John Ford
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Language
English
Description
Ransom Stoddard is a successful, but aging U.S. senator, who along with his wife, Hallie, returns to a small western town. They are there to attend the funeral of Tom Doniphon. A young local reporter presses Stoddard for an interview about why he has come to Doniphon's funeral and Doniphon begins to tell a story. Years ago he came to town as young newly-graduated attorney. He was bullied by Liberty Valance, a local tough outlaw, a gunman employed...
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
Collector's ed. ; Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An American prizefighter returns to Ireland in order to forget the past and live peacefully in his village birthplace. He falls in love with the hot-tempered sister of a belligerent neighbor, and trouble ensues over the payment of her dowry.
5) Fort Apache
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Full screen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The soldiers at Fort Apache may disagree with the tactics of their glory-seeking new commander. But to a man, they're duty bound to obey - even when it means almost certain disaster.
6) Rio Grande
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara are embroiled in an epic battle with the Apaches and each other.
Series
Studio classic volume 17
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Standard full screen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The migration of the Joad family to California from their dust-bowl farm in Oklahoma during the Great Depression.
8) December 7th
Series
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
[Standard full frame version]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
December 7th: Reconstructs the events at Pearl Harbor on the day of the Japanese attack. The fleet that came to stay: explains the invasion of Okinawa from the U.S. Navy point of view and illustrates the operation using scenes of the combat.
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 253 min.) : sound, black and white & color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Kamikaze: Documentary on the Pacific war begins with Japanese preparations for the bombing of Pearl Harbor and ends with the atomic bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Know your enemy: Japan: World War II documentary directed by Frank Capra that focuses on the war in the Pacific. December 7th: John Ford recreated the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. To the shores of Iwo Jima: Documentary depicting the American assault on the Japanese-held island...
10) Donovan's reef
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A straight-laced Bostonian comes searching for her father, a brawling ex-Navy man living on a South Pacific island.
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
Full screen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 in.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A man looks back on his life as a boy in a small Welsh mining town. His reminiscences reveal the disintegration of his closely knit family while capturing the sentiments and issues of their time.
12) The searchers
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Blu-ray version ; Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Civil War veteran spends five years on the trail of a Comanche raiding party that kidnapped his dead brother's daughters. Breathtaking scenery gives a picture of frontier families separated by miles of emptiness.
13) Stagecoach
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Full screen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A group of passengers with nothing in common are stuck inside a coach that is being attacked by bandits and Indians.
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The true story of Naval Commander Frank "Spig" Wead - from his first solo flight that ends in the admiral's swimming pool to his assignment as commander aboard an aircraft carrier in World War II.
15) "Mister Roberts"
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A comedy-drama about life aboard a Navy cargo ship in Pacific waters during the waning days of World War II. In the Navy Register it is listed as 'The Reluctant, ' but to its crew it is known as 'The Bucket.' The monotonous non-combat duty of a fun-loving crew is enlivened by a feud between the petty, intolerant martinet of a captain and an impetuous, highly-respected cargo officer whose continuous efforts to get a transfer to combat duty are blocked...
18) Rio Grande
Series
Publisher
Republic Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Collector's edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Cavalry unit on the Mexican border in the 1880s conducts a campaign against marauding Indians.
19) Cheyenne autumn
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (156 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three-hundred starving Cheyenne men, women and children, forcibly resettled in the barren wastelands of Oklahoma, set out on a desperate 1500-mile trek back to their Yellowstone homeland. A true-life story.