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1) Commandos
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1942, Commandos are ordered to capture an oasis controlled by the Italians and hold it until the Allies land.
Pub. Date
[2000?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
What is a moral person to do in a time of savage immorality? That question tormented Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German clergyman of great distinction who actively opposed Hitler and the Nazis. His convictions cost him his life. Bonhoeffer's last years, his participation in the German resistance and his moral struggle are dramatized in this film.
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 133 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the true story of American Rangers who rescue the survivors of the Bataan Death March from the Cabanatuan Prison Camp during WWII. When the Philippines fell to the Japanese, the remnants of Gen. MacArthur's Army were forced down the Bataan Penninsula where they were surrounded and cutoff with no hope of rescue. They were starving and dying of disease. Gen. Wainwright eventually surrendered and the troops were marched off to prison. Along...
5) Gettysburg
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 94 min.) : sd. (stereo.), col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Gettysburg will strip away the romanticized veneer of the Civil War and present the engagement in a new light: a visceral, terrifying experience with everything on the line. At its core, this is the story of the soldiers on the ground, not the generals who commanded from behind the frontlines. Compelling CGI and powerful action footage place viewers in the midst of the fighting, delivering both an emotional cinematic experience.
6) Hiroshima
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (180 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of the final months of World War II, protraying the events that led to the decision which would change the course of human destiny.
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1964, a hard-broiled 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.
Pub. Date
[2020].
Physical Desc
[1 videodisc (approximately 77 minutes)] : sound, color; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Based on a true story gathered amid the scorched battlefields of the First World War, the experiences, tragedies and fears of a young Allied soldier are told in this epic and moving adventure As the 1914 summer sun heats up mainland Europe, World War One crashes down across the fractured peninsula. Living in Paris, Dutchman Arthur Knaap yearns to serve, protect and defend his beloved nation and joins the Foreign Legion, only to realize, that he must...
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Union soldiers in search of food descend on the farm of a Confederate family and decide to stay until a soldier's wounds heal. The Union Captain falls for the woman whose husband is off at war, while her son plots revenge on the Yankees.
10) Stalag 17
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A group of American G.I.'s in a German POW camp during World War II suspects the opportunistic Holden of being the spy in their midst.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"A beloved story, this heartwarming feature film is set during WWII in the snowy Alps of occupied France, on the border of Switzerland. Sebastian, lonely and dreaming of the day his mother will return from America for him, befriends an enormous yet gentle sheepdog who quickly becomes his best friend and protector. With Nazis in the village rooting out the resistance fighters helping Jewish refugees cross the border, Belle and Sebastians loyalty to...
12) The Green Berets
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (141 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
They were crack troops skilled in the techniques of unconditional warfare, the soldiers of the Special Forces-- and the focus of Hollywood's first feature film about the Vietnam War.
13) Resistance
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Before he was the world-famous mime Marcel Marceau, he was Marcel Mangel, an aspiring Jewish actor who joined the French Resistance to save the lives of thousands of children orphaned at the hands of the Nazis. A compelling drama about a group of unsung heroes who put themselves in harm's way to rise above hatred and oppression during World War II.
14) Spring 1941
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Successful doctor Artur Planck, his wife Clara, and their two daughters are seeking shelter from the Nazis storming Poland. They find a safe house in the farm of Emilia, their local grocer, who is all alone after her husband fought for his country and never returned. Amid the horrors of the war that surrounds them, an impossible love triangle erupts as Emelia uncontrollably falls in love with Artur.
16) I'll find you
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Shakespeare's classic paradigm finds contemporaneity. Instead of Romeo and Juliet in Renaissance Verona, we find Robert and Rachel in mid-20th Century Europe, ensnared by the tumult of World War II.
17) Coriolanus
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Caius Martius 'Coriolanus' is a feared and revered Roman general, suddenly pitted against his own city and fellow citizens. Rebelling against the power-hungry designs of his manipulative mother and rejected by his own people, Coriolanus incites a riot that expels him from Rome. The banished hero joins forces with his sworn enemy Tullus Aufidius to extract his revenge and determine his destiny.
18) Heartbreak ridge
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Marine Corps gunnery sergeant starts his last tour of duty, leading his men into Grenada, before mandatory retirement.
19) Carrie's war
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
At the start of World War II, 14-year-old Carrie and her younger brother Nick are separated from their mother and evacuated from war-torn London to a rural village in Wales, where they now live with a puritanical shopkeeper and his spinster sister.
20) 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...
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