Hotel Rwanda

Call Number: DVD01226

Director/Distributor: Terry George; Don Cheadle; Sophie Okonedo; Joaquin Phoenix; Desmond Dube; David O’Hara; Andrea Guerra; Rupert Gregson-Williams; United Artists Corporation.; Lions Gate Entertainment (Firm); Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa.; Miracle Pictures (Firm : Los Angeles, Calif.); MGM Home Entertainment Inc.; Afro Celt Sound System (Musical group); et al

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: [United States] : Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment, ©2013

Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 2004.
Special features: optional audio commentary with Terry George Paul Rusesabagina, with select commentary by Wyclef Jean; optional audio commentary of select scenes with Don Cheadle; A message for peace : making Hotel Rwanda / produced & directed by Greg Carson (28 min.); Return to Rwanda (15 min.) which follows Rusesabagina as he returns to his native land; theatrical trailer.

Summary: Based on the true story of Paul Rusesabagina, a five-star-hotel manager who uses his wits and persuasion in striving to save more than 1,200 Tutsis and Hutus from being massacred by the Interahamwe militia during the 1994 Rwandan conflict.

OCLC #: 57673690

Added: 3/23/15

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50 Movies: The Sensational Sixties

Call Number: DVD01216

Director/Distributor: by Mill Creek Entertainment.;

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Mill Creek Entertainment, 2012.

Notes: Booklet lists movie title contained on each disc.

Films:

Disc 1: Bloody Pit of Horror (1965)
Sword of Lancelot (1963)
High School Big Shot (aka: Date Bait) (1960)
Jackals (1967)
Disc 2: Constantine and the Cross (1962)
Wild Ride (1960)
When the Girls Take Over (1962)
Avenger (aka: Last Glory of Troy) (1962)
Disc 3: Battle of El Alamen (1960)
Cape Town Affair (1967)
Manster (1962)
She Beast (1966)
Disc 4: Five Minutes to Live (aka: Door-to-Door Maniac) (1961)
Esther and the King (1960)
Sadist (1963)
Anatomy of a Psycho (1961)
Disc 5: They Came from Beyond Space (1967)
Deadly Companions (1961)
Dangerous Charter (1962)
Desert Commandos (1967)
Disc 6: Shoot out at Big Sag (1962)
Alexander the Great (1968)
Sandy the Seal (1969)
Fat Spy (1965)
Magic Sword (1962)
Disc 7: Diary of a Telephone Operator (1969)
Wake Me When the War is Over (1969)
From Hell to Borneo (1967)
Guerillas in Pink Lace (1964)
Disc 8: Poppy is also a Flower (1966)
Sound of Horror (1964)
White Comanche (1968)
High School Caesar (1960)
Disc 9: Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964)
Magic Serpent (1966)
David and Goliath (1960)
Nasty Rabbit (1963)
Disc 10: Ballad of Andy Crocker (1969)
Battle of the Last Panzer (1969)
Twisted Nerve (1969)
Criminal Affair (1968)
Disc 11: Herod the Great (1960)
Reluctant Saint (1962)
Two women (1960)
Head of the Family (1967)
Disc 12: Dungeon of Harrow (1962)
Devil’s Partner (1961)
Choppers (1961)
Night Tide (1961)
Lightning Bolt (1966)

OCLC #: 817572108

Added: 5/13/14

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Zero Dark Thirty

Call Number: DVD01212

Director/Distributor: by Kathryn Bigelow; Mark Boal; Megan Ellison; Greg Shapiro; Colin Wilson; Theodore Schipper; Jessica Chastain; Jason Clarke; Joel Edgerton; Jennifer Ehle; Mark Strong; Kyle Chandler; Édgar Ramírez; James Gandolfini; Chris Pratt; Callan Mulvey; Fares Fares; Reda Kateb; Harold Perrineau; Stephen Dillane; Nash Edgerton; Mike Colter; Frank Grillo; Greig Fraser; Jeremy Hindle; Dylan Tichenor; William Goldenberg; George Little; Alexandre Desplat; Columbia Pictures,; Annapurna Productions,; First Light Films,; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),;

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, ©2013.

Notes: Originally produced as a motion picture and released in 2012.

Special Features: No Small Feat – Making Zero Dark Thirty; The Compund – Tour the film’s rebuilt compound; Geared Up – Watch the cast train with authentic SEAL gear; Targeting Jessica Chastain – A look at the role of Maya

Summary: A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L. Team 6 in May 2011.

OCLC #: 827611653

Added: 5/13/14

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World War II: The German Front

Call Number: DVD01210

Director/Distributor: by Frank Capra; C Svilov; Westbrook Van Voorhis; Howard Goldin; United States. War Department.; United States. Army. Services of Supply.; Artkino Pictures, Inc.;

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: [Dunellen, N.J.] : Digiview Entertainment, 2006.

