Movies (fiction) by Category

All quiet on the Western Front 1930, 1988

Lew Ayres, Lewis Milestone, Slim Summerville, John Wray, Raymond Griffith, Erich Maria Remarque, Louis Wolheim, and Carl Laemmle

The plot follows a group of young German recruits in World War I through their passage from idealism to disillusionment. 1 videocassette (136 min.)

MEDIA 10-3381          2-2012

 

The Americanization of Emily 2005, 1964

Lt. Commander Charles E. Madison (Garner) loves his job: as 'dog robber' his duties consist of rounding up scarce delicacies and services, while safely avoiding combat. Admiral William Jessup (Douglas), however, is intent on having a sailor as the first casualty on D-Day - preferably with a film crew filming him. Having fallen for his English motor pool driver Emily (Andrews), freewheeling Madison struggles to escape being sent off to land on Omaha Beach as the cameraman. 1 videodisc (115 min.)

MEDIA 10-4939

 

Apocalypse now 1981

Francis Ford Coppola, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen, Michael Herr, and Joseph Conrad

Adapted from Joseph Conrad's Heart of darkness. Centers on a struggle between two men, one with orders to kill the other. Cappola sets the film in Southeast Asia, and focuses on American military involvment in Vietman.  1 videocassette (153 min.)

MEDIA. MEDIA                  DANA 2-16         2-313         10-73    1411

 

Apocalypse now redux 2001

Francis Ford Coppola, John Milius, Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest, Albert Hall, Sam Bottoms, Larry Fishburne, Dennis Hopper, and Joseph Conrad

A United States Army officer/trained assassin is sent into the depths of a southeast Asian jungle to seek out a renegade colonel and terminate his command during the Vietnam War. 1 videodisc (202 min.)

MEDIA 10-110

 

Armored attack  When the school year ends, five friends from a small Ukrainian village decide to travel to Kiev. Their trip is cut short when German aircraft attack and their town falls under occupation. While many escape to the hills to form an anti-Nazi resistance group, a German doctor, Dr. Otto Von Harden, begins to use the children for medical experiments and as sources of blood transfusions for wounded German soldiers. 1 videodisc (76 min.)

MEDIA 10-5280

 

Atonement c2008

Joe Wright, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster, Christopher Hampton, Ian McEwan, Seamus McGarvey, James McAvoy, Keira Knightley, Romola Garai, Saoirse Ronan, Vanessa Redgrave, Brenda Blethyn, Ian McEwan, Focus Features, Studio Canal, Relativity Media, Working Title Films, and Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm)

In 1935, 13-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis and her family live a life of wealth and privilege in their enormous mansion. On the warmest day of the year, the country estate takes on an unsettling hothouse atmosphere, stoking Briony's vivid imagination. Robbie Turner, the educated son of the family's housekeeper, carries a torch for Briony's headstrong older sister Cecilia. He hopes that Cecilia has comparable feelings. All it will take is one spark for this relationship to combust. When it does, Briony - who has a crush on Robbie - is compelled to interfere. She goes so far as to accuse Robbie of a crime he did not commit. Cecilia and Robbie declare their love for each other, but, ultimately, he is arrested. Briony bears false witness and the course of three lives is changed forever. As Briony grow older, she continues to seek forgiveness for her childhood misdeed. Through a terrible and courageous act of imagination, she finds the path to her uncertain atonement, and to an understanding of the power of enduring love. 1 videodisc (123 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3355

 

Battle Hymn c2004

Douglas Sirk, Rock Hudson, Martha Hyer, Dan Duryea, Universal-International (Firm), and Universal Pictures (Firm)

As a WWII fighter pilot Colonel Dean Hess accidentally bombed a German orphanage, killing thirty-seven children. After entering the ministry to atone for the tragedy, Hess eventually rejoins the Air Force to train pilots in South Korea, while devoting his spare time to building a shelter for orphans. But now, to protect these children in a territory fraught with danger, he must fight ... and face the past once again!"--Container. 1 videodisc (109 min.)

MEDIA 10-467

 

The best years of our lives 2012, 1946

Recounts the problems faced by three returning veterans after WWII as they attempt to pick up the threads of their lives . 1 videodisc (170 min.)

MEDIA 10-4200

 

The big red one the reconstruction c2005, 1980

Samuel Fuller, Gene Corman, Robert Carradine, Mark Hamill, Lee Marvin, Warner Bros, Lorimar Pictures, and Warner Home Video (Firm)

Named for the insignia of the First Infantry Division, this World War II combat film follows a handful of young GIs and their sergeant as they battle their way from North Africa through Sicily, Omaha Beach and Belgium to the ultimate horror of the concentration camp at Falkenau, Czechoslovakia. 2 videodisc (162 min.)

