"It was a battle that divided the country in a painful war. But what were the causes and who were the key players of the Civil War? Explore the battle between North and South with easy-to-understand content tied to the curriculum of upper elementary and middle school students written at a 2nd to 3rd grade reading level. Dyslexia friendly font and design make learning accessible and a recap at the end promotes checking for understanding that aids comprehension....

"Based on real accounts of Britain's Land Girls and the Forgotten Blitz, The British Booksellers highlights the courageous choices we must make to live, love, and--in the face of all that tests us--fight for what matters most"--

"During World War II, twelve-year old Miriam secretly spirits other Jewish people out of Nazi-occupied France after being separated from her family and forced into hiding"--

Steve McQueen jumps on his motorcycle and leads the way in this thrill-packed adventure that blends top stars, a true-life WWII saga and Hollywood's gift for storytelling into a bravura, blockbuster film.

Academy Award winner Lee Marvin reprises his role from the Oscar-winning 1967 World War II film, again taking a team of misfits and criminals on a deadly operation behind enemy lines--The Dirty Dozen: The Next Mission. United States Major Reisman's team understands they are expendable--that, most likely, they will not survive. But they opt for a chance, no matter how dangerous, for parole from prison and a return to normal life. All they have to do...

Winter 1943. Martina is small child, who stopped talking since the death of her infant brother some years before. She lives in a rural area of central Italy. Her mother is pregnant again and Martina lives for the arrival of her new brother. Meanwhile, the war is getting closer and closer, forcing the people of the village to tread a difficult path, torn between the partisan brigades and the Nazi Army. On practically the same day as the birth of Martina's...

An Official Selection at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival, Kedma is renowned Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai's (Kippur, Kadosh) powerful drama about a group of European Jewish refugees who arrive at Palestine in the critical year of 1948. Carried on the deck of the freighter Kedma, they come ashore to find not the Promised Land of milk and honey, but a war-torn desert in the bloody throes of transformation into the state of Israel. Rescued from a British...

When a ship of Americans and Britons is sunk by a German U-Boat missile during WWII, the survivors must cope with the elements -- and each other. They know nothing about navigation or survival at sea. So when they rescue the Nazi U-Boat Captain, they have no choice but to trust his survival skills, even though he is steering them back to his boat.

On D-Day, 150,000 Allied soldiers cross the English Channel to launch the largest sea-born invasion in history. By end of day it will be the most successful landing of them all.

Two British Army dentists, eager to see action amid World War II, go A.W.O.L. to invade occupied France alone.