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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 13
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The account of a Dutch girl growing up in Nazi-occupied Holland and her family who helped hide Jewish people. The account of a Dutch girl growing up in Nazi-occupied Holland & her family who helped hide Jewish people. Corrie Ten Boom stood naked with her older sister Betsie, watching a concentration camp matron beating a prisoner."Oh, the poor woman," Corrie cried."Yes. May God forgive her," Betsie replied. And, once again, Corrie realized that it...
2) Muse of fire
Publisher
National Endowment for the Arts
Description
"A documentary on the National Endowment for the Arts project Operation homecoming: writing the wartime experience."--Container.
Series
Studio classic volume 15
Description
An extraordinary portrayal of humanity set during one of history's most inhumane periods. Features Millie Perkins as the insightful 13-year-old biographer of her family's two-year hiding in an Amsterdam attic. At first, the strong-willed teenager embraces her fugitive lifestyle as an adventure. But in time, the ever-increasing fear of discovery and close quarters prove nearly unbearable for the eight personalities in hiding.
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"Marking the centenary of the First World War, internationally renowned director Peter Jackson uses the voices of the veterans combined with original archival footage to bring to life the reality of war on the front line for a whole new generation. Footage has been colorized and transformed with modern production techniques to present never-before-seen detail"--Container.
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Distributed by Entertainment One
Description
This captivating documentary series takes an in-depth look at the Second World War through the eyes of those who lived through it: the soldiers, the victims, and the political and military leaders. Using archival footage, most of it previously unseen and now colorized, this series provides an intimate and breath-taking examination of history's most devastating war.
8) The pianist
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Based on the memoirs of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew, who was a brilliant pianist. He watched as his family was shipped off to Nazi labor camps. He managed to escape and lived for years in the ruins of Warsaw, hiding from the Nazis.
Publisher
Universal
Description
No one has ever taken us this deep behind the scenes! Join "Diamond Joe" Esposito - Elvis' best friend of nearly 20 years - as he shares his most personal stories in this exceptionally rare and intimate compilation. Here Joe's account of exactly what happened on the tragic day of Elvis' death.
10) 1917
Publisher
[Universal Home Entertainment]
Description
At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers, Schofield and Blake, are given a seemingly impossible mission. In a race against time, they must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers.
11) The Great War
Publisher
[Lionsgate]
Description
"During the last days of the Great War, Lt. William Rivers leads a squad of U.S. troopers behind enemy lines to locate a missing platoon of African American "Buffalo" soldiers. Lt. Rivers must over come the horror's of trench warfare and his own beliefs about the rights of African American soldiers. In order to complete his mission, Will must find a way to unite men of opposite skin colors and survive the last great battle of the great war."--
12) Gallipoli
Publisher
D Yap�m Yay�n Reklamc�l�k
Description
Using surviving documentation and period footage this films reconstructs the epic World War I battle when the Allied Forces attempted to take the Dardanelles Straits and the Gallipoli Penisula in Feb. 1915. Presents the view from soldiers on both sides of the battle.
Publisher
Remember My Service Productions
Description
While the Korean War is often referred to as the “forgotten war,” this 60-minute feature documentary remembers and honors the men and women who fought, suffered, and sacrificed for a war-torn, distant land in desperate need of freedom. Amidst the backdrop of rarely-seen archive footage from the Korean War, Veterans share their stories, recollections, and thoughts about the Korean War 60 years later.
19) Homefront
Publisher
Cinema Guild [distributor]
Description
To date, nearly 20,000 American troops have been wounded in the war in Iraq. This film gives a face and a voice to these underrepresented soldiers and their families, told intimately through the Feldbusch family of Pennsylvania and their wounded son Jeremy. The result is an insightful view of how Jeremy and other 'wounded warriors" of the Iraq War are reconstructing their lives, with courage and determination to face a new, altered self. Home Front...
Publisher
Peripheral Productions
Description
"The first documentary filmed in an Alzheimer's unit told from the perspective of an Alzheimer's patient. In Danville, California, Lee Gorewitz wanders on a personal odyssey through her Alzheimer's & Dementia care unit. From the moment she wakes up, Lee is on a quest-- for reminders of her past, and her identity. A total immersion into the fragmented day-to-day experience of mental illness, 'You're looking at me like I live here and I don't' is filled...
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