Winston Churchill
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English
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The World War II US Government account of the European theatre of the war from after the English and French entry to the fall of France. Winner of Best Documentary at the **Academy Awards.** Selected for the National Film Registry by the **National Film Preservation Board.**
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English
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This three-part series explores many of the myths that surround the Churchill legend. Destiny, the first episode, tells of Churchill's aristocratic birth, search for glory on the battlefield, and his political rise and fall. The Lion's roar traces Churchill's leadership of Britain from the Battle of Britain to 1942. The last prize opens with Churchill's trip to Normandy in June 1944 and closes with his death in 1965.
26) Genocide
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English
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GENOCIDE, an Academy Award winning documentary, takes a harrowing look at life during the Holocaust. Orson Welles and Elizabeth Taylor lend their voices to this heartbreaking historical account. **Academy Awards** Winner for Best Documentary, Features.
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English
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This documentary examines the conditions for Jewish refugees after World War II, from their aspirations to emigrate to the reality of continued antisemitism. Academy Awards: Best Documentary, Features - Winner (Marvin Hier, Richard Trank); Sundance Film Festival: Grand Jury Price - Documentary Nominee (Mark Jonathan Harris); Awards Circuit Community Awards: ACCA - Best Documentary Feature Nominee; Chicago International Film Festival: Gold Hugo - Winner...
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His The Second World War volume 4
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English
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From uninterrupted defeat to almost unbroken success: a year when Rommel is gradually thrown back in North Africa, and in the Pacific the tide turns.
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Series
His The Second World War volume 3
Language
English
Description
Covers the German drive toward the East as the United States becomes involved in World War II.
33) Closing the ring
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His The Second World War volume 5
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English
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An account of World War II from 1943 to June 5, 1944 tracing the liberation of France and the slow collapse of Nazi Germany.
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Second world war volume 1
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English
Description
Churchill's history of the Second World War is, and will remain, the definitive work. Lucid, dramatic, remarkable, for its breadth and sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, it is universally acknowledged as a magnificent reconstruction. Milestones To Disaster is the first book in Churchill's abridgement of his original six-volume history of the Second World War.