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1) Red scorpion
Publisher
Key DVD
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Lieutenant Nikolai is a member of the Soviet Special Forces assigned to infiltrate a rebel uprising and assassinate the leader, who is causing problems for the Cuban forces occupying the territory. When Nikolai fails the mission, he pays the price -- torture from the Cuban leaders! He manages to escape to the desert and find the rebel army once more, but this time he is on their side! It's all-out warfare as he leads a daring attack against his former...
Series
Publisher
Treeline Films
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
A mix of war movies and documentaries that detail great battles and campaigns. Stars like Sidney Poitier, Van Johnson, John Ireland, and Montgomery Clift bring the immediacy of conflict to life and celebrity narrators like Ronald Reagan, Clark Gable, and Burgess Meredith helm classic documentaries that convey key military campaigns.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
The war is just beginning and France has not yet surrendered to the Germans. A French vessel picks up five semi-conscious men in a canoe. All ex-convicts, they have escaped from Devil's Island to do their bit for France. The tensions aboard the Marseille-bound ship slowly build to a shattering clash of wills between the men and the ship's Nazi sympathizer.
6) Swing shift
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1984
Language
English
Description
A vivid look at the wartime conditions that stood society on its head. Kay Walsh had never held a wrench before but you're never too pretty to learn. The women and men that stayed home during World War II worked in the factories that turned out the weaponry to turn the tide of battle.
8) King Rat
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
In Singapore's Changi Gaol during WWII, Corporal King, a thoroughly unscrupulous and opportunistic American POW, makes shabby deals with the camp guards in order to make his confinement more comfortable. King delights in rising above his military rank and social class as he uses his streetwise tactics to "rule" over his fellow Allied prisoners and his Japanese captors.
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1999-
Language
English
Description
Captain John Miller must take his men behind enemy lines to find Private Ryan, whose three brothers have been killed in combat. Faced with impossible odds, the men question their orders. Why are eight men risking their lives to save just one? Surrounded by the brutal realities of war, each man searches for his own answer and the strength to triumph over uncertain future with honor, decency and courage.
11) 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)....
13) Tropic thunder
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertaintment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Watch John 'Four Leaf' Tayback as he fights a gruesome battle during the Vietnam War. But, this is actually a scene from 'Tropic Thunder, ' a big-budget adaptation of Tayback's wartime memoir. Starring as the central platoon are Speedman, Lazarus, Chino and Portnoy, as well as young character actor Kevin Sandusky. To play the character of African American Sgt. Osiris, Lazarus dyes his skin dark and refuses to break from character. When a scene goes...
14) In tranzit
Publisher
Peace Arch Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
A bitter game of cat and mouse ensues when a group of German POWs are accidentally sent to a female-run Soviet prison camp after WWII. As each group learns that things are not always as they seem, they realize that sometimes prejudices are unjustly held and love can be found in even the worst places.
15) Zulu dawn
Publisher
Tango Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
This story recounts the defeat of the British forces at the hands of a 25,000 strong and relentlessly determined Zulu army.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
Czech
Description
In 1942, Tono and his wife are struggling because of his antipathy towards the fascist regime. His brother-in-law, the local fuehrer, chooses Tono to oversee a button shop owned by a sweet, harmless Jewish widow, Mrs. Lautman. When the Jews are ordered deported, the well-meaning Tono decides to shield her from the Nazis.
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Responsible for some of the greatest films of the 20th century - The Grapes of Wrath, How Green Was My Valley, and The Quiet Man among others - John Ford was best known for motion pictures that defined the American West and the face of wartime military. A Hollywood celebrity, Ford lived his life against the background that Twentieth Century-Fox fashioned for him. As he did, the facts of his life merged with - and became inseparable from - his multifaceted...
18) M*A*S*H
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Three Korean War Army surgeons adopt a hilarious, lunatic lifestyle as an antidote to the tragedies of their Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, and in the process infuriate army bureaucrats.
19) 20 WWII movies
Publisher
TGG Direct
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Great World War II era movies projecting the spirit and solidarity of Allied forces in the European and Pacific theaters.
Publisher
Distributed by BFS Video
Pub. Date
[1977]
Language
English
Description
As England teeters on the brink of war with Egypt, Harry, a handsome, young lieutenant, resigns his commission. Then four telegrams arrive, one for Harry and the others for his three closest fellow-officers. Harry destroys the messages, and in turn his friends send him three feathers representing his cowardice and they sever all ties with him. Desperate to regain respect, he travels secretly to the Sudan and with blind fury he saves each of his three...
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