History Video List in Alphabetical Order - Academics

History Video List
in Alphabetical Order
**Faculty from other departments wishing to borrow a film for a course should consult Yolanda Youtsey
(yyoutsey@holycross.edu). Students may consult with Yolanda Youtsey to arrange to view a film within the
department.
# Title of Video Description Producer/Director Year
235 500 Nations Story of America’s original inhabitants; filmed at actual
locations from jungles of Central American to the
Canadian Artic. Color; 372 Mins.
TIG Productions 2004
166 Abraham Lincoln (2 This intimate portrait of Lincoln, using authentic stills of
tapes)
the time, will help in understanding the complexities of
our 16 th Simitar
1994
President of the United States. (94 min.)
Entertainment
369 Africa 4 DVDs This epic series presents Africa through the eyes of its National
2001
Episode 1 Episode people, conveying the diversity and beauty of the land and Geographic
5
the compelling personal stories of the people who shape
Episode 2 Episode its future.
6
Episode 3 Episode
7
Episode 4 Episode
8
Approx. 60 min. per episode. Color
322 Africa Mia (DVD) A compelling testament to a handful of out-cast women National Film 2002
committed to live independently – women determined not
only to survive, but to create a community for themselves,
and more importantly, to guarantee the livelihood of their
children.
Approx. 50min. Color
Network (NFM)
365 Africa the Story of a Eight programs span the years from early civilizations and R.M. Arts 1984
Continent
centuries of slavery to colonial rule and independence.
Program 1
Archival film, interviews, eyewitness accounts, and
Program 2
dramatic reconstructions emphasize the achievements of
Program 5
the African people and the importance of their story.
Program 6
Approx. 57 min. per program. Color.
367 Africans (The) 2DVDs Take a journey to 16 African countries to examine major Annenberg Media 1986
Program 1 Program influences on this complex continent: indigenous heritage,
6
Western culture, and religions. Discover the rich diversity
Program 2 Program of Africa and confront the problems that have resulted
7
Program 3 Program
8
Program 4 Program
9
Program 5
from different forms of government.
374 African World (3 Most of Africa’s rich history has been forgotten by the PBS Home Video 2000
DVD’s)
outside world, overshadowed by images of war, poverty
1. Black Kingdoms and famine. Now Harvard University professor Henry
of the Nile Louis Gates, Jr. takes a fresh look at the history of the
2. The Swahili Coast continent. In a series of engaging personal journeys on the
3. The Slave trail of great civilizations, cities and centers of learning
Kingdoms established long before the arrival of Europeans, he
4. The Holy Land reveals an Africa most people never knew existed.
5. The Road to
Timbuktu
Approx. 5.5 hours Color
6. Lost Cities of the
South
254 After StoneWall The sequel to Before Stonewall, chronicles the history of
lesbian and gay life from the riots of Stonewall to the end
of the century. Narrated by Melissa Etheridge, it captures
the hard work, struggles, tragic defeats and exciting
victories experienced since the. It explores how AIDS
First Run Features 2005

181 Against the Odds: The
literally changed the direction of the movement. (88
Minutes in color)
Tells how black artists triumphed over formidable odds. PBS 1995
Artists of the Harlem The period of the 1920s and ‘30s known as the Harlem
Renaissance
Renaissance encompassed an extraordinary outburst of
(VHS/DVD)
creativity by African-American visual artists. Racial
prejudice & segregation, however, not only kept them out
of the mainstream museums & galleries, but threatened the
very core of their personal artistic expression. (60 minutes,
color)
49 Alexander Nevsky A fusion of image and music, this film depicts Nevsky
leading the Russians triumphantly in battle against the
Germans
Sergei Eisenstein 1938
215 All Quiet on the Set during WWI, the story follows young German recruits Lewis Milestone 1930
Western Front
from idealism to disillusionment with the war. Best
Picture, 1929-30. B&W. 132 mins.
288 All the Mornings of the In the dazzling tradition of Amadeus, All the Mornings of
World (VHS)
the World is a seductive tale of music and passion set in
provocative 17 th Touchstone Home
century France. Brimming with romance,
lust, desire, devotion, revenge and intrigue, it’s the
fascinating story of a reclusive composer and his two
beautiful daughters, whose lives are forever changed by a
flamboyant young student. See for yourself why critics
and audiences alike are applauding this magnificent
motion picture and celebrated winner of 7 Cesar Awards,
including Best Picture!
Approx. 110 min. Color
video
304 All The President’s In the Watergate Building, lights go on and four burglars Warner Brothers 1976
Men (DVD)
are caught in the act. That night triggered revelations that
drove a U.S. President from office. Washington reporters
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein grabbed the story and
stayed with it through doubts, denials and discouragement.
129 Amelia Earnhart The story of this great female pioneer of aviation. Nancy Porter 1993
143 American and Lewis Critically acclaimed documentary which portrays the life Nina Rosenblum 1984
Hine
and times of America’s pioneer social photographer. He
recorded the development of Industrial America, with
specific attention to the 14 million men, women, and
children that poured through Ellis island to join the
industrial work force.
