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Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The account of a Dutch girl growing up in Nazi-occupied Holland and her family who helped hide Jewish people. The account of a Dutch girl growing up in Nazi-occupied Holland & her family who helped hide Jewish people. Corrie Ten Boom stood naked with her older sister Betsie, watching a concentration camp matron beating a prisoner."Oh, the poor woman," Corrie cried."Yes. May God forgive her," Betsie replied. And, once again, Corrie realized that it...
2) The 12th man
Publisher
Shout/Scream Factory
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Breathtaking action adventure that tells an incredible true life story of heroism and a man's unbreakable will to live.
Series
Studio classic volume 15
Language
English
Description
An extraordinary portrayal of humanity set during one of history's most inhumane periods. Features Millie Perkins as the insightful 13-year-old biographer of her family's two-year hiding in an Amsterdam attic. At first, the strong-willed teenager embraces her fugitive lifestyle as an adventure. But in time, the ever-increasing fear of discovery and close quarters prove nearly unbearable for the eight personalities in hiding.
Special features: "Diary...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
Description
Its World War II and Charlotte has been trained to be an undercover courier for England. She straps on a parachute and falls from the sky into Vichy France. There she will assist the French Resistance in its defiance of Nazi occupation. Once behind enemy lines, she keeps secret her personal mission to find her lover, an RAF pilot downed over France.
6) Das Boot
Language
Deutsch
Description
At the height of World War II, a young submarine crew heads out to sea on a top-secret mission that all but ensures most will never make it home alive. Ordered to patrol the Atlantic and destroy an allied armada bringing supplies to Britain, these raw recruits must band together, bracing themselves against a depth-charge assault from an unseen enemy. Can the captain and his crew summon the strength to escape their watery grave?
7) M
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
Deutsch
Description
A psychopathic murderer of young girls terrorizes a German city and the contrasting worlds of the police and the underworld are juxtaposed as they both resolve to hunt, capture, and try the murderer.
Language
English
Description
Free spirited ex-G.I. and unemployed construction worker Homer Smith stops at a remote farm in the Arizona desert to get water when his car overheats. The farm is being worked by a group of German refugee Catholic nuns, headed by the strict Mother Maria, who believes that Homer has been sent by God to build a much-needed church in the desert.
14) Into the white
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
At the beginning of World War II, a hostile chance encounter in the skies above the harsh Norwegian wilderness leaves two aircraft -- one British, one German -- shot down in a remote and isolated region. By strange coincidence, the crews seek shelter in the same cabin. They must battle to survive the brutal winter in order to get back to the war and to fighting one another. Although war has made them enemies, as the days go by animosity proves hard...
15) Resistance
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Before he was the world-famous mime Marcel Marceau, he was Marcel Mangel, an aspiring Jewish actor who joined the French Resistance to save the lives of thousands of children orphaned at the hands of the Nazis. A compelling drama about a group of unsung heroes who put themselves in harm's way to rise above hatred and oppression during World War II.
18) Ace of hearts
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Officer Daniel Harding is a distinguished member of the towns K-9 police unit. His partner and best friend is Ace, a German shepherd. When Ace is accused of commiting a crime, Daniel and Julia, his junior sleuth daughter, set out to prove their heroic dog is innocent. Discover that with love and determination, anything is possible.