Summary: Thirty years after they served together in Vietnam, a former Navy Corpsman Larry "Doc" Shepherd re-unites with his old buddies, former Marines Sal Nealon and Reverend Richard Mueller, to bury his son, a young Marine killed in the Iraq War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LASSummary: 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
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LONSummary: Follows many of the soldiers featured in "Restrepo" after they've left combat in order to examine how war works, what it feels like, and what it does to the young men who fight it.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC KORSummary: 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BLACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BLACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BLASummary: In the spring of 1942, German troops advanced deep into the Soviet Union en route to Stalingrad. Hitler seriously misjudged the tenacity of the Red Army and was convinced that the city could be conquered before winter. Ordinarily foot soldiers, inadequately clothed and without sufficient food, struggled just to stay alive.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This documentary chronicles the deployment of a platoon of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley, starting in 2007. The movie focuses on a remote 15-man outpost, Restrepo, named after a platoon medic who was killed in action. It was considered one of the most dangerous postings in the U.S. military. This is an entirely experiential film: the cameras never leave the valley; there are no...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Virgil Films & Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC RES1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF RES
Summary: 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 THEContents: 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: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Patriot 2000Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PATCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PAT RATED RSummary: A brutal yet poetic snapshot of life as one of Africa's child soldiers, following a young girl who is kidnapped from her village by a group of rebel fighters. Forced to gun down members of her family and enemy soldiers, she takes solace in fellow soldier Magician, a young albino with whom she escapes and starts a new life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WARSummary: In 1964, a hard-boiled major is ordered to defend Muc Wa, an unoccupied and seemingly unimportant Vietnamese military outpost left behind by the French. He, his idealistic young lieutenant, his mostly green soldiers, and their supporting force of Vietnamese volunteers are overwhelmed as they deal with ambushes, betrayals, and brutality.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GOSummary: L'Armee des Ombres is a stark and unvarnished story about Resistance fighters in Vichy France in 1942-43 when the French leadership allowed the Nazis to occupy the country. The members of this army are cold, hungry, desperate men and women, with false names and no addresses, who can be betrayed in an instant by a traitor or an accident. They know they will probably die. A meditation on the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ARMSummary: After more than 30 years of service as one of the navy's top aviators, Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him. Training a detachment of graduates for a special assignment, Maverick must confront the ghosts of his past and his deepest fears, culminating in a mission that demands the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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4 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE TOPCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TOPCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie TopCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TOPCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TOPCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TOPSummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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