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1) Hatari!
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
Director Howard Hawks reteams with John Wayne, who heads a group of highly skilled professional game hunters in Africa. Only they don’t use bullets – they capture the ferocious big game with strong rope and cameras for zoos and circus attractions. Nominated for an **Academy Award** for Best Cinematography, Color. *"one of those rare films that genuinely constitutes a 'late masterpiece'." - Derek Adams, **Time Out***
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Set against the siege of Stalingrad during World War II, this is the epic tale of a young Russian sharpshooter, Vassili, who becomes a legend when a savvy political officer makes him the hero of his propaganda campaign. Their friendship is threatened when both men fall in love with a beautiful female soldier. As the battle for the city rages, Vassili faces his ultimate challenge when the Nazi command dispatches its most elite marksman to hunt down...
4) Midway
Publisher
MCA Videocassette
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
The story of the people involved in the Battle of Midway, in June 1942. Includes actual film of the battles, as well as dramatic interpretations of the events.
Publisher
Cinedigm Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The planet suffered an environmental collapse. The air became dangerous to breathe, the water became toxic, and billions of people died. Generations later humankind has finally re-established a rudimentary society, in which bounty hunters roam the land in search of wanted eco-criminals. Bounty hunter Attica Gage has a chance at the bounty of a lifetime: bringing down the ruthless outlaw, Thomas Jackson.
6) Hellboy
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Born in the flames of hell sixty years ago during World War II, Hellboy (Ron Perlman) was brought to Earth by evil madman Grigori Rasputin (Karel Roden) to perpetrate evil. Destined to be a harbinger of the apocalypse, Hellboy was instead rescued by Allied Forces led by Professor Broom (John Hurt), founder of the clandestine B.P.R.D. (Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense), who raised him like a son and developed his extraordinary paranormal...
8) 1944
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Estonian
Description
When Russian and Nazi forces invade Estonia during World War II, they force the occupants to fight each other alongside the two enemy armies.
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2013, 1962]
Language
English
Description
Wake Island: Based on the incredible true story of a handful of U.S. Marines holding out against an overwhelming Japanese air, land and sea assault."
No man is an island: The true story of George Tweed, an American sailor who became the only serviceman on the island of Guam to avoid capture by the Japanese during the early years of World War II.
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1939, influential families in Nazi Germany have sent their daughters to a finishing school in an English seaside town to learn the language and be ambassadors for a future looking National Socialist. A teacher there sees what is coming and is trying to raise the alarm. But the authorities believe he is the problem.
11) Kelly's heroes
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
A group of American soldiers set out to rob a bank during World War II, and almost win the war.
14) Love and honor
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
After being dumped by his girlfriend, a solider returns home from Vietnam and tries to win her back.
15) The Green Berets
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
John Wayne leads his Special Forces troops against a deadly and determined enemy. The film combines rugged action with spectacular special effects.
16) Sarah's key
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Decades after a French Jewish girl locks her brother in a cupboard to prevent his being taken in the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup of 1942, an American journalist travels to Paris with her husband and discovers that the girl once lived in their apartment.
17) The hurt locker
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When a new Army sergeant takes control of a trained bomb disposal squad, his subordinates must deal with the sergeant's reckless attitude and risky actions while they struggle to survive the last days of their tour in Iraq.
18) Pearl Harbor
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
The story of two friends who join the military during World War II and the attack on Pearl Harbor, and fall in love with the same Army nurse.
19) Hart's war
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Honor, courage, and sacrifice are revealed in unexpected ways as a ranking U.S. prisoner in a Nazi POW camp is joined in December 1944 by a law-student lieutenant who'd been captured despite his father's powerful military connections. When a black pilot from the famous Tuskeegee airmen is falsely accused of murdering a fellow prisoner, Lt. Hart tries his case and discovers the real motivation behind the ranking officer's kangaroo court.
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