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Video List in
Alphabetical Order
Department of History
#
532
Title of Video
1984
Description
Who controls the past controls the future
540
12 Years a Slave
460
4 Months, 3 Weeks and
2 Days
In 1841, Northup an accomplished, free citizen of New
York, is kidnapped and sold into slavery. Stripped of his
identity and deprived of dignity, Northup is ultimately
purchased by ruthless plantation owner Edwin Epps and
must find the strength to survive.
Approx. 134 mins., color.
Two college roommates have 24 hours to make the
235
500 Nations
166
Abraham Lincoln (2
tapes)
402
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
(DVD)
Afghan Star
430
369
322
365
367
Africa 4 DVDs
Episode 1 Episode
5
Episode 2 Episode
6
Episode 3 Episode
7
Episode 4 Episode
8
Africa Mia (DVD)
Africa the Story of a
Continent
Program 1
Program 2
Program 5
Program 6
Africans (The) 2DVDs
Program 1
Program
6
Program
Program 2
Producer/Director Year
Istanbul Int. Film
1984
Fest
Dolby
2013
IFC Films
Story of America’s original inhabitants; filmed at actual
locations from jungles of Central American to the
Canadian Artic. Color; 372 mins.
This intimate portrait of Lincoln, using authentic stills of
the time, will help in understanding the complexities of our
16th President of the United States. (94 min.)
“Handsome, dignified, human and moving.
TIG Productions
WB
2009
This timely and moving film follows the dramatic stories
of your young finalists—two men and two very brave
women—as they hazard everything to become the nation’s
favorite performer. By observing the Afghani people’s
relationship to their pop culture. Afghan Star is the perfect
window into a country’s tenuous, ongoing struggle for
modernity. What Americans consider frivolous
entertainment is downright revolutionary in this embattled
part of the world.
Approx. 88 min. Color with English subtitles
This epic series presents Africa through the eyes of its
people, conveying the diversity and beauty of the land and
the compelling personal stories of the people who shape its
future.
Approx. 60 min. per episode. Color
Zeitgestvideo
2009
National
Geographic
2001
A compelling testament to a handful of out-cast women
committed to live independently – women determined not
only to survive, but to create a community for themselves,
and more importantly, to guarantee the livelihood of their
children.
Approx. 50min. Color
Eight programs span the years from early civilizations and
centuries of slavery to colonial rule and independence.
Archival film, interviews, eyewitness accounts, and
dramatic reconstructions emphasize the achievements of
the African people and the importance of their story.
Approx. 57 min. per program. Color.
Take a journey to 16 African countries to examine major
influences on this complex continent: indigenous heritage,
Western culture, and religions. Discover the rich diversity
of Africa and confront the problems that have resulted
National Film
Network (NFM)
2002
R.M. Arts
1984
Annenberg Media
1986
Simitar
Entertainment
2004
1994
7
from different forms of government.
Program 3
Program
Program 4
Program
8
9
374
254
Program 5
African World (3
DVD’s)
1. Black Kingdoms of
the Nile
2. The Swahili Coast
3. The Slave
Kingdoms
4. The Holy Land
5. The Road to
Timbuktu
6. Lost Cities of the
South
After StoneWall
181
Against the Odds: The
Artists of the Harlem
Renaissance
(VHS/DVD)
49
Alexander Nevsky
215
All Quiet on the
Western Front
288
All the Mornings of the
World (VHS)
304
All The President’s
Men (DVD)
129
437
Amelia Earnhart
Amandla!
Most of Africa’s rich history has been forgotten by the
outside world, overshadowed by images of war, poverty
and famine. Now Harvard University professor Henry
Louis Gates, Jr. takes a fresh look at the history of the
continent. In a series of engaging personal journeys on the
trail of great civilizations, cities and centers of learning
established long before the arrival of Europeans, he reveals
an Africa most people never knew existed.
Approx. 5.5 hours Color
PBS Home Video
2000
The sequel to Before Stonewall, chronicles the history of
lesbian and gay life from the riots of Stonewall to the end
of the century. Narrated by Melissa Etheridge, it captures
the hard work, struggles, tragic defeats and exciting
victories experienced since the. It explores how AIDS
literally changed the direction of the movement. (88
Minutes in color)
Tells how black artists triumphed over formidable odds.
The period of the 1920s and ‘30s known as the Harlem
Renaissance encompassed an extraordinary outburst of
creativity by African-American visual artists. Racial
prejudice & segregation, however, not only kept them out
of the mainstream museums & galleries, but threatened the
very core of their personal artistic expression. (60 minutes,
color)
A fusion of image and music, this film depicts Nevsky
leading the Russians triumphantly in battle against the
Germans
Set during WWI, the story follows young German recruits
from idealism to disillusionment with the war. Best
Picture, 1929-30. B&W. 132 mins.
In the dazzling tradition of Amadeus, All the Mornings of
the World is a seductive tale of music and passion set in
provocative 17th century France. Brimming with romance,
lust, desire, devotion, revenge and intrigue, it’s the
fascinating story of a reclusive composer and his two
beautiful daughters, whose lives are forever changed by a
flamboyant young student. See for yourself why critics
and audiences alike are applauding this magnificent
motion picture and celebrated winner of 7 Cesar Awards,
including Best Picture!
Approx. 110 min. Color
In the Watergate Building, lights go on and four burglars
are caught in the act. That night triggered revelations that
drove a U.S. President from office. Washington reporters
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein grabbed the story and
stayed with it through doubts, denials and discouragement.
The story of this great female pioneer of aviation.
A Revolution in four-part Harmony. Tells the story of
black South African Freedom music and the central role it
played against apartheid. The first film to specifically
consider the music that sustained and galvanized black
South Africans for more than 40 years. Amandla’s focus
is on the struggle’s spiritual dimension, as articulated and
embodied in song.
First Run Features
2005
PBS
1995
Sergei Eisenstein
1938
Lewis Milestone
1930
Touchstone Home
video
Warner Brothers
1976
Nancy Porter
K’Wela
Productions
1993
2003
576
American Sniper
516
America Before
Columbus
143
American and Lewis
Hine
37
American Cowboy
421
American Idealist
(Sargent Shriver)
247
Amistad
543
Andrew Marr
Collection
IT’S THE 2ND
REGION
Warner Pictures
The mission is to protect his brothers in arms
while being a prime target of insurgents. Despite
the danger, as well as the toll on his family at
home, Chris serves through four harrowing tours
of duty in Iraq, personifying the spirit of the SEAL
creed to “leave no one behind.” But upon
returning to his wife, Taya, and the kids, Chris
finds that it is the war he can’t leave behind.
History books traditionally depict the pre-Columbus
Americas as a pristine wilderness where small native
villages lived in harmony with nature. But scientific
evidence tells a very different story: When Columbus
stepped ashore in 1492, millions of people were already
living there. America wasn’t exactly a “New World,” but
a very old one whose inhabitants had built a vast
infrastructure of cities, orchards, canals and causeways.
But after Columbus set foot in the Americas, an endless
wave of explorers, conquistadors and settlers arrived, and
with each of their ships came a Noah’s Ark of plants,
animals—and disease. In the first 100 years of contact,
entire civilizations were wiped out and the landscape was
changed forever. Approx. 90 minutes
Critically acclaimed documentary which portrays the life
and times of America’s pioneer social photographer. He
recorded the development of Industrial America, with
specific attention to the 14 million men, women, and
children that poured through Ellis island to join the
industrial work force.
A documentary on the life of the American cowboy on the
Western frontier. The presentation discusses Native
American relations as well as the Hollywood
glamorization of the cowboy.
In the shadow of the war in Vietnam and assassinations
and rebellion at home. Sargent Shriver launched a string
of social inventions and arguably touched more lives than
any leader since Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Based on a true story, the movie chronicles the incredible
journey of a group of enslaved Africans who overtake their
captor’s ship and attempt to return to their beloved
homeland. They are brought to the US and charged with
murder.
This boxed set contains The History of Modern Britain, a
BAFTA-winning account of the events that have shaped
our lives since the end of the Second World War and The
Making of Modern Britain, in which Andrew Marr
considers the birth of the modern era in the tumultuous
first half of the 20th Century.
National
Geographic
Nina Rosenblum
2014
2009
1984
1991
PBS
2002
DreamWorks
Home
Entertainment
1997
BBC
2009
418
Animated & Soviet
Propaganda
4 (DVD’s)
From the October
Revolution to
Perestroika
1. American
Imperialists
2. Fascist
Barbarians
3. Capitalist
Sharks
4. Onward to the
Shining Future:
Communism
From the 1920s to the 1980s, the Soviet regime ordered
the production of dozens of animated propaganda films.
Their target audience was the Soviet Union itself, and their
goal was to win over the hearts and minds of the Soviet
people.
While many of these films are sharply anti-American, antiCapitalist, and anti-Fascist, they combine with their harsh
political themes a striking originality and beauty in graphic
design that is reminiscent of amours Russian postr art from
the 1920’s.
2 hours documentary and 6 hours animated
Jove Films
86
And The Band Played
On
An American in Paris (2
DVD’s)
1. Concerto of a
Commentary
2. S Wonderful:
3. The Makin of
An American in
Paris
Annie Oakley
Based on Randy Shilts’ best-selling book about the
scientific discovery of the virus which causes AIDS (copy)
HBO
395
392
580
Animated & Soviet
Propaganda (from the
October Revolution to
Prestroika)
4 DVDs
483
ANPO: Art X War
The Art of Resistance
194
Apocalypse Now
(Letterboxed Version)
DVD (2)
And a single DVD in
the extras
130
Aquirre: The Wrath of
God
345
Army of Shadows
Gene Kelly, producer Arthur Freed, director Vincente
Minnelli and a skilled production team conjure an
entertainment for the ages.
Appx. 114 min. Color.
Turner
Entertainment
In 1926, just a few months before her death, Will Rogers
PBX
described Annie Oakley as “the greatest woman rifle shot
the world has ever produced.”
From the 1920s to the 1980s, the Soviet Regime ordered
Films by Jove
the production of dozens of animated propaganda films.
Their target audience was the Soviet Union itself, and their
goal was to win over the hearts and minds of the Soviet
people. While many of these films are anti-American, antiCapitalist, and anti-Fascist, they combine with their harsh
political themes a striking originality and beauty in graphic
design that is reminiscent of famous Russian poster art
from the 1920’s.
2 Hrs documentary and 6 hours of animated film
2006
2008
2006
2006
Reveals the untold story of resistance to U.S. military
bases in Japan through a collage of paintings, photographs,
and films by Japan’s most respected artists. Their stories
and their art depict the struggle against the U.S. military
presence, which provoked a national uprising in 1960 and
still festers today.
Color 153min. Stunning vision of man’s heart of darkness
revealed through the madness of the Vietname War.
Martin Sheen. Marlon Brando.
Linda Hoaglund
2011
Francis Coppola
1979
A fictional account of what went wrong when a Spanish
expedition in the Amazon was lost without a trace during
the mid1500’s while looking for the city of El Dorado.
Jean-Pierre Melville’s masterpiece about the French
Resistance went unreleased in the US for thirty-seven
years, before its triumphant theatrical debut in 2006.
Approx. 145 min. color in French with optional English
subtitles
Werner Herzog
1973
Jacques Dorfmann
1969
180
100
527
289
Atomic Café (The)
Attack in the Pacific
Attorney (The)
Au Revoir Les Enfants
(VHS) (Goodbye
Children)
Auschwitz (DVD)
455
Bamako
47
Battle of Algiers (The)
(DVD) (2 copies)
16
Battle of Britain (VHS)
Looks at the dark side of Cold War America & all its fear
& paranoia, & manages to blend this with a humor – a
comic look at a defining period in the 20th century.
(88 minutes, color, 1982)
Kevin Rafferty,
Jayne Loader &
Pierce Rafferty
First Run Features
The film recounts the refining period of 20th century
history and serves as a chilling and often hilarious
reminder of cold-war era paranoia in the US. The
Atomic Café captures a panicked nation, offering a
fascinating and witty account of life during the atomic
age in resulting cold war, when fall-out shelters, duckand-cover drills, and government propaganda were all
a part of our social consciousness.
Docu Rama
A patriotic documentary of America at the beginning of
WWII-Battles scenes from Midway and Coral Sea
SONG Woo-seok has no clients, connections or a college
Wellgousa
degree, but his eye for business and appetite for money make
him the most successful lawyer in town. But at the peak of
his success, a local teenager is falsely accused of a crime,
then beaten and to tortured while waiting in jail. Shocked by
these conditions, SONG takes the case no one else will, and
changes the course of his life.
Set in a Catholic school during the German occupation of
France, this is the powerful story of Julien Quentin, a
sensitive, headstrong 12-year-old boy who befriends the
new student in his class. A secret that will soon be
revealed to the Gestapo and will change the young boys’
lives forever.
Approx. 103 min. Color PG
Inside the Nazi State is the result of three years of
research, drawing on the close involvement of world
experts, recently discovered documents and nearly 100
interviews with camp survivors and perpetrators, many of
whom are speaking on the record for the first time. Their
stories are brought to life through the innovative use of
archive footage, dramatic recreations of key decisionmaking moments, and their extraordinary testimony.
While never losing sight of the suffering of the victims,
this documentary offers a unique and alarming look at the
mindset of the perpetrators – killers like the Commandant
of Auschwitz Rudolf Hoss, camp doctor Josef Mengele,
and SS Commander Heinrich Himmler. Approx. 300 min.
Color
An historic trial is taking place in a residential courtyard in
Bamako the capital city of Mali. African citizens have
taken proceedings against such financial institutions as the
World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, whom
the blame for perpetuating Africa’s debt crisis.
Aprox. 117 min. Color
Case study in modern warfare, w/ its terrorist attacks and
the brutal techniques used to combat them. The Algerian
struggle for independence from the occupying French in
the 1950s. 121 minutes; Black/white. French w/ Eng.
Subtitles.
Hitler’s plan for conquest of Britain
-Royal Airforce
-British “will” was the only thing to stand in the way of the
Luftwaffe
1982
2013
Louis Malle
1989
BBC
2006
New Yorker Video
2006
Gillo Pontecorvo
1966
1943
282
Battle of Britain (DVD)
Is a spectacular retelling of a true story that shows courage
at its inspiring best. Few defining moments can change the
outcome of war. But when the outnumbered Royal Air
Force defied insurmountable odds in engaging the German
Luftwaffe, they may well have altered the course of
history! Approx. 2 Hrs 12 min. Color
Metro Goldwyn
Meyer
1969
372
Battle for Korea
PBS
2004
15
Battle of China
10
497
Battle of Russia
Beautiful Country (The)
51
Berkeley in the Sixties
(VHS)
Archival film from China, Korea, and the Soviet Union
shows the war as it has never been seen before. Battle for
Korea is the definitive account of the strategies and the
tactics of the warning armies. Superb computer generated
graphics,, explain the moves of countermoves as the battle
raged the length and breadth of the Korean peninsula.
Approx. 120 min. color/B&W
-history of China and the various inventions it has given
the world
-shows the perspective of how China was sucked into
conflict with Japan, who only wanted China’s land and
people in order to conquer America
Documentary on the Russian halt of the German advance
Raised as an orphan, Binh is a young Vietnamese man
with one impossible dream: to be reunited with his birth
father, an American G.I. who left without a trace.
A video that chronicles the social struggles that emerged
most radically at Berkeley, California in the late 1960s.
Mark Kitchell
1990
Pries open the closet door-setting free the dramatic story of
the sometimes horrifying public and private existences
experienced by gay and lesbian Americans since the
1290s. Revealing and often humorous, this widely
acclaimed film relives the emotionally-charged sparking of
today’s gay rights movement, from the events that led to
the fevered 1969 riots to many other milestones in the
brave fight for acceptance. (87 Minutes in color)
As Italy explodes in an era of social unrest, a single illfated incident sends the lives of equally idealistic brothers
Nicola and Matteo Carati careening in opposite directions.
Divided by politics but bonded by blood, the next 40 years
will find the brother’s divergent paths intersecting through
some of the most tumultuous events in recent history!
Runs approx. 368 min. Color
Three WWII veterans returning home must fight their own
personal battles for acceptance and adjustment (172 min,
B&W)
Patricia Arquette portrays Laura Bowman, a young
American doctor traveling through Burma in an attempt to
forget the pain of the recent murder of her husband and
son. After witnessing a pro-democracy demonstration, she
befriends an elderly former professor who promises to take
her beyond the capital city of Rangoon to see a true
portrait of the people.
In 2002, three French skinheads went to a public park in
Rheims looking for an “Arab” to attach when they came
across Francois Chenu, a young gay man. After he refused
to deny his homosexuality when taunted with gay slurs, he
was viciously beaten and thrown unconscious into a pond,
where he drowned. The family courageously tries to move
beyond feelings of hatred and revenge.
85 min. Color
First Run Features
2005
1944
Dina Sun
Productions
1986
2004
335
253
DVD Format
Before StoneWall
273
Best of Youth (The)
195
Best Years of Our Lives
(the)
277
Beyond Rangoon
(VHS)
477
Beyond Hatred ( Lies
the Path to
Foregiveness)
Miramax
William Wyler
1946
John Boorman
1995
First Run Features
2005
533
Black Power Mixtape
196701975 (The)
445
Big Chill (The)
73
Birth of a Nation (VHS)
DVD also available
Birth of Europe: Feast
and Famine: The
Limestone Legacy
Black Rain
66
88
267
Black and White in
Color
478
Blood in the Face
274
Bloody Sunday
453
Bollywood Hollywood
530
Brave New World
52
Breaker Morant
VHS Available and
DVD available
356
Breathless
260
Bridge on the River
Kwai
Extraordinary… Fresh and Fascinating… restores a
complex human dimension to the racial history of the era.
Approx. 96 mins.
Reunion of friends for the funeral of a college pal. During
the weekend that follows, these friends compare their
sixties ideas with the harsh reality of their lives in the
eighties. And discover that in a cold world, you need your
friends to keep you warm.
Marks the birth of motion pictures and the retelling of the
Civil War - with strong racial overtones (154 minutes)
Examines the surprisingly influential role of resources
such as limestone and oil in the history of Europe.
Home Videos
1998
D.W. Griffith
1915
The story of the aftermath of the 1945 atomic catastrophe
in Hiroshima.
Winner of the 1976 Academy Award for Best Foreign
Language Film, Black and White in Color is an
irrepressible and timely satire on racism, colonialism, and
war. Set in the Ivory Coast during the First World War, a
group of bungling French colonials learn that their country
is at war with Germany. Spurred on by a capricious
moment of patriotism, the Frenchmen decide to attack their
German neighbors who reside in a colony up the river, thus
touching off a brutal series of hilariously unfortunate
events.
Rare archival footage, darkly humorous interviews, and
their own promotional materials bring to light the inner
workings of the Ku Klux Klan, the American Nazi Party,
the Aryan Nation, the Order, and the other radical right
groups.
78 min., color
Winner of the Sundance Film Festival’s Audience Award,
writer-director Paul Greengrass’ “magnetic and
impassioned” drama is a “staggering re-creation” of the
events of Sunday, January 30th, 1972 when British troops
clashed with unarmed protesters in Derry, Northern
Ireland. Color, 110 min.
Shohei Imamura
1988
Jean-Jacques
Annaud, Arthur
Cohn
1976
First Run Features
1991
Paramount
2003
A madcap love-song to both East and West with
Bollywood music.
Approx. 105 min. Eng sub-titles
In a society where pleasure and conformity are all that
matter, people are conditioned to live happy, promiscuous
lives with the help of a mood-enhancing drugs called
Soma. On the fringes of the cities, savages live in
reservations, free from conditioning but subject to
emotions, disease and violence.
A true story, this film exposes one of Britain’s darkest
moments as three soldiers are tried on trumped-up murder
charges for political reasons. 107 minutes.
Hart Sharp
2003
NBC Universal
2012
Bruce Beresford
1979
This film tells the story of Michel (Jean-Paul Belmondo), a
handsome young criminal, who is on the run from the law
after stealing a car and killing a policeman.
Approx. 90 Min. B&W
When British P.O.W.s build a vital railway bridge in
enemy occupied Burma, Allied commandos are assigned
to destroy it273 in one of the most memorable cinematic
experience of all time. Runs approx. 162 mins.
Georges de
Beauregard
2005
Sam Spiegel
433
British Empire In Color
(The)
327
Buccaneer (The)
390
Buffalo Bill
234
Burmese Harp (The)
561
Cabaret
63
Cabeza de Vaca
2 DVDs
357
Cahokia Mounds
64
Camille Claudel
360
Captives
545
Caryl Phillips
346
Casablanca
513
Carter, Jimmy
403
Cathair Chorcai (DVD)
The British Empire brought education, technology, law,
IMG Media Co.
and democracy to the four corners of the globe. It also
brought prejudice, discrimination, cultural bigotry, and
racism. With an unblinking eye, this three-part series
examines the complexities, contradictions, and legacies of
empire, both positive and negative.
CB DeMille directs this swashbuckler based on the true
Video Obscurata
story of Jean LaFitte and Andrew Jackson.
Approx. 2 hrs.
Born in an Iowa log cabin in 1845, he fought Indians and
PBS
earned his nickname while hunting buffalo to feed the
construction crews of the Kansas Pacific Railroad. After
the Civil War he scouted for the U.S. Army along
America’s vast western frontier. In 1883, just as that
frontier was disappearing, he transformed himself into a
master showman, creating and starring in the worldfamous traveling show that brought the “real” Wild West
to life.
An antiwar drama, set at the close of WW II, this movie
Kon Ichikawa
focuses on the obsessions that drive one Japanese soldier
to remain in Burma, even as his unit tries to steal into
neutral territory. Private Mizushima, the harp-playing
scout, is wounded, then saved by a Buddhist priest. B&W,
116 mins.