Notes: “Special Service Division information film”–1st prelim. frame.
Some footage title information varies: The secret life of Adolf Hitler ; Howard Goldin presents “9 men in hell : the first full length film report of the famous trials.”

Summary:

Prelude to War, produced by the War Department

Nazi strike, directed by Frank Capra with the cooperation of the Research Council, Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences ;

Nuremberg Trials, directed by Russian filmmaker C. Svilov (an Artkino release).

OCLC #: 77081595

Added: 5/13/14

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We Were Soldiers

Call Number: DVD01203

Director/Distributor: by Bruce Davey; Stephen McEveety; Randall Wallace; Mel Gibson; Madeleine Stowe; Greg Kinnear; Sam Elliott; Chris Klein; Keri Russell; Barry Pepper; Don Duong; Ryan Hurst; Dean Semler; William Hoy; Nick Glennie-Smith; Michael T Boyd; Tom Sanders; Harold G Moore; Paramount Pictures Corporation.; Icon Productions.; Wheelhouse Entertainment (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount, 2002.

Notes: Based on the book “We were soldiers once … and young” by Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore (ret.) and Joseph L. Galloway.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2002.
Special features: commentary by director/writer Randall Wallace; deleted scenes; “Getting it right”–A behind-the-scenes featurette of “We were soldiers.”

Summary: The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War and the soldiers on both sides that fought it.

OCLC #: 50005605

Added: 5/13/14

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War Movies: WWII Collection

Call Number: DVD01202

Director/Distributor: by Dana Andrews; Robert Mitchum; Randolph Scott; Lee Van Cleef; Glenn Ford; Jim Brown; Van Johnson; Michael Rennie; Otto Kruger; George Montgomery; Richard Arlen; Anna May Wong; Bekim Fehmiu; Michael Whalen; Klaus Kinski; Stephen Boyd; John Litel;

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: [S.I.] : TGG Direct, ©2010.

Notes: Warning: Prior to 1968, movies were not rated by the Motion Picture Industry, and therefore some of these movies may contain content appropriate for mature audiences, and may not be suitable for children under 13 years of age.

Summary: Great World War II era movies projecting the spirit and solidarity of Allied forces in the European and Pacific theaters.

Disc 1:

A Walk in the Sun; Gung Ho; Go for Broke; Corregidor; Ski Troop Attack

Disc 2:

Casablanca Express; The Steel Claw; Desert Commandos; Minesweeper; Bombs Over Burma

Disc 3:

Commandos; Pacific Inferno; The Battle of the Eagles; Submarine Alert; The Dawn Express

Disc 4:

Five for Hell

Black Brigade

Heroes in Hell

Submarine Base

Aerial Gunner

OCLC #: 692339138

Added: 5/13/14

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Lincoln

Call Number: DVD00999

Director/Distributor: by Steven Spielberg; Tony Kushner; Kathleen Kennedy; Daniel Lupi; Jeff Skoll; Jonathan King; Daniel Day-Lewis; Sally Field; David Strathairn; Joseph Gordon-Levitt; James Spader; Hal Holbrook; Tommy Lee Jones; John Hawkes; Jackie Earle Haley; Bruce McGill; Tim Blake Nelson; Joseph Cross; Jared Harris; Lee Pace; Janusz Kamiński; Rick Carter; Michael Kahn; Joanna Johnston; John Williams; Doris Kearns Goodwin; Touchstone Pictures,; Dreamworks Pictures,; Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation,; Reliance Entertainment,; Participant Media,; Dune Entertainment,; Amblin Entertainment (Firm),; Kennedy/Marshall Company,; Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm),;

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Universal City, Calif. : DreamWorks Pictures ; Twentieth Century Fox, Burbank, Calif. : Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 2013. 2013. ©2013

Notes: Special Feature: The Journey to Lincoln

Summary: As the Civil War continues to rage, America’s president struggles with continuing carnage on the battlefield and as he fights with many inside his own cabinet on the decision to emancipate the slaves.

OCLC #: 827742515

Added: 5/9/14

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Military History Collector’s Set: Hitler’s Germany/How Hitler Lost the War

Call Number: DVD00917

Director/Distributor: by Richard Bond; Robert R Denny; Diego Matamoros; Norman Rose; Alliance Atlantis (Firm); Lion Television Ltd.; AAC Fact (Firm); Channel Five (Great Britain); History Television.; Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.); Varied Directions, inc.; United States. Army. Services of Supply. Special Service Division.; United States. Army. Signal Corps.; Great Britain. Army Film and Photo Unit.; United States. Army Pictorial Service.; United States. Department of the Army.; Echo Bridge Home Entertainment.;

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: [La Crosse, Wis.] : Echo Bridge Home Entertainment, [2009]

Notes: Compilation of two war documentary films originally produced in 1989 and 2002. How Hitler lost the war (1989); Hitler’s Britain (2002).

