Frank Capra
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
1971.
Language
English
Description
Although Frank Capra (1897-1991) is best known as the director of It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, You Can't Take It with You, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Arsenic and Old Lace, and It's a Wonderful Life, he was also an award-winning documentary filmmaker as well as a behind-the-scene force in the Director's Guild, the Motion Picture Academy, and the Producer's Guild. He worked with or knew socially everyone in the movie business from...
Publisher
Questar
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Traces events leading up to and resulting in the Japanese attack on American battleships at Pearl Harbor, which brought the United States into World War II.
Disc 1: America Taken by Surprise: Find out why the U.S. Pacific Fleet was caught off-guard by the Japanese. DVD Extras: Stories From Battleshi Row; Holloywood's Pearl Harbor; Attack of the Midget Subs; Salvaging the Pacific Fleet. Disc 2: The Pacific War on Film: A trio of documentaries produced...
5) Japan
Publisher
St. Clair Vision
Pub. Date
pc2007.
Language
English
Description
Kamikaze: Documentary on the Pacific war begins with Japanese preparations for the bombing of Pearl Harbor and ends with the atomic bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Know your enemy: Japan: World War II documentary directed by Frank Capra that focuses on the war in the Pacific. December 7th: John Ford recreated the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. To the shores of Iwo Jima: Documentary depicting the American assault on the Japanese-held island...
Series
Publisher
Digiview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Prelude to War: began as a training video for U.S. Troops compares the "free" world to the "slave" world--the dictatorships of Germany, Italy, and Japan. Used widely as a propaganda piece, the film endures as a study of how governments survive to justify wars to those who fight them.
The Nazi strike: Capra's documentary depicts Germany's diplomatic and military betrayals leading up to the 1939 invasion of Poland and the events that finally led France...
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her father threatens to annul her marriage to a fortune-hunting playboy, spoiled heiress Ellie Andrews hops a cross-country bus to New York, where she plans to live happily ever after with her handsome new hubby. Romantic complications soon arise, however, when she's befriended by fellow passenger Peter Warne, a brash and breezy reporter who offers his help in exchange for her exclusive story.
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Desert victory: Documents the clash of Germany's General Rommel and Britain's General Montgomery as their militaries collide in battle under harsh desert conditions. Britain's defeat at El Alemein is only a stumbling block on the road to victory as they ultimately conquer the Germans at Tripoli. Utilizes actual German footage of Rommel and Hitler that was confiscated during the skirmish by the British.
The Nazis strike: Masterfully compiled by Col....
Publisher
Billy Jack Enterprises
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Billy Jack is appointed as the junior Senator from Arizona in 1976. Arriving in Washington, he discovers that the respected senior Senator from Arizona and a business tycoon are secretly planning to build a nuclear plant in the pristine Arizona landscape. Fourth of four Billy Jack films.
Publisher
Treeline Films
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A mix of war movies and documentaries that detail great battles and campaigns. Stars like Sidney Poitier, Van Johnson, John Ireland, and Montgomery Clift bring the immediacy of conflict to life and celebrity narrators like Ronald Reagan, Clark Gable, and Burgess Meredith helm classic documentaries that convey key military campaigns.
Series
Publisher
AMC, Genius Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Fighting caravans: Clint Belmet convinces French-born Felice into posing as his wife to help him evade a misdemeanor jail term. Clint joins a wagon train heading for California, taking Felice with him, and begins to fall in love with the girl.
A farewell to arms: An American officer in the Italian ambulance corps falls in love with an English Red Cross nurse.
Meet John Doe: A genial homeless unemployed baseball pitcher is hoaxed into protesting...
17) American madness
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
The little seen drama starring Walter Huston as a bank president who gets in trouble with his board of directors for making loans to working class depositors without sufficient collateral. When a crooked teller's antics cause a run on the bank, Huston's devoted employees and the small businessmen he has helped out come to his aid.
Series
Language
English
Description
Jefferson Smith is a small town idealist who answers the call to duty when he's unexpectedly named to fill a vacant seat in the U.S. Senate. Determined to do some good, he sponsors a bill to create a national boy's camp, unaware it threatens to undermine a graft scheme sponsored by his home state's crooked political machine. Framed and threatened with expulsion, Jefferson takes to the Senate floor to prove his innocence.
Publisher
DEC
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
After his father's death, George Bailey gives up dreams of travel and a college education to run the family's financially troubled building and loan company. On the day before Christmas when conditions are at their worst, George tries to commit suicide. He is unsuccessful because Clarence, George's guardian angel, intervenes. Expressing the wish that he had never been born, George is made to understand the value of life when he sees how adversely...