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Black Hawk Down [Blu-ray]
: :Columbia Pictures Black Hawk Down (Blu-ray)From acclaimed director Ridley Scott ('Gladiator,' 'Hannibal') and renowned producer Jerry Bruckheimer ('Pearl Harbor,' 'Armageddon') comes a gripping true story about bravery, camaraderie and the complex reality of war. 'Black Hawk Down' stars an exceptional cast including Josh Hartnett ('Pearl Harbor'), Ewan McGregor ('Moulin Rouge!'), Tom Sizemore ('Saving Private Ryan'), Eric Bana ('Chopper'), William Fichtner ('The Perfect Storm'), Ewen Bremner ('Snatch') and Sam Shepard ('All The Pretty Horses'). In 1993, an elite group ...
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Father Goose
: :Cary Grant's penultimate feature before retirement was this cheerful 1964 effort to overturn his career-long image of urbane sophistication. As the unshaven, messy misanthrope Walter Eckland, a World War II-era beach bum who monitors Japanese air activity for the Australian navy in exchange for booze, Grant makes a convincingly hard-bitten, hard-drinking antihero. Until, that is, a pretty French schoolmistress (Leslie Caron) and her seven little charges (all girls) survive a nearby plane crash and invade Eckland's raunchy isolation. Directed ...
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Midway (Collector's Edition)
: :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. Outnumbered four to one, the Americans won a surprise victory and shattered the backbone of the Japanese Imperial Navy. This 1976 film feels more like a history lesson than a drama, but World War II buffs will appreciate the attention to historical fact ...
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Patton [Blu-ray]
: :A critically acclaimed film that won a total of eight 1970 Academy Awards (Including Best Picture) Patton is a riveting portrait of one of the 20th century's greatest military geniuses. One of it's Oscars went to George Patton the only Allied general truly feared by the Nazis. Charismatic and Flamboyant Patton designed his own uniforms sported ivory-handled six-shooters and believed he was a warrior in past lives. He outmanuevered Rommel in Africa and after D-Day led his troops ...
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Full Metal Jacket (Deluxe Edition) [Blu-ray]
:Description:Marine recruits endure basic training under a leather-lunged D.I., then plunge into the hell of Vietnam. Matthew Modine heads a talented ensemble in this searing look at a process that turns people into killers. essential video:Stanley Kubrick's 1987, penultimate film seemed to a lot of people to be contrived and out of touch with the '80s vogue for such intensely realistic portrayals of the Vietnam War as Platoon and The Deer Hunter. Certainly, Kubrick gave audiences plenty of ...
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We Were Soldiers (Widescreen Edition)
: :Exploration of the courage, valor and loyalty among an elite American combat division that is sent to battle in Southern Vietnam.Genre: Feature Film-DramaRating: RRelease Date: 8-AUG-2006Media Type: DVD :Based on the book by Lt. Col. Harold Moore (ret.) and journalist Joseph Galloway, We Were Soldiers offers a dignified reminder that the Vietnam War yielded its own crop of American heroes. Departing from Hollywood's typically cynical treatment of the war, writer-director Randall Wallace focuses on the first engagement of ...
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In Harm's Way
: :Epic study on the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the effect it had on so many relationships.No Track Information AvailableMedia Type: DVDArtist: WAYNE/DOUGLAS/NEAL/TRYON/PRENTTitle: IN HARM'S WAYStreet Release Date: 05/22/2001DomesticGenre: ACTION / ADVENTURE essential video:Otto Preminger's sprawling World War II drama packs a lot into its 165 minutes, beginning with the attack on Pearl Harbor (which Preminger re-creates in amazing detail) and ending a couple of years later with America's return to the South Pacific in force. John ...
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The Last Samurai (Two-Disc Special Edition)
: :Epic Action Drama. Set in Japan during the 1870s The Last Samurai tells the story of Capt. Nathan Algren (Tom Cruise) a respected American military officer hired by the Emperor of Japan to train the country's first army in the art of modern warfare. As the Emperor attempts to eradicate the ancient Imperial Samurai warriors in preparation for more Westernized and trade-friendly government policies Algren finds himself unexpectedly impressed and influenced by his encounters with the Samurai which ...
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Patton (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
: :A critically acclaimed film that won a total of eight 1970 Academy Awards (Including Best Picture) Patton is a riveting portrait of one of the 20th century's greatest military geniuses. One of it's Oscars went to George Patton the only Allied general truly feared by the Nazis. Charismatic and Flamboyant Patton designed his own uniforms sported ivory-handled six-shooters and believed he was a warrior in past lives. He outmanuevered Rommel in Africa and after D-Day led his troops ...
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Kelly's Heroes
: :A group of soldiers set out to rob a bank and almost win World War II.Genre: Feature Film-Action/AdventureRating: PGRelease Date: 8-FEB-2005Media Type: DVD :This tongue-in-cheek 1970 variation on The Dirty Dozen looks less fresh than it did in the year of its release, but it still has some enjoyable moments. Clint Eastwood stars along with Donald Sutherland, Harry Dean Stanton, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, Carroll O'Connor, and Gavin MacLeod in the story of American soldiers who try to ...
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