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U.S. Revolutionary War

1776 or Hassian Renegades(1909)

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America (1924) (1924)

Directed by D.W. Griffith; Cast: Neil Hamilton, Erville Alderson, Carol Dempster, Lionel Barrymore, Louis Wolheim. Torn between his revolutionary political beliefs and his love for the daughter of a Virginia Tory, Nathan Holden struggles with his fellow patriots for independence. But at the crossroads of this path to freedom stands Captain Walter Butler. A murderous redcoat, Butler ravages the fledgling colonies with a band of barbaric Mohawks. 140 min. DVD 60; also on VHS 999:1885

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The Patriot(2000)

Directed by Roland Emmerich. Cast: Mel Gibson, Heath Ledger, Joely Richardson, Jason Isaacs. A hero of the French and Indian conflict, Benjamin Martin had renounced fighting forever to raise his family in peace. However, when British troops arrive at his South Carolina home and endanger his family, he takes up arms alongside his idealistic patriot son, Gabriel.

Special features: Commentary by director Roland Emmerich and producer Dean Devlin, visual effects interactive featurette, battlefield featurette: "The art of war," the true patriots featurette, conceptual art to film comparisons, deleted scenes with commentary by filmmakers, photo galleries, theatrical trailers, talent files, interactive menus with animation, production notes, scene selections with motion images. 165 min. DVD 378
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U.S. Civil War

Abraham Lincoln (1930)

Directed by D.W. Griffith; Cast: Walter Huston, Una Merkel, Ian Keith, Frank Campeau, Hobart Bosworth, Henry B. Walthall. Abraham Lincoln is D.W. Griffith's first talking picture. It begins with Lincoln's life just prior to his White House ascent. His romance with Ann Rutledge and the famed Lincoln-Douglas debate receive special attention, and Griffith is in his element when picturing the battle scenes of the Civil War. The film concludes with Lincoln's assassination at Ford's Theatre. 84 min. 999:1882

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Andersonville (TV, 1996)

Director, John Frankenheimer. Cast: Jarrod Emick, Frederic Forrest, Ted Marcoux, Cliff De Young, Jan Triska. The Civil War explodes and a small group of Union soldiers fall into the hands of the Confederate army. Overnight, they find themselves herded aboard a prison train bound for the deepest regions of the South, to a slice of Hell carved out of the Georgia clay known as Andersonville. A moving drama that tells the most tragic tales ever to come out of the Civil War. 167 min. DVD 7993

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Birth of a Nation (1915)

Directed by D.W. Griffith. Cast: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry Walthall, Miriam Cooper, Mary Alden, Ralph Lewis, George Seigmann, Walter Long. Adapted from Thomas Dixon's novel, The Clansman. A Civil War spectacular, Portraying "life in the South" during and after the Civil War as revealed in a story depicting the war itself, the conflict between the defeated Southerners and emancipated renegade Negroes, the despoiling of the South during the carpetbagger period, and the revival of the Southern white man's honor through the efforts of the Ku Klux Klan. 124 min. DVD 3012; DVD 29; VHS 999:1685 (187 min.), 999:1686 213 min.)

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Civil War Films of D. W. Griffith (Griffith Masterworks)

In the border states (1919, 16 min.), The house with closed shutters (1910, 17 min.), The fugitive (191, 17 min.), His trust (1910, 14 min.), His trust fulfilled (1910, 11 min.), Swords and hearts (1911, 16 min.), The battle (1911, 17 min.) DVD 1541

Ehrlich, E. "Genres: The Civil War in early film: origin and development of a genre." In: The South and film / Warren French, editor Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 1981 (Main Stack PN1995.9.S66.S6; Moffitt PN1995.9.S66.S6)

Civil War Films of the Silent Era

Contents: The Coward / director, Reginald Baker ; cast, Frank Keenan, Charles Ray, Margaret Gibson (i.e. Patricia Palmer), Gertrude Claire (1915, 77 min.) -- The Drummer of the 8th (1913, 24 min.) -- Granddad (1913, 29 min.) Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the American Civil War was a deluge of literature, drama and movies. The years 1911-1915 also marked the passage of movies from nickelodeon theaters to movie palaces showing carefully-prepared feature films. These silent films originally produced between 1913 and 1915 feature plots centered on the Civil War and include one feature film and two nickelodeon films by pioneering producer Thomas H. Ince. 134 min. DVD 443

Cold Mountain (2003)

Directed by Anthony Minghella. Cast: Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renee Zellweger, Eileen Atkins, Brendan Gleeson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Natalie Portman, Giovanni Ribisi, Donald Sutherland, Ray Winstone. Inman, a young Confederate soldier, who is injured during the explosive 1864 battle of Petersburg, Virginia, is struggling to make his way home to Cold Mountain, NC, where his beloved Ada awaits him. In Inman's absence, Ada befriends Ruby, who helps her keep up her late father's farm. As Inman struggles to make it home, Ada must find the will to survive as the war drags on and letters go unanswered. 153 min. DVD 2777

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Friendly Persuasion (1956)

Directed by William Wyler. Cast: Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire, Marjorie Main, Robert Middleton, Anthony Perkins, Richard Eyer, Phyllis Love. A heart-warming story about the day-to-day experiences of a Quaker family living in Indiana during the Civil War, showing their pacifist religious beliefs, their worldly temptations, their petty feuds, and their reactions in a time of crisis. 137 min. DVD 5562

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The General (Silent, 1927)

Directed by Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman, Cast: Keaton, Marion Mack, Charles Smith, Frank Barnes. Engineer Johnnie loves Annabelle Lee and his train, "The General". But when the Civil War begins he is turned down for service because he's more valuable as an engineer, Annabelle thinks it's because he's a coward. Union spies capture The General with Annabelle on board, and Johnny must rescue both his loves. 75 min. DVD 112; Video Disc 117:3; VHS 999:58

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Gettysburg (1993)

Directed by Ronald F. Maxwell. Cast: Tom Berenger, Jeff Daniels, Martin Sheen, Maxwell Caulfield, Kevin Conway, C. Thomas Howell, Richard Jordan, James Lancaster, Stephen Lang, Sam Elliott. On July 1, 1863, more than 150,000 Union and Confederate soldiers were drawn into one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War. When it was all over, 50,000 men had paid the ultimate price. Today, Gettysburg is known as the turning point of the war and a pivotal event in American history. Cast: some of the most authentic Civil War battle scenes ever committed to film, and outstanding performances by the cast, "Gettysburg" accurately depicts the events, battles and personal struggles from points of view of soldiers on both sides of the conflict. 254 min. DVD 7992; vhs 999:3516

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Glory (1989)

Directed by Edward Zwick. Cast: Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes, and Morgan Freeman. Two idealistic young Bostonians lead the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, America's first Black regiment in the Civil War. Based on the letters by Robert Gould Shaw ; based on the book "Lay this laurel" by Lincoln Kirstein ; based on the book "One gallant rush" by Peter Burchard. Special features: Disc 1: Director's audio commentary; picture-in-picture video commentary featuring Ed Zwick, Morgan Freeman & Matthew Broderick ; Disc 2: Documentary "The true story of 'Glory' continues" narrated by Morgan Freeman; "Voices of 'Glory'" featurette; original featurette; deleted scenes; bonus previews; talent files. 122 min. DVD 6920; vhs 999:403

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Gods and Generals (2003)

Directed by Ronald F. Maxwell. Cast: Jeff Daniels, Stephen Lang, Robert Duvall, Mira Sorvino, Kevin Conway, C. Thomas Howell, Frankie Faison, Jeremy London, Bruce Boxleitner. Presents the story of three bold men and three fateful Civil War battles. Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain left behind a quiet life and a career as a college professor to fight for the Union. Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was a man of great religious faith who served in the defense of the Confederacy. And Gen. Robert E. Lee, who led the Confederate army, was a man who was forced to choose between his loyalty to the United States and his love of the Southern States where he was born and raised. Chamberlain, Jackson, and Lee are followed through the declaration of war and the battles at Manassas, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville. 219 min. DVD 1773f

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Gone With the Wind (1939)

Directed by Victor Fleming, et al. Cast: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland, Thomas Mitchell, Barbara O'Neill, Evelyn Keyes, Ann Rutherford, Hattie McDaniel, Butterfly McQueen, Carroll Nye, Laura Hope Crews, Ona Munson. An epic story of the Southern aristocracy's fight to maintain it's way of life during the Civil War years. It starts out as Scarlett O'Hara and her family are amongst the ladies and "chivalrous" gentlemen at the Twelve Oaks Plantation's ball before the Civil War begins. As the South finally crumbles down around her, Scarlett devises a way to overcome starvation in order save herself and her family during the war and the following years of reconstruction. DVD Special features: (Disc 3: About the movie) Christopher Plummer narrates the documentary "The making of a legend: Gone with the wind"; "Restoring a legend" chronicles the film/video restoration process; 1939 and 1961 Atlanta Premiere newsreels ; prologue from International release version ; Foreign-language version sample scenes ; historical short subject "The old South"; trailer gallery. Special features: (Disc 4: about the cast) "Melanie remembers: reflections by Olivia de Havilland" exclusive 2004 documentary ; two insightful profiles "Gable: the king remembered" and "Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and beyond" ; the supporting players: cameo portraits of an unforgettable ensemble. Based on the novel by Margaret Mitchell. 222 min. DVD 100; VHS 999:142

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The Horse Soldiers (1959)

Directed by John Ford. Cast: John Wayne, William Holden, Constance Towers, Judson Pratt, Hoot Gibson. Colonel Marlowe is in command of a motley assortment of 1200 Union volunteers whose task-- and apparent suicide mission-- is to infiltrate 300 miles of Southern territory and destroy the most strategic rail route in the Confederacy. Marlowe's life is complicated by his ferocious running feud with the company's surgeon, Major Kendall. Based on: The horse soldiers / by Harold Sinclair. 120 min. DVD 7994

