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2) Hotel Rwanda
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
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Description
A five-star-hotel manager in Rwanda risks his life when he opens his hotel to more than a thousand Tutsis refugees in order to protect them from death.
Publisher
Warner Archive Collection (Firm)
Pub. Date
2016, 2014
Language
English
Description
"The story of the incredible efforts made by British cameramen to film and document the unbelievable atrocities the Allies encountered during the Liberation of the German Concentration camps in 1945 at the end of World War II."--FirstSearch.
Publisher
Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
After young Hannibal is forced to watch his little sister, Mischa, being devoured by starving soldiers in his Lithuania homeland. Hannibal vows to avenge his sister's death by slaying those who committed not only war crimes against the Lecters, but also against other families during WW II. Hannibal's revenge plan includes his cannibalism to justify his insatiable appetite for human flesh. Hannibal excels in his medical school classes dissecting cadavers....
6) Dominion
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
This film traces the story of Father Lankester Merrin back to his first encounter with the Devil in post-WWII Africa.
Publisher
Oregon Public Broadcasting
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
"During World War I, over one million Armenians died at the hands of the Ottoman Turks. This one-hour documentary examines what happened and why, in what has been called one of the greatest untold stories of the twentieth century." -- cover
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
August 1944. Follows four black soldiers of the all-black 92nd Infantry Division who get trapped near the small Tuscan village of Sant'Anna di Stazzema on the Gothic Line during the Italian Campaign of World War II. One of the men will risks his life to save an Italian boy who lives in the city where the Waffen-SS have massacred most of the citizens of the town in retaliation for Italian partisan activity. A sculpted head from the Ponte Santa Trinita...
10) Kinyarwanda
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Six stories intertwine as Muslims and Christians, Hutus and Tutsis come together to protect each other amidst the chaos of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
11) Finding Oscar
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In a forgotten massacre during Guatemala's decades-long civil war, a young boy was spared, only to be raised by one of the very soldiers who killed his family. Nearly 30 years after the tragedy, it will take a dedicated team - from a forensic scientist to a young Guatemalan prosecutor - to uncover the truth and bring justice to those responsible...by finding the missing boy named Oscar.
12) Holocaust
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Follows the tragedy and triumph of the Weiss family of Berlin and intertwines their fate as European Jews with the story of a German family, the Dorfs, whose members include a high-ranking Nazi officer. Kristallnacht, the "night of broken glass" occurs and the Weiss family suffer a series of unspeakable tragedies in the aftermath.
14) Winter soldier
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Vietnam veterans speak about atrocities committed during the time they served in Vietnam.
16) City of ghosts
Publisher
Broad Green Pictures
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Follows the efforts of 'Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently,' a handful of anonymous activists who banded together after their homeland was taken over by ISIS in 2014. With deeply personal access, this is the story of a brave group of citizen journalists as they face the realities of life undercover, on the run, and in exile, risking their lives to stand up against one of the greatest evils in the world today.
18) Music box
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
In this courtroom thriller, Chicago attorney Ann Talbot agrees to defend her Hungarian immigrant father Mike Laszlo against accusations of heinous war crimes committed 50 years earlier. As the trial unfolds, Ann probes for evidence that will not only establish his innocence but also lay to rest her own agonizing doubts about his past.
Publisher
Icarus Films Home Video
Pub. Date
c1988
Language
English
Description
An examination of Klaus Barbie, the infamous Nazi 'Butcher of Lyon' and Gestapo chief implicated in 4000 deaths and the deportation of 7000 Jews, during the Nazi occupation of France. Tracing the 40-year hunt for the war criminal, it exposes a complex web of political intrigue, collaboration and deceit. Weaves together historical footage and interviews with former Nazis, American intelligence officers, South American government officials, victims...