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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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 538
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (88 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([16] pages : ill. ; 19 x 12 cm)
Language
English
Description
During WWI, a French battalion is ordered on a suicide mission that is likely to fail. When it does, the general that planned the mission selects three soldiers from the battalion to be executed for cowardice, and selects their leader as their attorney.
3) Overlord
Series
Criterion collection volume 382
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
Widscreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (84 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
English
Description
Interweaving archival war footage and a fictional narrative, Cooper's account of one 20-year-old's journey from basic training to the battle front lines at D-day brings all the terrors of war to its viewers with jolting authenticity.
Series
Criterion collection volume 397
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (95 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Russian
Description
A twelve-year-old boy acts as a spy for the Russians during the Second World War to avenge his parents' deaths.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (163 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on cartoonist David Low's parody of the old-fashioned British professional soldier, set in his ways and unable to adapt to the brutality of modern war. This story follows the career of Clive Candy, at first an idealistic, young Boer War hero, then a brigadier general, serving honorably in World War I. Finally, by World War II, he has become a bald, overweight, querulous old man, angry that his age and military experience are held in contempt,...
Series
Criterion collection volume 536
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (171 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (36 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Language
English
Description
In World War II, the outcome of the battle of Guadalcanal will strongly influence the Japanese's advance into the Pacific. The reasons for this war get further away as the world for the men gets smaller and smaller until their fighting is for mere survival and the life of the other men with them.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (114 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of the H.M.S. Torrin, a British naval ship, from its construction through its destruction in World War II. As the surviving crew cling to life boats and wreckage awaiting rescue, they flashback to their homes and loved ones and in so doing recall just why they are fighting and whom they are fighting for.
Series
Criterion collection volume 197
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (32 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
"Ten years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, filmmaker Alain Resnais documented the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz and Majdanek. One of the first cinematic reflections on the horrors of the Holocaust, Night and fog (Nuit et brouillard) contrasts the stillness of the abandoned camps' quiet, empty buildings with haunting wartime footage"-- Container.
Series
Criterion collection volume 670
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Two-DVD special ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (99 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (23 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm).
Language
English
Description
"As nervy as it is hilarious, a masterpiece from Ernst Lubitsch, To Be Or Not To Be; is a Hollywood film of the boldest black humor, which went into production soon after the U.S. entered World War II. Lubitsch manages to brilliantly balance political satire, romance, slapstick, and urgent wartime suspense in a comic high-wire act that has never been equaled."--Container.
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in...
Series
Criterion collection volume 535
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story of author Laurens van der Post's experiences as a WWII prisoner of war in Japan.
Series
Criterion collection volume 523
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Takes viewers on a World War II era journey from Prague to England to the Swiss Alps, as Nazis pursue a Czech scientist and his daughter, both of whom are being aided by a debonair British undercover agent.
12) Kagemusha
Series
Criterion collection volume 267
Publisher
Criterion
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
[Special ed.], widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (180 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (45 p. ; 19 cm.)
Language
日本語
Description
Reconstructing the splendor of feudal Japan and the pageantry of war, Kurosawa creates a soaring historical epic about a peasant impersonating a nobleman in battle. Kagemusha is presented in its original 180 min. uncut Japanese version, not the shortened "international version" presented by 20th Century Fox.
In 16th century feudal Japan, a thief is saved from execution to train as a double for one of the warlords, Shingen. Three warlords, Shingen,...
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