|
|||||
300Warner Bros | 2006 | 1 Disc | 116 Mins | Rated R | Jul 31, 2007In 480 B.C. a state of war exists between Persia, led by King Xerxes, and Greece. At the Battle of Thermopylae, Leonidas (Gerard Butler), king of the Greek city state of Sparta, leads his badly outnumbered warriors against the massive Persian army. Though certain death awaits the Spartans, their sacrifice inspires all of Greece to unite against their common enemy. Action / Drama / History / War
A Bridge Too FarMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer | 1977 | 1 Disc | 176 Mins | Rated PG | Jun 03, 2008The Allies attempt to capture strategically important bridges in the Netherlands in September 1944, hoping to break the German lines. Action / Drama / History / War
Band Of BrothersHBO Studios | 2001 | 6 Discs | 702 Mins | Rated MA | Jun 30, 2015Band of Brothers tells the story of Easy Company, 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, U.S. Army, an elite rifle company parachuting into France early on D-Day morning, fighting in the Battle of the Bulge and capturing Hitler's Eagle's Nest at Berchtesgaden. Action / History / War
Black Hawk DownSony Pictures | 2001 | 1 Disc | 144 Mins | Rated R | Nov 14, 2006In October 1993, an elite group of U.S. soldiers were sent into Mogadishu, Somalia as part of a U.N. peacekeeping operation. Their mission: to abduct two top lieutenants of the Somali warlord, Mohamed Farrah Aidid, as part of a strategy to quell the civil war and famine that was ravaging the country. Arriving with good intentions, their carefully planned mission took an unexpected turn resulting in the U.S. military's single biggest firefight since Vietnam. Action / Drama / History / War
BlowNew Line Cinema | 2001 | 1 Disc | 123 Mins | Rated R | Sep 23, 2008Based on the true story of how powder cocaine turned into the United States' biggest drug problem and how one man from the blue-collar suburbs became the 35 billion-dollar-a-year conduit to the Colombian cartels. George Jung pursued what he thought was the American Dream. Rather than become just another construction worker like his father, George moves to California where he discovers the profitable pleasures of selling marijuana. Crime / Drama / History
BraveheartParamount Pictures | 1995 | 2 Discs | 178 Mins | Rated R | May 15, 2018In the late 13th century, William Wallace returns to Scotland after living away from his homeland for many years. The king of Scotland has died without an heir and the king of England, a ruthless pagan known as Edward Longshanks, has seized the throne. Wallace becomes the leader of a ramshackle yet courageous army determined to vanquish the greater English forces. Action / Drama / History / War
Enemy at the GatesParamount Pictures | 2001 | 1 Disc | 131 Mins | Rated R | May 19, 2009The year is 1942 and the Nazis are cutting a deadly swath through Russia. Under the leadership of Khrushchev, the citizens of Stalingrad are mounting a brave resistance, spurred by the exploits of their local hero, Vassili Zaitsev. An expert sniper, Vassili's deeds have become legendary. To stop Vassili, the Germans dispatch their best sniper, Major Konig, to Stalingrad. Action / Drama / History / Thriller / War
Gangs of New YorkRemasteredMiramax | 2002 | 1 Disc | 167 Mins | Rated R | Feb 02, 2010Set in New York City, 1840-1863, a young man named Amsterdam seeks vengeance against Bill 'The Butcher' Poole, the man who killed his father. Though he secures the help of pickpocket Jenny Everdeane, the task at hand may be more dangerous than Amsterdam ever imagined when he realizes that his father was murdered as a result of gang warfare between the powerful Manhattan Irish and Italian gangs. Crime / Drama / History
GladiatorSapphire EditionParamount Pictures | 2000 | 2 Discs | 171 Mins | Rated R | Sep 01, 2009In the final days of Marcus Aurelius' reign, the aging emperor angers his son Commodus by making it known that he wants Maximus, a fearsome and respected Roman general, to be his successor. Power-hungry Commodus kills his father and orders the death of Maximus. But the latter flees, only to discover that his wife and child have been murdered by Commodus. Action / Adventure / Drama / History
GoodFellasWarner Bros | 1990 | 1 Disc | 145 Mins | Rated R | Oct 16, 2007From Nicholas Pileggi's true-life bestseller Wiseguy, GoodFellas explores the criminal life like no other movie. Directed and co-written by Martin Scorsese, it was judged 1990's Best Picture by the New York, Los Angeles and National Society of Film Critics and named to the American Film Institute's Top-100 American Film List. Crime / Drama / History |
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||