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1) Defiance
Author
Publisher
Distributed to the book trade by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of the five Marines and one Navy corpsman that were forever immortalized as a symbol of WWII by raising the American flag at the battle of Iwo Jima. When Joe Rosenthal's photograph of the event becomes a symbol of hope for the families at home, the three surviving men are pulled from combat and sent on a tour across America to raise desperately-needed bond money. It is a trip that brings out the truths of both that symbolic act, and of their...
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
U.S. Marine Sergeant Logan Thibault returns from his third tour of duty in Iraq with the one thing he credits with keeping him alive - a photograph he found of a woman he doesn't even know. Learning her name is Beth and where she lives, he shows up at her door, and ends up taking a job at her family-run local kennel. Despite her initial mistrust and the complications in her life, a romance develops between them, giving Logan hope that Beth could be...
Publisher
Peace Arch Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Four high school football stars join the Marines and go to Iraq. Not all of them come home. Those that do face guilt, problems of everyday life, and a society that doesn't know what to do with them as they struggle to blend in.
5) Semper fi
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When his reckless younger brother is given an unfair prison sentence, a Marine Corps reservist is torn between his by-the-book code and loyalty to family.
8) Windtalkers
Language
English
Description
A battle-weary Marine is assigned to guard - and ultimately befriends - a young Navajo soldier who has been trained to be a code talker. This code, the Navajo code, and the men who knew the code, were to be guarded as they went into action. It was the unspoken duty of the Marine to kill the Navajo soldier before he could be taken prisoner of war by the Japanese. This is the one wartime code that was never broken by the enemy.
Publisher
A24 Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In Elegance Bratton's deeply moving film inspired by his own story, a young, gay Black man, rejected by his mother and with few options for his future, decides to join the Marines, doing whatever it takes to succeed in a system that would cast him aside. But even as he battles deep-seated prejudice and the grueling routines of basic training, he finds unexpected camaraderie, strength, and support in this new community, giving him a hard-earned sense...
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Romania, 1999. As the Kosovo conflict rages, a no-nonsense U.S. military officer leads a platoon of Marines and a shipment of top-secret communications equipment toward a NATO outpost. But when a corrupt stationmaster halts their train, the soldiers find themselves the unexpected guests of an impoverished village filled with stubborn bureaucracy, beguiling young women, and odd pop culture celebrations.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
They drive by night: Paul Fabrini and his brother Joe are wildcat drivers--men who buy their trucks on installment plans and then worry that loan sharks will repossess their trucks. As they drive their truck over rough California roads, night after night, their rough life gets even tougher when they get involved with murder and the mob.
Action in the North Atlantic: Humphrey Bogart stars in this exciting drama about a Merchant Marine vessel's fight...
13) The marine
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
John Triton has just been discharged from Iraq. His wife, Kate, is kidnapped by a group of diamond thieves on the run. Now Triton needs to save her and goes on a chase through the South Carolinian wilderness in order to save her. The only, and best, weapon that Triton has is himself.
15) Megan Leavey
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Based on the true life story of a young Marine Corporal whose unique discipline and bond with her military combat dog saved many lives during their deployment in Iraq. When she is assigned to clean up the K9 unit after a disciplinary hearing, Leavey identifies with a particularly aggressive dog, Rex, and is given the chance to train him. Over the course of their service, Megan and Rex completed more than 100 missions until an IED explosion injures...
16) Jarhead
Language
English
Formats
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...
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Gomer Pyle, the goofy local mechanic on "The Andy Griffith show" has left Mayberry to join the Marines. Stationed at Camp Henderson in California, his country bumpkin ways repeatedly get him into hot water with his hilariously short-fused superior, Sergeant Vince Carter, as he foils every attempt by Carter to keep him in line. But as much as Carter wants to dislike Pyle, they can't help but develop a special kinship.
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Gomer Pyle gets himself in and out of one sidesplitting fix after another, much to the exasperation of his bullheaded drill instructor, the thunderous Sgt. Carter. In spite of it all, it's Gomer's kind heart and cockeyed innocence that never fail to win over his cantankerous superior and beloved platoon.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
pc2008.
Language
English
Description
Gomer Pyle (Jim Nabors), the well-intentioned, gentle but not very bright rectuit from Mayberry, North Carolina, returns in Season Four of his "tour-of-duty." Stationed at Camp Henderson Marine Base, Gomer's naivete and innocence often get him into hot water and it's usually at the hands of his extremely vocal superior, Sergeant Carter (Frank Sutton). This 5-disc set includes 30 newly remastered episodes loaded with laughs.
20) Generation kill
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A dramatization based on Evan Wright's experiences as an embedded reporter with the United States Marine Corps in 2003. Presents a uniquely epic and intimate portrait of the first 40 days of the Iraq war from the perspective of the Marines of the First Recon Battalion.
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