Inside the Kit Kat Klub of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Warner
Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound the call to
decadent fun, while outside a certain political party grows
into a brutal force. Boasting a score by the legendary song
writing partnership of John Kander and Fred Ebb.
The True and amazing adventure of the legendary Spanish
New Horizon
explorer that will dazzle your mind and move your soul.
Home Video
1hour and 48 mins. Color
Ancient mounds stand as sentinels of the past: a lost
CMMS
civilation. But 1000 years ago they stood at the heart of a
great Native American city.
Fictionalized biography of artist/sculptor Camille Claudel,
Bruno Nuytten
lover of Auguste Rodin and sister of poet Paul Claudel, set
in late 19th century Paris. 149 min. (Dinand Library Video
235)
In the 17th century, as white settlers in the New
The History
World
Channel
pushed further and further west, Native American Indians
suddenly found themselves fighting for both their territory
and their lives.
Orator
Lannan Foundation
2008
1958
2008
2000
1993
2005
1989
1998
Casablanca: easy to enter, but much harder to leave,
especially if your name is on the Nazi’s most-wanted list.
Atop that list is Czech Resistance leader, Victor Laszlo,
whose only hope is Rick Blaine (Ingrid Bergman), the exlover who broke his heart. So when Ilsa offers herself in
exchange for Laszlo’s safe transport out of the country,
The bitter Rick must decide what’s more important – his
own happiness or the countless lives that hang in the
balance.
60 Minutes Documentary
15 Mts.
Turner
Entertainment
1943
CBS Karen
Sughrue
2010
Cathair Chorcai is an hour long documentary which looks
Harvest Films
2005
at the physical and spiritual characteristics of Cork city
through the lives of the people who inhabit it. From
personal stories of life in the city to the background that
has shaped the cork we see today, this film explores the
centuries of trade on the Lee, the river’s relationship with
the city and docks, and the impact of the English and
Gaelic worlds.
52 mins.
342
A&E
2002
552
Music
Spanish filmmaker Basilio Martin Pation searches archives
of Lisbon, Paris, London, Moscow.
-no editorial comment
-shows both Loyalish & Falangist footage
Centenary Words & Music Music played by Show of Hands/Poetry Read by Jim
of the Great War (2 Discs) Carter and Imelda Staunton
Mighty Village
Records Limited
2014
515
Chang
Milestone
1992
523
Charango (El)
3rd World Newsreel
2006
278
Chernobyl (VHS) The
Taste of Wormwood
Tells the story of a farmer and his family who settled a
small patch of land on the edge of the jungle. Their
existence is a constant struggle against the many wild
animals around them – bears, tigers, leopards, and even
changes! The climatic elephant stampeded is still one of
the most exciting scenes in cinema history.
B&W/69 Mins./1927
Bolivian Instrument brought in by Spanish Conquistadores
who had indigent people work in the mines gathering
silver.
Chernobyl has come to mean “disaster” and “cover-up.”
Actually, ironically, in Russian it means “wormwood.”
This vitally important program is the result of meticulous
investigative work by a team of Japanese, after all, have
the most experience in searching out the after-effects of
nuclear destruction.
Films for the
Humanities, Inc.
1987
329
Chicago
4 DVD’s Series
PBS Home Video
2003
202
Children of the Camps
City of the Century is how, in just 60 years Chicago grew
from a remote, swampy frontier town into one of the most
explosively alive cities in the world. It’s the story of the
wealthy and the indigent, the heralded and the forgotten,
the shop assistants and the millionaire retail barons who
together created Chicago. It describes how, through
innovation, ingenuity, determination and sheer
ruthlessness, the captains of industry created empires in a
marshy wasteland.
Approx.90 min. Color/BW
B+W. 57 mins. Documentary which shares the
experiences, cultural and familial issues, and the long
internalized grief and shame felt by six Japanese
Americans who were only children when incarcerated in
concentration camps during WWII.
Satsuki Ina
1999
280
Chernobyl: Chronicle
of Difficult Weeks
Chernobyl: Shevchenko’s
film crew was the first in
the disaster zone following
the meltdown of the
Chernobyl nuclear power
plant in 1986. They shot
continuously for more than
three months. Portions of
the film are exposed with
white blotches – a radiation
leakage. 53:52 Color
The Video Project
1986
3
Catherine the Great
(Bibliography)
Caudillo: The History
of the Spanish Civil
War
Productions
The Bam Zone:
Permanent Residents
(VHS)
The Bam Zone: TheBaikalAmur Mainline (BAM)
Railroad in Siberia is called
the longest monument to
the stagnation of the
Brezhnev years. Behind the
marches and songs praising
the project, equipment was
breaking down, lives were
broken and souls became
calloused. 18:30 Color
(1987)
251
CHINA: A Century of
Revolution
148
China: The History and
the Mystery
China’s Cosmopolitan
Age: The Tang
93
406
China Syndrome (The)
DVD
95
Quilombo (VHS)
79
Christopher Columbus
271
Citizen King
303
Civil War Terror
(DVD)
468
Civil War (The)
Ken Burns (6
DVDs)
EPISODES
1. The Cause
2.
A very
Bloody
Affair
3. Forever Free
4. Simply
Murder
5. The
Universe of
Definitive, insightful and unforgettable, China: A Century
of Revolution is an astonishingly candid view of a oncesecret nation. This powerful program takes a remarkable
firs-hand look at China’s tumultuous history, examining its
social, political and cultural upheaval through eyewitness
accounts, rare archival film footage and insightful
commentary. B/W (360 minutes)
Two hour guide through six thousand years of Chinese
History
Examines the Tang dynasty’s vitality in government, art,
religion, and philosophy as well as its contribution to the
humanistic traditions of China, Korea, and Japan. (60
minutes)
Sue Williams
It started as just another assignment. Reporter Kimberly
Wells and cameraman Richard Adams were covering the
daily routing at an Los Angeles power plant when the
unthinkable occurred – a nuclear accident that could have
wiped out Southern CA. And Richard caught it all on tape.
. When their TV station refuses to air the footage, Wells
and Adams recruit plant supervisor Jack Godell to expose
the terrifying truth: the facility is a ticking bomb. But
with millions of dollars at stake, company officials cannot
let the story break.
Approx. 122 Mins. Color
The story derives from fact: in 17th-century Brazil, groups
of runaway black slaves escaped to mountainous jungle
strongholds, where they formed self-governing
communities known as self-governing communities known
as quilombos.
This film depicts his incredible journey to the New World
and his triumphant return to Spain. (104 minutes, 500th
Anniversary edition)
In exploring the last few years of his life, this beautifullycrafted American Experience production traces King’s
efforts to recast himself by embracing causes beyond the
civil rights movement, by becoming a champion of the
poor and an outspoken opponent of the war in Vietnam.
Tapping into a rich archive of photographs and film
footage and using diaries, letters, and eyewitness accounts
of fellow activists, friends, journalists, political leaders and
law enforcement officials, this film brings fresh insight to
King’s impossible journey, his charismatic leadership and
his truly remarkable impact.
Approx. 1:30:52
Columbia Pictures
1979
New York Video
1984
PBS
2004
Engel
Entertainment
2007
Ken Burns’s epic documentary brings to life
PBS
America’s most destructive – and defining –
conflict. With digitally enhanced images and 5.1
surround sound, here is the saga of celebrated
generals and ordinary soldiers, a heroic and
transcendent president and a country that had to
divide itself in two in order to become one.
Approx. 11 hours, full screen, not rated
2011
Battle
6. Valley of the
Shadow of
Death
7. Most
hallowed
Ground
8. War is all
Hell
9. The better
Angels of
Our Nature
SPECIAL
FETURES
• From the
Archive:
Intervie ws
with
Shelby
Foote
• Intervie
w with
Ken
Burns
• Addition
al Intervie
ws
487
Class Apart (A)
134
Classical Japan
Medieval Japan
Tokugawa Japan
Company: Indigo and
His Jesuits
Complete Churchill
80
112
147
263
461
Constitution of the
United States of
America
Complete Story World
(The)
War I (3 DVD’s)
Complete Works of
Yuri Norstein (The)
In the landmark legal case, lawyers forged a daring legal
strategy, arguing that Mexican Americans were “a class
apart” and did not neatly fit into a legal structure that
recognized only blacks and whites. As legal skirmishes
unfolded, the lawyers emerged as brilliant, dedicated,
humorous and at times terribly flawed men.
A look at the history and literature of Japan in three 45minute tapes. (copies)
The life and legacy of Ignatius of Loyola - hosted by Cyril
Cusack. (52 minutes)
A complete biography of Churchill exposing never before
seen footage of his life and times
Two hour guide through the Constitution
-two videos
It began as a regional conflict and escalated into a war of
empires that covered the earth. This documentary series is
more than just the history of this global conflict. It is also
a photo album of the early twentieth century. Meet the
men and machines that fought the war and witness every
major battle and event of this global struggle. No other
collection offers such a complete overview of one of
histories most destructive conflicts. Running over 10and
¾ hours B&W.
Battle of Kerjenets (1971
Fox and Rabbit (1973)
Heron and Crane (1974)
PBS
2009
Martin Gilbert
1991
CBS – PBS
2003
Jove, Inc.
2005
Hedgehog in Fog (1975)
Tale of Tales (1978)
446
CNN Cold War (7
VHS’) and DVD’s (6
Sections.
2005
Episodes 1-3
Episodes 4-6
Episodes 10-12
Episodes 13-15
Episodes 16-18
Episodes 19-21
Episodes 22-24
81
Cross and the Star
Asks where were the foreign governments and institutional
churches while Nazi atrocities were being committed.
Relies heavily on Nazi archival footage. (55 minutes)
John J. Michalczyk
257
Crossing (The)
A&E Television
Networks
1999
94
Crusade: By Horse to
Jerusalem
December 1776. Decimated by superior British forces,
suffering from disease, desertion and lack of funds,
General George Washington faces the unthinkable – losing
the war. Approx. 100 min. + extras.
Recreates the 2500 mile trip from Europe to the deserts of
Sinai
103
Cuban Missile Crisis:
1962
Depicts Castros’ rise to power, his economic policies, his
brand of law and order, and his relationship with the
Soviets.
286
Cyrano de Bergerac
(VHS)
Jean-Paul
Rappeneau
1990
417
Dr. Strangelove
Gerard Depardieu, France’s most celebrated actor, give the
performance of his life as Cyrano De Bergerac, the 17th
Century Solider adventurer who is secretly in love with the
beautiful, young Roxane. Believing he is too ugly because
of his grotesque nose to ever win Roxane, the eloquent
Cyrano helps Christian, a tongue-tied soldier, to woo her
with love letters. After many years Cyrano starts to tell
Roxane the truth. But Christian is killed in the battle and
Cyrano feels compelled to keep his secret. Years later,
Roxane living in a convent, still faithful to her husband
Christian, is visited by her mortally wounded friend
Cyrano. It is then that Roxane realizes that it was Cyrano
that she had loved all the time. His secret revealed.
Cyrano dies as he had lived, heroically and fearlessly.
Approx. 138 min. PG
Convinced that the commies are polluting America’s
“precious bodily fluids,” a crazed General orders a
surprise nuclear air strike on the USSR. His aide Captain
Mandrake furiously attempt to figure out a recall code to
stoop the bombing. Meanwhile the US President gets on
the hot line to convince the drunken Soviet premier that
the impending attack is a silly mistake, while the
President’s advisor confirms the existence of the dreaded
Doomsday machine—a new secret Soviet retaliatory
device guaranteed to end the human race once and for all!
Columbia Pict
1964
300
Daens (2 VHS tapes)
Based on a true story of Fr. Daens, and extraordinary man
that made Belgium history, this epic takes place at the end
of the XIX century when the Flemish Belgium was in full
industrial revolution and the rich owners abused of the
poor workers. Father Daens decided to denounce the
working conditions in the factories even if that meant for
him to choose between priesthood and politics
Aprox. 2 hrs and 14 min.
Alliance Releasing
1994
177
Daily Life at the Court
of Versailles
Story of France & French culture as reflected in Versailles
from its construction by Louis XIV, its decline under
Louis XV, & its abandonment by Louis XVI during the
French Revolution. (French w/ English narration, 60
minutes, color)
Films for the
Humanities
1993
67
Daimyo
This film examines the shaping of the Daimyo culture via
the unique interaction of martial tradition and civilian arts.
John Nathan
1988
29
Dangerous Liaisons
Based on the late 18th century novel by Choderos de
Laclos about the French aristocracy. 120 min. (Dinand
Library Video 234)
Christopher
Hampton
1989
200
David Halberstam’s the
Fifties
Appx 65 mins each. 6 videos based on David Halberstam’s
novel. Stunning portrait of the decade, in-depth interviews,
rare footage of Elvis, Nixon to Marilyn Monroe.
W. Paterson Ferns
and Richard Heus
1997
368
Day of the Zulu: Secrets
of the Dead
In one key 1879 battle, Zulu fighting units decimated the
British forces at the battle of Isandlwana. Historian Ian
Knight and forensic archeologist Tony Pollard investigate
the battle scene, trying to access the impact of a solar
eclipse on the outcome, and discovering the Zulu use of
performance enhancing “battle drugs.”
Approx. 60 min. Color and B/W
PBS Home Video
2001
326
Days of Glory (DVD)
Is “a chronicle of courage and sacrifice… told with power,
grace and feeling and brought alive by first ate acting”
Telling the true story of a band of World War II soldiers
who heroically fought their way across Europe while
battling discrimination within their own ranks.
Tessalit
2006
409
Days of Waiting (DVD)
Documentary about an extraordinary woman, artist Estelle
Ishigo, one of the few Caucasians to be interned with
110,000 Japanese Americans in 1942. When internment
came, she refused to be separated from her Japane4se
American husband and lived with him for four years
behind barbed wire in the desolate Heart Mountain camp
in Wyoming.
Farrallon Films
99
D-Day Invasion
A detailed portrayal of what went into America’s dramatic
entry into WWII.-Nazi, British, and U.S. footage (58 min.)
420
Deadwood (The
complete Series)
19 DVDs
In an age of plunder and greed, the riches gold strike in
American History draws a throng of restless misfits to an
outlaw settlement where everything – and everyone – has a
price.
Aspect ration 16:9/Color )Approx. 36 hours
HBO
281
Dear America - Letters
Home from Vietnam
(VHS) DVD)
This movie is an authentic account of the Vietnam War
from the actual letters of the men & women who served
there. The harsh realities of life and death, friendships
made and lost; these letters home tell it all, w/ newsreel
and home-movie footage shot by the servicemen
themselves.
HBO
281
Dear America (DVD)
Letters from Vietnam
(#42 VHS)
Is an authentic account of the Vietnam War from the actual
letters of the men and women who served there. The harsh
realities of life and death, friendship made and lost—these
letters home tell it all, with newsreel and home-movie
footage shot by the servicemen themselves. These are the
authentic voices of war, some who survived, many who
never made it home. Color; approx. time 86 min.
The Couturie
Company, Inc.
2008
1987
1987
479
Dear Uncle Adolf (the
Germans and Their
Fuhrer)
German letters written to Adolf Hitler that provide the
most intimate details of the Reich. The uncensored letters,
which include declaration of loyalty, love letters and the
occasional words of protest, reveal the true feelings of the
German people – their hopes, longings and fears. Like a
seismograph, they reflect the changing mood in Nazi
Germany, and the highs and lows of the German spirit,
from 1932 to 1945
60 min.s, color & b/w
First Run Features
2010
219
December 7th- Pearl
Harbor Story (The)
John Ford’s “DECEMBER 7TH,” was banned by the U.S.
Government for nearly fifty years. This special edition is
now available; presenting the fully restored, 82 minute
version, with subtitles added to the controversial Japanese
language sequences and a special “behind the scene”
introduction. This full-length version stars Walter Huston
as Uncle Sam and is set in Honolulu on the day before the
Japanese attack. On Sunday morning, December 7th, air
squadrons appear, “swooping down like flights of tiny
locust”. The attack on Pearl Harbor, America’s first battle
of World War II, is vividly illustrated as only Hollywood
can do.
John Ford
2001
70
DeGaulle and France
180 minutes in three parts. This documentary examines the
life and legacy of Charles DeGaulle in France as his
reorganization of political power restored an effective
government.
117
Depression #7
414
Died with Their Boots
on (They)
The 7th Cavalry Regiment, Gen. George Armstrong Custer
says, rides “to hell or to glory. It depends on one’s point
of view.” The point of view of Raoul Walsh spectacular
They Died with Their boots on decidedly favors glory.
Warner Bros.
1941
323
Di Perejil (DVD
Say Parlsey is a film about the efforts of these women to
establish the identities of their children and to raise them
freely in the Dominican Republic. It is also a chronicle of
their attempt to bring together two languages, two societies
and two cultures – in the name of peace and justice.
National Film
Network (NFM)
2006
141
Digging for Slaves The Excavation of
American Slave Sites
An archaeological approach to unearthing the past in
America’s slavery-ridden South. This video looks at how
living conditions must have been for the American slave.
120
Disputation: A
Theological Debate
A theological medieval debate between Christians and
Jews in 1263.
1993
22
Distant Thunder
A moving account of the WWII famine in India.
-varying individual accounts based on their social groups
1973
7
Divide and Conquer
Documentary on Hitler’s expanding wave of conquest into
Western Europe
1986
544
Doctor Zhivago
Tumultuous tale of Russia divided by war and hearts torn
by love. Epic images abound: revolution in the streets, an
infantry charge into No Man’s Land, the train ride to the
Urals, and icebound dacha.
Color; 200 mins.
564
217
Dr. Strangelove
Earth
1992
Warner Bros.
Dr: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Based on Bapsi Sidhwa’s autobiography, Cracking India,
the story is set in 1947 in Lahore, where Hindu,
Sikh, Parsee, and Muslim share a peaceful coexistence. Subtitles
1965
1964
Deepa Mehta
1998
87
Eisenhower (120)
Caesar (50)
Waterloo (120)
Napoleon (50)
(copy) Famous battles and their brilliant leaders.
435
Emilio Zapata
(2 DVDs)
Was the Revulutionary Movement of Mexican history.
Approx. 173 Min. color (Spanish only)
ITZA Direct
2006
500
Empire of the Sun
It’s about a young boy in a great war. A young Britton
whose unconquerable spirit soars high and free above the
harsh confines of a Japanese internment camp during
World War 11.
Warner Bros.
2009
501
End Game
Monterey Video
2010
2
Engines of Change: The
American Industrial
Revolution, 1790-1860
South Africa, 1985. While the country is under siege,
sanctions are biting. Mandela’s imprisonment is an
international cause célèbre, and the ANC guerilla terrorist
attacks are escalating. Every day the country is more
ungovernable as it plunges towards the apocalypse of a
race war…Against all odds, through volatile discussion,
intrigue and breakthroughs, the unimaginable is achieved-a
precious arena of frail trust between the two warring
parties.
109 Minutes/Color
(National Museum of American History) This video
chronicles the actors and agents of American
industrialization.
142
Enola Gay
Dropping of the Atomic Bomb
Documentary
99
EUROPA EUROPA
“A Harrowing True Story!” Young boy recounts survival
Home
through Holocaust. Separated from his family at the age of Entertainment
thirteen, Solly takes on various identities to hide his Jewish
heritage. First passing himself off as an orphan and later
as one of the “Hitler Youth,” Solly carries on his charade,
hoping desperately to keep his identity hidden… and make
it through the war alive. Aprox. 1 Hr 54 min. Color
1990
24
Eva Peron: Queen of
Hearts
An 87 minute, black and white film on the life of Eva
Peron.
1957
164
Evita: The Story of Eva
Peron
Capturing the drama and sweep of Eva Peron’s rags to
riches rise to power in Argentina, Evita bring you into this
great world leaders life. (55 min)
Alan Parker
Evolution (4
DVDs)
These discs explore all facets of evolution, and
the extraordinary impact the evolutionary
process has had on our understanding of the
world around us. Narrated by Liam Neeson.
Approx. 120 minutes per disc
PBS
1. Darwin’s
Dangerous
Idea
2. Great
Transformat
ions/
Extinction!
3. The
Evolutionar y
Arms Race/
Why Sex?
4. The Mind’s
Big Bang/
What About
God?
1987
1996
467
7
Eye of Vichy
A masterful look at Nazis and media manipulation in
Vichy Central France in WW II. 110 minutes; B/W,
English narration
Claude Chabrol
First Run Features
339
Eyes on the Prize (7-DVD’s)
2nd Set (3 DVDs)
Is an award-winning 14 hr documentary series on the civil
rights movement that brilliantly illuminates the struggle for
racial equality and social justice.
Approx. 14 hrs, color and B/W.
PBS/
Blackside, Inc.
(VOLUME I)
1) Awakenings
2)
Fighting Back
1993
19861990
Emmett Till… Rosa Parks… Martin Lutber King. Jr. Rare
reflections open the door to understanding
America’s struggle for equality.
19541956
Little Rock.. “Ole Miss”.. the 1954 Supreme Court
1957-
Decision.
1962
(VOLUME II)
1) Ain’t Scared of
Your Jails
Sit-ins… SNCC. Freedom Rides.
19601961
Georgia.. Alabama… the march on Washington
19611963
Medgar Evers… Freedom Summer….the Civil Rights Act.
19621964
Selma…Montgomery… The Voting rights Act Eyewitness
accounts by the Rev. C.T. Vivian, Sokley Carmichael and
George Wallace illuminate the events of 1965 focusing on
a decade of lessons learned and the role of television in the
civil rights movement.
1965
2) No Easy Walk
1)
(VOLUME III)
Mississippi: Is
this America?
