Summary: Where eagles dare: Commandos charged with freeing a U.S. general from an Alpine fortress should trust nothing -- including their own search-and-rescue orders.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2010
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ESSSummary: In August 1944 the Allied army is closing in on Paris. German commander and art fanatic Colonel Von Waldheim steals a vast collection of rare French paintings and loads them onto a train bound for Berlin. When a beloved French patriot is murdered while trying to sabotage Von Waldheim's scheme, Labiche, a stalwart member of the Resistance, vows to stop the train at any cost.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 1999
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TRASummary: The romantic lovers' triangle between the impossibly heroic Czech Resistance leader Victor Laszlo, his beautiful wife Ilsa and her ex-lover, cynical American Rick Blaine is still the same old story, but it's never looked better.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD CASCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Casablanca 2012Summary: Poland, World War II. Innocent and naive 8-year-old Bruno is bored and restless in his new home. Ignoring his mother, he sets off on an adventure in the woods. He comes across a high fence which separates him from the people he can see through it. Soon he meets a young boy in striped pajamas, and a surprising friendship develops.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BOY PG-13Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BOYSummary: Set in Los Angeles just days after the attack on Pearl Harbor when the fear of a Japanese invasion threw the city into a state of pandemonium.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie 1941 2015Summary: The deep forests of Poland and Belorussia are the domain of the occuping Germans during World War II. The three Bielski brothers go into the forests and find the impossible task of foraging for food, weapons and survival, not just for themselves but for a large mass of fleeing Polish Jews from the German war machine. The brothers, living with the fear of discovery must contend with neighboring...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DEFCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DEF RATED RCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DEFSummary: When Veronica's lover, Boris, goes to war, she moves in with Boris' family. His cousin seduces her and out of guilt she marrys him. Unhappy in her marriage and still in love with Boris she leaves her husband to wait for Boris to return. Later she learns Boris has been killed in the war.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Based on a the 1943 documentary about the famous plane of World War II, the Flying Fortress. Story of the crew of the Memphis Belle one of the B-17s flying and their last mission before they can go home to a hero's welcome.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1998
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MEMSummary: A soldier-boy earns a ten-day leave to go home to his mother by performing a desperate act of bravery at the front. On the way home he has many small adventures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BALSummary: A dramatization which chronicles the bombing of Pearl Harbor from both the Japanese and American points of view.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TORSummary: Cut off by the Japanese advance into Burma, Captain Langford (Stanley Baker) and his exhausted British troops take over an enemy-held jungle village. Despite protestations from a padre and a war correspondent (Leo McKern), Langford orders that two innocent villagers should be shot to extract vital information--but his tactics return to haunt him when the Japanese retake the village.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA YESSummary: A World War II adventure set in a Scottish prisoner-of-war camp. German prisoners of war are plotting a daring escape, and it's up to a brash Allied officer to stop them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 1993
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie McKenzie 2000Summary: Rossellini's classic is representative of neo-realistic cinema. The story takes place in Rome during the Nazi occupation where a priest who is helping the Italian resistance fighters is discovered and arrested by the SS.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: distributed exclusively by Image Entertainment 1997
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN OPESummary: American combat pilot Col. Joseph Ryan is shot down over Nazi-controlled Italy and joins U.S. and English WWII troops in a prison camp during the summer of 1943. Given the insulting nickname "Von Ryan" because he initially seems more concerned with surviving than escaping, the colonel eventually leads Allied prisoners, as their new top ranking officer, in a daredevil race for freedom by...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE VONSummary: Re-enacts the military operation of D-Day from four points of view--the workings of the high commands of the American, English, French, and German forces in their battle scheme for Normandy. Largely filmed on actual invasion sites in France.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 1999
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LONSummary: A cynical American naval officer (Garner) is assigned a lovely young English widow (Andrews) as his driver in this comedy set in London during World War II. Despite their differences they fall in love, but his superiors seem to have nasty plans for him involving D-day!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY AMESummary: During World War II, a group of American POWs are imprisoned the German POW camp: Stalag 17. When two prisoners are killed during an escape attempt, they realize that there is a spy among them.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 1999
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA STASummary: A timeless evocation of the loss of innocence, Rene Clement's devastating Forbidden games tells the story of a young orphan and her friend forced to fend for themselves in World War II France.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FORSummary: 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD InSummary: Chronicles the remarkable story of the legendary alpine fighting force known as the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division. Their claim to fame began during World War II when the U.S. Army advanced on the Germans who were entrenched in Italy's heavily fortified mountaintops. After losing 15,000 soldiers attempting to capture this critical high ground, the U.S. Army brass called up the 10th, and the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Janson Media 2008