| TITLE | CALL # | VOL. | SUBJECT | SUMMARY |
| 102 minutes that changed America / producer, Nicole Rittenmeyer produced by Siskel/Jacobs Productions for History. | DVD 669 | HISTORY | A chronological record of the World Trade Center attacks on September 11, 2001, assembled from video & audio footage recorded by more than 100 eyewitnesses. | |
| 12 angry men / released by United Artists ; story and screenplay by Reginald Rose ; produced by Henry Fonda and Reginald Rose ; directed by Sidney Lumet. | VID 275 | LITERARY - CLASSICS | Classic courtroom drama about a teenage boy accused of killing his father and the jury that must decide his fate. | |
| 200 classic cartoons. | DVD 576 | v.1-4 | CINEMA - SHORTS | A collection of cartoon shorts featuring Betty Boop, Popeye, Mr. Bang, Katrinka & the Skipper, Casper, Felix the Cat, and others. |
| 20th century with Mike Wallace. Sexual harassment and pornography / produced by CBS News in association with A&E Network. | VID 271 | WOMEN'S STUDIES | Examines the sexual harassment of women by men in the workplace beginning with the hearings of Justice Thomas. It then focuses on the explosion of sexual harassment cases in the following years. It follows up by examining the growth of pornography and the effects on women since that time. | |
| 20th century with Mike Wallace. The US in Latin America : Yankee go home / CBS News Productions in association with the A&E Network ; produced by Marc Wallace. | VID 244 | POLITICS | Looks at the relationship between the US and Latin America. | |
| 21 grams / a Focus Features presentation, a This is That production, a Y Productions production, an Alejandro González Iñárritu film produced by Alejandro González Iñárritu, Robert Salerno written by Guillermo Arriaga directed by Alejandro Gonzálex Iñárritu. | DVD 580 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Fate brought them together, now vengeance will tear them apart. A violent car accident unexpectedly throws together the lives of a college professor, an ex-con and a young mother with a reckless past. The crossing of their paths takes them through the heights of love, the depths of revenge and the promise of redemption. | |
| 42nd Street / Warner Brothers Pictures & the Vitaphone Corp. directed by Lloyd Bacon screen play by Rian James & James Seymour. | DVD 671 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | The movie musical that introduced the choreography of Busby Berkeley, 42nd Street also contains the classic plot involving a tyrannical director, egotistical leading lady and wide-eyed ingenue, all set to a standout musical score | |
| 8 1/2 / di Federico Fellini ; Janus Films ; Angelo Rizzoli presenta ; ideato e diretto da Federico Fellini. | DVD 129 | v.1-2 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Fellini's autobiographical film about a famous film director who loses his inspiration in the midst of making a film. |
| A constant forge : a film / by Charles Kiselyak Lagniappe produced, written and directed by Charles Kiselyak. | DVD 277 | BIOGRAPHY | A look at the life and work of John Cassavetes assembled from candid interviews, rare photos, archival footage, and the director himself. The narration is created from Cassavettes' own words. The actors discuss their own performances and those of their colleagues, give insights into Cassavetes's theater work, and into his handling of music in his films. | |
| A dry white season / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents a Paula Weinstein production in association with Star Partners II, Ltd. produced by Paula Weinstein screenplay by Colin Welland and Euzhan Palcy directed by Euzhan Palcy. | DVD 592 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Teacher Ben du Toit sees himself as a caring and just person. When his gardener's son is beaten up by police at a demonstration by black children, he sees that society is built on a foundation of prejudice. | |
| A force more powerful : a century of nonviolent conflict / a production of York Zimmerman Inc. and WETA Washington, D.C. written, produced and directed by Steve York. | DVD 506 | v.1-2 | DOCUMENTARIES | This two-part documentary series tells 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 rights denied them 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. |
| A global warning? / written & directed by Alex Hearie produced by Pioneer Productions for the History Channel. | DVD 601 | SCIENCE - EARTH SCIENCES | The History Channel answers the question: After 650 million years of climate change, is global warming simply a naturally occuring phenomenom, or the result of human activity? Arctic ice is melting, sea levels are rising and glaciers are shrinking at alarming rates. The Earth is getting unmistakably warmer. But is this vast potentially catastrophic, climate change the result of human behavior? Or is it simply the Earth's natural cycle of warming and cooling periods that have occurred since the planet formed? THE HISTORY CHANNEL offers an in-depth study of the science behind this hot-button issue. Scientists explore the skies to examine the warming effects of the sun and dig deep into the Earth to study continental movement and the volatile activity at the planet's core. Experts speculate on how natural events, including volcanic eruptions and massive meteor impacts, have affected temperatures and weather systems over the planet's 4.5-billion-year history. -- Container. | |
| A lion in the house / produced & directed by Steven Bognar & Julia Reichert. | DVD 478 | v.1 - 2 | DOCUMENTARIES | Chronicles the lives of five American families who each have a child battling cancer, following them through years of treatment and uncertainty. |
| A man for all seasons / Columbia Pictures from the play by Robert Bolt screenplay by Robert Bolt produced and directed by Fred Zinnemann. | DVD 710 | HISTORY | Historical drama about the opposition of Sir Thomas More to the divorce of King Henry VIII and the events which lead to More's execution. | |
| A midsummer night's sex comedy / an Orion Pictures release a Jack Rollins and Charles H. Joffe production produced by Robert Greenhut written and directed by Woody Allen. | DVD 654 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Three loving couples meet in a quiet country get-together, but everyone seems to be loving the wrong person. | |
| A mighty wind / directed by Christopher Guest written by Christopher Guest & Eugene Levy produced by Karen Murphy Castle Rock Entertainment. | DVD 598 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Three fictional folk groups from the 1960s reunite for a memorial concert after the death of their former manager. | |
| A prairie home companion / Picturehouse presents in association with GreeneStreet Films and River Road Entertainment a Sandcastle 5 and Prairie Home production produced by David Levy, Tony Judge, Joshua Astrachan, Wren Arthur, Robert Altman story by Garrison Keillor & Ken LaZebnik screenplay by Garrison Keillor directed by Robert Altman. | DVD 272 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | As if the result of some strange mass-media fluke, the popular radio program A Prairie Home Companion somehow managed to survive the television age to entertain its audience every Saturday night from the stage of the historic Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minn. Week after week, hangdog host G.K. serves as unflappable emcee to an amiable hodgepodge of radio-friendly acts that include the likes of popular country duo Yolanda and Rhonda Johnson and singing cowboys the Old Trailhands. This is one show where the under-the-line antics are nearly as entertaining as the program itself. The efforts of down-on-his-luck private dick and backstage doorkeeper Guy Noir discovers the true identity of a mysterious blonde and helps aspiring teen singer Lola to find her true voice before a live audience. | |
| A woman under the influence / produced by Sam Shaw written and directed by John Cassavetes Faces International Films. | DVD 278 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | A drama detailing the emotional breakdown of a suburban housewife and how her family struggles to save her from herself. | |
| Adaptation / Columbia Pictures presents in association with Intermedia Films a Magnet/Clinica Estetico production producers, Edward Saxon, Vincent Landay, Jonathan Demme screenplay writers, Charlie Kaufman, Donald Kaufman director, Spike Jonze. | DVD 715 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Blends fictional characters and situations with the lives of real people: obsessive orchid hunter John Laroche, New Yorker journalist Susan Orlean, Hollywood screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and his twin brother Donald. As Charlie struggles to adapt a best-selling book, he writes himself into the movie plot. | |
| Adrienne Rich / the Lannan Foundation ; directed by Dan Griggs. | VID 441 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | During her 40-year career, Adrienne Rich has been a poet of great moral presence and enduring creative power, a poet whose aesthetic is linked with her political sensibilities. Ms. Rich reads from An atlas of the difficult world, Diving into the wreck and The fact of a doorframe and talks with Michael Silverblatt. The reading and conversation took place on May 14, 1992, in Los Angeles"--Container." | |
| Adrienne Rich : in conversation with Eavan Boland ; Lannan Foundation presents ; director, Dan Griggs. | VID 481 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | Adrienne Rich has said the trajectory of her work has been to find the 'voice of the individual speaking not just ot herself, or to his beloved friend, but to and from a collective, social realm.' Ms. Rich read from Snapshots of a Daughter-in-law, the Dream of a Common Language, and Midnight Salvage on February 3, 1998.--container." | |
| Advanced microskills : counseling skills / a production of the Video Production Lab, College of Education, the University of Iowa. | VID 547 | PSYCHOLOGY | Presents three critical skills of the microtraining program with introductory lectures followed by inappropriate and appropriate counseling demonstrations which enable trainees to see subtle dimensions of skill usage. Vignettes and computer graphics encourage student practice of the skills. | |
| African American cinema | VID 524 | v.1-2 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | Presents early, classic silent films produced by and for African Americans. |
| Africans / a co-production of WETA-TV and BBC-TV. | VID 156 | v.1-9 | HISTORY | A controversial examination of contemporary Africa in terms of its triple heritage: what is indigenous, what was contributed by Islam, and what was acquired from the West. |
| Against the odds : the artists of the Harlem Renaissance / production of New Jersey Network. | VID 151 | ART | Documentary telling of the struggle of Black visual artists in the 1920's and 1930's to show and sell their work. It describes the influence of the Harmon Foundation in creating an artistic home where Black visual artists flourished and developed a wide range of talent. Also included were items in the show curated by the Newark Museum to celebrate the work of the Foundation. | |
| Aging out / Public Policy Productions in association with Thirteen/WNET New York written, produced and directed by Roger Weisberg Co-producer/co-director California segment, Vanessa Roth. | DVD 451 | DOCUMENTARIES | Chronicles the daunting obstacles that three foster children encounter as they age out of the system and are suddenly on their own for the first time. | |
| Agony and the ecstasy / Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation ; produced by International Classics, Inc. | VID 358 | LITERARY - CLASSICS | A dramatization of the struggle behind the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling by Michelangelo. | |
| Ailey dances / ABC Video Enterprises, Inc. in association with James Lipton Productions, Inc. | VID 2 | DANCE | A ballet performance by the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and other musical performances. | |
| Albert Einstein / A&E Television Networks. | DVD 659 | BIOGRAPHY | Explore the life of the scientist whose theories recast man's relationship with the universe. | |
| Alec Guinness collection | DVD 132 | v.1-5 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Collection includes: The Ladykillers, The Man in the white suit, The Lavendar Hill mob, Kind hearts and coronets, and The Captain's paradise. |
| Alexander technique : 2 complete programs / Wellspring Media. | DVD 46 | HEALTH & WELLNESS | Actor William Hurt demonstrates the technique's positions and movements to improve posture. The Alexander technique is used by entertainers and others to look, move, and breathe better. | |
| Alfred Hitchcock / Directors Guild of America, Education and Benevolent Foundation [and] Eastman Kodak Company produced, directed and written by Richard Schickel. | VID 573 | MOTION PICTURES - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | Alfred Hitchcock discusses his work as a motion picture director. | |
| Alfred Hitchcock : the legend begins. | DVD 565 | v.1-4 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | Disc 1. The lady vanishes; The farmer's wife; The manxman; Alfred Hitchcock presents: the Chaney vase; Alfred Hitchcock presents: the sorcerer's apprentice; Disc 2. Rich and strange; The thirty-nine steps; Secret agent; Champagne; Blackmail; Disc 3. Easy virtue; Jamaica Inn; The lodger; The ring; Young and innocent; Disc 4. Juno and the paycock; Sabotage; The skin game; Number seventeen; The man who knew too much. |
| Alfred Hitchcock, the masterpiece collection | DVD 162 | v.1-15 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | Collection includes the following films: Saboteur, Marnie, Torn curtain, Topaz, Frenzy, Family plot, Shadow of a doubt, Rope, Rear window, The trouble with Harry, The man who knew too much, Vertigo, Psycho, and The Birds. |
| Alfred Hitchcock's dial M for murder" / Warner Bros. Pictures presents ; a Warner Bros.-First National picture ; screen play by Frederick Knott ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock." | DVD 121 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | A man devises a plan to murder his wife, not only because he wants her money, but because she is in love with another man. | |
| Alfred Hitchcock's I confess" / Warner Bros. Pictures presents ; a Warner Bros.-First National picture ; screen play by George Tabori and William Archibald ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock." | DVD 117 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | A priest hears a murderer's confession and then becomes the murder suspect himself. | |
| Alfred Hitchcock's stage fright / Warner Bros. Pictures presents ; screenplay by Whitfield Cook. | DVD 118 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | A woman disguises herself as a maid in order to clear her friend who's been accused of murdering his mistress's husband. | |
| Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a train / [presented by] Warner Bros. Pictures ; screen play by Raymond Chandler and Czenzi Ormonde ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock. | DVD 115 | v.1-2 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | Final release version: Guy Haines, a tennis star who hates his wife, is approached on a train by a stranger, Bruno Anthony, who hates his father. Anthony offers a plan: each could kill the other's victim. No motive, no clue would link the two murders save the casual meeting of strangers on a train. |
| Alfred Hitchcock's the wrong man / Warner Bros. Pictures presents ; screenplay by Maxwell Anderson and Angus MacPhail ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock. | DVD 119 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | The first Hitchcock film based on a true story. A nightclub musician is falsely accused of a robbery, an accusation that ruins his life. | |
| Alice Neel : (1900-1984). | VID 361 | ART | In this interview with Alice Neel, shortly before her death in 1984, she discusses her life and work. Included are interviews with two of her painting subjects. | |
| Alice Paul : we were arrested of course. | VID 556 | WOMEN'S STUDIES | Alice Paul and Women's Suffrage in the United States. | |
| Alice Walker / Lannan literary series in association with Metropolitan Pictures and EZTV ; a video by Lewis MacAdams and John Dorr. | VID 429 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | Alice Walker, who wrote her first book of poems as she travelled through Kenya and Uganda, won the Pulitzer Prize and an American Book Award for her novel The color purple. [She] read from Revolutionary petunias and other poems, Horses make a landscape look more beautiful, and excerpts from The color purple and The temple of my familiar in Los Angeles on January 9, 1989 ... [and] was interviewed at her home ... by journalist Evelyn White--Container. | |
| Alice Walker / producer & director Matteo Bellinelli. | VID 148 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | Alice Walker shares with us her remarkable spiritual journey from a sharecropping childhood in rural Georgia to the peace and creativity of her present retreat in Northern California. She reads from her poetry and discusses contemporary America with an anger and urgency rooted in an abiding optimism. | |
| Alice Walker and The color purple / Films for the Humanities & the Sciences ; BBC Production. | VID 149 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | The videotape features a filmed interview with the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. | |
| All or nothing / United Artists presents in association with Alain Sarde, Thin Man films a Simon Channing Williams production a film by Mike Leigh written and directed by Mike Leigh. | DVD 740 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | In a crowded South London apartment building, Penny, a working mom, struggles to keep her wayward daughter, her lazy son and her disillustioned partner on the right path. | |
| All quiet on the western front / produced by Carl Laemmle, Jr. adaptation and dialogue, Maxwell Anderson screenplay, George Abbott adaptation, Del Andrews directed by Lewis Milestone. | DVD 714 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | A group of young World War I German recruits pass from idealism to disillusionment with war. | |
| All the king's men / Columbia Pictures written, produced and directed by Robert Rossen. | DVD 734 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | Crawford is a southern lawyer who battles his way to the governorship with the help of his secretary and, once elected, becomes a dictator. | |
| Allen Ginsberg : in concert with Donald Was / the Lannan Literary Series in association with Metropolitan Pictures & EZTV ; [produced and directed] by Lewis MacAdams and John Dorr. | VID 424 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | Allen Ginsberg, one of the major poetic voices of the twentieth century, reads poems and sings songs accompanied by Donald Was ... at McCabe's Guitar Shop in Santa Monica, California; and is interviewed by Lewis MacAdams. | |
| All's well that ends well / by William Shakespeare ; a BBC Television production in association with Time-Life Television ; producer, Jonathan Miller ; director, Elijah Moshinsky. | DVD 5 | LITERARY - SHAKESPEARE | William Shakespeare's comedy about Helena, the new wife of Count Bertram, who resorts to chichanery to win the respect and affection of her husband. | |
| Almost home / A co-production of 371 Productions and Wisconsin Public Television in association with ITVS produced and directed by Brad Lichtenstein co-produced and co-directed by Lisa Gildehaus. | DVD 709 | SOCIAL SCIENCE | A film following the staff and residents of a nursing home as they deal with aging. | |
| Alvin Ailey American dance theater : beyond the steps / Dance Philm presents a Bertelsen Philm produced in association with Thirteen/WNET New York and National Black Programming Consortium. | DVD 314 | DANCE | Get a rare backstage look at one of America's oldest modern dance companies at a defining moment in its history as it settles into its own permanent home and training facility in New York City. | |
| Amelie / Victoires Production ... [et al.] directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet produced by Claudie Ossard screenplay by Guillaume Laurant and Jean-Pierre Jeunet. | DVD 718 | Disc 1-2 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Amelie Poulain has led a sheltered life, educated at home by her parents, she lives in a fantasy world of her own. When she finally leaves home and finds work as a waitress in a Parisian café, life is uneventful until a chain of extraordinary events leads her to the discovery of a box containing a schoolboy's long forgotten mementos. It is then that Amelie discovers her vocation in life - helping others find love and happiness - which she sets about in her own way. When Amelie falls in love herself, she realizes that making neat solutions is not as easy as it seems. |
| America and the holocaust : deceit and indifference / a Fine Cut Productions, Inc. film ; written, produced and directed by Martin Ostrow. | VID 505 | HISTORY | Uses interviews, official photos, home movies, and archival footage to explore the factors that shaped America's response to the Holocaust and asks the question Why didn't America do more? Looks at America's inaction through the experiences of a Jewish refugee trying to save his parents, and through documented evidence of official policy of the U.S. government. | |
| America at a crossroads. Struggle for the soul of Islam : inside Indonesia. | DVD 343 | POLITICS | An inside look at how a fledgling democracy is struggling to control the rise of religious extremism. | |
| America dances! 1897-1948 : a collector's edition of social dance in film / Dancetime Publications ; Carol Téten, collector and organizer. | DVD 79 | DANCE | Includes 60 historical dance film clips from the first part of the 20th century in the United States, recording changing dance trends, expertise, and taste, and reflecting United States culture through the years. | |
| America in space : beyond the shuttle / produced by the Close Up Foundation. | VID 16 | SCIENCE - ASTRONOMY | Captain Wally Schirra, former astronaut, responds to questions concerning the United States space program from a group of high school students from across the United States. | |
| America is hard to see : in the gap of credibility / an Emile De Antonio Film. | VID 503 | HISTORY | A moving, often disturbing film that covers a year in the history of the United States, a year in which the strength of our Constitution was tested. The year 1968 saw the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, the Vietnam war worsening, President Johnson's withdrawal from the race for reelection and the nomination of Humphrey, LBJ's choice. The film is a portrait of the how and why of grass roots politics, and their sad failure in 1968. | |
| American art '85 : a view from the Whitney : the 1985 bicentennial exhibition of the Whitney Museum of American Art / directed, written and narrated by Russell Connor ; edited by Ann Woodward ; produced by the Public Education Department, under the auspices of the National Committee of the Whitney Museum of American Art. | VID 355 | ART | Views the exhibition with a lively commentary by artists, critics, and the Whitney Museum creators who assembled it. | |
| American buffalo / Metro Goldwyn Mayer a Samuel Goldwyn Company presentation in association with Capitol Films produced in association with Punch Productions screenplay by David Mamet produced by Gregory Mosher directed by Michael Corrente. | DVD 325 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | When a junk dealer discoveries he sold a coin for less than one-tenth of it's going rate, he decided to steal it back. To do so he enlists the help of a young protege and another theif only to find the plan is not as simple as intended. | |
| American cinema / the New York Center for Visual History in co-production with KCET and the BBC ; Executive producer, Lawrence Pikethly ; directors and producers vary ; hosted by John Lithgow. | DVD 67 | v.1-4 | DOCUMENTARIES | An epic analysis of the American motion picture industry that combines rare archival film, key scenes from immortal movies, interviews with leading filmmakers and commentary from noted film scholars and critics. |
| American hardcore / AHC Productions, LLC Sony Pictures Classics producers, Steven Blush and Paul Rachman writer, Steven Blush director, Paul Rachman. | DVD 789 | MUSIC | Set against the conservative early 80s political landscape, this film chronicles the homegrown hardcore scene that was a swift kick in the head to corporate rock and mainstream complacency, as disaffected teens adopted the same collective credo--harder, faster, louder. Features live concert footage and interviews with people involved in the scene. | |
| American history X / New Line Cinema presents a Turman-Morrissey Company production a Tony Kaye film. | DVD 431 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Derek Vinyard, the charismatic leader of a group of young white supremacists, lands in prison for a brutal, hate-driven murder. Upon his release, ashamed of his past and pledging to reform, Derek realizes he must save his younger brother, Danny, from a similar fate. A groundbreaking controversial drama about the tragic consequences of racism in a family. | |
| American movie / C-Hundred Film Corp. and Bluemark Productions present directed by Chris Smith producers, Sarah Price, Chris Smith. | DVD 499 | DOCUMENTARIES | Documentary of the two-year effort by Mark Borchardt to finish his no-budget horror film, Coven. | |
| American musical theater / Educational Audio Visual Inc. | VID 128 | THEATRE | Presents a chronicle of the American musical stage from minstrel shows of the early 1800's through the theater of the 1960's. | |
| American musical theater, the 1970's / Educational Audio Visual Inc. | VID 129 | THEATRE | Discusses popular musicals of the 1970's, reflecting on the new focus on topical issues, the importance of the concept musical, the entry of Black productions in the Broadway mainstream, and other significant new trends of the decade. | |
| American splendor / HBO Films in association with Fine Line Features presents a Good Machine production, a film by Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini produced by Ted Hope written and directed by Robert Pulcini & Shari Springer Berman. | DVD 550 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Pekar is a frustrated file clerk working at the local V.A. Hospital. He is also a comic book fan who befriends the young illustrator Robert Crumb and is soon inspired to create comic books based on his own life. Along his bumpy journey he meets, marries and falls in love with Joyce, an admiring comic book seller. | |
| America's first women filmmakers / [Alice Guy-Blaché and Lois Weber, directors] Original music score is performed by Rosa Rio at the Hammond organ. | VID 527 | DOCUMENTARIES | Includes examples of the many films produced and/or directed by Alice Guy-Blaché and Lois Weber both of whom were pioneers in film before the Hollywood system placed them in less creative positions. | |
| Amiri Baraka / the Lannan Foundation in association with Metropolitan Pictures and EZTV ; [produced and directed] by Lewis Mac Adams and John Dorr. | VID 438 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | Amiri Baraka, poet, playwright, novelist, and essayist, reads from Boptrees and unpublished work. He is interviewed by Lewis MacAdams. | |
| An age of kings : a cycle of the history plays of William Shakespeare / script editor, Eric Crozier directed by Michael Hayes produced by Peter Dews BBC TV. | DVD 686 | Disc 1-5 | LITERARY - SHAKESPEARE | When An Age of Kings was first broadcast, it was the most conceptually ambitious Shakespeare project ever attempted for either film or television. Its fifteen parts encompassed Richard II, both parts of Henry IV, Henry V, all three parts of Henry VI and Richard III, effectively presenting a chronological history of British royalty from 1377 to 1485. An Age of Kings' adapter Eric Crozier cut the text into schedule-friendly 60 and 75 minute episodes. These mostly comprised half a complete play, though Henry VI Part I was reduced to a single hour-long episode. --British FiIm Institute. |
| An inconvenient truth / [presented by] Paramount Classics and Participant Productions a Lawrence Bender/Laurie David production directed by Davis Guggenheim produced by Laurie David, Lawrence Bender, Scott Z. Burns executive producers, Jeff Skoll ... [et al.] co-producer, Leslie Chilcott. | DVD 378 | POLITICS | Former Vice President Al Gore explains the facts of global warming, presents arguments that the dangers of global warning have reached the level of crisis, and addresses the efforts of certain interests to discredit the anti-global warming cause. Between lecture segments, Gore discusses his personal commitment to the environment, sharing anecdotes from his experiences. | |
| Ancestors: early cultures of North America | VID 180 | HISTORY | The first of eight programs exploring the history and culture of North America. The Anasazi transform the arid Southwest and construct the 800-room Pueblo Bonito, depicted by computer animation. Cliff Palace provides a glimpse into a prospering society. Cahokia was the largest city in the U.S. before 1800, and yet few have ever heard of it. | |
| Andrew Carnegie and the age of steel / The History Channel. | DVD 618 | BIOGRAPHY | Andrew Carnegie and the Age of Steel visits historic ironworks-- namely Saugus and Hopewell -- as well as today's massive, computerized steel mills and chronicles the evolution of the industry. Learn how Carnegie built an empire so large that it led to the first billion-dollar corporation and powered the nation's economy and launched steel into the future. Witness the setbacks, too, such as intense labor unrest and increasing international competition. -- Container. | |
| Andrew Lloyd Webber : The Royal Albert Hall celebration / a Really Useful Video Company Production Group ; [produced by Andy Picheta ; produced for stage by The Really Useful Theatre Co. ; directed by David Mallet ; directed by Steven Pimlott]. | DVD 71 | MUSIC | The Royal Albert Hall comes alive to the passionate melodies and songs from the shows of Andrew Lloyd Webber. Shows include: Whistle down the wind, Joseph and the amazing technicolor dreamcoat, Evita, Starlight express, Jesus Christ Superstar, Phantom of the opera, Sunset Boulevard, Aspects of love, and Cats. | |
| Andy Warhol . | VID 364 | ART | A profile of Andy Warhol's life and work since his death in February 1987 examines a career that spanned painting, film, publishing, rock music and television. | |
| Angels in America / HBO Films presents an Avenue Pictures production, a Mike Nichols film produced by Celia Costas screenplay by Tony Kushner directed by Mike Nichols. | DVD 428 | v. 1 - 2 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Set in 1985. Revolves around two very different men with AIDS, one fictional, one fictionalized. Roy Cohn, personifies all the hypocrisy, delusion and callousness of the official response to the plague. Nothing shakes Roy's lack of empathy: even on his death bed, he's fighting with his gay nurse and taunting the woman he helped put to death, Ethel Rosenberg. The other patient is Prior Walter, who is visited by an angel and deserted by his self-pitying lover, Louis. Louis moves on to a relationship with Joe Pitt, a Mormon lawyer whose closeted homosexuality drives his wife to delusions and brings his mother to New York. |
| Anna Christie / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. | DVD 663 | CINEMA | Old sailor Chris Christofferson eagerly awaits the arrival of his grown daughter Anna, whom he sent at five years old to live with relatives in Minnesota. He has not seen her since, but believes her to be a decent and respectably employed young woman. When Anna arrives, however, it is clear that she has lived a hard life in the dregs of society, and that much of her spirit has been extinguished. | |
| Anna Sokolow: choreographer . | VID 412 | DANCE | Anna Sokolow talks about her life history and her dances, using old and new footage. | |
| Annie Hall / United Artists. | DVD 584 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Woody Allen's semiautobiographical portrait of his amorous, but ultimately mismatched, relationship with co-star Diane Keaton. Allen uses satire and comedy to portray this nervous romance for modern times. | |
| Annie Leibovitz : celebrity photographer / a Middlemarch film for London Weekend Television in association with RM Arts ; edited and presented by Melvyn Bragg. | VID 321 | BIOGRAPHY | ||
| Another woman / an Orion Pictures release a Jack Rollins and Charles H. Joffe production written and directed by Woody Allen produced by Robert Greenhut. | DVD 549 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | When a distinguished philosophy professor turns 50, she feels compelled to take emotional stock of her life. But the deeper she digs the more her life seems to unravel, until she realizes that her search for truth is a personal odyssey of self-examination, discovery and acceptance. | |
| Antigone / adapted from a play by Sophocles ; written and directed by George Tzavellas ; produced by James Paris. | VID 255 | LITERARY - SHAKESPEARE | The Greek tragedy of Sophocles in which King Creon orders Antigone's death for burying her slain brother against the King's desire. | |
| Antony & Cleopatra / by William Shakespeare ; a BBC Television production in association with Time-Life Television ; a production by Jonathan Miller. | DVD 6 | LITERARY - SHAKESPEARE | Explores the calamitous consequences of an overwhelming passion by telling the story of Antony, the once-heralded leader who becomes stupified with passion and degenerates into a fool, and the multi-faceted Cleopatra. | |
| Antony Tudor : a film / Gava production in association with NOS Television. | VID 37 | DANCE | Antony Tudor discusses his work. Includes interviews with well-known dancers and choreographers. Also includes b&w footage of early interpretations of his work. | |
| Český sen = Czech dream / Hypermarket Film ... [et al]. | DVD 368 | DOCUMENTARIES | Documents the largest consumer hoax the Czech Republic has ever seen. Filip Remunda and Vit Klusack, two of Eastern Europe's most promising young documentary filmmakers, set out to explore the psychological and manipulative powers of consumerism by creating an ad campaign for a super store that didn't exist. | |
| Archaeology of Jerusalem from David to Jesus / produced by the Biblical Archaeology Society. | VID 192 | v.1-2 | HISTORY | Tells the story of the great archaeological finds from Jerusalem from its Canaanite beginnings to the time of Jesus. |
| Arctic son / Arts Engine, Inc. in association with Big Mouth Films presents produced by Dallas Brennan Rexer and Elizabeth Mandel directed by Andrew Walton. | DVD 482 | DOCUMENTARIES | The clash of tradition and modernity puts a Native father and son at odds in a remote village 80 miles above the Arctic Circle. | |
| Art city : a ruling passion / a documentary film ... produced by Chris Maybach and Paul Gardner ; directed by Chris Maybach. | VID 403 | ART | Many artists use the pain, exhilaration and resolution of private desires to express themselves in their art. This documentary focuses on intense personalities who've used their art to explore the emotional impact, or dark humor of psychological truths. The film also plumbs issues that affect artists -- preoccupations of startling universality -- like community, motivation and controversy, finding one's audience, and just getting it right. | |
| Art city : simplicity / a documentary film ... produced by Chris Maybach and Paul Gardner ; directed by Chris Maybach. | VID 404 | ART | Travelling around the country, this documentary takes a revealing trip into the studios and lives of a group of singular artists. It touches on artists' relations with the press, ambiguous feelings about showing one's work, distilling concepts into an essence, and what it means to succeed in the artworld. | |
| Art has no borders : an international dance collaboration / Gash/Voigt Dance Theatre. Videographer: Kathy Corley. | VID 398 | DANCE | Gash/Voigt Dance Theatre of St. Louis, Roes Dance Theatre of Athens and Dance Factory of Istanbul collaborated on a two-year project of cultural exchange. This project culminated in the creation of the performance, Ancestors and the production of the Art has no borders video. | |
| Art of the classical Pas de Deux : as performed live at the Los Angeles International Ballet Festival / produced by Marc I. Rosenthal ; directed by Ted Lin. | VID 214 | DANCE | Live taped performance of selections from La Sylphide, Don Quixote, Le Corsaire, Blue Bird, Flower Festival at Genzano, and The Sleeping Beauty. | |
| Arthur Sze : in conversation with Frank Stewart / director, Dan Griggs. | VID 478 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | Arthur Sze reads from his book The redshifting web: poems 1970-1998, and discusses with Frank Stewart the influences that have formed his poetic vision. | |
| As you like it / by William Shakespeare ; presented by the British Broadcasting Corporation ; producer, Cedric Messina ; director, Basil Coleman. | DVD 7 | LITERARY - SHAKESPEARE | Presents a dramatization of William Shakespeare's play, a pastoral romance set in the Forest of Arden in medieval France. | |
| Athens 2004 eventing | DVD 101 | EQUESTRIAN | Equestrian events at the 2004 Olympics. | |
| Athens 2004 show jumping | DVD 102 | EQUESTRIAN | Equestrian events at the 2004 Olympics. | |
| Atonement / Universal Focus Features presents in association with StudioCanal and Relativity Media a Working Title production directed by Joe Wright produced by Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster screenplay by Christopher Hampton. | DVD 772 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | In 1935, 13-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis and her family live a life of wealth and privilege in their enormous mansion. On the warmest day of the year, the country estate takes on an unsettling hothouse atmosphere, stoking Briony's vivid imagination. Robbie Turner, the educated son of the family's housekeeper, carries a torch for Briony's headstrong older sister Cecilia. He hopes that Cecilia has comparable feelings. All it will take is one spark for this relationship to combust. When it does, Briony - who has a crush on Robbie - is compelled to interfere. She goes so far as to accuse Robbie of a crime he did not commit. Cecilia and Robbie declare their love for each other, but, ultimately, he is arrested. Briony bears false witness and the course of three lives is changed forever. As Briony grow older, she continues to seek forgiveness for her childhood misdeed. Through a terrible and courageous act of imagination, she finds the path to her uncertain atonement, and to an understanding of the power of enduring love. | |
| BaadAsssss cinema : a bold look at 70's blaxploitation films / Independent Film Channel presents a Minerva Pictures production directed by Isaac Julien produced by Paula Jalfon and Colin MacCabe. | DVD 275 | DOCUMENTARIES | This documentary explores the explosion of blaxploitation films in the early 1970s and how this genre of American film has grown to cult status today. | |
| Babel / Paramount Pictures and Paramount Vantage present an Anonymous Content production, una produccÃon de Zeta Film, a Central Films production, a film by Alejandro González Iñárritu produced by Jon Kilik and Steve Golin written by Guillermo Arriaga directed and produced by Alejandro González Iñárritu. | DVD 793 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | A wealthy American is touring Morocco with his wife. The two become the focus of an international incident also involving a poor Moroccan farmer who is struggling to keep his two young sons in line and his family together. A San Diego nanny, with her employers absent, makes the disastrous decision to take her charges with her to a wedding in Mexico. A deaf Japanese teen tries to deal with a relationship with her father and the world in general that has been upended by the death of her mother. It's about a gun. It's about communication - or the lack of it - both intercultural and intracultural. Raises issues like terrorism and immigration, and is as basic as husbands talking to their wives and parents understanding their children. | |
| Bach in Auschwitz / Les Films D'Ici ... [et al.] present in association with NCRV ... [et al.] a film by Michel Daëron. | VID 605 | MUSIC | Inside the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War Two, members of a bizarre prison orchestra struggle against all odds to spare themselves from death. Now, in 1999, on the fiftieth anniversary of Auschwitz, eleven of the members of the Auschwitz Orchestra meet again. | |
| Back in town / produced by Kimber Rickabaugh and Rocco Urbisci directed by Rocco Urbisci Cablestuff Productions. | VID 569 | COMEDY | Comic monologues written and performed by George Carlin. | |
| Balanced budget amendment : the proper medicine for fiscal discipline? / the National Economists Club Educational Foundation. | VID 93 | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS | A discussion of the economic consequences of the proposed Balanced Budget Amendment to the United States Constitution. | |
| Balanchine / Production of Thirteen/WNET New York ; produced by Judy Kinberg ; directed by Merrill Brockway ; written by Holly Brubach. | DVD 236 | DANCE | A two-part series tracing the life and career of George Balanchine from his early years as a student at the Imperial Ballet School in St. Petersburg to his innovative work at the New York City Ballet. Includes extensive cuts from many of his choreographed works and touches on his collaboration with Igor Stravinsky. Also includes short cuts of interviews with Balanchine. | |
| Balanchine celebration / New York City Ballet ; [choreography by George Balanchine]. | VID 216 | v.1-2 | DANCE | |
| Ballerinas / directed by Beppe Menegatti and Tazio Tami ; produced by Joseph Wishy ; a Polivideo-TVE Production. | VID 3 | DANCE | Presents a recreation of two eras of Parisian ballet: the mid-19th century and the Diaghilev period. Peter Ustinov appears in part 1 and part 2 with Carla Fracci and other dancers. | |
| Ballet class for beginners / David Howard. | VID 400 | DANCE | ||
| Ballet class, intermediate-advanced : with David Howard / New Age Video. | VID 274 | DANCE | David Howard, ballet master, leads some of the world's finest young dancers in an intermediate ballet class specially designed to expand the classical vocabulary, movement potential, and kinetic awareness of the student. | |
| Ballets Russes / a Geller/Goldfine production ; produced and directed by Dayna Goldfine & Dan Geller ; produced by Robert Hawk, Douglas Blair Turnbaugh ; written by Dan Geller ... [et al.]. | DVD 245 | DANCE | Presents an oral history of the Ballets Russes from the point of view of its many surviving performers. Dancers discuss working with George Balanchine. Includes performance footage. | |
| Ballroom dancing : the international championships / Czechoslovak Television Ostrava presents distributed by V.I.E.W., Inc. | DVD 751 | DANCE | From the samba to the quickstep, this program shows professional world champions illustrating the ballroom dances that capture the elegance, precision and rhythm of this art form. | |
| Barbara Guest / the Lannan Foundation presents ; directed by Dan Griggs. | VID 464 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | Barbara Guest read from her Selected poems. She is interviewed by Douglas Messerli. | |
| Barbie nation : an unauthorized tour / [presented by El Rio Productions LLC] ; directed and produced by Susan Stern ; written and narrated by Susan Stern. | VID 220 | WOMEN'S STUDIES | Journeying from Barbie conventions to anti-Barbie demonstrations, from girls' play dates to Barbie web pages, Barbie nation plumbs the cult of the Barbie doll, telling the Barbie stories of diverse men, women and children--Container." | |
| Barry Lopez / the Lannan Foundation ; directed by Dan Griggs. | VID 442 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | In his books Arctic dreams, Of wolves and men, and Crossing open ground, Barry Lopez eloquently explores man's sense of his place in the natural world, the intrinsic power of the landscape and human involvement with wild animals. In a reading that took place on Oct. 5, 1992, in Los Angeles, Barry Lopez reads his essay Rediscovery of North America and talks with Michael Silverblatt"--Container." | |
| Baryshnikov at Wolf trap | VID 210 | DANCE | 1976 live performance at Wolf Trap featuring Baryshnikov in solos and pas de deux. | |
| Baryshnikov by Tharp / choreography by Twyla Tharp ; produced by Don Mischer ; directed by Don Mischer, Twyla Tharp ; written by Twyla Tharp, Peter Elbling. | DVD 230 | DANCE | Mikhail Baryshnikov discusses dance and performs in three ballets choreographed by Twyla Tharp. | |
| Basic music vocabulary | VID 285 | MUSIC | A basic or refresher course on music terminology including musical notation, rhythm, meter, pitch, intervals, keys, melody & harmony, performance, musical form, instrument & voice and a brief history of music style periods. | |
| Basic perspective drawing / with Gerald F. Brommer ; producers, Tom Hubbard, Lorry Hubbard ; editor, Blake McHugh. | VID 377 | ART | The artist introduces linear perspective demonstrating the need to see perspective in order to draw it. He shows how to make one-point, two-point, and three-point perspective drawings using boxes, landscapes and buildings as subjects and demonstrates cylinders. | |
| Beauty in a jar / A&E Television Networks produced by Orchard Films produced and directed by Lisa Ades, Lesli Klainberg. | DVD 602 | CULTURAL STUDIES | Examines the changing notions of beauty over the past century and the history of the $39 billion industry, where a pout can be worth a fortune and a hot trend can launch an empire. | |
| Beckett on film / Blue Angel Films ; Tyrone Productions. | DVD 42 | v.1-4 | LITERARY - CLASSICS | The comprehensive cinematic interpretation of Beckett's plays."--Container." |
| Beethoven's Eroica / a production of the San Francisco Symphony. | DVD 334 | MUSIC | San Francisco Symphony's music director, Michael Tilson Thomas, retraces Beethoven's steps through Vienna's aristocratic ballrooms and Austria's rustic villages, exploring how Beethoven channeled his fears of deafness, his admiration for Napoleon, and his obsession to prove himself the greatest composer of his time and to write the Eroica. Includes a live performance of Beethoven's Eroica by the San Francisco Symphony conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas. | |
| Before night falls / Fineline Features Grandview Pictures El Mar Pictures, LLC Jon Kilik presents a film by Julian Schnabel produced by Jon Kilik written by Cunningham O'Keefe, Lázaro Gómez Carriles, Julian Schnabel directed by Julian Schnabel. | DVD 678 | CINEMA | A look at the life of Reinaldo Arenas, from childhood in Cuba to his death in New York City. His writings and homosexuality get him in trouble with Castro's Cuba and he spends two years in prison. Victimized by a government that banned his books and jailed him for a crime he didn't commit, [poet] Reinaldo [Arenas] endured unspeakable persecution in a courageous stand against censorship and oppression. Without a country, but not without integrity, he fled to America where he continued to fight for personal expression and produced a stirring body of work. -- Container. | |
| Behind the scenes with David Parsons / A co-production of Learning Designs & Thirteen-WNET. | VID 238 | DANCE | A visit with choreographer David Parsons who shows how movement is transformed into pattern in dance. | |
| Being Julia / Sony Pictures Classics and Serendipity Point Films. | DVD 208 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Julia is a true diva, but after years of the spotlight she begins to suffer from a severe case of boredom and longs for something new and exciting. She finds what she is looking for in a handsome young American fan, who adds a few more sparks than Julia was hoping for. | |
| Berlin, symphony of a great city / a Fox-Europa Film ; a film by Walther Ruttmann ; screenplay, Walther Ruttmann, Karl Freund from an idea by Carl Meyer ; directed by Walter Ruttman. | DVD 165 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | A cross section of life in Berlin from dawn to midnight on a late spring day. Uses montage, cutting, and editing to capture the pulse and tempo of this city. | |
| Best boy : Best man / [presented by] the Association for the Help of Retarded Children, New York City Chapter and Only Child Motion Pictures produced directed and edited by Ira Wohl. | DVD 274 | v.1-2 | DOCUMENTARIES | "Best boy" follows Philly Wohl, a cheerful and lovable 52 year old who's been mentally handicapped since birth and still lives with his parents. When his cousin, filmmaker Ira Wohl, questions what will happen to Philly once his elderly parents can no longer care for him, the family embarks on a mission to help Philly become more independent. "Best man" is the follow-up to "Best boy" which revisits Philly 20 years later. |
| Best of Seinfeld : 100th episode / Castle Rock Entertainment. | VID 585 | TELEVISION | A collection of the best moments of the television program 'Seinfeld'. | |
| Betrayal of democracy / produced for the Documentary Consortium by WGBH Boston. | VID 94 | POLITICS | An examination of the breakdown of the democratic process and the increasing exclusion of the citizens from government decision-making processes. | |
| Betty Boop / A&E Television Networks. | DVD 657 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | She first appeared on screen with the body of a woman and the head of a dog. Re-invented as 100% woman, the racy cartoon star became an American icon. | |
| Betye and Alison Saar, conjure women of the arts / created & produced by Linda Freeman ; written and directed by David Irving. | VID 323 | ART | Mother and daughter artists demonstrate collaborative art, and the use of found objects in their work, and reflect on their relationship, motivation, and role as African-American women. | |
| Beyond hate / a production of International Cultural Programming, Inc. and Public Affairs Television, Inc. | VID 147 | v.1-2 | PSYCHOLOGY | Tape 1 features conversations with a variety of people who have explored the heart of hatred. Tape 2 focusses on how children learn to hate, and how attitudes toward hatred differ from culture to culture. |
| Beyond the fringe / [written by] Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller, Dudley Moore produced by Don Silverman directed by Duncan Wood. | DVD 346 | COMEDY | Unearthed in a producer's vault, this British comedy gem is the only taped record of the groundbreaking 1960s comedy revue. A 1964 gala farewell performance of the famous stage revue by its original cast, it has never been released on home video. Four men from Oxford (Alan Bennett studying history & Dudley Moore on a music scholarship) and Cambridge (Jonathan Miller studying medicine & Peter Cook taking languages) were invited to present a comedy revue at the Edinburgh Festival in 1960. This led to a London production and then moved on to Broadway-- and their style of satire and parody became a major influence on comedy and comedians. | |
| Beyond the glass ceiling | VID 270 | WOMEN'S STUDIES | Many talented women are trapped beneath an executive glass ceiling, an invisible but real barrier that keeps them from the top ranks of executive leadership. This program takes a critical look at the challenges and the opportunities for women beyond that glass ceiling. | |
| Bible, Esther | VID 256 | RELIGION | Dramatization of the story of Esther, Queen of Persia. | |
| Biblical archaeology : from the ground down / [presented by] the Biblical Archaeology Society ; with Michal Artzy ... [et al.]. | VID 191 | v.1-2 | RELIGION | Join with the world's leading excavators as they dig, sift and sort, removing centuries of sand and stone to bring the past to light. |
| Big one / Miramax Films presents in association with Mayfair Entertainment International, BBC Productions, and Dog Eat Dog Films production ; a film written and directed by Michael Moore. | VID 254 | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS | Michael Moore armed only with a camera and a sharp sense of humor is searching America's heartland for an execuive who will respond to the question: If Fortune 500 companies are posting record-setting profits, why do they continue laying off thousands of workers? | |
| Bill Robinson : Mr. Bojangles / producer, director, Torrie Rosenzweig ; writer, Mimi Freedman ; produced by Van Ness Films in association with Foxstar Productions and A&E Network. | VID 236 | DANCE | ||
| Bill T. Jones : dancing to the promised land / V.I.E.W., Inc. | VID 74 | DANCE | This video guides the viewer through rehearsals and performance of choreographer Bill T. Jones' most highly regarded work, Last Supper at Uncle Tom's Cabin/The Promised Land, as performed by the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Co. | |
| Bill T. Jones : Still/here / directed by Alice Markowitz, David Grubin produced by Alice Markowitz, David Grubin executive producer, David Grubin a production of David Grubin Productions, Inc. & Public Affairs Television, Inc. a presentation of Thirteen WNET, New York. | DVD 492 | DANCE | A look at dancer/choreographer Bill T. Jones's highly acclaimed dance, Still/Here . At workshops around the country, people facing life-threatening illnesses are asked to remember the highs and lows of their lives, and even imagine their own deaths. They then transform these feelings into expressive movement, which Jones incorporates into the dance Still/Here . Jones deomonstrates the movements of his life story--his first encounter with white people, confusion over his sexuality, his partner Arnie Zane's untimely death from AIDS, and Jones's own HIV status. | |
| Billy : a man who lives in the margins / Kerri Yost and William Kubart. | DVD 377 | DOCUMENTARIES | In Billy, a minimalist documentary approach lets us examine the daily life of a homeless man in an affluent Midwestern college town. | |
| Biography. William Shakespeare : a life of drama / a Satel Documentary production for A&E Television Networks produced and directed by Rebecca Jones. | VID 592 | BIOGRAPHY - SHAKESPEARE | A biography of the greatest writer in the English language, William Shakespeare. | |
| Birth of a nation / Produced and directed by D.W. Griffith. | VID 507 | v.1-2 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | A Civil War spectacular. The film portrays life in the South during and after the Civil War as revealed in a story depicting the war itself, the conflict between the defeated Southerners and emancipated renegade blacks, the despoiling of the South during the carpetbagger period, and the revival of the Southern white man's honor through the efforts of the Ku Klux Klan. |
| Black Hawk down / Revolution Studios and Jerry Bruckheimer Films present a Ridley Scott film, a Jerry Bruckheimer production in association with Scott Free Productions producers, Jerry Bruckheimer, Ridley Scott screenplay, Ken Nolan director, Ridley Scott. | DVD 421 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | With exacting detail, the film re-creates the American siege of the Somalian city of Mogadishu in October 1993, when a 45-minute mission turned into a 16-hour ordeal of bloody urban warfare. Helicopter-borne U.S. Rangers were assigned to capture key lieutenants of Somali warlord Muhammad Farrah Aidid, but when two Black Hawk choppers were felled by rocket-propelled grenades, the U.S. soldiers were forced to fend for themselves in the battle-torn streets of Mogadishu, attacked from all sides by armed Aidid supporters. | |
| Black is-- black ain't : a personal journey through black identity / Independent Television Service. | VID 116 | CULTURAL STUDIES | American culture has stereotyped black Americans for centuries. Equally devastating, the late Marlon Riggs argued, have been the definitions of blackness" African Americans impose upon one another which contain and reduce the black experience. The film scrutinizes the identification of "blackness" with masculinity as well as sexism, patriarchy and homophobia in black America. | |
| Black stallion / Zoetrope Studios ; United Artists ; Francis Ford Coppola presents. | VID 548 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | A boy and a horse are shipwrecked on an island where they become fast friends. Upon their return home they work together for a try in one of the great races at Santa Anita. | |
| Black West / TBS Productions, Inc. | VID 188 | CULTURAL STUDIES | Presents the history of Blacks in the old West through feature film clips, rare archival photography and exclusive interviews with descendants of Western icons. | |
| Blade runner / a Ladd Company, in association with Sir Run Run Shaw, thru Warner Bros. Jerry Perenchio and Bud Yorkin present a Michael Deeley-Ridley Scott production screenplay by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples produced by Michael Deeley directed by Ridley Scott. | DVD 717 | Disc 1-2 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | In a futuristic Los Angeles of 2019, detective Rick Deckard is a highly rated Blade Runner assigned to find and kill illegal cybernetic replicants , genetic creations with superhuman abilities. Pulled unwillingly out of retirement, Deckard is forced into one last case, six exceptionally dangerous replicants who have escaped from slave labor and made their way into the city, apparently with plans to gain vengeance on the corporate masters who created them. In the course of investigation, Deckard falls in love with a beautiful woman who holds a disturbing secret, creating additional doubt and confusion in Deckard's mind. This 2007 final cut was remastered with improved visual and sound effects, and made some revisions to the 1992 director's cut revision. |
| Blazing saddles / Warner Bros. Pictures a Mel Brooks film screenplay by Mel Brooks ... [et al.] story by Andrew Bergman produced by Michael Hertzberg directed by Mel Brooks. | DVD 673 | CINEMA | The new sheriff and his sidekick, retired gunfighter Waco Kid, protect the town of Rock Ridge from the men who want to run the railroad through the town. | |
| Blowup / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; Premier Productions Co., Inc. presents a Carlo Ponti production ; produced by Carlo Ponti ; screenplay by Michaelangelo Antonioni and Tonino Guerra ; directed by Michaelangelo Antonioni. | DVD 138 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | A London photographer takes some pictures of a couple in a park and discovers that he may have recorded evidence of a murder. | |
| Blue eyed / Denkmal Filmproductions ; produced by Claus Strigel and Bertram Verhaag ; written and directed by Bertram Verhaag ; in cooperation with Jane Elliott. | VID 119 | CULTURAL STUDIES | Jane Elliott conducts a workshop where an arbitrarily selected group of individuals is targeted to experience prejudice and bigotry. Based on the blue eyed-brown eyed exercise. | |
| Blue vinyl / [presented by] Bullfrog Films ; produced in association with Home Box Office [and] the Center for Independent Documentary ; launched in association with Next Wave Films & Working Films. | DVD 267 | DOCUMENTARIES | Skeptical of her parents' decision to re-side their home with vinyl siding (polyvinyl chloride or PVC), Judith Helfand set out with Daniel B. Gold in search of the truth about vinyl. | |
| Bluesland : a portrait in American music / East Stinson Inc., Toby Byron/Multiprises. | VID 565 | MUSIC | This video explores the blues-- with all its poetic irony and sly humor, its eroticism and timeless power. It traces its roots from the beginning of the 20th Century through the Mississippi Delta to Louisiana, Texas, Kansas City and Chicago. | |
| Bob Fosse : dancing on the edge / CBS News Productions ; producer, Andrew Rothstein. | VID 233 | DANCE | A biography of Broadway and musical film choreograper Bob Fosse. Includes clips from stage and film productions and insights from performers who worked with him. | |
| Bobby / [presented by] TWC [the Weinstein Company] and Bold Films written and directed by Emilio Estevez produced by Michel Litvak produced by Edward Bass, Holly Wiersma. | DVD 742 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Revisits the night presidential-hopeful Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel in June 1968. Tells the stories of a variety of people present on that fateful night, ranging from Kennedy's campaign staff and volunteers to the hotel owner, employees such as kitchen staff, and various guests. | |
| Body and soul / Anglo Amalgamated Film Distributors Ltd. Enterprise Studios original screenplay by Abraham Polonsky produced by Bob Roberts directed by Robert Rossen. | DVD 531 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | Charley has become the middleweight champion of the world by winning a fixed fight. In his devious climb to the top, Charley has become hard and arrogant, and has estranged both his mother and the girl he loves. | |
| Body detectives / director, Sophie Rolfe ; producer, Robin Anderson ; a BBC production in association with Clearcut Communications for the Discovery Channel. | DVD 269 | SCIENCE | This clinical program travels to the world's first open-air crime lab with founder Bill Bass, of The University of Tennessee, for a close-up look at how cadavers decay. As proxies for murder victims, these decomposing bodies are studied in the name of science and the cause of justice. Factors and biological markers that help pinpoint time since death, including wind and weather, insects and carnivores, fire damage, soft tissue leachate, mold, and bacteria, are addressed. Three homicide cases that hinged on data and expertise gained at the Farm are presented, and Ph. D. students are filmed doing field work and body processing. | |
| Body of lies / a Warner Bros. Pictures presentation a De Line Pictures/Scott Free Productions produced by Donald De Line, Ridley Scott screenplay by William Monahan directed by Ridley Scott. | DVD 803 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | CIA operative Roger Ferris is on a covert mission. He is working in Jordan and searching for terrorists who have been bombing civilian targets. Ferris uncovers information on the Islamist mastermind Al-Saleem. He devises a plan to infiltrate Al-Saleem's terrorist network with the help of his Langley boss, Ed Hoffman. Ferris enlists the help of the Chief of Jordanian Intelligence, Hani Salaam on this operation, but what he is not certain of is how far he can trust him without putting his life in danger. The uneasy alliance leads to a cultural and moral clash between the men. | |
| Bolshoi Ballet in the park / director, John Vernon. | DVD 226 | DANCE | Bolshoi Ballet tour to the UK in a divertissement program which shows off their top ranking soloists at their best. | |
| Born to sing : vocal technique course / by Howard Austin & Elisabeth Howard. | VID 550 | MUSIC | ||
| Bowling for Columbine / United Artists and Alliance Atlantis present a Salter Street Films and VIF 2 production, a Dog Eat Dog Films production producers, Michael Moore, Kathleen Glynn, Jim Czarnecki, Charles Bishop, Michale Donovan written and directed by Michael Moore. | DVD 589 | DOCUMENTARIES | Acclaimed filmmaker Michael Moore (Fahrenheit 9/11) takes aim at America's love affair with guns and violence in this Oscar-winning film that demands attention (People)! Mixing riveting footage, hilarious animation and candid interviews with everyone from the NRA's Charlton Heston to shock-rocker Marilyn Manson... -- Container | |
| Brain sex / Primedia Productions Limited, Quality Time Television Limited, [and] Primetime Television Limited co-production with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in association with the Discovery Channel. | VID 169 | v.1-3 | PSYCHOLOGY | Scientific studies indicate that men and women do not have identical brain structures which may account for some of the differences in behavior between sexes. Vol. 1 explores effect of hormones received during gestation on behavior. Vol. 2 looks at how different brain architecture can lead to differences in ability and learning patterns. Vol. 3 looks at social relations between men and women. |
| Breaking the glass ceiling / [produced by] Films for the Humanities & Sciences. | VID 209 | v.1-2 | WOMEN'S STUDIES | The program discusses obstacles that prevent women from getting to the top of organizations and explores issues for women around the Glass ceiling through interviews. Offers practical how-to-do-it tips and hints, with emphasis on the importance of having ambition and real drive to get into the executive position. |
| Breathless = A bout de souffle / Les Films Georges de Beauregard, S.N.C Janus Films producer, Georges de Beauregard screenplay / director, Jean-Luc Godard. | DVD 338 | Pt. 1-2 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | A small-time hood kills a policeman and tries to leave France, but his American girlfriend betrays him to the police leading to a deadly conclusion. |
| Brian Cox on acting in tragedy / a BBC production in association with Dramatis Personae Ltd. producers, Maria Aitken, David G. Croft director, David G. Croft. | DVD 572 | THEATRE | Brian Cox discusses and demonstrates the fine points of acting in tragedies. | |
| Brief encounter / produced by Noel Coward ; directed by David Lean ; Pinewood Films Ltd. | DVD 1 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson star as middle-class suburbanites whose casual friendship evolves into a passionate yearning for each other. | |
| Brighton Beach memoirs / a Rastar production produced by Ray Stark screenplay by Neil Simon directed by Gene Saks. | DVD 723 | CINEMA | Fifteen-year-old Eugene Jerome is trying to uncover life's mysteries in this adaptation of a Broadway hit about growing up in Brooklyn during the late 1930's. | |
| Bringing out the dead / Paramount Pictures and Touchstone Pictures present a Scott Rudin-Cappa/DeFina production a Martin Scorsese picture produced by Scott Rudin and Barbara De Fina screenplay by Paul Schrader directed by Martin Scorsese. | DVD 529 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Nicolas Cage stars as Frank Pierce, a paramedic on the brink of madness from too many years of saving and losing lives. | |
| British House of Commons | VID 54 | pt.1-2 | POLITICS | This first televised session of the British House of Commons features speeches by two Conservative members of Parliament, Ian Gow and David Sumberg, Neil Kinnock, leader of the Labour Party and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. |
| British Parliament / producer, Connie Doebele ; director, Douglas Heyman. | VID 53 | POLITICS | Presents a panel discussion of current British politics, focusing on Thatcherism. Includes a tour of the Houses of Parliament, narrated by Dr. Christopher Pond. Shows television coverage of the House of Lords. | |
| Broadway Danny Rose / an Orion Pictures release a Jack Rollins and Charles H. Joffe production produced by Robert Greenhut written and directed by Woody Allen. | DVD 662 | CINEMA | Comedy about an agent Broadway Danny Rose and his attempt to revive the sagging career of the overweight, aging lounge singer, Lou Canova. Danny has finally booked Lou at the Waldorf, but Lou won't go on unless his girlfriend Tina is there on opening night. It's Danny's quest to round up Tina, an attempt that lands him right in the middle of a gangland battle. | |
| Broadway, the American musical / a film by Michael Kanton ; a co-production of Ghost Light Films, Thirteen/WNET New York, NHK and BBC in association with Carlton International ; written by JoAnn Young, Marc Fields, Michael Kantor and Laurence Maslon ; directed by Michael Kantor. | DVD 107 | v.1-3 | THEATRE | This is the first comprehensive documentary series to chronicle the entire razzle-dazzle history of this unique American art form. Each episode chronicles a different era in American history, and features the Broadway shows and songs that defined the period. |
| Brokeback Mountain / Focus Features and River Road Entertainment directed by Ang Lee screenplay by Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana producers, Diana Ossana, James Schamus. | DVD 420 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | It's 1963, a time in the United States when life was simple, straightforward and the lines between the sexes and sex roles were crisply drawn and severely delineated. Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist find themselves thrown together when they are hired to tend sheep in the remote area of Brokeback Mountain, Wyoming. Because of the job, the two are forced to spend many hours together alone in the wild. Ennis and Jack are inexorably drawn to each other through their proximity, loneliness and through a shared lack of tenderness and emotion in their lives and are emotionally, physically and psychically bonded to each other almost from the start. | |
| Broken rainbow / Earthworks Films produced, written and edited by Maria Florio and Victoria Mudd directed by Maria Florio and Victoria Mudd. | DVD 453 | DOCUMENTARIES | Heartbreaking tale of the forced relocation of 12,000 Navajos from their ancestral homeland in Arizona that began in the 1970s and continues to this day. Witness as they take their protest to Congress and turn tragedy into acts of heroic resistance. | |
| Brook by Brook, an intimate portrait The tragedy of Hamlet. | DVD 395 | BIOGRAPHY | Brook by Brook: A revealing film about Peter Brook made by his son, Simon, offering a privileged view into Brook's family, theater, and films in a collective father-son journey that is personal and moving.;"Tragedy of hamlet: Discover the new meaning in Hamlet in Peter Brook's original performances in Paris and its worldwide theatrical tour." | |
| Building bombs / Single Spark Pictures a film by Mark Mori and Susan Robinson. | DVD 471 | DOCUMENTARIES | Profiling a diverse cast of outspoken community members, from a physicist-turned-peace-activist, a politician who speechifies on the good jobs created by the plant, and a worker whose body courses with radioactive particles, Building bombs artfully grapples with the profound realities of a world filled with nukes by listening closely to those who must live day-to-day in the shadow of the H-bomb. --Container. | |
| Bullitt / Warner Bros., Seven Arts presents a Solar production produced by Philip D'Antoni directed by Peter Yates screenplay by Alan R. Trustman and Harry Kleiner. | DVD 635 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | A star witness in a controversial court case is murdered, and the police detective assigned to guard him goes after the killers himself. | |
