John Ford
1) World War II
Series
Publisher
GoodTimes DVD
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Pictorial record of some of the greatest battles of World War II, from the European to the Pacific theaters.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Colonel Marlowe is in command of a motley assortment of 1200 Union volunteers whose task-- and apparent suicide mission-- is to infiltrate 300 miles of Southern territory and destroy the most strategic rail route in the Confederacy. Marlowe's life is complicated by his ferocious running feud with the company's surgeon, Major Kendall.
4) Mogambo
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Clark Gable portrays Victor, a safari guide, in this remake of Gable's 1932 Red Dust. Ava Gardner plays tough-hided, vulnerable Eloise, and Grace Kelly is the prim anthropologist's wife who catches Victor's roving eye.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Mighty Joe Young is a 15-foot African gorilla. His best friend and protector is Jill Young. Against her better judgment, Jill allows Joe to be brought to the States as a nightclub attraction. He later breaks loose and goes on a rampage.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Director [John] Ford brings us to the lawless frontier village of Shinbone, a town plagued by a larger-than-life nemesis, Liberty Valance (Lee Marvin). [James] Stewart plays the bungling but charming big-city lawyer determined to rid Shinbone of Valance, and he finds that he has an unlikely ally -- in the form of a rugged local rancher (John Wayne). The two men also share the same love interest (Vera Miles). But when the final showdown becomes inevitable,...
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Frank Skeffington, the political boss of a New England town, fights his last campaign. This flavorful melodrama is based on Edwin O'Connor's novel of politics, loosely patterned after the life of Boston's Mayor Curley.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
The rugged commander of a small cavalry outpost on the western frontier is faced with imminent retirement. As well as safeguarding the stagecoach routes, he must make peace with his Indian counterparts to avert a needless war and also make sure his troops will be in capable hands when he leaves.
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Three stories center on the anarchic tendency of the Irish to resist any kind of externally applied order. In the first story, an old man is marched off to jail for assaulting a seller of bad whisky; in the second, the passengers of a train gleefully sabotage the official timetable; in the third ('1921') a policeman lets a revolutionary escape during 'the troubles'.
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
When riverboat captain Doctor John Pearly learns that his nephew Duke has killed a man in self-defense, he urges Duke to turn himself in. But Duke's only chance for freedom is the testimony of a half-crazed witness, New Moses, who has disappeared upriver.
13) The searchers
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Wayne plays ex-Confederate soldier Ethan Edwards, an Indian-hater who believes more in bullets than words. He's out to find his young niece, who's been taken captive by the renegade Comanches who massacred her family.
14) Japan
Publisher
St. Clair Vision
Pub. Date
pc2007.
Language
English
Description
Kamikaze: Documentary on the Pacific war begins with Japanese preparations for the bombing of Pearl Harbor and ends with the atomic bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Know your enemy: Japan: World War II documentary directed by Frank Capra that focuses on the war in the Pacific. December 7th: John Ford recreated the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. To the shores of Iwo Jima: Documentary depicting the American assault on the Japanese-held island...
Publisher
Questar
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Traces events leading up to and resulting in the Japanese attack on American battleships at Pearl Harbor, which brought the United States into World War II.
Disc 1: America Taken by Surprise: Find out why the U.S. Pacific Fleet was caught off-guard by the Japanese. DVD Extras: Stories From Battleshi Row; Holloywood's Pearl Harbor; Attack of the Midget Subs; Salvaging the Pacific Fleet. Disc 2: The Pacific War on Film: A trio of documentaries produced...
16) Stagecoach
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Nine disparate travelers are thrust together on a stagecoach destined for Apache territory.
17) Mary of Scotland
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Historical drama about the ill-fated Mary, Queen of Scots, and her cousin Elizabeth, Queen of England.
18) The quiet man
Language
English
Formats
Description
An American prizefighter returns to Ireland in order to forget the past and live peacefully in his village birthplace. He falls in love with the hot-tempered sister of a belligerent neighbor, and trouble ensues over the payment of her dowry.
19) Cheyenne autumn
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Three-hundred starving Cheyenne men, women and children, forcibly resettled in the barren wastelands of Oklahoma, set out on a desperate 1500-mile trek back to their Yellowstone homeland. A true-life story.