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Book Cover African Queen
By Huston, John
2000/09 - Warner Home Video
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A gin-swilling riverboat captain is persuaded by a strait-laced missionary to use his boat to attack an enemy warship.

Book Cover All Quiet on the Western Front
By Milestone, Lewis
1999/01 - MCA Home Video
BL05992DVD Find in the Library

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Teenage German soldiers pass from idealism to despair in this deeply-felt movie version of Erich Maria Remarque's anti-war novel.

Book Cover Flyboys
By Bill, Tony
2007/01 - MGM
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This epic drama tells the true story of the Lafayette Escadrille, a group of Americans who volunteered for the French military before the United States entered World War I. Farm boy Blaine Rawlings joins up and soon finds himself on an adventure more exciting than he ever imagined as he and his fellow soldiers become the world's first fighter pilots.

Book Cover Joyeux Noel
By Carion, Christian
2006/11 - Sony Pictures
BL11939DVD Find in the Library

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Based on the true story of three armies in the bloody trenches of World War I and the miraculous Christmas Eve truce they unexpectedly forge.

Book Cover Lawrence of Arabia
By Lean, David
2001/05 - Sony Pictures
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Presents the story of T.E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole), the heroic and troubled man who organized the Arab nations to fight the Turks in World War I and then, having reached a pinnacle of power in Mideast politics, retired to postwar military obscurity

Book Cover A Very Long Engagement
By Jeunet, Jean-Pierre
2005/05 - Warner Independent Pictures
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A woman who conducts an extensive search for her missing beloved during World War I. He appears to have died after a court-martial, but she needs to know for sure. As she looks for the truth, she discovers unexpected things about herself and the people she meets along the way.

Book Cover Flags of Our Fathers
By Eastwood, Clint
2007/02 - Paramount Home Video
BL03073DVD Find in the Library

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From director Clint Eastwood comes this riveting World War II drama that recounts the story of six soldiers instantly immortalized when they were photographed raising the American flag atop Iwo Jima's Mount Suribachi. Based on the book of the same name, the film reconstructs the events that preceded and followed the snapshot that came to symbolize the U.S. troops' triumph and America's indestructible spirit. R

Book Cover Letters From Iwo Jima
By Eastwood, Clint
2007/04 - Paramount Home Video
BL05079DVD Find in the Library

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As tens of thousands of Allied troops push further inland, the Japanese troops defending Iwo Jima during World War II prepare to meet their fate, a companion piece to hit film Flags of Our Fathers.

Book Cover Saving Private Ryan
By Spielberg, Steven
1999/11 - Dreamworks
BL12033DVD Find in the Library

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Eight soldiers risk their lives going behind enemy lines to save one man, whose three brothers have been killed in combat.

Book Cover Born on the Fourth of July
By Stone, Oliver
1998/04 - Universal Studios
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A true story of innocence lost and courage found. Ron Kovic a young volunteer for the Vietnam War changed from being a zealous teen to an embittered veteran, paralyzed from the mid-chest down. He returned to an environment vastly different from the one he left and struggled before emerging as a brave new voice for the disenchanted

Book Cover Rescue Dawn
By Herzog, Werner
2007/12 - MGM
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Renowned director Werner Herzog's inspiring film recounts the heroic saga of Dieter Dengler, a German-American fighter pilot and highly decorated Vietnam veteran whose reconnaissance plane was shot down in 1966. Captured by enemy forces and held in a Laotian torture camp near the Ho Chi Minh Trail, Dengler defied death by organizing one of the most daring escapes in the Vietnam conflict.

Book Cover 36 Hours
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2007/06 - Warner Home Video
1419849212 Find in the Library

A disguised Nazi officer seeks D-day data from a drugged U.S. major in what looks like a U.S. hospital.

Book Cover Army of Shadows
By Melville, Jean-Pierre
2007/05 - Criterion
BL10906DVD Find in the Library

"Masterpiece...that rare work of art that thrills the senses and the mind."--New York Times

Book Cover The Bridge on the River Kwai
By Lean, David
Holden, William
Guinness, Alec
2005/09 - Sony Pictures Home Ent
0043396057470 Find in the Library

British WWII prisoners of war are forced by the Japanese to build a railway bridge in the ruthless Asian jungle, unaware that the allied forces plan to blow it up. VHS is digitally remastered and features a new featurette.

Book Cover Decision Before Dawn
By Litvak, Anatole
Basehart, Richard
Merrill, Gary
2007/04 - Tcfhe
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A German prisoner agrees to spy for the Allies and joins a U.S. officer behind enemy lines.

Book Cover The Dirty Dozen
By Aldrich, Robert
2005/02 - Warner Studios
BL05039DVD Find in the Library

A World War II drama in which an army major selects 12 men convicted for crimes of violence and offers them their freedom if they will complete a dangerous mission behind Nazi lines.

Book Cover They Were Expendable
By Ford, John
Montgomery, Robert
Wayne, John
2007/05 - Warner Home Video
9781419853821 Find in the Library

Heroic PT boat captains fight Japanese ships in the World War II Philippines. Directed by John Ford.

Book Cover The Bridges at Toko-Ri
By Robson, Mark
Various Artists
Holden, William
2006/05 - Paramount Home Video
0097360590647 Find in the Library

Recalled to duty, a lawyer leaves his wife and goes to Korea to bomb bridges for an admiral. Directed by Mark Robson.

Book Cover Fixed Bayonets!
By Fuller, Samuel
2007/04 - 20th Century Fox
BL05902DVD Find in the Library

A corporal must take responsibility for an entire platoon during the Korean War, as each one of his commanding officers is killed.

Book Cover Sayonara
By Logan, Joshua
Goetz, William
Brando, Marlon
2005/01 - Tcfhe/MGM
9780792850922 Find in the Library

Japan...in the midst of the Korean War conflict. The poignant James A. Michener story of an American Army major who falls in love with the beautiful star performer of a famed Japanese dancing troupe. His love is put to the test by each culture's misconceptions and racial prejudices.

Book Cover The Bedford Incident
By Harris, James B.
Widmark, Richard
Poitier, Sidney
2003/09 - Sony Pictures Home Ent
9781404930438 Find in the Library

A reporter aboard a U.S. destroyer witnesses the captain's pursuit of a Soviet sub near Greenland.

Book Cover Dirty War
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2006/05 - HBO Home Video
9780783133041 Find in the Library

FANATICAL TERRORISTS ARE PLANNING TO LAUNCH A NUCLEAR ATTACK WITH A 'DIRTY BOMB', A HOMEMADE RADIOACTIVE DEVICE, IN THE HEART OF LONDON. EVERY MINUTE COUNTS IN THIS THRILLER THAT ADDRESSES THE QUESTION: HOW PREPARED ARE WE FOR THE UNTHINKABLE?

Book Cover Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
By Kubrick, Stanley
Sellers, Peter
Hayden, Sterling
2007/03 - Sony Pictures Home Ent
9780767863728 Find in the Library

Fueled by paranoia and a fanatical sense of patriotism, two psychotic generals--led by a bizarre wheelchair-bound nuclear scientist--trigger an ingenious, irrevocable scheme to attack Russia's strategic targets with nuclear bombs.