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1) Platoon
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Platoon is the story of every soldier whose innocence was lost in the war-torn jungles of Vietnam. Chris Taylor arrives in Vietnam and quickly discovers that his worst enemies are not just the Viet Cong, but gnawing fear, physical exhaustion and the anger growing within himself.
2) Blood Alley
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A merchant marine captain, rescued from the Chinese Communists by local visitors, winds up transporting an entire Chinese village to Hong Kong on an ancient paddle steamer.
4) Paradise now
Pub. 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.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 98 min.) : anamorphic, sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Royal Air Force officer is caught between the ravages of World War II and unrequited love. Flight Lieutenant David Bradford meets and falls in love with a beautiful Jewish girl, Sarah while recuperating from a leg wound in Jerusalem. Her family rejects him, however, and wages war on the couple by trying to keep them apart.
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The original full-length episodes of the award-winning series made exclusively for television and containing actual live action footage. The videos introduce the campaigns and action of World War II, concentrating on battles and action at sea.
9) Special ops
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Captain Kyle Fierson's Black Ops Unit is ambushed during a raid to rescue a deadly nuclear device that had fallen into the wrong hands, he must run for his life to not only track down the missing time bomb, but also clear his name when he is accused of aiding the terrorists. Fierson must fight for his life when he is not only hunted by terrorists but betrayed by the country he loves.
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (138 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
During the Napoleonic Wars, a British frigate, the HMS Surprise, and the larger French warship, Acheron, stalk each other off of the coast of South America. Lucky Jack, as he is referred to by his crew, is well regarded by his men, who trust him implicitly, even after the first devastating battle and an apparent personal vendetta against the French captain. The ship's surgeon balances the violence of his chosen life with the quiet demeanor of the...
11) Pearl Harbor
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (183 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two childhood best friends, Rafe and Danny, grow up wanting to fly planes. When Rafe gets the chance to join the Royal Air Force during World War II, he takes it, leaving his new love, Evelyn, a dedicated Navy nurse, and Danny, also a pilot, behind. Danny and Evelyn are transferred separately to the idyllic paradise of Hawaii, where they eventually meet through a connection to Rafe, who has been declared missing. But just as the love triangle begins...
12) Task force
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. "Told in flashback, Task force stars Gary Cooper in a wide-ranging performance taking him from brash young aviator to command of an aircraft carrier. Also on deck are Walter Brennan as a veteran navy sea dog and Jane Wyatt as Cooper's valiant, uncomplaining wife. The movie's other star attraction is actual World War II combat footage putting you in the middle of the chaos of a carrier deck strewn with flaming wrecks or the nail-biting tension...
13) The longest day
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 178 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Re-enacts the military operation of D-Day from four points of view--the workings of the high commands of the American, English, French, and German forces in their battle scheme for Normandy. Largely filmed on actual invasion sites in France.
14) Hanover Street
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An American bomber pilot falls in love with a British nurse, and then must escort her husband on a mission behind enemy lines.
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Description
Imported by the Army for an early morning radio show in Vietnam, disc jockey Adrian Cronauer (Robin Williams) blasts the formerly staid, sanitized airwaves with a constant barrage of rapid-fire humor and the hottest hits from back home. The G.I.'s love him, but the brass is up in arms.
16) Love and war
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Lily is a vivacious war bride and new mother who leaves war-torn London, where her husband, Charlie, is stationed. She is going to begin a new life on Charlie's family's farm in Canada. The spirited Lily finds herself at odds with her remote, rural surroundings, and struggles to be accepted by Charlie's embittered mother and resentful sister. As the three strangers struggle to become a true family, their faith and love are put to the supreme test...
18) The great escape
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (172 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A high-security German prisoner-of-war camp in 1942 holds only known troublemakers and risk-takers, all of whom are determined to pull off the war's most daring escape.
19) What price glory
Pub. Date
©2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1918 France, Captain Flagg commands a disreputable company of Marines; his new top sergeant is his old friendly enemy, Quirt. The two men become rivals for the favors of fair innkeeper's daughter Charmaine, but the rivalry goes into reverse when Charmaine proves to be angling for a husband. When the company is ordered to the front, this comedy interlude gives way to the grim realities of war.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The true story of William Pitsenbarger, an Air Force medic who saved more than sixty men in one of the bleakest battles of the Vietnam War. Presented the chance to escape on the last helicopter, Pitsenbarger stayed behind to save and defend his comrade in arms. Twenty years later, Pitsenbarger's fellow soldiers and father seek the help of investigator Scott Huffman and other surviving veterans to finally secure him The Congressional Medal of Honor...
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