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English
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Aviation and sports come together in STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND. This 1955 American film is starring James Stewart and June Allyson, and is directed by Anthony Mann. Robert "Dutch" Holland (James Stewart) is a professional baseball player with the St. Louis Cardinals. As a former B-29 bomber pilot during World War II, he is also an officer on inactive status in the United States Air Force Reserve. During spring training in St. Petersburg, Florida, he is...
2) The abyss
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks, the Navy commandeers the crew of a civilian deep sea oil rig to help in the rescue operation. This perilous mission becomes a wondrous odyssey into the unknown as forces from the ocean's deepest region begin to make contact with the divers.
Series
George Smiley novels volume 5
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 324 min. ) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Some say George Smiley is in innocent retirement. Others say he was sacked after the Czech scandal. But all agree that nobody ever leaves the 'Circus' without some unfinished business.
4) Phantom
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
At the height of the cold war, the world holds its breath when a Soviet submarine armed with nuclear missiles goes missing in the Pacific. On board the vessel, the battle-tested captain and a rogue KGB agent are waging a life-and-death game of cat and mouse. With enemy forces closing in and time running out, the captain fights to keep control with nuclear armageddon hanging in the balance.
5) The company
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (286 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Depicts the global power struggle between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, told from the viewpoint of CIA and KGB spies. Spans four decades, from the dawn of the Cold War in the 1950s to the downfall of the Soviet Union in the '90s. Trace the activities of the CIA's underground fight with the KGB and where three CIA agents must find out the moles in their own ranks before every operation in an unrelenting battle within the organization itself.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A satire in which the U.S. president and his military advisors struggle ineptly to avert a holocaust after a psychotic Air Force general launches a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union because he fears that the Russians are poisoning the water supply in the United States.
7) Watchmen
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (162 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
As former members of a disbanded group of superheroes called the Crimebusters turn up dead, the remaining members of the group try to discover the identity of the murderer before they, too, are killed.
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertaiment/Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (141 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
James Donovan is a Brooklyn lawyer who finds himself thrust into the center of the Cold War when the CIA sends him on the near-impossible task to negotiate the release of a captured American U-2 pilot.
9) The hour
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"London, 1956. At Lime Grove Studios, the BBC has just launched 'The Hour,' a topical news program. At the heart of the show are three contrasting journalists: enigmatic producer Bel Rowley, a spirited woman in a man's world; her best friend, Freddie Lyon, a brilliant and passionate reporter; and charming, well-connected front man Hector Madden. As Freddie moves to cover a significant but controversial story, the trio becomes entangled in an intense...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Special edition; widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 127 minutes) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A U.S. Army platoon, captured in the Korean conflict, is whisked to Manchuria for three nightmarish days of experimental drug-and-hypnosis-induced conditioning to carry out the orders of the enemy upon release. When a decorated Korean War veteran who has been brainwashed starts to commit political assassinations, his old military commander begins to suspect and must stop him.
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 9 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Colossus and the headhunters : Mike, Tom, and Crow trash an Italian swords and sandals film.
Invasion USA : The guys attack this Cold War drama with the usual arsenal of riffs.
High school big shot: The guys poke fun at a film about a teen turning to a life of crime.
Track of the moon beast: The guys make fun of an old monster movie about a mineralogist who transforms nightly into a killer reptile.
12) Atomic Blonde
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The crown jewel of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, Agent Lorraine Broughton is equal parts spycraft, sensuality and savagery, willing to deploy any of her skills to stay alive on her impossible mission. Sent alone into Berlin to deliver a priceless dossier out of the destabilized city, she partners with embedded station chief David Percival to navigate her way through the deadliest game of spies.
13) Pawn sacrifice
Publisher
Bleeker Street Media
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (1 hr., 56 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a gripping true story set during the height of the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers when he challenges the Soviet Empire. It chronicles Fischer's terrifying struggles with genius and madness, and the rise and fall of a kid from Brooklyn who captured the imagination of the world.
14) Killing Kennedy
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
As global Cold War tensions mount and organized crime escalates in the U.S., a young, ambitious man from a wealthy family rises to become the leader of the free world. At the same time, a former dedicated Marine grows disillusioned with America. When their paths ultimately cross, the course of U.S. history will forever change.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (107 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When the tyrannical ruler Stalin dies, his hapless inner circle scrambles to come up with the next evolution of the revolution, but it's clear everyone is really out for themselves. Proof that comedy, like politics, is all in the execution.
16) Hipsters
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Russian
Description
While the Cold War heats up on the world stage, rebellious youth in 1955 Moscow wage a cultural battle against dismal Soviet conformity, donning brightly colored black-market clothing, adopting American nicknames and reveling in forbidden jazz.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (DVD)(450 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Philip and Elizabeth find themselves at odds over their daughter's future now that the KGB is determined to recruit her. FBI agent Stan Beeman rededicates himself to uncovering the identities of the Russian spies.
Series
Americans volume Season 2
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 585 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Technological advances have escalated Cold War tensions to an all-time high, and undercover KGB operatives Elizabeth and Philip Jennings face the growing threat of discovery. As their assignments grow more deadly, their family is in more danger, and their loyalties are tested like never before.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 276 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
High castle: A translator for the Nuremberg trials is killed, leading Foyle into the world of international oil politics and corrupt Nazi businessmen. Trespass: With tensions running high ahead of a high-level Palestinian conference, Foyle investigates a plot involving murder, espionage, and a terrorist plot. Elise: After an assassination attempt on Hilda Pierce, Foyle examines her Special Operations Executive activities during the war and rumors...
20) Octopussy (DVD)
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 digital disc 131 minutes col
Language
English
Description
A circus clown is murdered in the shadows of the Berlin Wall, a heavily guarded priceless Soviet art treasure turns up at a London auction, a tycoon arrives at conferences on a love barge, served by an army of scantily-clad lethal lovelies -- a mixture of mystery and action that only James Bond can unravel.
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