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The Last Confederate: The Story of Robert Adams (ala Strike the Tent) (2005)

Directed by A. Blaine Miller and Julian Adams. Cast: Julian Adams, Gwendolyn Edwards, Amy Redford, Eric Holloway, Joshua Lindsey, Tippi Hedren, Bob Dorian, Mickey Rooney. Robert Adams is a strong-willed southern captain, in the midst of the American Civil War, whose leadership and heart of fire rally his men to fight for their land. Filled with passion, blood, and tragedy, this is a true story of one man's love for his country and for Eveline McCord, his beloved from the North. 96 min. DVD 8127

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The Little Colonel (1935)

Directed by David Butler. Cast: Shirley Temple, Lionel Barrymore, Bill Robinson, John Lodge, Evelyn Venable, Hattie McDaniel. An old-fashioned Southern colonel has disowned his daughter for marrying a Yankee and resists all entreaties for a reconciliation until he succumbs to the charms of his little granddaughter. Includes the famous "stairs" dance by Temple and "Bojangles" Robinson. 75 min. DVD 6039; vhs Video/C 999:2031

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The Littlest Rebel (1935)

Directed by David Butler; Cast: Shirley Temple, John Boles, Jack Holt, Karen Morley, Bill Robinson. In this spirited musical set during the Civl War only a plea to President Lincoln can save the day when the father of a plantation girl is arrested and charged with espionage against the Yankees. 70 min. DVD 6038; vhs Video/C 999:2031

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The Red Badge of Courage (1951)

Directed by John Huston. Cast: Audie Murphy, Bill Mauldin, Andy Devine, John Dierkes, Royal Dano, Arthur Hunnicutt. Classic story from the American Civil War, about a raw farm boy who, in 1862, as a recruit in the Union Army, loses his courage in the heat of battle, then regains it in a bitter conflict the following day. Based on the novel by Stephen Crane. DVD 7995

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Ride with the Devil (1999)

Directed by Ang Lee. Cast: Tobey Maguire, Skeet Ulrich, Jewel, Jeffrey Wright, Jonathan Rhys Mayer, James Caviezel, Thomas Guiry, Tom Wilkinson. In a no man's land on the Missouri/Kansas border, a staunch loyalist, an immigrant's son, a freed slave and a young widow form an unlikely friendship as they learn how to survive during the Civil War, in a place without rules. 139 min. DVD 1157

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Shenandoah (1965)

Directed by Andrew W. McLaglen. Cast: James Stewart, Doug McClure, Glenn Corbett, Patrick Wayne, Katharine Ross, Rosemary Forsyth, Phillip Alford, Paul Fix, James Best. A Virginia farmer during the Civil War refuses to support either the Confederacy or the Union until his son is taken prisoner and, seeing the horrors of war first-hand, he is forced at last to take his stand. 106 min. DVD 8064

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Their One Love (1915)

Directed by John Harvey. Cast: Madeline and Marion Fairbanks, Robert Wilson, Charles Emerson. One of the many Civil War movies made during the 50th anniversary of the conflict and one of Thanhouser's last one-reel dramas. It features an elaborate and spectacular night battle sequence with pyrotechnics and electric lighting effects. 15 min. 999:2841

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World War I

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

Director: Lewis Milestone. Cast: Cast: Louis Wolheim, Lewis Ayres, John Wray, Slim Summerville, William Bakewell, Arnold Lucy, Ben Alexander, Scott Kolk, Owen Davis, Jr., Walter Browne Rogers. In this realistic depiction of the lives of ordinary German soldiers Paul Baumer and his school chums are encouraged to enlist by their bombastic, slogan-chanting teacher, but they quickly learn that actual war is more gore than glory, as they crawl through mud, huddle in trenches, suffer the ordeal of frenzied hand-to-hand combat and dodge screaming shells during World War I. Based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque. 130 min. DVD 340; vhs 999:104

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All Quiet on the Western Front (TV, 1979)

Director: Delbert Mann. Cast: Richard Thomas, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence, Ian Holm, Patricia Neal. In this realistic depiction of the lives of ordinary German soldiers Paul Baumer and his school chums are encouraged to enlist by their bombastic, slogan-chanting teacher, but they quickly learn that actual war is more gore than glory, as they crawl through mud, huddle in trenches, suffer the ordeal of frenzied hand-to-hand combat and dodge screaming shells during World War I. Based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque. 131 min. DVD 249

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Behind the Lines (Regeneration) (1997)

Directed by by Gillies Mackinnon. Cast: Jonathan Pryce, James Wilby, Jonny Lee Miller, Stuart Bunce, Tanya Allen. As a psychiatrist at a respected Scottish asylum, Dr. Rivers heals shellshocked soldiers so they can be sent back into the trenches. Then he encounters a different kind of patient--a war hero sent to the asylum for publishing an outspoken anti-war pamphlet. As each struggles to cope with the war, the line between patient and doctor begins to blur. Taken from Pat Barker's 1991 novel "Regeneration" and based on true events. 95 min. DVD 4936

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Big Parade (1925)

Director: King Vidor. This film, the first realistic motion picture about war, recounts the experiences of James Apperson, an American soldier in France during World War I who takes an amorous interest in Melisande, a french farm girl. During a violent battle his two comrades are killed and James is seriously wounded and eventually returned to the U.S. When he learns his former girl friend is in love with his brother James returns to France to find Melisande. 142 min. (2 discs) Video Disc 158; VHS 999:2597

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Block-heads(1938)

Director, John G. Blystone. Cast: Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. During WWI, Stan is left to guard a trench. Twenty years after the war, Stan is found at his post and brought back to America. Ollie, now married, goes to visit Stan in the Old Soldiers' Home and invites him for a meal, but Mrs. Hardy walks out in protest. Stan and Ollie's disastrous attempts to cook bring them into contact with attractive neighbor Mrs. Gilbert -- and her shotgun-wielding husband. 58 min. (2 versions, restored b&w, computer-colour version) DVD 2869

Boom Boom (1936)

Animated short. Directed by Jack King. "World War I, apparently. There is a series of quick blackout gags, including a soldier that throws the pin, is blown sky-high by the grenade, and is caught in a net by an ambulance driver; one soldier's encounters with very smart bullets; a machine gunner with the jitters. Porky leads a charge, but with no support from his company, he runs back and dives under Beans' bunk. After a quick chorus of "You're in the Army Now," a messenger pigeon drops in with news that General Hardtack is being held prisoner. They dash off in a motorcycle/sidecar, chased by another smart bullet, and arrive in the nick of time to dispatch the general's captors. They fly off in a plane and get shot down to end up together in the hospital." [Internet Movie Database] Included on DVD 8051

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Pre-MGM Bosko. Bosko is bored with the war until the enemy shoots Boskos' photo of Honey. Then he goes into action with violent results. 999:2141

Capitaine Conan (1996)

Directed by Bertrand Tavernier. Cast: Philippe Torreton, Samuel Le Bihan, Bernard Le Coq, Catherine Rich, Francois Berleand, Claude Rich. Conan, a dedicated career soldier, serves the band of fifty French irregulars under his command in the Great War. After the signing of the 1919 Armistice, Conan lays down his arms and attempts to extricate his men from the war but his troops continue to fight for nine months after the war is ended. Based on the novel by Roger Vercel. 130 min. DVD 1256

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Civilization (1915, silent)

Director, Raymond B. West. Cast: Howard Hickman, Enid Markey, Herschel Mayall, Lola May, George Fisher. Silent film set in a mythical kingdom, Civilization was released just before America's entry into World War I. The film is a strong appeal for pacifism, and paints a vivid portrait of the madness of war, with images of the destruction and devastation that are the inevitable result of global conflict. 86 min. 999:3654

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The Dawn Patrol (1938)

Director, Edmund Goulding. Cast: Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone, David Niven, Donald Crisp. Two British fighter pilots of the Royal Flying Corps stationed in France during World War I face the grim realities of war, and learn a great deal about friendship, heroism and patriotism in the process. 103 min. DVD 8052; vhs 999:3215

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Farewell to Arms (1932)

Director: Frank Borzage. Cast: Gary Cooper, Helen Hayes, Adolph Menjou. A screen version of Ernest Hemingway's novel about romance and desertion during World War I in Italy. An American officer in the Italian ambulance corps is wounded, falls in love with an English Red Cross nurse and joins her in Switzerland. 90 min. 999:92

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A Farewell to Arms(1957)

Director Charles Vidor. Cast: Rock Hudson, Jennifer Jones, Vittorio De Sica, Alberto Sordi. Romance of an American ambulance driver wounded in World War I who falls in love with his nurse. 152 min. DVD 7626

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Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1961)

Directed by Vincente Minnelli. Cast: Glenn Ford, Ingrid Thulin, Charles Boyer, Lee J. Cobb, Paul Henreid. In 1938, just as the world was poised on the brink of WWII, Julio Madariaga brought together three generations of his wealthy family to celebrate their unity, only to discover that the Nazis had torn them apart. 154 min. 999:3663

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Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)

Director: Rex Ingram. Partly set in Argentina, partly in France this anti-German story describes the horrors of World War I as the background for a tragic story of illicit love. It was Rex Ingram's first truly successful movie and established Rudolf Valentino as a star. 150 min. 999:1655

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Gallipoli (1981)

Director: Peter Weir. Two young men in the Australia army in 1915 become part of the legendary World War I confrontation between the German allied Turks and Australia. 111 min. DVD 4839; vhs 999:522

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Grand Illusion (1937)

Director Jean Renoir's classic anti-war film. A non-inflammatory World War I film set on the front in 1916, before American involvement. It is a study of a prisoner of war camp and the disillusionment of captors and prisoners alike. 111 min. DVD 141; vhs 999:82

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Guerrilla Brigade (Vsadniki) (1939)

Directed by Igor Savchenko. Cast: Lev Sverdlin, Stepan Shkurat, Mikhail Troyanovsky, Piotr Masokha, Leonid Kmit. A drama about the welcome, by some Ukrainians, of the German army into Ukraine in 1918, and resistance of the invaders by other Ukrainians. 110 min. 999:3671

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Hearts of the World (1918)

Directed by D.W. Griffith. Cast: Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Erich von Stroheim, Robert Harron, Kate Bruce, Ben Alexander, George Fawcett. In this film (Griffith's classic drama of World War I) a small village in France is overrun by German soldiers, causing danger to a young couple in love. Filmed on location in Europe in 1917 with the cooperation of the British War Office and the French Government. 110 min. 999:1891

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Hell's Angels (1930)

Directors, Howard Hughes, Marshall Neilan, Luther Reed, James Whale. Cast: Ben Lyon, James Hall, Jean Harlow, John Darrow, Lucien Prival. The story of three Oxford University buddies, two English brothers and a German who are called to battle by their countries during World War I. Known for its exciting dogfight sequences between the R.A.F. and German fighter planes, the producer, Howard Hughes, used 137 pilots in all. The picture is perhaps most notable for introducing Jean Harlow to the screen. 129 min. 999:2184

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Hollywood: Vol. 4: Hollywood Goes to War.

