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Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
D-Day 60th anniversary commerative ed.
Language
English
Description
In the last great invasion of World War II, a squad of American soldiers embark on a special mission ... to find Private Ryan. Faced with impossible odds, surrounded by the brutalities of war, each man searches for his own answer and the strength to triumph over an uncertain future with honor, decency and courage.
4) Father Goose
Publisher
Distributed by Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
During World War II, a South Seas wanderer is compelled by the Australian navy to act as a sky observer on a small island, where he finds himself in charge of six refugee schoolchildren and their headmistress.
5) M*A*S*H
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001, c1970
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. The personnel of a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in Korea develop a lunatic lifestyle to cope with the military bureaucracy and the horrors of war.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
[Widescreen version].
Language
English
Description
Based on J.G. Ballard's autobiographical novel, tells the story of a boy, James Graham, whose privileged life is upturned by the Japanese invasion of Shanghai, December 8, 1941. Separated from his parents, he is eventually captured, and taken to Soo Chow confinement camp, next to a captured Chinese airfield. Amidst the sickness and food shortages in the camp, Jim attempts to reconstruct his former life, all the while bringing spirit and dignity to...
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c1957
Language
English
Description
Set during the Battle of Atlantic during World War II, tells the story of the cat and mouse hunt between the USS Haynes, a destroyer escort and a German U-Boat. For the Americans, a former Merchant Mariner, now captain, saw his wife killed when his freighter was torpedoed by the Germans. For the Germans, a veteran U-Boat commander who sees no honor in the German aims of the war. Both of these highly experienced men must now battle each other, knowing...
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
[DVD].
Language
English
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Description
During the bloodiest battle of WWII, in Okinawa, Desmond Doss saved 75 men without firing or carrying a gun. He was the only American soldier in WWII to fight on the front lines without a weapon, as he believed that while the war was justified, killing was nevertheless wrong. As an army medic, he singlehandedly evacuated the wounded from behind enemy lines, braved fire while tending to soldiers and was wounded by a grenade and hit by snipers. Doss...
10) Glory
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
©2000
Edition
Special ed.
Language
English
Description
Story of the first Black regiment to fight in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Edition
DVD video : English
Language
English
Description
"When the Germans mount an air attack on their quiet village, fourteen-year-old Agnes and nine-year-old Ollie are separated from the rest of their family as they are shuttled to supposed safety with a friend of their grandfather's. As weeks turn into months at a Red Cross refugee camp, the children wonder if they will ever see their mother, father, and grandfather again. But with Christmas coming, Agnes does her best to help Ollie hold on to hope--and...
Publisher
Eagle Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
On August 15th 1944, an invasion in Provence, France was organised by the Americans to support and protect the allied troops marching to Berlin who had already landed in Normandy on June 6, 1944. After jumping over Provence during the night, three paratroopers who have to regroup with their fellow soldiers in the village of Les Arcs, help the local resistance to free some of their members and organise the ambush of a German armour unit. Lives will...
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Reporter Bob Wilton is trying to lose himself in the romance of war after his marriage fails. He gets more than he bargains for when he meets a special forces agent who reveals the existence of a secret, military unit whose goal is to end war as we know it. With unparalleled psychic powers, they can read the enemy's thoughts, pass through solid walls, and even kill a goat by simply staring at it. Now, the founder of the unit has gone missing and the...
Publisher
Entertainment One
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Language
English
Description
Determined to join the fight against Nazi Germany, Earl Kir, a young South African pilot, volunteers his services to the Royal Air Force. While in combat, Kirk and his crew are forced to parachute into Nazi occupied territory, where they are hunted by a vengeful German SS Officer, who will stop at nothing than to find, capture and kill them all.
Publisher
Excel Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
During the very last days of WWII, American soldiers fight their way through Germany against small pockets of resistance from remnants of the German forces. During the struggle, two American M18 tank destroyers are sent to root out a die hard group of Nazis holed up in the Harz Mountains as racial tensions mount amid the crew.
17) Tears of the sun
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Special ed.
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.
18) Home front
Publisher
Bridgestone Multimedia Group
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
[DVD] ; widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Three very different soldiers, held hostage in a small, dank prison cell, moved to share their last memories of home with one another. Private Aaron Phillips is a young, green soldier on his first tour of duty, when he is taken hostage. Lt. Steven Hill is a soldier in the Reserves that has been called up to active duty, when his unit is ambushed. Sgt. Bryan Monroe is a veteran soldier on his fourth and final tour when he falls into enemy hands. Who...
19) Sarah's key
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
In modern-day Paris, a journalist finds her life becoming entwined with a young girl whose family was torn apart during the notorious Vel d'Hiv round up, which took place in Paris, in 1942. She stumbles upon a family secret which will link her forever to the destiny of a young Jewish girl, Sarah.
20) Heartbreak Ridge
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
There are no wars to fight. But Gunnery Sgt. Tom Highway, a dog-faced relic of past wars, still has a lot of fight in him. He is a Marine Corps lifer who started his last tour of duty before retirement, and sees the bumpy road his life has taken become more complicated, due to feisty recruits, by-the-book officers, and a salty ex-wife to whom he's still attracted.
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