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Author
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In this original and engaging work, author Kent Puckett looks at how British filmmakers imagined, saw, and sought to represent its war during wartime through film. The Second World War posed unique representational challenges to Britain's filmmakers. Because of its logistical enormity, the unprecedented scope of its destruction, its conceptual status as total, and the way it affected everyday life through aerial bombing, blackouts, rationing, and...
Publisher
Level 33 Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
As WWII ends, Col. Cantwell, a witty war hero, confronts terminal illness. Seeking solace in Venice, he commandeers a driver for a final trip. Amid unraveling plans, a chance encounter with a countess offers hope and redemption against the backdrop of war. Hemingway's themes of love, youth, and age resonate in Across the River and Into the Trees.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd star in this Cold War farce as two complete misfits who aspire to spy for the CIA. Much to their surprise, they are trained as operatives and sent to Central Asia. But the biggest secret of their covert operation is that they are expendable decoys--for another team of agents sent on the real mission--and no one expects them to survive.
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Language
English
Description
The original full-length episodes of the award-winning series made exclusively for television and containing actual live action footage. The videos introduce the campaigns and action of World War II, concentrating on battles and action at sea.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tom Cruise ignites the screen in this runaway smash hit as Ethan Hunt, a secret agent framed for the deaths of his espionage team. Fleeing from government assassins, breaking into the CIA's most impenetrable vault, clinging to the roof of a speeding bullet train, Hunt races like a burning fuse to stay one step ahead of his pursuers… and draw one step closer to discovering the shocking truth.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Lured back into action by his agency superiors, Ethan Hunt faces his deadliest adversary yet - a sadistic weapons dealer named Owen Davian. With the support of his IMF team, Ethan leaps into spectacular adventure from Rome to Shanghai as he races to rescue a captured agent and stop Davian from eliminating his next target: Ethan's wife, Julia.
8) 1917
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers, Schofield and Blake are given a seemingly impossible mission. In a race against time, they must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers, Blake's own brother among them.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Set against the siege of Stalingrad during World War II, this is the epic tale of a young Russian sharpshooter, Vassili, who becomes a legend when a savvy political officer makes him the hero of his propaganda campaign. Their friendship is threatened when both men fall in love with a beautiful female soldier. As the battle for the city rages, Vassili faces his ultimate challenge when the Nazi command dispatches its most elite marksman to hunt down...
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
The world’s greatest spy, Ethan Hunt, returns and partners up with the beautiful Nyah Hall to stop renegade agent Sean Ambrose from releasing a new kind of terror on an unsuspecting world. But before the mission is complete, they’ll traverse the globe and have to choose between everything they love and everything they believe in.
11) Hacksaw Ridge
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The true story of WWII American Army medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa and was awarded the Medal of Honor despite never using a weapon.
12) Stalag 17
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Two worthy **Academy Award** nominees from 1950's *Sunset Boulevard* - actor William Holden and director Billy Wilder - re-teamed three years later for the gripping World War II drama, STALAG 17. The result was another Best Director nomination for Wilder (his fourth), and the elusive Best Actor Oscar for Holden. Holden portrays the jaded, scheming Sergeant J.J. Sefton, a prisoner at the notorious German prison camp, who spends his days dreaming up...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Blamed for the terrorist bombing of the Kremlin, IMF operative Ethan Hunt is disavowed along with the rest of the agency when the President initiates 'Ghost Protocol'. Left without any resources or backup, Ethan must find a way to clear his agency's name and prevent another attack. To complicate matters further, Ethan is forced to embark on his mission with a team of fellow IMF fugitives whose personal motives he does not fully know.
14) The Ambush
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Arabic
Description
From the director of TAKEN and based on a true story. Three soldiers on their final patrol are ambushed by heavily armed militants in hostile territory. Trapped, wounded, and out of communication range, they are running out of options, ammunition, and time. Back at base, their commander receives word of the assault and must lead a daring rescue mission.
15) Megan Leavey
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Based on the true life story of a young Marine Corporal whose unique discipline and bond with her military combat dog saved many lives during their deployment in Iraq. When she is assigned to clean up the K9 unit after a disciplinary hearing, Leavey identifies with a particularly aggressive dog, Rex, and is given the chance to train him. Over the course of their service, Megan and Rex completed more than 100 missions until an IED explosion injures...
16) Mafia mamma
Publisher
Decal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
While seeing to her long estranged (and now deceased) grandfather’s affairs in Italy, Collette, a mild mannered suburban mom, unexpectedly inherits his mafia empire and finds herself stuck in the middle of a deadly mob war. Guided by the firm’s trusted consigliere (Monica Bellucci), she hilariously defies everyone’s expectations, including her own, as the new head of the family business.
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
It is the 23rd century. The Federation Starship U.S.S. Enterprise™ is on routine training maneuvers and Admiral James T. Kirk think this inspection may be his last space mission. But Khan is back. Aided by his band of genetic supermen, Khan has stolen a top secret device called Project Genesis, wrested control of a Federation Starship and sets out in pursuit of the Enterprise, determined to let nothing stand in the way of his mission: kill Admiral...
Publisher
St. Clair Vision
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Over 9 hours of historical footage and documentaries featuring Bob Hope, Humphrey Bogart, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lucille Ball, Bing Crosby, and Jimmy Stewart. Includes authentic newsreels, classic cartoons, rarely seen footage of D-Day, and more.
20) Three kings
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000, 1999]
Language
English
Description
At the very end of the first Gulf War, four American soldiers take a detour to find millions in stolen Kuwaiti bullion, only to find themselves in the midst of a democratic uprising.
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