Movies (fiction) by Category

al-Nasir Salah al-Din 2000?, 1963

"In the 12th century, Saladin, Sultan of Egypt and Syria, united Arabs across North Africa and Western Asia against the crusading Christians. After defeating Richard the Lionhearted, the legendary Saladin pledges that Arab Jerusalem will remain open to all pilgrims, whatever their religion"--Container. 2 videodiscs (145 min.)

MEDIA 10-3841

 

All quiet on the Western Front 1930, 1988

Lew Ayres, Lewis Milestone, Slim Summerville, John Wray, Raymond Griffith, Erich Maria Remarque, Louis Wolheim, and Carl Laemmle

The plot follows a group of young German recruits in World War I through their passage from idealism to disillusionment. 1 videocassette (136 min.)

MEDIA 10-3381          2-2012

 

Anonyma eine frau in Berlin 2009

Max Färberböck, Günter Rohrbach, Martin Moszkowicz, Catharina Schuchmann, Benedict Neuenfels, Ewa J Linda, Zbigniew Preisner, Nina Hoss, Evgenii Sidikhin, Irm Hermann, Rüdiger Vogler, Ulrike Krumbiegel, Rolf Kanies, Jördis Triebel, Roman Gribkov, Juliane Köhler, Samvel Muzhikyan, Aleksandra Kulikova, Constantin Film (Firm) , Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen, Tempus (Production company), and Strand Releasing (Firm)

Women become the victims of the Red Army invasion in Berlin in 1945. One of them, Anonyma, an educated woman, decides to look for an officer who can protect her. A complex symbiotic relationship develops between her and Russian officer Andrej that will force them to remain enemies until the bitter end. 1 videodisc (126 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3278

 

Ararat 2002

A family searches for answers to both their tangled relationships of the present and a tragic historical event across a vast ancient terrian of deception, denial, fact and fears.  2 videodiscs (115 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3765

 

Battle of Algiers 1988

Gillo Pontecorvo, Brahim Haggiag, and Jean Martin

Dramatization of the conflict between Algerian nationalists and French colonialists that culminated in Algeria's independence in 1962. 1 videocassette (125 min.)  DVD

DANA. MEDIA     MEDIA 326        2-706         10-346

 

Before the rain (a tale in three parts) c2008

This trio of stories begins with "Words," as a young Macedonian monk discovers an Albanian girl hiding in his quarters, and attempts to hide her from a local militia. In the second, "Faces," a London photo-agent struggles with how to tell her husband she's been having an affair with one of her foreign photojournalists. In the third, "Pictures," the photojournalist returns to his Macedonian village and becomes embroiled in centuries-old skirmishes. For these people, as one of them says, "Time never dies ... the circle is not round." Connected in subtle ways, each finds that in the former Yugoslavia, it does not matter whether a person tries to help or stay neutral. Trouble ensues either way. 1 videodisc (113 min.)

MEDIA 10-5482

 

Bengasi 2007?, 1942

Drama of love and war during the conflict between Italy and Britain in Libya during World War II. 1 videodisc (96 min.)

MEDIA 10-3969

 

The bitter tea of General Yen 1933

At the height of the Chinese Civil War, American missionary Megan Davis arrives in Shanghai to marry another missionary, Robert Strike. As soon as she arrives, however, the couple must save a group of orphans from a fire. Injured and separated from her fiance, Megan is rescued and taken to the home of General Yen. While Megan and the general grow closer, one of the general   s concubines  seems to be secretly working for Yen   s enemies . 1 videodisc (87 min.)

MEDIA 10-5044

 

Brřdre Brothers 2005

Susanne Bier, Connie Nielsen, Ulrich Thomsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Sarah Juel Werner, Rebecca Lřgstrup Soltau, Zentropa Entertainments 4 (Firm), Focus Features, and Universal Studios Home Video (Firm)

An emotionally charged story of two brothers who struggle to find their place within their family after one of them is sent to the war in Afghanistan. The responsible brother at war is missing in action and presumed dead. His less responsible brother gravitates toward his brother's presumed widow and cares for her. When the older brother returns from prison camp with post traumatic stress problems his role and his brother's shift. 1 videodisc (117 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2311

 

Bufor 2008, 2007

In 2000, not far from the old seafarer's fortress, Beaufort is a military base with the same name kept by the Israeli army. This heavily guarded post has been here since the war in Lebanon in 1982. It is a symbol not only of Israel's most controversial campaign for military control of Lebanon, but also of a sacrificial struggle during which many soldiers lost their lives. The Israeli troops move out of Lebanon, leaving behind their base at Beaufort. On the evening of May 24th, the base is destroyed, blown up by thousands of mines. The powerful explosion marks the end of eighteen years of Israeli occupation. The film tells the story of Liraz Liberti, the 22-year-old commander of Beaufort, and his troops during the last few months prior to their withdrawal. The story does not center on the war but on their retreat. The base is still under enemy fire as Liraz prepares to explode the site, thus destroying everything that his friends and comrades have died for trying to defend. 1 videodisc (126 min.)

MEDIA 10-4261

 

Camp de Thiaroye 1988

Ousmane Sembčne, Thierno Faty Sow, Mustafa Ben Jemja, Ouzid Dahmane, Mamadou Mbengue, Ibrahima Sane, Sigiri Bakara, Hamed Camara, Ismaila Cisse, Ababacar Sy Cisse, Société nouvelle de promotion cinématographique, Société nouvelle Pathé cinéma (France), ENAPROC (Firm), S.A.T.P.E.C. (Firm), and New Yorker Films

African soldiers, returning home after fighting in World War II, are massacred by French colonial authorities in a dispute over pay. 1 videocassette (152 min.)

MEDIA 10-3627    2-7799

 

Casablanca c2009, 1942

Entering Casablanca is easy, getting out is much harder, especially if your name is on the Nazis' most-wanted list. At the top of the list is Czech Resistance leader Victor Laszlo, whose only hope is Rick Blaine, a cynical American who sticks his neck out for no one - especially Victor's wife Ilsa, the ex-lover who broke his heart. So when Ilsa offers herself in exchange for Laszlo's safe transport out of the country, the bitter Rick must decide what's more important. 1 videodisc (103 min.)

MEDIA 10-3890

 

Chapaev c2006

Georgii Nikolaevich Vasil ev, Sergei Dmitrievich Vasil ev, Boris Babochkin, Boris Blinov, Varvara Myasnikova, Leonid Kmit, Illarion Nikolaevich Pevtsov, Nikolai Konstantinovich Simonov, Stepan Iosifovich Shkurat, Boris Chirkov, Dm Furmanov, Anna Furmanova, Lenfil m, and International Historic Films Inc

Vassiliy Ivanovich Chapayev, an illiterate Red Army hero during the Russian Civil War, is portrayed as a noble protector of the common people and a brave soldier. 1 videodisc (100 min.)

