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1) War requiem
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 92 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
British cinema's enfant terrible teams with his muse Tilda Swinton and Laurence Olivier, for a spectacular and moving interpretation of composer Benjamin Britten's 1961 orchestral masterpiece.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
digital, stereo., sound, color 1 online resource (1 video file, 55 min.) :
Language
English
Description
Missing Presumed Dead is Gerard Reed's personal journey to discover what became of Heinrich Bornkamp, a German soldier of World War One, whose wallet he discovered in a collector's shop window in Adelaide, South Australia. Gerard felt connected to past lives as the wallet revealed its secrets, telling a story of loss and love thwarted by war. Bornkamp's wallet was a link to a loss in Gerard's family as his great uncle Pat Murphy was 'missing presumed...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 101 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Italiano
Description
In Northern Italy, WWI has turned into a bloody stalemate. Bogged down in their trenches on a barren highland, the men of an Italian infantry division have been given one objective: retake a commanding height from the enemy. Unfortunately, the tactical ingenuity of general Leone, the unpopular division commander, consists of supplementing frontal attacks against machine-guns with medieval fighting schemes. His dispirited troops must be prodded with...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 89 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A ravishing adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's legendary novel, A farewell to arms stars Gary Cooper (High noon) as Lt. Frederic Henry, a young ambulance driver for the Italian army in WWI, more interested in chasing women than the enemy. When seeking cover during an air raid, he encounters Nurse Catherine Barkley (a radiant Helen Hayes), and the world shifts under his feet. They fall in love, but the war keeps wrenching them apart. These painful separations...
Series
Studio classic volume 30
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Full frame format.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (146 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A rich young man spends his time between WWI & WWII searching for essential truth, eventually landing in India.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Marking the centenary of the First World War, internationally renowned director Peter Jackson uses the voices of the veterans combined with original archival footage to bring to life the reality of war on the front line for a whole new generation. Footage has been colorized and transformed with modern production techniques to present never-before-seen detail.
7) 1917
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers, Schofield and Blake, are given a seemingly impossible mission. In a race against time, they must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Formats
Description
As Great Britain's forces were stretched thin during World War II, Winston Churchill's Special Operations Executive (SOE) began to enlist women as spies. Their daunting mission: conduct sabotage and build a resistance. Spymistress Vera Atkins, later the inspiration for Ian Fleming's Miss Moneypenny in the James Bond franchise, was the chief recruiter for this secret army.
9) Parade's end
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Anamorphic widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (300 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A repressed man is torn between being faithful to his vindictive wife and being with the woman he loves in England in the midst of World War I.
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 227 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of T.E. Lawrence, the heroic and troubled man who organized the Arab nations to fight the Turks in World War I and then, having reached a pinnacle of power in Mideast politics, retired to postwar military obscurity.
11) Flyboys
Publisher
MGM DVD
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
Fullscreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (139 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A story of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered to be part of the French military prior to the United States' involvement in WWI, and how they became the country's first fighter pilots.
13) 1917
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers, Schofield and Blake are given a seemingly impossible mission. In a race against time, they must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers, Blake's own brother among them.
14) Gallipoli
Publisher
Distributed by Koch Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sd., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A docu-drama about the battle between the Ottoman Empire and Great Britain and its allies, one of the fiercest and most controversial battles of World War I. Includes newly uncovered diaries, photos, and interviews, computer animations and dramatic re-enactments.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[c2000]
Edition
Widescreen ed., Special ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
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.
18) Porco Rosso
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1930s Italy, a veteran World War I pilot is cursed to look like an anthropomorphic pig.
20) In love and war
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999.
Edition
Widescreen and fullscreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 1/2 in.
Language
English
Description
The epic love story about Ernest Hemingway and the romance which inspired him to write his masterpiece "A farewell to arms". A story of desperate love and imminent danger, it chronicles the relationship between the 18-year-old Hemingway and Agnes von Kurowsky, the medical aide who nursed him back to health after a devastating battlefield injury.
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