Military & War VHS Movies
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A Town Like Alice
Price: $44.97
Category: VHS Movies
 Publisher: Starz / Anchor Bay Starring: Helen Morse, Bryan Brown, Gordon Jackson, Dorothy Alison, Yuki Shimoda Directed By: David Stevens Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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The Bridge on the River Kwai
List Price: $19.98 Now Only: $4.50 You Save: $ 15.48 (77%)
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Publisher: Sony Pictures Starring: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa, James Donald Directed By: David Lean Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Director David Lean's masterful 1957 realization of Pierre Boulle's novel remains a benchmark for war films, and a deeply absorbing movie by any standard--like most of Lean's canon, The Bridge on the River Kwai achieves a richness in theme, narrative, and characterization that transcends genre. The story centers on a Japanese prison camp isolated deep in the jungles of Southeast Asia, where the remorseless Colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa) has been charged with building a vitally important railway bridge. His clash of wills with a British prisoner, the charismatic Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness), escalates into a duel of honor, Nicholson defying his captor's demands to win concessions for his troops. How the two officers reach a compromise, and Nicholson becomes obsessed with building that bridge, provides the story's thematic spine; the parallel movement of a team of commandos dispatched to stop the project, led by a British major (Jack Hawkins) and guided by an American escapee (William Holden), supplies the story's suspense and forward momentum. |
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The Tanks Are Coming
Price: $29.98
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Warner Home Video Starring: Steve Cochran, Philip Carey, Mari Aldon, Paul Picerni, Harry Bellaver Directed By: D. Ross Lederman, Lewis Seiler Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Documentary short film about the development and usage of battle tanks in the American national defense program.. |
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Braveheart
List Price: $14.95 Now Only: $1.49 You Save: $ 13.46 (90%)
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Paramount Starring: Alun Armstrong, Stephen Billington, Mhairi Calvey, James Cosmo, Brian Cox Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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A stupendous historical saga, Braveheart won five Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director for star Mel Gibson. He plays William Wallace, a 13th-century Scottish commoner who unites the various clans against a cruel English King, Edward the Longshanks (Patrick McGoohan). The scenes of hand-to-hand combat are brutally violent, but they never glorify the bloodshed. There is such enormous scope to this story that it works on a smaller, more personal scale as well, essaying love and loss, patriotism and passion. |
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The Sound of Music
List Price: $12.98 Now Only: $3.45 You Save: $ 9.53 (73%)
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Publisher: 20th Century Fox Starring: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker, Richard Haydn, Peggy Wood Directed By: Robert Wise Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Some people may sneer at this 1965 musical, but the truth is the film has earned its status as a perennially watchable romantic-drama, largely on the strength of a fun story and chemistry between stars Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. Veteran filmmaker Robert Wise (The Day the Earth Stood Still) mostly stays out of the way of the film's appealing elements, which include a based-on-fact tale of Austria's von Trapp family, who fled their Nazi-occupied country in 1938. Andrews is delightful and even fascinating as Maria, who sheds her tomboyish ways as a novice nun to accept the mantle of adulthood, becoming matron of the motherless von Trapp clan. Plummer is matinee-idol handsome and gives a smart performance to boot, and the cast of young people and kids who make up the singing von Trapp children make a strong impression. Based on the Rodgers and Hammerstein stage musical, the score includes such winners as "Maria" and the future John Coltrane hit "My Favorite Things." --Tom Keogh. |
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Francis Joins the Wacs
Price: $16.89
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Universal Studios Starring: Donald O'Connor, Julie Adams, Chill Wills, Mamie Van Doren, Lynn Bari Directed By: Arthur Lubin Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Some people may sneer at this 1965 musical, but the truth is the film has earned its status as a perennially watchable romantic-drama, largely on the strength of a fun story and chemistry between stars Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. Veteran filmmaker Robert Wise (The Day the Earth Stood Still) mostly stays out of the way of the film's appealing elements, which include a based-on-fact tale of Austria's von Trapp family, who fled their Nazi-occupied country in 1938. Andrews is delightful and even fascinating as Maria, who sheds her tomboyish ways as a novice nun to accept the mantle of adulthood, becoming matron of the motherless von Trapp clan. Plummer is matinee-idol handsome and gives a smart performance to boot, and the cast of young people and kids who make up the singing von Trapp children make a strong impression. Based on the Rodgers and Hammerstein stage musical, the score includes such winners as "Maria" and the future John Coltrane hit "My Favorite Things." --Tom Keogh. |
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Doctor Zhivago: 30th Anniversary Edition
List Price: $24.98 Now Only: $4.84 You Save: $ 20.14 (81%)
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: MGM Starring: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness Directed By: David Lean Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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David Lean focused all his talent as an epic-maker on Boris Pasternak's sweeping novel about a doctor-poet in revolutionary Russia. The results may sometimes veer toward soap opera, especially with the screen frequently filled with adoring close-ups of Omar Sharif and Julie Christie, but Lean's gift for cramming the screen with spectacle is not to be denied. The streets of Moscow, the snowy steppes of Russia, the house in the country taken over by ice; these are re-created with Lean's unerring sense of grandness. The movie is so lush and so long that it becomes an irresistible wallow, even when logic suffers--like Gone with the Wind before it and Titanic after. |
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WarGames
List Price: $9.94 Now Only: $6.89 You Save: $ 3.05 (31%)
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD) Starring: Matthew Broderick, Ally Sheedy, John Wood, Dabney Coleman, Barry Corbin Directed By: John Badham Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Cute but silly, this 1983 cautionary fantasy stars Matthew Broderick as a teenage computer genius who hacks into the Pentagon's defense system and sets World War III into motion. All the fun is in the film's set-up, as Broderick befriends Ally Sheedy and starts the international crisis by pretending while online to be the Soviet Union. After that, it's not hard to predict what's going to happen: government agents swoop in, but the story ends up in the "hands" of machines talking to one another. Thus we're stuck with flashing lights, etc. |
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Double Crossed
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Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Warner Home Video Starring: Dennis Hopper, Robert Carradine, Richard Jenkins, Adrienne Barbeau, Don Hood Directed By: Roger Young Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Cute but silly, this 1983 cautionary fantasy stars Matthew Broderick as a teenage computer genius who hacks into the Pentagon's defense system and sets World War III into motion. All the fun is in the film's set-up, as Broderick befriends Ally Sheedy and starts the international crisis by pretending while online to be the Soviet Union. After that, it's not hard to predict what's going to happen: government agents swoop in, but the story ends up in the "hands" of machines talking to one another. Thus we're stuck with flashing lights, etc. |
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Captain Newman MD
Price: $69.95
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Universal Studios Starring: Gregory Peck, Tony Curtis, Angie Dickinson, Eddie Albert, James Gregory Directed By: David Miller Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Cute but silly, this 1983 cautionary fantasy stars Matthew Broderick as a teenage computer genius who hacks into the Pentagon's defense system and sets World War III into motion. All the fun is in the film's set-up, as Broderick befriends Ally Sheedy and starts the international crisis by pretending while online to be the Soviet Union. After that, it's not hard to predict what's going to happen: government agents swoop in, but the story ends up in the "hands" of machines talking to one another. Thus we're stuck with flashing lights, etc. |
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