| Buried mirror : reflections on Spain and the New World / by Carlos Fuentes ; presented by Sogetel in association with the Smithsonian Institution and Quinto Centenario Espana ; produced by Michael Gill ; directed by Peter Newington ; written and presented by Carlos Fuentes. | VID 168 | v.1-5 | CULTURAL STUDIES | For American Indians, the mirror symbolized power, the sun, the Earth, its four corners, and its people. Now, a mirror is being held up to the Old and New Worlds to reflect the diverse cultures of Spanish-speaking countries and peoples, together with the themes, institutions, beliefs, and symbols that have endured or changed through time. |
| Buster Keaton [videorecording] / produced by Greystone Communications, Inc. for the Biography Channel produced by Margaret Haddad. | DVD 660 | BIOGRAPHY | Narrates the comprehensive story of Buster Keaton's life, from his turn-of-the-century vaudeville upbringing to his 1950s comeback. Keaton's star soared in the 1920s with a string of brilliant films, but he soon experienced harder times, including bouts with alcoholism and mental illness. Adapted from case insert. | |
| But-- seriously / Showtime presnts a Crystal/Berner/Lieberman production producer, Richard Crystal produced and directed by Jeff Lieberman. | VID 576 | COMEDY | A collection of stand-up comedy by Whoopi Goldberg, Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce, Billy Crystal, Mort Sahl, and many others | |
| Buying the war / writers, Bill Moyers, Kathleen Hughes producer/director, Kathleen Hughes a production of Public Affairs Television, Inc. a presentation of Thirteen/WNET New York. | DVD 306 | DOCUMENTARIES | In this film, journalist Bill Moyers looks at the reporting and spinning done in order to shape the mind of the American people following the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The administration under President Bush and the media are all examined in this documentary. | |
| By Brakhage : an anthology / [producers, Peter Becker, Kate Elmore]. | DVD 326 | v.1-2 | CINEMA - SHORTS | Twenty-six masterworks by Stan Brakhage. |
| By word of foot / directed by Brenda Bufalino produced by Jane Goldberg. | DVD 574 | DOCUMENTARIES | Documentary on the week-long tap workshop and teach-in, By word of foot, presented by the Changing Times Tap Dancing Company, featuring guest tap masters: Peg Leg Bates, Bunny Briggs, Buster Brown, Ernest Brownie Brown, John W. Bubbles, Charles Honi Coles, Marion Coles, Leon Collins, Charles Cookie Cook, Leslie Bubba Gaines, Albert Gip Gibson, Alfredo Gustar, George Hillman, Gregory Hines, Fred Kelly, Mabel Lee, and Howard Sandman Sims. | |
| Cabaret / presented by Allied Artists Pictures Corp. and ABC Pictures Corp an ABC Pictures Corp. production, a Feuer & Martin production screenplay by Jay Allen produced by Cy Feuer directed by Bob Fosse. | DVD 599 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Sally Bowles, an American cabaret singer in 1930s Berlin, becomes involved in the rise of the Nazi party. | |
| Cabin in the sky / directed by Vincent Minnelli produced by Arthur Freed associate producer Albert Louis. | DVD 665 | CINEMA | When gambler Little Joe is fatally wounded settling a bet, the forces of good and evil battle for his soul. | |
| Cage/Cunningham : a film / by Elliot Caplan ; [produced by] Cunningham Dance Foundation, in association with La SEPT. | VID 89 | DANCE | Presents material on Cunningham and his dances, especially his association with John Cage. | |
| Camila / European Classics Release. | VID 99 | FOREIGN LANGUAGE | Recounts the true story of a young Catholic socialite from Buenos Aires, Camila O'Gorman, who falls in love and runs away with a young Jesuit priest, Ladislao Gutierrez, in 1847. Eventually they are found and executed by the repressive government. | |
| Campaigning for the presidency / a co-production of KPBS Television and the University of California, San Diego ; producer, Peter Kaye ; director, Philip Doucet. | VID 67 | POLITICS | A symposium, sponsored by the University of California, San Diego and KPBS, San Diego, featuring eight presidential campaign managers discussing their experiences with managing a presidential campaign. | |
| Can Mr. Smith get to Washington anymore? / Red Envelope Entertainment Mr. Smith Movie, LLC. written and produced by Matt Coen, Mike Kime, Frank Popper directed, cinematography, edited by Frank Popper. | DVD 470 | DOCUMENTARIES | When 29-year-old Jeff Smith decides to run for the congressional seat of the retiring Democratic party leader Richard Gephardt, his family and friends think he's crazy. With no political experience, no name recognition, and no money, how can he possibly hope to defeat Russ Carnahan, the wealthy son of a Missouri political dynasty and the favorite of the political establishment and media? | |
| Canadian Parliament special tape | VID 8 | POLITICS | Question period, Canadian House of Commons, Ottawa, Jan. 19, 1988. | |
| Capote / United Artists and Sony Pictures Classics present an A-Line Pictures/Cooper's Town Productions/Infinity Media production produced by Caroline Baron, Michael Ohoven, William Vince screenplay by Dan Futterman directed by Bennett Miller. | DVD 419 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | In 1959, Truman Capote was a popular writer for The New Yorker. He learns about the horrific and senseless murder of a family of four in Halcomb, Kansas. Inspired by the story, Capote and his partner, Harper Lee, travel to the town to do research for an article. However, as Capote digs deeper into the story, he is inspired to expand the project into what would be his greatest work, In Cold Blood. He arranges extensive interviews with the prisoners, especially with Perry Smith. However, his feelings of compassion for Perry conflicts with his need for closure for his book which only an execution can provide. That conflict and the mixed motives for both interviewer and subject make for a troubling experience that would produce an literary account that would redefine modern non-fiction. | |
| Capturing the Friedmans / Magnolia Pictures presents a film by Andrew Jarecki producers, Andrew Jarecki, Marc Smerling directed by Andrew Jarecki. | DVD 362 | v.1-2 | DOCUMENTARIES | The Friedmans seem to be a typical family from affluent Great Neck, Long Island. One Thanksgiving, as the family gathers for a quiet holiday dinner, a police battering ram splinters the front door and officers rush inside. The police charge Arnold and his son Jesse with hundreds of shocking crimes. As police investigate, and the community reacts, the fabric of the family begins to disintegrate, revealing questions about justice, family and finally the truth. |
| Caravaggio and the Baroque / produced by Rizzoli Corriere Della Sera. | VID 326 | ART | A look at how the masters found new directions in art as the High Renaissance gives way to the Baroque. | |
| Carl Gustav Jung, artist of the soul / a film by Werner Weick; English language version produced by Sheldon Rochlin. | VID 146 | PSYCHOLOGY | Examines the life and work of psychologist C. G. Jung drawing from his autobiographical writings and interviews with his daughters and grandson. | |
| Carlin on campus. | VID 570 | COMEDY | George Carlin performans little-known routines, such as The prayers, Consumer hints, Tell him who's boss, Bein' sick, Stomach noises and an early long version of Cars and driving. | |
| Carlito's way / Universal Pictures and Epic Productions present a Bregman/Baer production, a film by Brian De Palma produced by Martin Bregman, Willi Baer, Michael S. Bregman screenplay by David Koepp directed by Brian De Palma. | DVD 427 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | After getting out of jail, a Puerto Rican drug lord wants to go straight, but his cohorts in the New York Underworld won't let him. | |
| Carlos Fuentes / Lannan Foundation in association with Metropolitan Pictures, & EZTV ; produced & directed by Lewis MacAdams & John Dorr. | VID 432 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | Carlos Fuentes, noted Mexican author talks about his life and his literary work. In addition, Mr. Fuentes gives readings in English & Spanish at the Los Angeles Theatre Center. | |
| Carlos Saura's flamenco trilogy | DVD 442 | v.1 - 3 | DANCE | One of Spanish cinema's great auteurs, Carlos Saura brought international audiences closer to the art of his country's dance than any other filmmaker, before or since. In his Flamenco Trilogy -- Blood Wedding, Carmen, and El amor brujo -- Saura merged his passion for dance and music with his ongoing exploration of Spanish national identity. All starring and choreographed by legendary dancer Antonio Gades, the films feature thrilling physicality and electrifying cinematography and editing. --Container. |
| Carmen / Georges Bizet; [produced by] The Metropolitan Opera. | VID 333 | v.1-2 | MUSIC | Stage production of the classic opera, with Agnes Baltsa as Carmen, who seduces and then spurns soldier Don José. |
| Carolyn Forché / the Lannan Foundation ; directed by Dan Griggs. | VID 452 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | Carolyn Forché, in her lyrical and deeply resonant poetry, meditates on the brutalities and injustices of the 20th century. Ms. Forché, who received a Lannan Poetry Fellowship, read the entire text of The angel of history and talked with Michael Silverblatt on May 24, 1994, in Los Angeles--Container." | |
| Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti in concert / TV producer, Herbert Chappell ; TV director, Brian Large. | VID 318 | MUSIC | Videotape of a concert (Terme di Caracalla, Rome, 7 July 1990) of various opera arias and other songs, performed by tenors J. Carreras, P. Domingo, L. Pavarotti, and conducted by Zubin Mehta. | |
| Carrie / Redbank Films ; producers, Brian De Palma, Paul Monash ; writer, Lawrence D. Cohen ; director, Brian De Palma. | DVD 60 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Horror movie about a shy young girl with special powers who wrecks havoc on her tormentors. | |
| Caryl Phillips / Lannan Foundation ; with interview by Pico Iyer; directed by Dan Griggs. | VID 456 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | Caryl Phillips was born in St. Kitts, West Indies, and has published five works of fiction which present different perspectives of the African diaspora and explore the anatomy of slavery with stylistic virtuosity and memorable characters who tell the stories of those who survived slavery. He reads from Crossing the River. | |
| Casablanca / Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. a Hal B. Wallis production ; screenplay Julius J. & Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch ; directed by Michael Curtiz. | DVD 264 | v.1-2 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | Set in World War II Morocco within a city filled with European refugees. A bitter nightclub owner helps his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis. |
| Castle / Unicorn Projects ; producers, Larry Klein and Mark Olshaker ; written by Mark Olshaker ; produced in cooperation with WTVS Detroit. | VID 337 | ARCHITECTURE | Presents an animated tale about a fictional thirteenth-century fortress and town built by King Edward I to subdue the rebellious Welsh. Includes live-action sequences in which David Macaulay and Sarah Bullen discuss the history and architecture that inspired the fictional castle. | |
| Cathedral / Unicorn Projects ; written and produced by Mark Olshaker and Larry Klein ; animation created and directed by Tony White ; live action sequences by Carl Gover Associates ; directed by Tim King ; producer, Colin Leighton. | VID 327 | ARCHITECTURE | Follows the planning and construction of a magnificent Gothic cathedral in the imaginary French town of Beaulieu during the thirteenth century, in order to understand why and how the great cathedrals of Europe were built. Alternates between modern footage and animation. | |
| Cavalcade of comedy : U.S. 1929-31 / Paramount Pictures ; produced by Bret Wood. | VID 502 | CINEMA - SHORTS | A collection of classic shorts from the Paramount Studios. An anthology from the late 1920s and early '30s. It showcases the early works of such American legends as Jack Benny, Burns & Allen, George Jessel, Eddie Cantor and Smith & Dale. | |
| Cecilia Bartoli / produced and directed by David Thomas. | VID 174 | MUSIC | Includes a recording at La Fenice, Cecilia's early years, the Rossini tradition, a performance of Mozart, a singing lesson, and a look to the future, as well as Cecilia Bartoli performing in concert at the Savoy Hotel, with pianist György Fischer. | |
| Celtic feet : Irish dancing step by step with Colin Dunne / presented by Wienerworld Limited. | VID 234 | DANCE | ||
| Central American assistance / Senate Foreign Relations Committee on International Economic Policy. | VID 15 | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS | The Committee examines the economic situation in Central America and explores various proposals for economic recovery and development. | |
| Central Station / Sony Pictures Classics VideoFilmes Producoes Artisticas, LTDA and Mact Productions S.A. an Arthur Cohn production a film by Walter Salles screenplay, João Emanuel Carneiro, Marcos Bernstein produced by Arthur Cohn and Martine de Clermont-Tonnerre directed by Walter Salles. | DVD 752 | CINEMA | When a young boy witnesses his mother's accidental death, a lonely, retired school-teacher reluctantly takes the child under her wing. | |
| Cezanne : the man and the mountain / written and narrated by Edwin Mullins ; director, Jochen Richter ; producer, Jakob Hausmann ; a Glashaus Film production in association with RM Arts. | VID 310 | ART | Focuses on the central theme of Cezanne's painting: his fascination with nature and his love-hate relationship with his birthplace, Aix-en-Provence, most specifically the nearby mountain, Sainte Victoire, which he painted repeatedly throughout his life. Recognizes Cezanne as the father of modern painting."" | |
| Chanel | VID 78 | FASHION | This program, using rare archival footage, highlights the most salient episodes of the life of Coco Chanel and also features the developments brought by Karl Lagerfeld. | |
| Chanel, Chanel / a film by Eila Hershon and Roberto Guerra ; written and edited by Richard Howarth ; narrated by Diana Quick. | VID 185 | FASHION | Using original footage and comments by Karl Lagerfeld, film tells the story of Chanel's personal life as well as her fashion innovations. Chanel's fashion shows are shown in contrast to Karl Lagerfeld's modern shows. | |
| Changing sexes : female to male / written & produced by Mason Funk ; produced by Film Garden Entertainment for Discovery. | DVD 69 | PSYCHOLOGY | Explores the world of female to male transsexuals and examines what it means to be a woman who wants to be a man. Follows four people as they live different stages of their transition from female to male. | |
| Changing your mind / Chedd-Angier ; presented by Connecticut Public Television ; produced in association with Scientific American magazine. | VID 546 | PSYCHOLOGY | Alan Alda learns about the way the brain works as researchers demonstrate how malleable the brain is and memories are, how it is possible to grow one's own brain, what happens when one dreams, and new understandings of the human mind. | |
| Chaos, fractals and dynamics : computer experiments in mathematics / with Robert Devaney ; [a Science Television production]. | VID 28 | MATHEMATICS | Dr. Devaney explains the mathematics of dynamic systems illustrating his discussion with computer generated graphic representations of fractals and Julia sets. | |
| Chaplin collection. Volume one . | DVD 72 | v.1-4 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | The collection includes the following films: Modern times, The Great Dictator, The Gold Rush, and Limelight. |
| Chaplin collection. Volume two | DVD 114 | v. 1-12 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | Collection includes: The Circus, Chaplin review, Charlie: the life and art, City Lights, The kid, Monsieur Verdoux, A king in New York, and A woman in Paris. |
| Charles Mingus : triumph of the underdog / a Shanachie presentation ; [presented by] Winter Moon Productions and Jazz Workshop Inc. ; produced by Don McGlynn, Sue Mingus ; directed by Don McGlynn. | DVD 209 | MUSIC | The first comprehensive documentary of Afro-American jazz bassist, bandleader and composer Charles Mingus who led a tumultuous life filled with trauma and frustration, joy and creativity. | |
| Charles Reid, painter : the figure in watercolor / Ramapo Productions, Inc. ; produced by Paul Lamb and Jock MacRae ; directed and edited by Luc Côtè ; narrated by Charles Mintz. | VID 108 | ART | Shows the creation of a single painting from beginning to end. Uses Holley Moyes as model. | |
| Children of a lesser god / Paramount Pictures presents a Burt Sugarman production a Randa Haines film screenplay by Hesper Anderson and Mark Medoff produced by Burt Sugarman and Patrick Palmer directed by Randa Haines. | DVD 739 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | A love story about John Leeds, an idealistic special education teacher, and a headstrong deaf girl named Sarah. At first, Leeds sees Sarah as a teaching challenge. But soon their relationship blossoms into a love so passionate it shatters the barrier of silence that keeps them apart. | |
| Children of Theatre Street / Mack-Vaganova Co. ; narration written by Beth Gutcheon ; directed by Robert Dornhelm ; produced and co-directed by Earle Mack. | VID 413 | DANCE | A behind-the scenes look at the students who attend the Kirov Ballet School in Leningrad, Russia. | |
| China : the PBS Series / a film by Ambrica Productions ; written, produced and directed by Sue Williams. | VID 118 | v.1-3 | CULTURAL STUDIES | Tells the story of the eight decades of upheaval in China which followed the fall of its last emperor in 1911. Interviews with people who participated in the events described. |
| China series special : C-SPAN special / C-SPAN. | VID 127 | v.1-5 | CULTURAL STUDIES | Susan Swain of C-SPAN, hosts a 3-part, 10 hour series on China today in the context of China's history. While in China, C-SPAN explored business, government, and culture through the words of Chinese and U.S. officials, foreign and domestic media in China, and the ordinary Chinese citizen. Excerpts of the interviews are shown. Various specialists expand on the video segments and answer viewers' questions. |
| Chinese brush painting : an introduction / by Jane Evans. | VID 112 | ART | Explore the exciting possibilities of Chinese brush painting by observing the artist painting flowers, animals, and landscapes. | |
| Choreography by Balanchine. Part 2 / produced by Emile Ardolino ; directedby Merrill Brockway ; choreographed and reconceived for television by George Balanchine. | VID 294 | DANCE | ||
| Choreography by Balanchine. part 4 / a production of WNET/13 ; produced by Merrill Brockway and Judy Kinberg ; directed by Emile Ardolino. | VID 410 | DANCE | Presents performances of dances choreographed by Balanchine: Ballo della regina by Verdi, Steadfast tin soldier by Bizet, Elégie by Tschaikovsky, and Tschaikovsky pas de deux, performed by the New York City Ballet. | |
| Chuck Close : a portrait in progress / produced and directed by Marion Cajori ; a co-production of MUSE Film and Television and the Art Kaleidoscope Foundation and Thirteen/WNET. | VID 348 | ART | Traces Close's painterly evolution from his first series of black-and-white heads. Follows him into the contemporary art community of New York where he encounters other artists. | |
| Cidade de Deus = City of god / Miramax Films O2 Filmes and Videofilmes produção, Andrea Barata Ribeiro e MaurÃcio Andrade Ramos um filme de Fernando Meirelles. | DVD 350 | DOCUMENTARIES | The world's most notorious slum is Rio de Janeiro's City of God, where combat photographers and police rarely go. Presents the true story of a young man who grew up on those streets and whose ambition as a photographer is our window in and his only way out. | |
| Cinderella / Covent Garden Pioneer production devised and staged by Frederick Ashton music by Serge Prokofiev. | DVD 447 | DANCE | The acclaimed historic performance of Cinderella from 1969 featuring the memorable cast of Anthony Dowell, Antoinette Sibley, Frederick Ashton and Robert Helpmann --Container box. | |
| Cinderella : a ballet / by Maguy Marin producer, Christina Hoernblad TV-director, Mans Reuterswaerd produced by SVT1 Drama and RM Arts in association with La Sept, Channel Four, ZDF. | DVD 444 | DANCE | Contemporary adaptation of the classic fairy tale of Cinderella, with the characters played as dolls in a dollhouse, conceived for and performed by the Lyon Opera Ballet. | |
| Cindy Sherman / video by Michael Auder. | VID 303 | ART | Photographer Cindy Sherman demonstrates her work. | |
| Cine manifest / director, Judy Irola producers, Judy Irola and Nels Bangerter. | DVD 481 | DOCUMENTARIES | Award-winning cinematographer Judy Irola revisits her 1970's San Francisco Marxist film collective, whose members sought a place to live, learn, and change the world. | |
| Cinema 16 : American short films / Cinema16 Momac Films Ltd. producer, Luke Morris. | DVD 515 | CINEMA - SHORTS | Cinema16: American short films provides an essential collection of 16 classic and award-winning short films from America's filmmaking elite, some of which are incredibly rare. The set includes, among others, offerings from such luminaries as Tim Burton, Andy Warhol, Alexander Payne, Todd Solondz, George Lucas, and Gus Van Sant. Most of the films are accompanied by audio commentaries, almost always by their respective directors. | |
| Cinematographer style / Arri and Kodak and Technicolor present producer, Jon Fauer directed by Jon Fauer. | DVD 480 | DOCUMENTARIES | Pays homage to the artists who transform ideas into images. A visually striking film that creates a collective narrative about the process and progress of filmmaking. Includes interviews with award-winning filmmakers Vittorio Storaro and Gordon Willis. | |
| Citizen Kane / an RKO Radio Picture ; a Mercury production by Orson Welles ; original screen play, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles ; director-producer, Orson Welles. | DVD 83 | v.1-2 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | An all-powerful press magnate, Kane, dies in his fabulous castle Xanadu, his last word being "Rosebud", which leads a reporter to seek the meaning behind the word and find the meaning of Kane. |
| Citizen Kane . | VID 369 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | Orson Welles' controversial film, hailed as best American film ever made, is a portrait of Charles Foster Kane, revealing America's love of power and materialism and the resultant corruption. The film earned eight Academy Award nominations and won the Oscar for best screenplay. | |
| Classic musicals from the Dream Factory | DVD 309 | Pt. 1-5 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | A collection of five classic musicals with such stars as Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, and more. |
| Classic musicals from the Dream Factory : Volume 2. | DVD 312 | Pt. 1-7 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | The second volume of the collection of classic musicals with such stars as Mario Lanza, Gene Kelly, Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, and more. |
| Classical ballet lesson / produced, written, and directed by Peggy Willis-Aarnio. | VID 604 | v. 1-8 | DANCE | Each videocassette contains a ballet lesson ranging from beginner to advanced. |
| Cléo de 5 à 7 (Cleo from 5 to 7) / Cine Tamaris présente ; Gevaert ... [et al.] ; Rome Paris Films ; Georges de Beauregard, Carlo Ponti ; scénario et réalisation Agnès Varda. | DVD 239 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | A girl waiting for the result of a medical examination wanders around Paris thinking she has cancer; the film focuses on her ever-changing moods, and her search for answers. | |
| Closer / Columbia Pictures presents in association with Inside Track a Mike Nichols film. | DVD 578 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Dan, an aspiring novelist, cannot help but feel immensely attracted to Alice, a young American waitress and stripper who is in London after escaping from a failed relationship. The two meet after Alice is involved in a car accident. But nothing lasts forever, and after some time Dan meets Anna, a photographer, and he feels attracted to her. Nothing happens right away, but once it does, things go downhill for Alice and Dan. The two do not break up, but Dan is already mentally involved in the relationship. He is too much of a coward to leave Alice, even though he knows that Anna will not go out with him. Dan is so obessed with Anna that he even paves the way for the meeting between Anna and her future husband, Larry. Eventually Dan, Alice, Anna and Larry take part in a twisted dance of deceit, guilt and anger. | |
| Cold fusion / NSP Communications ; Electric Power Research Institute." | VID 25 | SCIENCE | Discusses how cold fusion experiments are conducted, why the results are so difficult to reproduce and verify, and implications for the future of power generation by cold fusion. | |
| Cold readings made easy. Series 1, Beginning / with Noelle C. Nelson ; produced by Landshark Films, Inc. ; director, Bert Autore. | VID 280 | THEATRE | Noelle C. Nelson teaches techniques of reading for acting jobs. | |
| Cold readings made easy. Series 3, Advanced / with Noelle C. Nelson ; produced by Landshark Films, Inc. ; director, Bert Autore. | VID 278 | THEATRE | Noelle C. Nelson teaches techniques of reading for acting jobs. | |
| Cold readings made easy. Series 4, Comedy / with Noelle C. Nelson ; [produced by] Horizon Pictures. | VID 281 | THEATRE | Noelle C. Nelson teaches techniques of reading for acting jobs. | |
| Collateral / a Parkes/MacDonald production, a Darabont/Fried/Russell production, a Michael Mann film, a Dreamworks Pictures and Paramount Pictures presentation ; produced by Michael Mann, Julie Richardson ; written by Stuart Beattie ; directed by Michael Mann. | VID 555 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Vincent is a cool, calculating contract killer at the top of his game. Max is a cabbie with big dreams looking for his next fare. This fateful night, Max becomes Vincent's collateral, and will transport him on his next mission - one night, five stops, five hits and then a perfect getaway. | |
| Collateral / a Dreamworks Pictures and Paramount Pictures presentation a Parkes/MacDonald production a Darabont/Fried/Russell production a Michael Mann film, executive producers, Frank Darabont, Rob Fried, Chuck Russell produced by Michael Mann, Julie Richardson written by Stuart Beattie directed by Michael Mann. | DVD 645 | Disc 1-2 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Max is a cab driver. For twelve years, faces have come and gone from his rear-view mirror: people and places he has long since forgotten--until tonight. When a drug cartel learns of their impending indictment by a federal grand jury, they mount an operation to identify and kill the key witness. Vincent is a contract killer. He has one night in L.A.--and five bodies are supposed to fall. Vincent hijacks Max and his cab, making Max collateral--an expendable person who is in the wrong place at the wrong time. Through the night, Vincent forces Max to drive him to each assigned destination, as the L.A.P.D. and F.B.I. race to intercept them. Max and Vincent become dependent on each other, in ways neither would have imagined. |
| Color concepts / director, Tom Hubbard ; produced by Crystal Productions. | VID 349 | ART | Stephen Quiller explains the color wheel, demonstrates painting in the five color schemes--monochromatic, complementary, analogous, split complementary, triad. He also explains hue, value, intensity relationships as well as dominant/subordinant color in painting. | |
| Columbia : a century past / the Columbia Channel produced and directed by Beth Pike, Stephen Hudnell written by Beth Pike. | VID 572 | HISTORY | Uses interviews, official photos, and archival footage to explore the history of Columbia, Missouri. | |
| Comedy of errors / William Shakespeare ; a BBC Television production in association with Time-Life Television ; produced by Shaun Sutton ; directed by James Cellan Jones. | DVD 8 | LITERARY - SHAKESPEARE | Presents a dramatization of William Shakespeare's farce about two pairs of twins involved in an elaborate series of mistaken identities. | |
| Comedy of manners : Moli'ere: The Misanthrope. | VID 340 | LITERARY - CLASSICS | A brilliant production of this most successful example of the Comedy of Manners. It offers an authentically baroque version of Richard Wilbur's artful translation, starring Edward Petherbridge in a thoroughly stylized, thoroughly modern, thoroughly delightful rendition. | |
| Con man / presented by Cinemax Reel Life ; producer & director, Jesse Moss. | DVD 263 | BIOGRAPHY | Con Man explores the life of James Arthur Hogue, a man who assumed a series of fictional identities and successfully conned his way into Princeton University. | |
| Confucian life in America with Tu Wei Ming / a production of Public Affairs Television, Inc. ; produced and directed by Gail Pellett ; executive producers, Judith Davidson Moyers, Bill Moyers. | VID 18 | CULTURAL STUDIES | Tu Wei Ming discusses the relevance of Confucian philosophy to our times. | |
| Conspiracy / HBO Films presents, produced in association with BBC Films producer, Nick Gillott writer, Loring Mandel director, Frank Pierson. | DVD 708 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | A dramatic recreation of the Wannsee Conference where the Nazi Final Solution phase of the Holocaust was devised. -- imdb.com | |
| Control room / Magnolia Pictures ; Noujaim Films ; 2929 Entertainment ; producers, Hani Salama, Rosadel Varela ; writers, Julia Bacha, Jehane Noujaim ; directed by Jehane Noujaim. | DVD 89 | POLITICS | A chronicle which provides a rare window into the international perception of the Iraq War, courtesy of Al Jazeera, the Arab world's most popular news outlet. | |
| Copland and the American sound / InCA Productions produced & directed by David Kennard, Joan Saffa. | DVD 335 | MUSIC | Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony explore the music of Copland and the cityscapes, landscapes, and social and political developments that shaped it --Container. | |
| Cosi fan tutte / music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte. | DVD 302 | v.1-2 | THEATRE | The opera follows two sisters whose fiances pretend to be sent to battle in order to try and uncover the manners of women. |
| Crash / Lions Gate Films and Bob Yari Productions & DEJ Productions present a Blackfriar's Bridge and Harris Company production an Apolloproscreen production a Bull's Eye Entertainment production a film by Paul Haggis produced by Cathy Schulman ... [et al.] story by Paul Haggis screenplay by Paul Haggis & Bobby Moresco directed by Paul Haggis. | DVD 761 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | A car accident brings together a group of strangers in Los Angeles. Crash takes a provocative, unflinching look at the complexities of racial tolerance in contemporary America. | |
| Creating critical TV viewers / Center for Media and Values. | VID 602 | TELEVISION | Designed to teach critical television viewing skills in the classroom. An analysis of what is shown on TV takes place in 6 parts: newscasting, the creative process, economics, commercials, stereotypes and editing. | |
| Creative movement : a step towards intelligence / produced by Rob Sabal ; written by Melissa Lowe and Rob Sabal. | VID 560 | DANCE | Melissa Lowe, former dancer with several major ballet companies, encourages children to explore motion to music incidentally learning about abstract concepts, emotions, music and themselves. Emphasis is on expressing oneself. | |
| Creative process / written and directed by Joey A. Lege. | VID 279 | ART | Artists from various disciplines discuss the sources of their inspiration and how they mold that inspiration into finished works of art. Suggestions will also help students develop their own creativity and enrich their lives. | |
| Crete + Mycenae / directed and produced by Hans-Joachim Hossfeld. | VID 48 | HISTORY | Shows the archaeological findings at Knossos and elsewhere on Crete, as well as Mycenae on the Greek mainland, in order to compare the cultural history of the Minoan civilization with that of Mycenae. | |
| Cries and whispers = [Viskningar och rop] / a film by Ingmar Bergman. | DVD 443 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | A story of four women's search for spiritual peace. Agnes, a spinster who lives with her housekeeper, is dying of cancer, and is visited one last time by her two sisters, Karin and Maria. These two become entangled in feelings of jealousy, manipulation and selfishness. Yet Agnes, tortured by cancer, is able to transcend her sisters' pettiness to remember moments of staggering beauty as well as horror. | |
| Crisis of the cultural environment : media & democracy in the 21st century / [presented by] the Media Education Foundation. | VID 133 | CULTURAL STUDIES | Turning to issues of media policy, Gerbner delivers a stinging indictment of the way the so called 'information superhighway' is being constructed. Showing the real issues to which the 'information superhighway' will be put by its corporate masters, he urges the citizens of the world to struggle for democratic principles in the cultural environment. | |
| Critical condition / a production of Public Policy Productions in association with Thirteen/WNET and American Documentary/P.O.V produced and directed by Roger Weisberg. | DVD 489 | DOCUMENTARIES | Investigation of the health care crisis in America that follows a diverse group of uninsured individuals as they battle critical illnesses without proper care. | |
| Cronkite remembers / a production of CBS News in association with Cronkite/Ward & Company produced by David Browning executive producer, Linda Mason associate director, Steve Dellapietra. | VID 590 | JOURNALISM | Walter Cronkite reminisces about his career in journalism covering major events in recent history. Also includes archival news footage. | |
| Cuba : Island of dreams. | VID 298 | TRAVEL | Enjoy a tropical paradise as you tour this exotic Caribbean isle. | |
| Cutting edge : the magic of movie editing / Starz Encore Entertainment presents a TCEP, Inc. production ; in association with The American Cinema Editors (ACE) ; co-produced by NHK, The BBC, and AVRO ; written by Mark Jonathan Harris ; produced & directed by Wendy Apple. | DVD 169 | DOCUMENTARIES | Movie editing, including Bullitt's twisting, squealing, hill-leaping chase sequence. | |
| Cymbeline / by William Shakespeare ; a BBC Television production in association with Time-Life Television ; produced by Shaun Sutton ; directed by Elijah Moshinsky. | DVD 10 | LITERARY - SHAKESPEARE | Tragicomedy involving Imogen, the daughter of Britain's King Cymbeline, whose evil stepmother wishes to have Imogen's husband, Posthumus, banished so that Imogen will be free to marry the queen's thick-witted son, Cloten. | |
| Czeslaw Milosz / Lannan Literary Series in association with Metropolitan Pictures and EZTV ; by Lewis MacAdams and John Dorr. | VID 422 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | Czes?aw Mi?osz reads from his Selected poems, The Separate notebooks, and Unattainable earth. | |
| D.W. Griffith : years of discovery, 1909-1913 / Film Preservation Associates ; produced for DVD by David Shepard. | DVD 108 | v. 1-2 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | Twenty two of the best early films directed by D.W. Griffith which helped shape cinematic narrative for two generations. |
| Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian / Videodisc Publishing, Inc. | VID 325 | ART | Discusses the Renaissance period, covering artists Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian and Giorgione, showing the works in Florence, Rome and Venice. | |
| Dale Chihuly : glass master / producer, Don Ringe ; director, Vicki Dunakin ; associate producer, June Kelty. | VID 346 | ART | Shows Chihuly at work with his team of skilled glass artists creating the exquisite Sea Forms," the brilliantly colored "Macchia" and the expressionistic "Soft Cylinders." | |
| Dance as art, dance as entertainment / with Daniel Nagrin. | VID 59 | DANCE | Daniel Nagrin discusses the differences between art and entertainment and performs two dances, Path ('65) and Strange hero ('48), to illustrate his ideas. | |
| Dance Black America : [a festival of modern, jazz, tap & African styles] / Pennebaker Associates ; producers, D.A. Pennebaker, Chis Hegedus. | VID 36 | DANCE | Documents a four-day festival of dancers and dance companies held at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. | |
| Dance for camera | DVD 81 | DANCE | Presents six short dance films from the 2002 Dance Camera West festival. | |
| Dance for camera 2. | DVD 670 | DANCE | Presents seven short dance films from around the world. Boy, considered a dance film classic, turns an ordinary boy into a superhero as he moves with stealth and grace through a dramatic coastal landscape, responding to this empty universe, manipulating it and conjuring up his own imaginary world. In Burst, a couple's intimate dance in the bedroom is interrupted by a sudden and unexpected burst water pipe the water may be cool, but this couple burns up the screen. Cargo presents one man's pit stop on the road of life, where he pauses to rest and contemplate whether to continue the journey sometimes dark, sometimes funny and always sexy, the performer fills the interior of a 1969 Buick Skylark with his physical and emotional self. Case Studies is a faux-scientific investigation of ASDICT (Adult Sleep Disorder Induced by Childhood Trauma) in which we're privileged to see rare archival footage from the renowned (but fictitious) Groat Center for Sleep Disorders. The sensual film Horses never die delves into the mythic concept of metamorphosis issues of birth, development, and renewal are ignited through movement. Motion control takes one glamorous and ageing dancer, traps her in the real world, then smashes into her private reality, and tries to control her movement, contain her emotion she already has you beaten in this bizarre journey of entrapment The Duchess is a psychological portrait of a lonely and demented aristocrat, who is filled with long repressed memories and conjured demons. | |
| Dance, fools, dance / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. | VID 583 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | When Bonnie Jordan's rich father dies penniless after the stock market crash, she switches from socialite to reporter, eventually becoming involved in the Chicago gangland to solve a murder. | |
| Dancemaker / [the Four Oaks Foundation presents a Walter Scheuer production] ; produced and directed by Matthew Diamond ; produced by Jerry Kupfer. | VID 237 | DANCE | A breathtaking journey into the world of preeminent choreographer Paul Taylor and his extraordinary creations--Container. | |
| Dancemaker / [the Four Oaks Foundation presents a Walter Scheuer production] ; produced and directed by Matthew Diamond ; produced by Jerry Kupfer. | VID 237 | DANCE | A breathtaking journey into the world of preeminent choreographer Paul Taylor and his extraordinary creations--Container. | |
| Dancetime! : : 500 years of social dance / performed by Dance Through Time ; artistic director, Carol Téten ; scriptwriter, Morris Bobrow. | VID 206 | v.1-2 | DANCE | Volume one features dance from the 15th through 19th centures touring dance and music from the courts of Italy, France, England and the grand ballrooms of America. Volume 2 features dance from the 20th century covering American social dance from ragtime to rock. |
| Dancing / created by Rhoda Grauer, executive producer ; a production of Thirteen/WNET in association with RM Arts and BBC-TV. | VID 43 | v.1-9 | DANCE | Examines and celebrates dance from around the world, from traditional dance to classical ballet. |
| Dancing at Lughnasa / a Sony Pictures Classics release Capitol Films, Channel Four Films, Ferndale Films in association with Bord Scannan na hEireann/The Irish Film Board, Radio Telefis Eireann presents a Noel Pearson production a Pat O'Connor film screenplay by Frank McGuinness produced by Noel Pearson directed by Pat O'Connor. | DVD 392 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | Despite their hardships, five sisters living in rural Ireland in 1936 are able to embrace life and all its complexities and dance with joy in their hearts. | |
| Dancing for Mr. B : six Balanchine ballerinas / producer and director, Anne Belle. | VID 221 | DANCE | Interviews six of Balanchine's American ballerinas, who, in recalling their careers with him, reveal aspects of his life and philosophy. | |
| Dangerous liaisons / Warner Bros. presents a Lorimar Film Entertainment picture ; an NFH Limited production ; produced by Norma Heyman and Hank Moonjean ; screenplay by Christopher Hampton ; directed by Stephen Frears. | VID 225 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Set in 18th century France, this is the story of two bored aristocrats and the havoc they wreak when they play dangerous games with people's lives. The beautiful widow Merteuil challenges rakish Valmont to seduce a virtuous young married woman, never suspecting that he would violate his personal credo and fall in love. | |
| Danton / Janus Films ; Gaumont-TFI Films production, S.F.P.C.-T.M. | VID 276 | HISTORY | Danton, the popular revolutionary leader, returns to Paris at a time when the new French republic is in disarray. He is pitched into conflict against the dictator Robespierre and his infamous Reign of Terror. | |
| Danza Flamenca de Hoy = Flamenco dance today. | VID 71 | DANCE | Demonstrations of modern flamenco dancing in Spain. | |
| Dark circle / an Independent Documentary Group production written by Chris Beaver, Judy Irving produced and directed by Chris Beaver, Judy Irving, Ruth Landy. | DVD 460 | DOCUMENTARIES | A documentary that follows the trail of plutonium from the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons facility in Colorado, to the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant in California, to Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. | |
| David Malouf : in conversation with Erroll McDonald / directed by Dan Griggs. | VID 479 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | On January 20, 1998, Mr. Malouf read from his memoir Twelve Edmondstone Street and his novels, An Imaginary Life and Remembering Babylon. | |
| Day on the Grand Canal with the emperor of China : or, Surface is illusion but so is depth / a film by David Hockney and Philip Haas. | VID 24 | ART | Discusses the Kangxi emperor's southern inspection tour, a 72-foot-long scroll by Wang Hui, and compares it with a later scroll by Xu Yang and a painting by Canaletto. | |
| Daywear Paris 1 . | DVD 357 | v.1-2 | FASHION | Presents fashion shows on daywear in Paris by various designers or brand names. |
| Death of a salesman / a CBS Television Network production ; produced by David Susskind & Daniel Melnick ; directed by Alex Segal. | DVD 100 | LITERARY - CLASSICS | An abbreviated television adaptation of Arthur Miller's Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a middle-aged man's emotional turmoil. | |
| Debate on the President's veto of S. 557, the Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987 / Public Affairs Video Archives. | VID 14 | POLITICS | ||
| Decade under the influence / the Independent Film Channel presents a Demme/LaGravenese film ; a production of Written in Stone and Constant Communications, Inc. ; produced by Gini Reticker and Jerry Kupfer ; produced and directed by Richard LaGravenese and Ted Demme. | DVD 265 | BIOGRAPHY | A cast of pioneering writers, directors, and actors talk about the 70's, their films and their colleagues. | |
| Dein Perry's tap dogs / stage direction and design by Nigel Triffitt originated and choreographed by Dein Perry programme directed by Aubrey Powell producer Steven J Swartz a Back Row Productions film in association with Sydney Theatre Company. | VID 568 | DANCE | Six young men from Australia steal tap forever from the world of black ties and tails and cary it body and soul into the nineties. | |
| Denise Levertov / the Lannan Foundation ; directed by Dan Griggs. | VID 449 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | Denise Levertov, born in England in 1923, has long been an important American poet, essayist, editor, and teacher. Her poetry is musical, meditative, and transcendent, addressing the nature of faith, the imperiled beauty of the natural world, love, and politics. Ms. Levertov, who received a Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, read from Evening train and unpublished work on December 7, 1993, in Los Angeles--Container. | |
| Denishawn | VID 20 | DANCE | Documentary profiles of Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn, founders of Denishawn. Includes old footage of the two dancers, an invented interview with them, and recreations of their original choreography. | |
| Denishawn : the birth of modern dance / produced by Clark Santee and Delia Gravel Santee written by Clark Santee. | DVD 382 | DANCE | Chronicles the unique era of modern dance inspired by Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn. Archival footage and modern reconstruction of several Denishawn dances are used to document the lives and work of the Denishawn founders. | |
| Derek Mahon / the Lannan Foundation ; directed by Dan Griggs. | VID 450 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | Derek Mahon, born in Belfast, is one of the most important Irish poets writing today. Mr. Mahon's rich, elegant, and elegiac poetry exemplifies the creative vitality of contemporary Irish verse. He has published more than 12 books of poetry, as well as several verse translations. Derek Mahon, who received a Lannan Poetry Fellowship, read from his Selected poems on March 8, 1994, and talked with Michael Silverblatt--Container. | |
| Diarios de motocicleta = The motorcycle diaries / Focus Features Film Four presenta una produción de South Fork Pictures asociado con Tu Vas Voir Production. | DVD 577 | FOREIGN LANGUAGE | An inspirational adventure, based on the true story of two young men whose thrilling and dangerous road trip across Latin America becomes a life-changing journey of self-discovery. | |
| Dick Van Dyke show. v. 3 A man's teeth are not his own Give me your walls / Calvada Productions ; produced, written and created by Carl Reiner ; associate producer, Ronald Jacobs ; executive producer, Sheldon Leonard in association with Danny Thomas ; directed by John Rich and Jerry Paris. | VID 512 | TELEVISION | Program 1: A man's teeth are not his own: Rob breaks a tooth and his friend Jerry, the dentist is out of town. Rob goes to another dentist but feels disloyal and trys to keep Jerry from discovering the truth. Program 2: Give me your walls: Rob ruins a living room wall with a marker and an eccentric painter trys to repair the damage. | |
| Difficult people : how to deal with them / a production of White Leopard Video. | VID 223 | PSYCHOLOGY | Presents techniques to identify, understand and cope with seven types of difficult people: the hostile aggressive, the complainer, the silent/unresponsive, super agreeables, expert know-it-all, and the indecisive. | |
| Disarm / Next Step Productions and Toolbox DC present executive director/executive producer, Mary Wareham director, Brian Liu. | DVD 703 | POLITICS | Spans a dozen countries to look at how, despite a global ban, millions of antipersonnel mines continue to claim victims daily around the world ... Juxtaposes government and public opinion, [including] that of outspoken Nobel Peace Prize winner Jody Williams, mine victims, deminers, soldiers, and aid workers, to explore the issues that both hinder and further the case against antipersonnel mines -- Container. | |
| Discovering your expressive body : basic concepts in dance training utilizing Bartenieff fundamentals / with Peggy Hackney consultant: Irmgard Bartenieff. | VID 598 | DANCE | This comprehensive demonstration provides a basis for expanded knowledge of movement principles that lead to an articulate, more expressive body. | |
| Divine madness / Oak Creek Films ; a film by Leonard Aiken ; co-produced by Candice Carpenter. | VID 528 | THEATRE | A tribute to Portia Mansfield and Charlotte Perry, founders of the Perry-Mansfield School of the Theatre (located in the Colorado Rocky Mountains near Steamboat Springs) which became an influential force in modern and experimental performing arts. | |
| Django : a jazz tribute / with Bireli Lagrene and Babik Reinhardt. | DVD 753 | MUSIC | Bireli Lagrene pays musical tribute to the late Django Reinhardt in a set of guitar duets with Django's son, Babik. They simultaneously show Django's legacy as a guitar genius, & the unprecedented expressive range of the jazz guitar today. | |
| Do the right thing / a Universal release ; a Forty Acres and a Mule Filmworks production ; a Spike Lee joint ; produced, written and directed by Spike Lee. | DVD 240 | v.1-2 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | The hottest day of the year explodes onscreen in this vibrant look at a day in the life of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. A portrait of urban racial tensions sparked controversy while earning popular and critical praise. |
| Doing time : life inside the big house / a film by Alan and Susan Raymond producers, Alan Raymond, Susan Raymond director, photographer and editor, Alan Raymond. | DVD 454 | DOCUMENTARIES | Looks at life within the walls of the Federal Penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pa., one-time home to Al Capone, Alger Hiss, and Jimmy Hoffa. Examines the daily routines of prisoners, guards, and warden. | |
| Doll's house | VID 265 | LITERARY - CLASSICS | Nora is sheltered first by her father and then by her husband. All her life, she has been protected like a fragile possession ... like a doll in a doll's house. After she marries, Nora becomes frustrated, realizes that under the dominance of her husband she will never have an identity of her own, and leaves to find a new life for herself. | |
| Don Giovanni : dramma giocoso in due atti, K. 527 / a production of Unitel GmbH & Co. and BFMI GmbH, Salzburg, in co-production with ORF and Classica in co-operation with Salzburg Festival music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart libretto, Lorenzo da Ponte. | DVD 299 | v.1-2 | THEATRE | A young nobleman, Don Giovanni encounters three women in this opera who influence not only his life but death. |
| Double indemnity / a Paramount picture screenplay by Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler directed by Billy Wilder. | DVD 586 | v.1-2 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | A calculating wife encourages her wealthy husband to sign a double indemnity policy proposed by smitten insurance agent Walter Neff. As the would-be lovers plot the unsuspecting husband's murder, they are pursued by a suspicious claims manager. It's a race against time to get away with the perfect crime in this heart-pounding Academy Award-nominated masterpiece --Container. |
| Down in the valley / ThinkFilm and Element Films present a Holly Wiersma/Class 5 production produced by Holly Wiersma, Edward Norton, Adam Rosenfelt, Stavros Merjos written and directed by David Jacobson. | DVD 522 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Harlan is a cowboy stuck in San Fernando Valley, and meets a rebellious young girl, Tobe. Their encounter explodes into a passionate romance, but sinister truths are lurking beneath Harlan's charm. | |
| Downfall / Constantin Film and Bernd Eichinger present a production of Constantin Film in co-production with NDR, WDR, Degeto Film, ORF and Eos Production and Rai Cinema, an Oliver Hirschbiegel film, a Bernd Eichinger production produced by Bernd Eichinger written by Bernd Eichinger directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel. | DVD 769 | HISTORY | Takes you into Hitler's bunker, in 1945, during the brutal and harrowing last days of the Third Reich. Seen through the eyes of Hitler's infamous secretary Traudl Junge, optimism crumbles into grim realization and terror as it becomes clear that Germany's defeat is inevitable. As the Russian army circles the city, the dimly lit halls of the underground refuge become an execution chamber for the Fuhrer and his closest advisors. | |
| Dracula : pages from a virgin's diary / Dracula Productions, Inc. ; a Vonnie Von Helmolt, Mark Godden and Guy Madden production ; produced by Vonnie Von Helmolt ; directed by Guy Maddin ; a co-production with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet ; produced in association with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. | DVD 227 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | A melodrama, with some dancing, based on the Dracula story. Color film done as if black and white, with some purple or sepia tints. | |
| Dragon country / by Tennessee Williams ; directed and produced by Glenn Jordan ; New York Television Theater. | DVD 94 | LITERARY - CLASSICS | Two plays by Tennessee Williams televised together as Dragon country, both concerning psychological pain and alienation. | |
| Dreamgirls / DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures present a Laurence Mark production, a Bill Condon film produced by Laurence Mark written for the screen and directed by Bill Condon. | DVD 652 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Three young women, Deena Jones, Effie White and Lorrell Robinson desire to become pop stars. They get their wish when they are picked to be backup singers for the legendary James Thunder Early. When they are set free for leads, Curtis Taylor and Effie's brother C.C. decide that Deena should be the lead singer, which upsets Effie. The girls discover exactly what it takes to be in the music business and what they must give up to realize their dreams. | |
| Dreams / producers, Gordon Bijelonic, Jonathon Stearns. | DVD 53 | CINEMA - SHORTS | A collection of award-winning short films from around the world. | |
| Dreamworlds 2 : desire/sex/power in music video / written, edited & narrated by Sut Jhally. | VID 135 | CULTURAL STUDIES | A controversial video that MTV tried to ban. Portrays the impact that sex and violence in media have on society and culture in our everyday life. Shows scenes from over 165 music videos to show how the media portrays masculinity, femininity, sex, and sex roles. Includes a scene of a brutal gang rape from the movie, The accused. | |
| Driving Miss Daisy / Warner Bros. Pictures ; a Zanuck Company production ; screenplay by Alfred Uhry ; produced by Richard D. Zanuck, Lili Fini Zanuck ; directed by Bruce Beresford. | DVD 58 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Set in Atlanta in the 1950's, a textile factory owner insists on hiring an ever-patient chauffeur for his aging head-strong mother. The Jewish woman and her African American driver eventually build a relationship over many years. | |
| Duel in the sun / produced and screenplay by David O. Selznick directed by King Vidor. | DVD 497 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | A woman taken into the home of a wealthy rancher becomes the subject of a tug-of-war between his two sons. | |
| Duke Ellington's Sophisticated ladies / an Oak Media Development presentation ; a Black Tie Network production ; producer, Ron Nicodeumus ; directed by Clark Jones. | DVD 176 | MUSIC | Musical celebration of the music of Duke Ellington featuring thirty-four of Ellington's all-time classics performed by the original Duke Ellington Orchestra and conducted by Mercer Ellington. | |
| E.T. the extra-terrestrial / Universal Amblin Entertainment produced by Steven Spielberg & Kathleen Kennedy written by Melissa Mathison directed by Steven Spielberg. | DVD 582 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | A ten-year-old boy befriends a creature from another planet that has been stranded on earth. | |
| Eamon Grennan : in conversation with Cal Bedient / Lannan Foundation ; director, Dan Griggs. | VID 471 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | Mr. Grennan read from So it goes, As if it matters, and uncollected work on March 4, 1997. | |
| Early Bergman : Torment, Crisis, Port of call, Thirst, To Joy / Janus Films AB Svensk filmindustri Ingmar Bergman. | DVD 495 | v.1 - 5 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | Torment: A dark coming-of-age drama about a boarding-school senior, Widgren, terrorized by his sadistic Latin teacher. When Widgren falls for a troubled local girl, Bertha, he finds himself caught up even further in a web of emotional mind games.;"Crisis: Urban beauty-shop proprietress Mrs. Jenny arrives in an idyllic rural town one morning to whisk away her 18-year-old daughter, Nelly, whom she abandoned as a child, from the loving woman who raised her. Once in Stockholm, Nelly soon receives a crash course in adult corruption and wrenching heartbreak.";"Port of call: Berit, a suicidal young woman living in a working-class port town, unexpectedly falls for G├╢sta, a sailor on leave. Haunted by a troubled past and held in a vice grip by her domineering mother, Berit begins to hope that her relationship with G├╢sta might save her from self-destruction.";"Thirst: A couple traveling across war-ravaged Europe. A disintegrating marriage. A ballet dancer's scarred past. Elliptically told in flashbacks and multiple narrative threads, this film shows people enslaved to memory and united in isolation.";"To joy: An orchestra violinist's dreams of becoming a celebrated soloist and fears of his own mediocrity get in the way of his marriage to the patient, caring Marta. Played out to the music of Beethoven, this film is a heartbreaking tale of one man's inability to overcome the demons standing in the way of his happiness." |
| Early dance | VID 88 | pt.1-2 | DANCE | Through historical photographs and sources, and modern performances, the history of dance from is traced from the comedies of the early Greeks to the Baroque Era. |
| Easy rider / Columbia Pictures Pando Company in association with Raybert Productions written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Terry Southern produced by Peter Fonda directed by Dennis Hopper. | DVD 640 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | Two motorcyclists travel across the U.S. in search of the real America. And find it. | |
| Eavan Boland / the Lannan Foundation ; with interview by Eloise Klein Healy; directed by Dan Griggs. | VID 454 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | Eavan Boland is a major Irish poet, and in her nine books of poetry she explores the relationship between gender, art, and national identity--'the meeting place between womanhood and history.' Eavan Boland read from In a time of violence and Outside history on November 16, 1994, in Los Angeles. She discussed her work with Los Angeles poet Eloise Klein Healy whose books include Artemis in Echo Park and Ordinary wisdom--Container. | |
| Eccentricities of a nightingale / WNET ; produced by Lindsay Law and Glenn Jordan ; directed by Glenn Jordan ; produced in collaboration with The Old Globe Theatre, San Diego, California. | DVD 96 | LITERARY - CLASSICS | 1948 drama by Tennessee Williams set in Mississippi at the turn of the century. Frustrated with longing for the socially prominent young doctor next door, the eccentric, highly emotional minister's daughter decides to settle for one night with him in a rented hotel room. | |
| Economics and government policy : a conversation between Joseph Stiglitz and Arjo Klamer. | VID 126 | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS | ||
| Economics of school choice / the National Economists Club Educational Foundation. | VID 92 | EDUCATION | Panel discussion on school choice, one of the most controversial ideas to merge out of the school reform movement in the past decade. | |
| Edison : the invention of the movies / the Museum of Modern Art in cooperation with the Library of Congress ; produced by Bret Wood. | DVD 152 | v.1-4 | DOCUMENTARIES | Commercial motion pictures were invented at the Edison Laboratory between 1888 and 1893. Perhaps none of the component parts were strictly new, but the ability of Edison and his staff to reorganize them for a specific purpose was an extraordinary cultural achievement. |
| Edmond / First Independent Pictures presents a Muse Production in association with Code Entertainment, I20DB Films, Pretty Dangerous Films and the Gordon-Hecht Group produced by Chris Hanley, Molly Hassell, Duffy Hecht, Roger Kass, Kevin Ragsdale and Stuart Gordon screenplay by David Mamet directed by Stuart Gordon. | DVD 766 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | A fortune-tellers teasing rumination sends Edmond Burke lurching into New York City's hellish underworld. He becomes involved in a twisted game of sex, lies and murder with 3 young women. | |
| Edna O'Brien : in conversation with Tobias Wolff / Lannan Foundation ; directed by Dan Griggs. | VID 475 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | Ms. O'Brien read from the story Brother and from Down by the river on May 12, 1998. | |
| Edouard Manet : a painter of modern life = Peìntre de la vie moderne / the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Office of Film and Television ; producer, director, Judith Wechsler ; written by Jehane Kuhn, Judith Wechsler. | VID 335 | ART | Examines major paintings by Edouard Manet that influenced his contemporaries and changed the definition of later art. Explains the works in the artist's own words and in those of his friends, Zola, Baudelaire, Mallarmé, and others. | |
| Eduardo Galeano / directed by Dan Griggs. | VID 459 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | Eduardo Galeano reads from Walking Words, The Book of Embraces, and from Memory of Fire. | |
| Education of Shelby Knox / producers, Marion Lipschutz, Rose Rosenblatt ; directors, Marion Lipschutz, Rose Rosenblatt. | DVD 262 | HEALTH & WELLNESS | A riveting tale of one girl's mission to bring sex education to schools in her ultra-conservative Texas hometown. | |
| Eighteenth century woman / ABC Video Enterprises ; producers and directors, Suzanne Bauman, Jim Burroughs ; screenwriters, Suzanne Bauman, Jim Burroughs, Kathy Slobogin ; produced for ABC Video Enterprises, Inc. by ABC News in association with the Metropolitan Museum of Art. | VID 356 | ART | Looks at an exhibit at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art entitled The Eighteenth century woman, a vast collection of costumes, accessories, and objets d'art that reveal the unique ways in which fashionable eighteenth-century women made their presence felt in the society, art, and politics of their time. | |
| Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill : in conversation with Dillon Johnston / Lannan Foundation ; directed by Dan Griggs. | VID 474 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | Ms. Ní Chuilleanáin read from The second voyage, The brazen serpent, The magdalene sermon, and new poems. Ms Ní Dhomhnaill read from Pharoah's daughter, The astrakhan cloak, and new poems. They read on April 29, 1997. | |
| El conocimiento de la gente : bailes folklóricos with Miguel Caro. | VID 341 | FOREIGN LANGUAGE | Miguel Caro was a former member of the internationally famous Mexican National Ballet Folklorico. This program is a celebration of his interpretation of these traditional and beautiful folk dances and the dancer's lavish costumes.--KNME-TV web site." | |
| Eleanor Roosevelt story / Video Communications, Inc. ; written by Archibald MacLeish ; directed by Richard Kaplan ; produced by Sidney Glazier. | VID 517 | BIOGRAPHY | A documentary film about Eleanor Roosevelt, describing her life from a childhood of shyness and rejection to becoming the first lady of the world. | |
| Electronic storyteller : television & the cultivation of values / featuring George Gerbner ; introd. by Michael Morgan ; produced & directed by Sut Jhally. | VID 131 | TELEVISION | George Gerbner explores the way stories in our culture are told by major media conglomerates on television. | |
| Elements and principles of design / with Gerald F. Brommer produced by Crystal Productions. | DVD 651 | INTERIOR DESIGN | A two part video discussing the elements of design and the principles of design. | |
| Elephant / HBO Films presents in association with Fine Line Features a Meno Film and Blue Relief production produced by Dany Wolf written and directed by Gus Van Sant. | DVD 579 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | A realistic drama that takes the viewer inside an American high school on one single, ordinary day that very rapidly turns tragic. It observes the comings and goings of its characters from a safe distance. The experiences of each student range from friendly and innocent to traumatic and deeply disturbing. | |
| Elia Kazan : a director's journey / produced by Julian Schlossberg ; written and directed by Richard Schickel ; a Lorac production. | VID 264 | DOCUMENTARIES | One of America's greatest--and most controversial--directors is expertly portrayed in this revealing film--Container. | |
| Elizabeth Catlett : sculpting the truth / created and produced by Linda Freeman ; written and directed by David irving. | VID 322 | ART | The works and inspirations of artist Elizabeth Catlett, in particular her sculpture. | |
| Ella es el matador = She is the matador / Talcual Films executive producers, Sheila C. Johnson, Suzanne La Fetra, Gemma Cubero a film by Gemma Cubero & Celeste Carrasco written, directed and produced by Gemma Cubero and Celeste Carrasco. | DVD 788 | DOCUMENTARIES | A character driven documentary about two women who choose the profession of bullfighting. Eva Florencia is a novice originally from Italy and Maripaz Vega is the only active professional female matador in the world. Following these women over the span of seven years, the viewer gains rare insights into their world. While these women pursue the same dream as their male counterparts - the glory of dominating the beast - they are forced to fight not only against the bull but also against decades of legal prohibition and prejudice. The historical struggle, from the beginning of the 20th century to the present, is shown through archival footage and brief interviews with historians and background female matadors. | |
| Emperor's eye : art and power in Imperial China / producer/director, Lisa Hsia ; writers, Gerald Jonas, Lisa Hsia. Executive producer, Alvin H. Perlmutter. | VID 110 | ART | Relates the priceless treasures of China's imperial Art collection in the National Palace Museum to the political climate of their time. Describes how Emperor Chienlung tried to create the world's greatest art collection. | |
| Empire Falls / HBO Films producer, William Teitler teleplay, Richard Russo directed by Fred Schepisi. | DVD 537 | v.1-2 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | A powerful portrait of blue-collar America, a timeless tribute to the inherent decency and good humor that sustains working-class people in everyday life. |
| Encounter point / Just Vision presents. | DVD 295 | HISTORY | This film covers the stories of both Israelis and Palestinians as join the movements and strive to push Palestinian and Israeli societies towards peace. | |
| Enemy of the people / Arthur Miller's adaptation of the play by Henrik Ibsen ; directed by Paul Bogert ; produced by Jack Landau ; executive producer, Jac Venza. | DVD 98 | LITERARY - CLASSICS | In Riverton, Maine, circa 1893, Dr. Thomas Stockman wants to disclose that the town's moneymaking health spa Clearwater Springs has been fouled by pollution from a tannery. But his proposal to go public is opposed by his brother, Peter, the town mayor, who prompts a wave of public outrage against Dr. Stockman and his family. | |
| Enron : the smartest guys in the room / written and directed by Alex Gibney executive producers, Mark Cuban, Todd Wagner, Joana Vicente producers, Alex Gibney, Jason Kliot, Susan Motamed. | DVD 370 | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS | A look at one of the biggest corporate disasters in U.S. history. Includes rare audio and video tapes as well as insider accounts of the event. | |
| Environment : business and labor / presented by Dallas County Community College District. | VID 217 | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS | ||
| Equestrian events of the 2004 Olympic Games : dressage : team and individual. | DVD 103 | v.1-3 | EQUESTRIAN | 2004 Olympic equestrian event: dressage |
| Equus / United Artists Corporation screenplay, Peter Shaffer produced by Lester Persky and Elliott Kastner directed by Sidney Lumet. | DVD 404 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | A middle-aged psychiatrist tries to find out why a young man has blinded six horses entrusted to his care. | |
| Erick Hawkins' America / produced by Benjamin Dunlop and Sidney J. Palmer. | VID 35 | DANCE | Erick Hawkins speaks and performs selections from his career. | |
| Ernesto Cardenal / the Lannan Foundation in association with Metropolitan Pictures and EZTV ; produced and directed by Lewis MacAdams and John Dorr. | VID 436 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | Ernesto Cardenal, an ordained Catholic priest, a revolutionary and an acclaimed poet reads in Spanish from Cántico Cósmico. The English translations are read by actor Edward Asner and poet Rubén MartÃnez who also interviews Ernesto Cardenal--Container. | |
| Essential ballet : stars of Russian Ballet from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden & Red Square, Moscow. | VID 379 | DANCE | ||
| Essential history of France / BBC production in association with France 3, Radio Telefis Eireann, RTP and TV2 Denmark ; director, Celia Lowenstein ; producer, John Triffitt. | VID 287 | HISTORY | Presents modern France as a product of its main parts: food, wine, revolution, politics, and love. Topics include the French Revolution, French isolationism, anti-Semitism, anti-immigration policies, Paris as an icon of French culture, cultivation of the romantic French rural image, and the societal erosion of the spirit of joie de vivre. | |
| Essential opera . | VID 366 | MUSIC | Twelve highlights from the world's most popular operas, performed by a galaxy of stars. | |
| Essential opera 2 / The Decca Record Company Limited, London. | VID 367 | MUSIC | Seventeen highlights from the world's most popular operas, performed by a galaxy of stars. | |
| Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind / Blue Ruin Anonymous Content Focus Features This is That Productions producers, Anthony Bregman, Steve Golin screenplay, Charlie Kaufman directed by Michel Gondry. | DVD 778 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | When Joel discovers that his girlfriend, Clementine, has had their tumultuous relationship erased from her mind through an experimental scientific procedure, he decides to ease his own pain by getting the same treatment. But, as each memory of Clementine is systematically eliminated, Joel suddenly realizes how much he still loves her and desperately attempts to reverse the process. | |
| Ethnic notions / produced, written & directed by Marlon Riggs ; produced by Marlon Riggs in association with KQED. | VID 117 | CULTURAL STUDIES | Covering more than one hundred years of United States history, traces the evolution of Black American caricatures and their role in political and social conflicts concerning race. | |
| Etre et avoir = To be and to have / a Maïa Films, Arte France Cinéma les Films D'ici, Centre National de Documentation Pédagogique Production with the participation of Canal+, the Centre National de la Cinématographie and Gimages 4, a film by Nicolas Philibert producer, Gilles Sandoz director, Nicolas Philibert. | DVD 361 | EDUCATION | At the center of this intimate and touching story is Georges Lopez - a remarkably devoted teacher responsible for nurturing a dozen children ages 3-11 in all their school subjects and life's lessons. Demonstrates how a teacher, if well trained, dedicated and sensitive to a child's educational and emotional needs, can hugely influence a generation of children at their most critical time of development. | |
| Eugene Onegin / Corinth Films ; screenplay, A. Ivanovsky, R. Tikhomirov ; direction, Roman Tikhomirov. | VID 250 | MUSIC | Tchaikovsky's opera of rejected love leading to a deadly duel. | |
| Eugene O'Neill's The iceman cometh | DVD 133 | v.1-2 | LITERARY - CLASSICS | A group of has-beens in Harry Hope's saloon wait for the annual visit of Hickey (Robards), a happy salesman. Hickey arrives a changed character and tries to make each man see reality and face the truth about himself |
| European Community & the European Parliament / producer Connie Doebele ; director Douglas Heyman. | VID 45 | POLITICS | The European Community and European Parliament are analyzed, with the participants discussing the evolution of the particular institutions. They analyze the functions of the Council of Ministers, the European Commission and the Parliament itself. | |
| European Tanztheater / produced & directed by Isa & Harold Bergsohn. | VID 205 | DANCE | European dance theater comes alive through the works and voices of its creators and fascinating narrative about its originators. Archival footage and beautifully filmed and edited excerpts of current repertory demonstrate the forms and power of this genre. | |
| Evening / Hart-Sharp Entertainment produced by Jeff Sharp screenplay by Susan Minot and Michael Cunningham directed by Lajos Koltai. | DVD 730 | CINEMA | Overcome by the power of memory, Ann Lord reveals a long-held secret to her concerned daughters. Constance is a content wife and mother. Nina is a restless single woman. Both are bedside when Ann calls out for the man she loved more than any other. But her daughters wonder who Harris is and what is his relation to their mother? Constance and Nina try to take stock of Ann's life as their mother is tended to by a night nurse as she journeys into her mind back to a summer weekend some fifty years before, before she was married, going from New York City to be maid of honor at the high-society Newport wedding of her dearest friend from college, Lila Wittenborn. The bride-to-be is jittery, and turns to her maid of honor rather than her own mother for support. Ann stays close to her friend, yet is even closer to Lila's irrepressible brother Buddy. Unexpected feelings surge forth once Ann meets wedding guest Harris Arden, a lifelong friend and intimate of the Wittenborn family. Ann's love for Harris will change her life, and those of her daughters, forever. | |
| Evening with Kiri Te Kanawa / [a BBC TV production in association with Impresario A.G. and TransWorld International] ; television presentation, Yvonne Littlewood. | VID 345 | MUSIC | Kiri Te Kanawa's debut solo recital at London's Royal Albert Hall features famous arias from Mozart, Gounod, and Puccini, as well as songs from the musical My fair lady--Container. | |
| Evening with Nederlands Dans Theater / RM Arts/SVT2. | VID 4 | DANCE | ||
| Evening with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater / co-production, DR/ZDF/RM Arts in association with ORF ; produced and directed by Thomas Grimm. | DVD 104 | DANCE | Presents two ballet performances by the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Divining: A dance evoking a strong feeling for African tribal ritual set to hauntingly rhythmic drum music. Revelations: Expresses Ailey's intense feelings for his roots in the South. | |
| Evening with the Royal Ballet / produced by Anthony Havelock-Allan. | VID 215 | DANCE | Program presents a gala evening of classical ballet featuring the legendary team of Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn. | |
| Every little step / a Sony Pictures Classics release, Endgame Entertainment Company presents a Vienna Waits production, an Endgame Entertainment production produced and directed by James D. Stern & Adam Del Deo. | DVD 698 | DANCE | For over three decades, there's been one singular sensation: A Chorus Line. This groundbreaking hit musical inspired by the emotional lives of dancers during the audition process. Now the story comes full circle and offers a revealing, unprecedented look at the auditions for the Broadway revival of the perennial classic. The music, the moves and the real-life drama, bringing you closer to the footlights than you ever thought possible. | |
| Execution at midnight / producer, director and writer, Jim Thebaut ; produced by Evergreen Films. | VID 405 | POLITICS | Taking place at Potosi Correctional Institute, Mineral Point, Missouri, examines the death penalty issue through interviews of 7 death row inmates. Gives the viewer the experience of the last hour of a condemned inmate's life as he is taken to the holding cell and to the execution room. | |
| Extra! Extra! See all about it / WBZ-TV, Group W Television, Inc. | VID 588 | JOURNALISM | Tells about two competing Boston newspapers, Boston Globe and Boston Herald. Compares and contrasts their characteristics and specializations. Tells how their competition affects their choice of stories and placement of stories and ads. Describes how they get and keep subscribers and advertisers. Discusses the changing role of the newspaper as a medium now that people get more and more of their news from radio and television. | |
| Eyes on the prize / a production of Blackside, Inc. [creator and executive producer, Henry Hampton]. | DVD 418 | v. 1 - 7 | DOCUMENTARIES | Vols. 1-3 tell the story of America's civil rights years from 1954 to 1965 vols. 4-7 examine the new America from 1964 to 1985, from community power to the human alienation of urban poverty. |
| Eyes on the prize : America's civil rights years / WGBH Boston ; Corporation for Public Broadcasting ; production by Blackside, Inc. ; produced and directed by Judith Vecchione ; executive producer, Henry Hampton ; series writer, Steve Fayer. | VID 121 | v.2-6 | HISTORY | History of the civil rights movement in the United States. Uses archival footage and interviews with participants in the movement. |
| Eyes on the prize II : America at the racial crossroads 1965-1985 / WGBH Boston ; produced by Blackside, Inc. and Corporation for Public Broadcasting ; creator and executive producer, Henry Hampton ; producer and director, Judith Vecchione ; series writer, Steve Fayer. | VID 122 | v.1-8 | HISTORY | Offers a comprehensive reappraisal of the leaders and events that brought the civil rights movement from the South to the rest of the United States from 1965 through the 1980s. |
| Faces / produced by Maurice McEndree written and directed by John Cassavetes associate producer, Al Ruban Faces Distribution Corporation presents. | DVD 279 | v.1-2 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Powerful story of the dissintegration of a marriage of a captain of industry and his wife. |
| Fahrenheit 9/11 / Lions Gate Films and IFC Films and the Fellowship Adventure Group present a Dog Eat Dog Films production, a film by Michael Moore producers, Jim Czarnecki, Kathleen Glynn written, produced and directed by Michael Moore. | DVD 556 | DOCUMENTARIES | Through actual footage, interviews, and declassified documents, Michael Moore illustrates the connections President Bush has to the royal house of Saud of Saudia Arabia and the bin Laden's, how the president got elected on fraudulent circumstances and then proceeded to blunder through his duties while ignoring warnings of the looming betrayal by his foreign partners. When the treachery hits with the 9/11 attacks, Moore explains how Bush failed to take immediate action to defend the nation. | |
| Faith Ringgold : the last story quilt / written and directed by David Irving ; created and produced by Linda Freeman. | VID 33 | ART | A profile of the life and work of Faith Ringgold, noted Afro-American woman artist who specializes in painting on quilts and other cloth surfaces. | |
| Fall from grace / written, directed, produced by K. Ryan Jones. | DVD 488 | DOCUMENTARIES | The surreal and shocking world of the controversial cult leader Reverend Fred Phelps and his hate group. Includes interviews and rare Phelps footage and allows viewers to reexamine the quintessentially American right of free speech. | |
| Family name / Opelika Pictures presents a film by Macky Alston producer, Selina Lewis directed by Macky Alston. | DVD 487 | DOCUMENTARIES | As a child growing up in Durham, North Carolina, Macky Alston never questioned why all the other Alstons in his school were black. Now, after twenty-five years, he has gone back to unravel the mystery. In this documentary of race relations, Alston travels to family reunions, picnics, housing projects, churches, graveyards & the original Alston plantations to find people who share his family name. | |
| Famous history of the life of King Henry the Eight / by William Shakespeare ; a BBC-TV production in association with Time-Life Television ; producer, Cedric Messina ; director, Kevin Billington. | DVD 18 | LITERARY - SHAKESPEARE | A dramatization of William Shakespeare's historical play, which tells of the intrigues during the first part of Henry's reign, his divorce from Katharine of Aragon, and marriage to Anne Bullen, who gives birth to a baby girl, Elizabeth. | |
| Fargo / PolyGram Filmed Entertainment presents in association with Working Title Films produced by Ethan Coen directed by Joel Coen written by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen. | DVD 504 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | A midwestern policewoman investigates a series of brutal and interconnected crimes. Steadily, she tightens the net on the killers and their accomplices in a kidnapping scheme gone wildly wrong. | |
| Farmingville / a film by Carlos Sandoval and Catherine Tambini ; directed by Catherine Tambini and Carlos Sandoval ; produced by Carlos Sandoval and Catherine Tambini ; written by Carlos Sandoval ; produced by Camino Bluff Productions, Inc. | DVD 255 | DOCUMENTARIES | Documentary film about the next group of immigrants, the Mexicans, that are following in our long history of immigration. It looks at the people of Farmingville, New York, and at how they are dealing with the influx of about 1,500 Mexican workers. | |
| Fashion in film / [[presented by] Starz Originals] producer[s], Evan Kanew, Rachel Zalis. | DVD 699 | FASHION | From the catwalks of Paris to the red carpets and silver screens of Hollywood, fashion and film have always co-starred in their very own rags-to-riches story of style. In this documentary, discover the history of the costumes, couture, and glamour icons that have transformed the look of movies forever. Features revealing interviews with designers, stylists and stars. | |
| FDR, a presidency revealed / written and produced by David C. Taylor produced by Team Productions, LLC for the History Channel A & E Television Networks. | DVD 758 | Disc 1-2 | HISTORY | A comprehensive original program from the History Channel, featuring exclusive interviews, rare audio recordings, newly-unearthed home movies, and diary entries, that reveals a never-before-seen side of FDR's presidency. |
| Federico Fellini / produced by ABC News Productions for the Biography Channel producer, Meredith Greene Megaw. | DVD 661 | BIOGRAPHY | Profiles the illustrious life and career of the legendary Italian director ... [including] interviews, behind-the-scenes footage, and clips from his many films. --Container. | |
| Federico Fellini's La dolce vita / Giuseppe Amato presents a Riama Film production ; a co-production Riama Film, Cinecitta, Pathe Consortium Cinema, Grey Film ; original story and screenplay, Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli ; directed by Federico Fellini. | DVD 137 | v.1-2 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | A journalist ventures into the decadent society of modern Rome and finds that his values are being destroyed, leaving him totally disillusioned. |
| FEI world equestrian games, Aachen 2006 / Presented by Rolex, an MBP-TV production for Equestrian Vision. Editors: Nick Stucke, Mat Startup. Music: Nick Stucke. Series producer: Philip Jennings. | DVD 512 | v.1 pt.1-2, v.2-5 | EQUESTRIAN | |
| Ferry tales / producers, Katja Esson, Sabine Schenk, Corinna Sager ; director, Katja Esson ; produced in association with Schenk Productions, Inc. and Lifestyle Int. Prod. Service, Inc. | DVD 268 | DOCUMENTARIES | This documentary focuses on a unique culture found on the Staten Island Ferry, New York. This culture is made up of some of the women who frequent the women's powder room each day, not only as a place for putting on make-up, but as a safe place for sharing and camaraderie with women from diverse backgrounds. | |
| Festen = The celebration / Nimbus Film praesenterer ; producer, Birgitte Hald ; manuskript, Thomas Vinterberg, Mogens Rukov ; [direktør], Thomas Vinterberg. | DVD 490 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | The family and friends of prominent Danish patriarch Helge Klingenfeldt gather at his country estate to celebrate his sixtieth birthday. Two months prior to this event, Helge's daughter committed suicide. Her twin brother, Christian, makes a birthday toast that brings a barrage of family secrets out into the open. | |
| Fiddler on the roof / Mirisch Production, Inc. and Cartier Productions, Inc. | VID 162 | v.1-2 | LITERARY - CLASSICS | Tevye is a poor Jewish milkman with five unmarried daughters to support in a village in Czarist Russia. With a sharp tongued wife at home and growing anti-Semitism in the village, Tevye talks to God about his troubles. His people's traditions keep him strong when his existence is as precariously balanced as a fiddler on the roof. |
| Fiddler on the roof / the Mirisch Company presents a Norman Jewison film screenplay by Joseph Stein produced and directed by Norman Jewison. | DVD 521 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | Tevye is a poor Jewish milkman with five unmarried daughters to support in a village in Czarist Russia. With a sharp tongued wife at home and growing anti-Semitism in the village, Tevye talks to God about his troubles. His people's traditions keep him strong when his existence is as precariously balanced as a fiddler on the roof. | |
| Fifth of July / a presentation of Thirteen/WNET New York producer, Sam Paul directors, Marshall W. Manson, Kirk Browning. | DVD 327 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | The television production of Lanford Wilson's Broadway play about college friends who agitated for what they hoped would be a better world and who are now looking for a way to revive their dreams of what life can be. | |
| Film Nixon "as history & commentary " | VID 123 | POLITICS | Panelists discuss the historical accuracy and social commentary contained in Oliver Stone's 1995 movie, Nixon. Professor Schleslinger sharply criticizes the film for blurring the line between history and fiction. | |
| Film trilogy / by Ingmar Bergman | DVD 128 | v.1-4 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Through a glass darkly. This four disc set features Swedish director Ingmar Bergman's work on three of his most powerful films presented as a trilogy. The films of the trilogy examine the necessity of religion and question the promise of faith. |
| Films of Adrian Lyne / written, produced & directed by Robert J. Emery ; produced in cooperation with the American Film Institute and WinStar Productions ; a production of Media Entertainment, Inc. | DVD 202 | DOCUMENTARIES | Adrian Lyne talks about his films and the making of them, provides a brief autobiographical introduction of how he got started in his career, and follows with film reminiscences giving insights about the production, the casting process, studios, the industry and experiences with collaborators. | |
| Films of Barry Levinson / written, produced & directed by Robert J. Emery ; produced in cooperation with the American Film Institute and WinStar Productions ; a production of Media Entertainment, Inc. | DVD 200 | DOCUMENTARIES | Barry Levinson talks about his films and the making of them, provides a brief autobiographical introduction of how he got started in his career, and follows with film reminiscences giving insights about the production, the casting process, studios, the industry and experiences with collaborators. | |
| Films of Clint Eastwood / written, produced & directed by Robert J. Emery ; produced in cooperation with American Film Institute and WinStar Productions ; a production of Media Entertainment, Inc. | DVD 178 | DOCUMENTARIES | Clint Eastwood talks about his films and the making of them, provides a brief autobiographical introduction of how he got started in his career, and follows with film reminiscences giving insights about the production, the casting process, studios, the industry and experiences with collaborators. | |
| Films of David Cronenberg / written, produced & directed by Robert J. Emery ; produced in cooperation with American Film Institute and WinStar Productions ; a production of Media Entertainment, Inc. | DVD 195 | DOCUMENTARIES | David Cronenberg talks about his films and the making of them, provides a brief autobiographical introduction of how he got started in his career and follows with film reminiscences giving insights about the production, the casting process, studios, the industry and experiences with collaborators. | |
| Films of David Zucker and Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zuker / written, produced & directed by Robert J. Emery ; a production of Media Entertainment, Inc. | DVD 183 | DOCUMENTARIES | Profiles David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker, featuring extensive film clips and interviews with actors and collaborators who have worked with them. | |
| Films of Garry Marshall / written, produced & directed by Robert J. Emery ; produced in cooperation with the American Film Institute and Winstar Productions ; a production of Media Entertainment, Inc. | DVD 184 | DOCUMENTARIES | Through in-depth interviews, behind the scenes footage and clips from his films, Garry Marshall talks about the ideas, influences, motivations, struggles and successes behind his work. | |
| Films of James Cameron / written, produced & directed by Robert J. Emery ; a production of Media Entertainment, Inc. | DVD 189 | DOCUMENTARIES | Profile of director James Cameron, featuring extensive film clips and interviews with actors and collaborators who have worked with him. | |
| Films of Joel Schumacher / written, produced & directed by Robert J. Emery ; produced in cooperation with the American Film Institute and WinStar Productions ; a production of Media Entertainment, Inc. | DVD 199 | DOCUMENTARIES | Through in-depth interviews, behind the scenes footage and clips from his films, Joel Schumacher talks about the ideas, influences, motivations, struggles and successes behind his work. | |
| Films of John Frankenheimer / written, produced & directed by Robert J. Emery ; produced in cooperation with the American Film Institute ; a production of Media Entertainment, Inc. | DVD 197 | DOCUMENTARIES | Through in-depth interviews, behind the scenes footage and clips from his films, John Frankenheimer talks about the ideas, influences, motivations, struggles and successes behind his work. | |
| Films of John McTiernan / written, produced & directed by Robert J. Emery ; produced in cooperation with the American Film Institute and WinStar Productions ; a production of Media Entertainment, Inc. | DVD 185 | DOCUMENTARIES | John McTiernan talks about his films and the making of them, provides a brief autobiographical introduction of how he got started in his career, and follows with film reminiscences giving insights about the production, the casting process, studios, the industry and experiences with collaborators. | |
| Films of Lawrence Kasdan / written, produced & directed by Robert J. Emery ; produced in cooperation with the American Film Institute ; a production of Media Entertainment, Inc. | DVD 188 | DOCUMENTARIES | Presents a profile of film director Lawrence Kasdan, featuring extensive film clips and interviews with actors and collaborators who have worked with him. | |
| Films of Martin Scorsese / written, produced & directed by Robert J. Emery ; produced in cooperation with the American Film Institute and WinStar Productions ; a production of Media Entertainment, Inc. | DVD 193 | DOCUMENTARIES | Martin Scorsese talks about his films and the making of them, provides a brief autobiographical introduction of how he got started in his career, and follows with film reminiscences giving insights about the production, the casting process, studios, the industry and experiences with collaborators. | |
| Films of Michael Mann / written, produced & directed by Robert J. Emery ; produced in cooperation with American Film Institute and Winstar Productions ; a production of Media Entertainment, Inc. | DVD 205 | DOCUMENTARIES | Profile of director Michael Mann, featuring extensive film clips and interviews with actors and collaborators who have worked with him. | |
| Films of Milos Forman / written, produced & directed by Robert J. Emery ; produced in cooperation with American Film Institute and WinStar Productions ; a production of Media Entertainment, Inc. | DVD 201 | DOCUMENTARIES | Milos Forman talks about his films and the making of them, provides a brief autobiographical introduction of how he got started in his career, and follows with film reminiscences giving insights about the production, the casting process, studios, the industry and experiences with collaborators. | |
| Films of Norman Jewison / written, produced & directed by Robert J. Emery ; produced in cooperation with the American Film Institute ; a production of Media Entertainment, Inc. | DVD 206 | DOCUMENTARIES | Through in-depth interviews, behind the scenes footage and clips from his films, Norman Jewison talks about the ideas, influences, motivations, struggles and successes behind his work. | |
| Films of Rob Reiner / written, produced & directed by Robert J. Emery ; produced in cooperation with the American Film Institute and WinStar Productions ; a production of Media Entertainment, Inc. | DVD 203 | DOCUMENTARIES | Through in-depth interviews, behind the scenes footage and clips from his films, Rob Reiner talks about the ideas, influences, motivations, struggles and successes behind his work. | |
| Films of Robert Altman / written, produced & directed by Robert J. Emery ; produced in cooperation with the American Film Institute ; a production of Media Entertainment, Inc. | DVD 191 | DOCUMENTARIES | After six decades in the motion picture industry, Robert Altman remains one of Hollywood's most prolific directors. Famous for using large ensemble casts, Altman practices an improvisational style of filmmaking that give his actors the rare luxury to freely interpret their roles."--Container." | |
| Films of Robert Zemeckis / written, produced & directed by Robert J. Emery ; produced in cooperation with the American Film Institute ; a production of Media Entertainment, Inc. | DVD 179 | DOCUMENTARIES | Robert Zemeckis began making films with an 8mm camera while still in high school. He made his directorial debut in 1978 with I wanna hold your hand, and has since directed films such as Romancing the stone, Back to the future, Who framed Roger Rabbit, Death becomes her, Forrest Gump, Contact, What lies beneath, and Cast away. This film contains interviews with the director and reminiscences by actors and actresses who have worked with Zemeckis. Includes filmography, awards, and Weblink. | |
| Films of Roger Corman / written, produced & directed by Robert J. Emery ; produced in cooperation with American Film Institute and Winstar Productions ; a production of Media Entertainment, Inc. | DVD 196 | DOCUMENTARIES | Profile of director Roger Corman, featuring extensive film clips and interviews with actors and collaborators who have worked with him. | |
| Films of Ron Howard / written, produced & directed by Robert J. Emery ; produced in cooperation with the American Film Institute ; a production of Media Entertainment, Inc. | DVD 186 | DOCUMENTARIES | Through in-depth interviews, behind the scenes footage and clips from his films, Ron Howard talks about the ideas, influences, motivations, struggles and successes behind his work. | |
| Films of Sidney Lumet / a production of Media Entertainment, Inc. ; produced in cooperation with the American Film Institute ; written, produced & directed by Robert J. Emery. | DVD 192 | DOCUMENTARIES | Profile of director Sidney Lumet, featuring extensive film clips and interviews with actors who have worked with him. | |
| Films of Spike Lee / written, produced & directed by Robert J. Emery ; produced in cooperation with the American Film Institute ; a production of Media Entertainment, Inc. | DVD 204 | DOCUMENTARIES | Through in-depth interviews, behind the scenes footage and clips from his films, Spike Lee talks about the ideas, influences, motivations, struggles and successes behind his work. I have been blessed with the opportunity to express the views of black people who otherwise don't have access to power and the media. I have to take advantage of that while I am still bankable."" | |
| Films of Steven Spielberg / written, produced & directed by Robert J. Emery ; produced in cooperation with the American Film Institute and WinStar Productions ; a production of Media Entertainment, Inc. | DVD 198 | DOCUMENTARIES | Steven Spielberg talks about his films and the making of them, provides a brief autobiographical introduction of how he got started in his career, and follows with film reminiscences giving insights about the production, the casting process, studios, the industry and experiences with collaborators. | |
| Films of Sydney Pollack / written, produced & directed by Robert J. Emery ; produced in cooperation with the American Film Institute and WinStar Productions ; a production of Media Entertainment, Inc. | DVD 181 | DOCUMENTARIES | Through in-depth interviews, behind the scenes footage and clips from his films, Sydney Pollack talks about the ideas, influences, motivations, struggles and successes behind his work. | |
| Films of Terry Gilliam / written, produced & directed by Robert J. Emery. ; produced in cooperation with the American Film Institute ; a production of Media Entertainment, Inc. | DVD 182 | DOCUMENTARIES | Includes extensive film clips and interviews with actors and collaborators who have worked with film director Terry Gilliam. | |
| Films of Wes Craven / written, produced & directed by Robert J. Emery ; produced in cooperation with American Film Institute and WinStar Productions ; a production of Media Entertainment, Inc. | DVD 194 | DOCUMENTARIES | Profile of horror film director Wes Craven, featuring extensive film clips and interviews with actors and collaborators who have worked with him. | |
| Films of William Friedkin / written, produced & directed by Robert J. Emery ; a production of Media Entertainment, Inc., in cooperation with the American Film Institute. | DVD 190 | DOCUMENTARIES | Through in-depth interviews, behind the scenes footage and clips from his films, William Friedkin talks about the ideas, influences, motivations, struggles and successes behind his work. Includes filmography and weblink. | |
| Films of Wolfgang Petersen / a production of Media Entertainment, Inc. ; produced in cooperation with the American Film Institute ; written, produced & directed by Robert J. Emery. | DVD 187 | DOCUMENTARIES | Profile of director Wolfgang Petersen, featuring extensive film clips and interviews with actors who have worked with him. | |
| First circle / directed by Sheldon Larry produced by Claude Heroux screenplay written by M. Charles Cohen. | DVD 747 | CINEMA | Inside a special prison, the first circle of penal hell is in Stalin's Russia. Dissident scientists are forced to work on behalf of Stalin's police state. | |
| First part of Henry the Sixth / by William Shakespeare ; a BBC Television production in association with Time-Life Television ; produced by Jonathan Miller ; directed by Jane Howell. | DVD 15 | LITERARY - CLASSICS | Shakespeare's historical play which recreates Henry's early days as King. Centers on the French wars and the activities of Joan of Arc, while glimpsing the beginning of the civil wars between the Houses of Lancaster and York. | |
| First part of King Henry the Fourth with the life and death of Henry surnamed Hotspur / by William Shakespeare ; a BBC-TV production in association with Time-Life Television ; producer, Cedric Messina ; director, David Giles. | DVD 12 | LITERARY - CLASSICS | After the murder of Richard II, Henry assumes the throne, and is immediately confronted with rebellion by Owen Glendower, Douglas of Scotland, Northumberland and his son Hotspur. | |
| Five films about Christo & Jeanne-Claude / a Maysles Films production. | DVD 219 | v.1-3 | ART | v.1: Christo's valley curtain; Running fence v.2: Islands; Christo in Paris v.3: Umbrellas; Interview |
| Fixing social security [video recording] : economic perspectives / Robert Rosenblatt, Slyvester [sic] Schieber, Eugene Steurle. | VID 125 | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS | Interview with Robert Rosenblatt, L.A. Times; Sylvester Schieber, Watson Wyatt; and Eugune Steurle, Urban Institute, concerning views on social security. | |
| Flags of our fathers / DreamWorks SKG Warner Bros. Pictures Amblin Entertainment Malpaso Productions produced by Clint Eastwood, Robert Lorenz, Steven Spielberg screenplay by William Broyles, Jr. and Paul Haggis directed by Clint Eastwood. | DVD 764 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | The life stories of the five Marines and one Naval officer that were forever immortalized as a symbol of WWII by raising the American flag at the battle of Iwo Jima. | |
| Flat out for a flat tax | VID 95 | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS | A discussion and comparison of the components of the national retail sales tax, the USA tax and the flat tax. | |
| Floodwatch '93 : images of a disaster / KRCG-TV, Jefferson City, Missouri. | VID 47 | SCIENCE - EARTH SCIENCES | News footage of the flood of 1993, depicting the damage in Jefferson City and other surrounding communities in Central Missouri. | |
| Flying : confessions of a free woman / Easy Film and Zohe Film Productions present a series by Jennifer Fox director, Jennifer Fox producers, Jennifer Fox, Claus Ladegaard. | DVD 397 | v. 1 - 2 | DOCUMENTARIES | A seasoned New Yorker struggling to juggle work, relationships, and her new found desire to have a child, Fox decides to turn the camera on herself and her girlfriends. Not satisfied, she takes off across the globe to investigate how other women live. Employing a new technique called 'passing the camera', she journeys into the homes and bedrooms of women in 17 countries, capturing secret conversations about love, freedom, children, men and sex. --Container. |
| Flying deuces / presented by Astor Pictures. | VID 575 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | A 1939 motion picture featuring the comedic team of Laurel & Hardy. | |
| Follow the fleet / a RKO Radio Picture a Pandro S. Berman production screenplay by Dwight Taylor and Allan Scott directed by Mark Sandrich. | DVD 609 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | All hands on deck! In the fifth of 10 Astaire/Rogers pairings, Fred trades his top hat for a sailor's cap, Randolph Scott gets the girl, Ginger gets a tap solo and viewers get the unending delight of seven sparkling Irving Berlin numbers. | |
| Following Sean / Upstate Films/Shadow Distribution presents a Timed Exposures production in association with Chelsea Pictures written and directed by Ralph Arlyck produced by Ralph Arlyck, Malcolm Pullinger. | DVD 459 | DOCUMENTARIES | Filmmaker Ralph Arlyck tracks down Sean, the boy who had been the subject of his controversy-sparking documentary in 1969, to see what he is like 30 years later. | |
| Footnotes, the classics of Ballet / producer, Neil Bregman ; director, Derek Diorio ; writer, Dan Lalande ; conceived by Frank Augustyn. | VID 300 | v.1-9 | DANCE | Dancer Frank Augustyn examines some classic ballets through interviews with ballet dancers and dance critics. Features film footage from classic performances of the ballets. |
| For all mankind / Apollo Associates a film by Al Reinert producers, Betsy Broyles Breier, Al Reinert directed by Al Reinert. | DVD 612 | SCIENCE | A chronicle on mankind's journey to the moon, using no narration, only the voices of the astronauts and mission control. | |
| For colored girls who have considered suicide, when the rainbow is enuf / a co-production of WNET and WPET ; writer, Ntozake Shange ; directed by Oz Scott ; produced by Lindsay Law. | DVD 177 | LITERARY - CONTEMPORARY | A choreopoem that portrays the visions and frustrations of six young women who are trying to come to terms with themselves and with being African-American. | |
| For us, the living : the story of Medgar Evers / produced by Charles Fries ; directed by Michael Schultz. | VID 178 | BIOGRAPHY | The true story of one man's courageous fight for his people's dignity. Medgar Evers was one of the first African-American leaders to achieve worldwide recognition for his work. He was a true hero willing to pay the ultimate price for freedom. | |
| Forbidden City / produced by Lucy Jarvis ; written by Sidney Carroll ; directed by Tom Priestley. | VID 26 | ART | Explores the history and culture of China as reflected in the art and architectural treasures of the Forbidden City. | |
| Forbidden city : the great within / Discovery Channel Pictures in association with Maroon Productions ; May Holdsworth, writer. | VID 161 | ART | Explores the Forbidden City, the private world of the emperors of China. | |
| Foreign correspondent / Walter Wanger presents Alfred Hitchcock's production of ; presented by Caidin Film Co. ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock. | DVD 120 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | A reporter sent to Europe to cover a peace conference falls in love with a diplomat's daughter, but discovers that her father is the head of a Nazi spy ring. | |
| Four Noble Truths / [presented by] the Network of Buddhist Organizations (U.K.) in association with the Office of Tibet (London) ; produced, directed and edited by David Cherniack. | DVD 64 | v.1-2 | RELIGION | People possess an innate desire to seek happiness and to overcome suffering. The reason why Buddha emphasized the development of a profound insight into the nature of suffering is because there is an alternative, there is a way out, there is a possiblity of freedom from that suffering. |
| Freedom Writers / Paramount Pictures Double Feature Films MTV Films Jersey Films Kernos Filmproduktiosgesellschaft & Company produced by Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg, Stacey Sher screenplay by Richard LaGravenese directed by Richard LaGravenese. | DVD 732 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | A true story about a teacher in a racially divided school who gives her students what they've always needed, a voice. Erin Gruwell comes to a southern California high school bubbling over with naive optimism. She quickly discovers that her unruly classroom is not easily won over by her good intentions. After a few floundering attempts to connect with her students, Gruwell gives them the assignment of keeping journals about their own lives, This assignment is something that the class can bite into with relish. This eventually bonds them together and pushes racial rivalries aside. Draws heavily from the published journals of the real students themselves. | |
| French intellectuals in the 20th century / Antenne 2/Tele Images/INA ; produced by Simone Halberstadt Harari ; directed by Alain Ferrari ; written [and narrated] by Bernard-Henri Lévy. | VID 302 | v.1-4 | CULTURAL STUDIES | Documentary presents the viewer with an in-depth examination of French intellectual life during the 20th century. Includes archival film footage. |
| French politics & the French Parliament / producer, Connie Doebele ; director, Kevin King. | VID 55 | POLITICS | Presents a panel discussion comparing French politics with the U.S., focusing on the current shape of the French political system. Also discussed is the dominance of President Mitterand, the role of parties, the prime ministry, and the electoral system. The French Parliament is examined and footage of French Senate question period is televised. | |
| Frescoes of Diego Rivera / Founders Society, Detroit Institute of Arts, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes/Secretaria de Educacion Publica (Mexico) ; produced by Michael Camerini, Inc., Francis Thompson, Inc. in collaboration with Stanton L. Catlin for The Detroit Institute of Arts exhibition-- Diego Rivera, a retrospective ; director, Michael Camerini. | VID 416 | ART | Explores Rivera's evolution as an artist, his use of the fresco technique, and his politics. Looks at the murals Rivera created for public buildings in the U.S. and Mexico. They unite themes of nature and revolution, drawing a parallel between the evolution of life and the struggle for human dignity. | |
| Frida / Miramax Films presents in association with Margaret Rose Perenchio a Ventanarose production in association with Lions Gate Films, a film by Julie Taymor ; producers, Sarah Green, Salma Hayek, Jay Polstein ... [et al.] ; screenplay writers, Clancy Sigal ... [et al.] ; director, Julie Taymor. | DVD 54 | v.1-2 | ART | The life of artist Frida Kahlo, from her humble upbringing to her worldwide fame and controversy that surrounded both her and her husband, Diego Rivera. |
| Frida Kahlo (1910-1954) / RM Arts ; [produced by] Eila Hershon, Roberto Guerra, and Wibke Von Bonin. | VID 351 | ART | Profiles Frida Kahlo's work, her interest in politics and her tempestuous relationship with husband Diego Rivera, leader of the Mexican muralist movement. | |
| From the earth to the moon / [HBO presents a Clavius Base/Imagine Entertainment production]. | DVD 47 | v.1-4 | SCIENCE - ASTRONOMY | Produced with the cooperation of NASA, the miniseries follows the experiences of the Apollo astronauts in their mission to place a man on the moon. |
| From the house of the dead : [opera in three acts] / libretto by Leos Janacek ; AZOR Films, ARTE France, NHK and the Aix-en-Provence Festival ; produced by Wiener Festwochen ; director, Patrice Chéreau. | DVD 413 | THEATRE | ||
| Full frame : documentary film festival. Vol. 2 / Docurama | DVD 167 | CINEMA - SHORTS | This volume brings a new crop of quality shorts to audiences hungry for a second helping. This latest collection features 7 new films that encompass an incredibly diverse range of topics and styles | |
| Full frame documentary film festival / [presented by] Cinemax Reel Life. | DVD 166 | CINEMA - SHORTS | 7 complete documentary shorts. | |
| Full frame documentary film festival / Department of Communication, Stanford University ; a Caama Group Production ; Black Pepper Images presents ; Florida State University Film School ; produced by Michael W. Pfaendtner, Anab Jain ; directors, Melba L. Williams, Scott Vosbury, Warwick Thornton, Michael Pfaendtner, Vinayan Kodoth, Franko Galoso. | DVD 168 | CINEMA - SHORTS | More documentary shorts. | |
| Full frame IV : documentary film festival. | DVD 452 | DOCUMENTARIES | Miles above : When the shuttle Columbia crashed from the sky it was documented from many points of view and largely by amateurs. In the shadow of Eden : The director comes to grips with the abuse she suffered at the hands of her religion-fixated father. Good morning Yokohama : Captures rush hour in one Japanese city as a horde of workers funnel through turnstiles and jockey for a seat on the trains. Small town secrets : Tells a personal story of growing up with closeted gay parents in a small Midwestern town. Cheeks : Meet Joe Cheek, folk musician, retro-fashion plate and dedicated son of two paranoid schizophrenic fundamentalists. Good times : Traces the evolution of Israel's security wall that runs through the center of Abu Dis. | |
| Future of Medicare | VID 124 | HEALTH & WELLNESS | A discussion of the future of Medicare. | |
| Galway Kinnell / the Lannan Literary Series in association with Metropolitan Pictures and EZTV ; by Lewis MacAdams and John Dorr. | VID 419 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | Galway Kinnell reads from What a kingdom it was, Body bags, The Book of nightmares, Mortal arts, mortal words, Selected poems, and The Past. | |
| Gandhi / Columbia Pictures. | VID 181 | v.1-2 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Chronicles the life of Gandhi beginning with his political activities in South Africa during the late 1890's and ending with his assassination at the hands of a Hindu extremist in 1948. Shows the development of his philosophy of non-violence as he leads the people of India to independence from the British. |
| Gap-toothed women / Les Blank ... [et al.]. | VID 540 | CULTURAL STUDIES | Interviews with 40 women, all of whom have a space between their two from teeth. Discussion of their beliefs, lifestyles and whether or not a space between one's teeth makes a difference. | |
| Gary Snyder / the Lannan Foundation in association with Metropolitan Pictures and EZTV ; produced and directed by Lewis MacAdams and John Dorr. | VID 427 | v.1-2 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | Gary Snyder, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, reads at the Los Angeles Theatre Center, is interviewed by Lewis MacAdams, and speaks with high school students at Harvard School. |
| Gary Soto / Lannan Foundation ; directed by Dan Griggs. | VID 458 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | Mr. Soto read from his New and Selected Poems. | |
| Gas, food, lodging / Cineville ; screenplay/director, Allison Anders ; producers, Daniel Hassid, Seth M. Willenson, William Ewart. | DVD 253 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Love and sex complicate the lives of Nora Evans and her two teenage daughters in this coming of age film set in a small New Mexico town. | |
| Gates of heaven / a film by Errol Morris IFC Films produced and directed by Errol Morris. | DVD 375 | DOCUMENTARIES | When a pet cemetery in California is forced to close its gates, its dearly departed must be moved to a neighboring cemetery. This begins a strange journey involving eccentric cemetery operators and anguished animal lovers. | |
| Gene Kelly : anatomy of a dancer / a production of Thirteen/WNET and Turner Entertainment Co. | DVD 232 | DANCE | Looks at the life and career of Gene Kelly who revolutionized musical and movie dancing, making it accessible for all people. Uses extended film clips, interviews with colleagues and critics and filmed interview segments from 1976 with Kelly. | |
| Generation M : misogyny in media and culture / Vox Populi Productions presents written, produced, and directed by Thomas Keith. | DVD 704 | JOURNALISM | Despite the achievements of the women's movement over the past four decades, misogyny remains a persistent force in American culture. In this ... documentary, Thomas Keith, Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Long Beach, looks specifically at misogyny and sexism in mainstream American media, exploring how negative definitions of femininity and hateful attitudes toward women get constructed and perpetuated at the very heart of our popular culture. The film tracks the destructive dynamics of misogyny across a broad and disturbing range of media phenomena: including the hyper-sexualization of commercial products aimed at girls, the explosion of violence in video games aimed at boys, the near-hysterical sexist rants of hip-hop artists and talk radio shock jocks, and the harsh, patronizing caricatures of femininity and feminism that reverberate throughout the mainstream of American popular culture. Along the way, Generation M forces us to confront the dangerous real-life consequences of misogyny in all of its forms--making a compelling case that when we devalue more than half the population based on gender, we harm boys and men as well as women and girls --Container. | |
| George Gershwin remembered / A BBC TV, Program Development Company co-production in association with American Masters/WNET and Unitel. | VID 414 | DANCE | Featuring performances of Gershwin classics by the renowned Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and interviews with Bob Hope, Ann-Margaret, the original stars of Porgy and Bess, and many of the composer's family members and friends, this award-winning production offers an intimate look at the troubled life of an incomparable American artist--Container | |
| Georgia O'Keeffe / [presented by] Home Vision ; produced and directed by Perry Miller Adato ; a production of WNET/13. | VID 336 | ART | Documentary that looks behind the Georgia O'Keeffe legend, showing her paintings, environment, and philosophy of the artist. | |
| German politics & the Bundestag / producer, Connie Doebele ; director, Douglas Heyman. | VID 46 | POLITICS | Presents a panel discussion examining the West German political system, focusing on the Bundestag. Compares West German and U.S. legislatures, politics, and politicians. Shows television coverage of the Bundestag, including an address by West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. | |
| Getting started in signing : Learning American sign language / Living Language Elaine Costello illustrated by Lois A. Lehman and Linda C. Tom. | VID 599 | SIGN LANGUAGE | If you want to master the basic words, phrases, and expressions of American Sign Language (ASL), then Getting started in signing is the right course for you. This complete program offers a simple, step-by-step approach to learning this beautiful language.;"Summary from the manual: This unique Getting Started in Signing's learner's guide and dictionary provides the basic building blocks of American Sign Language (ASL)." | |
| Gibbons v. Ogden / a production of WQED/Pittsburgh. | VID 554 | POLITICS | Presents a dramatization of the landmark Supreme Court decision in Gibbons vs. Ogden which gave the Congress, not the states, the authority to determine the rules of commerce among the States. | |
| Gilbert Sorrentino / the Lannan Foundation ; directed by Dan Griggs. | VID 444 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | Gilbert Sorrentino is an innovative and darkly humorous stylistic virtuoso who has written more than 20 books of fiction, poetry and criticism. He reads from Under the Shadow, a work composed of 59 independent, surreal tales which display his imaginative brilliance and satiric power. The reading took place on March 2, 1993, in Los Angeles, and Gibert Sorrentino talked with Michael Silverblatt--Container.E483 | |
| Gimme shelter / a Maysles Films production directed by David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin. | DVD 383 | MUSIC | A documentary on the Rolling Stones' 1969 American concert tour and a concert at Altamont Speedway where security guards killed an audience member. Includes appearances by Ike and Tina Turner, Jefferson Airplane, and the Flying Burrito Brothers. | |
| Ginevra's story . | VID 393 | ART | This film delves beneath the surface of the painting to unveil stories about both Ginevra de' Benci and Leonardo da Vinci. | |
| Giotto and the pre-Renascence [sic] / produced by Lionella Torossi for Universal Education and Visual Arts ; directed by Luciano Emmer. | VID 332 | ART | Deals with the works of the artist Giotto, contrasting the hieratic mood of his predecessors with his innovations. Shows the major cycles of his frescoes, including those at the Upper and Lower Church of San Francesco, Assisi, the Scrovegni family Arena Chapel in Padua, and St. Croce in Florence. | |
| Giselle / produced by Stanley Dorfman ; directed by Stanley Dorfman and Rudolf Nureyev. | VID 277 | DANCE | Tells the story of Giselle, a peasant girl, who goes mad and dies of a broken heart when she discovers that her beloved is a nobleman betrothed to another. Her spirit becomes one of the Wilis, the lost souls of young women who died betrayed in love. | |
| Giselle : a romantic ballet / by Théophile Gautier ; Unitel presents ; a film by Hugo Niebeling ; directed by Hugo Niebeling and David Blair ; a production of Unitel GmbH & Co. KG and TVE. | DVD 446 | DANCE | The ballet takes its inspiration from the Slavic legend of the Wilis as described in the poems of Heinrich Heine. Giselle, a simple peasant girl driven to madness and death through an unhappy love, becomes a ghost ordered to destroy the man who betrayed her, yet seeks to sustain him because of her undying love. | |
| Gitmo [videorecording] / Red Envelope Entertainment ; Atmo presents ; a film by Erik Gandini & Tarik Saleh ; producer, Kristina Åberg ; co producer, Mikael Olsen ; a co-production with Zentropa Entertainment 7, Swedish Television Documentary, Finnish Broadcasting Company. | DVD 461 | DOCUMENTARIES | Film attempts to document what really goes on at America's detention center in the war on terror - Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. | |
| Giulio Cesare : opera in three acts / libretto by Nicola Haym, after Giovanni Francesco Bussani's Giulio Cesare in Egitto music by Georg Frideric Handel from Glyndebourne. | DVD 304 | v.1-3 | THEATRE | This three-act Italian opera follows the events of a few days in Egypt as the rule of the country is uncertain. |
| Glass menagerie / a Talent Associates/Norton Simon Inc. production ; producer, David Susskind ; director, Anthony Harvey. | DVD 225 | LITERARY - CLASSICS | A strong willed woman attempts to impose her shattered dreams into the life and personality of her shy, reclusive daughter. | |
| Glengarry Glen Ross / New Line Cinema a Zupnick Enterprises presentation a Jerry Tokofsky/Stanley R. Zupnick production a film by James Foley produced by Jerry Tokofsky produced by Stanley R. Zupnick screenplay by David Mamet directed by James Foley. | DVD 799 | Disc 1-2 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | Times are tough at the real estate firm of Premiere Properties. Shelley the machine Levene (Lemmon) and Dave Moss (Harris) are veteran salesmen, but only Ricky Roma (Pacino) is on a hot streak. The new Glengarry sales leads could turn everything around, but the front office is holding them back until these losers prove themselves. Then someone decides to take matters into his own hands, stealing the Glengarry leads and leaving everyone wondering who did it. |
| Glenn Gould : two portraits / a production of the National Film Board of Canada. | VID 415 | MUSIC | Two thirty minute programs profiling pianist Glenn Gould. In Glenn Gould off the record, we see some of Gould's home life at his cottage near lake Simcoe, Ontario, as he plays his 60-year-old piano and chats with fellow musician, Franz Kraemer. In Glenn Gould on the record, we follow Gould to New York for a day at Columbia Records, where he performs the Italian concerto. | |
| Gloria Steinem : Ms. America / produced by ABC News Productions in association with A&E Network. | VID 164 | BIOGRAPHY | Follows the life of the leader of the modern Women's Movement from a troubled and impoverished childhood to the forefront of feminism. | |
| Glorifying the American girl. | VID 584 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | A show business success story. A department store song-girl dances her way to the Ziegfeld Follies, but loses her boyfriend in the process. | |
| Glory of the Bolshoi / an NVC Arts production ; produced by Julia Matheson, Carl Simons ; executive producer, John Kelleher. | DVD 229 | DANCE | During the Bolshoi Ballet's first tours abroad in the mid-20th century, Western audiences were brought to their feet by the Bolshoi style-thrilling athleticism that never lost the essential beauty of the dance. Five years research in Russia's film archives has unearthed fascinating footage, much of it never before available in the West, of many of the company's great dancers. | |
| Glory of the Bolshoi / NVC arts ; produced by Julia Matheson and Carl Simons. | VID 240 | DANCE | During the Bolshoi Ballet's first tours abroad in the mid-20th century, Western audiences were brought to their feet by the Bolshoi style-thrilling athleticism that never lost the essential beauty of the dance. Five years research in Russia's film archives has unearthed fascinating footage, much of it never before available in the West, of many of the company's great dancers. | |
| Glory of the Kirov / NVC arts ; produced by Julia Matheson and Carl Simons. | VID 239 | DANCE | From the early days of this century, the Maryinsky Ballet, later the Kirov, dazzled audiences with the beauty of the dance. Five years research in Russia's archives has unearthed fascinating footage, much of it never before available in the West, of many of the company's great dancers. | |
| Glory of the Kirov / Produced by Julia Matheson and Carl Simons ; NVC Arts ; Kultur. | DVD 235 | DANCE | From the early days of this century, the Maryinsky Ballet, later the Kirov, dazzled audiences with the beauty of the dance. Five years research in Russia's archives has unearthed fascinating footage, much of it never before available in the West, of many of the company's great dancers. | |
| God grew tired of us / [presented by] Newmarket Films in association with Silver Nitrate a National Geographic Films/LBS production produced by Molly Bradford Pace, Christopher Quinn, Tommy Walker written by Christopher Quinn directed by Christopher Quinn. | DVD 757 | DOCUMENTARIES | Explores the indomitable spirit of three Lost Boys from the Sudan who are forced to leave their homeland due to a tumultuous civil war. Chronicles their triumph over seemingly insurmountable adversities and a relocation to the United States, where the Lost Boys build active and fulfilling new lives but remain deeply committed to helping friends and family they have left behind. | |
| God sleeps in Rwanda / written, directed and produced by Kimberlee Acquaro and Stacy Sherman. | DVD 292 | WOMEN'S STUDIES | Examines the lives of five Rwandan women as they attempt to rebuild their lives following the 1994 genocide. | |
| Good night, and good luck / Warner Independent Pictures and 2929 Entertainment and Participant Productions in associations with Davis Films, Redbus Pictures and Tohokashinsha present a Section Eight production produced by Grant Heslov screenplay by George Clooney & Grant Heslov directed by George Clooney. | DVD 600 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Takes place in the 1950's America, during the early days of broadcast journalism. It chronicles the real-life conflict between television newsman Edward R. Murrow and Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee. With a desire to report the facts and enlighten the public, Murrow, and his dedicated staff - headed by his producer Fred Friendly and Joe Wershba in the CBS newsroom - defy corporate and sponsorship pressures to examine the lies and scaremongering tactics perpetrated by McCarthy during his communist 'witch-hunts'. A very public feud develops when the Senator responds by accusing the anchor of being a communist. In this climate of fear and reprisal, the CBS crew carries on and their tenacity will prove historic and monumental. | |
| Gosford Park / USA Films presents in association with Capitol Films and the Film Council a Sandcastle 5 production in association with Chicagofilms and Medusa Film producers, Robert Altman, Bob Balaban, David Levy writer, Julian Fellowes director, Robert Altman. | DVD 596 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Drama set at the country estate of Sir William McCordle in 1932, showing the lives of upstairs guests and downstairs servants at a hunting party weekend when one of the group is murdered. | |
| Governor who emptied death row : showdate, Wednesday 01/15/2003 / Harpo Productions. | VID 406 | POLITICS | 167 men and women sentenced to die have been spared. Former Governor George H. Ryan talks about his landmark decision. Oprah interviews three fully pardoned men, Aaron Patterson, Leroy Orange, Madison Hobley, who now walk free as a result. Hear from the families of the victims and the departing governor at the center of it all. | |
| Grace Paley / Lannan Foundation presents ; directed by Dan Griggs. | VID 465 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | A feminist and an anti-war activist, Grace Paley read three stories, Friends, Love, and Mother. She was interviewed by Carol Muske. | |
| Graduate / an Embassy Pictures release ; screenplay by Calder Willingham and Buck Henry ; produced by Lawrence Turman ; directed by Mike Nichols. | DVD 252 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | A recent college graduate from an affluent family is seduced by the wife of his father's business partner, then subsequently falls in love with her daughter. | |
| Grand illusion / Paris-Studios-Cinema ; original screenplay by Charles Spaak and Jean Renoir ; directed by Jean Renoir. | VID 536 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Two French air corps officers, one an aristocrat, are shot down and captured during World War I. In spite of their different class backgrounds, they are drawn together in attempts to escape. The aristocrat sacrifices his own chances in order to aid his companion's escape. | |
| Grapes of wrath / Twentieth Century Fox ; produced by Darryl F. Zanuck ; directed by John Ford ; screenplay by Nunnally Johnson. | VID 538 | LITERARY - CLASSICS | The migration of the Joad family to California from their dust-bowl farm in Oklahoma during the Great Depression. | |
| Gratie d'amore / Filmocentro ; Taller de Danzas Antiguas, y Charles Garth y Elizabeth Aldrich. | VID 44 | DANCE | Demonstrations of European court dances of the late 1500's, based on original descriptions by Thoinot Arbeau, Cesare Negri and Fabritio Caroso. | |
| Great Depression / produced by Towers Productions, Inc. for the History Channel. | VID 202 | v.1-4 | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS | Covers the stock market crash of 1929 to the recovery spurred by the coming of World War II. |
| Great train robbery | DVD 86 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | 100th anniversary special edition | |
| Greek temple : a motion picture documentary on the origins and remains of the magnificent ancient shrines / Universal Education and Visual Arts ; produced and directed by Hans-Joachim Horsfeld. | VID 375 | ARCHTECTURE | Deals with the construction of the Greek temple, focusing on the evolution of the structure and decoration of temples in Magna Grecia through the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian styles. Includes scenes of temples at Delphi, Paestum, Agrigento, Sounion, and the Acropolis. | |
| Grey Gardens / Janus Films, a Maysles Films Inc. production ; producers, David Maysles, Albert Maysles ; directors, David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer and Susan Froemke. | DVD 157 | DOCUMENTARIES | Portrait of the relationship between Edith Bouvier Beale and her grown daughter, Little Edie, once and aspiring actress in New York who left her career to care for her aging mother in their East Hampton home, and never left again. The aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis feed their cats and raccoons and rehash their pasts behind the walls of their decaying mansion, Grey Gardens. | |
| Grizzly man / Lions Gate Films and Discovery Docs present a Werner Herzog film directed and narrated by Werner Herzog produced by Erik Nelson produced by Real Big Production, Inc. | DVD 360 | DOCUMENTARIES | Acclaimed director Werner Herzog explores the life and death of amateur grizzly bear expert and wildlife preservationist Timothy Treadwell, who lived unarmed among grizzlies for 13 summers. | |
| Guerrilla : the taking of Patty Hearst / a Robert Stone film produced and directed by Robert Stone co-producor, Don Kleszy Robert Stone Productions. | DVD 366 | DOCUMENTARIES | On February 4, 1974, college student Patty Hearst (granddaughter of newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst), was kidnapped from her apartment by a terrorist group calling itself the Symbionese Liberation Army. The SLA, seeking to foment a violent uprising within America's working class, forced the Hearst family to donate millions of dollars in food to the poor. But two months after her kidnapping, Patty emerged in public as Tania, an armed member of the SLA who helped her captors to rob a bank. Director Robert Stone uses rare and previously unseen archive footage as well as interviews with former SLA members to explain America's first encounter with modern media-driven political terrorism. | |
| Guess who's coming to dinner / [presented by] Columbia Pictures Corporation ; written by William Rose ; produced and directed by Stanley Kramer. | VID 143 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | When the daughter of well-to-do liberal parents plans to marry a black doctor, both families must sit down face to face and examine each other's level of intolerance. | |
| Guys and dolls / the Samuel Goldwyn Company written for the screen and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. | DVD 729 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | A gentleman-gambler falls in love with a missionary, while a floating crap-game operator avoids marriage to his long-time fiancee. | |
| Hajj : one American's pilgrimage to Mecca, Friday, April 18, 1997 / ABC News Nightline. | VID 500 | RELIGION | Michael Wolfe, an American Muslim, describes the experience of his hajj, or piligrimage to Mecca. | |
| Hamlet / [presented by] Castle Rock Entertainment ; produced by David Barron ; adapted for the screen and directed by Kenneth Branagh. | VID 296 | v.1-2 | LITERARY - SHAKESPEARE | An adaptation of Shakespeare's greatest creation. |
| Hamlet / by William Shakespeare directed by Kevin Kline and Kirk Browning. | DVD 323 | LITERARY - SHAKESPEARE | The timeless story of the burdened Danish prince who must learn to make decisions. | |
| Hamlet, Prince of Denmark / by William Shakespeare ; a BBC-TV production in association with Time-Life Television ; producer, Cedric Messina ; director, Rodney Bennett. | DVD 11 | LITERARY - SHAKESPEARE | A Danish prince avenges the murder of his father, the king, by killing his uncle Claudius who murdered the king, usurped the throne, and married Hamlet's mother, Gertrude. Hamlet, considered the most complex of all Shakespeare's characters, examines the fundamental issues of justice, guilt, and death. | |
| Hannah and her sisters / an Orion Pictures release produced by Robert Greenhut written and directed by Woody Allen. | DVD 534 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | A look at three sisters and the relationship they have with one another, and with the men in their lives. | |
| Happy days / [written by] Samuel Beckett ; a presentation of Thirteen/WNET New York ; produced by Joseph Papp & David Heeley ; directed by David Heeley | DVD 91 | LITERARY - CLASSICS | Happy days tells the story of Winnie, an eternal optimist facing the harsh realities of the world with a smile and impenetrable cheerfulness. Samuel Beckett captures her, in his words, laughing wild amid severest woe." With aching and audacious humor, Beckett probes humankind's search for meaning and questions the relationships that bind one person to another" | |
| Hard day's night / Miramax Films ; a Walter Shenson production ; original screenplay by Alun Owen ; produced by Walter Shenson ; directed by Richard Lester. | DVD 56 | v.1-2 | MUSIC | A lively, good-natured spoof of Beatlemania" portraying a frantic 36 hours in the lives of the rock group." |
| Harlan County U.S.A. / a Cabin Creek film production produced and directed by Barbara Kopple. | DVD 293 | HISTORY | Chronicles the 1973 Harlan County, Kentucky coal miners' strike against the operators of the Brookside mine and the Duke Power Company, which resulted from the company's refusal to honor the national contract of the United Mine Workers of America when the miners joined the union. | |
| Harrison Salisbury : author, Tiananmen diary : thirteen days in June. | VID 80 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | An interview with author Harrison Salisbury, who discusses his book Tiananmen diary: thirteen days in June. | |
| Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets / a Warner Bros. Pictures presentation a Heyday Films/1492 Pictures production a Chris Columbus film produced by David Heyman screenplay by Steve Kloves directed by Chris Columbus. | DVD 681 | Disc 1-2 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | About to enter his second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter is visited by a house-elf named Dobby and warned not to return. Harry ignores his warning and returns to Hogwarts, where strange things begin to happen, as people are becoming petrified, Harry hears a voice which seems to be coming from within the walls, and Harry's newly-discovered and unsettling ability to communicate with snakes turns even his friends against him. |
| Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban / Warner Bros. Pictures directed by Alfonso Cuarón screenplay by Steve Kloves produced by David Heyman, Chris Columbus, Mark Radcliffe. | DVD 680 | Disc 1-2 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Harry, Ron and Hermione, now teenagers, return for their third year at Hogwarts. There they are forced to face escaped prisoner Sirius Black, who poses a great threat to Harry. In addition to new experiences, Harry must overcome the threats of Dementors, outsmart a werewolf, and finally deal with the truth about Sirius and his relationship with his parents. Harry and friends master advanced magic classes, cross time barriers, and change the course of more than one life. |
| Hayden Carruth / the Lannan Foundation ; directed by Dan Griggs. | VID 448 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | Hayden Carruth is a distinguished poet, essayist, and editor. He is 'a people's poet, readily understood, a tribune of our common humanity, welfare and plight. Carruth is also a poet's poet, a virtuoso of form from the sonnet to free verse, from medieval metrics to jazz ones'--The Nation. Mr Carruth read from his Collected shorter poems, 1946-1991, which received a National Book Critics Circle Award, on November 9, 1993, in Los Angeles. He talked about his poetry with Michael Silverblatt"--Container." | |
| Hedda Gabler / Yorkshire Television Granada International produced by Pat Sandys adapted by John Osborne written by Henrik Ibsen directed by David Cunliffe. | DVD 711 | THEATRE | An ambitious woman feels trapped in the stifiling environment of a 19th century marriage, when an old flame suddenly reappears in her life. Hedda uses her charms to manipulate and destroy him, leading to a tragic fate for herself and everyone she loves. | |
| Henry V / Samuel Goldwyn Company ; Renaissance Films PLC, in association with the BBC and Curzon Film Distributors Ltd. | VID 251 | LITERARY - SHAKESPEARE | Young King Henry of England asserts a hereditary claim to the throne of France, gathering an army and embarking on a course that will lead to one of England's greatest battlefield triumphs and forever change the face of Europe. | |
| Hercule Poirot's Christmas / London Weekend Television producer, Brian Eastman director, Edward Bennett dramatized by Clive Exton. | DVD 273 | LITERARY - CONTEMPORARY | Hercule Poirot and Chief Inspector Japp decide to work over the Christmas holiday and find themselves solving the murder of rich, older gentleman. | |
| Hey, Mr. Producer! : the musical world of Cameron Mackintosh. | VID 218 | MUSIC | ||
| High lonesome : the story of bluegrass music / Northside Films ; a film by Rachel Liebling ; written and directed by Rachel Liebling ; produced by Rachel Liebling and Andrew E. Serwer. | VID 516 | MUSIC | Evolution of the bluegrass style under gospel and country music influences as typified by the career of mandolin artist Bill Monroe. | |
| Highlighting small business / produced by Dallas Telecourses, Dallas County Community College District, in cooperation with Houghton Mifflin Co. ; producer/director, Hector de Luna, Mark Birnbaum ; writers, Jean Compton, Kathryn Morath. | VID 224 | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS | Defines small business and describes its role in the business community, identifies the advantages and disadvantages of small businesses relative to large businesses, explains the process of starting a small business and the causes of failures, and describes the concept and advantages of franchising. | |
| Hiroshima mon amour / Argos Films, Como Films, Daiei Motion Picture et Pathe Overseas Productions réalisation, Alain Resnais scenario et dialoques, Marguerite Duras directeurs de production, Sacha Kamenka, Shirakawa Takeo producteur délégué, Samy Halfon. | DVD 530 | FOREIGN LANGUAGE | A Japanese architect and a French actress engage in a brief intense affair in Hiroshima in 1959. Both deal with their personal memories of World War II--he by articulating his firsthand experience with nuclear disaster, she by remembering her traumatic affair with a German soldier. | |
| History of the 80's / MPI Home Video An ABC News Production, in association with Bolthead Communications Group Executive producer, Robert Frye producer, Rockwell Stensrud. | DVD 619 | Disc 1-3 | HISTORY | A dramatic and enlightening program that revisits the events, places and profiles that created headlines and shaped history. |
| Hitler and Stalin : roots of evil / produced by Anthony Potter directed by Diane Lechtiz written by Anthony Potter & Kara Dusenbury. | DVD 552 | DOCUMENTARIES | Examines the private demons of Hitler and Stalin that led to their ruthlessness. Compares them and gives information in depth. | |
