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1) The Bomb
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THE BOMB explores the immense power of nuclear weapons, the perverse appeal they have, and the profound death wish at the very heart of them. The 55 minute film takes you through the strange, compelling, and unsettling reality of nuclear weapons today. An exploration of the immense power of nuclear weapons, the perverse appeal they have, and the profound death wish at the very heart of them.
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An unvarnished perspective of the intensity and paradoxes of war shot by Marine Corps videographer Miles Lagoze. This ingeniously edited documentary is composed solely of footage the Corps did not intend for you to see. Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary Feature at the **Dallas International Film Festival.** *"...Lagoze detonates any lingering illusions of military heroism." - Lawrence Garcia, **AV Club*** *"An unfiltered tour-de-force...
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Harry Potter volume 5
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
Widescreen ed.
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Lord Voldemort has returned, but the ministry of Magic is doing everything it can to keep the wizarding world from knowing the truth. They appoint Ministry official Dolores Umbridge as the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts. When Umbridge refuses to teach practical defensive magic, Ron and Hermione convince Harry to secretly train a select group of students for the wizarding war that lies ahead. A terrifying showdown between good...
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Full screen.
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An epic documentary bringing life to America's most destructive - and defining - conflict. Here is the saga of celebrated generals and the ordinary soldiers. A heroic and transcendent president and a country that had to divide itself in two in order to become one again.
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Harold Krebs (Richard Backus) went off to fight World War I, "the war to end all wars." Then he came home…and found himself wishing it had never ended. To Ernest Hemingway (Pulitzer Prize Winner), the hardest part of the war was coming home. This is the essence of "Soldier's Home" -a story with many similarities to the recent experience of our veterans. Harold finds he doesn't fit in anymore. He's outgrown his old life and now needs peace and...
6) Room 514
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A beautiful, determined Israeli military investigator fights for justice when she interrogates ruthless young officers accused of brutalizing Arab civilians. Her only escape is a torrid affair with a fellow officer.
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The Lords Of Discipline is a riveting and suspenseful tale of human triumph. David Keith (An Officer And A Gentleman) stars as Will McClean, a fine, disciplined cadet whose uncompromising integrity leads him to defy and reject the rules of conduct that have shaped him. The year is 1964. Carolina Military Institute has admitted, for the first time, a young black man into its freshman class. Will is asked to protect him from The Ten - a secret society...
8) Fort McCoy
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In the summer of 1944, Frank Stirn moves with his family to become a barber for the American Army at a Nazi POW camp in Fort McCoy, Wisconsin. But even in rural America, thousands of miles from the battlefield, war can still change people.
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A documentary film created from footage of World War I from the Imperial War Museum, Geat Britain, and using archival audio from BBC and Imperial War Museum interviews of British servicemen who fought in the war; the filmmakers use modern production techniques, including restoration work, colorizing, sound effects, and voice acting, and retiming of frame rates, to make the experience of ordinary soldiers seem more accessible to contemporary viewers....
11) Sharpe's gold
Pub. Date
c1995
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Hunting for lost Aztec gold, Sharpe runs afoul of a local partisan leader (Folk); Wellington's cousin Bess (Linehan), searching for her lost gold-prospecting husband, shows up with her daughter (Ashbourne) and gets mixed up in the mess.
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2015
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Full UK - length edition.
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In a tented field hospital on the coast of France, doctors, nurses, and volunteers work together to heal the bodies and souls of men wounded in the trenches of WWI. The hospital is a frontier: between the battlefield and home front but also between the old rules, hierarchies, class distinctions, and a new way of thinking.
13) Bombers B-52
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Karl Malden is an Air Force sergeant contemplating retirement from the service, but complicating his decision is daughter Natalie Wood's romance with pilot Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
14) Afghan Luke
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This gripping drama follows a battlefield journalist (Nick Stahl) who returns to Afghanistan in search of more proof after his editors refuse to run his story about Canadian soldiers mutilating corpses. The trip quickly becomes a dangerous journey for both truth and personal justice.
Pub. Date
[2022]
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After more than 30 years of service as one of the navy's top aviators, Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him. Training a detachment of graduates for a special assignment, Maverick must confront the ghosts of his past and his deepest fears, culminating in a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those who choose to fly it.
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[2016]
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TURN: Washington's Spies takes viewers into the stirring and treacherous world of the Revolutionary War and America's first spy ring. In this season, the Patriot cause has suffered the crushing loss of their capital city of Philadelphia to the British. Washington's army faces desertion and death, and the embattled General faces conspirators from within his own ranks, as well as personal demons he keeps hidden from the men he leads. Washington s closest...
17) The Big Lift
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Experiences of two Air Force sergeants during the 1948 Berlin Airlift.
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Not every pilot can guide his aircraft from a wave-tossed deck, seek out targets over unfamiliar Korean terrain, then return to what looks like a speck in the sea. Naval Reservist Harry Brubaker (William Holden) can. This masterful story of a war-weary World War II veteran who must leave his family to fight again combines moving drama with surefire, bombs-away aerial action. Also starring Grace Kelly as his loving, luminescent wife.
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[2016]
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It takes viewers into the stirring and treacherous world of the Revolutionary War and America's first spy ring. This season returns with an epic ten-episode season that builds towards one of the most notorious moments in American history, the treasonous defection of Benedict Arnold. Behind enemy lines on Long Island, Abe Woodhull is a spy for the Patriots, reporting directly to George Washington. Embedded within the Continental Army, Benedict Arnold...
20) The hurt locker
Pub. Date
[2010]
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US Army Staff Sergeant Will James, Sergeant J.T. Sanborn and Specialist Owen Eldridge comprise the Bravo Company's bomb disposal unit stationed in Baghdad. James is the tech team leader. When he arrives on the scene, Bravo Company has thirty-nine days left on its current deployment, and it will be a long thirty-nine days for Sanborn and Eldridge whose styles do not mesh with that of their new leader. James' thrill of the dismantlement seems to be...
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