37 American Cowboy A documentary on the life of the American cowboy on the
Western frontier. The presentation discusses Native
American relations as well as the Hollywood
glamorization of the cowboy.
1991
247 Amistad Based on a true story, the movie chronicles the incredible DreamWorks 1997
journey of a group of enslaved Africans who overtake Home
their captor’s ship and attempt to return to their beloved
homeland. They are brought to the US and charged with
murder.
Entertainment
86 And The Band Played Based on Randy Shilts’ best-selling book about the HBO
On
scientific discovery of the virus which causes AIDS (copy)
194 Apocalypse Now Color 153min. Stunning vision of man’s heart of darkness Francis Coppola 1979
(Letterboxed Version) revealed through the madness of the Vietname War.
Martin Sheen. Marlon Brando.
130 Aquirre: The Wrath of A fictional account of what went wrong when a Spanish Werner Herzog 1973
God
expedition in the Amazon was lost without a trace during
the mid 1500’s while looking for the city of El Dorado.
345 Army of Shadows Jean-Pierre Melville’s masterpiece about the French
Resistance went unreleased in the US for thirty-seven
years, before its triumphant theatrical debut in 2006.
Approx. 145 min. color in French with optional English
subtitles
Jacques Dorfmann 1969
180 Atomic Café (The) Looks at the dark side of Cold War America & all its fear
& paranoia, & manages to blend this with a humor – a
Kevin Rafferty,
Jayne Loader &
1982

comic look at a defining period in the 20 th century. (88 Pierce Rafferty
minutes, color, 1982)
First Run Features
100 Attack in the Pacific A patriotic documentary of America at the beginning of
WWII-Battles scenes from Midway and Coral Sea
63 Cabeza de Vaca The True and amazing adventure of the legendary Spanish New Horizon 1993
explorer that will dazzle your mind and move your soul.
1hour and 48 mins. Color
Home Video
289 Au Revoir Les Enfants Set in a Catholic school during the German occupation of Louis Malle 1989
(VHS) (Goodbye France, this is the powerful story of Julien Quentin, a
Children)
sensitive, headstrong 12-year-old boy who befriends the
new student in his class. A secret that will soon be
revealed to the Gestapo and will change the young boys’
lives forever.
Approx. 103 min. Color PG
283 Auschwitz (DVD) Inside the Nazi State is the result of three years of
research, drawing on the close involvement of world
experts, recently discovered documents and nearly 100
interviews with camp survivors and perpetrators, many of
whom are speaking on the record for the first time. Their
stories are brought to life through the innovative use of
archive footage, dramatic recreations of key decisionmaking
moments, and their extraordinary testimony.
While never losing sight of the suffering of the victims,
this documentary offers a unique and alarming look at the
mindset of the perpetrators – killers like the Commandant
of Auschwitz Rudolf Hoss, camp doctor Josef Mengele,
and SS Commander Heinrich Himmler. Approx. 300 min.
Color
BBC 2006
231 Bataan Rescue The battle to defend the Bataan peninsula in the
PBS American 2003
Philippines from Japanese invasion. This is the story of
the combat and its prisoners. 60 mins. Color
Experience
47 Battle of Algiers (VHS) An account of Algerian freedom fighters’ struggle against
French might during the 1950’s.
Gillo Pontecorvo 1966
237 Battle of Algiers (The) Case study in modern warfare, w/ its terrorist attacks and Gillo Pontecorvo 1966
(DVD)
the brutal techniques used to combat them. The Algerian
struggle for independence from the occupying French in
the 1950s. 121 minutes; Black/white. French w/ Eng.
Subtitles.
16 Battle of Britain (VHS) Hitler’s plan for conquest of Britain
-Royal Airforce
-British “will” was the only thing to stand in the way of
the Luftwaffe
1943
282 Battle of Britain (DVD) Is a spectacular retelling of a true story that shows courage Metro Goldwyn 1969
at its inspiring best. Few defining moments can change
the outcome of war. But when the outnumbered Royal Air
Force defied insurmountable odds in engaging the German
Luftwaffe, they may well have altered the course of
history! Approx. 2 Hrs 12 min. Color
Meyer
372 Battle for Korea Archival film from China, Korea, and the Soviet Union
shows the war as it has never been seen before. Battle for
Korea is the definitive account of the strategies and the
tactics of the warning armies. Superb computer generated
graphics,, explain the moves of countermoves as the battle
raged the length and breadth of the Korean peninsula.
Approx. 120 min. color/B&W
15 Battle of China -history of China and the various inventions it has given
the world
-shows the perspective of how China was sucked into
conflict with Japan, who only wanted China’s land and
people in order to conquer America
PBS 2004
10 Battle of Russia Documentary on the Russian halt of the German advance 1986
51 Berkeley in the Sixties A video that chronicles the social struggles that emerged Mark Kitchell 1990
1944

(VHS)
most radically at Berkeley, California in the late 1960s.
