Summary: It's 1916 and British Captain Fred Roberts and his detachment of Sherwood Foresters discover an abandoned printing press in the ruins of Ypres, Belgium. Roberts has an idea: he will produce a newspaper to raise the spirits of his soldiers, taking their minds off 'the attentions of Messrs Hun and Co.' They call it The Wipers Times, after the army slang for Ypres, and fill it with spoofs, jokes,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WIP

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JOY RATED PG-13

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF JOY

Summary: General Casey of the U.S. Army Air Forces in England must fight congressional representatives and his own chain of command to be allowed to complete an important mission.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2007

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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE COM

Summary: It's 1914 and the British Empire's greatest supporter, Rudyard Kipling, is at the peak of his literary fame. Kipling's son, Jack, is determined to play his part in the immiment war with Germany but finds himself rejected due to his poor eyesight. Kipling uses his influence to land Jack a commission in the Irish Guards. Kipling's wife, Caroline, is bitterly upset, failing to see the glory in...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2008

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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MY

Summary: Two young men, one rich, one middle class, are in love with the same woman, but must leave her behind when they become fighter pilots in World War I.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2012

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE WIN

Summary: In 1919, an Australian farmer travels to Turkey after the Battle of Gallipoli to try and locate his three missing sons. With insurmountable obstacles he must travel across the battle-scarred Turkish landscape to find the truth and his own peace.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. 2015

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WAT

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Water

Summary: Two friends are involved with the battle between Australia and the German-occupied Turks in this commentary on the wastes of war.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2005

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GAL

Summary: Based on cartoonist David Low's parody of the old-fashioned British professional soldier, set in his ways and unable to adapt to the brutality of modern war. This story follows the career of Clive Candy, at first an idealistic, young Boer War hero, then a brigadier general, serving honorably in World War I. Finally, by World War II, he has become a bald, overweight, querulous old man, angry...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Janus Films 2006

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LIF

Summary: On the eve of World War II, Roy, a British officer, revisits Waterloo Bridge where he and Myra met and fell in love during an air raid at the beginning of World War I. Heartbroken after Roy was reportedly killed in action, Myra turned to prostitution to make her way. The report, however, was false, and when Roy returns from a POW camp, Myra's shattered spirit may no longer hold any room for...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WAT

Irons, Jeremy

Summary: Chronicles the 1915 battle to control the Dardanelles Strait during World War I, told from both the British/Australian and Turkish sides of the conflict; with reenactments and archive footage.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Cinema Epoch 2008

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GAL

Summary: When Susan moves with her father from America to England, she ends up falling in love with and marrying Sir John Ashwood, an English baronet. But, before their son is born, Susan loses her husband to World War I. When World War II breaks out years later, her son's own tour of duty begins. Finding out whether he will return home safely or not makes for some of the most dramatic moments in motion...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. 2009

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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE WHI

Summary: An epic Western saga about a woman and the three sons of a Montana rancher who love her, told against the backdrop of World War I.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LEG

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LEG

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Move Legends 2000

Summary: In this classic tale of adventure, duty and honor conflict in a German prisoner-of-war camp when an aristocratic French officer becomes friends with the German commandant, a fellow aristocrat, while simultaneously cooperating in a daring escape with his French comrades, who are commoners.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2008

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GRA

Summary: During World War I on the French front, a regiment of soldiers are set up for a suicide mission and are generally manipulated in ways that show no regard for their lives.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 1999

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAT

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PAT

Summary: Story of a boy drafted into the military who begins his career as a pacifist and then soon sees the justification for fighting.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2006

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SER

Summary: A group of young World War I German recruits pass from idealism to disillusionment with war.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Video 1999

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ALL

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ALL

Summary: During WWI, a French battalion is ordered on a suicide mission that is likely to fail. When it does, the general that planned the mission selects three soldiers from the battalion to be executed for cowardice, and selects their leader as their attorney.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2010

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA PAT

Summary: Olympian and war hero Louis Zamperini survived in a raft for 47 days after a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, only to be caught by the Japanese Navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UNB

Summary: Olympian and war hero Louis Zamperini survived in a raft for 47 days after a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, only to be caught by the Japanese Navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2015

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA UNB

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE UNB

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Unbroken 2015

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UNB RATED PG-13

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Un

Summary: 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 DAY