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2) Cliffhanger
Series
Language
English
Description
For Rocky Mountain Rescue, the mission is almost routine: locate five climbers. With the woman he loves and his best friend, Gabe Walker braves the icy peaks only to discover that the distress call is really a trap set by merciless international terrorist Eric Qualen. Against explosive firepower, bitter cold and dizzying heights, Walker must outwit Qualen in a deadly game of hide-and-seek.
3) Stripes
Language
English
Description
When quick-witted slacker John Winger (Bill Murray) loses his apartment, girlfriend and job all in one day, he decides to embark on a new adventure: he joins the US Army, nearly starting WWIII.
Publisher
SlingShot Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
See amazing footage of helicopters as they demonstrate the many roles they play in our lives. Fly along with skilled crews as they carry out sea and mountain rescues, apprehend drug smugglers, repair high voltage lines, and more.
6) Air rescue
Publisher
History Channel
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Documentary showing how the very first air rescue crews came into being and interviews surviving members of these pioneering teams to find out how they developed the techniques and tactics that are now commonplace. Coast Guard Rescue Swimmers, Air Force Pararescue Jumpers, and the members of the LA County Sheriff's Rescue Squad provide a panoramic look at the job today, and dramatic footage shows these real-life heros in action.
7) Desert one
Publisher
Greenwich Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
It has been called 'the most audacious, difficult, complicated rescue mission ever attempted.' This account uniquely blends emotion and bravado to tell the incredible tale of America's secret mission to free the hostages of the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
Publisher
Distributed by Mountain Rescue Association
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
In An early history of the U.S. Mountain Rescue Association, Dee Molenaar, Jim Whittaker, Wolf Bauer, Dick Pooley and other key individuals involved in the early history of mountain rescue in the Pacific Northwest trace the development of mountain rescue teams in Washington and Oregon, including the first major operation on Mount McKinley in 1960. It also looks at mountain rescue today. Mountains don't care is a mountain safety film featuring Ome...
12) Push
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Nick is a 'mover' - someone who can move things with his mind. He meets up with Cassie who is a 'watcher' - someone who can predict the future. She is trying to rescue her mother from the government. As they try to piece things together, Kira enters their lives. Kira is a 'pusher' - someone who can influence the thoughts of others. She has had a relationship with Nick and is the only person to survive a powerful 'enhancement' drug that was administered...
13) Thai cave rescue
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Follow the harrowing operation to rescue twelve boys stranded in a flooded cave in Thailand, and discover the scientific ingenuity that made the rescue possible.
14) The meg
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Expert rescue diver Jonas Taylor teams up with an oceanographer's daughter to rescue people trapped in a sunken submersible after they're attacked by a giant prehistoric shark.
Series
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Mary Grant has received a message in a bottle from her missing father, a sea captain. She enlists Jacques Paganel, a French geographer, Lord Glenarvan, owner of the Steam Navigation Company, and other searchers to rescue him as they travel the 37th parallel in South America and Australia.
17) Dunkirk
Language
English
Formats
Description
Explores the audacious bid to rescue over 400,000 troops from the British Expeditionary Force besieged on the beaches at Dunkirk, which ranks as one of the greatest maritime evacuations in history. Combines contemporary footage and reenactments to tell the story in 3 episodes.
18) Infini
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
An elite 'search and rescue' team transport onto an off-world mining-facility to rescue Whit Carmichael, the lone survivor of a biological outbreak.
19) The predator
Series
Collector's edition volume 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the outer reaches of space to the small-town streets of suburbia, the hunt comes home. Now, the universe's most lethal hunters are stronger, smarter, and deadlier than ever before, having genetically upgraded themselves with DNA from other species. When a young boy accidentally triggers their return to Earth, only a ragtag crew of ex-soldiers and a disgruntled science teacher can prevent the end of the human race.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In 1982, a massive avalanche descended on Alpine Meadows Ski Resort in Lake Tahoe, California that triggered a desperate five day search for eight missing people. Buried chronicles the third deadliest avalanche in US history, the miraculous rescue efforts and the traumas that still haunt the survivors today.