Full metal jacket

Full metal jacket (Motion picture)

Vietnam war drama which begins with a depiction of the brutality of Marine Corps training and then shifts to Vietnam, focusing mainly on a group of Marines responding to the Tet Offensive of 1968.

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The general

The general [videorecording]; Cops; Playhouse.

[The general] A locomotive is beloved by its engineer, who sets out to win the Civil War single handedly. [The playhouse] A comedy in which Keaton plays a stage manager, an actor, a monkey and other parts. [Cops] A comedy of errors in which Buster Keaton attempts to win his sweetheart's hand in marriage by becoming a successful businessman. His exploits climax in a chase with an entire police precinct.

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Generation kill

Generation kill [videorecording].

Presents a 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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Gettysburg

Gettysburg [videorecording] / Turner Pictures presents a Mace/Neufeld/Robert Rehme presentation of an Esparza/Katz production; a film by Ronald F. Maxwell; screenplay by Ronald F. Maxwell; produced by Robert Katz, Moctesuma Esparza; directed by Ronald F. Maxwell; Gods and generals / an Antietam Filmworks production of a Ron Maxwell film in association with Exparza/Katz Productions, Rehme Productions, Inc., Mace Neufeld Productions; producer, Ronald F. Maxwell; written & directed by Ronald F. Maxwell.

Gettysburg: Civil War drama depicting the events and personal struggles of the Union and Confederate soldiers at the Battle of Gettysburg.

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Glory

Glory [videorecording] / TriStar Pictures presents a Freddie Fields production, an Edward Zwick film; produced by Freddie Fields; screenplay by Kevin Jarre; directed by Edward Zwick.

Based on the true story of the first black regiment to fight for the North in the Civil War. Robert Gould Shaw and Cabot Forbes are two idealistic young Bostonians that lead the regiment; Sgt. Maj. John Rawlins is the inspiration who unites the troops ; Pvt. Trip is a runaway slave who joins the regiment.

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Grave of the fireflies

Hotaru no haka

Hotaru no haka [videorecording] = Grave of the fireflies / Studio Ghibli; written and directed by Isao Takahata.

Two orphans in war-time Kobe, Japan, face fire-bombs, hunger, homelessness, and despair as the war and their lives come to an end.

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The great escape

The great escape [videorecording] / a Mirisch-Alpha picture; United Artists.

A high-security German prisoner-of-war camp in 1942 holds only known troublemakers and risk-takers, all of whom are determined to pull off the war's most daring escape.

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The greatest silence

rape in the Congo

The greatest silence [videorecording]: rape in the Congo / Jackson Films; in association with HBO Documentary Films and The Fledgling Fund; producer-director-cinematographer-editor, Lisa F. Jackson.

"Since 1998 a brutal war has been raging in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Over 4 million people have died, and many tens of thousands of women and girls have been systematically kidnapped, raped, mutilated and tortured by soldiers from both foreign militias and the Congolese army. Until now, the world has known nothing of their stories. A survivor of gang rape herself, Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Lisa F. Jackson has created an extraordinary film in which these brave women finally speak"--Container.

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Gunga Din

Gunga Din [videorecording] / RKO Radio Pictures, Inc; screenplay, Joel Sayre, Fred Guiol; producer/director, George Stevens.

Adventure story of three English soldier comrades battling the savage punjabs in India, and their lowly water-bearer, Gunga Din, who longs to be a soldier.

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Gunner palace

Gunner palace [videorecording] / Palm Pictures presents a NOMADOS film; produced, written and directed by Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein.

In the world's most dangerous war zone, 400 American soldiers carry out their mission from a bombed-out pleasure palace once owned by Saddam Hussein. Welcome to a place called "Gunner Palace" and experience what life is like for the soldiers who live there. For these war hardened soldiers "minor combat" involves everything from executing raids on suspected terrorists, enduring roadside bombs and mortar attacks from an enemy they never see to post-raid parties around the palace pool. This is their story which shows a side of the war not seen on the nightly news.

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