MEDIA 10-940

 

The charge of the light brigade c2002

Charles Wood, Neil Hartley, Tony Richardson, Trevor Howard, Vanessa Redgrave, John Gielgud, Harry Andrews, Jill Bennett, David Hemmings, United Artists Corporation, and MGM Home Entertainment Inc

British Captain Nolan is a devoted officer disgusted with his commander, Lord Cardigan. Lord Raglan is a foolish officer with misguided war strategies and a fading memory. Together, they are sent to Turkey in response to a Russian invasion. Driven by arrogance and ineptitude, they send hundreds of cavalry to certain death in a climax that is both harrowing and magnificent. 1 videodisc

MEDIA 10-656

 

Culloden The war game 1996

Peter Watkins, Dick Graham, Michael Apsel, British Broadcasting Corporation, and Facets Video (Firm)

Two anti-war films by Peter Watkins -- the first, Culloden, is a dramatic reenactment of the Battle of Culloden in 1746 in Scotland between the rebellious highland Scotch forces of Bonnie Prince Charlie (Charles Stuart) and the regular British Army sent to Scotland to put down the rebellion. The battle, won by the British, was one of the most mishandled and brutal in British history. The War Game fictionally enacts the carnage and destruction that would result from a thermonuclear war between the Soviet Union and England. The film, originally intended as a BBC documentary, raises distrubing questions about the societal logic that permits the existence of thermonuclear weapons. 1 videocassette (121 min.)

DANA. MEDIA       MEDIA 592              2-6167      10-1026

 

Earth 2003, 1998

Deepa Mehta, Anne Masson, David Hamilton, Jhamu Sughand, Aamir Khan, Nandita Das, Rahul Khanna, A. R Rahman, Bapsi Sidhwa, Cracking the Earth Films (Firm), and New Yorker Video (Firm)

A romantic drama set in 1947 in Lahore before India and Pakistan became independent, where Hindu, Sikh, Parsee, and Muslim share a peaceful co-existence. Events are seen from the point of view of eight-year-old Lenny, a girl from an affluent Parsee family. Lenny's nanny, Shantya, is involved with the Muslim Masseur. When a train of Muslims arrives at the local depot and all the passengers are found murdered, the various sects turn against each other, and the city is soon aflame. 1 videodisc (101 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2998

 

Edith Stein the seventh chamber 2010, 1996

A moving, artistic portrayal of the life of Jewish philosopher, Catholic convert and Carmelite martyr, Edith Stein, capturing the interior struggles of this extraordinary woman, as well as the great conflicts from her decision to convert to Catholicism. 1 videodisc (108 min.)

MEDIA 10-4084

 

El Cid 2008

Eleventh-century Spain is divided into Christian kingdoms and Moorish strongholds. The young Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar, who has been dubbed El Cid by his followers, vows to see his country at peace, free from the invader. Showing clemency to some emirs, he faces treason charges at court. His accuser, Gomez, father of his fiancee, Chimene, dies in the resulting duel. Chimene's avowed vengeance plot fails and Rodrigo is given her hand. When King Ferdinand dies, his kingdom is divided among his three children. Sancho challenges the decision and imprisons Alfonso, who is released by El Cid. Then Sancho is assassinated by an African war-lord. Alfonso now claims that throne, too, and exiles El Cid. Chimene realizes the nobility of her husband and joins him. The years pass and El Cid becomes a revered warrior, but refuses to aid Alfonso. He lays siege to Valencia, catapulting food into its starving garrison. The Valencians kill their evil ruler and offer the crown to El Cid. He sends it to Alfonso, who rushes to his side. But El Cid has been hit by a stray arrow. Attended by Chimene, he hides the wound from his men and prepares a final bid to drive the Moors from Spain. 2 videodiscs (183 min.)

MEDIA 10-5212

 

Fear and desire 2012, 1953

A plane carrying four soldiers crashes in a forest behind enemy lines in an unnamed country. Desperate to escape, the group plans to build a raft and travel up the river into allied country. However, they are sidetracked by a local woman who stumbles across them in the woods, and the nearby presence of an enemy general who one member of the group is determined to kill. 1 videodisc (61 min.)

MEDIA 10-4192

 

La grande illusion 1999

Jean Renoir, Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay, Marcel Dalio, Erich Von Stroheim, and Charles Spaak

In this classic tale of adventure, duty and honor conflict in a German prisoner-of-war camp when an aristocratic French officer becomes friends with the commandant while cooperating with his comrades in a daring escape. 1 videodisc (114 min.)

MEDIA 10-21

 

Hana saku minato Two con men pretending to be the brothers of a boatyard owner arrive in a seaside town in southern Kyæ±shæ± to swindle the locals, but soon they have a crisis of conscience when World War II begins. 1 videodisc (82 min.)

MEDIA 10-5584

 

Hiroshima, mon amour 1994

Alain Resnais, Emmanučle Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dassas, Pierre Barbaud, and Marguerite Duras

A French actress enters into a brief romance with a Japanese architect in 1959 Hiroshima.  She relives a traumatic war time romance and tries to find truth, love, and freedom from a past that haunts them both. 1 videocassette (88 min.)

DANA   MEDIA 338       2-180     10-274

 

La historia oficial 2004, 1985

Marcelo Pińeyro, Aķda Bortnik, Luis Puenzo, Héctor Alterio, Norma Aleandro, Chunchuna Villafańe, Hugo Arana, Guillermo Battaglia, Chela Ruķz, Patricio Contreras, Jorge Petraglia, Atilio Stampone, Marķa Elena Walsh, Historias Cinematograficas (Firm), and Koch Lorber Films

An Argentine teacher lives in blissful ignorance of the evils perpetrated by her country's government. Over time, she begins to suspect that her adopted daughter may have been the child of a murdered political prisoner. When she attempts to unearth the truth, her investigation reveals levels of political corruption so abhorrent that the illusions of her past life are irrevocably shattered. 1 videodisc (114 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2994

 

Human condition 1999

Masaki Kobayashi, Zenzo Matsuyama, Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, and Junpei Gomikawa

Tells the story of Kaji, who is sent to the front in the horrible final days of World War II as punishment for treating Chinese prisoners humanely. 1 videodisc (177 min.)

MEDIA 10-135

 

Ikiteiru Magoroku Under pressure form neighbors, a wealthy family must decide if they want to cultivate soil that hasn't been tilled for centuries in order to aid the war effort during World War II. 1 videodisc (89 min.)

