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Series
Criterion collection volume 385
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (145 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
U.K. broadcast ed.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 398 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
One of the little-known stories of WWII is the fate of the Channel Islands, the only part of the British Isles invaded and occupied by the Germans. Tells the story through the eyes of three island families and the German soldiers with whom their lives become interwined.
3) Free men
Series
Film Movement volume v 10, film 1
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In German-occupied Paris, a young unemployed Algerian named Younes earns his living as a black marketeer. Arrested by the French police but given a chance to avoid jail, Younes agrees to spy on the Paris Mosque. The police suspect the Mosque authorities, including its rector Ben Ghabrit, of aiding Muslim resistance agents and helping North African Jews by giving them false certificates.
4) Resistance
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Before he was the world-famous mime Marcel Marceau, he was Marcel Mangel, an aspiring Jewish actor who joined the French Resistance to save the lives of thousands of children orphaned at the hands of the Nazis. A compelling drama about a group of unsung heroes who put themselves in harm's way to rise above hatred and oppression during World War II.
Publisher
Koch Lorber Films
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (163 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
During the Nazi occupaton of France during World War II, the nation's movie studios continued to operate. Jean Devaivre is an assistant director for Continental Pictures, a studio which has recently been taken over by the Germans and is headed by Dr. Greven. With a wife and son to support, Devaivre feels he has little choice but to continue with his work. Screenwriter Jean Aurenche, a man who lives for wine, women and song, refuses to work for Greven,...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (330 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
It chronicles the impact of World War II on a small village in central France. The series follows the lives of the villagers during the war as their lives become irrevocably changed by the German occupation and its aftermath. The Germans arrive in June 1940; the occupation will go on for five years and will reveal the strengths, weaknesses and secrets of the characters as they come under the pressures of war.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
In Paris, 1941, Armenian poet Missak Manouchian leads a motley crew of foreign-born resistance fighters in a clandestine battle against the Nazi occupation. An initially reluctant Manouchian and his team must resort to guerilla tactics and radical measures in the name of liberty. News of their daring attacks, including the assassination of an SS general, eventually reaches Berlin.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Features vintage newsreel footage, photographs and a rare home movie to look beyond the celebrated pages of Anne Frank's diary. Includes interviews with her friends, family and protector, Miep Gies.
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (DVD) (584 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
This French drama chronicles the impact of World War II German occupation on a small village in central France. As the residents come under the pressures of war, they make choices that are inspiring and heartbreaking.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (DVD) (5 hr., 50 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
The German occupation changes the life of the village of Villeneuve forever, and as its residents come under the pressures of war, they make choices that are inspiring and heartbreaking. In this gripping drama, ordinary citizens become patriots, traitors, Nazi employees or activists. Beginning with the Germans' arrival in June 1940, they endure five years of rationing, fighting and betrayals, and strain to keep some semblance of their existence intact....
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (133 min.) : sound, black and white; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In August 1944, the Allied army is closing in on Paris. German commander and art fanatic Colonel Von Waldheim steals a vast collection of rare French paintings and loads them onto a train bound for Berlin. When a beloved French patriot is murdered while trying to sabotage Von Waldheim's scheme, Labiche, a stalwart member of the Resistance, vows to stop the train at any cost.
Series
Criterion collection volume 462
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (.131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([12] pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm).
Language
Français
Description
In Nazi-occupied Paris, a Jewish director is forced to hide in the basement of his theater while his wife stars in its latest production.
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When word of the Nazi plot to arrest Denmark's Jews leaks out, Christian families such as the Kosters band together to thwart the impending raid by aiding their Jewish neighbors in hiding.
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
During the World War II Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, Miep Gies risks everything she has to hide two Jewish families in the attic over the office where she works. She was their lifeline - provider of food and gentle encouragement - and it was through her courageous actions that Anne's diary was preserved and lives on today.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Vision Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (30 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Corrie ten Boom and her family are masters of their craft; they repair broken watches and return them safely to their owners. But as the evil of World War II sweeps through their city, a new kind of "watch" comes to their care: an innocent Jewish baby, desperately needing protection from the cruelty of the new Nazi regime. How will the ten Booms keep this baby and many others out of harm's way, and what will be the cost of serving God amidst unthinkable...
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