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The second season of AMC's post-Civil War series Hell on Wheels; continues the story of former Confederate soldier Cullen Bohannon, whose journey is filled with turmoil and danger as he struggles to leave a troubled past behind. Centered around the traveling town that follows the construction of the transcontinental railroad, the series examines the greed and corruption in man's fight for power.
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English
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Four hundred years after the founding of the Republic, Rome is the wealthiest city in the world, a cosmopolitan metropolis of one million people, epicenter of a sprawling empire. The Republic was founded on principles of shared power and fierce personal competition, never allowing one man to seize absolute control. But now, those foundations are crumbling, eaten away by corruption and excess. After eight years of war, soldiers Lucius Vorenus and Titus...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In season four of AMC's top-rated drama, Hell freezes over. Following the brutal winter of 1868, the railroad is at a standstill and restless workers wreak havoc on Cheyenne. Cullen Bohannon is trapped in a fort with a pregnant wife and the Swede. Thomas Durant is broke and Elam Ferguson is presumed dead. The task of uniting America by rail remains undone and the costs and consequences are rising, for everyone.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
From the initial sparks of revolution in Boston to the climactic Siege of Yorktown and beyond, hear the story of the war within the Revolutionary War through the eyes of some of the most significant African American figures of our country's foundation, including Crispus Attucks, Peter Salem, Phillis Wheatley, and James Armistead Lafayette. Executive produced and narrated by NBA legend, best-selling author, and respected activist Kareem Abdul-Jabbar,...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
From World War II to today, men and women have undertaken roles that involve overwhelming peril, seemingly unbeatable odds, and almost certain death. From lumberjacks in remote forests to truckers on an ice road to tank crews and pathfinders in war zones. Witness terrifying assignments as paratroopers land behind enemy lines, Navy demolition units clear obstacles before D-Day, British battalions take out German gun batteries, just to name a few.
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English
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Includes the two ten-part HBO miniseries Band of brothers and The Pacific, with bonus material.
Band of Brothers: Follows the 101st Airborne as it prepares and lands on D-Day, and fights its way through Europe to the end of World War II.
The Pacific: The interlocked stories of three marines during America's battle with the Japanese in World War II.
9) The colt
Pub. Date
2005.
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English
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It's 1864 and the First Michigan Cavalry is stranded in a Virginia forest, surrounded by smoldering fires and the distant cries of falling men. In the midst of this, trooper Jim Rabb's horse gives birth to a colt. Fearing the newborn will slow down the troops, the sergeant orders Rabb to shoot it. But Jim refuses and the colt becomes an omen of good fortune for the men who are marching into unknown territory. Suddenly, the camp is overrun by Confederate...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Cullen Bohannon, a former soldier and slaveholder, follows the track of Union soldiers, who killed his wife. This brings him to the middle of one of the biggest projects in US history, the building of the railroad. After the war years in the 1860s, this connected the east with the still wild west.
11) We'll meet again
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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Four years into World War II, American soldiers arrive at a U.S. airbase in a small English town.
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English
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Before George Washington became America's first president, he was a soldier. Follow him from his first officer's commision in the Virginia militia, and witness his reemergence as the soul of the American Revoluiton. He used the lessons he learned in the French and Indian War to transform a ragtag band of men into an army that could battle-- and beat-- the greatest military in the world.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Four hundred years after the founding of the Republic, Rome is the wealthiest city in the world, a cosmopolitan metropolis of one million people, epicenter of a sprawling empire. The Republic was founded on principles of shared power and fierce personal competition, never allowing one man to seize absolute control. But now, those foundations are crumbling, eaten away by corruption and excess. After eight years of war, soldiers Lucius Vorenus and Titus...
16) Once an eagle
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Spanning the events of WWI and WWII, two vastly different career soldiers become friends, but the difference in their personalities leads to a face-off as the struggle between good and evil takes over the world.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Watch as the most feared warriors civilization has ever known are pitted against each other in battle. Using 21st-century science and the latest in CGI technology, each episode enlists warrior-specific, world-class fighters and experts to analyze every facet of their unique skills of destruction and to answer the all-important question: who is the deadliest warrior?
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Vividly depicts the lives of five young German friends forced to navigate the unconscionable moral compromises of life under Hitler. Level-headed, highly decorated officer Wilhelm goes off to the eastern front with his sensitive younger brother Friedhelm. Deeply in love with Wilhelm is Charlotte, a young nurse who looks forward to serving in the Red Cross.
20) Walter's war
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Meet Walter Tull, the Jackie Robinson of professional English football before World War I, and survivor of the worst racial slurs his opponents can hurl at him. When the game turns to war in 1914 and the playing field to the Battle of Somme, Tull makes history again as the first mixed-race officer in the British Army.
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