Films:

OCLC #: 624897630

Added: 5/8/14

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Hearts of the World

Call Number: DVD00908

Director/Distributor: D.W. Griffith, Lillian Gish, John Harron, Dorthy Gish

Format: DVD

Language: English (Silent)

Publisher: Alpha Home Entertainment

Notes: Released in 1918

Summary: Young lovers in a French village are torn apart with the coming of the Great War.

OCLC #: N/A

Added: 5/8/14

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Casualties of War

Call number: DVD00715

Director/Distributor: by Brian De Palma; David Rabe; Art Linson; Michael J Fox; Sean Penn; Don Harvey; John C Reilly; John Leguizamo; Thủy Thứ Lê; Ennio Morricone; Daniel Lang; Columbia Pictures.; Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, [2001]

Summary: During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager.

Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1989.
Based upon the book by Daniel Lang.
Special features include the featurette, Eriksson’s war: a talk with actor Michael J. Fox (18 min.), the documentary, The making of Casualties of war (31 mins.), deleted scenes, filmographies, and three trailers.

OCLC #: 48918995

Added: 4/4/14

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The Pianist

Call Number: DVD01100

Director/Distributor: Roman Polanski

Format:  DVD video : English : Widescreen ed

Language: Closed-captioned. In English, French or Spanish with English, French or Spanish subtitle.

Publisher: Universal City, Calif. : Universal, ©2003.

Notes: Based on the book Śmierć miasta by Wladyslaw Szpilman.
Videodisc release of a 2002 motion picture.
Special features: “A story of survival” featurette which includes insight into the making of the film, Roman Polanski’s own story of survival during WWII, behind-the-scenes interviews with Oscar winners Roman Polanski, Adrien Brody and Ronald Harwood, clips of Wladyslaw Szpilman playing the piano.

Summary: Based on the memoirs of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew, who was a brilliant pianist. He watched as his family was shipped off to Nazi labor camps. He managed to escape and lived for years in the ruins of Warsaw, hiding from the Nazis.

OCLC #: 52498257

Added: 9/25/2013

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Title: 36 Hours

Call Number: DVD00617

Director/Distributor: George Seaton

Format:  DVD video : English

Language: In English with optional English or French subtitles; closed-captioned.

Publisher: Burbank, CA : Turner Entertainment Co. : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2007]

Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1964.
Based on the short story: Beware of the dog / Roald Dahl; and, a story by Carl H. Hittleman and Luis H. Vance.
Special features: theatrical trailers for 36 hours, Up periscope and The Americanization of Emily.

Summary: The clock is ticking for the Nazis trying to dupe Jefferson Pike (James Garner) into giving up war secrets. They pose as U.S. physicians to convince the supposedly amnesiac Pike to unlock his memory by recalling his last assignment: planning for D-Day.

OCLC #: 123377986

Added: 9/25/2013

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Beau Geste

Call number: VHS 01744

Director/Distributor: Gary Cooper; Ray Milland; Percival Christopher Wren; Paramount Pictures, inc.;

Format: VHS

Language: English

Publisher: MCA Home Video, ©1988.

Notes: Released: 1939

             Runtime: 114 Mins.

Summary: Beau, John, and Digby Geste are three inseparable, adventurous brothers who haven been adopted into the wealthy household of Lady Brandon. When money in the uppercrust household grows tight, Lady Brandon is forced to sell her most treasured jewel the mighty “Blue Water” sapphire. The household gets it out for one final look, the lights go out and it vanishes stolen by one of the brothers, no doubt. That night, Beau, Digby, and John each “confess” and slip out, John leaving behind Isabel, whom he loves. They all join the Foreign Legion, and Beau and Digby are split from John and put under the command of the ruthless and sadistic Sergeant Markoff. Things begin to get hairy as the rest of the Legionaires plot a mutiny against Markoff, in the midst of an attack by Arab hordes.

OCLC #: 17784896

Added: 01/18/13 by Reece Potter

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Barry Lyndon

Call number: VHS 01743

Director/Distributor: Stanley Kubrick, Ryan O’Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Harry Krueger

Format: VHS

Language: English

Publisher: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, ©1987.

Notes: Released: 1975

             Runtime: 185 Mins.

Summary: An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband’s position in 18th Century aristocracy.

OCLC #: 17602038

Added: 01/18/13 by Reece Potter

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