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1) Summerland
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Alice is a reclusive writer, resigned to a solitary life on the seaside cliffs of Southern England while World War II rages across the channel. When she opens her front door one day to find she's to adopt a young London evacuee name Frank, she's resistant. It's not long, however, before the two realize they have more in common in their pasts than Alice had assumed.
2) Danger UXB
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
During WWII, the Nazis dropped some bombs that were not designed to detonate on impact. These unexploded time bombs, UXBs, posed one of the greatest risks to the people and property of England. It was the job of real-life heroes of the bomb disposal squads to defuse them. Danger UXB is the story of the loves and lives, victories and defeats, played against the background of a nation gripped by war.
Publisher
[Acorn Media]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Go behind the scenes of the series that has captivated viewers for more than a decade. Learn about the creation of Foyle's war, the decision to set it during World War II, the research that goes into each episode and the casting of Michael Kitchen as DCS Foyle.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Follow the lives, loves, highs, and lows of members of the Women2s Land Army working at the Hoxley Estate during World War II. As men fought on the battlefields, women from all walks of life worked the farms that fed the nation, doing their part to keep the home front running.
Series
Foyle's War volume 2
Publisher
[Acorn Media]
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Set in September and October 1940, Michael Kitchen stars as quietly enigmatic detective Christopher Foyle, whose territory on the south coast of England is rocked by the chaos and danger of World War II.
Series
Foyle's War volume 6
Publisher
[Acorn Media]
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Detective Chief Superintendant Christopher Foyle is a police investigator in the British coastal community of Hastings. In the immediate aftermath of World War II, Foyle finds his longed-for retirement interrupted by cases involving international intrigue, military racism, and an accused traitor all too willing to go to the gallows.
Series
Foyle's War volume 4
Publisher
[Acorn Media]
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
History meets mystery in this PBS series, with four feature-length episodes set at the height of World War II. War has torn the social fabric of the once quiet coastal community of Hastings and DCS Christopher Foyle's investigations explore the violence and opportunism that the conflict has fostered on the home front.
Series
Foyle's War volume 3
Publisher
[Acorn Media]
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Set in 1941, as World War II rages over Europe, Michael Kitchen stars as detective Christopher Foyle, whose loyalties are put to the test as his investigations uncover unpleasant truths that powerful people would rather keep hidden.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Follow the lives, loves, highs, and lows of members of the Women2s Land Army working at the Hoxley Estate during World War II. As men fought on the battlefields, women from all walks of life worked the farms that fed the nation, doing their part to keep the home front running.
Hoxley Manor is transformed into a military hospital, while Lady Hoxley is confronted by a blast from the past. A new arrival at Pasture Farm will change things for the girls,...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Follow the lives, loves, highs, and lows of members of the Women2s Land Army working at the Hoxley Estate during World War II. As men fought on the battlefields, women from all walks of life worked the farms that fed the nation, doing their part to keep the home front running.
11) Mrs. Miniver
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co. and Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2010, 2004
Language
English
Description
"This story of an average English middle-class family begins with the summer of 1939; when the sun shone down on a happy, careless people, who worked and played, reared their children and tended their gardens in that happy, easy-going England that was so soon to be fighting desperately for her way of life and for life itself." -- Title screens. [The film] dramatizes the effect of the Second World War on the English at home. Mrs. Kay Miniver's tranquil...
Series
Foyle's War volume 7
Publisher
[Acorn Media]
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
As the enormously popular mystery series returns, World War II is over, but the Cold War simmers in 1946 London. DCS Christopher Foyle has retired from police work when Britain's secret intelligence service compels him to join its ranks. Reunited with his former colleague, newlywed Sam Wainwright, Foyle faces new--but no less deadly--threats in the world of spies and counterintelligence.
Series
Foyle's War volume 5
Publisher
[Acorn Media]
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
With the end of World War II slowly but inevitably approaching, DCS Christopher Foyle and his fellow citizens learn the price of victory and face a peace that will transform their lives in unexpected ways.
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