Tarawa Beachhead - DVD

As World War II rages, U.S. Navy submarine Lt. Commander Jeff Conway (Academy-Award winner Cliff Robertson, 1968, Best Actor in a Leading Role, Charly) is captured by the Japanese and taken to a small island in the Pacific. While undergoing questioning by his captors, Conway meets the island's owner, Karen Philips (Gia Scala, The Guns of Navarone), who is acting as an interpreter for the Japanese yet offers to help him escape. Can he tr

Bataan peninsula, 1942. Sgt. Bill Dane (Robert Taylor) and his 12 men face hopeless odds as the enemy pushes toward its inevitable conquest of the Philippines. They are cut off from reinforcements, weakened by malaria, hugely outnumbered. And, in this film, greatly remembered. Unlike many war-era films, this stirring saga tempers its heroics with the hard reality of history. Dane's mission: Hold a strategic bridge. The combat: fierce an

Re-live the terrible WWII battle of Guadalcanal, as Dr. Robert Ballard conducts an undersea exploration of "Iron Bottom Sound" in the Southwestern Pacific. His expedition, assisted by the U.S. Navy, located 14 U.S., Japanese, and Australian destroyers and cruisers lost for some 50 years. Veterans of the battle and military historians help identify the ships during an emotional reunion.