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Film, VideoLes miserables Catalog Record Only "Henri Fortin is poor and iliterate former boxer. Ziman is rich Jewish lawyer from Paris. During WWII they meet when Fortin agrees to drive Ziman's family to Switzerland. Intrigued by Victor Hugo's novel "Les Miserables", Fortin asks the Zimans to read that book to him during the travel. Before the end of movie every main character would see his character in situations similar to...- Contributor: Hugo, Victor - Boujenah, Michel - Films 13 - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Belmondo, Jean-Paul - Martines, Alessandra - Société Nationale Télévision Française 1 - Lelouch, Claude - Warner Bros. Pictures (1969
- Date: 1995
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Film, VideoWarbirds of WWII. Vol. 2
Warbirds of World War Two Catalog Record Only Examines three of America's top fighter planes and the roles they had in World War II.- Contributor: Dastar Corp - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Fergus - Timeless Media Group
- Date: 2006
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Film, VideoEdward Brooke oral history, National Visionary Leadership Project
Edward Brooke interview conducted by Renee Poussaint | Interview with Edward Brooke Catalog Record Only The interview includes Edward Brooke's memories of growing up in Washington, D.C., attending Howard University and joining the army during World War II. He recalls attending Boston University Law School, his early career as a lawyer and his unsuccessful run for Massachusetts Secretary of State. He discusses his work as Attorney General of Massachusetts and as U.S. Senator, his identity as an African American...- Contributor: Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Poussaint, Renee - National Visionary Leadership Project - Brooke, Edward W. (Edward William)
- Date: 2004
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Film, VideoHistoric context : Merizo historic sites
Merizo historic sites Catalog Record Only PA0001784877 U.S. Copyright Office Title from container. Narrator: Rlene Santos Steffy. Producer/designer, historian, translator, writer, photographer, videographer: Rlene Santos Steffy. "Project funded by the Historic Preservation Fund Grant, from the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service"--Container. Sources used: videodisc container; Copyright catalog online; Amazon WWW site, viewed May 22, 2020.- Contributor: Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Steffy, Rlene Santos
- Date: 2010
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Film, VideoChŭngŏn kwa munsŏ ro pon "wianbu" p'ihae silt'ae
증언 과 문서 로 본 "위안부" 피해 실태 / | At head of title: T'ŭkchip Catalog Record Only Presents lectures on Korean comfort women during World War II based on testimonials and sources.- Contributor: Han'guk Kyoyuk Pangsong Kongsa - Sŏ, Hyŏn-Ju
- Date: 2018
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Film, VideoNathaniel Hawthorne Jones oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Claiborne County, Mississippi, 2015 December 03 Nathaniel Hawthorne Jones was born in Claiborne County, Mississippi in 1914. He recalls his involvement in the Civil Rights Movement, specifically the Port Gibson Movement, in Mississippi. He discusses being drafted into the Navy in 1944 and the racial discrimination he experienced in his role as a Steward Mate. During the Port Gibson Movement, he was involved in the Port Gibson Merchant Boycotts, organizing...- Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Bishop, John Melville - Jones, Nathaniel Hawthorne - Crosby, Emilye
- Date: 2015-01-01
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Film, VideoThe last days of WWII. Episode 25, August 5-11, 1945
August 5-11, 1945 Catalog Record Only U.S. planes raid Tarumizi, America drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the Soviet government declares war on Japan.- Contributor: History Channel (Television Network) - Stebner, Greg - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Nugus/Martin Productions, Ltd
- Date: 2005
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Film, VideoThe great ships. The PT boats
PT boats Catalog Record Only An examination of the WWII era PT (patrol torpedo) boat.- Contributor: Perpetual Motion Films - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Fulkerson, Lee - History Channel (Television Network) - Non Fiction Films Inc - Markham, Monte
- Date: 1996
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Film, VideoThe battle of the bulge Catalog Record Only "The Ardennes Offensive (16 December 1944 - 25 January 1945) was a major German offensive through the forested Ardennes Mountains region of Belgium, France and Luxembourg. The Germans mounted a surprise attack against the relatively inexperienced First U.S. Army, during heavy overcast weather, when the Allies' strong air forces were grounded. The Germans were ultimately defeated and were left severely depleted of men and...
