John Ford
Publisher
VCI Entertainment
Pub. Date
1943.
Language
English
Description
John Ford's "DECEMBER 7TH" was banned by the U.S. Government for nearly fifty years. This special edition is now available; presenting the fully restored, 84-minute version, with subtitles added to the controversial Japanese language sequences and a special "behind the scene" introduction. (A completely censored 34-minute version of the film was released and earned John Ford his fourth Academy Award.) This full-length version stars Walter Huston as...
3) Fort Apache
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
In the old west, a military martinet has trouble with his family as well as the Indians.
Series
Studio classic ; 17
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The migration of the Joad family to California from their dust-bowl farm in Oklahoma during the Great Depression.
Language
English
Formats
Description
John Ford's The Quiet Man celebrates one of Hollywood's most romantic and enduring epics. The first American feature to be filmed in Ireland's picturesque countryside, Ford richly imbued this masterpiece with his love of Ireland and its people. Sean Thornton is an American boxer who swears off fighting after he accidentally kills an opponent in the ring. Returning to the Irish town of his youth, he finds happiness when he falls in love with the fiery...
9) Stagecoach
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Nine travelers are thrust together in a perilous journey, a ride on a stagecoach destined for Apache territory.
Language
English
Description
With courage sinew and conflict: that s how the West was won. With three directors five interlocked stories some of movie history s most legendary action scenes and a constellation of acting talent: that s how How the West Was Won was filmed. Henry Fonda Gregory Peck Debbie Reynolds James Stewart and John Wayne are among the big names in this big saga following a family s move West through generations marked by the spectacles of a heart-pounding raging...
11) The Iron horse
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A young man pursues his murdered father's dream of the first transcontinental railroad, overcoming impossible odds, greedy officials, crooked Indians, and his father's killer to unite the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific railways.
Series
Language
English
Description
"Director [John] Ford brings us to the lawless frontier village of Shinbone, a town plagued by a larger-than-life nemesis, Liberty Valance (Lee Marvin). [James] Stewart plays the bungling but charming big-city lawyer determined to rid Shinbone of Valance, and he finds that he has an unlikely ally -- in the form of a rugged local rancher (John Wayne). The two men also share the same love interest (Vera Miles). But when the final showdown becomes inevitable,...
14) Mister Roberts
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
A comedy-drama about life aboard a Navy cargo ship in Pacific waters during World War II. The monotonous non-combat duty of a fun-loving crew is enlivened by a feud between the petty, intolerant captain and an impetuous, highly-respected cargo officer whose continuous efforts to get a transfer to combat duty are blocked by the captain.
15) December 7th
Series
Publisher
GoodTimes DVD
Pub. Date
[2001]
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.
Publisher
Topics Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
The National Archives has been responsible for the acquisition, preservation, and dissemination of permanent records of the United States government. Select materials have been assembled to produce War in the Pacific, representing an invaluable cenematicchronicle of the island battles and events leading up to ultimate Japanese surrender in 1945. Comprising thrilling newsreel footage, training films, and an Oscar-winning documentary from Hollywood...
17) The Searchers
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1956.
Language
English
Description
Wayne plays ex-Confederate soldier Ethan Edwards, an Indian-hater who believes more in bullets than words. He's out to find his young niece, who's been taken captive by the renegade Comanches who massacred her family.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Colonel Marlowe is in command of a motley assortment of 1200 Union volunteers whose task-- and apparent suicide mission-- is to infiltrate 300 miles of Southern territory and destroy the most strategic rail route in the Confederacy. Marlowe's life is complicated by his ferocious running feud with the company's surgeon, Major Kendall.
Publisher
Madacy Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Kamikaze: Documents the Pacific War, beginning with Japanese preparations for the bombing of Pearl Harbor and ending with U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, raising questions about why the U.S. was unaware that Pearl Harbor might be bombed.
December 7, 1941: A recreation that incorporates footage of the actual Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
20) Cheyenne autumn
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
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.