Contents: Includes rare footage and excerpts from": Hearts of the world (1918) -- The Big parade (1925) -- What price glory (1926) -- Wings (1927). Interviews: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., King Vidor, Lillian Gish, Blanche Sweet. The outbreak of World War I provided Hollywood with one of its greatest sources of plots - and profits. As the American mood shifted away from neutrality, Hollywood followed, abandoning films with pacifist themes for stories of war at the front. With the arrival of peace, war films vanished until King Vidor made The Pig Parade in 1925, followed by What Price Glory and All Quiet on the Western Front. 52 min. Video/C 6157

J'Accuse. (1918/1919; silent)

Directed by Abel Gance. A strange man, obsessed by the horrors of war, calls upon the millions of dead soldiers from World War I to rise from their graves and march upon the cities of the world. This pacifist statement depicting death, delusion and insanity in the trenches was shot in 1918 with soldiers on leave from the front. 107 min. 999:2384

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J'Accuse. (1937)

Directed by Abel Gance. J'Accuse was first released in 1919 as a silent film, but during the late thirties, appalled at the prospect of a second World War, Gance retold his story in a vastly different version to challenge the awful onslaught of history. Jean Diaz is a research scientist who survived the carnage of WWI and swears to dedicate his life to ending war, a burden which drives him to madness. When he discovers his work is being exploited by the military-industrial establishment, he summons up the millions of dead soldiers from World War I to rise from their graves, to bring the world to its senses. Gance's monumental work anticipated the terrible destructive capability of modern weapons and remains a powerful statement for today. 125 min. 999:2109

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Johnny Got His Gun (1971)

Directed by Dalton Trumbo. Cast: Tomothy Bottoms, Kathy Fields, Marsha Hunt, Jason Robards, Donald Sutherland, Diane Varsi. In 1918 a soldier is badly wounded and has both his arms and legs amputated. Plunged into a chilling nightmare, we hear the young war victim's thoughts. Based on a novel by Dalton Trumbo. 106 min. DVD 7331

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Joyeux Noel (Merry Christmas) (2005)

Directed by Christian Carion. Cast: Diane Kruger, Benno Furmann, Guillaume Canet, Gary Lewis, Dany Boon, Daniel Bruhl, Alex Ferns, Steven Robertson, Frank Witter, Bernard Le Coq, Ian Richardson, Lucas Belvaux. 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. 116 min. DVD 6644

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Life and Nothing But (La Vie et rien d'autre) (1989)

Directed by Bertrand Tavernier. Cast: Philippe Noiret, Sabine Azema, Pascale Vignal, Maurice Barrier. Two women search for the men they love in the aftermath of World War I in France. They encounter an imperious army officer, Major Dellaplane, a man obsessed with accounting for France's war casualities. The army wants to forget the mass of missing men and has ordered Dellaplane to find one certifiably French unknown soldier to honor with burial under the Arc de Triomphe. In the course of his mission, Dellaplane learns the fate of the women's loved ones and a shocking secret that may determine the fate of the women themselves. 137 min. DVD 6624; vhs 999:2507

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The Little American (1917)

Directed by Cecil B. DeMille. Cast: Mary Pickford, Jack Holt, Raymond Hatton, Walter Long. A young American woman agrees to help the French against Germany in WWI, but when she arrives in France, she finds her aunt has died and her lover is fighting for the Germans. Silent with music soundtrack added. 65 min. 999:3723

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The Lost Battalion (2001)

Director, Russell Mulcahy. Cast: Rick Schroder, Phil McKee, Adam James, Jay Rodan, Daniel Caltagirone, Michael Goldstrom, Rhys Miles Thomas. In the closing days of World War I, the men of the U.S. Army's 77th Division, 308th Battalion were surrounded by German troups in the Argonne Forest. Without food, water or reserve ammunition, cut off from supply and communication lines, and subjected to constant assaults and bombardments, they managed to hold off the enemy until they were finally rescued after five days of desperate action. 100 min. DVD 1210

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The Lost Patrol (1934)

Directed by John Ford. Cast: Victor McLaglen, Boris Karloff, Wallace Ford, Reginald Denny, Alan Hale, J.M. Kerrigan, Billy Bevan. A tense drama about British cavalryman lost in the Mesopotamian desert during World War I who are pursued constantly by Arab sharpshooters. When the leader of the patrol is killed, McLaglen takes charge of the eleven ragged survivors. This film established John Ford's reputation as a director internationally. 72 min. DVD 5643

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Love Light (1921)

Directed by Frances Marion; Cast: Mary Pickford, Evelyn Dumo, Fred Thomson, Edward Phillips, Albert Prisco, Raymond Bloomer. Angela tends a lighthouse in an Italian fishing village while her brothers are fighting at the front. She discovers a foreign sailor washed ashore, nurses him back to health and falls in love with him. After they marry and have a baby, she discovers that he is a German spy and that her innocent actions have helped cause the death of her brother. Considered to be one of Pickford's most fully realized adult characters, the film shows her astonishing range: from pure slapstick, to moments of pathos, to a harrowing descent into madness. 75 min. 999:2636

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Morgenrot (1930; in German, no subtitles)

Directed by Vernon Sewell and Gustav Ucicky. The adventures of the German U-boat U-21, during World War I. 75 min. 999:305

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My Four years in Germany (1917)

Directed by William Nigh. A dramatization of the American ambassador to Germany James Gerard's book of World War I German intrigue and cruelties. 123 min. 999:2236

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No Man's Land: Hell on Earth (Niemandsland) (1931)

Directed by Victor Trivas and George Shdanoff. Music by Hanns Eisler. The story of five men -- an Englishman, a Frenchman, a German, a Russian Jew and a Black man, who meet on the battlefield of World War I. Setting aside their prejudices, they refuse to kill each other and march forward against the real enemy -- War! The themes of international brotherhood resulted in this film being destroyed by the Nazis in 1933, but a surviving American print was discovered and restored. 70 min. 999:3142

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Oh! What a Lovely War(1969)

Director: Attenborough, Richard. Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Phyllis Calvert, Jean Pierre Cassel, John Gielgud, Jack Hawkins, Kenneth More, Laurence Olivier, Michael Redgrave, Vanessa Redgrave, Ralph Richardson, Maggie Smith, Susannah York, John Mills, Ian Holm. A movie about the First World War based on a stage musical of the same name, portraying the "Game of War" and focusing mainly on the members of one family (last name Smith) who go off to war. Much of the action in the movie revolves around the words of the marching songs of the soldiers, and many scenes portray some of the more famous (and infamous) incidents of the war, including the assassination of Duke Ferdinand, the Christmas meeting between British and German soldiers in no-mans-land, and the wiping out by their own side of a force of Irish soldiers newly arrived at the front, after successfully capturing a ridge that had been contested for some time. Special features: Commentary by director Lord Richard Attenborough; 3-part documentary: Welcome to World War I, The Smith family album, Keep the home fires burning. Based on Joan Littlewood's theatre workshop production by Charles Chilton and the members of the original cast after a stage treatment by Ted Allan. 144 min. DVD 6676

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Paths of Glory (1957)

Director: Stanley Kubrick. Cast: Kirk Douglas, Adolphe Menjou, Ralph Meeker, George Macready, Wayne Morris, Richard Anderson, Joseph Turkel, Susanne Christian, Jerry Hausner, Peter Capell, Emile Meyer, Berl Freed, Ken Dibbs, Timothy Carey. During World War I on the French front, a regiment of soldiers are set up for suicide missions and are generally manipulated in ways that show no regard for their lives. 89 min. DVD 258; vhs 999:432

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Sergeant York (1941)

Directed by Howard Hawks. Cast: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Joan Leslie, George Tobias, Stanley Ridges. A dramatization of the life of Alvin C. York, a man from Tennessee who was torn between his religious pacifism and his patriotic duty during Workd War I, who went on to become the most famous hero of the war after capturing 132 German soldiers during the battle of Argonne. 134 min. 999:3310

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Shoulder Arms (1918)

Directed by and Cast: Charles Chaplin. "Charlie is in boot camp in the "awkward squad." Once in France he gets no letters from home. He finally gets a package containing limburger cheese which requires a gas mask and which he throws over into the German trench. He goes "over the top" and captures thirteen Germans ("I surrounded them"), then volunteers to wander through the German lines disguised as a tree trunk. With the help of a French girl he captures the Kaiser and the Crown Prince and is given a statue and victory parade in New York and then ... fellow soldiers wake him from his dream." [from the Internet Movie Database] DVD 235

