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Publisher
Medium
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
In this film made over ten years, filmmaker Barbara Sonneborn took a pilgrimage to the Vietnamese countryside where her husband died. She and translator (and fellow war widow) Xuan Ngoc Nguyen explore the meaning of war and loss on a human level. The film weaves interviews with Vietnamese and American widows into a vivid testament to the legacy of war.
Publisher
Tangram
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The Ritchie Boys tells the story of a group of young Jewish men who fled Nazi Germany only to return to Europe as United States soldiers who knew the psychology and the language of the enemy better than anybody else. At the U.S. Army base of Camp Ritchie, in the mountains of Maryland, they were trained in intelligence and psychological warfare. Though not always courageous, they were determined, bright, inventive, fought their own kind of war and...
3) We were here
Publisher
Docuramafilms
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
David Weissman's We Were Here revisits the San Francisco of the 80s and 90s, using the city's experience with AIDS to open up a conversation about both the history of the epidemic and the lessons to be learned from it. Yet the film reaches far beyond San Francisco and beyond AIDS itself as it illuminates the power of a community that comes together with love, compassion, and determination.
4) Lioness
Publisher
Docurama Films
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Lioness makes public, for the first time, the hidden history of a group of female Army support soldiers who became the first women in American history to be sent into direct ground combat. Told through intimate accounts and interviews with military commanders, the film follows five lioness women who served together for a year in Iraq. Together the women's narratives form a portrait of the emotional and psychological effects of war from a female point...
5) WWII in HD
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"Featuring rare color archival footage, takes a detailed look at life on and off the front lines through the diaries kept by soldiers during World War II."--
6) Enola Gay
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Enola Gay: Get a look inside the bomber that helped bring WWII to a stop, development of the atomic bomb, and the aftermath. Hiroshima: Fifty years after America dropped the first atomic bomb, this documentary looks at the events leading up to its use in the light of new information about a hidden agenda. Did top military officials order the attack despite knowing that Japan was willing to surrender? Did a political motivation drive Truman to defy...
7) WWII in HD
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Features newly discovered color film footage along with personal diaries to tell the stories of 12 American soldiers as they fought in some of World War II's biggest battles.
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
A personal look from the soldiers' point of view of one of today's most controversial topics. Shot firsthand by the soldiers of Lima Company, the hardest hit combat unit in Iraq, this features an honest and heartbreaking glimpse at today's state of war.
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
From the fearless resolve of a single woman to the remarkable voice of thousands marching, this History Channel special offers an overview of one of America's great defining periods. A compilation of materials on the civil rights movement, from personal narratives of life in the period, to insights into the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission, to the 1965 march on Montgomery, along with biographies of two of the leaders of the movement.
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