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Publisher
Subterrestrial Distribution Limited
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In the Middle East, a new insurgency has begun, along with a proliferation of Monsters in the region. To combat the increased threat, the US Army drafts new recruits, and the story follows four fresh recruits from Detroit on a special mission: to rescue five soldiers who have been lost deep in the Infected Zone. The main focus of their mission is human, but they are instructed to take down any creatures that get in the way along the route.
2) Stripes
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
When John Winger loses his apartment, girlfriend and job all in one day, he does what any red-blooded American would do: he joins the army and nearly starts WWIII.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In this original comedy that combines live action with animation, Zorn - Conqueror of the tribes of Agon and Decapitator of the dark herdsmen of Grith - has fought in countless battles, but now he is traveling to suburbia to reconnect with his estranged, 17-year-old son, Alan.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Language
English
Description
Inman, a young Confederate soldier, who is injured during the explosive 1864 battle of Petersburg, Virginia, is struggling to make his way home to Cold Mountain, NC, where his beloved Ada awaits him. In Inman's absence, Ada befriends Ruby, who helps her keep up her late father's farm. Meanwhile, in his travels, Inman encounters a menagerie of interesting and colorful characters.
Publisher
Hallmark
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A military widow rents an apartment to an Army Captain recovering from an injury in battle. As they team up to save the town's military museum with a Christmas fundraising event, these two 'wounded birds' find themselves falling in love, and being healed by the magic of Christmas.
7) Fury
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theatre, a battle-hardened army sergeant named Wardaddy commands a Sherman tank and her five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Outnumbered and outgunned, and with a rookie soldier thrust into their platoon, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany.
8) Danger close
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
August 18, 1966 South Vietnam, for three and a half hours, in the pouring rain, amid the mud of a rubber plantation called Long Tan, Major Harry Smith and his company of 108 young and inexperienced Australian and New Zealand soldiers are fighting for their lives, holding off an overwhelming force of 2,000 battle-hardened Viet Cong. With their ammunition running out, each man begins to search for his own answer and the strength to triumph over an uncertain...
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When young soldier Dalton Joiner finds out that his girlfriend Jane back home has dumped him, he vows to sneak out of Vietnam during his one-week leave to win her back. His best friend Mickey Wright will do anything to help his buddy out, as long as there might be a few girls along the way. In just seven days they must get to the States, change Jane's mind and make it back to the war without getting caught.
11) The card counter
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
William Tell is a gambler and former serviceman who sets out to reform a young man seeking revenge on a mutual enemy from their past. Tell just wants to play cards. His spartan existence on the casino trail is shattered when he is approached by Cirk, a vulnerable and angry young man seeking help to execute his plan for revenge on a military colonel. Tell sees a chance at redemption through his relationship with Cirk.
Publisher
Microsoft Corporation
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
A live-action digital series based on the best selling Xbox franchise. A group of cadets are training to be the next generation of soldiers in the United Nations Space Command's (UNSC) war with the outer colonial planets. Cadet Thomas Lasky comes to terms with his potential as a military leader. Halo fans are given insight into Lasky's origin story.
13) The outsider
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Recalled from the battlefields of Afghanistan to identify the remains of his daughter, British mercenary Lex Walker arrives in Los Angeles to find that the body in the morgue belongs to a stranger. With his daughter now missing, Walker convinces a street-wise detective that his daughter is still alive and in danger. The two follow a trail of high-tech intrigue that leads them to his daughter2s former boss, a crooked cyber-millionaire who will do whatever...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
"When Lt. Colonel Nathaniel Serling is asked to review the posthumous candidacy of the first woman to receive a Medal of Honor, he finds himself plunged into an apparent cover-up surrounding the actions that led to her death. As he struggles to uncover the truth, he also finds himself forced to confront his own tormenting demons."--Container.
Publisher
Distributed by Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004], c1998
Language
English
Description
The story begins with World War II's historic D-Day invasion of Normandy beach. Once the men move beyond the beach, Captain John Miller must take his men behind the German lines to find Private James Ryan, whose three brothers have already been killed in combat. Faced with impossible odds, the men question their orders. Why are eight men risking their lives to save just one? Surrounded by the brutal realities of war, each man searches for his own...
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Guy Ritchie's The Covenant follows US Army Sergeant John Kinley (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Afghan interpreter Ahmed (Dar Salim). After an ambush, Ahmed goes to Herculean lengths to save Kinley's life. When Kinley learns that Ahmed and his family were not given safe passage to America as promised, he must repay his debt by returning to the war zone to retrieve them before the Taliban hunts them down first.
18) The contractor
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Involuntarily discharged from the Army, a Special Forces sergeant lands a contract with a private underground military force. When his very first assignment goes awry, the elite soldier finds himself hunted and on the run, caught in a dangerous conspiracy and fighting to stay alive long enough to get home and uncover the true motives of those who betrayed him.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Flirtatious blonde Trudy Kockenlocker is disappointed that her father, gruff town constable Ed Kockenlocker, won't let her go to an army dance. She outwits him by getting nerdy Norval Jones--who's had a crush on Trudy since they were teenagers--to take her to the movies, so she can slip out to the dance. The soldiers spike the lemonade and Trudy dances with a number of GIs. During one boogie-woogie number, Trudy's energetic partner tosses her in the...
20) Warrior queen
Publisher
WGBH Video
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
The story of Boudica, Queen of ancient Britain when it was a Roman province. Outraged at the plundering by Nero and Roman rulers, Boudica was victorious in battles at what are now St. Albans and Colchester. Finally in London her army was crushed.
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