Howell D. Chickering
The first major poem in English literature, Beowulf tells the story of the life and death of the legendary hero Beowulf in his three great battles with supernatural monsters. The ideal Anglo-Saxon warrior-aristocrat, Beowulf is an example of the ... [... more]
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Bridge Too Far (Widescreen)
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Geoff Wootten
Waterloo holds a special place among the great battles of history. The climax of more than twenty years of war, it was indeed a close-run affair, matching two of the world's greatest generals - Napoleon and Wellington. This volume covers the ... [... more]
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Page Stegner
Moritz Thomsen's My Two Wars describes the great battles in his life - one against a rich, tyrannical father; the other against anti-aircraft gunners over Germany in 1943 and 1944. It was completed shortly before Thomsen's death, and with it he ... [... more]
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Patton
From Amazon.com essential video: One of the greatest screen biographies ever produced, this monumental film runs nearly three hours, won seven Academy Awards, and gave George C. Scott the greatest role of his career. It was released in 1970 when protest [... more]
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Corregidor
Actor: Ruby Dandridge Actor: Johnny Grant Actor: Frank S. Hagney Actor: Ted Hecht Actor: Frank Jaquet Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Binding: DVD Director: William Nigh EAN: 0089218428899 Format: Import Format: Black & White Format: NTSC Release Date: 2003-11-1 [... more]
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Hamburger Hill (Widescreen)
From Amazon.com: Because it was released less than a year after Oliver Stone's Platoon and within months of Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, this exceptionally well-made film about one of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War was largely [... more]
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Black Hawk Down (Widescreen 3-Disc Deluxe Edition)
From Amazon.com: Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down conveys the raw, chaotic urgency of ground-force battle in a worst-case scenario. With exacting detail, the film re-creates the American siege of the Somalian city of Mogadishu in October 1993, when a 45- [... more]
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Midway (Widescreen)
From Amazon.com: Six months after the Japanese destroyed the U.S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor, the Americans discovered the Japanese were planning to seize the Naval base at Midway Island--a perfect staging point for invading Hawaii or the mainland. [... more]
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Gung Ho!
The Raiders were trained to operate as a guerrilla outfit: I'll agree with some of the reviews about the movie being a little cornball. Col. Carlson was sent to China by our government as an observer. He was not a Communist as implied. The Chinese term & [... more]
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Pearl Harbor: Director's Cut (Widescreen) [4 Discs]
From Amazon.com: Sometimes bigger is actually better. Nearly matching the size of director Michael Bay's ego, this massive four-disc set is a veritable Pearl Harbor archive, and ironically, Bay's film remains the least interesting component. It's a [... more]
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Hell Is For Heroes
From Amazon.com: Don Siegel brings his tough worldview and crisp, no-nonsense direction to this quintessential World War II drama of an undermanned American platoon in France holding off a German advance through sheer bluff and bravery. Steve McQueen is [... more]
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