335
253
DVD Format
Before StoneWall Pries open the closet door-setting free the dramatic story
of the sometimes horrifying public and private existences
experienced by gay and lesbian Americans since the
1290s. Revealing and often humorous, this widely
acclaimed film relives the emotionally-charged sparking
of today’s gay rights movement, from the events that led
to the fevered 1969 riots to many other milestones in the
brave fight for acceptance. (87 Minutes in color)
First Run Features 2005
273 Best of Youth (The) As Italy explodes in an era of social unrest, a single illfated
incident sends the lives of equally idealistic brothers
Nicola and Matteo Carati careening in opposite directions.
Divided by politics but bonded by blood, the next 40 years
will find the brother’s divergent paths intersecting through
some of the most tumultuous events in recent history!
Runs approx. 368 min. Color
Miramax
195 Best Years of Our Lives Three WWII veterans returning home must fight their own William Wyler 1946
(the)
personal battles for acceptance and adjustment (172 min,
B&W)
277 Beyond Rangoon Patricia Arquette portrays Laura Bowman, a young John Boorman 1995
(VHS)
American doctor traveling through Burma in an attempt to
forget the pain of the recent murder of her husband and
son. After witnessing a pro-democracy demonstration, she
befriends an elderly former professor who promises to
take her beyond the capital city of Rangoon to see a true
portrait of the people.
73 Birth of a Nation (VHS) Marks the birth of motion pictures and the retelling of the D.W. Griffith 1915
DVD also available Civil War - with strong racial overtones (154 minutes)
66 Birth of Europe: Feast Examines the surprisingly influential role of resources
and Famine: The
Limestone Legacy
such as limestone and oil in the history of Europe.
88 Black Rain The story of the aftermath of the 1945 atomic catastrophe
in Hiroshima.
Shohei Imamura 1988
267 Black and White in Winner of the 1976 Academy Award for Best Foreign Jean-Jacques 1976
Color
Language Film, Black and White in Color is an
Annaud, Arthur
irrepressible and timely satire on racism, colonialism, and
war. Set in the Ivory Coast during the First World War, a
group of bungling French colonials learn that their country
is at war with Germany. Spurred on by a capricious
moment of patriotism, the Frenchmen decide to attack
their German neighbors who reside in a colony up the
river, thus touching off a brutal series of hilariously
unfortunate events.
Cohn
274 Bloody Sunday Winner of the Sundance Film Festival’s Audience Award,
writer-director Paul Greengrass’ “magnetic and
impassioned” drama is a “staggering re-creation” of the
events of Sunday, January 30 th , 1972 when British troops
clashed with unarmed protesters in Derry, Northern
Ireland. Color, 110 min.
Paramount 2003
52 Breaker Morant
VHS Available and
DVD available
A true story, this film exposes one of Britain’s darkest
moments as three soldiers are tried on trumped-up murder
charges for political reasons. 107 minutes.
356 Breathless This film tells the story of Michel (Jean-Paul Belmondo),
a handsome young criminal, who is on the run from the
law after stealing a car and killing a policeman.
Approx. 90 Min. B&W
Bruce Beresford 1979
Georges de
Beauregard
260 Bridge on the River When British P.O.W.s build a vital railway bridge in Sam Spiegel
2005

Kwai enemy occupied Burma, Allied commandos are assigned
to destroy it273 in one of the most memorable cinematic
experience of all time. Runs approx. 162 mins.
327 The Buccaneer CB DeMille directs this swashbuckler based on the true
story of Jean LaFitte and Andrew Jackson.
Approx. 2 hrs.
234 Burmese Harp (The) An antiwar drama, set at the close of WW II, this movie
focuses on the obsessions that drive one Japanese soldier
to remain in Burma, even as his unit tries to steal into
neutral territory. Private Mizushima, the harp-playing
scout, is wounded, then saved by a Buddhist priest. B&W,
116 mins.
357 Cahokia Mounds Ancient mounds stand as sentinels of the past: a lost
civilation. But 1000 years ago they stood at the heart of a
great Native American city.
64 Camille Claudel Fictionalized biography of artist/sculptor Camille Claudel,
lover of Auguste Rodin and sister of poet Paul Claudel, set
in late 19 th century Paris. 149 min. (Dinand Library Video
235)
360 Captives In the 17 th century, as white settlers in the New World
pushed further and further west, Native American Indians
suddenly found themselves fighting for both their territory
and their lives.
Approx. 50 min. Colorr and B&W
346 Casablanca Casablanca: easy to enter, but much harder to leave,
especially if your name is on the Nazi’s most-wanted list.
Atop that list is Czech Resistance leader, Victor Laszlo,
whose only hope is Rick Blaine (Ingrid Bergman), the exlover
who broke his heart. So when Ilsa offers herself in
exchange for Laszlo’s safe transport out of the country,
The bitter Rick must decide what’s more important – his
own happiness or the countless lives that hang in the
balance.
342 Catherine the Great
(Bibliography)
3 Caudillo: The History
of the Spanish Civil
War
278 Chernobyl (VHS) The
Taste of Wormwood
329 Chicago
4 DVD’s Series
Spanish filmmaker Basilio Martin Pation searches
archives of Lisbon, Paris, London, Moscow.
