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World War II DVDs

900 days myth and reality of the siege of Leningrad c2011

Documentary about the Blockade of Leningrad during World War II. The film presents an emotional picture of the struggle of some survivors, whose personal memories tend to be overshadowed by the heroic myth held up by the authorities. That myth is in painful contrast with the horrific truth they were forbidden to mention all these years. 1 videodisc (77 min.)

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American Cold War propaganda films 2013

Two post-WWII propaganda shorts documenting the story of the American radio station Radio Free Europe and the status of refugees in divided Berlin. 1 videodisc (19 min.)

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Atomic mom 2011

M. T Silvia, Smartgirl Productions, and Women Make Movies (Firm)

"A film about two women, both mothers, who have very different experiences of the atom bomb. One is the filmmaker's mother, Pauline Silvia, who was a biologist in the Navy in the early 1950s and was sent to the Nevada Test Site where she participated in five detonations. At 23 years old, she was one of the few women scientists on an elite team of researchers. After decades of silence, Pauline is in a crisis of conscience about the work she did ... She reveals some of the grim and dark secrets of the U.S. atomic testing program. In an attempt to reconcile with her own mother's past, her daughter, filmmaker M.T. Silvia, meets Emiko Okada, a Hiroshima survivor trying to resolve her own history in Japan. She was eight years old when the bomb was dropped and her twelve-year-old sister was never found. After many years of silence, Ms. Okada gives testimony of her atomic bomb experience and her commitment to education and disarmament. The film follows these survivors, each on a different end of atomic warfare, as they "meet" through the filmmaking process, and as they ... attempt to understand the other"--Container. 1 videodisc (80 min.) :

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Befreier und befreite krieg, vergewaltigungen, kinder 2006?

Helke Sander, Klaus Volkenborn, Bremer Institut Film/Fernsehen, Helke Sander Filmproduktion, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Neue Visionen Medien (Firm), Goethe Institut (Munich, Germany), Films Dept, and good! movies (Firm)

After 46 years of silence women who were raped by soldiers of the Red Army at the end of the Second World War talk for the first time publicly about the violent experiences. Part 1 focuses on the women themselves and their stories. In the conversation with the soldiers the question is raised as to why there were so many rapes during the advance of the Red Army. Part 2 is an analysis of the lasting consequences for the women victims and for the children who were born as a result of these rapes. 1 videodisc (192 min.) :

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Behind forgotten eyes 2008?

Anthony Gilmore, Alex Ferrari, Yujin Kim, Enigma Factory, Inc, Nameless Films, LLC, and Filmakers Library, inc

"While Korea groaned under the harsh colonial rule of Imperial Japan from 1932 until 1945, the Japanese military coerced, tricked, and forced more than 200,000 women of Korea into a brutal and systematic form of sexual slavery on an unimaginable scale...Behind Forgotten Eyes presents the stories of a few brave Korean women who have come forward and broken the silence exposing a past that some may want to stay buried...To this day, the Japanese government has yet to formally apologize or pay compensation to these women--Container.". 1 videodisc (78 min.)

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The bombing of Germany 2010

Zvi Dor-Ner, Joe Morton, Michael Bacon, PBS Home Video, WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.), Spiegel TV, and PBS Distribution (Firm)

During World War II, bent on conquest, the German strategies became completely amoral, challenging and perhaps ending the concept of 'civilized warfare.' Through interviews with veterans, historians and ethicists from all the countries engaged in World War II, this American Experience film recounts the story of the Anglo-American bombing campaign against Germany, exploring the moral conundrums imposed by the reality of the war. 1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.)

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Chagrin et la pitie chronique d'une ville franēaise sous l'occupation 2011

Marcel Ophuls, André Harris, Alain de Sédouy, Pierre Mendčs France, Anthony Eden, Claude Lévy, Denis Rake, Télévision rencontre, Norddeutscher Rundfunk, and Radio-télévision suisse romande

Through interviews with participants and newsreel footage, examines the occupation of France by the Germans during World War II as it occurred in the French city of Clermont-Ferrand. Concentrates on the themes of collaboration and resistance. 2 videodiscs (251 min.) :

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The color of honor the Japanese American soldier in WW II c1996

A vivid, collective portrayal of Japanese Americans during World War II. Three distinct stories are told: the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, the most decorated military unit in U.S. history; M.I.S.(Military Intelligence Service), linguists who decoded Japanese military plans; and the thousands of draft resisters and army protesters who challenged the constitutionality of the internment camps. 1 videocassette (90 min.)

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Dawn 1989, c1988

Development of the bomb is traced against the backdrop of World War II. The program concludes with the failure of the first attempts to control atomic weapons after the war. 1 videocassette (60 min.)

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Des "terroristes" ą la retraite 2011

Mosco, Simone Signoret, Gérard Desarthe , Jean Schwarz, Société nationale de télévision en couleur "Antenne 2.", and New Yorker Films

Seven immigrants to France tell the stories of their participation in the Jewish anti-Nazi resistance movement. 1 videodisc (81 min.) :

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Dorf 2006?

Helke Sander, Helke Sander Filmproduktion, MMM Filmproduktion Zimmerman GbR, Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, Norddeutscher Rundfunk, Neue Visionen Medien (Firm), Goethe Institut (Munich, Germany), Films Dept, and good! movies (Firm)

This documentary examines the German village of Kortenbeck, exploring the impact of history and the social atmosphere, as well as the changes taking place due to globalization. 1 videodisc (90 min.) :

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Downfall 2005

Bernd Eichinger, Oliver Hirschbiegel, Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Corinna Harfouch, Ulrich Matthes, Juliane Keohler, Rainer Klausmann, Stephan Zacharias, Joachim C Fest, Gertraud Junge, Constantin Film (Firm), Norddeutscher Rundfunk, and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)

Loosely based on her actual first-hand account, depicts the final ten days of Nazi Germany as seen through the eyes of Hitler's then-secretary Gertraud (Traudl) Junge. Joining Hitler and his inner circle at their bunker in Berlin, she witnesses the collapse of Hitler's plans for the Third Reich. As the Russian army takes the city, the dissipation, horrific beliefs, and merciless logic of Hitler's philosophy and followers becomes ever more apparent and visceral. 1 videodisc (155 min.)

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The eye of Vichy L'oeil de Vichy 2002?

Claude Chabrol, Jean-Pierre Azéma, Robert O Paxton, Brian Cox, FIT Production (Firm), Institut national de l'audiovisuel (France), TF1 Films Production, and First-Run Features (Firm)

A compilation of long forgotten film footage and newsreels, produced by the Nazis and French collaborators during World War II. From the small town of Vichy in Central France, Field Marshall Petain's puppet government worked with their Nazi overlords in creating pro-Nazi propaganda. They skillfully produced a strange alternative history of the war years in order to turn public emotion against the Allies and the Jews. 1 videodisc (110 min.)

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A family gathering 2006?

Lise Yasui, Katherine Kline, Ann Tegnell, Long Bow Group, and Center for Asian American Media

Lise Yasui, a third-generation Japanese-American woman, searches for her family history and for understanding of their internment. Focuses on her grandfather Masuo Yasui of Hood River Valley, Oregon, who, after living in the United States for thirty years, was arrested by the FBI as a potentially dangerous alien five days after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. 1 videodisc (ca. 53 min.)

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From a silk cocoon 2005

Tells the story of a young couple, Shizuko and Itaru Ina, who responded to the loss of their civil liberties by renouncing their American citizenship during their four and a half year internment during World War II, who committed their hopes for their children's future to a better life in Japan. Based on personal documents that detail a daily accounting of life and private emotional upheaval during incarceration, separation and reunification. Interviews with other Japanese speaking former internees who ultimately sought refuge from their imprisonment by declaring their loyalty to Japan present disturbing disclosures of unjustified treatment and suffering. 1 videodisc (57 min.)

