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1) The key
Pub. 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.
2) Stalag 17
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 120 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A group of American G.I.s in a POW camp suspect a spy is among them.
3) 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.
Pub. 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!
6) 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.
7) 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
2011
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (312 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This captivating documentary series takes an in-depth look at the Second World War through the eyes of those who lived through it: the soldiers, the victims, and the political and military leaders. Using archival footage, most of it previously unseen and now colorized, this series provides an intimate and breath-taking examination of history's most devastating war.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Nurse Jean Paget is one of a small band of women trekking through the Japanese-occupied Malayan jungle, where they are befriended by Joe Harman, a tough Australian P.O.W. Later each learns tht the other has survived the horrors of the war, and they set out separately to find each other.
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.
16) Victory at sea
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.
17) A bridge too far
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 176 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In September 1944, flush with success after the Normandy Invasion, the Allies launched Operation Market Garden, a wild scheme intended to put an early end to World War II by invading Germany and smashing the Reich's war plants.
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1964, a hard-boiled major is ordered to defend Muc Wa, an unoccupied and seemingly unimportant Vietnamese military outpost left behind by the French. He, his idealistic young lieutenant, his mostly green soldiers, and their supporting force of Vietnamese volunteers are overwhelmed as they deal with ambushes, betrayals, and brutality.
20) 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.
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