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1) Windtalkers
Language
English
Description
In the brutal World War II Battle of Saipan, Sergeant Joe Enders (Nicolas Cage) guards -- and befriends -- Ben Yahzee (Adam Beach), a young Navajo trained in the one wartime code never broken by the enemy...the Navajo Code. But if Yahzee should fall into enemy hands, how far will Enders go to save the military's most powerful secret? John Woo directs this action-packed epic inspired by the true story of the Navajo soldiers whose courage and sacrifices...
Language
English
Description
Captain John Miller must take his men behind enemy lines to find Private Ryan, whose three brothers have been killed in combat. Faced with impossible odds, the men question their orders. Why are eight men risking their lives to save just one? Surrounded by the brutal realities of war, each man searches for his own answer and the strength to triumph over uncertain future with honor, decency and courage
3) War classics
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 729 min.) : sd., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Publisher
Artisan Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Fourteen American soldiers in Vietnam battle for a mud-covered mound of earth that chews up soldiers like meat. They are fighting for their country, their fellow soldiers and their lives. War is hell, but this is worse.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
"When Lt. Colonel Nathaniel Serling is asked to review the posthumous candidacy of the first woman to receive a Medal of Honor, he finds himself plunged into an apparent cover-up surrounding the actions that led to her death. As he struggles to uncover the truth, he also finds himself forced to confront his own tormenting demons."--Container
10) Victory at sea
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Language
English
Description
The true glory (80 min.): A documentary account of the allied invasion of Europe during World War II compiled from the footage shot by nearly one thousand four hundred cameramen.
The first forty days in Korea (28 min.): several companies of the 24th Division fight the Communist Chinese against great odds.
Vietnam! Vietnam! (58 min): shot on location in Vietnam in October-December 1968.
"An Emmy and Peabody award-winning TV series chronicling naval...
11) In harm's way
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (167 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Epic treatment of the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the attack on the naval base
12) Good kill
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After six tours of duty, Air Force pilot Tom Egan yearns to get back into the cockpit of a real plane, but he now fights the Taliban from an air-conditioned box in the Las Vegas desert. When he and his crew start taking orders directly from the CIA, and the stakes are raised, Egan's nerves, and his relationship with his wife begin to unravel. Revealing the psychological toll drone pilots endure as they are forced to witness the aftermath of their...
13) Tears of the sun
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a doctor is rescued by a Special-Ops unit in the jungle of Nigeria, she refuses to go with them unless they agree to help rescue 70 refugees also. Extended Cut contains over 24 minutes of never-before-seen footage.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
Français
Description
Loosely based on true episodes, this film tells the story of German, French, and Scottish soldiers in the bloody trenches of World War I and the miraculous Christmas Eve truce they unexpectedly forge. Follows a French lieutenant, a Scottish priest, and a German tenor and his beloved Danish soprano as music and the spirit of Christmas create bonds between enemies
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
American combat pilot Col. Joseph Ryan (Sinatra) is shot down over Nazi-controlled Italy and joins U.S. and English WWII troops in a prison camp during the summer of 1943. Given the insulting nickname "Von Ryan" because he initially seems more concerned with surviving than escaping, the colonel eventually leads Allied prisoners, as their new top ranking officer, in a daredevil race for freedom by commandeering an entire German freight train bound...
17) Hart's war
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Honor, courage, and sacrifice are revealed in unexpected ways as a ranking U.S. prisoner in a Nazi POW camp is joined in December 1944 by a law-student lieutenant who'd been captured despite his father's powerful military connections. When a black pilot from the famous Tuskeegee airmen is falsely accused of murdering a fellow prisoner, Lt. Hart tries his case and discovers the real motivation behind the ranking officer's kangaroo court
19) Seraphim Falls
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
The American Civil War has ended, but Colonel Morsman Carver accepts one final mission. He has to kill Gideon no matter what it takes. Launched by a gunshot and propelled by rage, the relentless pursuit takes them both far from the comforts and codes of civilization, into the bloodiest recesses of their own souls
20) Black Hawk down
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (144 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
With exacting detail, the film re-creates the American siege of the Somalian city of Mogadishu in October 1993, when a 45-minute mission turned into a 16-hour ordeal of bloody urban warfare. Helicopter-borne U.S. Rangers were assigned to capture key lieutenants of Somali warlord Muhammad Farrah Aidid, but when two Black Hawk choppers were felled by rocket-propelled grenades, the U.S. soldiers were forced to fend for themselves in the battle-torn streets...
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