William Broyles
2) Jarhead
Language
English
Description
Follows "Swoff," a third-generation Marine enlistee, from a sobering stint in boot camp to active duty, sporting a sniper's rifle and a hundred-pound ruck on his back through the Middle East deserts. There is no cover from intolerable heat or from the Iraqi soldiers, who are always potentially just over the next horizon. Swoff and his fellow Marines sustain themselves with sardonic humanity and wicked comedy on blazing desert fields in a country they...
Language
English
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Description
Billy longs to believe in Santa Claus, but he finds it quite difficult to do so. His family has a dogged insistence that all of it, from the North Pole, to the elves, to Santa himself, is all just a myth. This all changes, however, on Christmas Eve, when a mysterious train visits Billy in the middle of the night, promising to take him and a group of other lucky children to the North Pole for a visit with Santa. The train's conductor, along with the...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment ; DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The life stories of the five Marines and one Naval officer that were forever immortalized as a symbol of WWII by raising the American flag at the battle of Iwo Jima.
5) Cast away
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chuck Noland is a FedEx systems engineer whose personal and professional life are ruled by the clock. He has a girlfriend, Kelly, with whom he is deeply in love with and family he hardly sees. When work intrudes on Christmas Eve, Chuck has a quick gift exchange in the car and kisses Kelly goodbye. He boards a delivery plane going overseas which gets caught in a horrendous storm and crashes onto the shores of a deserted tropical island in the Pacific....
6) Apollo 13
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Widescreen version; second-disc anniversary edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 140 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It had been less than a year since the first man walked on the Moon, but to the American public, Apollo 13 was just another "routine" space flight. That is until the words pierced the immense void of space: "Houston, we have a problem."
7) Entrapment
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A solitary master thief and an insurance company investigator team up for a multibillion-dollar heist.
Publisher
A&E Television Networks, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 5 hr., 41 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Six follows members of Navy SEAL Team Six, modern American warriors whose mission to eliminate a Taliban leader in Afghanistan goes awry when they uncover a U.S. citizen working with the terrorists. Inspired by real missions, the series authentically captures the inside world of America's elite special operations unit, what these SEALs do, their personal lives, combat, and the life-and-death decisions they make.
9) Apollo 13
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (140 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A true story. Stranded 205,000 miles from Earth in a crippled spacecraft, astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert fight a desperate battle to survive. Meanwhile, at Mission Control, astronaut Ken Mattingly, flight director Gene Kranz and a heroic ground crew race against time, and the odds, to bring them home.