| Hockney at the Tate / produced and directed by Alan Benson ; edited and presented by Melvyn Bragg. | VID 105 | ART | To mark David Hockney's 50th birthday, London's Tate Gallery staged a major retrospective of his work. Melvyn Bragg joins Hockney for an exclusive, private showing of the exhibition in which they discuss works from all stages of Hockney's remarkable career. | |
| Hockney the photographer / London Weekend Television ; produced by Nick Evans ; directed by Don Featherstone. | VID 102 | ART | Hockney participates in the making of a film about himself and his philosophy of photography as an art, and compares it to his paintings. | |
| Holbein's Ambassadors / produced by the National Gallery Audio Visual Unit ; written by Alexander Sturgis with Susan Foister. | VID 259 | ART | This video, filmed from the 1997 ESSO Exhibition at the National Gallery, looks at Hans Holbein's great masterpieces that were recently cleaned and restored in the Gallery's collection. | |
| Hollywood without make-up / Filmaster ; produced by Ken Murray ; directed by Rudy Behlmar, Loring D. D'Usseau ; written by Royal Foster. | VID 525 | DOCUMENTARIES | A collection of Ken Murray's home movies of famous Hollywood stars. | |
| Home / directed by Lindsay Anderson ; NET ; producer, Jac Venza ; writer, David Storey ; directed by Lindsay Anderson. | DVD 180 | DOCUMENTARIES | Home", follows the interaction of five patients over the course of a single afternoon in the garden of what we can fairly assume is an English mental hospital." | |
| Hoop dreams / a film by Steve James, Fred Marx, Peter Gilbert ; a production of Kartemquin Films and KTCA Public Television, Saint Paul, Minneapolis ; produced by Frederick Marx, Steve James, Peter Gilbert ; directed by Steve James ; co-producer, Gordon Quinn ; executive producers, Gordon Quinn, Catherine Allan. | DVD 251 | DOCUMENTARIES | Filmed over a five-year period, this documentary follows the lives of two inner-city kids with aspirations to play professional basketball. | |
| Horst : sixty years and still in vogue / producers, Nicola A Waddell, Sarah Teale ; director, Gerald Scarfe ; a Front Street Films principal production for BBC TV in association with Amaya Distribution. | VID 295 | FASHION | Examines the life and work of Horst. Known for some of the most beautiful fashion images ever created, Horst was the first photographer to have an exhibit at the Louvre. | |
| House on the waterfall the story of Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpiece / a production of WQED Pittsburgh. | VID 368 | ARCHTECTURE | Frank Lloyd Wright sought to bring beauty of natural things into the great buildings he created. Fallingwater is the essense of Wright's life-long love affair with nature. | |
| How art made the world : how humans made art and art made us human / a BBC TV production in association with KCET Hollywood series producer, Mark Hedgecoe produced and directed by Francis Whately, Ben McPherson, Martin Wilson, Nick Murphy and Robin Dashwood. | DVD 318 | v.1-2 | ART | Reveals how the first big artistic discoveries were made and how they have cascaded down the centuries to define the look of the present day. Encompassing everything from cave paintings to ceramics and pyramids to palaces, this film explores the global trend for unrealistic depictions of the human body the secret powers of the feature film how politicians manage to manipulate people so easily visions of death and the afterlife and why we use imagery at all. |
| How difficult can this be? : understanding learning disabilities : frustration, anxiety, tension, the F.A.T. city workshop / produced and directed by Peter Rosen workshop designed and presented by Richard D. Lavoie produced for Eagle Hill School Outreach by Peter Rosen Productions, Inc. | DVD 561 | EDUCATION | A group experiences life the way a learning disabled student does and learns methods of teaching and helping such students. | |
| How difficult can this be? : understanding learning disabilities : frustration, anxiety, tension, the F.A.T. city workshop / produced and directed by Peter Rosen workshop designed and presented by Richard D. Lavoie produced for Eagle Hill School Outreach by Peter Rosen Productions, Inc. | DVD 561 | Book | EDUCATION | A group experiences life the way a learning disabled student does and learns methods of teaching and helping such students. |
| How to dance through time. Volume 1, The romance of mid-19th century couple dances / production, Dancetime Publications. | VID 282 | v.1-2 | DANCE | Instruction on mid-19th century ballroom couple dances. Covered in this program are: the waltz, the gallop, the polka, the schottische, and the polka mazurka. Each dance segement is introduced by a brief presentation of historical information. |
| How to lose a guy in 10 days / Paramount Pictures presents a Robert Evans/Christine Peters production and a Lynda Obst production a Donald Petrie film producers, Lynda Obst, Robert Evans, Christine Peters screenplay writers, Kristen Buckley, Brian Regan, Burr Steers director, Donald Petrie. | DVD 379 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Andi is the How to columnist at a trendy women's magazine who needs to prove she can pick up any guy and dump him in 10 days. And in order for Ben to win an advertising presentation, he needs to prove he can make any woman fall in love with him in 10 days. Now that they are a couple and the clock is ticking, anything goes ... | |
| How to talk to a person who can't hear / starring Anthony Natale and hosted by Beth Ruyak. Written and produced by Christine Jenkins ; directed by Brady Connell. | VID 140 | SIGN LANGUAGE | Teaches over 300 signs in a fun and unusual way. | |
| Huey Long / produced by Ken Burns, Richard Kilberg ; writer, Geoffrey C. Ward. | VID 510 | BIOGRAPHY | Documentary on the life and times of Huey Long, who became Louisiana's governor and senator. Includes interviews with people who remember Long, both favorably and not so favorably. | |
| I have a dream / Maljack Productions, Inc. | VID 153 | HISTORY | Martin Luther King's speech at the Lincoln Memorial, August 28, 1963. | |
| I have a dream / Martin Luther King, Jr. | VID 601 | HISTORY | Presents Dr. King giving his famous speech in Washington, D.C. on August 28, 1963. | |
| I hear America singing / Thomas Hampson. | VID 175 | MUSIC | Celebration of America's rich tradition of concert song in an entertaining program featuring music by Foster, Copland, Bernstein, Barber, Ives and other. | |
| I know why the caged bird sings / Tomorrow Entertainment. | VID 152 | LITERARY - CONTEMPORARY | Young Maya leads a precarious existence in racist, Depression-era Arkansas, where she is shunted between her grandmother's house and mother's -- where she is raped -- and withdraws into total silence. She endures to share her realization in her valedictory address: In order to lift your voice, you have to lift your head. | |
| I like killing flies / Red Envelope Entertainment Thinkfilm [Mortal Films] directed, photographed, edited by Matt Mahurin. | DVD 477 | DOCUMENTARIES | With more than 900 items on its menu, all made from scratch in a tiny kitchen humming with improvised Rube Goldberg-like contraptions, Shopsin's has long been a quirky gem of New York food culture. Follows Kenny Shopsin, his family and customers as the restaurant looks for a new place to go. | |
| Idomeneo : opera seria in tre atti, K. 366 / a production of Unitel and BFMI in co-production with Classica in co-operation with Salzburg Festival music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart libretto by Gianbattista Varesco. | DVD 298 | v.1-2 | LITERARY - CLASSICS | During a storm at sea, Idomeneo, King of Crete, vows to the god Neptune that, if he survives, he will sacrifice the first human he meets on shore, which turns out to be his son, Idamante. |
| I'm not there / the Weinstein Company presents an Endgame Entertainment production a Killer Films/John Wells and John Goldwyn production a VIP Medienfonds 4 production in association with Rising Star in association with Grey Water Park Productions produced by James D. Stern, John Sloss, John Goldwyn produced by Christine Vachon story by Todd Haynes screenplay by Todd Haynes & Oren Moverman directed by Todd Haynes. | DVD 798 | Disc 1-2 | CINEMA | Depicting the different stages and changes in Bob Dylan's career, six actors each portray the musician at different points of his life, creating a patchwork of personalities, attitudes, interests and ambitions. |
| Imitation of life / [presented by] Universal International produced by Ross Hunter screenplay by Eleanore Griffin and Allan Scott directed by Douglas Sirk. | DVD 354 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | The story of two widows and their troubled daughters. In the search for success as an actress, Lora neglects her daughter. Lora's black housekeeper's daughter repudiates her mother by trying to pass for white. As the years pass, each of the four women realizes that she has been living an emotionally fruitless existence. | |
| In a brilliant light : van Gogh in Arles / a film by Gene Searchinger ; presented by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh and the Vincent van Gogh Foundation. | VID 314 | ART | Tells the story of Van Gogh's 444 days in the south of France focusing on works of art rather than on the life of the artist. This film was made in the Netherlands and in Provence, using the artist's original canvases. | |
| In Bruges / Focus Features presents in association with Film 4 a Blueprint Pictures production in association with Scion Films produced by Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin written and directed by Martin McDonagh. | DVD 414 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Hit men Ray and Ken have been ordered to cool their heels in the storybook city of Bruges (it's in Belgium) after finishing a big job. But since hit men make the worst tourists, they soon find themselves in a life-and-death struggle of comic proportions against one very angry crime boss. | |
| In the cut / Screen Gems presents Pathé Productions, Ltd. presents a Laurie Parker production, a Jane Campion film produced by Laurie Parker, Nicole Kidman screenplay by Jane Campion, Susanna Moore directed by Jane Campion. | DVD 722 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | A lonely young woman in New York City gets tangled up in a murder investigation when a severed head is found in her garden. When she becomes involved with the homicide detective on the case, she realizes that the prime suspect may be closer than she likes to think. | |
| In the realms of the unreal : the mystery of Henry Darger / directed, produced, written and edited by Jessica Yu produced by Susan West Independent Television Service Diorama Films. | DVD 367 | ART | Henry Darger, an elderly recluse, spent his childhood in an Illinois asylum for feeble-minded children and his adulthood working as a janitor. He lived a quiet, nearly solitary existence, but his imaginary life was exciting, colorful and sexually provocative. When he died in Chicago in 1973, his landlady discovered in his room 300 paintings, some over 10 feet long, and a 15,000 page illustrated novel (The realms of the unreal), which told the epic story of the virtuous Vivian Girls, seven angelic sisters who lead a rebellion against godless, child-enslaving men. Darger's work is now show in galleries around the world. | |
| In times past / produced, directed, and written by Ann Biswas. | VID 561 | v.1 | HISTORY | These programs employ radio broadcasts and archival photographs and footage to recreate bygone eras in America. Reminiscences by people who remember the beginning days of radio and had first-hand experiences of earlier forms of travel bring life to these aspects of our nation's history. |
| Incident at Vichy / a presentation of KCET Los Angeles ; executive producer, Norman Lloyd ; produced by George Turpin ; [written] by Arthur Miller ; directed by Stacy Keach. | DVD 97 | LITERARY - CLASSICS | Television adaptation of Arthur Miller's play, set in a detention room in Vichy in 1942, where a number of Jews await interrogation before being sent to concentration camps. Issues of personal responsibility are explored through the character of an Austrian prince who has been guilty of silent complicity during the German occupation of France. | |
| Indians of North America : Video collection II / Schlessinger Video Productions. | VID 141 | v.1-10 | CULTURAL STUDIES | Ten outstanding additions to the distinguished Indians of North America Video Collection I, these new titles cogently present the culture of Native Americans, their contemporary and historical struggles, and their relationships with non-native society. |
| Ingmar Bergman collection . | DVD 248 | v.1-6 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | v.1: Persona ; v.2: Hour of the world ; v.3: Shame ; v.4: The passion of Anna ; v.5: The serpent's egg ; v.6: Supplemental materials |
| Inherit the wind / MGM/United Artists. | VID 530 | LITERARY - CLASSICS | Tracy and March square off as opposing attorneys in this dramatization of the famous 1925 Monkey Trial in Tennessee, in which John Scopes, a biology teacher, was arrested, tried and convicted for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution in the schoolroom. | |
| Inside 9/11 / produced by Towers Productions Inc. for National Geographic Channel. | DVD 676 | Disc 1-2 | HISTORY | Presents an examination of the events of September 11, 2001, tracing a time line that led up to the terrorist attacks and the subsequent government response. |
| Inside the actors studio. Leading men / a co-production of The Actors Studio and Bravo Network. | DVD 611 | v.1-3 | FILM | James Lipton interviews four prominent actors: Russell Crowe, Sean Penn, Robert De Niro, and Al Pacino. |
| Inside the teenage brain / a Spin Free Production for FRONTLINE/WGBH in association with CTV and Discovery Cnannel Canada ; written, produced and directed by Sarah Spinks. | VID 409 | PSYCHOLOGY | It's the mystery of mysteries - especially to parents. Now the experts are exploring the recesses of the brain and finding explanations for why adolescents behave the way they do and how the new discoveries can change the way we teach, or perhaps even understand, our teenagers--Container. | |
| Interview with Allen Schick : budget reconciliation / Capital agenda. | VID 83 | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS | Originally broadcast on C-Span, the program features an interview with Allen Schick, professor of public policy at the University of Maryland, on reconciliation, the process of cutting the federal budget by raising federal revenues and reducing expenditures. Ed Maddox is the C-SPAN guest host. | |
| Into great silence / Bavaria Film International presents a Philip Gröning Film production in co-association with Ventura Film S.A., Bavaria Film GmbH, Cine Plus a film by Philip Gröning producers, Philip Gröning, Michael Weber, Andres Pfaffli, Elda Guidinetti co-producer, Frank Evers screenplay, Philip Gröning director, Philip Gröning. | DVD 604 | v.1-2 | RELIGION | The Grande Chartreuse, considered one of the world's most ascetic monasteries is based in the French Alps. In 1984, German filmmaker Philip Gröning wrote to the Carthusian order for permission to make a documentary about them. They said they would get back with him. Sixteen years later, they were ready. Gröning, sans crew or artificial lighting, lived in the monks' quarters for six months - filming their daily prayers, tasks, rituals, and rare outdoor excursions. -- Container. |
| Into the wild / Paramount Vantage and River Road Entertainment present a Square One C.I.H./Linson Film production produced by Sean Penn, Art Linson, William Pohlad screenplay and directed by Sean Penn. | DVD 801 | CINEMA | Freshly graduated from college with a promising future ahead, Christopher McCandless walked out of his privileged life and into the wild in search of adventure. What happened to him on the way transformed this young wanderer into an enduring symbol for countless people, a fearless risk-taker who wrestled with the precarious balance between man and nature. Based on a true story. | |
| Introduction to dance medicine : keeping dancers dancing. | VID 75 | DANCE | Interviews orthopedist Dr. William Hamilton, physical therapists Marika Molner and Katy Keller, and dancers who have suffered injuries, and shows their progress in physical therapy. | |
| Introduction to fashion merchandising / Cambridge Career Products ; Lynne Schwabe, writer/producer ; directed by Patsy Hofmann, Charlotte Angel. | VID 32 | v.1-2 | FASHION | Presents professionals in various segments of the fashion industry discussing their roles at design, production, wholesale, and retail levels. |
| Iron jawed angels / HBO Films presents a Spring Creek production, a Katja von Garnier film ; screenplay by Sally Robinson and Eugenia Bostwick Singer & Raymond Singer and Jennifer Friedes ; directed by Katja von Garnier. | DVD 149 | WOMEN'S STUDIES | Alice Paul and Lucy Burns were two defiant suffragist women who fought for the passage of the 19th Amendment. The two activists broke from the mainstream women's rights movement and created a more radical wing, daring to push the boundaries to secure women's voting rights in 1920. In a country dominated by chauvinism, this is no easy fight. Along the way, sacrifices are made: Alice gives up a chance for love, and collegue Inez Mulholland gives up her life. | |
| Irreducible complexity : the biochemical challenge to Darwinian theory / director, Bill Braun ; produced by Art Battson. | VID 230 | SCIENCE - BIOLOGY | In a public lecture at Princeton University, Dr. Michael Behe addresses a number of questions related to the origin of biological systems: How does the existence of irreducibly complex biochemical systems falsify neo-Darwinian theory? Are there more plausible explanations for the complexity of life? Are we ultimately the result of undirected materialistic processes or the result of intelligent design? Are there other areas of science that point to intelligent design? | |
| Is Wal-Mart good for America? / senior producer, Hedrick Smith ; written by Hedrick Smith & Rick Young ; produced and directed by Rick Young ; WGBH. | DVD 134 | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS | Examines Wal-Mart's importation of Chinese goods into the United States. Discusses that while some economists credit Wal-Mart's focus on low costs with helping contain U.S. inflation, others charge that the company is the main force driving the massive overseas shift to China in the production of American consumer goods, resulting in hundreds of thousands of lost jobs and a lower standard of living in the U.S. | |
| Isabel Bishop : portrait of an artist/ New York Film Co., inc. ; produced by John Beymer, Patricia Depew ; directed by Patricia Depew. | VID 371 | ART | Explores the art of painter Isabel Bishop and how she expresses her experiences and inspirations on canvas. | |
| Isadora Duncan dance : technique and repertory / [presented by] DanceArts Foundation. | VID 72 | DANCE | Includes excerpts from choreography by Isadora Duncan, as performed by Julia Levien in the company of Anna Duncan and Irma Duncan, and staged by Andrea Mantell-Seidel. Includes a History of the Duncan dance schools. | |
| Isfahan is half the world / NHK Documentary international co-producers, Bayerischer Rundefunk/Telepool, Tele Images International. | DVD 569 | DOCUMENTARIES | Explores the culture of the city of IsfahÄn, Iran. | |
| Ishi, the last Yahi / produced and directed by Jed Riffe and Pamela Roberts written by Ann Makepeace. | VID 582 | BIOGRAPHY | Presents a narrated version of the discovery of Ishi, last member of the Yahi Indian tribe, and events in his life after coming into the white man's world. | |
| Ishmael Reed / the Lannan Foundation in association with Metropolitan Pictures and EZTV ; produced and directed by Lewis MacAdams and John Dorr. | VID 430 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | On May 26, 1989, in Venice, Calif., Reed read from his New and selected poems and his novel The terrible threes. Includes portions of an interview with poet Lewis MacAdams. | |
| Islam, a closer look / Taibah International Aid Association. | VID 499 | RELIGION | Discusses the tenets and modern practice of Islam. | |
| Islam, empire of faith / a Gardner Films production in association with PBS and Devillier Donegan Enterprises ; produced and directed by Robert Gardner ; Jonathan Grupper, series writer. | DVD 49 | RELIGION | Documents the rise and growth of Islam throughout the world, from the birth of Prophet Muhammad in the 6th century through the peak of the Ottoman Empire 1000 years later. Discusses the impact of Islamic civilization on world history and culture. | |
| Islam, empire of faith / a Gardner Films production in association with PBS and Devillier Donegan Enterprises ; produced and directed by Robert Gardner ; Jonathan Grupper, series writer. | VID 305 | v.1-2 | RELIGION | Documents the rise and growth of Islam throughout the world, from the birth of Prophet Muhammad in the 6th century through the peak of the Ottoman Empire 1000 years later. Discusses the impact of Islamic civilization on world history and culture. |
| Itzhak Perlman : virtuoso violinist : (I know I played every note) / A Christopher Nupen film ; Allegro Films. | VID 357 | MUSIC | A film about the virtuoso violinist Itzhak Perlman, who first resolved to play the violin at the age of three and a half and went on, despite setbacks, to become an international star. The film was shot from 1975-1977. | |
| Itzhak Perlman spielt Brahms : Johannes Brahms, Konzert für Violine und Orchester D-dur op. 77 ; Itzhak Perlman spielt Beethoven : Ludwig van Beethoven, Konzert für Violine und Orchester D-dur op. 61 / EMI Classics ; Berliner Philharmoniker. | VID 401 | MUSIC | Perlman and the Berliner Philharmoniker perform the great violin concertos composed by Brahms and Beethoven. | |
| Jack Gilbert / the Lannan Foundation ; directed by Dan Griggs. | VID 462 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | Jack Gilbert, who received a Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, read from The great fires' and Monolithos' on November 11, 1995. | |
| Jackie Brown / Miramax Films presents a Band Apart ; a film by Quentin Tarantino. | DVD 61 | v.1 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | A stewardess, a street-tough gun runner, a lonely bail bondsman, a shifty ex-con, a stoned-out beach bunny and an earnest federal agent converge in a quest for a missing half million dollars. |
| Jackson Pollock | VID 257 | ART | Combines archival footage of Jackson Pollock's life and work with reminiscences from his contemporaries, and explores the truth and legends surrounding this controversial painter. | |
| Jacques-Louis David : the passing show / BBC-TV in association with RM Arts ; writer, director, Leslie Megahey. | VID 372 | ART | A look at the times, politics and art of Jacques Louis David, French revolutionary and classically inspired painter who dictated tastes in art for his time and influenced it into the future. | |
| James MacGregor Burns / a production of Public Affairs Television, Inc. ; produced & directed by Gail Pellett. | VID 57 | POLITICS | In an interview with Bill Moyers historian James MacGregor Burns discusses the decline of political parties in presidential politics and problems this has created both in presidential campaigns and in governing from the White House. He also addresses voter apathy in America. | |
| Jandek on Corwood . | DVD 355 | MUSIC | Explores the work of the musician Jandek, who has produced over 30 albums since 1978 without a single live performance. Contains interviews with a broad spectrum of people familiar with Jandek's musical career, including music industry representatives, record store owners, disc jockeys and music critics. | |
| Janet Suzman on acting in Shakespearean comedy / a BBC production in association with Dramatis Personae Ltd. | DVD 573 | THEATRE | Janet Suzman explains the fine points of acting in Shakespearean comedy through discussion and examples. | |
| Japan : land of the rising sun / Ronald Mark Miller, executive producer. | VID 184 | v.1-2 | HISTORY | A video trip through two thousand years of Japanese history. |
| Japan experience : Tokyo to Taiwan / produced by Pilot Productions. | VID 170 | TRAVEL | An adventurous, independent traveler rides the bullet train, visits a Buddhist shrine, tours the peace museum in Nagasaki, and more. | |
| Jaune Quick-to-See Smith / Native American Public Broadcasting Consortium, Inc. ; writer/director, Tony Schmitz ; producer, Jack Peterson. | VID 304 | ART | Native American artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith is shown at work outdoors and in her studio and talks about her background and various influences on her art. | |
| Jazz / a Florentine Films production ; produced by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick ; a film [directed] by Ken Burns ; written by Geoffrey C. Ward. | DVD 45 | v.1-10 | MUSIC | Documentary exploring the history of jazz from its beginnings through the 1990's, including the stories of many of its creators and performers. Includes archival video, still photographs, historical performances, and newly recorded interviews and musical performances. |
| Jazz changes [videorecording] : a retrospective of jazz dances and dances set to jazz 1948 to 1974 / Daniel Nagrin Theatre, Film and Dance Foundation. | DVD 649 | Disc 1-2 | MUSIC | This program is a retrospective of works created by Daniel Nagrin using jazz music. It consists of two acts and a question and answer session with a live audience. The first act features performances of Cakewalk, Charleston, Lindy Hop, and The Blues. Nagrin also gives historical and sociological context to each of these dances and discusses their places in U.S. culture. The second act presents Nagrin performing Strange Hero, Jazz: Three Ways, Not Me But Him, and Sweet Woman. From publisher description. |
| Jazz hoofer : the story of the legendary Baby Laurence / [directed by] Bill Hancock. | VID 30 | DANCE | Documents the life and career of famed black tap dancer Baby Laurence of Baltimore. Filmed sequences were shot in New York not long before he died. | |
| Jazz icons [Series 1] | DVD 390 | Ser.1 Pt. 1 - 9 | MUSIC | Jazz Icons is an ongoing DVD series featuring full-length concerts and in-studio performances by the greatest legends of jazz, filmed all over the world from the 1950s thorugh the 1970s --Container of Chet Baker disc. |
| Jazz icons [Series 2] | DVD 391 | Ser.2 Pt. 1 - 8 | MUSIC | Jazz Icons is an ongoing DVD series featuring full-length concerts and in-studio performances by the greatest legends of jazz, filmed all over the world from the 1950s thorugh the 1970s --Container of Charles Mingus disc. |
| Jazz icons. [Series 3] / producers, David Peck, Phillip Galloway & Tom Gulotta for Reelin' in the Years Productions. | DVD 505 | Ser.3 Pt.1-8 | MUSIC | Jazz icons is an ongoing DVD series featuring full-length concerts and in-studio performances by the greatest legends of jazz, filmed all over the world from the 1950's through the 1970's --Containers. |
| Jazz Tap Ensemble U.S.A. : at the Riverside Studios, London. | VID 219 | DANCE | The Jazz Tap Ensemble perform 8 contemporary pieces of original choreography, integrating spoons, wood blocks, harmonica and other instruments with their tap dancing. | |
| Jesus camp / A & E Indiefilms and Magnolia Pictures present a Loki Films production directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady. | DVD 697 | RELIGION | Follows Levi, Rachael, 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 soldiers in 'God's army'. The film follows these children as they hone their 'prophetic gifts' and are schooled in how to 'take back America for Christ' --Container. | |
| JFK, a presidency revealed / A & E Television Networks. | DVD 748 | Disc 1-2 | HISTORY | A comprehensive portrait of John F. Kennedy, complete with rarely-heard recordings of JFK and RFK, interviews with personal confidantes, insiders and highly-placed sources, and home videos of the Kennedy family. |
| Jihad! in America / produced by SAE Productions, Inc. executive producer, Steven Emerson produced and directed by Frank Koughan, Martin Koughan. | DVD 407 | DOCUMENTARIES | Features videos of militants' meetings in the United States, interviews with leading law enforcement and government officials, and discussions about the civil liberties issues our society faces in dealing with the threat of terrorism. | |
| Jindabyne / a Sony Pictures Classics release, April Films presents with Film Finance Corporation Australia and Babcock & Brown in association with Redchair Films producer Catherine Jarman writer Beatrix Christian director Ray Lawrence. | DVD 745 | CINEMA | A group of men discover the body of an Aborigine girl in an Australian fishing hole. Instead of reporting the murder right away, they wait until they've filled their coolers with fish. Their inaction sets off a scandal that threatens to tear them apart. | |
| Jiri Kylian's Black & white ballets / Nederlands Dans Theater | DVD 106 | DANCE | The ballets represented in the Black and White series are arresting examples of Jiri Kylian's style and fully justify his reputation as one of the most inventive and daring choreographers on today's dance scene. The vitality of his work is underpinned by a musicality so innate that his dancers and the music they move to seem to spring from the same impulse."--Container" | |
| Joan Miró : constellations : the color of poetry. | DVD 784 | ART | A retrospective of Miro's career as an artist, through exclusive access to the Miro Foundation Museum as well as newsreel footage and interviews. Highlights his most famous paintings, Constellations. | |
| John Edgar Wideman / the Lannan Foundation ; directed by Dan Griggs. | VID 445 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | John Edgar Wideman is one of America's premier fiction writers. With language full of sinew and music, he writes about the evolving role of the black man in today's society, chronicling the often brutal and enraging experiences of African Americans who are struggling to survive. He read from The Stories of John Edgar Wideman and work in progress in Los Angeles on April 6, 1993, and talked with Michael Silverblatt"--Container." | |
| John Steinbeck's East of Eden / Warner Bros. Pictures presents screenplay by Paul Osborn directed by Elia Kazan. | DVD 509 | v.1-2 | LITERARY - STEINBECK | The saga of three generations of the Trask and Hamilton families in the early 1900's in Northern California. |
| John Wayne/John Ford film collection. | DVD 322 | v.1-8 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | This collection of films includes "The searchers", "The wings of eagles", "Stagecoach", "The long voyage home", "3 godfathers", "Fort Apache", "She wore a yellow ribbon", and "They were expendable". |
| Jonathan Miller: acting in opera / Jonathan Miller a BBC-TV production in association with Dramatis Personae Ltc. David G. Croft, director. | DVD 570 | THEATRE | Stage rehearsal of La Traviata directed by Jonathan Miller. | |
| José Limón : three modern dance classics / Video Artists International in cooperation with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ; produced and directed by Harvey Hart. | VID 396 | DANCE | Historic telecasts, 1955-1957 from the archives of the CBC, Toronto. | |
| Joseph Beuys, transformer / I.T.A.P. Pictures ; director/producer, John Halpern. | VID 392 | ART | Joseph Beuys speaks about the forms and philosophy of his art while working on the installation of his influential solo exhibition at New York's Guggenheim Museum in 1979. | |
| Joseph Campbell and the power of myth / a production of Apostrophe S Productions, Inc. in association with Alvin H. Perlmutter, Inc. and Public Affairs Television, Inc. ; presented by WNET, New York, WTTW, Chicago. | DVD 75 | v.1-2 | RELIGION | Bill Moyers and Joseph Campbell discuss the themes and roots of human myth which is seen as man's attempt to relate himself to the universe. Starting with various topics Campbell shows both how man creates his universe and is controlled by the myth he has created. |
| Joseph McCarthy : an American inquisitor / produced, directed, and written by Richard O'Regan and Rebecca Haggerty ; produced by Claypoint Productions in association with the A&E Network. | VID 193 | POLITICS | Presents the tale of Senator Joseph McCarthy who made his name by ruining the reputations of others during the Communist witch hunts" of the 1950s." | |
| Journey through dance : technique, improvisation, choreography, performance / Gay Cheney Dance Horizons Video produced in cooperation with the University of North Carolina Learning Resources Center produced by Tim Barkley. | VID 596 | DANCE | Exploration of the basic components of dance and their application in modern dance technique classes, improvisation, choreography and performance. Geared to the student who is interested in studying dance, the video depicts the range and variety of movements taught in typical dance classes, different approaches to improvisation, and the interaction of teachers and students in creating new choreography. | |
| Joy Harjo : with interview by Greg Sarris / Lannan Foundation ; directed by Dan Griggs. | VID 463 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | Joy Harjo reads from In Mad Love and War, She Had Some Horses, Secrets from the Center of the World, and The Woman Who Fell from the Sky. | |
| Joyce Treiman : the artist as voyeur / Joyce Treiman. | VID 101 | ART | Joyce Treiman and others discuss her philosophy and paintings. | |
| Jules and Jim / Les Films du carrosse et S.E.D.I.F. ; adaptation et dialogues, François Truffaut et Jean Gruault | DVD 244 | v.1-2 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | Story of friendship between two artists and their mutual love for the same woman. Considered Truffaut's greatest film. |
| Julius Caesar / by William Shakespeare ; a BBC-TV production in association with Time-Life Television ; producer, Cedric Messina ; director, Herbert Wise. | DVD 19 | LITERARY - SHAKESPEARE | Details the transformation of a noble Athenian from a reckless spendthrift to a mad misanthrope.;"A play about power, assassination and revenge. Presents a broad range of historical personalities as complicated human beings in agonizing conflict with one another and themselves." | |
| Jungfrukällan = The virgin spring / Janus Films [presented by] Svensk Filmindustri manuscript efter en legend visa från 1300-talet, Ulla Isaksson regi, Ingmar Bergman. | DVD 500 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | A peasant girl is raped and murdered in 14th century Sweden. When her killers seek shelter in her father's house, he kills them to avenge her death. Soon a spring appears from where the girl was killed and her father sees this as a sign from above. | |
| Juno / Fox Searchlight Pictures presents a Mandate Pictures/ Mr. Mudd production, a Jason Reitman film produced by Lianne Halfon, John Malkovich, Mason Kovick, Russell Smith written by Diablo Cody directed by Jason Reitman. | DVD 754 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Juno MacGuff is sixteen years old. After a one-time sexual encounter with her best friend Paulie, she learns that she's pregnant. Juno and Paulie like each other, but not enough to start a family, complete with a child. Paulie leaves all the decisions about the baby to Juno. During her pregnancy, which she treats with care but detachment, her relationships develop. | |
| Just between me and me : a training video for residence life staff. | VID 136 | EDUCATION | Provides an overview of important and relevant issues encountered by resident assistants. | |
| Just do it! : the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre / a Walkabout Production. | VID 107 | THEATRE | Promotional video introducing prospective acting students to the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York. | |
| Justice Clarence Thomas : a visit with college students | VID 96 | POLITICS | Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas speaks at Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau. He emphasizes that judges make decisions by applying the laws as they perceive them to the facts which are presented. | |
| Justice Harry Blackmun | VID 86 | POLITICS | Justice Blackmun discusses the 1988 Supreme Court term, and comments on Supreme Court life and on the other justices. | |
| Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg / C-SPAN. | VID 60 | POLITICS | Justice Ginsburg talks about women's issues in the law and cases she has been involved with. Afterward Justice Ginsburg answers questions from the audience. | |
| Justice Sandra Day O'Connor / Joan Konner, senior executive producer ; Richard Petrow, executive producer ; Bill Moyers, executive editor. | VID 65 | POLITICS | Bill Moyers conducts Justice O'Connor's first television interview with conversation ranging from her career and the status of women in U.S. society to the activities of the Supreme Court and selected recent decisions of that Court. | |
| Justice with Michael Sandel / Public Affairs Television ; produced and directed by Gail Pellett. | VID 19 | POLITICS | Michael Sandel, professor of political philosophy at Harvard University, sets forth his views on what is needed for self-government to survive under modern conditions. | |
| Kaguyahime = the moon princess / Nederlands Dans Theater ; choreography by Ji?í Kylián | DVD 113 | DANCE | The story of the moon princess who descends to earth and is cared for by the family of a bamboo cutter. Her luminous beauty is meant to spread peance and happiness, but instead the rivalry her heavenly presence provokes results in war | |
| Kandinsky : a film / directed by Andre S. Labarthé ; a co-production of RM Arts, TFI, Center Georges Pompidou, Bayerischer Rundfunk. | VID 374 | ART | Paintings at a major retrospective at the Paris Centre Pompidou highlight the work of Kandinsky, who painted the first totally abstract painting. | |
| Kansas City / [presented by] Fine Line Features a Sandcastle 5/CIBY 2000 co-production written by Robert Altman & Frank Barhydt produced and directed by Robert Altman. | DVD 555 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Set in 1934 Kansas City. A telegraph operator named Blondie kidnaps Carolyn Stilton, wife of a powerful businessman who commutes to Washington to advise President Roosevelt. Blondie figures she can use Carolyn to gain safe passage for her husband Johnny, who is in the grip of the city's top gangster, a club owner named Seldom Seen. The movie unfolds in the dark streets of the downtown kansas City night. | |
| Käthe Kollwitz . | VID 365 | ART | The life and works of German artist Käthe Kollwitz. | |
| Kay Boyle / the Lannan Foundation in association with Metropolitan Pictures and EZTV ; produced and directed by Lewis MacAdams and John Dorr. | VID 428 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | Kay Boyle, who has published more than 30 books in a rich career that stretches back to Paris in the 20's, gives her final performance at the Los Angeles Theatre Center and is interviewed by Sean Wong--Container. | |
| Kazuo Ishiguro / the Lannan Foundation ; directed by Dan Griggs. | VID 461 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | Mr. Ishiguro read from his fourth novel, The unconsoled' on October 19, 1995.--Container. | |
| Kevin Phillips : author of The politics of rich and poor : wealth and the American electorate in the Reagan aftermath. | VID 50 | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS | An interview with author Kevin P. Phillips, who discusses his book The politics of rich and poor. | |
| Khmer Court Dance / produced by Sam-Ang Sam, Naomi H. Bishop ; video director, John Bishop ; dance director, Chan Moly Sam ; commentator, Paul Cravath. | VID 299 | DANCE | A collection of five authentic dances in the Khmer court repertoire, performed in traditional costume by masters of these dances. | |
| Kiki Smith / producer/director, Paul Tschinkel. | VID 362 | ART | An interview with Kiki Smith, an innovative sculptor in New York City. Covers two of her exhibits at the Fawbush Gallery, New York City, in 1992 and 1993. Also includes interviews with Joe Fawbush and Thomas Jones, her dealers, and Claudia Gould, director of Artist Space, also in New York. | |
| Kill Bill. Vol 2 / an Alliance Atlantis release, Miramax Films presents A Band Apart, a film by Quentin Tarantino produced by Lawrence Bender written & directed by Quentin Tarantino. | DVD 780 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | 'The Bride' was a member of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, lead by her lover 'Bill.' Upon realizing she was pregnant with Bill's child, she decides to escape her life as a killer. She flees to Texas, where she meets a young man, and on the day of their wedding is gunned down by an angry and jealous Bill and other members of the Squad. Four years later, 'The Bride' wakes from a coma, and discovers her baby is gone. She decides to seek revenge upon the five people who destroyed her life and killed her baby. | |
| Kill Bill. Volume 1 / an Alliance Atlantis release, Miramax Films presents A Band Apart, a film by Quentin Tarantino produced by Lawrence Bender written & directed by Quentin Tarantino. | DVD 779 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | 'The Bride' was a member of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, lead by her lover 'Bill.' Upon realizing she was pregnant with Bill's child, she decides to escape her life as a killer. She flees to Texas, where she meets a young man, and on the day of their wedding is gunned down by an angry and jealous Bill and other members of the Squad. Four years later, 'The Bride' wakes from a coma, and discovers her baby is gone. She decides to seek revenge upon the five people who destroyed her life and killed her baby. | |
| Killing screens : media and the culture of violence / executive producer and director, Sut Jhally. | VID 132 | TELEVISION | Explores why there is so much violence on television and its effects on viewers. Addresses psychological, political, social, and developmental impacts of growing and living within a cultural environment of pervasive, ritualized violent representation. | |
| King Lear / by William Shakespeare ; a BBC Television production in association with Time-Life Television ; produced by Shaun Sutton ; directed by Jonathan Miller. | DVD 21 | LITERARY - SHAKESPEARE | Shakespeare's plays in which tragedy occurs when an old king divides his kingdom between his daughters. | |
| King Lear / by William Shakespeare Richard Price & Chris Hunt present a co-production of The Performance Company, Iambic Productions Limited, Thirteen/WNET New York and Channel 4 in association with NHK the Royal Shakespeare Company production produced by Richard Price and Chris Hunt directed by Trevor Nunn and Chris Hunt producer for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Denise Wood. | DVD 687 | LITERARY - SHAKESPEARE | Proposing to divide his vast kingdom amongst his three daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cornelia, Lear devises a test for his offspring to convince him of their suitability and compassion for rule. Goneril and Regan's true colors emerge, they uncover a vast conspiracy of greed and cruelty within the once loyal dynasty. | |
| King Richard the Second / by William Shakespeare ; a BBC-TV production in association with Time-Life Television ; producer, Cedric Messina ; directed by David Giles. | DVD 31 | LITERARY - SHAKESPEARE | Shakespeare's historical play about the dynastic struggle between Richard II and Henry Bolingboke (later Henry IV). | |
| Kinsey / a production of Twin Cities Public Television/TPT and Ark Media for American Experience in association with the BBC produced and directed by Barak Goodman and John Maggio written by Barak Goodman executive producers, Catherine Allan, TPT and Steve Krahnke, WTIU. | VID 562 | BIOGRAPHY | Through interviews with Alfred Kinsey's research assistants, his children, people who took his sex questionnaire, and historians, this documentary assesses Kinsey's remarkable achievements. | |
| Kiss me deadly / United Artists ; Victor Saville present Mickey Spillane's ; screenplay by A.I. Bezzerides ; produced and directed by Robert Aldrich. | DVD 719 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | A detective gives a ride to a half-naked girl, who is abruptly killed by thugs. Almost killed himself, the detective tries to solve the murder. Along the way, he is told to back off by the Feds, a bomb is placed in his car, a friend is killed, and he himself is beaten, drugged, and held hostage. | |
| Kokoro : the heart within / Lorien Productions. | VID 543 | v.1-4 | CULTURAL STUDIES | Describes different aspects of Japanese life. |
| Koyaanisqatsi / Metro Goldwyn Mayer Francis Ford Coppola presents an IRE presentation produced & directed by Godfrey Reggio. | DVD 725 | CINEMA | Koyaanisqatsi is a Hopi Indian word meaning variously: crazy life, life in turmoil, life disintegrating, life out of balance (the subtitle for this film), and a state of life that calls for another way of life. This film presents a concert of visual images set to the music of Philip Glass that progresses from purely natural environments to nature as affected by man, and finally to man's own man made environment that is devoid of nature. | |
| La bataille d'Alger = The battle of Algiers / un film de Gillo Pontecorvo scénario de Franco Solinas production Casbah Films, Igor Film produit par Saadi Yacef. | DVD 356 | v.1-3 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Dramatizes the harrowing events of 1957, a key year in Algeria's struggle for independence from France. Recreates the tumultuous Algerian uprising against the occupying French in the 1950s. As violence escalates on both sides, the French torture prisoners for information and the Algerians resort to terrorism in their quest for independence. Children shoot soldiers at point-blank range, women plant bombs in cafés. The French win the battle, but ultimately lose the war as the Algerian people demonstrate that they will no longer be suppressed. |
| La Bohème / Giacomo Puccini ; production, Franco Zeffirelli ; producer, Clemente D'Alessio ; directed by Kirk Browning. | VID 98 | MUSIC | Metropolitan Opera's production of the opera by Puccini. | |
| La boulangère de Monceau = The girl at the Monceau bakery La carrière de Suzanne = Suzanne's career / Les Films du losange [produit par] Barbet Schroeder [écrit et dirigé par Eric Rohmer]. | DVD 781 | CINEMA | Boulangère de Monceau (26 min.) The narrator pursues one woman, then meets another whom he flirts with until he rediscovers the first --Container.;"Carrière de Suzanne (52 min.) The narrator, a timid Parisian student, and his lecherous friend, both fail to win Suzanne --Container." | |
| La Loire / a co-production of FR3 and Pathe Cinema. | VID 301 | TRAVEL | The longest river in France and the most dangerous, the Loire is neither as spectacular a body of water as the Mississippi nor as busy a waterway as the Rhine. The Loire is instead a portrait of France and its history. | |
| Ladies first : women in music videos / Robin Roberts. | VID 113 | WOMEN'S STUDIES | Accompanies book with the same title. | |
| Ladies sing the blues / The Minnesota Studio ; producer, Tom Jenz ; script, Leigh Kamman. | VID 531 | MUSIC | Historic filmed performances of women blues singers from 1929 through the 1950's. Singers are Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, Billie Holiday, Ida Cole, Sister Rosetta Tharp, Connee Boswell, Dinah Washington, Ruth Brown, Lena Horne, Sarah Vaughn, Helen Humes and Peggy Lee. Includes background information on the singers as well as the performances. | |
| Ladri de biciclette = Bicycle thieves / un film P.D.S. Produzioni de Sica, S.A. sogetto di Cesare Zavattini sceneggiato da Vittorio De Sica, Cesare Zavattini, Suso Cecchi d'Amico ... [et al.] regia, Vittorio De Sica. | DVD 339 | Pt. 1-2 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | In postwar, poverty-stricken Rome, a man, hoping to support his desperate family with a new job, loses his bicycle and main means of transportation to work. With his wide-eyed young son in tow, he sets off to track down the thief. |
| Lagerfeld confidential / Realitism Films presents a film by Rodolphe Marconi. | DVD 700 | FASHION | A look at the life of the man who ruled the House of Chanel for over 20 years through interviews with those who knew him best, including Lagerfeld himself. Features Princess Caroline of Monaco and Nicole Kidman. | |
| Lakota woman / Turner Pictures presents a Fonda Films production ; produced by Fred Berner ; executive producer, Lois Bonfiglio ; written by Bill Kerby ; directed by Frank Pierson. | VID 171 | CULTURAL STUDIES | Anger that's been swirling for 100 years finally explodes. This is the true story of the 1973 uprising that united Native Americans in their fight for survival. One woman rises from ignorance and fear to meet the challenge of her heritage during a bloody siege in which 2,000 Native Americans stood their ground and vowed never to be silent again. | |
| Landmarks of early film / Film Preservation Associates ; produced by David Shepard. | DVD 126 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | Includes short films made by Thomas A. Edison and the Lumière Brothers, Trip to the moon by Georges Méliès, The great train robbery by Edwin S. Porter, and others originally released between 1886 and 1913. | |
| Landmarks of early film. Vol. 2, The magic of Méliès | DVD 127 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | Documentary view of filmmaker, George Méliès' life, integrating rare photographs, early drawings and numerous motion picture clips, charting his life. | |
| L'année dernière à Marienbad / Pierre Courau et Raymond Froment présentent scénario et dialogues, Alain Robbe-Grillet réalisation, Alain Rersnais Terra Film ... [et al.]. | DVD 340 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | A handsome stranger tries to convince a lovely young woman that they had a passionate affair a year ago, 'perhaps at Marienbad, ' but she claims not to remember him. He haunts her mind with images by mixing memory and fantasy, fear and desire. | |
| Larry Heinemann / by Lewis MacAdams and John Dorr ; the Lannan literary series in association with Metropolitan Pictures and EZTV. | VID 434 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | Larry Heinemann reads from his novel Paco's story at the Los Angeles Theatre Center, and is interviewed by Ken Lincoln at the Jackie Robinson Stadium of the University of California, Los Angeles on March 12, 1990. | |
| Lascaux revisited / [directed] by Jacques Willemont ; [scientific director], Norbert Aujoulat ; [film archives], Mario Ruspoli ; Caisse National des Monuments Historiques et des Sites ; Institut National de L'Audiovisuel. | DVD 221 | ART | This the only film of the Lascaux Cave since it was closed to the public in 1963. The film shows almost the entire collection of prehistoric paintings and carvings in the cave. | |
| Last of the breed : live in concert / an Amabassador Entertainment Inc. production produced by Albert Spevak directed by Lawrence Jordan. | DVD 538 | MUSIC | Presents the March 2007 final performance of the Last of the Breed tour of Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, and Ray Price, backed by Ray Benson, Asleep At The Wheel, and Ray Price's Cherokee Cowboys. | |
| Last tango in Paris / United Artists a co-production of PEA Produzioni Europee Associates S.A.S. [and] Les Productions Artistes associes S.A. producer, Alberto Grimaldi director, Bernardo Bertolucci screenplay, Bernardo Bertolucci and Franco Arcalli story, Bernardo Bertolucci. | DVD 520 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | An American widower in Paris, desolate at the unexplained suicide of his wife, plunges into a torrid sexual relationship with a stranger, a young French girl half his age. | |
| Laurence Olivier presents / Granada TV. [Vol. 1]: produced by Derek Granger and Laurence Olivier written by Tennessee Williams and Harold Pinter directed by Robert Moore and Michael Apted. [Vol. 2]: produced by Laurence Olivier and June Howson written by Stanley Houghton and William Inge directed by Silvio Narizzano, June Howson, and Laurence Olivier. [Vol. 3]: producers, Laurence Olivier and Roy Roberts written by Eduardo de Filippo and John Fowles adapted by Keith Waterhouse, Willis Hall, and John Mortimer directed by Alan Bridges and Robert Knights. | DVD 349 | v. 1-3 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | The greatest actor of the 20th century presents six works by great 20th century playwrights. |
| L'avventura / Janus Films, Cino del Duca (Rome) and un film di Michelangelo Antonioni. | DVD 491 | v.1 - 2 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | A girl mysteriously disappears on a yachting trip. While her lover and her best friend search for her across Italy, they begin an affair. Antonioni's penetrating study of the idle upper class offers stinging observations on spiritual isolation and the many meanings of love. --from container. |
| LBJ : a KERA Dallas production in association with David Grubin Productions ; presented by WGBH Boston, WNET New York, and KCET Los Angeles. | VID 66 | pt.1-2 | POLITICS | Covers the span of Lyndon B. Johnson's political life from his early political career through his years of the presidency. |
| Le Corbusier / Universal Education and Visual Arts présente ; réalisation de Carlos Vilardebo ; production, Condor-Film SA. | VID 307 | ARCHTECTURE | Charles Edouard Jeanneret, known as Le Corbusier, was an architect, author, abstract artist, prophet and teaacher. His architectural creations still stand as a monument to the remarkable vision that changed the face of 20th century architecture. This feature explores his revolutionary ideas on architecture and urban renewal, and conducts an in depth tour of his most important buildings. | |
| Le Nozze di Figaro : opera buffa in quattro atti, K. 492 / a production of Unitel GmbH & Co. KG, Munich, and BFMI GmbH, Salzburg, in co-production with ORF, BR and Classica, in co-operation with Salzburg Festival music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. | DVD 301 | v.1-2 | THEATRE | A story following the Count Almaviva and his wife Rosina during their adventures with infidelity and love all in one day. |
| Leaving home : orchestral music in the 20th century / a conducted tour by Simon Rattle. | DVD 154 | v.1-3 | MUSIC | Explores various aspects of orchestral music in the 20th century. Dancing on a volcano - Rhythm - Colour |
| Leaving home : orchestral music in the 20th century / a conducted tour by Simon Rattle. | DVD 154 | v.4-7 | MUSIC | v.4: Three journeys through dark landscapes ; v.5: The American way ; v.6: After the wake ; v.7: Threads |
| Leaving Las Vegas / Lumiere Pictures presents a Lila Cazès production of a Mike Figgis film. | DVD 507 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Two people meet in Las Vegas and form a bond based on unconditional acceptance and mutual respect that will change each of them forever. | |
| L'eclisse / un film di coproduzione, Interopa Film-Cineriz, Paris Film Production soggetto e sceneggiatura, Michelangelo Antonioni, Tonino Guerra hanno collaborato alla sceneggiatura, Elio Bartolini, Ottiero Ottieri prodotto da Robert e Raymond Hakim regia di Michelangelo Antonioni. | DVD 445 | v.1 - 2 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | A young woman, after breaking off an affair with an older man, finds herself in Rome and alone. She becomes friends with a young stockbroker, but after he has an accident, she once again finds herself alone. |
| Legacy / a Nomadic Pictures presents a film by Tod Lending director, producer, writer, Tod Lending. | DVD 456 | DOCUMENTARIES | Chronicle of one family's triumphant journey out of despair. Follow the Collins family over five years as they slowly pull themselves out of a haze of poverty, drug addiction, and violence. | |
| L'enfant sauvage / Les Artistes associés présentent une production, Les Films du carrosse, Les Productions Artistes associés scénario, adaptation et dialogue, François Truffaut et Jean Gruault mise en scène, François Truffaut. | DVD 541 | FOREIGN LANGUAGE | Dramatized account of Dr. Jean-Marc-Gaspard Itard's efforts to civilize a young boy who was discovered living wild in a forest. The boy, named Victor, becomes increasingly divided between his longing for the wilderness and his new life with the doctor. Itard, whose teaching strategies survive today in the Montessori Method, is unsure whether he is helping a savage become human or turning a forest child into a semi-civilized idiot. | |
| Lenny Bruce / Columbus Productions producer, John Magnuson John Magnuson Associates. | DVD 741 | DOCUMENTARIES | Nightclub performance footage of Lenny Bruce. | |
| Leo Braudy : our infatuation with fame. | VID 589 | CULTURAL STUDIES | Author and professor Leo Braudy has focused his studies on the history of fame since ancient times and the phenomenon of celebrity in 20th century America. He traces how our collective attention has shifted from political leaders like Abraham Lincoln to television personalities like Vanna White. In this program he discusses his work with Bill Moyers. | |
| Leonard Bernstein : reaching for the note / a co-production of Thirteen/WNET with Unitel and NHK in association with Channel Four ; directed by Susan Lacy ; produced by Susan Lacy and Margaret Smilow. | DVD 43 | MUSIC | Presents a portrait of Leonard Bernstein, featuring interviews with his brother, children, collaborators and fellow conductors. | |
| Leonard Bernstein at Harvard : the unanswered question," Norton lectures 1973." | DVD 48 | v.1-6 | MUSIC | Leonard Bernstein's six lectures at Harvard on Musical phonology, Musical syntax, Musical semantics, Ambiguity in music, The twentieth century crisis, and The poetry of earth. |
| Leonard Bernstein conducts West Side story / Deutsche Grammophon ; produced by Humphrey Burton [and] Thomas P. Skinner ; directed by Christopher Swann ; a production of BBC Television, in association with UNITEL Film und Fernseh-produktionsgesellschaft mbH & Co. and Video Music Productions, Inc. | VID 319 | MUSIC | ||
| Leona's sister Gerri / Independent Television Service produced and directed by Jane Gillooly produced in association with Newton Television Foundation, Fred Simon, Susan Walsh. | DVD 462 | DOCUMENTARIES | Tells the story of Gerri Santoro, the real person in the police photograph of an anonymous woman collapsed on a motel room floor, dead from an illegal abortion. | |
| Leonor Fini / a film by Chris Vermorcken ; produced by Films Dulac ; RM Associates production. | VID 263 | ART | Documentary on surrealist Italian/Argentine painter Leonor Fini, showing the places she loves and what she paints, especially her cats. Includes extensive comments by Fini onscreen. | |
| Lester Horton technique : the warm-up / Kultur ; a Dance Spotlight production. | VID 268 | DANCE | Horton protégée Marjorie B. Perces and Ana Marie Forsythe lead a group of young professional dancers through leg swings, metatarsal presses and fortifications. | |
| Letters from Iwo Jima / Warner Bros. Pictures and Dreamworks Pictures present a Malpaso/Amblin Entertainment production produced by Clint Eastwood, Robert Lorenz, Steven Spielberg story by Iris Yamashita & Paul Haggis screenplay by Iris Yamashita directed by Clint Eastwood. | DVD 800 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | In 1945, the United States and Japanese armies met on Iwo Jima. Decades later, hundreds of letters are unearthed from that stark island's soil. The letters give faces and voices to the men who fought there, as well as the extraordinary general who led them. Leading the defense is Lt. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi. With little defense other than sheer will and the volcanic rock of the island itself, Gen. Kuribayashi's unprecedented tactics transform what was predicted to be a quick and bloody defeat into nearly 40 days of heroic and resourceful combat. | |
| Liberia : America's stepchild / written and directed by Nancee Oku Bright a production of Grain Coast Productions for WGBH. | VID 603 | HISTORY | From Haitian slave revolts and the American Colonization Society to the 1997 election of Charles Taylor to the presidency and his corrupt administration, this program looks at events leading up the founding of Liberia and its history up through the twentieth century. | |
| Liberia, an uncivil war / in association with California Newsreel directed and produced by Jonathan Stack. | DVD 483 | DOCUMENTARIES | An up-close look at the violent battle to oust Liberia's leader Charles Taylor, and an unforgettable tableau about a country and people on the verge of implosion. Includes the never-before-seen Farewell Speech by President Charles Taylor. | |
| Life & death of King John / by William Shakespeare ; a BBC Television production in association with Time-Life Television ; produced by Shaun Sutton ; directed by David Giles. | DVD 20 | LITERARY - SHAKESPEARE | Shakespeare's play about the weak and despicable King John, who tries to fend off the royal claims of Arthur, Duke of Brittany, who is supported by the King of France. In spite of the support of Faulconbridge, John alienates the English nobility and runs afoul of the Pope. In the end he is poisoned and his son Henry III becomes King. | |
| Life and debt / a Tuff Gong Pictures Production a film by Stephanie Black producer, Stephanie Black narration writer, Jamaica Kincaid director, Stephanie Black. | DVD 408 | DOCUMENTARIES | Jamaica became an independent country from Great Britain in 1962. It is the land of sea, sand and sun ... but it is also a prime example of the complexities of economic globalization on the world's developing countries. Effectively portrays the relationship between Jamaican poverty and the practices of international lending agencies while driving home the devasting consequences of globalization. | |
| Life of Henry the Fift / by William Shakespeare ; a BBC-TV production in association with Time-Life Television ; producer, Cedric Messina ; director, David Giles. | DVD 14 | LITERARY - SHAKESPEARE | Young King Henry of England asserts a hereditary claim to the throne of France, gathering an army and embarking on a course that will lead to one of England's greatest battlefield triumphs and forever change the face of Europe. Follows King Henry V as he unites his people, deals justly with traitors, leads his soldiers to victory, and ensures peace by marrying a French princess. | |
| Light of the gods / National Gallery of Art ; produced and directed by Suzanne Bauman ; written by Rod MacLeish executive producer, Joseph Krakora. | VID 354 | ART | Shows the effort of the ancient Greeks to understand the natural world and man's place within it, as seen in their paintings and sculptures, which evolved over a period of nearly five hundred years. | |
| Limon : A Life Beyond Words | DVD 441 | DOCUMENTARIES | Revolutionary modern dancer and choreographer José Limón (1908-1972) was a crucial figure in the development of modern dance: his powerful dancing shifted perceptions of the male dancer, while his choreography continues to bring a dramatic vision of dance to audiences around the world. This film combines interviews with family members and colleagues, archival photographs, and archival and contemporary performances to present his life and major works in the context of the times. Limón was a man who dealt with his bi-conflicts through his art. Excerpts from productions beautifully filmed in the fifties include The Moor's Pavane, The Traitor, and Emperor Jones. | |
| Linda Hogan : with interview by Wendy Rose / Lannan Foundation ; directed by Dan Griggs. | VID 455 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | Linda Hogan, a poet, novelist and playwright, is a member of the Chickasaw Nation. "My writing comes from and goes back to the community, both the human and the global community." Here, Ms. Hogan, who teaches at the University of Colorado reads from her work "The Book of Medicines." | |
| Little children / New Line Cinema presents a Bona Fide Standard Film Company production directed by Todd Field screenplay by Todd Field & Tom Perrotta produced by Albert Berger, Ron Yerxa, and Todd Field. | DVD 743 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Sarah Pierce is a new stay at home mom struggling with the solitude of her new role. Spending every moment with a three year old tests the patience of the one-time English scholar. One day, at a local playground, she interacts with a group of moms and the differences are clear. They embrace motherhood and seem to relish all that their new role brings. One day, Brad, a stay at home dad brings his son to the playground. Sarah is amazed to find these mom have never talked to Brad and one of the women bets Sarah five dollars that she won't get his phone number. Sarah not only gets his phone number, but she lets him in on the joke and they hug and kiss. Emasculated by his wife, Kathy, Brad becomes slightly obsessed with finding ways to demonstrate he can still produce testosterone. Soon, Sarah and Brad start a passionate affair. At the same time, their quiet suburban community deals with Ronnie, a convicted pedophile who has just been released from prison. He returns to his mother's home and she helps him endure the constant taunts of an overzealous neighbor. These lives intersect in surprising and potentially dangerous ways. | |
| Live from the Met highlights. [Vol. I] . | VID 391 | MUSIC | Highlights from the television series Live from the Met: Centennial gala, Un Ballo in maschera, Don Carlo, La Bohème, Tannhäuser, Lucia di Lammermoor. | |
| Living treasures of Japan / WQED and National Geographic Society. | VID 182 | ART | Profiles nine artisans and performing artists who are recognized by law as holders of important intangible cultural properties and are charged with publicly exhibiting their works and teaching their artistry to apprentices. Pays visits to a potter, doll sculptor, puppeteer, papermaker, koto musician, swordmaker, textile weaver and dyer, kabuki theater actor, and bellmaker. | |
| Li-Young Lee / with interview by Shawn Wong; directed by Dan Griggs. | VID 457 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | Li-Young Lee reads from The Winged Seed: A Remembrance, Rose, and The City in Which I Love You. | |
| Lola rennt / Sony Pictures Classics X Filme Creative Pool ... [et. al ...] produzent, Stefan Arndt buch & regie, Tom Tykwer. | DVD 363 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Time is running out: Lola has just received a frantic call from her boyfriend Manni, who's accidentally lost a small fortune he was to deliver to his mobster boss. If they cannot find a way to replace the money within twenty minutes, Manni will surely suffer severe consequences. | |
| Lonely are the brave / a Joel Production ; a Universal-International Release. | VID 511 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | A cowboy tries to spring his friend from jail and ends up on the run alone. The sheriff, however, must bring him to justice despite his own sympathy for the renegade. | |
| Long night's journey into day : South Africa's search for truth & reconciliation / Iris Films in association with Cinemax Reel Life ; directed by Frances Reid and Deborah Hoffmann. | DVD 224 | DOCUMENTARIES | Follows four cases over a two-year period that were brought before South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission which investigates the crimes of apartheid, by bringing together victims and perpetrators to relive South Africa's brutal history. In so doing South Africa is showing the rest of the world that even the most bitter conflicts can be addressed through honesty and communication, providing the most definitive record of one of the most ambitious and innovative attempts at social reconciliation without precedent in human history. | |
| Look at the Israeli Knesset | VID 69 | POLITICS | Discusses the workings of the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament. | |
| Look back in anger / Woodfall Film Productions produced by Harry Saltzman directed by Tony Richardson screenplay by Nigel Kneale additional dialogue by John Osborne. | DVD 666 | CINEMA | Jimmy Porter is a university graduate who rejects middle class dreams and operates a candy stall in a local flea market. His wife, Allison, endures his anger and frustration because of his intense love. But when an actress friend of Allison's temporarily moves in with them, Jimmy becomes a twisted figure of bitterness and pain as disillusionment and anger overtake him. | |
| Looking for Richard / directed by Al Pacino ; narration written by Al Pacino and Frederic Kimball. | VID 558 | LITERARY - SHAKESPEARE | Follows cast & crew of Richard III through rehearsals, providing a behind-the-scenes look at the process that goes into creating characters and mounting a production. | |
| Lord of war / Entertainment Manufacturing Company presents a VIP Medienfonds 3, Ascendant Pictures, Saturn Films production in association with Rising Star, Copag V and Endgame Entertainment ; producers Nicolas Cage, Norman Golightly, Andy Grosch, Chris Roberts, Philippe Rousselet ; produced by Andrew Niccol ; written and directed by Andrew Niccol. | DVD 207 | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS | Chronicles the rise and fall of Yuri Orlov, from his early days in the early 1980s in Little Odessa to selling guns to mobsters in his local neighbourhood, and through to his ascension through the decade of excess and indulgence into the early 90s. He forms a business partnership with an African warlord and his psychotic son. His relationship with his younger brother is somewhat volatile, he is married to a famous model, and he is relentlessly pursued by a determined federal agent and his inner demons sway between his drive for success and the immorality of what he does. | |
| Lost boys of Sudan / Actual Films Principe Productions POV directed and produced by Megan Mylan & Jon Shenk. | DVD 760 | DOCUMENTARIES | The journey of two teenage Sudanese boys, orphaned by their war torn country, who traveled to America looking for a safer environment and learning to cope with the unfamiliar complexities of contemporary American society. | |
| Lost in La Mancha / a Quixote Films and Low Key Pictures production in associatin with Eastcroft Productions, a film by Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe ; producer, Lucy Darwin ; directors, Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe. | DVD 238 | v.1-2 | DOCUMENTARIES | Tracks maverick filmmaker Terry Gilliam's madcap mission to film The man who killed Don Quixote". He struggles to complete his masterpiece, all the while beset by obstacles of such epic proportions that not even Hollywood could have concocted them. Capturing the mayhem on camera, filmmakers Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe are granted unlimited, behind-the-scenes access to Gilliam's frantic but inspired creation." |