2) Bridge to
Freedom
(VOLUME IV)
1) The Time Has
Come
Malcom X… Stokely Carmichael… “Black Pover.”
Chicago… Detroit… the Kerner commission.
19651968
America’s Civil Rights Movement
19661968/
19671968
2) Two Societies
(VOLUME V)
1) Power
2) The Promised
Land
(VOLUME VI)
1)
Ain’t Gonna
Shuffle NoMore
(1964-1972)
Muhammad Ali… Howard University… Gary, IN.
The Black Panthers… Fred Hampton… Attica.
2) A Nation of
Law?
(VOLUME VII)
1) The Keys to the
Kingdom
2) Back to the
Movement
19641966
19641972
19681971
Busing… Maynard Jackson… Affirmative Action
Activism… Overtourn… Harold Washington
19741980
305
FDR (DVD)
His radio Fireside Chats were heard in million of living
rooms. His picture hung on the wall of homes and
businesses. His wife was the most admired woman in
America. He restored hope to a country that had lost it,
led the nation during the greatest war in history, and
championed the common man. Yet there was nothing
common about Franklin Delano Roosevelt, neither his
aristocratic beginnings, nor his exuberant personality. He
was a complex man who reached out to adoring public but
carefully hid his paralysis and unconventional marriage
from the world. FDR goes beyond the familiar words and
images to explore his hidden dimensions, creating an
intriguing mosaic that includes rare film and home movies,
newly filmed footage, and fascinating interviews with
family members, friends, biographers, and eyewitnesses to
the Roosevelt saga. What emerges is a surprising portrait
of a towering figure, one who was called a traitor by his
own privileged class and a hero by million’s of ordinary
Americans.
PBS
1994
156
Face of Russia, The
Part 1: The Face on
the
Firewood
Part 2: The Facade of
Power
Part 3: Facing the
Future
This movie is a remarkable journey across history,
encompassing Russia’s grand architecture, icon paintings,
music, literature, and cinema.
Home Vision
Select
183
Fail-Safe
Tense Cold War drama about a squad of American
bombers accidentally sent to deliver a nuclear payload on
the Soviet Union and unable to be called back, while
president and his advisors try to stop the attack from
starting World War III. (111 min. B&W)
Sidney Lumet
1964
480
Fambul Tok (A Film
about the Power and
Foregiveness)
First Run Features
2011
61
Family Game
Victims and perpetrators of Sierra Leone’s brutal civil war
come together for the first time in tradition-based truthtelling and forgivness ceremonies. By reviving their
ancient practice of fambul tok (family talk), Sierra
Leoneans are building sustainable peace at the grass-roots
levels.
832 min color
A “sidesplitting satire of a Tokyo nouveau riche couple
and their spoiled [and nonconformingly unambitious]
children.”
Yoshimitsu Morita
1983
68
Fanny Kemball’s
Journal
(copy)
415
Far From Heaven
Cathy Whitaker has it all – a lovely home, two wonderful
children and a handsome husband, who is successfully
climbing the corporate ladder. But Cathy’s idyllic
existence is just an illusion, and she is eventually forced to
choose between living a lie or following her heart
1 Hr. 48 min. Color
Universal
2003
316
Favela Rising
Haunted by the murders of his family and many of his
friends, Anderson Sa is a former drug-trafficker who
becomes a social revolutionary in Rio de Janero’s most
feared slum. Through hip-hop music, the rhythms of the
street, and Afro-Brazilian dance he rallies his community
to counteract the violent oppression enforced by teenage
drug armies and sustained by corrupt police. Just as
Anderson’s grassroots Afro-Reggae movement is at the
height of it success, a tragic accident threatens to silence
the movement forever.
Genius
Entertainment
2005
Approx. 82 mins.
534
FIDEL
In 1959, Fidel Castro’s tiny band of rebels toppled a
corrupt Cuban dictatorship. Forty years later, Castro
remains in power, incredibly surviving a CIA-led invasion,
a missile crisis, eight assassination attempts, nine US
presidents and the fall of the Soviet allies.
Artisan
525
Fiesta del Chivo (La)
During 30 years Dominican Republic suffered from the
most bloodies tyrannies of the 20th C in Latin America.
During decades Rafael Leonidas Trujillo dominated and
ran the government and its insurrection without being
stopped. After 35 years Urania returns to Santo Domingo
to visit her ill father. Then they cry their most inner most
memories, their past and their secrets and also the
conspiracy to eliminate the dictator Trujillo, the man that
marked their lives forever.
Cine Fib 2010
172 Trade St
Lexington,
KY (Amazon)
2012
426
Fight (The)
On June 22, 1938, 70,000 fans crammed into Yankee
stadium to watch what some observers have since called
“the most important sporting event in history.” Millions
more turned in to hear a blow-by-blow description on the
radio. The rematch between the African American
heavyweight Joe Louis and his German opponent Max
Schmeling was riveting – “one hundred and twenty-four
seconds of murder,” as one newspaper put it. But for most
spectators the fight was much more than a boxing match; it
was an historic event freighted with symbolic significance,
both a harbinger of the civil rights movement and a
prelude to World War II.
Approx. 90 min., Color/B&W
PBS
2004
456
Fires on the Plain
Is a compelling descent into psychological and physical
oblivion? Denied hospital treatment for tuberculosis and
cast off into the unknown, Private Tamura treks across an
unfamiliar Philippine landscape, encouraging an
increasingly debased cross section of Imperial Army
soldiers, who eventually give in to the most terrifying
craving of all.
Approx. 104 min. Black and White
Janus Films
1959
382
Fly Girls
The WASP’s contribution to America’s war effort was
WGBH
invaluable, yet mostly forgotten. In fly girls, the women of
the WASP take wing once again, to tell their story of skill,
determination, and courage
2009
434
Force More Powerful
(A)
(2 discs)
Is a two-part documentary series on one of the 20th
century’s most important and least-known stories – how
nonviolent power overcame oppression and authoritarian
rule. In South Africa in 1907, Mohandas Gandhi led
Indian immigrants in a nonviolent fight for righst denied
then by white rulers. The power that Gandhi pioneered
has been used by underdogs on every continent and in
every decade of the 20th century, to fight for their rights
and freedom.
York Zimmerman
2000
334
Free Cinema (3 DVDs)
A
154early
i work
C l of the best of the British New
Features the
Wave! Highly influential in cinema history, the Free
Cinema movement not only reinvented documentary in the
1950s but also spearheaded the British New Wave of
social-realist feature films.
Approx. 475 mins. Black and White
Facets
2007
163
French Intellectuals in
the 20th Century
Part 1: Great
Expectations
Part 2: Days of
Contempt
The birth of the intellectual: Zola & Proust; the Great War;
pacifism & surrealism; the Bolshevik Revolution, the new
religion of Communism, Andre Malraux, the growing
signals of terror from Moscow, which go unheeded.
The rise of Fascism, wh/ at first seemd like a logical
outgrowth of the October Revolution; the Nazi occupation
of France & French collaboration; the Spanish Civil War;
resistance to Fascism.
Films for the
Humanities
& Sciences
1993
(Each part is
in English, 52
minutes,
color)
The French Communist Party & anti-Stalinism; the
Algerian War; Jean Genet, Franz Fanon, Sartre, and the
cause of Third World Revolution.
Part 3: Lost Illusions
Part 4: The Demise of
the Prophets
577
Gallipoli
Intellectuals & the new models like Communist Cuba;
birth of the Maoist intellectual, w/ Sartre & Simone de
Beauvoir distributing Maoist tracts in the street; the latest
revolutions: Iran & Cambodia, whose excesses lead the
intellectuals to a new cause – human rights; the death of
Sartre- and the death of Chinese support for communism,
as seen at Tiananmen Square.
Story of how irresistible lure of adventure and the
Paramount Pictures 1981
unknown, combined with national pride, bring two young
men together in the Australian army in 1915. They cross
continents and great oceans, climb the pyramids and walk
through the ancient sands of Egypt to join their regiment
of the fateful battle of Gallipoli. The echoes of history
blend with the friends’ compelling destiny as they become
part of a legendary World War I confrontation between
Australia and the German allied Turks – a battle that is to
Australians what the Alamo is to Americans.
448
Gamorrah (2 DVDs)
1. Theatrical
Trailer
2. 5 Stories– making
of Gamorrah
Shocking vision of contemporary gangsterdom, and one of
cinema’s most authentic depictions of organized crime.
Five disparate tales in which men and children are caught
up in a corrupt system that extends from the housing
projects to the world of haute couture.
English subtitles
IFC Films
2008
196
Full Metal Jacket
Full Metal Jacket from its rigors of basic training to its
nightmare of combat in Hue City.
Color/116 mins.
WB
1987/200
7
14
Gandhi (VHS)
Gandhi Pilgrim of Peace
A biography of India’s most dynamic leader and champion
of peace
After years of incarceration, Irish immigrant Amsterdam
Vallon returns to lower Manhattan’s lawless, corrupt Five
Points section seeking revenge against the rival gang
leader who killed his father. But before long,
Amsterdam’s personal vendetta becomes part of an
erupting wave of full-blown gang warfare.
Approx. 166 min.
A&E
1997
358
Gangs of New York
Buena Vista Home
Entertainment
2007
96
Garden of the Finzi Continis
Based on the novel by Giorgio Bassani about the Italian
Jewish community of Ferrara at the time of the antiSemitic
decrees in 1938. 90 min. (Dinand Library Video 236)
Vittorio de Sica
1971
174
Garden of the FinziContinis, The
Starring: Dominique Sanda, Lino Capolicchio
Slow-moving, affecting drama about
aristocratic Jewish siblings coming of age in WWII-era
Italy. With its impeccable acting, this pleases foreign film
buffs seeking a detailed portrait of time and place.95
minutes, Rating: R, Italian w/ English subtitles.
Vittorio De Sica,
Director
1971
43
Germany Awake
A black and white 90 minute documentary on the
propaganda of Leiser’s Deutschland Erwache. The
presentation draws extensively on excerpts from other
German films.
341
General George C.
Marshall
(Bibliography)
Soldier and Statesman
Approx. 50 mins. Color and BW
A&E
2002
258
George Washington:
Founding Father
Biography
George Washington: Founding Father.
1994
428
Germany Year Zero
(Part of a Ttrilogy of
Wars)
A portrait of an obliterated Berlin, seen through the eyes of
a twelve-year-old boy. Living in a bombed-out apartment
building with his sick father and two older siblings, young
Edmund is mostly left to wander unsupervised, getting
ensnared in the black-market schemes of a group of
teenagers and coming under the nefarious influence of a
Nazi-sumpathising ex-teacher. Germany year Zero is a
daring, gut-wrenching look at the consequences of fascism,
for society and the individual.
73 mins. B&W, English subtitles
Hearst/ABC/NBC
Arts and
Entertainmen
t Networks
Janus Films
184
Gettysburg
The bloody, three-day Civil War battle that took place in
July of 1863 and saw 53,000 lives lost is depicted in
spectacular style in this epic film marked by incredible
fighting Basedon the acclaimed book "The Killer
Angels."( 254 min., color)
Ronald F. Maxwell 1993
365
Ghosts of Rwanda
This documentary marks the 10th anniversary of the
Rwandan genocide-a state-sponsored massacre in which
some 800,000 Rwandans were methodically hunted down
PBS Home Video
Approx. 50 min.
and murdered by Hutu extremists as the United States and
international community stood by, refusing to intervene.
Approx. 120 min. Color.
1968
1948
2004
347
Girl with a Pearl
Earring
Delft, Holland 1665. 17 year old Griet must work to
support her family and becomes an aid in the house of
Johannes Vermeer, where she gradually attracts the master
painter’s attention. Johannes and Griet must hide their
inspiration of each other from his volatile wife Catharina.
The wealthy and troublemaking Master van Ruijven senses
the intimacy between the artist and his maid an contrives a
commission for Vermeer to paint Griet alone. The result
will be one of the greatest paintings ever created, but at
what cost?
Lions Gate Home
Entertainment
2003
185
Glory
Color, Story of the first black regiment to fight for the
North in the Civil War. Stars Matthew Broderick, Denzel
Washinton, Cary Elwes, and Morgan Freeman.
Edward Zwick
494
God in America
A sweeping history of how religious faith has shaped
America.
Approx. 6 hours (English Subtitles)
PBS
211
Going My Way
Father O’Malley (Crosby) joins St. Dominic’s and
succeeds in reaching out to the neighborhood’s toughest
kids. B&W, 127 mins. Bing Crosby
238
Good Bye Lenin!
Coming-of-age adventure blends the fall of Communism
with the salient emotions of a family’s love. German
(English subtitles); Color; 121 Mins.
Wolfgang Becker
19
Gore Vidal’s “Lincoln”
Television version of Vidal’s biography “Lincoln.” The
video covers the pre-inaugural to his assassination. (copy)
Lamont Johnson
1988
505
Grand Coulee Dam
Featuring the men and women who lived and worked at
Grand Coulee and the Native people whose lives were
changed, alongside historians and engineers, this American
Experience film explores how the crucial tension between
technological achievement and environmental impact
hangs over the project’s legacy.
Approx. 90 mins.
PBS
2012
27
Grapes of Wrath
Darryl F. Zanuck
1940
465
Grand Illusion
This award-winning video of Steinbeck’s classic depicts
the trials of a farmer and his family in search of a new life
in California, leaving the Depression age Dust Bowl
behind.
One of the very first prison escape movies, Grand Illusion
is hailed as one of the greatest films ever made. Jean
Renoir's antiwar masterpiece stars Jean Gabin and Pierre
Fresnay as French soldiers held in a World War 1 German
prison camp, and Erich von Stroheim as the unforgettable
Captain von Rauffenstein.
Approx. 114 min. Black and White
Criterion
Collection
1938
110
Great Commanders
A look at history’s greatest commanders: Alexander the
Great, Julius Caesar, Horatio Nelson, Napoleon
Bonaparte, Ulysses S. Grant, and George Rhukov
124
Great Debates:
Kennedy vs. Nixon
A series that chronicles the first-ever televised presidential
debates that occurred between Kennedy and Nixon in
1960.
114
Great Depression (The)
VHS/DVD
A PBS series that investigates the conditions of the Great
Depression and their human implications.
Approx. 3 hrs., 20 mins.
2011
1993
History.com
1998
137
Great War
(In 8 one-hour segments) A PBS series that brilliantly
captures and chronicles World War I from the conditions
that brought on the cataclysm to the grief and devastation left
in its wake, focusing on Britain. Historical consultant: Prof.
Jay Winter
554
CD
Great War (The)
Tipperary
Keep the Home Fires
Burning
We don’t want to lose
you
Good byee
Over there
Land of Hope and Glory
Mademoiselle
from
Armentieres
Roses of Picardy
Pack up your troubles
Take me back to dear old
Bligty
Dramatised sketches
Documentary material,
etc.
An Evacation in Music and Drama thorugh recordings Pavilion Records
made at the time
England
Playing time 71 mins. 30 secs.
524
Grito de la Selva (El)
Cry of the Forest (The)
El primer largometraje grabado en la Amazonia Boliviana.
Historia basada en hechos reales.
Spanish with English subtitles
Newsreel
69
Guilty of Treason
The story of Cardinal Mindszenty’s persecution trial by the
Communists in post WWII Hungary
Felix E. Feist
Guimba the Tyrant
Winner of the Grand prize at Fespaco 1995, Africa’s preeminent film event, Guimba is a dark 264political satire in
the guise of a colorful fairy tale. Set in the mythical
kingdom of ancient Mali, Guimba tells the story of a despot
who uses his dark magical powers to rule his kingdom.
King Video
1995
264
Gunga Din
“You’re a better man than I am, Gunga Din.” In that same
vein, fans of classic action-adventures won’t find any better
film than this exhilarating tale, directed by George Stevens.
Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
star as cheeky soldiers of Queen and Empire who never run
short of battlefield gallantry and chin-up heroics as they
combat a murderous sect in colonial India. Running 117
mins. B&W.
RKO Radio
Pictures
2004
387
Hamilton, Alexander
(DVD)
This is an American Experience tells the story of the
underappreciated genius who laid the groundwork for the
nation’s modern economy-including the banking system,
Wall Street, and an “opportunity society” in which talent
and hard work, not birth, determined success.
WGBH
2007
2008
330
Heartland (DVD)
In 1910 Elinore Randall, a widow, and her seven-year-old
daughter travel by train to face two great unknowns-a
strange land and life with a man they have never met.
Elinore has contracted by mail to keep house for Clyde
Stewart, a rancher living in the remote frontier near
Burntfork, Wyoming. Heartland is a story of partnership
and survival. As tough and stubborn as the land upon
which they depend, Clyde and Elinore find mutual
understanding and respect in the trials of frontier life.
Wilderness Women 1975
Film Production
338
Hearts & Minds (DVD)
A documentary that confronts the U.S. involvement in
Vietnam through interviews, newsreels and actual footage.
Approx. 112 mins
Color
The Criterion
Collection
1974
197
Heaven & Earth
Color; 142 min., Saga of a fight to survive during the
Vietnam War.
Oliver Stone
1993
89
Heaven Will Protect the
Working Girl
Framed by the 1909 shirtwaist workers’ strike in New
York, a documentary which combines archival photographs,
animation and computer graphics to present a portrait of
immigrant working women at the turn of the century.
American Social History Film Library (28 min.)
290
HEIMAT (VHS)
“A cinematic event… a massive nearly 16 hour chronicle
of life in Germany, from 1919 to 1982, as reflected in the
fluctuating fortunes of the members of one family, initially
;peasant-farmers, in the fictitious village of Schachbach in
the Rhineland. …In spite of its intimidating length,
HEIMAT is immensely, easily watchable, an extraordinary
succession of mostly ordinary events and characters –
history seen from ground level – vividly acted by a huge
cast of both professional and nonprofessional actors.”
Facets Videos
Edgar Reitz
1996
268
Hidden Army: Women
in World War II (The)
The Hidden Army: Rare archival film footage is woven
into a film where a defeated Hitler reflects on his gross
miscalculations in reference to the contributions of the
Marathon Music
and Video
1995
Lionsgate
1952
411
High Noon
131
Hiroshima: Why the
Bomb was Dropped
(DVD)
155
Hiroshima 60th
Anniversary
(2 DVD set)
American women in World War II.
Women in Defense: Yesterday the pioneer women helped
to win a continent, but during WWII that same spirit of
determination ignited as women sprang into action to save
the nation from the impact of total war and to protect their
homeland.
Army and Navy Nurse P.O.W.’s in WWII: “They All Came
Home”: Through interviews and archival footage, you’ll see
the story of the U.S. Army and Navy nurses who witnessed
the fall of Bataan and Corregidor and survived the Japanese
POW camps. B&W and color, 57 mins.
Classic tale of a lawman who stands alone to defend a
town of cowardly citizens against a gang of revengeseeking criminals.
On August 6, 1945, the US became the first and only
country to ever use the atomic bomb against another nation.
The decision to bomb the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki is as controversial today as it was then.
Approx. 67 mins. Color & B/W
August 1945, saw events that would rock the 20th century
to its foundations – the dropping of atomic bombs on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was a decision that resulted in
the immediate incineration of hundreds of thousands of
civilians – and forever changed the way humanity would
view war, and its terrible costs
1993
1996
History Channel
2005
377
Historians on the
Record Lecture
Gilder Lehrman
Inst. Of Historian’s
(Video #1)
1) McPherson,
James M.
2) Harms, Robert
Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam
The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave
Trade
October
1,
2002
Novembe
r
5, 2002
3) Simon, James
F.
What Kind of Nation: Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall,
and the Epic Struggle to Create a United States
4)
Ulrich, Laurel
Thatcher
The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation
of an American Myth
5)
Willis, Gary
James Madison
6)
Gates, Henry
Louis, Jr.
The Bondwoman’s Narrative
February
4, 2003
Davis, David
Brion
In the Image of God: Religion, Moral Values, and Our
Heritage of Slavery
March 4,
2003
7)
Blight, David
W.
January
14, 2003
April 1,
2003
Gilder Lehman
(Video # 2)
1)
Decembe
r
3, 2002
Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
2)
Schlesinger,
Arthur M., Jr.
A Life in the 20th Century: Innocent Beginnings, 19171950
3) Freeman,
Joanne B.
Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic
4)
Something in the Soil: Legacies and Reckonings in the
New West
Limerick,
Patricia Nelson
5) Ellis, Joseph J.
Novembe
r
5, 2001
January
14, 2002
February
4, 2002
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
March 4,
2002
6)
Brands, H.W.
7) Blackett, R.J.M.
The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin
Franklin
April 15,
2002
Divided Hearts: Britain and the American Civil War
May 6,
2002
Gilder Lehman
(Video # 3)
1) Schweninger,
Loren
2) Dower, John
W.
3) Morgan, Philip
D.
Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation
October
2,
2000
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
Novembe
r
6, 2000
Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the EighteenthCentury Chesapeake and Lowcountry
January
22, 2001
4) Delbanco,
Andrew
The Real American Dream: A Meditation on Hope
5) Appleby,
Joyce
Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of
Americans
6)
The Cousins’ Wars: Religion, Politics and the Triumph of
Anglo-America
Philips,
Kevin
Brookhiser,
Richard
April 2,
2001
Gilder Lehman
(Video #4)
1)
March 5,
2001
May 7,
2001
Alexander Hamilton, American
2) Kennedy, Roger
G.
Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson: A Study in Character
3) Berlin, Ira
Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of
Slavery in North America
October
4,
1999
Novembe
r
8, 2000
4) Kennedy, David
M.
Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression
and War, 1929-1945
March
20,
2000
5) Holt, Michael F.
