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German Newsreels no. 661(5/5/43), 663 (19/5/43), 666 (9/6/43).

German Newsreels no. 661 (5 May, 1943): At the conference of the Reich Labor Chamber in the Reich Chancellery, Director of Organization, Robert Ley, stresses the role of the workplace in national victory. Awards are given to firms, managers, and workers. On the western front: Reich Labor Service men at work and at leisure; a bicycle unit; after a British bomber formation is sighted, German flack and fighters are employed and one British plane is downed. At the front to the southeast of Leningrad: A thaw has turned land in the Volkhov area into lakes and rivers, supplies transported on rubber boats,...

Production Year : 1943

Duration : 59 70

Language : English, German

The Tin Drum

Ironic satire based on The Tin Drum, a book by Nobel Prize Winning author Gunter Grass. "The Tin Drum" tells about Oscar, a child in Danzig at the end of the 1920s who decides to stop growing as a protest against the rise of Nazism and chooses to express himself only through shouting and banging on his tin drum. Winner of a number of international cinema prizes, among them an Academy Award for "Best Foreign Film".

Director : Volker Schlöndorff

Production Year : 1979

Duration : 145

Language : German

Dear Home - Letters from World War Two

During WWII the American Postal Services was inundated with letters from servicemen to their family and friends, and return mail to the servicemen. The film is based on authentic letters sent by soldiers from the various war fronts. The letters describe basic training, the fighting, friends who were injured or killed, a longing to be home, the conditions of life on the front, and hope for a quick end to the war, their return home, and plans and dreams for the future. Upon a backdrop of letters, are views from original clips taken on various fronts that document the action.

Production Year : 1999

Duration : 45

Language : English