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Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (72 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A terse drama about British cavalrymen lost in the Mesopotamian desert during World War I. They are pursued constantly by Arab sharpshooters. When the leader of the patrol is killed, McLaglen takes charge of the eleven ragged survivors.
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color and black & white; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On Thanksgiving Day, 1950, US Army troops pushed north through the Korean peninsula to drive North Korea's Communist army out of democratically held South Korea. Within days, they were surrounded by more than 85,000 Chinese soldiers in the mountains by the Chosin Reservoir. View the intense battle in intimate detail in this vivid narrative of combat and survival in the first major military clash of the Cold War.
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 145 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"In the chaotic aftermath of the First World War, the vast Pacific Ocean becomes the flash point for a new crisis, a struggle between imperialistic Japan and isolationist America. Japan, eager for raw materials to feed her fledgling industries, invades Manchuria and later China. The fighting in Asia sets Japan on a collision course with the United States. On December 7, 1941, the uneasy peace is shattered as the Japanese carrier fleet launches a surprise...
Pub. Date
©2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A comprehensive look at the attack on Pearl Harbor from both Japanese and American perspectives. Features events leading up to the attack, combat footage and interviews with military scholars and veterans from both sides of the conflict.
Pub. Date
[2002], ©2002.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 138 min.) : sound, color ; 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...
Pub. Date
2005, c1955
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A comedy-drama about life aboard a Navy cargo ship in Pacific waters during the waning days of World War II. In the Navy Register it is listed as 'The Reluctant, ' but to its crew it is known as 'The Bucket.' The monotonous non-combat duty of a fun-loving crew is enlivened by a feud between the petty, intolerant martinet of a captain and an impetuous, highly-respected cargo officer whose continuous efforts to get a transfer to combat duty are blocked...
8) Go for broke
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This is the story of the Japanese Americans who formed the 442nd Regimental Combat Team in 1943 and served in Italy and France in WWII.
9) Gallipoli
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two friends are involved with the battle between Australia and the German-occupied Turks in this commentary on the wastes of war.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A journalist, trapped in Leningrad during the Nazi onslaught, joins forces with a young militia officer to provide refuge for the masses devastated by the explosive atrocities surrounding them. Bonus features included.
12) Dunkirk
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Explores the audacious bid to rescue over 400,000 troops from the British Expeditionary Force besieged on the beaches at Dunkirk, which ranks as one of the greatest maritime evacuations in history. Combines contemporary footage and reenactments to tell the story in 3 episodes.
13) Patton
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (171 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A dramatization of the experiences of General George S. Patton during World War II.
14) Night of the fox
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 188 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
U.S. officer Colonel Hugh Kelso has inside knowledge about the imminent and highly secretive D-Day invasion. When he washes ashore behind enemy lines, special agents Harry Martineau and Sara Drayton of the Allied Forces must stage a covert rescue to save his live - or end it - before the Germans acquire the valuable information he possesses. Joined by an Italian naval officer and a Jewish actor-turned-German paratrooper, the agents embark on a rescue...
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 195 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Includes an overview of World War II from the German Blitzkeieg to the Allies' bloody battle for Berlin, as well as the desert war in northern Africa, the landing of the Allies and the brutal German counterattack at Anzio, and the largest amphibious assault in world history, the Normandy invasion.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 185 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A look at World War II's turbulent Pacific Theater, following the Allies' island-by-island Pacific campaign, warfare in the steamy jungles from New Guinea to Burma, the air war, including the suicidal Kamikaze attacks and the bombing missions that brought the war to the Japanese homeland, and the hand-to-hand combat and vicious guerrilla warfare at Peleliu.
19) WWII from space
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A 2-hour special, delivers the 10 key tipping points in World War II as they've never been seen before. The key is an all-seeing CGI eye; a satellite, flying above Earth, bringing a new visual approach to the biggest conflict of all time. That view means WWII can be interpreted as never before; placing key events in perspective, flying around the world revealing the hidden ripple effects of crucial incidents, and re-creating ground-breaking moments...
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The dramatic story of three WWII paratroopers lost behind enemy lines. Desperately trying to regroup with the Allied Forces, their commitment to the Airborne Creed urges them forward, and proves that a few good men can change a war.
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