| Louise Glück / the Lannan Literary Series in association with Metropolitan Pictures and EZTV ; by Lewis MacAdams and John Dorr. | VID 418 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | Louise Glück reads from First born, The house on marshland, Descending figure, and The triumph of Achilles. | |
| Love Liza / Kinowelt Filmproduktion GmbH and Wild Bunch present in association with Studio Canal a Muse/Blacklist production in association with Ruth Charny and Jeff Roda producers, Chris Hanley, Fernando Sulichin, Ruth Charny, Jeff Roda screenplay, Gordy Hoffman directed by Todd Louiso. | DVD 524 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Successful web designer Wilson Joel's life spirals out of control after the sudden suicide of his wife. Unable to read the note she left him, Wilson forges new, unpredictable relationships with friends, co-workers and his stunned mother-in-law. But when he starts taking a dangerous drug, it could take what's left of his blown-apart life and extinguish it completely. | |
| Love's labour's lost / by William Shakespeare ; a BBC Television production in association with Time-Life Television ; produced by Shaun Sutton ; directed by Elijah Moshinsky. | DVD 22 | LITERARY - SHAKESPEARE | A satire directed against intellectual pride and pedantry. The King of Navarre and three of his lords vow to spend three years in study and not to see any women. But when the Princess of France arrives with her three ladies, the men break their vow and fall in love with them. | |
| Lower extremity dance medicine : orthopedic examination / with Dr. William Hamilton. | VID 76 | DANCE | Dr. William Hamilton, orthopedic surgeon, discusses the evaluation of the dancer's alignment and technique with special emphasis on the physical exam of the foot, the ankle and the lower leg. | |
| Lucille Clifton / the Lannan Foundation ; directed by Dan Griggs. | VID 466 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | Ms. Clifton received a 1996 Lannan Literary Award for Poetry. She read from The book of light' and The terrible stories' on May 21, 1996.--Container. | |
| Luis J. Rodriguez / the Lannan Foundation ; directed by Dan Griggs. | VID 443 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | Luis J. Rodriguez is a poet, journalist and publisher who grew up in Watts and East Los Angeles. He reads from his books of poetry, The Concrete River and Poems Across the Pavement, and from his memoirs, Always Running, La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. He read on Dec. 8, 1992, in Los Angeles and talked with Michael Silverblatt--Container. | |
| Macbeth / by William Shakespeare ; a BBC Television production in association with Time-Life Television ; produced by Shaun Sutton ; directed by Jack Gold. | DVD 23 | LITERARY - SHAKESPEARE | Driven by ambition and an unscrupulous wife, Macbeth murders the King of Scotland and claims the throne for himself. Haunted by ghosts and vexed by witches, he and his wife descend into the depths of madness and paranoia as they crumble beneath the weight of their crimes. | |
| Mack Sennett comedies / Republic Pictures Corporation. | VID 571 | COMEDY | Eight silent films containing the comedy work of Mack Sennett. | |
| Madama Butterfly / music by Giacomo Puccini ; RM Arts in association with RAI ; produced by Keita Asari ; directed for television by Derek Bailey. | VID 385 | MUSIC | ||
| Madama Butterfly : Japanese tragedy / by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica ; music by Giacomo Puccini. | VID 399 | MUSIC | An American Naval officern marries a purchased Japanese wife, Butterfly. Tragedy unfolds as Butterfly remains faithful to her American husband. | |
| Made in L.A = Hecho en Los Angeles / a film by Almudena Carracedo, Robert Bahar directed by Almudena Carracedo produced by Robert Bahar, Almudena Carracedo written by Almudena Carracedo, Robert Bahar, Lisa Leeman a co-production of Semilla Verde Productions, Inc. and the Independent Television Service a co-production with American Documentary Inc./P.O.V. | DVD 516 | DOCUMENTARIES | Made in L.A. traces the moving transformation of three Latina garment workers on the fault lines of global economic change who decide they must resist. Through a groundbreaking law suit and consumer boycott, they fight to establish an important legal and moral precedent holding an American retailer liable for the labor conditions under which its products are manufactured. But more than this, Made in LA provides an insider's view into both the struggles of recent immigrants and into the organizing process itself: the enthusiasm, discouragement, hard-won victories and ultimate self-empowerment. --Distributor. | |
| Mademoiselle / Woodfall Films Presentations, Ltd produced by Oscar Lewenstein and directed by Tony Richardson scenario By Jean Genet. | DVD 567 | CINEMA - CLASSICS / FOREIGN | A sleepy farm village in the south of France is the unlikely setting for this study of perversion and evil. A malicious, frustrated schoolteacher's suppressed sexual desire leads her to commit devilish acts of destruction. An earthy, virile woodcutter awakens her illicit passions. | |
| Magic of the Bolshoi / Gostelradio. | VID 5 | DANCE | Excerpts from ballets performed by the Bolshoi Ballet from the 1930's through 1980's. | |
| Magnitogorsk : forging the new man / ViewPOINT Productions, RVU Educatieve Omroep research & script, Pieter Jan Smit director, Pieter Jan Smit producer, Leon Paquay. | DVD 410 | DOCUMENTARIES | The story of those living in the shadow of Russia's most breath-taking industrial project of the 1930s. The bare steppes of the Urals were transformed into a blast-furnace complex, and a city was raised out of the ground--Magnitogorsk. With excerpts from Joris Ivens' 1932 film, Song of the heroes, about the building up of the Soviet Union, which used Magnitogorsk to show how the new world and the new man were being forged. Current residents describe the impact of the breakup of the USSR. | |
| Make-up for theater -- and for fun / Ashland Video Productions ; produced by Thomas Heumann. | VID 284 | v.1-2 | THEATRE | Teaches the theory and essentials needed for designing and doing make-up and hair pieces for the theater. It demonstrates the complete basic make-up of a female model, and transformation into a 1940's character. |
| Making of a justice / Columbia University Seminars on Media & Society ; a program of the Graduate School of Journalism ; WNET, New York ; executive producer, Cynthia McFadden ; directed by David Deutsch. | VID 62 | POLITICS | In this program, a group of national leaders are led through a variety of hypothetical case studies which closely parallel current events. This program examines the appointment of a Supreme Court Justice. Should the court be representative of the general population? Should there be a women's seat" or a "black seat"? Should the President choose judges using ideology as the sole criterion? | |
| Making opera : the creation of Guiseppe Verdi's La Forza del destino ; written, produced, and directed by Anthony Azzopardi ; conceived and produced by the Canadian Opera Company ; produced by Cineroutes Productions Inc. in association with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and TV Ontario ; produced with the participation of Telefilm Canada. | VID 383 | MUSIC | Follows the day-to-day process of staging an opera during a rehearsal period of 21 days. Combines behind-the-scenes footage with flash-forwards to the final results of the opera. | |
| Man of La Mancha / United Artists ; a PEA Produzione Europee Associate production ; screen play by Dale Wasserman ; produced and directed by Arthur Hiller. | VID 292 | LITERARY - CLASSICS | While awaiting trial of the Spanish Inquisition, writer Miguel de Cervantes spins a tale for rowdy fellow inmates, bringing to life Don Quixote, an eccentric, self-appointed knight with delusions of grandeur. | |
| Man with the movie camera = Chelovek s kinoapparatom written and directed by Dziga Vertov ; [produced by VUFKU] | DVD 156 | DOCUMENTARIES | Dziga Vertov's Man with a movie camera is considered one of the most innovative and influential films of the silent era. This dawn-to-dusk view of the Soviet Union offers a montage of urban Russian life, showing the people of the city at work and at play, and the machines that endlessly whirl to keep the metropolis alive. | |
| Mandela's fight for freedom / Brian Lapping Associates for Discovery Networks and BBC. | VID 196 | v.1-2 | BIOGRAPHY | Alfre Woodard narrates the tale of Nelson Mandela and the triumph over Apartheid. |
| Manhunter / De Laurentiis Entertainment Group screenplay by Michael Mann produced by Richard Roth directed by Michael Mann. | DVD 432 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | A retired detective is coaxed back to catch a serial killer known as The Tooth Fairy. | |
| Manon : a ballet / by Kenneth MacMillan ; music by Jules Massenet ; orchestrated and arranged by Leighton Lucas, with the collaboration of Hilda Gaunt ; NVC Arts ; Covent Garden Video Productions. | DVD 215 | DANCE | The love story of Manon Lescaut and the Chevalier des Grieux is a tragedy of innocence corrupted in the pleasure-seeking world of Paris in the early 18th century. Several pas de deux are among the highlights. | |
| Manufactured fibers : a technical video, a visual journey from myth to miracle. | VID 539 | FASHION | The chemistry and technology that translate carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, and othe relements into today's fabrics and fibers. | |
| Manufacturing consent : Noam Chomsky and the media / National Film Board of Canada ; Necessary Illusions ; a Zeitgeist Films Release ; a film by Mark Achbar, Peter Wintonick. | VID 200 | v.1-2 | POLITICS | Explores the political life and times of the controversial author, linguist, and radical philosopher Noam Chomsky. Focuses on Chomsky's analysis of the hidden use of ideological manipulation in democratic societies. |
| Marat/Sade / United Artists The Royal Shakespeare Company presents Peter Brooks' production produced by Michael Birkett directed by Peter Brook. | DVD 402 | THEATRE | The infamous Marquis de Sade, confined to an asylum, directs the other inmates in a re-enactment of the bloody assassination of French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat.;"The Royal Shakespeare Company presents Peter Brooks' production of The persecution and assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as performed by the inmates of the asylum at Charenton under the direction of the Marquis de Sade. " | |
| Marbury v. Madison / a production of WQED/Pittsburgh ; reproduced with permission by Q.E.D. Communications, Inc. | VID 553 | POLITICS | In this 1803 case, the Supreme Court established its responsibility to review the constitutionality of acts of congress. President Adam's failure to deliver Marbury's official commission for Justice of the Peace, before President Jefferson took over the administration develops into a confrontation between Chief Justice Marshall, President Jefferson and Secretary of State James Madison. The Supreme Court then held that it did not have jurisdiction and declared that the law permitting the Court to hear the case was unconstitutional. | |
| Marcel Duchamp : in his own words / a film and script by Lewis Jacobs. | VID 395 | ART | One of the most important artists of the 20th century, Duchamp is seen studying a chess board. In recordings taken in 1968 in Cadaques, Spain shorty before his death, Duchamp (1987-1968) reminisces: I discarded brushed and explored the mind more than the hand." | |
| March of the penguins / Bonne Pioche Buena Vista International Film Production France Canal+ APC L'Institut Polare Français Paul Enice Victor produced by Yves Darondeau, Christophe Lioud, Emmanuel Priou story by Luc Jacquet narration writer, Jordan Roberts directed by Luc Jacquet. | DVD 642 | CINEMA | In the Antarctic, every March since the beginning of time, the quest begins to find the perfect mate and start a family. This courtship will begin with a long journey - a journey that will take them hundreds of miles across the continent by foot, one by one in a single file. They will endure freezing temperatures, in brittle, icy winds and through deep, treacherous waters. They will risk starvation and attack by dangerous predators, under the harshest conditions on earth, all to find true love. | |
| Margot / Isolde Films ; directed & edited by Tony Palmer ; executive producer, Arthur Reynolds. | DVD 246 | DANCE | Film about the life of dancer Margot Fonteyn. Contains archival footage including performances with Rudolf Nureyev and others. Meets with those who danced with her and knew her. Ballets featured include: Romeo and Juliet, Swan Lake, Giselle, The sleeping beauty, Marguerite and Armand, and the Nutcracker. | |
| Margot Fonteyn / produced and directed by Patricia Foy ; an Antelope/Aurora production for Reiner Moritz Associates and Channel Four Television in association with La Sept ... [et al.]. | VID 290 | DANCE | Margot Fonteyn recounts the story of her life and her long career as one of the world's great ballerinas. Includes archival footage and interviews with associates. | |
| Maria Aitken on acting in high comedy / a BBC TV production in association with Dramatis Personae Ltd. | DVD 571 | THEATRE | In a question and answer format with examples from Coward, Wilde, Sheridan, and Congreve Aitken shows how to add spark to comedy readings. | |
| Maria Callas, life and art / Picture Music International ; a Jo Lustig Limited production ; produced & directed by Alan Lewens, Alistair Mitchell. | VID 347 | MUSIC | Biographical sketch of soprano Maria Callas, a woman whose own life had all of the dramatic dimensions of one of her operatic roles. Includes interviews with Callas and musical colleagues and friends, as well as archival footage of Callas in performance. | |
| Mark Doty / Lannan Foundation ; directed by Dan Griggs. | VID 468 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | Mr. Doty reads from Atlantis, Heaven's coast and Sweet machine. | |
| Martha Graham : dance on film / producer, Johanna Schiller. | DVD 385 | v.1-2 | DANCE | A dancer's world: Martha Graham discusses the dancer as a creative artist, as members of her dance company illustrate her theories in a dance choreographed by Miss Graham. Woven into the movements of the dance are all the basic techniques required by the modern dancer.;"Appalachian spring: a ballet depicting the wedding day of a pioneer couple.";"Night journey: Martha Graham's interpretation of the Oedipus legend, depicting the moment of Jocasta's death." |
| Martha Graham : in performance / [conceived and choreographed by Martha Graham produced by Nathan Kroll]. | DVD 386 | DANCE | A Dancer's World takes the viewer inside a rehearsal session of Martha Graham's dance company, Night journey is a retelling of the ancient Greek tale of Oedipus, and Appalachian Spring is the story of a young pioneer couple set to the music of Aaron Copland. | |
| Martha Graham Dance Company / produced by Emile Ardolino ; directed by Merrill Brockway ; choreographed and reconceived for television by Martha Graham | VID 557 | DANCE | Presents Martha Graham as she reminisces on the history of her dance company and gives her interpretation of six dance creations as they are performed by her company | |
| Martha Graham in performance / Homevideo Exclusives. | VID 39 | DANCE | ||
| Marx Brothers collection | DVD 82 | v. 1-5 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | Collection includes the following films: A Night in Casablanca, A night at the opera, A day at the races, Room Service, At the Circus, Go West, and The big store. |
| Marx brothers. Silver screen collection | DVD 88 | v.1 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | Duck soup |
| Marx brothers. Silver screen collection | DVD 88 | v.2 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | Horse feathers |
| Marx brothers. Silver screen collection | DVD 88 | v.3 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | Monkey business |
| Marx brothers. Silver screen collection | DVD 88 | v.4 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | Animal crackers |
| Marx brothers. Silver screen collection | DVD 88 | v.5 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | Cocoanuts |
| Marx brothers. Silver screen collection | DVD 88 | v.6 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | Bonus materials |
| Mary Cassatt / produced and directed by Perry Miller Adato ; a production of WNET/13. | VID 334 | ART | Documentary on the life and work of one of the greatest American artists of the 19th century. Her personal story -- her years in Paris, her relationship with Degas, the places she painted -- is told with on- location footage and stills. | |
| Mary Reilly / TriStar Pictures screenplay by Christopher Hampton directed by Stephen Frears. | DVD 643 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | The classic horror story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde gets a chilling new twist when seen through the eyes of Dr. Jekyll's devoted maid. | |
| Masaccio : a view of mankind / BBC TV in association with RM Arts ; written by Lawrence Gowing ; producer, Christopher Burstall. | VID 262 | ART | Masaccio gave human form solidity with an attentiveness to individual shape and even to the way clothing fell. A master of perspective and color, Masaccio collaborated with the Gothic master Masolino and influenced artists Piero della Francesca, Giovanni Bellini, and Raphael. | |
| Master and commander : the far side of the world / 20th Century Fox Universal Pictures and Miramax Films present produced by Samuel Goldwyn, Jr., Peter Weir, Duncan Henderson screenplay by Peter Weir & John Collee directed by Peter Weir. | DVD 435 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | During the Napoleonic Wars, a British frigate, the HMS Surprise, and the larger French warship, Acheron, stalk each other off of the coast of South America. Lucky Jack, as he is referred to by his crew, is well regarded by his men, who trust him implicitly, even after the first devastating battle and an apparent personal vendetta against the French captain. The ship's surgeon balances the violence of his chosen life with the quiet demeanor of the scientist. He is the captain's friend and confidant, the two frequently playing violin and cello duets together. | |
| Master builder / an NTA presentation in association with Talent Associates ; written by Henrik Ibsen ; directed by John Stix and Richard A. Lukin ; produced by Lewis Freedman. | DVD 172 | LITERARY - CLASSICS | Ibsen's tale of an aging builder reaching for love while clinging to a career on the verge of collapse. | |
| Masters of tap / IFPA Ltd. | VID 211 | DANCE | Explores the world of tap dance as interpreted by three acknowledged masters: Honi Coles, Chuck Green and Will Gaines. | |
| Match point / Dreamworks Pictures presents in association with BBC Films and Thema Production SA a Jada production produced by Letty Aronson, Lucy Darwin, Gareth Wiley written and directed by Woody Allen. | DVD 508 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Former tennis pro Chris Wilton stumbles into good fortune when Chloe Hewett, the daughter of a wealthy businessman and the sister of one of his tennis students, falls in love with him. But when Chris meets Nola, a much deeper passion is stirred. His desire isn't deterred even after he discovers that Nola is already dating Chloe's brother. But when their affair threatens Chris's increasingly cozy lifestyle, Chris begins to consider a drastic solution. | |
| Matisse, voyages / RM Arts, Le Centre Georges Pompidou, La Sept ; Educational Broadcasting Corporation ; written and directed by Didier Baussy. | VID 103 | ART | Highlights the development of Matisse's greatest works from his early canvasses, to his involvement with the Fauvist movement, through his later pieces. It also explores the inspiration and renewed vigor he found in travelling the world. | |
| Matrix reloaded / a Warner Bros. Pictures presentation in association with Village Roadshow Pictures and NPV Entertainment a Silver Pictures production written and directed by the Wachowski Brothers produced by Joel Silver. | DVD 590 | v.1-2 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | A small group of humans continues to lead the revolt against the Machine Army as they gain greater insight into the construction of The Matrix. |
| Maya : temples, tombs, and time / Questar Video presentation. | VID 388 | HISTORY | Using recent breakthroughs in deciphering Maya glyphs and archaeological discoveries, we take a new look at the Maya, now widely considered to have been the most brilliant and advanced indigenous people of the Americas. | |
| Maya Deren : experimental films / [director, Maya Deren]. | DVD 394 | CINEMA -- EXPERIMENTAL | Examples of Maya Deren's work evoke and exemplify the American avant-garde film movement of the 1940s and 1950s. | |
| Maya Lin : a strong clear vision / written and directed by Freida Lee Mock ; produced by Freida Lee Mock and Terry Sanders. | VID 389 | ART | A portrait of the artist/architect/sculptor, the daughter of Chinese immigrants, who designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial while a 21 year old undergraduate at Yale. | |
| Maya Plisetskaya : diva of dance. | DVD 233 | DANCE | The eternal prima ballerina assoluta of the Bolshoi Theatre understood how to combine outstanding dance skills with dramatic expression. Features footage of her greatest successes as a ballerina together with an interview in which she describes her life as a dancer. | |
| Maya Plisetskaya / a Corinth Films release ; rezhisser, V. Katanï¸ i︡an. | DVD 234 | DANCE | Prima ballerina Maya Plisetskaya, of the Bolshoi Ballet, is the subject of this documentary. Contains some rare films of her as a child, and highlights from Swan lake, Sleeping beauty, Spartacus, Romeo and Juliet, Dying swan, Raymonda, Stone flower, Don Quixote, and other ballets. | |
| McCabe & Mrs. Miller / Warner Bros. ; screenplay by Robert Altman and Brian McKay ; produced by David Foster and Mitchell Brower ; directed by Robert Altman. | DVD 59 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Charismatic but dumb John McCabe arrives in a turn-of-the-century Pacific Northwest town to set up a whorehouse/tavern. Shrewd Mrs. Miller, a professional madam, arrives soon after construction begins. | |
| McCulloch v. Maryland . | VID 552 | POLITICS | Presents a dramatization of the landmark Supreme Court case of McCulloch v. Maryland, in which the Court struck down Maryland's attempt to tax a federally chartered bank. | |
| Mean streets / Warner Bros. Pictures Taplin-Perry-Scorsese Productions Martin Scorsese and Mardik Martin, screenplay Martin Scorsese, story Jonathan T. Taplin, producer Martin Scorsese, director. | DVD 672 | CINEMA | Charlie, a 27-year-old, tries to work his way up the bottom rungs of organized crime's ladder. Amy Robinson is Teresa, the girlfriend Charlie's family declares unsuitable because she has epilepsy. | |
| Meaning of health : a dialogue with Bill Moyers / Fetzer Institute. | VID 232 | HEALTH & WELLNESS | An expanded exploration of ideas generated by the PBS television series Healing and the mind with Bill Moyers. | |
| Measure for measure / by William Shakespeare ; a BBC-TV production in association with Time-Life Television ; producer, Cedric Messina ; director, Desmond Davis. | DVD 24 | LITERARY - SHAKESPEARE | Cruel Angelo is left in charge of Vienna when the Duke pretends to leave town. Angelo revives an old law against fornication and sentences Claudio to death for seducing Juliet, Claudio's betrothed. Claudio's sister, Isabella, pleads for his life and Angelo offers to spare him in exchange for her virginity. Angelo's corruption and severity are punished when the Duke reveals that he has witnessed it all. | |
| Medea / staged by José Quintero ; producer, David Susskind ; directors, José Quintero, H. Wesley Kenney. | VID 261 | LITERARY - CLASSICS | A modern-language production of the classic tragedy of a proud woman betrayed by the man she loves. | |
| Meet the Met : favorite opera scenes. | VID 380 | MUSIC | Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Chorus, and Ballet ; James Levine and Ralf Weikert (Il barbiere di Siviglia), conductors | |
| Memento / Newmarket presents in association with Summit Entertainment a Team Todd production, a film by Christopher Nolan producers, Suzanne Todd, Jennifer Todd screenplay writer, Christopher Nolan director, Christopher Nolan. | DVD 400 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | An intricate crime story about a man who has lost his short term memory due to a rare brain disorder. Now he is out to catch his wife's murderer, whose identity he cannot ever know for sure. The more he tries to figure out what is true and real, the more he sinks deeper into a multi-layered abyss of uncertainty and surprises. | |
| Memories of a forgotten war / [presented by] National Commission for Culture & the Arts, Pennsylvania Council of the Arts ... ; a film by Camilla Benolirao Griggers and Sari Raissa Lluch Dalena. | VID 541 | HISTORY | The Philippine-American War of 1899 was one of the most violent imperial wars of the 20th century and set the precedent for U.S. foreign policy in Southeast Asia, yet few remember the details of the war or why it was fought. | |
| Memory of two Mondays / by Arthur Miller ; produced by Jacqueline Babbin ; directed by Paul Bogart. | DVD 99 | LITERARY - CLASSICS | Arthur Miller's vivid comedy-drama portrays the nature of life during America's Great Depression. The emphasis is on mood and characterization as Miller draws on his own personal experience to evoke what the 1930s were like for workers to whom a job-- any job-- was everything. | |
| Men who danced : Ted Shawn & his men dancers / producer and directer, Ron Honsa ; writer, Richard Philp. | VID 12 | DANCE | Compilation of material on Ted Shawn, often called the father of modern dance, and on the all-male dance company that he founded and directed in the 1930's. | |
| Men, movies & Carol / Fox Video. | VID 563 | TELEVISION | Carol takes on Hollywood, with sidesplitting results, in this send-up of sex on the silver screen. | |
| Merce Cunningham : a lifetime of dance / a co-production of Thirteen/WNET New York,. | DVD 111 | DANCE | This in-depth profile explores Cunningham's prolific career from his earliest successes to recent works such as Occasion Piece. | |
| Merce Cunningham collection | DVD 317 | v.1 | DANCE | The film combines different shooting locations, black and white and color film, and dolby stereo sound to present dance through the visual medium of film. |
| Merchant of Venice / by William Shakespeare ; a BBC Television production in association with Time-Life Television ; producer, Jonathan Miller ; director, Jack Gold. | DVD 25 | LITERARY - SHAKESPEARE | Blending tragedy and comedy, this play presents contrasts and ambiguities, the complexities of which lie in the character Shylock, its captivating villain. Is he a villain, a buffoon, or tragic hero? | |
| Merry wives of Windsor / by William Shakespeare ; a BBC Television production in association with Time-Life Television ; produced by Shaun Sutton ; directed by David Jones. | DVD 26 | LITERARY - SHAKESPEARE | Sir John Falstaff, knowing that Mrs. Ford and Mrs. Page control the money in their respective households, decides to seduce them, but they learn of his scheme and resolve to make a fool of him. A comic series of disguises and misadventures follows. | |
| Metallica : some kind of monster / a Third Eye Motion Picture Company release a @radical.media production, a film by Joe Berlinger & Bruce Sinofsky directed and produced by Joe Berlinger & Bruce Sinofsky. | DVD 359 | v.1-2 | MUSIC | An intensely intimate look at one of the biggest hard rock/heavy metal bands of all time, with over 90 million albums sold. Takes you inside the studio, the counseling sessions the band went through together and the difficult process of finding a new band member. |
| Michael Caine on acting in film / A BBC TV production in association with Dramatis Personae Ltd. director, David G. Croft producers, Maria Aitken, David G. Croft. | DVD 393 | FILM | Michael Caine teaches film acting techniques. | |
| Michael Moschen in motion / produced, directed and edited by Skip Blumberg. | VID 235 | DANCE | Documentary on new wave artist Michael Moschen and presents performance footage of juggling, physics, movement and dance. Also includes behind-the-scene access of the artist at work. | |
| Michael Ondaatje : in conversation with Caryl Phillips / directed by Dan Griggs. | VID 476 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | Mr. Ondaatje read from New poems, The cinnamon peeler, The English patient, In the skin of a lion, and Running in the family on December 17, 1996. | |
| Midsummer night's dream / by William Shakespeare ; a BBC Television production in association with Time-Life Television ; producer, Jonathan Miller ; director, Elijah Moshinsky. | DVD 27 | LITERARY - SHAKESPEARE | Shakespeare's play about devilish fairies, bedeviled lovers and tradesmen-actors. Plots intertwine as entangled love affairs, the comical performance of a play within a play" by the tradesmen of Athens, and the antics in fairyland among King Oberon and his queen Titania produce a bizarre series of entanglements, but all ends happily. | |
| Mighty Aphrodite / Miramax Films Sweetland Films written and directed by Woody Allen. | DVD 785 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | A couple adopts a boy who, as he gets older, shows a tendency towards being brilliant prompting them to search for his biological mother. | |
| Miles electric : a different kind of blue / Eagle Vision presents a Murray Lerner film ; produced & directed by Murray Lerner ; an MLF production in association with Eagle Rock Entertainment, Ltd. | DVD 213 | MUSIC | Discusses Miles Davis' music of the late 1960s-early 1970s, with commentary from musicians Chick Corea, Carlos Santana, Joni Mitchell and others; also includes Davis's complete Aug. 29, 1970 performance at the Isle of Wight. | |
| Mill times / Unicorn Projects, Inc. ; written & produced by Mark Olshaker and Larry Klein. | VID 521 | HISTORY | Live action segments introduce the Industrial Revolution and animated story. | |
| Million dollar baby / Warner Bros. Pictures presents in association with Lakeshore Entertainment a Malpaso/Ruddy Morgan production produced by Albert S. Ruddy, Tom Rosenberg, Paul Haggis screenplay by Paul Haggis produced and directed by Clint Eastwood. | DVD 429 | v. 1 - 2 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Frankie is a former boxing manager, who initially refuses to train Maggie due to her gender and age. With her talent and his coaching, the spirited young fighter rises through the ranks of women's boxing and the pair form a touching bond in the process. |
| Ming garden / presented by the Metropolitan Museum of Art ; a film by Gene Searchinger [producer/director]. | VID 21 | ART | Shows the installation, by Chinese craftsmen, of a Ming-style garden in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. | |
| Miró : theatre of dreams / written and narrated by Roland Penrose ; produced in association with RM Productions, Munich ; producer, Christopher Martin ; director, Robin Lough. | VID 104 | ART | The only Surrealist whose work survived in the face of new trends, Miro is shown here at age 85, working in his studio and embarking on an entirely new venture: an original theatrical production. | |
| Miss Congeniality / Castle Rock Entertainment presents in association with Village Roadshow Pictures and NPV Entertainment a Fortis Films production a Donald Petrie film. | DVD 381 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Sandra Bullock stars as an operative posing as a pageant contestant in order to ferret out a terrorist targetting the Miss United States beauty pageant. | |
| Mission / Warner Bros Goldcrest, Kingsmere Productions Limited [and] Enigma ; directed by Roland Joffé ; produced by Fernando Ghia and David Puttnam ; written by Robert Bolt. | VID 313 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | A powerful epic about a man of the sword and a man of the cloth who unite to shield a South American Indian tribe from brutal subjugation by 18th century colonial empires. | |
| Mister boogie woogie man, Mondrian / a BBC/RM Arts co-production ; directed by Janice Sutherland ; written and presented by Matthew Collings. | VID 258 | ART | Dutch painter Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) is one of the most enigmatic as well as seminal figures in 20th-century art. Neoplasticism, the spare, severely geometric style for which he is known, exerted international influence on painting, architecture, interior decor, furniture, design, and typography. | |
| Mitridate Re di Ponto : opera seria in three acts, K. 87 (74a) / a production of Unitel and BFMI in co-production with 3sat and Classica in co-operation with Salzburg Festival music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. | DVD 300 | v.1-2 | THEATRE | During a battle between Rome and Pontus, Mitridate suffers defeat and is presumed to be dead. The news is carried to the Governor, Arbate, and his fiance and sons. |
| Moiseyev dance company : a gala evening | VID 213 | DANCE | presented at the Congress Hall, Moscow as part of the 1980 Olympic Cultural Program. | |
| Mona Hatoum / Illuminations ; Production team, Sam Flynn ... [et al.]. | VID 402 | ART | In this interview, the Lebanese-born British artist, Mona Hatoum, discusses her work. The discussion focuses on her exhibition at Tate Britain titled The entire world as a foreign land, and other installations. | |
| Mondo Cane Collection / edited by Gualtiero Jacopetti and Paolo Cavara & France Prosperi | DVD 161 | v.1-8 | DOCUMENTARIES | Mondo cane. Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi are widely considered to be the creators of the "mondo," the cynical and often exploitative '60s-era cousin of the documentary and the template for today's reality TV. |
| Monet : legacy of light / a production of WGBH Boston and Malone Gill Productions, in association with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. | VID 97 | ART | Monet's story as an artist and a giant of the Impressionist movement using his own words with excerpts from journals, personal interviews, and his magnificent paintings as presented on WGBH in Boston. | |
| Monologue audition video / written and directed by Karen Kohlhaas ; produced by Karen Kohlhaas, Derrick Widmark. | DVD 223 | THEATRE | How to direct, act, and audition with monologues. | |
| Monsieur René Magritte / Home Vision presents. | VID 324 | ART | Explores the surroundings from which Magritte drew inspiration for his mysterious paintings. This documentary visits familiar scenes which Magritte managed to portray as new and strange. Includes excepts from an interview with Magritte. | |
| Monsoon wedding / USA Films ; IFC Productions presents a Mirabai Films production of a Mira Nair film in association with Key Films, Pandora Films and Paradis Films ; writer, Sabrina Dhawan ; producers, Caroline Baron, Mira Nair ; director, Mira Nair. | DVD 130 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | A colorful and eclectic family gathers from all over the world for a traditional wedding - a non-stop four-day celebration as unpredictable as the monsoon season itself. | |
| Moolaadé | DVD 439 | v.1 - 2 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Set in a small village, four young girls face ritual purification decide to flee to the household of Coll├⌐ Ardo Gallo Sy, a strong-willed woman who has managed to shield her own teenage daughter from the mutilation. Coll├⌐ invokes the time-honored custom of moolaad├⌐ (sanctuary) to protect the fugitives, and tension mounts as the ensuing stand-off pits Coll├⌐ against village traditionalists. This endangers the prospective marriage of her daughter to the heir-apparent to the tribal throne. |
| Moon for the misbegotten / by Eugene O'Neill ; Broadway Theatre Archives ;ABC Theatre ; TA/Norton Simon, Inc. ; produced on Broadway by Elliot Martin & Lester Osterman productions ; directed by José Quintero and Gordon Rigsby ; produced by David Susskind | DVD 93 | LITERARY - CLASSICS | Jason Robards portrays a cynical, self-hating alcoholic actor based on O'Neill's elder brother, Jamie. Colleen Dewhurst plays the earthy, gruff daughter of his scheming Irish tenant farmer with whom the failed actor spends a soul-baring night of guilt-ridden confessions, tenderness, and absolution. | |
| Mother night / Fine Line Features presents a Whyaduck production a Keith Gordon film screenplay by Robert B. Weide produced by Keith Gordon, Robert B. Weide directed by Keith Gordon. | DVD 591 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | From his jail cell in Israel, an American playwright on trial for war crimes looks back on his life. Living in pre-World War II Berlin he becomes an allied spy within the Nazi Party. After the war, when he goes back to America, he is confronted by both Nazi haters and sympathizers. | |
| Motown : the early years / TJL Home Entertainment directed by T.J. Lubinsky. | DVD 689 | MUSIC | A unique combination of vintage clips of the original legends and live performances of the current touring groups - from DVD case. | |
| Moulin Rouge! / Twentieth Century Fox presents a Bazmark Production produced by Martin Brown, Baz Luhrmann, Fred Baron written by Baz Luhrmann & Craig Pearce directed by Baz Luhrmann. | DVD 311 | v.1-2 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Christian is an idealistic and impoverished young writer who, newly arrived in Montmartre, is haphazardly inducted into a circle of young bohemians led by Toulouse-Lautrec. A comedy of mistaken identities ensues, quickly enmeshing the young poet in a love triangle involving the unobtainable and consumptive Satine, queen courtesan of the Moulin Rouge, and the foppish Duke of Roxbury, his villainous rival for her affections. |
| Movies begin : a treasury of early cinema, 1894-1914 / Kino International ; [produced by] Film Preservation Associates and The British Film Institute ; produced for video by David Shepard. | DVD 124 | v.1-5 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | The genesis of the motion picture medium is recreated in this collection of the cinema's formative works. More than crucial historical artifacts, these films reveal the foundation from which the styles and stories of the contemporary cinema would later arise. |
| Mr. & Mrs. Smith / RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. presents ; story and screenplay by Norman Krasna ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock. | DVD 116 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | A bickering couple discover their marriage isn't legal, and go through the courtship process again. | |
| Mr. Justice Blackmun / a presentation of WNET New York & WTVS Detroit. | VID 63 | POLITICS | Moyers interviews the Supreme Court Justice who wrote the majority opinion in Roe v. Wade, the case that legalized abortion. Moyers and Blackmun discuss the emotional and moral challenge of interpreting the Constitution. | |
| Mr. Justice Brennan / Joan Konner, senior executive producer ; Richard Petrow, executive producer ; Bill Moyers, executive editor. | VID 64 | POLITICS | A visit with the senior justice of the Supreme Court, who has been called America's most unyielding defender of individual rights. | |
| Much ado about nothing / by William Shakespeare ; a BBC Television production in association with Time-Life Television ; produced by Shaun Sutton ; directed by Stuart Burge. | DVD 28 | LITERARY - SHAKESPEARE | Claudio and Hero are engaged, but the jealous Don John tries to thwart the wedding by denouncing Hero as unchaste. Meanwhile, Beatrice and Benedick, who scorn each other, become betrothed as a result of the schemes of their friends. | |
| Muhammad : legacy of a prophet / created and produced by Alexander Kronemer, Michael Wolfe ; producer/director, Michael Schwarz ; a KQED presentation. | DVD 50 | RELIGION | Tells the story of the seventh century prophet who changed world history in 23 years, and continues to shape the lives of more than 1.2 billion people. | |
| Murder of the century / a production of WGBH Boston for The American Experience ; Carl Charlson, producer. | VID 509 | HISTORY | Recounts the 1906 murder of Stanford White, New York City's leading architect, by Harry K. Thaw, eccentric heir to a Pittsburgh railroad fortune, over Evelyn Nesbit, Thaw's wife. Thaw's trial touched off an extended debate over widespread acceptance of a double standard--one for rich Americans and another for everyone else. | |
| Music dances : Balanchine choreographs Stravinsky / conceived, written, and narrated by Stephanie Jordan. | DVD 790 | DANCE | Professor Stephanie Jordan examines the extraordinary range of Balanchine's approach to Stravinsky's music across the years. The major focus is Agon, with additional selections from Apollo, Duo concertant, Divertimento from 'Le baiser de la fee,' Movements for piano and orchestra, and Danses concertantes. | |
| Music from the inside out / Anker Productions producer/director, Daniel Anker. | DVD 463 | DOCUMENTARIES | A cinematic exploration of the magic and mystery of music through the stories, passions, and artistry of the 105 musicians of the Philadelphia Orchestra. | |
| My dinner with Andre / New Yorker Films release ; ... presented by George W. George in association with Michael White ; produced by George W. George, Beverly Karp ; screenplay by Wallace Shawn, Andre Gregory ; directed by Louis Malle. | VID 226 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Two friends, an intense, experimental theater director and a down-to-earth actor, meet over dinner. | |
| Mysterious Orient / Rand McNally. | VID 179 | CULTURAL STUDIES | Includes information about indigenous life and cultural aspects of Hong Kong, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, and India (specifically, Madras and Agra) | |
| Mystery of the megaflood / a Mentorn production for Nova/WGBH in association with CBC ... [et al.] produced and directed by Ben Fox senior executive producer, Paula S. Apsell. | DVD 285 | SCIENCE - EARTH SCIENCES | Geologists investigate the forces involved in the formation of the mysterious plateau located 200 miles east of Seattle known as the Channeled Scablands. | |
| Mystic pizza / Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. presents produced by Mark Levinson & Scott Rosenfelt story by Amy Jones screenplay by Amy Jones ... [et al.] directed by Donald Petrie. | DVD 380 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Three young women, waitresses at a pizza parlor in Mystic, Connecticut, spend a special summer discovering romance. | |
| Mystic River / Warner Bros. Pictures presents in association with Village Roadshow Pictures and NPV Entertainment a Malpaso production producers, Clint Eastwood, Judie Hoyt, Robert Lorenz screenplay, Brian Helgeland directed by Clint Eastwood. | DVD 426 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Jimmy, Dave, and Sean are friends who grew up in working-class Boston, then drift apart after a terrible tragedy. Years later, brutal events reconnect them. Jimmy's 9-year-old daughter is coldly murdered. Dave is a suspect. And Sean, now a cop, scrambles to solve the crime before volatile Jimmy takes the law into his own hands. | |
| Naked states / a Juntos Films Production in association with Chaiken Films a film by Arlene Donnelly directed and produced by Arlene Donnelly produced by Jen Chaiken, David Nelson. | DVD 468 | DOCUMENTARIES | In a five month journey photographing nudes in every state, Naked States follows artist Spencer Tunick's quest to photograph nudes in public settings across the country. Bear witness to some of America's most fascinating subcultures, from the country's largest biker rally in Sturgis, South Dakota, to the Mojave Desert's eccentric Burningman Festival, to a huge outdoor Phish concert--here Tunick has no idea if he will get 10 people or 1,000 people to pose. In this movie, art, politics, body image, and American culture come together in some very unexpected ways. | |
| Nanook of the North / Revillon Frères ; produced by Robert J. Flaherty. | DVD 159 | DOCUMENTARIES | Presents a documentary on the life of an Eskimo family pitting their strength against a vast and inhospitable Arctic. Juxtaposes their struggle for survival against the elements with the warmth of the little family as they go about their daily affairs. | |
| Napoli : ballet in three acts / by August Bournonville directed by Kirsten Ralov National Video Corporation in association with Danmarks Radio. | DVD 720 | DANCE | ||
| Narc / Paramount Pictures and Lions Gate Films present a Cruise/Wagner Production in association with Splendid Pictures, Emmett/Furla Films, a Julius R. Nasso production and Tiara Blue Films, a Joe Carnahan film producers, Diane Nabatoff, Ray Liotta, Michelle Grace, Julius R. Nasso written & directed by Joe Carnahan. | DVD 774 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Suspended from the force following a drug bust gone wrong, undercover narcotics officer Nick Tellis is reluctantly goaded back into active duty when a fellow officer is slain. Promised reinstatement in exchange for his efforts, Tellis is paired with the victim's volatile ex-partner Henry and soon begins to actively seek the killer in an increasingly complex case. Tellis struggles with his conscience as he navigates a twisting road of half-realized truths, shifting loyalties and questionable agendas. | |
| Nathan Oliveira / the Drawing Society. | VID 542 | ART | Illustrates how Oliviera creates fantasy worlds and builds his art around new forms and languages. He uses clay, paintings, and ink. | |
| Native land : nomads of the dawn / Primal Mind Foundation in association with Alvin H. Perlmutter, Inc. and the Native Land Foundation ; producer/director, John Peaslee ; executive producer, Alvin H. Perlmutter ; writer, Jamake Highwater. | VID 157 | CULTURAL STUDIES | Combines narration and visual imagery to inform the viewer from the perspective of Native Americans about answers to age-old cosmological questions. | |
| Nefertari : the search for eternal life / Televisa and The Getty Conservation Institute. | VID 338 | ART | A journey through the tomb of Egyptian Queen Nefertari, wife of Pharoah Ramses the Great. It reveals the brilliant images tht depict Nefertari's search of eternal life. It also shows the results of the ravages of time, nature, and humankind, and what conservation efforts have been undertaken to arrest them. | |
| Nevelson in process / Home Vision presents ; a film [directed] by Susan Fanshel and Jill Godmilow ; executive producer, Perry Miller Adato ; a production of WNET/13. | VID 350 | ART | Louise Nevelson is seen creating two pieces of sculpture as she discusses her feelings for her art and the creative process. | |
| New ways of seeing : Picasso, Braque and the Cubist revolution. | VID 100 | ART | Documents the extraordinary exhibition mounted by The Museum of Modern Art and presents a rare and provocative view of Cubism and the inspired collaboration of Picasso and Braque. | |
| New year's eve concert 1992 : Richard Strauss gala / Sony Classical ; Cami Video ; a Peter Gelb production ; a Cami Video/ZDF co-production in association with La SEPT, NHK, PBS, and Sony Classical. | VID 370 | MUSIC | ||
| News Magazine of the Screen newsreels. Vol. 1, 1949-1951 / [produced by] Warner-Pathe [compiled by] J.C. Kaelin, Jr. | DVD 615 | HISTORY | In the age before television, people saw the news every week in their neighborhood movie theater, in the newsreels that were shown with every feature film. This disc covers American and world events from 1949 through 1951. | |
| News Magazine of the Screen newsreels. Vol. 2, 1951-1954 / [produced by] Warner-Pathe [compiled by] J.C. Kaelin, Jr. | DVD 616 | HISTORY | In the age before television, people saw the news every week in their neighborhood movie theater, in the newsreels that were shown with every feature film. This disc covers American and world events from 1951 through 1954. | |
| News Magazine of the Screen newsreels. Vol. 3, 1955-1957 / [produced by] Warner-Pathe [compiled by] J.C. Kaelin, Jr. | DVD 617 | HISTORY | In the age before television, people saw the news every week in their neighborhood movie theater, in the newsreels that were shown with every feature film. This disc covers American and world events from 1955-1957. | |
| News war / [produced by] WGBH Boston executive producer David Fanning. | DVD 290 | v.1-2 | TELEVISION | Looks at the impact of political, cultural, legal and economic forces on the news media. Traces the recent history of American journalism from Watergate to the war on terror and how the freedom of the press is being challenged. Also examines the rise of Al Jazeera's influence in the Middle East also profiles reporters who were killed, jailed or exiled in 2006. |
| Nile / Cousteau Society. | VID 320 | TRAVEL | In this breathtaking travelogue, the Cousteaus embark on a daring ten-month expedition along the entire course of the world's largest river, capturing on film the Nile's astronishing natural beauties, menacing dangers, primitive cultures and animal sanctuaries. | |
| Nirgendwo in Afrika = Nowhere in Africa / Zeitgeist Films Bavarian Film International Constantin Film eine MTM Medien & Television München Produktion in coproduktion mit Constantin Film Produktion, Bavaria Film, MC One gefordert durch FilmFernsehFonds Bayern ... [et al.] ein Film von Carolin Link director, Caroline Link. | DVD 713 | Disc 1-2 | CINEMA | Critically acclaimed, this is the award winning true tale of a Jewish family who flee the Nazi regime in 1938 and learns to cope with their new life, and each other, on a remote farm in Kenya. |
| Nixon : a presidency revealed / produced by Team Productions, LLC for The History Channel director, David C. Taylor. | DVD 759 | HISTORY | A fresh look at one of the most controversial leaders of the U.S., more than thirty years after his resignation. Draws on previously unseen footage and only recently released audio tapes. | |
| No country for old men / Miramax Films and Paramount Vantage present written for the screen and directed by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen produced by Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen a Scott Rudin/Mike Zoss production. | DVD 773 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Llewelyn Moss stumbles on a bloody crime scene, a pickup truck loaded with heroin and two million dollars in irrestible cash. He decides to take the money. This sets off an unstoppable chain reaction of violence. | |
| No end in sight / produced by Jennie Amias, Audrey Marrs, Jessie Vogelson producer/director, Charles Ferguson. | DVD 373 | POLITICS | An insider's look at the decisions that led to the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq and the handling of the occupation. Based on over 200 hours of footage, the film provides a candid retelling of the events following the fall of Baghdad in 2003 by high ranking officals, as well as Iraqi civilians, American soldiers and prominent analysts. Examines the manner in which the principal errors of U.S. policy--the use of insufficient troop levels, allowing the looting of Baghdad, the purging of professionals from the Iraqi government and the disbanding of the Iraqi military--largely created the insurgency and chaos that engulf Iraq today. | |
| No maps on my taps : the art of jazz tap dancing / a film by George T. Nierenberg. | DVD 250 | DANCE | Offers unique insight into jazz tap dancing as an indigenous art form. Veteran jazz tap dancing stars, including Bunny Briggs, Chuck Green and Sandman Sims, reminisce about their art and careers. | |
| Norma Rae / Twentieth Century-Fox ; a Martin Ritt/Rose and Asseyev production ; screenplay by Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank, Jr. ; produced by Tamara Asseyev and Alex Rose ; directed by Martin Ritt. | VID 506 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Norma Rae, a textile worker in a small Southern town, discovers that she has a social conscience when a labor organizer arrives at her mill to establish a union. | |
| North by northwest / M-G-M presents ; Turner Entertainment Co. and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. ; written by Ernest Lehman ; directed by Alfred Hitchcok. | DVD 123 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | Enemy agents mistake a New York City advertising executive for an American spy. | |
| North star . | VID 529 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | World War II drama, paying tribute to the Russian people. Focuses on a small village which is enjoying the last days of peace in the summer of 1941. When the Nazis invade the Soviet Union, some of the people become freedom-fighting guerillas, others openly make life difficult for the occupying forces. | |
| Nosferatu : a symphony of horror / Transit Film for Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau-Stiftung ; directed by F.W. Murnau. | DVD 142 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | The first film version of Bram Stoker's Dracula. The insatiable Transylvanian vampire, Count Orlock (Nosferatu), leaves his castle in the Carpathians and travels by ship to Bremen, bringing coffins filled with dirt and plague rats. | |
| Notre Dame : witness to history. | VID 201 | ARCHTECTURE | The remarkable story of this Parisian landmark brings to life the fascinating characters, both real and fictional, whose destinies are woven into the legend of this most famous of all cathedrals. | |
| Nuit et brouillard = Night and fog / realisation, Alain Resnais ; co-production, Cocinor, Como-Films, Argos-Films. | VID 501 | DOCUMENTARIES | Award winning documentary using actual black and white footage shot inside Hitler's concentration camps. | |
| Nuit et brouillard = Night and fog / une co-production Como Films, Argos Films, Cocinor and Janus Films ; producers, Anatole Dauman, Samy Halfon, Philippe Lifchitz ; text writer, Jean Cayrol ; director, Alain Resnais. | DVD 155 | DOCUMENTARIES | Ten years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, this piece documents the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz and Majdanek. One of the first cinematic reflections on the horrors of the Holocaust and contrasts the stillness of the abandoned camps' quiet, empty buildings with haunting wartime footage. | |
| Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan / La Sept ARTE et Morgane Production un film de Jerome de Missolz. | DVD 348 | MUSIC | Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan was the most dazzling star of Qawwali music, the religious chanting song form emanating from the spiritual beliefs of the Sufis. An ardent traditionalist with a vast repertoire of spiritually-charged songs, he shaped contemporary influences into an adventurous interpretation of the tradition. This portrait includes concert performances in Paris, Chicago and Pakistan and intimate Qawwali singing at home with members of Nusrat's talented musical family. Accompanied by harmonium and percussion Nusrat takes off on soaring jazz-like improvisational vocals and breaks down the techniques at the heart of Qawwali singing. | |
| Nutcracker / an American Ballet Theatre and Mikhail Baryshnikov production ; produced by Yanna Kroyt Brandt ; directed Tony Charmoli. | DVD 143 | DANCE | From an imperial-era Russian Christmas party, a young girl named Clara is whisked in her dreams to an imaginary world populated by the animated creations of the wizard toy maker Drosselmeier. | |
| O brother, where art thou? / Touchstone Pictures and Universal Pictures present in association with Studio Canal+ a Working Title production. | VID 574 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Loosely based on Homer's Odyssey , three escaped chain gang convicts have to travel home to try and recover buried loot from a bank heist. Along the way they meet up with some strange characters. | |
| Octavio Paz / the Lannan Literary Series in association with Metropolitan Pictures and EZTV ; by Lewis MacAdams and John Dorr. | VID 423 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | Octavio Paz reads from the Collected Works of Octavio Paz, 1957-1987. | |
| Ode to freedom documentary : Symphony no. 9 op. 125 / Ludwig van Beethoven. | VID 381 | MUSIC | ||
| Oedipus Rex / by Sophocles, in a version by William Butler Yeats ; a Stratford Shakespearean Festival Foundation of Canada production ; directed by Tyrone Guthrie ; produced by Leonid Kipnis. | VID 293 | LITERARY - CLASSICS | Filmed version of Sophocles's tragedy. Performed in masks. | |
| Of civil wrongs and rights : the Fred Korematsu story / a film by Eric Paul Fournier produced by the Fred Korematsu Film Project. | DVD 464 | DOCUMENTARIES | In 1942, Fred Korematsu was an average 23-year-old California native working as a shipyard welder. But when he refused to obey Executive Order 9006, which sent 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry into internment camps, he became something extraordinary, a civil rights champion. -- container. | |
| Of mice and men / directed by Gary Sinise. | DVD 777 | with Cliffs Notes | CINEMA | Two unemployed men search for work during the Depression and find themselves enjoying work on a farm despite the attitude of their supervisor's son however, when that son's wife ends up as an innocent victim, the men are faced with difficult choices. |
| Oh freedom after while / a production of Webster University and the University of Memphis ; directed and edited by Steven John Ross ; written and produced by Candace O'Connor and Steven John Ross. | VID 339 | POLITICS | In January 1939, Missouri Bootheel sharecroppers--black and white--staged a dramatic roadside protest to protest unjust treatment by local plantation owners. Their demonstration spurred the U.S. government to develop new housing for displaced sharecroppers. | |
| Olympia / A Pathfinder Home Entertainment release a Leni Riefenstahl film written, produced and directed by Leni Riefenstahl. | DVD 448 | v.1 - 2 | DOCUMENTARIES | The first of two films made to record the 1936 Summer Olympic Games in Berlin. Although controversial for its ties to, and representation of National Socialism, it is considered by many to be a brilliant and ground-breaking sports documentary. |
| Omar & Pete / producer and director, Tod Lending produced by Nomadic Pictures Ltd. | DVD 455 | DOCUMENTARIES | A look at the lives of William Pete Duncan and Leon Omar Mason, two men who have spent the majority of their adulthood in prison. Both men participate in the Maryland Re-Entry Partnership Initiative, an effort to help ex-convicts reintegrate into their communities and families. | |
| On the beach / Lomitas Productions ; produced and directed by Stanley Kramer ; screenplay by John Paxton. | VID 508 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | A drama about the devastating effects of nuclear war. It is 1964 and the entire hemisphere has been destroyed. The story turns to the survivors in Melbourne, Australia, as they realize their own annihilation is inevitable. | |
| On the downlow / Childworks Inc. director and producer, Abigail Child. | DVD 479 | DOCUMENTARIES | Uncomfortable with being termed gay, as it doesn't correspond with their concept of Black masculinity, four men live on the downlow - straddling two seemingly incompatible worlds - one life on the surface, and another that is hidden below. | |
| On the town / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture produced by Loew's Incorporated directors, Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen producer, Arthur Freed screenplay, Adolph Green, Betty Comden. | DVD 684 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | Sailors, Gabie, Chip , and Ozzie, have a 24-hour leave in New York. Chip wants to sightsee, but the only sights Gabie and Ozzie are interested in are of the female variety. | |
| On the waterfront / Columbia Pictures Corporation ; screenplay by Budd Schulberg ; produced by Sam Spiegel ; directed by Elia Kazan. | DVD 266 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | An ex-fighter gets a job working on the gang-ridden waterfront under a crooked gangster boss. | |
| Once upon a time in the West / Paramount Pictures Corporation, Rafran Cinematografia, San Marco Productions produced by Fulvio Morsella screenplay by Sergio Donati and Sergio Leone from a story by Dario Argento, Bernardo Bertolucci and Sergio Leone directed by Sergio Leone. | DVD 434 | v. 1 - 2 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | A man preparing to welcome his new wife to his home is killed, along with his entire family. |
| Once upon a time when we were colored / Republic Pictures ; directed and produced by Tim Reid. | VID 155 | CULTURAL STUDIES | Tells the story of growing up in the segregation-era South, in a community that faced adversity and held together with amazing dignity and grace. | |
| One woman, one vote / Educational Film Center production ; written and produced by Ruth Pollak ; co-producer and writer, Felicia M. Widmann. | VID 247 | v.1-2 | WOMEN'S STUDIES | Documents the 72-year struggle for women's suffrage which culminated in the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. It illuminates the alliances, infighting, betrayals and defeats that paved the way for victory in the battle for women's right to vote. |
| One-eyed jacks / Paramount Pictures a Pennebaker production produced by Frank P. Rosenberg directed by Marlon Brando. | DVD 802 | CINEMA | Running from the law after a bank robbery in Mexico, Dad Longworth finds an opportunity to take the stolen gold and leave his partner Rio to be captured. Years later, Rio escapes from the prison where he has been since, and hunts down Dad for revenge. Dad is now a respectable sheriff in California, and has been living in fear of Rio's return. -- imdb.com | |
| Only the ball was white / WTTW Chicago ; produced & directed by Ken Solarz. | VID 186 | CULTURAL STUDIES | Pays tribute to the many top-flight baseball players from the Negro Leagues. Documents a bygone bittersweet era in baseball and the men who were denied stardom by the color line. | |
| Open water / Lions Gate Films Plunge Pictures, LLC. produced by Laura Lau written and directed by Chris Kentis. | DVD 731 | Disc 1-2 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Susan and Daniel are a happily married couple who are taking a much needed vacation to the islands. They are hoping for a memorable trip. However, their vacation turns tragic when their scuba diving party leaves them in the middle of the ocean by the careless diving boat crew. As the reality of isolation sets in, they turn to one another for support. Unable to flag down passing boats, they begin to panic as encircling sharks begin to appear. |
| Opening doors : dancing with disabilities / a production of Very Special Arts New Mexico and KNME-TV. | VID 111 | DANCE | This video tells the story of Buen Viaje Dancers, a performing dance troupe composed of dancers with disabilities. Artistic directors Billbob Brown and Joanie Carlisle describe their vision and demonstrate with excerpts from rehearsals and a performance of Opening Doors. | |
| Opening night / Faces Distribution Corporation presents a John Cassavetes film producer, Al Ruban writer/director, John Cassavetes associate producer, Michael Lally. | DVD 281 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | A Broadway actress, who is unable to admit that she is aging must confront her personal and professional turmoils in order to make a part her own. | |
| Orchestra! / producer, Jonathan Hewes ; directors, Declan Lowney, Simon Smith ; [an Initial Film and Television production for Channel 4 Television] | VID 360 | v.1-3 | MUSIC | Dudley Moore and conductor Georg Solti present this series which introduces the music and instruments of the orchestra through selections of works by great composers. |
| Original cast album, Company / a film by D. A. Pennebaker ; featuring music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. | VID 297 | THEATRE | A chronicle of the recording session of the cast album of the Tony Award-winning musical comedy, Company. Includes interviews with record producer, Thomas Z. Shepard; composer/lyricist, Stephen Sondheim; musical director, Harold Hastings; producer/director, Harold Prince; and playwright, George Furth. | |
| Original cast album, Company / a film by D.A. Pennebaker ; featuring music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. | DVD 254 | THEATRE | A chronicle of the recording session of the cast album of the Tony Award-winning musical comedy, Company. Includes interviews with record producer, Thomas Z. Shepard; composer/lyricist, Stephen Sondheim; musical director, Harold Hastings; producer/director, Harold Prince; and playwright, George Furth. | |
| Origins of American animation : 1900-1921. | VID 533 | CINEMA - SHORTS | This collection, 21 complete films and two fragments, showscases the best of the Library of Congress's animated cartoons from the first decades of this century, an era full of surprises and experimentation. | |
| Origins of the fantasy feature : the patchwork girl of Oz (1914) and a Florida enchantment (1914). | VID 534 | CINEMA - SHORTS | Patchwork girl of Oz: whimsical fairy tale" about munchkins in the land of Oz ; A Florida enchantment: the unusual fable about a woman who discovers magic seeds that transform women into men (and men into women)" | |
| Os carvoeiros = The charcoal people of Brazil / Zazen Produções escrito e produzido José Padilha. | DVD 545 | DOCUMENTARIES | Shows the life and work of migrants in Brazil who produce charcoal for use in the production of pig iron. | |
| Othello / by William Shakespeare ; a BBC Television production in association with Time-Life Television ; a production by Jonathan Miller. | DVD 29 | LITERARY - SHAKESPEARE | Shakespeare's play about the tragic consequences of jealousy. Othello appoints Cassio as his chief lieutenant, arousing the jealosy of Iago, who conspires to undo them both. Iago tells Othello that his wife, the beautiful Desdemona, is having an affair with Cassio. Othello strangles Desdemona before learning of Iago's evil, and then kills himself in remorse. | |
| Othello / San Francisco Ballet ; conceived and choreographed by Lar Lubovitch ; composed by Elliot Goldenthal ; directed by Matthew Diamond ; produced by Judy Flannery, Matthew Diamond ; a co-production of KQED Public Television, Thirteen/WNET New York, the San Francisco Ballet | DVD 78 | DANCE | A performance of Othello by the San Francisco Ballet | |
| Othello / by William Shakespeare a BBC Television production in association with Time-Life Television a production by Jonathan Miller. | DVD 29 | LITERARY - SHAKESPEARE | Shakespeare's play about the tragic consequences of jealousy. Othello appoints Cassio as his chief lieutenant, arousing the jealosy of Iago, who conspires to undo them both. Iago tells Othello that his wife, the beautiful Desdemona, is having an affair with Cassio. Othello strangles Desdemona before learning of Iago's evil, and then kills himself in remorse. | |
| Our daily bread : and other films of the Geat Depression / Film Preservation Associates. | DVD 171 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | Our daily bread (King Vidor 1934) is a depression-era drama in which a young couple leads a group of unemployed people in making a communal farm succeed. Includes a prologue to the movie by King Vidor. | |
| Out of Ireland / an American Focus production. | VID 177 | HISTORY | Examines the history of the seven million Irish who emigrated to America in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries including the causes of the exodus and the immigrant experience in the United States. | |
| Out of our fathers' house / a presentation of Thirteen/WNET New York, Theatre in America directed by Jack Hofsiss produced by Judy Kinberg. | DVD 551 | THEATRE | Tales of women seeking independence, taken entirely from the real journals of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 'Mother' Mary Jones and Dr. Anna Howard Shaw. | |
| Outfoxed : Rupert Murdoch's war on journalism / a Robert Greenwald film www.outfoxed.org produced and directed by Robert Greenwald. | DVD 289 | TELEVISION | Examines Rupert Murdoch's Fox News media empire. Takes an in-depth look at Fox News and the dangers of ever-enlarging corporations taking control of the public's right to know. Examines how the FCC helped Murdoch break the rules to establish a fourth network in the United States. The film explores the impact on society when media is controlled by one person. A system was created to monitor Fox News 24 hours a day for months to discover exactly how its shows worked. The result is an intense examination of Fox News and the lie inherent in its favorite motto 'Fair and Balanced'. | |
| Oval Office | VID 81 | POLITICS | Various people connected with the Oval Office provide anecdotes about presidents involving this room in the White House. Rex Scouten, White House curator, gives a brief illustrated history of the Oval Office. A newsreel Oval Office, an historical perspesctive is shown. President Clinton gives a brief tour of the Oval Office. | |
| Painting with light / A Griffin Production. | VID 106 | ART | The Quantel Paint Box is a new computer device that enables an artist to create and paint original works directly onto a television screen. This video shows four artists using the process. | |
| Paradise lost : the child murders at Robin Hood Hills / HBO Original production ; directed by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky | DVD 160 | DOCUMENTARIES | Damien Echols is a teen who dresses in all black and listens to heavy metal. He and his two friends are accused of the murder of three little boys, and are instantly condemned by a retribution-hungry public. Now they try to defend themselves against a dubious lack of proof | |
| Parallel lines / produced in association with The BBC, TV Ontario, and YLE TV2 Documentaries ; director, Nina Davenport. | DVD 260 | DOCUMENTARIES | In the aftermath of September 11, 2001, Nina Davenport interviews strangers as she journeys across the country, finding that, despite their differences, many Americans dealt with the national trauma by referencing personal loss and longing. | |
| Paris dances Diaghilev | VID 38 | DANCE | Corps de Ballet of the Paris Opera Ballet | |
| Paris is burning / a production of Off White Productions, Inc. produced and directed by Jennie Livingston co-producer, Barry Swimar executive producers, Nigel Finch, Davis Lacy. | DVD 501 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Filmed in the late 1980s, Paris is burning explores the world of New York drag balls and voguing competitions. | |
| Parsons Dance Company / produced and directed by Thomas Grimm ; co-produced by Danmarks Radio and RM Arts. | DVD 141 | DANCE | ||
| Passin' it on / producers, John Valedez, Peter Miller ; director, John Valedez. | DVD 259 | POLITICS | The story of a man in search of justice who is wronged by the nation with which he is at odds. The film also offers startling insight into the role of the Black Panther Party in social change. | |