- Contributor: Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Pen & Sword Digital
- Date: 2013
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Film, VideoBritish War Office official news-film. [No.] 49
British War Office official news-film Catalog Record Only Copyright: unknown. British and Canadian release dates per Public Archives of Canada/Dawson City newsreel data sheets. They cite Canadian moving picture digest and Kinematograph and lantern weekly, v. 29, no. 587, p. 95. MAVIS 380; British War Office official news film. [No.] 49. A serial number of 360-1 is carried on the interior titles of this film. Per Public Archives of Canada/Dawson City file...- Contributor: Public Archives of Canada/Dawson City Collection (Library of Congress) - Great Britain. Ministry of Information - Specialty Film Import Ltd - Great Britain. War Office
- Date: 1918
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Film, VideoBattle stations. Drop zone.
Drop zone Catalog Record Only Using archival footage, reenactments, and interviews, tells of the most important aircraft design in the history of aviation--the Douglas DC-3. Discusses the DC-3's function as the standard transport aircraft for the Allies during WWII, when the aircraft was known as the C-47 and by other names. Recounts its role in the nighttime airborne assault on Europe that began the D-Day invasion.- Contributor: Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Faulkner, James
- Date: 2001
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Film, VideoFührer--seduction of a nation Catalog Record Only Interviews with persons close to Hitler, former Nazis, psychiatrists and others offer insights into Hitler's motives and how he managed to win the adoration of the German people.
- Contributor: LC Off-Air Taping Collection (Library of Congress) - Howard, Alan - White, Stephen
- Date: 1991
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Film, VideoSuite française Catalog Record Only Based on the best-selling book by Irene Nemirovsky and set during the German occupation of France in the 1940s, Lucille Angellier awaits news from her prisoner of war husband. As Parisian refugees pour into their small town, soon followed by a regiment of German soldiers who take up residence in the villagers' homes, Lucile's life is turned upside down--further complicated by the arrival of...
- Contributor: Weinstein Company - Jones, Rael - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Bbc Films - Riley, Sam - Wilson, Ruth - Wilson, Lambert - Brémond, Romain - Entertainment One (Firm : Canada) - Némirovsky, Irène ... Weinstein Company - Jones, Rael - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Bbc Films - Riley, Sam - Wilson, Ruth - Wilson, Lambert - Brémond, Romain - Entertainment One (Firm : Canada) - Némirovsky, Irène - Charman, Matt - Dibb, Saul - Scott-Thomas, Kristin - Schoenaerts, Matthias - Dickens, Chris - Grau, Eduard - Scope Pictures (Firm) - Tf1 Droits Audiovisuels (Firm) - Canal+ Group (Firm) - Robbie, Margot - Kuhn, Michael - Williams, Michelle
- Date: 2015
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Film, VideoTreasures III : social issues in American film, 1900-1934
Social issues in American film, 1900-1934 | Treasures 3 : | Treasures from American film archives III: Catalog Record Only Anthology of 48 films from American film archives presents an array of features, short documentaries, newsreel segments, serial chapters, public service announcements, and cartoons exploring social issues during the years 1900 through 1934.- Contributor: Image Entertainment (Firm) - National Film Preservation Foundation Collection (Library of Congress) - Simmon, Scott - National Film Preservation Foundation (U.S.) - Marks, Martin Miller
- Date: 2007
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Film, VideoFatima Catalog Record Only Focuses on reported miraculous occurrences and prophecies in the village of Fátima, Portugal in 1917 and connects them to massive world events including World War I and the Russian Revolution. James H. Billington speaks briefly (ca. 1 min.) about the Russian Revolution.
- Contributor: Muggeridge, Malcolm - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Newhouse, Shelby - O'Connor, Thomas P. - Montalbán, Ricardo - Billington, James H. - St. Gabriel Media, Inc - Von Hildebrand, Alice
- Date: 1984
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Film, VideoJakob the liar
Jacob the liar Catalog Record Only During World War II in Nazi occupied Poland, poor Jewish café owner Jakob accidentally overhears a forbidden radio news bulletin reporting Soviet military successes against German forces. Jakob spreads the word through the ghetto of the Russian army's progress. When he realizes the effect of the news, he begins inventing stories and passing them along, creating fictional war reports that suggest that the occupation...- Contributor: Williams, Robin - Schreiber, Liev - Becker, Jurek - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Haft, Steven - Mueller-Stahl, Armin - Taylor-Gordon, Hannah - Decoin, Didier - Kassovitz, Peter - Williams, Marsha Garces
- Date: 1999
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Film, VideoWarbirds of WWII. Vol. 1
Warbirds of World War Two Catalog Record Only Examines four of America's top fighter planes and the roles they had in World War II.- Contributor: Dastar Corp - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Fergus - Timeless Media Group
- Date: 2006
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Film, VideoThe Purple Heart Catalog Record Only Four months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, a group of American flyers take part in the first U.S. air retaliation attack against Japan and crash-land into history's most astounding prisoner-of-war story. The "Doolittle Raiders" are put on trial in a Japanese civil court, not as P.O.W.s, but as criminals charged with murder. As this travesty of justice proceeds, the airmen realize that their...
