SW 7485 - Military Social Work: DVDs

Rejected by the Confederate army, and taken for a coward by his beloved, young Johnny Gray is given a chance to redeem himself when he wages a one-man war against Yankee spies who have stolen his locomotive.

This epic story of the Civil War as seen through the lives of two families is a controversial classic of film history.

During the Korean War, three U.S. Army surgeons defy military authority when they are not performing their duties.
"One of the world's most acclaimed comedies, M*A*S*H focuses on three Korean War Army surgeons, brilliantly brought to life by Donald Sutherland, Tom Skerritt and Elliot Gould.

A United States Army officer/trained assassin is sent into the depths of a southeast Asian jungle to seek out a renegade colonel and terminate his command during the Vietnam War.

Over 50 documentaries on war can be viewed online. Includes such titles as "People & Power – Attack of the Drones," "Female Suicide Bombers," and "How to Buy Nukes on the Black Market."

With exacting detail, the film re-creates the American siege of the Somalian city of Mogadishu in October 1993, when a 45-minute mission turned into a 16-hour ordeal of bloody urban warfare. Helicopter-borne U.S. Rangers were assigned to capture key lieutenants of Somali warlord Muhammad Farrah Aidid, but when two Black Hawk choppers were felled by rocket-propelled grenades, the U.S. soldiers were forced to fend for themselves in the battle-torn streets of Mogadishu, attacked from all sides by armed Aidid supporters.

A 10-minute, first-person documentary describes the service and sacrifice of Soldiers, why they remain the centerpiece of the U.S. Army, and why they are considered the ultimate commitment of the Nation.

The death factory at Auschwitz was a closely guarded secret of the Third Reich – until two men, Rudolph Vrba and Alfred Wetzler, escaped to tell the world about the Nazi atrocities. Escape from Auschwitz reveals the story of their escape and explores the controversial decision by the head of the Hungarian underground not to make their report public.

Gain an unprecedented look at the experiences and accomplishments of African Americans in the military, and learn why such a group of heroic men and women would fight for the freedom of others that they themselves weren't able to enjoy.

First episode: You'll see how an intelligence unit called "Station Hypo" ingeniouosly broke the Japanese code and steered us to victory in the Pacific. You'll meet two pilots, one Japanese, the other American, who tell how they bombed each other's ships. This was a war of nerves between two legendary admirals - Chester W. Nimitz and Isoroku Yamamoto. Together, they squared off in the Pacific to fight what history named "The Battle of the Century."
Second episode: Brings you onto the "white sands of hell." You'll face an enemy 4,000 strong in a "banzai" charge. You will hear the actual recording of an amphibious landing of Marines hitting the beach. And you will witness how thousands of Japanese civiliations took their own lives at "Suicide Gulch." From the "great Mariana's Turkey Shoot" you will meet legendary Navy ace pilot Alex Vraciu, who shot down six Japanese bombers in less than eight minutes.

The story of World War II's segregated, African American 92nd Buffalo Soldiers Division and their experiences fighting in Italy. Traces the history of African American soldiers and shows how their military obligations conflicted with the racial prejudice they faced in the military and at home. Includes newsreel footage, archival photographs, and interviews with 92nd Division veterans, Italians who knew them,

Looks at the reasons for the attack on anti-Vietnam-war student demonstrators on the Kent State University campus on May 4, 1970 by National Guardsmen. Shows the build-up of the protest against the Vietnam War, and follows the stories of the four students who were killed at Kent State. Includes interviews with people who witnessed the events.

A look at the Iraqi insurgency by meeting face to face with individuals who are engaged in the struggle against coalition forces. It documents for the first time the sentiments experienced and actions taken by a nation's citizens when their homeland is occupied

disk 1 Trial by fire -- disk 2 Normandy -- disk 3 Guests of the Emperor -- disk 4 Battle station sick bay -- disk 5 Stepping stones to Tokyo -- disk 6 Final victory.

In this film made over ten years, filmmaker Barbara Sonneborn took a pilgrimage to the Vietnamese countryside where her husband died. She and translator (and fellow war widow) Xuan Ngoc Nguyen explore the meaning of war and loss on a human level. The film weaves interviews with Vietnamese and American widows into a vivid testament to the legacy of war.

Restrepo is a feature-length documentary that chronicles the deployment of a platoon of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley. The movie focuses on a remote 15-man outpost, 'Restrepo,' named after a platoon medic who was killed in action. It was considered one of the most dangerous postings in the U.S. military. This is an entirely experiential film: the cameras never leave the valley; there are no interviews with generals or diplomats. The only goal is to make viewers feel as if they have just been through a 90-minute deployment.

The Nazi extermination of Jews is examined through interviews of survivors, witnesses and perpetrators and through footage of the sites of the death camps and environs as they appear today. Those interviewed include Jewish survivors of the death camps and the Warsaw ghetto uprising, Polish farmers and villagers who lived near the camps and Nazis who worked in the camps and the ghettos.

It started as photographs taken by soldiers of the abuse and torture prisoners were suffering in Abu Ghraib prison, and turned into a media frenzy full of scandal and cover-ups. One of the most notorious moments in recent U.S. military history is examined, through interviews with participants and dramatic reenactments of events.

The story of American politics and military policies as seen through the eyes of the former Secretary of Defense, under President Kennedy and President Johnson, Robert S. McNamara. McNamara is a controversial and influential political figure. He offers a candid journey through some of the most seminal events in contemporary American history. He offers insights into the 1945 fire bombing of Tokyo, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the effects of the Vietnam War.

Begins with a quote from Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, "I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity." "This film portrays five combat veterans from different wars ranging from WWII to Vietnam to the Gulf War to Iraq who emotionally lay it on the line," following their journeys as they sign up, go into battle, and eventually change their minds about what it means to be a good soldier."-

Part of a series of programs that presents and preserves the unique heritage of the Ozarks. This segment looks at the Battle of Wilson's Creek, the first major Civil War battle fought west of the Mississippi.

Since 1935, the National Archives has been responsible for the acquisition, preservation, and public dissemination of the permanent records of the United States government. Select materials, culled from the millions of pieces making up the National Archives' popular holdings, have been assembled to produce War on the Homefront, a cinematic recounting of the stateside war effort waged by civilian men and women and the war measures - from gas rationing to Victory Gardens - instituted across the country. Features newsreel footage, government training films, dramatizations, and appearances by numerous Hollywood stars.