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Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
While working with the UN Forces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Marine Sgt. Brandon Beckett, son of renowned sniper Thomas Beckett, receives orders to rescue a European farmer trapped in the middle of rebel territory. When he and his men arrive at the farm, a sniper ambushes them, wounding Beckett and killing everyone else. With the help of his father's former protege, Beckett must learn to think like a sniper to track down the assassin...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle is sent to Iraq with only one mission: to protect his brothers-in-arms. His pinpoint accuracy saves countless lives on the battlefield. However, his reputation is also growing behind enemy lines, putting a price on his head and making him a prime target of insurgents. He is also facing a different kind of battle on the home front: striving to be a good husband and father from halfway around the world.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A sniper who leaves no trace is terrorizing the city, and Jane Halifax is approached by Commander Tom Saracen to help find the killer. Currently a professor of forensic psychiatry, it's been almost 20 years since Jane worked with the police. As a celebrated academic in a long-term relationship with Ben Sailor, a gifted musician, her life now seems complete, along with his daughter, Zoe. Does Jane want to change all that now? Ben is opposed to the...
4) Jarhead
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Follows "Swoff," a third-generation Marine enlistee, from a sobering stint in boot camp to active duty, sporting a sniper's rifle and a hundred-pound ruck on his back through the Middle East deserts. There is no cover from intolerable heat or from the Iraqi soldiers, who are always potentially just over the next horizon. Swoff and his fellow Marines sustain themselves with sardonic humanity and wicked comedy on blazing desert fields in a country they...
5) The wall
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Follows two soldiers pinned down by an Iraqi sniper, with nothing but a crumbling wall between them. Their fight becomes as much a battle of will and wits as it is of lethally accurate marksmanship.
6) The gunman
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A sniper on an unscrupulous slaying team, kills the minister of mines of the Congo. Terrier's successful kill shot requires him to go into hiding to safeguard himself and his team from revenge. Terrier goes back to the Congo years later, but soon discovers himself to be the target of a paid hit gang associated with the ministers assassination.
8) Shooter
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Bob Lee Swagger is a master marksman who has retreated from his duty as an off-the-books hired gun for the military. He has become disillusioned with his government, but finds that the government needs Swagger to scope out the location of a rumored attempt on the life of the president. A shadowy government operative begs Swagger to use his sniper's skills to out-fox the assassin. Ultimately he is double-crosses and framed for the attempted assassination....
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The extraordinary true story of Desmond Doss who, in Okinawa during the bloodiest battle of WWII, saved 75 men without firing or carrying a gun. He was the only American soldier in WWII to fight on the front lines without a weapon, as he believed that while the war was justified, killing was nevertheless wrong. As an army medic, he singlehandedly evacuated the wounded from behind enemy lines, braved fire while tending to soldiers and was wounded by...
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
We all use mathematics every day-- but in a world of body counts, multiple criminal masterminds, and percentages involving perpetrators who may act again, figures are especially valuable. This is the world of Numb3rs. Don Eppes is an FBI agent who recruits his mathematically gifted brother Charlie to help the Bureau solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles, thus tackling the most baffling criminal cases from two very distinctive perspectives....
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Police are baffled by random killings of women; Det. Sgt. Dave Bannion takes on a powerful crime syndicate; plans to rob a casino as a hoax by a group of friends go awry when one of them takes it very seriously; two hit men must explain the disappearanceof a heroin stash to their boss; a normally pragmatic hit man finds he has misgivings when his next job is to kill a woman who is about to give evidence against his boss.
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