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821) Dishonored
Series
Criterion collection volume 930 (set)
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
A widowed streetwalker is recruited to spy for Austria during World War I
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"From the co-author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Hamilton : The Revolution, a stunning group portrait of five American radicals fighting for their ideals as the country goes mad around them. Where do we find our ideals? What does it mean to live for them--and to risk dying for them? For Americans during World War I, these weren't abstract questions. Young Radicals tells the story of five activists, intellectuals and troublemakers who agitated...
823) The Great War
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
Covers America during World War I. Footage, photographs and interviews of events such as the formation of the War Industries Board, the great migration, the Espionage and Sedition Acts, the American Expeditionary Force in Europe and President Wilson's Fourteen Points. Also, the strikes of 1919, the red scare and the Palmer raids.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Formats
Description
"In the wake of the First World War, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Antarctic expedition, determined to find his rightful place in the world of men. Aboard the expeditionary ship of his hero, the world-famous explorer James "Australis" Randall, Jonathan may live as his true self--and true gender--and have the adventures he has always been denied. But not all is smooth sailing: the war casts its long shadow over them all, and grief, guilt, and mistrust...
827) Paths of Glory
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
Based on a true story which occurred in the French Army in 1916. When a regiment fails in its attempt to attack a German position, three men stand trial for cowardice.
828) Porco rosso
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
In 1930s Italy, a veteran World War I pilot is cursed to look like an anthropomorphic pig.
830) The crimson field
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
In a tented field hospital on the coast of France, doctors, nurses, and volunteers work together to heal the bodies and souls of men wounded in the trenches of WWI. The hospital is a frontier: between the battlefield and home front but also between the old rules, hierarchies, class distinctions, and a new way of thinking.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019],
Description
The incredible life story of Eugene Bullard, the first African American military pilot in WWI, who went on to become a self-taught jazz musician, a Paris nightclub impresario, a spy in the French Resistance and an American civil rights pioneer. Eugene Bullard lived one of the most fascinating lives of the twentieth century. This is the dramatic untold story of an American hero, a thought-provoking survey of the twentieth century and a portrait of...
832) The Lost Patrol
Series
Pub. Date
1934.
Description
A terse drama about British cavalryman lost in the Mesopotamian desert during World War I. They are pursued constantly by Arab sharpshooters. When the leader of the patrol is killed, McLaglen takes charge of the eleven ragged survivors. This film established John Ford's reputation as a director internationally.
833) The lost battalion
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
A division of American soldiers in the Argonne Forest withstand five days of desperate action surrounded by the enemy.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Vienna, 1914. Lucius is a twenty-two-year-old medical student when World War I explodes across Europe. Enraptured by romantic tales of battlefield surgery, he enlists, expecting a position at a well-organized field hospital. But when he arrives--at a commandeered church tucked away high in a remote valley of the Carpathian Mountains--he discovers a freezing outpost ravaged by typhus. The other doctors have fled, and only a single mysterious nurse...
835) The Roaring Twenties
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Three buddies return home from World War I and begin a profitable bootlegging operation, until romance and rivalry get in the way of business.
837) A farewell to arms
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Romance of an American ambulance driver wounded in World War I who falls in love with his nurse.
840) Whisper on the wind
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
Belgium, 1916. A small, underground newspaper is the only thing offering occupied Brussels hope - and real news of the war. The paper may be a small whisper amid the shouts of the German army, but Edward Kirkland will do anything to keep it in print. Meanwhile, Isa Lassone, a Belgian-American socialite whose parents whisked her to safety at the start of the war, sneaks back into the country to rescue those dearest to her: Edward and his mother.