- Contributor: Andrews, Dana - Zanuck, Darryl Francis - Cady, Jerry - Conte, Richard - Barry, Donald - Milestone, Lewis - Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc - Crossman, Melville - O'Shea, Kevin - Granger, Farley - Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
- Date: 2007
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Film, VideoHitori hitori no senjō
ひとりひとりの戦場 / | Each and every battlefield Catalog Record Only "Through interviews with various people who personally experienced the battlefront including former American soldiers and the last Zero Fighter pilot, Harada Kaname, this documentary delves into the dark side of war. ... From the time of the Sino-Japanese War to the Pacific War, Harada Kaname, now 99-years-old, had participated in the bombing of Nanking and the attack on Pearl Harbor. He and the voices...- Contributor: Kusuyama, Tadayuki
- Date: 2015
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Film, VideoDead men's secrets. German death trap
German death trap Catalog Record Only See how British aviators defeated an aerial defense system that stretched from Denmark to Paris.- Contributor: May, Aaron - Newark, Timothy - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - History Channel (Television Network) - Nugus/Martin Productions, Ltd - Martin, Jonathan
- Date: 2003
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Film, VideoMe and the Colonel Catalog Record Only Story of a Jew attempting to flee before the advancing Nazis in 1940 France, in the company of an antisemitic Polish officer.
- Contributor: Goetz, William - Froeschel, George - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Glenville, Peter - Columbia Pictures Corporation - Behrman, S. N. (Samuel Nathaniel) - Werfel, Franz - Jürgens, Curt - Kaye (Danny)/FINE (Sylvia) Collection (Library of Congress) - Kaye, Danny
- Date: 1958
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Film, VideoThe American experience. Liberators--fighting on two fronts in World War II Catalog Record Only Focuses on regiments of black soldiers during World War II and the racism to which they were subjected. Shows the horrors of the concentration camps from which the soldiers liberated other victims of racism--Jews, gypsies, etc. Uses both archival footage and interviews with former soldiers and concentration camp survivors.
- Contributor: LC Off-Air Taping Collection (Library of Congress) - Rosenblum, Nina - Miles, William - Washington, Denzel - Potter, Lou - Crowley, John C. - McCullough, David G. - Allentuck, Daniel V.
- Date: 1992
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Film, VideoHammer Films : the ultimate collection Catalog Record Only The revenge of Frankenstein: Having escaped execution and assumed an alias, Baron Frankenstein transplants his deformed underling's brain into a perfect body, but the effectiveness of the process and the secret of his identity soon begin to unravel. The curse of the mummy's tomb: British archaeologists and their American investor ship an Egyptian mummy's sarcophagus to London but someone has the amulet to revive...
