Nazi Panzer forces stage a last-ditch Belgian front offensive that could turn the tide of WWII. A spectacular recreation of a crucial campaign. Henry Fonda...

Named for the insignia of the First Infantry Division, this World War II combat film follows a handful of young GIs and their sergeant as they battle their way from North Africa through Sicily, Omaha Beach and Belgium to the ultimate horror of the concentration camp at Falkenau, Czechoslovakia.

Cast: Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill, Bobby DiCicco, Robert Carradine, Kelly Ward, Siegfried Rauch, Stephane Audran.

A dramatic recreation of an Allied airdrop behind German lines in Holland, and the subsequent disastrous Battle of Arnhem.

Contributors: Richard Attenborough (Director); Dirk Bogarde (Actor); James Caan (Actor); Michael Caine (Actor); Sean Connery (Actor); William Goldman (Author of screenplay); Joseph E. Levine (Producer); Richard P. Levine (Producer); Cornelius Ryan (Author).

Set in World War II Morocco within a city filled with European refugees. A bitter nightclub owner helps his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis. Bogart and Bacall - steaming!!!

Based on the actual experiences of World War II correspondent Lothar Günther Buchheim who follows the cruise of a German U-boat as it undergoes battle and attack to survive and return to port only to be destroyed in an air attack upon the subpens of New Rochelle in occupied France.

Contributors: Lothar Günther Buchheim (Author); Klaus Doldinger (Composer); Herbert Grönemeyer (Actor); Wolfgang Petersen (Director, Author of screenplay); Jürgen Prochnow (Actor); Günter Rohrbach (Producer); Klaus Wennemann (Actor).

Dramatization of a young girl's diary describing the lives of two Jewish families who hide in an attic for two years to avoid arrest by the Nazis.

Contributors: Richard Beymer (Actor); Frances Goodrich (Author of screenplay, Author); Albert Hackett (Author of screenplay); Millie Perkins (Actor); Joseph Schildkraut (Actor); George Cooper Stevens (Director); Shelley Winters (Actor).

wo stories in one - an easygoing British Corporal in France finds himself responsible for the lives of his men when their officer is killed. He has to get them back to Britain somehow. Meanwhile, British civilians are being dragged into the war with Operation Dynamo, the scheme to get the French and British forces back from the Dunkirk beaches. Some come forward to help, others are less willing.

In the winter of 1942, the German and Russian Armies meet in the great Battle of the Stalingrad, one of the most vicious engagements of the Second World War. Enter into this horror a young Russian soldier, formerly a peasant boy with an extraordinary ability to sharpshoot a rifle from far distances. The Russian sniper soon gains fame after killing a record number of German officers causing the Germans to bring in their own sniper expert: a war weathered Major who always accomplishes his mission no matter what the cost. With the Battle of Stalingrad raging around them, these two men must now fight each other.

The true story of a Jewish teenager who survived World War II by living as a Nazi for 7 years and through 3 countries.

Contributors: Artur Brauner (Producer); Marco Hofschneider (Actor); Agnieszka Holland (Director, Author of screenplay); Margaret Menegoz (Producer); Shlomo Perel (Author); Zbigniew Preisner (Composer); Ashley Wanninger (Actor); André Wilms (Actor).

A World War II melodrama about the escape of British and American flyers from a maximum-security German prison camp.

Notes: Based on the book by Paul Brickhill.
Aspect ratio 2.35:1.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1963.
"A commemorative 2 disc collector's set."--Container.
Special features include: disc 1. Audio commentary by director John Sturges; trivia track. Disc 2. Documentaries "The great escape: the untold story" and "The real Virgil Hilts: a man called Jones"; featurettes: "Return to the Great escape", "Preparations for freedom", "A standing ovation", "Bringing fact to fiction", and "The flight to freedom"; photo gallery; original theatrical trailer.

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During World War II a German Colonel is captured by the Americans but before he can be interrogated an artillery barrage hits the camp. However, Ex-Lieutenant Kelly manages to reach the Colonel, get him drunk and learn that he is on a secret mission to ship $16,000,000 of gold to a base in France. Kelly is determined to get the gold and plans for himself and a few of his fellow soldiers to slip into enemy territory and steal the bullion.

Re-enacts the military operation of D-Day from four points of view--the workings of the high commands of the American, English, French, and German forces in their battle scheme for Normandy. Largely filmed on actual invasion sites in France.

Contributors: Ken Annakin (Director); Richard Beymer (Actor); Richard Burton (Actor); Red Buttons (Actor); Sean Connery (Actor); Mel Ferrer (Actor); Henry Fonda (Actor); Maurice Jarre (Composer); Andrew Marton (Director); Robert Mitchum (Actor); Cornelius Ryan (Author of screenplay, Author); Robert Ryan (Actor); Rod Steiger (Actor); Richard Todd (Actor); John Wayne (Actor); Bernhard Wicki (Director); Darryl Francis Zanuck (Producer).

The story of General George S. Patton, Jr. during World War II. His battlefield genius garners him fear and respect from the Germans, and resentment and misunderstanding from the Allies. A military historian and poet, he believes he was a warrior in many past lives, and that he is destined for something great during this life, but his stubbornness and controversial methods nearly prevent the fulfillment of that destiny.

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.

Contributors: Edward Burns (Actor); Matt Damon (Actor); Tom Hanks (Actor); Robert Rodat (Author of screenplay); Tom Sizemore (Actor); Steven Spielberg (Director, Producer).

"12 O'Clock High" tells the story of an American Bomber Group low on morale and performance after heavy losses over the skies of Germany. General Frank Savage, a desk bound staff chief, is sent to the group after the Bomber Commander is relieved of duty. At first encountering resistance, Savage enventually shows the pilots how to take pride in their unit and serve above and beyond the standards of the Army Air Corps.