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2) Deterrence
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The year is 2008. During a campaign swing through Colorado, the U.S. President and his entourage are forced by a snowstorm to take refuge in a remote diner. Then comes a news flash: a large Iraqi military offensive has been mounted in the Middle East. From this Colorado command post, the stranded President and his top aides must manage a constantly escalating crisis.
3) Green zone
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1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
During the Iraq war, U.S. Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller leads Mobile Exploitation Team-Delta (MET-D) on a fruitless search of suspected WMD sites. When he wonders out loud why the intelligence is all wrong, he's told not rock the boat. Soon Miller, working with a local Iraqi informant named Freddy, is going after a Ba'athist general named Al-Rawi. CIA agent Martin Brown and journalist Lawrie Dayne share Miller's doubts; each have some pieces to...
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1 videodisc (149 min.) : sound, black and white with original color tints ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([10] pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Language
None
Description
The Douglas Fairbanks Classic Newly Restored and Re Mastered. A recalcitrant thief falls in love with a princess who is about to marry. He impersonates another prince to gain access to the princess and becomes involved in a competition for her hand in marriage. Faced with three other less-than-desirable suitors, the princess falls for the thief disguised as the prince.
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Orphaned as a young child and adopted by a band of notorious thieves, now-grown Ali Baba sets out to avenge his father's murder, reclaim the royal throne and rescue his beloved Amara from the iron fist of his treacherous enemy.
6) War made easy : how presidents & pundits keep spinning us to death: The bases are loaded ; Flight
Series
Ironweed film club volume no. 28
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three films examine modern American war, especially the Iraq War, and the propaganda, political agendas, and deceptions that may underly it. War made easy, based on the bestselling book by Norman Solomon, examines the strategies used by administrations, both Democratic and Republican, to promote their agendas for war from Vietnam to Iraq, and how propaganda and the media are used to persuade the nation that military aggression has been the appropriate...
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (304 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This six part series explores the influence on ancient culture on our lives today. Host Michael Wood visits the ancient cities and great ports of India and China, the deserts of Egypt and Iraq, the Mexico of the Inca, Aztec and Mayan peoples, the Greek and Roman monuments of Europe and the jungles of Central America searching for the living legacies of these once great civilizations. The series traces how the institutions that arose with urban civilization...
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (approximately 941 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Nurse Veronica Flanagan Callahan has just returned to Mercy Hospital from a tour in Iraq and knows more about medicine than all of the residents combined. She works with fellow nurses Sonia Jimenez, who turns the heads of everyone in the hospital, and Chloe Payne, a native newcomer who learns to deal with the difficulties of working in a challenging and sometimes unsettling profession.
11) Meeting ISIS
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (56 min) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Takes the viewer behind the lines of ISIS, showing life among the ranks of the terrorist organization, focusing on the brutality it employs in maintaining order in controlled territories and examining the its goals, strategy, and ideology.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 452 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tracks the citizen soldiers of the Arkansas National Guard as they come face to face with the horrors of war. Never before has a unit of soldiers been followed from the beginning to the end of their deployment at war.
13) Generation kill
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 470 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A dramatization based on Evan Wright's experiences as an embedded reporter with the United States Marine Corps in 2003. Presents a uniquely epic and intimate portrait of the first 40 days of the Iraq war from the perspective of the Marines of the First Recon Battalion.
14) The rise of ISIS
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1 videodisc (56 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In The Rise of ISIS, Martin Smith (Gangs of Iraq; Beyond Baghdad) draws on in-depth interviews with Iraqi politicians, and American policymakers and military leaders to explore and explain how the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) became a major force so quickly. What does it mean for the U.S. to be back in Iraq, fighting a new war on terror, less than three years after American troops pulled out of the country? Smith delivers a revelatory look...
15) Three kings
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1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Gulf War has just ended and amidst the partying and confusion, four American soldiers, determined to take home more than sand fleas, go off into the Iraqi desert to embark on a treasure hunt for a cache of millions in stolen Kuwaiti bullion. They are plunged into the heart of a democratic uprising that spins the day and their lives out of control.
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1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Armed with a guitar and a video camera, musician Michael Franti journeyed through war and occupation in Iraq, Israel, and Palestine to talk with the everyday people about their lives and the overlooked human costs of war.
17) Why we fight
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 99 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Explores a half-century of U.S. foreign policy from World War II to the Iraq War, revealing how, as Dwight Eisenhower had warned in his 1961 Farewell Address, political and corporate interests have become alarmingly entangled in the business of war. On a deeper level, what emerges is a portrait of a nation in transition--drifting dangerously far from her founding principles toward a more imperial and uncertain future.
18) American sniper
Language
English
Description
U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle is sent to Iraq with only one mission: to protect his brothers-in-arms. His pinpoint accuracy saves countless lives on the battlefield. However, his reputation is also growing behind enemy lines, putting a price on his head and making him a prime target of insurgents. He is also facing a different kind of battle on the home front: striving to be a good husband and father from halfway around the world.
19) Apache Warrior
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It is a feature-length documentary that puts the viewer in the cockpit of an Apache helicopter during one of the most intense missions in aviation history. Telling the story of an elite U.S. Army Aviation Squadron, this film highlights the adaptability, courage and selflessness of Apache pilots and their crews as they launch an attack during the initial surge into Iraq in March, 2003. The mission unfolds in near real time as these heroic soldiers...
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 95 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Gertrude Bell is sometimes called the female Lawrence of Arabia. Bell was an explorer, spy, archaeologist, and diplomat who helped shape the Middle East after World War I. Advisor to Winston Churchill and critic of colonial policies in Iraq, Bell was considered the most powerful woman in the British Empire in her day. The film takes viewers into a past that is eerily current. Why has Bell been written out of the history she helped make?
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