Editorial Product Review: :Based on the bestseller by Stephen E. Ambrose the epic 10-part miniseries Band of Brothers tells the story of Easy Company 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division U.S. Army. Drawn from interviews with survivors of Easy Company as well as soldiers' journals and letters Band of Brothers chronicles the experiences of these men who knew extraordinary bravery and extraordinary fear. They were an elete rifle company parachuting into France early on D-Day morning fighting in the Battle ...
Editorial Product Review: :Columbia Pictures Black Hawk Down (Blu-ray)From acclaimed director Ridley Scott ('Gladiator,' 'Hannibal') and renowned producer Jerry Bruckheimer ('Pearl Harbor,' 'Armageddon') comes a gripping true story about bravery, camaraderie and the complex reality of war. 'Black Hawk Down' stars an exceptional cast including Josh Hartnett ('Pearl Harbor'), Ewan McGregor ('Moulin Rouge!'), Tom Sizemore ('Saving Private Ryan'), Eric Bana ('Chopper'), William Fichtner ('The Perfect Storm'), Ewen Bremner ('Snatch') and Sam Shepard ('All The Pretty Horses'). In 1993, an elite group ...
Editorial Product Review: :An impressively rigorous, unsentimental, and harrowing look at combat during World War II, Band of Brothers follows a company of airborne infantry--Easy Company--from boot camp through the end of the war. The brutality of training takes the audience by increments to the even greater brutality of the war; Easy Company took part in some of the most difficult battles, including the D-Day invasion of Normandy, the failed invasion of Holland, and the Battle of the Bulge, as well as ...
Editorial Product Review: :The War will be a seven - episode series produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick that will examine the myriad ways in which the Second World War touched the lives of every family on every street in every town in America. By telling the stories of ordinary people in four quintessentially American towns Waterbury Connecticut; Mobile Alabama; Sacramento California; and the tiny farming town of Luverne Minnesota the series will portray this enormous worldwide catastrophe on an ...
Editorial Product Review: :Depicts the famous Civil War battle which was the turning point of the war.No Track Information AvailableMedia Type: DVDArtist: BERENGER/DANIELS/SHEENTitle: GETTYSBURGStreet Release Date: 06/21/2005DomesticGenre: ACTION / ADVENTURE essential video:Three days in the summer of 1863, at a place called Gettysburg. Although it received a theatrical release, this four-hour depiction of the bloody Civil War battle was shot as a made-for-television film. But no taint of cheapness or shortcuts should stick to this magnificent picture (well, except maybe ...
Editorial Product Review: :Captain John Miller must take his men behind enemy lines to find Private Ryan, whose three brothers have been killed in combat. Faced with impossible odds, the men question their orders.Genre: Feature Film-DramaRating: RRelease Date: 14-FEB-2006Media Type: DVD essential video:When Steven Spielberg was an adolescent, his first home movie was a backyard war film. When he toured Europe with Duel in his 20s, he saw old men crumble in front of headstones at Omaha Beach. That image ...
Editorial Product Review: :Decorated Iraq war hero Sgt. Brandon King (Ryan Phillippe) makes a celebrated return to his small Texas hometown following his tour of duty. He tries to resume the life he left behind with the help and support of his family and his best friend Steve Shriver (Channing Tatum) who served with him in Iraq. Along with their other war buddies Brandon and Steve try to make peace with civilian life. Then against Brandon s will the Army orders ...
Editorial Product Review: :No Description Available.Genre: DocumentaryRating: NRRelease Date: 28-SEP-2004Media Type: DVD :The most successful public-television miniseries in American history, the 11-hour Civil War didn't just captivate a nation, reteaching to us our history in narrative terms; it actually also invented a new film language taken from its creator. When people describe documentaries using the 'Ken Burns approach,' its style is understood: voice-over narrators reading letters and documents dramatically and stating the writer's name at their conclusion, fresh live footage of ...
Editorial Product Review:Description:In this romantic espionage thriller set against the backdrop of World War II, a secretary from Queens is transformed into a government spy. After discovering her attorney boss and lover is actually a secret agent, she convinces him to let her go undercover. With the help of a fellow operative she penetrates the Berlin home of a high-ranking enemy official, and works swiftly to accomplish her mission. :Uncomfortably close to Ben Hecht and Alfred Hitchcock's film Notorious, this World ...
Editorial Product Review:Description:Josey Wales is a farmer turned fugitive in the post-civil war south who is chased by the law after he avenges the murder of his family and friends.DVD Features:Introduction:Introduction by Clint Eastwood Other:'Hell Hath No Fury' - 30:25 'Eastwood in Action' - 7:45 essential video:Clint Eastwood fired the original director, Philip Kaufman (The Right Stuff), and took over the reins of this project himself. He may have had a point: this brutal, thoughtful western, a near-tragedy about a ...