The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party
April 17,
2000
6) Strouse, Jean
Morgan: American Financier
May 15,
2000
Gilder Lehman
(Video # 5)
1) Lepore, Jill
2)
Davis, David
Brion and Steven
Mintz
The Name of War: King Philip’s War and the Origins of
American Identity
October
5,
1998
The Boisterous Sea of Liberty: A Documentary History of
America from Discovery through the Civil War
Novembe
r
9, 1998
3) Gilmore, Glenda
Elizabeth
Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White
Supremacy in North Carolina 1896-1920
4) Wilson, Douglas
L
Honor’s Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln
Decembe
r
14, 1998
5) Robertson, James
I., Jr.
Stonewall Jackson: The Man, the Soldier, the Legend
March 8,
1999
6) Renehan, Edward
J., Jr.
The Lion’s Pride: Theodore Roosevelt and his Family in
Peace and War
April 12,
1999
466
Historic Japanese
During WW2 the US government produced
Prejudice & Racism various propaganda films with the purpose of
Films
increasing discrimination and prejudice toward
Japanese people, their culture, and Japanese
Americans. These films portray the Japanese
culture as “evil” and successful instilled fear and
racism in American citizens, soldiers and
government interest groups.
Approx. 1 hour and 3 minutes
296
History’s Mysteries
(DVD)
362
History of Britain (A)
5 DVD’s
5
101
Hitler’s Master Race:
The Mad Dream of the
S.S.
Hoover’s FBI
186
Hope and Glory
From the dawn of time to the epic sweep of the twentieth
century, from the great conflicts to the inventions that
changed the world, The History Channel on DVD captures
the glory, tragedy, and drama of the human experience.
From the dawn of civilization to the 20th century, A
History of Britain: The Complete Collection re-animates
familiar tales and illuminates overlooked aspects of
England’s past.
Archival footage of the most brutal and prestigious cult of
men to arise from the Nazi cause.
A detailed portrayal of the rise of the FBI, under President
Hoover, to the skilled police agency feared today by
criminals worldwide-details of its pursuit and capture of
notorious gangsters
The London Blitz of World War II, as seen through the
2007
The History
Channel
2002
The History
Channel
20002002
1983
John Boorman
1987
eyes of a child, in this haunting, semi-autobiographical
seriocomedy. Sebastian Rice-Edwards is the boy who sees
the war as a grand adventure. (113 min, color)
313
Hotel Terminus (VHS)
2 tapes
285
House of Saud (DVD)
452
Mikhail
Kalatozov
I Am Cuba
The Siberian
Mammoth
567
Ice Cold in Alex
The life and times of Klaus Barbie. Through interviews
with Barbie sympathizers and ex-Gestapo officers, as well
as those whose lives they heartrendingly altered, this
remarkable film reveals the horrifying nature of Barbie’s
countless atrocities. But Hotel Terminus doesn’t stop
there. With a suspenseful, layer-by layer investigative
technique, Ophuls draws attention to the equally shocking
compliance of Americans and other Allies – individuals
who conspired with Barbie to hide his crimes from public
view for over 40 years.
Approx. 4 hours and 28 min.
The House of Saud has controlled every aspect of Saudi
life and politics since the kingdom was established in
1932. But outside the Desert Kingdom, little Is known
about Saudi Arabia’s secretive royal family. In House of
Saud, Frontline explores how the AL Saud family
maintains its hold on power in the face of growing tensions
between Islam and modernity. Through interviews with
members of the royal family, government officials, and
other experts from Saudi Arabia and U.s., the two-hour
documentary also traces America’s relations with the
Saudi royal family from their first alliance in the 1930s
through September 11 and beyond the present day.
Approx. 120 mins. Color
Is a personal history by the filmaker’s grandson Mikhail
Kalatozishvili. This documentary comprehensively
explores the life of this giant of Russian cinema including
his classic films Sal for Svanetia, The Cranes Are flying.
The Letter Never Sent and I am Cuba.
Goldwyn Myer
Home
Entertainment
1988
WGBH - PBS
19832005
Milestone
2006
In Batista’s Cuba, foreign capitalist influence runs
rampant, economically stratifying the people into a
decadent leisure class that revels in the spoils of Western
civilization and a working class that toils day by day,
feeling the echoes of colonialism.
Is Vicente Ferraz’ award-winning documentary on the
making of I Am Cuba. Actress Luz Maria Collazo, actor
Sergio Corrieri, screenwriter Enrique Pineda Barnet, and
countless other cast and crew offer their accounts of the
sheer magnitude of the production of the film, its mixed
reception in 1964 and their pleasant surprise at its final
canonical acceptance today.
Depicting one of the Allies’ most difficult periods of the
Second World War, as the Germans made apparently
Studio Canal
1958
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565
Ikewe (VHS)
In Search of Mexican
Pyramids/Legacy of
Central
America/Surviving
Columbus
Indochine
DVD
It is 1770 in the Northwest; the scene in isolated
Ojibway village on the shores of a bay, a young Ojibway
girl on the threshold of womanhood, awakens from a
terrifying dream. She invisions a strange man whose
presence evokes haunting images of sadness and
desolation. The arrival of a young Scottish trader
transforms her dream into reality.
The union promises posterity for her tribe but it also
means hardship and isolation for Ikwe. It soon becomes
apparent that their individual values and divergent
customs are not in harmony.
In the end the images that haunted Ikwe’s dream unfold
with tragic clarity. It is she who becomes the unwitting
messenger of desolation and despair but it is also she
who provides a harbinger of hope for a dying people.
Approx. 1 hour Color
National Film Board 1998
of Canada
A series of programs 25, 55, 110, and 50 minutes in
length, respectively (copy) that examines the social
struggles that emerged in the wake of Spanish imperialism
in Mexico.
Catherine Deneuve stars as an owner of a prosperous
Columbia TriStar
rubber plantation in French Indochina in a sensual story of
unbridled passion set against the violence of the bloody
Communist uprising. (156 mins; color; French with yellow
English subtitles.)
Infamous Dreyfuss
In Search of History Color and B&W 50 mins.
History Channel
Affair
Documentary
Influenza 1918
In 1918 soldiers at an army base near Boston suddenly
WGBH
began to die. Doctors found the victims’ lungs filled with
fluid and strangely blue. They identified the couse of death
as influenza but it was unlike any strain ever seen It
Innocent, The
Based on a Gabriele D’Annunzio story of passion and
Luchino Visconti
decadence in turn-of-the-century Italy. 149 min. (Dinand
Library Video 346)
Into the Deep
For nearly 400 years, few aspects of the American
PBS
(American Whaling and experience have struck more deeply into the imagination of
the World)
the American people – or resonated more profoundly with
the deepest American hopes, fears, and dreams – than the
savagely p0rimal, unfathomably limit-testing experience of
whaling.
Approx. 2 hours
Iraqui Exodus (wide
Reports from the frontlines of the staggering refugee crisis PBS
angle)
that is unfolding in the Middle East as Iraquis flee their war
torn country at the rate of up to 50,000 per month.
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1997
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2008
Approx. 53:53 mins.
171
Irish in America (The)
2 VHS tapes
From war hero & Pres. Andrew Jackson to union organizer
“Mother” Jones, you’ll meet the colorful Irish-Americans
who fought and worked their way past oppression and into
history. (2 volumes, 50 mins. Each; color)
A & E Home video
1997
508
Island President (The)
A film about one man’s mission to save his nation and
perhaps the planet, President Mohamed Nasheed of the
Maldives is confronting a problem greater than any other
world leader has ever faced – the survival of his country
and everyone in it. Nasheed, who brought democracy to
the Maldives after decades of despotic rule, now faces an
even greater challenge: as one of the most low-lying
countries in the world, a rise of three feet in sea level
would submerge the 1200 islands of the Maldives and
make the uninhabitable.
First Film Features
2011
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Italians in America
Italian heritage; stories of hope & heartache, oppression &
A & E Home
liberation, bigotry & assimilation. Historic photographs,
Video
film footage, and interviews w/ prominent Italian –
Americans.
ISHI Last Yahi (The)
The Last survivor of the Yahi tribe following extensive
Rattlesnake Prod.
massacres of Native Americans in CA in 1860s and 8170s.
Approx. 60 min.
Jackie Robinson Story
Jackie Robinson and Ruby Dee (76 minutes), their life and
times as two of the first professional black athletes
James Brady
James Brady’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary
Subcommittee in support of the gun control bill that bears
his namesake.
J’Accuse
Is a World War I drama considered to be one of the most
Lobster Film
technically advanced films of the era and the first major
pacifist film.
Japan’s Killer Quake
In its worst crisis since World War II, Japan faces disaster
PBS
on an epic scale: a rising death toll in the tens of
thousands, massive destruction of homes and businesses,
shortages of water and power, and the specter of nuclear
meltdown at three reactors.
Japan: Memories of a
Commanding shoguns and samurai warriors, exotic geisha
PBS
Secret Empire
and exquisite artisans—all were part of the Japanese
“renaissance” – a period between the 16th and 19th
centuries when Japan went from chaos and violence to a
land of ritual refinement and peace. But stability came at a
price: for nearly 250 years, Japan was a land closed to the
Western world, ruled by the Shogun under this absolute
power and control. Japan: Memories of a Secret Empire
brings to life the unknown story of a mysterious empire, its
relationship with the West, and the forging of a nation that
would emerge as one of the most important countries in
the world. Approx. 160 min.
Japan They Don’t Talk
An NBC television documentary which examines
About, (The)
differences between outward perceptions of “Japan as
Number One” (prosperous, egalitarian, etc.) and actual
disparities that exist in the quality of life enjoyed by its
people. 52 minutes
Japan: The Land of the Two hour guide through two thousand years of Japanese
Rising Sun
history.
Japanese Version
A study on how Western, especially American, culture
undergoes a change when it arrives in Japan
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Japan’s Yasukuni
Shrine
Jean De Florette
(English subtitles)
Jesuits and Their
Successful Engagement
with China
Tokyo’s Yasukuni shrine honors and venerates the spirits
of Japanese soldiers and officers-including convicted and
executed war criminals. This program explores the history
of the Shinto shrine, the complexity of its functions, and
the controversies generated when political leaders appear
there. Interviews with visitors, and inside look at the
shrine’s adjacent museum of war memorabilia, and a
discussion of what has become known as “State Shinto”
create a context in which reverence for the enshrined may
be understood. A rare view of Japanese nationalism and
the political use of religious traditions, Spirits of the State
offers valuable insight into the continuing and contested
legacies of World War II. (28 Min.)
122 minutes (copy)
Films for the
Humanities
2007
Claude Berri
1987
The most successful engagement with China remains that
UCAN
achieved by a group of 17th. And 18th. Century Jesuits.
The came to China to learn and make friends with the
Chinese. They were missionaries who waited until they had
established relationships with people before they were
i Captain
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f ith
A&E
Approx. 50 mins. Color and B/W
One of the most beloved icons in the history of American
Mill Creek Ent.
film. With over 142 lead performances, his prolific career
established him as the symbol of an American West that
epitomized the virtues of courage, toughness, humor and
loyalty.
John Paul Jones
(Bibliography)
John Wayne
(Collection)
Disc 1
Blue Steel
The Dawn Rider
The Desert Trail
The Lawless Frontier
The Lucky Texan
The Man from Utah
The Star Packer
The Trail Beyond
Disc 2
Hell Town
‘Neath the ArizonaSkies
Paradise Canyon
Rainbow Valley
Riders of Destiny
Sagebrush Trail
Texas Terror
Winds of the Wasteland
Disc 3
Randy Rides Alone
West of the Divide
Angel and the Badman
McLintock
The American West of
John Ford
Disc 4
Shadow of the Eagle
The Hurricane Express
Desert Command
His Private Secretary
Jefferson, Thomas:
A candid look at the unpredictable and contradictory life
Philosopher of Freedom of one our nation’s greatest leaders.
-Hosted by Peter Graves
Stuart Rekant
2016
2002
2009
1995
470
Jefferson in Paris
During one man’s unforgettable visit to liberal
and socially permissive France, he meets and
falls in love with a worldly and mysterious
woman! But when the alluring charms of
another prove irresistible he finds himself
courting scandal in a heated triangle of passion
and desire!
Approx. 139 mins., Color
A Merchant
Ivory
Production
2004
354
Jefferson, Thomas
PBS
1997
522
Jesus Camp
Magnolia Home
Entertainment
2006
513
Jimmy Carter (short)
Revered as the author of the Declaration of Independence,
the most sacred document in American History, yet
condemned as a lifelong owner of slaves, Thomas
Jefferson remains the enigma that is America.
Appro. 180 min.
Color/B&W
Follows Levi, Rachel, and Tory to Pastor Becky Fischer’s
“Kids on Fire” summer camp in Devil’s Lake, North
Dakota, where kids as young as 6 years old are taught to
become dedicated Christian soldiers in “God’s army.” The
film follows these children at camp as they hone their
“prophetic gifts” and are schooled in how to Take back
America for Christ.”
60 Minutes Documentary
15 Mts.
CBS Karen
Sughrue
2010
566
JOAN (the Woman)
173
Joan of Arc
Virgin Warrior
204
126
Joe Hill – American
Experience
John F. KennedySpeeches Collection
John Adams
Part I Join or die
Part II Independence
Part III Don’t Thread
on Me
Part IV Reunion
Part V Unite or Die
Part VI Unnecessary
War
Part VII Peacefield
Documentary: Painting
with words
Journey to America
371
Jules Et Jim
128
386
Made at a time when the outcome of World War I, raging on Kino Video
French soil, was far from certain – the film is a grand-scale
tribute to the indomitable spirit of the people of France.
Since the U.S. had yet to enter the fray. DeMille assembled
Peasant, warrior, martyr, saint. Ride to battle with the
A&E – Biography
15th-century farm girl who would lead an army, crown a
king and forge a place as one of history’s most
extraordinary figures.
Copy
An hour long look at the speeches that define JFK
1917
1998
1990
Also Includes: Facts are Stubborn Things, An exclusive
Onscreen Historical Guide and The making of John
Adams
HBO Video
2009
The story of the trials of immigrants on their journeys from
the old world to America.
Paris at the turn of the century. Jules, a German, befriends
Jim, a Frenchman. They meet Catherine who falls in love
with Jules and marries him with without Jim’s approval.
During the First World War the friends are separated.
Catherine and Jules have a daughter named Sabine. Jim
visits them at their chalet where Catherine soon falls in
love with him.
Approx. 101 min. B/W
Charles
Guggenheim
Francois Truffaut
1989
1961
427
379
108
91
203
391
105
503
276/115
436
375
499
Julie & Julia
A culinary legend provides a frustrated office worker with
anew recipe for life in Julie & Julia, the true stories of how
Julia child’s life and cookbook inspired fledgling writer
Julie Powell to whip up 524 recipes in 365 days and
introduce a new generation to the magic of French
cooking.
Approx. 123 minutes.
The Griot reveals to Mabo the story of his distant ancestor,
Keita (The Heritage of
the Griot)
Sundjata Keita, the 13th Century founder of the great Malian
trading empire. It describes the events leading up
to sundjata’s birth as the son of the ugly, hunchbacked
second wife of a Mande king. Sundjata is crippled at birth
by his father’s first wife who fears a prophecy that he will
displace her son as king. The film tells the story of how,
from these unpromising beginnings, Sundjata first walks
and gradually acquires the strength, wisdom and occult
powers he will need to fulfill his destiny as one of the great
leaders of African legend.
Approx. 94 min.
Kennedys
A two video chronicle of the Kennedy’s as a family,
covering their story from 1900-1980.(4 tapes)
Khartoum
Britain’s crisis in Sudan and the siege at Khartoum (136
minutes)
King Philip’s War
June 20, 1675, Wampanoag chief, Metacom, known as
King Philip, attacked the settlement at Swansea, MA
precipitating the bloodiest war in American history. 26
mins., color
Kit Carson
To some, he was one of the America’s greatest heroes; a
brave and loyal guide who laid out a path for the
westward-moving nation, an Indian tracker who could
follow any trail, and a fearless warrior featured in dozens
of bestselling novels. But to others, Christopher “Kit”
Carson was a villain who waged a merciless crusade
against one of the West’s greatest Native American tribes.
Know your Enemy(63 min.) A look at how Japan attempted to assimilate
Japan (VHS/DVD)
cultures in the wake of its conquests.
Kramer vs. Kramer
Is a ground-breaking drama about the heartbreak of
divorce and the struggle between work and family.
LBJ (DVD)
His personality was as big as Texas. His politics changed
America and the world. Here is the definitive film
biography of Lyndon Baines Johnson, one of the most
perplexing and fascinating figures to reach the Oval
Office. LBJ presents the full sweep of his amazing life: an
impoverished childhood in central Texas, the assassination
of President Kennedy, the War on Poverty and the war in
Vietnam, the Great Society program and riots in the inner
cities, and his withdrawal from politics, disillusioned and
defeated.
Color and B&W Approx. 235 min.
La Hora de los Muertos Revolutionary Film which explores the true feel of a nation
(2 DVDs)
and its politics
Language: Spanish 4.3 min.
Language You Cry In
“Informed by the expertise of anthropologists and
(The)
linguists, and with echoes of Alex Haley’s Roots, this film
is the kind of breath-taking detective story that will not let
you go. And thus long after the dramatic ending.
Approx. 52 minutes
Last Emperor (The)
It’s about the life of Emperor Pu Yi who took throne in
1808, at age three before witnessing decades of cultural
and political upheaval within and without the walls of the
Forbidden City.
165 minutes/Color
Columbia Pictures
2010
Newsreeal
1994
David Espar
1992
1966
PBS
2008
1945
Columbia Pictures
PBS
276
Cinesur S.A.
Newsreel
1998
Criterion
Collection
1987
572
363
Le Corbeau (The
Raven)
422
Leopard (The) (3
DVDs)
361
1. Introduction
2. A Dying Breed
3. New transfer of the
161 minute American
release, with Englishlanguage dialogue
Les Carabiniers
353
Le Petit Soldat
26A
La Nuit De Varennes,
Part 1 (English
subtitles)
26B
La Nuit De Varennes,
Part 2 (English
subtitles)
Lagaan: Once upon a
time in India
214
Columbia Pictures
Lawrence of Arabia
(2DVDs)
119
Last Emperor (VHS)
208
Last Hurrah (The)
458
Last of the Mohicans
(The)
233
Last Samurai (The)
1962
A mysterios writer of poison-pen letters, know only as Le
Corbeau, plagues a French provincial town, exposing the
collective suspicion and the rancor seething beneath the
community’s clam surface. Made during he Nazi
occupation of France, Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Le
Corbeau was attacked the right-wing Vichy regime, the
left-wing Resistance press, and the Catholic Church, and
was banned after the liberation. But some—inclusing Jean
Cocteau and Jean-Paul Sarte – recognized the powerful
subtext of Clousot’s anti-informant, anti-Gestapo fable,
and worked to rehabilitate his directorial reputation after
the war.
Approx. 91 min. B&W
The film recreates, with nostalgia, drama and opulence, the
tumultuous years of Italy’s Resorgimento—when the
aristocracy lost its grip and the middle classes rose and
formed a unified, democratic Italy.
Approx. 185 min. (Color)
Studio Canal
1943
Criterion
Collection
1963
Godard’s powerful anti-war and anti-imperailist film, Les
Carabiniers, centers on two peasants who join the King’s
army. Seduced by the promise of riches, the two leave
their wives and embark into the war sending postcards
home that detail their conquests. Upon their return, they
learn that a peace treaty has been signed and in turn, are
betrayed by the king for their overzealousness.
Approx. 80 min. B&W.
Set during the Algerian War, Le Petit Soldat follows
Bruno Forestier, a disillusioned young deserter who
becomes involved in the French nationalist movement.
133 minutes (copy) A delightfully witty and insightful
fictional treatment of the attempted escape of King Louis
XVI and his family in 1790. The film focuses on the
queen’s Restif de la Bretonne (a pornographer/journalist).
Vignettes and dialogues which illuminate late 18th century
life and culture abound.
133 minutes (copy)
Wellspring Media,
Inc.
2005
A Jean-Luc Godard
2001
Eltore Scala
1982
Eltore Scala
1982
Set in Queen Victoria’s India, Lagaan is “a story of a
battle without bloodshed” fought between Captain Russell
and the Indian villagers under his jurisdiction. English &
Hindi with English subtitles. Color. 225 mins.
An “epic adventure” of China’s last emperor and his fall.
Ashutosh
Gowariker
2001
Bernardo
Bertolucci
1987
20th C Fox
1992
Edwick Zwick
2004
Spencer Tracy stars as Mayor Frank Skeffington, the last
of a dying breed of grassroots politicians. 125 mins.
An epic adventure and passionate romance unfold against
the panorama of a frontier wilderness ravaged by war.
Tom Curise plays Civil War hero Capt. Nathan Algren,
who comes to Japan to fight the Samurai and ends up
pledging himself to their cause. DVD Languages:
English/French; Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
46
431
Laurence Wylie in
Peyrane
Levee’s Broke (3 discs)
Disc One: Acts I & II
Disc Two: Acts III &
IV
Disc Three: Next
Movement & Water
Rising
39 minutes
Bernard Petit
1983
“Most people think that it was Katrina that brought about
the devastation to New Orleans. But it was a breaching of
the levees that put 80 percent of the city under water. It
was not the hurricane.”
Approx. 4 hours 4 acts (color)
HBO
2005
Act V: A 105-minute epilogue featuring new interviews
and insights that further chronicle the hardship endured by
New Orleaneans in the aftermath of Katrina.
272
Le Nozze Di Figaro
W.A. Mozart, an opera in four acts. “One listened
enthralled, as Haitink (Conductor), Hagley (Susanna) and
Finley (Figaro) lifted a loving, carefully prepared
performance to greatness” (Opera). 190 mins.