MEDIA 10-5585

 

Il deserto dei tartari Desert of the tartars 2005

Valerio Zurlini, André Brunelin, Vittorio Gassman, Giuliano Gemma, Max von Sydow, Dino Buzzati, Istituto Luce (Italy), Cinema Due,  Reggane Films, Corona-Filmproduktion, and NoShame Films

"For his first commission, infantry lieutenant Drogo is stationed at a remote desert garrison on the mist-shrouded border of the North Kingdom. Filling their days with endless drilling, the soldiers of Fortezza Bastiani spend the long nights wondering about an enemy no one has ever seen. As the days stretch into months, the strain of waiting for attack takes its toll on Drago's comrades: sadistic major Mattis, sardonic Lieutenant Simeon, cynical medic Rovine, and humiliated Captain Hortiz, who lives with the shame of having once sounded the alarm against an attack that vanished before anyone else could see." --Container. 1 videodisc (141 min.)

MEDIA 10-938

 

Ilsa she wolf of the S.S 2002, 1975

"Ilsa conducts sadistic scientific experiments designed to demonstrate that women are more capable of enduring pain than men are, and therefore should be allowed to fight in the army. Every night she chooses another one of her male prisoners and rapes him; however, due to her insatiable hunger, she gets disappointed when her current victim eventually ejaculates, and promptly has him castrated and put to death. Only an American prisoner, who can withhold ejaculating, manages to use her weakness to his favor."--Wikipedia. 1 videodisc (96 min.)

MEDIA 10-4246

 

In darkness 2012

Leopold Socha is a sewer worker and petty thief in Lvov, a Nazi occupied city in Poland. One day he encounters a group of Jews trying to escape the liquidation of the ghetto. He hides them for money in the labyrinth of the town's sewers beneath the bustling activity of the city above. What starts out as a straightforward and cynical business arrangement turns into something very unexpected, the unlikely alliance between Socha and the Jews as the enterprise seeps deeper into Socha's conscience.  1 videodisc (144 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3766

 

Indigčnes Days of glory c2007

Jean Bréhat, Rachid Bouchareb, Olivier Lorelle, Jamel Debbouze, Samy Naceri, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila, Weinstein Company, Weinstein Company Home Entertainment (Firm), Tessalit Productions, Genius Products, Inc, and Independent Film Channel

The tale of a 1943 WWII French Algerian Unit facing discrimination by its European counterparts due to prejudice and ignorance. The French armed forces are preparing to land troops in Europe to win back their homeland from the Axis Powers, but they cannot accomplish their task without recruiting men from their African colonies. The Africans themselves start their long journey full of hope and anticipation, but as they get closer to their goal they realize that their enemy is not necessarily the Germans. 1 videodisc (ca. 125 min.)

MEDIA 10-966

 

Iskandariyah lih? Alexandrie pourquoi? 199-?

Yusuf Shahin, Mohsen Zayed, Ezzat El Alaili, Naglaa Fathy, and Farid Shawqi

Amid poverty, death and suffering caused by World War II, 18-year-old Yehia dreams of studying filmmaking in America. After falling in love and discovering the lies of European occupation, he reevaluated his identity and allegiances. 1 videocassette (125 min.)

MEDIA 10-2656       2-5407

 

J'accuse 2008, 1919

Abel Gance, Romuald Joubae, Maxime Desjardins, Saeverin Mars, Andrae Heuzae, Henri Diamant-Berger, Faelix Galipaux, Francisque Poulbot, Serge Bromberg, Eric Lange, Jeffery Masino, Kevin Brownlow, Leslie K Hankins, Pathae cinaema (France), Lobster Films (Firm), and Flicker Alley (Firm)

J'accuse is a World War I drama considered to be one of the most technically advanced films of the era and the first major pacifist film. It was referred to by Gance as "a human cry against the bellicose din of armies." Stars Marise Dauvray as Edith, a young woman who is unhappily married to an older man, Fran?cois (Saeverin-Mars), but is actually in love with a young poet Jean Diaz (Romuald Joubae). Both Jean and Fran?cois end up on the front lines of World War I while Edith is captured by German forces and suffers atrocities at the hands of the soldiers. Gance contrasts individual human suffering with the larger horrors of was, depicted with stark realism. Paris pendant la guerre (Paris during the war):  A rare comical look at Parisian life during wartime.  These short vignettes feature several popular performers of the day (including: Faelix Galipaux, M. Rablet, Marcel Simon, M. Boucot, Jane Faber) ; also includes Francois Poulbot's famous political cartoons.  This vintage 35mm tinted print is courtesy of the Lobster Films Collection with Fotoplayer music by Robert Israel. 2 videodiscs (166 min.)

MEDIA 10-1428

 

JSA Joint Security Area = Kongdong kyongbi kuyok JSA c2000

Ch an-uk Pak, Un Yi, Chae-myong Sim, Yong-ae Yi, Pyong-hon Yi, Kang-ho Song, Ha-gyun Sin, T aeu Kim, Myong P`illum, and Modern Audio Ltd

Two soldiers, one North Korean and one South Korean, are shot along the 38th Parallel. As tensions rise between North and South, a Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission is called in to investigate the shootings. 1 videodisc (110 min.)

MEDIA 10-265

 

Kanko no machi  As World War II escalates, the tight-knit inhabitants of a street in Tokyo must relocate from their beloved neighborhood so the government can use the space for the war effort. 1 videodisc (73 min.)

MEDIA 10-5586

 

The killing fields  2001

Bruce Robinson, Roland Joffé, Sam Waterston, Haing Ngor, Craig T Nelson, John Malkovich, Athol Fugard, and Sydney H Schanberg

Dith Pran is an aide, translator and friend of a journalist who is covering the war in Cambodia.  He is eventually exiled to the labor camps in Cambodia's countryside, where he endures four years of starvation, torture and war before escaping to Thailand. 1 videodisc (141 min.)

MEDIA 10-95

 

Kippur 2001

Michel Propper, Amos Gitai, Marie-Jose Sanselme, Liron Levo, and Tomer Ruso

Film takes place in 1973 during the Yom Kippur War in which Egypt and Syria launched attacks in Sinai and the Golan Heights.  We are led on a day that begins with quiet city streets, but ends with death, destruction and devastation of both body and mind. 1 videodisc (123 min.)

MEDIA 10-88

 

Komissar 2007, 1988

A dedicated soldier of the newly-formed Soviet army becomes pregnant has to make a choice between becoming a mother and the needs of the Revolution. Set against the Russian Civil War, Klavdia Vavilova has a reputation in her unit as a selfless fighter, but her unexpected situation not only forces her to temporarily leave her comrades, her commanders have placed her in the household of a family of Ukrainian Jews. As the humanity and suffering of those living outside the party apparatus becomes apparent, Vavilova's emotions grow increasingly conflicted. Her tenuous situation turns dire when her unit returns for her and she is confronted with a final chance to show her loyalty to the cause. 2 videodiscs (104 min.)