The Trench (1999)

Director, William Boyd. Cast: Paul Nicholls, Daniel Craig, Julian Rhind-Tutt. In France, July 1916, amidst the heat and stench of the front lines, a group of young boys nervously await the signal that will send them straight into Hell. This tense, wartime drama takes place in the hours leading up to the catastrophic Battle of the Somme, when British soldiers rushed the German army. 95 min. DVD 1768

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A Very Long Engagement (Un Long Dimanche de Fiancailles) (2004)

Directed by Jean Pierre Jeunet. Cast: Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Jean-Pierre Becker, Dominique Bettenfeld, Jodie Foster. Mathilde is waiting desperately for her fiance to return from World War I. When bad news arrives she refuses to believe he is dead. Instead, she begins her own investigation into his infantry, hiring a private detective and piecing together his war stories. 133 min. DVD 4169

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Westfront 1918 (Vier von der Infanterie) (1930)

Directed by G.W. Pabst. A German account of life on the Westfront during the first World War. Based on the novel "Vier von der Infanterie" by Ernst Johannsen ( PT2619.Jo5 V5 1929 Main Stack). 90 min. 999:293

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Geisler, Michael. "The Battleground of Modernity: Westfront." In: The Films of G. W. Pabst: An Extraterritorial Cinema / edited by Eric Rentschler. pp: 91-102. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, c1990. (Main Stack PN1998.3.P34.F5 1990; Moffitt PN1998.3.P34.F5 1990)

What Price Glory? (1952)

Directed by John Ford. Cast: James Cagney, Corinne Calvet, Dan Dailey, William Demarest, Craig Hill, Robert Wagner. Two American Marines, fighting in World War I France, have their hands full battling Germans at the front and brawling over women in the French villages. 109 min. DVD 2722; vhs 999:2712

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Wings (1927; silent, with subtitles)

Director: William A. Wellman. Two young men who love the same girl join the Air Service during World War I. Includes early aviation combat flying sequences which still rank among the best in motion picture history. 139 min. 999:611

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Paris, Michael. "Wings." (the impact of the 1926 silent era film 'Wings' on future air force war movies)(Films in Context) History Today v45, n7 (July, 1995):44 (7 pages).

Wooden Crosses (Les croix de bois) (France, 1932)

Directed by Raymond Bernard. Cast: Pierre Blanchar, Gabriel Gabrio, Charles Vanel, Raymond Aimos, Antonin Artaud, Paul Azais, Rene Bergeron, Raymond Cordy. Film adaptation of the anti-war novel by Roland Dorgelès that follows a French regiment in World War I as it trudges from patriotism to disillusionment. 113 min. DVD 8175

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World War I Films of the Silent Era

These four silent films explain essential news and propaganda functions of the movies during the Great War of 1914-1918. In those days before television and radio, fiction films in movie theaters were the most widely shared public experience while news films presented the most detailed and potent images of military life and front line action. Some news films were faked but some was authentic, obtained at great risk by daredevil combat cameramen. Contents: Fighting the war / photographer, Donald C. Thompson (1916) -- The log of the U-35 / Lothar von Arnauld de la Periere (combined 1919 British version and 1920 American versions of original 1917 German film titled: Der Magische Gurtel (The Enchanted circle) -- The secret game / William C. de Mille (Paramount) with Sessue Hayakawa, Florence Vidor, Jack Holt, Charles Ogle (1917) -- The moving picture boys in the Great War / narrator, Lowell Thomas (1975). DVD 1016

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Ay, Carmela! (Spain / Italy, 1990)

Director: Carlos Saura. Cast: Carmen Maura, Andres Pajares, Gabino Diego. Carmela and her two companions are travelling performers entertaining the Republican troops during the Spanish Civil War. They decide to seek their fortune elsewhere, but mistakenly fall in with the Nationalist forces, who arrest and imprison them, but give them a chance to perform for their freedom. 109 min. 999:2651

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Ay, Carmela! de Carlos Saura : mediations textuelles et representation de l'histoire / textes reunis et presentes par Catherine Berthet-Cahuzac. Montpellier : Centre d'etudes et de recherches sociocritiques, Universite Paul Valery, 2001. (Main Stack PN1998.3.S28.A9 2001)

Belle Époque (Spain / Portugal / France, 1992)

Director: Fernando Trueba. Fernando, a handsome, young Spanish Civil War deserter who befriends a free-thinking artist, finds himself in a romantic dilemma when the artist's four beautiful daughters return to their country home. Which woman should he romance? 109 min. 999:1726

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Beltenebros (Spain / Netherlands, 1991)

Directed by Pilar Miró. Cast: Terence Stamp, Patsy Kensit, José Luis Gomez. One night in the winter of 1962, Captain Darman remembers events of the Spanish Civil War. Days before in England he had been charged with a secret mission, to fly to Madrid and execute a traitor who had infiltrated the Communist Party's clandestine apparatus. But Darman remembers a similar order 16 years before. 110 min. DVD 8610; DVD 3317 (In Spanish without subtitles); also VHS (PAL) 999:3560

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Las Bicicletas Son Para el Verano (Spain, 1983)

Directed by Jaime Chavarri. A dramatization of the day-to-day experiences of a lower middle class family in Madrid during the Civil War, 1936. In Spanish without titles. PAL format. 109 min. 999:1726

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Blockade (1938)

Director, William Dieterle. Cast: Henry Fonda, Madeleine Carroll, Leo Carrillo, John Halliday, Reginald Denny, Vladimir Sokoloff, Robert Warwick. Marco, a young loyalist peasant-soldier, falls in love with Norma, a rebel spy, during the Spanish Civil War. They struggle against a powerful enemy blockade that is preventing the delivery of food in a battle that could change the course of the war. Producer Walter Wanger stubbornly resisted strong pressure not to release the film which, with its focus on the Spanish Civil War, dared to challenge the public to confront the growing Nazi threat. 84 min. DVD 1524

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Butterfly (Butterfly Tongues)(Lengua de las mariposas) (Spain, 1999)

Directed by Jose Luis Cuerda. Cast: Fernando Fernan-Gomez, Manuel Lozano, Uxia Blanco, Gonzalo Uriarte. A shy young boy is brought out of his cocoon by a wise teacher who shows him the wonder of the natural world around him, amidst the growing tensions and chaos of the Spanish Civil War in Galicia. 94 min. DVD 1418

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El Corazón del Bosque (1978)

Director, Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón. Set in the countryside of Asturias and based on a real event of the 1930's, tells the story of a Basque revolutionary during the Spanish Civil War, who refuses to surrender to the Nationalist government. He hides in the hills for 10 years while the local people help him avoid constant searches by the police. A returning exile seeks him out to try and get him to surrender, with tragic consequences for both of them. In Spanish without subtitles. 102 min. 999:3551

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Demonios en el Jardin (Spain, 1982)

Director: Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón. Examines the dynamics of a post-Spanish Civil War family which achieves economic success in the black market while currying favor with the ruling party. This saga of a family damaged by fraticidal rivalries and morally wasted by corruption, is presented through the eyes of a small boy. PAL format (in Spanish without titles) 99 min. 999:1725 (also in Spanish without titles: 999:1945)

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The Devil's Backbone (El Espinazo del Diablo) (Spain / Mexico, 2001)

Directed by Guillermo del Toro. Cast: Marisa Parades, Eduardo Noriega, Federico Luppi, Fernando Tielve, I?nigo Garces, Irene Visedo. Thanks to the Civil War in Spain, Carlos his arrived at the desolate Santa Lucia School, now a makeshift shelter for war orphans, where an unexploded bomb rests in the courtyard. More frightening are the odd things keep happening to Carlos - he sees strange shadows, hears voices, and at night he is being visited by the "One Who Sighs." Special features: Guillermo del Toro commentary ; Director's thumbnail track ; Making of documentary, "?Que es un Fantasma? The Making of the Devil's Backbone" (28 min.); Deleted scenes ; Thumbnail/storyboard comparisons ; Galleries ; Previews. 108 min. DVD 8225

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El Mar (The Sea) (Spain, 2000)

Directed by Agustí Villaronga. Cast: Roger Casamajor, Bruno Bergonzini, Antonia Torrens. Two boys (Ramallo and Manuel) and a girl in the Spanish Civil War are involved in the death of other two boys, one killed, the other suicided. This terrible secret remains with them for all their lives. Years pass and they meet in a hospital for tuberculosis treatment. She is now a nun, Ramallo is a thief and Manuel is obsessed by religion. Reality is too hard to feel, only the sea should be the best place, where all is quiet. 107 min. DVD 8149

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For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)

Directed by Sam Wood. Cast: Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff, Katina Paxinou. The story of Robert Jordan, an American demolition expert who lends his abilities to the anti-fascist freedom fighters of Spain. Assisting him is a band of warriors that includes the strong-willed Pilar, the dangerously undependable Pablo, and the lovely, innocent Maria. Based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway. DVD 8971; vhs 999:1356

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Funf Patronenhulsen (Five Cartridges) (East Germany, 1960)

Director: Frank Beyer. During the Spanish Civil War five soldiers hide their dying commander's last message in five empty bullet shells. Together these five go through hell and back to keep the message from falling into the enemy's hands. One gives up, but the other four manage to reach their destination with the message still intact. In German with English subtitles. 85 min. 999:2568

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The Girl of Your Dreams (La Niña de tus ojos) (Spain, 1998)