Derek Bailey,
Channel 4
Television
1994
521
Liberty! American
Revolution (The) 3
DVDs
PBS
2004
397
Life and Nothing But
Kino Video
1989
84
Life of Leonardo
DaVinci (5 parts)
512
Lincoln
Steven Spielberg
2013
109
Lincoln-PBS series
Peter Kunhardt
1992
127
350
Lindbergh
Listen to Britain and
Other Films by
Humphrey Jennings
459
Lives of Others (The)
LIBERTY! Is an exuberant documentary about the
American Revolution and our fight for freedom. The
series features military reenactments and dramatic
performances.
Color; approx. 6 hours
“A Textured story, Beautifully told, that captures the spirit
of post-world war I France…”
Part I: The first 30 years and the influences that shaped his
future
Part II: His departure from Florence for Milan and
scientific study
Part III: “The Last Supper”
Parts IV-V: His movement between Milan and Florence
and his relationships with Raphael and Michelangelo
before his death in 1519.
The 16th President’s tumultuous final four months in office
as this visionary leader pursues a course of action to end
the Civil War, unite the country and abolish slavery.
Complete with never-before-seen footage.
The story of Abraham Lincoln’s presidential career,
through the civil war to his death.
A PBS biography of the great aviator Charles Lindbergh
Humphrey Jennings was one of the greatest figures in the
celebrated British documentary film movement, and he is
most remembered for the way his work reflects the
concerns and conditions of World War II-time in the
United Kingdom.
Before the collapse of the Berlin Wall. East Germany’s
population was closely monitored by the State Secret
Police or Stasi. Only a few citizens above suspicion, like
renowned pr-Socialist playwright Georg Dreyman, were
permitted to lead private lives.
107
Lodz Ghetto
Approx. 136 min. English Subtitles
-scripted entirely from the secret diaries the inhabitants of
the ghetto left behind-writers and photographers of this
film risked their lives that we could know what this
desperate struggle was really like
1990
Image
Entertainment
Sony
459
376
Long Night’s Journey
Into Day
Journey Into Day
413
LoneStar
187
Longest Day (the)
531
Loneliness of the Long
Distance Runner (The)
424
Looking for Lincoln
495
Lost Horizon
302
Lost Year in Iraq (The)
DVD
230
Lost in Translation
279
Lucie Aubrac (DVD)
325
Lumumba (DVD)
115
Lyndon B. Johnson
(VHS)
The film documents South Africa‘s quest for restorative
justice as it follows four dramatically different cases that
come before the commission over the course of two and a
half years.
Is a thought provoking portrait of a wounded society
attempting to humanize itself by taking seriously the
importance of heart and conscience?
Approx. 94 min.
Begins as a riveting whodunit about the unsolved murder
of a corrupt lawman. Soon it becomes much more. The
intriguing saga of clashing cultures and dirty dealings in a
Texas border town. A moving look at parents and children
at odds and the passions of forbidden love across
generations.
Approx. 135 Mins. Color
The Longest Day is a vivid, hour by hour recreation of DDay and the end to Nazi domination in Europe (color
178min)
“Running has always been a big thing in our family.
Especially from the police.” So says taut-jawed,
wary=eyed Colin, a promising distance runner. But he’s
not one of the burnished lads who gave all for England in
Chariots of Fire. For working-class reform school inmate
Colin, the opposition isn’t another runner. It’s the
Establishment.
Addresses many of the controversies surrounding Lincoln
about race, equality, religion, politics, and depression by
carefully interpreting evidence from those who knew him
and those who study him today.
Approx. 120 minutes Color/B&W
A grand adventure film, magnificently staged, beautifully
photographed and capitally played.
132 Mins.
In the aftermath of the fall of Saddam Hussein, a group of
Americans led by Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III set off
to Baghdad to build a new nation and establish democracy
in the Arab Middle East. One year later, with Bremer
forced to secretly exit what some have called “the most
dangerous place on earth,” the group left behind
lawlessness, insurgency, economic collapse, death,
destruction – and much of their idealism. Three years later,
as the U.S. continues to look for an exit strategy, the
government the Americans helped create and the
infrastructure they designed are being tested.
An American movie star filming a whiskey ad in Japan
strikes up a surprising friendship with the wife of a
workaholic photographer.
The movie highlights the relationship between Lucie and
Raymond, and their and others’ heroism in battle.
Historians still debate whether, in reality, the Aubracs
became turncoats and betrayed Jean Moulin (“Max”).
Moulin, the Resistance’s mastermind and most famous
hero, subsequently died without speaking at the hands of
notorious Gestapo officer and torturer Klaus Barbie, the
“Butcher of Lyons”.
Made in the tradition of such true-life political thrillers as
Malcolm X and JFK. Lumumba is a gripping epic that
dramatizes for the first time the rise and fall of legendary
African leader Patrice Lumumba.
Approx. 115 min. Color Surround sound.
A biography
Newsreel
2000
Warner Bros.
1995
Ken Annakin
Warner Archive
Collection
1962
PBS
2009
Columbi Pictures
1937
Frontline
19832006
Sofia Coppola
2003
Claude Berri
JBA Production
2000
227
Madame Butterfly
232
Magdalene Sisters
514
MAKERS (Women
Who Make America)
400
Making of African
History: Old Paths and
New Directions (The)
416
Man in the Gray Flannel This powerful story of postwar hopes and dreams, from
Suit (The)
Sloan Wilson’s best-seller, resonated with many men and
their families
Approx. 1 hr 52 min. Color
Man For All Seasons
104
33
440
Man who would be
King (The) VHS
Manon of the Spring
(English subtitles)
Mandela
536
Mandela
Long Walk to Freedom
463
Man Who Shot Liberty
Valance (The) 2 discs.
1.
2.
The heart-wrenching story of a beautiful young geisha who
sacrifices her family, her religion and, ultimately, her life
for her American husband.
The true stories of several young Irish women sentenced to
indefinite penal servitude in the Magdalene Laundries,
which were operated by the Catholic Church's Sisters of
Mercy.
Tells the remarkable story of the most sweeping social
revolution in American history, as women have asserted
their rights to a full and fair share of political power,
economic opportunity, and personal autonomy in the last
50 years. It’s a revolution that has unfolded in public and
private, in courts, and Congress, in the Boardroom and the
bedroom, changing not only what the world expects from
women, but what women expect from themselves.
Frederic Mitterrand
Kunhardt
Mcgee
2013
Lecture: Allen F. Isaacman
September 17, 2009
HC
2009
20 C Fox
2005
The story of Henry VIII’s conflict with Sir Thomas More
and his campaign to be named head of the Church of
England. Oscar winner - Best Picture 1966
Two British sergeants set out to build their own Empire in
remote Kafiristan.-based on the Rudyard Kipling story
sequel to Jean de Florette 113 minutes (copy)
A captivating view on the incredible spirit of one of the
world’s most fascinating people. This full-length
documentary follows Nelson Mandela from his early days
and tribal education to his election as South Africa’s first
black president.
Nelson Mandela’s extraordinary journey to becoming one
of history’s most iconic figures. The film chronicles his
early life, education, marriage to Winnie Mandela and 27
year prison sentence before becoming South Africa’s first
democratically elected president and working to rebuild
the country’s once segregated society.
Approx. 141 Mins.
“This is the Wes, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print
the legend. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance rides into
town as a classic entry in the Paramount Centennial
Collection.
Commentary by Filmaker Peter Bogdanovich, along with
his archival recordings with John Ford and James Stewart.
The size of Legends, The Soul of Myth: 7-Part Featurette.
123 min. B&W
1995
2004
1966
Claude Berri
1987
2006
2014
Paramaunt
1962
546
Manos de la Obra: The
True Story of Operation
Bootstrap
520
Mapantsula
28
Marat Sade
537
Marie Antoinette
168
Martin Luther
306
Martin Luther King, Jr.
“The Man and the
Dream”
(Biography) VHS
121
Mary Silliman’s War
321
Master and Commander
(DVD)
172
Maxine Hong Kingston
Examines Puerto Rico's `Operation Bootstrap,' the highly
Pedro River & Susan 1980
vaunted economic development plan undertaken in the 1950s Zeig
to provide a role model for economic development throughout
Latin America. Using newsreels, rare archival photos and
footage, numerous interviews, and excerpts from government
propaganda films, it examines the historical background to
Operation Bootstrap, from the 1930s through the rise to power
of Luiz Munoz Marin and the Popular Democratic Party in the
1940s, to the '60s when U.S. officials proudly displayed
Puerto Rico as the `Showcase of the Americas.'
Black and White 59 Mins.
The story centers on panic (Mogotlane), a pretty thief who
has to decide between survival and personal gain, or
supporting his cellmates, , freedom fighters against
Apartheid government. In flashbacks, we see the Panic
robs white passerbys in downtown Johannesburg b day, then
bullies rival criminals at night and tries to stay one step
ahead of his landlady , all the while mooching off his putupon girlfriend, who herself is trying to maintain
employment despite his plotting and intrusions. Panic’s
past and present converge in a series of events and
eventually he is arrested while passing by an anti-apartheid
protest. What transpires next mirrors the struggle in Panic’s
mind as he is forced to decide wether to help the
government or his countrymen.
A play depicting the infamous Marquis de Sade directing
his fellow asylum mates in a re-enactment of the
assassination of French Revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat.
Her name has become synonymous with the French
monarchy and all its excesses, but there is more to the
story of Marie Antoinette than the simplistic tale of how a
frivolous sovereign helped provoke the uprising that
became the French Revolution.
Approx. 120 min.
A detailed biography of a complex and fascinating man; it
is an enlightening testament to the role of faith in all our
lives. (105 min., black and white)
Biography revisits the life and legacy of the legendary
leader through interviews with his confidants, and
extensive analysis of his speeches and sermons. Through
interviews with former FBI agents, discover why J. Edgar
Hoover maintained constant surveillance on the
controversial Civil Rights leader. And interviews with
King’s allies offer a first-person view of the conflict
between the private man and the public figure.
This film, which is based on Joy Day Buel and Richard
Buel’s The Way of Duty: A Woman and Her Family in
Revolutionary America (New York: Norton, 1984),
focuses on the war-time experiences of Mary (Fish)
Silliman (1736-1818), particularly an incident in which
Loyalist raiders captured her second husband, Gold
Selleck Silliman.
After a sneak attack by a French warship inflicts severe
damage upon his vessel, Captain “Lucky” is torn between
duty and friendship as he embarks on a thrilling, highstakes chase across two oceans to capture or destroy the
enemy at any cost.
138 min. Color
Newsreeal
1988
Peter Brook
1967
David Grubin
Simitar
Entertainment
1996
A & E’s
1997
Home
Entertainment
2003
Films for the
Humanities
526
Medicine Game (The)
135
Messengers form
Moscow
158
443
Mexico, the Nation
Mexico, The Frozen
Revolution
Two brothers from the Onondaga Nation pursue their
dreams of playing lacrosse for national powerhouse
Syracuse University. The obstacles in their way are
frequent and daunting, but their love for the game, each
other, and their family’s unyielding determination, propels
these youth towards their dream.
Approx. 70 min.
Formerly high-ranking Soviet officials speak candidly
about their attempts to gain Germany and Western Europe
after WWII, based on Stalin’s agenda.
Copy
In 1976, he was abducted and thrown into a concentration
camp by Argentina’s military dictatorship, then tortured
and murdered.
CPB
Shipped by WBM
2013
Daniel Wolf
1995
Facets Video
2010
Ireland, 1916. His dreams inspired hope. His words
ignited passion. His courage forged a Nation’s Destiny.
The man is a here whose fighting tactics became a model
for other 20th-century struggles, a statesman who negotiated
Ireland’s break with England, a political martyr slain for
the great cause he lived and breathed.
Feature: 133 mins. Documentary: 51 mins.
Is a romantic comedy set in Paris about family that goes
there because of business and two young people who are
engaged to be married in the fall, have experiences there
that change their lives. It’s about a young man’s great love
for a city, Paris. And the illusion people have that a life
different from theirs would be much better.
Unfolds like a detective story—the true tale of two
women, 200 years apart, linked by the massive yet cryptic
diary one of them left behind. The world of frontier
midwife Martha Ballard.
Color Approx. 88 minutes
The legacy of Rosa Parks – “The Only tired I
was, was tired of giving in.” On December 1,
1955, Rosa Parks sparked a revolution by sitting still. Her
simple act of defiance against racial segregation on city
buses inspired the African American community of
Montgomery, Alabama, to unite against the segregationists
who ran City Hall.
Green Pictures
Disc 1:
a. Mexico the Frozen
Revol. (50 min).
b. The Land Burns.
c. It Happened in
Huafin.
Disc 2:
a. The Traitors
b. Our Malvinas Islands
c. Pottery makers
Disc 3:
a.Swift
b.Don’t Forget, Don’t
Forgive
c.The AAA Are the
Armed Forces
d.They Kill Me if I
don’t Work, and if I
work they Kill Me
275
Michael Collins (DVD)
539
Midnight in Paris
519
Midwife’s Tale (A)
255
Mighty Times
1996
Gravier
Productions
2011
PBS
2005
Hudson & Houston
2002
457
Milk
297
MindWalk (VHS)
349
Miracle Worker (The)
324
265
77
265
Monarchy - Queen
Elizabeth II, Elizabeth
R - Royals
Mondovino
92
Moonstruck
563
344
Universal Studios
2008
Paramount
1990
Metro Goldwyn
Myer
1962
Warner Bros.
2003
Across three continents, “Mondovino” weaves together the
family succession sagas of billionaire Napa Valley power
brokers, the rivalry of two aristocratic Florentine dynasties
and the efforts of three generations of a Burgundian family
fighting to preserve their few acres of land. But are all
these struggles secondary to the exploits of a gleefully
mischievous pirate from Bordeaux who spreads the gospel
of modernity from Italy to New York to Argentina?
THINKFilm
2005
A romantic comedy about love and jealousy in an ItalianAmerican family from Brooklyn (107 minutes)
A brilliant portrait of China’s Great Proletarian Culture
Revolution of the 1960s and 70s.
Morning Sun
Long Bow Group.
Vol. I
USA
Vol II
Motherland Afghanistan Sedika Mojadidi, camera in hand accompanies her father
FRF
in order to document this most difficult yet rewarding
journey. The result is Motherland Afghanistan, an
inspiring portrait of the dedication and fortitude in some of
the most harsh and unforgiving physical, political and
cultural terrain on Earth.
83
Mother Theresa
8
Motion Picture History
of the Korean War
Mr. Lawrence
198
Based on the inspiring true story of the first openly gay
man elected to major public office, this compelling film
follows Milk’s powerful journey to inspire hope for equal
rights during one of the least toleant time sin our nation’s
history.
Somehow it happens. A conversation begins, then the
magic of interaction and the fever of ideas take over. The
next thing you know, your train stoop is miles back. Or
the restaurant is empty and the waiter is gone. Or the sun
seeps into your dormroom. You’ve taken a Mindwalk.
You’re different than when you began.
Locked in frightening, lonely world of silence and
darkness since infancy. 7-year old Helen Keller has never
seen the sky, heard her mother’s voice or expressed her
innermost feelings. Then Annie Sullivan, a 20-year old
teacher from Boston, arrives. Having just recently regained
her own sight, the no-nonsense Annie reaches out to Helen
through the power of touch-the only tool they have in
common – and leads her bold pupil on a miraculous
journey from fear and isolation to happiness and light.
Approx. 106 min. B&W
Man vs. machine! And the winner is every comedy fan
when Charlie Chaplin’s Tramp confronts assembly line
woes in this classic chosen in 1998 as one of the American
Film Institute’s Top-100 American Films.
Approx. 83 min. B&W.
(copy) A look at the life and legacy of Elizabeth II and her
administration
74 Min. Color, English and Dari w/English subtitles
Shot over 5 years in 10 countries and 4 continents, this
film makes us experience how Mother Theresa
transcended all political, religious, and social barriers with
her works of love.
Documentary on the Korean War with archival footage
Color; 122 min.East meets West in this brutal tale to
survive. A bleak and barren Japanese P.O.W. camp is the
setting for this gripping WWII drama.
1987
2006
1986
1983
188
Mrs. Miniver (VHS)
A grand wartime soap opera that garnered six Oscars.
Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon are the heads of an
average British family who must keep their brood together
during the German Blitz. (134 min, B&W)
DVD
2 World War II-ERA Shorts
486
Motorcycle Diaries
(The)
396
Moulin Rouge
132
Mussolini
370
My Voyage to Italy 2
DVDs
Thrilling adventure that traces the youthful origins of a
revolutionary spirit. The film follows two daring friends,
Ernest “Che” Gevara (Gael Garcia Bernal, Y Tu Mama
Tambien) and Alberto Granado (Rodrigo de la Serna),
who hop on the back of a beat-up motorcycle for a
breathtaking and exciting road trip across Latin America.
As a dwarf, Toulouse-Lautrec believes he’s too ugly to
ever fall in love. So he loses himself in painting. and
cognac. A fixture at Paris’ infamous turn-of-the-century
Moulin Rouge nightclub, Lautrec meets a girl from the
street who then breaks his heart. Luckily, newfound
artistic success, copious amounts of drink, and friendship
with a new woman keep him alive. Will he be able to
mend his broken heart in time to recognize the true love
now starring him in the face?
Approx. 1.59 min. Color
A documentary on the leadership and accomplishments of
the Italian fascist dictator; viewers will gain significant
insight into the popularity of Mussolini both in Italy and
abroad before the invasion of Abyssinia.
With My Voyage to Italy, Scorsese takes the viewer on a
fascinating journey highlighting the classics of Italian
cinema, from the neorealism of postwar Italy through its
transition into opulent period drama and surrealist fantasy.
Illuminated by insightful movie clips and his own
impassioned commentary, Scorsese’s deeply personal
observations offer not only an absorbing lesson in the
history of Italian film, but its direct connection to the best
in contemporary filmmaking.
Approx. 246 min. Color and B/W
498
Namesake (The)
343
Napoleon Bonaparte
4
Napoleon (with Orson
Welles)
167
Napoleon: The Epic
Life of the Great French
Leader (2 tapes)
399
National Parks (The)
6 DVDs
A six part documentary series from acclaimed filmmakers
Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan
Approx. 12.5 hours
1
2
3
4
5
6
The Scripture of Nature
The Last Refuge
The Empire of Grandeur
Going Home
Great Nature
The Morning of Creation
William Wyler
1942
Greer Carson
A young Indian boy living in New Jersey rebels against his
traditional parents and struggles with identity and love.
The Glory of France
Approx. 50 mins. Color & BW
Drama reenacting the career of the great French dictator
from early victories to defeat at Waterloo.
-final years of St. Helena
-119 minutes
This biography follows the life of the great Napoleon
Bonaparte—from his beginnings in military school to his
final days on the island of St. Helena. (115 min.)
2004
South Fork Films
2004
MGM
1952
ca. 1935
Martin Scorsese
Pictures
2002
2007
A&E
2002
Directed by Sacha
Guitry
1985
Simitar
Entertainment
PBS
1996
®2009
319
328
517
444
557
116
165
11
405
569
549
National Soul (the)
(VHS)
Bill Moyers discusses myths, morality, and ethics in
Films for the
1992
American life with several prominent American thinkers.
Humanities and
Novelist E. L. Doctorow, historian Barbara Tuchman,
Sciences
playwright August Wilson, child behavior specialist T.
berry Brazelton, and others address issues such as racism,
sexism, America’s loss of moral purpose, and the
disintegration of the American family.
91 min. Color.
New York
An elegant, lyrical and compelling portrait of the greatest
PBS
1999
8 DVD’s Series
and most complex of cities. This definite series chronicles
the history of New York from its founding in 1624 as a
Dutch trading post to its continuing pre-eminence as the
cultural and economic capital of the world.
Approx. 120 min. Color/BW
New World (The)
Powhatan tribal people in wonder as three ships approach
Warner Bros.
2008
shore… It’s a story every schoolchild knows.
Approx 172 Mins.; color
Nicaragua (No Pasaran) In 1978 the revolutionary Sandinista movement came to
David Bradbury
1984
government after 43 years of organizsed resistance and the Film
death of 50,000 Nicaraguans. For years Nicaraguans had
suffered under the brutal dictatorship of General Samosa.
Approx. 73 mins.
Night of the Pencils (The) Is a 1986 Argentine historical drama film directed by Héctor Toronto Film Festival 1976
Olivera and written by Olivera and Daniel Kon. It is based
on the non-fiction book by María Seoane and Héctor Ruiz
Núñez.[1] It stars Alejo García Pintos, Vita Escardó,
Leonardo Sbaraglia, José María Monje, Pablo Machado,
Nixon
A biography
Nixon: Deep Secrets
This fascinating portrait of Richard Nixon tells the story of
Dan Dalton Prod.
1995
From Capitol Hill (2
the rise & fall of this president, through his political
tapes)
career, capturing Nixon’s most controversial moments
through his own speeches and archival footage. (90 min.)
Normandy Invasion
Documentary on D-day
1986
-details of the preparation for that battle
Nuremberg (DVD)
American Judge Dan Haywood presides over the trial of
MGM
19961
four German jurists accused of “legalizing” Nazi atrocities.
But as graphic accounts of sterilization and murder unfold in
the courtroom mounting political pressure for leniency
forces Haywood to make the most harrowing and difficult
decision of his career.
Approx. 3 hours and 6 min. B&W
Odette
Tells the true story of female war hero Odette Hallowes.