MEDIA 10-479

 

Birdy c2014

Birdy, a Vietnam veteran, sits in an almost catatonic state in an Army hospital, where he has come to believe he is one of the feathered creatures of his boyhood dreams. In an effort to break Birdy's silence, his psychiatrist brings in Al Columbato, Birdy's best friend of his youth. Al tries to reach the disturbed Birdy and bring him back to reality. The answer may lie in their youth, where Birdy first donned wings and Al helped him to fly. 1 videodisc (ca. 120 min.)

MEDIA 10-5462

 

The Birth of a nation 1985, 1915

D. W Griffith and Thomas Dixon

Griffith's controversial film about two families during the Civil War and Reconstruction era. 1 videocassette (VHS) (127 min.)

MEDIA         MEDIA 2-58                10-159

 

Casablanca c2009, 1942

Entering Casablanca is easy, getting out is much harder, especially if your name is on the Nazis' most-wanted list. At the top of the list is Czech Resistance leader Victor Laszlo, whose only hope is Rick Blaine, a cynical American who sticks his neck out for no one - especially Victor's wife Ilsa, the ex-lover who broke his heart. So when Ilsa offers herself in exchange for Laszlo's safe transport out of the country, the bitter Rick must decide what's more important. 1 videodisc (103 min.)

MEDIA 10-3890

 

Casualties of war 2006, 1989

A young army private refuses to let his fellow soldiers and commanding sergeant get away with the rape and murder of a native woman. 1 videodisc (119 min.)

MEDIA 10-4393

 

Coming home 2002, 1978

A love story set against the social upheaval of the Vietnam war. While Sally's husband is serving in Vietnam, she becomes involved with a veteran of the war, a paraplegic at a San Diego veterans hospital. 1 videodisc (127 min.)

MEDIA 10-4197

 

The deer hunter 1978, 1998

Michael Cimino, Barry Spikings, Deric Washburn, Robert De Niro, John Cazale, John Savage, Meryl Streep, and Christopher Walken

Tracks a group of steelworker pals from a Pennsylvania blast furnace to the cool hunting grounds of the Alleghenies to the lethal cauldron of Vietnam. It is a drama of friendship and courage and of what happens to these qualities under stress. 1 videodisc (183 min.)

MEDIA 10-41

 

Fear and desire 2012, 1953

A plane carrying four soldiers crashes in a forest behind enemy lines in an unnamed country. Desperate to escape, the group plans to build a raft and travel up the river into allied country. However, they are sidetracked by a local woman who stumbles across them in the woods, and the nearby presence of an enemy general who one member of the group is determined to kill. 1 videodisc (61 min.)

MEDIA 10-4192

 

Fort Apache 1948, 1985

John Ford, John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple, Pedro Armendáriz, John Agar, and James Warner Bellah

A demoted Civil War colonel is sent to command the frontier regiment Fort Apache. The colonel's harsh attitude toward the Indians conflicts withe attitude of cooperation expressed by his second in command, Captain York, and the regiment. The climax of the film, the massacre of the regiment, is depicted as the result of the colonel's arrogance and betrayal of the Apache by a venal government agent. The romantic sub-plot involves the colonel's daughter and a young lieutenant of the regiment. 1 videocassette (127 min.)

MEDIA  MEDIA 10-3768        2-1215     2-6752

 

Full metal jacket 2007, 1987

Vietnam war drama which begins with a depiction of the brutality of Marine Corps training and then shifts to Vietnam, focusing mainly on a group of Marines responding to the Tet Offensive of 1968. 1 videodisc (117 min.)

MEDIA 10-4438

 

Full metal jacket 2007, 1987

Vietnam war drama which begins with a depiction of the brutality of Marine Corps training and then shifts to Vietnam, focusing mainly on a group of Marines responding to the Tet Offensive of 1968. 1 videodisc (117 min.)

MEDIA 10-4438

 

The great dictator 2003, 1940

Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner, Billy Gilbert, Maurice Moscovich, Karl Struss, Roland H Totheroh, William Nico, Meredith Willson, Kevin Brownlow, Michael Kloft, United Artists Corporation, MK2 Productions, and Warner Home Video (Firm)

Chaplin plays the double role of the persecuted Jewish barber and Adenoid Hynkel, dictator of Tomania. The barber is imprisoned, escapes, and is finally mistaken for the dictator at which point he makes an impassioned, humanistic speech which amazes the dictator's followers. 2 videodiscs (120 min.)

MEDIA     MEDIA 10-1344             2-6196

 

The Green Berets 2007, 1968

They were crack troops skilled in the techniques of unconditional warfare, the soldiers of the Special Forces-- and the focus of Hollywood's first feature film about the Vietnam War. 1 videodisc (141 min.)

MEDIA 10-4194

 

Heaven & earth  2004

The true story of a man who fought, a woman who endured, and a love caught up in the war in Vietnam. 1 videodisc (141 min.)