Directed by Fernando Trueba. Cast: Neus Asensi, Jesus Bonilla, Penelope Cruz, Karel Dobry, Loles Leon, Gotz Otto, Antonio Resines, Jorge Sanz, Rosa Maria Sarda. In Civil War torn Spain, Germany invites a group of filmmakers to shoot two versions of the Andalusian musical drama "The girl of your dreams" in Berlin. Happy to leave the war behind them, the troupe of Spaniards starts filming in Hitler's Berlin. The hospitality upon their arrival has more to do with the youthful charms of Macarena Granada. What's more, the only Andalusion-looking extras in Germany are the gypsies and Jewish prisoners in a nearby concentration camp. When Macarena befriends one of the prisoners, the troupe must decide if the movie is more important than their lives. 105 min. 999:1790

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La Guerre est finie (The War Is Over) (France / Sweden, 1966)

Directed by Alain Renais, Cast: Yves Montand, Ingrid Thulin, Genevieve Bujold, Jean Daste. In this complex and perceptive film an aging Spanish revolutionary finds his idealism destroyed when he returns from exile to visit his longtime mistress. 120 min. DVD 5935; vhs 999:2013

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If They Tell You I Fell (Si te dicen que caí) (Spain, 1989)

Directed by Vicente Aranda. Cast: Victoria Abril, Jorge Sanz, Antonio Banderas, Javier Gurruchaga, Guillermo Montesinos. In the post Spanish civil war years, Catalan kids would sit in circles among the ruins and tell 'aventis', stories with no beginning or end or purpose, to vent frustration about the times. The movie tells these creative stories as flashbacks. 120 min. DVD 8155

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Land and Freedom (Tierra y Libertad) (UK / Spain / Germany / Italy, 1995)

Directed by Kenneth Loach. An old man dies. Looking through his papers, his grand-daughter realises that he had fought in the Spanish Civil War. As a young Communist Party member, he (David) had gone to Spain in 1936 to fight the fascists. He joined the POUM militia which was allied to the militias of other left-wing groups. But the idealism of David and his friends was tested to its limit as their comrades were killed and the alliance disintegrated. The old man is buried. Was his struggle in vain? 999:1558

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Los Gozos y las Sombras(Spain, TV, 1983)

Directed by Rafael Moreno Alba. The story revolves around an intellectual and a businessman, their families and their lives after the Spanish civil war. Shows the displacement of one social class by the other. 760 min. PAL format. In Spanish without subtitles. 999:1804

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Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno) (Mexico / Spain / USA, 06)

Directed by Guillermo del Toro. Cast: Ariadna Gil, Ivana Baquero, Sergi Lopez, Maribel Verdu, Doug Jones, Alex Angulo, Federico Luppi, Manolo Solo, Cesar Vea, Roger Casamajor, Ivan Massague, Gonzalo Uriarte. Set in 1944 Spain, against the backdrop of the anti-Franco guerrilla warfare. When young Ofelia and her mother go to live with her new stepfather on a rural military outpost, she finds herself in a world of unimaginable cruelty. Soon Ofelia finds the creatures of her imagination in which she used to escape have become a reality and she must battle them to save both her mother and herself. In the terrifying battle that ensues, Ofelia soon learns that innocence has a power that evil cannot imagine. Special features: (Disc 1). Video prologue; audio commentary by director Guillermo Del Toro; marketing campaign; sneak peeks -- (Disc 2). Featurettes (approx. 24 min. ): "The power of myth", "Pan and the Fairies = El fauno y las hadas", "The color and the shape", "The lullaby"); director's notebook (notes & sketches, storyboard/thumbnail comparisions; galleries); "The Charlie Rose Show" with Guillermo Del Toro, Alfonso Cuaron & Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu (approx. 50 min.); DVD comics. 119 min. DVD 7558

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Soldados de Salamina (Soldiers of Salamina) (2003)

Directed by David Trueba. Cast: Ariadna Gil, Ramon Fontser?e, Joan Dalmau, Maria Botto, Diego Luna. Lola reacts with disdain and exasperation when asked to write an article inspired by the Spanish Civil War for the newspaper where she works. To her the war is ancient history and no longer relevant. But a reader's response to her article puts her on the trail of a mystery stemming from the last days of the war. In the process she becomes more interested in what motivated those who fought in the war. Based on the novel Soldados de Salamina by Javier Cercas. 114 min. DVD 8855

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La Vaquilla (Spain, 1960)

Director: Luis Garcia Berlanga. Cast: Alfredo Landa, Jose Sacristan, Guillermo Montesinos, Santiago Ramos, Carlos Velat. During the Spanish Civil War, a group of republican soldiers plans a raid on a village fiesta. PAL format. In Spanish without subtitles. 118 min. 999:1777

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Viva la Muerte (Long Live Death) (Tunisia / France, 1970)

Directed by Fernanco Arrabal. Cast: Madhi Chaouch, Anouk Ferjac, Ivan Henriques, Nuria Espert, Jazia Klibi. Fando is a young boy whose father has been arrested for treason during the Spanish civil war. He struggles with his father's arrest, and in a shocking moment discovers a letter in which his mother admits to betraying his father. His mother convinces him that his father committed suicide in prison, but Fando doubts this and attempts to discover his father's true fate. 87 min. DVD 6126

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08/15 (Null-acht funfzehn) (In German, 1954)

Director, Paul May. This finely crafted look into life in a German military barracks shortly before WWII is the story of a rebellious young trainee who launches a mutiny against his superiors. Although the film focuses primarily on the tribulations of the new recruit it also presents a fascinating look at the lives of other soldiers, officers and civilians (most of whom are played by non-professional actors). The film's title refers to a particular type of German machine gun (Maschinengewehr) produced in 1915. (The term 'Null-acht-f?nfzehn' lives on as an idiom in the German langauge--'08/15' ('Null-acht-funfzehn') being used like an adjective to denote something 'standardized' and unremarkable). Contents: pt. 1. In the barracks -- pt. 2. At the front -- pt. 3. Back at home. PAL format; in German. 332 min. 999:3125

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Across the Pacific (1942)

Directed by John Huston. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sidney Greenstreet, Victor Sen Yung. Rick Leland, a tough, cynical Army officer, is given a bogus dishonorable discharge and sent undercover to hook up with Japanese sympathizers on the eve of Pearl Harbor. 96 min. DVD 6276

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Action in the North Atlantic (1943)

Directed by Lloyd Bacon. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Raymond Massey, Alan Hale, Julie Bishop, Ruth Gordon, Sam Levene. World War II drama about the Merchant Marine and Navy gun crews who did battle with enemy submarines and risked their lives to deliver supplies and munitions to allied troops. 127 min. DVD 6275

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Gray, W. Russel. " Navigating Propaganda's Sea Lanes: A Fresh Look at Action in the North Atlantic." Journal of American Culture, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 81-85, March 2004

All Through the Night (1935)

Directed by Vincent Sherman. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Conrad Veidt, Kaaren Verne, Jane Darwell, Frank McHugh, Peter Lorre, Judith Anderson. A big shot gambler investigating the murder of his favorite German baker stumbles upon a Nazi plot to blow up an American warship and is framed for murder in this comedy-thriller. 107 min. DVD 6274; vhs 999:3697

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Army of Shadows (L'armée des ombres) (France / Italy, 1969)

Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. Cast: Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Simone Signoret, Paul Crauchet, Claude Mann, Christian Barbier, Serge Reggiani. 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 joins his network at Marseilles, where he makes the traitor be executed... Follows the everyday life of the French Resistants : their solitude, their fears, their relationships, the arrests, the forwarding of orders and their carrying out. Special features: Audio commentary by film historian Ginette Vincendeau; new interviews with Lhomme and editor Francoise Bonnot; archival video excerpts, including on-set footage and interviews with Mellville, cast members, writer Joseph Kessel, and real-life Resistance fighters; "Jean-Pierre Melville et 'L'armee des ombres'" (2005), a short program on the director and his film; "Le journal de las Resistance" (1944), a rare short documentary shot on the front lines of the final days of German-occupied France; and a film restoration demonstration by Lhomme. 145 min. DVD 7536

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The Ascent (Voskhozhdeniye) (Soviet Union, 1976)

Directed by Larisa Shepitko. Cast: Boris Plotnikov; Vladimir Gostiukhin; Sergei Yakovlev. An uncompromising portrayal of war and betrayal, The Ascent (Voskhozhdeniye) follows two Russian soldiers who are captured in German occupied Byelorussia during World War II. Using expressive religious symbolism, director Larisa Shepitko boldly reverses stereotypical Soviet attitudes towards heroism, religion, and philosophy in her examination of souls preparing to die. 108 min. vhs 999:3802

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Attack! (1956)

Directed by Robert Aldrich. Cast: Jack Palance, Eddie Albert, Lee Marvin, Robert Strauss, Richard Jaeckel, Buddy Ebsen. Reanactment of the Battle of the Bulge, emphasizing a group of American soldiers led by cowardly Captain Cooney. 108 min. DVD 4939

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Aventure Malgache (UK, 1944)

Director: Alfred Hitchcock. This film (along with Bon Voyage) was made by Hitchcock during WW II at the request of the British government. When viewed by government officials they decided that the films were inflammatory and withheld them from distribution. Aventure Malgache, is set in Vichy-controlled Madagascar where the Resistance leader battles to keep his island free. DVD 1031; VHS 999:990

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Back to Bataan (1945)

Directed by Edward Dmytryk. Cast: John Wayne, Anthony Quinn, Beulah Bondi, Richard Loo, Philip Ahn, Lawrence Tierney, Paul Fix, Abner Biberman, Vladimir Sokoloff. After the fall of the Phillipines in WWII, colonel Joseph Maden of the U.S. Army stays on to organize guerrilla fighters against the conquerors. 95 min. DVD 2676

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Ballad of a Soldier (Ballada o soldate) (Soviet Union, 1959)

Directed by Grigori Chukhraj. A young Russian soldier is given a six-day leave as a reward for an act of bravery in battle. As he journeys home he encounters the devastation of his war-torn country, witnesses glimmers of hope among the people, and falls in love. With its poetic visual imagery this unconventional meditation on the effects of war is a milestone in Russian cinema. 88 min. DVD 1163