Studio Canal
1950
After volunteering her services to the Special Operations
Executive, Odette is dispatched into Nazi occupied France
and thrown into an intense world of espionage. Whilst on a
deadly mission working for the French Resistance, her cover
is blown and Odette is captured and interrogated by ruthless
Gestapo officers. But, even after being brutally tortured and
sentenced to death in a concentration camp, Odette still
refuses to reveal any information concerning her original
mission and her fellow spies.
Approx. 113 mins. B&W
Objects and Memory
Objects and Memory reminds us all how precious memories Jonathan Fein
cling tenaciously to ordinary things, offering shared moments
across cultural boundaries and historical time.
2014
62 minutes, color
62
549
Official Story
Objects and Memory
(copy)
Objects and Memory reminds us all how precious memories Jonathan Fein
cling tenaciously to ordinary things, offering shared
moments across cultural boundaries and historical time.
62 minutes, color
2014
408
Oileán Thoraí (DVD)
464
Once Upon a time in the
West
98
Operation Desert
Storm: Behind the
Scenes of the Allied Air
Strike on Iraq
One, Two, Three
317
351
On A Clear Day You
Can See Boston
373
On Our Watch : The
World Said “Never
Again” Then Came
Darfur
381
On the Beach
226
Oratorio For Prague
295
Organizing America –
The History of Trade
Unions
178
Origin and
Development of NATO
(The)
Captures the changing patterns of life on Tory. It’s an
intimate portrayal, exploring the lives of the islanders, their
character and community. With striking landscape
photography and intimate contemporary interviews this
documentary blends music, storytelling, art and song while
exploring the idea of spatiality, isolation, community and
identity.
53 mins.
Description: Situated in the days of the “Old West”, three
gunmen- a hired killer who ruthlessly slaughters an entire
family, an infamous bandit who is accused of that family’s
murder, and a mysterious loner on a mission to get
vengeance on a secret grudge, battle to control water in
their dusty desert town.
Harvest Films
2002
Paramount
Pictures
1969
Home
Entertainment
1961
Films for the
Humanities
2006
PBS Home Video
2007
Home
Entertainment
1959
Jan Nemec
1990
Films for the
Humanities &
Sciences
2004
Films for the
Humanities
1999
A comprehensive look at the planning, preparation, and
implementation of one of the most complex military
operations in history. (48 min.)
A top-ranking executive stationed in West Berlin, is
charged with the care of his boss’ visiting daughter. But
when he learns that she’s gone and married a fierce young
communist -- and that his boss will be arriving in town in
24 hours – Mac must transform the unwilling beatnik into
a suitable son-in-law or risk losing his chance for
advancement! Before you can say “one, two, three,” his
plans have spun out of control and into an international
incident that could infuriate the Russians, the Germans,
and, worse of all, his own suspicious wife.
Approx. 1 hour 45 min. B&W
The city of Boston became the great focal point for those
fleeing the Irish Famine of the 1850s. They worked
incredibly hard to establish themselves, and became the
first immigrant group in post-Colonial times to achieve a
political foothold.
Approx. 52 minutes.
The world invoked its vow “Never Again!” after the
genocide in Rwanda and atrocities in Srebrenica. Then
came Darfur. Over the past four years at least 200,000
people have been killed, 2.5 million driven from their
homes, and mass rapes have once more been used as a
weapon of war in a brutal campaign by janjaweed militias
and the Sudanese government against civilians in Darfur.
Approx. 60 minutes – color
The war is over. Nobody won. Only the inhabitants of
Australia and the men of the US submarine Sawfish have
escaped the nuclear destruction and radiation.The cloud is
lethal. The final chapter of human history is coming to a
close.
Approx. 2 hours 14 mins. B&W
A unique document of the Soviet invasion of
Czechoslovakia in 1968- only filmed record of the event.
Using interviews, personal accounts, and archival footage,
this program investigates the major events in the history of
American trade unions, from the formation of the first
“friendly societies” in the 18th century, to the challenges
posed by new technologies in the 1980s and 90s.
(38 minutes, color)
NATO & Warsaw Pact alliances are studied; NATO’s
Cold War policy of containment; The Marshall Plan, the
Berlin Airlift, China’s shift to communism, & Korean
Conflict. (21 minutes, color)
314
Orphan Trains (the)
(DVD)
106
Osaka Elegy
50
Out of Africa
VHS
Outrage
535
75
76
P.O.W.: Days of
Waiting
(Part A)
A Personal Matter Gordon Hirabayashi vs.
The U.S.
(Part B)
PACIFIC CENTURY:
(6 cassettes)
1. Preview Tape
2. Sentimental
Imperialists
3. From the Barrel of
a Gun
4. Big Business and
The Ghosts of
Confucius, The
Fight for
Democracy
5. Meiji Asias
Response to the
War, Reinventing
Japan
6. Inside Japan, Inc.
In the mid-1800s, 10,000 homeless children prowled the
streets of New York City – sleeping in stairwells, in
stables, or on the docks. In 1853, a young minister,
Charles Loring Brace, organized an ambitious rescue
effort to remove then from their surroundings and send
them by train to Christian homes in the country. Between
1854 and 1929, his Children’s Aid Society in New York,
and other East Coast charities, sent more than 150,000
children to farming communities to begin new lives with
foster families. Using poignant interviews with elderly
survivors, and century-old letters from children, The
Orphan Trains explores the successes and failures of this
little known, but highly influential resettlement movement.
Approx. 60 min. Color and B&W
Theme of “money talks, men whine, and women do the
dirty work”
-depiction of Japanese society’s treatment of women
This romantic film depicts life in Kenya, circa 1914.
PBS
1995
Sydney Pollack
1985
Boldly revealing the hidden lives of some of the US’ most
powerful policymakers, Outrage takes a comprehensive
look at the harm they’ve inflicted on millions of
Americans, and examines the media’s complicity in
keeping their secrets. Outrage probes deeply into the
psychology of this double lifestyle, the ethics of outing
closeted politicians, the double standards that the media
upholds in its coverage of the sex lives of gay public
figures, and much more.
Story of the internment of Japanese-Americans during
WWII, told by a white American woman who joined her
Japanese-American husband in one of the camps.
Magnolia
2009
Japanese-Americans redress campaign to win a formal
apology and monetary compensation from the U.S.
government for violating their constitutional rights by
forcing them into internment camps during WWII.
(copies)
A look at the great social struggles of the 20th Century in
the Pacific (copy)
428
571
Paisan
Wars)
Paul Simon
25th Anniversary Edition
Graceland
(CD/DVD)Under Africa Graceland Journey
Skies
398
Paraguayan War (The)
485
Paris 1900: La belle
époque (Documentary)
35
Passage to India
(DVD)
560
Passchendaele
573
Passion of Joan of Arc
(The)
176
Italians and their American liberators, this look at the
struggles of different cultures to communicate and of
people to live their everyday lives in extreme
circumstances its equal parts charming sentiment and vivid
reality.
Path of Chinese
Privatization (the)
1945
WGBH A&E India
Films
Was the result of Paraguay’s attempt to transform from a
Denis Wright
buffer state into a full-fledged regional power . This
required dominating Uruguay to secure access to the sea,
leading to ill-considered invasions of that country as well
as the vastly larger Argentina and Brazil.
A documentary which uses original silent film footage on
DirectorParis at the time of the 1900 World’s Fair and provides
Nicole Vedrès
glimpses of French politics and culture at the turn of the
century. (75 min.)
Based on Forster’s classic, this presentation depicts class
David Lean
issues in colonial India via the interactions of a number of
characters.
When sergeant Michael Dunne is wounded in battle during Echo Bridge
World War 1, he is sent home to Calgary, Alberta. While
recovering from his injuries, he becomes enamored with
Sarah Mann, a beautiful young nurse. Sarah’s brother,
David, desperately want to follow in Michael’s heroic
footsteps in order to impress his girlfriend’s father, but he
is not able to enlist because of his asthma. When strings
are pulled and David is allowed to join the ranks, Michael
finds himself fighting for the safety of the young man, for
the heart of his true love, and for his own survival.
Approx. 115 min., Color
2012
®2009
1947
1984
2010
Film of the young maiden who died for God and France.
Criterion Collection 1985-1999
Long thought to have been lost to fire. The original version
was miraculously found in perfect condition in 1981 – in a
Norwegian mental institution.
Two Communist Party officials cruise the dusty streets of
Ma Bei village in a new Cadillac. Welcome to China,
1997. Fueled by profits from private businesses, the town
is booming, while at a plant up the road thousands of
workers, formerly protected under the communist system,
may lose their jobs under privatization. Similar situations
are developing all over China, and officials are worried
that workers may revolt. So they’ve come up with a
uniquely Chinese solution: industries will gradually phase
in privatization, letting fear of worker unrest dictate the
pace. Original BBC broadcast title: A Very Chinese
Solution. (49 minutes, color)
23
Paths of Glory-Stanley
Kubrick
189
Patton (DVD)
221
Pearl Harbor
206
People Power
152
People’s Century, The
Episode #109 - 1933:
The Master Race
Focuses on Nazism in Germany from its political triumph
through the policy of genocide and the defeat of the Axis
powers.
Episode #119 - 1965:
The Great Leap
Focuses on the Chinese Revolution (1949-53), the Great
Lead forward (1953-61), the second period of revolution
culminating in the Cultural Revolution (1962-76), and the
post-Mao period and “market socialism”.
Orator
They were the least likely of task forces for establishing a
Documentary
SPBC0932A (9/5/91)
518
Phillips, Cary
Pilgrims
Peter Jennings Town
Hall with Gorbachev
and Yeltsen
(3DVDs)
Platoon
55
Pompeii Revealed
159
331
Poncho Villa
Power of Art (DVD)
491
Pray the Devil Back to
Hell
545
574
423
Safe in their picturesque chateu behind the front lines, the
French General Staff passes down a direct order to Colonel
Dax take the Ant Hill at any cost. A blatant suicide
mission, the attack is doomed to failure. Covering up their
fatal blunder, the Generals order the arrest of three
innocent soldiers, charging them with cowardice and
mutiny. Dax, a lawyer in civilian life, rises to the men’s
defense but soon realizes that, unless he can prove that the
Generals were to blame, nothing less than a miracle will
save his clients from the firing squad.
1hr. and 27 minutes
black and white
Riveting portrait of one of the 20th Century’s greatest
military geniuses. About the only Allied general Nazis
truly feared. His character and volatile personality he
could never defeat. (color. 171 mins)
An “extraordinary” reenactment of the attack that “jolted
America into WWII.” Explored through the lives of three
fictional characters- two pilots and a military nurse.
In 1991, the Communist Party lost control of the Soviet
Union, the culmination of a process that had started in
1980. Meanwhile, dictatorships toppled in Africa, S.
America, and elsewhere in Eastern Europe. The people
took on the state in a show of mass defiance, grasping for
long-denied freedoms. Color & B&W; 1 hour.
1957
Franklin J.
Schaffner
1970
Michael Bay
2001
WGBH Boston
1998
Lannan Foundation
PBS
2015
ABCNews
1991
Is a harrowingly realistic war film and “a dark,
unforgettable memorial” to every soldier whose innocence
was lost in the war-torn jungles of Vietnam.
Color/120 Mins.
(30 minutes) A look at the archaeological uncovering of
Pompeii and its well-preserved remains.
Copy
Focusing on eight iconic works of art, this series reveals
the history of visual imagination through the ages. “This is
not a saunter through the gallery on a drowsy Sunday
afternoon, a Grand Tour of Beauty through the ages.
Instead, it is a descent into the volcano of the creative
imagination, into the fires where some of the greatest
things humans have ever wrought were fashioned." Simon
Schama.
Appr. 400 min. Color
MGM
BBC Video
2007
Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Courage. The untold
story of the everyday women who brought a warring antion
to its senses..l armed only with the courage of their
convictions.
Fork Films
2008
9
Prelude to War
32
Presidential Campaign
Ads
550
Perestroika (My)
259
Pride of the Yankees
(The)
Lou Gehrig’s boyhood dreams come true when he signs on
with the New York Yankees and takes the field alongside
his idol, Babe Ruth. In fact, Lou considers himself “the
luckiest man in the world” …until unthinkable misfortune
strikes, and he must summon all his courage to face his
toughest battle yet. Aprox. 2 hrs. and 8 min. B&W
547
Princess Mononoke
13
Prisoner Without a
Name, Cell Without a
Number
Prisoner of Honor
Animated. Inflicted with a deadly curse, a young warrior
Nibariki
named Ashitaka sets out to the forests of the west in search of
the cure that will save his life. Once there, he becomes
inextricably entangled in a bitter battle that matches Lady
Eboshi and a proud clan of humans against the forest’s
animal’s gods… who are led by the brave Princess
Mononoke, a young woman raised by wolves!
(copy)
284
291
Prisoner of the
Mountains (DVD)
153
Propaganda Wars, The
Documentary on the events between 1931-1939
-development of dictatorships
-contrasts free societies with totalitarian government
A look at how political strategists come up with
propaganda in Presidential elections. (not in the video
cabinet)
When the USSR broke apart in 1991, a generation of young Docuramafilms
people faced a new realm of possibilities. An intimate epic
about the extraordinary lives of this last Soviet generation.
Samuel Godwyn
1986
2011
1942
2013
The True Story of the Scandal That Shocked the World
From the Oxcar Nominated Director of Women in Love. At
the close of the 19th Century French Army Captian Alfred
Dreyfus was convicted of treason. Stripped of his rank in a
humiliating ceremony and sentenced to life imprisonment
on Devils Island. But Upon further investigation by Col.
Georges Picquart was uncovered that may have condemned
an innocent man. For the next decade, Picquart would risk
his career and his life to expose the truth behind the
Dreyfus Affair, the shocking saga of anti=Semitism and
treason that divided France set the stage for the First World
War and became one of the most notorious cases of
criminal injustice in history. Color
86 min.
Two Russian soldiers – a fresh recruit named Vanya and a
hardened veteran named Sasha – are taken hostage by
Chechen guerillas after a deadly ambush leaves all of their
comrades dead. Their captor, a battle-weary village elder,
wants to use them as a bartering tool to get back his own
son, held prisoner by the Russian army. But when the
trade goes sour and all trust is broken, Vanya and Sasha
realize their hours are numbered and attempt to escape
before they’re force to join their comrades in death.
Approx. 1.39 min. Color
HBO Pictures
284
World Films
1996
America & Japan used heavy propaganda to win the
support of their citizens during WWII. This movie
examines the techniques used-newsreels, training films,
and feature productions- and looks at their messages,
styles and their impact.
A & E Home
Video
1994
450
Promised Land
209
Public Enemy (The)
489
Quartier Mozart
262
Queen Victoria’s
Empire
(2 VHS tapes)
223
Quiet American (the)
223A
(Quiet American (the)
(2 DVDs)
207
Quiet Man (The)
220
Rabbit-Proof Fence
20
Radio Priest
Spanish Civil War
218
Ran
205
Reagan (DVD)
Part I and Part II
528
Rebel Without a Cause
(2 discs – DVDs)
Follows two black communities in South Africa that are
trying to get land back from which their ancestors were
removed. The land is currently owned by white
landowners and through their stories, the epic battle over
land and race is played out with very real consequences for
all sides.
Approx. 53 mins.
Bristling with ‘20s style, dialogue & desperation, this film
is a virtual time capsule of the Prohibition era. Stars James
Cagney
History/African Studies
Under Queen Victoria, the force of England’s industrial
and military power propelled the British Empire to its
zenith. Prime Ministers Gladstone and Disraeli, and
adventurers such as Livingstone and Rhodes, shaped a
distinctively British imperialism. Donald Sutherland
narrates this EMPIRES special, which uses personal
accounts and historical reenactments in Britain, India, and
Africa to reveal the frequent clash of personality and
culture that would mark Victoria’s reign. It is the story of
how a small island nation would come to control threefourths of the world’s trade and one-fifth of its population
in one of the greatest empires the world has known.
Running Time: approx. 219 min. B&W
Set in early 1950s Vietnam, a young American finds
himself in a dangerous love triangle after falling for the
mistress of a British journalist.
In 1952 Saigon is caught between the corrupt colonial
powers and the Communist uprising. An idealistic young
American champions a shadowy Third Force, but cynical
British journalist is concerned only with the American’s
interest in his mistress. When jealousy forces Fowler to
take sides at last, the personal and political consequences
are devastating.
Sean Thornton played John Wayne is an American
prizefighter who swears off boxing. Coming back to the
Irish town of his birth, a challenge to box becomes an
issue. 130 mins.
Set in Australia during a time when the government
established a policy that trained aboriginal children as
domestic workers in order to integrate them into white
society. Follows a group of girls during their 1,500 mile
journey to escape Australian authorities.
2 separate programs, 55 and 50 minutes in length, looks at
the role of missionaries during the Spanish Civil
War.(copies)
Re-telling of King Lear mixes Japanese history,
Shakespeare’s plot and Kurosawa’s own feelings about
loyalty in this epic masterpiece. Color; 160. Japanese w/
English subtitles.
Heroic lifeguard, Hollywood heartthrob, fervent
ideologue, & pragmatic politician. Revered for ending the
Cold War, Reagan was criticized for his lax handling of
the Iran-Contra affair. Biography of a seemingly simple
yet complex leader. 4 hours; color
James Dean plays the new kid in town whose loneliness,
frustration and anger mirrored those of postwar teens-and
still reverberate 50 years later.
PBS
2010
California
Newsreel
Brook Lapping
Productions for
PBS
1992
Philip Noyce
2002
Metro Golmeyer
Home
Entertainment
1958
Philip Noyce
2002
Akira Kurosawa
1998
WGBH Boston
1998
Warner Bros.
2005
2001
502
Rebuilding Hope :
Sudan’s Lost Boys
Return Home
242
Reconstruction: The
Second Civil War
312
Red Empire (VHS – 7
Tapes)
307
Red Files (DVD)
509
REDS
404
Regeneration Young
Romance
(DVD)
551
Regeneration (Europe)
320
Religious
Fundamentalism
17
Sudanese children who fled their homes in South Sudan
due to civil war now return in their twenties to discover
whether their villages and families have survived, what the
country’s current situation is, and how they can help their
community rebuild after decades of devastating civil war.
78 minutes/color
Spanning the momentous years from 1863 to 1877, this
movie tracks the stories of ordinary Americans as they
struggle to shape new lives for themselves in a world
turned upside down.
Nicholas and Alexandra rule a massive empire, one sixth
the world’s land mass, 150 million people of 100 different
nationalities. Life is hard and the workers discontent.
Moisei Muravnik, now 99 years old, recalls the Siberian
Goldfields strike of 1912 that ignites the worker’s
movement. As the People protest, Tsar Nicholas takes
command of the army while his wife consorts with the holy
man, Rasputin. The stage is set for change as the words of
Lenin ring out across the country-side. The revolution has
begun!
Exposes fascinating views of history from the Soviet
perspective. Featuring powerful interviews with key
Soviet participants, never-before seen film archives and
declassified dossiers, the series tells compelling stories of
personal and political intrigue that were hidden behind the
Iron Curtain for generations.
Approx. 240 min. Color/B&W
Tells the story of John Reed, American communist,
journalist and activist, whose love affair with
writer/feminist Louise Bruant unfolds against the explosive
backdrop of the Russian Revolution.
Approx. 195 min. -- Color
Is a powerful slum melodrama produced in 1915 on
location on the lower East Side of New York City, with a
gaggle of authentic low-life types performing alongside
professional actors. The gangsters in REGENERATION
aren’t Mafiosi; they are two-bit street corner hoodlums
trapped by their cirmustances.
Cinema Libre
Distribution
2009
PBS DVD GOLD
242
Vestron Video
1994
PBS
1999
Paramount
1981
Blackhawk Films
1995/199
6
/2001
B&W 130 Mins.
In the midst of WWI, Edinburgh’s Craiglockhart Hospital Echo Bridge Home
is crowded with traumatized soldiers scarred by the horrors Entertainment
of battle.
96 min./Color
A preaching television evangelist; an Amish family in the
PA country side; the fiery disaster in Waco, TX; the World
Trade Center bombing; political candidate Pat Robertson;
Jewish settlers on Israel’s West Bank. Religious
fundamentalism is everywhere in the world today. This
program examines this phenomenon, explaining what it is,
where it came from, and how it influences the American
notion of the separation of church and state. In addition,
the program explores the impact of religious
fundamentalism on American society and on our organized
religions as well.
29 min. Color.
Return of Martin Guerre The trials of Martin Guerre, a medieval character who
(with English subtitles) fights for his identity after a long absence.
2010
Films for the
Humanities and
Sciences
1995
Daniel Vigne
1982
261
RFK
In Part One:
New biography from RFK written and directed by David
Grubin for American Experience, takes as its theme lines
from Aeschylus that Kennedy could recite from memory:
“He who learns must suffer.”
David Grubin
2004
Music and words from the Harlem Renaissance
4 discs
2000
Laurence Olivier’s third Shakespeare adaptation, a
treatment of the ruthless tyrant who seizes his throne and
wages war at Bosworth
His political savvy took him to the height of governmental
power. Corrupt political practices caused him to suffer a
humiliating fall and ultimately cost him the presidency.
B&W and color. Approx. 100 mins.
Daniel Mann
1955
A&E
2005
PBS
1990
A special liaison officer and a detective are called in to
investigate the murder of a call-girl in the boardroom of a
Japanese corporation.
Exploded onto the American scene back in the 1990s,
inspiring a Celtic-themed renaissance that is still going
strong today! Now you can relive all the glory of this truly
inspired music and dance phenomenon with this incredible
re-issue of the famed troupe’s immortal 1995 performance
recorded live at Radio City Music Hall.
B+W. 50 min. Story about segregation and the brilliant
legal campaign against it which helped to launch the Civil
Rights Movement.