MEDIA 10-4956

 

The Hill 2007, 1965

Sidney Lumet, Kenneth Hyman, Ray Rigby, Sean Connery, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen, Alfred Lynch, Ossie Davis, Roy Kinnear, Jack Watson, Ian Hendry, Michael Redgrave , Ray Rigby, R. S Allen, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Seven Arts Productions, Turner Entertainment Co, and Warner Home Video (Firm)

Set in the Libyan Desert during World War II, British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up "The Hill," a manmade instrument of torture--a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun. They are in this military prison because they once defied, rebelled and talked back to their superiors. 1 videodisc (123 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2834

 

The hurt locker c2008

Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Tony Mark, Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Christian Camargo, Suhail Al-Dabbach, and Summit Entertainment

U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Will James, Sergeant J.T. Sanborn and Specialist Owen Eldridge comprise the Bravo Company's bomb disposal unit stationed in Baghdad. James is the tech team leader. When he arrives on the scene, Bravo Company has thirty-nine days left on its current deployment, and it will be a long thirty-nine days for Sanborn and Eldridge whose styles do not mesh with that of their new leader. James' thrill of the dismantlement seems to be the ultimate goal regardless of the safety of his fellow team members, others on the scene or himself. On the other hand, Sanborn is by the book: he knows his place and duty and trusts others in the Army to carry out theirs as well as he. Eldridge is an insecure soldier who is constantly worried that an error or misjudgment on his part will lead to the death of an innocent civilian or a military colleague. While the three members face their own internal issues, they have to be aware of any person at the bomb sites, some of whom may be bombers themselves. 1 videodisc (130 min.)

MEDIA 10-1840

 

Inglourious Basterds c2012, 2009

During World War II, a group of Jewish-American guerrilla soldiers, led by Lt. Aldo Raine, become known as "The Basterds." They are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon cross paths with a French-Jewish woman who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers. A plot is set in motion to kill the Nazis at the theater's movie premier, including Adolph Hitler. 2 videodiscs (153 min.)

MEDIA 10-5147

 

Jacob's ladder  2010

"... a Vietnam vet [is] haunted by the memories of war and the death of his young son. As Jacob starts to experience visions of demons all around him, he begins to question what is real"--Container. 1 videodisc (113 min.)

MEDIA 10-5389

 

Love and death  c2000, 1975

Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Harold Gould, Olga Georges-Picot,  Zvee Scooler, Despo, Sol L Frieder, Jessica Harper, Alfred Lutter, Frank Adu, Ghislain Cloquet, Ralph Rosenblum, Jack Rollins, Charles H Joffe, Martin Poll, Sergey Prokofiev, Jack Rollins & Charles H. Joffe Productions, and MGM Home Entertainment Inc

Cowardly scholar Boris Grushenko has the hots for the beautiful Sonja, but cold feet for the Napoleonic Wars.  Devastated by news of Sonja's plans to wed a foul-smelling herring merchant, Boris enlists in the army, only to return a penniless hero.  Finally agreeing to marry him, Sonja settles down with poor Boris, to a rich life of philosophy, celibacy and meals of snow.  But when the French troops invade Russia and Sonja hatches a zany scheme to assassinate Napoleon, Boris learns that God is an underachiever, there are no girls in the afterlife, and the angel of death can't be trusted. 1 videodisc (85 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2913

 

The master race 2009, 1944

An account of a German officer, Colonel Von Beck, who escapes when the Nazi empire is destroyed and goes into hiding to promote Nazi ideology in postwar Europe. He sets out to promote hatred and divisiveness in the bombed Belgian village of Kolar. 1 videodisc (96 min.)

MEDIA 10-4198

 

Miracle at St. Anna 2009, 2008

August 1944. Follows four black soldiers of the all-black 92nd Infantry Division who get trapped near the small Tuscan village of Sant'Anna di Stazzema on the Gothic Line during the Italian Campaign of World War II. One of the men will risk his life to save an Italian boy who lives in the city where the Waffen-SS have massacred most of the citizens of the town in retaliation for Italian partisan activity. A sculpted head from the Ponte Santa Trinita in Florence is a focal point. 1 videodisc (160 min.)

MEDIA 10-4091

 

The North star  c2006

Propagandistic drama about the disruption of a Russian village after the invasion by Nazi Germany. Several young friends struggle to bring weapons to resistance fighters in time to save their village. 1 videodisc (106 min.)

MEDIA 10-5281

 

Paisą 2009, 1946

Roberto Rossellini, Sergio Amidei, Federico Fellini, Carmela Sazio, Robert Van Loon, Dotts Johnson, Alfonso Bovino, Maria Michi, Gar Moore, Harriet Medin, Renzo Avanzo, William Tubbs, Dale Edmonds , Renzo Rossellini, Adriano Aprą, James Quandt, Irene Bignardi, Colin MacCabe, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Janus Films, Criterion Collection (Firm), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, O.F.I. (Firm), and F.F.P. (Firm)

Set during the liberation of Italy at the end of World War II, and taking place across the country, from Sicily to the northern Po Valley. Looks at the struggles of different cultures to communicate and of people living their everyday lives in extreme circumstances. 1 videodisc (126 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2842

 

Paths of glory  2010 +; 1957

During WWI, a French battalion is ordered on a suicide mission that is likely to fail. When it does, the general that planned the mission selects three soldiers from the battalion to be executed for cowardice, and selects their leader as their attorney. 1 videodisc (88 min.)

