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1) Flanders
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 91 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
André Demester leaves his farm in northern France to become a soldier in a far off land. On his last night of freedom he witnesses Barbe, his childhood friend and secret love, sleeping with another man. A twist of fate puts the two men side by side in combat where their undeclared personal war and the one they are fighting tragically merge. Left behind, Barbe, alone and wasting away, faces misfortunes of her own, while awaiting the soldiers return....
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 60 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Virtually unseen since its theatrical premiere in 1953, Fear and desire was the ambitious first feature film by legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick. An existential war film often compared with the director's Paths of glory (1957) and Full metal jacket (1987), Fear and desire follows a squad of soldiers who have crash-landed behind enemy lines and must work their way downriver to rejoin their unit. In the process, they encounter a peasant girl (Virginia...
3) Zama
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Zama, an officer of the Spanish Crown born in South America, waits for a letter from the King granting him a transfer from the town in which he is stagnating, to a better place. His situation is delicate. He must ensure that nothing overshadows his transfer. He is forced to accept submissively every task entrusted to him by successive Governors who come and go as he stays behind. The years go by and the letter from the King never arrives. When ZAMA...
4) Mine
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a failed assassination attempt, a soldier finds himself stranded in the desert. Exposed to the elements, he must survive the dangers of the desert and battle the psychological and physical toll of the treacherous conditions.
5) Flame
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 55 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The role of women in guerilla struggles and in post-liberation societies is depicted in a story of the women freedom fighters of the Zimbabwean liberation struggle. Flame is perhaps the most controversial film ever made in Africa --certainly the only one to be seized by the police during editing on the grounds it was subversive and pornographic. Ingrid Sinclair's moving tribute to women fighters in the Zimbabwean liberation struggle aroused the ire...
6) Megan Leavey
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on the true life story of a young Marine Corporal whose unique discipline and bond with her military combat dog saved many lives during their deployment in Iraq. When she is assigned to clean up the K9 unit after a disciplinary hearing, Leavey identifies with a particularly aggressive dog, Rex, and is given the chance to train him. Over the course of their service, Megan and Rex completed more than 100 missions until an IED explosion injures...
7) Overlord
Publisher
Paramount
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Formats
Description
American paratroopers are dropped behind enemy lines to carry out a mission crucial to the invasion's success, on the eve of D-Day. But as they approach their target, they begin to realize there is more going on in this Nazi-occupied village than a simple military operation. They find themselves fighting against supernatural forces, part of a Nazi experiment.
8) Fury
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theatre, a battle-hardened army sergeant named Wardaddy commands a Sherman tank and her five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Outnumbered and outgunned, and with a rookie soldier thrust into their platoon, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany.
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this action-oriented sci-fi adventure, a military leader who is drunk with power takes control of a rival kingdom in a post-apocalyptic world of the future. The young princess who helps guide the nation flees for her life, and a champion warrior (Dolph Lundgren) is set out by the crazed general to capture her. However, the warrior finds his loyalties are severely tested before his assignment is completed.
10) Stripes
Publisher
Columbia TriStar
Pub. Date
1981
Edition
Widescreen/full screen ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The outrageous antics of two enlisted men.
11) Last sentinel
Publisher
Vertical
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A squad of soldiers stranded on an isolated military sea base on a near future Earth, wait for the relief or the enemy, whichever comes first.
12) Soldier
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
Widescreen and fullscreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sd., col., stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Galactic wars are fought by soldiers, but the action is backed by mammoth crawler vehicles. Planetary outcasts survive amid the jetsam of Earth's past while technology is almost beyond human control.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Weapons expert James McCullen has created a nanotechnology-based weapon capable of destroying an entire city. His company MARS sells four warheads to NATO, and the U.S. Army is tasked with delivering the warheads. Duke and Ripcord are delivering the warheads when they are ambushed by the Baroness. The two are rescued by Scarlett, Snake Eyes and Heavy Duty. They take the warheads to the G.I. Joe's command center, rendezvousing with General Hawk. McCullen...
14) Avatar
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jake Sully is a former Marine confined to a wheelchair. But despite his broken body, Jake is still a warrior at heart. He is recruited to travel light years to the human outpost on Pandora, where a corporate consortium is mining a rare mineral that is the key to solving Earth's energy crisis. He is given a mission to infiltrate the Na'vi, who have become a major obstacle to mining the precious ore. But a beautiful Na'vi female, Neytiri, saves Jake's...
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Pub. Date
2020
Physical Desc
4 Blu-rays (approximately 880 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Destiny continues its journey through the universe while its crew suffers from a lack of supplies and no knowledge of its final destination. Struggling to control the ship's systems, tempers and personalities of the crew clash. Facing uncharted space and enemies who would take the ship by force, the Destiny crew perseveres in the struggle to stay alive and find a way home.
16) Island at war
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
U.K. broadcast ed.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (ca. 398 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
One of the little-known stories of WWII is the fate of the Channel Islands, the only part of the British Isles invaded and occupied by the Germans. Tells the story through the eyes of three island families and the German soldiers with whom their lives become interwined.
17) Dear John
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
While John, a young soldier, is home on a temporary leave, he meets and falls in love with Savannah, a college girl on her spring break. Savannah promises to write to John when he is sent overseas. Over the next seven years, the couple continues to be separated by John's increasingly dangerous deployments. Though they meet only sporadically, they continue to stay in touch through love letters that eventually bring fateful consequences.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
4 Blu-rays (871 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
A group of soldiers, scientists and civilians, fleeing an attack, is stranded billions of miles from Earth on an Ancient ship known as the Destiny. Locked on an unknown course, they must fight to survive and find a way home. The danger, adventure, and hope they find on board the Destiny will reveal the heroes and villains among them
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (approximately 102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two soldiers who are killed in Vietnam are brought back to life twenty-five years later by a secret military project for reanimating dead people as genetically enhanced, unstoppable killing machines.
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