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The Hunchback of Notre Dame (117 mins.): Gypsy Esmerelda and malformed bellringer Quasimodo fall victim to the machinations of church and underworld leaders in medieval Paris.
Dance, girl, dance (89 mins.): A couple of ambitious chorus girls compete with the men in their lives as well as for the chance to make it big in the world of show business.
The Spanish Main (100 mins.): Capt. Laurent Van Horn, a Dutch trader in the Caribbean is wrongly imprisoned...
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This moving account of the children that lived through the worst of World War II explores their harrowing world of concentration camps, ghettos, and deportee and exile routes from an intimate viewpoint. Documenting the history of these children and the adults that protected them, this compilation includes incredible stories such as those of Clara Watch, Oskar Schindler, Ruth Danner, and the children of the Kindertransport.
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"A day of infamy and a day of bravery. Two days of tragedy and a day of triumph. Collected here are the remarkable stories of five crucial days that changed the course of history forever. Witness the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and the D-Day invasion during World War II. Grieve with a nation during the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Bask in the triumph of humanity as Apollo 11 safely...
10507) Mil grullas
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Naomi y Toshiro son dos niños en Hiroshima de 1945. Unidos por el cariño y el afecto, el verano los sorprenderá con un sol estallando. Es la bomba atómica. En un acto de amor incomparable, Toshiro hará con sus manos mil grullas para salvar a su amiga.
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Are you ready for some of the most exciting, death-defying escape stories ever told' Perfect for fans of the I Survived series, the first installment in a brand-new, edge-of-your-seat series based on real events! In spring 1942, Royal Air Force pilot Bill Ash's plane was shot down by Germans, who captured and eventually brought him to Stalag Luft III, a notorious camp for prisoners of war. The Germans boasted that the camp 'which was isolated, heavily...
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"World War II soldier Bill Wynne met Smoky while serving in New Guinea, where the dog, who was smaller than Wynne's army boot, was found trying to scratch her way out of a foxhole. After he adopted her, she served as the squadron mascot and is credited as being the first therapy dog for the emotional support she provided the soldiers. When they weren't fighting, Bill taught Smoky hundreds of tricks to entertain the troops. Smoky became a war hero...
10514) La guerra que salvó mi vida
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A young disabled girl and her brother are evacuated from London to the English countryside during World War II, where they find life to be much sweeter away from their abusive mother.
Londres, vísperas de la segunda guerra mundial. Ada, un niña de diez anos que nació con un pie zambo, observa el mundo desde la ventana de un tercer piso. su madre le prohíbe salir a la calle porque se avergüenza de ella. La vida transcurre lenta, aburrida y triste....
10516) Herejes
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In 1939, the S.S. Saint Louis spent several days anchored at Havana while waiting for the Cuban authorities to allow 900 Jewish refugees from Germany into their country. Confident that a painting by Rembrandt that had belonged to their family since the 17th century--and which they had smuggled on board the ship--would convince the Cubans to let them in, little Daniel Kaminsky and his uncle waited at the dock for their relatives to disembark. But the...
10518) El ascenso de Hitler
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Studies Hitler's rise to power and the repercussions of that rise.
"Retrocede en el tiempo a la Alemania nazi y observa a Hitler cambiar, de ser un joven artista desempleado a un dictador brutal, a través de los ojos de aquellos que vivieron entonces. Descubre cómo era pertenecer a la liga de muchachas alemanas, lee las instrucciones de Göring disparen primero a las tropas de ataque nazi, y escucha el trágico relato de una mujer cuyos hijos fueron...
10519) War
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Immersive set of documentaries that digs deep into the twists and turns of America's most significant and deadly conflicts.
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"Eddie Jaku se consideraba alemán antes que judío. Siempre sintió un gran orgullo por su país, hasta que en 1938 fue arrestado por los nazis y trasladado a uno de sus campos de concentración. Aunque su formación como ingeniero le concedió ciertos privilegios, primero en Buchenwald y después en Auschwitz, Eddie sufrió horrores indecibles. Perdió a su familia, a sus amigos, a su país. Durante todos esos años, lo que le mantuvo con vida fue...
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