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The Eye of Vichy (DVD)This compilation of French- and Nazi-produced newsreel footage documents France`s collaboration with Nazi Germany during WWII, including the invasion of France and General Petain`s pact with Adolf Hitler. Compiled by French master filmmaker Claude Ch... |
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The Train (DVD)The duo of director John Frankenheimer and actor Burt Lancaster again join forces with the latter starring as French railway inspector Labiche. With Allied forces closing in on occupied Paris, Herman Goering orders Col. Franz von Waldheim (Paul Scofield) to move the priceless art from the Jeu de Paume Museum to Germany by train. The museum's curator, Mme. Villard (Suzanne Flon) tries to cajole Labiche into stopping the art train, but he's far more concerned with blowing up a German armaments train. Meanwhile, Papa Boule (Michel Simon), an aged railwayman, uses the distraction of the Allied bombing of a nearby munitions train to burn out the engines of the train carrying the art, and is killed by the Nazis for his efforts. Hotelkeeper Christine (Jeanne Moreau), has managed to persuade Labiche of the importance of the art, and when the livid Waldheim orders him to drive the treasure-bearing train, he's formulated a plan to foil the Nazi theft. He fabricates a series of interlocking ruses which lead the Germans |
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American War Eagles 3-PackA 3-disc set covering some of the most important planes used to fight World War II, including the F4U Corsair, the P-47 Thunderbolt, and |
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Shell Shock/The Battle of Blood Island - Double Feature (DVD)the Something Weird label unleash two war films in this bloody double feature, including: SHELL SHOCK: An unsympathetic Sergeant sends a shell shocked G.I. on a madcap mission to capture a German ammunition dump, causing a total mental breakdown f... |
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Empire of the Sun (DVD)Steven Spielberg's EMPIRE OF THE SUN, based on the autobiographical novel by J.G. Ballard, stars Christian Bale as Jim Graham, a British schoolboy separated from his upper-class colonial parents when the Japanese sweep into Shanghai during World W... Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved. |
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Charlotte Gray (DVD)CHARLOTTE GRAY is directed by Gillian Armstrong (MRS. SOFFEL, OSCAR AND LUCINDA) with her signature recipe for success: a love story set in beautiful nature played by an all-star cast. Here, Charlotte Gray (Cate Blanchett) is a Scottish woman in mid-WWII, living with an adventuresome pair of young female roommates. While attending a snooty book publishing party, Charlotte escapes from her girlfriends long enough to meet a British pilot, Peter (Rupert Penry-Jones), with whom she falls in love. After a brief but passionate affair, Peter is sent on a mission to Nazi-occupied France where his plane is shot down and he is reported M.I.A. Torn apart by love, Charlotte enlists herself as an underground operative in the resistance and accepts a mission to rural France. Charlotte, now working under the code name Dominique, parachutes out of an airplane, and captures two young Jewish boys in her net. The man who untagles the bunch, Julien (Billy Crudup), becomes her one trusted contact, and arranges a job for her as go |
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From Normandy to Paris (DVD)When the Allies landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944 they began the long-awaited liberation of Europe. This documentary traces the one hundred days it took the Allied forces to travel to Paris, defeating the German forces all along th... Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved. |
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So This Is Washington (DVD)Lum and Abner take their zany inventions to Washington to help with the war effort. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved. |
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Mystery Plane (DVD)An inventor runs a gauntlet of secret agents while delivering his bomb-dropping device to the military in this wartime suspenser. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved. |
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The More the Merrier (DVD)Given George Stevens` penchant for romantic comedy, it`s probably not surprising that the WWII housing crunch in Washington, D.C. could provide fertile grounds for his imagination. The city`s dearth of apartments has made things difficult even for 60... |
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