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Publication Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (180 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
UNKNOWN SOLDIER by award-winning Finnish director Aku Louhimies follows a platoon of Finnish soldiers on a tour of duty that lasts for more than three years at the end of World War II. The film tells the story of Rokka, Kariluoto, Koskela, Hietanen, and their brothers-in-arms, showing how friendship, humor, and the will to live unite these men on their way to and from the battlefield. The war changes each of the soldiers, as well as the lives of those...
2) Benediction
Publication Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (138 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
The story of decorated WW1 hero and renowned British poet Siegfried Sassoon (Jack Lowden), who became one of the “Bright Young Things” of London society in the 1920s. Haunted by war and put off by the decadent behavior of his contemporaries including renowned composer Ivor Novello (Jeremy Irvine), he remained determined that the legacy of the young men with whom he served would not be forgotten.
4) Lila & Eve
Publication Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (94 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Struggling to cope with the loss of her 18-year old son Stephon to drug violence in the neighborhood, a grieving mother Lila (Academy-Award Nominee Viola Davis), attends a support group for mothers whose children have been murdered. There she meets Eve (Jennifer Lopez), a candid kindred spirit. Lila commiserates with Eve on her desire for justice and the fact that the local police lack the resources necessary to pursue her son’s case. Encouraged...
5) Kabullywood
Publication Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (85 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
A group of young Afghan artists decide to open a cultural center in the heart of Kabul.
6) Zulu
Publication Date
1964.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (139 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
A small British outpost in South Africa faces an onslaught from thousands of Zulu warriors. Led by Lieutenant John Chard (Stanley Baker) and Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead (Michael Caine), the outnumbered soldiers must defend their position against overwhelming odds. Inspired by true events, "Zulu" is a gripping tale of heroism and resilience amidst the chaos of war.
7) Phoo Action
Publication Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (58 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Based on the original comic strip from Jamie Hewlett (creator of Tank Girl and Gorillaz) this live action drama follows the exploits of Terry Phoo, a hapless Buddhist Kung-Fu law enforcement cop and Whitey Action, an enigmatic young anarchist heroine turned super-cop. Together they form an unlikely but effective crime-fighting team in the face of a super-vile, super-famous army of mutated criminals.
8) I Went Down
Publication Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (103 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Things are not going well for Git Hynes. Just out of jail, he has to accept the fact that his girlfriend has left him for his best friend, Anto. But when Anto gets into trouble with local crime boss Tom French, Git gets involved and finds himself owing French a debt. Repaying it involves an 'easy ride' down to Cork in a stolen car with an old-time criminal, Bunny, as his companion. But this is only the start of Git's involvement in a web of criminals...
9) SS-GB
Publication Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (295 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
History is turned on its head in this gripping thriller, an adaptation of Len Deighton's 'alternative history' novel about Nazi occupied London. The Second World War's Battle of Britain has ended in victory for Hitler's Germany and the population of 1940s Britain struggles to adjust to life under Nazi occupation. Detective Douglas Archer, forced to work under the brutal SS in London, is determined to continue to do his job in the service of his country....
10) Hellboy
Publication Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (122 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Born in the flames of hell sixty years ago during World War II, Hellboy (Ron Perlman) was brought to Earth by evil madman Grigori Rasputin (Karel Roden) to perpetrate evil. Destined to be a harbinger of the apocalypse, Hellboy was instead rescued by Allied Forces led by Professor Broom (John Hurt), founder of the clandestine B.P.R.D. (Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense), who raised him like a son and developed his extraordinary paranormal...
11) Journey's End
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Formats
Description
The Great War, March 1918. C-company arrives to take its turn in the front-line trenches of northern France, led by the war-weary Captain Stanhope. With a German offensive imminently approaching, the company anxiously awaits their unknown fate.
12) Blackout
Publication Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (153 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Edgy thriller following a man battling with his own soul as he makes a stab at salvation. Daniel Demoys has had it all - a loving wife, kids and the chance to make the world a better place. He's also an alcoholic and drug addict, and his behaviour is fast driving a wedge between him and his family. But when Daniel wakes up from another drunken night with blood stained hands, and realises he might be responsible for a murder, he is driven to despair....
Publication Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (136 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
A Nazi Strike Force plots to kidnap Winston Churchill while he is resting in a desolate Norfolk village. Colonel Radl (Duvall), Colonel Stenier (Caine) and Liam Devlin (Sutherland) are enlisted to carry out the operation, which if successful, would irrevocably alter the outcome of the war. Disguised as Polish airmen, these paratroopers descend upon England only to be interrupted by an unforeseeable incident which threatens to derail their treacherous...
14) Paradise now
Publication Date
2006, c2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of what may be the last 48 hours in the lives of two Palestinian men who have been recruited as suicide bombers. When they are intercepted at the Israeli border, a young woman who discovers their plan causes them to reconsider their actions.
Publication Date
1973.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (107 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
In 17th Century Paris young, naïve, and energetic D’Artagnan leaves home to seek his fortune as a swordsman. He soon makes friends with the three musketeers: world-weary Athos, comically arrogant Porthos and chivalric Aramis. Their enemy is aristocratic schemer Cardinal Richelieu, who plots to prove the infidelity of the Queen to King Louis XIII to increase his own power.
16) The key
Publication Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (126 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In war-weary London, Stella allows the key to her apartment to be passed from sea captain to sea captain. But when David Ross shows up she finds herself in love.
17) Kills on Wheels
Publication Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (103 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
In this wildly original action-comedy, two teenaged boys living with disabilities find escape from their humdrum lives when they’re enlisted by a gruff ex-con to be his accomplices… as wheelchair hit men. Thrust into a surreal world of gangsters and guns, the partnership soon blossoms into friendship as their mentor reveals a soft heart beneath his tough exterior and the boys help him come to terms with his own disability. KILLS ON WHEELS features...
19) The great raid
Publication Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As World War II rages, the elite 6th Ranger Battalion is given a mission of heroic proportions: push 30 miles behind enemy lines and liberate over 500 American prisoners of war. Under the command of Lt. Col. Henry Mucci, the men of the 6th will face the unthinkable by attempting the impossible!
20) The Emu War
Publication Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (72 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Based on the infamous Great Emu War of 1932, a ragtag platoon of soldiers are driven into a brutal and bloody battle against Australia's deadliest flightless beasts in this unapologetically silly war epic.
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