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Series
Publisher
Distributed by Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000, c1949
Language
English
Description
Stryker (Wayne), a hard-nosed Marine sergeant prepares a company of recruits for combat in World War II's Pacific Theater. The new unit's training is soon put to the test in a full-scale battle against the Japanese on Iwo Jima. The famous flag-raising on Mt. Suribachi is depicted near the film's conclusion.
3) Catch-22
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
The story of a group of fliers in the Mediterranean during World War II.
A bombardier during WWII tries desperately to be declared insane so he can go home. A dark comedy depicting the insanity of war. Based on Joseph Heller's book.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
"One of America's greatest directors, the legendary John Ford -- renowned for such films as The Quiet Man, The Grapes of Wrath and How Green Was My Valley -- was already a major Hollywood filmmaker when he volunteered his cinematic skills on World War II's front lines. Showing astonishing bravery, he was injured during the making of the Oscar-winning documentary The Battle of Midway (1942) and went on to earn a second Oscar for December 7th (1943)....
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
"Billionaire Howard Hughes produced and directed Hell's Angels, the most expensive film ever made of its time. Hughes spared no expense in capturing an exciting dogfight between R.A.F. and German fighter planes, using 137 pilots in all. Hell's Angels is perhaps more notable for introducing Jean Harlow to the screen in her first major film role. Set during World War I, Hell's Angels is the story of three Oxford buddies: two brothers and one German....
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©2007.
Language
English
Description
It's World War II. Major Dan Kirby (John Wayne) is hard on his marines. His subordinate Captain Carl Griffin thinks the Major is overdoing it, but Kirby proves that there is a method to his madness after all.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
From one of the greatest living writers on film, a magisterial look at a century of battle depicted on screen, and a meditation on the twisted relationship between war and the movies."Thomson's own genius is his ability to remain one of the leading authorities on cinematic history, without shying away from the controversial. Cinephiles seeking provocative arguments will appreciate his work."-Library JournalInThe Fatal Alliance the acclaimed film critic...
10) The 12th man
Publisher
Shout/Scream Factory
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Breathtaking action adventure that tells an incredible true life story of heroism and a man's unbreakable will to live.
11) Red dawn
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When Communist paratroopers descend on a high school football field in Colorado, a group of the school's students wages an all-out guerrilla war to save their town and their country. An all-star cast, including Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen and Harry Dean Stanton, delivers powerful performances in this gripping story of courage and patriotism.
12) MacArthur
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
♭2001.
Language
English
Description
A biographical drama of one of the most controversial public figures of his time, General Douglas MacArthur.8
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
℗2015.
Language
English
Description
In 1919, an Australian farmer travels to Turkey after the Battle of Gallipoli to try and locate his three missing sons. With insurmountable obstacles he must travel across the battle-scarred Turkish landscape to find the truth and his own peace.
15) Hart's war
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Honor, courage, and sacrifice are revealed in unexpected ways as a ranking U.S. prisoner in a Nazi POW camp is joined in December 1944 by a law-student lieutenant who'd been captured despite his father's powerful military connections. When a black pilot from the famous Tuskeegee airmen is falsely accused of murdering a fellow prisoner, Lt. Hart tries his case and discovers the real motivation behind the ranking officer's kangaroo court.
Publisher
CJ Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
American General Douglas MacArthur sends eight members of the Korean Liaison Office on a secret mission behind North Korean lines to carry out Operation 'X-ray.' This covert operation must succeed so that MacArthur can launch the daring Incheon Landing Operation.This is a fictionalized version of the historical CIA/military intelligence operation 'Trudy Jackson.'
17) The wall
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Follows two soldiers pinned down by an Iraqi sniper, with nothing but a crumbling wall between them. Their fight becomes as much a battle of will and wits as it is of lethally accurate marksmanship.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999-]
Language
English
Description
The love of Hawkeye, rugged frontiersman and adopted son of the Mohicans, and Cora Munro, aristocratic daughter of a British colonel, blazes amidst a brutal conflict between the British, the French and Native American allies in colonial America.
20) Sophie's choice
Language
English
Formats
Description
A drama set in post-World War II Brooklyn revolves around Sophie, a Polish Catholic beauty who survived Auschwitz, her lover, Nathan, and Stingo a would-be writer. As the three grow closer, Stingo discovers the captivating and moving truths that each harbor.
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