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DVD TV BOMB SEASON 1
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DVD TV BOMB SEASON 1
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Set in the 1940s, Bomb Girls tells the remarkable stories of the Canadian women who risked their lives in a munitions factory building bombs for the Allied forces fighting on the European front.
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Set against the background of a controversial period in American history, the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, this is the love story of an Irish-American man and a beautiful Japanese-American woman.
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Preston Sturges the filmmaker collection volume DVD 7
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DVD COMEDY HAIL
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DVD COMEDY HAIL
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"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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DVD TV HOME
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DVD TV HOME
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Bitter rivals fight for control of the Women's Institute in a rural English town as it struggles with the onset of World War II. Separated from husbands, fathers, sons and brothers for years at a time, some permanently, they find themselves under extraordinary pressures in a rapidly fragmenting world.
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DVD DRAMA HUMAN
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DVD DRAMA HUMAN
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A heartwarming look at family and friendship, [it] is the poignant story of high school student Homer Macauley and the lives he touches while delivering telegrams throughout his small California town during the troubling years of World War II. Both moving and timeless, a masterful celebration of the American way of life.
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DVD TV LAND
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DVD TV LAND
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Set in England during the Second World War, a five-part drama that captures the sacrifices and experiences of four young women in the Women's Land Army. Sharing hardships and working alongside captured POWs, Annie, Bea, Joyce and Nancy toil in the fields to grow food for the war effort.
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In 1943, a washed-up ballplayer is hired to coach in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League while the male pros are at war. Reluctant at first, he finds himself drawn back into the game by the heart and heroics of his team. Based on a true story.
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DVD COMEDY MIRACLE
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DVD COMEDY MIRACLE
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A small-town girl goes overboard with war-time patriotic zeal and marries a soldier she's only met once. He disappears after one night, then she thinks she's pregnant... but she just can't remember her husband's name. Nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the **Academy Awards.** *"Great verbal gags and non-sequiturs, fast paced action, and a thorough irreverence for all things deemed respectable...make it a lasting delight." - Geoff Andrew, **Time...
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DVD COMEDY MORE
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DVD COMEDY MORE
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To help the war effort, a patriotic young woman rents half of her apartment to a well-to-do, retired millionaire, who decides to play Cupid by renting half of his half to a high-type, clean-cut nice young man.
10) My dog Skip
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Who says best friends have to be human? Not Wille Morris (Frankie Muniz), who receives a talented terrier named Skip for his birthday. With Skip's remarkable and unconventional help, Willie and Skip turn bullies into friends, tangle with hapless moonshiners, and even win the affections of the prettiest girl in school.
11) Raggedy man
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DVD DRAMA RAGGEDY
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DVD DRAMA RAGGEDY
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A young divorced woman and her two children try to forge a life for themselves in a small Texas town during World War II.
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DVD DRAMA SINCE
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DVD DRAMA SINCE
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The Hiltons are an average family living in a Midwestern town. The father of the household has waived his 3A status and enlisted to go overseas. His wife must now act as father and mother to their two daughters and keep their father's memory alive.
13) Summer of '42
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For three teenage boys spending a lonely summer on the beach in New England, it was the summer they learned about life, the summer they became men, the SUMMER OF '42. World War II. Fifteen-year-old, sensitive Hermie (Gary Grimes) and his friends Oscy (Jerry Houser) and Benjie (Oliver Conant), the "terrible trio," spend the long summer days dreaming of and ogling girls. But Hermie has his eye on an older woman, 22-year-old, married Dorothy (Jennifer...
14) Swing shift
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A vivid look at the wartime conditions that stood society on its head. Kay Walsh had never held a wrench before but you're never too pretty to learn. The women and men that stayed home during World War II worked in the factories that turned out the weaponry to turn the tide of battle.