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The Goebbels experiment c2004

Joseph Goebbels, Lutz Hachmeister, Michael Kloft, Kenneth Branagh, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen, and First-Run Features (Firm)

Using archival clips from German films and television, and readings from Goebbels' own diaries, this documentary explores the Nazi propaganda machine run by Goebbels before and during World War II. 1 videodisc (107 min.)

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History and memory (for Akiko and Takashige) 2008

Rea Tajiri and Women Make Movies (Firm)

Through collective history and personal memory, the impact of the evacuation and relocation of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II is examined. 1 videodisc (32 min.)

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Hogan's heroes 2005

The bumbling Germans give Hogan and his crew plenty of opportunities to continue their war resistance movements right from their POW war cells. The prison's colonel, Klink, is more concerned with having everything run smoothly and avoiding any trouble with his superiors (especially anything that might result in his being reassigned and sent to the Eastern front) than with being tough on Hogan and his fellow prisoners. Hogan and his men cause as much mayhem and sabotage to the German war machine and right under their captors' noses as possible. 5 videodiscs (762 min.)

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Hogan's heroes 2006

Colonel Robert Hogan and his gang of merry saboteurs have a whole new season of subterfuge to unleash on the German war machine and the POW camp's incompetent commandant, Colonel Wilhelm Klink and his bumbling sidekick, Sergeant Hans Schultz. 4 videodiscs (661 min.)

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Hogan's heroes 2006

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Hogan's heroes 2006

Colonel Robert Hogan and his gang of merry saboteurs have new plots, plans and schemes ready to unleash on the German war machine at Stalag 13. That means more headaches, frustrations and irrations for the POW camp's incompetent commandand, Colonel Wilhelm Klink and his bumbling sidekick, Sergeant Hans Schultz. 5 videodiscs (ca. 760 min.)

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Hogan's heroes 2007

Re-experience the uproarious escapades of Colonel Robert Hogan and fellow POWs of Stalag 13 as they relentlessly disrupt the Nazi war effort with their elaborate schemes. 4 videodiscs (604 min.)

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The homefront 19--?

Familiarizes today's youth and general public with the impact of World War II on American society. Tells the story of wartime America during the years 1941-45 through a combination of newreels, photos, and personal reminiscences. 1 videocassette (89 min.)

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Honor & sacrifice the Roy Matsumoto story c2013

A documentary about the Japanese American men who were incarcerated in concentration camps, enlisted in the U.S. military, and volunteered to become linguists in the Military Intelligence Service in the Pacific Theater of WWII. The film focuses on the experience of Roy Matsumoto and his personal journey -- from being born an American, raised in Japan, sent to the Jerome, Arkansas concentration camp as a young man, to enlisting in the U.S. Army and becoming a hero in fighting the Japanese Army in Burma as part of the U.S. military unit known as Merrill's Marauders. As part of the project, a classroom-based curriculum to accompany the film was developed by Karen Matsumoto. The film and curriculum were disseminated in California public schools. Film showings in California and Washington were organized. 1 videodisc (28 min.)

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Im toten Winkel Hitlers Sekretärin c2003

The astonishing true story of Hitler's private secretary coming to terms with working for unspeakable evil after remaining silent for nearly 60 years. Traudl Junge was Adolf Hitler's secretary from 1942 until the end of the war. He dictated his last will and testament to her. She refused to speak publicly about her memories, keeping silent about her life, her trials and tribulations, until now, the end of her life. 1 videodisc (87 min.) :

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Island at war 2005

John Rushton, Stephen Mallatratt, Thaddeus O'Sullivan, Peter Lydon, Julia Ford, Joanne Froggatt, Sean Gallagher, Philip Glenister, Clare Holman, Conor Mullen, Saskia Reeves, Owen Teale, James Wilby, Granada Television, Isle of Man Film, and Acorn Media (Firm)

One of the little-known stories of WWII is the fate of the Channel Islands, the only part of the British Isles invaded and occupied by the Germans. Tells the story through the eyes of three island families and the German soldiers with whom their lives become interwined. 3 videodiscs (ca. 398 min.)

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Know your enemy-- Japan 2014?

Explains how the religious, political, cultural, and economic history of Japan contributed toward making her a formidable foe. Intended to show the American serviceman the fighting characteristics of his Japanese counterpart. 1 videodisc (62 min.)

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Level five "...a hallucinatory visual essay, half documentary, half fiction, on memory, tragedy, and early digital culture. A woman (Catherine Belkodja), haunted by the loss of her lover, works on programming a video game about World War II's Battle of Okinawa. Melding retro-futuristic sci-fi imagery and reflections on traumas in Japanese history into a provocative visual and philosophical puzzle, Level Five 'belongs equally to the past, the present and the future...'"--Container. 1 videodisc (106 min.)

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Liberators fighting on two fronts in World War II c2006

Tells the unknown story of African-American battalions, focusing on the heroic actions of the 761st, which spearheaded General Patton's Third Army and helped liberate the concentration camps at Buchenwald, Dachau and Lambach. 1 videodisc (84 min.)

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MacArthur 2005

No soldier in modern history has been more admired or more reviled than Douglas MacArthur. A thorough portrait of a complex, imposing and fascinating general. 1 videodisc (224 min.)

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The Memphis Belle a story of a flying fortress 2010

The most famous documentary to emerge from WWII, the movie chronicles the 25th and final combat mission of a B-17 crew. A moving and real portrait of courage, it was personally endorsed by President Franklin Roosevelt, and shown in theaters throughout the United States on his order. It's simply the most definitive chronicle of the air war in Europe as fought by American bomber crews. 1 videodisc (77 min.)

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Mussolini 1990

Benito Mussolini was a ruler with no identity, a man who neither understood himself nor his country. Witness his theatrical personality from his egocentric oratory, his march on Rome, his private war with Adolf Hitler, and his crushing defeats on the battlefield. 1 videocassette (50 min.)

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No job for a woman the women who fought to report WWII 2011

Julianna Margulies, Michčle Midori Fillion, Maria Agui Carter, Maia Harris, and Women Make Movies (Firm)

"Before World War II, war reporting was considered to be absolutely no job for a woman. But when the United States entered the war, American women reporters did not want to miss covering the biggest story of the century so they fought for and won access. But there was a catch: women reporters would be banned from the frontlines, prevented from covering front page stories about generals and battlefield maneuvers, and assigned woman's angle stories about nurses and female military personnel. Several women reporters refused to abide by these journalistic conventions and military restrictions and, instead, brought home a new kind of war story; one that was more intimate yet more revealing. They reached beyond the battlefield and deep into human lives to tell a new story of war."--Container. 1 videodisc (64 min.) :

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The Nuremberg trials c2006

Michael Kloft, Joe Morton, Spiegel TV, and PBS Home Video

This American Experience production draws upon rare archival material and eyewitness accounts to re-create the dramatic tribunal that defines trial procedure for state criminals to this day. 1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.)

