Cedar, Joseph
Summary: A group of young Israeli soldiers must try to survive before they are pulled out of Lebanon, and protect a fortress that is sacred to both Israelis and Arabs alike.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BEASummary: L'Armee des Ombres is a stark and unvarnished story about Resistance fighters in Vichy France in 1942-43 when the French leadership allowed the Nazis to occupy the country. The members of this army are cold, hungry, desperate men and women, with false names and no addresses, who can be betrayed in an instant by a traitor or an accident. They know they will probably die. A meditation on the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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Summary: Based on true events, tells the story of Clemens Forell who escaped a Soviet prison in Siberia just after World War II and set out to trek 8,000 miles to return to his family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Vanguard Cinema 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ASSummary: The tale of a 1943 WWII French Algerian Unit facing discrimination by its European counterparts due to prejudice and ignorance. The French armed forces are preparing to land troops in Europe to win back their homeland from the Axis Powers, but they cannot accomplish their task without recruiting men from their African colonies. The Africans themselves start their long journey full of hope and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Company 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DAYSummary: Trapped in a Polish ghetto with thousands of other Jews facing starvation or deportation to the death camps, Jacob is detained one evening at the local Gestapo headquarters. Eavesdropping, he overhears a radio report about a nearby Russian victory. At first he is silent, but circumstances compel him to pass on the good news of hope. A simple, somewhat dour man, the stubble-bearded Jacob...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Icestorm International 1999
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN JACSummary: Autumn, 1941: 43 young German sailors aboard U-96 enter the war against Britain. They seek adventure, respect and heroism. For them, this voyage is for glory. For their captain, a seasoned war veteran at the young age of 30, it is a mission against enemy destroyers in a blood-red sea that can devour a ship and its crew without leaving a trace. For you, this is an authentic undersea adventure...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1997
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Based on the true story of three armies in the bloody trenches of World War I and the miraculous Christmas Eve truce they unexpectedly forge.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006