MEDIA. MEDIA 10-4014 10-4069

 

L'armée des ombres 2007, 1969

Jacques Dorfmann, Jean-Pierre Melville, Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Simone Signoret, Claude Mann , Paul Crauchet, Christian Barbier, Serge Reggiani, Pierre L'Homme, Franēoise Bonnot, Eric De Marsan, Joseph Kessel, Films Corona, Fono Roma (Firm), and Criterion Collection (Firm)

L'Armee des Ombres is a stark and unvarnished story about Resistance fighters in Vichy France in 1942-43 when the French leadership allowed the Nazis to occupy the country. The members of this army are cold, hungry, desperate men and women, with false names and no addresses, who can be betrayed in an instant by a traitor or an accident. They know they will probably die. A meditation on the nature of resistance and the price of courage, these heroes can save their own country only by cutting themselves apart from it. Entangled in the political turmoil engulfing France in the wake of May '68--as a result received poorly there--the film was not distributed in the US until 2006. 2 videodiscs (145 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2898

 

Lo squadrone bianco 2006?, 1936

"The story concerns a young cavalry officer (Fosco Giachetti) who voluntarily transfers to a godforsaken outpost in Africa. He has done this to get over an unhappy romance but now finds he is twice as unhappy in solitude. Eventually his inbred sense of duty resurfaces and he becomes a "model" officer, successfully fending off a band of rebellious natives."--Www.allmovie.com. 1 videodisc (94 min.)

MEDIA 10-3970

 

The master race 2009, 1944

An account of a German officer, Colonel Von Beck, who escapes when the Nazi empire is destroyed and goes into hiding to promote Nazi ideology in postwar Europe. He sets out to promote hatred and divisiveness in the bombed Belgian village of Kolar. 1 videodisc (96 min.)

MEDIA 10-4198

 

Mediterraneo 200-?, 1991

In 1941, a small group of misfit Italian soldiers is sent to a tiny Greek island in the Agean for four months of lookout duty. Their relief ship is torpedoed and their radio destroyed. As they lose all touch with the world outside, they are absorbed into the life of the idyllic island. 1 videodisc (90 min.)

MEDIA 10-3918

 

Miracle at St. Anna 2009, 2008

August 1944. Follows four black soldiers of the all-black 92nd Infantry Division who get trapped near the small Tuscan village of Sant'Anna di Stazzema on the Gothic Line during the Italian Campaign of World War II. One of the men will risk his life to save an Italian boy who lives in the city where the Waffen-SS have massacred most of the citizens of the town in retaliation for Italian partisan activity. A sculpted head from the Ponte Santa Trinita in Florence is a focal point. 1 videodisc (160 min.)

MEDIA 10-4091

 

Musíme si pomáhat c2001

Jan Hrebejk, Pavel Borovan, Ondrej Trojan, Petr Jarchovský, Boleslav Polívka, Anna Sisková, Jaroslav Dusek, Jirí Pecha, Simona Stasová, Martin Huba, Jirí Kodet, Vladimir Marek, Richard Tesarík, Total Helpart T.H.A, Ceská televize (Prague, Czech Republic), Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (Firm), and Sony Pictures Classics (Firm)

During World War II and the Nazi occupation of Czechoslavakia, a couple, Josef and Marie, decide to hide a young Jewish neighbor in their small apartment. They keep getting a visit from their neighbor, Horst, who is a German sympathizer and has his eye on Marie. When she rejects his advances he seeks revenge by trying to move a Nazi clerk into their home, forcing the couple to tell a lie that will change their lives forever. 1 videodisc (122 min.)

MEDIA 10-322

 

Ninfa plebea The nymph c2006

Lina Wertmüller, Ugo Pirro, Domenico Rea, Ciro Ippolito, Fulvio Lucisano, Lucia Cara, Stefania Sandrelli, Raoul Bova, Italian International Film, Eurolux Produzione S.r.l, Koch Lorber Films , and Koch Entertainment (Firm)

A naive 15 year-old-girl who is subjected to repeated abuse in her small village finds love with a wounded soldier. 1 videodisc (ca. 110 min.)

MEDIA 10-1035

 

No man's land 2002

Danis Tanovic, Frédérique Dumas-Zajdela, Marc Baschet, Cedomir Kolar, Branko Djuric, Rene Bitorajac, Filip Sovagovi c, Georges Siatidis, Serge-Henri Valcke, United Artists Corporation, Noé Productions International, Fabrica Cinema (Firm), and MGM Home Entertainment Inc

Set during the height of the Bosnian War in 1993, a group of Bosnian soldiers are advancing on Serb territory under the cover of a foggy night. At daybreak, the fog lifts, and the Serbs open fire. Soon there is only one Bosnian survivor because he was able to dive into a trench in no man's land. He then watches as two Serbian soldiers use the body of a fallen Bosnian to bait a land mine. He fires on them, killing one, and taking the second hostage. Now both are alone and equally armed, so they are forced to share a wary trust as they try to attract help from either side. 1 videodisc (97 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3440

 

La notte de San Lorenzo 2008, 1982

It is the Night of San Lorenzo, the night when dreams come true. While watching shooting stars, Cecilia tells her son about a similar night in 1944, when she was six years old, and the residents of San Martino, her small Tuscan hometown, struggled against Nazi oppression during the final days of WWII. 1 videodisc (107 min.)

MEDIA 10-4829

 

Obchod na korze c2001, 1965

In 1942, Tono and his wife are struggling because of his antipathy towards the fascist regime. His brother-in-law, the local fuehrer, chooses Tono to oversee a button shop owned by a sweet, harmless Jewish widow, Mrs. Lautman. Unable to explain his position to Mrs. Lautman, Tono gradually accepts her belief that he is her assistant. When the Jews are ordered deported, the well-meaning Tono decides to shield her from the Nazis. 1 videodisc (126 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3772

 

Omar Mukhtar lion of the desert 2005, 1981

Between two world wars, a struggle for freedom took place in the African desert. This movie is the historically accurate story about the Libyan resistance leader, Omar Mukhtar, who led the Libyan resistance against the Italian oppressors from 1911-1931. 2 videodiscs (173 min.)

