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3) The Divide
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
As nuclear warheads rain down on Manhattan, nine strangers barricade themselves in their apartment building's bunker-like basement controlled by the unhinged superintendent. But within days, supplies dwindle, tempers flare, and the trapped survivors will be overcome by treachery, madness, sexual torment, and savage violence. What follows is intense. It is raw. And it is all brutally, horrifyingly real.
Publisher
Televisa
Pub. Date
2010
Language
Español
Description
"La historia de hombres y mujeres que cambiaron nuestra historia. Desde los albores de la Independencia con el movimiento de Miguel Hidalgo hasta su consumación por Agustín de Iturbide..."-- Envase.
Dramatic film about "The history of men and women who changed our [Mexican] history. Since the dawn of Independence with the movement of Miguel Hidalgo to its consummation by Agustín de Iturbide ..." - Container.
Author
Publisher
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.7 - AR Pts: 54
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the military operations and tactics of World War II in both the European and Pacific theaters from the Sino-Japanese War in 1937 to the surrender of Japan in 1945.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2001.
Language
English
Description
Epic story covering a period in U.S. history from John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry in 1859 to the summer of 1865 following President Lincoln's death. Focuses on two related families living on either side of the Mason-Dixon line who find themselves at war with each other.
8) Darkest hour
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
During the early days of World War II, the fate of Western Europe hangs on the newly appointed British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Hitler, or fight on against incredible odds.
9) Battleship
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Based on the classic Hasbro naval combat game, Battleship is the story of an international fleet of ships who come across an alien armada while on a naval war games exercise. An intense battle ensues over sea, land, and air.
11) Platoon
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
In "Platoon," a middle-class college student volunteers for the war in Vietnam because he considers it his patriotic duty. The first thing he encounters on the airport tarmac in Saigon is a cart of body bags. It's downhill from there: endless hikes, ditch-digging, heat, rain, bugs and snakebites, fear and confusion, sleeplessness, and terror when he finally sleeps. He will only gradually, unknowingly, become an adequate soldier--one who has left...
12) Rain of fire
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
An executive in charge of a Middle Eastern nuclear plant discovers that his son is the Antichrist and sets out to stop him from using the nuclear power at his fingertips to wipe out mankind.
Author
Series
Maus relato de un superviviente volume II
Publisher
[Reservoir Books]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
Al primer volumen de Maus lo alabó la crítica por lo insólito de su propuesta y por tratarse de una obra de arte brutalmente conmovedora. En ella, los lectores conocimos a Vladek Spiegelman, un judío superviviente del Holocausto, y a su hijo, un historietista que intentaba reconciliarse con su padre, con la terrible historia de este y con la mismísima Historia. La forma elegida para relatarlo, un cómic (donde los nazis son gatos y los judíos,...
Series
Homeland volume 4
Language
English
Description
"In her new role as a CIA station chief, Carrie convinces Saul and Quinn to help her hunt down one of the world's most dangerous terrorists. But when Carrie recruits a young Pakistani as an asset, the lines between right and wrong blur and the operation spins out of control. Facing unclear loyalties at every turn, Carrie must take extreme measures and risk everything to protect her country."--Container.
15) Joyeux Noel
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
Français
Description
Based on the true story of three armies in the bloody trenches of World War I and the miraculous Christmas Eve truce they unexpectedly forge.
16) Airplane!
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this spoof of disaster movies, an ex-Navy pilot with a deep aversion to planes finds himself on a flight with an ex-girlfriend he wants to win back. He becomes embroiled in a crisis where the crew and many of the passengers have fallen seriously ill. Now, it is up to him to overcome his fear of flying and land the airplane safely before the poisonings become fatal.
17) Memorial Day
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
SSgt. Kyle Vogel leaves a handwritten letter on the seat of his car, grabs a pistol, and steps into a Minnesota forest. Flash back a few months as Vogel lies wounded in a hospital near Anbar Province, Iraq. The night before he's due to return to combat, his doctor, Lt. Kelly Tripp, presses him on why he's so obsessed with collecting battle souvenirs. Kyle proceeds to tell her what happened on Memorial Day, 1993, when, as a 13-year old boy, he discovered...
18) There be dragons
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When journalist Robert Torres is assigned to write a book about Josemaria Escriva, the controversial founder of Opus Dei, he hopes it will bring him closer to his father, Escriva's childhood friend. As Torres uncovers more about his father's past, he learns dark secrets that will change his world forever.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
Traces the ripple effects of war and immigration on two children--five-year-old Samuel, whose mother puts him on a Kindertransport train out of Nazi-occupied Austria to England in 1938, and seven-year-old Anita, who boards another train eight decades later to the U.S., where she is separated from her mother.
20) War Horse
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Set against a sweeping canvas of rural England and Europe during the First World War, begins with the remarkable friendship between a horse named Joey and a young man called Albert, who tames and trains him. When they are forcefully parted, the film follows the extraordinary journey of the horse as he moves through the war, changing and inspiring the lives of all those he meets; British cavalry, German soldiers, and a French farmer and his granddaughter....