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Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 82 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on a true incident, World War II submarine Commander Casey Abbott leads a daring mission to enter the heavily mined Tsushima Straits to sever a vital link between the Asiatic mainland and the Japanese home islands.
62) Canopy
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Singapore 1942. The Japanese invasion is underway. An Australian fighter pilot is stranded in a vast jungle overrun by hostile forces, thus beginning his journey for survival amidst the collision of war, nature and its impact on humanity.
63) Defiance
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (136 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The deep forests of Poland and Belorussia are the domain of the occupying Germans during World War II. The three Bielski brothers go into the forests and find the impossible task of foraging for food, weapons and survival, not just for themselves but for a large mass of fleeing Polish Jews from the German war machine. The brothers, living with the fear of discovery must contend with neighboring Soviet partisans and decide whom to trust. They take...
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Eddie Guerrero is a Chicano Green Beret and a Vietnam veteran who has always been a model soldier. But now he's in the jungles of Latin America fighting a war that's not his and against an enemy that includes innocent civilians amongst its victims. Officially, he and his American comrades aren't even there. They're ordered into combat without their dog tags. And slowly Eddie begins to question what he's doing and why. His deep soul searching leads...
65) In love and war
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A miraculous true story of courage, determination and love in war-torn Italy.
66) Jarhead
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows "Swoff," a third-generation Marine enlistee, from a sobering stint in boot camp to active duty, sporting a sniper's rifle and a hundred-pound ruck on his back through the Middle East deserts. There is no cover from intolerable heat or from the Iraqi soldiers, who are always potentially just over the next horizon. Swoff and his fellow Marines sustain themselves with sardonic humanity and wicked comedy on blazing desert fields in a country they...
67) To hell and back
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the true story of Audie Murphy, the most decorated soldier in U.S. history.
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1941, on a remote Greek island, an Italian artillery garrison is established to maintain order. One Italian officer, Captain Corelli, adopts an attitude of mutual co-existence with the Greeks and engages in such activities as music festivals and courting the daughter of a local doctor. In 1943, however, after Italy surrenders to the Allies and changes sides in the war, Captain Corelli must defend the Greek island against a German invasion.
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 126 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Susan moves with her father from America to England, she ends up falling in love with and marrying Sir John Ashwood, an English baronet. But, before their son is born, Susan loses her husband to World War I. When World War II breaks out years later, her son's own tour of duty begins. Finding out whether he will return home safely or not makes for some of the most dramatic moments in motion picture history.
70) Black Hawk down
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (144 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
With exacting detail, the film re-creates the American siege of the Somalian city of Mogadishu in October 1993, when a 45-minute mission turned into a 16-hour ordeal of bloody urban warfare. Helicopter-borne U.S. Rangers were assigned to capture key lieutenants of Somali warlord Muhammad Farrah Aidid, but when two Black Hawk choppers were felled by rocket-propelled grenades, the U.S. soldiers were forced to fend for themselves in the battle-torn streets...
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([8] pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Description
The realities of submarine warfare during World War II in the Pacific is centered around two submarine officers who are destined to clash with each other from the first moment they meet.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (199 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Knowing Japan would lose World War II, brilliant Vice Admiral Takajiro Ohnishi devises a plan to force America to the negotiation table. This is the story of an honorable man who unleashes the devastating Kamikaze attacks. Ohnishi tried to convince the Americans that invading Japan would be too costly in lives. But what he could not foresee was that America had another way of ending the war.
73) Battle circus
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Major Jed Webbe is a brilliant, hard-bitten Army surgeon with a weakness for women and strong liquor. Fresh from the states arrives Lt. Ruth McCara, a naive young nurse ready to save the world. The story of their love and heroism, told against the grimly realistic background of pounding artillery and deadly ambushes, forms the core of the film.
74) A private war
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a world where journalism is under attack, Marie Colvin is one of the most admired war correspondents of today. She is fearless and rebellious, driven to the frontlines of conflicts across the globe. After being hit by a grenade, she wears a distinctive eye patch and is still as comfortable with London's elite as she is confronting dictators. Her mission to show the true cost of war leads her, along with war photographer Paul Conroy, to embark on...
75) King and country
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In this stirring anti-war film set during WWI, a tough, no-nonsense British Army lawyer is assigned to defend a lowly private at his court martial. The private has been accused of desertion during battle. The lawyer, Captain Hargreaves is convinced this young man should be executed. However, as the trial progresses and the strain of three horrible years endured at the Allied front is revealed, the more he is compelled to spare the youth from a firing...
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 313 min.) : sd., col., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In June of 1950, the North Korean Army initiated a massive attack on its neighbor to the south, beginning a see-saw war that would engulf the entire Korean Peninsula. For the next three years, the United Nations and the Communists would wage a bloody and brutal war. Though the Korean conflict is often referred to as the "Forgotten War", those who fought and sacrificed for freedom will never forget.
77) Transfusion
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ex-special forces operative Ryan Logan has a sharply honed set of survival skills that have allowed him to walk the line between courage and fear. But after a personal tragedy shatters his family and sends his teenage son, Billy, into a world of drugs and delinquency, he is pushed to the edge. Desperate to make a new life for Billy, Ryan plunges into the criminal underground for one final mission in this muscular, emotionally charged thriller.
78) The winds of war
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (879 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tells an epic story of military strategy, politics, romance, and family conflict set against the backdrop of world events from 1938 through the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. Follows naval officer Victor "Pug" Henry as he is sent to Berlin as the U.S. Naval attaché. Shows how "Pug" and his family are drawn into the center of the conflicts that lead to America's involvement in World War II as Germany expands and proceeds to seize several...
79) Unbroken
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Olympian and war hero Louis Zamperini survived in a raft for 47 days after a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, only to be caught by the Japanese Navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In England in 1940, shipyard worker Joe Maddison felt depressed and past his prime because he was too old to serve in World War II. Shocked when his wife leaves him for a sailor, Joe and his friend Harry decide they need a new challenge and volunteer to join the Home Guard which is headed by local pharmacist Mr. Simpson. This decision will lead Joe on a journey of self-discovery, involving lessons in friendship, bravery, and love.
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