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Of civil wrongs and rights the Fred Korematsu story 2006

Eric Paul Fournier, Dorka Keehn, Shirley Nakao, Ken Korematsu, Bond Bergland, Michael Becker, Fred Korematsu Film Project, Docurama (Firm), and New Video Group

In 1942, Fred Korematsu was an average 23-year-old California native working as a shipyard welder. But when he refused to obey Executive Order 9006, which sent 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry into internment camps, he became something extraordinary -- a civil rights champion. This film follows Korematsu's story from the moment he first resisted confinement to the hard-won victory he finally achieved 39 years later, with the help of a new generation of Japanese-American activists seeking vindication and the assurance that such a terrible injustice would never occur again. This is the striking story of an ordinary man's courageous actions, which demonstrates the power of ordinary citizens to rise up against injustice. 1 videodisc (ca. 70 min.) :

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On paper wings p2008

Ilana Sol, Trish Egan, Peter Broderick, Tara Jane O'Neil, Eric Schopmeyer, and Film is Forever Productions

During WWII, the Japanese military developed a new weapon intended to strike directly at the American continent -- the balloon bomb. High school girls across Japan were conscripted into factories where they built thousands of balloons made of paper. These balloons were then attached to bombs and launched into the jet stream to drift toward North America. This is the story of four Japanese women who worked on balloon bombs, the families of those killed in Oregon, and the man whose actions brought them all together forty years after WWII, and the balloon bomb project--Container. 1 videodisc (67 min.):

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Primo Levi's journey c2008

Davide Ferrario, Marco Belpoliti, Chris Cooper, Rossofuoco (Firm), RAI Cinema (Firm), Italy, Ministero per i beni culturali e ambientali, European Union, Media Programme, Cinema Guild, and New Yorker Video (Firm)

Follows the writer Primo Levi on his thousand-mile journey to his home in Turin, Italy after being liberated from the Auschwitz concentration camp. 1 videodisc (90 min.)

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The road to Rome Italian Campaign, 1943-45 2006

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The road to Stalingrad c2001

Columbia River Entertainment Group

Archival footage, much of it formerly classified Soviet film, recounts the non-aggression pact concluded between Hitler and Stalin, the devastating Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II (Operation Barbarossa) for which Stalin was unprepared, the ultimate defeat of the German army at the Battle of Stalingrad, and the Russian counterattack which finally led Soviet forces into Berlin. 1 videodisc (ca. 2 hr.)

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Rosie the riveter c2001

Newsreels and documentary footage of the World War II era show what life was like on the American home front. Episode 1 highlights American women who answered the call to duty in the armed forces and in factories and shipyards at home. Episode 2 examines how the seeds of the sexual revolution were sown in wartime. In episode 3, the war ends suddenly and millions in the armed forces are demobilized, setting vast social changes in motion. 1 videodisc (75 min.)

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The secret 2008

Ronit Kertsner, Noemi Schory, Linda Lovitch, Belshir International (Firm), Noga Communications, and National Center for Jewish Film

During World War II, many Polish Jewish children were either hidden with Catholic families, or their own families managed to survive by hiding behind a Catholic Polish identity. After the war, these families kept this secret as a protection during the Communist era. Half a century later, thousands of younger Poles are finding that they come from Jewish families, and are struggling with this new identity, in a country with few Jews and a continuing history of anti-Semitism. 1 videodisc (55 min.) :

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Silence broken Korean comfort women 200-?

Korean comfort women, who were forced into sexual servitude by the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II, discuss their experiences. Also includes interviews with Japanese soldiers and recruiters and commentary by historians. 1 videodisc (57 min.)

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Top secret Rosies the female computers of World War II c2010

LeAnn Erickson, Cynthia Baughman, and Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)

"In 1942, a secret U.S. military program was launched to recruit women to the war effort. But unlike the efforts to recruit Rosie the Riveter to the factory, this clandestine search targeted female mathematicians who would become human 'computers' for the U.S. Army. From the bombing of Axis Europe to the assaults on Japanese strongholds, women worked around-the-clock six days a week, creating ballistics tables that proved crucial to Allied success. Rosie made the weapons, but the female computers made them accurate. When the first electronic computer (ENIAC) was developed to aid the Army's calculation efforts, six of these women were tapped to become its first programmers."--Container. 1 videodisc (57 min.) :

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Wings of defeat 2007

Risa Morimoto, Linda Hoaglund, John W Dower, Edgewood Pictures Inc, and New Day Films

"In Japan, WWII Kamikaze are still revered as self-sacrificing heroes. Internationally, they remain a potent symbol of fanaticism. Until now, few outsiders knew that many Kamikaze survived their suicide missions. The candid, heartbreaking testimony of surviving Kamikaze conveys the true depth of war's travesty. Sixty years later, these humble men tell us about the horrors of the cockpit, their dramatic survival and the survivors' guilt still haunting them"--Container. 1 videodisc (89 min.) :

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Wings of defeat another journey c2008

Maya Stark, Linda Hoaglund, Risa Morimoto, Edgewood Pictures Inc, and New Day Films

"After watching [the 2007 documentary film] 'Wings of defeat', Fred Mitchell and Eugene Brick, U.S. Navy veterans and survivors of a Kamikaze attack, travel to Japan with the filmmakers to meet their former enemies. Overcoming their respective anxieties, the American and Japanese veterans, now in their 80s, sit down to ask each other tough questions, resulting in unexpected intimacy and newfound mutual respect. As they laugh and cry together, we witness a genuine and transformative reconciliation"--Container. 1 videodisc (39 min.) :

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Wisconsin's Nazi Resistance the Mildred Fish-Harnack story 2011

Jane Kaczmarek, Joel Waldinger, and Wisconsin Public Television

1 videodisc (56 min.) :

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Wisconsin WW II stories c2004

Mik Derks, David Hestad, Carol Larson, Wisconsin Public Television, Wisconsin Historical Society, Wisconsin, and Dept. of Veterans Affairs

Presents stories of some of the over 300,000 veterans who returned to Wisconsin after World War II. In their own words, men and women share memories of their experiences in the various theaters of the war and speak of those who didn't come home, and some people who remained in Wisconsin tell what living and working on the homefront was like. 2 videodiscs (234 min.) :

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The world at war the definitive history of the second world war 2001

Jeremy Isaacs, Lawrence Thompson, David Elstein, Noble Frankland, Laurence Olivier, and Eric Porter

An historical collection in words and film of World War II. 5 videodiscs (ca. 10 hrs.)

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African-Americans in WWII 1995

OnDeck Home Entertainment (Firm)

Documentary combining interviews and news and movie footage. Tells not only the story of the Tuskegee Airmen but also an overview of how the unit came into existence. "Jubilee : strictly G.I." is footage taped during the broadcast of a radio show that was shipped overseas to the Armed Forces Radio Network. 1 videocassette (46 min.)

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Against all odds the Siegfried Line and the Battle of the Bulge 1987

For two bitter months Allied forces are nearly stalemated at the fabled Siegfried Line, stopped by the dense Huertgen forest. A paratroop landing in the Netherlands encounters unexpectedly stiff opposition. The worst comes on December 16: Hitler's surprise counterattack and the beginning of the Battle of the Bulge. 1 videocassette (76 min.)

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Aleut evacuation the untold war story c1992

Michael Thill, Dimitri Philemonof, Eric E Wallace, Aleutian/Pribilof Islands Association, and Gaff Rigged Productions

Told from the perspective of internment survivors, this film recalls the internment of Aleut men, women, and children during World War II. 1 videocassette (59 min.)

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America's black warriors two wars to win 1998

Mort Zimmerman, Norman Stahl, Don Horan, Fritz Weaver, and Colin L Powell

The video features numerous African-American WWII veterans, who speak with brutal honesty about the prejudice they encountered and the battles they fought. 1 videocassette (ca. 50 min.)

