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3) Aloha
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A celebrated military contractor returns to the site of his greatest career triumphs, the US Space program in Honolulu, Hawaii, and reconnects with a long-ago love while unexpectedly falling for the hard-charging Air Force watchdog assigned to him.
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Language
English
Description
Kathy gets evicted from her home for failing to pay a tax she never should have been charged to pay in the first place. The house is swiftly put up for auction and bought by a former military officer from Iran named Behrani. When legal efforts fail her, Kathy turns to a sympathetic cop who wants out of a loveless marriage and who is willing to step over legal boundaries if it might give him the fresh start he is so badly craving
Author
Language
English
Description
Harold Krebs (Richard Backus) went off to fight World War I, "the war to end all wars." Then he came home…and found himself wishing it had never ended. To Ernest Hemingway (Pulitzer Prize Winner), the hardest part of the war was coming home. This is the essence of "Soldier's Home" -a story with many similarities to the recent experience of our veterans. Harold finds he doesn't fit in anymore. He's outgrown his old life and now needs peace and...
6) Room 514
Author
Language
עברית
Description
A beautiful, determined Israeli military investigator fights for justice when she interrogates ruthless young officers accused of brutalizing Arab civilians. Her only escape is a torrid affair with a fellow officer.
7) Fort McCoy
Author
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1944, Frank Stirn moves with his family to become a barber for the American Army at a Nazi POW camp in Fort McCoy, Wisconsin. But even in rural America, thousands of miles from the battlefield, war can still change people.
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Korean
Description
Two young South Korean soldiers in special forces are assigned dangerous overseas missions, often in remote foreign lands. Their military life makes it difficult to maintain long-term romantic relations. One falls in love with a physician while the other with the daughter of the commanding general.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
It takes viewers into the stirring and treacherous world of the Revolutionary War and America's first spy ring. This season returns with an epic ten-episode season that builds towards one of the most notorious moments in American history, the treasonous defection of Benedict Arnold. Behind enemy lines on Long Island, Abe Woodhull is a spy for the Patriots, reporting directly to George Washington. Embedded within the Continental Army, Benedict Arnold...
Author
Language
English
Description
The Lords Of Discipline is a riveting and suspenseful tale of human triumph. David Keith (An Officer And A Gentleman) stars as Will McClean, a fine, disciplined cadet whose uncompromising integrity leads him to defy and reject the rules of conduct that have shaped him. The year is 1964. Carolina Military Institute has admitted, for the first time, a young black man into its freshman class. Will is asked to protect him from The Ten - a secret society...
11) The Equalizer 3
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Since giving up his life as a government assassin, Robert McCall has struggled to reconcile the horrific things he's done in the past and finds a strange solace in serving justice on behalf of the oppressed. Finding himself surprisingly at home in Southern Italy, he discovers his new friends are under the control of local crime bosses. As events turn deadly, McCall knows what he has to do: become his friends' protector by taking on the mafia.
12) Joe
Author
Language
English
Description
Bill, a wealthy businessman, confronts his daughter's drug-dealing boyfriend and in a fit of rage, Bill kills the dealer. Wandering the streets and pondering the ramifications of the murder on his life , he eventually winds up at a bar. There, he runs into a drunken, hate filled factory worker named Joe, who envies Bill's encounter and wants to participate in one himself.
13) The Equalizer 2
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Vigilante Robert McCall is continuing his life of helping ordinary citizens find justice in everyday situations before a close friend of his is murdered by a mysterious group of criminals for seemingly no reason. The plot shifts as he then makes it his goal to find out what happened to his friend and deliver justice on her behalf, sending him on a wild goose chase to figure out who these people are, why they would harm his friend, and if there is...
14) Afghan Luke
Author
Language
English
Description
This gripping drama follows a battlefield journalist (Nick Stahl) who returns to Afghanistan in search of more proof after his editors refuse to run his story about Canadian soldiers mutilating corpses. The trip quickly becomes a dangerous journey for both truth and personal justice.
15) Bombers B-52
Author
Language
English
Description
Karl Malden is an Air Force sergeant contemplating retirement from the service, but complicating his decision is daughter Natalie Wood's romance with pilot Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
After more than 30 years of service as one of the navy's top aviators, Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him. Training a detachment of graduates for a special assignment, Maverick must confront the ghosts of his past and his deepest fears, culminating in a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those who choose to fly it.
17) The Big Lift
Author
Language
English
Description
Experiences of two Air Force sergeants during the 1948 Berlin Airlift.
Author
Language
English
Description
Not every pilot can guide his aircraft from a wave-tossed deck, seek out targets over unfamiliar Korean terrain, then return to what looks like a speck in the sea. Naval Reservist Harry Brubaker (William Holden) can. This masterful story of a war-weary World War II veteran who must leave his family to fight again combines moving drama with surefire, bombs-away aerial action. Also starring Grace Kelly as his loving, luminescent wife.
Author
Language
English
Description
Steve McQueen delivers a powerful, gripping performance as a defiant loner whose skills as a soldier make him invaluable to his struggling platoon. In the heat of battle during World War II, McQueen and his fellow soldiers find themselves severely outnumbered as they hold off a Nazi advance along the Siegfried Line in France. Using only their ingenuity and bravery, they must bluff the Germans in order to buy some time…and save their lives. Don...
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