Films
Additional films are listed on the applicable chapter pages.
Additional films are listed on the applicable chapter pages.
- Das Boot (1981) (YouTube)
- Empire of the Sun (Amazon Instant)
- Defiance
- Hidden in Silence
- The Devil's Arithmetic
- The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
- Goodnight Mister Tom
- I am David
- The Diary of Anne Frank
- Schindler's List
- The Pianist (Amazon Instant) (Netflix)
- The Longest Day (Amazon Instant)
- Flags of Our Fathers
- South Pacific
- Radio Days (Netflix) - Woody Allen's 1987 film about his childhood from the late 30s - 1944, when radio was king
- Walt Disney Treasures: On the Front Lines (WWII propaganda; Teacher's Guide)
- 1940s House - Life on the British home front (YouTube: Part 1, Part 2)
- Bedknobs and Broomsticks (Amazon Instant) - "Bedknobs and Broomsticks is about British children being evacuated to the country. Although is a fantasy element to the story e.g. the old woman being a witch, there are some scenes about being evacuated and what it meant for children at the time." (Source)
Documentaries:
- The War: A Ken Burns Film (2 hr, 23 min)
- Third Reich: Rise and Fall (4 hrs)
- Hitler's Children (4 hrs)
- Broken Silence
- Nuit et Brouillard (Night and Fog): Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 (1955)
Books
UPPER ELEMENTARY - MIDDLE SCHOOL
Nonfiction:
- The World Wars: An Introduction to the First & Second World Wars by Paul Dowswell, Ruth Brocklehurst, Henry Brook
- Angels of Mercy: The Army Nurses of World War II by Betsy Kuhn
- Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
- World War II for Kids: A History with 21 Activities by Richard Panchyk
- Great World War II Projects You Can Build Yourself by Sheri Bell-Rehwoldt
Historical Fiction:
- The Cherry Ames Series by Helen Wells
- Stepping on the Cracks by Mary Downing Hahn
- The Mitchells: Five for Victory by Hilda Van Stockum (a "light" read, but very good!)
- Good Night, Mr. Tom by Michelle Magorian
- Autumn Street by Lois Lowry
- The Kingdom by the Sea by Robert Westall
- Behind the Bedroom Wall by Laura E. Williams
- Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
- Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Green
- Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
- I am David by Anne Holm
- When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr
- Good-Bye Marianne and Remember Me by Irene Watts
- The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen
- Rose Blanche by Christophe Gallaz (Holocaust)
- Hiroshima No Pika by Toshi Maruki (Atomic bomb on Hiroshima)
HIGH SCHOOL - ADULT
Nonfiction:
- V for Victory: America's Home Front During World War II by Stan Cohen - A pictorial history
- Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (Oxford History of the United States) by David M. Kennedy
- While You Were Gone: A Report on Wartime Life in the United States by Jack Goodman - A collection of short essays on American life while the soldiers were away at war.(1946)
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