Van Johnson
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
If you were born in the 50s your parents spurred the biggest story of the 20th century, the rise of the middle class, and millions of Americans left the cities for the suburbs to own a home of their own, a building boom was on. This was the decade where people built Bomb Shelters, if you were born in the early fifties you are a baby Boomer, the most influential and powerful group of Americans ever born.
Last time I saw Paris: Tragedy strikes an American...
Series
Language
English
Description
During WWII, onboard a ship in the U.S. Pacific Fleet, an event occurs unlike any that the United States Navy has ever experianced. A ship's captain is removed from his command by his executive officer in an apparent outright act of mutiny. As the trial of the mutineers unfold, it icomes to light that Captain Queeg was mentally unstable, perhaps even insane. The Navy must then decide if the Caine Mutiny a criminal act or an act of courage to save...
3) Brigadoon
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two Americans stumble upon a Scottish village which comes to life for only one day a century. One of the men falls in love with a townswoman, and has to decide where his heart lies.
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
Full screen presentation.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 126 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Susan moves with her father from America to England, she ends up falling in love with and marrying Sir John Ashwood, an English baronet. But, before their son is born, Susan loses her husband to World War I. When World War II breaks out years later, her son's own tour of duty begins.
Publisher
Platinum Disc Corporation
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approx. 300 min.) : sd., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hitler's SS: Portrait of evil: Over-all look at Hitler's regime, focusing on Helmut and Karl Hoffman from when they join the Nazi camp to when the Third Reich begins to collapse.
Eagles attack at dawn: Covert rescue mission to retrieve Israeli commandos from a Syrian prison, involving the Israeli Army and Security Services.
Commandos: U.S. Army Sgt. Sullivan trains a group of misfit soldiers to take over an Italian camp in North Africa, but some...
10) Battleground
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
Full Screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows a group of soldiers through the Battle of the Bulge.
13) A guy named Joe
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) sound, color; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The year was 1944. Overseas, World War II raged. Back home, a war-torn population suffered the loss of loved ones. Along came A Guy Named Joe, a fanciful, heart-warming tale based on the legend that pilots never die but return to guide fledgling airmen, and the public welcomed it with open arms.
15) Esther Williams
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Fullscreen ed.
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (506 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"America's mermaid" Esther Williams stars as a teacher at a women's college, a woman accused of being a marriage-breaker, a star shooting a film in the tropics, a woman in love with the captain of the South American polo team, and a woman who swims the English Channel and meets a handsome Frenchman.
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 4 hrs 20 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
If you were born in the 40s, your decade began with the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt to an unprecedented third term, the country was isolationist, American workers got the forty hour work week, Walt Disney Studios released Fantasia and Pinocchio, Nylon stockings went on sale for the first time, and Glen Miller wrote the decade's signature song, In the Mood.
Til the clouds roll by: based on the life and music of Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern...
Series
Publisher
Timeless Media Group
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (10 hrs.) : sd., b&w, Dolby digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Walk in the Sun : The trials of a World War II infantry company from the time they hit the beaches in Italy until they capture their crucial objective. Gung Ho! : "Carlson's Raiders," a specially-trained battalion of Marine jungle fighters, are determined to take the Pacific Island of Makin during WW II. Go For Broke : An inexperienced officer heads up a special Army attack force composed of Japanese-American volunteers. One of Our Aircraft is Missing...
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Widowed Navy nurse, Helen North, the mother of eight children, marries handsome Navy officer, Frank Beardsley, who is the father of ten.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Full screen remastered ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1620, a group of religious outcasts boarded the Mayflower in England and set sail for the New World, where they founded a tiny wilderness outpost that was the genesis for what would become the United States of America. This is their thrilling story, a tale of hardship and devotion, of storms, hunger and disease faced and defied.
