Under the Apple Tree: Movies about the Home Front in WWII
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Come See the Paradise Parker, Alan 2006-06 - Twentieth Century-Fox 0024543244608 Check our catalog
An Irish-American union activist loves a Japanese-American during World War II. …More |
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Hail the Conquering Hero 2006 - Universal 9781417024148 Check our catalog A quirky soldier (Eddie Bracken) gets an unexpected homecoming when a group of uproarious Marines decides to 'make' a hero out of the comic misfit. |
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Hope and Glory Boorman, John 2001-06 - MGM BL11977DVD Check our catalog
Acclaimed director, John Boorman brings us the comic poignant story of WW II as seen through the eyes of a seven year old boy. Bill is stuck at home with his mother, aunts and bratty sisters while the neatest fights in history were raging within earshot of his room. …More |
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A League of Their Own Marshall, Penny 2002-06 - Sony Pictures BL03943DVD000 Check our catalog
A League of Their Own chronicles the men and women behind the All-American Girls' Professional Baseball League. Teammates travel a path through triumph and tribulation, and Tom Hanks is hilarious as the team's dissipated wreck of a manager. …More |
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The Miracle of Morgan's Creek Sturges, Preston 2007-05 - Paramount Home Video 9781415713716 Check our catalog
A bank clerk gets in trouble after posing as the unknown GI father of his girlfriend's sextuplets. Directed by Preston Sturges. …More |
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The More the Merrier Stevens, George, Jr. 2010-05 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 9781404956650 Check our catalog
A working girl shares a Washington apartment with two men. Directed by George Stevens. Best supporting Oscar for Charles Coburn. …More |
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Mrs. Miniver Wyler, William 2005-07 - Warner Home Video 0012569519626 Check our catalog
Mrs. Miniver is the heartfelt tale about a courageous, middle-class British family and its struggle to survive during World War II. …More |
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My Dog Skip Russell, Jay 2006-07 - Warner Home Video 9781419827914 Check our catalog
A shy boy is unable to make friends in Yazoo City, Mississippi in 1942, until his parents give him a terrier puppy for his ninth birthday. Thedog, which he names Skip, becomes well known and loved throughout thecommunity and enriches the life of the boy, Willie, as he grows intomanhood. Based on the best-selling Mississippi memoir by the late Willie Morris. …More |
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Raggedy Man Fisk, Jack 2010-06 - Universal Home Video 9781417026821 Check our catalog
A divorcee with two sons has an affair with a young sailor passing through her Texas town in 1944. …More |
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Since You Went Away Cromwell, John 2004-10 - Tcfhe/MGM 9780792862185 Check our catalog
A Midwesterner holds down the home front with her daughters and bulldog during World War II. …More |
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Summer of '42 Mulligan, Robert 2006-09 - Warner Home Video 9780790756820 Check our catalog
A teenager falls under the spell of an older woman whose husband is away at war in the summer of 1942. …More |
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Swing Shift Demme, Jonathan 2005-02 - Warner Home Video 9780790785387 Check our catalog
A housewife flirts with a jazzy 4-F co-worker at a World War II aircraft plant. Directed by Jonathan Demme. …More |
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The White Cliffs of Dover 2010 - Warner Home Video 0883316228289 Check our catalog
An American marries a British aristocrat. After losing her husband in WWI, she fears for her son in WWII. Set in England. |