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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Five women veterans who have endured unimaginable trauma in service create a shared sisterhood to help the rising number of stranded homeless women veterans by entering into a competition that unexpectedly catalyzes moving events in their own lives to bring them full circle in a quest for healing and hope.
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1 videodisc (approximately 180 min.) : color, sound ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A simple Southern girl is thrown into adulthood when she marries a Civil War veteran haunted by nightmares of the war. Years later she looks back on the events of a life filled with drama, pain, joy, hardship and triumph.
5) Breaking
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1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Marine war veteran faces mental and emotional challenges when he tries to reintegrate back into civilian life.
6) Nightingale
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1 videodisc (82 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A war veteran is anticipating the arrival of an old friend and in the process starts to unravel.
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1 videodisc (168 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Recounts the problems faced by three returning veterans of WWII as they attempt to pick up the threads of their lives. Captain Derry is returning to a loveless marriage, Sergeant Stephenson is a stranger to a family that's grown up without him, and sailor Parrish is tormented by the loss of his hands.
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1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Honorably discharged from the Marines, Grace is driving to Cincinnati, when her jeep breaks down, and Judge Joe Peterson offers his guesthouse until it's repaired. As they spend time together, they fall in love, but Grace worries Joe isn't over his ex, Marnie, and Joe must decide if he should move to Chicago to be a District Court Judge. If he does, Grace sees no reason to accept a job heading the town's Search & Rescue.
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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) Fort Bliss
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1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Decorated U.S. Army medic and single mother Maggie Swann returns home from an extended tour of duty in Afghanistan to discover the bond with her five-year-old son has been broken. As she struggles to reclaim his affection, life after deployment is made more difficult by her persistent memories of Afghanistan. When news of another deployment threatens the fragile balance she has achieved, she must find a way to reconcile her duties as a mother and...
12) Frantz
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1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (unpaged)
Language
Français
Description
Set in Germany and France in the immediate aftermath of the First World War, (1914-1918), the film recalls the mourning period that follows great national tragedies as seen through the eyes of the war's 'lost generation': Anna, a bereft young German woman whose fiancé, Frantz, was killed during trench warfare, and Adrien, a French veteran of the war who shows up mysteriously in her town, placing flowers on Frantz's grave.
13) American veteran
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2 videodiscs (220 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Today, America has nearly eighteen million living military veterans, from the Greatest Generation to men and women coming home from recent tours in Afghanistan and Iraq. They join the now-silent ranks of American veterans reaching back to our earliest conflict, the Revolutionary War.
14) The messenger
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1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Partnered with hard-line officer Tony Stone, Sgt. Will Montgomery is a battle-scarred war hero home from Iraq and newly assigned to the Army's Casualty Notification service. He faces this formidable mission while seeking comfort and healing back on the home front when he falls for the wife of a fallen soldier.
After an injured soldier is assigned the duty of informing soldier's families that their loved ones have died, he faces an ethical dilemma...
15) Last flag flying
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1 videodisc (approximately 125 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Thirty years after they served together in Vietnam, a former Navy Corpsman Larry "Doc" Shepherd re-unites with his old buddies, former Marines Sal Nealon and Reverend Richard Mueller, to bury his son, a young Marine killed in the Iraq War.
16) Sorrell and son
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3 videodiscs (approximately 319 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Captain Sorrell goes off to fight in World War I, leaving behind a wife, son and good prospects. When he returns from war, his prospects dim, and his wife deserts him. He then dedicates himself to assuring his son a bright future, no matter the costs to himself.
17) Dead reckoning
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1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ex-G.I Rip Murdock tries to find out who framed his pal Johnny and then killed him. While tracking his war buddy's shadowy past, Rip becomes involved with the mysterious night club singer who had once been his friend's sweetheart.
19) The master
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1 videodisc (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In post-World War II America, a naval veteran arrives home unsettled and uncertain of his future, until he is tantalized by The Cause and its charismatic leader.
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1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Gulf War veteran and washed-up prizefighter Frank Diaz, finds himself and his family evicted from their New York City home. But after months spent working as a day laborer and living in a homeless shelter, Frank finally receives good news on Christmas Eve: there's an apartment available in a nearby housing project if Frank can prove he's legally employed.
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