Robert Rodat
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
Chronicles the chaotic aftermath of an alien attack that leaves most of the world completely incapacitated. In the six months since the initial invasion, survivors band together to begin the difficult task of fighting back against the aggressive aliens. Outside of Boston, history professor Tom Mason helps lead a small army named 2nd Massachusetts in the battle of their lives to preserve their families and what's left of mankind.
2) The Patriot
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
A hero of the French and Indian conflict, Benjamin Martin had renounced fighting forever to raise his family in peace. However, when British troops arrive at his South Carolina home and endanger his family, he takes up arms alongside his idealistic patriot son, Gabriel.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
As season five opens, all breed of beast and mutant are running rampant on earth. The Espheni's power core has been destroyed, and humans are now ready to fight on their terms, even if it means resorting to hand-to-hand combat against the enemy. After four years of being tortured, imprisoned and mutated and having their loved ones stolen from them. Tom and the second Mass are filled with rage, ready to destroy the enemy in an all-out battle to determine...
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Season three opens seven months after the 2nd Mass arrived in Charleston. Tom has been elected as a political official of Charleston, but he has his hands full as the resistance continues to battle the alien invaders. The newly formed alliance Tom formed with a new alien race gains them their first real advantage in the war against the invading Espheni.
Pub. Date
2015
Description
The pressure continues to mount for survivors as they try to regain control of earth. Keeping up their fight in the war is becoming increasingly difficult as their hopes of life after the alien destruction become more of a distant reality. With the new capitol in Charleston, the 2nd Mass could end up revisiting old territory.
Description
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. Why are eight men risking their lives to save just one? Surrounded by the brutal realities of war, each man searches for his own answer and the strength to triumph over uncertain future with honor, decency and courage.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Appears on list
Description
Three days after one of the fiercest battles of World War II, Captain Miller and his surviving men think that they can relax. But they are wrong! They are sent behind enemy lines to find one man -- Private Ryan -- and bring him safely home. But how many will survive the mission?" --cover.
"It's June 9 1944, three days after D-Day. On the orders of the government, Captain John Miller and his men go to look for Private James Ryan. They must bring him...
Pub. Date
1998
Description
A World War II drama about a handful of men on a mission. Capt. John Miller and his squad and medic painstakingly make it past the many obstacles and finally take one of the enemy's concrete pillboxes on top of the bluff. But no sooner have Capt. Miller and his men paused for a smoke then they are ordered to try to locate a certain private, James Ryan, who parachuted into France the night before. His three brothers have all recently been killed in...
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Malekith and his army of Dark Elves are preparing to invade Asgard and the Nine Realms. Which warriors will be ready for battle? Learn about Thor, the Warriors Three, Odin, and Lady Sif. Discover who the Kronan Man is. Who are the Marauders and what is this monster they call Kurse? The battle is upon us!--Back cover.
Description
The true story of Moe Berg, professional baseball player, Ivy League graduate, attorney, and a top-secret spy who helped the US win the race against Germany to build the atomic bomb.
"Paul Rudd plays Berg with the droll, boyish charm he's brought to dozens of other roles, but he adds a protective coating."--New York Times
"...a decorous, dutiful dogtrot that tells Berg's story with excellent production values..."--Boston Globe
"Shot in burnished...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Appears on list
Description
A collection of six war movies all gathered into one "binge box" for a spectacular movie night.
300: In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC, an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army in the mountain pass of Thermopylae. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the enemy in one of the most famous last stands of history. Persian King Xerxes lead an Army of well over 100,000 men to Greece and was confronted by 300 Spartans, 700...
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