-no editorial comment
-shows both Loyalish & Falangist footage
Chernobyl has come to mean “disaster” and “cover-up.”
Actually, ironically, in Russian it means “wormwood.”
This vitally important program is the result of meticulous
investigative work by a team of Japanese, after all, have
the most experience in searching out the after-effects of
nuclear destruction.
City of the Century is how, in just 60 years Chicago grew
from a remote, swampy frontier town into one of the most
explosively alive cities in the world. It’s the story of the
wealthy and the indigent, the heralded and the forgotten,
the shop assistants and the millionaire retail barons who
together created Chicago. It describes how, through
innovation, ingenuity, determination and sheer
ruthlessness, the captains of industry created empires in a
marshy wasteland.
Approx.90 min. Color/BW
202 Children of the Camps B+W. 57 mins. Documentary which shares the
experiences, cultural and familial issues, and the long
internalized grief and shame felt by six Japanese
Americans who were only children when incarcerated in
concentration camps during WWII.
Video Obscurata 1958
Kon Ichikawa
CMMS 2005
Bruno Nuytten 1989
The History
Channel
Turner
Entertainment
1998
1943
A&E 2002
Films for the
Humanities, Inc.
1987
PBS Home Video 2003
Satsuki Ina 1999

280 Chernobyl: Chronicle
of Difficult Weeks
The Bam Zone:
Permanent Residents
(VHS)
251 CHINA: A Century of
Revolution
148 China: The History and
the Mystery
93 China’s Cosmopolitan
Age: The Tang
Chernobyl: Shevchenko’s
film crew was the first in
the disaster zone following
the meltdown of the
Chernobyl nuclear power
plant in 1986. They shot
continuously for more than
three months. Portions of
the film are exposed with
white blotches – a radiation
leakage. 53:52 Color
The Bam Zone:
TheBaikal-Amur Mainline
(BAM) Railroad in Siberia
is called the longest
monument to the stagnation
of the Brezhnev years.
Behind the marches and
songs praising the project,
equipment was breaking
down, lives were broken
and souls became
calloused. 18:30 Color
(1987)
Definitive, insightful and unforgettable, China: A Century
of Revolution is an astonishingly candid view of a oncesecret
nation. This powerful program takes a remarkable
firs-hand look at China’s tumultuous history, examining
its social, political and cultural upheaval through
eyewitness accounts, rare archival film footage and
insightful commentary. B/W (360 minutes)
Two hour guide through six thousand years of Chinese
History
Examines the Tang dynasty’s vitality in government, art,
religion, and philosophy as well as its contribution to the
humanistic traditions of China, Korea, and Japan. (60
minutes)
95 Christ Stopped at Eboli Based on Carlo Levi’s famous memoir of his exile to
southern Italy in 1935-36 for anti-fascist political
activities, Christ si e fermata a Eboli. 119 min. (Dinand
Video 237)
79 Christopher Columbus This film depicts his incredible journey to the New World
and his triumphant return to Spain. (104 minutes, 500th
Anniversary edition)
271 Citizen King In exploring the last few years of his life, this beautifullycrafted
American Experience production traces King’s
efforts to recast himself by embracing causes beyond the
civil rights movement, by becoming a champion of the
poor and an outspoken opponent of the war in Vietnam.
Tapping into a rich archive of photographs and film
footage and using diaries, letters, and eyewitness accounts
of fellow activists, friends, journalists, political leaders
and law enforcement officials, this film brings fresh
insight to King’s impossible journey, his charismatic
303 Civil War Terror
(DVD) without a cover
134 Classical Japan
Medieval Japan
Tokugawa Japan
80 Company: Indigo and
His Jesuits
leadership and his truly remarkable impact.
The Video Project 1986
Sue Williams
Francesco Rosi 1989
PBS 2004
Approx. 1:30:52 Engel
Entertainment
A look at the history and literature of Japan in three 45minute
tapes. (copies)
The life and legacy of Ignatius of Loyola - hosted by Cyril
Cusack. (52 minutes)
112 Complete Churchill A complete biography of Churchill exposing never before
seen footage of his life and times
147 Constitution of the Two hour guide through the Constitution
United States of
America
-two videos
263 Complete Story World It began as a regional conflict and escalated into a war of
(The)
empires that covered the earth. This documentary series is
War I (3 DVD’s) more than just the history of this global conflict. It is also
2007
Martin Gilbert 1991
CBS – PBS 2003

a photo album of the early twentieth century. Meet the
men and machines that fought the war and witness every
major battle and event of this global struggle. No other
collection offers such a complete overview of one of
histories most destructive conflicts. Running over 10and
¾ hours B&W.
81 Cross and the Star Asks where were the foreign governments and
institutional churches while Nazi atrocities were being
committed. Relies heavily on Nazi archival footage. (55
minutes)
257 Crossing (The) December 1776. Decimated by superior British forces,
suffering from disease, desertion and lack of funds,
General George Washington faces the unthinkable –
losing the war. Despite all advice to the contrary.