MEDIA 10-4945

 

Platoon 1986

Oliver Stone, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen, and Tom Berenger

Winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1986, Platoon is the story of every soldier whose innocence was lost in the war torn jungles of Vietnam. It follows young Chris Taylor who arrives in Vietnam and quickly discovers that his worst enemies are not just the Viet Cong, but gnawing fear, physical exhaustion, and the anger growing within himself. 1 videocassette (120 min.)

MEDIA      MEDIA      DANA 2-403         10-70                429

 

The red badge of courage 2003, 1951

The story of Henry Fleming and his grappling with fear and courage as a Union Army recruit during the Civil War. 1 videodisc (69 min.)

MEDIA 10-4193

 

Red tails c2012

Italy, 1944. As the war takes its toll on Allied forces in Europe, a squadron of black pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen are finally given the chance to prove themselves in the sky, even as they battle discrimination on the ground. Featuring jaw-dropping aerial action and thrilling special effects, Red Tails is a breathtaking tribute to the unsung heroes who rose above extraordinary challenges and ultimately soared into history. 1 videodisc (125 min.)

MEDIA 10-3904

 

Redacted c2008

Brian De Palma, Jennifer Weiss, Simone Urdl, Jason Kliot, Joana Vicente, Patrick Carroll, Rob Devaney, Izzy Diaz, Mike Figueroa, Tyrone Granderson Jones, HDNet Films, Film Farm (Firm), and Magnolia Home Entertainment (Firm)

Centered around a small group of American soldiers stationed at a checkpoint in Iraq. Alternates points of view between these soldiers, the media and the local Iraqi people illuminating how each group is deeply affected by the current conflict and their encounters with each other. The POVs are presented as a video diary, footage from a documentary-in-progress, a website's streaming video, surveillance cameras, and cellphone images. 1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.)

MEDIA 10-1453

 

Salvador 1986, 2001

Oliver Stone, Gerald Green, Richard Boyle, James Woods, James Belushi, Michael Murphy, John Savage, and Elpedia Carillo

In 1980, Richard Boyle, a veteran war photographer whose career needs a boost, heads for El Salvador to cover the civil war there. He forms an uneasy alliance with both guerrillas in the countryside who want him to get pictures out to the US press, and the right-wing military, who want him to bring them photographs of the rebels. After the murder of Archbishop Romero, the rape and murder of an American nurse and three nuns, and the death of a fellow journalist, Boyle attempts to escape El Salvador with his Salvadorean girlfriend Maria and her family. 1 videodisc (123 min.)

MEDIA 10-108

 

Saving Private Ryan 1999

Steven Spielberg, Robert Rodat, Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, Matt Damon, and Tom Sizemore

Captain John Miller must take his men behind enemy lines to find Private Ryan, whose three brothers have been killed in combat. Faced with impossible odds, the men question their orders. Why are eight men risking their lives to save just one? Surrounded by the brutal realities of war, each man searches for his own answer and the strength to triumph over uncertain future with honor, decency and courage. 1 videodisc (ca. 169 min.)

MEDIA 10-09

 

Schindler's list 1994

Steven Spielberg, Steven Zaillian, Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, John Williams, and Thomas Keneally

The true story of the enigmatic Oskar Schindler, a member of the Nazi party, womanizer & war profiteer, who saved the lives of more than 1,100 Jews during the Holocaust. 2 videocassettes (197 min.)

MEDIA. MEDIA                                       MEDIA. MEDIA 10-2794         2-3251 cassette 1 2-3252 cassette 2        7-50 disc 1 7-51 disc 2

 

The sum of all fears 2002

Mace Neufeld, Paul Attanasio, Daniel Pyne, Phil Alden Robinson, Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman, James Cromwell, Liev Schreiber, Bridget Moynahan, Alan Bates, Ciaran Hinds, Philip Baker Hall, and Ron Rifkin 

CIA agent Jack Ryan finds himself in a race against time to stop terrorists who plan to ignite a war between the U.S. and Russia by detonating a nuclear bomb at the Super Bowl game. 1 videodisc (123 min.)

MEDIA 10-156

 

The thin red line c2001

Sean Penn, Adrien Brody, Jim Caviezel, Ben Chaplin, George Clooney, John Cusack, Nick Nolte, Woody Harrelson, Jared Leto, John C Reilly, Terrence Malick, Robert Michael Geisler, John Roberdeau, Grant Hill, James Jones, Fox 2000 Pictures, Phoenix Pictures, and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc

A group of young soldiers fight in the battle of Guadalcanal during World War II. 1 videodisc (ca. 170 min.)

