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1) Catch-22
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Based on the acclaimed Joseph Heller novel, Catch-22 follows the adventures and misadventures of a US air squadron in Italy in World War II, where the real enemy of the soldiers is actually the bureaucracy of the military.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
"To Molly, the war means watching exciting newsreels at the local movie palace, having hot chocolate in the basement during blackouts, and learning to tap dance so she can win the part of Miss Victory in the school pageant. But when Molly's father goes overseas and her mother starts working in an airplane factory, suddenly the war no longer seems so far away. Then an English refugee, a girl Molly's age named Emily, comes to stay with the McIntires....
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of the five Marines and one Navy corpsman that were forever immortalized as a symbol of WWII by raising the American flag at the battle of Iwo Jima. When Joe Rosenthal's photograph of the event becomes a symbol of hope for the families at home, the three surviving men are pulled from combat and sent on a tour across America to raise desperately-needed bond money. It is a trip that brings out the truths of both that symbolic act, and of their...
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A heartwarming look at family and friendship, [it] is the poignant story of high school student Homer Macauley and the lives he touches while delivering telegrams throughout his small California town during the troubling years of World War II. Both moving and timeless, a masterful celebration of the American way of life.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Language
English
Description
"Joe Keller and Steve Deever, partners in a machine shop during the war, turned out defective airplane parts, causing the deaths of many men. Deever was sent to prison, while Keller escaped punishment and became a wealthy man. In this commanding work, a love affair between Keller's son Chris, and Ann Deever, Steve's daughter; the bitterness of Steve's son, George, who returns from the war to find his father in prison and his father's partner free;...
7) All my sons
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
World War II is over and a family, mourning a son missing in action, plants a memorial tree and tries to go on with their own lives. A storm blows down the tree and a devastating family secret is uprooted, setting the characters on a terrifying journey towards truth. A classic American drama by the late Arthur Miller. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring James Farentino, Arye Gross, Julie Harris, Mitchell Hebert, Naomi Jacobson, Barbara...
8) All my sons
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A family torn apart by a wartime tragedy is forced to come to terms with their inner demons. Includes original theatrical trailer.
10) Swing shift
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A vivid look at the wartime conditions that stood society on its head. Kay Walsh had never held a wrench before but you're never too pretty to learn. The women and men that stayed home during World War II worked in the factories that turned out the weaponry to turn the tide of battle.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A singing-dancing sister act is helped by a mysterious "somebody" who buys them an empty warehouse, where they can open up an ideal canteen to entertain the servicemen. Courtship by the Army & Navy, the mystery of who "somebody" might be, and a multitude of musical numbers occupy their time at the canteen.
Series
Language
English
Description
A young child sits quietly at the police station, unwilling to answer questions about himself or how he lost his hair. But when he finds out that his parents are killed in an air raid, his hair turns green. While the townspeople label him as an outcast, fellow war orphans stand behind him, encouraging Peter to turn his green hair into a symbol of the futility of war.
13) MacArthur
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1942, with his position in the Philippines made hopeless by Japan's destruction of more than half the planes in his Far East Command, MacArthur leaves pledging, "I shall return!" MacArthur does return with riveting victories in the Pacific and the deft handling of the democratization of Japan. He is also armed with Presidential aspirations. While serving in Korea in 1951, his colossal ego and insubordination result in dismissal by President Truman....
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Born on the day his father died a hero in WWI, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith enlists proudly when World War II begins. Although anxious to serve his country, Woodrow is quickly discharged because of his chronic hay fever. Ashamed to return to his home and his girlfriend, he takes a shipyard job while his buddies forward home his letters from the 'Pacific.'
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
After contracting polio from a venomous werewolf bite, FDR won't stop at single-handedly ending the Great Depression and prohibition. With the help of a team of historic figures, he must end WWII by exacting revenge on an army of Nazi-werewolves from the comfort of his Albert Einstein-designed wheelchair of death.
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