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2) In country
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This film captures the horror of battle-- and the disillusionment of a soldier who thought war meant glory and discovers it also means both pain and fear.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Poland, World War II. Innocent and naive 8-year-old Bruno is bored and restless in his new home. Ignoring his mother, he sets off on an adventure in the woods. He comes across a high fence which separates him from the people he can see through it. Soon he meets a young boy in striped pajamas, and a surprising friendship develops.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Collector's ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 157 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A team of Allied military specialists are recruited for a dangerous but imperative mission: to infiltrate a Nazi-occupied fortress in Greece and disable two long-range field guns so that 2,000 trapped British soldiers may be rescued. Faced with an unforgiving sea voyage, hazardous terrain, and the possibility of a traitor among them, the team must overcome the impossible without losing their own lives.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 100 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
World-weary Harry Morgan is not about to help the Free French. But he and his sidekick, Eddie, are based on the island of Martinique and crew a boat available for hire. Since WWII is raging all around them, business is not what it could be and after a customer who owes them a large sum fails to pay they are forced to violate their preferred neutrality and to take a job for the French resistance transporting a fugitive on the run from the Nazis to...
8) Atonement
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
[Full screen ed.]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1935, 13-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis and her family live a life of wealth and privilege in their enormous mansion. On the warmest day of the year, the country estate takes on an unsettling hothouse atmosphere, stoking Briony's vivid imagination. Robbie Turner, the educated son of the family's housekeeper, carries a torch for Briony's headstrong older sister Cecilia. He hopes that Cecilia has comparable feelings. All it will take is...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
[Widescreen ed.].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 132 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The life stories of the five Marines and one Naval officer that were forever immortalized as a symbol of WWII by raising the American flag at the battle of Iwo Jima.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Edition
[Full screen].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Vietnam veteran John Rambo has withdrawn into a simple and secluded existence in Thailand. Even though he is looking to avoid trouble, trouble finds him. A group of Christian missionaries approach Rambo with the desire to rent his boat to travel up the river to Burma, which is a war zone. The Karen people of the region have endured a brutal rule from the murderous Burmese military. Rambo accepts the offer and takes the missionaries up the river. When...
11) 300
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
Full screen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army in the mountain pass of Thermopylae. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the enemy in one of the most famous last stands of history. Persian King Xerxes lead a Army of well over 100,000 men to Greece and was confronted by 300 Spartans, 700 Thespians and other Slave soldiers. Xerxes waited many days for King Leonidas to surrender or withdraw....
12) Kelly's heroes
Language
English
Description
Kelly's heroes: World War II soldiers learn of a fortune of gold bars that the Germans have stashed in enemy territory, and decide to steal the loot.
The dirty dozen: Twelve tough criminals are offered absolution if they undertake a suicide mission into Nazi Germany.
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the midst of riots, rebellion, and revolution of the 1960s, a reluctant soldier finds himself in the center of two wars. Randy is ripped from the front lines of the civil rights struggle and thrust into the war in Vietnam to battle for his life. An explosive story of one man's coming of age during the assassinations, protest, and war that defined the 60's and changed the world.
14) The great raid
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 133 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of American Rangers who rescue the survivors of the Bataan Death March from the Cabanatuan Prison Camp during WWII. When the Philippines fell to the Japanese, the remnants of Gen. MacArthur's Army were forced down the Bataan Penninsula where they were surrounded and cutoff with no hope of rescue. They were starving and dying of disease. Gen. Wainwright eventually surrendered and the troops were marched off to prison. Along...
15) Australia
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (165 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In northern Australia at the beginning of World War II, an English aristocrat inherits a cattle station the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn stock-man to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier....
16) Resistance
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When American fighter pilot Ted is shot down on a reconnaissance mission over occupied Belgium, local underground members hide him in a secret room belonging to a resistance leader and his wife. As she nurses the injured pilot back to health, the two slowly fall in love, But when the affair is uncovered, a shocking act of betrayal threatens them and the resistance movement, forcing the officer to make a choice that will change their lives - and the...
17) Exodus
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (208 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This film dramatizes part of the Israeli independence moment, dealing with various factions involved in the internecine struggle between the moderate Haganah and the radical terrorist Irgun Zvai Leumi. Interspersed throughout are segments showing the migration of European Jews to the new land, paying special attention to the ragged survivors of Nazi death camps on board the vessel Exodus, blockaded in a Cyprus harbor by British warships. The film...
18) The deer hunter
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
High definition widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (3 hr., 4 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tracks a group of steelworker pals from a Pennsylvania blast furnace to the cool hunting grounds of the Alleghenies to the lethal cauldron of Vietnam. Shows what happens to friendship and courage under stress.
19) One man's hero
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of the Saint Patrick Battalion, a group of soldiers enlisted from Ireland to fight in the Mexican War. When they are treated harshly for their religious convictions, they escape across the border into the enemy territory of Mexico, where they must convince a Mexican rebel leader to let them fight against the U.S. so they can protect their beliefs.
20) Pathfinder
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The heroic story of a young Norse man raised by Native American Indians who wages a personal war against the Vikings that barbarically raided his tribe.
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