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1) Airplane
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
"Don't call me Shirley" edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this spoof of disaster movies, Ted Striker, an ex-Navy pilot, just got dumped by his long-time girlfriend Elaine Dickinson, who works as a stewardess. In his wish to get her back, he follows her aboard a plane, although he has had a deep aversion against anything winged since he lost several men in the war. During flight, he tries to make up with her again and again, but a crisis looms as the crew and many passengers get seriously ill due to a...
Author
Language
English
Description
"An epic story, set against the backdrop of World War I, from bestselling author Anita Shreve. When an American woman, Stella Bain, is found suffering from severe shell shock in an exclusive garden in London, surgeon August Bridge and his wife selflessly agree to take her in. A gesture of goodwill turns into something more as Bridge quickly develops a clinical interest in his houseguest. Stella had been working as a nurse's aide near the front, but...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inspector John Madden of Scotland Yard investigates the murder of a family in the post-World War I British countryside. A veteran of the war, Madden immediately recognizes the work of a soldier, but discovering the motive will take longer. First in a series.
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Trevor Stevenson, a well-known painter and highly decorated WWII hero, and his new bride Stella travel to Acapulco for their honeymoon. Soon young women are turning up dead in the area and Trevor, who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, is accused of the murders. He believes he may be responsible, since he has long stretches of amnesia where he cannot remember anything.
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 68 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Beginning with the first documented cases from the Civil War, the film examines occurrences of PTSD through two World Wars and Vietnam, as well as more recent cases involving soldiers who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. The stories are told through soldiers' revealing letters and journals; photographs and combat footage; first-person interviews with veterans of WWII, the Vietnam War, Operation Desert Storm, and Operation Iraqi Freedom; and interviews...
14) Regeneration
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the midst of WWI, Edinburgh's Craiglockhart Hospital is crowded with traumatized soldiers scarred by the horrors of battle. Dr. William Rivers, the hospital psychiatrist who hovers on the edge of a nervous breakdown as he attempts to 'cure' the incurable.
16) Soldiers don't go mad: a story of brotherhood, poetry, and mental illness during the First World War
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Drawing on rich source materials as well as his own deep understanding of trauma and war, the author documents the friendship between two great WWI poets and patients at Craiglockhart War Hospital for treatment of shell shock to investigate the roots of what we now know as PTSD.
17) Another world
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1999.
Edition
First Farrar, Straus and Giroux edition.
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xi, 324 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Dillon J. Carroll's Invisible Wounds examines the effects of military service, particularly combat, on the psyches and emotional well-being of Civil War soldiers-Black and white, North and South. Soldiers faced harsh military discipline, arduous marches, poor rations, debilitating diseases, and the terror of battle, all of which took a severe psychological toll. While mental collapses sometimes occurred during the war, the emotional damage soldiers...
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