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81) Coming home
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
A Marine captain returns from Vietnam to find that his wife, a Veteran's Hospital volunteer, has become involved with a paraplegic Vietnam war veteran.
83) The mark
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The international economy is on the verge of collapse. To help the situation, a secret new technology capable of tracking one's personal data is to be announced at the G20 Summit in Berlin. On a flight from Bangkok to Berlin, former soldier Chad Turner is the world's first test subject for this technology. As Chad realizes his true mission, he must push himself to the breaking point to save himself and all on board.
84) The salvation
Language
English
Formats
Description
The mighty Mads Mikkelsen unleashes a maelstrom of bloodshed in the Wild West in this white-knuckle tale of revenge. When he lays waste to the scoundrels who killed his wife and son, a Danish ex-soldier incurs the wrath of a sadistic gang leader hell-bent on hunting him down. Exploding with eye-popping action, dazzlingly dramatic frontier landscapes, and a smoldering performance by Eva Green, The Salvation is a rip-roaring, blood-spattered saga of...
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Billy Jack is put on trial for two killings he committed in self-defense while protecting the Freedom School from small-town Arizona bigots. He is convicted and sent to prison, but the Freedom School thrives under Jean Roberts. When Billy Jack is paroled for good behavior, he returns home to explore his tribal spiritual heritage just as the school comes under fire from local officials. Third of four Billy Jack films.
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Deutsch
Description
In 1945, after three years in a concentration camp, the artist Susanne Wallner (Hildegard Knef) returns to a Berlin in ruins. Shot in the rubble of Berlin just a year after WWII, The Murderers Are among Us was the first film made in Germany after the war and has since become a classic antifascist and rubble film. Its film noir style successfully blends German expressionism with striking neorealism. Despite Susanne's unspeakable experiences, she is...
87) Jacknife
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
When Joe, a troubled Vietnam vet, visits his war buddy David, he finds him drunk with only his sister to keep him company. Can Joe help his friend get sober and give the sister the love she deserves?
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A comedy set in contemporary Burkina Faso, Tasuma tells the story of a World War II veteran who has been trying for more than 50 years to obtain his well-deserved military pension. Convinced that he will be paid shortly, Sogo buys a mill on credit for the village. But the money does not arrive.
89) Gran Torino
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Walt Kowalski is a widower who holds onto his prejudices despite the changes in his Michigan neighborhood and the world around him. Walt is a grumpy, tough-minded, unhappy old man, who can't get along with either his kids or his neighbors. He is a Korean War veteran whose prize possession is a 1972 Gran Torino he keeps in mint condition. When his neighbor, Thao, a young Hmong teenager, becomes pressured by his gang member cousin to steal Walt's Gran...
Pub. Date
2005, p1967.
Language
English
Description
The mysterious "half-Indian/half-white ex-Green Beret" Billy Jack single-handedly battles a rampaging bunch of rough bikers in a sleepy little California community.
Ex-Green Beret hapkido expert saves wild horses from being slaughtered for dog food and helps protect a desert "freedom school" for runaways.
92) Wise blood
Series
Criterion collection volume 470
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
U.S. Army war veteran Hazel Motes may not be a believing Christian, but he somehow makes observations about the state of a run-down country church and understands that there are ridiculous frauds on the streets. When a cab driver insists he looks like a preacher in his new hat, Hazel takes on the part. He starts his own new Church of Truth, without the crucified Jesus. His first disciple is an 18-year old simpleton with a 'prophetic gift.'
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
For Sergeant Adam Schumann (Miles Teller) -- and many soldiers like him -- the process of leaving combat back in Iraq was as seemingly simple as getting on that plane. But standing on the tarmac again in the arms of loved ones would turn out to be merely a first step in the long and exacting journey of actually returning home. Follow a group of U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq who struggle to integrate back into family and civilian life, while living...
95) The first grader
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The story of an 84-year-old Kenyan villager and ex-Mau Mau freedom fighter who fights for his right to go to school for the first time to get the education he could never afford. Based on a true story.
97) To be of service
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A feature-length documentary about veterans suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, who are paired with a service dog to help them regain their lives. Returning home for these vets is often plagued by depression and a painful disconnect from the world they once knew. The film follow these warriors after they get their dog as this deeply bonded friendship restores independence and the ability to love for the men and women who so courageously...
98) Conspiracy
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
After he's wounded during combat in Iran, MacPherson reluctantly agrees to join a fellow soldier at his Arizona ranch. But when MacPherson arrives, his friend has mysteriously disappeared and no one will admit to knowing him. When he discovers that a corporate entity is running illegal aliens out of town by any means possible, MacPherson becomes determined to find out the truth and he will not be stopped until all of those who were involved have been...
99) Road to thunder
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Follow twelve veterans on motorcycles as they make a very special journey from Sacramento, CA to Washington, D.C. Through wrong turns, terrible weather, and horrific accidents, the bikers ride on, each with their own reasons for heading to the nation's capital for 'Rolling Thunder,' the annual bike fest that sees one million bikers descend upon the capital for the cause of POWs and MIAs. The solitude of the open road and the unbreakable bond between...
100) White Christmas
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Two talented song-and-dance men team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business. They join forces with a sister act and trek to Vermont for a white Christmas. The men discover that the inn is run by their old army general who's now in financial trouble.
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