- Contributor: Pastell, George - Lemkow, Tutte - Baker, Stanley - Keys, Anthony Nelson - Aylmer, Felix - Braden, Bernard - Lawrence, H. L. (Henry Lionel) - Watford, Gwen - Richfield, Edwin - Brousse, Liliane ... Pastell, George - Lemkow, Tutte - Baker, Stanley - Keys, Anthony Nelson - Aylmer, Felix - Braden, Bernard - Lawrence, H. L. (Henry Lionel) - Watford, Gwen - Richfield, Edwin - Brousse, Liliane - Dawson, Anthony - O'Shaughnessy, Brian - Greene, Richard - Holt, Seth - Myers, Peter - Crutchley, Rosalie - Leggatt, Alison - Gwynn, Michael - Eyck, Peter Van - Monlaur, Yvonne - Vernon, Richard - Goodman, David Zelag - Sangster, Jimmy - Worth, Brian - Carreras, Michael - Clark, Fred - Massie, Paul - Mill Creek Entertainment - Rolfe, Guy - Keir, Andrew - Macginnis, Niall - Addams, Dawn - Lee, Christopher - Lindfors, Viveca - Scott, Janette - Sachs, Leonard - Hyman, Kenneth - Paul, John - Castle, William - Todd, Ann - Stassino, Paul - Carey, Macdonald - Bushell, Anthony - Fitzgerald, Walter - Jones, Evan - Guest, Val - Möhner, Carl - Gilling, John - Hunter, John M. (John Melville) - Underdown, Edward - Cilento, Diane - Field, Shirley-Anne - Dillon, Robert - McKern, Leo - Corbett, Glenn - Blaisdell, Anne - Goodliffe, Michael - Matthews, Francis - Green, Nigel - Morell, André - Rosay, Françoise - Toone, Geoffrey - Cushing, Peter - Shelley, Barbara - White, Jon Manchip - Sutherland, Donald - Matheson, Richard - Greifer, Lewis - Lewis, Ronald - Grenfell, Joyce - Mankowitz, Wolf - Knapp, Budd - Serret, John - Miller, Mandy - Jackson, Gordon - Cole, Sidney - Kaufmann, Maurice - Reed, Oliver - Bird, Norman - Poston, Tom - Maitland, Marne - Mathews, Kerwin - Houston, Donald - Frankel, Cyril - Cuthbertson, Allan - Ege, Julie - Arne, Peter - Gray, Nadja - St. John, Betta - Joyce, Yootha - Narizzano, Silvio - Brown, Phil - Lawrence, Quentin - Gayson, Eunice - Landi, Marla - Dauphin, Claude - Hammer Film Productions - Vaughan, Peter - Kossoff, David - Cruickshank, Andrew - Hinds, Anthony - Ahn, Philip - Godsell, Vanda - Parke, Macdonald - Solon, Ewen - Fisher, Terence - Morgan, Terence - Morley, Robert - Lotis, Dennis - Green, Guy - Losey, Joseph - Allen, Patrick - Hackney, Alan - Strasberg, Susan - Garis, Roger - Powers, Stefanie - Priestley, J. B. (John Boynton) - Nagy, Bill - Knox, Alexander - Pasco, Richard - Johnson, Fred - Oxley, David - Chantler, David T. - Bankhead, Tallulah - Thorn, Ronald Scott - Gillies, Jacques - De Wolff, Francis - Chaffey, Don - Gwillim, Jack - Howard, Ronald
- Date: 2020
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Film, VideoThe night of fools
Leil ha-fetaʼim Catalog Record Only "The story of Algerian Jewry's Anti-Nazi Resistance, which on November 8th 1942 succeeded (with only 400 young men) in taking control of the capital city of Algiers, where there were about 25,000 French pro-Nazi soldiers. They kept control for one night, and handed over the city to the Americans, who landed on the city's shores the next morning"--Container.- Contributor: Beladina, Paul - Sheder Productions - Daniel, Jean - Kimchi, Rami - Danan, Maxime - Zermati, Jacques - Peauphilet, Bernard - Israel. Rashut Ha-Shidur - Timsit, Martial - King, Tammy ... Beladina, Paul - Sheder Productions - Daniel, Jean - Kimchi, Rami - Danan, Maxime - Zermati, Jacques - Peauphilet, Bernard - Israel. Rashut Ha-Shidur - Timsit, Martial - King, Tammy - Ben Amram, Kalia - Israel and Judaica Section Video Collection (Library of Congress) - Kosh, Yoav - Molkhou, Paul - Abulker, Jose - Sitbon, Claude - Atlan, Paula - Taouss, Maurice - Baraness, Ilan
- Date: 2014
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Film, VideoThe Pacific Catalog Record Only "The Pacific tracks the real-life journeys of three U.S. Marines--Robert Leckie (James Badge Dale), Eugene Sledge (Joe Mazzello), and John Basilone (Jon Seda)--across the vast canvas of the Pacific theater during World War II. The miniseries follows these men and their fellow Marines from their first battle with the Japanese on Guadalcanal, through the rain forests of Cape Gloucester and the strongholds of Peleliu,...
- Contributor: Playtone (Firm) - Mazzello, Joseph - Dale, James Badge - Seda, Jon - Dreamworks Pictures (2008- ) - LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress) - Hbo Films
- Date: 2010