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42) Blood Alley
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A merchant marine captain, rescued from the Chinese Communists by local visitors, winds up transporting an entire Chinese village to Hong Kong on an ancient paddle steamer.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The second part of the series covers events such as the railway built by the inmates and known as the SS Death Railway, the story behind the internment of an eminent band of French political figures sent to the camp, the harrowing stories and scenes discovered by American forces when liberating the camp in 1945 and the 'revenge' trials of camp officials and guards. Mixes authentic documentary film with exclusively shot location footage.
44) Victory at sea
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (936 min.) : sound, black and white, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 bonus DVD
Language
English
Description
The original full-length episodes of the award-winning series made exclusively for television and containing actual live action footage. The videos introduce the campaigns and action of World War II, concentrating on battles and action at sea. Plus a bonus disc featuring selections from several war documentary programs.
The complete 26 episode series plus 6 bonus war documentary programs. An Emmy and Peabody award-winning TV series chronicling naval...
45) Zulu
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in 1879 Africa, hours after the battle of Isandhlwana. A group of British soldiers stood their ground at a farm house against an onslaught of Zulus.
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (NTSC, 110 min.) : DVD video, DVD-R, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sent behind enemy lines to free five Allied generals by being imprisoned with them, Harry Frigg uses his hilarious talent for escape and his new rank of Major General (he's promoted from private overnight) to create havoc for friend and foe.
48) The Red Baron
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Europe, 1916: Baron Manfred von Richthofen is a crack pilot of the German aerial combat forces, a legend in his own time, a hero at home, and a man both feared and respected by the enemy. Von Richthofen and his fellow officers see their duels in the sky as tactical, almost sportsmanlike, challenges. But, when he falls in love with Kate, she opens his eyes to the fact that there is more to war than dogfights and he becomes aware of his role in the...
49) Father Goose
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A man living in isolation on an island during WWII deals with a school teacher and her group of students that invade his private paradise.
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Russian
Description
When Veronica's lover, Boris, goes to war, she moves in with Boris' family. His cousin seduces her and out of guilt she marries him. Unhappy in her marriage and still in love with Boris, she leaves her husband to wait for Boris to return. Later she learns Boris has been killed in the war.
55) Papillon
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This is the epic story of Henri “Papillon” Charrière (Charlie Hunnam), a safecracker from the Parisian underworld who is framed for murder and condemned to life in the notorious penal colony on Devil’s Island. Determined to regain his freedom, Papillon forms an unlikely alliance with quirky convicted counterfeiter Louis Dega (Oscar-winner Rami Malek), who in exchange for protection, agrees to finance Papillon’s escape. Official Selection...
57) The blue max
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 156 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A low-born infantryman becomes a pilot during World War I, almost deliberately stepping on the sensibilities of his aristocratic comrades in the process. A national hero, he wins the Blue Max, the highest award that can be bestowed upon an aviator. His fame is exploited by a general, who tolerates the affair between the pilot and the general's wife. The canny general knows that, eventually, the pilot will become expendable, and a "heroic" death can...
58) Doña Perfecta
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
"Pepe, a young upstart in the year of reforms, arrives in the township of Santa Fe, immediately creating hostility when he tries to force the townspeople to change their ways. He seeks refuge in the home of his Aunt Doña Perfecta, only to learn she opposes his liberal ideas more than anyone"--Container.
"En el México de los años de la Reforma la llegada de Pepe Rey, un joven agronomo liberal, al pueblo de Santa Fe provoca la hostilidad de los...
59) Last flag flying
Physical Desc
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.
60) Windtalkers
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 153 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A battle-weary Marine Sergeant guards and ultimately befriends a young Navajo trained in the one wartime code never broken by the enemy, the Navajo Code.
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