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Series
Cinema Classics volume Vol. 4
Publisher
Platinum Disc Corporation; distributed by Dart Distributing, LLC
Pub. Date
[n.d.]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
In 2008, Waltz with Bashir shocked the world by presenting a bracing story of war in what seemed like the most unlikely of formats&;an animated film. Yet as Donna Kornhaber shows in this pioneering new book, the relationship between animation and war is actually as old as film itself. The world's very first animated movie was made to solicit donations for the Second Boer War, and even Walt Disney sent his earliest creations off to fight on gruesome...
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 thir 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 an uncertain future with honor, decency and courage
4) Pearl Harbor
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment [distribiutor]
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Two childhood best friends, Rafe and Danny, grow up wanting to fly planes. When Rafe gets the chance to join the Royal Air Force during World War II, he takes it, leaving his new love, Evelyn, a dedicated Navy nurse, and Danny, also a pilot, behind. Danny and Evelyn are transferred separately to the idyllic paradise of Hawaii, where they eventually meet through a connection to Rafe, who has been declared missing. But just as the love triangle begins...
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
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
8) Platoon
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Follows young Chris Taylor who 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
10) The truce
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1998?]
Language
English
Description
Primo Levi embarks on a thousand-mile journey back home to Italy after WW II ends. Along the way, he faces great odds but rediscovers the simply joys of life that the war threatened to destroy forever
11) The desert fox
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Mason plays a smooth Erwin Rommel in this film biography which follows his defeat in North Africa and his disillusionment upon his return to Germany
12) We were soldiers
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Lt. Col. Hal Moore is the commander of the First Battalion, Seventh Cavalry. As part of the Pleiku Campaign of late 1965, Moore is assigned to action at Landing Zone X-Ray in the Ia Drang Valley, an area known to be overrun by North Vietnamese troops and nicknamed "The Valley of Death." Moore soon finds himself and his men contained to an area about the size of a football field, surrounded by more than 2,000 enemy troops and engaged in the first major...
14) Tears of the sun
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
When a doctor is rescued by a Special-Ops unit in the jungle of Nigeria, she refuses to go with them unless they agree to help rescue 70 refugees as well
15) Atonement
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
In 1935, 13-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis and her family live a life of wealth and privilege in their enormous mansion. On the warmest day of the year, the country estate takes on an unsettling hothouse atmosphere, stoking Briony's vivid imagination. Robbie Turner, the educated son of the family's housekeeper, carries a torch for Briony's headstrong older sister Cecilia. He hopes that Cecilia has comparable feelings. All it will take is...
16) Alexander Nevsky
Publisher
Corinth Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
Russian
Description
Biographical story of Prince Alexander Nevsky and his successful resistance against an attempt by the Teutonic Knights to invade Russia in 1242
17) Carrie's war
Series
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
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
19) Raid on Rommel
Publisher
GoodTimes Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Richard Burton portrays a British intelligence office who must pose as a high-ranking Nazi, leading a gang of P.O.W.'s on a desert mission. Based on the real-life battle of Tobruk
20) Stalag 17
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A group of American G.I.s in a POW camp suspect a spy is among them
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