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Publisher
IFC Films
Formats
Description
It's just another day on the job for a band of badass combat zone rescue workers as they defy death and confront war's absurdities. The setting is 1995, somewhere in the Balkans. Over the course of 24 breathless hours, Mambru, leads his team of humanitarian, including hard-bitten, wisecracking veteran B and new recruit Sophie, as they deal with a most unexpected crisis, layers of bureaucratic red tape, and the reappearance of Mambru's old flame.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The profoundly moving story of a girl who transforms the lives of those around her during World War II, Germany. Although Liesel is illiterate when she is adopted by a German couple, her adoptive father encourages her to learn to read. Ultimately, the power of words helps Liesel and Max, a Jew hiding in the family's home, escape from the events unfolding around them.
Pub. Date
2021.
Formats
Description
As teenagers, kung fu disciples Danny, Hing, and Jim were inseparable. Fast forward 25 years, and each has grown into a washed-up middle-aged man seemingly one kick away from pulling a hamstring, and not at all preoccupied with thoughts of martial arts or childhood best friends. But when their old master is murdered, the trio reunites, soon learning that avenging their sifu will require conquering old grudges if they are to honorably defend his legacy....
4) 1917
Publisher
Universal
Formats
Description
At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers, Schofield and Blake are given a seemingly impossible mission. In a race against time, they must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers, Blake's own brother among them.
Series
Criterion collection volume 330
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006, c1987
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the director's life, this film chronicles Malle's experiences during the German occupation of France in World War II.
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
Tells the gripping story of a young German soldier on the Western Front of World War I. Paul and his comrades experience first-hand how the initial euphoria of war turns into desperation and fear as they fight for their lives, and each other, in the trenches. The film from director Edward Berger is based on the world-renowned bestseller of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque.
Publisher
Warner
Pub. Date
2015
Formats
Description
U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle is sent to Iraq with only one mission: to protect his brothers-in-arms. His pinpoint accuracy saves countless lives on the battlefield. However, his reputation is also growing behind enemy lines, putting a price on his head and making him a prime target of insurgents. He is also facing a different kind of battle on the home front: striving to be a good husband and father from halfway around the world.
"A shrewd and very...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Vietnam war drama which begins with a depiction of the brutality of Marine Corps training and then shifts to Vietnam, focusing mainly on a group of Marines responding to the Tet Offensive of 1968.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 43/4 in.
Description
An American colonel (Sinatra) leads a group of British prisoners of war to freedom from a camp in Italy. He and a British officer (Howard) take over a German freight train in a bid for freedom.
10) Ryan's daughter
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 206 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Headstrong Rosy lives on the heathered hills of Ireland's Dingle Peninsula. She cannot forsake her passionate romance with a handsome British officer. Yet, for Rosy, there is a greater love - the devotion of her reserved schoolteacher husband Charles. When Rosy has an illicit affair and is ultimately charged with treason, it is Charles who will stand by her side.
11) Paths of glory
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The French General Staff, safely behind the lines, sends orders for what amounts to a suicide mission. To cover up their fatal blunder, three soldiers are arrested and made scapegoats. Captures the spirit of Humphrey Cobb's novel in presenting a harsh attack on the futility of war in general and World War I in particular. A blistering indictment of military politics.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (144 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A gripping true story of six elite ex-military operators assigned to protect the CIA who fought back against overwhelming odds when terrorists attacked in the U.S. diplomatic compound on September 11, 2012. When everything went wrong, six men had the courage to do what was right.
13) Enigma
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Still reeling from the disappearance of his lover, a brilliant code-breaker is summoned to Blechley Park, Britain's top-secret intelligence campus. Now he must face his toughest assignment--crack the Nazis' infamous Engima codes. Putting together the pieces of a puzzle, he discovers the reason for his lovers' disappearance to U-boats closing in on Allied cargo ships to a mass grave in Poland.
14) We were soldiers
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (138 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Lt. Col. Hal Moore is the commander of the First Battalion, Seventh Cavalry. As part of the Pleiku Campaign of late 1965, Moore is assigned to action at Landing Zone X-Ray in the Ia Drang Valley, an area known to be overrun by North Vietnamese troops and nicknamed "The Valley of Death." Moore soon finds himself and his men contained to an area about the size of a football field, surrounded by more than 2,000 enemy troops and engaged in the first major...
15) The deer hunter
Formats
Description
Tracks a group of steelworker pals from a Pennsylvania blast furnace to the coal hunting grounds of the Alleghenies to the lethal cauldron of Vietnam. It is a drama of friendship and courage and of what happens to these qualities under stress.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016].
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (306 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In Red-headed woman, Lillian "Lil" Andrews uses powerful men to get what she wants in life. In Waterloo Bridge, a soldier falls in love with a woman during World War I. In Baby face, an amoral woman sleeps her way to the top floor of an office.
17) Grace is gone
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.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two fighter pilots become close friends while fighting for the R.A.F in World War II. When one of the pilots dies, the survivor develops a relationship with his dead friend's wife. Director Boris Sagal's movie features incredible footage of the Mosquito bomber planes used by the R.A.F. And the final sequence has been cited as an influence on George Lucas's Death Star sequences in Star Wars.
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