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Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1981.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (103 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Deutsch
Description
Nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Foreign Language Film (1981), THE BOAT IS FULL is a tense and heartbreaking drama that captures the plight of refugees during WWII. A ragtag band of exiles from Germany sneak into Switzerland seeking asylum. They are allowed to stay at an isolated inn as long as they pretend to be a family. In order to maintain this deception they must communicate with a young French-speaking boy, who cannot understand the...
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (86 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Deutsch
Description
In the final days of WWII Michael and Jürgen are on a Russian military plane to Moscow. In flashbacks, they remember… Michael, Magdalena and Jürgen were children together in 1930s Berlin, and Michael and Magdalena became lovers. When the Nazis came to power, they went their different ways: Jürgen joined the SA; Michael rebelled and was imprisoned; Magdalena, who had worried about his political activities, took Michael’s place. In 1943, Michael...
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (103 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Deutsch
Description
In a Russian POW camp, four Germans determined to end WWII change into Red Army uniforms. Are they patriots or traitors, heroes or opportunists? Although they go to the frontlines, their new Russian comrades are initially unsure whether to trust them. Three of them then accept a mission behind German lines, but they are unprepared to fire upon their countrymen and it ends up costing the life of a Russian soldier. In the meantime, the fourth man...
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1982.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (98 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Deutsch
Description
Based on Hermann Kant's autobiographical novel, the acclaimed film HELD FOR QUESTIONING raises existential questions about crime and punishment, as well as obedience and responsibility. In the fall of 1945, a few months after the end of WWII, 19-year-old German POW Mark Niebuhr (Sylvester Groth, "Inglourious Basterds") arrives with other prisoners at a train station near Warsaw. When a Polish woman accuses him of being the Nazi officer who killed...
5) Diplomacy
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (83 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Deutsch
Description
As the Allies march toward Paris in the summer of 1944, Hitler gives orders that the French capital should not fall into enemy hands, or if it does, then ‘only as a field of rubble’. The person assigned to carry out this barbaric act is Wehrmacht commander of Greater Paris, General Dietrich von Choltitz, who already has mines planted on the Eiffel Tower, in the Louvre and Notre Dame and on the bridges over the Seine. Nothing should be left as...
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Wide screen edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
"The film depicts the last six days (February 17-22, 1943) in the life of Sophie Scholl from her own perspective: that of a courageous and vibrant young woman who is willing to face death for her belief in her ideals and those of the White Rose, an underground resistance movement to which she belongs. Through their resistance and protest against the Nazi regime, Sophie and her fellow members of the White Rose become synonymous with civil courage and...
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Women become the victims of the Red Army invasion in Berlin in 1945. One of them, Anonyma, a educated woman, decides to look for an officer who can protect her. A complex symbiotic relationship develops between her and Russian officer Andrej that will force them to remain enemies until the bitter end.
8) Lore
Publisher
Music Box Films
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
Deutsch
Formats
Description
Abandoned by their Nazi parents at the end of World War II, five German siblings, led by fourteen year old Lore embark on a harrowing journey across their war-torn country.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Germany, 1936. Salomon "Sally" Sorowitsch is the king of counterfeiters. He lives a life of cards, booze, and women. Suddenly his luck runs dry when he is arrested by Superintendent Friedrich Herzog. He is immediately thrown into the Mauthausen concentration camp. There, Salomon exhibits exceptional skills and is soon transferred to the upgraded camp of Sachsenhausen. Upon his arrival, he once again comes face to face with Herzog, who is there on...
Publisher
Lionsgate UK
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-Ray : color
Language
Deutsch
Description
Drama set in East Berlin prior to the fall of the communist government. Captain Gerd Weiser (Ulrich Muhe) is assigned to surveillance duties, specifically to collect information on popular dramatist Georg Dreyman (Sebastian Koch) and his actress partner Christa Maria Sieland (Martina Gedeck). As he becomes more and more submerged in their lives, Weiser's own attitudes to life, politics and the state begin to change, and it's not long before he finds...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1997]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 209 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Follows the daring patrol of the U-96, one of the famed German U-boats known as the "gray wolves." The crew is graphically portrayed in a life-and-death struggle, challenging the British Navy at every turn.
12) John Rabe
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Video
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Tells the story of a German businessman who rescued more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanking Massacre in China by courageously negotiating a safety zone to protect innocent civilians from the Japanese Army. Drawing from John Rabe's 1937 diaries as source material, Florian Gallenberger has crafted a portrait of a man revered as a saint in China to this day and yet never rewarded for his courage during his lifetime.
13) Land of mine
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
14) Das boot
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
2 disc collector's set.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (208 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Formats
Description
It is 1942 and the German submarine fleet is heavily engaged in the so-called 'Battle of the Atlantic' to harass and destroy English shipping. With better escorts of the destroyer class, however, German U-Boats have begun to take heavy losses. This story of one U-Boat crew details how these submariners maintained their professionalism as soldiers and attempted to accomplish impossible missions, while attempting to understand and obey the ideology...
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