MEDIA 10-1958

 

The Tuskegee airmen 1995

Robert Markowitz, William C Carraro, Paris Quallos, Trey Ellis, Roy Hutchinson, Robert Williams, T. S Cook, Larry Fishburne, Allen Payne, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Courtney B Vance, Andre Braugher, Chris McDonald, John Lithgow, and Cuba Gooding

A celebration of the "Fighting 99th", the first squadron of black combat fighters in World War II, who battled prejudice in training at Tuskegee, Ala., the Axis in North Africa and Europe, bigotted officers assigned to oversee them, and a U.S. congressman out to prove they were unfit to serve. 1 videocassette (106 min.)

DANA    MEDIA 1051        10-171

 

Apocalypse now 1981

Francis Ford Coppola, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen, Michael Herr, and Joseph Conrad

Adapted from Joseph Conrad's Heart of darkness. Centers on a struggle between two men, one with orders to kill the other. Cappola sets the film in Southeast Asia, and focuses on American military involvment in Vietman.  1 videocassette (153 min.)

MEDIA. MEDIA                  DANA 2-16         2-313         10-73    1411

 

Apocalypse now redux 2001

Francis Ford Coppola, John Milius, Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest, Albert Hall, Sam Bottoms, Larry Fishburne, Dennis Hopper, and Joseph Conrad

A United States Army officer/trained assassin is sent into the depths of a southeast Asian jungle to seek out a renegade colonel and terminate his command during the Vietnam War. 1 videodisc (202 min.)

MEDIA 10-110

 

Battle Hymn c2004

Douglas Sirk, Rock Hudson, Martha Hyer, Dan Duryea, Universal-International (Firm), and Universal Pictures (Firm)

As a WWII fighter pilot Colonel Dean Hess accidentally bombed a German orphanage, killing thirty-seven children. After entering the ministry to atone for the tragedy, Hess eventually rejoins the Air Force to train pilots in South Korea, while devoting his spare time to building a shelter for orphans. But now, to protect these children in a territory fraught with danger, he must fight ... and face the past once again!"--Container. 1 videodisc (109 min.)

MEDIA 10-467

 

The Best years of our lives 1985, 1946

William Wyler, Myrna Loy, Frederic March, Dana Andrews, MacKinlay Kantor, and Samuel Goldwyn

The story of the problems faced by three veterans who return home after World War II and try to pick up their lives where they left off. 2 videocassettes (170 min.)

MEDIA. MEDIA   DANA 2-350 cassette 1 2-351 cassette 2   445

 

The Big parade 1988?

King Vidor, John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Hobart Bosworth, and Karl Dane

A young American enlists in the Army during World War I, thinking of the heroics of war. He arrives in France and meets and courts a young French woman before being sent to the front. 1 videocassette

MEDIA 2-1226

 

The big red one the reconstruction c2005, 1980

Samuel Fuller, Gene Corman, Robert Carradine, Mark Hamill, Lee Marvin, Warner Bros, Lorimar Pictures, and Warner Home Video (Firm)

Named for the insignia of the First Infantry Division, this World War II combat film follows a handful of young GIs and their sergeant as they battle their way from North Africa through Sicily, Omaha Beach and Belgium to the ultimate horror of the concentration camp at Falkenau, Czechoslovakia. 2 videodisc (162 min.)

MEDIA 10-479

 

The Birth of a nation 1985, 1915

D. W Griffith and Thomas Dixon

Griffith's controversial film about two families during the Civil War and Reconstruction era. 1 videocassette (VHS) (127 min.)

MEDIA         MEDIA 2-58                10-159

 

The bloody child a film c2001

Nina Menkes, Tinka Menkes, Robert Mueller, Sherry Shibley, Russ Little, Jack O'Hara, Independent Television Service, and Facets Video (Firm)

Based on a real incident in which a U.S. Marine, just back from the Persian Gulf, is arrested while digging a grave in the middle of the Mojave Desert for his murdered wife, whose bloodied body lies in the backseat of his car. 1 videocassette (85 min.)

MEDIA 2-7620

 

Born on the Fourth of July 1990

Oliver Stone, Ron Kovic, A. Kitman Ho, Tom Cruise, Willem Dafoe, Kyra Sedgwick, Raymond J Barry, Jerry Levine, Frank Whaley, and Caroline Kava

The true story of a young man, Ron Kovic, who's life changes from that of a zealous teen who eagerly volunteers for the Vietnam War to an embittered veteran paralyzed from the mid-chest down. Overcoming both personal and societal obstacles, he becomes a strong voice for patriotic, but disenchanted veterans and citizens alike. 1 videocassette (145 min.)

MEDIA   DANA 2-3186       33

 

The Broken chain 1994

Lamont Johnson, Eric Schweig, Wes Studi, Buffy Sainte-Marie,  Pierce Brosnan, and Earl W Wallace

In the midst of the Revolutionary War, two Iriquois tribal brothers are caught up in a fight to keep their people and their land from destruction of approaching settler. 1 videocassette (93 min.)

MEDIA 2-2715

 

Casablanca 1983

Michael Curtiz

Classic story of an American expatriot who involves himself in romance and espionage in North Africa during WW II. 1 videocassette (VHS) (103 min.)

