Cliff Robertson
Series
Publisher
National Rifle Association of America
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Story of the gun: Documents the history and development of the gun, from the invention of gunpowder over a thousand years ago to the sophisticated assault weapons of today. Includes segments on such well-known developers as Smith & Wesson, Colt, Remington, Browning, Thompson, and Kalashnikov.
3) 633 Squadron
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
An RAF squadron is assigned to fly Mosquito bombers into Norway to destroy the Nazis' rocket fuel plants.
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Alan is a young college student who is trying to get home to see his mother. She has just had a stroke and is in the hospital, and Alan has this underlying fear that he needs to get to her in case she passes away. So, Alan embarks on a 100 mile hitchhike. Along the way, he must confront his many demons - both living and dead - and in the end Alan must make the ultimate choice that will mean life or death for him and his mother.
6) Spider-Man
Language
English
Formats
Description
After being bitten by a radioactive spider on a school field trip, Peter Parker finds himself gaining spider-like qualities. Adopting the name Spider-Man, Peter first uses his new skills to make money, but when the Green Goblin, another altered super-human, attacks Peter's uncle, he swears to use his "spider-skills" to fight evil. Along the way he has to juggle a new job as a local reporter, and a budding romance with a beautiful former-classmate,...
7) Wind
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
An adventure story about a brash young sailor who breaks with tradition in his quest to reclaim the America's Cup for the United States.
10) Picnic
Series
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
The story covers one Labor Day week-end in a small Kansas town, and tells about the impact a virile drifter has on the lives of several women in town.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The U.S. is launching a major naval operation in the South Pacific in the spring of 1942, and to ensure the battle plans remain secret, a Japanese radio installation must be destroyed. To accomplish this task, an American officer is ordered by his commander to join a squad of British misfits on a suicide mission against the facility.
12) Malone
Publisher
Metro Goldwynn Mayer
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
An ex-CIA agent wants to start a new life in the Pacific Northwest, but his dreams of a quiet life go up in smoke when he stumbles onto a small town military conspiracy led by a local millionaire and right-wing zealot.
13) Renaissance man
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
An unemployed advertising executive takes a job teaching Army recruits English.
14) Brainstorm
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Virtual reality researchers invent a machine that downloads one person's thoughts and sensations to another, then must keep their high-tech invention from the wrong hands.
Publisher
History
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Collection of programs exploring the personalities, the battles, the bravery, the losses, and the romance of the early days of the United States. Founding fathers and Founding brothers examine the relationships of the men who risked their fortunes and lives for independence. The Revolution recounts the battles, losses, and victories. Ben Franklin and Benedict Arnold look at the roles played by both men, and Washington the warrior and The crossing...
18) Midway
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"This is the way it was--the story of the battle that was the turning point of the war in the Pacific, told wherever possible with actual film shot during combat. It exemplifies the combination of planning, courage, error and pure chance by which great events are often decided."--Title screens. In June of 1942, quite possibly the most important naval encounter of WWII took place in the middle of the Pacific, at Midway Island. While fictional, the...
19) 6 war movies
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
The Bridge at Remagen: As the Allied armies close in, the Nazis decide to blow up the last Rhine bridge, trapping their own men on the wrong side. But will it happen?
Beach red: American Marines storm ashore on a Japanese-held island and push inland while their enemy plans a counterattack, in this look at warfare. Fighting men on both sides are haunted by memories of home and the horrifying, sickening images they experience in combat.
Beachhead:...