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1) Dunkirk
Pub. Date
[2017]
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Description
A World War II thriller about the evacuation of Allied troops from the French city of Dunkirk before Nazi forces can take hold.
2) Allied
Pub. Date
[2017]
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Description
The story of intelligence officer Max Vatan, who in 1942 North Africa encounters French Resistance fighter Marianne Beausejour on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Reunited in London, their relationship is threatened by the extreme pressures of the war.
Description
Captain John Miller must take his men behind enemy lines to find Private Ryan, whose three brothers have been killed in combat. Faced with impossible odds, the men question their orders. Why are eight men risking their lives to save just one? Surrounded by the brutal realities of war, each man searches for his own answer and the strength to triumph over uncertain future with honor, decency and courage.
4) Overlord
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
D-Day looms, and two soldiers are prepared to sacrifice their own lives to the noble cause of bringing down the Nazis. They have a secret mission to perform when they sneak into a Nazi-occupied town, but they do not realize what kind of a time they are in for. Not only is their mission dangerous by conventional means, but it has a supernatural element to it that makes their blood run cold. Can they successfully thwart the plot unfolding in front of...
5) Churchill
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Follows British prime minister Winston Churchill as he faces the possibilities of victory or defeat during the Allied invasion of Normandy, France, in 1944.
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
The tale of a 1943 WWII French Algerian Unit facing discrimination by its European counterparts due to prejudice and ignorance. The French armed forces are preparing to land troops in Europe to win back their homeland from the Axis Powers, but they cannot accomplish their task without recruiting men from their African colonies. The Africans themselves start their long journey full of hope and anticipation, but as they get closer to their goal they...
Pub. Date
2004.
Description
In the last great invasion of World War II, a squad of American soldiers embark on a special mission ... to find Private Ryan. Faced with impossible odds, surrounded by the brutalities of war, each man searches for his own answer and the strength to triumph over an uncertain future with honor, decency and courage.
10) A foreign field
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Two British war vets meet an American vet when all three return to Normandy on the 50th anniversay of D-Day. Rivalries resurface when two of the men discover that they are searching for the same lost love.
11) Storming Juno
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Just after midnight on June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops cross the English Channel to launch the largest seaborne invasion in history. Their mission: to break through the coastal defenses of Hitler's Fortress Europe and establish a western front. Based on actual events, journals and eyewitness accounts, STORMING JUNO follows the stories of three young soldiers, who against incredible odds, secured a beachhead on D-Day and helped to change the course...
14) The longest day
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Complete story of the D-Day landings at Normandy through the eyes of all its participants.
15) D-Day assassins
Pub. Date
2019
Description
In 1944, a group of American soldiers known as "The Filthy Thirteen" was becoming an increasing problem for their superiors, disobeying orders, bathing infrequently and often going AWOL from their barracks. But the rebellious men are allowed to atone for their behavior when they are selected to be the first unit to parachute behind German lines during the invasion of Normandy. Their goal is to move through enemy territory on foot and destroy Nazi...
Pub. Date
2019
Description
Some people called it a suicide, but for the Rangers of the Second Battalion, that's another word for mission. When an elite group of American soldiers are ordered to take out a series of German machine gun nests, they find themselves blindly venturing into hostile territory. Outnumbered and outgunned they must risk life and limb as they cross treacherous terrain, never knowing where the enemy might be hiding.
Pub. Date
[2019]
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Description
A collection of six war movies all gathered into one "binge box" for a spectacular movie night.
300: In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC, an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army in the mountain pass of Thermopylae. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the enemy in one of the most famous last stands of history. Persian King Xerxes lead an Army of well over 100,000 men to Greece and was confronted by 300 Spartans, 700...
19) Joyeux Noel
Pub. Date
2005.
Description
Based on the true story of three armies in the bloody trenches of World War I and the miraculous Christmas Eve truce they unexpectedly forge.