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The Wisdom of History
Lecture Series by Professor
J Rufus Fears
DVD - 6 discs
Ignoring the lessens of history, by choice or because we've never learned to see them, is to risk becoming their prisoner, repeating the mistakes that have toppled leaders, nations, and empires throughout time.
The Wereth Eleven
DVD
A film that serves as a wake up call and an alarm to our youth of today who don't have a clue to how they awaken to each new day in a land of unimaginable freedoms.
Battle of the Bulge
DVD, Blu-ray
Though a little short on historical accuracy, this 1965 all-star Hollywood take on the Battle of the Bulge is still very entertaining and is well remembered by everyone who watches it.
Tora! Tora! Tora!
DVD 2-discs
The real star of the film is the climactic 30-minute battle, a massive feat of cinematic engineering that expertly conveys the surprise, the chaos, and the immense destruction of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Frontline -
Memory of the Camps
DVD
From PBS Home Video: No other film about WWII, fictional or non-fictional, captures the horror of the concentration camps as simply and powerfully as this.
Nazi Concentration Camps / Nuremburg Trials
DVD
The mother of all horror films, shown at the Nuremburg trials.
Casablanca
DVD, Blu-ray
A truly perfect movie, the 1942 Casablanca still wows viewers today, and for good reason.
Enemy At The Gates
DVD, Blu-ray
Losing to Hitler wasn't going to mean life under Nazi rule, it would literally mean the annihilation of every Soviet man, woman and child. The stakes were all or nothing.
Stalingrad
DVD, Blu-ray
The bloodiest battle in human history. This film depicts the turning point in WWII as a vast tableau of horror in which the average German soldier was as much a victim of Nazi evil as the Soviet people.
The Fighting Sullivans
DVD - 2 discs
The true story of five brothers who fought and died together when their ship was sunk in the South Pacific; the movie that inspired "Saving Private Ryan."
The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
DVD
The true story of Polish Catholic social worker Irena Sendler who engineered and operated a group of compatriots in Warsaw's Jewish Ghetto that saved the lives of 2,500 children.
White Light / Black Rain:
The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
DVD
From HBO Studios: A deeply moving look at the painful legacy of the first - and hopefully last - uses of thermonuclear weapons in war.
Swinging on a V-Disc
CD - 4 discs
72 tracks from dedicated V-disc sessions or American Government sponsored broadcasts - nothing from commercial recordings.
The Bridge on the River Kwai
DVD
Academy Award winning 1957 film gives an exciting, yet historically inaccurate, glimpse into the brutality suffered by British POWs of the Japanese.
Modern Marvels:
The Empire State Building
DVD
The miraculous story behind the rise of what would, for a time, become the world's tallest and most famous skyscraper.
The Nazis:
A Warning From History
DVD - 2 discs
How could a political party as fundamentally evil and overtly racist as the Nazis come to power? Was it simply the hypnotic power of Hitler's rhetoric? This 6-part BBC series unveils a more chilling reality.
Windtalkers
DVD, Blu-ray
Recognizing the contribution of Navajo "code talkers," whose use of an unbreakable Navajo-language radio code was instrumental in defeating the Japanese, this film serves as an admirable tribute to those Native American heroes.
MacArthur
DVD
From the difficult abandonment of the Philippines that left General Wainwright to surrender to the invading Japanese forces there, the struggle to return years later, and the eventual signing of Japan's surrender, this historical sketch brilliantly delivers MacArthur's passion for duty, honor and country.
Rosenstrasse
DVD (German with English subtitles)
In the cold Berlin winter of 1943, hundreds of brave women stood in defiance of the Nazis, screaming and howling for the release of their husbands held in a factory on a street named Rosenstrasse.
