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Families of military personnel Drama Man-woman relationships Man-woman relationships Drama Married people Drama Military chaplains Drama Mutiny United States Drama Trials (Mutiny) United States Drama Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Drama World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Pacific Ocean Drama World War, 1939-1945 DramaSummary: American judge Daniel Haywood presides over the trial of four German jurists accused of "legalizing" Nazi atrocities. But as graphic accounts of sterilization and murder unfold in the courtroom, mounting political pressure for leniency forces Haywood into making the most harrowing and difficult decision of his career.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA JUDSummary: Nazi Panzer forces stage a last-ditch Belgian front offensive that could turn the tide of WWII. A spectacular recreation of a crucial campaign.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BATSummary: The Mule: Earl Stone is a man in his 80s who is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive. Easy enough, but, unbeknownst to Earl, he's just signed on as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. Even as his money problems become a thing of the past, Earl's past mistakes start to weigh heavily on him, and it's uncertain if he'll...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CLISummary: Guy Ritchie's The Covenant follows US Army Sergeant John Kinley (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Afghan interpreter Ahmed (Dar Salim). After an ambush, Ahmed goes to Herculean lengths to save Kinley's life. When Kinley learns that Ahmed and his family were not given safe passage to America as promised, he must repay his debt by returning to the war zone to retrieve them before the Taliban hunts them down...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros Entertainment Inc. 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The true story of William Pitsenbarger, an Air Force medic who saved more than sixty men in one of the bleakest battles of the Vietnam War. Presented the chance to escape on the last helicopter, Pitsenbarger stayed behind to save and defend his comrade in arms. Twenty years later, Pitsenbarger's fellow soldiers and father seek the help of investigator Scott Huffman and other surviving veterans...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LASCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FULLCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LaSummary: Centers on Corporal Steiner, an accomplished but war-weary combat veteran, leading a group of German soldiers on the Russian front. Steiner gets replaced by Stransky who's only goal is to get the iron cross, Germany's highest medal.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hen's Tooth Video 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CROSummary: "The most savagely subversive film by the iconoclastic auteur Luchino Visconti employs the mechanics of deliriously stylized melodrama to portray Nazism's total corruption of the soul. In the wake of Hitler's ascent to power, the wealthy industrialist von Essenbeck family and their associates--including the scheming social climber Friedrich (Dirk Bogarde), the conniving matriarch Sophie (Ingrid...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DAMSummary: As nervy as it is hilarious, a masterpiece from Ernst Lubitsch, To Be Or Not To Be; is a Hollywood film of the boldest black humor, which went into production soon after the U.S. entered World War II. Lubitsch manages to brilliantly balance political satire, romance, slapstick, and urgent wartime suspense in a comic high-wire act that has never been equaled.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TOSummary: An American Air Force major on leave in Japan during the Korean War falls in love with a Japanese dancer. When they declare their love openly, they find themselves scorned equally by both the Japanese and Americans.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SAYSummary: At the start of World War I, German imperial troops burn down a mission in Africa. The mission's clergyman was so overtaken with disappointment that he passes away. Shortly after his well-educated, snooty sister Rose buries her brother, she must leave on the only available transport, the 'African Queen' steamboat. The boat is manned by the ill-mannered bachelor, Charlie. Together they embark on...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2010
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD AFRSummary: 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: 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
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RESSummary: In World War II Morocco, seething with European refugees desperate for passage to neutral Lisbon, only a world-weary and bitter nightclub owner can help his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co./Warner Home Video 1999
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CASSummary: In First blood, an ex-Green Beret haunted by memories of Vietnam is searching for peace, but finds instead an overzealous, small town sheriff who's spoiling for a fight.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: From his embed with US Marines Echo Company in Afghanistan, photojournalist and filmmaker Danfung Dennis reveals the devastating impact a Taliban machine-gun bullet has on the life of 25-year-old Sergeant Nathan Harris. The film seamlessly transitions from stunning war reportage to an intimate portrait of one man's personal struggle at home in North Carolina, where Harris confronts the physical...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama Films 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HELSummary: Vietnam veteran John Rambo has withdrawn into a simple and secluded existence in Thailand. Even though he is looking to avoid trouble, trouble finds him. A group of Christian missionaries approach Rambo with the desire to rent his boat to travel up the river to Burma, which is a war zone. The Karen people of the region have endured a brutal rule from the murderous Burmese military. Rambo...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain left behind a quiet life and a career as a college professor to fight for the Union. Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was a man of great religious faith who served in the defense of the Confederacy. And Gen. Robert E. Lee, who led the Confederate army, was a man who was forced to choose between his loyalty to the United States and his love of the Southern states...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE Gods 2003Contents: Out of the past (fullscreen presentation, 97 min.) -- Angel face (fullscreen presentation, 92 min.) -- Home from the hill (widescreen presentation, 150 min.) -- The sundowners (widescreen presentation, 133 min.).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCMSummary: They were expendable: Two PT-boat skippers defend the Philippines and give the U.S. war effort time to regroup after the crippling losses at Pearl Harbor. Flying Leathernecks: An embattled Marine fighter squadron VMF 247 at Guadalcanal is led by John Wayne and campaigning to coordinate ground combat with low-flying aerial sorties.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA THESummary: "An impassioned group of men and women risk everything for family, faith and the very future of their country--as the film's adventure unfolds against the long-hidden, true story of the 1920s Cristero War--the daring people's revolt that rocked 20th century North America. ... General Gorostieta, the retired military man who at first thinks he has nothing personal at stake as he and his wife ......
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: distributed by ARC Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA FORCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FoCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD/Blu Movie ForSummary: Based on the true story of WWII Russian hero Vassili Zaitsev whose fame thrust him into a personal war with the Nazis best sharpshooter, Major Erwin Konig.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2001
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ENECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Enemy 2001Summary: During World War II, onboard a ship in the U.S. Pacific Fleet, an event occurs unlike any that the United States Navy has ever experienced. A ship's captain is removed from his command by his executive officer in an apparent outright act of mutiny. As the trial of the mutineers unfold, it comes to light that Captain Queeg was mentally unstable, perhaps even insane. The Navy must then decide if...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007