Orem Library

"Hannah Higgins is a smart, driven consultant. To advance the cause of education reform, she runs for Congress -- but loses, big-time. Voters just can't warm to her. But Hannah and her business partner, Colleen Pickering, don't give up easily. Next time 'round, they recruit a candidate who definitely is a people person -- a beer vendor named Elliot Doolittle. Elliot -- whose unruly beard and thick South Boston accent mask his intelligence -- is a...

Captain John Miller must take his men behind enemy lines to find Private Ryan, whose three brothers have been killed in combat. Faced with impossible odds, the men question their orders. Why are eight men risking their lives to save just one? Surrounded by the brutal realities of war, each man searches for his own answer and the strength to triumph over uncertain future with honor, decency and courage.

Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire and France are surrounded by the German Army, and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II. Intense war experience and some language.

Dramatization of the events surrounding the bombing of Pearl Harbor, from both the Japanese and American points of view.

December 1944, Hitler wages one more desperate bloody attack. Hitler struck back with a brutal counterattack and the Battle of the Bulge was the single biggest and bloodiest battle U.S. soldiers have ever fought. Almost 80,000 Americans were killed, injured, or captured in an infernal test of courage and endurance that ultimately ended with a hard-won victory for the Allies. Told through the eyes of the U.S. soldiers and combat officers in the field....

Whirlwind: Bombing Germany, September 1939-April 1944: Fueled by revenge, the British show their mettle, and with the help of American forces retake the skies and bomb Germany into submission. Tough old gut: Italy, November 1942-June 1944: Eleven months after Pearl Harbor , Churchill convinces the American forces to join the Allies in taking Italy. After an initial setback in NOrth Africa, the German war machine begins losing its air of invincibility. It's...

Fighting the war (1916): the work of 26-year-old American adventurer Donald C. Thompson, who managed to get to France on Canadian credentials with English troops. He photographed some of the most amazing front line films of the entire war. This film was taken February-June 1916 during the Battle of Verdun in which the French suffered staggering losses defending the same-named town and its associated forts. With his keen photographic eye and iron nerves,...

Documentary about the naval operations of World War II, considered to be a classic.

The struggle: The men and women of Utah's "Greatest Generation" recollect the first difficult months of the war. Includes interviews with Utah veterans who experienced Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941, Wake Island, the Phillippines and the "Bataan Death March." Europe: The memoires of Utah veterans who fought for the liberation of Europe. The Pacific: The men and women of Utah recount their very personal stories from the war in the Pacific. The home...