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Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Français
Description
Loosely based on true episodes, this film tells the story of German, French, and Scottish soldiers in the bloody trenches of World War I and the miraculous Christmas Eve truce they unexpectedly forge. Follows a French lieutenant, a Scottish priest, and a German tenor and his beloved Danish soprano as music and the spirit of Christmas create bonds between enemies.
Author
Publisher
Hancock Records
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
An unprecedented international recording project featuring collaborations between Herbie Hancock and superstars from every region of the globe. It utilizes the universal language of music to express the central themes of peace and global responsibility.
" ... Hancock holds his own as a visionary and pianist, playing just enough to be present but also serving as a gracious host to his distinguished guests."--Billboard.
"3 1/2 out of 4 ... the performances...
4) Allied
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2017, ©2016
Language
English
Description
The story of intelligence officer Max Vatan, who in 1942 North Africa encounters French Resistance fighter Marianne Beausejour on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Reunited in London, their relationship is threatened by the extreme pressures of the war.
6) La espía
Author
Language
Español
Formats
Description
A novel of Mata Hari's final days, as written by the woman herself while accused of espionage.
En su nueva novela, Paulo Coelho da vida a una de las mujeres más enigmáticas de la historia: Mata Hari, quien fuera acusada de espionaje durante la Primera Guerra Mundial. Aunque hubo poca evidencia para incriminarla, ella no pudo escapar de la persecución y el enjuiciamiento por la inteligencia militar francesa. Esta cautivadora e íntima narración...
7) La viuda
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
LA PRIMERA NOVELA DEL NOBEL PORTUGUÉS, INÉDITA HASTA EL MOMENTO EN ESPAÑOL
El inicio de la celebración del centenario del autor
«Saramago vuelve comprensible una realidad huidiza, con parábolas sostenidas por la imaginación, la compasión y la ironía».
Comité Nobel
«Hay que vivir aunque sea de cualquier modo, siempre que sea vivir.»
Tras la muerte de su marido, Maria Leonor, madre de dos hijos, se siente abrumada ante las dificultades...
8) Land of mine
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Deutsch
Description
In the aftermath of World War II, a group of surrendered German soldiers are ordered by Allied forces to remove their own land mines from the coast of Denmark.
10) 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.
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.
12) 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
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.
Author
Series
Sands of the emperor volume 3
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The third volume of a historical trilogy from the noted Mozambican author"--
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.
17) Hart's war
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Honor, courage, and sacrifice are revealed in unexpected ways as a ranking U.S. prisoner in a Nazi POW camp is joined in December 1944 by a law-student lieutenant who'd been captured despite his father's powerful military connections. When a black pilot from the famous Tuskeegee airmen is falsely accused of murdering a fellow prisoner, Lt. Hart tries his case and discovers the real motivation behind the ranking officer's kangaroo court.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Animals go mad and men die (accidentally and not) at a slaughterhouse in an impoverished, isolated corner of Brazil.
In a landscape worthy of Cormac McCarthy, the river runs septic with blood. Edgar Wilson makes the sign of the cross on the forehead of a cow, then stuns it with a mallet. He does this over and over again, as the stun operator at Senhor Milo's slaughterhouse: reliable, responsible, quietly dispatching cows and following orders, wherever...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The timeless tale of two mismatched strangers joining forces in a common cause, and finding love along the way. The story chronicles the burgeoning romance between river rat Charlie Allnut and missionary Rose Sayer, as they reluctantly join forces to torpedo a German gunboat in war torn East Africa.
20) The walk
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016?]
Language
English
Description
In 1974, Philippe Petit assembled a team to help him achieve his dream of walking between the World Trade Center towers.
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