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Band of Brothers(TV, 2001)

Directors, Phil Alden Robinson, Richard Loncraine, Mikael Salomon, David Nutter, Tom Hanks, David Leland, Tony To, David Frankel. Cast: Kirk Acevedo, Eion Bailey, Michael Cudlitz, Dale Dye, Rick Gomez, Scott Grimes, Colin Hanks, Frank John Hughes, Damian Lewis, Ron Livingston, James Madio, Neal McDonough, David Schwimmer, Matthew Settle, Douglas Spain, Richard Speight Jr., Donnie Wahlberg. Tells the story of Easy Company, 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, U.S. Army. Drawn from interviews with survivors of Easy Company, as well as soldiers' journals and letters, this television drama tells of the extraordinary bravery and fear faced by the soldiers in this elite rifle company who parachuted into France early on D-Day morning, fought in the Battle of the Bulge and captured Hitler's Eagle's Nest at Berchtesgaden. They were also a unit that suffered 150% casualties, and whose lives became legend. 703 min. DVD 1421

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Bataan (1943)

Director: Tay Garnett. A realistic motion picture written in a documentary style about a small band of American soldiers who attempt to destroy a strategic bridge during the Japanese invasion of the Philippines in 1942. 115 min. DVD 34978; VHS 999:1258

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Slotkin, Richard. "Unit Pride: Ethnic Platoons and the Myths of American Nationality." American Literary History. 13(3):469-98. 2001 Fall

Battle of Blood Island (1960)

Directed by Joel M. Rapp. Cast: Richard Devon, Ron Kennedy. Only two GI's survive a Pacific Island battle during WWII and must learn to rely on each other to evade the Japanese. 64 min. Special features (ca. 3.5 hrs.): Original theatrical trailers for Armored Attack!, Blood of Bataan, The Cavern, The Devil's General, Ordered to love, The Quick and the Dead, Steel Bayonet and Verboten! plus War Department training films: #1. "Information please" ; #2. "Our job in Japan" ; #3. "We've got another bond to buy" with Bing Crosby. DVD 5051

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The Battle of Okinawa (Gekido no showashi: Okinawa kessen)(Japan, 1971)

Directed by Kinji Fukasaku. Cast: Keiju Kobayashi, Tetsuro Tamba, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yuzo Kayama, Mayumi Ozora, Wakako Sakai. This final stand against the Allied onslaught soon becomes the bloodiest battle of the Pacific Theater, taking the horrors of war to a level never before seen, as the desperate Japanese Army tries to demonstrate to the Americans what they should expect when they assault the Japanese mainland. 149 min.DVD 8765

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Battle of the Bulge (1965)

Directed by Ken Annakin. Cast: Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw, Robert Ryan, Dana Andrews, Pier Angeli, George Montgomery, Ty Hardin, Charles Bronson. In this spectacular re-creation of a crucial campaign, Nazi Panzer forces stage a last-ditch Belgian front offensive that could turn the tide of World War II. 167 min. DVD 6215

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The Battle of the Rails (La Bataille du Rail) (France, 1946)

Directed by Rene Clement. Cast: Marcel Barnault, Jean Clarieux, Jean Daurand, Tony Laurent, Lucien Desagneaux, Francois Joux, Pierre Latour. During the occupation of France by Nazi Germany, French railway workers bravely battled the Nazis on many fronts, from transporting forbidden mail to committing acts of sabotage. They became an invaluable part of the French resistance. 85 min. DVD 5097

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Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

Director: William Wyler. Cast: Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo, Cathy O'Donnell, Hoagy Carmichael, Harold Russell, Gladys George, Roman Bohnen, Ray Collins, Victor Cutler. Three returning WWII veterans face problems as they attempt to pick up the threads of their previous lives. Captain Derry is returning to a loveless marriage, Sergeant Stephenson is a stranger to a family that's grown up without him, and sailor Parrish is tormented by the loss of his hands. DVD 4335 ('The Reconstruction', 162 min.); DVD 2865; vhs 999:114 (2 tapes, 170 min.)

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The Big Red One (1980)

Director: Samuel Fuller. Cast: Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill, Bobby DiCicco, Robert Carradine, Kelly Ward, Siegfried Rauch, Stephane Audran. Named for the insignia of the First Infantry Division, this World War II combat film follows a handful of young GIs and their sergeant (Played by Lee Marvin) as they battle their way from North Africa through Sicily, Omaha Beach and Belgium to the ultimate horror of the concentration camp at Falkenau, Czechoslovakia. 114 min. DVD 2878; vhs 999:742

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Ansen, D. "An unblinking view of war." Newsweek 96 Jul 28 (1980): 68.

Lyons, Donald. ""We don't murder, we kill": "The Big Red One."" Film Comment 28 Jul/Aug (1992): 9-10+ [5p].

Wood, Denis. "The bodies we keep tripping over: critical commentaryon Sam Fuller's "The Big Red One"." Journal of Popular Film and Television 9 n1 (1981): 2-12.

Black Book (Zwartboek) (Netherlands / Germany / Belgium, 2006)

Directed by Paul Verhoeven. Cast: Carice van Houten, Sebastian Koch, Thom Hoffman, Halina Reijn, Waldemar Kobus, Derek de Lint, Christian Berkel, Dolf de Vries, Peter Blok, Michiel Huisman. Rachel, a young Jewish girl hiding from the Nazi's during World War II in The Netherlands, sees her hiding place blown up. She escapes with her rescuer, a young sailor, but the boat sails into a trap set by the Germans. She escapes and joins the resistance, and under the false name Ellis de Vries she meets SS-hauptsturmfuhrer Ludwig Muntze on a train smuggling weapons. She goes to his headquarters to meet him again and gain his trust, and soon they fall in love. She joins his office as a spy, but when someone within the resistance betrays her, she is now seen as an enemy betraying both sides. All that's left to do is run with the man she learned to love and find a way to prove her innocence by finding the real betrayer. 146 min. DVD 8526

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Black Dragons (1942)

Directed by William Nigh. Cast: Bela Lugosi, Joan Barclay, George Pembroke, Clayton Moore. Following the outbreak of World War II, Japanese spies known as "Black Dragons" ingeniously transformed by plastic surgery into doubles of prominent American business leaders, use their disguises to cause sabotage, labor unrest, and other measures to destroy the U.S. economy. The Nazi doctor who has performed the surgery now bears a grudge against the Japanese, visits the fifth columnists, and, after turning them into zombies, sadistically murders them. 61 min. DVD 5884

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Blood on the Sun (1945)

Director: Frank Lloyd. Cast: James Cagney, Sylvia Sidney, Porter Hall, Wallace Ford, Rosemary De Camp, Robert Armstrong, John Emery, Leonard Strong, John Halloran. 94 min. An American newspaper editor working in pre-World War II Japan tries to expose the menace of a Japanese militarist plan for world conquest. DVD 7128

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Bombs Over Burma(1943)

Directed by Joseph H. Lewis. Cast: Anna May Wong, Noel Madison, Leslie Denison, Nedrick Young. The Burma Road must be kept open for Allied troop convoys during WWII at any cost by a brave crew. After a surprise attack, the group suspects a traitor is among them. The beautiful Lin Yang, a Chinese girl who teaches school by day and spies for the Allies by night, is assigned to find out who is responsible for the leaking information to the Japanese. 65 min. DVD 9156

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Bon Voyage (UK, 1944)

Director: Alfred Hitchcock. This film (along with Aventure Malgache) was made by Hitchcock during WW II at the request of the British government. When viewed by government officials they decided that the films were inflammatory and withheld them from distribution. The first, Bon Voyage, is about an RAF pilot who has escaped from a POW camp and made his way back to London with the help of the French resistance. 26 min. DVD 1031; VHS 999:990

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Das Boot (The Boat) (West Germany, 1981)

Director: Wolfgang Petersen. Cast: Jurgen Prochnow, Herbert Gronemeyer, Klaus Wennemann, Hubertus Bengsch, Martin Semmelrogge. This gripping tale follows the daring patrol of U-96, one of the famed German U-boats known as the "gray wolves". Prowling the North Atlantic, they challenged the British Navy at every turn. Delivers an amazingly accurate account of Germany's elite U-boat crewmen, as it hammers away at the tragic waste of war. 154 min. Remastered DVD in German with optional subtitles in English, French or Spanish: DVD 96; VHS dubbed in English: 999:296

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The Bridge (Die Brucke) (West Germany, 1959)

Director, Bernhard Wicki. Cast: Fritz Wepper, Volker Bohnet, Michael Hinz, Volker Lechtenbrink, Cordula Trantow. Young German boys suffer senseless deaths during the final days of World War II. Betrayed and urged on by unenlightened leaders, they come to believe that a small and meaningless bridge is worth any risk to their lives. 102 min. DVD 1288

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Bridge on the River Kwai (UK / USA, 1957)

Director: David Lean. Cast: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa, James Donald, Ann Sears, Geoffrey Horne. Captured by the Japanese, British soldiers and their ranking officer, Colonel Nicholson are forced to construct a strategic railroad bridge. Despite cruel treatment by the brutal Colonel Saito, Nicholson displays unyielding courage and the bridge becomes a matter of obsessive British pride to him. Meanwhile, the British High Command has instructed a commando team to destroy the vital span. 161 min. DVD 547; also on VHS 999:400

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Brownlow, Kevin. "The making of David Lean's film of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai.'. Cineaste v22, n2 (Spring, 1996):10 (7 pages).

