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881) Full metal jacket
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Vietnam war drama which begins with a depiction of the brutality of Marine Corps training and then shifts to Vietnam, focusing mainly on a group of Marines responding to the Tet Offensive of 1968.
Publisher
Weinstein Company Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Français
Description
In the last years of World War II, a group of North African soldiers, largely Muslims, enlist to free France--a country they consider their motherland, even though they've never set foot in it--from the Nazis. The story is told through four characters: Abdelkader, a corporal who hopes to be promoted to sergeant; Messaoud, an ace marksman who fall in love with a beautiful Frenchwoman; Yassir, a Berber peasant who needs the money to marry off his younger...
883) Devotion
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Elite fighter pilots Jesse Brown and Tom Hudner become the U.S. Navy's most celebrated wingmen during the Korean War.
884) Moffie
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Afrikaans
Description
Set in the early 1980s, follows the story of a South African teenager who must complete two years of compulsory military service in the South African Defence Force to defend the apartheid regime while trying to hide his homosexuality.
885) The monuments men
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014].
Language
English
Description
An unlikely World War II platoon has been tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returning them to their rightful owners. With the art trapped behind enemy lines, and with the German army under orders to destroy everything as the Reich fell, how could they possibly succeed? But as the Monuments Men, as they were called, found themselves in a race against time, they would risk their lives to protect...
887) The monuments men
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
An unlikely World War II platoon has been tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returning them to their rightful owners. With the art trapped behind enemy lines, and with the German army under orders to destroy everything as the Reich fell, how could they possibly succeed? But as the Monuments Men, as they were called, found themselves in a race against time, they would risk their lives to protect...
889) Back to Bataan
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
After the fall of the Philippines to the Japanese in World War II, Col. Joseph Madden of the U.S. Army stays on to organize guerrilla fighters against the conquerors.
890) Hell's angels
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Three Oxford buddies fight on opposite sides during WWI. Each is torn between obedience to his country and that of his conscience. The most expensive movie of its time, the film features extensive aerial photography of a dogfight between R.A.F. and German fighter planes.
891) Behold a pale horse
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A Spanish guerrilla goes into exile at the end of the Civil War. Twenty years later he is persuaded to return and kill a brutal police chief.
892) Taras Bulba
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
Set in the Ukraine of the 16th century, a powerful Cossack chieftain is determined to regain his land from treacherous Polish invaders. Despite bitter dissension in the ranks, he is soon leading his soldiers into savage warfare. But further conflict erupts when his headstrong son, Andrei, falls deeply in love with a Polish girl. Spectacular battle scenes highlight the nonstop action, arriving at a shattering climax in which father and son must ultimately...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In the final months of World War II in Hungary, a young man sets out to find his displaced family by using a stolen Nazi uniform to pose as an officer; he undertakes extraordinary measures to save his family and thousands of lives from the enemy.
894) The train
Series
Publisher
Twilight Time
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In August 1944 the Allied army is closing in on Paris. German commander and art fanatic Colonel Von Waldheim steals a vast collection of rare French paintings and loads them onto a train bound for Berlin. When a beloved French patriot is murdered while trying to sabotage Von Waldheim's scheme, Labiche, a stalwart member of the Resistance, vows to stop the train at any cost.
895) "Fort Apache"
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The soldiers at Fort Apache may disagree with the tactics of their glory-seeking new commander. But to a man, they're duty bound to obey - even when it means almost certain disaster.
896) Blood diamond
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: to recover a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son who was consripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed across the alternately beautiful and ravaged countryside.
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