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1) Das Boot
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (209 min.) : sd., col., double sided ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Follows the daring patrol of the U-96, one of the famed German U-boats known as the "gray wolves." The crew is graphically portrayed in a life-and-death struggle, challenging the British Navy at every turn.
Publisher
MGM/UA Video
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr. 57 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of an astute American general and a high-ranking German officer, torn by the conflicting demands of his country and fellow countrymen, during the last days of World War II.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (172 min.) : sd., col., ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide ([4] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Language
English
Description
A high-security German prisoner-of-war camp in 1942 holds only known troublemakers and risk-takers, all of whom are determined to pull off the war's most daring escape.
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1961.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 157 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A team of Allied military specialists are recruited for a dangerous but imperative mission: to infiltrate a Nazi-occupied fortress in Greece and disable two long-range field guns so that 2,000 trapped British soldiers may be rescued. Faced with an unforgiving sea voyage, hazardous terrain, and the possibility of a traitor among them, the team must overcome the impossible without losing their own lives.
Publisher
Go Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Before the war, Sergeant Jesse Owens was a product of segregation and racial discrimination, forced by law to ride in the back of the bus and disenfranchised from the political process. As the Germans bear down on the Americans, Owens fights the Axis powers for a freedom he and his fellow African American soldiers have never felt. With a deadly game of cat and mouse unfolding, Owens and his predominantly white tank crew are reluctant to put their...
7) Gallipoli
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two friends are involved with the battle between Australia and the German-occupied Turks in this commentary on the wastes of war.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (144 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Navy flight navigator Lt. Burnett and his pilot are shot down over Bosnia during a routine reconnaissance mission after seeing something the Serbian forces didn't want them to see. Once on the ground, deep inside enemy territory, the chase is on as they are tracked by rebel forces who want to make sure they are dead. Meanwhile back on the aircraft carrier, the commander, who wants to mount a rescue mission, must play political games to make it happen....
Publisher
distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Poland, World War II. Innocent and naive 8-year-old Bruno is bored and restless in his new home. Ignoring his mother, he sets off on an adventure in the woods. He comes across a high fence which separates him from the people he can see through it. Soon he meets a young boy in striped pajamas, and a surprising friendship develops.
Publisher
Distributed by Entertainment Distributing
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 4 hours) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
News footage is used to chronicle the events of the 1991 war between United Nations allies and Iraq, from Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990 to its liberation six months later.
Publisher
Dreamworks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (169 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
15) Paths of glory
Series
Criterion collection volume 538
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story which occurred in the French Army in 1916, when a regiment fails in its attempt to attack a German position, three men stand trial for cowardice.
16) Prelude to war
Publisher
Platinum Corp
Pub. Date
1984, c1942
Physical Desc
1 video disc (ca. 54 min.) : sd., b&w : 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Uses newsreel and combat footage and map graphics to document the events and social movements which led to U.S. involvement in World War II.
17) Korengal
Publisher
Virgil Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the combat depicted in the film Restrepo, and its impact on the soldiers who fought the battles.
18) Ran
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (160 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
An aging warlord decides to split his kingdom between his three sons, who will live in three separate castles. The two eldest sons are quite happy, but the youngest thinks his father has gone mad, and predicts that it won't be long until the two older brothers are fighting with each other.
Publisher
Excel Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The dramatic story of three WWII paratroopers lost behind enemy lines. Desperately trying to regroup with the Allied Forces, their commitment to the Airborne Creed urges them forward, and proves that a few good men can change a war.
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a sightseeing Soviet commander runs his submarine aground off the New England coast, his crew attempts to find a boat to dislodge the sub almost starts World War III. Russian Lt. Rozanov and his crew hit the beaches of Massachusetts unaware of the panic they're about to start. Despite the Russians' harmless intentions, the folks in town think a full-scale Soviet invasion has been launched! What's worse, their police chief has left his hysterical...
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