A Bridge Too Far (USA / UK, 1977)

Director: Richard Attenborough. Cast: Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Edward Fox, Elliott Gould, Gene Hackman, Anthony Hopkins, Hardy Kruger, Laurence Olivier, Ryan O'Neal, Robert Redford, Maximilian Schell, Liv Ullmann. In September 1944, flush with success after the Normandy Invasion, the Allies launched Operation Market Garden, a wild scheme intended to put an early end to World War II by invading Germany and smashing the Reich's war plants. Painstakingly re-created on actual battlefield locations. 176 min. DVD 5423

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Burmese Harp (Biruma no tategoto) (1956)

Director: Kon Ichikawa. Following the actions of a young Japanese officer separated from his battalion at the close of the Pacific War in Burma, the film shows one man's journey from the comforts of companionship in adversity to a solitary confrontation with, and the eventual grasp of, mass death in the name of patriotism. 116 min. DVD 8429; 999:1054

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Caine Mutiny (1954)

Director: Edward Dmytryk. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Jose Ferrer, Van Johnson, Fred MacMurray. Suspense builds during Naval trial proceedings against a young lieutenant who relieved his captain of command of the destroyer-minesweeper U.S.S. Caine at the height of a typhoon. Special features: Retrospective documentary: Inside the Caine Mutiny; commentary with Richard Pe?na and Ken Bowser. 125 min. DVD 8323; vhs 999:732 (CC)

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Catch 22 (1970)

Director: Mike Nichols. Cast: Alan Arkin, Martin Balsom, Art Garfunkel, Jon Voight. In this anti-war satirical film about a group of fliers in the Mediterranean during World War II, all are separately and together nervous, frightened, often profane, sometimes pathetic and almost all a little crazy. 121 min. DVD 8661; vhs 999:1305

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The Cockpit (Japan, 1993)

Presents three animated tales of combat during the Second World War. In the first story, directed by Kawajiri Yoshiaki, Seisoken kiryu (Stratospheric currents), an ace German pilot must put aside his personal feelings for the sake of humanity and fly into battle, guns blazing. In the second story, directed by Imanishi Takashi, Onsoku dengekitai (Sonic thunder attack team), a kamikaze pilot has but one goal - to guide his flying coffin into the enemy fleet. In the third story, directed by Takahashi Ryosuke, Tetsu no ryukihei (Steel dragoon), a young boy must brave enemy fire to complete his assignment and return to his comrades with reinforcements. 90 min. 999:3290

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The Colditz Story (UK, 1954)

Director: Guy Hamilton. Cast: John Mills, Eric Portman, Lionel Jeffries, Bryan Forbes, Ian Carmichael, Richard Wattis, Theodore Bikel. Deep inside the Reich, prisoners of every nationality make it a point of honor to attempt departure from the ultimate in escape-proof prisons. This is the true story of men who dared defy the might of Hitler's fortress, Colditz Castle. 98 min. DVD 3742

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Rattigan, Neil. "The Last Gasp of the Middle Class: British War Films of the 1950s." In: Re-viewing British cinema, 1900-1992 : essays and interviews / edited by Wheeler Winston Dixon. Albany : State University of New York Press, c1994. (Main Stack PN1993.5.G7.R4 1994)

Come and See (Idi i smotri) (Soviet Union, 1985)

Directed by Elem Klimov. Young Florya willing joins the Partisans fighting the Nazis in Byelorussia, USSR during World War II. Separated from his comrades during a paratroop attack and struck deaf by German artillery, Florya, in the company of peasant girl, Glascha, wanders through the battle-scorched Russian forests and man-made slaughter. He witnesses an SS unit's spontaneous, self-congratulatory appause at their own butchery. 145 min. DVD 1164

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Contraband (UK, 1940)

Director: Michael Powell. Cast: Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Hay Petrie, Joss Ambler, Raymond Lovell, Esmond Knight, Charles Victor, Phoebe Kershaw, Harold Warrender. Set in England during the early days of World War II, a Danish sea captain and his passenger are kidnapped by a cell of Nazi spies operating from a basement in London's Soho. The plot progresses as a chase that puts the characters in one peculiar set of surroundings after another. Most of the story takes place under blackout conditions, in which the great city becomes a mysterious dark labyrinth. 88 min. 999:3231

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Le caporal épinglé (The Elusive Corporal (1962)

Directed by Jean Renoir. Cast: Jean-Pierre Cassel, Claude Brasseur, O.E. Hasse, Claude Rich, Jacques Jouanneau, Mario David, Jean Carmet, Guy Bedos, Sacha Briquet. Set in a German P.O.W. camp in 1940, this is the story of a French corporal who is determined to escape to return to Paris and fight once more. 96 min. DVD 7586

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The Cranes are Flying (Letyat Zhuravli) (Soviet Union, 1957)

Directed by Mikhail Kalatozov. Boris' and Veronica's marriage plans are interrupted when Boris enlists in the Soviet army after the German invasion of Russia. Veronica eventually succumbs to the seduction of Boris' cousin, Mark, but subsequently redeems herself by nursing the wounded amidst the terrible suffering of the Russian civilian population during World War II. 91 min. DVD 1162; vhs 999:1028

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The Cruel Sea (UK, 1952)

Director: Charles Frend. Jack Hawkins, Donald Sinden, Stanley Baker, Denholm Elliott, Virginia McKenna. Lt. Commander Ericson and his crew find they are fighting not only the Germans, but the age-old enemy, the sea, in this World War II action drama. 127 min. DVD 3738

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The Dam Busters (UK, 1954)

Director: Michael Anderson. Cast: Richard Todd, Michael Redgrave, Ursula Jeans, Basil Sydney, Patrick Barr. Tells the true World War II story of how the Royal Air Force 617 Squadron carried out a raid on three of the most important dams in Germany. 125 min. DVD 3741

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Destination Tokyo (1943)

Director: Delmer Daves. Cast: Cary Grant, John Garfield, Alan Hale, John Ridgley, Dane Clark, Robert Hutton, John Forsythe, Tom Tully. Twenty-four hours out of San Francisco, submarine captain Cassidy unseals his top-secret orders and reads two fateful words: Destination Tokyo. This is a powerful and sometimes humorous portrait of American submarine service men during WWII. Its also a suspense drama as Japanese Zeros rain death and Cassidy must somehow slip his sub through the mines of Tokyo Bay and then blast his way out to the safety of the open seas. Special DVD features: Wartime short: Gem of the ocean; Grant trailer gallery. features: Wartime short: Gem of the ocean; Grant trailer gallery. 136 min. DVD 8215; vhs 999:1578

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Devils on the Doorstep (Gui zi lai le) (China, 2000)

Director: Jiang Wen. Cast: Jiang Wen, Jiang Hongbo, Kagawa Teruyuki, Yuan Ding, Cong Zhijun. Banned in China, Jiang Wen's ravishingly photographed anti-war epic is set in 1945 in Japanese-occupied rural China where a peasant is forced to shelter two prisoners: one Japanese who wants to die, and his Chinese interpreter who wants to live. 139 min. DVD 3748

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Dirty Dozen (1967)

Director: Robert Aldrich. Cast: Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes, Richard Jaeckel, George Kennedy, Trini Lopez, Ralph Meeker, Robert Ryan, Telly Savalas, Clint Walker, Robert Webber. A World War II drama in which an army major selects 12 men convicted for crimes of violence and offers them their freedom if they will complete a dangerous mission behind Nazi lines. 150 min. DVD 5651; vhs 999:783

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Arnold, Edwin T. The films and career of Robert Aldrich University of Tennessee Press, c1986. (MAIN: PN1998.A3 A559271 1986; MOFF: PN1998.A3 A55927 1986)

Taybur, Mex. "New Issues with The Dirty Dozen." Fiction International, vol. 32, pp. 115-19, 1999.

Williams, Tony. Body and soul : the cinematic vision of Robert Aldrich Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2004.(MAIN: PN1998.3.A44 W55 2004)

Williams, Tony. "The dirty dozen : the contradictory nature of screen violence." In: Action and adventure cinema / edited by Yvonne Tasker. London ; New York : Routledge, 2004. (MAIN: PN1995.9.A3 A28 2004)

Dive Bomber (1941)

Director: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Errol Flynn, Fred MacMurray, Ralph Bellamy, Alexis Smith, Robert Armstrong, Regis Toomey, Allen Jenkins. A new flight surgeon and a Navy pilot overcome personal differences to work on solving the problem of blackout-inducing G-forces and high altitude sickness. The real stars of the film are the pre-World War II Navy aircraft as well as the USS Enterprise, the nation's most decorated WWII ship, featured in full color. Special features: New featurette: Dive Bomber, Keep 'Em in the Air ; theatrical trailer. 132 min. DVD 8053

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Enemy at the Gates (2001)

Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud. Cast: Joseph Fiennes, Jude Law, Rachel Weisz, Bob Hoskins, Ed Harris, Ron Perlman, Gabriel Marshall-Thomson. Based on true events during the Battle of Stalingrad. Under attack the citizens of Stalingrad are mounting a brave resistance, spurred by their hero, Vasilii Zaitsev, an expert sniper. To stop Vasilii, the Germans dispatch their best sniper, Major Konig to Stalingrad. As the city burns Vasilii and Konig begin a cunning game of cat and mouse, waging a private war for courage, honor and country. 131 min. DVD 1006

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Fires on the Plain (Nobi) (Japan, 1959)

Director: Kon Ichikawa. Cast: Eiji Funakoshi, Osamu Takizawa, Mickey Curtis. In the most powerful of all Japanese anti-war films, acts of cannibalism bring home the terrifying brutality of war. Japanese troops are in retreat in the Philippines. Supplies run out and discipline crumbles. 105 min. DVD 8423; vhs 999:1311

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Hauser, William B. "Fires on the Plain: The Human Cost of the Pacific War." In: Reframing Japanese Cinema: Authorship, Genre, History / edited by Arthur Nolletti, Jr. and David Desser. pp: 193-209. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, c1992. (Main Stack PN1993.5.J3.R44 1992; Moffitt PN1993.5.J3.R44 1992)

