Dalton Trumbo's Johnny got his gun

Dalton Trumbo's Johnny got his gun [videorecording] / Roxbury Entertainment; Arch Oboler Productions; producer, Bruce Campbell; novel and screenplay, Dalton Trumbo; director, Dalton Trumbo.

After a shell leaves his body mangled on the final day of World War I, young Joe Bonham lies trapped in a hospital bed. He is a fully conscious quadruple amputee who cannot speak, hear or see. He is left to wander within his own mind and goes between his harsh reality and memories of a happier life long gone. Delve into the mind of a man lost somewhere on the edges of sanity and insanity, life and death.

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Daresalam

Daresalam [videorecording] / La Sept ARTE ... [at al.]; produced by Pierre Javeaux; written by Issa Serge Coelo, Ismael Ben-Cherrif and Pierre Guillaume; directed by Issa Serge Coelo.

In a small Central African village, boyhood friends Djimi and Koni have come of age under a post-colonial government that levies crippling taxes and legally robs local farmers of their meager crops. When impulsive Koni savagely attacks a visiting government official, the resulting massacre forces the two friends on a journey that will transform them from boys into men.

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The day after

The day after [videorecording] / ABC Circle Films presents; written by Edward Hume; directed by Nicholas Meyer.

A striking tale of what could happen after a nuclear war. Families try to survive in rural Kansas as radiation slowly kills everything around them.

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Destiny of a man = Destin d'un homme

Sud'ba cheloveka

Sud'ba cheloveka [videorecording] = Destiny of a man = Destin d'un homme / Mosfil

Through flashbacks, a man describes to a stranger the events which shaped his life, especially WWII.

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Disarm

Disarm [videorecording] / Indiepix Films presents a film by NSP Films & Toolbox DC; directors, Brian Liu, Mary Wareham.

Presents a contemporary view of the forces challenging the achievement of a landmine-free world.

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Downfall

Downfall [videorecording] / Constantin Film and Bernd Eichinger present a production of Constantin Film in co-production with NDR, WDR, Degeto Film, ORF and Eos Production and Rai Cinema, an Oliver Hirschbiegel film, a Bernd Eichinger production; produced by Bernd Eichinger; written by Bernd Eichinger; directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel.

Takes you into Hitler's bunker, in 1945, during the brutal and harrowing last days of the Third Reich. Seen through the eyes of Hitler's infamous secretary Traudl Junge, optimism crumbles into grim realization and terror as it becomes clear that Germany's defeat is inevitable. As the Russian army circles the city, the dimly lit halls of the underground refuge become an execution chamber for the Fuhrer and his closest advisors.

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Drums along the Mohawk

Drums along the Mohawk [videorecording] / Twentieth Century-Fox presents; Darryl F. Zanuck's production; screenplay by Lamar Trotti and Sonya Levien; directed by John Ford.

Set during the widening struggle for American independence. A newly married couple, homesteading in New York's Mohawk Valley, is driven into a nearby fort by repeated attacks from Indian tribes allied with the British.

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Duck you sucker

Duck you sucker [videorecording] / story by Sergio Leone and Sergio Donati; screenplay by Luciano Vincenzoni, Sergio Donati, Sergio Leone; produced by Fulvio Morsella for Rafran Cinematografica, Euro International Films; directed by Sergio Leone.

"Juan Miranda (Steiger) is a cigar-chomping, salt-of-the-earth peasant with a Robin Hood heart. John Mallory (Coburn) is a dynamite-tossing Irish revolutionary who has fled to Mexico to practice his skills. Together, they're a devilishly volatile mix of anti-establishment philosophies and violent tendencies as they attempt to liberate political prisoners, defend their compatriots against a well-equipped militia and risk their lives on a train filled with explosives" -- Container.

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Edward the King. Volume 1

Edward the King. Volume 1 [videorecording] / an ATV colour production; Granada International; written by David Butler; directed by John Gorrie.

Though he waited nearly 60 years to become king, and reigned for only nine, Edward VII changed the British monarchy forever. Derided by his mother, Queen Victoria, as frivolous and untrustworthy, Edward was in fact a skillful, determined diplomat who longed to be useful to his country. This miniseries dramatizes his life from frustrated prince and inveterate philanderer to loving father and respected statesman.

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Edward the King. Volume 2

Edward the King. Volume 2 [videorecording] / an ATV colour production; Granada International; written by David Butler; directed by John Gorrie.

Though he waited nearly 60 years to become king, and reigned for only nine, Edward VII changed the British monarchy forever. Derided by his mother, Queen Victoria, as frivolous and untrustworthy, Edward was in fact a skillful, determined diplomat who longed to be useful to his country. This miniseries dramatizes his life from frustrated prince and inveterate philanderer to loving father and respected statesman.

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