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Dengler, Dieter Drama Escaped prisoners of war Laos Drama Laos Drama Merchant mariners North Atlantic Ocean Drama Merchant ships Merchant ships North Atlantic Ocean Drama North Atlantic Ocean Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Drama Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Prisoners and prisons, American Drama World War, 1939-1945 North Atlantic Ocean DramaFilter By Subjects
Dengler, Dieter Drama Escaped prisoners of war Laos Drama Laos Drama Merchant mariners North Atlantic Ocean Drama Merchant ships Merchant ships North Atlantic Ocean Drama North Atlantic Ocean Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Drama Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Prisoners and prisons, American Drama World War, 1939-1945 North Atlantic Ocean DramaSummary: Stanley Phillips is a sad, disconnected man unable to tell his young daughters that their mother, a soldier, has died in Iraq. Instead, he takes the girls on a road trip, where their innocent charm helps him rediscover a healing joy he thought he'd lost forever.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Weinstein Company Home Entertainment 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF GRASummary: Based on an autobiography, this film tells the true story of Eric Lomax, a British Army officer who is captured by the Japanese during WWII and sent to a POW camp, where he is tortured and forced to work on the Thai-Burma Railway. Years later, and still suffering the psychological trauma of his wartime experiences, Lomax is persuaded by his wife Patti to find and confront one of his captors....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Railway 2013Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RAI RATED RCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RaSummary: When U.S. fighter pilot Dieter Dengler escapes death after being shot down over one of the most intense front lines in the Vietnam War, his troubles were just beginning. He is taken captive by the Vietnamese Army and is forced to endure a harrowing stint in a Vietnamese prison camp. Dengler and a small band of his fellow captives stage a death-defying escape. Based on a true story.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment [distributor] 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RESSummary: An Air Force pilot in charge of a group of young flyboys in 1952 Korea knows where and when to separate his private life from his responsibilities.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HUNSummary: Tension-filled, action packed espionage drama about a German demolitions expert who is blackmailed by the British to help them seize a German freighter.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MORSummary: During World War I on the French front, a regiment of soldiers are set up for a suicide mission and are generally manipulated in ways that show no regard for their lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 1999
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PATCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PATSummary: Honor, courage, and sacrifice are revealed in unexpected ways as a ranking U.S. prisoner in a Nazi POW camp is joined in December 1944 by a law-student lieutenant who'd been captured despite his father's powerful military connections. When a black pilot from the famous Tuskeegee airmen is falsely accused of murdering a fellow prisoner, Lt. Hart tries his case and discovers the real motivation...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HARSummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Sarah's 2011Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SAR RATED PG-13Summary: In 1940, the merchant ship Glencairn rolls and shivers in the black North Atlantic. On board, her anxious crewmen search the sky for German planes and hope they'll survive "The long voyage home."
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007