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Arsenal of democracy 1993

Susan Bellows, Joe Morton, and Steve Fayer

By 1939, Americans were still struggling to end the Great Depression. Their dreams of peace and prosperity were celebrated at the World's Fairs in New York and San Francisco, but prosperity did not come in peacetime. Millions fled the "dust bowl" states to finally find work in new defense industries. While the New Deal changed America forever, it was war that ended the Great Depression. 1 videocassette (60 min.)

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The Battle of Britain 1985, 1943

Frank Capra

Presents a documentary film record of the bombing of England by the German Luftwaffe in 1940 and the defense offered by the Royal Air Force. 1 videocassette (53 min.) ;

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The Battle of China 1985

Anatole Litvak

Depicts Japanese aggression against China during World War II and describes Japan's plans for world conquest. Recalls Chinese development of the compass, printing, astronomy, gunpower, and porcelain. 1 videocassette (67 min.)

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The Battle of Russia 1985

Anatole Litvak and Frank Capra

Shows the Russian defense against the Nazi invasion during World War II, focusing on the Battle of Stalingrad. 1 videocassette (84 min.)

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Battle of the Bulge 1994

Thomas Lennon, Mark Zwonitzer, and David G McCullough

Archival footage and interviews with some of the surviving participants bring to life the Allied campaign of the brutal winter of 1944-45, when 500,000 troops fought the final battles with Germany and over 76,000 men died. 1 videocassette (90 min.)

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The Battle of the Bulge World War II's deadliest battle 1994

Thomas Lennon, Mark Zwonitzer, and David G McCullough

The last German counteroffensive of World War II was the single biggest and bloodiest battle in U.S. military history. In sub-zero temperatures and blinding snow, American soldiers were overrun by an enemy with unsuspected reserves of well armed men and heavy weaponry. When it was over, 80,000 Americans were killed or wounded; German casualties were said to be twice that. Packed with footage from newsreels and German and American archives, this documentary is a compelling chronicle of war that captures both the action on the front lines and the strategy behind the scenes. 1 videocassette (90 min.)

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The Beginning of the end North Africa to Cassino 1987

Rare British, German, and Italian films make memorable the fiery conflicts of the early years of the war in the searing heat and pounding rains of the North African desert. Meanwhile, across the Mediterranean Sea, securing the beaches of Italy gives the Allies their first major foothold on the continent of Europe. 1 videocassette (90 min.)

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Blokada 2006

Sergei Loznitsa, Viacheslav Tel nov, Sankt-Peterburgskaia studiia dokumental nykh fil mov, and First Run/Icarus Films

Archival footage of Leningrad during the longest siege of World War II. The siege lasted for 900 days, with the blockade contributing to the largest-scale famine ever seen in the industrialized world. 1 videocassette (52 min.)

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The bracelet c2001

Yoshiko Uchida, Joanna Yardley, John Esaki , Jennifer Kim, Patty Nagano, University of California, Los Angeles, Asian American Studies Center, and Japanese American National Museum (Los Angeles, Calif.)

A video presentation of Yoshiko Uchida's children's book about a gift from the heart and friends separated by war. Joanna Yardley's original illustrations are intercut with rare home movies and historic photographs to tell this heartwarming story of emotional growth and understanding. Teacher Patty Nagano conducts a discussion and activities with a 2nd grade class after the story. 1 videocassette (25 min.)

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Brave new world, 1945 1998

David Espar, Peter Pagnamenta, Zvi Dor-Ner, Angus Macqueen, and Alfre Woodard

Just over fifty years ago, Soviet and American troops met at the River Elbe and rejoiced at the defeat of Nazi Germany but their optimism was short lived. This film tracks the building tensions between these two superpowers, from the post-war world of the late 1940s through the early 1960s, as the hope for peace swiftly disintegrated into a "cold" war. Here eyewitnesses recall the meeting on the Elbe, the impact of Stalin, Churchill and Khrushchev, propaganda wars between the two nations, the Berlin blockade, the Hungarian uprising and the installation of the Berlin Wall. 1 videocassette (56 min)

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The century: Civilians at war America's time c1999

Peter Jennings, Roger Goodman, Mi Ling Tsui, Shelley Diamond, ABC News, History Channel (Television network), and Films for the Humanities (Firm)

This program studies the courage and strength necessary to face and survive starvation, bombing, torpedoing, massacre, and extermination in camps specifically designed for that purpose. 1 videocassette (70 min.)

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The century: Homefront America's time c1999

Peter Jennings, Roger Goodman, Richard Gerdau, Michael Plante, ABC News, History Channel (Television network), and Films for the Humanities (Firm)

This program discusses the effects of World War II on the homefront, spotlighting the war's impact as a catalyst for economic, demographic and social change. 1 videocassette (45 min.)

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Children of the camps a documentary and educational project 1999

Satsuki Ina, Stephen Holsapple, and Lawson Fusao Inada

Part of the Children of the camps educational project, this video shares the experiences, cultural and familial issues, and the long internalized grief and shame felt by six Japanese Americans who were incarcerated in internment camps as children during World War II. 1 videocassette (57 min.)

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Churchill's war 1989

David McWhinnie, Michael Campbell, and Jonathan Battersby

The video takes us through Churchill's War, using much newly discovered footage and featuring, where possible, original recordings of the great speeches. 1 videocassette (60 min.)

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The color of honor the Japanese American soldier in WW II c1996

Loni Ding, Joe Miksak, National Asian American Telecommunications Association, and Vox Productions

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D-Day 1994

Charles Guggenheim, Grace Guggenheim, Jon Lane, Joseph Wiedenmayer, Michael Bacon, and David G McCullough

This film "is told through the voices of people who participated in the planning and execution of the invasion, and in the battle for the Normandy beaches. This documentary recounts the invasion in human terms, as a struggle between good and evil, hope and despair, and life and death. Their stories and voices, edited from over 100 hours of interviews, are woven together with footage and photographs from American, British, and German archives"--Container. 1 videocassette (60 min.)

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D-Day remembered 1994

Charles Guggenheim, David G McCullough, Guggenheim Productions, inc, Chermayeff & Geismar Associates, MetaForm Incorporated, and National D-Day Museum

Combines footage and photographs from American, British and German archives with the voices of the people who participated in the planning and execution of the invasion of Europe at Normandy, June 6, 1944, to create an unforgettable portrait of "Operation Overlord.". 1 videocassette (53 min.)

MEDIA 2-7279

Dear Miss Breed c2001

Veronica Ko, Jennifer Kim, Karen Ishizuka, Marcus Toji, University of California, Los Angeles, Asian American Studies Center, and Japanese American National Museum (Los Angeles, Calif.)

The real life story of how San Diego children's librarian Clara Breed became an unlikely hero to Japanese American youth in one of America's concentration camps in Poston, Arizona. 1 videocassette (13 min.)

MEDIA 2-6354

Les deux vies d' Eva The two lives of Eva c2005

Esther Hoffenberg, Emmanuelle Koenig, First Run/Icarus Films, Films du Poisson (Firm), ARTE France, and Lapsus (Firm)

Through interviews and archival documents, documentary filmmaker Esther Hoffenberg explores her mother Eva's life as a young woman in Poland and Germany during World War II. Eva's family accepted German citizenship and her father collaborated with the Nazis to maintain his business. After the war, Eva emigrated to France and was disinherited by her father for marrying a Jewish man. She suffered a series of mental breakdowns beginning in the 1970s. 1 videocassette (85 min.)

MEDIA 2-7769

Divide and conquer 1986, 1943

Frank Capra and Anatole Litvak

A documentary film record of the German attack upon and conquest of Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Holland and France in 1940. 1 videocassette (56 min.)

MEDIA 2-242

The eye of Vichy L'oeil de Vichy 2002?

