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Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
U.S. Marine Sergeant Logan Thibault returns from his third tour of duty in Iraq with the one thing he credits with keeping him alive - a photograph he found of a woman he doesn't even know. Learning her name is Beth and where she lives, he shows up at her door, and ends up taking a job at her family-run local kennel. Despite her initial mistrust and the complications in her life, a romance develops between them, giving Logan hope that Beth could be...
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (761 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Gomer's misadventures in the Marine Corps and his country bumpkin ways may bring out the worst in his hard-nosed, blustering drill instructor, but deep down inside, Sgt. Carter can't help but be affected by Gomer's huge heart and noble intentions.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (760 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Gomer Pyle, the goofy local mechanic on "The Andy Griffith show" has left Mayberry to join the Marines. Stationed at Camp Henderson in California, his country bumpkin ways repeatedly get him into hot water with his hilariously short-fused superior, Sergeant Vince Carter, as he foils every attempt by Carter to keep him in line. But as much as Carter wants to dislike Pyle, they can't help but develop a special kinship.
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (754 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Gomer Pyle gets himself in and out of one sidesplitting fix after another, much to the exasperation of his bullheaded drill instructor, the thunderous Sgt. Carter. In spite of it all, it's Gomer's kind heart and cockeyed innocence that never fail to win over his cantankerous superior and beloved platoon.
5) The D.I
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Drill instructor Sgt. Moore has the job of turning raw Marine recruits into lean, mean fighting machines, but can he reform both one young man who can't seem to take the pressure, and his own private life?
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (749 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Gomer Pyle is a well-intentioned, gentle but not very bright recruit from Mayberry, North Carolina. Stationed at Camp Henderson Marine Base, Gomer's naivete and innocence often get him into hot water, and it's usually at the hands of his extremely vocal superior, Sgt. Carter.
7) Beachhead
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Four marines embark on a hazardous island mission to verify reports about a secret Japanese minefield. The intelligence comes from a French planter -- who may or may not be a spy -- and his beautiful daughter. If their story is true, can the marines outgun their enemies, make it through the treacherous jungle and rendezvous with American forces in time to prevent disaster?"--Container
8) Beach red
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (approximately 105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Young marines on a WWII tour of duty learn that 'war is hell' in this graphic, unflinching and honest drama of men in combat. The movie marked a real breakthrough in American war picture production by taking pains to show the terror on both sides. After a gory battle to take the beach on a Japanese-held island in the Pacific, Captain MacDonald asks Sergeant Honeywell to lead a squad on a perilous journey deep into the jungle to find the enemy's stronghold....
9) Semper fi
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD + 1 Blu-ray (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A police officer who serves in the Marine Corps Reserves is faced with an ethical dilemma when it comes to helping his brother in prison.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
None
Description
When Skeet Burns joins the U.S. Marines, he winds up under Sergeant O'Hara, the toughest leatherneck in the Corps., and both men fall for Navy nurse Norma Dale. When they're stationed in the Philippines, Skeet's dalliance with a native girl tips the scale in O'Hara's favor. Reassigned to China, the two must put their differences aside when they're ordered to Hangchow to rescue Norma and the nurses from a bandit leader, whose gang has invaded the city....
Publisher
Republic Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Stryker (Wayne), a hard-nosed Marine sergeant prepares a company of recruits for combat in World War II's Pacific Theater. The new unit's training is soon put to the test in a full-scale battle against the Japanese on Iwo Jima. The famous flag-raising on Mt. Suribachi is depicted near the film's conclusion.
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's World War II. Major Dan Kirby (John Wayne) is hard on his marines. His subordinate Captain Carl Griffin thinks the Major is overdoing it, but Kirby proves that there is a method to his madness after all.
14) Combat obscura
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
For years, Miles Lagoze served in Afghanistan as a Combat Camera, shooting footage and editing videos for Marine Corps recruiting purposes. In this devastating film, Lagoze assembles his own footage and that of his fellow combat cameramen into a never-before-seen look at the daily life of Marines from the ultimate insider's point of view.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Formats
Description
For years, there have been documented cases of UFO sightings around the world. But in 2011, what were once just sightings will become a terrifying reality when Earth is attacked by unknown forces. As people everywhere watch the world's great cities fall, Los Angeles becomes the last stand for mankind in a battle no one expected. It's up to a Marine staff sergeant and his new platoon to draw a line in the sand as they take on an enemy unlike any they've...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Blu-ray.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (109 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Haunted by his personal demons, Marine Sgt. John Stryker is both hated and feared by his men, who see him as a cold-hearted sadist. But when their boots hit the beaches, they begin to understand the reason for Stryker's rigid form of discipline, as he leads them into one of the most treacherous battles in the Pacific.
Publisher
Arbelos
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
2 Blu-rays : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Over the past 30 years 'cinematic sorceress' Nina Menkes has produced a visually stunning and uncompromising body or work that stands alone in the landscape of American Independent cinema. Beginning with a quartet of films --- The Great Sadness of Zohara (1983), Magdalena Viraga (1986), Queen of Diamonds (1991) and The Bloody Child (1996) --- that Menkes produced, wrote, directed, and shot, all of which star her sister and early muse Tinka Menkes,...
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (approximately 517 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Judge Priest: Judge Priest, a proud Confederate veteran, uses common sense and considerable humanity to dispense justice in a small town in the Post-Bellum Kentucky.
Doctor Bull: Doc Bull, a no-nonsense country doctor who has served his community for decades, fights small-town prejudice and provincialism in several crises.
Steamboat round the bend: A Louisiana con man enters his steamboat into a winner-take-all race with a rival while trying to...
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (approximately 502 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Cover girl: Rusty Parker is a dancer who unexpectedly becomes a magazine cover model. Danny McGuire, her dance partner and boyfriend, becomes jealous when her rising celebrity clashes with his ambition.
Tonight and every night: A photographer for Life magazine comes to London to do a story on a local theater troupe which never missed a performance during World War II. Flashbacks also reveal the backstage love affair between star Rosalind Bruce and...
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of the five Marines and one Navy corpsman that were forever immortalized as a symbol of WWII by raising the American flag at the battle of Iwo Jima. When Joe Rosenthal's photograph of the event becomes a symbol of hope for the families at home, the three surviving men are pulled from combat and sent on a tour across America to raise desperately-needed bond money. It is a trip that brings out the truths of both that symbolic act, and of their...
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