Summary: In the spring of 1864, a desperate young farmers wife enlists in the Confederate Army posing as a man. She must battle the Union Army, the men of her unit and her own identity in the quest to find her missing husband.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Capitol Christian 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FINSummary: I shot Jesse James: After years of crime reporting and writing pulp novels and screenplays, Samuel Fuller made his directorial debut with the lonesome ballad of Robert Ford who fatally betrayed his friend, the notorious Jesse James.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Recounts how the struggle between North and South, long defined by battles like Gettysburg, Antietam, and Bull Run, was actually dependent on events in the West. Although often overlooked, the western theatre saw some of the conflict's bloodiest encounters, such as Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Chickamauga, and featured iconic leaders.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In a no man's land on the Missouri/Kansas border, a staunch loyalist, an immigrant's son, a freed slave and a young widow form an unlikely friendship as they learn how to survive during the Civil War, in a place without rules.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RIDSummary: In 1862, during the Kansas-Missouri border war, Jake and Jack Bull join the Confederate-sympathizing Bushwhackers after Jack's father is killed by marauding members of the abolitionist Jayhawkers. They are aided by unusual ally, Holt, who's fighting for the South despite being a former slave.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA RIDSummary: In the midst of riots, rebellion, and revolution of the 1960s, a reluctant soldier finds himself in the center of two wars. Randy is ripped from the front lines of the civil rights struggle and thrust into the war in Vietnam to battle for his life. An explosive story of one man's coming of age during the assassinations, protest, and war that defined the 60's and changed the world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD SOLSummary: A group of U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq struggles to integrate back into family and civilian life, while living with the memory of a war that threatens to destroy them long after they've left the battlefield.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA THACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD THASummary: 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: The Hiltons are an average family living in a Midwestern town. The father of the household has waived his 3A status and enlisted to go overseas. His wife must now act as father and mother to their two daughters and keep their father's memory alive.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SINSummary: Forrest Gump is a low-intelligence man who has good intentions. He struggles through childhood with his best and only friend Jenny. His mama teaches him the ways of life and leaves him to choose his destiny. Forrest joins the army and heads off to Vietnam where he becomes friends with Dan and Bubba. He wins medals, starts a table tennis craze, creates a famous shrimp fishing fleet, inspires...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA FORSummary: Cimino's epic film about friendship chronicles the lives of three steelworkers and their friends, whose lives are irrevocably changed by a tour of duty in Vietnam. The film is renowned for the Russian roulette scenes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The remarkable true story of one soldier's death in battle, another soldier's journey of discovery and a nation's reverence and gratitude toward its war dead. After hearing of the heroic death of a young Marine in Iraq, veteran officer Lt. Colonel Michael Strobl volunteers to escort the remains of Lance Corporal Chance Phelps back to his hometown in Wyoming. As Strobl crosses America's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TAKSummary: 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
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HUNSummary: At an Army base in 1941 Hawaii, the lives of enlisted men and officers are troubled by spiteful commanders, sadistic military police, and forbidden love. Includes actual scenes of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FROCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie From 2001Contents: The drive by night -- Across the Pacific -- Action in the North Atlantic -- Passage to Marseille.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2012
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCMSummary: The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Based on true events. A team of U.S. soldiers stationed at the deadliest outpost in Afghanistan is relentlessly attacked by an overwhelming force of Taliban insurgents. Their fight for survival is the ultimate display of American valor.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Screen Media 2020
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE OUTCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD OUTCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD OUTCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD OuSummary: "As the alarm wails, Joe McConnell's squad of Sabre pilots are airborne in seconds. The mission: keep enemy planes away from helicopters evacuating wounded infantrymen. The destination: the deadly corridor called MIG Alley ... In war, McConnell became America's first triple jet ace, downing 16 enemy planes. In peace, he braved the unknown as a test pilot in the jet era's infancy"--Container
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010