MEDIA 10-3968

 

Paisan Paisaa 2010

Roberto Rossellini, Rodney E Geiger, Sergio Amidei, Federico Fellini, Alfred Hayes, Klaus Mann, Marcello Pagliero, Carmela Sazio, Robert Van Loon, Dotts Johnson, Alfonso Bovino, Maria Michi, Gar Moore, Harriet Medin, Renzo Avanzo, William Tubbs, Vincenzo Carrella, Owen Jones, Elmer Feldman, Dale Edmonds, Achille Siviero, Robert Van Loel, Renzo Rossellini, Janus Films, Cinecittaa, s.p.a, and Criterion Collection (Firm)

Set during the liberation of Italy at the end of World War II, and taking place across the country, from Sicily to the northern Po Valley. Looks at the struggles of different cultures to communicate and of people living their everyday lives in extreme circumstances. 1 videodisc (126 min.)

MEDIA 10-2139

 

The red and the white 2002

Miklós Jancsó,  Tibor Molnár, András Kozák, József Madaras, MAFILM, Moskovskaia kinostudiia "Mosfil m.", Brandon Films, inc, and Kino International Corporation

This film about the absurdity and arbitrariness of war is set in Central Russia during the Civil War of 1918. It details the battles between the Red soldiers of Russia, aided by Hungarian Communists, and the counter-revolutionary Whites in the hills along the Volga River. 1 videodisc (90 min.)

MEDIA 10-946

 

Rikugun Follows the experiences of one family from Fukuoka, Japan through succesive wars: the Satsuma rebellion, the Sino-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War and the Second World War. The final part of the film focuses on a young man being shipped off to World War II, and his mother and father have different reactions. 1 videodisc (87 min.)

MEDIA 10-5587

 

Roberto Rossellini's war trilogy : Rome open city : Paisan : Germany year zero 2009

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MEDIA 10-2844

 

Roma, cittaa aperta Rome open city c2009

Sergio Amidei, Roberto Rossellini, Federico Fellini, Aldo Fabrizi, Anna Magnani, Marcello Pagliero, Vito Annicchiarico, Nando Bruno, Harry Feist, Giovanna Galletti, Francesco Grandjacquet , Maria Michi, Carla Rovere, Renzo Rossellini, Ubaldo Arata, Peter E Bondanella, Adriano Apraa, Mark Shiel, Virgilio Fantuzzi, James Quandt, Irene Bignardi, Colin MacCabe, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Minerva Film Video, Excelsa Film (Firm), Criterion Collection (Firm), Janus Films, and Cinecittaa Luce s.p.a

When the Nazis occupied Rome, a brave few fought against it.  An underground agent who is cornered by the Germans in a certain quarter of Rome, flees the Germans. In the course of his flight he imperils his resistance friends. 1 videodisc (103 min.)

MEDIA 10-2141

 

Roma, cittŕ aperta = Rome open city  2010

Roberto Rossellini, Max Kolpe, Carlo Lizzani, Edmund Meschke, Ernst Pittschau, Ingetraud Hinzf, Franz Greuger, Erich Geuhne, Renzo Rossellini, and Criterion Collection (Firm)

The concluding chapter of Roberto Rossellini's War Trilogy is the most devastating, a portrait of an obliterated Berlin seen through the eyes of a 12-year old boy. Living in a bombed-out apartment building with his sick father and two older siblings, young Edmund is mostly left to wander unsupervised, getting ensnared in the black market schemes of a group of teenagers and coming under the nefarious influence of a Nazi-sympathizing ex-teacher. 1 videodisc (73 min.)

MEDIA 10-2142

 

Die stille nach dem schuss The legends of Rita 2001

Volker Schlöndorff, Friedrich-Carl Wachs, Arthur Hofer, Emmo Lempert, Wolfgang Kohlhaase, Bibiana Beglau, Martin Wuttke, and Nadja Uhl

This political thriller, set in the final years of the Cold War, recounts the struggles of a young West German woman member of a terrorist group (loosely based on the real Baader-Meinhof gang). When the group disbands, she goes into hiding with an invented identity in East Germany. She struggles with the realities of a Communist state while keeping the distant ideal of socialism. 1 videodisc (101 min.)

MEDIA 10-98

 

The truce 1998?, 1997

Primo Levi embarks on a thousand-mile journey back home to Italy after WW II ends. Along the way, he faces great odds but rediscovers the simply joys of life that the war threatened to destroy forever . 1 videodisc (118 min.)

MEDIA 10-3920

 

Two women 1998

Alberto Moravia, Sophia Loren, Raf Vallone, Eleanora Brown, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Vittorio De Sica, and Carlo Ponti

Realistic drama of an Italian widow who, along with her young daughter, are brutally raped by Allied soldiers in World War II. 1 videodisc (93 min.)

MEDIA 10-139

 

Un condamn©  ©  mort s'est © chapp© , ou, Le vent souffle o©£ il veut 2013

Based on the memoirs of an imprisoned French resistance leader, this unbelievably taut and methodical marvel follows the fictional Fontaine's single-minded pursuit of freedom, detailing the planning and carrying out of his escape with gripping precision. 1 videodisc (101 min.)

MEDIA 10-5196

 

Verdun visions d'histoire c2006

The German troops are entering the Meuse. The alert has been given. The French soldier calmly awaits the shock. All the villages have been evacuated; wives have been torn apart from their husbands, who stay to defend the land the old farmer won't abandon. The German offensive takes place on February 21st, 1916. Following intense bombing from 7:15 am to 5 pm, flocks of German soldiers dash through the bois des Caures. In order to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the end of World War I, L© on Poirier recreated the battle of Verdun and inscribed in history the lives of symbolic characters from both sides of the front. Verdun, looking at history was edited in three distinct parts and is an epic film of great emotional strength dedicated to all the martyrs of the ugliest human passion that is war. 1 videodisc (151 min)

MEDIA 10-5645

 

La vita č bella 2011, 1997

During World War II an Italian Jewish man uses his vivid imagination to convince his son they're playing a game at a concentration camp in order to keep his son's spirits up. 1 videodisc (118 min.)

MEDIA 10-3924

 

æ sone-ke no asa Filmed after Japan's unconditional surrender in 1945, this family drama functions as an angry indictment of Japanese imperialism. Fusako, a widow, is enjoying Christmas with her three sons and daughter. But the family's happiness is destroyed by several bad events: Fusako's daughter's fiance is drafted for war service and her eldest son is arrested for his political beliefs. An uncle who is a general in the army begins to dominate the family and Fusako faces increasing sadness as the war continues and finally ends. 1 videodisc (81 min.)

MEDIA 10-5588

 

Alexander Nevsky 1990

Sergei Eisenstein, Sergey Prokofiev, D Vasil ev, Petr Andreevich Pavlenko, Nikolai Konstantinovich Cherkasov, Nikolai Pavlovich Okhlopkov, Andrei L vovich Abrikosov, and Dmitrii Nikolaevich Orlov

Historical drama set in 1242 which deals with the defence of Russia by the prince, Alexander Nevsky, from invasion by Teutonic crusaders. 1 videocassette (108 min.)