Five Graves to Cairo(1943)

Directed by Billy Wilder. Cast: Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff, Erich von Stroheim. World War II drama set in the Sahara about a British spy who takes refuge in a hotel and assumes the identity of a dead manservant. Soon, General Rommel makes the inn his General Staff headquarters. Now, with the threat of discovery hanging over his head, the spy learns that the identity he has claimed owes a debt to the Nazis -- and they expect him to pay up. 97 min. 999:2705

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Flags of Our Fathers(2006)

Directed by Clint Eastwood. Cast: Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford, Adam Beach, John Benjamin Hickey, Barry Pepper, Jamie Bell, Paul Walker, Joseph Cross, Benjamin Walker, Tom McCarthy, George Grizzard, Harve Presnell, George Hearn, Len Cariou. The story of the five Marines and one Navy corpsman that were forever immortalized as a symbol of WWII by raising the American flag at the battle of Iwo Jima. When Joe Rosenthal's photograph of the event becomes a symbol of hope for the families at home, the three surviving men are pulled from combat and sent on a tour across America to raise desperately-needed bond money. It is a trip that brings out the truths of both that symbolic act, and of their lives during war. 132 min. DVD 7138

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Flying Leathernecks (1951)

Director: Nicholas Ray. Cast: John Wayne, Robert Ryan, and Jay C. Flippen. A tough, unpopular Marine officer leads a fighter squadron in the desperate battle to hold Guadalcanal during World War II. 102 min. 999:795

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Flying Tigers (1942)

Director: David Miller. Cast: John Wayne, John Carroll, Anna Lee, Paul Kelly, Mae Clarke, Addison Richards, Edmund MacDonald, Bill Shirley, Tom Neal, Malcolm "Bud" McTaggart, David Bruce, Chester Gan, James Dodd, Gregg Barton, John James. Jim Gordon commands a unit of the famed Flying Tigers, the American Volunteer Group which fought the Japanese in China before America's entry into World War II. Gordon must send his outnumbered band of fighter pilots out against overwhelming odds while juggling the disparate personalities and problems of his fellow flyers. In particular, he must handle the difficulties created by a reckless hot-shot pilot named Woody Jason, who not only wants to fight a one-man war but to waltz off with Gordon's girlfriend. Based upon the true story of the American pilots known as "The Flying Tigers". 101 min. DVD 9198; vhs 999:1364

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49th Parallel (UK, 1941)

Director: Michael Powell. Cast: Leslie Howard, Laurence Olivier, Raymond Massey, Anton Walbrook, Eric Portman, Raymond Lovell, Niall MacGinnis, Glynis Johns, Finlay Currie. When a Nazi U-boat crew headed by the ruthless Lieutenant Hirth is stranded in Canada during the thick of World War II, the men evade capture by hiding out in a series of rural communities before trying to cross the border into the still-neutral United States. Special features: Audio commentary by film and music historian Bruce Eder; "The volunteer"; a 1943 Powell and Pressburger war-effort short staring Ralph Richardson; "A pretty British affair": a BBC documentary on the careers of Powell and Pressburger, which consider their WWII-era collaborations and features rare footage of the filmmakers together; excerpts from Michael Powell's audio dictations for his autobiography; original theatrical trailer; new essay by fil scholar Charles Barr and Powell's 1941 premiere speech. 123 min. DVD 7438

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From Here to Eternity (1953)

Director: Fred Zinnemann. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Frank Sinatra, Donna Reed, Ernest Borgnine. A drama about life in the Army in the days just prior to World War II. Shows the effect of Army discipline on an individualistic former boxing champion who defies attempts by officers and men to coerce him into joining the company's boxing team. Includes actual documentary film footage of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. 118 min. DVD 918; VHS 999:988

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Go For Broke! (1951)

Director: Robert Pirosh. Cast: Cast: Van Johnson, Gianna Maria Canale, Warner Anderson, Lane Nakano, Henry Nakamura, George Miki, Henry Oyasato. "Go for broke" was the combat slogan of one of World War II's most unusual fighting teams. The 442nd Regiment, comprised of Nisei - loyal Americans of Japanese ancestry - exhibits heroism far beyond the call of duty, overcoming the Nazis as well as the extreme prejudice of the white Americans who cannot accept "Japs" on their side. In this historically based drama a bigoted lieutenant rides the Nisei hard in basic training, creating enormous hostility - but also resulting in a highly-disciplined fighting force that proves to be a major factor in the liberation of Italy and France. 91 min. DVD 2879; vhs 999:1150

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Fujitani, T. "Go for Broke, the Movie: Japanese American Soldiers in U.S. National, Military, and Racial Discourses." In: Perilous memories : the Asia-Pacific War(s) / edited by T. Fujitani, Geoffrey M. White, and Lisa Yoneyama. pp: 267-95. Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2001. (UCB Anthropol DS777.53 .P44 2001)

Nishie, Joy Y., Engstrom, Erika. "Breaking' Hollywood's Stereotype of the Japanese American: The Significance of the Film Go for Broke!" Popular Culture Review. 11(2):17-28. 2000 Summer

Great Escape (1963)

Director: John Sturges. Cast: Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, James Donald, Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence, James Coburn. Based on true events, a group of allied prisoners of war are all put in an 'escape proof' camp. Their leader decides to try to take out several hundred all at once. The first half of the film is played for comedy as the prisoners mostly outwit their jailers to dig the escape tunnel. The second half is high adventure as they use boats, trains and planes to get out of occupied Europe. 173 min. DVD Special features: (Disc 1): Audio commentary by director John Sturges; cast & crew bios; trivia track -- (Disc 2) documentaries "The great escape: the untold story" and "The real Virgil Hilts: a man called Jones"; five featurettes: "Return to the Great escape", "Preparations for freedom", "A standing ovation", "Bringing fact to fiction", and "The flight to freedom"; photo gallery; original theatrical trailer. DVD 8382; vhs 999:833:1&2

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Guadalcanal Diary

Director: Lewis Seiler. Cast: Preston Foster, Lloyd Nolan, William Bendix, Richard Conte, Anthony Quinn, Richard Jaeckel. One of the greatest war movies of all time, the story follows one squad of Marines through the bloody assaults on the Solomon Islands during the opening stages of the war in the South Pacific. From the book by Richard Tregaskis. 93 min. DVD 8313; vhs 999:1306

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Gung Ho! (1943)

Director: Ray Enright. Cast: Randolph Scott, Robert Mitchum, Rod Cameron, Noah Beery, Jr., Alan Curtis, J. Carroll Naish, Sam Levene, Milburn Stone, Grace McDonald. A dramatization of the true adventures of Colonel Evans Carlson and the two hundred men of the Marine Raider Battalion who embarked on a death-defying mission to take Makin Island in the Pacific, on August 17th, 1942. This raid was one of the early major American victories of World War II. 88 min. DVD 8312; vhs 999:1580

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Hangmen Also Die (1943)

Director: Fritz Lang. Fictionalized account of a man who assassinates Reinhard Heydrich, a top Nazi official, and of his interaction with the townspeople in Prague. 131 min. DVD 170; vhs 999:719

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Hart's War (2002)

Directed by Gregory Hoblit. Cast: Bruce Willis, Colin Farrell, Terrence Howard, Cole Hauser, Marcel Iures, Linus Roache. 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 Tuskegee 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. 125 min. DVD 1209

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Hitler's Madman (1943)

Directed by Douglas Sirk. Cast: Patricia Morison, John Carradine, Alan Curtis, Howard Freeman, Ralph Morgan, Ava Gardner. A dramatization of the assassination by Czech partisans of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi SS commander, and the reprisals inflicted by the Nazis on the Czechs. 84 min. 999:3628

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Hope and Glory (UK, 1987)

Director, John Boorman. Cast: Sebastian Rice Edwards, Geraldine Muir, Sarah Miles, David Hayman, Sammi Davis, Derrick O'Connor. Set against the terrors of a London torn apart by the onset of WWII, tells the story of 7 yr. old Billy who finds his childhood to be a time of great danger and even greater discovery. From thunderous bombings and the constant threat of Luftwaffe air raids to the landing of a German paratrooper in his neighborhood and the joyous obliteration of his much-hated school, Billy's young life is shaped by the one positive thing war has brought him: liberation from the ordinary. 113 min. DVD 1714

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How I Won the War (UK, 1967)

Director: Richard Lester. Cast: Michael Crawford, John Lennon, Roy Kinnear, Lee Montague. Black comedy about war, revolving around an inept and idiotic lieutenant who is first assigned to North Africa to construct a cricket pitch in the middle of the desert, and then to Europe to capture a bridge over the Rhine, which he accomplishes by making a deal with a German officer. 111 min. 999:2919

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In Which We Serve (UK, 1942)

Director: Noel Coward; Cast: Noel Coward, John Mills, Bernard Miles, Celia Johnson, Michael Wilding, Richard Attenborough, Daniel Massey, Juliet Mills. When the British destroyer H.M.S. Torrin is torpedoed in WWII, a small lifeboat of survivors cling to their memories and their courage in this spellbinding tribute to the human spirit which is based on true events. As told through flashback as they dodge enemy fire and pray for rescue, the survivors remember their loved ones left behind and shipmates who once stood beside them as they recall the ship's war-time career. 96 min. DVD 2868; vhs 999:2304

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It Happened Here (UK, 1964)

Directors: Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo. Cast: Pauline Murray, Sebastian Shaw, Nicolette Bernard, Bart Allison, Stella Kemball. In a rewrite of history, Germany has won World War II and Nazi troops occupy England. Pauline, an apolitical nurse, hopes that normal life will return to England. It is only after she accepts a nursing job with the Nazis that she slowly realizes the horrifying reality behind the occupation. This film tells the story of what might have happened if the Allied effort had fa