to save Buster the baby elephant during the air raids on Belfast in 1941.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Samuel Goldwyn Films 2018
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ZoSummary: A World War II thriller about the evacuation of Allied troops from the French city of Dunkirk before Nazi forces can take hold.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2017
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DUNCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DUNCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DUN RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DuCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DUNCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Dunkirk 2017Summary: A group of brave Polish pilots known as Squadron 303 fought in the skies over England in World War II, not just to keep Great Britain free from the Nazis, but also to keep alive the very idea of their own country, which had existed in its modem form for barely 20 years before it was crushed between the opposing jaws of Germany and Russia. Equipped with the almost-obsolete Hurricane airplane and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MISCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MISSummary: A moving and inspiring factual drama about the pioneering work on radar by a little know team of scientists in the run up to the Second World War. On 26 February 1935, Robert Watson-Watt demonstrated for the first time that aircraft could be detected by bouncing radio waves off them. By the time the war began in 1939, radar stations were dotted along the British coast, tracking aircraft at...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CASSummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MIDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MIDCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MIDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Midway 2020Summary: "This is the way it was--the story of the battle that was the turning point of the war in the Pacific, told wherever possible with actual film shot during combat. It exemplifies the combination of planning, courage, error and pure chance by which great events are often decided."--Title screens. In June of 1942, quite possibly the most important naval encounter of WWII took place in the middle...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MIDSummary: Explore the Louvre Museum and the relevant meditation on the essential relationship between art, culture, and history.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY JOJCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD JOJCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JOJOCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE JOJSummary: England during the English Civil War. A small group of deserters flee from a raging battle through an overgrown field. They are captured by two men: O'Neil and Cutler. O'Neil, an alchemist, forces the group to aid him in his search to find a hidden treasure.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR FIESummary: 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 fiancé, Frantz, was killed during trench warfare, and Adrien, a French veteran of the war who shows up mysteriously in her town, placing...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FRASummary: Set in the late 1920s, the story follows a cat-and-mouse game between a group of resistance fighters who want to destroy key Japanese facilities in Seoul, and the Japanese agents trying to stop them. A talented Korean-born Japanese police officer, who was previously in the independence movement himself, is torn between his duty as an officer and his instinct to support the greater cause.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AGESummary: 1916. While war rages in the Ottoman Empire, Hussein raises his younger brother Theeb in a traditional Bedouin community that is isolated by the vast, unforgiving desert. The brothers₂ quiet existence is suddenly interrupted when a British Army officer and his guide ask Hussein to escort them to a water well located along the old pilgrimage route to Mecca. So as not to dishonor his recently...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN THEBaye, Nathalie
Summary: Set during the time of World War I, follows a group of women in rural France who have to run the family farm while their men got shipped off to combat.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2018