Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Movies and Books about World War II

Movies:
Valkyrie- Tells of the plots that Germans from the inside attempted to execute to kill Hitler
The Reader- Love story about an older woman and a teenage boy in Germany. The woman ends up being put on trial for mistreatment of Jews while she was a guard at concentration camps.
A League of Their Own- Story of women taking over Major League Baseball while all the men were at war.
Atonement- Love story about two childhood friends in England who are separated and the boy is forced to fight in the war.
The Sound of Music- A family grows up in Austria during the war.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button- A man grows from older to younger and is forced to spend part of his life fighting in the war.
South Pacific (musical)- Musical about soldiers deployed to the South Pacific during the war.
Books:
Atonement
The Sunflower
The Diary of Anne Frank

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