MEDIA  2-105

 

All my sons 1987

Arthur Miller, Jack O'Brien, Iris Merlis, Michael Brandman, Joan Allen, Michael Learned, Aidan Quinn, and James Whitmore

An all new production set during World War II stars James Whitmore and Aidan Quinn as a troubled father and son who know that a second son will never return from the war, even though mother Michael learned  believes her missing boy will soon come home. 1 videocassette (122 min.)

MEDIA 2-1446

 

All quiet on the Western Front 1930, 1988

Lew Ayres, Lewis Milestone, Slim Summerville, John Wray, Raymond Griffith, Erich Maria Remarque, Louis Wolheim, and Carl Laemmle

The plot follows a group of young German recruits in World War I through their passage from idealism to disillusionment. 1 videocassette (136 min.)

MEDIA 2-2012

 

Arsenal 197-

Oleksandr Petrovych Dovzhenko, S Svashenko, Amvrosii Maksymilianovych Buchma, and M Nademsky

Provides a picture of life in the Ukraine in 1914 by intercutting scenes showing the miseries of the class struggle in the countryside and the horrors of war at the front. 1 videocassette (70 min.)

MEDIA 2-1264

 

Ashes and diamonds  1986

Andrzej Wajda and Jerzy Andrzejewski

The conflict between idealism and instinct is revealed in the story of a Polish Resistance fighter who assassinates the wrong man on the last day of World War II. 1 videocassette (VHS) (105 min.)

MEDIA 2-229

 

`Atalyah Atalia 1992

Akiva Tevet, Nathan Hakeini, Yitzhak Ben-Ner, Michal Bat-Adam, Yiftach Katzur, and Dan Toren

Depicts the relationship between a 40 year old war widow and an 18-year-old man who has been rejected from the Israeli army for health reasons. Set on an Israeli kibbutz in 1973, when Israel is on the brink of war. 1 videocassette (90 min.)

MEDIA 2-2664

 

Au revoir les enfants Goodbye, children 1989

Louis Malle, Gaspard Manesse, and Raphael Fejto

Boyhood memories of Catholic boarding school during the 1940s German occupation of France. 1 videocassette (103 min.)

DANA. MEDIA 279 2-776

 

Battle of Algiers 1988

Gillo Pontecorvo, Brahim Haggiag, and Jean Martin

Dramatization of the conflict between Algerian nationalists and French colonialists that culminated in Algeria's independence in 1962. 1 videocassette (125 min.)  DVD

DANA. MEDIA     MEDIA 326        2-706         10-346

 

Biruma no tategoto Ba ma  co`  = The Burmese harp 1994?

Kon Ichikawa, Masayuki Takaki, Shoji Yasui, Rentaro Mikuni, Tatsuya Minhashi, and Michio Takeyama

Following the actions of a young Japanese officer separated from his battalion at the close of the Pacific War in Burma, the film shows one man's journey from the comforts of companionship in adversity to a solitary confrontation with, and the eventual grasp of, mass death in the name of patriotism. 1 videocassette (116 min.)

MEDIA 2-6050

 

La Boca del lobo The lion's den 1990

Francisco J Lombardi, Gustavo Bueno Sánchez, and Tono Vega

A study of a bloody encounter between the Peruvian Army and the Maoist Shining Path in Chuspi, a small isolated village in the Andes. 1 videocassette (111 min.)

MEDIA 2-1183

 

Bon voyage  ; Aventure malagache 1993

Alfred Hitchcock

These two films, originally filmed in England as a tribute to the French Resistance, were banned by the British Government.  Bon voyage tells the story of an RAF pilot whose mistake caused the deaths of several resistance fighters. Aventure malgache illustrates the division between the Free French through the experiences of a lawyer who is imprisoned by the Vichy government. 1 videocassette (58 min.)

MEDIA 2-2341       2-6688

 

Breaker Morant c1996

Kenneth Ross, Matthew Carroll, Bruce Beresford, Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson, Bryan Brown, Lewis Fitz-Gerald, John Waters, Rod Mullinar, Charles Tingwell, Fox Lorber Home Video (Firm), South Australian Film Corporation, and Orion Home Video (Firm)

In 1901 South Africa, during the Boer War,three Australian soldiers are put on trial for avenging the murder of a comrade. 1 videocassette (107 min.)

MEDIA. MEDIA 2-4000 2-7058

 

Camp de Thiaroye 1988

Ousmane Sembčne, Thierno Faty Sow, Mustafa Ben Jemja, Ouzid Dahmane, Mamadou Mbengue, Ibrahima Sane, Sigiri Bakara, Hamed Camara, Ismaila Cisse, Ababacar Sy Cisse, Société nouvelle de promotion cinématographique, Société nouvelle Pathé cinéma (France), ENAPROC (Firm), S.A.T.P.E.C. (Firm), and New Yorker Films

African soldiers, returning home after fighting in World War II, are massacred by French colonial authorities in a dispute over pay. 1 videocassette (152 min.)

MEDIA 2-7799

 

Capitaine Conan 1998, 1996

Bertrand Tavernier, Jean Cosmos, Frédéric Bourboulon, Philippe Torreton, Samuel Le Bihan, Bernard Le Coq, and Roger Vercel

Capitaine Conan, a dashing soldier who does not let World War I interfere with his pursuit of wine, women and song, leads a band of cutthroat commandos on the front lines of the Bulgarian border.  Feared by his enemies and respected by his subordinates, Conan's cunning and blood lust serve him well in war, but when a peace treaty is signed and the soldiers are shipped to Bucharest, Hungary to await further orders, the trouble begins. 1 videocassette (130 min.)

MEDIA 2-3773

 

Carnival in Flanders La Kermesse héroďque 198-?

Jacques Feyder, Charles Spaak, Françoise Rosay, André Alerme, and Jean Murat

Tongue-in-cheek from start to finish, the story satirizes a favorite wartime theme, the daring and resourcefulness of citizens threatened by invaders. Set in Spanish-occupied Belgium in 1616, the film is noted for its subtle humor, witty acting and magnificent decor. 1 videocassette (90 min.)

MEDIA 2-1135

 

Casualties of war 1990

Daniel Lang, Brian De Palma, Michael J Fox, and Sean Penn

Based on a true story of a squad of soldiers caught in the moral quagmire of wartime Vietnam.  Witness to a vile crime, Private Ericksonn (Fox) is forced to stand alone against his fellow soldiers and commanding officer Sergeant Meserve (Penn), a powerful and charismatic man pushed over the edge of barbarism by the terror and brutality of combat. 1 videocassette (120 min.)

