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1) Mafia mamma
Publisher
Bleecker Street
Language
English
Formats
Description
While seeing to her long estranged (and now deceased) grandfather’s affairs in Italy, Collette, a mild mannered suburban mom, unexpectedly inherits his mafia empire and finds herself stuck in the middle of a deadly mob war. Guided by the firm’s trusted consigliere (Monica Bellucci), she hilariously defies everyone’s expectations, including her own, as the new head of the family business.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[c1989]
Language
English
Description
Drama about life in the Army in the days prior to World War II. Shows the effect of Army discipline on an individualistic former boxing champion who defies the attempts of officers and men to break him when he refuses to fight on the company's boxing team. Includes actual scenes of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Series
Publisher
Marathon Music & Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
A walk in the sun: The trials of a World War II infantry company from the time they hit the beach in Italy until they capture their crucial farmhouse objective. (1945) with Dana Andrews, Lloyd Bridges & Richard Conte.
Go for broke!: An inexperienced officer heads up a special Army attack force composed of Japanese American volunteers. Two Academy nominations. (1951) with Warner Anderson & Van Johnson.
Gung ho!: "Carlson's Raiders", a specially-trained...
Language
English
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Description
When an interdimensional rupture threatens to unravel reality, the fate of the world is suddenly in the hands of a most unlikely hero: Evelyn (Michelle Yeoh), a flustered immigrant mother. As bizarre and bewildering dangers emerge from the many possible worlds, she must learn to channel her newfound powers and fight her way through the splintering timelines to save her home, her family, and herself in this big-hearted and irreverent adventure through...
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
2000, ℗1957
Language
English
Description
British soldiers are forced by the Japanese to build a strategic railroad bridge, while the British High Command has instructed a commando team to destroy it.
Features include trivia sabotage, maps and military strategies, screensavers from original movie art, a documentary, a featurette "Rise and fall of a jungle giant", theatrical trailer, photo gallery and more.
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
After the attack on Pearl Harbor damaged Americans' morale, FDR decided bomb Tokyo in retaliation, to raise the public's hopes. Bomber planes led by Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle successfully bombed Tokyo, but after completing their mission, ran out of fuel and were forced to bail out in occupied China. One young pilot, Jack Turner, was hidden from brutal Japanese forces by local villagers, including a widow named Ying. With time running out, they took...
11) Purple hearts
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c [2009]
Language
English
Description
A drama of love and courage set against the fierce background of a war that U.S. history keeps trying to sweep out of sight. Navy nurse Deborah Solomon is the girl that Jardian finds in his moment of greatest despair. She's the first thing about Vietnam that makes any sense to him and he'll do anything to be with her. So Jardian breaks the soldier's prime rule of survival--he volunteers.
13) 1917
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers, Schofield and Blake, are given a seemingly impossible mission. In a race against time, they must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers.
Publisher
VCI Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The way ahead: A mismatched collection of conscripted civilians find training tough under Sergeant Jim Perry (David Niven) and Sergeant Ned Fletcher when they are called to replace an infantry battalion that has suffered casualties at Dunkirk.
The one that got away: This is the true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war taken in Britain during the Second World War who escaped from numerous British POW camps and got...
Publisher
Virgil Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
As Israeli paratroopers entered the Old City of Jerusalem on the morning of June 7, 1967, Colonel Motta Gur sent that message over the radio, and the entire world listened as the city of Jerusalem was reunited under Jewish control for the first time in nearly 1,9000 years. Shot entirely on location in Israel, it tells the story of the battle for Jerusalem through the eyes of Israel's 55th Paratrooper Brigade.
16) Noah's ark
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"The two-pronged tale visits Biblical and modern times as it draws a parallel between two fateful eras. Colossal floodwaters roil, great structures topple, Noah and his family survive the worldwide destruction-- and vast destruction of another age lashes out as national hatreds erupt and World War I doughboys charge through the machine-gun hell of No Man's Land."--Container.
17) Chosen
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When German forces take over Sonson's village in 1943, they cause his wife's death and galvanize the quiet lawyer into action. After Nazis apprehend a group of female resistance fighters, Sonson poses as an SS officer to help free them. As he unwittingly becomes a leader of the opposition, Sonson discovers the hero deep within himself.
Publisher
VCI Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Reach for the sky: The amazing story of Douglas Bader, who after losing both legs as a result of an aeroplane crash, overcame insurmountable odds to not only master the art of walking with two artificial legs, but to dance, play golf, and to become one of the most remarkable fighter aces in history.
We dive at dawn: World War II submarine saga, concentrating on the personalitites of the men in the crew as much as on their assignment to sink a German...
Pub. Date
2020
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
1941. Hong Kong is under Japanese occupation. During the three-year-and -eight-month occupation, the Japanese military pillages homes and arrests cultural figures living in Hong Kong. The anti-Japanese Dongjiang guerilla unit is tasked with rescuing these cultural figures and extracting them from the besieged city. Primary school teacher Fang Lan (Zhou Xun) and her mother (Deanie Ip) are trying to live out this difficult period in a small run-down...
20) Devotion
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Elite fighter pilots Jesse Brown and Tom Hudner become the U.S. Navy's most celebrated wingmen during the Korean War.
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