Washington makes a courageous decision that is
considered to be one of the boldest in military history. On
Christmas night, with the American Revolution hanging in
the balance, Washington takes his army across the icechoked
Delaware River. The next morning, he leads a
surprise attack against a garrison of battle-hardened
Hessian mercenaries. The overwhelming and miraculous
victory turns the tide in the war and ultimately leads to the
birth of the United States. Approx. 100 min. + extras.
94 Crusade: By Horse to Recreates the 2500 mile trip from Europe to the deserts of
Jerusalem
103 Cuban Missile Crisis:
1962
286 Cyrano de Bergerac
(VHS)
Sinai
Depicts Castros’ rise to power, his economic policies, his
brand of law and order, and his relationship with the
Soviets.
Gerard Depardieu, France’s most celebrated actor, give
the performance of his life as Cyrano De Bergerac, the
17 th Century Solider adventurer who is secretly in love
with the beautiful, young Roxane. Believing he is too
ugly because of his grotesque nose to ever win Roxane,
the eloquent Cyrano helps Christian, a tongue-tied soldier,
to woo her with love letters. After many years Cyrano
starts to tell Roxane the truth. But Christian is killed in
the battle and Cyrano feels compelled to keep his secret.
Years later, Roxane living in a convent, still faithful to her
husband Christian, is visited by her mortally wounded
friend Cyrano. It is then that Roxane realizes that it was
Cyrano that she had loved all the time. His secret
revealed. Cyrano dies as he had lived, heroically and
fearlessly. Approx. 138 min. PG
300 Daens Based on a true story of Fr. Daens, and extraordinary man
that made Belgium history, this epic takes place at the end
of the XIX century when the Flemish Belgium was in full
industrial revolution and the rich owners abused of the
poor workers. Father Daens decided to denounce the
working conditions in the factories even if that meant for
him to choose between priesthood and politics.
177 Daily Life at the Court
of Versailles
Aprox. 2 hrs and 14 min.
Story of France & French culture as reflected in Versailles
from its construction by Louis XIV, its decline under
Louis XV, & its abandonment by Louis XVI during the
French Revolution. (French w/ English narration, 60
minutes, color)
John J. Michalczyk
A&E Television
Networks
Jean-Paul
Rappeneau
1999
1990
Alliance Releasing 1994
Films for the
Humanities
67 Daimyo This film examines the shaping of the Daimyo culture via
the unique interaction of martial tradition and civilian arts.
John Nathan 1988
29 Dangerous Liaisons Based on the late 18 th century novel by Choderos de Christopher 1989
1993

Laclos about the French aristocracy. 120 min. (Dinand
Library Video 234)
Hampton
200 David Halberstam’s the Appx 65 mins each. 6 videos based on David
W. Paterson Ferns 1997
Fifties
Halberstam’s novel. Stunning portrait of the decade, indepth
interviews, rare footage of Elvis, Nixon to Marilyn
Monroe.
and Richard Heus
368 Day of the Zulu: In one key 1879 battle, Zulu fighting units decimated the PBS Home Video 2001
Secrets of the Dead British forces at the battle of Isandlwana. Historian Ian
Knight and forensic archeologist Tony Pollard investigate
the battle scene, trying to access the impact of a solar
eclipse on the outcome, and discovering the Zulu use of
performance enhancing “battle drugs.”
Approx. 60 min. Color and B/W
326 Days of Glory (DVD) Is “a chronicle of courage and sacrifice… told with power,
grace and feeling and brought alive by first ate acting”
Telling the true story of a band of World War II soldiers
who heroically fought their way across Europe while
battling discrimination within their own ranks.
Tessalit 2006
99 D-Day Invasion A detailed portrayal of what went into America’s dramatic
entry into WWII.-Nazi, British, and U.S. footage (58 min.)
155 Dear America - Letters This movie is an authentic account of the Vietnam War HBO 1987
Home from Vietnam from the actual letters of the men & women who served
(VHS)
there. The harsh realities of life and death, friendships
made and lost; these letter home tell it all, w/ newsreel and
home-movie footage shot by the servicemen themselves.
42 Dear America
(Vietnam) HBO Special
(VHS) copied
80 minutes (copy) Retelling of the Vietnam experience
281 Dear America (DVD) Is an authentic account of the Vietnam War from the The Couturie 1987
Letters from Vietnam actual letters of the men and women who served there.
The harsh realities of life and death, friendship made and
lost—these letters home tell it all, with newsreel and
home-movie footage shot by the servicemen themselves.
These are the authentic voices of war, some who survived,
many who never made it home. Color; approx. time 86
min.
Company, Inc.
219 Dec. 7 th - The Pearl John Ford’s “DECEMBER 7
Harbor Story
TH ,” was banned by the U.S.
Government for nearly fifty years. This special edition is
now available; presenting the fully restored, 82 minute
version, with subtitles added to the controversial Japanese
language sequences and a special “behind the scene”
introduction. This full-length version stars Walter Huston
as Uncle Sam and is set in Honolulu on the day before the
Japanese attack. On Sunday morning, December 7 th John Ford 2001
, air
squadrons appear, “swooping down like flights of tiny
locust”. The attack on Pearl Harbor, America’s first battle
of World War II, is vividly illustrated as only Hollywood
can do.