| Passing Poston : an American story / produced by Fly on the Wall Productions directed by Joe Fox and James Nubile written by Joe Fox. | DVD 484 | DOCUMENTARIES | Personal stories and moving archival footage tell the untold story of how Japanese internees were used by the US government to help develop a Native American reservation during World War II. | |
| Pathera pÄnÌcÄlÄ« = Song of the little road / Sony Pictures Classics in association with the Merchant and Ivory Foundation Ltd. produced by the Government of West Bengal written and directed by Satyajit Ray. | DVD 353 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | A poor Bengali family survives in a village but wider horizons tempt the father. The protection of family members' reputations, the relationship of the family group to an elderly 'aunt', and first confrontations with death contribute to the early development of the boy Apu. His father's dreams prevail over the objections of his mother so that at the end of the film the family moves to the big city of Benares. Apu's experiences are followed in the second film of the trilogy: Aparajito and his growth to early manhood in the final film Apur Sansar. | |
| Paths of glory / screenplay by Stanley Kubrick, Calder Willingham, Jim Thompson produced by James B. Harris directed by Stanley Kubrick. | DVD 786 | CINEMA | The French General Staff, safely behind the lines, sends orders for what amounts to a suicide mission. To cover up their fatal blunder, three soldiers are arrested and made scapegoats. | |
| Pattiann Rogers / the Lannan Foundation ; directed by Dan Griggs. | VID 446 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | Pattiann Rogers weaves biological, botanical, and zoological details into her astonishing poetry. Her identification with the natural world results in poetry that is intense, spiritual, and sensual. She reads from Geocentric, The Tattooed Lady in the Garden, Splitting and Binding and unpublished work. She read on May 4, 1993, in Los Angeles and talked with Michael Silverblatt--Container. | |
| Paul Gauguin : te oviri rerioa = the savage dream / Home Vision presents a National Gallery of Art presentation. | VID 312 | ART | Portrays Gauguin's search for a savage alternative to his own culture in the islands of the South Seas. | |
| Paul Taylor and Company : an artist and his work / [produced by] Steeg Productions. | VID 242 | DANCE | A documentary on the Paul Taylor Dance Company, demonstrating their commitment and concentration on the art of modern dance. | |
| Paul Taylor dance company | VID 222 | DANCE | Paul Taylor talks about his dance group and what he looks for in his dancers. | |
| Paul West / the Lannan Foundation ; directed by Dan Griggs. | VID 447 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | Paul West's fertile imagination demonstrates the limitless possibilities of language and fiction in his 15 novels. Mr. West, who received a Lannan Literary Award for Fiction, reads from his books Tenement of clay, Out of my depths, Rat man of Paris, The women of Whitechapel and Jack the Ripper, and Love's mansion. Mr. West's reading and talk with Michael Silverblatt took place on September 21, 1993, in Los Angeles. | |
| Paule Marshall / the Lannan Foundation ; directed by Dan Griggs. | VID 451 | ART | Paule Marshall, born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, has said that the source of her art is the expressive talk she heard as a girl among the West Indian women in her mother's kitchen. Ms. Marshall, who has received a MacArthur Fellowship, has written four novels and two collections of stories. On April 12, 1994, she read from Daughters and talked with Michael Silverblatt in Los Angeles--Container. | |
| Pericles, Prince of Tyre / by William Shakespeare ; a BBC Television production in association with Time-Life Television ; produced by Shaun Sutton ; directed by David Jones. | DVD 30 | LITERARY - SHAKESPEARE | The Prince of Tyre is pursued by the vengeance of King Antiochus because he discovered the monarch's incestuous relationship with his daughter. Fleeing from place to place, Pericles is shipwrecked, courts, and marries Thaisa. Their child, Marina, raised by friends when Thaisa is believed to have died, is kidnapped by pirates and sold into a brothel before Thaisa is discovered alive and the family is joyfully reunited. | |
| Persepolis | DVD 398 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family. Their long dream is realized when the hated Shah is defeated in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, Marji grows up to witnesses first hand how the new Iran has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Marji dangerously refusing to remain silent at this injustice, her parents send her abroad to Vienna to study. This change proves an equally difficult trial for Marji and finds herself in a different culture loaded with abrasive characters and profound disappointments that deeply trouble her. Even when she returns home, Marji finds that both she and her homeland have changed too much and the young woman and her loving family must decide where she truly belongs. | |
| Personal journey with Martin Scorsese through American movies / a BFI TV production for Channel 4 in association with Miramax Films. | DVD 112 | v.1-2 | DOCUMENTARIES | Featuring a wealth of extracts from famous and infamous American movies, Scorsese offers a provocative multifaceted portrait of Hollywood film directors as he charts a comprehensive course through the rich history of the American cinema. |
| Persuaders / directed by Barak Goodman and Rachel Dretzin ; produced by Rachel Dretzin, Barak Goodman, Muriel Soenens ; written by Barak Goodman & Douglas Rushkoff. | DVD 135 | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS | Examines the persuasion industries" of advertising and public relations. Shows how marketers have developed new ways of integrating their message into the fabric of our lives. Explores how the culture of marketing has come to shape the way Americans understand the world and themselves and how the techniques of the persuasion industries have migrated to politics." | |
| Peter Matthiessen : in conversation with Howard Norman / Lannan Foundation ; director, Dan Griggs. | VID 473 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | Peter Matthiessen reads from his novels Killing Mr. Watson and Lost man's river and is interviewed by Howard Norman on November 21, 1996 in Los Angeles. | |
| Peter Reading / the Lannan Foundation ; directed by Dan Griggs. | VID 440 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | Peter Reading is one of the most inventive and challenging poets in England. This program documents his first reading in the United States. He reads from Evagatory and Diplopic and talks with Christopher Hitchens and Michael Silverblatt. The reading and conversation took place in Los Angeles on April 21, 1992--Container. | |
| Peter Shaffer's Amadeus / The Saul Zaentz Company presents a Milos Forman film original stage play and screenplay by Peter Shaffer produced by Saul Zaentz directed by Milos Forman. | DVD 401 | Disc A - B | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Adapted from Shaffer's play, the film presents the life of Antonio Salieri, a mediocre 18th century Viennese composer obsessed with and jealous of the musical genius of the age, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. |
| Philadelphia / TriStar Pictures presents a Clinica Estetico Production. | VID 176 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Powerful story of two lawyers who join together to sue a prestigious Philadelphia law firm when the firm fires one of them because he has AIDS. | |
| Philadelphia, here I come / screenplay by Brian Friel produced and directed by John Quested. | DVD 403 | THEATRE | Concerns the emotional struggle of a young Irishman preparing to emigrate to America, with one actor portraying his public self and another his private thoughts. | |
| Philip Johnson : master architect / MacNeil/Lehrer Productions. | DVD 614 | ARCHTECTURE | Contains three episodes from The News Hour with Jim Lehrer that discuss the life and career of Philip Johnson. | |
| Philip Levine / the Lannan Literary Series in association with Metropolitan Pictures and EZTV ; by Lewis MacAdams and John Dorr. | VID 421 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | Philip Levine reads from Selected poems, Sweet will, and A Walk with Tom Jefferson. | |
| Piano lesson / Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions, Inc. ; producer, August Wilson ; co-producer, Brent Shields ; teleplay, August Wilson ; director, Lloyd Richards. | DVD 109 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning tale of a family caught between their heritage and a dream for the future. The Charles family clashes over the fate of a magnificent, carved piano that carries their family's story from their days as slaves. | |
| Pictures from a revolution / GMR Films presents a film by Susan Meiselas, Richard P. Rogers and Alfred Guzzetti produced, directed & edited by Susan Meiselas, Richard P. Rogers, Alfred Guzzetti. | DVD 475 | DOCUMENTARIES | In this discourse on the power of images, photojournalist Susan Meiselas returns to the scenes of a revolution she witnessed and captured with her camera in war-torn Nicaragua in the late 70s and 80s. Delving into the lives of guerrillas, Sandinistas, and bystanders a decade after they faced off in a bloody struggle, this film finds both disappointment and modest pride amidst still-fresh, stirring memories. Once photographed wielding contact bombs and marching in the streets, these incredible Nicaraguans now live much as they did before the revolutionary days. | |
| Pierrepoint : the last hangman / Weinstein Company Home Entertainment IFC First Take/UK Film Council and Capitol Films present a Granada production in association with Masterpiece Theatre producer, Christine Langan screenplay by Jeff Pope and Bob Mills director, Adrian Shergold. | DVD 422 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Albert Pierrepoint joins the family business and becomes the most feared and respected executioner in Britain. Living a split life as a master hangman, loyal husband and grocery delivery man, Albert became the most feared executioner in Britain, famed for his craftsmanship in hanging over 450 people. Once praised and demonized for his role in the Nazi war trials, he must ultimately face a fate he couldn't have imagined. | |
| Pilobolus Dance Theatre / Warner Vision Entertainment ; a production of WNET/13 ; produced by Emile Ardolino and Judy Kinberg ; directed by Merrill Brockway ; narration written by Elizabeth Kendall. | VID 229 | DANCE | Documentary on the formation of Pilobolus and performances by the company. | |
| Plagues & pleasures on the Salton Sea / Tilapia Film presents produced by Chris Metzler directed and shot by Chris Metzler and Jeff Springer. | DVD 474 | DOCUMENTARIES | Fabulously offbeat and refreshingly upbeat, this lovable film gets friendly with the natives of the Salton Sea, an inland ocean of massive fish kills, rotting resorts, and 120 degree nights located just minutes from urban South California. | |
| Platoon / an Orion Pictures release Hemdale Film Corporation presents an Arnold Kopelson production of an Oliver Stone film produced by Arnold Kopelson written and directed by Oliver Stone. | DVD 523 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | In Platoon, a middle-class college student volunteers for the war in Vietnam because he considers it his patriotic duty. The first thing he encounters on the airport tarmac in Saigon is a cart of body bags. It's downhill from there: endless hikes, ditch-digging, heat, rain, bugs and snakebites, fear and confusion, sleeplessness, and terror when he finally sleeps. He will only gradually, unknowingly, become an adequate soldier--one who has left innocence far behind. | |
| Playing Shakespeare / written by John Barton director, John Carlaw producer, Andrew Snell LWT. | DVD 683 | v.1-4 | THEATRE | John Barton guides members of the Royal Shakespeare Company in nine intensive acting workshops, demonstrating how the Company makes Shakespeare's classic plays accessible to modern audiences without compromising the text's integrity. |
| Please vote for me / STEPS International presents director, Weijun Chen producer, Don Edkins produced by STEPS International in co-production with ARTE France ... [et al.]. | DVD 513 | DOCUMENTARIES | Two males and a female vie for office. They indulge in low blows, character assassination and gestures of goodwill, all while gauging their standing with voters. The setting is a third-grade class at an elementary school in the city of Wuhan in central China. Chronicles a public school's first open elections. | |
| Point counterpoint : the life and work of Georges Seurat, 1859-1891 / [presented by] Home Vision ; written and narrated by David Thompson ; a BBC TV production in association with RM Productions ; produced [and directed] by Ann Turner. | VID 309 | ART | Provides a close look at Seurat's pointillist technique and masterful draftsmanship, highlighted by conversations with modern artists Henry Moore and Bridget Riley. | |
| Points in space / directed by Elliot Caplan and Merce Cunningham produced by Bob Lockyer and Cunningham Dance Foundation. | DVD 319 | DANCE | This is the critically acclaimed collaboration for the screen by choreographer Merce Cunningham, composer John Cage, and filmmaker Elliot Caplan. The first half features the BBC's documentary: interviews with Cunningham, Cage and members of the company, as well as scenes from rehearsals in New York and London that take the viewer through the complexities--and exhilaration--of bringing new dance to television. The second half features Points in space performed by Cunningham and the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. | |
| Pompeii, buried alive : extraordinary secrets of ancient Pompeii unveiled / produced by Multimedia Entertainment, Inc. and Filmroos, Inc. in association with A&E Network. | VID 306 | HISTORY | Join the archaeological director of Pompeii to journey far beyond the excavations into the very lives cut short by the ancient tragedy. | |
| Portrait of Giselle | VID 1 | DANCE | As host Sir Anton Dolin prepares New York City Ballet's Patricia McBride for the role of Giselle, he tells the plot of the ballet, gives the history of its performance, and lends insight into the technical and dramatic expertise required of its dancers. | |
| Possession / USA Films and Warner Bros. Pictures present a Baltimore/Spring Creek Pictures production in association with Contagious Films producers, Paula Weinstein, Barry Levinson screenplay writers, David Henry Hwang, Laura Jones, Neil LaBute director. | DVD 783 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Roland is an academic researcher who discovers some important letters written by a famous Victorian poet, Randolph Henry Ash. Ash was presumed to have been totally devoted to his wife, but Roland finds letters written to another unnamed woman, and soon determines that the intended recipient was another, less well-known poet, Christabel LaMotte. Roland contacts Maud, an expert on LaMotte's life and work. Despite her skepticism, the two begin to investigate, and uncover a wealth of information about the affair between the two poets. | |
| Powaqqatsi / a Golan-Globus production a Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas presentation directed by Godfrey Reggio produced by Mel Lawrence, Godfrey Reggio, Lawrence Taub written by Godfrey Reggio, Ken Richards Metro Goldwyn Mayer. | DVD 724 | CINEMA | Juxtaposes images of ancient cultures with those of modern life [in industrialized societies], masterfully portraying the human cost of progress --Container. | |
| Power game : how Washington really works . / With Hedrick Smith. Presented by Don Wilson, Archivist for the United States. | VID 70 | POLITICS | Hedrick Smith, author, discusses the writing and research that went into his book. | |
| Power trip / produced and directed by Paul Devlin. | DVD 258 | DOCUMENTARIES | A comic clash of cultures that combusts when when AES, an American energy company, tries to transform the dysfunctional electric system in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia. | |
| Pray the Devil back to hell / Fork Films presents a film by Abigail E. Disney and Gini Reticker produced by Abigail E. Disney directed by Gini Reticker. | DVD 581 | DOCUMENTARIES | Documentary about a group of brave and visionary women who demanded peace for Liberia, a nation torn to shreds by a bloody civil war, violent warlords and a corrupt Charles Taylor regime. Includes interviews, archival images, and scenes of present-day Liberia together to recount the experiences and memories of the women who were instrumental in bringing lasting peace to their country. | |
| President and the press | VID 7 | POLITICS | President Bush poses for photos with Archbishop Iakovos, Prime Minister Takeshita, John Tower, and his dog. He gives a speech at the Iwo Jima Memorial and holds news conferences at the White House and aboard Air Force One. | |
| President Clinton's Grand Jury testimony | VID 139 | v.1-3 | POLITICS | President Clinton testifies under oath before a Federal Grand Jury. Independent Counsels Jackie Bennett, Robert Bittman and Solomon Wisenberg question him via a video and audio link to the White House. |
| President George Bush news conference | VID 84 | POLITICS | Meeting in the Press Briefing Room of the White House, President Bush announces his support for conservation and environmental protection as well as support for the Chinese students still in this country after the Tiananmen Square Incident. The floor is then open for questions from the press. | |
| Primal fear / Paramount Pictures in association with Rysher Entertainment a Gary Lucchesi production. | DVD 433 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | A Chicago altar boy is accused of murdering the archbishop and a publicity hungry local attorney decides to defend him. | |
| Primal furnace / Electric Research Institute. | VID 11 | SCIENCE - EARTH SCIENCES | Describes types of geothermal resources, the historical uses of geothermal energy, and the techniques which allow its conversion into electricity. | |
| Primal mind / [produced by the Primal Mind Foundation in association with Alvin H. Perlmutter, Inc.] | VID 158 | CULTURAL STUDIES | Hosted by Jamake Highwater, incorporates scenic views, still photographs, and vintage footage in examining the contrasts between traditional native American concepts and European-based American cultures. Focuses on differences related to art, nature, architecture, and time. | |
| Primary / conceived & produced by Robert Drew for Time-Life Broadcast ; writer, Robert Drew. | DVD 164 | POLITICS | A political documentary of the 1960 Wisconsin Democratic presidential primary campaigns in which Senator John F. Kennedy upset Senator Hubert H. Humphrey. | |
| Prime Minister's question time / British House of Commons. | VID 82 | POLITICS | Members of the House of Commons question Margaret Thatcher in a twice weekly 15 minute session. Issues for today include the controversial Iraqi Super gun project and the topic of European unity. | |
| Proof / Miramax Films presents in association with Endgame Entertainment a Hart Sharp Entertainment production screenplay by David Auburn and Rebecca Miller directed by John Madden a film by John Madden produced by Jeffrey Sharp ... [et al.]. | DVD 733 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | With the help of one of her father's former students, Catherine, a devoted daughter, must come to terms with the death of her father, a brilliant mathematician whose genius was crippled by mental instability. After his death, a notebook containing a mathematical proof is found and Catherine claims the proof is her own work. | |
| Public schools inc. : a Merrow report. | VID 544 | EDUCATION | Ten years after entrepreneur Chris Whittle announced his plan to revolutionize education, Whittle's Edison Schools continue to be a lightning rod for the issue of for-profit, public education. Frontline and The Merrow Report join forces to investigate the Edision Schools and examine whether it's possible to create world-class schools that turn a profit. | |
| Pulp fiction / Miramax Films presents a Band Apart and Jersey Films production ; stories by Quentin Tarantino & Roger Avary ; produced by Lawrence Bender ; a film by Quentin Tarantino. | DVD 57 | v.1-2 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Clever, dark film that tells 4 separate stories that are gradually brought together. Involved are two low-rent hit men, their boss and his sexy wife, a prizefighter and a pair of desperate robbers. |
| Putting it together : a musical review / music & lyrics by Stephen Sondheim ; Broadway Television Network ; a Cameron Mackintosh production. | DVD 70 | MUSIC | A Broadway musical using a cocktail party as the theme to review Sondheim's best work. Includes material from a number of shows. | |
| Queen Christina / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer a Rouben Mamoulian production produced by Walter Wanger screen play by H.M. Harwood and Salka Viertel dialogue by S.N. Behrman photographed by William Daniels directed by Rouben Mamoulian. | DVD 685 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | Portrayal of the 17th century Queen of Sweden who relinquishes her throne for her lover, the ambassador from Spain. | |
| Questioning faith : confessions of a seminarian / Cinemax Reel Life presents producer, Leonard Cox director/producer, Macky Alston. | DVD 485 | DOCUMENTARIES | The death of a close friend and fellow seminary student challenges Macky Alston's deepest convictions. Alston sets up a network of interviews with a diverse group of New Yorkers to answer questions on how to maintain faith in the face of tragedy. | |
| Quiet rage : the Stanford prison study / Stanford Instructional Television Network ; produced and directed by Ken Musen ; written by Ken Musen and Philip Zimbardo. | VID 269 | POLITICS | Discusses a prison simulation experiment conducted in 1971 with students at Stanford University and considers the causes and effects that make prisons such an emotional issue. Documentary includes new film, flashback editing, follow-ups 20-years later, and an original music score; reveals the chronology of the transition of good into evil, of normal into the abnormal. | |
| Quills | DVD 423 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | History's most infamous sexual adventurer lives in a madhouse, where a beautiful laundry maid helps him smuggle his erotic stories to the printer, defying orders from the asylum's priest. | |
| Rabbit in the moon / a Wabi-Sabi production ; a film by Emiko Omori. | VID 246 | DOCUMENTARIES | A documentary/memoir about the lingering effects of the World War II internment of the Japanese American community. The film examines issues that ultimately created deep rifts within the Japanese American community, reveals the racist subtext of the loyalty questionnaire and exposes the absurdity of the military draft within the camps. | |
| Race to freedom : the underground railroad / an Atlantis Films Limited production in association with United Image Entertainment ; produced in association with the Family Channel (US), Black Entertainment Television and CTV Television Network, Ltd. ; producers, Daphne Ballon, Brian Parker ; directed by Don McBrearty ; teleplay by Diana Braithwaite, Nancy Trites Botkin, Peter Mohan. | DVD 62 | HISTORY | This is the dramatic story of four slaves who escape from a cotton plantation in the South and travel along a clandestine network of escape routes, known as the underground railroad", to freedom in Canada." | |
| Rage for democracy / a presentation of the William Benton Broadcast Project of the University of Chicago. | VID 68 | POLITICS | The reality versus the ideal of democracy in American society is examined through four stories: (1) politics in the urban black 24th ward of Chicago, (2) the action against a local airport expansion project by the wealthy white community of Lexington, Massachusetts, (3) single issue politics on a religiously inspired basis in the Texas textbook controversy, and (4) the poor organizing to help themselves in the Piedmont Peace Project in rural North Carolina. | |
| Raging bull / United Artists a Robert Chartoff-Irwin Winkler production a Martin Scorsese film produced in association with Peter Savage screenplay by Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin producers, Robert Chartoff and Irwin Winkler director, Martin Scorsese. | DVD 344 | Pt. 1-2 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Jake La Motta is a boxer whose psychological and sexual complexities erupt into violence both in and out of the ring. His brother Joey falls prey to Jake's mounting paranoia and jealousy, while fifteen-year-old Vickie, becomes Jake's wife and most prized trophy. The same anger that drives Jake in the ring, ultimately drives him to beat his wife and brother, and sends Jake down a self-destructive spiral of paranoia and rage. |
| Raisin' cotton / by Emma Knowlton Lytle ; [producer, Karen Glynn] ; Southern Media Archive. | VID 504 | DOCUMENTARIES | This compilation of silent home movies of life on a Mississippi Delta cotton plantation from 1938-1942 are enhanced with recently recorded commentary by Mrs. Emma Knowlton Lytle, who made the films. Depicts the full cycle of a cotton crop from breaking ground to weaving the cloth. | |
| Raisin in the sun / Columbia Pictures Corporation ; produced by David Susskind, Philip Rose ; directed by Daniel Petrie ; screenplay by Lorraine Hansberry. | VID 198 | LITERARY - CLASSICS | Film of the award-winning play about a struggling black family living on Chicago's South Side and the impact of an unexpected insurance bequest. Each family member sees the bequest as the means of realizing dreams and of escape from grinding frustrations. | |
| RashÅmon / [Daiei Co. produced by Jingo Minoura scenario by Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto directed by Akira Kurosawa]. | DVD 342 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Set in the Middle Ages, the nature of truth and subjective reality are probed in a series of flashbacks from four viewpoints to present the case history of a man's murder and the rape of his wife by a bandit. | |
| Rashomon / RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. ; Janus Films ; producer, Jingo Minoura ; director, Akira Kurosawa ; screenplay, Shinobu Hashimoto and Akira Kurosawa. | VID 329 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Four people involved in the murder of a gentleman in feudal Japan and the seduction of his wife report differing views of what actually happened. | |
| Readings & conversations : reading by A.J. Verdelle ; conversation with Nikky Finney / produced by the Lannan Foundation in association with Thunder Road Productions. | VID 485 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | ||
| Readings & conversations : reading by Adrienne Rich ; conversation with Carol Muske / produced by the Lannan Foundation in association with Thunder Road Productions. | VID 489 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | ||
| Readings & conversations : reading by Chet Raymo ; conversation with Scott Russell Sanders / produced by the Lannan Foundation in association with Thunder Road Productions. | VID 495 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | ||
| Readings & conversations : reading by Csezlaw Milosz ; conversation with Helen Vendler / produced by the Lannan Foundation in association with Thunder Road Productions. | VID 483 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | ||
| Readings & conversations : reading by Eduardo Galeano ; conversation with Lawrence Weschler / produced by the Lannan Foundation in association with Thunder Road Productions. | VID 487 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | ||
| Readings & conversations : reading by Eduardo Galeano and Sebastião Salgado ; conversation with Amy Goodman / produced by the Lannan Foundation in association with Thunder Road Productions. | VID 498 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | ||
| Readings & conversations : reading by Gish Jen ; conversation with Don Lee / produced by the Lannan Foundation in association with Thunder Road Productions. | VID 493 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | ||
| Readings & conversations : reading by Jamaica Kincaid ; conversation with William Gass / produced by the Lannan Foundation in association with Thunder Road Productions. | VID 496 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | ||
| Readings & conversations : reading by Jorie Graham ; conversation with Michael Silverblatt / produced by the Lannan Foundation in association with Thunder Road Productions. | VID 488 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | ||
| Readings & conversations : reading by Li-Young Lee ; conversation with Michael Silverblatt / produced by the Lannan Foundation in association with Thunder Road Productions. | VID 494 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | ||
| Readings & conversations : reading by Lucille Clifton ; conversation with Denise Chávez / produced by the Lannan Foundation in association with Thunder Road Productions. | VID 491 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | ||
| Readings & conversations : reading by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge ; conversation with Arthur Sze / produced by the Lannan Foundation in association with Thunder Road Productions. | VID 486 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | ||
| Readings & conversations : reading by Robert Hass ; conversation with Jorie Graham / produced by the Lannan Foundation in association with Thunder Road Productions. | VID 482 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | ||
| Readings & conversations : reading by W.S. Merwin ; conversation with Naomi Shihab Nye / produced by the Lannan Foundation in association with Thunder Road Productions. | VID 497 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | ||
| Readings & conversations : reading by William Gass ; conversation with Michael Silverblatt / produced by the Lannan Foundation in association with Thunder Road Productions. | VID 484 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | ||
| Readings & conversations : readings by Wendell Berry and Gary Snyder ; conversation with Jack Shoemaker / produced by the Lannan Foundation in association with Thunder Road Productions. | VID 490 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | ||
| Readings & conversations : with Wallace Shawn / produced by the Lannan Foundation in association with Thunder Road Productions. | VID 492 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | The author performs his one-person play, The Fever. | |
| Real Ellen story / a World of Wonder Production for Channel Four UK. | VID 522 | TELEVISION | Examines the controversial television Sitcom Ellen in which a major character reveals that she is a lesbian. Includes interviews with actors and ABC/Disney executives. | |
| Real Malcolm X : an intimate portrait of the man / production of CBS News. | VID 163 | BIOGRAPHY | CBS News examines the facts of the extraordinary life of Malcolm X in exclusive, never-before-shown footage and excerpts from some of his most important speeches. Family, friends, and contemporary artists discuss his legacy in the black community. | |
| Rebel Soldier. | DVD 308 | CINEMA - SHORTS | This film follows a young woman as she searches for her family's past when she discovers a distant relative found true love in her early days at Stephens College nearly a century ago. | |
| Red dragon / Universal Pictures and Dino De Laurentiis present in association with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, a Brett Ratner film producers, Dino De Laurentiis, Martha De Laurentiis screenplay writer, Ted Tally director, Brett Ratner. | DVD 791 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Will Graham is an FBI agent who brought Hannibal Lecter to justice however, his confrontation with Lecter proved to be a bloody, near-death experience. Retiring from the Bureau, he moves to Florida. However, a particularly grisly killer is on the loose, and Jack, Graham's one-time mentor at the Bureau, asks him to return to duty to find him. The Tooth Fairy is a vicious murderer who kills entire families at once, covering the eyes of his victims with bits of a shattered mirror. | |
| Red shoes / a Janus Films release ; J. Arthur Rank presents a production of the Archers ; from an original screenplay by Emeric Pressburger with additional dialogue by Keith Winter ; written, produced, and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. | DVD 222 | DANCE | Centers on the dilemma of a young ballerina torn between the composer who loves her and the impresario determined to fashion her into a great dancer. | |
| Red shoes / Pinewood Films. | VID 559 | DANCE | Centers on the dilemma of a young ballerina who's torn between the demands of career and love. | |
| Reds / Paramount Pictures presents written by Warren Beatty and Trevor Griffiths produced and directed by Warren Beatty. | DVD 593 | v.1-2 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | The true story of the love affair of John Reed, American Communist, journalist and activist and Louise Bryant, writer and feminist. |
| Reflections on the Constitution / Attorney general Edwin Meese III. | VID 85 | POLITICS | Attorney general Meese speaks on the conference topic of Separation of powers: fact or myth. | |
| Reservoir dogs / a Miramax Film release Artisan Entertainment presents a Lawrence Bender production in association with Monte Hellman and Richard N. Gladstein a film by Quentin Tarantino produced by Lawrence Bender written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. | DVD 539 | v.1-2 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | They were strangers, together to pull off the perfect jewel heist. Their simple robbery turns into a bloody ambush when they realize one of them is a police informant. |
| Restless eye : Eugéne Delacroix : a film / based on his paintings and his journals ; Home Vision presents an RM Arts production ; written and narrated by Colin Nears ; a BBC [Television] coproduction with RM Productions, Munich ; directed by Colin Nears ; an Arts International presentation. | VID 373 | ART | Uses Delacroix's journal and paintings to tell the story of his life and work. | |
| Return of Martin Guerre = Le retour de Martin Guerre / SFP, Les Films Marcel Dassault, FR3. | VID 137 | 1996 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | The film revolves around the suspenseful unraveling of the identity of the title character, Martin Guerre, who has disappeared as a young husband and resumes his marriage years later. |
| Return to glory : Michelangelo revealed : the restoration of the Sistine Chapel / presented by Edwin Newman. | VID 352 | ART | In 1980 work began on the restoration of Michelangelo's frescoes in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel. This is the exclusive film record of the first phase of the 12 year endeavor. | |
| RFK : his many sides / Produced by CBS News Productions for A&E Network. | DVD 594 | BIOGRAPHY | Robert Kennedy was the third son and seventh child of Joseph and Rose Kennedy, and his childhood was spent trying to win his domineering father's approval, mostly unsuccessfully. But as this Biography shows, he did not make a name for himself until 1952. | |
| Richard Avedon : darkness and light / a production of Thirteen WNET ; directed by Helen Whitney ; written and produced by Helen Whitney. | VID 286 | FASHION | Focus on fashion and portraiture photographer, Richard Avedon. | |
| Richard Burton's Hamlet / Paul Brownstein Productions directed by John Gielgud produced for the screen by William Sargent and Alfred W. Crown restoration producer Paul Brownstein. | DVD 324 | LITERARY - SHAKESPEARE | Staged in rehearsal room and modern dress conditions, this is Richard Burton's performance as Hamlet. | |
| Richard Evans' dialogue with Viktor Frankl / producer and director, Peter Dema ; post-production, Catalyst Production Services. | VID 138 | PSYCHOLOGY | Dr. Frankl talks about his differences and agreements with Freud, Jung, Adler, Lorenz, and Skinner, and he discusses logotherapy, meaning, humanism, altruism, and what hope there is for suvival in the nuclear age. | |
| Richard Ford : in conversation with Gerald Marzorati / the Lannan Foundation ; directed by Dan Griggs. | VID 470 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | Mr. Ford read from Independence Day on December 10, 1996. | |
| Richard III / United Artists Pictures presents with the participation of British Screen ; a Bayly/Parè production developed in association with First Look Pictures ; screenplay, Ian McKellen + Richard Loncraine ; producers, Lisa Katselas Parè, Stephen Bayly ; director, Richard Loncraine. | VID 266 | LITERARY - SHAKESPEARE | In 1930's Britain, in the wake of a bloody civil war, the younger brother of the new King sets in motion a monstrous scheme to claim the throne for himself. Updated version of Shakespeare's tale. | |
| Richard III / United Artists Pictures presents with the participation of British Screen ; a Bayly/Paré production developed in association with First Look Pictures ; screenplay by Ian McKellen and Richard Loncraine ; producers, Lisa Katselas Paré and Stephen Bayly ; directed by Richard Loncraine. | DVD 412 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | In 1930's Britain, in the wake of a bloody civil war, the younger brother of the new King sets in motion a monstrous scheme to claim the throne for himself. Updated version of Shakespeare's tale. | |
| Richard Nelson : in conversation with Gary Nabhan / Lannan Foundation ; director, Dan Griggs. | VID 480 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | Mr. Nelson read from The Island Within and Heart and Blood: Living with Deer in America on April 14, 1998. | |
| Richard Nixon, crisis in the presidency | VID 41 | POLITICS | Presents a balanced portrait of this President whose triumphs included rapprochment with Communist China, but whose ignominies forced his resignation in 1974. | |
| Richard Wilbur / produced and directed by Lewis MacAdams and John Dorr ; in association with Metropolitan Pictures and EZTV. | VID 431 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | David St. John interview Richard Wilbur. | |
| Richter : the enigma / NVC Arts ; a film by Bruno Monsaingeon ; produced by Helene Le Coeur. | VID 537 | MUSIC | Provides an overview of the life and career of Sviatoslav Richter, a Soviet pianist, who remained psychologically free of the regime and indifferent to political events. Includes archival footage of his performances and a rare interview. | |
| Ride the high country / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents written by N.B. Stone, Jr. produced by Richard E. Lyons directed by Sam Peckinpah. | DVD 655 | CINEMA | Two old friends have taken drastically different paths growing up. One is a small town sheriff, the other has become a burglar, bent on stealing the gold the other is shipping cross-country. | |
| Riding the rails / WGBH Boston Video presents an Out of the Blue production a film by Michael Uys and Lexy Lovell produced, directed and written by Michael Uys and Lexy Lovell. | VID 579 | HISTORY | Tells the story of the 250,000 teenagers who left their homes and hopped freight trains during the Great Depression. | |
| Rififi | DVD 125 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | A story of a successful jewel robbery in which the four thieves betray each other. | |
| Rivers and tides : Andy Goldsworthy working with time / Roxie Releasing and the Trust for Public Land present a Mediopolis Film and Fernsehproduktion GmbH with Skyline Productions Ltd. in co-operation with WDR/arte, YLE - the Finnish Broadcasting Company. | DVD 147 | ART | A documentary on the Scottish artist Andy Goldsworthy. | |
| Road to the Stamping ground / an RM Arts production. | VID 29 | DANCE | Kylian's ballet Stamping ground was inspired by the Australian aborigine dance ceremony he witnessed in 1980. This film includes footage from the Australian ceremonies, intercut with the choreographer and his own dancers working in the Hague. | |
| Robert Creeley / produced and directed by Lewis MacAdams and John Dorr of Metropolitan Pictures and EZTV for Lannan Foundation. | VID 433 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | Robert Creeley reads his poems and talks with students at the Harvard School. Includes an interview with him conducted by Lewis MacAdams at the Gallery of the Lannan Foundation in Los Angeles on April 13, 1990. | |
| Robert Rauschenberg : man at work / a BBC/RM Arts co-production in association with the Guggenheim Museum and Ovation ; executive producer, Andrea Miller ; director, Chris Granlund. | DVD 216 | ART | A look at one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. Includes Rauschenberg's autobiographical work, the multipaneled 1/4 mile or 2 furlong piece, filmed at his Captiva Island studio. | |
| Robert Schumann's Davidsbünderlertänze / a production of CBS Cable in association with the National Video Corporation. | VID 411 | DANCE | Robert Schumann's Davidsbünderlertänze or, 18 character pieces for piano, refers to an imaginary League of David (as in Goliath), a society pledged to slay the musical Philistines of Schumann's day. | |
| Roberta / Radio Pictures presents a Pandro S. Berman production screen play by Jane Murfin, Sam Mintz and Allan Scott additional dialogue by Glenn Tryon directed by William A. Seiter. | DVD 636 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | Fun's in fashion when Fred and Ginger enter the world of Paris fashions. Marvelous Jerome Kern music graces standards like Smoke gets in your eyes and I won't dance. | |
| Rock & roll invaders : the AM radio deejays / writer-producer-director, Paul Eichgrom produced by Dramarama Productions Inc. in association with Bravo Network, CHUM Television, CFCF-TV, with participation of Telefilm Canada, Canadian Television and Cable Fund, Ontario Film Development Corporation, Canadian Film and Video Tax Credit Program and Rogers Documentary Fund. | DVD 286 | MUSIC | The story of the flamboyant and rebellious AM Radio deejays who pushed the envelope of rock and roll radio programming. | |
| Rock 'n' roll explodes / Time-Life Video & Television ; Telepictures Productions ; Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution ; QDE ; Andrew Solt Productions ; series producer, Jeffrey Peisch. | VID 160 | MUSIC | A collection of vintage clips featuring Muddy Waters singing Got My Mojo Working," Chuck Berry performing "Maybellene," Little Richard singing "Tutti Frutti," and Michael Jackson performing "Billie Jean," plus interviews with and and coverage of Mick Jagger, Bruce Springsteen, Bono, Tina Turner, Louis Jordan, and Elvis Presley." | |
| Roger & me / Warner Bros. presents a Dog Eat Dog Films production ; a film by Michael Moore ; written, produced and directed by Michael Moore. | VID 227 | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS | A documentary about Flint, Michigan native Michael Moore and his efforts to meet with General Motors' president Roger Smith in order to persuade the executive to visit Flint, a city which is economically depressed due to the closure of a General Motors plant. | |
| Role of the justice department : [September 15, 1989] | VID 51 | POLITICS | Consists of portions of the meeting of the United States 10th Circuit Judicial Conference held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, September 1989. Speechs by Kenneth Starr, Solicitor General and Byron White, Justice of the Supreme Court. Introductions by Court of Appeals Judge, David Ebel. | |
| Rome & Pompeii | VID 317 | ARCHTECTURE | The grandeur of Imperial Rome and Pompeii is reconstructed by archeologists, historians, and video artists. | |
| Romeo & Juliet / by William Shakespeare ; a BBC-TV production in association with Time-Life Television ; producer, Cedric Messina ; director, Alvin Rakoff. | DVD 33 | LITERARY - SHAKESPEARE | Shakespeare's tragedy about two teenagers who fall in love, encounter opposition from their feuding families, and take their own lives. | |
| Romeo & Juliet / by William Shakespeare a BBC-TV production in association with Time-Life Television producer, Cedric Messina director, Alvin Rakoff. | DVD 33 | LITERARY - SHAKESPEARE | Shakespeare's tragedy about two teenagers who fall in love, encounter opposition from their feuding families, and take their own lives. | |
| Romeo and Juliet / [produced and directed by Paul Czinner]. | VID 330 | DANCE | Royal Ballet with Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn in Romeo and Juliet. | |
| Romeo and Juliet / Paramount Pictures Corporation. | VID 382 | LITERARY - SHAKESPEARE | Teenagers fall in love, but are opposed by their families. | |
| Romeo and Juliet : a film-ballet based on the tragedy by Shakespeare / a Mosfil'm production. | DVD 145 | DANCE | Historic performance by the legendary Galina Ulanova as Juliet in a version of Prokofiev's ballet specially choreographed and staged for filming. | |
| Romeo and Juliet : ballet in three acts / Joseph E. Levine presents a Paul Czinner production for Poetic Films Ltd. ; in association with Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Limited. | DVD 231 | DANCE | This is the famed Royal Ballet production featuring Nureyev and Fonteyn at the peak of their careers. Includes scene-by-scene synopsis and biographies of Nureyev, Fonteyn, and Prokofiev. | |
| Rommett Floor-Barre Technique : a method to develop and refine ballet technique / Zena Rommett. | VID 595 | DANCE | An innovative and comprehensive training program for professional dancers, teachers, skaters, gymnasts and those who want to keep fit and in touch with their bodies. | |
| Ronin / United Artists Pictures presents an FGM Entertainment production a John Frankenheimer film. | DVD 638 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | In a world where loyalties are easily abandoned and allegiances can be bought, a new deadlier terrorist threat has emerged- freeagent killers! The Cold War may be over, but a new world order keeps a group of covert mercenaries employed by the highest bidder. These operatives, known as Ronin, are assembled in France by a mysterious client for a seemingly routine mission: steal a top-secret briefcase. but the simple task soon proves explosive as other underworld organizations vie for the same prize...and to get the job done, the members of Ronin must do something they've never done before- trust each other! | |
| Roots / David L. Wolper Productions. | VID 208 | v.1-6 | HISTORY | An adaptation of Alex Haley's Roots, in which he traces his family's history from the mid-18th century when one of his ancestors, Kunta Kinte, was captured and sold into slavery. The series follows the struggle for freedom which began with the young man's abduction and was continued by his descendants. |
| Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are dead / a theatrical production of Michael Brandman & Emanuel Azenberg in association with Thirteen WNET a Tom Stoppard film produced by Michael Brandman, Emanuel Azenberg written and directed by Tom Stoppard a Cinecom Entertainment Group Release. | DVD 332 | v.1-2 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | The fringe characters from Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' take center stage at Elsinore. |
| Rosewood / Warner Bros. ; directed by John Singleton. | VID 199 | CULTURAL STUDIES | In 1923 a black town in Florida was burned to the ground, its people murdered because of a lie. Some escaped and survived because of the courage and compassion of a few extraordinary people. | |
| Ross McElwee DVD Collection / by Ross McElwee. | DVD 170 | v.2-5 | DOCUMENTARIES | Collection includes "Charleen", "Backyard", "Sherman's march", "Time indefinite", "Six o'clock news", and "Bright leaves". |
| Roy Lichtenstein : reflections / directed and produced by Edgar B. Howard. | DVD 217 | ART | This video features one of the great pop artists of our time, discussing his work, his artistic process and the sources of his inspiration. Also featured are the artist's large-scale murals, his Relections Series and his Interior Series. | |
| Rudolf Nureyev/Erik Bruhn : their complete Bell Telephone Hour performances, 1961-1967 / a production of Henry Jaffe Enterprises, Inc. | DVD 68 | DANCE | Live telecast excerpts from various ballets, featuring early performances by Nureyev and Bruhn. | |
| Rules of the game / director and screenplay, Jean Renoir ; producer, Claude Renoir, Sr. | DVD 87 | v.1-2 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | A comedy drama set on the eve of World War II. It contrasts the affairs of the French aristocracy and the working class at a weekend house party. Masters and their servants are involved in an immoral erotic charade that builds to a shattering climax. |
| Russell Simmons presents Def poetry. Season 5 / director, Stan Lathan. | DVD 563 | v.1-2 | MUSIC | Features talented contemporary urban poets, plus well-known musicians and comedians, and highlights their original material and powerful performances in an unedited, uncensored and definitely unparalleled setting. |
| Russell Simmons presents Def poetry. Season 6 / Simmons/Lathan TV Home Box Office producer, Kamilah Forbes, Allen Kelman director, Stan Lathan. | DVD 564 | v.1-2 | MUSIC | The showcase for spoken word is back with another jam-packed series of words and wisdom. Features talented contemporary urban poets, plus well-known musicians and comedians, and highlights their original material and powerful performances in an unedited, uncensored and definitely unparalleled setting. |
| Salisbury's report on China : the 40th anniversary of the revolution / Films for the Humanities, Inc. | VID 27 | pt.1-3 | HISTORY | |
| Sam Shepard : stalking himself / a production of Teale/Oren Jacoby Productions, Thirteen/WNET and BBC. | VID 386 | DOCUMENTARIES | A documentary of the life and works of Sam Shepard; features excerpts from performances, Shepard reading from his own work, and interviews with famous friends and fans. | |
| Sandra Cisneros : in conversation with Dorothy Allison / Lannan Foundation ; directed by Dan Griggs. | VID 467 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | Sandra Cisneros reads her story Eleven and other works and is interviewed by Dorothy Allison on October 8, 1996. | |
| Saturday night and Sunday morning / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Bryanston presents a Woodfall Film a British Lion-Bryanston release screenplay adapted from his novel by Alan Sillitoe produced by Tony Richardson directed by Karel Reisz. | DVD 595 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | In 1950s post-war England, the working classes faced an unappetizing choice between drudgery, degradation, and despair or the materialist blandishments of deadening suburban affluence. Arthur is the prototypical 'angry young man'--outspoken, dissatisfied with the status quo, rebelling against stifling class distinctions--insolent and self-confident, his high wages enable his disdain for following orders and his hard drinking, red-blooded weekends. He is determined to enjoy his freedom as long as he can get away with it, before being trapped by marriage into conformity, surrounded by nappies and rent books in a new housing estate. | |
| Savages / Fox Searchlight Pictures in association with Lone Star Group present This Is That production in association with Ad Hominem Enterprises and Cooper's Town Productions produced by Ted Hope, Ann Carey, Erica Westheimer written and directed by Tamara Jenkins. | DVD 641 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Jon and Wendy Savage (Hoffman and Linney) are two siblings who have spent their adult years trying to recover from their abusive father, Lenny (Bosco). Suddenly, a call comes in that Lenny's girlfriend has died and he cannot care for himself. Lenny suffers from dementia and his girlfriend's family dumps Lenny on his children. Despite the fact Jon and Wendy have not spoken to Lenny for twenty years and he is even more loathsome than ever, the Savage siblings feel obliged to take care of him. Now brother and sister must come to terms with painful responsibilities for their father and are forced to struggle with their own personal demons. | |
| Saving Private Ryan / DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures present an Amblin Entertainment production in association with Mutual Film Company produced by Steven Spielberg, Ian Royce, Mark Gordon, Gary Levinson written by Robert Rodat directed by Steven Spielberg. | DVD 795 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Captain John Miller must take his men behind enemy lines to find Private Ryan, whose three brothers have been killed in combat. Faced with impossible odds, the men question their orders. Why are eight men risking their lives to save just one? Surrounded by the brutal realities of war, each man searches for his own answer and the strength to triumph over uncertain future with honor, decency and courage. | |
| Scener ur ett äktenskap = Scenes from a marriage / Svensk Filmindustri ; producerad av Cinematograph AB ; regie, Ingmar Bergman ; manus, Ingmar Bergman ; produktionsledare, Lars-Owe Carlberg. | DVD 502 | v.1-3 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | Marianne and Johan always seemed to be the perfect couple. But when Johan suddenly leaves Marianne for another woman, they are forced to confront the disintegration of their marriage. Chronicles ten years of turmoil and love that bind the couple despite their divorce and subsequent marriages. Portrays the brutal pain and uplifting peace that accompany a lifetime of loving. |
| Schindler / written by Jon Blair ; Thames Television. | VID 194 | BIOGRAPHY | He was a gambler, womanizer and Nazi spy, yet to a thousand Jews he was a savior. The story of Oskar Schindler is presented through archival film and photographs and interviews with survivors and witnesses. | |
| Schindler's list / an Amblin Entertainment production. | VID 167 | v.1-2 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | The true story of the enigmatic Oskar Schindler, a member of the Nazi party, womanizer & war profiteer, who saved the lives of more than 1,100 Jews during the Holocaust. |
| School for scandal / by Richard Brinsley Sheridan ; a production of WNET/13, New York, in association with KTCA, St. Paul-Minneapolis, Minnesota ; adapted for television by Michael Bawtree ; produced by David Griffiths ; directed by Michael Langham and Nick Havinga. | DVD 174 | LITERARY - CLASSICS | First performed in 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan's sophisticated comedy of manners satirizes the extravagance and corruption of London society. | |
| Scoop / Focus Features presents in association with BBC Films Ingenious Film Partners Phoenix Wiley a Jelly Roll Production produced by Letty Aronson, Gareth Wiley written and directed by Woody Allen. | DVD 588 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | When an inquisitive college journalist (Johansson) stumbles upon new clues to a string of murders, her investigation leads directly to a handsome businessman (Jackman), who draws her in with his mysterious charm. Could a whirlwind romance with the subject of her search also become the most dangerous scoop of a lifetime? -- Container. | |
| Scott Russell Sanders : in conversation with Bernard Cooper / Lannan Foundation ; director, Dan Griggs. | VID 477 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | Mr. Sanders read from Writing from the center, In limestone country, Staying put, and Father within on May 20, 1997. | |
| Script to screen / Australian Film, Television & Radio School. | VID 90 | TELEVISION | Brian Bell prepares a stage play for television production. | |
| Se, jie = Lust, caution / Haishang Films presents, in association with Focus Features and River Road Entertainment and Sil-Metropole Organisation Ltd and Shanghai Film Group Corporation directed by Ang Lee screenplay by Wang Hui Ling and James Schamus produced by Bill Kong, Ang Lee, James Shamus. | DVD 738 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Set against the backdrop of Japanese occupied Shanghai in 1942, a young woman finds herself swept up in a radical plot to assassinate a ruthless and secretive intelligence agent. As she immerses herself in her role as a cosmopolitan seductress, she becomes entangled in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue, love and betrayal. | |
| Seabiscuit / Universal Pictures/Dreamworks Pictures/Spyglass Entertainment present produced by Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall produced by Gary Ross, Jane Sindell written for the screen and directed by Gary Ross. | DVD 424 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Based on a true story. A half-blind ex-prizefighter and mustang breaker team up with a millionaire and his rough-hewn, undersized horse, Seabiscuit. The men bring Seabiscuit to incredible heights, helping to turn a long shot into a legend. Eventually, Seabiscuit earns Horse of the Year honors in 1938. | |
| Seamus Heaney / the Lannan Foundation ; directed by Dan Griggs. | VID 439 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | Seamus Heaney from County Derry, bears witness to Ireland's complex, violent past and present. One of the finest living poets, he reads from Selected Poems 1966-1987 and talks with Michael Silverblatt. The reading and conversation took place on Oct. 15, 1991, in Los Angeles--Container. | |
| Search for signs of inteligint [sic] life in the universe / a Showtime presentation ; [presented by] Tomlin and Wagner Theatricalz ; written by Jane Wagner ; directed and photographed by John Bailey ; produced by Paula Mazur. | VID 520 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Lily Tomlin plays the dozen parts in this comedy film about the latter part of the twentieth century. Nominated for two Emmy Awards. Tony Award winner, best actress in a play. | |
| Second part of Henry the Sixth / by William Shakespeare ; a BBC Television production in association with Time-Life Television ; produced by Jonathan Miller ; directed by Jane Howell. | DVD 16 | LITERARY - SHAKESPEARE | Continues Shakespeare's story of Henry VI in which Henry marries Lady Margaret of Anjou, but she despises his meekness and takes Suffolk as a lover. The new queen also hates the Yorks and becomes the inspiration of the Lancastrians. | |
| Second part of King Henry the Fourth containing his death and the coronation of King Henry the Fift / by William Shakespeare ; a BBC-TV production in association with Time-Life Television ; producer, Cedric Messina ; director, David Giles. | DVD 13 | LITERARY - SHAKESPEARE | Shakespeare's play that portrays the colorful panorama of Medieval English life. The revolt against Henry is finally crushed and the king broods over the uncertain future of his son. Henry IV dies, Falstaff is banished, and Prince Hal is crowned Henry V. | |
| Secret life of the brain / produced by David Grubin Productions in association with Thirteen/WNET New York. | DVD 140 | v.1-3 | PSYCHOLOGY | Examines the growth, aging, and evolution of the brain. |
| Secret service / by William Gillette a presentation of Thirteen/WNET New York produced by Ken Campbell directed by Daniel Freudenberger and Peter Levin. | DVD 347 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Tells the tale of a Union spy working to seize control of the Richmond telegraph office. Posing as a wounded Confederate captain named Thorne, the spy's false orders to a Confederate Army commander raise the suspicions of a southern agent, who uses a local girl in love with Thorne as his reluctant accomplice to set a trap. | |
| Separate but equal / Republic Pictures Corporation. | VID 190 | v.1-2 | CULTURAL STUDIES | The year is 1950 ... and America is divided between black and white. Schools, restaurants, trains and buses ... even drinking fountains cannot be shared by both races. Although slavery has been outlawed for nearly a century, segregation is legal. But white and Negro facilities are separate and unequal ... and the tension has reached a breaking point for the blacks of Clarendon County, South Carolina. When their request for a single school bus is denied by white school officials, a bitter, violent and courageous battle for justice and equality begins ... putting black against white and friend against neighbor all across the country. |
| Separation of powers : a bicentennial discussion / [presented by C-SPAN] | VID 52 | POLITICS | ||
| Sepharad : Judeo-Spanish | VID 144 | MUSIC | Music of the Jews from Spain. Sung in Hebrew and Ladino with English subtitles and narration. | |
| September / an Orion Pictures release a Jack Rollins and Charles H. Joffe production produced by Robert Greenhut written and directed by Woody Allen. | DVD 606 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | During late September, in Vermont, a group of people gather for a quiet week-end. But by the end of the week-end their hopes, dreams and fears are exposed, and the thin threads that hold their lives together are bared and begin to unravel. They pick up the pieces and make a new start. | |
| Seven samurai / Toho Company presents a Janus Films release ; production, Sojiro Motoki ; screenplay by Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni ; directed by Akira Kurosawa. | DVD 136 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | This epic masterpiece is about a group of 16th century samurai who are hired to defend a small Japanese village that finds itself annually raided by an army of bandits who steal the meager crops harvested by the peasants. Tired of relinquishing their food supply but woefully inept in combat skills, the villagers decide to hire a band of samurai to protect them. | |
| Seven wonders of the ancient world / produced by Questar Video, Inc. ; director/writer, Rolf Forsberg. | VID 315 | ARCHTECTURE | Philo of Byzantium, approximately 2,000 years ago, compiled a list of two statues, a temple, a roof-top garden, two tombs, and a lighthouse. Ancient Romans considered these to be the seven great man-made wonders of the world. | |
| Sevillanas / una producciónes Juan Lebron Producciónes ; productor, Juan Lebron ; director, Carlos Saura. | VID 145 | DANCE | Consists of eleven short performances by Spain's most famous flamcnco dancers, singers and guitarists. Director Carlos Saura provides an in-depth look at the Sevillanas form of flamenco and its dancers, who range in age from about 8 to nearly 80. | |
| Sex, power & the workplace / written & produced by Robert Dean. | VID 272 | WOMEN'S STUDIES | Financial experts estimate that it may cost corporate America more than $1 billion dollars over the next five years to settle sexual harassment lawsuits. Studies conclude that 40% to 80% of working women are subjected to sexual harassment during their working lives. | |
| Shadows / produced by Maurice McEndree associate producer, Seymour Cassel directed by John Cassavetes Faces Distribution Corporation presents. | DVD 280 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | The story of an interracial romance and the obstacles it puts on family relationships. | |
| Shadows and fog / an Orion Pictures release a Jack Rollins & Charles H. Joffe production produced by Robert Greenhut written and directed by Woody Allen. | DVD 540 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | Kleinman, a cowardly clerk recruited to help find a murderer, meets a woman and her boyfriend, a clown, running away from the circus. Kleinman decides to help them escape, abandoning the search for the murderer, but his choice only gets them all involved. | |
| Shake hands with the Devil : the journey of Roméo Dallaire / White Pine Pictures presents director, Peter Raymont producers, Peter Raymont, Lindalee Tracey. | DVD 613 | DOCUMENTARIES | Lt. General Roméo Dallaire was the commander of the UN peacekeeping troops in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide which claimed 800,000 lives. This film follows Dallaire back to Rwanda ten years after the massacre in order for him to come to terms with the atrocities he witnessed there. Dallaire describes his experiences while in Rwanda and how they have since effected him. | |
| Shakespeare behind bars / produced by Philomath Films in association with the Independent Television Service and the BBC Hank Rogerson, director and writer Jilann Spitzmiller, producer. | DVD 554 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Convicted felons at Kentucky's Luther Luckett Correctional Complex rehearse for the Shakespearean production, The Tempest, as part of the Shakespeare Behind Bars Program. The play's underlying theme of forgiveness parallels themes of transformation and redemption in the lives of the prisoners. | |
| Shakespeare retold / 2 Entertain BBC produced in association with Horsebridge Productions Limited BBC Drama & Northern Ireland. | DVD 517 | v.1-2 | LITERARY - SHAKESPEARE | Macbeth is the chef in a 3-star restaurant Beatrice and Benedick are rival co-anchors Titania and Bottom carouse in a tawdry theme resort and Petruchio sets out to tame the conservative Kate in a politically incorrect marriage of convenience. |
| Shakespeare tragedies. Origins & style . | DVD 2 | LITERARY - SHAKESPEARE | ||
| Shakespeare tragedies. Othello, Macbeth, King Lear . | DVD 3 | LITERARY - SHAKESPEARE | ||
| Shakespeare tragedies. Titus Andronicus, Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet / The Standard Deviants. | DVD 4 | LITERARY - SHAKESPEARE | Through 'cutting edge' technology and the use of interactive menus of topics and tests, the tragedies of Shakespeare are studied with immediate feedback in the process of learning. | |
| Sharon Olds / the Lannan Foundation in association with Metropolitan Pictures and EZTV ; produced and directed by Lewis Mac Adams and John Dorr. | VID 437 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | Sharon Olds, award-winning poet and teacher, reads from The Dead and the Living, The Gold Cell, and unpublished work at the Los Angeles Theatre Center. She is interviewed by Lewis MacAdams. | |
| Sheldon Wolin / a production of Public Affairs Television, Inc. ; produced & directed by Gail Pellett. | VID 58 | POLITICS | In an interview with Bill Moyers, political philosopher Sheldon Wolin discusses power and democracy in the United States and how American political and social institutions are diminishing the democratic character of the nation. | |
| She's gotta have it / Metro Goldwyn Mayer Island Pictures Forty Acres and a Mule Filmworks presents a Spike Lee joint producer, Shelton J. Lee written, edited and directed by Spike Lee. | DVD 607 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | When it comes to love, Nola Darling has gotta problem: she's just gotta have 'it.' And she's having a hard time deciding who'll give 'it' the best. Choosing between a romantic-but-possessive nice guy, a flashy-but-vain fashion model and a fast-riding but faster-talking bicyclist, Nola finds that lessons in love can be enlightening, heart-rending, but mostly-- exasperating! --Container. | |
| Shoah / a New Yorker Films release ; a co-production by Les Films Aleph and Histora Films with the assistance of the French Ministry of Culture ; a film by Claude Lanzmann. | DVD 66 | v.4 | HISTORY | The Nazi extermination of Jews is examined through interviews of survivors, witnesses and perpetrators and through footage of the sites of the death camps and environs as they appear today. Those interviewed include Jewish survivors of the death camps and the Warsaw ghetto uprising, Polish farmers and villagers who lived near the camps and Nazis who worked in the camps and the ghettos. |
| Short Films : a collection of 2005 Academy Award nominated. | DVD 241 | CINEMA - SHORTS | A collection of short films nominated for the 78th Annual Academy Awards, including the winning live action short and the winning animated short. | |
| Shorts! Vol. two : 17 award-winning film festival shorts / authored by Copper Moon Digital ; Colorado Film Foundation ; producer & programmer, Jamie White ; production & authoring, Jeff Hammond. | DVD 163 | CINEMA - SHORTS | Shorts! is a diverse group of award-winning short films showcased at film festivals all over the globe. Featuring some of the best shorts seen at the Sundance Film Festival, Aspen ShortsFest, Starz Denver International Film Festival, Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival and more. | |
| Showtime for saddlebreds [with] American saddlebred horse of history / C. J. Cronan ; presented by the American Saddle Horse Breeders Association in cooperation with the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Louie B. Nunn, Governor. | VID 109 | EQUESTRIAN | Horses are judged by their gait and physical characteristics and the rider's ability to show the horse correctly. | |
| Shvitz / presented by Five Points Media ; director, Jonathan Berman. | DVD 257 | DOCUMENTARIES | Go behind the bathouse doors to explore the clubhouse atmosphere of the last American steambaths, as bathers take a break from the daily grind. Capture the warmth and togetherness of an age-old ritual before it fades away. | |
| Sicko / Weinstein Company presents a Dog Eat Dog Films production executive producers, Kathleen Glynn, Harvey Weinstein, Bob Weinstein producer, Meghan O'Hara written, produced and directed by Michael Moore. | DVD 557 | DOCUMENTARIES | Filmmaker Michael Moore critiques the American health care system, focusing especially on the HMOs, drug companies, and congressmen who profit from the status quo. Also includes an analysis of the health care systems in Canada, England, France and Cuba, where free universal health care is the norm. | |
| Sideways / Fox Searchlight Pictures presents a Michael London production produced by Michael London screenplay by Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor directed by Alexander Payne. | DVD 712 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Miles is a divorced man and a failed writer who teaches junior high English. He decides to take his best friend, somewhat famous actor Jack, on a weeklong drive through California's wine country. There they explore their failures and question their relationships. | |
| Signing naturally. Level 1 : student videotext / created and directed by Cheri Smith, Ella Mae Lentz and Ken Mikos. | VID 600 | SIGN LANGUAGE | Designed for use outside the classroom to reinforce and expand vocabulary, grammar and language functions taught in the classroom. There are also two Cumulative Review Units which focus on specific language and cultural behaviors or the Deaf community.;"An excellent reference and resource book expanded to include over 1,000 signs and 100 useful phrases, many accompanied by corresponding pictures. Activities are video-interactive. The primary emphasis is on language in context, featuring useful vocabulary and expressions, with suggestions for additional pair work. At the conclusion of each video scenario, students are provided with opportunities to use the workbook for spatialization practice, sequencing, conclusion drawing, summarizing, and answering short questions and fill-ins. An answer key is also provided for self-correction.--Refers to the Manual." | |
