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      2019., 267, Paramount Call No: DVD Fic Catch22    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Catch-22 follows the adventures and misadventures of a U.S. air squadron in Italy during World War II. Yossarian (Christopher Abbott), a bombardier, whose frantic obsession every time he goes up on a mission is “to come down alive.” The real enemy for Yossarian and his rag-tag bunch of friends is the bureaucracy of the military, inverting logic at every turn.
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      -- Combat de Charlie Wilson
      (2008)., Adult, Universal Studios Call No: DVD Fic CharlieW   Edition: Widescreen ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: In the early 1980s, Charlie Wilson is best known as a womanizing US congressional representative from Texas. He seemed to be in the minor leagues, except for the fact that he is a member of two major foreign policy and covert-ops committees. However, once Charlie is prodded by his major conservative supporter, Joanne Herring, Wilson learns about the plight of the people who are suffering from the effects of the brutal Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. With the help of the maverick CIA agent, Gust Avrakotos, Wilson dedicates his canny political efforts to supply the Afghan mujahideen with the weapons and support needed to defeat the Soviet Union. Ultimately, Charlie learns that while military victory can be obtained, there are other consequences and prices to that fight that are ignored to everyone's sorrow. Based on a true story.
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      2007, p2006., Adult, Warner Home Video Call No: DVD Fic Departed   Edition: Widescreen ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: In South Boston, the state police force are waging a war on Irish-American organized crime. Undercover cop Billy Costigan is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate, which is run by gangland chief Frank Costello. Billy quickly gains Costello's confidence. Colin Sullivan is a hardened young criminal who has infiltrated the police department as an informer for the syndicate. Colin is rising to a position of power within the Special Investigation Unit. Each man becomes deeply consumed by his double life, gathering information about the plans and counter-plans of the operations he has penetrated. But when it becomes clear to both the mob and the police that there's a mole in their midst, Billy and Colin are suddenly thrust into danger. Afraid of being caught and exposed to the enemy, they each must race to uncover the identity of the other man in time to save himself.
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      [2008]., Adult, Warner Home Video Call No: DVD Fic Letters    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: In 1945, the United States and Japanese armies met on Iwo Jima. Decades later, hundreds of letters are unearthed from that stark island's soil. The letters give faces and voices to the men who fought there, as well as the extraordinary general who led them. Leading the defense is Lt. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi. With little defense other than sheer will and the volcanic rock of the island itself, Gen. Kuribayashi's unprecedented tactics transform what was predicted to be a quick and bloody defeat into nearly 40 days of heroic and resourceful combat.
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      2006, p1983., General, Twentieth Century Fox Call No: DVD Fic M*A*S*H 11   Edition: Collector's ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: M*A*S*H   Volume: 11Summary Note: "They were the 4077 MASH (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) unit stationed three miles from the front during the Korean War. Now, as reports that the war is almost over reach the 4077 with increasing frequency, the doctors and nurses begin to tentatively make plans about what they're going to do once they get back home. But until the guns fall silent, everyone must focus on taking care of the incoming wounded whose numbers increase as the fighting intensifies during the last weeks of the war. In the end, even though the canvas tents are torn down and the docs and nurses shipped stateside, one thing will always remain - the memory of undying laughter and boundless friendship in a time of war in a land far away from home."--Container.
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      -- MASH.
      c2003., General, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic M*A*S*H 4   Edition: Collector's ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: M*A*S*H   Volume: 4Summary Note: As the fourth season opens, Hawkeye returns from a 3-day R&R pass in Tokyo to find Trapper has been sent Stateside. Hawkeye races to the airport but arrives just as Trapperœs plane takes off. Too late to tell his friend good-bye, he in nevertheless just in time to welcome Trapperœs replacement, Captain B.J. Hunnicutt. Once Hawkeye gets over his anger and disappointment, he realizes B.J. is a worthy ally and takes the newcomer under his wing. The first thing you learn here, B.J., is that insanity is no worse than the common cold. Youœve heard of a military post? Ours is a compost. Only the wounded are new. The tedium is relieved only by the boredom. So pitch in, muddle through, pip-pip. Never mind the reason why, ours is but to do and not let em die.·Then Colonel Sherman T. Potter arrives to take over command of the 4077. Not only are Frank and Hot Lips outraged that Frank has lost his command so quickly, but Hawkeye and B.J. know that a lifer· Army commander could spell big trouble for them. But then a single reminiscence from Potter puts the docs at ease: Had a still on Guam in World War II. One night it blew up. Thatœs how I got my Purple Heart.·.
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      -- MASH.
      c2005., General, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic M*A*S*H 8   Edition: Collector's ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: M*A*S*H   Volume: 8Summary Note: "Scrub Up With The 4077! Relive your favorite M*A*S*H moments with this three-disc DVD Collector's Edition containing all 25 classic Season Eight episodes! Korea, 1950. They're a MASH (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) unit stationed three miles from the front lines during the Korean War. At times the only thing that keeps these docs sane after a long day in the OR is a zany night in "The Swamp" with a martini or two. Luckily, for the incoming wounded, these doctors and nurses also realize that a simple word of encouragement or a heartfelt round of laughter can be as important to their patients as a successful operation or carefully placed bandage."--Container.
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      -- Lieutenant Ottoman
      2017., Adult, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Ottoman    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "A beautiful, strong-willed woman, who, frustrated by ongoing injustice at home, leaves the United States after meeting Jude, an American doctor who runs a remote medical mission within the Ottoman Empire -- a world both exotic and dangerous, and on the brink of what is about to become the first World War. There, she finds her loyalty to Jude and the mission's founder tested when she falls in love with their perceived enemy, a lieutenant in the Ottoman Imperial Army. Now, with invading army at their doorstep, and the world about to plunge into all-out war, she must make a decision if she wants to be what other people want her to be, or to be herself."--DVDEmpire.com.