70 DeGaulle and France 180 minutes in three parts. This documentary examines
the life and legacy of Charles DeGaulle in France as his
reorganization of political power restored an effective
government.
1992
117 Depression #7
323 Di Perejil (DVD Say Parlsey is a film about the efforts of these women to National Film 2006
establish the identities of their children and to raise them
freely in the Dominican Republic. It is also a chronicle of
their attempt to bring together two languages, two
societies and two cultures – in the name of peace and
justice.
Network (NFM)
141 Digging for Slaves -
The Excavation of
American Slave Sites
Approx. 41 min. Color
An archaeological approach to unearthing the past in
America’s slavery-ridden South. This video looks at how
living conditions must have been for the American slave.

120 Disputation: A A theological medieval debate between Christians and
1993
Theological Debate Jews in 1263.
22 Distant Thunder A moving account of the WWII famine in India.
-varying individual accounts based on their social groups
1973
7 Divide and Conquer Documentary on Hitler’s expanding wave of conquest into
Western Europe
1986
217 Earth Based on Bapsi Sidhwa’s autobiography, Cracking India,
the story is set in 1947 in Lahore, where Hindu, Sikh,
Parsee, and Muslim share a peaceful co-existence.
Subtitles
Deepa Mehta 1998
87 Eisenhower (120)
Caesar (50)
Waterloo (120)
Napoleon (50)
(copy) Famous battles and their brilliant leaders.
2 Engines of Change: The (National Museum of American History) This video
1987
American Industrial chronicles the actors and agents of American
Revolution, 1790-1860 industrialization.
142 Enola Gay Dropping of the Atomic Bomb Documentary
299 EUROPA EUROPA “A Harrowing True Story!” Young boy recounts survival Home
1990
through Holocaust. Separated from his family at the age
of thirteen, Solly takes on various identities to hide his
Jewish heritage. First passing himself off as an orphan
and later as one of the “Hitler Youth,” Solly carries on his
charade, hoping desperately to keep his identity hidden…
and make it through the war alive. Aprox. 1 Hr 54 min.
Color
Entertainment
24 Eva Peron: Queen of An 87 minute, black and white film on the life of Eva
1957
Hearts
Peron.
164 Evita: The Story of Eva Capturing the drama and sweep of Eva Peron’s rags to Alan Parker 1996
Peron
riches rise to power in Argentina, Evita bring you into this
great world leaders life. (55 min)
157 Eye of Vichy A masterful look at Nazis and media manipulation in Claude Chabrol 1993
Vichy Central France in WW II. 110 minutes; B/W,
English narration
First Run Features
339 Eyes on the Prize (7-- Is an award-winning 14 hr documentary series on the civil PBS/
1986-
DVD’s)
rights movement that brilliantly illuminates the struggle
for racial equality and social justice.
Approx. 14 hrs, color and B/W.
Blackside, Inc. 1990
(VOLUME I)
1) Awakenings
2) Fighting Back
(VOLUME II)
1) Ain’t Scared of
Your Jails
2) No Easy Walk
(VOLUME III)
1) Mississippi: Is
this America?
2) Bridge to
Freedom
Emmett Till… Rosa Parks… Martin Lutber King. Jr. Rare
reflections open the door to understanding
America’s struggle for equality.
Little Rock.. “Ole Miss”.. the 1954 Supreme Court
Decision.
Sit-ins… SNCC. Freedom Rides.
Georgia.. Alabama… the march on Washington
Medgar Evers… Freedom Summer….the Civil Rights Act.
Selma…Montgomery… The Voting rights Act Eyewitness
accounts by the Rev. C.T. Vivian, Sokley Carmichael and
George Wallace illuminate the events of 1965 focusing on
a decade of lessons learned and the role of television in the
civil rights movement.
1954-
1956
1957-
1962
1960-
1961
1961-
1963
1962-
1964
1965

(VOLUME IV)
1) The Time Has
Come
2) Two Societies
(VOLUME V)
1) Power
2) The Promised
Land
(VOLUME VI)
1) Ain’t Gonna
Shuffle NoMore
(1964-1972)
2) A Nation of
Law?
(VOLUME VII)
1) The Keys to the
Kingdom
2) Back to the
Movement
Malcom X… Stokely Carmichael… “Black Pover.”
Chicago… Detroit… the Kerner commission.
America’s Civil Rights Movement
Muhammad Ali… Howard University… Gary, IN.
The Black Panthers… Fred Hampton… Attica.
