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Author
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Tom Bedford has put his past behind him--until his son Danny is charged with murder. In the chaos of war, Danny has been caught in a violent skirmish gone bloodily awry, and the Army needs someone to pay for the mistake. Shocked into action, Tom confronts the violence in his past and fights to save the son he'd let slip away.
Publisher
The Weinstein Company Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (84 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Stanley Phillips is a sad, disconnected man unable to tell his young daughters that their mother, a soldier, has died in Iraq. Instead, he takes the girls on a road trip, where their innocent charm helps him rediscover a healing joy he thought he'd lost forever.
Author
Publisher
Passion River
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Island Soldier is a feature documentary that interweaves the personal stories of Micronesian soldiers serving in the US military at high rates per capita, and the experiences of their families back home in the islands.
We follow their journey from one of the most remote islands in the world to the front lines of war in Afghanistan. These non-US citizens mostly serve in the infantry and have extremely high casualty rates, dying at a rate five times...
Author
Publisher
NTI Upstream
Pub. Date
[2010], c2009
Physical Desc
xiv, 265 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Description
"The fierce, true-life account of United States Air Force pediatric surgeon Lt. Col. Dr. Chris Coppola, this book describes his experiences through two deployments in Operation Iraqi Freedom inside a military trauma hospital at Balad Air Base, just 49 miles north of Baghdad. Novelistic in scope and vision, this memoir extends beyond objective reportage to give genuine voice to U.S. surgeons and soldiers, Iraqi translators, and everyday civilians whose...
Publisher
Distributed by New Video Group
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (56 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Chronicles the heart-wrenching journey to understand and cope with the loss shared by the estimated 20,000 American children whose fathers were killed in Vietnam. Weaving emotionally compelling interviews with home movies, stock footage, and family photos. Along her journey, Tragos uncovers a 30-year-old mystery, as she comes to know her father as a man. Untangled from the memory of a war that wounded a nation. Some discoveries are almost too difficult...
9) In Syria
Publisher
Film Movement Llc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A woman in a city under siege opens up her apartment to her neighbors in an effort to keep them and her family safe from the war.
10) National bird
Publisher
[Ten Forward Films]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows the harrowing journey of three U.S. military veterans who became whistleblowers, determined to break the silence surrounding America's secret drone war. Tortured by guilt for their participation in the killing of faceless terror suspects, and despite the threat of being prosecuted, these three veterans offer an unprecedented look inside this secret program to reveal the haunting cost of America's global drone strikes.
11) A sunlit weapon
Author
Series
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 17
Description
October 1942. Jo Hardy, a 22-year-old ferry pilot, is delivering a Supermarine Spitfire--the fastest fighter aircraft in the world--to Biggin Hill Aerodrome, when she realizes someone is shooting at her aircraft from the ground. Returning to the location on foot, she finds an American serviceman in a barn, bound and gagged. She rescues the man, who is handed over to the American military police; it quickly emerges that he is considered a suspect in...
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