MEDIA 2-953

 

Ch`a Kuan The Teahouse 1982

T ien Hsieh, Hsüeh-pu Wang, She Lao, and Shizhi Yu

Traces the fortunes of the manager of a popular Beijing teahouse who witnesses the toll a restless and war-torn populace takes on his business and his beloved teahouse. 1 videocassette (129 min.)

MEDIA 2-2248

 

Chapaev c2006

Georgii Nikolaevich Vasil ev, Sergei Dmitrievich Vasil ev, Boris Babochkin, Boris Blinov, Varvara Myasnikova, Leonid Kmit, Illarion Nikolaevich Pevtsov, Nikolai Konstantinovich Simonov, Stepan Iosifovich Shkurat, Boris Chirkov, Dm Furmanov, Anna Furmanova, Lenfil m, and International Historic Films Inc

Vassiliy Ivanovich Chapayev, an illiterate Red Army hero during the Russian Civil War, is portrayed as a noble protector of the common people and a brave soldier. 1 videodisc (100 min.)

MEDIA 10-940

 

The charge of the light brigade c2002

Charles Wood, Neil Hartley, Tony Richardson, Trevor Howard, Vanessa Redgrave, John Gielgud, Harry Andrews, Jill Bennett, David Hemmings, United Artists Corporation, and MGM Home Entertainment Inc

British Captain Nolan is a devoted officer disgusted with his commander, Lord Cardigan. Lord Raglan is a foolish officer with misguided war strategies and a fading memory. Together, they are sent to Turkey in response to a Russian invasion. Driven by arrogance and ineptitude, they send hundreds of cavalry to certain death in a climax that is both harrowing and magnificent. 1 videodisc

MEDIA 10-656

 

Chronicle of the smoldering years 1997

Mohamed Lakhdar-Hamina, Yorgo Voyagis, and Leila Sheena

Epic look, beginning just before World War II, at Algeria's struggle for independence from France. Seen through the struggles of one family. 1 videocassette (175 min.)

MEDIA 2-5600

 

Come see the paradise 1991

Alan Parker, Robert F Colesberry, Dennis Quaid, and Tamlyn Tomita

Set against the background of a controversial period in American history, the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, Come see the paradise is the love story of an Irish-American man and a beautiful Japanese-American woman. 1 videocassette (135 min.)

MEDIA 2-5003

 

Coming home 1990

Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, Bruce Dern, and Hal Ashby

Sally, a hospital volunteer, and Luke, a paraplegic Vietnam veteran, fall passionately in love while Sally awaits her husband's return from the Vietnam war. 1 videocassette (127 min.)

MEDIA 2-868

 

Confesión a Laura Confession to Laura 1994

Jaime Osório Gómez, José Ramón Pérez, Alexandra Cardona Restrepo, Vicky Hernández, Gustavo Londoño, and María Cristina Gálvez

Set during a violent civil war in Columbia, which occurred after the assassination of liberal leader Jorge Elieser Gaitain in 1948. Three people are trapped in Laura's house during a riot, setting the scene for an unforgettable night. 1 videocassette (90 min.)

MEDIA 2-6058

 

Culloden The war game 1996

Peter Watkins, Dick Graham, Michael Apsel, British Broadcasting Corporation, and Facets Video (Firm)

Two anti-war films by Peter Watkins -- the first, Culloden, is a dramatic reenactment of the Battle of Culloden in 1746 in Scotland between the rebellious highland Scotch forces of Bonnie Prince Charlie (Charles Stuart) and the regular British Army sent to Scotland to put down the rebellion. The battle, won by the British, was one of the most mishandled and brutal in British history. The War Game fictionally enacts the carnage and destruction that would result from a thermonuclear war between the Soviet Union and England. The film, originally intended as a BBC documentary, raises distrubing questions about the societal logic that permits the existence of thermonuclear weapons. 1 videocassette (121 min.)

DANA. MEDIA       MEDIA 592              2-6167      10-1026

 

Das Boot The boat 1997, 1981

Wolfgang Petersen, Günter Rohrbach, Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann, and Lothar Günther Buchheim

Follows the daring patrol of the U-96, one of the famed German U-boats known as the "gray wolves." The crew is graphically portrayed in a life-and-death struggle, challenging the British Navy at every turn.  Autumn, 1941: 43 young German sailors aboard U-96 enter the war against Britain. They seek adventure, respect and heroism. For them, this voyage is for glory. For their captain, a seasoned war veteran at the young age of 30, it is a mission against enemy destroyers in a blood-red sea that can devour a ship and its crew without leaving a trace. 2 videocassettes (209 min.)

MEDIA. MEDIA                                  MEDIA. MEDIA 2-3382 cassette 1 2-3383 cassette 2    7-148 disc 1 7-149 disc 2

 

The Diary of Anne Frank 1984

Anne Frank, George Stevens, Millie Perkins, Joseph Schildkraut, and Shelley Winters

Based on the diary kept by a young Jewish girl during two years of hiding from the Germans in an Amsterdam attic. 1 videocassette (151 min.)

MEDIA 2-1350

 

Distant thunder 1974

Satyajit Ray, Sarbani Bhattacharya, Bibhuti Bhusan Bannerji, Soumitra Chatterjee, Romesh Mukerji, Sandhya Roy, and Gobinda Chakravarty

An award-winning dramatization of World War II famine in India. As the government requisitions the civilian food supply for its armies, the common man starves. To eat he is reduced to an animal--a doctor must humble himself, a peasant turn to prostitution. 1 videocassette (100 min.)

MEDIA 2-2733

 

Emitai 1971?

Ousmane Sembčne, Pierre Blanchard, Robert Fontaine, and Michel Remaudeau

Dramatically depicts the confrontation and resistance that ensued between the French colonial goverment and the Diola people in Senegal. The colonial goverment's conscription of young Diola men to fight for France in World War II and their demand for food from the women and old men set the stage for the clash between the Diola and the French. 1 videocassette (105 min.)

MEDIA 2-2220

 

Empire of the sun 1988

Steven Spielberg, Tom Stoppard, Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson, Nigel Havers, and J. G Ballard

A young British boy whose unconquerable spirit soars high and free above the harsh confines of a Japanese internment camp during World War II. 1 videocassette (154 min.)

MEDIA 2-1542

 

The End of St. Petersburg 198-?

Vsevolod Illarionovich Pudovkin, Alexis Davor, Peter Petrovich, Olga Korloff, and Anna Baranowska

A view of changing conditions in Russia as interpreted by a young peasant who lived through the upheaval in St. Petersburg which culminated in revolution in 1917. Surveys the events of the war years, the overthrow of the Czarist regime, and the final establishment of the people's government - the transition from St. Petersburg to Leningrad.  1 videocassette (80 min.)

