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1) Flanders
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 91 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
André Demester leaves his farm in northern France to become a soldier in a far off land. On his last night of freedom he witnesses Barbe, his childhood friend and secret love, sleeping with another man. A twist of fate puts the two men side by side in combat where their undeclared personal war and the one they are fighting tragically merge. Left behind, Barbe, alone and wasting away, faces misfortunes of her own, while awaiting the soldiers return....
Language
English
Formats
Description
A small-town girl goes overboard with war-time patriotic zeal and marries a soldier she's only met once. He disappears after one night, then she thinks she's pregnant... but she just can't remember her husband's name. Nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the **Academy Awards.** *"Great verbal gags and non-sequiturs, fast paced action, and a thorough irreverence for all things deemed respectable...make it a lasting delight." - Geoff Andrew, **Time...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 60 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Virtually unseen since its theatrical premiere in 1953, Fear and desire was the ambitious first feature film by legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick. An existential war film often compared with the director's Paths of glory (1957) and Full metal jacket (1987), Fear and desire follows a squad of soldiers who have crash-landed behind enemy lines and must work their way downriver to rejoin their unit. In the process, they encounter a peasant girl (Virginia...
4) Soldier
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Galactic wars are fought by soldiers, but the action is backed by mammoth crawler vehicles. Planetary outcasts survive amid the jetsam of Earth's past while technology is almost beyond human control.
5) Flame
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 55 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The role of women in guerilla struggles and in post-liberation societies is depicted in a story of the women freedom fighters of the Zimbabwean liberation struggle. Flame is perhaps the most controversial film ever made in Africa --certainly the only one to be seized by the police during editing on the grounds it was subversive and pornographic. Ingrid Sinclair's moving tribute to women fighters in the Zimbabwean liberation struggle aroused the ire...
Publisher
Binge Box
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (DVD) (521 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The dead don't die: The peaceful town of Centerville finds itself battling a zombie horde as the dead start rising from their graves.
Zombieland: doudle tap: Columbus, Tallahassee, Wichita, and Little Rock move to the American heartland as they face off against evolved zombies, fellow survivors, and the growing pains of the snarky makeshift family.
Dawn of the dead: A nurse, a policeman, a young married couple, a salesman and other survivors of...
7) Glory
Author
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of the first black regiment to fight for the North in the Civil War. Robert Gould Shaw and Cabot Forbes are two idealistic young Bostonians that lead the regiment, Sgt. Maj. John Rawlins is the inspiration who unites the troops, and Pvt. Trip is a runaway slave who joins the regiment.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inman, a young Confederate soldier, who is injured during the explosive 1864 battle of Petersburg, Virginia, is struggling to make his way home to Cold Mountain, NC, where his beloved Ada awaits him. In Inman's absence, Ada befriends Ruby, who helps her keep up her late father's farm. Meanwhile, in his travels, Inman encounters a menagerie of interesting and colorful characters.
10) The Stopover
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
[DVD].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
On their way home from Afghanistan, a band of French soldiers stop in Cyprus for decompression: three days at a sun-splashed resort, where they will undergo intense psychological debriefing. There, amidst the crystal-blue waters and hordes of vacationing tourists, Marine and Aurore, two of only three women in their male-dominated unit: confront rage, trauma, and army sexism as they struggle to readjust to 'normal' life.
11) The Contractor
Language
English
Description
Involuntarily discharged from the Army, a special forces sergeant lands a contract with a private underground military force. When his very first assignment goes awry, the elite soldier finds himself hunted and on the run, caught in a dangerous conspiracy and fighting to stay alive long enough to get home and uncover the true motives of those who betrayed him.
12) Kelly's heroes
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A hard-nosed officer during WWII discovers that behind German lines is a bank filled with gold. Now all he has to do to strike it rich is figure out how to get it without getting killed.
13) The cinder path
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 152 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Charlie is marred to the scandalous Victoria, but is in love with her sister Florence. Charlie goes off to war in search of redemption. On the front lines, he battles not only the enemy, but also the demons of self-doubt which have plagued him throughout his life. One day, Charlie witnesses a murder and must decide whether to protect his abusive father or tell the truth.
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Full screen edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
For 300 years the ghost of Simon de Canterville, entombed alive by his father for cowardice, has been roaming his castle in search of a kinsman to free him by performing a brave deed. In 1943, from a troop of American soldiers billeted in the castle, comes new hope: Sir Simon's long lost nephew.
15) Bloodshot
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on the best selling comic book, Vin Diesel stars as Ray Garrison, a soldier recently killed in action and brought back to life as a superhero by the RST Corporation. With an army of nanotechnology in his veins, he's an unstoppable force, stronger than ever and able to heal instantly. But in controlling his body, the company has sway over his mind and memories, too. Now, Ray doesn't know what's real and what's not, but he's on a mission to find...
17) Dear John
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
While John, a young soldier, is home on a temporary leave, he meets and falls in love with Savannah, a college girl on her spring break. Savannah promises to write to John when he is sent overseas. Over the next seven years, the couple continues to be separated by John's increasingly dangerous deployments. Though they meet only sporadically, they continue to stay in touch through love letters that eventually bring fateful consequences.
18) Fury
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theatre, a battle-hardened army sergeant named Wardaddy commands a Sherman tank and her five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Outnumbered and outgunned, and with a rookie soldier thrust into their platoon, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany.
Publisher
Warner Bros Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Guy Ritchie's The Covenant follows US Army Sergeant John Kinley (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Afghan interpreter Ahmed (Dar Salim). After an ambush, Ahmed goes to Herculean lengths to save Kinley's life. When Kinley learns that Ahmed and his family were not given safe passage to America as promised, he must repay his debt by returning to the war zone to retrieve them before the Taliban hunts them down first.
20) Four in a jeep
Publisher
VCI Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Un-cut European version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story takes place in Vienna following World War II. Four sergeants, one from each of the Allied occupation armies, help a woman whose husband is a fugitive from a Soviet prison even though tension exists between the American and Soviet soldiers.
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