| Silkwood / ABC Motion Pictures produced by Mike Nichols and Michael Hausman directed by Mike Nichols. | VID 566 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Karen Silkwood becomes contaminated with plutonium at her job, voices her protest at the indifference and denial of her company, and becomes a threat to the entire nuclear industry and the government agencies that monitor it. | |
| Silly symphonies / the Walt Disney Company | DVD 84 | CINEMA - SHORTS | This groundbreaking series of 31 uncensored cartoons, released between 1929 and 1939, provides an astonishing look inside the evolution of animation. Each boasting a unique cast of characters, these musical shorts served as Walt Disney's proving ground for emerging technology, new musical styles and experimental forms. | |
| Simon Callow on acting in restoration comedy / BBC-TV Dramatis Personae Ltd. produced by Maria Aitken and David G. Croft directed by David G. Croft host/narrator, Simon Callow. | DVD 341 | THEATRE | Simon Callow uses a question and answer format with four other actors along with audience participation to discuss his acting techniques in restoration comedies. | |
| Singin' in the rain / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer produced by Loew's Incorporated produced by Arthur Freed story and screenplay by Adolph Green and Betty Comden directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen. | DVD 310 | v.1-2 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | In this classic musical, a silent film start is trying to make the transition to a talking-film star successfully but finds it is not as easy as simply just 'talking'. To achieve success he must rely on his best friend and new prospective girlfriend. |
| Sister Rose's passion / produced by New Jersey Studios, LLC and Storyville Films in association with Metropole Film Board producers, Steve Kalafer, Peter LeDonne produced and directed by Oren Jacoby. | DVD 450 | DOCUMENTARIES | Chronicles the life story of Sister Rose Thering, a Dominican nun with the courage, toughness, and passion to stand up for what she believed in. Her work had a direct bearing on the historic Vatican II Council. | |
| Sisters in law / a film [directed ] by Kim Longinotto and Florence Ayisi. | DVD 214 | DOCUMENTARIES | A documentary record of a courtroom in Kumba, Cameroon, where a female prosecutor and judge work to put an end to their community's tacit acceptance of child abuse, wife beating and rape. | |
| Six characters in search of an author / by Luigi Pirandello ; KCET Los Angeles ; Hollywood Television Theatre ; produced by Norman Lloyd ; adapted by Paul Avila Mayer ; conceived for television and directed by Stacy Keach | DVD 92 | THEATRE | Actors in rehearsal are replaced by six strangers who appear mysteriously and who convince the director their story is more interesting than the play in rehearsal | |
| Slacker / Detour Filmproduction ; producer, writer, director, Richard Linklater. | DVD 243 | v.1-2 | DOCUMENTARIES | Richard Linklater's Slacker presents a day in the life of a subculture of marginal, eccentric, and overeducated citizens in and around the University of Texas; a prescient look at an emerging generation of aggressive nonparticipants. |
| Slaves of fashion : J. A. D. Ingres / Home Vision presents an RM Arts production. | VID 378 | ART | Enhanced by contemporary musical extracts, this film demonstrates the diversity of Ingres' art and his reaction against the changes going on all around him. | |
| Sleeping beauty / by Chaikovsky ; choreography, M. Petipa, K. Sergeyev ; scenario, K. Sergeyev, T. Shapiro ; direction, A. Dudko, K. Sergeyev. | VID 245 | DANCE | The Kirov Ballet performs Tchaikovsky's ballet. | |
| Sliding Liberia : a story of war, peace and surfing / Written, produced and directed by Britton Caillouette and Nicholai Lidow. | DVD 644 | HISTORY | Follows four young surfers to Liberia in search of more than perfect waves. Risking everything to explore the West African country devasted by decades of war, they record the stories of people they meet-people like Alfred, who became Liberia's first surfer after finding a bodyboard while fleeing from rebels. Besides rediscovering a break that could be the best-kept secret in the surfing world, they find something more important-a way to travel responsibly in the 21st century --back cover of DVD container. | |
| Slim hopes : advertising and the obsession with thinness / written & presented by Jean Kilbourne. | VID 134 | WOMEN'S STUDIES | Illustrated lecture which explores the manner in which women are portrayed by advertising with the focus on thinness. Discusses the impact this portrayal has on the self images of women and girls. | |
| Smile and the interweave, Madonna, child and Saint Anne (circa 1500-1515) : Leonardo da Vinci, Vinci 1452-Amboise 1519 / [presented by] Louvre, La SEPT, Delta Image ; une émission dÁlain Jaubert Jaubert. | VID 328 | ART | An examination of this complex painting by Leonardo da Vinci. | |
| Snake's tale / producer, writer, cinematographer Lorna Domke ; Missouri Department of Conservation. | VID 13 | SCIENCE - BIOLOGY | Portrays the life of Missouri snakes. | |
| So you want to write a fugue? | VID 376 | MUSIC | ||
| Some like it hot / Ashton Productions, Inc. presents a Mirisch Company picture produced and directed by Billy Wilder screenplay by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond, suggested by a story by R. Thoeren and M. Logan. | DVD 544 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | Two unemployed musicians accidentally witness the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and flee to Miami disguised as female musicians in an all-girl band. | |
| Sommarnattens leende = Smiles of a summer night / Janus Films Svensk Filmindustri en romantisk komedi av Ingmar Bergman. | DVD 503 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | Eight characters become four couples while vacationing at a country estate. A clever, erotic comedy that inspired the scenario for the Broadway hit A little night music. | |
| Sonia Sanchez / the Lannan Foundation in association with Metropolitan Pictures and EZTV ; produced and directed by Lewis MacAdams and John Dorr. | VID 435 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | ||
| Sophie Scholl : die letzten tage = the final days / Zeitgeist Films, Bavaria Film International, Xverleih prásentiert Goldkind Film and Broth Film regie, Marc Rothemund drehbuch, Fred Breinersdorfer produzenten, Christoph Müller ... [et al.]. | DVD 603 | HISTORY | The true story of Germany's most famous anti-Nazi heroine, Sophie Scholl, the fearless activist of the underground student resistance group, The White Rose. The last six days of Sophie Scholl's life is dramatized, from arrest to interrogation, trial, and sentence in 1943 Munich. Unwavering in her convictions and loyalty to her comrades, her cross-examination by the Gestapo quickly escalates into a searing test of wills as Scholl delivers a passionate call to freedom and personal responsibility that is both haunting and timeless. | |
| Sounder / Radnitz/Mattel Productions, Inc. ; screenplay by Lonne Elder III ; producer, Robert B. Radnitz ; director, Martin Ritt. | VID 159 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Sounder is the heartwarming story of a black sharecropper family in Louisiana during the Depression. A father steals food for his family, his wife provides love, security and strength while he is in prison, and their oldest son bravely becomes the man of the house until his father returns. | |
| Spartak : Spartacus : the Bolshoi ballet/ muzyka, Arama Khachaturian ; stsenariÄ, IU. Grigorovicha, V. Derbeneva ; khoreografiia, IUriÄ Grigorvicha ; rezhissery-postanovshchiki, Vadim Derbenev, IUriÄ Grigorvich ; Mosfilʹm. | DVD 146 | DANCE | Vladimir Vaasiliev and the Bolshoi Ballet perform Spartacus. | |
| Spartan / Franchise Pictures presents an Apollomedia/Apollopromedia/Quality International co-production in association with Signature Pictures ; produced by Art Linson, Moshe Diamant, Elie Samaha, David Bergstein ; written and directed by David Mamet. | DVD 150 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Secret Service agent Robert Scott is assigned to the kidnapping case of Laura Newton, the missing daughter of a high-ranking political official. Scott is teamed up with rookie agent Curtis. Aided by the FBI and the CIA, the team discovers a human trafficking operation that may lead to Laura's kidnappers. | |
| Speaking and singing on stage : a performance demonstration. | DVD 307 | MUSIC | This DVD covers all topics concerning speaking, singing, and performing vocally on stage. | |
| Spellbound / ThinkFilm a Blitz/Welch picture directed by Jeffrey Blitz produced by Jeffrey Blitz, Sean Welch. | DVD 364 | DOCUMENTARIES | Follows the lives of eight young Americans who share one goal: to win the 1999 National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. The Bee is as intense a competition as any Olympic match, for both the spellers and their families. The unbearable pressure becomes even more extraordinary when it is felt by ordinary teenagers. | |
| Stagedoor / a Gidalya Pictures production directed and produced by Alexandra Shiva. | DVD 465 | THEATRE | Documentary on Stagedoor Manor, a theater camp in the Catskills for teenage singers and dancers. | |
| Stanislavsky century / System TV, the Union of Russian Theatre, and La SEPT ; produced by Daniel Renouf ; written and directed by Peter Hercombe ; editor, Laurent Ferrari. | VID 267 | v.2-3 | MUSIC | The life and work of Stanislavsky are shown in film footage from his early years in Russia, his tours of France, and his years in the United States. Includes scenes from his productions of the Chekhov plays, Ibsen, Gogol, Hamlet, and other works. Describes his development of the acting system now known as method acting. |
| Stars of the Russian Ballet . | DVD 228 | DANCE | A three-part ballet film containing excerpts from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake (choreography by Ivanov-Petipa-K. Sergeyev), a performance of Boris Asafiev's The fountain of Bakhchisarai, the only filmed record of Galina Ulanova and Maya Plisetskaya dancing together (choreography by Rostislav Zakharov), and his The flames of Paris featuring the great Georgian dancer Vakhtang Chabukiani (choreography by Vassily Vainonen). | |
| State opening of Parliament | VID 87 | POLITICS | C-SPAN television network broadcast of the official opening of the British Parliament by Queen Elizabeth II on November 21, 1989. Includes live BBC coverage of the processions, the speech by the Queen and commentary on the ceremony. | |
| Stomp out loud / Yes/No Productions Ltd. | VID 204 | DANCE | Using ordinary objects, this blend of percussion, movement, and visual comedy contains material from the off-Broadway show Stomp, plus new material and interviews with the performers. | |
| Story of English / a BBC TV co-production with MacNeil-Lehrer Productions in association with WNET. | VID 172 | v.1-5 | CULTURAL STUDIES | Details the history of the English language and provides a unique focus on current English usage worldwide with a special emphasis on American English. |
| Strange days / Twentieth Century Fox presents a Lightstorm Entertainment production ; executive producers, Rae Sanchini, Lawrence Kasanoff ; story, James Cameron ; screenplay, James Cameron, Jay Cocks ; producers, James Cameron, Steven-Charles Jaffe ; director, Kathryn Bigelow. | DVD 52 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | A thriller set in the urban inferno of 1999 Los Angeles. Lenny Nero sells dreams and hustles nightmares available on small disks that are viewable via a compact headpiece that makes every sensation immediate. | |
| Stravinksy et les Ballet russes = Stravinsky and the Ballets russes / Bel Air Media ... [et al.] present music, Igor Stravinsky orchestra and ballet conductor, Valery Gergiev producer, François Duplat director, Denis Caïozzi. | DVD 716 | DANCE | ||
| Stravinsky's Rite of spring / a production of the San Francisco Symphony. | DVD 336 | MUSIC | Music director Michael Tilson Thomas and the musicians of the San Francisco Symphony go from the salons of St. Petersburg to the villages where Stravinsky found inspiration in the earthy power of Russian folk music and dance. Thomas then retraces Stravinsky's journey to the cultural crossroads of pre-war Paris, where the composer collaborates with the great impresario Diaghilev and his star dancer Nijinsky to develop the shocking, erotic, and violent evocation of pagan Russia that became The Rite of Spring. Includes a live performance of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring and music from The Firebird by the San Francisco Symphony, with Thomas conducting. | |
| Streetcar named Desire / Warner Bros. Pictures ; screenplay by Tennessee Williams ; produced by Charles K. Feldman ; directed by Elia Kazan. | DVD 105 | LITERARY - CLASSICS | An uncensored version of the story of a repressed widow who visits her sister in New Orleans and is raped and driven mad by her brother-in-law. | |
| Stuart Dybek : in conversation with Barry Sanders / the Lannan Foundation ; directed by Dan Griggs. | VID 469 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | A reading by the author from the stories "Paper Lantern", "Laughter", "Bottle Caps" and stories from The coast of Chicago on November 12, 1996. | |
| Süleyman the Magnificent : a film / by Suzanne Bauman [producer, director, writer]. | VID 390 | HISTORY | Describes the Ottoman sultan known as the second Solomon. Tells how he ruled half the world from the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul and how his empire flourished and witnessed a golden age under his enlightned guidance. | |
| Sunday in the park with George : [a musical] / [music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim ; book by James Lapine]. | VID 249 | MUSIC | Musical interpretation of George Seurat's A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grand Jatte. Based loosely on Seurat's life. | |
| Super size me / Hart Sharp Video ; The Con ; producer, Morgan Spurlock ; writer, Morgan Spurlock ; directed by Morgan Spurlock. | DVD 85 | HEALTH & WELLNESS | Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock embarks on a journey to find out if fast food is making Americans fat. For 30 days he can't eat or drink anything that isn't on McDonald's menu; he must eat three square meals a day, he must eat everything on the menu at least once and supersize his meal if asked. | |
| Supreme Court ruling on independent counsel / Federalist Society Annual Lawyers Convention. | VID 79 | POLITICS | Consist of a debate between Charles Fried, solicitor general of the United States and Paul Bator, professor at the University of Chicago Law School, on the separation of powers as granted by the U.S. Constitution. | |
| Survivors of the Holocaust / Turner Original Productions ; [presented by] Steven Spielberg in association with Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. | VID 535 | HISTORY | Chronicles the events of the Holocaust as witnessed by those who survived. The program weaves together archival footage and an original music score with survivors' personal testimonies and photographs, chronicling life in pre-war Europe, the devastating impact of Nazism, the liberation of the concentration camps and life fifty years later. | |
| Susan B. Anthony : rebel for the cause / a Perpetual Motion Films production presentation of Non Fiction Films, Inc. in association with A & E Network produced & directed by Monte Markham and Adam Friedman written by Lee Fulkerson and Jon Wesslen. | DVD 543 | DOCUMENTARIES | Looks at the life of Susan B. Anthony who fought for women's rights, especially the right to vote. Combining archival photographs with dramatic recreations and interviews, shows how Anthony endured threats and ridicule for her efforts to reform unfair laws that governed women. | |
| Suspicion / RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. presents ; screenplay by Samson Raphaelson, Joan Harrison and Alma Reville ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock. | DVD 122 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | Alfred Hitchcock weaves a terrifying web of suspicion around a fragile young English bride and captures a classic suspense thriller. Joan Fontaine is the bride, a gently-reared heiress who fears she has married a murderer. Cary Grant is the husband, a dashing ne'er-do-well with a penchant for the high life--and a bank account that's strictly low-life. | |
| Swan Lake | DVD 144 | DANCE | A timeless tale of redemption through love. | |
| Swan Lake / American Ballet Theatre. | VID 342 | DANCE | ||
| Swan lake : the Royal Ballet / NVC Arts presents a Thames Television production by the Royal Ballet Covent Garden music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky [produced and directed for television by] John Michael Phillips. | DVD 493 | DANCE | Prince Siegfried sees a swan on the lake who turns into the enchanted princess Odette. She can only be saved by the true love of another. This the Prince promises her, but he is tricked by a wicked magician who disguises his daughter as the swan-maiden. Siegfried and his love leap to their deaths, thus destroying the evil power of the magician. | |
| Swan Lake / TV director, François Roussillon TV producer, Toni Hajal a co-production of Opéra national de Paris and François Roussillon et Associés in association with France3 and TF1 Mezzo and with the support of the Centre national de la Cinématographie DVD producer, Ferenc van Damme. | DVD 796 | DANCE | Rudolf Nureyev's interpretation of Tchaikovsky's lyrical ballet, far from being a cliched stereotype of this celebrated masterpiece, is an expose of astonishingly powerful and recognisable human emotions. | |
| Sweet and lowdown / Sony Pictures Classics Sweetland Films produced by Jean Doumanian written and directed by Woody Allen. | DVD 737 | CINEMA | In the 1930's, the fictional Emmet Ray ruled as the second greatest jazz guitarist in the world. But his reputation was eclipsed by his eccentric career moves, hilarious clashes with gangsters and stormy love affairs with two very different women. | |
| Sweet smell of success / [presented by] Hecht, Hill and Lancaster United Artists Pictures Inc. directed by Alexander Mackendrick produced by James Hill screenplay by Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman a Norma-Curtleigh Productions picture. | DVD 321 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | A film about a journalist and press agent who will do anything to be successful. | |
| Swing kids / Hollywood Pictures presents in association with Touchwood Pacific Partners I directed by Thomas Carter written by Jonathan Marc Feldman produced by Mark Gordon, John Bard Manulis. | DVD 770 | CINEMA | Two swing-music loving friends in Nazi Germany must choose between their individual freedom or loyalty to the murderous Third Reich. | |
| Syd Field's screenwriting workshop / Syd Field. | DVD 153 | CINEMA | A course on the the art of screenwriting made by Syd Field, the foremost authority on screenwriting in Hollywood. | |
| Sylvia / Focus Features presents in association with BBC Films, Capitol Films and UK Film Council, a Ruby Films production produced by Alison Owen screenplay by John Brownlow directed by Christine Jeffs. | DVD 653 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Born in Boston, MA, in 1932, Sylvia Plath developed a talent as a writer and published her first poem when she was eight years old. That same year, Plath was forced to confront the unexpected death of her father. In 1950, she began studying at Smith College on a literary scholarship. In 1955, she was granted a Fulbright Scholarship to study in England at Cambridge. There, Plath met Ted Hughes, a respected author. The two fell in love, and married in 1958. However, marriage, family, and a growing reputation as an important poet failed to bring Plath happiness. | |
| Symphonies no. 4 op. 60 ; no. 5 op. 67 ; Overtures : Coriolan op. 62 ; Egmont" op. 84 / Ludwig van Beethoven ; [produced by] Unitel. | VID 384 | MUSIC | ||
| Syriana / Warner Bros. Pictures presents in association with Participant Productions a 4M Film, a Section Eight production produced by Jennifer Fox, Michael Nozik, Georgia Kacandes written and directed by Stephen Gaghan. | DVD 797 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | As a career CIA operative, Bob Barnes begins to uncover the disturbing truth about the work he has devoted his life to. An up-and-coming oil broker, Bryan Woodman faces an unimaginable family tragedy and finds redemption in his partnership with idealistic Gulf Prince Nasir al-Subaai. Corporate lawyer, Bennett Holiday faces a moral dilemma as he finesses the questionable merger of two powerful U.S. oil companies Across the globe, a disenfranchised Wasim Khan, a Pakistani teenager, falls prey to the recruiting efforts of a charismatic cleric. Each plays their small part in the vast and complex system that powers the industry, unaware of the explosive impact their lives will have upon the world. | |
| Tackling the monster : Marsalis on practice / written by Wynton Marsalis; cello, Yo-Yo Ma ; Daniel Anker, Laura Mitgang, producers ; Michael Lindsay-Hogg, director. | VID 173 | MUSIC | Wynton Marsalis and Yo-Yo Ma show young musicians how to practice new or difficult pieces. | |
| Tales of Beatrix Potter / choreography by Frederick Ashton ; produced by Richard Goodwin ; directed by Reginald Mills ; EMI Film Productions. | DVD 218 | DANCE | The world of storyteller Beatrix Potter comes to life in this ballet through the magic of music and dance. | |
| Talk, talk, talk : opinion or fact? / Golden Dome Productions. | VID 587 | RADIO | Featured on this program are various talk radio hosts and participants at the 1995 National Radio Talk Shows of America Convention, e.g.: Doug Stephan, Alan Colmes, Mike Siegel, Blanquita Cullum ... [et al.]. | |
| Taming of the shrew / by William Shakespeare ; a BBC Television production in association with Time-Life Television ; a production by Jonathan Miller. | DVD 34 | LITERARY - SHAKESPEARE | The marriage of two strong-minded people provides the spark for a comic confrontation between the sexes. | |
| Tango / [presented by] Grand Theatre of Geneva and Television Suisse Romand. | DVD 756 | DANCE | A series of musical dance sketches by Oscar Araiz that highlight the social and anecdotal aspects of tango. | |
| Tap / Tri Star Pictures produced by Gary Adelson and Richard Vane written and directed by Nick Castle. | DVD 559 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | Max Washington is a promising but disillusioned tap dancer who must resolve the conflict between his craft and the fast track life of a high-stakes thief. | |
| Tarnation / produced by Jonathan Caouette, Stephen Winter written by Jonathan Caouette directed by Jonathan Caouette. | DVD 365 | DOCUMENTARIES | A multitude of family snapshots, Super-8 home movies, old answering machine messages, video diaries, early short films, snippets of '80s pop culture, and dramatic reenactments are used to create an epic portrait of an American family travesty. Begins in 2003 when Jonathan learns that his schizophrenic mother, Renee, overdoses on her lithium medication. He is shot back into his real and horrifying family legacy of rape, abandonment, promiscuity, drug addiction, child abuse, and psychosis. He grows up on camera and finds his escape in musical theater and B-horror movies. A look into the future shows Jonathan as he confronts the almost unbearable love he shares with his tragically damaged mother. | |
| Tartuffe / Circle in the Square produced by Ann Blumenthal directed by Stephen Porter & Kirk Browning. | DVD 416 | THEATRE | Moliere's timeless comedy, starring the incomparable Donald Moffat portraying the scoundrel Tartuffe, who manipulates his way into the confidence and affection of Orgon, an affluent bourgeois concerned with his own salvation, and whose wife and daughter Tartuffe attempts to seduce. | |
| Taxi driver / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Columbia Pictures presents a Bill/Phillips production of a Martin Scorsese film an Italo-Judeo Production produced by Michael Phillips and Julia Phillips written by Paul Schrader directed by Martin Scorsese. | DVD 585 | v.1-2 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | A psychotic taxi driver tries to save a child prostitute and becomes infatuated with a political campaigner. He goes on a violent rampage when his dreams don't work out. |
| Teaching children dance video / American Master Teacher Program for Children's Physical Education. | VID 203 | DANCE | Three condensed lessons that provide real-world examples of effectively teaching dance to children. Lessons, geared toward either primary or intermediate levels, include the balloon dance, the shag dance, and the clouds in the sky dance. | |
| Teaching peace Produced by N? Maka o ka '?ina for the Peace Education Program of the Wai'anae Coast. | VID 31 | CULTURAL STUDIES | Portrays the remarkable work of Sister Anna McAnany in public schools where tension and violence between students had become a serious problem. | |
| Tears of the sun / Revolution Studios presents a Michael Lobell production, a Cheyenne Enterprises production, a film by Antoine Fuqua produced by Michael Lobell, Arnold Rifkin, Ian Bryce written by Alex Lasker & Patrick Cirillo directed by Antoine Fuqua. | DVD 526 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | When a doctor is rescued by a Special-Ops unit in the jungle of Nigeria, she refuses to go with them unless they agree to help rescue 70 refugees as well. | |
| Television and the presidency. | VID 591 | TELEVISION | This 3-segment series looks at the impact that television has had on our presidents: how some of them were able to use television and how others were used by it. This report is based on a series of three hour-long discussions held in Washington with virtually all of the living former and current White House press secretaries and with print and television journalists. | |
| Tempest / by William Shakespeare ; a BBC-TV production in association with Time-Life Television ; producer, Cedric Messina ; director, John Gorrie. | DVD 35 | LITERARY - SHAKESPEARE | Television adaption of Shakespeare's play revolving around an enchanted island, an exiled Duke, young lovers, and a framework of conspiracy. | |
| Ten blocks on the Camino Real / National Educational Television and Radio Center ; directed by Jack Landau ; produced by Jac Venza and Jack Landau. | DVD 95 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | Set in a fictional Latin American country populated by a worn-out Casanova, a nostalgic Camille, and a disillusioned Byron, Tennessee Williams' allegorical one-act play stars Martin Sheen as an American G.I. named Kilroy, an ex-boxer with the soul of a poet. | |
| Tender mercies / Studio Canal Antron Media Production produced by Philip S. Hobel written by Horton Foote directed by Bruce Beresford. | DVD 668 | CINEMA | An alcoholic drifter comes into the life of a lonely widow and her young son in the barren flatlands of Texas. But when Mac is revealed to be a once-famous country singer, he must confront a painful past that includes his bitter superstar ex-wife. | |
| Tennessee Valley Authority / Jaffe Productions in association with Hearst Entertainment Television ; A&E Home Video ; The History Channel ; producer, Bruce Nash ; written and produced by Terry Fitzpatrick. | VID 523 | ARCHTECTURE | Rare photographs, films and firsthand accounts tell the complete story of the TVA and its creators. From the challenges of controlling the flood-prone Tennessee River to the construction of nearly 50 power-generating dams. | |
| Tennessee Williams film collection . | DVD 220 | v.1-7 | LITERARY - CLASSICS | This collection includes the films: A streetcar named desire, Cat on a hot tin roof, Sweet bird of youth, The night of the iguana, Baby doll, The Roman spring of Mrs. Stone, and Tennessee Williams' South. |
| Testing our schools / a Merrow Report produced by Learning Matters, Inc. in association with WGBH/FRONTLINE ; produced and edited by John D. Tulenko. | VID 545 | EDUCATION | President Bush's proposal for mandatory public school testing signals the beginning of a new era of public education, one marked by increased federal involvement in schools. Frontline examines how states decide what's important for students to know, what standardized tests really measure, and how the quest for higher score in changing teaching and learning in America--Container. | |
| That delicate balance II--Our Bill of Rights : The first amendment and hate speech / Columbia University Seminars on Media and Society, Graduate School of Journalism in association with WNET/New York. | VID 61 | POLITICS | Fred Friendly hosts this series on the Bill of Rights and its effect on the United States. This program focuses on the debate over the interpretations of the right to free speech, including offensive speech, and protections of symbolic speech. | |
| That's dancing / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. ; executive producer Gene Kelly ; produced by David Niven, Jr. and Jack Haley, Jr. ; written and directed by Jack Haley, Jr. | VID 73 | DANCE | In the great tradition of That's Entertainment a dance-happy, star-filled musical treat that celebrates the art of dance in all its forms. | |
| That's entertainment! / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents written, produced and directed by Jack Haley, Jr. executive producer, Daniel Melnick. | DVD 667 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | The movies, the magic, the memories, the greatest moments, the brightest stars. The incomparable Golden Era of MGM musicals shines in this compilation of music and dance performances. | |
| The American Dance Festival's dancing in the light : six dances by African-American choreographers / Executive producer, Charles L. Reinhart producer, Jodee Nimerichter director and writer, Madison Davis Lacy a production of the American Dance Festival in association with Thirteen/WNET New York. | DVD 315 | DANCE | This collection of six modern dance compositions created by African American choreographers was originally recorded and aired as part of the documentary "Great Performances: Dance in America" on PBS in 2001. | |
| The American Film Theatre : the complete 14 film collection / [Kino On Video various directors]. | DVD 415 | v.1 pt.1-2, v.2 - 14 | LITERARY - CLASSICS | Collection of film adaptations of contemporary 20th century plays produced by the American Film Theatre from 1970-1975. |
| The apartment / United Artists the Mirisch Company written by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond produced and directed by Billy Wilder. | DVD 535 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | An ambitious office clerk plans to get ahead by lending out his apartment to his boss, but falls in love with the boss's girlfriend. | |
| The ascent of money : boom and bust / written and presented by Niall Ferguson a co-production of Chimerica Media and THIRTEEN in association with WNET. | DVD 568 | DOCUMENTARIES | Bestselling author, economist and historian Niall Ferguson takes a look at how money evolved, from the concept of credit and debt in the Renaissance to the emergence of a global economy and the subprime crisis we face today. | |
| The assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford / Warner Bros. Pictures Jesse Films, Inc. Scott Free Productions Plan B Entertainment Alberta Film Entertainment Virtual Studios produced by Jules Daly, Dede Gardner, Brad Pitt, Ridley Scott, David Valdes screenplay by Andrew Dominik directed by Andrew Dominik. | DVD 775 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Everyone in 1880s America knows Jesse James. He's the nation's most notorious criminal and is being hunted by the law in 10 states. He's also the land's greatest hero, lauded as a Robin Hood by the public. No one knows of Robert Ford, at least not yet. But the ambitious 19-year-old aims to change that. He befriends Jesse and rides with his gang. And if that doesn't bring Ford fame, he will have to find a deadlier way. Friendship becomes rivalry and the quest for fame becomes obsession. | |
| The balcony / Walter Reade-Sterling, Inc. and Allen-Hodgdon Productions present screenplay by Ben Maddow produced by Joseph Strick and Ben Maddow directed by Joseph Strick. | DVD 727 | CINEMA | In a brothel of illusion the customers take over real power during a revolution. Madame Irma (Shelley Winters) runs the 'house of illusion' where ordinary people play out their dreams. Outside, a real revolution is in progress. For the Police Chief (Peter Falk), the brothel is the rallying point from which he can suppress the revolution. Roger (Leonard Nimoy), leader of the revolution, seeks refuge in the brothel, where he poses as his opponent, the Chief of Police. | |
| The ballad of Jack and Rose / Metro Goldwyn Mayer IFC Films and Initial Entertainment Group present an Elevation Filmworks production a film by Rebecca Miller produced by Lemore Syvan written and directed by Rebecca Miller. | DVD 646 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Jack lives on the site of his abandoned island commune with his 16-year-old daughter Rose. Since the breakup of the commune, Jack has sheltered Rose completely from the influences of the outside world. | |
| The Barkleys of Broadway / presented by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer original screenplay by Betty Comden and Adolph Green produced by Arthur Freed directed by Charles Waters. | DVD 608 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | In their first film together in a decade, Fred and Ginger play a bickering show biz couple. Songs include You'd be hard to replace and They can't take that away from me. | |
| The Battle of Britain / produced by Harry Saltzman and S. Benjamin Fisz screenplay by James Kennaway and Wilfred Greatorex director, Guy Hamilton. | DVD 639 | HISTORY | The story of the aerial combat battle of WWII, in which the Royal Air Force held off the German Luftwaffe. | |
| The Battleship Potemkin / Produced by the 1st Studio of Goskino supervised by J. M. Bliokh script by N. F. Agadzhanova-Shutko director, S.M. Eisenstein. | DVD 337 | Pt. 1-2 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Re-creates the 1905 mutiny on the battleship Prince Potemkin. It focuses on a mutiny by the battleship's crew and the subsequent massacre of civilians, reflecting the spirit of the times. |
| The best of Gilda Radner / StarMaker National Broadcasting Company produced in association witih Sparkle Productions Broadway Video supervising producer, Gilda Radner produced by John Fortenberry. | VID 578 | TELEVISION | This tape contains excerpts from Saturday night live, and features Gilda Radner's characters Lisa Lupner, Emily Litella, Baba Wawa, Roseanne Roseannadanna, and bits with various guests and cast regulars. | |
| The Big Lebowski / Universal Studios presents a Working Title production produced by Ethan Coen written by Ethan Coen & Joel Coen directed by Joel Coen. | DVD 494 | v.1-2 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Jeff 'The Dude' Lebowski doesn't want any complications in his life. He can't even be bothered with a job. But, in a case of mistaken identity, a couple of thugs break into his place and steal his rug. Now, The Dude must embark on a quest with his crazy bowling buddies to make things right and get that rug back. Their journey blends unforgettable characters, kidnapping, and White Russians. |
| The big red one / Warner Bros. Pictures Lorimar presents a Samuel Fuller film produced by Gene Corman directed by Samuel Fuller. | DVD 677 | CINEMA | Named for the insignia of the First Infantry Division, this World War II combat film follows a handful of young GIs and their sergeant as they battle their way from North Africa through Sicily, Omaha Beach and Belgium to the ultimate horror of the concentration camp at Falkenau, Czechoslovakia. | |
| The Bourne identity / a Universal Pictures presentation, a Hypnotic and Kennedy/Marshall production, a Doug Liman film producers, Doug Liman, Patrick Crowley, Richard N. Gladstein screenplay writers, Tony Gilroy, William Blake Herron director Doug Liman. | DVD 438 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Bourne, is pulled from the sea suffering from amnesia with a pair of bullet wounds in his back. His only clue to his own identity is a bank account number etched on a capsule implanted in his body. He finds the Zurich bank where money, a gun, and several passports with different names await. He quickly realizes he can trust no one and offers a German gypsy named Maria ten thousand dollars for a ride to Paris. With Maria's reluctant help, Bourne edges closer to the truth, something CIA officials want concealed at all costs. | |
| The Bourne supremacy / a Universal Pictures presentation in association with MP Theta Productions, a Kennedy/Marshall production in association with Ludlum Entertainment produced by Frank Marshall, Patrick Crowley, Paul L. Sandberg screenplay by Tony Gilroy directed by Paul Greengrass. | DVD 430 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Jason Bourne has abandoned his life as a CIA assassin and has been traveling beneath the agency's radar. He has been able to reconnect with Marie, the woman he loves. But Bourne is still haunted by vivid dreams and troubling memories of his days as a killer, and he's not really certain how much really happened and how much is a product of his imagination. When Bourne is led out of hiding by circumstances beyond his control, he must reconcile his past and present as he struggles to keep Marie out of harm's way and foil an international incident with dangerous consequences. | |
| The Bourne ultimatum / directed by Paul Greengrass screenplay by Tony Gilroy and Scott Z. Burns and George Nolfi produced by Frank Marshall, Patrick Crowley, Paul L. Sandberg a Universal Pictures presentation in association with MP Beta Productions a Kennedy/Marshall production, in association with Ludlum Entertainment. | DVD 425 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Bourne is once again brought out of hiding this time inadvertently, by London-based reporter Simon Ross. Simon is trying to unveil Operation BlackBriar which is an upgrade to Project Treadstone, by writing about it in a series of newspaper columns. Bourne sets up a meeting with Ross and realizes instantly they're being scanned. Information from the reporter stirs a new set of memories, and Bourne must finally, ultimately, uncover his dark past whilst dodging The Company's best efforts in trying to eradicate him. | |
| The Browning version / Paramount Pictures presents a Percy Main Production a film by Mike Figgis screenplay by Ronald Harwood produced by Ridley Scott, Mimi Polk directed by Mike Figgis. | DVD 320 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | The brilliant but stern classics instructor at a posh prep school is forced out of his job and into the realization that he is despised in the classroom and at home. One student's act of kindness gives the proud academic the inspiration and courage to build his new life. | |
| The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari / story and screenplay by Carl Mayer and Hans Janowitz ; production company, Decla Film Gesellschaft, Berlin ; director, Robert Wiene. | DVD 151 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | A somnambulist commits murders at a hypnotist's bidding in this German expressionist horror classic. Also featured on this videodisc is an excerpt of Genuine: a tale of a vampire", a 1920 release which reunited "Caligari's" creative team." | |
| The chances of the world changing / Merigold Moving Pictures and Pigeon Post Pictures present directed & produced by Eric Daniel Metzgar produced by Nell Carden Grey a co-production of Merigold Moving Pictures, LLC & Pigeon Post Pictures, LLC. | DVD 469 | DOCUMENTARIES | A look at the extraordinary efforts by author Richard Ogust to conserve endangered turtles and tortoises. | |
| The cinematograph / a Louis Saul Film production in association with Bavarian Television ... [et al.] written by Susanne Pach, Herbert W. Franke. | VID 586 | CINEMA | Explains the many antecedents of the cinematograph, shows excerpts from the films of Lumière and Méliès (who elevated film to the level of art), and sheds light on the technological advances in the art of film. | |
| The college of comedy II : with Alan King / produced by Tom Werts, Jim Arntz directed by Matthew Diamond written by Herb Sargent a production of Thirteen/WNET. | VID 564 | COMEDY | Another unconventional master class about stand-up comedy, with the greats from various generations of stand-up comedians. The panel discusses various influences, analysis, and history regarding principles of stand-up comedy. | |
| The Color of money / Touchstone Pictures presents in association with Silver Screen Partners II a Martin Scorsese picture produced by Irving Axelrod, Barbara De Fina directed by Martin Scorsese screenplay by Richard Price. | DVD 767 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Aging pool shark who believes money won is twice as sweet as money earned , forms a profitable yet volatile partnership with a young pool hustler. | |
| The complete works of William Shakespeare (abridged) / written by Adam Long, Daniel Singer, and Jess Winfield adapted for television by Adam Long produced and directed by Paul Kafno a Canada UK co-production in association with Canadian Broadcasting Corporation PTV Productions West, HD Thames Ltd., Complete Television Company. | DVD 271 | LITERARY - SHAKESPEARE | A three-man troupe perform all of Shakespeare's plays in 90 comedic minutes. | |
| The confessions of Robert Crumb / BBC written by Robert Crumb producer, Mary Dickenson. | DVD 776 | DOCUMENTARIES | Robert Crumb, pioneer of the American underground comic book, discusses his life, work, and obsessions. | |
| The conversation / Paramount the Directors Company presents written by Francis Ford Coppola produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. | DVD 387 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | A provoking mystery-suspense drama explores the morality of privacy in the story of Harry Caul, a surveillance expert, who conducts a routine surveillance job only to later find himself suspicious that he has become an unwitting player in murder scheme. | |
| The cooler / Contentfilm presents a Pierce-Williams/Furst Films production in association with Gryphon Films and Dog Pond Productions produced by Sean Furst, Michael Pierce written by Frank Hannah & Wayne Kramer directed by Wayne Kramer. | DVD 527 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Bernie is extremely unlucky at gambling and he owes the Shangri-La casino's mob boss Shelly Kaplow over $100,000. He is so unlucky that he is hired as a cooler . He gambles next to high rollers and gives them some of his bad luck to stop them from winning. This arrangement works out for awhile, but when Bernie has almost paid off his debt, he meets cocktail waitress, Natalie. The two start to fall in love and Bernie's luck begins to change. Unfortunately, Shelly isn't going to let Bernie go so easily. | |
| The crucible / Twentieth Century Fox produced by Robert A. Miller and David V. Picker directed by Nicholas Hytner screenplay by Arthur Miller. | DVD 690 | CINEMA | A group of teenage girls meets in the woods at midnight for a secret love-conjuring ceremony. But instead of love, Abigail Williams wishes for the death of her former lover's wife. WHen the ceremony is witnessed by the town minister, the girls are accused of witchcraft. Soon the entire village is consumed by hysteria, and innocent victims are put on trial. From container cover. | |
| The damned = Götterdämmerung / Warner Bros. and Seven Arts produced by Ever Haggiag and Alfred Levy directed by Luchino Visconti original story and screenplay by Nichola Badalucco, Enrico Medioli, Luchino Visconti. | DVD 637 | CINEMA | The degradation of a great family, set against the historical background of the Night the long knives and the rise of Nazism. | |
| The decalogue / scenariusz, Krzyzstof Kieślowski, Krzysztof Piesiewicz reźyseria, Krzysztof Kieślowski produkcja, Ryszard Chutowski produkcja Telewizja Polska koproducent, Sender Freies Berlin. | DVD 305 | v.1-3 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | 10 films that each feature one of the 10 commandments as a thematic construct. |
| The devil came on horseback / Red Envelope Entertainment an International Film Circuit release of a Break Thru Films production in association with BBC, Global Grassroots & Three Generations, a film by Annie Sundberg & Ricki Stern directed & produced by Annie Sundberg & Ricki Stern. | DVD 705 | POLITICS | This powerful and original film exposes the tragedy taking place in Darfur as seen through the eyes of an American witness, former U.S. Marine Captain Brian Steidle, who has since returned to the U.S. to take action to stop it. | |
| The dreamers / Fox Searchlight Pictures presents a HanWay presentation a Recorded Picture Company, Peninsula, Fiction co-production a Jeremy Thomas production a film by Bernardo Bertolucci screenplay by Gilbert Adair produced by Jeremy Thomas directed by Bernardo Bertolucci released by Twentieth Century Fox. | DVD 528 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | In 1968, two young Parisians invite an American student to stay with them and embark on a journey of sexual discovery while political unrest looms over the city. | |
| The dresser / Columbia Pictures presents a World Film Services and Goldcrest production a Peter Yates/Ronald Harwood film screenplay by Ronald Harwood produced and directed by Peter Yates. | DVD 496 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | Film adaptation of Harwood's play about an aging English actor/manager, his dresser, and their theatre company touring England during WWII. Both the leader of the company and his dresser are essential to each other. However, the devoted dresser struggles to support the unreasonable demands of the tyrannical head of the company, during the London blitz. | |
| The Dresser / Columbia Pictures. | VID 253 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Sir, a grandiloquent old man of the theater, has given his soul to his career, but his tyrannical rule over the company is now beginning to crack under the strain of age and illness as he prepares for his two hundred twenty-seventh performance of King Lear. Sir's dedicated dresser, Norman, submits to Sir's frequently unreasonable demands, tends to his health, and reminds him of what role he is currently playing. | |
| The end of America / Katahdin Productions and Impact Partners, in association with Tar Art and IndiePix Films, present a Break Thru Films production directors, Ricki Stern & Annie Sundberg producers, Laura Dawn ... [et al. ] writer, Naomi Wolf. | DVD 706 | Disc 1-2 | POLITICS | In a stunning indictment of sweeping policy changes during the Bush years, author Naomi Wolf makes a chilling case that American democracy is under threat. Investigating parallels between our current situation and the rise of dictators and fascism in once-free societies, Wolf uncovers a number of deeply disturbing similarities - from the use of paramilitary groups and secret prisons to the targeted suspension of the rule of law -- Container. |
| The English patient / Miramax Films presents a Saul Zaentz production an Anthony Minghella film screenplay by Anthony Minghella produced by Saul Zaentz directed by Anthony Minghella. | DVD 765 | Disc 1-2 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | At the end of World War II, a mysterious, horribly burned man who claims not to remember his name, known only as the English patient, lies near death in an Italian villa. He is cared for by a quietly desperate young nurse, Hana, herself a victim of the war. With her at the villa are Kip, a young Sikh bomb-disposal expert, and a shadowy thief with bandaged hands named Caravaggio. The key to the burned man's past may lie in his commonplace book, a volume of Herodotus, and its intimations of the sacred whirlwind of a great, mysterious, passionate, and tragically doomed love, which trapped two unsuspecting people, forever. |
| The entertainer / a Woodfall production screenplay by John Osborne and Nigel Kneale produced by Harry Saltzman directed by Tony Richardson. | DVD 755 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | A drama of seedy music hall life centering on Archie Rice, an egotistical, third-rate British music hall performer whose career and personal life are in a down-hill spiral. | |
| The extraordinary journey of Fernando Bujones / IRG productions in association with Silverbox Entertainment produced by Kim Dawson written and directed by Israel Rodriguez. | DVD 682 | DANCE | ||
| The fabulous Baker boys / a Mirage production produced by Paula Weinstein and Mark Rosenberg written and directed by Steve Kloves. | DVD 746 | CINEMA | Seattle pianists Jack and Frank Baker are stuck in a rut. Playing the same tired tunes night after night, the brothers are in desperate need of change. So when they meet a sultry singer named Susie Diamond, their future starts to sparkle. But life in the limelight brings old rivalries to the surface. As Jack and Susie's relationship heats up, the Baker boys soon find their act--and their lives--growing more entertaining than either of them may be able to handle. | |
| The films of Kenneth Anger. Volume 1 / The Film Foundation UCLA Film & Television Archive conceived, directed, photographed and edited by Kenneth Anger. | DVD 276 | v.1 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | A collection of short films by Kenneth Anger including "Fireworks", "Puce Moment", "Rabbit's moon", and "Inauguration of the pleasure dome". |
| The films of Kenneth Anger. Volume 2 / [producers Ian Hendrie, Derrick Socchera]. | DVD 276 | v.2 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | This collection of films covers Kenneth Anger's second half of his career with the films "Scorpio rising" and "Lucifer rising" included. |
| The filth and the fury / Film Four presents in association with the Sex Pistols a Jersey Shore/Nitrate Film production director, Julien Temple producers, Anita Camarata & Amanda Temple. | DVD 533 | DOCUMENTARIES | The musical group Sex Pistols was in existence for only 26 months and recorded only one album, yet they changed the face of music forever. This shocking portrait of arguably the most influential and certainly the most notorious rock group of all time documents their rise from the back streets of London, through their crucifixion by the British tabloids and ultimate implosion on tour in America. Culled primarily from the band's own 20-hour-plus archive it includes candid interviews, performances, rehearsals and recording sessions. | |
| The fire next time / ITVS presents The Working Group Not in our town project presents a film by Patrice O'Neill produced in association with the Independent Television Service (ITVS) produced by The Working Group. | DVD 457 | DOCUMENTARIES | This documentary is a portrait of the Flathead Valley community trying to deal with deep-seated conflicts in the face of rapid change and growth. | |
| The Firebird and, Les Noces / Igor Stravinsky. | DVD 384 | DANCE | The Firebird: based on Russian folklore, tells the story of Prince Ivan who wanders into an enchanted garden and sees a beautiful bird who is trying to pluck golden fruit from a silver tree. Ivan captures the bird, but succumbs to its entreaties to be set free. In gratitude for its freedom The Firebird gives Ivan a magic feather. Les Noces: represents the ritual of a Russian folk wedding and illustrates Stravinsky's interest in the convergence of pagan and Christian beliefs. | |
| The first year / Teachers Documentary Project produced by Davis Guggenheim, Julia Schachter directed by Davis Guggenheim. | DVD 472 | DOCUMENTARIES | Every year the United States hires 250,000 new teachers. On September 7, five teachers will begin their new journey. These five young teachers fight the real fight: educating our children, one child at a time. Shows the human side of the story, revealing all the determination and commitment it takes to survive in America's toughest school systems. | |
| The five forty-eight / Broadway Theatre Archive produced by Peter Weinberg directed by James Ivory teleplay by Terrence McNally. | DVD 553 | THEATRE | In the midst of his ordinary routine, a suburbanite's ongoing offenses catch up & overwhelm him. | |
| The fugitive kind / a Jurow-Shepherd-Pennebaker production produced by Martin Jurow and Richard A. Shepherd screenplay by Tennessee Williams and Meade Roberts directed by Sidney Lumet. | DVD 548 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | Valentine Xavier leaves the entertainment world in New Orleans after he has one too many encounters with the law. A rainstorm leaves him stranded in a small town, where his past comes back to haunt him and he attracts two women. | |
| The Gateway Arch : a reflection of America / produced and directed by Scott Huegerich & Bob Miano writers, Harper Barnes ... [et al.] a production of Civil Pictures, Inc. | DVD 389 | DOCUMENTARIES | A documentary that chronicles the history of westward expansion and the construction of the largest stainless steel structure ever built, the Gateway Arch. Featured are newly discovered construction footage, rare photographs of westward expansion and early conceptual drawings by architect Eero Saarinen. Dozens of interviews include World Trade Center Master Plan architect Daniel Libeskind and architecture critic Jayne Merkel, along with the workers who built the monument that some said was impossible to build. | |
| The gay divorcee / Radio Pictures presents a Pandro S. Berman production screenplay by George Marion, Jr., Dorothy Yost and Edward Kaufman directed by Mark Sandrich. | DVD 610 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | In one of their best loved, most charming song and dance comedies, Fred and Ginger demonstrate just how they became known as America's greatest dance team. Includes the Academy Award-winning hit The Continental. | |
| The General. | VID 580 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | A comedy about a young southerner who repeatedly tried to enlist in the Confederate Army but who was refused because he was of more value to the cause as the engineer of The General. | |
| The golden compass / an Alliance film release New Line Cinema presents in association with Ingenious Film Partners, a Scholastic production, a Depth of Field production produced by Deborah Forte, Bill Carraro screenplay by Chris Weitz directed by Chris Weitz. | DVD 782 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | In a wondrous parallel world where witches soar the skies and Ice Bears rule the frozen North, one special girl is destined to hold the fate of the universe in her hands. When Lyra Belacqua becomes the keeper of the Golden Compass, she discovers that her world and all those beyond are threatened by the secret plans of Ms. Coulter. With the help of Lord Asriel and a group of unlikely allies ready to stand at her side, Lyra embarks on an extraordinary quest that celebrates friendship and courage against all odds. | |
| The grass harp / [presented by] Fine Line Features directed by Charles Matthau screenplay by Stirling Silliphant and Kirk Ellis produced by Charles Matthau produced by Jerry Tokofsky and John Davis. | DVD 735 | CINEMA | Following the death of his parents, teenaged Collin Fenwick is sent to live with his father's cousins in a small Southern town in the 1930s. | |
| The Henrik Ibsen Collection / BBC Video. | DVD 329 | v.1-6 | LITERARY - CLASSICS | Ten films based on the plays of Henrik Ibsen in which morality, independence, politics, and family values are explored. |
| The history boys / Fox Searchlight Pictures and DNA Films and BBC Two Films present in association with the UK Film Council a National Theatre production produced by Nicholas Hytner, Damian Jones, Kevin Loader screenplay by Alan Bennett directed by Nicholas Hytner. | DVD 297 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Centers around eight boisterous-yet-talented schoolboys hoping to gain admittance to England's most prestigious universities. They are aided on their quest by two teachers, a shrewd young upstart and an inspiring old eccentric, whose opposing philosophies challenge the boys to confront the true meaning of education and the relative values of happiness and success. | |
| The hours / [presented by] Paramount Pictures and Miramax Films produced by Scott Rudin, Robert Fox screenplay by David Hare directed by Stephen Daldry. | DVD 736 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | In 1929, Virginia Woolf is starting to write her novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway, ' under the care of doctors and family. In 1951, Laura Brown is planning for her husband's birthday, but is preoccupied with reading Woolf's novel. In 2001, Clarrisa Vaughn is planning an award party for her friend, an author dying of AIDS. Taking place over one day, all three stories are interconnected with the novel: one is writing it, one is reading it, and one is living it. | |
| The insider / Touchstone Pictures a Mann/Roth production a Forward Pass picture produced by Michael Mann, Pieter Ian Brugge written by Eric Roth & Michael Mann directed by Michael Mann. | DVD 768 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | When former executive Jeffrey Wigand is fired by his employer, one of the largest tobacco companies in America, Wigand agrees to become a paid consultant for a story by veteran 60 minutes producer Lowell Bergman, regarding alleged unethical practices within the tobacco industry. But what begins as a temporary alliance leads to a lengthy battle for both men to save their reputations and more. | |
| The Jeffersons. The complete first season / T.A.T Communications Company CBS. | DVD 287 | v.1-2 | TELEVISION | The entire first season of the comedy "The Jeffersons" chronicling the life of African-American dry cleaner George Jefferson and his family as they leave their blue-collar neighborhood for a more luxurious appartment in New York City. |
| The killing of a Chinese bookie / Faces Distribution Corporation presents an Al Ruban production writer/director, John Cassavetes producer, Al Ruban associate producer, Phil Burton. | DVD 282 | v.1-2 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | A film noir about a gentleman's club owner finds himself on the bad side of a small time gangster, and then must save his beloved club and way of life. |
| The King of Kong. A fistful of quarters / Picturehouse presents a Cunningham/Gordon production in association with Largelab produced by Ed Cunningham directed by Seth Gordon. | DVD 372 | DOCUMENTARIES | An unprecedented rivalry rocks the electronic world to its core. Join novice gamer Steve Wiebe on his quest to destroy the top score of gaming legend Billy Mitchell, the uncontested champion of the Donkey Kong world for over 20 years. Only one can truly claim the title King of Kong. | |
| The kite runner / DreamWorks Pictures, Sidney Kimmel Entertainment and Participant Productions present a Sidney Kimmel Entertainment and Parkes/MacDonald production produced by William Horberg, Walter Parkes, Rebecca Yeldham and E. Bennett Walsh screenplay by David Benioff directed by Marc Forster. | DVD 566 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY / FOREIGN | In a divided country on the verge of war, two childhood friends, Amir and Hassan, are about to be torn apart forever. It's a glorious afternoon in Kabul and the skies are bursting with the exhilarating joy of a kite-fighting tournament. But in the aftermath of the day's victory, one boy's fearful act of betrayal will mark their lives forever and set in motion an epic quest for redemption. Now, after twenty years of living in America, Amir returns to a perilous Afghanistan under the Taliban's iron-fisted rule to face the secrets that still haunt him and take one last daring chance to set things right. | |
| The lady in question is Charles Busch / producers, John Catania, Charles Ignacio ; directors, John Catania, Charles Ignacio. | DVD 261 | BIOGRAPHY | An affectionate and entertaining tribute to actor, writer, drag performer, and genius leading lady Charles Busch. Featuring Kathleen Turner, Rosie O'Donnell, Boy George, and Jason Priestley. | |
| The last king of Scotland / Fox Searchlight Pictures, DNA Films and FilmFour present in association with the UK Film Council and Scottish Screen a Cowboy Films/Slate Films production produced by Lisa Bryer, Andrea Calderwood, Charles Steel screenplay by Peter Morgan and Jeremy Brock directed by Kevin Macdonald. | DVD 647 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | This is (Idi) Amin's incredible story as seen through the eyes of Nicholas Garrigan (James McAvoy), a young Scotsman who becomes the volatile leader's personal physician, due in part to Amin's unexpected passion for Scottish culture - Amin even proclaims himself the last king of Scotland. Seduced by Amin's charisma and blinded by decadence, Garrigan's dream life becomes a waking nightmare of betrayal and madness from which there is no escape. From back of container. | |
| The Last of the Mohicans / Twentieth Century Fox presents a Michael Mann film screenplay by Michael Mann and Christopher Crowe produced by Michael Mann and Hunt Lowry directed by Michael Mann. | DVD 436 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | The love of Hawkeye, rugged frontiersman and adopted son of the Mohicans, and Cora Munro, aristocratic daughter of a British colonel, blazes amidst a brutal conflict between the British, the French and Native American allies in colonial America. | |
| The least of these / Glass House Productions and La Sonrisa Productions present directors, Clark Lyda and Jesse Lyda producers, Marcy Garriott, Clark Lyda and Jesse Lyda. | DVD 702 | POLITICS | Takes a penetrating look at the T. Don Hutto Residential Center, a former medium-security prison that re-opened in 2006 as a prototype family detention center. The facility was to house immigrant children and their parents from around the world who were awaiting asylum hearings or deportation proceedings. As information about troubling conditions at the facility began to leak out, activist attorneys sought to investigate and address the issues. In telling the story of their quest, the film explores the role (and limits) of community and legal activism in bringing about change. The film leads viewers to consider how core American rights and values - protection of children, presumption of innocence, upholding the family structure as the basic unit of civil society, and America as a refuge of last resort - should apply to immigrants, particularly children -- Container. | |
| The libertine / Mr. Mudd Isle of Man Film Commission First Choice Films 2004 Isle of Man Film Ltd. Odyssey Entertainment Ltd. produced by Lianne Halfon, John Malkovich, Russell Smith screenplay by Stephen Jeffreys directed by Laurence Dunmore. | DVD 744 | CINEMA | John Wilmot, a 17th century poet, is the Earl of Rochester and from the beginning he treats his wife cruelly, drinks to relentless excess, abuses his friendships, and generally wallows in dissipation, much to the dismay of King Charles II. The king hopes that Rochester will write a play glorifying his reign. But Rochester finds his true inspiration when he sees a young actress named Lizzie Barry. Rochester sets out to make her the greatest actress of their time--and she, with some reluctance, submits to his teaching. | |
| The long way home / Moriah Films of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and Seventh Art Releasing produced by Rabbi Marvin Hier and Richard Trank written and directed by Mark Jonathan Harris. | DVD 648 | DOCUMENTARIES | This documentary traces the stories of courage in the years between the end of World War II and the formation of the state of Israel. Includes archival footage, original broadcasts and personal testimonies from survivors of the Holocaust. | |
| The Manchurian candidate / United Artists Pictures Inc. M.C. Productions screenplay by George Axelrod produced by George Axelrod and John Frankenheimer directed by John Frankenheimer. | DVD 542 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | A U.S. Army platoon, captured in the Korean conflict, is whisked to Manchuria for three nightmarish days of experimental drug-and-hypnosis- induced conditioning that transforms the men into human time bombs. Returned to the United States as war heroes, one of them is used by his mother to promote her Joseph McCarthy-like husband's political career. | |
| The men who danced / producer and director, Ron Honsa writer, Richard Philp. | DVD 328 | DANCE | Presents the story of the first all-male dance company in the United States, known as Ted Shawn's Men Dancers, including historic footage of the company performing in the 1930s, as well as the story of the founding of Jacob's Pillow. | |
| The merchants of cool / produced by Barak Goodman, Rachel Dretzin directed by Barak Goodman a Frontline co-production with 10/20 Productions, LLC WGBH Educational Foundation WGBH Boston. | DVD 291 | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS | The world of advertising has become inundated with marketing for teenagers. This episode of Frontline explores the pop culture manipulated and created by corporate America for the American youth. | |
| The mission / Warner Bros., Goldcreset and Kingsmere present an Enigma production in association with Fernando Ghia original story and screenplay by Robert Bolt produced by Fernando Ghia and David Puttnam directed by Roland Joffé. | DVD 792 | Disc 1-2 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | A powerful epic about a man of the sword and a man of the cloth who unite to shield the Guarani Indians of South American from brutal subjugation by 18th-century colonial empires. |
| The Missouri breaks / Elliott Kastner presents an Arthur Penn film a Robert M. Sherman production United Artists Corporation written by Thomas McGuane produced by Elliott Kastner and Robert M. Sherman directed by Arthur Penn. | DVD 664 | CINEMA | Horse thief Tom Logan has set his sights on the horses and daughter of rancher David Braxton. However, Braxton has hired the infamous Lee Clayton to make sure that his possessions are safe and that any horse thief is stopped in his tracks. | |
| The mound builders / a production of WNET/13 in association with New Jersey Public Television. written by Lanford Wilson produced by Ken Campbell directed by Marshall W. Mason and Ken Campbell. | DVD 352 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Contrasts goals of a team of archaeologists with aspirations of the local residents. | |
| The Noel Coward collection. | DVD 330 | v.1-7 | THEATRE | A collection of plays from Noel Coward including "Hay fever" and "Bon voyage". |
| The Original Keystone comedies, volume four | VID 577 | CINEMA - SHORTS | A collection of short films featuring the comedians "Fatty" Arbuckle and Mabel Normand. | |
| The Panama deception / Docurama Films an Empowerment Project production directed by Barbara Trent written and edited by David Kasper produced by Barbara Trent ... [et al.]. | DVD 476 | DOCUMENTARIES | Offers a view of the 1989 invasion of Panama that was not given by the American media. Presents evidence of mass burials of civilian casualties and internment of homeless civilians which was concealed by the U.S. military or went unreported. Also claims to reveal President Bush's secret agenda behind the invasion: to keep U.S. military bases in Panama after the year 2000 in defiance of canal treaties. | |
| The passion of Joan of Arc / Janus Films | DVD 333 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | Dramatization of the life of Joan of Arc centering on her trial and execution. | |
| The perils of Pauline / produced by Eclectic Film Company. | DVD 558 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | An heiress embarks on a series of adventures, as her guardian and his confederates constantly scheme to kill her for her inheritance. | |
| The Philadelphia story / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents produced by Loew's Incorporated screen play by Donald Ogden Stewart produced by Joseph L. Mankiewicz directed by George Cukor. | DVD 674 | Disc 1-2 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | A sophisticated screwball comedy, rife with smart dialogue, the Philadelphia Story centers on the society event of the season: the second marriage of icy, judgmental, moneyed socialite Tracy Lord to nouveau riche George Kittredge. Her first husband, suave and devilish C.K. Dexter Haven, complicates matters by finagling wedding invitations for incognito reporter Mike Connor and his photographer Liz Imbrie, to do a tell-all exposé. But Haven's motives for giving the tabloid access to Tracy's big day may not be as mercenary and mean-spirited as they first appear. |
| The Piano | DVD 409 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | A young mute woman and her child travel to New Zealand in the 1800s for an arranged marriage to a farmer. After the marriage she meets another man, and the competition for her love begins. Just one of the men realizes that her affections can only be won through her beloved piano. | |
| The pirates of Penzance / the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Simon Gallaher & Essgee Entertainment presents by Gilbert and Sullivan directed and choreographed by Craig Schaefer. | DVD 316 | THEATRE | Gilbert and Sullivan's hilarious operetta tells the story of an orphan named Frederic. The son of a wealthy 19th century man, his fate takes a sudden twist after his father's death. | |
| The player / Fine Line Features ; Avenue Pictures in association with Spelling Entertainment ; screen play by Michael Tolkin ; produced by David Brown, Michael Tolkin, Nick Wechsler ; directed by Robert Altman. | DVD 242 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | A celebrity-studded thriller of murderous obsession among Hollywood's glamorous elite. | |
| The police tapes [videorecording] / [presented by] Video Vérité ; produced, edited and directed by Alan Raymond and Susan Raymond. | DVD 449 | DOCUMENTARIES | Documenting the real-life autopsy of dangerous nightime work of off-beat cops in the South Bronx. | |
| The power of color / Barbara Wiener, producer produced for Learning Zone Express. | DVD 511 | FASHION | Discusses the basic principles of color and provides tips for choosing and combining colors for fashion and interior design. | |