Claude Chabrol, Jean-Pierre Azéma, Robert O Paxton, Brian Cox, FIT Production (Firm), Institut national de l'audiovisuel (France), TF1 Films Production, and First-Run Features (Firm)

MEDIA 10-926

The fatal attraction of Adolf Hitler 1998

Bill Treharne Jones, Christopher M Andrew, British Broadcasting Corporation, Television Service, Arts and Entertainment Network, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Television New Zealand, and Films for the Humanities (Firm)

A historical documentary made for the centenary of Hitler's birth. It shows his life, early years, early electioneering, charismatic oratory, start of World War II, treatment of the Jews, attack on England, invasion of USSR, death camps, defeat of Germany. 1 videocassette (90 min.)

MEDIA 2-6423

FDR and Churchill the human partnership 1978

Eric Sevareid, Anthony Ross Potter, and Herb Schmertz

Discusses the close personal friendship between President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill and its effect on the relations between the United States and Great Britain during 1940-1941. 1 videocassette (26 min.)

MEDIA 2-4139

Finest hour 2000

Nick Ward and Will Lyman

Account of one of the most critical periods of World War II. This two-part documentary focuses on both the personal experiences of men and women who were on the front lines, and the political intrigue behind the scenes. 2 videocassettes (110 min. each)

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Fly girls 1999

Laurel Ladevich and Mary McDonnell

Drawing on archival footage, rarely seen home movies, and interviews with the participants themselves, "Fly Girls" tells the story of the Women's Airforce Service pilots (WASP). Led by America's most accomplished aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran, these courageous women logged more than sixty million miles, ferrying planes throughout the United States, test-piloting experimental aircraft, and training men to fly. Still, the WASP fought a daily, sometimes deadly, battle for respect. 1 videocassette (56 min.)

MEDIA 2-4299

Hell in the Pacific c2001

Jonathan Lewis, Channel Four (Great Britain), Carlton Television, and Carlton International Media Limited

Documents the true story of the brutal battle arena of the Second World War. Contains rare and extraordinary archive film and eyewitness accounts of the brutal conflict. 1 videocassette (ca. 200 min.)

MEDIA 2-7359, 7360

History and memory (for Akiko and Takashige) 2008

Rea Tajiri and Women Make Movies (Firm)

Through collective history and personal memory, the impact of the evacuation and relocation of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II is examined. 1 videodisc (32 min.)

MEDIA 10-1851

The Internationale 2000

Peter Miller and Pete Seeger

Using rare archival footage and interviews with historians, musicians and activists, this film tells the story of this 100-year-old anthem of the oppressed and exploited, and celebrates the relationship between music and social change. 1 videocassette (30 min.)

MEDIA 2-5716

Island at war 2005

MEDIA 10-396 v.1-3

It's been a long, long time 1990

Eric Sevareid, Anthony Ross Potter, Frank J DeMeo, and Patrick Trese

Examines the sweeping social and economic changes that occured at the war's end. 1 videocassette (27 min.)

MEDIA 2-4106

L'oeil de Vichy 1993

Claude Chabrol, Jean-Pierre Azéma, Robert O Paxton, and Brian Cox

DANA 1502

Liberators fighting on two fronts in World War II 1992

Denzel Washington, Louis Gossett, William Miles, Nina Rosenblum, and Daniel V Allentuck

The experiences of African-American soldiers during World War II reflected the racial climate of 1940s America, a society marked by strict segregation and frequent acts of violence. Black combat battalions existed but were only used toward the end of the war, when manpower grew short in Europe. 1 videocassette (90 min.)

DANA. MEDIA 280 2-2106

Living longer, 1952 1998

Peter Ceresole and John Forsythe

With the advent and widespread use of penicillin during the Second World War and a greater understanding of microbiology, astonishing advances in Western medicine and public health followed as age-old diseases were systematically tackled in the United States and around the world. Millions hoped that new medical technologies would offer them better health--and longer lives. 1 videocassette (56 min.)

MEDIA. MEDIA 2-4181a 2-5629

MacArthur 2001?

David G McCullough, Austin Hoyt, Sarah Holt, and David Ogden Stiers

No soldier has ever captured the American imagination like Douglas MacArthur. He led Americans into battle for a half-century, through glorious victories and soul-numbing defeats. Courageous and supremely egotistical, he battled anyone who dared question his military judgment, even the President of the United States. 4 videocassettes (240 min.)

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The men who sailed the Liberty ships 1995

Maria Brooks and Ed Markmann

Using archival footage, stills, and interviews with retired merchant marines, this film recounts their role of delivering supplies during World War II. 1 videocassette (56 min.)

MEDIA 2-4271

Mood indigo blacks and whites 1990

Anthony Ross Potter, Frank J DeMeo, Patrick Trese, and Eric Sevareid

During World War II, the American home front was as racially segregated as the armed forces. In spite of prejudice and riots, Black Americans continued to support the war effort. 1 videocassette (27 min.)

MEDIA 2-4105

Navajo code talkers 1986

Tom McCarthy and Ernie Shinagawa

Describes the little known, yet crucial story, of the Navajo Code Talkers during World War II. Includes footage of Navajo life in the 1940's, and segments of war films. 1 videocassette (27 min.)

MEDIA 2-3091

The Nazi strike 1984

Frank Capra and Anatole Litvak

Documentary film record of Germany's preparations for war, the conquest of Austria and Czechoslovakia, and the attack upon Poland. Orientation film for U.S. Armed Forces. 1 videocassette (41 min.)

MEDIA 2-298

Nazzen moksori 2 Habitual sadness 1997?

Young-Joo Byun

A film about the estimated 200,000 women, mostly Korean, who were forced by the Japanese into sexual slavery during World War II. Now in their sixties and seventies, the surviving women boldly speak of their suffering at the hands of their Japanese oppressors. 1 videocassette (70 min.)

MEDIA 2-6025

Nightfighters the true story of the 332nd fighter group : the Tuskegee Airmen 1996

Jeremy Bugler, Madonna Benajamin, and Arthur Burghardt

The 332nd Fighter group has a unique place in the annals of WWII air force fighter groups. The group was completely Black. It confounded the expectations and prejudices held by white Americans in the 1930's and 1940's. The group excelled as pilots and became a crack unit, accomplishing goals others couldn't. 1 videocassette (52 min.)

DANA 1048

Nurses on the battlefield 2005

Lori Kuffner, Barbara Campbell, Daryl K Davis, Stephen Arsenych, Cooper Rock Pictures, History Channel (Television network), Canadian Television Fund, and Cinema Guild

In June of 1998 a group of military nurses, known as the Canadian Nursing Sisters who served during WWII, gathered in Charlottetown for a reunion. The video includes disturing images shot in surgical stations depicting the true images of war. 1 videocassette (46 min.)

DANA 3038

On the move D-Day to the liberation of France 1987

Secret preparations for the largest military invasion in history, Operation Overlord, become reality with the D-Day landings in Normandy. To consolidate their position, the Allies then launch Operation Cobra in Brittany. The invasion of southern France is next, part of Operation Dragoon. 1 videocassette (80 min.)

MEDIA 2-550

On the shady side of the street 1990

Eric Sevareid, Anthony Ross Potter, and Frank J De Meo

This program features an examination of the darker side of World War II including an examination of the war industry, juvenile delinquency and the zoot suit riots. 1 videocassette (27 min.)

MEDIA 2-4101

Partisans of Vilna 1986

Josh Waletzky

Feature-length documentary film that explores Jewish resistance during World War II. Recounts the untold tale of the moral dilemmas facing the Jewish youth who organized an underground resistance in the Vilna ghetto, and fought as partisans in the woods against the Nazis. 1 videocassette (130 min.)

