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Participants: Narrated by David Attenborough.
Contents: [Disc 1]: Islands; Mountains; Jungles. — [Disc 2] Deserts; Grass-lands; Cities.
Description: This 2016 follow-up to the 2006 documentary mini-series “Planet Earth” examines the natural features and wildlife found in various parts of the world, each of the six episodes corresponding to a different category of natural or man-made terrain (e.g., island, mountain, jungle, urban area, etc.).
Library Holdings: Planet Earth I (BBC/Discovery Channel, 2006; 5 DVDs) at NICC/Peosta; call no. 508 PLA

Participants: Ossie Davis, Denise Nicholas, Albert Jones, Erik Laray Harvey, Darnell Williams, Jeffrey Nash, Sharif Rasheed, & Stephen Rea.
Description: The USS Mason entered WWII on a presumably doomed mission. The all African-American crew overcame the harsh realities of war abroad and segregation at home, and was finally honored for its heroism in 1994.
Note: Based on the book, Proudly We Served: The Men of the USS Mason, by Mary Pat Kelly (Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1995).

Participants: Martin Balsam, Joseph Cotton, E.G. Marshall, James Whitmore, Jason Robards, Soh Yamamura, Tatsuya Mihashi, Takahiro Tamura, Eijiro Tono, & Koreya Sends.
Description: Documentary. A Dramatization which chronicles the bombing of Pearl Harbor from both the Japanese and American points of view.
Contents: Special feature include: Day of Infamy (documentary; 20 min.) with commentary by Richard Fleischer & Stewart Galbraith; essay by film historian Tom Weaver (container insert); Commentary by Richard Fleischer & Japanese film historian Stuart Galbraith IV; History Behind the Lens Tora! Tora! Tora!: A Giant Awakes, documentary of the historical facts behind the film (90 min.); Hollywood Backstories: Tora! Tora! Tora!, AMC “making-of” featurette (22 min.); “Movietone News” film clips of events surrounding the attack on Pearl Harbor, including First Pictures of Jap Attack on Hawaii (2 min.), Now It Can Be Shown (9 min.), A Year of War Since Pearl Harbor (7 min.), War with Japan (7 min.), U.S. Declares War on Japan (5 min.), First Pictures of Navy Attack on Jap Islands (3 min.), "Jap Cities Were Bombed by U.S. Army Planes” (1 min.), "President Honors 'Jimmy' Doolittle for Raid on Japan” (3 min.), War Reports of the United Nations (2 min.), Doolittle’s Raiders, Who Bombed Tokyo, Mark Anniversary (1 min.); “Behind-the-scenes” production still gallery; “Production Gallery” of cast and set stills; Original theatrical trailer (4 min.).
Note: Based on the books: Tora! Tora! Tora!, by Gordon W. Prange and The Broken Seal, by Ladislas Farago (New York: Random House, 1967).

Cast: Interviewer, James Gandolfini.
Description: Beginning with the first documented cases from the Civil War, the film examines occurrences of PTSD through two World Wars and Vietnam, as well as more recent cases involving soldiers who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. The stories are told through soldiers’ revealing letters and journals; photographs and combat footage; first-person interviews with veterans of WWII, the Vietnam War, Operation Desert Storm, and Operation Iraqi Freedom; and interviews with family members of soldiers with PTSD.
Contents: Special features: The Pentagon post-premiere panel discussion.
Holdings: NICC has additional copy at Calmar campus. Call no. 616.85212 War (DVD).