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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.
4) Flyboys
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Inspired by true events, tells the story of the Lafayette Escadrille, a group of American men who volunteered to fight for the French before the U.S. entered World War I and became the country's first fighter pilots.
5) Summerland
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Alice is a reclusive writer, resigned to a solitary life on the seaside cliffs of Southern England while World War II rages across the channel. When she opens her front door one day to find she's to adopt a young London evacuee name Frank, she's resistant. It's not long, however, before the two realize they have more in common in their pasts than Alice had assumed.
7) Father Goose
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A man living in isolation on an island during WWII deals with a school teacher and her group of students that invade his private paradise.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Leo Tolstoy’s literary masterpiece comes to life in this epic film classic, featuring the talents of some of the greatest names from Hollywood’s Golden Age. Starring Audrey Hepburn as Natasha, Henry Fonda as Pierre, and Mel Ferrer as Prince Andrei, WAR AND PEACE is a compelling **Oscar**-nominated drama of international conflict, spectacular adventure, gripping intrigue and tragic romance set against the sweeping backdrop of Napoleon’s invasion...
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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 378
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
2007
Language
日本語
Description
In this Japanese anti-war film, acts of cannibalism bring home the terrifying brutality of war. Japanese troops are in retreat in the Philippines. Supplies run out and discipline crumbles.
11) 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
Virgil Films & Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
This documentary chronicles the deployment of a platoon of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley, starting in 2007. The movie focuses on a remote 15-man outpost, Restrepo, named after a platoon medic who was killed in action. It was considered one of the most dangerous postings in the U.S. military. This is an entirely experiential film: the cameras never leave the valley; there are no interviews with generals or diplomats.
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.
14) Their finest
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In 1940 set in London, the story is an ode to how women played a major role in boosting national morale during the Blitz of London in the second world war.
15) Transfusion
Publisher
Saban Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Ex-special forces operative Ryan Logan has a sharply honed set of survival skills that have allowed him to walk the line between courage and fear. But after a personal tragedy shatters his family and sends his teenage son, Billy, into a world of drugs and delinquency, he is pushed to the edge. Desperate to make a new life for Billy, Ryan plunges into the criminal underground for one final mission in this muscular, emotionally charged thriller.
16) Mine
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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.
17) Lone Survivor
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
The story of four Navy SEALs sent on an ill-fated covert mission to neutralize a high-level Taliban operative. They are ambushed by enemy forces in the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan. Based on The New York Times bestseller.
18) Gallipoli
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Two friends are involved with the battle between Australia and the German-occupied Turks in this commentary on the wastes of war.
19) Come and see
Series
Criterion collection volume 1035
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Belarusian
Description
As Nazi forces encroach on his small village in Belorussia, teenage Flyora eagerly joins the Soviet resistance. Rather than the adventure and glory he envisioned, what he finds is a waking nightmare of unimaginable carnage and cruelty. Nearly blocked from being made by Soviet censors, who took seven years to approve its script, is perhaps the most visceral, impossible-to-forget antiwar film ever made.
Series
Criterion collection volume 146
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Russian
Description
Veronica and Boris are blissfully in love, until the eruption of World War II tears them apart. Boris is sent to the front lines, and then communication stops.
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