MEDIA 2-846

The perilous fight America's World War II in color c2003

Martin Sheen, Martin Smith, Greg Palmer, Scott Pearson, PBS Video, KCTS (Television station : Seattle, Wash.), TWI (Firm), and Carlton Television

This video brings America's wartime experience, on the battlefield and at home, vividly and intimately to life. 1 videocassette (ca. 220 min.)

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The phony war 199-?

Anthony Ross Potter, William T Cartwright, and Eric Sevareid

Hitler shocked the world by invading Poland, after absorbing Austria and threatening the rest of eastern Europe. Americans wavered between a desire to help and a commitment to maintain neutrality. Many claimed the events in Europe were a hoax. 1 videocassette (ca. 30 min.)

MEDIA 2-4138

Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition 1990

Eric Sevareid, Anthony Ross Potter, Frank J DeMeo, and Patrick Trese

Americans work to produce war material quickly, but migration to the cities causes a huge housing shortage. 1 videocassette (30 min.)

MEDIA 2-4098

Prelude to war 1985

Frank Capra

Reviews events from 1933 to 1939, including the Japanese conquest of Manchuria, the Italian conquest of Ethiopia, and the rise of Hitler. Also discusses the Axis plan of World conquest. 1 videocassette (54 min.)

MEDIA 2-116

Prisoners among us Italian-American identity & World War II c2003

Michael Angelo DiLauro, Joseph M Orazi, Tom Brokaw, Mary Ann Esposito, Tony Lo Bianco, and MichaelAngelo Productions

Chronicles the experiences of Italian-Americans and Italian prisoners of war during World War II, and their assimilation into American culture. Includes historical photographs, archival footage, literature, music, poetry, and personal interviews. 1 videocassette (110 min.)

MEDIA 2-6700

World War II (Continued)

Proudly we served the men of the USS Mason c1995

Mary Pat Kelly, Oshunyomi Mugwana, Onikwa Bill Wallace, Ossie Davis, and Bluejacket Enterprises

Tells the story of the African-American crew of the USS Mason which escorted six convoys across the perilous North Atlantic, from the weeks leading up to the D-Day invasions until V-E day in 1945. Their service as members of the "Hunter-Killer Groups" helped win the Battle of the Atlantic by defeating the German U-boat Wolfpacks. 1 videocassette (60 min.)

MEDIA 2-7282

Rescue from Sumatra the story of Joan Bamford Fletcher 2005

Lori Kuffner, Barbara Campbell, Daryl K Davis, Cooper Rock Pictures, History Channel (Television network), Canadian Television Fund, and Cinema Guild

Canadian nurse, Joan Bamford Fletcher, commanding 70 Japanese soldiers, blast a path to safety for 2000 Dutch men and women imprisoned on Sumatra. 1 videocassette (47 min.)

MEDIA 2-7284

The road to Stalingrad c2001

Columbia River Entertainment Group

MEDIA 10-304

Sisters in resistance 2000

Maia Wechsler, Catherine Scheinman, and Kate Mulgrew

Four women reunite to reminisce about their days in the French Resistance. They recall setting up a Resistance network by establishing safehouses, disseminating underground publications to counter Nazi misinformation, and transmitting military intelligence to London. The women survived imprisonment in Ravensbrück, a Nazi women's concentration camp, and then went on to form the Association of Women Deportees and Prisoners of the Resistance. They have been recognized as French heroines, and are still passionately engaged in causes of justice. 1 videocassette (60 min.)

MEDIA 2-5714

Soldier's heart 1985?

Roberta Seligman and Anthony Messina

A World War II veteran, Norman Seligman, reminisces about the invasion of Normandy Beach during a visit to Normandy, France in observance of the 40th anniversary of the invasion. Includes documentary footage. 1 videocassette (30 min.)

MEDIA 2-2009

The Sorrow and the pity 1984

Marcel Ophuls

Examines the occupation of France by the Germans during World War II using reminiscences of individuals and officials involved in the events at the time. Concentrates on the themes of collaboration and resistance. 2 videocassettes (260 min.)

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Survivors fifty years after Hiroshima 1994?

Frances Politeo and Steven Okazaki

Survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb describe in their own words what they saw and felt when the bombs dropped. 1 videocassette (35 min.)

DANA 908

The tears of Peleliu 1999

Greg DeHart, Paul Freedman, and Debra Torbiung

Fifty years after one of the bloodiest battles in the history of warfare five American WWII veterans come together with their former Japanese adversaries. On this tiny island of Peleliu we see how war changed some, while others continue to live in the past. 1 videocassette (54 min.)

MEDIA 2-5149

To serve my country, to serve my race 1997

Lawrence E Walker, Cathleen Wiggins, Arnette Phipps, and Brenda L Moore

Using interviews and archival footage, the program shows the contribution black women in the military made to World War II and the discrimination they encountered. 1 videocassette (59 min.)

MEDIA 2-6037

Total war, 1939 1998

David Espar, Peter Pagnamenta, Zvi Dor-Ner, John Bridcut, and John Forsythe

The Second World War was the first modern conflict in which millions more civilians died than soldiers. In this film, eyewitnesses from Britain, Germany, Russia, Korea, Japan and the United States tell the story of the civilians who suffered and died. Residents of Plymouth, Tokyo, and Hamburg remember the air raids; Russian peasants recall the siege of Leningrad; Japanese soldiers and Korean slave-laborers describe the brutality of war in Asia. 1 videocassette (56 min)

MEDIA 2-3848

True glory 1956, 1983

Garson Kanin, Carol Reed, and David Eisenhower

The defeat of Hitler, told by rare Allied footage. Introduced by General Eisenhower. Graphically told in the words of the common soldier, stunning visuals abound as extraordinary combat footage is used to tell the story. 1 videocassette (86 min.)

MEDIA 2-1438

The true glory 1996

Dwight D Eisenhower

A documentary depicting the World War II campaign in Europe, from D-day to V-E Day, using footage shot by Allied combat photographers. 1 videocassette (85 min.)

MEDIA 2-5402

The Tuskegee airmen 2003

W. Drew Perkins, Bill Reifenberger, Ossie Davis, Rubicon Film Productions, and PBS Home Video

A history of the pilots who faced discrimination in their effort to fly combat aircraaft for their country. 1 videocassette (ca. 60 min.)

MEDIA DANA 2-4383 115

Victory in sight to the Rhine, the Elbe, and the Po 1987

Highlights of the closing months of the war in Europe include the daring mountain troops in northern Italy; the suspenseful story of the capture of the Ludendorf Bridge at Remagen; door-to-door skirmishes in Nazi-occupied towns and villages; and American soldiers shaking hands with Russian troops on the banks of the Elbe River. 1 videocassette (87 min.)

MEDIA 2-552

War comes to America 1984

Anatole Litvak

Briefly reviews the history of the United States and describes the characteristics, habits, and beliefs of the American people. Explains the events from 1931 to 1941 that caused the United States to enter World War II. 1 videocassette (67 min.)

MEDIA 2-225

The War symphonies Shostakovich against Stalin c1997

Dmitrii Dmitrievich Shostakovich, Valerii Gergiev, Larry Weinstein, Niv Fichman, Radio Filharmonisch Orkest (Nederlandse Omroep Stichting), Mariinskii teatr (1991- ), Orkestr, Rhombus Media (Firm), IDtv Cultuur (Firm), Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen, Arte (Firm), and Bullfrog Films, inc

A look at Stalin's purge on Russia and the musical response Dmitri Shostakovich made through his symphonies Four to Nine, which he called "tombstones.". 1 videocassette (82 min.)

