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They came of age during the Great Depression, fought to preserve freedom in World War II and went on to build modern America. Oridinary men and women whose everyday lives of duty, achievement and courage gave us the world we have today. GI's, Sailors, Airmen and Marines share their personal stories and experiences.
8) Big Sonia
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Looks at the life of ninety-two-year-old Holocaust survivor, Sonia Warshawski, who has helped countless people by sharing her experience, and who now must personally face her dark past as she closes her tailoring shop, the last open business in an otherwise desolate Kansas City mall.
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After not being able to recall the time he spent on an Israeli Army mission during the Lebanon War, Ari attempts to unravel the mystery by traveling around the world to interview old friends and comrades. As the pieces of the puzzle begin to come together, his memory begins to return in illustrations that are surreal.
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Started in 1933 by President Franklin Roosevelt as part of the New Deal, the CCC was used as a way to not only help unemployed Americans, but to help conserve some of the country's forests and parks. Over the next ten years it would employ over 3 million men who planted trees, fought fires, and helped their families financially. Features interviews and archived footage.
13) Anatahan
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Inspired by actual events, this film explores the conflicting personalities of a dozen Japanese sailors stranded on a remote island in the Pacific during the waning days of World War II. For a time, they maintain their military discipline, but when they discover a young woman living on the island, the paradisal island becomes a nest of jealousy, violence, and desire.
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"In 1942, a secret U.S. military program was launched to recruit women to the war effort. But unlike the efforts to recruit Rosie the Riveter to the factory, this clandestine search targeted female mathematicians who would become human 'computers' for the U.S. Army. From the bombing of Axis Europe to the assaults on Japanese strongholds, women worked around-the-clock six days a week, creating ballistics tables that proved crucial to Allied success....
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Retells the story of Allied prisoners of WWII and Asian laborers who painfully built the Thailand-Burma Railway along the Khwae River of Burma. This filmed production reveals that the World War II engineering project consumed the lives of 100,000 men and was very different from the events depicted by the famous movie, The Bridge on the River Kwai.
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Documentary about the Blockade of Leningrad during World War II. The film presents an emotional picture of the struggle of some survivors, whose personal memories tend to be overshadowed by the heroic myth held up by the authorities. That myth is in painful contrast with the horrific truth they were forbidden to mention all these years.
18) The ground truth
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Documents the stories of American men and women who heeded the call for military service in Afghanistan and Iraq and the challenges they faced upon their return home.
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An inspiring documentary that tells the story of Marthe Cohn, a feisty young woman who joined the French Army during WWII after Hitler's rise power. After keeping silent for almost 60 years, Marthe now shares the extraordinary story of how she managed to beat the odds and fight the Nazis as a spy after her family fled to the south of France, and a sister was sent to Auschwitz.
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Princess Elizabeth was a child of thirteen on September 3, 1939, when her father King George VI informed the people that Britain was at war. This revelatory documentary tells the story of the Queen's experiences during WWII and how the longest-reigning monarch in British history was shaped by the war.
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