John Ford
1) December 7th
Series
Publisher
GoodTimes DVD
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
[Standard full frame version].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
December 7th: Reconstructs the events at Pearl Harbor on the day of the Japanese attack. The fleet that came to stay: explains the invasion of Okinawa from the U.S. Navy point of view and illustrates the operation using scenes of the combat.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Colonel Marlowe is in command of a motley assortment of 1200 Union volunteers whose task-- and apparent suicide mission-- is to infiltrate 300 miles of Southern territory and destroy the most strategic rail route in the Confederacy. Marlowe's life is complicated by his ferocious running feud with the company's surgeon, Major Kendall.
Publisher
Republic Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
Collector's ed. DVD
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
An American prizefighter returns to Ireland in order to forget the past and live peacefully in his village birthplace. He falls in love with the hot-tempered sister of a belligerent neighbor, and trouble ensues over the payment of her dowry.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 119 min.) : sd., col., double sided ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Wayne plays ex-Confederate soldier Ethan Edwards, an Indian-hater who believes more in bullets than words. He's out to find his young niece, who's been taken captive by the renegade Comanches who massacred her family.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1949
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 minutes) : sd., col.
Language
English
Description
The rugged commander of a small cavalry outpost on the western frontier is faced with imminent retirement. As well as safeguarding the stagecoatch routes, he must make peace with his Indian counterparts to avert a needless war and also make sure his troop will be in capable hands when he leaves.
6) Fort Apache
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
Standard version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This classic portrait of the old West depicts a military martinet calvary officer whose by-the-book tactics and ignorance of the western frontier cause him to lead his men into a fatal Apache ambush.
8) Mogambo
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Victor Marswell runs a big game trapping company in Kenya. Eloise Kelly is ditched there, and an immediate attraction happens between them. Then Mr. and Mrs. Nordley show up for their gorilla documenting safari. Mrs. Nordley is not infatuated with her husband any more, and takes a liking to Marswell.
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (441 min.) : sound, black and white, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
They were expendable: Two PT-boat skippers defend the Philippines and give the U.S. war effort time to regroup after the crippling losses at Pearl Harbor. Flying Leathernecks: An embattled Marine fighter squadron VMF 247 at Guadalcanal is led by John Wayne and campaigning to coordinate ground combat with low-flying aerial sorties.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Full screen/widescreen.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (523 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In The searchers, a Civil War veteran spends five years on the trail of a Comanche raiding party that kidnapped his dead brother's daughter.
In Fort Apache, a calvary officer whose by-the-book tactics and ignorance of the western frontier cause him to lead his men into a fatal Apache ambush.
In Rio Bravo, a Texas border sheriff fights off hired gunmen to keep a murderer in custody.
In The cowboys, a rancher is deserted by his regular cattle drivers...
13) Rio Grande
Publisher
Republic Pictures Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998], p1950
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (126 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Wayne stars as a Union officer who is ordered to burn the plantation of his southern wife. She won't speak to him for 15 years, during which time he is assigned to the Indian Wars in the southwest. The Apaches cause trouble by escaping across the Rio Grande, until Wayne is allowed to follow.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The true story of Naval Commander Frank "Spig" Wead - from his first solo flight that ends in the admiral's swimming pool to his assignment as commander aboard an aircraft carrier in World War II.
15) Stagecoach
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Nine disparate travelers are thrust together in a perilous journey, a ride on a stagecoach destined for Apache territory.