MEDIA 2-6457

Wartime homefront 1992

London can take it the "symphony of war" of a city under siege, and has no real story or unifying character, but shows London and its denizens going about their everyday lives in the face of nightly air raids. Fires were started (or I was a fireman) uses reenactment techniques to show the auxiliary fire service in action during the winter and spring of 1940/41, when the Blitz of London was at its height. 1 videocassette (81 min.)

DANA. MEDIA 306 2-1989

Wartime moments 1992

Listen to Britain is Humphrey Jennings' most outstanding film celebrates the perseverance of everyday behavior in the face of total war. Target for tonight recounts the bombing of a German depot by a Royal Air Force Sqnadron. A Diary for Timothy was made late in the war, as an allied victory seemed certain. Timothy is born on the 5th anniversary of the hostilities (9/3/44) and the film covers the first taree months of his life. 1 videocassette (117 min.)

DANA. MEDIA 307 2-1990

We served with pride the Chinese American experience in WWII 2000

Montgomery Hom, N. a. Ming, David Louie, Waverly Place Productions, Organization of Chinese Americans, and National Asian American Telecommunications Association

The untold story of Chinese Americans who have served in the U.S. military, especially during World War II. Twenty eight men and women share their stories, representing the 20,000 Chinese Americans who served their country in a wide variety of wartime assignments. Also covers the involvement of Chinese Americans in the American Civil War, Spanish American War and World War I. 1 videocassette (57 min.)

MEDIA 2-6830

While the storm clouds gather 1990

Eric Sevareid, Anthony Ross Potter, Frank J DeMeo, and Patrick Trese

Shows how the American people were spurred to action by the attack of Pearl Harbor. 1 videocassette (30 min.)

MEDIA 2-4097

White light, black rain the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki c2007

Steven Okazaki, HBO Documentary Films, Farallon Films, and HBO Video (Firm)

In August 1945, the world was transformed in the blink of an eye when American forces dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and then Nagasaki. The destruction was unprecedented and the bombings precipitated the end of World War II. Contains archival footage and stunning photography. Interviews are from both Japanese survivors and the Americans who believed that their involvement would help end a brutal conflict. 1 videodisc (86 min.)

DANA 333

Who's going to pay for these donuts, anyway? c1999

Janice Tanaka, Nancy Penn, National Asian American Telecommunications Association, Fo Fum Productions, and NAATA Distribution (Firm)

Chronicles the filmakers' personal search for her father, whom she had not seen since age three. She finds him in a half-way house for the chronically mentally ill in Los Angeles' Skid Row. Film provides clear evidence of the profound effect of the Japanese American internment on generations of individuals. 1 videocassette (58 min.)

MEDIA 2-7394

Without due process Japanese Americans and World War II 1992

Gerald Griffith, Misha Griffith, Roger Daniels, Gary Y Okihiro, Joseph Robert Conlin, J. Scott Carter, Ray Nakamoto, Steve Thomas, and Marni Webb

Describes the violation during World War II of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution, which insists on due process of law. Tells of the race prejudice, war hysteria, and failure of political leadership which resulted in the evacuation of Japanese Americans, and their placement in internship camps in California, Utah, Arizona, Idaho, and Arkansas. "The forced evacuation and incarceration of over 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry during World War II is a stark example of what can and did happen in this nation when government leaders chose to disregard the rights guaranteed to all Americans by the Constitution.". 1 videocassette (52 min.)

DANA 840

The world at war 1, A new Germany, 1933-39 c1980

Laurence Olivier, Hugh Raggett, Neal Ascherson, Thames Television, ltd, HBO Video (Firm), and Imperial War Museum (Great Britain)

Adolf Hitler leads the Nazi movement with the fervent support of millions of Germans. As Europe looks on apprehensively, Germany threatens to attack Poland. 1 videocassette (ca. 52 min.)

DANA 1939

The world at war. 10, Wolfpack, U-boats in the Atlantic, 1939-1944 1981

Ted Childs, Laurence Olivier, J. P. W Mallalieu, Thames Television, ltd, HBO Video (Firm), and Imperial War Museum (Great Britain)

Discusses the German U-boats and their attacks on British merchant ships. Covers the entrance of Canadian and American escorts for British ships. Explores the use of aircraft and improved technology to track and destroy U-boats. 1 videocassette (52 min.)

DANA 1946

The world at war. 11, Red star, the Soviet Union, 1941-1943 c1981

Martin Smith, Neal Ascherson, Laurence Olivier, Thames Television, ltd, Imperial War Museum (Great Britain), and HBO Video (Firm)

Documentary about the invasion of Russia by Nazi Germany, and the 890 day siege of Leningrad. Concludes with the survival of the Russians and the defeat of Hitler's army. 1 videocassette (52 min.)

DANA 1949

The world at war. 12, Whirlwind, bombing Germany, September 1939-April 1944 c1981

Ted Childs, Charles Douglas-Home, Laurence Olivier, Thames Television, ltd, Imperial War Museum (Great Britain), and HBO Video (Firm)

Documentary presenting the era when Great Britain began the heavy bombing of Germany, concentrating at first on the factories producing war materials. Contains dramatic footage of the bombing of the ball-bearing factories at Schweinfurt. 1 videocassette (52 min.)

DANA 1950

The world at war. 13, Tough old gut, Italy, November 1942-June 1944 c1981

Laurence Olivier, David Wheeler, Ben Shepherd, Thames Television, ltd, Imperial War Museum (Great Britain), and HBO Video (Firm)

Winston Churchill describes Italy to Stalin as "the soft underbelly of the crocodile". It is his arguments that persuade the American to join the Allies--reluctantly on the road to home. In November 1942, 11 months after Pearl Harbor, they meet the Wehrmacht for the first time. And in Tunisia they suffer what is to be their worst defeat of the war at the hands of the better equipped, more experienced Afrika Korps. 1 videocassette (52 min.)

DANA 1951

The world at war. 14, It's a lovely day tomorrow, Burma, 1942-1944 c1982

John Pett, John Williams, Laurence Olivier , Thames Television, ltd, Imperial War Museum (Great Britain), and HBO Video (Firm)

Documentary footage reviews the difficulties of the Burma campaign in which Allied troops suffered disastrous early defeats in jungle warfare at the hands of the Japanese. Includes interview with Lord Montbatten whose arrival to take over the British Southeast Asia Command in October 1943 marked the turning point of the war in that area. 1 videocassette (52 min.)

DANA 1952

The world at war. 15, Home fires--Britain, 1940-1944 c1982

Phillip Whitehead, Angus Calder, Laurence Olivier, Thames Television, ltd, Imperial War Museum (Great Britain), and HBO Video (Firm)

Documentary covering the period of World War II after the Battle of Britain when the Luftwaffe changes the direction of its bombing raids from London to the provincial cities of Portsmouth, Sheffield, Glasgow, Bristol and especially Coventry and Plymouth. 1 videocassette (52 min.)

DANA 1953

The world at war. 16, Inside the Reich, Germany, 1940-1944 c1982

Philip Whitehead, Neal Ascherson, Laurence Olivier, Thames Television, ltd, Imperial War Museum (Great Britain), and HBO Video (Firm)

Documentary footage and interviews covers the period of German euphoria over early victories which turns to fear and despair as the war is brought home through massive Allied bombing. 1 videocassette (52 min.)

DANA 1954

The world at war. 17, Morning, June-August 1944 1982

John Pett, John Williams, Laurence Olivier , Thames Television, ltd, Imperial War Museum (Great Britain), and HBO Video (Firm)

Documentary footage of the D-Day landings in Normandy on June 6, 1944. 1 videocassette (52 min.)

