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1) The marine
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
John Triton has just been discharged from Iraq. His wife, Kate, is kidnapped by a group of diamond thieves on the run. Now Triton needs to save her and goes on a chase through the South Carolinian wilderness in order to save her. The only, and best, weapon that Triton has is himself.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010
Description
There are no wars to fight. But Gunnery Sgt. Tom Highway, a dog-faced relic of past wars, still has a lot of fight in him. He is a Marine Corps lifer who started his last tour of duty before retirement, and sees the bumpy road his life has taken become more complicated, due to feisty recruits, by-the-book officers, and a salty ex-wife to whom he's still attracted.
Publisher
AMG Releasing
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Marine Tyler Ferguson lost his best friend in combat. He survives being captured by Afghan soldiers and travesl to Africa to fulfill his brother-in-arm's last wish: to deliver the news to his sister, who runs a mission station in Ethiopia. An ex-Marine-turned-pastor guides him through the process of dealing with his loss and the trauma of war. Against the backdrop of a vicious civil war, Tyler undergoes a spiritual awakening that eventually leads...
4) The Pacific
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
2010
Description
The extraordinary experiences of three men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, through the killing fields of Okinawa, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Assigned to protect a seemingly safe U.S. embassy in the Middle East, elite Marine Corporal Evan Albright thought he wasn't going to see much action. But when a hostile, extreme militant group launches a surprise attack aimed at killing an embassy informant, Albright's team is caught off guard. Outgunned and outnumbered, Albright's routine assignment escalates into an all-out war.
Publisher
AMG Releasing
Pub. Date
©2013
Description
"He survives being captured by Afghan soldiers and travels to Africa to fulfill his brother-in-arm's last wish: to deliver the news to his sister, running a Mission station in Ethiopia. Jay Harley, an ex-Marine turned Pastor, guides him through the process of dealing with the loss and the trauma of war amongst a vicious civil war. Constantly terrorized by crazed guerilla fighters, all that keeps them going is unbelievable faith in God. Our hero, the...
7) Man down
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
When U.S. Marine Gabriel Drummer returns from his tour in Afghanistan, he finds the place he once called home in no better shape than the battlefields he's left behind. Desperate to find his estranged family, son Johnathan and wife Natalie, Gabriel is aided in his search by his best friend Devin, a hard-nosed Marine. Before long, the two intercept Charles, a man with vital information concerning the whereabouts of Gabriel's family.
8) Jarhead
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Follows "Swoff, " a third-generation Marine enlistee, from a sobering stint in boot camp to active duty, sporting a sniper's rifle and a hundred-pound ruck on his back through the Middle East deserts. There is no cover from intolerable heat or from the Iraqi soldiers, who are always potentially just over the next horizon. Swoff and his fellow Marines sustain themselves with sardonic humanity and wicked comedy on blazing desert fields in a country...
9) Megan Leavey
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Based on the true life story of a young Marine Corporal whose unique discipline and bond with her military combat dog saved many lives during their deployment in Iraq. When she is assigned to clean up the K9 unit after a disciplinary hearing, Leavey identifies with a particularly aggressive dog, Rex, and is given the chance to train him. Over the course of their service, Megan and Rex completed more than 100 missions until an IED explosion injures...
10) Megan Leavey
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Based on the true life story of a young Marine Corporal whose unique discipline and bond with her military combat dog saved many lives during their deployment in Iraq. When she is assigned to clean up the K9 unit after a disciplinary hearing, Leavey identifies with a particularly aggressive dog, Rex, and is given the chance to train him. Over the course of their service, Megan and Rex completed more than 100 missions until an IED explosion injures...
11) Taking Chance
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
The remarkable true story of one soldier's death in battle, another soldier's journey of discovery and a nation's reverence and gratitude toward its war dead. After hearing of the heroic death of a young Marine in Iraq, veteran officer Lt. Colonel Michael Strobl volunteers to escort the remains of Lance Corporal Chance Phelps back to his hometown in Wyoming. As Strobl crosses America's heartland, he will find himself on an unexpectedly emotional journey...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Assigned to protect a seemingly safe U.S. embassy in the Middle East, elite Marine Corporal Evan Albright thought he wasn't going to see much action. But when a hostile, extreme militant group launches a surprise attack aimed at killing an embassy informant, Albright's team is caught off guard. Outgunned and outnumbered, Albright's routine assignment escalates into an all-out war.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
A bush-savvy gunny and an inexperienced bureaucrat must track down and eliminate a powerful rebel leader and his Colombian drug-lord financier in the jungles of Central America.
Sergeant Thomas Beckett is back now teamed up with a death row inmate on a suicide mission to the Balkans. Their target is a rogue general accused of running a stealth operation, but Beckett discovers that the government is using him as a pawn in a bigger mission.
Master...
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