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"At 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861, Confederate gunners launced artillery shots at Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, igniting a conflict that would engulf the entire nation and become the bloodiest war in American History. From the political and military events leading up to the battle, to the amazing fact that no soldier from either side died in the 34-hour fight, to a "gentleman's agreement" surrender and orderly departure of the Federal troops"--Cover....
43) Father Goose
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Working as a spotter for the Navy on a south sea island during WWII, a man rescues a ship of 7 schoolgirls and their pretty teacher.
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Dangerous missions relives the epic battle that followed through recollections from the front, commentary from military historians and extensive combat footage. Operation Detachment was supposed to last three or four days. It turned into an epic, 36-day struggle that saw nearly 28,000 soldiers killed--6,821 Americans and some 21,000 Japanese. It remains the bloodiest battle in the history of the US Marine Corps.
45) Muse of fire
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"A documentary on the National Endowment for the Arts project Operation homecoming: writing the wartime experience."--Container.
49) Gung ho!
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Based on the true story of Colonel Evans Carlson and two hundred Marine Raiders embarking on a death-defying mission to take Makin Island from the Japanese. This raid on the important Pacific Island was one of the early major victories of World War II.
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Hitler's last days in an underground bunker give insight to his special breed of madness. The Fuehrer sits with chief leaders on his 56th birthday and watches the collapse of Nazi Germany while eating chocolate cake. As the reports of advancing Red Army troops reach him, Hitler is married to his mistress, Eva Braun. The guests are each given a silver-framed picture of The Fuehrer and two cyanide capsules.
52) The Red Baron
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Europe, 1916: Baron Manfred von Richthofen is a crack pilot of the German aerial combat forces, a legend in his own time, a hero at home, and a man both feared and respected by the enemy. Von Richthofen and his fellow officers see their duels in the sky as tactical, almost sportsmanlike, challenges. But, when he falls in love with Kate, she opens his eyes to the fact that there is more to war than dogfights and he becomes aware of his role in the...
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Domination of the air during WWII was a critical element to ultimate victory. From the deadly dogfights during the Battle of Britain to the harrowing daylight raids over fortress Europe to the daring high altitude bombing runs over Japan, this is the story of the men and machines that faced off every day in a deadly struggle for freedom.
55) Casablanca
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In World War II Morocco, seething with European refugees desperate for passage to neutral Lisbon, only a world-weary and bitter nightclub owner can help his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.
56) The zooverse
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Notorious space villains, Grimm Slice and Space Slime, are wreaking havoc in space once again, ambushing innocent space travelers, and when bad guy Boo Boo Squeal joins the fray, the Zooverse has never been in more danger!
58) The book thief
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Based upon the best-selling novel. The profoundly moving story of a girl who transforms the lives of those around her during World War II, Germany. Although Liesel is illiterate when she is adopted by a German couple, her adoptive father encourages her to learn to read. Ultimately, the power of words helps Liesel and Max, a Jew hiding in the family's home, escape from the events unfolding around them.
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"A top-secret division of the CIA known as 'the Firm' has built a hi-tech, weapons-laden new helicopter called 'Airwolf', but after the chopper's test flight, the craft's twisted creator, Dr. Moffet, turns the lethal firepower onto the flight tower, before taking off in the chopper with his two co-pilots to Libya. Archangel, the head of the division who built Airwolf, is badly wounded in the assault but not out of the game, and calls upon ace combat...
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In World War II, two historic Allied invasions played key roles in the defeat of the Axis powers. In this gripping DVD, witness the magnificent D-Day invasion of Normandy, when 150,000 brave soldiers stormed ashore to begin their march across Europe. Then discover the details surrounding another great invasion, the Beachhead at Anzio, in Italy. Here, a daring and aggressive maneuver cut the German lines between Rome and Cassino, and the Allied heroics...
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