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Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 178 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Re-enacts the military operation of D-Day from four points of view--the workings of the high commands of the American, English, French, and German forces in their battle scheme for Normandy. Largely filmed on actual invasion sites in France.
4) Patton
Language
English
Formats
Description
Story of General Patton in World War II whose military brilliance was balanced by his inability to deal with the social and political aspects of war, causing him difficulties in his dealings with the War Department.
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
American combat pilot Col. Joseph Ryan (Sinatra) is shot down over Nazi-controlled Italy and joins U.S. and English WWII troops in a prison camp during the summer of 1943. Given the insulting nickname "Von Ryan" because he initially seems more concerned with surviving than escaping, the colonel eventually leads Allied prisoners, as their new top ranking officer, in a daredevil race for freedom by commandeering an entire German freight train bound...
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Full frame.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Film about newly-trained pilots in World War II, their by-the-book leader, and the plans of the U.S. naval leaders to lull the Japanese into a false sense of superiority. Includes actual combat footage.
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An officer is on the front lines of the massive Allied landing, his special commando unit must destroy a key German gun position. For Parker, the mission is also fraught with personal complications as he and his commander are in love with the same woman.
11) The desert rats
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A courageous band of Australian soldiers stops Rommel's march to the Suez Canal in this stirring blend of action and history.
13) 13 Rue Madeleine
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c1947
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An O.S.S. training officer, bent upon discovering a German traitor within his ranks, is at the same time completing highly dangerous espionage assignments. The risks increase when one of his men is murdered from within, and the officer, convinced he knows who the murdering infiltrator is, vows revenge.
14) The blue max
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c1966
Edition
[Widescreen version].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 156 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A low-born infantryman becomes a pilot during World War I, almost deliberately stepping on the sensibilities of his aristocratic comrades in the process. A national hero, he wins the Blue Max, the highest award that can be bestowed upon an aviator. His fame is exploited by a general, who tolerates the affair between the pilot and the general's wife. The canny general knows that, eventually, the pilot will become expendable, and a "heroic" death can...
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c1951
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Rommel was a brilliant military tactician. Unfortunately, Adolph Hitler thought that he too was a military genius and demands more of Rommel than he's able to provide. Rommel incurs Hitler's wrath by retreating in North Africa, but since Rommel is a war hero he is virtually "untouchable". Rommel joins in a plot to assassinate the Fuhrer. The attempt fails, and Rommel's complicity is discovered. He is given a choice: either face a horrible death by...
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c1957
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A World War II Marine sergeant and a Roman Catholic nun are both marooned together on a South Pacific island, hemmed in by surrounding Japanese troops. The sergeant does his best to make the nun's ordeal less painful, but is torn by his growing love for her. The nun is equally fond of the sergeant, but refuses to renounce her vows. Their unrealized ardor mellows into mutual respect as they struggle to survive before help arrives.
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 97 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Bismarck was the fabled German battleship of World War II. Traces the "life" of the Bismarck from its launching (courtesy of newsreel footage) through its many battles and narrow escapes, concluding with its far-from-inevitable sinking in the Spring of 1941. The story concentrates on the human element, specifically a British intelligence captain, who has lost his family in the London blitz and thus has a personal reason for seeing the Bismarck...
18) The Enemy below
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004, c1957
Edition
Widescreen ed. (aspect ratio: 2.35:1).
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set during the Battle of the Atlantic during World War II, the film tells the story of the cat and mouse hunt between the USS Haynes, a destroyer escort, and a German U-Boat. Captain Murrell, a former Merchant Mariner, saw his wife killed when his freighter was torpedoed by the Germans. Von Stolberg, the veteran U-Boat commander, sees no honor in the German aims of the war. Both of these highly experienced men must now try to outthink and outmaneuver...
19) The hunters
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
℗2004, ©1958
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An Air Force pilot in charge of a group of young flyboys in 1952 Korea knows where and when to separate his private life from his responsibilities.
20) Morituri
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tension-filled, action packed espionage drama about a German demolitions expert who is blackmailed by the British to help them seize a German freighter.
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