Summary: As Nazi forces encroach on his small village in Belorussia, teenage Flyora eagerly joins the Soviet resistance. Rather than the adventure and glory he envisioned, what he finds is a waking nightmare of unimaginable carnage and cruelty, rendered with feverish, otherworldly intensity by Klimov₂s subjective camera work and expressionistic sound design. Nearly blocked from being made by Soviet...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN COM

Summary: A Japanese architect and a French actress engage in a brief intense affair in Hiroshima in 1959. Both deal with their personal memories of World War II--he by articulating his firsthand experience with nuclear disaster, she by remembering her traumatic affair with a German soldier.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Home Vision Entertainment 2003

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

Summary: After miraculously surviving a jump from his burning plane, RAF pilot Peter Carter encounters the American radio operator to whom he has just delivered his dying wishes and, face-to-face on a tranquil English beach, the pair fall in love. When a messenger from the afterlife arrives to correct the clerical error that spared his life, Peter must mount a fierce defense for his right to stay on earth.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2018

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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY MAT

Summary: Comedy-drama about a young trainmaster employed in a tiny station during World War II. He becomes involved in a plot to blow up a German ammunition train, but when the plan backfires, he is forced to commit the ultimate act of courage.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001

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

Summary: One of the most exciting adventure tales ever told, this action epic recounts the planning, execution, and aftermath of a daring true-life escape from a German prisoner-of-war camp during World War II, in which 250 men attempted to tunnel their way to freedom.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA GRE

Summary: Set in a rubble-strewn Berlin in 1945, is like no other film about post-World War II Jewish identity. After surviving Auschwitz, a former cabaret performer, her face disfigured and reconstructed, returns to her war-ravaged hometown to seek out the gentile husband who may or may not have betrayed her to the Nazis. Without recognizing her, he enlists her to play his wife in a bizarre...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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

Summary: 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.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2002

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

Summary: The fact that John Lurie knows nothing about fishing doesn't stop him from taking his celebrity guests to exotic fishing locales for fishing and conversation.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 1999

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

Summary: Few directors have portrayed the agonies and epiphanies of growing up as poetically---and controversially---as Louis Malle in his films Murmur of the heart; Lacombe, Lucien; and Au revoir les enfants. These interviews and documentaries provide new insights into the man who made, and mirrored, these films.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Nouvelles Éditions de Films 2006

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

Summary: A classic tale of adventure. Duty and honor conflict in a German prisoner-of-war camp when an aristocratic French officer becomes friends with the commandant while cooperating with his comrades in a daring escape.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: The Voyager Company 1993

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

Summary: A successful Hollywood director disguises himself as a bum and sets off to see America from the bottom up. In the midst of the brutality and despair, he makes a valuable discovery-- that what the downtrodden need most is laughter.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SUL

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: The big boss: A young man sworn to an oath of non-violence works with his cousins in an ice factory where they mysteriously begin to disappear.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE BRU

Summary: Examines the American consciousness that led to involvement in Vietnam. Includes interviews with General William Westmoreland; former Secretary of Defense, Clark Clifford; Senator William Fulbright; Walt Rostow; and Daniel Ellsberg.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2002

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