45 minutes
Philip Kaufman
1993
BBC Video
2008
Is a shockingly authentic experience, conceived and
directed amid the ruin of World War II, with immediacy in
every frame. Marking a watershed moment in Italian
cinema, this galvanic work garnered awards around the
globe and left the beginnings of a new film movement in its
wake.
The story of Archbishop Oscar Romero and his struggle
against social injustices in El Salvador-a fight that
ultimately led to his assassination in 1980.
Depicts Rommel’s relentlessness against British and
American troops in North Africa during WWI. (60
minutes)
Janus Films
1946
John Duigan
1989
The Garish Sun, RK devotes himself to his
glamorous brother John, suppressing his own
ambitions for the sake of the Kennedy name.
The Awful Grace of God, after an assassin’s bullet takes
his brother’s life, RFK is bereft, not only of a brother he
loved, but a role that had given meaning to his life.
213
139
In Part Two:
Rhapsodies in Black
(music cds)
Richard III
266
Richard Nixon:
Biography
259
Rise of the Dragon
(The) (2 DVDs)
133
Rise and Fall of the
Aztec Empire
146
Rise and Fall of the
Soviet Union (parts 1
and 2)
Rising Sun (VHS) &
DVD
228
462
Riverdance
199
Road to Brown (the)
216
428
Robespierre: The New
Man
Rome Open City
Wars)
136
Romero
97
Rommel: The Afrika
Korps
B?W approx. 120 min.
The story of the Aztecs from their humble beginnings to
their rise as the dominant culture in Mexico and their
annihilation at the hands of Cortes and the Spanish.
Rarely seen film, photos, posters, and secret vaults of the
USSR.
53
Room of One’s Own, A
378
Roots of African
Civilization (The)
298
Russia Land of the
(2vol. DVDs)
310
Russia’s War “Blood
Upon the Snow” (VHS
set of 5)
481
S21: The Khmer Rouge
Killing Machine
71
S.O.S. Titanic
311
Sacco & Vanzetti
(DVD)
Portuguese/Italia
n
309
Sacco &
Vanzetti
140
Saint Joan
151
Saints and Sinners (6
Vols)
30
Salvador
355
Sand Creek Massacre
(The)
190
Sand Pebbles (the)
(VHS) & DVD
A dramatic recreation of the lecture by Virginia Woolf at
Girton College in 1923 on which her book of this title is
based. Eileen Atkins is Virginia Woolf. 55 min. (Dinand
Library Video 238)
Tells the amazing story of the art, culture, history and
civilizations of ancient West Africa. And it points to
evidence of these ancient cultures in the lives of African
Americans today.
Approx. 25 min.
Illuminates the imperial past of the world’s largest nation.
At the heart of this epic tale are the figures whose names
have become legend: Ivan the Terrible, who expanded the
empire at the rate of 50 miles-and innumerable lives-a-day;
Peter the Great, whose sweeping reforms westernized the
nation; and Catherine the Great, whose rule was marked by
conquest, change and controversy. Aprox. 200 min. +
extras
It brings to life the story of the people of the Soviet Union
during World War II who struggled to survive the
tyrannical reign of Joseph Stalin. A compelling story of
dictatorship, bloody battles, and endless courage as the
Soviet people combat not only Hitler and the German
Army, but their own leader as well.
Patrick Garland
1980
Knowledge
Unlimited, Inc.
1996
The History
Channel
2003
PBS
1995
In 1975-79, almost two million Cambodians lost their lives
to murder and famine when the Khmer Rouge forced the
urban populations into the countryside to fulfill their ideal
of an agrarian utopia. The notorious detention center code
named ‘S21’ was the schoolhouse-turned prison where
17,000 men, women and children were tortured and killed,
their “crimes” meticulously documented to justify their
execution
101 min., color
Fact and fiction dramatize the lives of the ill-fated ship’s
passengers. (180 minutes)
Reconstituted story of two Italian immigrants accused of
murder and sentenced in 1921 in U.S. by some anarquists
and sentenced to death. This was one of the most famous
trials of the 20th Century.
First Run Features
2003
Billy Hale
1979
Aversatil
2004
History Channel
1988
Based on George Bernard Shaw’s drama, Jean Seberg
Makes her debut as Joan of Arc.
Explores the many challenges facing the Roman Catholic
Church. Traces the Church from when it became the
official religion of the early Roman Empire, through its
history, to a look to the future.
An account of a photojournalist’s experiences in capturing
and exposing the brutality of the Civil War in El Salvador
Is an award-winning examination of an open wound in the
souls of the Cheyenne and Arapaho people as told from
their perspective.
Otto Preminger
1957
Oliver Stone
1985
Olympus Film
2006
A U.S. gunboat stationed in 1920s China is used in a
power game between rival warlords in this sprawling
adventure saga. Steve McQueen stars as a sailor who must
buck his superiors when he sees their mission being
endangered. (179 min,color)
Robert Wise
1966
246
Saturday Night Fever
191
Saving Private
Ryan(Letterboxed
Version)
1
212
Search for a Century:
The Discovery of
Martin’s Hundred
Plantation
Searchers (The)
179
Seeing Red
287
Self Made Hero (VHS)
192
Sergeant
York(DVD/VHS)
45
Seven Samurai (2 tapes)
578
Shadow Lands
About a troubled Brooklyn paint store clerk by day and
undisputed king of the dance floor by night. A movie that
defined the music and fashion of a generation. It’s a
powerful & provocative urban tragedy that carries as much
significance today as it did in 1977. Color/118 min.
Seen through the eyes of a squad of American soldiers, the
story begins with WWII’s historic D-Day Invasion, then
moves beyond the beach as men embark on a special
mission. (color 3h 15min)
Documentary on archaeological discoveries on a
plantation which supplied many agricultural needs of
Colonial Williamsburg
The frontier & the men and women who challenged it.
Color; 119 mins. John Wayne
Warm, human, funny, engaging portrait of 50 years of
American Communism from its heyday in the 1930s
through the bitter McCarthy era witch hunts of the 1950s.
At once a feeble slave to his mother’s madness, history
will remember Albert’s captivating rise to heroism as a
leader of the French Resistance. As brilliantly as de
Gaulle eludes his nation’s collaboration with the Nazis, so
will Albert shed his life of mediocrity in favor of one more
fantastical. Restricted from service, Albert can only watch
as the war ends without him. He desperately resolves to
flee to Paris where his inspired gift of deception and
trickery will lead to a tenaciously drawn plan reinventing a
new and heroic identity for himself a true reminder that he
best lives are often the ones we make up. Approx. 105
min. Color
In his Academy Award-winning role, Gary Cooper
portrays the quiet, pacifistic Tennessee farmer who went
on to become a hero on the battlefields of World War I.
Stirring tale of true heroism
This 197 minute black and white video takes you into the
world of agrarian Japan - a world in which dangerous
bandits roam the countryside.
Subtitles in English and Korean
John Badham
1977
Steven Spielberg
1980
James Klein &
Julia Reichert
1984
Patrick Godeau
1997
Howard Hawks
1941
Akira Kurosawa
1954
Peter Raymond and
Lindalee Tracey
2004
Canada
301
Sheen Gems
These are “SHEEN GEMS” – excerpts remastered from
many of Fulton J. Sheen’s Emmy Award Winning
Television Programs titled, “Life is Worth Living.”
Aprox. 110 min. (54 min. vol.1) B&W
The Fulton J.
Sheen Company
352
Shoot the Piano Player
Relates the adventures of mild-mannered piano player as
he stumbles into the criminal underworld and whirlwind
love affair. Loaded with gags, guns, clowns and thugs, this
razor-sharp homage to the American gangster film is pure
nouvelle vague.
Francois Truffaut
1960
34
Siena: Chronicles of a
Medieval Commune
A 28 minute look at the Medieval and Renaissance mecca
of Siena - its life and society during its golden age
Rogers and Schaff
1988
Silent Spring
With a passion for nature instilled in her at an early age,
writer and biologist Rachel Carson became a fearless
champion for the environment. She had been a biologist
for the federal government when she first took note of the
effects of the unregulated use of pesticides and herbicides.
Approx. 55 min Color
WGBH
1993
111
Silk Road
442
Sir! No Sir!
40
Sorceress
175
Sorrow and the Pity
(the)
429
Sould of India (The)
384
South Africa Belongs to
Us
162
South Korea: The
Struggle for Democracy
393
Spirit of St. Louis (The)
548
Spirited Away
419
Stagecoach (DVD)
A look at the culture encountered in the course of a
modern day
-traces the path of Marco Polo
Tells an almost entirely forgotten story of the military men
and women who helped force the U.S. government to end
the Vietnam War.
Approx. 84 mins.
The orthodox Church clashes with popular religion in this
based-on-fact story of a thirteenth-century friar hunting
heretics in the French countryside, and the woman healer
he encounters and persecutes. Accurate historical and
anthropological view of women’s roles, medicine, and
faith, in medieval culture.
1990
Docu Rama
Genre-defining, epic-length documentary about the French
collaboration with the Nazis in WWII. Considered a
masterpiece of its genre by critics. Wrenching film is
compulsory viewing for history buffs,documentary fans.
Indians are as varied as their landscapes-more than one
billion people, thousands of languages and almost every
religion known to man. And somehow all of it has mixed
into one vast, raucous and unruly democracy.
Appro. 82 min.
A film portraying the daily struggles in the lives of black
women in South Africa. With observational portraits of
five ordinary women, and with the insight of four women
activists, the film depicts the battle of the black woman for
human dignity in the face of apartheid: from the struggle
for a roof over her head and food for her children, to black
consciousness-raising and the total liberation of her
people.
Approx. 57 minutes. Color
Topics include: N/S partition, the Korean War, student &
union riots, the justification of military rule under the guise
of national security, the growing role of women in the
struggle for democracy. 27 mins, color
On May 21, 1927, the world changed. “Lucky Lindy”
landed outside Paris. And people who previously talked
about the limitations of air travel suddenly dreamed of its
possibilities.
Is a wondrous fantasy about a young girl, Chihiro, trapped
in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo
a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage
she never knew she had to free herself and return her family
to the outside world.
Director: Marcel
Ophuls
Nine disparate travelers are thrust together on a
Stagecoach destined for Apache territory.. and movie
immortality. This grown-up adventure ushered in a 30
year era of great Westerns, many teaming its supreme
practitioners.
B&W 97 Mins.
1971
RickRayfilms
Icarus Films
Films for the
Humanities &
Sciences
1980
1998
Warner Bros.
1985
Buena Vista Home
Entertainment
2001
United Artists
Corporation
1939
308
Stalingrad (DVD)
The Eastern Front experienced the viciousness of war on a
scale of unimaginable horror and brutality. The Bloodiest
and most savage fighting took place in Stalingrad between
August 2942 and February 1943. Stalin’s city on the
Volga had military significance for Hitler. It carried the
name of his enemy and therefore had to be destroyed. The
ensuing battle sealed the fates of hundreds of thousands of
soldiers and civilians and marked the turning point of
World War II. It was the beginning of the end of Nazi
Germany.
Approx. 165 minutes Color & B&W.
555
Stosstrupp 1917
Douaumont
World War II Nach dem preisgekrontan Buch
Der geisvaltigfte, Deutfche Kriegsflm
385
Stealing Heaven (DVD)
The true erotic romance of Abelard and Heloise has stood
NTSC
for centuries as an example of desire so intense it will brave
any consequence. In this epic love story of sensual
revolution two lovers buy moments of rapture through
incredible sacrifice. Peter Abelard is a brilliant professor
renowned for his wit and integrity. Young Heloise is an
uncommon combination of beauty and intelligence. When
they meet, the spark that begins in their minds soon
engulfs them completely. But 12th century Paris forbids
teachers the pleasures of the flesh, and Heloise is
controlled by her greedy uncle. Still, no rule or reason can
stem their raging passion. A terrible, bloody chain of events
will change their lives forever-and earn Abelard and
Heloise a place among the greatest lovers of all time.
Approx. 115 minutes. Color
1988
6
Stilwell Road
1986
65
Story of Anna
Akhmatova
Story of India (The)
Documentary on the magnetic personality of General
Stilwell of the United States
A documentary of this St. Petersburg poet, this film delves
into Akhmatova’s struggle against oppression.
In this captivating six-art adventure, Wood chronicles the
history of the subcontinent, the incredible richness of
diversity of its people, cultures and landscapes, the intense
drama of its past and the originality and continuing
relevance of its ideas.
Approx. 6 hours. Color
Approx. 55 minutes (copy from VHS)
432
507
252
224
Story of Harry S.
Truman (The)
Sugihara: Conspiracy
of Kindness
Suleyman The
Magnificent
380
Summer 0f Love
562
Taxi To Timbuku
542
Thatcher, Margaret
“The Rise and Fall”
How a heroic Japanese diplomat saves Jewish refugees in
World War II (runs approximately 82 minutes)
Explores the breathtaking palaces and mosques of the
Ottoman Empire and focuses on the dramatic life and
personality of Sultan Suleyman.
This American experience presents a complex portrait of
the notorious even that many consider the peak of the
1960’s counter-culture movement.
Synapse Films
2003
Panzer-Film
Jill Janows
1991
PBS
2008
Fr. Lapomarda
2012
Diane Estelle
Vicari
Suzanne Bauman
1987
PBS
2007
BBC
2012
Copy of a VHS into a DVD
These three outstanding BBC productions portray the
political career of Ms Thatcher from her fight to get
selected for a “winnable” Tory seat to her handling of the
Falklands War and finally to her last days in power. It
provides a unique insight into the fascinating life of one of
the most significant political figures in British history.
559
511
Thirteen Days
Each segment is labeled with its length, and when the
Home Line Video
feature is done, you are automatically returned to the same
point in the film. It's a nice way to take a second, more indepth look at the movie. Historians, news broadcasters,
and even Khrushchev's son lend their voices to one
commentary track, which also includes historic speeches.
The other commentary track includes key filmmakers and
insights from producer-actor Kevin Costner. The short
deconstruction of the jet-flyover special effects is superb,
as is the subtitle option that offers historical text about the
onscreen action that can be engaged with or without the
Infini film mode. --Doug Thomas
2005
Triumph & Tragedy
Along the Little
Bighorn
Theodore Roosevelt
Tenth Inning (The) (2
dvd)
Is the story of all those who fought at the Battle of the
Little Bighorn on June 25-26, 1876.
Western National
Parks Association
2012
(copy) A biography.
Top of the Tenth (1992-1999)/Bottom of the
Tenth (199-2009)
PBS
2010
44
Three Sovereigns for
Sarah
Philip Leacock
1986
470
Jefferson in Paris
A detailed account of the “witch hysteria” of 1692 in
Salem, MA via the narrative of one woman’s efforts
to clear her accused sisters’ names
During one man’s unforgettable visit to liberal and
socially permissive France, he meets and falls in love
with a worldly and mysterious
A Merchant
Ivory
Production
2004
Ross Spears
1992
Criterion
Collection
2003
138
469
woman! But when the alluring charms of another prove
irresistible he finds himself courting scandal in a heated
triangle of passion and desire!
Approx. 139 mins., Color
57
182
394
To Die To Live: The
Survivors of Hiroshima
(VHS)
To Render A Life
Tokyo Story
Disc 1 Tokyo Story
(63 minutes) A look at the struggle that the Hiroshima
disaster’s survivors had to face in the wake of the horror.
A documentary on the lives of 3 desperately poor cotton
tenant families in Hale County, Alabama in 1936. (90
minutes, color)
From a simple tale unfolds one of the greatest of all
Japanese films.
Disc 2 I lived, but..
Talking with Ozu
(1993)
1983, a two hour documentary of Ozu
A 40-minute tribute to Ozu
193
Tora! Tora!
(Letterboxed Version)
Color 144mins.War epic that recreates the attack on Pearl
Harbor and the events leading up to it.
Richard Fleischer
1970
222
Tora! Tora! Tora! The
attack on Pearl Harbor
Tree of Clogs
Recreates the stunning attack on American forces by the
Japanese. Chronicles both sides of the Pearl Harbor story.
A poignant look at rural peasant life in Northern Italy at
the turn of the century. This moving story brings to life
the hardships & adversity facing a family struggling to
survive under oppressive rule. Italian w/ Eng. Subtitles;
177 Mins.
Richard Fleischer
1970
Ermanno Olmi
2004
236
333
48
Treasures III ( 4DVD’s)
1. Program Notes
(booklet)
2. Americans in
the Making
3. Toil an
dTyranny
4. New Women
5. The City
Reformed
Tree of Wooden Clogs
504
Venus Noire (Black
Venus)
Paris, 1817
428
War Trilogy
Rome Open City:
Prohibition, abortion, unions, atheism, the vote for women,
worker safety, organized crime, loan sharking, race
relations, juvenile justice, homelessness, immigration –
virtually no social issue was too controversial for movies
during their firs decades – these movies helped change
America.
Approx. 738 min.
Ntl Film
Preservation
Foundation
2007
Fictional tale of an Italian peasant family. 185 min. in 2
parts (MRC Ital Video)
Is a true story of Saartjie Baartman, a South African
woman who was brought to London by her master to be
exploited as a sideshow attraction. Free and enslaved at
the same time, the “Hottentot Venus” became an icon in
the slums, eventually ending up in Paris as a sexual slave
and the subject of dubious scientific study.
Shot in battle-ravaged Italy and Germany, these three films
are some of our most lasting, humane documents of
devastated postwar Europe, containing universal images of
both tragedy and hope.
Ermano Olmi
1978
2011
Janus Films
Is a shockingly authentic experience, conceived and
directed amid the ruin of World War II, with immediacy in
every frame. Marking a watershed moment in Italian
cinema, this galvanic work garnered awards around the
globe and left the beginnings of a new film movement in
its wake.
1945
Paisan:
Italians and their American liberators, this look at the
struggles of different cultures to communicate and of
people to live their everyday lives in extreme
circumstances is equal parts charming sentiment and vivid
rarity.
1946
1948
Germany Year Zero:
309
True Story of Sacco and
Vanzetti
A portrait of an obliterated Berlin, seen through the eyes of
a twelve-year-old boy. Living in a bombed-out apartment
building with his sick father and two older siblings, young
Edmund is mostly left to wander unsupervised, getting
ensnared in the black-market schemes of a group of
teenagers and coming under the nefarious influence of a
Nazi-sumpathising ex-teacher. Germany year Zero is a
daring, gut-wrenching look at the consequences of fascism,
for society and the individual.
li hto the
b i epic
l sweep of the twentieth
Fromi the dawn of time
century, from the great conflicts to the inventions that
changed the world.
311
449
Sacco and Vanzetti
Total War
Portuguese/Italian
Was the first modern conflict in which millions more
civilians died than soldiers. As economic production
became essential to military success, civilians were
conscripted into factories – and suddenly became fair
game.
Approx. 56 minutes Color
History Channel
Versatil Home
Video
WGBH
2004
1996
270
Tuskegee Airmen (The)
(DVD)
Fireballs of high-speed air action explode off the screen in
this exciting story of the "Fighting 99th" -”the first
squadron of black American pilots to be allowed to fight
for their country.
HBO Home Video
2000
60
Twenty-Four Eyes
Keisuke Kinoshita
1954
225
Umm Kulthum: A
Voice Like Egypt
Michal Goldman
1996
318
Under the Flag of the
Rising Sun (DVD)
HVe
2005
41
Union Maids
“Beauty and innocence are lost as war and progress intrude
upon a rural village,” leaving deep impressions on twelve
young schoolchildren.
Connects the life of Kulthum, a peasant turned worldrenowned Arabic female vocalist, to the epic story of 20th
century Egypt as it shook off colonialism and confronted
modernity.
Sachiko Hidari gives a towering performance as the war
widow who returns year after year to the Ministry of
Welfare, trying to clear the name of her disgraced
husband: a sergeant court-martialed and executed for
desertion at the end of the war. Seeking out four survivors
from her husband’s garrison, she pursues the truth and
uncovers a RASHOMON-like mystery conveyed with all
the impact and rage one would expect from Kinji
Fukasaku.
96 min. B&W – Japanese with optional English subtitles
Classic portrait of women auto workers in the 1930’s. 60
minutes
249
Victory in the Pacific
Target Tokyo – Ronald Regan narrates this 1945
film on the B-29’s first mission – Discussion:
The Bomb and the End of the War. Black and
White (approx. 120 min.)
PBS
2005
145
Vezelay
This film includes spectacular photography of the basilica
at Vezelay, in France, and the rituals conducted within;
William Segal’s thoughtful and engaging commentary. In
every image and gesture Vezelay joyously probes the
eternal question of individual identity and the obstacles
and exhilaration of seeing, searching and being. (44
minutes)
Ken Burns
1996
150
90
Vietnam: A Television
History (7 volumes)
1. Roots of a War;
The First Vietnam
War (1945- 1954)
2. America’s
Mandarin (19541963); LBJ Goes to
War (1964-1965)
3. America Takes
Charge (19651967); America’s
Enemy (19541967)
4. Tet 1968;
Vietnamizing the
War (1968-1973)
5. Cambodia and
Laos: Peace Is at
Hand (1968-1973)
6. Homefront USA;
The End of the
Tunnel (19731975)
7. Legacies
Vietnam: The War At
Home
482
Verdict on Auschwitz
(The Frankfurt Trial
1963-1965)
201
Walk a Mile in My
Shoes
21
447
Walk Through the 20th
Century: Propaganda
Why We Fight: Prelude
to War
Wall Street (DVD)
Meet the people who masterminded the war, and the
Americans and Vietnamese who fought it.(13 hours)
Covers: the anti-war movement in America, political
activities at U. of Wisconsin at Madison, genuine people’s
revolt (100 minutes, Academy Award nominee for Best
Documentary)
One of the most important trials of the 20th century began
in 1963, when 360 witnesses from 19 countries, including
211 Auschwitz survivors, confronted former members of
Hitler’s SS – many of whom had made comfortable lives
in postwar West Germany – and accused them of taking
part in the mass murder of millions. The film makers bring
to life the investigation, the courtroom drama and the
verdict in this historic trial involving perpetrators of the
“Final Solution.”
