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Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012, c1952]
Language
English
Description
The original full-length episodes of the award-winning series made exclusively for television and containing actual live action footage. The videos introduce the campaigns and action of World War II, concentrating on battles and action at sea. Plus a bonus disc featuring selections from several war documentary programs.
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Commemorates one of the most defining moments in American history, one which tore the nation apart, pitting North against South, brother vs. brother. Over the course of four years, more than 750,000 military and civilian lives were sacrificed to make the United States a more perfect union. Using state-of-the-art technology to colorize 500 rare black-and- white photographs, and access to government and private archives, the emotional stories of these...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
An epic story of the South's fight to maintain it's way of life during the Civil War years. It starts out as Scarlett O'Hara and her family are amongst the ladies and "chivalrous" gentlemen at the Twelve Oaks Plantation's ball before the Civil War be
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Even today, almost 150 years after Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House, unexpected secrets and little-known stories continue to emerge from Civil War history. In this DVD set, archival letters, original diary entries, sophisticated cinematic re
9) Megan Leavey
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Based on the true life story of a young Marine Corporal whose unique discipline and bond with her military combat dog saved many lives during their deployment in Iraq. When she is assigned to clean up the K9 unit after a disciplinary hearing, Leavey identifies with a particularly aggressive dog, Rex, and is given the chance to train him. Over the course of their service, Megan and Rex completed more than 100 missions until an IED explosion injures...
13) Generation kill
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
2008]
Language
English
Description
A "fact-based dramatization" based on Evan Wright's experiences as an embedded reporter with the United States Marine Corps in 2003. Presents a uniquely epic and intimate portrait of the first 40 days of the Iraq war from the perspective of the Marines of the First Recon Battalion.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Documents the story of three young boys who fled civil war in the Sudan, wandering in search of safety for five years, forming surrogate families for protection, and finally relocating to the United States where they remain committed to helping friends and family they left behind.
Publisher
History Channel
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
It was the gravest crisis in American history. For four bitter years, Union and Confederate troops battled to determine the fate of a divided nation, with the outcome unclear until the very end. THE LAST DAYS OF THE CIVIL WAR explores this critical period through five original programs. April 1865: The Month That Saved America, based on Jay Winik's bestselling book, chronicles the remarkable succession of events leading from the fall of Richmond to...
16) Mercy Street
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Alexandria, Virginia, 1862. Mary Phinney, a staunch New England abolitionist, and Emma Green, a native Confederate belle, collide at Mansion House, the Green family's luxury hotel that has been transformed into a Union Army hospital. Ruled under martial law, the border town in Alexandria is now the melting pot of the region, filled with soldiers, civilians, female volunteers, doctors, wounded men from both sides, runaway slaves, prostitutes, speculators,...
Publisher
Distributed by Excel Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
A2005
Language
English
Description
Based on actual WWII events, the film is set in December 1944 near Malmedy, Belgium, when advancing German troops kill over 70 unarmed American prisoners of war, an event known as the Malmedy Massacre. The four men who manage to escape into the Ardennes are a cross section of war-movie archetypes: a tough-talking sergeant; a devout, soft-spoken sharpshooter; a wisecracking medic from Brooklyn; and a blundering Cajun country boy. When a stranded R.A.F....
18) Dad's army
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
It's 1944 and WWII is reaching its climax. The Allies are poised to invade France and finally defeat the German army. Morale in the Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard is low, so they make their new mission to revive spirits, until glamorous journalist Rose arrives to write about their exploits.
19) Blitzkrieg
Series
Weapons of war volume 12
Publisher
International Masters Publishers
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
When Hitler's Germany invaded Poland in 1939, the world was stunned by the use of a new and fast-moving form of warfare - Blitzkrieg, or lightning war. Follow the story of Blitzkrieg's initial successes in campaigns in France and Poland, and discover the weapons and tactics employed in these early victories.
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Continuing to explore the growing chaos within Alexandria, the complicated interpersonal dynamics of Dr. Foster, Nurse Mary and the Mansion House staff, the increasingly precarious position of the Green family and the changing predicament of the burgeoning black population.
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