DVDs
To borrow one of these films, ask for it using its DVD VIDEO number at the Education, Music and Media desk on Bracken Library's lower level.
Dunkirk by Call Number: DVD VIDEO 12945Publication Date: 2017Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire and France are surrounded by the German Army, and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II.
Flags of Our Fathers by Call Number: DVD VIDEO 2674Publication Date: 2006The story of the five Marines and one Navy corpsman that were immortalized as a symbol of WWII by raising the American flag at the battle of Iwo Jima. The three surviving men, Rene Gagnon, John Bradley and Ira Hayes, are 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.
Europa Europa by Call Number: DVD VIDEO 1106Publication Date: 1990A film based on the true story of Solomon Perel, a German Jewish teenager who survived World War II by living as a Nazi for seven years.
The Monuments Men by Call Number: DVD VIDEO 12927Publication Date: 2014An unlikely World War II platoon is tasked by FDR to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their rightful owners.
Windtalkers by Call Number: DVD VIDEO 1412Publication Date: 2002Joe Enders is a traumatized Marine with the directive to watch Ben Yahzee, a Navajo soldier who can speak the only code not broken by the Japanese during the war, a code based on the near-dead Navajo language. Enders' commands are to kill Yahzee if caught by the enemy to protect the U.S. military's secret code, but the bond created between the two causes Enders to question that directive.
Casablanca by Call Number: DVD VIDEO 279Publication Date: 1942During World War II, Rick's Café in Casablanca is a center for war refugees awaiting visas for America. Rick abandons his cynicism to help an old love escape the Nazis with her underground leader husband.
Mister Roberts by Call Number: DVD VIDEO 8016Publication Date: 1955The monotonous non-combat duty of a fun-loving crew is enlivened by a feud between the petty, intolerant martinet of a captain and an impetuous, highly-respected cargo officer whose continuous efforts to get a transfer to combat duty are blocked by the captain.
Red Tails by Call Number: DVD VIDEO 10181Publication Date: 2012In Italy, 1944, as the war takes its toll on Allied forces in Europe, a squadron of black pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen are finally given the chance to prove themselves in the sky, even as they battle discrimination on the ground.
The Thin Red Line by Call Number: DVD VIDEO 2051Publication Date: 1998A group of young soldiers fight in the battle of Guadalcanal during World War II.
Judgement at Nuremberg by Call Number: DVD VIDEO 2410Publication Date: 1961American judge Daniel Haywood presides over the trial of four German jurists accused of "legalizing" Nazi atrocities. But as graphic accounts of sterilization and murder unfold in the courtroom, mounting political pressure for leniency forces Haywood into making the most harrowing and difficult decision of his career.
Hotaru no Haka (Grave of the Fireflies) by Call Number: DVD VIDEO 1119Publication Date: 1993Two orphans in war-time Kobe, Japan, face fire-bombs, hunger, homelessness, and despair. Seito struggles to take care of his four-year-old sister in the face of the helplessness and indifference of the people around him as the war and he and his sister's lives come to an end.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by Call Number: DVD VIDEO 5325Publication Date: 2008Set in Poland during World War II, a young boy is bored and restless in his new home. Ignoring his mother, he sets off on an adventure in the woods, where he comes across a Jewish concentration camp established by the Nazis. A forbidden friendship develops when he meets a boy that is trapped in the camp with his father.
Streaming movies
These videos are available through the University Libraries' subscription to Kanopy.
Prelude to War by Call Number: STREAMINGPublication Date: 1942The official World War II US Government film statement defining the various enemies of the Allies and why they must be fought. Winner of Best Documentary at the Academy Awards. Selected for the National Film Registry by the National Film Preservation Board.
To Be or Not to Be by Call Number: STREAMINGPublication Date: 1942As nervy as it is hilarious, this screwball masterpiece from Ernst Lubitsch stars Jack Benny and Carole Lombard as husband-and-wife thespians in Nazi-occupied Warsaw who become caught up in a dangerous spy plot. To Be or Not to Be is a Hollywood film of the boldest black humor, a brilliant balance of political satire, romance, slapstick, and urgent wartime suspense in a comic high-wire act.
A Man Escaped by Call Number: STREAMINGPublication Date: 1956Robert Bresson skillfully combined the simplest of concepts with the sparest of techniques to make one of the most suspenseful jailbreak films of all time in A Man Escaped. Based on the memoirs of Andre Devigny, a member of the French Resistance held prisoner by the occupying Germans, this taut and methodical marvel follows the fictional Fontaine's single-minded pursuit of freedom.
A Film Unfinished by Call Number: STREAMINGPublication Date: 2010This potent documentary uses a long-lost film reel to illustrate how the Nazis controlled images of Jewish life during World War II. Though the Nazis made a propaganda movie of contented Jews in the Warsaw ghetto, the missing spool exposes the truth.