180 mins, color b/w
Documents the history & social impact of the Nat’l Assoc.
for Advancement of Colored People. Serves as a visual
“witness” to events that have threatened the well-being,
growth, & lives of African Americans 2 parts, 24 minutes
each, Color
2 separate programs relating to whatever might be inferred
from their titles (copy)
In this riveting behind-the-scenes look at big business in
the 1980s an ambitious young broker is lured into the
illegal, lucrative world of corporate espionage when he is
seduced by the power, status and financial wizardry of
Wall Street legend Gordon Gekko. But he soon discovers
that the pursuit of overnight riches comes at a price that’s
too high to pay.
WGBH TV
First Run Features
1983
1993
Gene Davis Group,
Inc.
20 C Fox
1987
558
What Dreams May Come
118
25
Walter Ruether
Wannsee Conference on
the Final Solution
(English subtitles)
332
War at Home (The)
(DVD)
506
War Lords (VHS) –
Closet
154
Academy Award-winners Robin Williams and Cuba
Polygram Filmed
Gooding, Jr. embark on a supernatural journey beyond the Entertainment
realm of mortality in this visually stunning and
unforgettable epic. After Chris Nielsen (Williams) dies in
an accident, he tries to remain close to his beautiful mortal
wife, Annie (Annabella Sciorra). With the friendly spirit
assigned to guide him, he begins to adapt to his new state
of being in a setting that can only be described as heavenly.
But when his distraught wife takes her own life, she is
banished to an eternal damnation. Chris vows to find her so
they can share eternity together, but no one has ever
succeeded in rescuing a soul from such a horrific fate. With
the help of his heavenly friends, Chris sets out on the most
perilous and harrowing journey of his life, or afterlife: a
quest for everlasting love that will take him to hell and
back!
2003
90 minute account of the Wansee Conference at which
Hitler’s strategy to exterminate the Jews of Europe was
determined (copy)
It vividly chronicles the anti-war protest movement of the
1960’s and 70’s. The Film provides an illuminating look at
the home front of the Vietnam War – the war that students
and other anti-war dissidents waged on America’s political
system, military and notions of patriotism. Approx. 100
min. Color
Duke William of Quest sends his most trusted knight and
a troop of warriors to guard Normandy’s coastal
settlements from plunder and pillage by freedom raiders
Glenn Silver &
Barry Alexander
Brown
War in the Pacific, The
Combat footage and exclusive interviews with veterans
and military experts bring the conflict in the Pacific theater
of WWII to life. This film recalls the desperation, the loss,
the courage & ultimately, the triumph that epitomized war
in “the enemy’s backyard.”
A & E Home
Video
1983
161
War Room, The
Vidmark
Entertainment
1994
348
What We Want, What
We Believe: The Black
Panther Party Library (4
DVDs)
389
We Shall Remain
An adventure story about 2 men, James Carville and
George Stephanopoulos, and their effort and determination
in conducting Clinton’s political campaign in 1992 -- and
winning.
Accompanying the Newsreel films is a massive quantity of
rare and exclusive materials culled from Roz Payne’s
extensive collection of FBI documents, correspondence,
and interviews with Panthers and their supporters. It’s all
here, the government-sponsored repression, the trials,
exile, triumph, and reunion.
Establishes Native history as an essential part of American
history. These five documentaries spanning almost four
hundred years tell the story of pivotal moments in U.S.
history from the Native American perspective, upending
two-dimensional stereotypes of American Indians as
simply ferocious warriors of peaceable lovers of the land.
Vol. I
After the Mayflower
Vol. II
Tecumseh’s Vision
Trail of Tears
Vol. III
Geronimo
Wounded Knee
1979
1992
AK Press
2006
PBS
2009
337
Weather Underground
(The) DVD
493
Weapons of the Spirit
383
West (The)
(5 DVD Series)
One of the top documentaries of the year, this awardwinning film interweaves extensive archival material with
modern-day interviews to explore the incredible story of
the “Weather Underground.” As former members reflect
candidly about the idealistic passion that drove them to
“bring the war home,” they paint a compelling portrait of
troubled and revolutionary times, with unexpected and
often striking connections to the current world situation.
Approx. 92 mins. + extras
Color & B/W
In and around one village in Nazi-occupied France, 5,000
Jews were sheltered by 5,000 Christians
Approx. 90 min. and 35 min. Color
Presented by Ken Burns and directed by Stephen Ives, this
12 hour film chronicles the epic saga of America’s most
vast and turbulent region, beginning before European
settlement and continuing into the 20th century.
Docu Rama
2003
Chambon.org
19892007
PBS Home Video
1996
Approx. 12 hours. Color/B&W
581
Adelante Films
We Come as Friends At the moment when the Sudan, the continent’s
biggest country is being divided into two nations,
an old “civilizing” pathology re-emerges – that of
colonialism, the clash of empires, and new
episodes of bloody (and holy) wars over land and
resources.
2016
(Disc I)
The People
(Disc II)
Empire Upon the Trails
The Speck of the Future
(Disc III)
Death Runs Riot
The Grandest
Enterprise Under
God
(Disc IV)
Fight No More Forever
The Geography of
Hope
From the beginning of time, the West has been a land of
myth. The original Native American inhabitants linked
their creation stories to the majestic mountains, searing
deserts and silent forests. To Europeans such as Cabeza de
Vaca and Coronado, the West was a “wilderness” to be
conquered-filled with boundless treasure, souls to save or
defeat, and new horizons to explore.
In the early 1800s, no one knew who would control the
seemingly infinite spaces of the West. But hopeful
Americans began moving there nevertheless, and the
individual trails they followed eventually merged into the
single path of “Manifest Destiny.”
In 1848, a sawmill worker named James Marshall reached
down into the streambed of the American River in
California-and came up with the future of the West in the
palm of his hand. He had discovered gold. During the
next year alone, in one of the most astounding human
stampedes in history, more than 50,000 fortune-seekers
would swarm the Sierra Nevada mountains in a headlong
scramble for riches.
The West has always symbolized hope and new
beginnings. But in the 1850s, as more American pioneers
poured west, they brought with them the nation’s oldest,
most divisive issue-slavery. And the rough frontier would
supply the sparks that would ignite the Civil War.
After the Civil War reunited the North and the South,
Americans set out with a new energy and optimism to
finally unite the country, East and West. They embarked
on one of the greatest technological achievements of the
age, to conquer the forbidding mountains, harsh deserts
and awesome distances by building the first
transcontinental railroad.
By the 1870s, there were only a few pockets of resistance
against the United States’ push to conquer the West. On
the Great Plains, Sitting Bull followed his mystical visions
and urged his Lakota people to fight rather than surrender
their sacred Black Hills and traditional way of life. On a
hot summer day at the Little Bighorn, they would defeat
another warrior equally sure of his own invincibilityGeorge Armstrong Custer. But Custer’s “Last Stand”
would also become, in effect, the last stand of the Sioux as
a free people.
By the late 1870s, the American conquest of the West was
nearly complete. In one decade, with Native Americans
effectively confined to reservations, some four and a half
million new settlers would arrive to stake their claim to the
future. Homesteaders proudly built their homes of prairie
sod, then fattled drought and hard times to keep them.
(Disc V)
Ghost Dance
One Sky Above Us
568
Went the Day Well?
122
When Ireland Starved
VHS/DVD
359
When the Forest Ran
Red
293
Who Owns History?
(DVD)
292
269
Why History (DVD)
Windtalkers
282
Wind that Shakes the
Barley (The) (DVD)
By the late 1880s, Americans were astounded by the
changes they had brought to the West. Mining towns such
as Butte, Montana were now full-fledged industrial cities,
magnets of opportunity to workers from around the world,
but also places where the landscape itself was under
assault.
As the 20th century neared, Americans celebrated with the
World Columbian Exposition, where they were told that
the frontier had closed-symbolized by one state proudly
displaying an entire herd of buffalo…stuffed. But in the
real West, for every frontier story that ended, another one
began.
Classic piece of propagandist entertainment, a warning to
Vintage Classics
British citizens to remain ever alert for the arrival of the
enemy. A story of a quiet English village which has been
infiltrated by German soldiers masquerading as British
troops, leaving the plucky villagers to uncover the plot and
the fight back.
Chronicles the famine in Ireland during the mid-nineteenth
century as British despots stripped the land for England’s
own health and wealth.
Twenty years before the Revolutionary War, the British,
French, and Native American empires fight for control of
the American wilderness. Here George Washington
begins his military career at the center of a murder
mystery, and suffers defeat at Fort Necessity. In response,
British General Edward Braddock leads an army to
America and marches on the French, leading to a surprise
battle that will change American history.
Daniel Boorstin, Eric Foner, James Horton, and Robert
royal discuss revised history, new history and the rewriting
of history.
26 minutes, color
Documentary.
In the brutal World War II Battle of Saipan, Sergeant Joe
Enders guards- and ultimately befriends- Ben Yahzee, a
young Navajo trained in the one wartime code never
broken by the enemy, the Navajo Code. But if Yahzee
should fall into Japanese hands, how far will Enders go to
save the military’s most powerful secret? John Woo
directs this “exciting” “against-all-odds battle adventure”
written by John rice and Joe Batteer and inspired by the
true story of the Navajo soldiers whose courage and
sacrifices helped win the war in the Pacific. 2 Hr.14 mins.
Driven by a deep sense of duty and a love for his country,
Damien abandons his burgeoning career as a doctor and
joins his brother Teddy in a dangerous and violent fight for
freedom. As the Irish Freedom fighters’ bold tactics bring
the British to breaking point, both sides finally agree to a
treaty to end the bloodshed. But despite the apparent
victory, civil war erupts, and families who once fought
side by side find themselves pitted against one another as
sworn enemies, putting their loyalties to the ultimate test.
1942
Irish Visions
1995
History Center
20012007
Paladin
Films for the
Humanities &
Sciences
2004
C-SPAN
John Woo, Lion
Rock Productions
2006
2002
IFC
2006
556
Wind Rises (The)
Buena Vista Home
Jiro dreams of flying and designing beautiful airplanes,
inspired by the famous Italian aeronautical designer
entertainment
Caproni. Nearshighted and unable to be a pilot, he
becomes one of the world’s most accomplished airplane
designers, experiencing key historical events in an epic
tale of love, perseverance and the challenges of living and
making choices in a turbulent world.
388
Wings of Defeat
New Day Films
2007
18
Winston Churchill
Charles Jarrott
1986
123
World on Display: The
St. Louis World’s Fair
of 1904
World Ward II Valoir
in the Pacific
In Japan, WWII Kamikaze are still revered as selfsacrificing heroes. Internationally, they remain a potent
symbol of fanaticism. Until now, few outsiders knew that
many Kamikaze survived their suicide missions. The
candid heart breaking testimony of surviving Kamikaze
conveys the true depth of war’s travesty. Sixty years later,
these humble men tell us about the horrors of the cockpit,
their dramatic survival and the survivor’s guilt still
haunting them.
A candid look into the life and times of the late, great
Churchill. (copy)
An introspective look at turn of the century America,
complete with all of its novelties at St. Louis in 1904.
This DVD contains the dramatic historic newsreels, Pearl
Harbor attack footage, and Pearl Harbor survivor
interviews as seen in the visitors center exhibits. Plus over
an hour of bonus material.
Approx. 185 mins.
Horrified by the living conditions in Chicago’s tenements
Jane Addams opened Hull House in 1889, a place where
she, Julia Lathrop, and other fellow activists could provide
outreach services to the poor and uneducated people of the
neighborhood –and by applying statistical analysis to realworld problems, pave the way for far-reaching social
reform.
(18 minutes, color)
National Park
Service
488
294
Women of Hull House
The): Harnessing
Statistics for
Progressive Reform
Films for the
Humanities &
Sciences
2013
2004
15
World at War (the)
(11 DVD Series)
Penetrating interviews with eyewitness participants – from
Hitler’s secretary to Alger Hiss to ordinary citizens who
stood outside the battle lines – add spine-tingling, first
hand-accounts to an already unforgettable viewing
experience. Approx. 22 hours and 37 min. + 12 hrs. extras
A&E
1973
(Volume I)
A New Germany
With Germany buckling under the weight of humiliating
defeat and unprecedented economic depression, Adolf
Hitler and the Nazis quickly gain power and momentum,
while Poland and the rest of the world look on nervously.
Distant War
Germany’s invasion of Poland forces Britain into war, and
the island nation’s early defeat brings Winston Churchill
into power. Meanwhile, France is next on Hitler’s list.
France Falls
France discovers it is woefully unprepared for modern
warfare as the Nazi war machine easily skirts around the
Maginot Line. Britain retreats and prepares for invasion.
The Making of the
Series
As compelling as the landmark 26 episode television
documentary it celebrates, this is a fascinating behind-thescenes look at the individuals, the technology, and the
historical resources that made this still relevant
examination of World War II such a powerful and
unforgettable visual experience.
19331939
Septemb
er
1939May
1940
MayJune
1940
(Volume II)
Alone
Barbarossa
Banzai!
On Our Way
Though the Battle of Dunkirk successfully rescues nearly
35,000 Allied troops from certain defeat, London’s only
respite from constant bombing comes when Hitler turns
toward Russia.
Having blitzkrieged through Europe, the German Panzers
plow deep into Russian territory, only to be stopped by a
brutal winter and endless mud.
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor and brings America into the
war while sweeping its way across the Pacific theater.
Americans are divided between fighting the Japanese and
the Nazis, Hitler solves the conflict by declaring war on
the States.
May
1940May
1941
JuneDecemb
er
1941
1931-
(Volume III)
The Desert
Back and forth across 600 miles of desert between Egypt
and Libya, Bernard Montgomery’s “Desert Rats” finally
defeat Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps at El Alamein,
preparing the way for an Allied victory in Italy.
Stalingrad
Stunning Nazi color footage showcases Germany’s first
major defeat at Stalingrad and subsequent surrender on
February 2, 1943.
Wolf Pack
The Germans coordinate their submarine forces into lethal
“wolf packs” that destroy countless convoys delivering
food and supplies to Britain-captured in breathtaking
underwater footage.
Red Star
Eyewitnesses recount the siege of Leningrad, in which
nearly one million of its three million inhabitants died in
battle or from cold and starvation. Remarkably, the
Russians went on to defeat the Germans.
19401943
June
1942Februa
ry
1943
19391944
19411943
(Volume IV)
Whirlwind
Fueled by revenge, the British show their mettle, and with
the help of American forces retake the skies and bomb
Germany into submission.
Tough Old Gut
Eleven months after Pearl Harbor, Churchill convinces the
American forces to join the Allies in taking Italy. After an
initial setback in North Africa, the German war machine
begins losing its air of invincibility.
It’s a Lovely Day
Tomorrow
After an initial retreat in the jungle environs of Burma,
Louis Mountbatten’s arrival in 1943 boosts morale and
leads to the first major Japanese defeat at Arakan.
Home Fires
A nation under duress finds its strength in unity, while
Germany’s defeat in the Battle of Britain sends their
bombing raids into the countryside.
Septembe
r
193
9Apr
il
1944
Novembe
r
1942June
1944
19421944
(Volume V)
Inside the Reich
Morning
Occupation
Pincers
Initial victory in Europe turns sour after the defeat at
Stalingrad, yet Germany prepares to fight to the end-even
after an assassination attempt on the Fuhrer.
On the morning of June 6, 1944, the Allies stage the
largest human invasion in history on the beaches of
Normandy. The human cost is enormous, and for the
Germans it is the beginning of the end.
19401944
19401944
Though a neutral country, Holland is attacked by Germany
without warning in 1940. During the next four years life
carries on seemingly without incident, but underneath
resistance never dies.
6/8
1944
The end of war appears close at hand with the liberation of
Paris in 1944, but the Americans and British disagree on
how to advance. Meanwhile, Poland suffers devastating
losses to achieve victory.
19401944
(Volume VI)
Genocide
From the very beginning of the Nazis’ rise to power, the
notion of the Aryan ideal was already in place. By the end
of the war, the world would know the full horror of its
ghastly vision.
Nemesis
As the Allies close in on Berlin, the Russians lose more
than 100,000 men in battle. Hitler hides in his bunker and
contemplates his own end.
Japan
Initially apprehensive about the outcome of declaring war,
the Japanese quickly turn to celebration with early victory.
In the end, their worst fears are unimaginably exceeded.
Pacific
Under the command of General MacArthur and Admiral
Nimitz, the Allies slowly but assuredly achieve victory in
the Pacific, one island at a time.
19411945
Februar
y- May
1945
19411945
February
1942July
1945
(Volume VII)
The Bomb
Reckoning
Remember
On August 6, 1945, the Enola Gay delivers the world’s
first atomic bomb to Hiroshima, killing and injuring nearly
140,000 people in one stroke. The world would be forever
altered.
Disagreements over Germany’s recovery and reparations,
the Nuremberg Trials, and distrust among the Allies show
that concluding a war is a vastly difficult endeavor.
Februar
ySeptemb
er
1945
Heartbreaking first-hand remembrances from a vast array
of survivors on both sides of the war.
1945
(Volume VIII)
Hitler’s Germany: The
People’s Community
Hitler’s Germany: Total
War
The harsh outcome of the first world war left Germany
ripe for Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party’s swift rise to
power, promising a devastated nation’s return to
international prominence. With its stark, eye-catching
iconography and Aryan ideals, the Third Reich set the
stage for the 20th century’s second world war.
19331939
Continuing the in-depth look at Hitler’s regime through the
words of ordinary citizens, the makers of The World at
War examine the day-to-day realities of life in Germany as
the Allies fire-bombed and invaded cities, and ultimately
achieved victory.
19391945
Two Deaths of Adolf
(The) Hitler
Did Hitler die from a self-inflicted gunshot? Or did he
swallow cyanide with his recent bride Eva Braun?
Interviews with Hitler’s secretary and Russian doctors
attempt to lay the controversy to rest.
(Volume IX)
Secretary to Hitler
Warrior
A remarkable first-hand account of the last days of the
Fuhrer and the collapse of the Third Reich through the
eyes and words of his personal secretary, Traudi Junge.
A measured and decidedly unromantic look at the heat of
battle, Warrior weaves together eyewitness accounts and
rarely seen archival footage to reveal the deadly realities of
combat.
From War to Peace
Renowned historian Stephen Ambrose examines the
aftermath of World War II. Was peace truly gained? Or
did a new war, with weapons of policy, take its place?
(Volume X)
The Final Solution Part
I
The Final Solution Part
II
The makers of The World at War investigate one nation’s
belief in the necessity of genocide. Terrifying and
unforgettable stories related by death camp survivors and
compelling interviews with German participants probe one
of the modern age’s darkest moments.
Archival photographs and shocking footage filmed by the
Nazis themselves capture the full horror of Germany’s
systematic extermination of millions of Jews. Unflinching
and often disturbing, this is a profound and necessary
examination into the darkest corners of humanity.
(Volume XI)
Making the Series: A
30th Anniversary
Retrospective
Experiences of War
336
“X” (Malcom)
59
Yamaguchi Story
210
Yankee Doodle Dandy
229
Year of Living
Dangerously (The)
113
Yojimbo
Commemorating the 30th anniversary of the original
broadcast of Sir Jeremy Isaac’s The World at War in 1973,
this two-hour program combines previously unreleased
interviews with the makers of this landmark in television
documentary production.
Prominent scholars and military figures recount specifics
of the war, from first-hand accounts of Okinawa to the DDay landing, and analyze key wartime actions in these
previously unseen and extended interviews taken from the
film archives at the Imperial War Museum.
“Here is a man who rose up from the dregs of society,
spent time in jail, reeducated himself and, through spiritual
enlightenment, rose to the top,”
Documentary which shows how some Japanese today seek
after spiritual fulfillment through so-called “new religions”
and a revitalized Buddhism in the face of the personal
stress and social pressures found in modern society. 47
minutes
James Cagney portrays career of song-and-dance man
George M. Cohan. B&W; 126 mins.
Takes place in Indonesia in 1965 and follows an
Australian reporter and an embassy aide in a time of
revolutionary unrest under the Sukarno government.
A black and white “samurai film” starring Toshiro Mifune,
who plays a “vouin” (masterless) wandering samurai who
gets embroiled in a feud between rival village gangs. 110
min.
Warner Bros.
1992
Dr. Jamie Hubbard
Peter Weir
1983
Akiro Kurosawa
1961
451
Zapatista Women Speak
We are Equal
538
Zou Zou
Zapatista women speak about what their lives were like
before the uprising in 1994 and how their lives have
changed since. A very upfront and critical look at gender
relations within the Zapatista communities on how far
women have come and how far they still need to go.
In the tradition of 42nd Street and other Warner Bros.
backstage musicals of the period, the plot of Zou Zou
concerns a star who walks out on her sugarddady producer
for true love, and a talented Cinderella who takes her
place, saves the show and is hailed as a new sensation
opening night.
The film places Baker in Several lavish production
numbers in which she is sumptuously dressed and
supported by a large chorus. But it is the poignant
rendition of “Haiti” that remains indelible. Seated on a
swing an oversize birdcage, scantily clad in feathers like
some exotic bird of paradise, she sings nostalgically for
her Caribbean home and leaves a permanent record on film
of her unique style and powerful charisma.
France 1934 B&W 93 Mins.
Chiapas Media
Project
2010
Kino Video
2005

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