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Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a divided country on the verge of war, two childhood friends, Amir and Hassan, are about to be torn apart forever. It's a glorious afternoon in Kabul and the skies are bursting with the exhilarating joy of a kite-fighting tournament. But in the aftermath of the day's victory, one boy's fearful act of betrayal will mark their lives forever and set in motion an epic quest for redemption. Now, after twenty years of living in America, Amir returns...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Parvana is an eleven-year-old girl growing up under the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001. When her father is wrongfully arrested, Parvana cuts off her hair and dresses like a boy in order to support her family. Working alongside her friend Shauzia, Parvana discovers a new world of freedom, and danger. With undaunted courage, Parvana draws strength from the fantastical stories she invents, as she embarks on a quest to find her father and reunite her...
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On assignment while photographing a female suicide bomber in Kabul, Rebecca, one of the world's top war photojournalists, gets badly hurt. Back home, another bomb drops as her husband and daughters give her an ultimatum: her work or her family.
5) Hyena Road
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hyena Road is a taut war action film about Canadian troops in Afghanistan as seen through the eyes of three very different men: A sniper who has never allowed himself to think of his targets as human and becomes implicated in the life of one; an intelligence officer who has never contemplated killing and becomes the engine of a plot to kill; and a legendary Mujahideen warrior who had put war behind him and is now the center of the battle zone.
6) The outpost
Publisher
Screen Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on true events. A team of U.S. soldiers stationed at the deadliest outpost in Afghanistan is relentlessly attacked by an overwhelming force of Taliban insurgents. Their fight for survival is the ultimate display of American valor.
7) Kandahar
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
An undercover CIA operative gets stuck in hostile territory in Afghanistan after his mission is exposed. Accompanied by his translator, he must fight enemy combatants as he tries to reach an extraction point in Kandahar
8) Fremont
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Afghan refugee Donya lives in Fremont but works at a fortune cookie factory in San Francisco. Seeking connection, she decides to send a message out to the world one sentence at a time by recording her story on the fortunes.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Stuck in a rut, reporter Kim Baker decides to shake things up by leaving her desk job in New York and taking a dangerous assignment in Afghanistan. Far from home and completely out of her comfort zone, a culture-shocked Kim befriends an adventurous reporter Tanya Vanderpoel, a stern Colonel, and a charming photojournalist to help her navigate this crazy new world. Amidst the chaos, Kim discovers her true strength as she risks it all to find the next...
10) 12 strong
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of the first Special Forces team deployed to Afghanistan after 9/11; under the leadership of a new captain, the team must work with an Afghan warlord to take down the Taliban.
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2003], ©2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Persian
Description
Nafas, an Afghan-born Canadian journalist, returns to her homeland in a desperate attempt to reach her sister, who, overcome with grief after being injured by a landmine and her despair over the Taliban's oppression of women, has vowed that she will commit suicide at the time of the next solar eclipse, only three days away.
12) Homebody/Kabul
Author
Publisher
Distributed to the book trade by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
ix, 151 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
13) The Beast
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003, p1988
Edition
Full screen version
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A portrait of a young soldier caught in a battle between his conscience and his country. Set in Afghanistan.
14) In this world
Publisher
Showtime Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Persian
Description
The hazardous journey of two Afghan boys as they travel from Pakistan through Iran, Turkey, Italy, France and the UK in search of refuge in London, revealing the desperate measures people take to escape persecution and life-threatening conditions.
15) The kill team
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on a true story, follow Andrew Briggman, a young soldier in the US invasion of Afghanistan who witnesses other recruits killing innocent civilians under the direction of a sadistic leader, Sergeant Deeks. Andrew considers reporting them to higher-ups, but the heavily armed, increasingly violent platoon becomes suspicious that someone in their ranks has turned on them.
16) The last enemy
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2009], c2008
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (330 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Stephen Ezard is a reclusive, brilliant mathematician who returns home to England to attend his brother Michael's funeral. Michael was an aid worker killed by a landmine in Afghanistan. After years of working in near-isolation in China, Stephen struggles to reconcile his carefully controlled world with a brother he did not know, in a police-state London he does not recognize. He finds himself falling in love with his brother's widow and becoming the...
17) Red snow
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dylan is a First Nations soldier from Canada who is caught in an ambush in Afghanistan and interrogated by a Taliban Commander until he makes his daring escape. Now he must run for his life from his captors across treacherous landscapes and through a blizzard that becomes his last hope for survival.
18) Six: Season 1
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Six follows members of Navy SEAL Team Six, modern American warriors whose mission to eliminate a Taliban leader in Afghanistan goes awry when they uncover a U.S. citizen working with the terrorists. Inspired by real missions, the series authentically captures the inside world of America's elite special operations unit, what these SEALs do, their personal lives, combat, and the life-and-death decisions they make.
Publisher
Hallmark Channel
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Postables work against the clock decoding a letter to rescue a soldier in Afghanistan and reunite her with her family, while Rita competes for the National Miss Special Delivery title in Washington D.C.
Publisher
Hallmark Channel
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Postables are on a mission to deliver a soldier's letter from Afghanistan to a teenager who's being relentlessly bullied, while Oliver's estranged father surprises him with news that shakes him to his core.
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