Busing… Maynard Jackson… Affirmative Action
Activism… Overtourn… Harold Washington
305 FDR (DVD) His radio Fireside Chats were heard in million of living
rooms. His picture hung on the wall of homes and
businesses. His wife was the most admired woman in
America. He restored hope to a country that had lost it,
led the nation during the greatest war in history, and
championed the common man. Yet there was nothing
common about Franklin Delano Roosevelt, neither his
aristocratic beginnings, nor his exuberant personality. He
was a complex man who reached out to adoring public but
carefully hid his paralysis and unconventional marriage
from the world. FDR goes beyond the familiar words and
images to explore his hidden dimensions, creating an
intriguing mosaic that includes rare film and home
movies, newly filmed footage, and fascinating interviews
with family members, friends, biographers, and
eyewitnesses to the Roosevelt saga. What emerges is a
surprising portrait of a towering figure, one who was
called a traitor by his own privileged class and a hero by
156 Face of Russia, The
Part 1: The Face on
the Firewood
Part 2: The Facade of
Power
Part 3: Facing the
Future
million s of ordinary Americans.
This movie is a remarkable journey across history,
encompassing Russia’s grand architecture, icon paintings,
music, literature, and cinema.
1964-
1966
1965-
1968
1966-
1968/
1967-
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1964-
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Select
183 Fail-Safe Tense Cold War drama about a squad of American
bombers accidentally sent to deliver a nuclear payload on
the Soviet Union and unable to be called back, while
president and his advisors try to stop the attack from
starting World War III. (111 min. B&W)
Sidney Lumet 1964
61 Family Game A “sidesplitting satire of a Tokyo nouveau riche couple Yoshimitsu Morita 1983

68 Fanny Kemball’s
Journal
and their spoiled [and nonconformingly unambitious]
children.”
(copy)
316 Favela Rising Haunted by the murders of his family and many of his
friends, Anderson Sa is a former drug-trafficker who
becomes a social revolutionary in Rio de Janero’s most
feared slum. Through hip-hop music, the rhythms of the
street, and Afro-Brazilian dance he rallies his community
to counteract the violent oppression enforced by teenage
drug armies and sustained by corrupt police. Just as
Anderson’s grassroots Afro-Reggae movement is at the
height of it success, a tragic accident threatens to silence
the movement forever.
382 Fly Girls
Approx. 82 mins.
The WASP’s contribution to America’s war effort was
invaluable, yet mostly forgotten. In fly girls, the women
of the WASP take wing once again, to tell their story of
skill, determination, and courage
334 Free Cinema (3 DVDs) Features the early work of the best of the British New
Wave! Highly influential in cinema history, the Free
Cinema movement not only reinvented documentary in the
1950s but also spearheaded the British New Wave of
social-realist feature films.
Approx. 475 mins. Black and White
163 French Intellectuals in
the 20 th Century
Part 1: Great
The birth of the intellectual: Zola & Proust; the Great War;
Expectations
pacifism & surrealism; the Bolshevik Revolution, the new
religion of Communism, Andre Malraux, the growing
signals of terror from Moscow, which go unheeded.
Part 2: Days of
Contempt
Part 3: Lost Illusions
Part 4: The Demise of
the Prophets
The rise of Fascism, wh/ at first seemd like a logical
outgrowth of the October Revolution; the Nazi occupation
of France & French collaboration; the Spanish Civil War;
resistance to Fascism.
The French Communist Party & anti-Stalinism; the
Algerian War; Jean Genet, Franz Fanon, Sartre, and the
cause of Third World Revolution.
Intellectuals & the new models like Communist Cuba;
birth of the Maoist intellectual, w/ Sartre & Simone de
Beauvoir distributing Maoist tracts in the street; the latest
revolutions: Iran & Cambodia, whose excesses lead the
intellectuals to a new cause – human rights; the death of
Sartre- and the death of Chinese support for communism,
as seen at Tiananmen Square.
14 Gandhi (VHS) Gandhi Pilgrim of Peace
A biography of India’s most dynamic leader and champion
of peace
Approx. 50 min. Color
358 Gangs of New York After years of incarceration, Irish immigrant Amsterdam
Vallon returns to lower Manhattan’s lawless, corrupt Five
Points section seeking revenge against the rival gang
leader who killed his father. But before long,
Amsterdam’s personal vendetta becomes part of an
erupting wave of full-blown gang warfare.
96 Garden of the Finzi -
Continis
Approx. 166 min.
Based on the novel by Giorgio Bassani about the Italian
Jewish community of Ferrara at the time of the antiSemitic
decrees in 1938. 90 min. (Dinand Library Video 236)
Genius
Entertainment
2005
WGBH 2009
Facets 2007
Films for the
Humanities &
Sciences
(Each part is in
English, 52
minutes,
color)
A&E 1997
Buena Vista Home
Entertainment
2007
Vittorio de Sica 1971
174 Garden of the Finzi- Starring: Dominique Sanda, Lino Capolicchio Vittorio De Sica, 1971
1993

Continis, The Slow-moving, affecting drama about
aristocratic Jewish siblings coming of age in WWII-era
Italy. With its impeccable acting, this pleases foreign film
buffs seeking a detailed portrait of time and place.95
minutes, Rating: R, Italian w/ English subtitles.
43 Germany Awake A black and white 90 minute documentary on the
propaganda of Leiser’s Deutschland Erwache. The
presentation draws extensively on excerpts from other
341 General George C.
Marshall
(Bibliography)
258 George Washington:
Founding Father
Biography
German films.
