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Language
English
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Waking up in a hospital to learn that his girlfriend has died, backpacker Leo blames himself for her fatal accident and discovers a surprising secret with ties to a POW fugitive's 1917 efforts to traverse the Russian steppes in order to reclaim the woman he loves.
Publisher
Hallmark Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 170 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Escaping from a Confederate prison by balloon, the survivors land on an uncharted island in the Pacific. The island is home to carnivorous monsters, bloodthirsty pirates, and the mad genius Captain Nemo, who inhabits the island for his own strange ends.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Escapees from a Confederate prison camp seize a balloon which is wrecked on a Pacific island, where Captain Nemo of the submarine Nautilus attempts to rescue them from the dangers of the island.
4) Rescue dawn
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When U.S. fighter pilot Dieter Dengler escapes death after being shot down over one of the most intense front lines in the Vietnam War, his troubles were just beginning. He is taken captive by the Vietnamese Army and is forced to endure a harrowing stint in a Vietnamese prison camp. Dengler and a small band of his fellow captives stage a death-defying escape. Based on a true story.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 329 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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Description
"Imprisoned in a remote Turkish prison camp during World War I, having survived a two-month forced march and a terrifying shootout in the desert, two British officers, Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, join forces to bamboozle their iron-fisted captors. To stave off despair and boredom, Jones takes a handmade Ouija board and fakes elaborate saeances for his fellow prisoners. Word gets around camp, and one day, a Turkish officer approaches Jones with a...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
xiii, 433 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Documents the escape of ten American prisoners of war from a World War II Japanese prison camp in the Philippines, describing the inhumane conditions they endured and the political struggle that influenced their return home.
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 282 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
'In a converted tobacco warehouse, Libby's 1,200 Union officers survived on cornbread and bug-infested soup, and slept without blankets on the bare floor. With prisoner exchanges suspended, escape and death were the only ways out. Libby Prison Breakout recounts the largely unknown story of the escape of 109 steel-nerved officers through a 55-foot tunnel, and their flight in winter through the heart of the enemy homeland, amid an all-out Rebel manhunt....
9) Looking for Mr. Smith: seeking the truth behind The long walk, the greatest survival story ever told
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Pub
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
xi, 276 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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