Catalog Search Results
Author
Formats
Description
Based on original interviews with a diverse cast of veterans of many conflicts from World War Two to Afghanistan bridged by that with a civilian who lived through the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, SOLDIERS engenders an awareness of what war is to those who fight it or are caught in it, trying to steer clear of politics or personal judgment. Do we really know what people in the military think and feel? How broad is our understanding of their...
Description
In the early days after the Civil War, Johnny, a vaudeville sharpshooter, tries to outrun his past as a hero in the Confederate Army. But when some ex-Confederate miners need protection from Unionists and corrupt lawmen who run Copper Canyon, Johnny decides to fight for justice. Along the way he wins the heart of a local beauty.
4) Atlantis
Description
In 2025, Eastern Ukraine is a desert unsuitable for human habitation, water a dear commodity brought in by trucks. A wall is being built on the border. Sergiy, a former soldier having trouble adapting to his new reality, meets Katya while she's on a humanitarian mission dedicated to exhuming the past. Together, they try to return to some sort of normal life in which they are also allowed to fall in love again.
5) The neighbor
Description
A man discovers the dark secrets that his neighbor is keeping in his cellar.
Description
Serving her country is an honor for Judith, an army nurse whose Vietnam veteran father taught her the importance of sacrifice. After a tour in Iraq, she returns home and combats severe port-traumatic stress in the form of nightmares. She and her father share a loving bond strengthened by military camaraderie. Her brothers shockingly rebuff her, a snub that intensifies when their father dies suddenly. Face with the task of healing her family and mind,...
Description
Eddie Rice is a highly decorated and wounded war veteran who has lost his memory. As he heads to Los Angeles to try and figure out his identity, two police detectives arrest him. Turns out he is really Eddie Riccardi, a former employee of the notorious mob boss Vince Alexander. No one seems happy to see Eddie again and when he₂s framed for murder, Eddie must find the real killer and clear his name by navigating through the crooked underbelly of...
10) The messenger
Description
Partnered with hard-line officer Tony Stone, Sgt. Will Montgomery is a battle-scarred war hero home from Iraq and newly assigned to the Army's Casualty Notification service. He faces this formidable mission while seeking comfort and healing back on the home front when he falls for the wife of a fallen soldier.
11) Breaking
Description
A Marine war veteran faces mental and emotional challenges when he tries to reintegrate back into civilian life.
12) Rio Lobo
Description
A former Union officer teams up with two ex-rebels to find the mastermind behind a series of train robberies.
Description
In this unearthed lost movie from 1990, a Vietnam Veteran Sal Bando, tortured by his past as a pool boy, returns home to Van Nuys, California, and a country he doesn't recognize, in which it seems only Mexicans run pool-cleaning companies. Bando sets off on a brutal mission to reclaim his 'rightful' vocation and enact revenge on the man who killed his wife and son.
16) The jacket
Description
A Gulf War veteran is wrongly accused of murder and placed in a mental institution where a controversial treatment enables him to see future events.
17) Jirga
Description
An ex-soldier returns to Afghanistan to find the family of a civilian he accidentally killed during the war. Seeking forgiveness, he puts his life in the hands of the village justice system.
19) Redemption
Description
A damaged ex-special forces soldier trapped in the criminal underworld is transformed into an avenging angel when an unexpected opportunity allows him to assume another identity. Once believing he was beyond redemption, he now seeks out his own version of justice.
Description
Army veterans talk to non-veterans about their emotional reactions to war and rape that have led them to feeling isolated in a society that brands those reactions as mental illness; includes archival footage and visual art.
"Paula Caplan grew up listening to -- but not remembering -- stories her beloved father, Jerome Caplan, told yearly about being Captain of an all-Black battery in The Battle of the Bulge. Her bewilderment about her inability to...
In Interlibrary Loan
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Flagstaff City Coconino County Public Library can be requested from other Interlibrary Loan libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request