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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...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1965
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 116 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Nazis have perfected rocket technology that could rain death on London and New York. After commandos are sent to sabotage the plan, they find their mission has been compromised. Will they make it out of there in time?
Series
Publisher
Marathon Music & Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 5 hrs.) : sd., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The North Star: A Russian village defends itself against the Germans. (1943) with Dana Andrews, Anne Baxter, Walter Brennan and Walter Huston
Commandos (color): Setting up the Allied invasion in North Africa. (1968) with Lee Van Cleef and Jack Kelly
Five for hell: Suicide mission behind German lines. (1967) with Klaus Kinski
4) Flyboys
Publisher
distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (139 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the true story of the legendary Lafayette Escadrille, this action-packed epic tells the tale of America’s first fighter pilots. These courageous young men distinguish themselves in a manner that none before them had dared, becoming the true heroes who experience triumph, tragedy, love, and loss amid the chaos of World War I.
5) Hatari!
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (157 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Director Howard Hawks reteams with John Wayne, who heads a group of highly skilled professional game hunters in Africa. Only they don’t use bullets – they capture the ferocious big game with strong rope and cameras for zoos and circus attractions. Nominated for an **Academy Award** for Best Cinematography, Color. *"one of those rare films that genuinely constitutes a 'late masterpiece'." - Derek Adams, **Time Out***
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
7) Megan Leavey
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A film based on the true life story of a young marine corporal (Kate Mara) whose unique discipline and bond with her military combat dog saved many lives during their deployment in Iraq. When she is assigned to clean up the K9 unit after a disciplinary hearing, Leavey identifies with a particularly aggressive dog, Rex, and is given the chance to train him. Over the course of their service, Megan and Rex completed more than 100 missions until an IED...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
A World War II drama in which an army major selects 12 men convicted for crimes of violence and offers them their freedom if they will complete a dangerous mission behind Nazi lines
10) Still the drums
Language
English
Description
After he is listed as missing-in-action for thirty-nine years in Vietnam, the remains of Lt. Jack E. Buchannon are brought home and buried as he is awarded the Medal Of Honor. Following the funeral for their fallen comrade, Jack's three childhood best friends, all Vietnam veterans, look back on their lives and service to their country.
11) Hamburger Hill
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.
12) Open city
Series
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1997
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
The loyalties of an impoverished mother-to-be and a parish priest are tested by the German forces which occupy their homeland during World War II
Series
Publisher
CATCOM Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (155 min.) : b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The painted desert: A mining engineer returns to his desert home to settle a long standing family feud and falls in love with the rival family's daughter
A farewell to arms: he love story of a wounded American ambulance driver and an English nurse. Set on the Italian front during World War I
Publisher
Darkstar Pictures
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (167 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
Japan, 1944. Trained for intelligence work, Hiroo Onoda, 22 years old, discovers a philosophy contrary to the official line: no suicide, stay alive whatever happens, the mission is more important than anything else. Sent to Lubang, a small island in the Philippines where the Americans are about to land, his role will be to wage a guerilla war until the return of the Japanese troops. The Empire will surrender soon after, Onoda 10,000 days later in...
17) Passchendaele
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
"The lives of a troubled veteran, his nurse girlfriend and a naive boy intersect first in Alberta and then in Belgium during the bloody World War I battle of Passchendaele."--IMDB
20) Resistance
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Before he was the world-famous mime Marcel Marceau, he was Marcel Mangel, an aspiring Jewish actor who joined the French Resistance to save the lives of thousands of children orphaned at the hands of the Nazis. A compelling drama about a group of unsung heroes who put themselves in harm's way to rise above hatred and oppression during World War II.
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