DANA 1955

The world at war. 18, Occupation, Holland, 1940-1944 1982

Charles Bloomberg, Michael Darlow, Laurence Olivier, Thames Television, ltd, Imperial War Museum (Great Britain), and HBO Video (Firm)

Documentary which focuses on the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. 1 videocassette (VHS) (52 min.)

DANA 1956

The world at war. 19, Pincers, August 1944-March 1945 c1982

Peter Batty, Laurence Olivier, Thames Television, ltd, Imperial War Museum (Great Britain), and HBO Video (Firm)

Documentary footage of action at the fronts and in the war rooms as plans for the final advance on the Fatherland are made by the Allies. 1 videocassette (52 min.)

DANA 1957

The world at war 2, Distant war, September 1939-May 1940 c1980

David Elstein, Laurence Thompson, Laurence Olivier, Imperial War Museum (Great Britain), HBO Video (Firm), and Thames Television, ltd

Germany invades Poland, the Low Countries, and France. Churchill comes to power in Britain. 1 videocassette (52 min.)

DANA 1940

The world at war. 21, Nemesis, Germany, February-May 1945 c1982

Martin Smith, Stuart Hood, Laurence Olivier, Thames Television, ltd, Imperial War Museum (Great Britain), and HBO Video (Firm)

Documentary footage of the final assault against Germany with Russia attacking from the east and the British, Canadians and Americans pushing from the west. Includes interviews of the final days in Hitler's bunker in Berlin. 1 videocassette (52 min.)

DANA 1959

The world at war. 22, Japan, 1941-1945 c1982

Hugh Raggett, Courtney Brown, Laurence Olivier, Thames Television, ltd, Imperial War Museum (Great Britain), and HBO Video (Firm)

Dramatic documentary footage chronicling events through the experiences of ordinary men and women. Indicates the changing moods of the Japanese people from fear when war was first declared on the West in 1941 to exultation following the victories in Asia. 1 videocassette (52 min.)

DANA 963

The world at war. 23, Pacific, February 1942-July 1945 c1982

John Pett, David Wheeler, Laurence Olivier , Thames Television, ltd, Imperial War Museum (Great Britain), and HBO Video (Firm)

Documentary on the Allied Pacific offensive under the commands of General MacArthur and Admiral Nimitz. 1 videocassette (52 min.)

DANA 1964

The world at war. 24, The bomb, February-September 1945 c1982

David Elstein, Laurence Olivier, Thames Television, ltd, HBO Video (Firm), and Imperial War Museum (Great Britain)

On August 6, 1945, an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay named after the mother of the pilot Paul Tibbetts, dropped the world's first uranium bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Four days later a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. 1 videocassette (52 min.)

DANA 1960

The world at war. 25, Reckoning, 1945 ... and after c1982

Jerome Kuehl, Jeremy Isaacs, Laurence Olivier, Thames Television, ltd, Imperial War Museum (Great Britain), and HBO Video (Firm)

Documentary focusing on the end of World War II, the problems relating to the rebuilding of Germany and Japan and the mistrust between East and West. 1 videocassette (52 min.)

DANA 1961

The world at war. 26, Remember c1982

Jeremy Isaacs, Laurence Olivier, Thames Television, ltd, Imperial War Museum (Great Britain), and HBO Video (Firm)

Documentary which focuses on remembering the loss of life and the destruction of World War II. Includes reminiscences of the war by those who were there including military personnel and war correspondents. 1 videocassette (52 min.)

DANA 1962

The World at war. 3, France falls, May-June 1940 c1980

Peter Batty, Laurence Olivier, Imperial War Museum (Great Britain), Thames Television, ltd, and HBO Video (Firm)

Dramatic documentary footage shows the collapse of France under German armored attacks, the occupation of Paris, and the surrender of France. 1 videocassette (52 min.)

DANA 1941

The world at war. 4, Alone, May 1940-May 1941 c1980

Laurence Olivier, David Elstein, Laurence Thompson, Thames Television, ltd, HBO Video (Firm), and Imperial War Museum (Great Britain)

Nearly 350,000 Allied troops are dramatically rescued at Dunkirk. British morale plummets, but Churchill inspires his nation to fight on alone. The RAF heroically battles the Luftwaffe in the skies over London, and Britain gains a reprieve as Hitler's offensive turns to Russia. 1 videocassette (52 min.)

DANA 1942

The world at war. 5, Barbarossa, June-December 1941 c1980

Peter Batty, Laurence Olivier, Imperial War Museum (Great Britain), Thames Television, ltd, and HBO Video (Firm)

A documentary on the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany. Footage on Russian defeats, and of the final defeat of the Germans outside Moscow. Background on Hitler's decision to put Operation Barbarossa in motion. 1 videocassette (52 min.)

DANA 1943

The world at war. 6, Banzai! Japan, 1931-1942 c1980

Laurence Olivier, Peter Batty, Imperial War Museum (Great Britain), Thames Television, ltd, and HBO Video (Firm)

Documentary footage of the action at the fronts and in the war rooms, including interviews with the statesmen and military leaders concerning the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor and subsequent events in southeast Asia. 1 videocassette (52 min.)

DANA 1944

The world at war. 7, On our way, U.S.A. 1939-1942 1980

Laurence Olivier, Peter Batty, Thames Television, ltd, HBO Video (Firm), and Imperial War Museum (Great Britain)

America's attentions are captured from concentrating on the Japanese problem when Hitler declares war on the U.S. 1 videocassette (52 min.)

DANA 1945

The world at war. 8, The desert, North Africa, 1940-1943 c1981

Peter Batty, Laurence Olivier, Thames Television, ltd, Imperial War Museum (Great Britain), and HBO Video (Firm)

World War II documentary footage of action at the fronts and the war rooms as well as penetrating interviews with statesmen and military leaders of the time focussing on the war in North Africa. 1 videocassette (52 min.)

DANA 1947

The world at war. 9, Stalingrad, June 1942-February 1943 c1981

Hugh Raggett, Jerone Kuehl, Laurence Olivier, Imperial War Museum (Great Britain), Thames Television, ltd, and HBO Video (Firm)

Documentary on the defeat of the German army at Stalingrad--the first German defeat in the field. Also shows other German defeats in Russia. 1 videocassette (52 min.)

DANA 1948

The world at war the definitive history of the second world war 2001

Jeremy Isaacs, Lawrence Thompson, David Elstein, Noble Frankland, Laurence Olivier, and Eric Porter

An historical collection in words and film of World War II. 5 videodiscs (ca. 10 hrs.)

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World War II c1996

Henry Nevison, Dana Palermo, William Hewitt, Charles Hardy, Hollis Payer, InVision Communications, and Schlessinger Video Productions

Upheaval in Europe and Asia; Lend Lease and the road to war; Pearl Harbor; the arsenal for democracy, industrial mobilization and rationing; Americans on the move; the Second Great Migration; Rosie the Riveter; internment of Japanese Americans; the European and Pacific Theaters; the beginnings of the Atomic Age. 1 videocassette (ca. 35 min.)

MEDIA 2-6613

A World War II odyssey of an Indiana dentist 1991

Myron E Greene

Major Myron E. Greene, DDS, narrates this video production of his movie footage and personal photographs from World War II . 1 videocassette (88 min.)

MEDIA 2-2726

World War II with Walter Cronkite 1996

Walter Cronkite gives his own fascinating perspective on the war using his experience as a war correspondent in Europe. 8 videocassettes (1323 min.)

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