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Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Based upon the best-selling novel. The profoundly moving story of a girl who transforms the lives of those around her during World War II, Germany. Although Liesel is illiterate when she is adopted by a German couple, her adoptive father encourages her to learn to read. Ultimately, the power of words helps Liesel and Max, a Jew hiding in the family's home, escape from the events unfolding around them.
Language
English
Description
"An extraordinary collection of newsreel, propaganda, and home-movie footage drawn from the archives of 18 nations, including color close-ups of Adolf Hitler taken by his mistress, that present an unvarnished perspective of the war's pivotal events. Penetrating interviews with eyewitness participants - from Hitler's secretary to Alger Hiss to ordinary citizens who stood outside the battle lines - and spine-tingling, first-hand accounts to an already...
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Based upon the best-selling novel. The profoundly moving story of a girl who transforms the lives of those around her during World War II, Germany. Although Liesel is illiterate when she is adopted by a German couple, her adoptive father encourages her to learn to read. Ultimately, the power of words helps Liesel and Max, a Jew hiding in the family's home, escape from the events unfolding around them.
4) Swing kids
Publisher
Hollywood Pictures Home Video
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Two swing-music loving friends in Nazi Germany must choose between their individual freedom or loyalty to the murderous Third Reich.
5) Good
Publisher
National Entertainment Media
Language
English
Description
When John Halder's latest novel is enlisted by the Nazi party to push their agenda, his career and social standing instantly advance. But after learning of the Reich's horrific plans for the future, John must decide whether to do nothing and keep his fame or risk losing everything.
Publisher
Janson Associates
Language
English
Description
Featuring captured film footage, this series looks at what happened between the Russians and the Germans on the Eastern Front during World War II. An average of 17,800 people died on every single day--and the war on this front lasted for 1,400 days. Pitting maniacal tyrant against maniacal tyrant, evil ideology against evil ideology, tens of millions of lives were consumed by the raging hatreds and appalling indignities of the war on the Eastern Front...
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Language
English
Description
One of the most daring resistance operations of World War II was the sinking of a cargo of 'heavy water' destined for the Nazi's secret atomic bomb project. Explore the bottom of a Norwegian lake with a remotely operated vehicle to find the ferry.
Publisher
St-Clair Vision
Language
English
Description
Here is Germany: German history from Friedrich the Great to the containment of the Third Reich. Adolf Hitler: German newsreel footage and narration that helps explain some of the inner workings of the mind of one of history's greatest monsters. Campaign in Poland: The German invasion of Poland during World War II and the events of that time. Warsaw ghetto: Actual photographs and films taken by cameramen of the German Army and Gestapo who were assigned...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Based upon the best-selling novel. The profoundly moving story of a girl who transforms the lives of those around her during World War II, Germany. Although Liesel is illiterate when she is adopted by a German couple, her adoptive father encourages her to learn to read. Ultimately, the power of words helps Liesel and Max, a Jew hiding in the family's home, escape from the events unfolding around them.
Series
Criterion collection volume 565
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Edition
Full screen; Special edition.
Language
English
Description
In Chaplin's first talkie, he plays the duel role of dictator Adenoid Hynkel and a Jewish barber who is a dead-ringer look-alike for der Nutsie--and who thwarts his plans for world domination.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video/MK2 Editions
Edition
Standard version.
Language
English
Description
Chaplin plays the double role of the persecuted Jewish barber and Adenoid Hynkel, dictator of Tomania. The barber is imprisoned, escapes, and is finally mistaken for the dictator at which point he makes an impassioned, humanistic speech which amazes the dictator's followers.
12) The bunker
Publisher
HBO Video
Language
English
Description
A dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin, before and during the battle for the city.
Publisher
Arthaus Musik
Language
Deutsch
Description
"In this new documentary ... the spot-light is on the orchestra itself--the musicians, the people, their individual destinies. First-hand accounts of life in and around the orchestra, delivered by contemporary witnesses, still alive today, as well as a wealth of previously unevaluated archive material, provide a highly authentic glimpse into the period under the swastika."--Container.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
The life-affirming tale of 10,000 children saved from Hitler's grasp and placed with foster parents and hostels in Great Britain at the outbreak of World War II. Includes archival footage and decades-later remembrances of both the rescuers and the rescued.
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
"A thought-provoking account of friendship and the toll of inherited guilt, WHAT OUR FATHERS DID explores the relationship between two men, each of whom are the children of very high-ranking Nazi officials and possess starkly contrasting attitudes toward their fathers. Eminent human rights lawyer Philippe Sands investigates the complicated connection between the two, and even delves into the story of his own grandfather who escaped the same town where...
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
In 1938 Berlin, Germany, a cat sees Rosenstrasse change from a peaceful neighborhood of Jews and Gentiles to an unfriendly place where, one November night, men in brown shirts destroy Jewish-owned businesses and arrest or kill Jewish people.
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