MEDIA 2-1298

 

Era Notte a Roma Blackout in Rome 199-?

Roberto Rossellini, Leo Genn, Sergei Fedorovich Bondarchuk, Giovanna Ralli, Hannes Messemer, and Peter Baldwin

Tells the story of three Allied soldiers hiding in Italy during World War II and of the villagers who risked their lives to protect them. 1 videocassette (136 min.)

MEDIA 2-6005

 

Europa Europa 1992, 1991

Artur Brauner, Agnieszka Holland, Julie Delpy, Shlomo Perel, Margaret Menegoz, Marco Hofschneider, and Hanns Zischler

The fascinating true story of Salomon Perel, A German-Jewish teenager who survived World War II by concealing his true identity by living as a Nazi for seven harrowing years through three countries. 1 videocassette (115 min.)

DANA. MEDIA 1301    2-2049

 

Gallipoli 1982, c1981

Mel Gibson, Mark Lee, Peter Weir, Robert Stigwood, Patricia Lovell, David Williamson, Paramount Home Video (Firm), Associated R & R Films, and Australian Film Distribution Company

Two young men who meet as rivals in a cross-country running race become friends and join the Australian army during World War I. They journey through Egypt together and face German-allied Turkish forces at the ill-fated battle of Gallipoli. 1 videocassette (111 min.)

MEDIA. MEDIA 2-2337 2-7052

 

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis 1987

Vittorio De Sica, Dominique Sanda, and Lino Capolicchio

The story of an aristocratic Jewish family living under increasing Fascist oppression in pre-World War II Italy. 1 videocassette (90 min.)

DANA. MEDIA 2-485 2-485

 

Grand illusion 1984

Jean Renoir

Two French Air Corps officers, one an aristocrat, are shot down and captured during World War I. In spite of their different class backgrounds, they are drawn together in escape attempts. The aristocrat sacrifices his own chances in order to aid his companion's escape. An antiwar film that treats the disillusionment of prisoners and captors alike. 1 videocassette (112 min.)

MEDIA 2-148

 

La grande illusion 1999

Jean Renoir, Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay, Marcel Dalio, Erich Von Stroheim, and Charles Spaak

In this classic tale of adventure, duty and honor conflict in a German prisoner-of-war camp when an aristocratic French officer becomes friends with the commandant while cooperating with his comrades in a daring escape. 1 videodisc (114 min.)

MEDIA 10-21

 

Guadalcanal diary 1991

Lewis Seiler, Bryan Foy, Lamar Trotti, Richard Tregaskis, Preston Foster, Lloyd Nolan, William Bendix, Richard Conte, Anthony Quinn, and Richard Jaeckel

One of the greatest war movies of all time, the story follows one squad of Marines through the bloody assaults on the Solomon Islands during the opening stages of the war in the South Pacific. 1 videodisc (93 min.)

DANA 2

 

Heaven & earth 1994

Tommy Lee Jones, Joan Chen, Haing Ngor, Thi Hiep Le, Oliver Stone, Le Ly Hayslip, and Le Ly Hayslip

The story of an American soldier and a Vietnamese woman set in the times of the war. 1 videocassette (142 min.)

MEDIA 2-3182

 

Hideg napo Cold days 1991

Tibor Cseres, András Kovács, Zoltán Latinovits, Iván Darvas, Tibor Szilágyi, and Adam Szirtes

Based on memories of four men awaiting trial for the 1943 massacre of several thousand Jews and Serbs at Novi Sad. 1 videocassette (102 min.)

MEDIA 2-5530

 

Hiroshima, mon amour 1994

Alain Resnais, Emmanučle Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dassas, Pierre Barbaud, and Marguerite Duras

A French actress enters into a brief romance with a Japanese architect in 1959 Hiroshima.  She relives a traumatic war time romance and tries to find truth, love, and freedom from a past that haunts them both. 1 videocassette (88 min.)

DANA   MEDIA 338       2-180     10-274

 

Hope and glory 1988

John Boorman

The comic, poignant story of a young man stuck at home with his mother, aunts, and bratty sisters--while the neatest fights in history were raging within earshot of his room. 1 videocassette (118 min.)

MEDIA 2-605

 

Human condition 1999

Masaki Kobayashi, Zenzo Matsuyama, Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, and Junpei Gomikawa

Tells the story of Kaji, who is sent to the front in the horrible final days of World War II as punishment for treating Chinese prisoners humanely. 1 videodisc (177 min.)

MEDIA 10-135

 

Il deserto dei tartari Desert of the tartars 2005

Valerio Zurlini, André Brunelin, Vittorio Gassman, Giuliano Gemma, Max von Sydow, Dino Buzzati, Istituto Luce (Italy), Cinema Due,  Reggane Films, Corona-Filmproduktion, and NoShame Films

"For his first commission, infantry lieutenant Drogo is stationed at a remote desert garrison on the mist-shrouded border of the North Kingdom. Filling their days with endless drilling, the soldiers of Fortezza Bastiani spend the long nights wondering about an enemy no one has ever seen. As the days stretch into months, the strain of waiting for attack takes its toll on Drago's comrades: sadistic major Mattis, sardonic Lieutenant Simeon, cynical medic Rovine, and humiliated Captain Hortiz, who lives with the shame of having once sounded the alarm against an attack that vanished before anyone else could see." --Container. 1 videodisc (141 min.)

MEDIA 10-938

 

Indigčnes Days of glory c2007

Jean Bréhat, Rachid Bouchareb, Olivier Lorelle, Jamel Debbouze, Samy Naceri, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila, Weinstein Company, Weinstein Company Home Entertainment (Firm), Tessalit Productions, Genius Products, Inc, and Independent Film Channel

The tale of a 1943 WWII French Algerian Unit facing discrimination by its European counterparts due to prejudice and ignorance. The French armed forces are preparing to land troops in Europe to win back their homeland from the Axis Powers, but they cannot accomplish their task without recruiting men from their African colonies. The Africans themselves start their long journey full of hope and anticipation, but as they get closer to their goal they realize that their enemy is not necessarily the Germans. 1 videodisc (ca. 125 min.)

MEDIA 10-966

 

Iskandariyah lih? Alexandrie pourquoi? 199-?

Yusuf Shahin, Mohsen Zayed, Ezzat El Alaili, Naglaa Fathy, and Farid Shawqi

Amid poverty, death and suffering caused by World War II, 18-year-old Yehia dreams of studying filmmaking in America. After falling in love and discovering the lies of European occupation, he reevaluated his identity and allegiances. 1 videocassette (125 min.)

MEDIA 2-5407