| The producers / Universal Pictures and Columbia Pictures present a Brooksfilms production produced by Mel Brooks, Jonathan Sanger screenplay by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan directed by Susan Stroman. | DVD 787 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Max Bialystock was once the king of Broadway, but now he only seems to be able produce flops. Things turn around for Max when he's visited by the neurotic accountant Leo Bloom, who proposes a scheme tailor-made for producers who can only make flops: raise far more money than you need, then make sure the show is despised. No one will be interested in it, so you can pocket the surplus. With this in mind, they decide to produce a musical called 'Springtime for Hitler' written by escaped Nazi Franz Liebken. Then they get the insanely flamboyant Roger De Bris to direct and hire the loopy Swedish bombshell Ulla as the lead actress. | |
| The professional / Columbia Pictures presents a Gaumont-Les Films du Dauphin production. | DVD 771 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | New York's top hit man becomes the unwilling guardian of his next-door neighbors' 12-year-old daughter and helps her track the psychotic agent who murdered her family so she can exact her revenge. | |
| The purple rose of Cairo / an Orion Pictures release produced by Robert Greenhut written and directed by Woody Allen. | DVD 536 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | Cecilia is a poor waitress in a dumpy New Jersey diner who goes to movies to escape the realities of the Depression Era life. Her favorite is The purple rose of Cairo. When the leading man Tom Baxter decides to be with Cecilia, confusion abounds. | |
| The royal hunt of the sun / a Royal Films production with Benmar Productions, ltd. screenplay by Philip Yordan produced by Eugene Frenke, Philip Yordan directed by Irving Lerner. | DVD 406 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Fueled by promises of gold, Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro and his explorers venture across the treacherous Andes Mountains to Peru. There, Pizarro captures King Atahuallpa, Inca's godlike monarch, and promises his freedom upon the deliverance of gold. But friendship and respect develop between the two leaders and when the King is sentenced to die, Pizarro finds himself torn between his desire for conquest and his sense of honor for the King. | |
| The saddest music in the world / Rhombus Media, Buffalo Gal Pictures and Ego Film Arts present written by George Toles and Guy Maddin produced by Niv Fichman, Jody Shapiro directed by Guy Maddin. | DVD 532 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Isabella Rossellini stars as a Depression-era beer baroness who sponsors a contest to find the world's saddest tune in this dark comedy. | |
| The Salzburg Festival / directed & edited by Tony Palmer produced by Renate Bienert and Sabine Bauer. | DVD 303 | DOCUMENTARIES | The Salzburg Festival is world renowned and in this film director Tony Palmer presents archival footage of performances from some of the greatest operas and opera singers of all time. | |
| The seagull / by Anton Chekhov translated and adapted by Stark Young produced by David Griffiths directed by Nikos Psacharopoulos and John J. Desmond a production of WNET/13 Educational Broadcasting Corporation. | DVD 399 | LITERARY - CLASSICS | A production by the Williamstown Theatre Festival of Anton Chekhov's classic comedy-drama depicting man's propensity for destroying those he is close to. The main protagonists are Konstantin, the youthful aspiring writer who dreams of bringing new forms to the theatre and Irina Arkadina, Konstantin's self-centered mother, an accomplished actress, who derides her son's ambitions. | |
| The search for Nijinsky's Rite of spring / produced by Judy Kinberg and Thomas Grimm. | DVD 284 | DOCUMENTARIES | A short documentary on Millicent Hodson's and Kenneth Archer's attempts to recreate the original choreography by Vasclav Nijinsky and original sets and costumes by Nicholas Roerich for the original production in 1913 of Igor Stravinsky's ballet, The rite of spring. The full reconstructed ballet follows the documentary. | |
| The September issue : Anna Wintour & the making of Vogue / a film by R.J. Cutler [presented by] A&E Indie Films in association with Actual Reality Pictures director, R.J. Cutler producers, Eliza Hindmarch, Sadia Shepard. | DVD 750 | Disc 1-2 | FASHION | A behind-the-scenes look at Vogue magazine (U.S.) as editor-and-chief Anna Windtour and her staff prepare the September 2007 issue. |
| The Seventh seal / Svensk Filmindustri presents a film by Ingmar Bergman ; producer, Allan Ekelund ; screenplay writer, Ingmar Bergman ; director, Ingmar Bergman. | DVD 247 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | In medieval Sweden a knight returns from war only to find a ravaged homeland. He meets up with a group of travelling players and eventually confronts the embodiment of death with whom he engages in a game of chess for his life. The knight and Death play as the cultural turmoil envelopes the people around them as they try, in different ways, to deal with the upheaval the plague has caused. | |
| The Shaw collection. | DVD 331 | v.1-6 | LITERARY - CLASSICS | This star-studded collection includes six Shaw masterpieces in over 11 hours of classic television. The sharp wit and discerning themes of Shaw's work are wonderfully captured in these original productions from the BBC, remastered for DVD. |
| The silence of the lambs / Orion Pictures produced by Kenneth Utt, Edward Saxon and Ron Bozeman screenplay by Ted Tally directed by Jonathan Demme. | DVD 762 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | FBI agent Clarice Starling is assigned to help find a missing woman to save her from a psychopathic serial killer who skins his victims. Clarice attempts to gain a better insight into the twisted mind of the killer by talking to another psychopath Hannibal Lecter, who used to be a respected psychiatrist. | |
| The Spike Lee joint collection . | DVD 396 | v. 1-3 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Spike Lee is one of the most acclaimed and controversial directors of all time. Now five of his most provocative, thought-provoking films are available in one collection. From the breakout hit dramedy Do the right thing to the gritty, urban Clockers, Lee peels away life's layers, exposing the ironies, brutalities, rhythms and prejudices of the naked city in this powerful collector's set.;"Clockers: a film about the violent world of drug dealing and its 24-hour dealers, known as clockers. ";"Jungle fever: explores the trials and consequences of interracial romance.";"Do the right thing: a portrait of urban racial tensions and a vibrant look at a day in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.";"Mo' better blues: a film about music and love.";"Crooklyn: The Carmichael family struggles to get by in 1970s Brooklyn." |
| The story of Liberty, Missouri : from settlement to suburb / a Footprints in Clay production, a committee of the Clay County Archives & Historical Library, Inc. | DVD 560 | HISTORY | This is a story rich in history starting in the 1820's with pioneering settlers to the bustling bedroom community of more than 26,000. | |
| The story of the weeping camel = Ingen numsil / produced by Tobias Siebert written and directed by Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni. | DVD 369 | DOCUMENTARIES | A blend of narrative and documentary footage tells the story of a nomadic Mongolian family who uses a music ritual to entice a camel to accept her newborn colt. | |
| The Sunshine Boys / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents a Ray Stark production a Herbert Ross film screenplay by Neil Simon produced by Ray Stark directed by Herbert Ross. | DVD 679 | CINEMA | Two feuding vaudeville comedians who toured the country for 43 years as The Sunshine Boys are reunited after years apart to make a television commercial. | |
| The take / directed by Avi Lewis written by Naomi Klein produced by Avi Lewis & Naomi Klein produced by Barna-Alper Productions and Klein Lewis Productions in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada. | DVD 388 | DOCUMENTARIES | Explores how Argentina's 2001 economic collapse, where a prosperous middle-class economy was destroyed during 10 years of IMF policies, impacted the lives of ordinary workers. Follows 30 unemployed auto-parts workers, who stage a protest against their bosses and economic globalization by occupying their closed factory and refusing to leave. | |
| The taming of the shrew / produced by Ken Campbell directed by William Ball and Kirk Browning. | DVD 345 | LITERARY - SHAKESPEARE | A commedia dell'arte production of Shakespeare's play about the courtship of a beautiful but sharp-tempered woman by her persistent suitor. | |
| The Thames Shakespeare collection. | DVD 562 | v.1-4 | LITERARY - SHAKESPEARE | |
| The thin blue line / Independent Film Channel and Fourth Floor Productions Inc. an American Playhouse presentation produced by Mark Lipson directed by Errol Morris. | DVD 376 | DOCUMENTARIES | A unique documentary dramatically re-enacting the crime scene and investigation of a police officer's murder in Dallas. A film that successfully argued that a man was wrongly convicted for murder by a corrupt justice system in Dallas County, Texas. | |
| The three burials of Melquiades Estrada / Europa Corp. The Javelina Film Company produced by Michael Fitzgerald, Tommy Lee Jones written by Guillermo Arriaga directed by Tommy Lee Jones. | DVD 519 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Needing to keep his honor-bound commitment, Texas ranch foreman Pete returns the body of illegal Mexican immigrant ranch-hand Melquiades Estrada to his preferred resting place in the Mexican wilderness. | |
| The three stooges | VID 567 | v. 1-2 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | Four classic comedies starring the Three Stooges. Disorder in the court: the Stooges get involved in the trial of a fan dancer who is accused of shooting her lover Malice in the palace: the Stooges try to recover diamond stolen from King Rutin-Tutin's Tomb Sing a song of six pants: the Stooges try to pay off past due notes to Skin & Flint by capturing a burglar Brideless groom: Shemp must marry to inherit $500,000. |
| The Tiffanys : the mark of excellence / produced by History Television Network Productions written and produced by Geraldine Hugo. | DVD 546 | DOCUMENTARIES | Looks at Charles and Louis Comfort Tiffany and the empire of taste, glamour and sophistication they created. | |
| The trials of Darryl Hunt / Break Thru Films, Inc. HBO Documentary Films directors, Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg. | DVD 358 | POLITICS | Chronicling this capital case from 1984-2004, filmmakers Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg painstakingly frame the judicial and emotional reponses to a chilling crime, and the implications surrounding Darryl Hunt's wrongful conviction. | |
| The trip to Bountiful / Island Pictures presents a FilmDallas I and Bountiful Film Partners production produced by Sterling Vanwagenen and Horton Foote screenplay by Horton Foote directed by Peter Masterson. | DVD 688 | CINEMA | In an attempt to recapture the happiness she knew in the past, an elderly woman journeys back to the small town where she raised her children. | |
| The true story of Che Guevara / produced by Wild Eyes Productions LLC for the History Channel produced by Maria Berry written and directed by Maria Berry. | DVD 587 | HISTORY | Argentine renegade Che Guevara led a life cloaked in mystery and obscured by legend. His powerful charisma and his dedication to worldwide revolution terrified some of the world's most influential men and left armies scrambling to destroy him. Immediately upon entering the international spotlight, Guevara was as passionately love by some as he was reviled by others. From a privileged childhood in Argentina to the lonely execution in the jungles of Bolivia, the life of Che Guevara is intimately revealed through interviews with his family, supporters, and enemies. This extraordinary documentary chronicles Che's transformative motorcycle trips through the poorest corners of South America, his leadership in the Cuban Revolution's decisive Battle of Santa Clara, and his transformation from government minister to full-fledged revolutionary --Container. | |
| The up series / directed by Michael Apted. | DVD 518 | v.1-6 | DOCUMENTARIES | In 1964 Michael Apted interviewed a group of seven year old children from diverse backgrounds from all over England, asking them about their lives and their dreams for the future. Every seven years, Apted has been back to talk to the same subjects. |
| The war of the world : a new history of the 20th century / a production of Blakeway Productions, a Ten Alps Company, for Channel 4 and PBS in association with Thirteen/WNET New York written by Niall Ferguson directed by Adrian Pennink and Simon Chu. | DVD 417 | DOCUMENTARIES | The film considers the unparalleled stretch of violence during the 20th century as a single, unrelenting 'war of the world' that began with Japan's invasion of Russia in 1904 and continued through the Korean War all the way to an ongoing 'Third Word's War' --Container. | |
| The Weather Underground / a documentary by Sam Green and Bill Siegel. | DVD 371 | DOCUMENTARIES | This remarkable documentary traces the rise and fall of the Weathermen, a group of radical students, who, outaged by the Vietnam War and racism, tried to overthrow the U.S. government in the 1970's, bombing the Capitol building, breaking Timothy Leary out of prison, and evading one of the largest FBI manhunts in history. Here former members speak candidly about the idealistic passion that drove them to bring the war home and the trajectory that placed them on the FBI's most wanted list. | |
| The wild bunch / Warner Bros.-Seven Arts presents a Phil Feldman production screenplay by Walon Green and Sam Peckinpah produced by Phil Feldman directed by Sam Peckinpah. | DVD 597 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | The brutal story of violent men who lived during the Mexican revolution in the year 1913. It portrays a band of magnificent losers in a dying lawless West. | |
| The wind that shakes the barley / The Weinstein Company IFC Films Pathe! Sixteen Films Matador Pictures Regent Capital UK Film Council Bórd Scannán na hÉireann / The Irish Film Board Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen Element Films BIM Distribuzione EMC Produktion Tornasol Films Diaphana Distribution PatheÌ Distribution Cineárt, TV3 Ireland Film Coopi screenplay, Paul Laverty producer, Rebecca O'Brien director, Ken Loach. | DVD 605 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Ireland, 1920. Damien O'Donovan is leaving for London for an internship, until the dreaded Black and Tans attack his hurling mates, killing one for not speaking English. Thus sidetracked by the Irish War for Independence, Damien is convinced by his brother Teddy to throw his lot in with the IRA. Damien is a purist, an idealist, and therefore marked for a tragic destiny, while Teddy is a fatefully pragmatic politician. These differences between the brothers propel the film through its terrible final act, as the signing of Anglo-Irish Treaty establishes the Irish Free State, splits the Republican movement, and unleashes the Irish Civil War. | |
| The Wobblies / [presented by] the Center for Educational Productions produced and directed by Steward Bird and Deborah Shaffer. | DVD 458 | DOCUMENTARIES | Incorporating interviews and archival footage, The Wobblies presents the story of the Industrial Workers of the World (or I.W.W.), which in the early 20th century managed to organize various categories of unskilled worker into a single monolithic union and changed the course of labor history by, among other achievements, facilitating the eight-hour work day and fair wages. | |
| The X-files. The complete fifth season / Ten Thirteen Inc. in association with Twentieth Century Fox Television created by Chris Carter. | DVD 695 | Disc 1-5 | TELEVISION | The fifth season of the X-Files. A science-fiction television show which follows to FBI agents as they investigate mysterious and unsolved cases involing paranormal phenomenon. |
| The X-files. The complete first season / Ten Thirteen Inc. in association with Twentieth Century Fox Television created by Chris Carter. | DVD 691 | Disc 1-7 | TELEVISION | The first season of the X-Files. A science-fiction television show which follows to FBI agents as they investigate mysterious and unsolved cases involing paranormal phenomenon. |
| The X-files. The complete fourth season / Ten Thirteen Inc. in association with Twentieth Century Fox Television created by Chris Carter. | DVD 694 | Disc 1-6 | TELEVISION | The fourth season of the X-Files. A science-fiction television show which follows to FBI agents as they investigate mysterious and unsolved cases involing paranormal phenomenon. |
| The X-files. The complete second season / Ten Thirteen Inc. in association with Twentieth Century Fox Television created by Chris Carter. | DVD 692 | Disc 1-7 | TELEVISION | The second season of the X-Files. A science-fiction television show which follows to FBI agents as they investigate mysterious and unsolved cases involing paranormal phenomenon. |
| The X-files. The complete sixth season / Ten Thirteen Inc. in association with Twentieth Century Fox Television created by Chris Carter. | DVD 696 | Disc 1-6 | TELEVISION | The sixth season of the X-Files. A science-fiction television show which follows to FBI agents as they investigate mysterious and unsolved cases involing paranormal phenomenon. |
| The X-files. The complete third season / Ten Thirteen Inc. in association with Twentieth Century Fox Television created by Chris Carter. | DVD 693 | Disc 1-7 | TELEVISION | The third season of the X-Files. A science-fiction television show which follows to FBI agents as they investigate mysterious and unsolved cases involing paranormal phenomenon. |
| Thelonious Monk, straight no chaser / Warner Bros. Inc. ; director, Charlotte Zwerin ; producers, Charlotte Zwerin, Bruce Ricker ; executive producer, Clint Eastwood. | DVD 210 | MUSIC | A wide-ranging documentary that aims to put Monk's status into context and perspective. It blends the history of Monk's early career in Harlem with archival black-and-white footage of the pianist performing his own compositions for Norwegian and French TV. | |
| Thelonious Monk, straight no chaser / Warner Bros. Inc. ; director, Charlotte Zwerin ; producers, Charlotte Zwerin, Bruce Ricker ; executive producer, Clint Eastwood. | DVD 210 | MUSIC | A wide-ranging documentary that aims to put Monk's status into context and perspective. It blends the history of Monk's early career in Harlem with archival black-and-white footage of the pianist performing his own compositions for Norwegian and French TV. | |
| Third part of Henry the Sixth / by William Shakespeare ; a BBC Television production in association with Time-Life Television ; produced by Shaun Sutton ; directed by Jane Howell. | DVD 17 | LITERARY - SHAKESPEARE | The Henry VI trilogy concludes with the Yorks winning the battle of St. Albans, and thus forcing Henry from the throne. Margaret, however, captures and taunts York before having him killed. She is captured herself and forced to watch her son killed by the Yorkists. Richard, Duke of Gloucester, reveals, at the end, his plan to murder Henry VI. | |
| This film is not yet rated / IFC presents in association with Netflix and BBC a Chain Camera production produced by Eddie Schmidt directed by Kirby Dick. | DVD 296 | DOCUMENTARIES | Kirby Dick's provocative film investigates the secretive and inconsistent process by which the Motion Picture Association of America rates films. Kirby looks at some of the controversial rating decisions of the past four decades, hires a private eye to find out who these anonymous raters are and puts his own film through the rating process. | |
| Thom Gunn / the Lannan Foundation ; directed by Dan Griggs. | VID 453 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | Thom Gunn's austere poems of love and death have distinguished him as a contemporary master. Born in England in 1929, Thom Gunn has lived in northern California since 1954. Thom Gunn read from his Collected poems, which gathers 40 years of poetry, and new work on October 18, 1994, in Los Angeles. He talked with Wendy Lesser, the founding editor of The threepenny review--Container. | |
| Thoughts on capitalism with Louis Kelso / a production of Public Affairs Television ; producer and director, Leslie Clark. | VID 17 | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS | Louis Kelso, co-author of The capitalist manifesto, discusses the means of spreading America's wealth through a plan of employee stock ownership or ESOP. | |
| Three sisters / Hen's Tooth Video ; directed by Paul Bogart. | VID 252 | v.1-2 | LITERARY - CLASSICS | A dramatization of Anton Chekhov's play about three well- educated, cultured sisters suffering from boredom in their provincial environment. |
| Thurgood Marshall : justice for all / ABC News Productions producers Eileen M. Lucas, Arden Ostrander. | DVD 658 | BIOGRAPHY | This historical documentary traces the career of the first Afro-American Supreme Court justice. | |
| Tillie's punctured romance / Keystone Film Co. | VID 581 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | A silent fiml featuring Charlie Chaplin, Marie Dressler, and Mabel Normand. | |
| Timon of Athens / by William Shakespeare ; a BBC Television production in association with Time-Life Television ; a production by Jonathan Miller. | DVD 36 | LITERARY - SHAKESPEARE | Details the transformation of a noble Athenian from a reckless spendthrift to a mad misanthrope. | |
| Titus Andronicus / by William Shakespeare ; a BBC Television production in association with Time-Life Television ; produced by Shaun Sutton ; directed by Jane Howell. | DVD 37 | LITERARY - SHAKESPEARE | William Shakespeare's tragedy set in Roman times dealing with the revenge of Titus Andronicus for the atrocities committed against his family by Tamora, the captive queen of the Goths, and her faction. | |
| To kill a mockingbird / Universal International ; screenplay by Horton Foote ; directed by Robert Mulligan ; produced by Alan J. Pakula ; a Brentwood Productions picture. | VID 187 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Two children in a small southern town are thrust into an adult world of racial bigotry and hatred when their lawyer father chooses to defend a black man unjustly accused of raping a white girl. | |
| To kill a mockingbird / screenplay by Horton Foote produced by Alan J. Pakula directed by Robert Mulligan a Universal International presentation of a Pakula-Mulligan, Brentwood Productions picture. | DVD 675 | Disc 1-2 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | Gregory Peck plays a southern lawyer who defends a black man accused of rape in this film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. The way in which it captures a time, a place, and above all, a mood, makes this film a masterpiece. |
| To live and die in L.A. / an Irving H. Levin production produced by Irving H. Levin screenplay by William Friedkin & Gerald Petievich directed by William Friedkin. | DVD 437 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | A Secret Service agent bends and breaks the law to nab an artist/counterfeiter in Los Angeles. | |
| To our credit : a program for public television / The Access to Credit Media Project. | DVD 270 | pt. 1-2 | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS | Pt. 1 explores microcredit, a strategy to combat global poverty pt. 2 profiles microenterprise, a new economic strategy for low-income Americans. |
| Tomorrow / Janus Films a Filmgroup Production a Castle Hill Productions, Inc. produced by Gilbert Pearlman and Paul Roebling screenplay by Horton Foote directed by Joseph Anthony. | DVD 656 | CINEMA | A young man leaves his father's farm to work at a local sawmill. He rescues a young pregnant woman, who has been abandoned by her husband and family, and the two fall in love. | |
| Toni Morrison / an RM Arts production ; produced & directed by Alan Benson ; edited & presented by Melvyn Bragg. | VID 207 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | Toni Morrison discusses slavery and its legacy and the difficulties of writing about the painful subjects that occur in her novel Beloved. | |
| Top gun / Paramount Pictures produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer directed by Tony Scott written by Jim Cash & Jack Epps, Jr. | DVD 794 | Disc 1-2 | CINEMA | A daredevil Navy pilot striving to be the best at a Top Gun flight school doubts his abilities when his best friend is killed in training. |
| Touch of evil / Universal International produced by Albert Zugsmith screenplay by/directed by Orson Welles. | DVD 498 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | An elaborate mystery involving a corrupt police official in a squalid town on the Mexican border and a murder that ensnares a narcotics agent and his wife. | |
| Touch of the poet / by Eugene O'Neill ; a production of WNET/13 ; produced by David Griffiths ; directed by Stephen Porter and Kirk Browning. | DVD 173 | LITERARY - CLASSICS | Set in a shabby tavern outside Boston in 1828, the play centers on Cornelius Melody ... a proud Irishman who clings to memories of European genitility ... explores its characters' conflicts with reality and illusion, as well as their joys and sorrows in love"--Container." | |
| Tournament / ABC Video Enterprises ; GFA, Gittelman Film Associates, Inc. production ; produced & directed by Philip Gittelman. | VID 387 | ART | Helmut Nickel, curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's great collection of arms and armor, displays some of its treasures and discusses the age that created them. | |
| Tout pres des etoiles : les danseurs de l'Opéra de Paris = Etoiles : dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet. | DVD 80 | DANCE | Celebrates the legacy of the famed Paris Opera Ballet by weaving together rehearsals, interviews and snapshots as the dancers work on classical ballets as well as contempary works. | |
| Traffic / USA Films presentation in association with Initial Entertainment Group a Bedford Falls/Laura Bickford Production produced by Edward Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz, Laura Bickford screenplay by Stephen Gaghan directed by Steven Soderbergh. | DVD 763 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | A mix of interrelated stories: a Mexican policeman finds himself and his partner caught in an often deadly web of corruption a pair of DEA agents work undercover in a sordid and dangerous part of San Diego a wealthy drug baron living in upscale, suburban America is arrested and learns how quickly his unknowing and pampered wife takes over his business and the U.S. President's new drug czar must deal with his increasingly drug-addicted teenage daughter --Container. | |
| Tragedy of Coriolanus / by William Shakespeare ; a BBC Television production in association with Time-Life Television ; produced by Shaun Sutton ; directed by Elijah Moshinsky. | DVD 9 | LITERARY - SHAKESPEARE | Shakespeare's play about a proud Roman general who conquers the Volscians, leads them against Rome in revenge for his banishment, and is killed by the Volscian general when Coriolanus is persuaded to spare the city. | |
| Treasures from the royal tombs of Ur / University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. | VID 316 | ART | Produced to accompany the traveling exhibition, this video recounts the thrilling discovery made by the University of Pennsylvania Museum and British Museum joint excavations in the 1930s at the Sumerian site of ancient Ur, the traditional home of the prophet Abraham. | |
| Treasures of sacred art : Tuscan journeys. | DVD 749 | Disc 1-6 | ART | Focuses on the art of the Tuscan region of Italy, journeying into churches, monasteries, and museums and highlighting the works of masters Giotto, Duccio, Michelangelo and others, showing how they made Tuscany the center of Christian art in their day. |
| Trial by television / produced by Broadcast News Networks in association with Arts & Entertainment Network ; Kurtis Productions ; producers, Caroline Sommers, Paul Gallagher ; writer/producer, Bob Harris. | VID 408 | TELEVISION | From sensational television news coverage and movies-of-the week to cameras in every courtroom in American, the effect of mass audience participation during the law enforcement process poses serious questions about the outcome of criminal proceedings. | |
| Tribute to Alvin Ailey . | VID 248 | DANCE | In this two-part program, members of Ailey's dance company celebrate his memory by performing three works choreographed by Ailey himself, as well as a special ballet tribute choreographed by Ulysses Dove. | |
| Trinity and beyond : the atomic bomb movie / Goldhil Entertainment Visual Concept Entertainment presents a Documentary Film Works production. | DVD 288 | HISTORY | Chronicles the top secret, strange and visually compelling history of the design, production and testing of atomic and hydrogen bombs by the U.S. | |
| Triumph des Willens = Triumph of the will / gestaltet von/[directed by] Leni Riefenstahl. | DVD 212 | CINEMA - CLASSICS | This film, commissioned by Adolf Hitler to record the 1934 Nazi party rally in Nuremberg, is the most powerful piece of propaganda ever produced. Included are many scenes of gatherings, marches, and parades. The viewer will also hear speeches given by Hitler, Goering, Goebbels, and Hess as well as samples of monumental architecture designed by Albert Speer. | |
| Troilus & Cressida / a BBC Television production in association with Time-Life Television ; a production by Jonathan Miller. | DVD 38 | LITERARY - SHAKESPEARE | A dramatization of Shakespeare's play about two lovers caught in the vicissitudes of the Trojan War. | |
| TV nation / Dog Eat Dog Films ; directed by Michael Moore ; producer, Kathleen Glynn. | VID 228 | v.1-2 | CULTURAL STUDIES | Michael Moore, the creator of the critically acclaimed Roger & me, sets out with a TV crew and correspondents to "hilariously expose the excesses of corporate America and examine the absurdity of modern politics and popular culture"--Container. |
| Twelfth night / by William Shakespeare ; a BBC-TV production in association with Time-Life Television ; producer, Cedric Messina ; director, John Gorrie. | DVD 39 | LITERARY - SHAKESPEARE | Twins Sebastian and Viola are separated after a shipwreck and believe each other dead. Viola disguises herself as a page boy, Cesario, to work for Duke Orsino and falls in love with him, but he loves Olivia, who falls in love with Cesario. Seeing Sebastian one day, she mistakes him for Cesario and marries him. The confusion is cleared up when Viola and Sebastian meet again, and the Duke marries Viola. The subplot concerns the efforts of Sir Toby and Andrew to humble the presumptuous Malvolio. | |
| Two faces of the seventeenth century / the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Office of Film and Television. | VID 343 | ART | Explores two 17th-century masterpieces of painting in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Rembrandt's Self-portrait (1660) is compared with his many other self-portraits. Velazquez' Juan de Pareja (1650) is examined alone in close detail. | |
| Two gentlemen of Verona / by William Shakespeare ; a BBC Television production in association with Time-Life Television ; produced by Shaun Sutton ; directed by Don Taylor. | DVD 40 | LITERARY - SHAKESPEARE | Close friends Valentine and Proteus become rivals for the hand of Silvia, daughter of the Duke of Milan, who has promised her to the foolish coward Thurio. Proteus has Valentine banished, but Silvia escapes to the forest to join him. Proteus follows, with Julia who dotes on him. After a confrontation, the Duke eventually allows Valentine and Silvia to wed, and Proteus marries Julia. | |
| Two traditions / a presentation of Films for the Humanities ; an Arts International-London Weekend Television productions ; executive producers, Melvyn Bragg, Nick Evans ; director, John Carlaw ; producer, Andrew Snell ; written and presented by John Barton. | VID 231 | THEATRE | Presenter/director John Barton guides members of the Royal Shakespeare Company in a discussion and dramatization of Shakespeare's use of language, meter, and verse. Barton and the actors address and analyze the question of how to understand Shakespeare's texts, citing examples of his plays, and, by contrast, the writings of other British authors of the period. Examples from Hamlet, Coriolanus, The merchant of Venice, and Othello. | |
| U.S. invades Panama : Wednesday, December 20, 1989 / ABC News. | VID 243 | HISTORY | The United States invades Panama and vows to capture General Manuel Noriega. Chris Wallace leads the discussion regarding whether or not the U.S. can meet this goal. | |
| U.S.-Soviet relations | VID 10 | POLITICS | ||
| Uncle Tom's cabin | VID 154 | LITERARY - CLASSICS | Harriet Beecher Stowe's nineteenth-century classic story of the pre-Civil war south. Peace-loving Tom is forced to submit to his sadistic master, the evil Simon Legree. Helpless slaves-raped, tortured, and humiliated-are eventually driven to rebel against their wicked oppressors. | |
| Uncle Vanya / a B.H.E. Programme ; British Home Entertainment presents in association with the Chichester Festival Theatre ; production by Laurence Olivier ; directed for the screen by Stuart Burge. | VID 291 | LITERARY -CHEKHOV | A film of the stage production of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya as performed by the Chichester Festival Theatre with Laurence Olivier as director. | |
| Uncommon women and others / by Wendy Wasserstein ; WNET presents ; producer, Phylis Geller ; directors, Steven Robman and Merrily Mossman. | DVD 175 | LITERARY - CONTEMPORARY | An adaptation for television of the Phoenix Theatre's production of Wendy Wasserstein's play about five friends who hold a reunion seven years after their graduation from Mount Holyoke. | |
| Understanding color & light / produced & edited by Stephen Schoeneberg written by Atoya Corley. | DVD 650 | SCIENCE - PHYSICS | Discusses what light and color are. Explains the four basic properties of light and how it acts when it strikes matter, types of primary colors, why we see colors, and how the eye perceives them. | |
| Unforgiven / Warner Bros. presents a Malpaso production writen by David Webb Peoples produced and directed by Clint Eastwood. | DVD 583 | v. 1-2 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Two retired, down-on-their luck outlaws pick up their guns one last time to collect a bounty offered by the vengeful prostitutes of the remote Wyoming town of Big Whiskey. |
| Universal Newsreels. Volume eight: 1953-1955 / [produced by] Universal International News [compiled by] J.C. Kaelin, Jr. | DVD 628 | HISTORY | In the age before television, people saw the news every week in their neighborhood movie theater, in the newsreels that were shown with every feature film. This disc covers American and world events from 1953 through 1955. | |
| Universal Newsreels. Volume eleven, 1959 / [produced by] Universal International News [compiled by] J.C. Kaelin, Jr. | DVD 631 | HISTORY | In the age before television, people saw the news every week in their neighborhood movie theater, in the newsreels that were shown with every feature film. This disc covers American and world events from 1959. | |
| Universal Newsreels. Volume five: 1945 [videorecording] / [produced by] Universal International News [compiled by] J.C. Kaelin, Jr. | DVD 625 | pt. 1-3 | HISTORY | In the age before television, people saw the news every week in their neighborhood movie theater, in the newsreels that were shown with every feature film. This disc covers American and world events in 1945. |
| Universal Newsreels. Volume four: 1944 [videorecording] / [produced by] Universal International News [compiled by] J.C. Kaelin, Jr. | DVD 624 | pt. 1-2 | HISTORY | In the age before television, people saw the news every week in their neighborhood movie theater, in the newsreels that were shown with every feature film. This disc covers American and world events in 1944. |
| Universal Newsreels. Volume fourteen: 1964-1967 / [produced by] Universal International News [compiled by] J.C. Kaelin, Jr. | DVD 634 | HISTORY | Newsreel coverage of worldwide events presented from an American perspective covering the news of 1964 through 1967. | |
| Universal Newsreels. Volume nine: 1956 / [produced by] Universal International News [compiled by] J.C. Kaelin, Jr. | DVD 629 | HISTORY | In the age before television, people saw the news every week in their neighborhood movie theater, in the newsreels that were shown with every feature film. This disc covers American and world events in 1956. | |
| Universal Newsreels. Volume one: 1932-1935 / [produced by] Universal International News [compiled by] J.C. Kaelin, Jr. | DVD 621 | HISTORY | In the age before television, people saw the news every week in their neighborhood movie theater, in the newsreels that were shown with every feature film. This disc covers American and world events from 1932 through 1935. | |
| Universal Newsreels. Volume seven: 1947-1952 / [produced by] Universal International News [compiled by] J. C. Kaelin, Jr. | DVD 627 | HISTORY | In the age before television, people saw the news every week in their neighborhood movie theater, in the newsreels that were shown with every feature film. This disc covers American and world events from 1947 through 1952. | |
| Universal Newsreels. Volume six: 1946 / [produced by] Universal International News [compiled by] J.C. Kaelin, Jr. | DVD 626 | HISTORY | In the age before television, people saw the news every week in their neighborhood movie theater, in the newsreels that were shown with every feature film. This disc covers American and world events in 1946. | |
| Universal Newsreels. Volume ten, 1957-1958 / [produced by] Universal International News [compiled by] J.C. Kaelin, Jr. | DVD 630 | HISTORY | In the age before television, people saw the news every week in their neighborhood movie theater, in the newsreels that were shown with every feature film. This disc covers American and world events from 1957 through 1958. | |
| Universal Newsreels. Volume thirteen: 1961-1963 / [produced by] Universal International News [compiled by] J.C. Kaelin, Jr. | DVD 633 | HISTORY | Newsreel coverage of worldwide events presented from an American perspective covering the news of 1961 through 1963. | |
| Universal Newsreels. Volume three: 1941-1943 [videorecording] / [produced by] Universal International News [compiled by] J.C. Kaelin, Jr. | DVD 623 | HISTORY | In the age before television, people saw the news every week in their neighborhood movie theater, in the newsreels that were shown with every feature film. This disc covers American and world events between 1941 and 1943. | |
| Universal Newsreels. Volume twelve, 1960 / [produced by] Universal International News [compiled by] J.C. Kaelin, Jr. | DVD 632 | HISTORY | Newsreel coverage of worldwide events presented from an American perspective covering the news of 1960. | |
| Universal Newsreels. Volume two: 1936-1940 / [produced by] Universal International News [compiled by] J.C. Kaelin, Jr. | DVD 622 | HISTORY | In the age before television, people saw the news every week in their neighborhood movie theater, in the newsreels that were shown with every feature film. This disc covers American and world events from 1936 through 1940. | |
| Unknown Chaplin / written and produced by Kevin Brownlow and David Gill. | VID 513 | v.2-3 | DOCUMENTARIES | By means of surviving film clips, most of which were eliminations from his feature films, and interviews with those most closely associated with him, observes and shows the creative processes of Charlie Chaplin as comedian, actor, composer of music for his own films, writer, director, and producer of his own films. |
| Unquiet spirit : the life and art of Edgar Degas, 1834-1917 / Home Vision presents an RM Arts production ; written and narrated by David Thompson ; a BBC TV production in association with RM Productions, Munich ; produced by Ann Turner ; an Arts International presentation. | VID 308 | ART | Presents many original paintings, drawings and prints to show Degas' favorite settings--the ballet class, racecourse, railway--and to explain his innovative use of the camera. | |
| USA-USSR dialogues | VID 6 | POLITICS | A three part dialogue between citizens of the United States and the Soviet Union on how nuclear war can be avoided. | |
| Usual suspects / PolyGram Filmed Entertainment and Spelling Films International present a Blue Parrot/Bad Hat production. | DVD 76 | v.1-2 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Police investigating an exploded boat on a San Pedro pier discover 27 bodies and $91 million worth of drug money. The only survivors are a severely burned Hungarian terrorist and Roger Kint, a crippled con-man. Reluctantly, Kint is pressured into explaining what happened on the boat. |
| Uta Hagen's acting class / produced for the HB Studio by Pennie du Pont [and] Karen Ludwig | DVD 90 | v.1-2 | THEATRE | In Uta Hagen's acting class, the revered actress explains and personally demonstrates her approach to acting. |
| Valentino : the last emperor / Acolyte Films presents a film by Matt Tyrnauer produced and directed by Matt Tyrnauer produced by Matt Kapp. | DVD 701 | FASHION | An inspirational and exclusive look into the extraordinary and lavish times of the iconic fashion designer Valentino, the feature length film, made with great humor and a gimlet eye for detail, documents the dazzling and dramatic closing act of the last true couturier's celebrated career and revisits the amazing tale of his life and work. But at the heart of the film is the unique and endearing relationship between Valentino and his business partner and companion of 50 years, Giancarlo Giammetti. From case. | |
| Variety & virtuosity : American Ballet Theatre now / a production of Thirteen/WNET in association with RM Associates. | DVD 110 | DANCE | A documentary of the American Theatre Ballet. Includes interviews with individual members and performances by the ballet, which include excerpts from Sleeping beauty, Swan Lake, The leaves are fading, Cruel world, Remanso, Romeo and Juliet, Don Quixote and Bruch's violin concerto no. 1. | |
| V-Day. Until the violence stops / produced in association with Iron Films ; produced by Abby Epstein and Paulo Netto ; produced for Iron Films by Vincent Farrell ; writer, Eve Ensler ; directed by Abby Epstein. | DVD 148 | WOMEN'S STUDIES | Chronicles how Eve Ensler's hit Broadway solo show 'The Vagina Monologues' grew into V-Day, an international grassroots movement dedicated to stopping violence against women and girls. | |
| Veiled aristocrats / Video Images presents a Video Yesteryear recording ; a Micheaux production. | VID 526 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Twenty years after leaving home, John Walden returns, having achieved his ambition to become a lawyer. He and his mother, Molly, discuss the marital situation of his sister, Rena, and the racial complications it poses. | |
| Vermeer : light, love, and silence / written, produced, and directed by Michael Gill ; a Malone Gill production ; LWTP/RM Arts co-production in association with Bravo and NPS. | VID 260 | ART | Vermeer, an artist from the Golden Age of Dutch painting, painted only 35 pictures and left no drawings or letters. His life and message are shrouded in mystery. | |
| Vernon, Florida / a production of the Television Laboratory at WNET/Thirteen, ZDF, and Errol Morris Films, Inc. produced and directed by Errol Morris. | DVD 374 | DOCUMENTARIES | Fire up the pickup and head down to this bizarre backwater town with Errol Morris, as he presents a pastiche of fascinating interviews with the weird and wonderful people of Vernon, Florida. | |
| Versailles / une production Kronos France films ; scenario et r'ealisation, Simon macovet ; commentaire, Henry Montaigu ; film r'ealis'e en collaboration avec le Mus'ee du Louvre et la Reunion des mus'ees nationaux. | VID 353 | ARCHTECTURE | Presents a tour of the city, park and chateaux of Versailles. | |
| Veto message on Civil Rights Restoration Act | VID 9 | POLITICS | ||
| Victims 'families' messages to the governor who emptied death row : showdate, Thursday 01/16/2003 / Harpo Productions. | VID 407 | POLITICS | 167 men and women sentenced to die have been spared. Hear from the families of the victims and the departing governor at the center of it all. | |
| Victor Hernandez Cruz / the Lannan Foundation in association with Metropolitan Pictures and EZTV ; produced and directed by Lewis MacAdams and John Dorr. | VID 426 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | Victor Hernandez Cruz, twice the World Heavyweight Poetry Champion, reads at the Los Angeles Theatre Center from Rhythm, content and flavor and Red beans. He talks to students at Harvard School and is interviewed by Lewis MacAdams--Container. | |
| Vienna 1900 / produced by Bob Rosen ; directed by Bob Rosen & Andrea Simon ; written by Andrea Simon. | VID 394 | TRAVEL | Tour of Vienna around the turn of the century. Emphasis on the people as well as the architecture and art influenced by the Baroque Era. | |
| Virginia Lee Burton : a sense of place / [presented by] Red Dory Productions & Searchlight Films executive producer, Christine Lundberg filmmaker, Rawn Fulton. | DVD 486 | DOCUMENTARIES | Explores Burton's life and art through a treasure-trove of archival materials, never-before seen photographs, personal documents, sketchbooks, original manuscripts and interviews with family and friends. | |
| Visions of light : the art of cinematography / produced by the American Film Institute and NHK Japan Broadcasting Corporation ; produced by Stuart Samuels ; directed by Arnold Glassman, Todd McCarthy, Stuart Samuels ; written by Todd McCarthy ; [with] the participation of the American Society of Cinematographers. | DVD 73 | CINEMA | The story of cinematography as seen through the lenses of the world's greatest filmmakers and captured in classic scenes from over 125 immortal movies. Traces the evolution and innovations of cinematography beginning in an era when the movie camera was a marvelous invention, and examines how the filmmaking process was complicated by new cinematic trends and technologies. | |
| Voice of your own / with Patsy Rodenburg | VID 551 | MUSIC | Rodenburg, the Head of Voice at the Royal National Theatre, London, shows untrained people how to develop vocal power and confidence with the techniques that she has developed, including vocal warm-ups and breathing exercises | |
| Voltaire's Temple of glory : a baroque ballet / The Jarvis Conservatory. | VID 331 | DANCE | Play based on Rameau's music of the 18th century. It features a delightful, original Baroque choreography. The play was created to introduce Voltaire, his philosophy and his relationship to the dance of the period. | |
| Volver / El Deseo S.A. with the participation of Canal+ España Ministerio de Cultura Televisión Española (TVE) produced by Esther GarcÃa writer, Pedro Almodóvar directed by Pedro Almodóvar. | DVD 525 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Raimunda lives in Madrid with her daughter Paula and her drunk husband Paco. Her sister, Sole, is separated and works clandestinely as a hairstylist for women. Years ago, in the sisters' birth village, they lost their parents in a fire in La Mancha. Their aunt, Paula, still lives in the village and continues to speak about her sister Irene, mother of the two sisters, as if she were still alive. When the old aunt dies the situation changes and the past returns (volver). | |
| Voyage of La Amistad : a quest for freedom / an MPI Teleproductions. | VID 519 | HISTORY | Chronicle of the story of the abducted Africans and their battles for freedom, first on the Amistad and then as they stood trial in a strange land, taking their case all the way to the Supreme Court with various abolitionists and former president John Quincy Adams leading the way. | |
| W.S. Merwin / Lannan literary series in association with Metropolitan Pictures and EZTV ; a video by Lewis MacAdams and John Dorr. | VID 420 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | W.S. Merwin is a distinguished poet, playwright, and translator, whose book The carrier of ladders received the Pulitzer Prize. [He] reads from Selected poems and The rain in the trees. [He] was interviewed by Lewis MacAdams. The reading took place in Los Angeles on May 16, 1988--Container. | |
| Waging a living / a production of Public Policy Productions in association with Thirteen/WNET New York ; produced and directed by Roger Weisberg. | DVD 256 | DOCUMENTARIES | Over three years, the film follows four hard-working individuals as they strive for their piece of the American Dream but find only low wages, dead end jobs, and a tattered safety net in their way."--Container." | |
| Wanderlust / Red Envelope Entertainment an IFC original production Independent Film Channel, LLC. IFC presents in association with Netflix, a Tailslate Films production produced by Tailslate Pictures. | DVD 473 | DOCUMENTARIES | From the award-winning directors of American splendor, this iconic movie traces America's love affair with the 'road movie' through interviews with Hollywood stars and clips from roadie classics. | |
| Warm up : using anatomy as a master image / Dance Horizons Video directed by Gus Solomons Jr. created and produced by Ruth Solomon. | VID 597 | DANCE | Ms. Solomon illustrates the forty-five minute warm up that is the cornerstone of her approach to preparing the body to dance. The standardized language and imagery of anatomy are utilized to guide the dancer to an understanding of the principles by which movement is produced. There is strong emphasis throughout on proper alignment and body mechanics, and on the use of breath. While the exercises demonstrated are based in the floorwork that is most common to modern dance, the warm up has been used effectively by dancers in all techniques. | |
| Watergate | VID 115 | v.1-3 | POLITICS | Portrays an in-depth analysis of the notorious political scandal of the century, threatening the very roots of our constitutional democracy. |
| We the people : the president and the constitution / produced by Anthony Potter Productions in association with the Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution and the Trust for the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution. | VID 56 | v.1-4 | POLITICS | Series of interviews record the observations of Presidents Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Reagan about the office of the Presidency and its place in the constitutional framework of American government. |
| Welcome to Nollywood / Welcome to Nollywood, LLC a film by Jamie Meltzer produced by Cayce Lindner, Henry S. Rosenthal. | DVD 707 | POLITICS | After the U.S. and India, the world's third largest producer of feature films is Nigeria. Barely a decade old and already generating over $286 million for the Nigerian economy, Welcome to Nollywood explores this burgeoning industry, from its unique challenges to its diverse array of films that both mirror and comment upon the social issues of the continent. | |
| Welfare reform | VID 91 | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS | David Whitman, Douglas Besharov, Gary Burtless, Demetra Nightingale.;"A discussion of the economic impact of proposed welfare reform." | |
| Well-founded fear / the Epidavros Project, Inc. a film by Shari Robertson, Michael Camerini produced and directed by Shari Robertson & Michael Camerini. | DVD 466 | DOCUMENTARIES | Explores the workings of the American Immigration and Naturalization Service which decide the fates of thousands of asylum-seekers. | |
| West / Ken Burns presents a film by Stephen Ives ; a co-production of Insignia Films and WETA-TV Washington in association with Florentine Films and Time-Life Video & Television. | VID 142 | v.1-9 | HISTORY | Chronicles the history of the American West beginning before the European settlers and continuing into the 20th century. Includes the peoples, the wagon trains, the Gold Rush, the Civil War, the transcontinental railroad and the destruction of the buffalo, wars against the Indians, settlers in the West, the Wounded Knee massacre, and beginnings of the new West. |
| West side story / United Artists. | VID 183 | LITERARY - CLASSICS | A modern version of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, set in the Puerto Rican section of New York City. | |
| West side story / United Artists. | VID 359 | LITERARY - CLASSICS | A modern version of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, set in the Puerto Rican section of New York City. | |
| Wetherby / Greenpoint Films Limited Zenith Productions producer, Simon Relph writer, David Hare directed by David Hare. | DVD 405 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Jean Travers is a schoolteacher whose life changes completely when a young man breaks into her home, and then kills himself right in front of her for no apparent reason. As Jean's friends struggle to help her, Jean is drawn deeper and deeper into a web of memories and deceptions. | |
| What hat are you wearing. | VID 417 | CULTURAL STUDIES | Tony Brown interviews Joe Cornelius about Cornelius' one-man-show performance in Hats, a play he wrote portraying the history of African Americans. Then Cornelius performs his play. | |
| When East meets East / a Calipix Production produced, written and directed by Kalli Paakspuu. | VID 594 | DOCUMENTARIES | When an aspiring Chinese actress is told in an audition You should be more Chinese, she is confused. What exactly does it mean to be more Chinese for people of Asian descent who have relocated to or were born in North America? This genre-breaking documentary explores the issues of ethnic and cultural identity through interviews with some of today's most prominent Asian and Chinese American filmmakers, actors and actresses in the United States, Canada, Taiwan and China. | |
| When the fire dances between the two poles : Mary Wigman, 1886-1973 : a film / by Allegra Fuller Snyder. | VID 23 | DANCE | Mary Wigman, one of the founders of modern dance, discusses her work and her theories; discussion is illustrated by footage of performances of her most notable pieces. | |
| When things were rotten / Paramount Pictures. | VID 515 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Episode six "The French Dis-connection"--Episode seven "Those wedding bell blues"--Episode eight "The Ultimate weapon" | |
| Where America began : Jamestown, Colonial Williamsburg, Yorktown / produced by Finley Holiday Films. | VID 344 | HISTORY | Describes the first English sellters and the historic events in Jamestown, VA. Discusses Colonial Williamsburg and includes scenes of the reconstructed town and the historic events at Yorktown. | |
| Where poems come from / the Lannan Foundation. | VID 460 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | 15 major poets read and discuss the origins of their poetry: Yehuda Amichai, Lucille Clifton, Victor Hernandez Cruz, Allen Ginsberg, Louise Glück, Joy Harjo, Galway Kinnell, Philip Levine, W.S. Merwin, Czeslaw Milosz, Octavio Paz, Ishmael Reed, Gary Snyder, Anne Waldman, and Alice Walker. | |
| White cliffs of Dover / Metro-Goldyn-Mayer ; screenplay by Claudine West, Jan Lustig and George Froeschel ; directed by Clarence Brown ; produced by Sidney Franklin. | VID 514 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | When Susan (Dunne) moves with her father (Frank Morgan) from America to England, she ends up falling in love with and marrying Sir John Ashwood (Alan Marshal), an English baronet. But, before their son is born, Susan loses her husband to World War I. When World War II breaks out years later, her son's own tour of duty begins. Finding out whether he will return home safely or not makes for some of the most dramatic moments in motion picture history. | |
| Whiter than white, blacker than black, and greener than green : the perception of color / produced through the staff and facilities of Educational Communications Division, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. | DVD 510 | SCIENCE - PHYSICS | Professor Greenler discusses the nature of light, the color of common objects and how characteristics of the eye influence color perception. | |
| Who wrote Shakespeare? : moot court / producer, Connie Doebele ; director, Gary Ellenwood ; executive producer, Carrie Collins. | VID 34 | pt.1-2 | LITERARY - SHAKESPEARE | Peter Jaszi and James Boyle, both of Washington College of Law, American University, present arguments before Supreme Court justices William Brennan, Jr., Harry Blackmun, and John Stevens for and against the theory that the 17th Earl of Oxford, Edward de Vere, wrote the sonnets and plays attributed to William Shakespeare. |
| Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? / Warner Bros. Pictures. | DVD 77 | LITERARY - CLASSICS | A freewheeling, headlong slide into the corrosive hell of a marriage twisted by years of hatred and humiliation. | |
| Wild strawberries = Smultronstället / Criterion Collection ; a Janus Films presentation ; Svensk Filmindustri ; a film by Ingmar Bergman | DVD 131 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | A distinguished professor emeritus who lives alone with his housekeeper can only come to terms with his egocentricity by traveling back in time to his earliest youth, finding there the seeds of his failure as husband, lover, father. | |
| William Shakespeare : a life of drama / produced and directed by Rebecca Jones ; a Satel Documentary production for A&E Network. | VID 283 | LITERARY - SHAKESPEARE | A biography of the greatest writer in the English language, William Shakespeare. | |
| William Shakespeare's The merchant of Venice / Sony Pictures Classics Movision Entertainment & Arclight Films present in association with UK Film Council Film Fund Luxembourg Delux Productions S.A. Immagine Cinema / Dania Film Istituto Luce a Cary Brokaw /Avenue Pictures Navidi-Wilde Productions Jason Piette- Michael Cowan / Spice Factory production a Michael Radford film executive producers, Manfred Wilde, Michael Hammer, Peter James, James Simpson. Alex Marshall, Robert Jones produced by Cary Brokaw, Barry Navidi, Jason Piette, Michael Lionello Cowan directed by Michael Radford screenplay by Michael Radford. | DVD 620 | LITERARY - SHAKESPEARE | Antonio, a successful but cash-poor merchant, approaches Shylock, a wealthy moneylender, for a loan to help his young friend Bassanio woo the fair Portia. Despite being longtime enemies, Shylock grants the request, but demands one pound of Antonio's flesh if the debt is not repaid on time. When Antonio defaults on the loan, Shylock seeks what is legally owed him but soon learns that those to whom evil is done, do evil in return. - Container. | |
| Willmar 8 / produced by Mary Beth Yarrow, Julie Thompson ; directed by Lee Grant ; narration written by Lee Grant. | VID 120 | WOMEN'S STUDIES | Tells about the eight women who went on strike in Willmar, Minn., because of employment discrimination. Tells how they formed their own independent union and that even though they lost, they found new strength within themselves. | |
| Winter's tale / by William Shakespeare ; a BBC Television production in association with Time-Life Television ; producer, Jonathan Miller ; director, Jane Howell. | DVD 41 | LITERARY- SHAKESPEARE | King Leontes unjustly accuses his wife Hermione of adultery with King Polixenes. He imprisons Hermione, who falls into a swoon he believes is death, and orders her infant daughter to be abandoned on the shore. Sixteen years later, their daughter falls in love with Polixenes's son and when they come to Leontes' kingdom, her identity is revealed. Leontes and Polixenes become friends again, and Hermione is found to be alive after all. | |
| Wit / HBO Films presents an Avenue Pictures production a film by Mike Nichols directed by Mike Nichols screenplay by Emma Thompson & Mike Nichols produced by Simon Bosanquet. | DVD 726 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | An English professor, who alienates her students, has always had control over her life. That is until she is diagnosed with a devasting illness. She agrees to undergo a series of procedures that are brutal, extensive and experimental. She finds that the fine line between life and death can only be walked with wit. | |
| Wittgenstein / Channel Four Television and the British Film Institute in association with Uplink, Japan present a Bandung production of a Derek Jarman film written by Derek Jarman, Terry Eagleton, Ken Butler produced by Tariq Ali directed by Derek Jarman. | DVD 440 | BIOGRAPHY | A stunning and profoundly entertaining work on modern philosophy and the genius that revolutionized it. A humorous and bold portrait of the irreverent 20th century gay thinker who preferred detective fiction and Carmen Miranda musicals to Aristotle. | |
| Woman called Moses / directed by Paul Wendkos ; written for television by Lonne Elder ; produced by Ike Jones, Michael Jaffe ; a production of I.K.E. Productions, Inc. and Henry Jaffe Enterprises, Inc. ; Xenon Entertainment. | VID 197 | v.1-2 | BIOGRAPHY | This is the story of Harriet Ross Tubman, founder of the Underground Railroad, who led hundreds of slaves to freedom in the North before the Civil War. |
| Women behind the camera / From the Heart Productions presents a Rafael Film production written, directed and produced by Alexis Krasilovsky. | DVD 411 | Disc 1 - 2 | DOCUMENTARIES | This global feature reveals camerawomen's struggles to survive the odds in Hollywood, Bollywood, Afghanistan, Canada, China, India, France, Iran, Japan, Mexico, the U.S. and other countries in a way that has never been done before -- Container. |
| Women in politics / a production of Public Affairs Television, Inc. | VID 42 | POLITICS | Moyers queries writers, theologians, philosophers, activists and ordinary citizens around the country, focusing on the public and private concerns of the American people in an election year. This program focuses on the role of women in politics. | |
| Women in theatre. series one / League of Professional Theatre Women ; CUNY TV. | DVD 237 | v.1-3 | BIOGRAPHY | Interviews with some of the gifted women who create and sustain theatre in the United States. |
| Women leading America forum : Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. | VID 49 | POLITICS | Discussion about the role of women in Congress. Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala then goes on to speak about health care reform, uniform medical coverage with comprehensive benefits for all Americans. | |
| Wonderful, horrible life of Leni Riefenstahl / Omega Film, Nomad Films present ; directed by Ray Muller ; produced by Hans-Jurgen Panitz, Jacques de Clercq, Dimitri de Clercq. | DVD 158 | BIOGRAPHY | Interviews with Leni Riefenstahl, now in her nineties, flash-backs and modern film sequences tell the story of the most famous woman film director of all time. Known for her films made during the Third Reich, Riefenstahl's story is a controversial one. Best known for her Triumph of the Will," the film made of the 1934 Nazi Party Congress, it proved to be her undoing." | |
| Woodstock : 3 days of peace & music / Warner Bros. Pictures a Wadleigh-Maurice, Ltd. production produced by Bob Maurice directed by Michael Wadleigh. | DVD 721 | Disc 1-2 | MUSIC | The entire performance of every artist was filmed at Woodstock. This footage has been archived since that history-making weekend and has only recently been re-discovered. Never before has the complete performance been shown, before now. |
| Work of angels? : the book of Kells / produced by Louis Lentin ; written and directed by Murray Grigor ; produced in association with ... DLT Entertainment Ltd. ; a Crescendo concept with Muse Film and Television and Viz Ltd. | VID 397 | ART | The Book of Kells" tells the story of this magnificent masterpiece. Created on the windy Hebridean island of Iona thirteen centuries ago, it now rests in the Trinity College library in Dublin. The manuscript has mystified, and motivated writers from W.B. Yeats to James Joyce and Umberto Eco, and its intricate Celtic knotwork continues to influence artists and craftsmen today." | |
| World according to John Coltrane / a co-production of Toby Byron/Multiprises in association with Taurus Film, Munich and Video Arts, Japan) ; directed by Robert Palmer, Toby Byron. | DVD 211 | MUSIC | Traces John Coltrane's musical growth from his roots in the black church and rhythm and blues through his forty years of life and beyond, culminating in a musical meeting between Roscoe Mitchell and dervish musicians in Morocco's Western Sahara desert. The film also includes extensive performance footage of Coltrane. | |
| World of Alwin Nikolais | VID 114 | v.1 | DANCE | Excerpts of dances choreographed by Alwin Nikolais. |
| World of the Lindisfarne Gospels / written and presented by Michelle Brown. | DVD 249 | ART | Presents the Lindisfarne Gospels in their historical and cultural context, shot on location in England and Ireland. | |
| World short films / A Cinema16 release produced by Luke Morris and Ben Lederman. | DVD 514 | v.1-2 | CINEMA - SHORTS | Cinema16 celebrates the short film by showcasing some of the best classic and award-winning shorts on DVD -- booklet. |
| Writing the news : The meeting / producer, Jean Burke director, Terry Lewis. | VID 593 | JOURNALISM | Presents basic methods for writing a news article and specifically discusses writing news stories about meetings. | |
| Y tu mamá también / Jorge Vergara Producciones, Producciones Anhelo presentan [distributed by] IFC Films and Good Machine producité por Jorge Vergara escrita, producité y dirigida por Alfonso Cuarón escrita, Carlos Cuarón. | DVD 547 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Dos adolescentes emprenden un viaje loco al campo con la seductora Luisa, de 28 años. Luisa los educa en los puntos más finos de la pasión, pero puede que el deseo de los adolescentes para ella destruirá su amistad para siempre.;"Two teens set off on a wild cross-country trip with seductive, 28-year-old Luisa. Lisa schools them in the finer points of passion, but will their mutual desire for her destroy their friendship forever?" | |
| Yehuda Amichai / the Lannan Foundation in association with Metropolitan Pictures and EZTV ; produced and directed by Lewis MacAdams and John Dorr. | VID 425 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai reads from his poems and is interviewed by Esther Robbins on March 15, 1989 in Washington, D.C. at the Folger Shakespeare Library and Georgetown University. | |
| Yellow brick road / a film by Matthew Makar and Keith Rondinelli produced by Matthew Makar [Elementary Films in association with Emerging Pictures]. | DVD 467 | DOCUMENTARIES | Documentary following a group of actors with learning disabilities, from the Drama Program of Long Island's ANCHOR organization, as they embark on a four-month-long journey to mount a stage performance of the classic film The Wizard of Oz. | |
| Yellow gash : Jean-Paul Sartre on Tintoretto / Home Vision presents an RM Arts production ; [directed] by Didier Baussy. | VID 311 | ART | Sartre's words guide us through this exploration of Tintoretto's decorative panels and vast frescoes, all situated in Venice. Sartre is fascinated by Tintoretto's rebellion against 16th century convention and by his innovative style. | |
| Yoshitsune and the 1000 cherry trees | DVD 313 | THEATRE | The three scenes presented here come from the fourth and fifth act of this historical drama set in the late 12th century. In the final scene Ichikawa Ennosuke performs his signature piece as the enchanted fox. | |
| Your show of shows / distributed by Dena Media/ Modin Entertainment J.V. | VID 532 | v.1-2 | TELEVISION | A collection of classic sketches from the innovative NBC television comedy series of the 1950s starring Imogene Coca, Nanette Fabray, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris and Sid Caesar. |
| Your show of shows : [volume 1] / produced and directed by Max Liebman. | VID 518 | TELEVISION | Videocassette release of segments from the 1950's live television program of the same title. | |
| You're the top : the Cole Porter story / a co-production of VPI-Videfilm Producers International, Ltd. and WNET New York and Channel Four Television, U.K. | DVD 44 | MUSIC | To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the late Cole Porter's birth, this profile provides an entertaining look at the man who embraced an elite lifestyle and chronicled the world of high society. Includes archival footage and interviews with his contemporaries and critics. Includes excerpts from Night and day; Blow, Gabriel, blow; You do something to me; Let's do it; My heart belongs to daddy; Be a clown; True love; and Kiss me Kate. | |
| Youth without youth / Sony Pictures Classics American Zoetrope presents a co-production of SRG Atelier (Romania), Pricel (France), BIM Distribuzione (Italy) produced, written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. | DVD 728 | CINEMA - CONTEMPORARY | Romania is on the brink of war with Germany and linguistics professor Dominic Matei has little left to live for. On Easter Day 1938, he crosses the street and is struck by a bolt of lightning. Badly burned and nearly dead, he amazes the doctors by healing in only a short time. He defies science and ages in reverse from 70 to 40. There's seemingly no limit to the wonder and love he can find in his new youth. He pursues lost dreams, endless knowledge and the secrets of life until his secret is discovered. Now he must use his increased intelligence to keep his powerful secret safe from the wicked powers that would use it for evil. --Container. | |
| Yusef Komunyakaa : in conversation with Toi Derricotte / Lannan Foundation ; directed by Dan Griggs. | VID 472 | LITERARY - INTERVIEWS & READINGS | Mr. Komunyakaa, who received the Pulitzer Prize and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, read from Magic City, Neon Vernacular, Thieves of Paradise, and uncollected work on November 11, 1997. | |
| Zimbabwe: shadows and lies / reported by Alexis Bloom and Cassandra Herrman Frontline/World WGBH Educational Foundation. | DVD 351 | POLITICS | Zimbabwe, a country once a model of independence and Africa's fastest growing economy, is now in a treacherous decline of hunger, poverty and fear. President Robert Mugabe has become Africa's longest standing dictator. Posing as tourists, reporters Alexis Bloom and Cassandra Herrman travel undercover to meet secretly with leaders of the opposition and other dissidents to chronicle a country trapped in shadows and lies. They also hear from people struggling to survive in the rural areas -- a population Mugabe keeps carefully hidden from foreign eyes. | |
| Where available, all summaries are taken from the corresponding library catalog record. |