MEDIA 2-259

 

The Commissar 1988

Aleksander Askol dov, Nonna Mordyukova, R Bykov, and Vasilii Semenovich Grossman

In this drama set against the Russian Civil War, a tough Red Army commander's military career is disrupted by an unwanted pregnancy. Forced to stay with a poor Jewish family until her child is born, she finds herself transformed by the warmth and compassion of her hosts. She must ultimately decide whether to rejoin her troops or stay with her child. 1 videocassette (105 min.)

MEDIA 2-2643

 

The deer hunter 1978, 1998

Michael Cimino, Barry Spikings, Deric Washburn, Robert De Niro, John Cazale, John Savage, Meryl Streep, and Christopher Walken

Tracks a group of steelworker pals from a Pennsylvania blast furnace to the cool hunting grounds of the Alleghenies to the lethal cauldron of Vietnam. It is a drama of friendship and courage and of what happens to these qualities under stress. 1 videodisc (183 min.)

MEDIA 10-41

 

A Farewell to arms  1985

Frank Borzage, Ernest Hemingway, Helen Hayes, and Gary Cooper

Love story between an ambulance driver and a British nurse set against the violence of World War I. 1 videocassette (81 min.)

MEDIA 2-689

 

Foreign correspondent 1985

Alfred Hitchcock

A compressed and chilling thriller about a politically naive reporter's battle against a major spy ring when sent to Europe to cover events that will lead to world war II. 1 videocassette (120 min.)

MEDIA  DANA 2-99       478

 

Fort Apache 1948, 1985

John Ford, John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple, Pedro Armendáriz, John Agar, and James Warner Bellah

A demoted Civil War colonel is sent to command the frontier regiment Fort Apache. The colonel's harsh attitude toward the Indians conflicts withe attitude of cooperation expressed by his second in command, Captain York, and the regiment. The climax of the film, the massacre of the regiment, is depicted as the result of the colonel's arrogance and betrayal of the Apache by a venal government agent. The romantic sub-plot involves the colonel's daughter and a young lieutenant of the regiment. 1 videocassette (127 min.)

MEDIA  MEDIA 2-1215     2-6752

 

Full metal jacket 1988

Stanley Kubrick, Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, and Gustav Hasford

A realistic portrayal of the Vietnam War. 1 videocassette (117 min.)

MEDIA 2-801

 

Glory 1990, 1989

Edward Zwick, Pieter Jan Brugge, Kevin Jarre, Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman, Raymond St. Jacques, and Freddie Fields

The heart-stopping story of the first black regiment to fight for the North in the Civil War. 1 videocassette (122 min.)

DANA. MEDIA 1091 2-1642

 

Go tell the Spartans 1986, 1977

Burt Lancaster, Ted Post, and Daniel Ford

Burt Lancaster plays a hard-boiled major in command of a grubby Vietnam outpost in this classic film of wartime confrontation. 1 videocassette (114 min.)

MEDIA 2-606

 

Gone with the wind  1988, 1939

Margaret Mitchell, Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, and Olivia De Havilland

A winner of ten Academy Awards, based on Margaret Mitchell's best-selling novel. A monumental historical film set in Civil War times, covering the lives of Scarlett O'Hara, Rhett Butler, Melanie Hamilton, Ashley Wilkes and so on. A classic and a legend of an unprecedented film. 2 videocassettes (VHS) (231 min.)

DANA. DANA. DANA. DANA. MEDIA. MEDIA 63 cassette 1 63 cassette 1 63 cassette 2 63 cassette 2 2-500 cassette 1 2-501 cassette 2

 

The great dictator 2003, 1940

Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner, Billy Gilbert, Maurice Moscovich, Karl Struss, Roland H Totheroh, William Nico, Meredith Willson, Kevin Brownlow, Michael Kloft, United Artists Corporation, MK2 Productions, and Warner Home Video (Firm)

Chaplin plays the double role of the persecuted Jewish barber and Adenoid Hynkel, dictator of Tomania. The barber is imprisoned, escapes, and is finally mistaken for the dictator at which point he makes an impassioned, humanistic speech which amazes the dictator's followers. 2 videodiscs (120 min.)

MEDIA     MEDIA 10-1344             2-6196

 

The Green Berets 1987

John Wayne, Ray Kellogg, David Janssen, and Jim Hutton

The struggles, during the Vietnam war, of crack troops. An elite hand-picked group of men skilled in the techniques of unconventional warfare. 1 videocassette (135 min.)

MEDIA 2-746

 

Home of the brave 1989, 1949

Mark Robson, Arthur Laurents, Stanley Kramer, Carl Foreman, James Edwards, Lloyd Bridges, and Frank Lovejoy

A black soldier is sent on a top secret mission in the South Pacific, but finds that he must battle with his white comrades as he is subjected to subordinate treatment and constant racial slurs. Hollywood's first outstanding statement against racial prejudice. 1 videocassette (86 min.)

