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1) Allied
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
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.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (136 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Danish
Description
Copenhagen, 1944. A young idealist codenamed Flame and tense family man Citron are two Resistance fighters who become the underground's most proficient killers of collaborators and sympathizers. The Nazi SS is hunting them. They trust only each other. But in a time where fear and mercy must live in the shadows, a mysterious woman and a new assignment to assassinate the head of the Gestapo may lead them to the deadliest place of all. Based on the Holder...
4) Casablanca
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In World War II Morocco, seething with European refugees desperate for passage to neutral Lisbon, only a world-weary and bitter nightclub owner can help his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.
Publisher
ITV Global Entertainment Limited
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
7 videodiscs (ca. 22 hr.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Shot down by enemy fire, RAF Squadron Leader Jimmy Porter joins forces with French Resistance fighters to get back to England. Jimmy is recruited to assist French agent Vincent, get Nina, a young woman with vitally important facts about the Resistance locked in her head, out of the country.
Publisher
Distributed exclusively by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 388 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"At the height of World War II, France is occupied and all of England is in peril. Col. James "Cad" Cadogan will use any means necessary to get the intelligence he needs, even sending civilians to work undercover behind enemy lines. Based on the real-life stories of women recruited by Britain's Special Operations Executive, this suspenseful drama series follows wife and mother Liz Grainger and half-Jewish factory girl Matty Firman from training in...
Publisher
Distributed exclusively by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2009], ©1988
Edition
DVD format.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 388 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"At the height of World War II, France is occupied and all of England is in peril. Col. James "Cad" Cadogan will use any means necessary to get the intelligence he needs, even sending civilians to work undercover behind enemy lines. Based on the real-life stories of women recruited by Britain's Special Operations Executive, this suspenseful drama series follows wife and mother Liz Grainger and half-Jewish factory girl Matty Firman from training in...
8) Casablanca
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (102 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in World War II Morocco within a city filled with European refugees. A bitter nightclub owner helps his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 375 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
At the height of WWII, brave British women risk their lives as secret agents in occupied France. Based on real-life stories, filmed on location, this suspenseful series features strong female characters, tension-filled plots, and historical authenticity.
11) The dirty dozen
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
Twelve tough criminals will be offered absolution if they undertake a suicide mission into Nazi Germany. Based on E.M. Nathanson's book.
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (156 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty, a Vatican official, who, under threat of death from the Gestapo, saved prisoners of war and others from the German forces occupying Rome during World War II.
13) Anthropoid
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on the extraordinary true story of Operation Anthropoid, the code name for the secret Czechoslovakian mission to assassinate Nazi SS officer Reinhard Heydrich. Heydrich, the main architect behind the Final Solution to the Jewish question, was the Reich's third in command and the leader of Nazi forces in Czechoslovakia.
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2004], c1956
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 100 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A French Resistance fighter is sent to an infamous prison in Lyon in 1943, where 7,000 of the 12,000 prisoners housed there died either by natural means or by execution. Lt. Fontaine is certain that execution awaits him, and begins planning his escape. For a period of time he goes it alone, but reluctantly takes on a partner. He gets some help from a couple of prisoners allowed to stroll in the exercise yard, but for the most part he is a figure of...
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1hr., 53 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Norwegian
Description
A Norwegian resistance fighter earns a reputation as one of the best at sabotaging the occupying Nazi forces, despite trying to come to terms with the futility of war. Based on the true story of World War II saboteur Max Manus and his personal struggles.
16) Želary
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (147 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Czech
Description
During WWII, nurse Eliška is part of a secret resistance movement with her lover, surgeon Richard. When he is discovered, she is forced to leave the hospital in order to hide from the Nazis as well. A sympathetic colleague sends her off with a patient whose life she saved, to the remote Moravian mountain village of Želary, where time has stopped, as he has agreed to hide her as his wife. They live in a modest cabin for two years, waiting for the...
17) Casablanca
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (ca. 102 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The romantic lovers' triangle between the impossibly heroic Czech Resistance leader Victor Laszlo, his beautiful wife Ilsa and her ex-lover, cynical American Rick Blaine is still the same old story, but it's never looked better.
18) Casablanca
Language
English
Description
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...
Series
Criterion collection volume 385
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (145 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide (41 p. : ports. ; 19 cm.).
Language
Français
Description
A civil engineer who is one of the French Resistance's chiefs is given away by a traitor and interned in a camp. He manages to escape and join his network at Marseilles, where he has the traitor executed.
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