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21) Shame
Series
Criterion collection volume 961
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in..
Language
Swedish
Description
During their country's civil war, the strength of a young couple's relationship is tested after the rural town they have escaped to is invaded by the military.
Series
Criterion collection volume 378
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
In this Japanese anti-war film, acts of cannibalism bring home the terrifying brutality of war. Japanese troops are in retreat in the Philippines. Supplies run out and discipline crumbles.
23) White material
Series
Criterion collection volume 560
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Despite the civil war going on around her, a white woman living in Africa refuses to give up her coffee plantation, putting herself and her sons in danger.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007], c2006
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 140 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
Sixty-one years ago, the United States and Japanese armies met on Iwo Jima. Decades later, hundreds of letters are unearthed from that stark island's soil. The letters give faces and voices to the men who fought there, as well as the extraordinary general who led them. Leading the defense is Lt. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi. With little defense other than sheer will and the volcanic rock of the island itself, Gen. Kuribayashi's unprecedented tactics...
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Driven by a deep sense of duty and a love for his country, Damien abandons his burgeoning career as a doctor and joins his brother, Teddy in a dangerous and violent fight for freedom in Ireland in 1920. As the Irish freedom fighters' bold tactics bring the British to a breaking point, both sides finally agree to a treaty to end the bloodshed. But, despite the apparent victory, civil war erupts and families who fought side by side find themselves pitted...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (162 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
British soldiers captured by the Japanese during World War II are forced to construct a strategic railroad bridge which a commando team is instructed by the British High Command to destroy.
27) Stop-loss
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Decorated Iraq war hero Sgt. Brandon King makes a celebrated return to his small Texas hometown following his tour of duty. He tries to resume the life he left behind with the help and support of his family and his best friend, Steve Shriver, who served with him in Iraq. Along with their other war buddies, Brandon and Steve try to make peace with civilian life. Then, against Brandon's will, the Army orders him back to duty in Iraq, which upends his...
Publisher
Madacy Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (10 hrs. 35 min.) : sd., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From the surprise attack at Pearl Harbor, the frozen battlefields of Korea, the sweltering jungles of Vietnam, to the blistering sands of Iraq, this is war as you have never seen it before. This is the story of war that can only be told by the men and women who experienced it. In this collection, four generations of veterans recall the horrors of engagement and the relationships they forged under the most harrowing circumstances, providing a perspective...
31) Beanpole
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (137 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Russian
Description
Two young women struggle to rebuild their lives amidst a devastated Leningrad in 1945.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
1999, c1930
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 2 hr., 10 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
During the last days of World War I, a group of German soldiers suffer physically and mentally as their idealistic dreams of glory turn into a desperate struggle to stay alive.
33) Run boy run
Publisher
Passion River
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
After a nine-year-old Jewish boy flees from the Warsaw ghetto during World War II, he tries to survive in the forest and is taken in by a farmer while claiming to be a Christian war orphan.
34) Windtalkers
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2002
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (153 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A battle-weary Marine is assigned to guard - and ultimately befriends - a young Navajo soldier who has been trained to be a code talker. This code, the Navajo code, and the men who knew the code, were to be guarded as they went into action. It was the unspoken duty of the Marine to kill the Navajo soldier before he could be taken prisoner of war by the Japanese. This is the one wartime code that was never broken by the enemy.
35) Downfall
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (156 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Dramatizes the final days of Hitler and his inner circle.
36) The patriot
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (165 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A hero of the French and Indian conflict, Benjamin Martin had renounced fighting forever to raise his family in peace. However, when British troops arrive at his South Carolina home and endanger his family, he takes up arms alongside his idealistic patriot son, Gabriel.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
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Description
Based on a true event that occurred on the Western Front during World War I, German, French, and Scottish soldiers call an unauthorized truce on Christmas Eve, meeting each other in No Man's Land to peacefully celebrate.
39) Frantz
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Set in Germany and France in the immediate aftermath of the First World War, (1914-1918), the film recalls the mourning period that follows great national tragedies as seen through the eyes of the war's 'lost generation': Anna, a bereft young German woman whose fiancé, Frantz, was killed during trench warfare, and Adrien, a French veteran of the war who shows up mysteriously in her town, placing flowers on Frantz's grave.
40) Shadow
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
A military commander has the secret weapon known as a "shadow" which creates a look-alike who can fool his enemies.
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