MEDIA 2-3468

 

The hurt locker c2008

Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Tony Mark, Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Christian Camargo, Suhail Al-Dabbach, and Summit Entertainment

U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Will James, Sergeant J.T. Sanborn and Specialist Owen Eldridge comprise the Bravo Company's bomb disposal unit stationed in Baghdad. James is the tech team leader. When he arrives on the scene, Bravo Company has thirty-nine days left on its current deployment, and it will be a long thirty-nine days for Sanborn and Eldridge whose styles do not mesh with that of their new leader. James' thrill of the dismantlement seems to be the ultimate goal regardless of the safety of his fellow team members, others on the scene or himself. On the other hand, Sanborn is by the book: he knows his place and duty and trusts others in the Army to carry out theirs as well as he. Eldridge is an insecure soldier who is constantly worried that an error or misjudgment on his part will lead to the death of an innocent civilian or a military colleague. While the three members face their own internal issues, they have to be aware of any person at the bomb sites, some of whom may be bombers themselves. 1 videodisc (130 min.)

MEDIA 10-1840

 

King & country 1997

Dirk Bogarde, Tom Courtenay, Joseph Losey, Norman Priggen, Evan Jones, John Wilson, James Lansdale Hodson, and James Lansdale Hodson

Private Hamp is a volunteer at the outbreak of the First World War. As the sole survivor of his company, he decides one day to "go for a walk."  Picked up by the military police, he is sent back to his unit to face court- martial for desertion.  An arrogant officer reluctantly accepts the assignment to defend him.  During testimony, the officer begins to feel  sympathy for the obviously sincere but shell-shocked Hamp.  For the first time in his military career, the officer begins to question the army's methods and attitudes toward its men. 1 videocassette (90 min.)

MEDIA 2-3958

 

Lifeboat 1997

Tallulah Bankhead, Alfred Hitchcock, Jo Swerling, Kenneth Macgowan, John Steinbeck, William Bendix, Walter Slezak, John Hodiak, Hume Cronyn, Canada Lee, Mary Anderson, Henry Hull, and Heather Angel

Eight survivors of a torpedoed Allied freighter, along with a rescued Nazi, fend for themselves aboard a lifeboat. 1 videocassette (97 min.)

MEDIA. MEDIA 2-226 7-126

 

MASH 2001

Robert Altman, Ingo Preminger, Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt, Sally Kellerman, Robert Duvall, JoAnn Pflug, René Auberjonois, and Richard Hooker

Highlights the outrageous antics of three skilled young surgeons drafted from civilian life and assigned to a unit of the Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) during the Korean War. 1 videocassette (116 min.)

DANA 1552

 

Ministry of fear 1944, 1998

Seton I Miller, Fritz Lang, Ray Milland, Marjorie Reynolds, Erskine Sanford, Alan Napier, Hillary Brooke, Dan Duryea, and Graham Greene

A man is released into World War II England after 2 years in an asylum, but the outside world does not seem so sane either.  On his way back to London to rejoin civilization, he stumbles across a murderous spy ring and does not quite know to whom to turn. 1 videocassette (87 min.)

MEDIA 2-3553

 

North and South c1993

David L Wolper, Robert A Papazian, Richard Heffron, Kevin Connor, Paul Freeman, Douglas Heyes, Patrick Swayze, James Read, Lesley-Anne Down, Kirstie Alley , David Caradine, Philip Casnoff, Genie Francis, Terri Garber, Wendy Kilbourne, Jim Meltzer, John Jakes, John Jakes, Warner Bros, and Time-Life Video

Epic tale of two families, one from the North and the other from the South, and the lives of two young men, one from each family. They meet as cadets at West Point and become fast friends, but the Civil War intervenes, and becomes a stern test of their friendship. 12 videocassettes (1140 min.)

MEDIA 2-7080 -- 2-7091

 

Notorious 1990

Alfred Hitchcock, Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern, David O Selznick, and Ben Hecht

A government agent and a refugee girl undertake a dangerous mission in Brazil. 1 videocassette (103 min.)

DANA  MEDIA 528         2-95

 

Patton 1986?

Frank McCarthy, Franklin J Schaffner, Francis Ford Coppola, Edmund H North, Ladislas Farago, Omar Nelson Bradley, George C Scott, and Karl Malden

Portrayal of the Allied commander Gen. George Patton during World War II. 2 videocassettes (171 min.)

MEDIA. MEDIA 2-2015 cassette 1 2-2016 cassette 2

 

Platoon 1986

Oliver Stone, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen, and Tom Berenger

Winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1986, Platoon is the story of every soldier whose innocence was lost in the war torn jungles of Vietnam. It follows young Chris Taylor who arrives in Vietnam and quickly discovers that his worst enemies are not just the Viet Cong, but gnawing fear, physical exhaustion, and the anger growing within himself. 1 videocassette (120 min.)

