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    • By: J. R. R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien
    • Narrated by: Andy Serkis
    • Series: The Lord of the Rings, Book 0
    • Length: 19 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,738 ratings
    • The forerunner to The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion tells the earlier history of Middle-earth, recounting the events of the First and Second Ages, and introducing some of the key characters, such as Galadriel, Elrond, Elendil and the Dark Lord, Sauron....

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    • Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
    • By: Robert M. Edsel, Bret Witter
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Davidson
    • Length: 14 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-09
    • Language: English
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    • At the same time Adolf Hitler was attempting to take over the western world, his armies were methodically seeking and hoarding the finest art treasures in Europe.....

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    • The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power
    • By: Paul Fischer
    • Narrated by: Stephen Park
    • Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 02-03-15
    • Language: English
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    • Before becoming the world's most notorious dictator, Kim Jong-Il ran North Korea's Ministry for Propaganda and its film studios....

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    • A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War
    • By: Mark Harris
    • Narrated by: Andrew Garman
    • Length: 20 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 02-27-14
    • Language: English
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    • It was the best of times and the worst of times for Hollywood before the war. The box office was booming, and the studios’ control of talent and distribution was as airtight as could be hoped....

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    • Bogart, Bergman, and World War II
    • By: Aljean Harmetz
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 11-26-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
    • Critically acclaimed when published in 1992 as Round Up the Usual Suspects, The Making of Casablanca offers the ultimate insider's look at the politics and personalities behind the most celebrated movie of all time - Casablanca....

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    • The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror
    • By: W. Scott Poole
    • Narrated by: Andrew Eiden
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-18
    • Language: English
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    • Historian and Bram Stoker Award nominee W. Scott Poole traces the confluence of history, technology, and art that gave us modern horror films and literature....

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    • The World War II Race to Save the Treasures of China's Forbidden City
    • By: Adam Brookes
    • Narrated by: Adam Brookes
    • Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Told for the first time in English and playing out across a vast historical canvas, this “compelling story of art, war, and adventure” (Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The Romanovs: 1613-1918) follows the small group who, when faced with war’s onslaught on civilization, chose to resist....

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    • A Century of War on Film
    • By: David Thomson
    • Narrated by: David Thomson
    • Length: 19 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-23
    • Language: English
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    • In The Fatal Alliance the acclaimed film critic David Thomson offers us one of his most provocative books yet—a rich, arresting, and troubling study of that most beloved genre: the war movie....

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    • The Story of Bronislaw Huberman, the Israel Philharmonic, and the One Thousand Jews He Saved from Nazi Horrors
    • By: Josh Aronson, Denise George
    • Narrated by: Tom Zingarelli
    • Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 04-29-16
    • Language: English
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    • At 14, Bronislaw Huberman played the Brahms "Violin Concerto" in Vienna, winning high praise from the composer himself....

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    • The Search for My Family's Art Treasures Stolen by the Nazis
    • By: Simon Goodman
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 82 ratings
    • The Gutmanns amassed a magnificent, world-class art collection that included works by Degas, Renoir, Botticelli, and Guardi But the Nazi regime snatched everything from them....

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    • The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War
    • By: Doug Bradley, Craig Werner
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-17
    • Language: English
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    • For a Kentucky rifleman who spent his tour trudging through Vietnam's Central Highlands, it was Nancy Sinatra's "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'"....

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    • The Life of Audie Murphy, America's Most Decorated Hero of World War II
    • By: David Smith
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 6 hrs
    • Release date: 04-20-15
    • Language: English
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    • In the first biography covering his entire life - including his severe PTSD and his tragic death at age 45 - the unusual story of Audie Murphy, the most decorated hero of World War II....

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    • The Untold Story of the Actors and Stagehands at Ford's Theatre
    • By: Thomas A. Bogar
    • Narrated by: R.C. Bray
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 11-04-13
    • Language: English
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    • April 14, 1865. A famous actor pulls a trigger in the presidential balcony, leaps to the stage, and escapes, as the president lies fatally wounded....

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    • By: Gary W. Gallagher
    • Narrated by: Mel Foster
    • Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-11
    • Language: English
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    • Even 150 years later, we are haunted by the Civil War---by its division, its bloodshed, and perhaps, above all, by its origins....

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    • Violins of the Holocaust - Instruments of Hope and Liberation in Mankind's Darkest Hour
    • By: James A. Grymes
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-23
    • Language: English
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    • Music historian James A. Grymes tells the amazing, horrifying, and inspiring story of the violins of the Holocaust, and of Amnon Weinstein, the renowned Israeli violinmaker who has devoted the past twenty years to restoring these instruments in tribute to those who were lost....

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    • The Führer's Hidden Passion
    • By: Bill Niven
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 04-24-18
    • Language: English
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    • A presence in Third Reich cinema, Adolf Hitler also personally financed, ordered, and censored films and newsreels and engaged in complex relationships with their stars and directors....

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    • Nazi Art Plunder in Postwar Western Europe
    • By: Elizabeth Campbell
    • Narrated by: Holly Adams
    • Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-24
    • Language: English
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    • Art looting is commonly recognized as a central feature of Nazi expropriation. After the war, the famed Monuments Men (and women) recovered several hundred thousand pieces from the Germans' makeshift repositories.

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