Hardy Krüger
1) Hatari!
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Director Howard Hawks reteams with John Wayne, who heads a group of highly skilled professional game hunters in Africa. Only they don’t use bullets – they capture the ferocious big game with strong rope and cameras for zoos and circus attractions. Nominated for an **Academy Award** for Best Cinematography, Color. *"one of those rare films that genuinely constitutes a 'late masterpiece'." - Derek Adams, **Time Out***
Publisher
MGM/UA Home VIdeo
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The mayor of the hillside village of Santa Vittoria is the wine-loving town's leader. Bombolini is a fairly worthless drunk in the small Italian town. The town turns to Bombolini when they want to hide over a million bottles of wine from the Nazi army.
3) The red tent
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Tells the saga of the ill-fated 1928 Arctic expedition headed by Italian Unberto Nobile. After the crash of their dirigible, Italia, the survivors huddle in their makeshift red canvas dwelling, desperately sending out S.O.S. signals.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
"In September 1944, flush with success after the Normandy Invasion, the Allies confidently launched Operation Market Garden, a wild scheme intended to put an early end to WWII by invading Germany and smashing the Reich's war plants. However, a combination of battlefield politics, faulty intelligence, bad luck and worse weather led to disaster"--Container.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A small passenger plane makes a forced landing in the Sahara. The challenge: survival. The tiny band from the plane fights off thirst, Arabs, treachery, declining morale and despair. Incredibly, the plane, like the legendary phoenix that rises from its own ashes, flies again.
6) Barry Lyndon
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Language
English
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Formats
Description
An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's position in 18th century aristocracy.
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
A psychologically damaged war veteran and a neglected child begin a startlingly intimate friendship, one that ultimately ignites the suspicion and anger of his friends and neighbors in suburban Paris. It becomes a stirring contemplation of an alliance between two troubled souls.
9) Barry Lyndon
Series
Language
English
Description
"Stanley Kubrick bent the conventions of the historical drama to his own will in this dazzling version of a pitiless aristocracy, adapted from a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray. In picaresque detail, Barry Lyndon chronicles the adventures of an incorrigible trickster (Ryan O'Neal) whose opportunism takes him from an Irish farm to the battlefields of the Seven Years' War and the parlors of high society. For the most sumptuously crafted film of...
11) A bridge too far
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In September 1944, flush with success after the Normandy Invasion, the Allies launched Operation Market Garden, a wild scheme intended to put an early end to World War II by invading Germany and smashing the Reich's war plants. However, a combination of battlefield politics, faulty intelligence, bad luck and worse weather led to disaster. An epic retelling of World War II's most tragic blunder, A Bridge Too Far meticulously depicts the ambitious plan...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A cargo plane on a routine flight suddenly hits a high-turbulence storm, forcing a crash landing hundreds of miles off course in the barren Gobi desert. Among the survivors, one eccentric passenger leads the crew to build a new plane - against all odds, against all hope, and sometimes - against each other.
13) Donovan's reef
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In "Donovan's Reef, " John Wayne heads a group of high skilled professional game hunters in Africa who capture the ferocious big game with strong rope and cameras for zoos and circus attractions.In "Hatari, " a straight-laced Bostonian comes searching for her father, a brawling ex-Navy man living on a South Pacific island.
Series
Criterion collection volume 728
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Français
Description
A psychologically damaged war veteran and a neglected child begin a startlingly intimate friendship, one that ultimately ignites the suspicion and anger of his friends and neighbors in suburban Paris. It becomes a stirring contemplation of an alliance between two troubled souls.
15) The wild geese
Publisher
Severin Films LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"A team of aging mercenaries [are] hired by a wealthy industrialist for one final mission: recruit and train a squad of desperate commandos, parachute into an unstable African nation, snatch its deposed President from a maximum security army prison, escape via the military-controlled airport, and massacre anyone who gets in their way." --Container.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1116
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A downed airplane is a motley group of men's only protection from the relentless desert sun, in this psychologically charged disaster epic, one of the all-time great survival movies. James Stewart is the veteran pilot whose Benghazi-bound plane--carrying passengers played by an unshaven ensemble of screen icons including Richard Attenborough, Ernest Borgnine, Ian Bannen, Dan Duryea, Peter Finch, and George Kennedy--crash-lands in the remote Sahara....