Your Guide To The Best World History DVDs Starting With The Highest Reviews

Band of Brothers

Starring: Ron Livingston
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Directed By: Tom Hanks
Studio: HBO Home Video
Release Date: 2002-11-05
Running Time: 705 minutes

An impressively rigorous, unsentimental, and harrowing look at combat during World War II, Band of Brothers follows a company of airborne infantry--Easy Company--from boot camp through the end of the war. The brutality of training takes the audience by increments to the even greater brutality of the war; Easy Company took part in some of the most difficult battles, including the D-Day invas... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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Saving Private Ryan (Special Limited Edition)

Starring: Tom Sizemore
Rated: R (Restricted)
Studio: Dreamworks Video
Release Date: 1999-11-02
Running Time: 169 minutes

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Saving Private Ryan (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition)

Starring: Tom Sizemore
Rated: R (Restricted)
Studio: Dreamworks Video
Release Date: 2004-05-25
Running Time: 169 minutes

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Schindler's List (Widescreen Edition)

Starring: Ben Kingsley
Rated: R (Restricted)
Studio: Universal Studios
Release Date: 2004-03-09
Running Time: 196 minutes

Schindler's List, a Steven Spielberg film, is a cinematic masterpiece that has become one of the most honored films of all time. Winner of seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, it also won every major Best Picture award and an exceptional number of additional honors. Among them were seven British Academy Awards; the Best Picture Awards from the New York Film Critics Circl... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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The Pianist

Starring: Frank Finlay
Rated: R (Restricted)
Created By: Wojciech Kilar
Studio: Universal Studios
Release Date: 2003-05-27
Running Time: 150 minutes

Winner of the prestigious Golden Palm award at the 2002 Cannes film festival, The Pianist is the film that Roman Polanski was born to direct. A childhood survivor of Nazi-occupied Poland, Polanski was uniquely suited to tell the story of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew and concert pianist (played by Adrien Brody) who witnessed the Nazi invasion of Warsaw, miraculously eluded the Nazi death... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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The War - A Film By Ken Burns and Lynn Novick

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Directed By: Lynn Novick
Studio: PBS
Release Date: 2007-10-02
Running Time: 900 minutes

Creating epic documentaries about war is nothing new for Ken Burns, nor is the subject of the Second World War, which never ceases to be a popular subject of films and TV shows. Yet with The War, Burns has definitely succeeded in breaking new ground, exploring in depth the effect of the war on common Americans, and not just the soldiers of The Greatest Generation that fought it. As the nar... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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Patton (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)

Starring: Karl Malden
Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: 2006-05-23
Running Time: 171 minutes

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Patton

Starring: Karl Malden
Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: 2001-11-06
Running Time: 171 minutes

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The World at War (30th Anniversary Edition)

Starring: Sir Max Aitken
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Directed By: Ted Childs
Studio: A&E Home Video
Release Date: 2004-08-24
Running Time: 1357 minutes

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Night and Fog - Criterion Collection

Starring: Reinhard Heydrich
Rated: Unrated
Studio: Criterion
Release Date: 2003-06-24
Running Time: 31 minutes

Ten years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, filmmaker Alain Resnais documented the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz. One of the first cinematic reflections on the horrors of the Holocaust, Night and Fog (Nuit et Brouillard) contrasts the stillness of the abandoned camps' quiet, empty buildings with haunting wartime footage. With Night and Fog, Resnais investigates the cyclical na... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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