MEDIA      MEDIA      DANA 2-403         10-70                429

 

The red badge of courage 1985

Stephen Crane and John Huston

During his service in the Civil War, a young Union soldier matures to manhood and finds peace of mind as he comes to grips with his conflicting emotions about war. 1 videocassette (70 min.)

MEDIA 2-137

 

Redacted c2008

Brian De Palma, Jennifer Weiss, Simone Urdl, Jason Kliot, Joana Vicente, Patrick Carroll, Rob Devaney, Izzy Diaz, Mike Figueroa, Tyrone Granderson Jones, HDNet Films, Film Farm (Firm), and Magnolia Home Entertainment (Firm)

Centered around a small group of American soldiers stationed at a checkpoint in Iraq. Alternates points of view between these soldiers, the media and the local Iraqi people illuminating how each group is deeply affected by the current conflict and their encounters with each other. The POVs are presented as a video diary, footage from a documentary-in-progress, a website's streaming video, surveillance cameras, and cellphone images. 1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.)

MEDIA 10-1453

 

Saigon year of the cat 1983

Stephen Frears, Michael Dunlop, Verity Lambert, Judi Dench,  Frederic Forrest, and E. G Marshall

Set in Saigon, 1974, film focuses on Bob Chesnau who cannot convince his superiors at the American Embassy that all signs point to an imminent invasion by the Vietcong. He meets and falls in love with Barbara Dean, a British bank employee, but their time together is threatened. 1 videocassette (106 min.)

MEDIA 2-5558

 

Salvador 1986, 2001

Oliver Stone, Gerald Green, Richard Boyle, James Woods, James Belushi, Michael Murphy, John Savage, and Elpedia Carillo

In 1980, Richard Boyle, a veteran war photographer whose career needs a boost, heads for El Salvador to cover the civil war there. He forms an uneasy alliance with both guerrillas in the countryside who want him to get pictures out to the US press, and the right-wing military, who want him to bring them photographs of the rebels. After the murder of Archbishop Romero, the rape and murder of an American nurse and three nuns, and the death of a fellow journalist, Boyle attempts to escape El Salvador with his Salvadorean girlfriend Maria and her family. 1 videodisc (123 min.)

MEDIA 10-108

 

Saving Private Ryan 1999

Steven Spielberg, Robert Rodat, Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, Matt Damon, and Tom Sizemore

Captain John Miller must take his men behind enemy lines to find Private Ryan, whose three brothers have been killed in combat. Faced with impossible odds, the men question their orders. Why are eight men risking their lives to save just one? Surrounded by the brutal realities of war, each man searches for his own answer and the strength to triumph over uncertain future with honor, decency and courage. 1 videodisc (ca. 169 min.)

MEDIA 10-09

 

Schindler's list 1994

Steven Spielberg, Steven Zaillian, Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, John Williams, and Thomas Keneally

The true story of the enigmatic Oskar Schindler, a member of the Nazi party, womanizer & war profiteer, who saved the lives of more than 1,100 Jews during the Holocaust. 2 videocassettes (197 min.)

MEDIA. MEDIA                                       MEDIA. MEDIA 2-3251 cassette 1 2-3252 cassette 2        7-50 disc 1 7-51 disc 2

 

The searchers 1956, 1983

John Ford

A Confederate war veteran tracks down the Indians who killed his brother and sister-in-law and carried off their daughter. 1 videocassette (119 min.)

MEDIA 2-11

 

The Secret agent 1991

Alfred Hitchcock, Madeleine Carroll, Peter Lorre, John Gielgud, Robert Young, W. Somerset Maugham, Campbell Dixon, Michael Balcon, and Ivor Goldsmid Samuel Montagu

An espionage thriller set in Geneva, seasoned with romance. Two British Intelligence Service agents pose as husband and wife in an attempt to eliminate an agent for the Central Powers. 1 videocassette (83 min.)

DANA   MEDIA 567           2-1571

 

The sum of all fears 2002

Mace Neufeld, Paul Attanasio, Daniel Pyne, Phil Alden Robinson, Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman, James Cromwell, Liev Schreiber, Bridget Moynahan, Alan Bates, Ciaran Hinds, Philip Baker Hall, and Ron Rifkin 

CIA agent Jack Ryan finds himself in a race against time to stop terrorists who plan to ignite a war between the U.S. and Russia by detonating a nuclear bomb at the Super Bowl game. 1 videodisc (123 min.)

MEDIA 10-156

 

The Tuskegee airmen 1995

Robert Markowitz, William C Carraro, Paris Quallos, Trey Ellis, Roy Hutchinson, Robert Williams, T. S Cook, Larry Fishburne, Allen Payne, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Courtney B Vance, Andre Braugher, Chris McDonald, John Lithgow, and Cuba Gooding

A celebration of the "Fighting 99th", the first squadron of black combat fighters in World War II, who battled prejudice in training at Tuskegee, Ala., the Axis in North Africa and Europe, bigotted officers assigned to oversee them, and a U.S. congressman out to prove they were unfit to serve. 1 videocassette (106 min.)

DANA    MEDIA 1051        10-171