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Escaped prisoners of war Laos Drama Laos Drama Olympic athletes Drama Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941 Drama Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Prisoners and prisons, American Drama World War (1939-1945) World War, 1939-1945 Drama World War, 1939-1945 Prisoners and prisons Drama World War, 1939-1945 Prisoners and prisons, Japanese Drama Zamperini, Louis 1917-2014 DramaSummary: When U.S. fighter pilot Dieter Dengler escapes death after being shot down over one of the most intense front lines in the Vietnam War, his troubles were just beginning. He is taken captive by the Vietnamese Army and is forced to endure a harrowing stint in a Vietnamese prison camp. Dengler and a small band of his fellow captives stage a death-defying escape. Based on a true story.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment [distributor] 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RESSummary: Fact-based recounting of a group of women who are imprisoned on the island of Sumatra by the Japanese during World War II and used music as a relief to their misery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PARArtist Not Provided
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: Based on an autobiography, this film tells the true story of Eric Lomax, a British Army officer who is captured by the Japanese during WWII and sent to a POW camp, where he is tortured and forced to work on the Thai-Burma Railway. Years later, and still suffering the psychological trauma of his wartime experiences, Lomax is persuaded by his wife Patti to find and confront one of his captors....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Railway 2013Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RAI RATED RCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RaSummary: Tension-filled, action packed espionage drama about a German demolitions expert who is blackmailed by the British to help them seize a German freighter.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MORSummary: Based on J.G. Ballard's autobiographical novel, tells the story of a boy, James Graham, whose privileged life is upturned by the Japanese invasion of Shanghai, December 8, 1941. Separated from his parents, he is eventually captured, and taken to Soo Chow confinement camp, next to a captured Chinese airfield. Amidst the sickness and food shortages in the camp, Jim attempts to reconstruct his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA EMPCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE EMPClooney, George
Summary: An allied group, the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program, are given the task of finding and saving pieces of art before they are destroyed by Hitler during World War II.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Enter 2014
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MONCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD MONCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MON RATED PG-13Summary: 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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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A group of American G.I.s in a POW camp suspect a spy is among them.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.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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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA UNBCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE UNBCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Unbroken 2015Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UNB RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UnSummary: Honor, courage, and sacrifice are revealed in unexpected ways as a ranking U.S. prisoner in a Nazi POW camp is joined in December 1944 by a law-student lieutenant who'd been captured despite his father's powerful military connections. When a black pilot from the famous Tuskeegee airmen is falsely accused of murdering a fellow prisoner, Lt. Hart tries his case and discovers the real motivation...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HARSummary: 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 UNBSummary: Captain John Miller must take his men behind enemy lines to find Private Ryan, whose three brothers have been killed in combat. Faced with impossible odds, the men question their orders. Surrounded by the brutal realities of war each man searches for his own answer and the strength to triumph over an uncertain future with honor, decency and courage.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 1999
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Saving 1998Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SAVSummary: Recounts one of the strangest legends of the First World War - the disappearance of the Sandringham Company in action in Gallipoli in 1915.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2005
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ALLSummary: "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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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: At an Army base in 1941 Hawaii, the lives of enlisted men and officers are troubled by spiteful commanders, sadistic military police, and forbidden love. Includes actual scenes of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FROCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie From 2001Lakemeier, Martijn
Summary: After helping a wounded British paratrooper towards the end of World War II, a young teenage Dutch boy becomes involved in the Resistance and matures as he confronts the realities of war.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FOREIGN WINSummary: Stanley Phillips is a sad, disconnected man unable to tell his young daughters that their mother, a soldier, has died in Iraq. Instead, he takes the girls on a road trip, where their innocent charm helps him rediscover a healing joy he thought he'd lost forever.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Weinstein Company Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF GRASummary: 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 WATCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie WaterSummary: At the start of World War II, 14-year-old Carrie and her younger brother Nick are separated from their mother and evacuated from war-torn London to a rural village in Wales, where they now live with a puritanical shopkeeper and his spinster sister.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2006
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CARSummary: Immediately after Emperor Hirohito's World War II surrender, General MacArthur suddenly finds himself the de facto ruler of a foreign nation. He challenges his expert on Japanese culture, General Fellers to provide evidence in ten short days to decide if the Japanese Emperor, worshipped as a god by his people but accused of war crimes, should be punished or saved, as the fate of a nation waits.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EMPSummary: A dramatization which chronicles the bombing of Pearl Harbor from both the Japanese and American points of view.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TORCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TORCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Tora 2001Summary: Nazi Panzer forces stage a last-ditch Belgian front offensive that could turn the tide of WWII. A spectacular recreation of a crucial campaign.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BATSummary: The life stories of the five Marines and one Naval officer that were forever immortalized as a symbol of WWII by raising the American flag at the battle of Iwo Jima.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Pictures 2007