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Pub. Date
2020
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
1941. Hong Kong is under Japanese occupation. During the three-year-and -eight-month occupation, the Japanese military pillages homes and arrests cultural figures living in Hong Kong. The anti-Japanese Dongjiang guerilla unit is tasked with rescuing these cultural figures and extracting them from the besieged city. Primary school teacher Fang Lan (Zhou Xun) and her mother (Deanie Ip) are trying to live out this difficult period in a small run-down...
3) Anzio
Publisher
RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video
Pub. Date
1987
Language
English
Description
After landing with Allied troops at Anzio, Italy in 1944, war correspondent Dick Ennis and buddy Corporal Rabinoff tell Anzio commander General Lesley that the road to Rome is wide open. But instead of heading to Rome, Lesley attempts to build a coastal stronghold, only to discover that the Germans have outflanked them by enclosing the Anzio beachhead.
4) The warlords
Series
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
This lavish historical epic is set in the midst of war and political upheaval during the Taiping Rebellion of the 1860s.
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
2000, ℗1957
Language
English
Description
British soldiers are forced by the Japanese to build a strategic railroad bridge, while the British High Command has instructed a commando team to destroy it.
Features include trivia sabotage, maps and military strategies, screensavers from original movie art, a documentary, a featurette "Rise and fall of a jungle giant", theatrical trailer, photo gallery and more.
7) Australia
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Australia, 1940s. An English aristocrat travels to Australia where she meets a rough-hewn cattle driver and an Aboriginal child. This unlikely trio join forces and embark on a transforming journey, driving a herd of cattle across hundreds of miles of beautiful, yet unforgiving, terrain. Their world is torn apart by powerful enemies and they must try to find each other admidst the bombing of the city of Darwin by Japanese forces.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A captivating dramatic thriller set just after WWII, an all but forgotten true story about a soldier, Joseph Piller, investigating renowned Dutch artist Han van Meegeren who is accused of conspiring with the Nazis. Despite increasing evidence, Piller becomes more and more convinced of Han's innocence and finds himself in the improbable position of fighting to save the life of the colorful man with a mysterious past.
"While Joseph Piller ... a Dutch...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The story of a British boy, James Graham, whose privileged life is upturned by the Japanese invasion of Shanghai, December 8, 1941. Separated from his parents, he is eventually captured, and taken to Soo Chow confinement camp, next to a captured Chinese airfield. Amidst the sickness and food shortages in the camp, Jim attempts to reconstruct his former life, all the while bringing spirit and dignity to those around him.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
In this dark comedy, chaos erupts when a general orders an attack on the Russians, which subsequently will trigger the Russian "Doomsday Device." The President and his aides struggle to find a way to stop the impending doom.
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman's point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of despair and back again, a film about young love, the futility of war and how to make sense of the darkest times.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Marking the centenary of the First World War, internationally renowned director Peter Jackson ... uses the voices of the veterans combined with original archival footage to bring to life the reality of war on the front line for a whole new generation. Footage has been colorized and transformed with modern production techniques to present never-before-seen detail"--Container
Language
English
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Description
When an interdimensional rupture threatens to unravel reality, the fate of the world is suddenly in the hands of a most unlikely hero: Evelyn (Michelle Yeoh), a flustered immigrant mother. As bizarre and bewildering dangers emerge from the many possible worlds, she must learn to channel her newfound powers and fight her way through the splintering timelines to save her home, her family, and herself in this big-hearted and irreverent adventure through...
14) The paper tigers
Language
English
Formats
Description
As teenagers, kung fu disciples Danny, Hing, and Jim were inseparable. Fast forward 25 years, and each has grown into a washed-up middle-aged man seemingly one kick away from pulling a hamstring, and not at all preoccupied with thoughts of martial arts or childhood best friends. But when their old master is murdered, the trio reunites, soon learning that avenging their sifu will require conquering old grudges if they are to honorably defend his legacy....
Author
Series
Remembrance of Earth's past volume 1
Language
English
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Description
The inspiration for the Netflix series 3 Body Problem!
WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL
Over 1 million copies sold in North America
"A mind-bending epic."—The New York Times
18) Brothers
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Once a poor vagrant, Chen Tiejin has risen through the ranks of the Red Army and is now a brave and experienced company commander. During a dangerous rescue mission, Commander Tiejin and his Red Army troupe are locked in heated battle with the Kuomintang soldiers.
19) The Pacific
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A World War II miniseries that follows three marines who served in the Pacific.
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