Soldier and Statesman
Approx. 50 mins. Color and BW
George Washington: Founding Father.
Approx. 50 min.
184 Gettysburg The bloody, three-day Civil War battle that took place in
July of 1863 and saw 53,000 lives lost is depicted in
spectacular style in this epic film marked by incredible
fighting Basedon the acclaimed book "The Killer
Angels."( 254 min., color)
365 Ghosts of Rwanda This documentary marks the 10 th anniversary of the
Rwandan genocide-a state-sponsored massacre in which
some 800,000 Rwandans were methodically hunted down
and murdered by Hutu extremists as the United States and
international community stood by, refusing to intervene.
347 Girl with a Pearl
Earring
Approx. 120 min. Color.
Delft, Holland 1665. 17 year old Griet must work to
support her family and becomes an aid in the house of
Johannes Vermeer, where she gradually attracts the master
painter’s attention. Johannes and Griet must hide their
inspiration of each other from his volatile wife Catharina.
The wealthy and troublemaking Master van Ruijven
senses the intimacy between the artist and his maid an
contrives a commission for Vermeer to paint Griet alone.
The result will be one of the greatest paintings ever
created, but at what cost?
Approx. 100 min. Color
185 Glory Color, Story of the first black regiment to fight for the
North in the Civil War. Stars Matthew Broderick, Denzel
Washinton, Cary Elwes, and Morgan Freeman.
211 Going My Way Father O’Malley (Crosby) joins St. Dominic’s and
succeeds in reaching out to the neighborhood’s toughest
kids. B&W, 127 mins. Bing Crosby
19 Gore Vidal’s “Lincoln” Television version of Vidal’s biography “Lincoln.” The
video covers the pre-inaugural to his assassination. (copy)
27 Grapes of Wrath This award-winning video of Steinbeck’s classic depicts
the trials of a farmer and his family in search of a new life
in California, leaving the Depression age Dust Bowl
behind.
110 Great Commanders A look at history’s greatest commanders: Alexander the
Great, Julius Caesar, Horatio Nelson, Napoleon
124 Great Debates:
Kennedy vs. Nixon
Bonaparte, Ulysses S. Grant, and George Rhukov
A series that chronicles the first-ever televised presidential
debates that occurred between Kennedy and Nixon in
1960.
114 Great Depression A PBS series that investigates the conditions of the Great
Depression and their human implications.
137 Great War (In 8 one-hour segments) A PBS series that brilliantly
captures and chronicles World War I from the conditions
that brought on the cataclysm to the grief and devastation
left in its wake, focusing on Britain. Historical consultant:
Director
1968
A&E 2002
Hearst/ABC/NBC 1994
Arts and
Entertainment
Networks
Ronald F. Maxwell 1993
PBS Home Video 2004
Lions Gate Home
Entertainment
Edward Zwick
2003
Lamont Johnson 1988
Darryl F. Zanuck 1940
1993

Prof. Jay Winter
69 Guilty of Treason The story of Cardinal Mindszenty’s persecution trial by
the Communists in post WWII Hungary
363 Guimba the Tyrant Winner of the Grand prize at Fespaco 1995, Africa’s preeminent
film event, Guimba is a dark political satire in the
guise of a colorful fairy tale. Set in the mythical kingdom
of ancient Mali, Guimba tells the story of a despot who
uses his dark magical powers to rule his kingdom.
Approx. 93 min. Color.
264 Gunga Din “You’re a better man than I am, Gunga Din.” In that same
vein, fans of classic action-adventures won’t find any
better film than this exhilarating tale, directed by George
Stevens. Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen and Douglas
Fairbanks, Jr. star as cheeky soldiers of Queen and Empire
who never run short of battlefield gallantry and chin-up
heroics as they combat a murderous sect in colonial India.
Stevens skillfully orchestrates teeming battle sequences
and boisterous humor. And Sam Jaffe memorably plays
the title role of the lowly water-bearer who yearns to be a
soldier…and seizes the chance to prove his mettle. The
years go by, but the fact remains: Gunga Din is
”the Hollywood action-adventure yarn” (Leonard Maltin)
Running 117 mins. B&W.
330 Heartland (DVD) In 1910 Elinore Randall, a widow, and her seven-year-old
daughter travel by train to face two great unknowns-a
strange land and life with a man they have never met.
Elinore has contracted by mail to keep house for Clyde
Stewart, a rancher living in the remote frontier near
Burntfork, Wyoming. Heartland is a story of partnership
and survival. As tough and stubborn as the land upon
which they depend, Clyde and Elinore find mutual
understanding and respect in the trials of frontier life.
338 Hearts & Minds (DVD) A documentary that confronts the U.S. involvement in
Vietnam through interviews, newsreels and actual footage.
Approx. 112 mins
Color
197 Heaven & Earth Color; 142 min., Saga of a fight to survive during the
89 Heaven Will Protect the
Working Girl
Vietnam War.
Framed by the 1909 shirtwaist workers’ strike in New
York, a documentary which combines archival
photographs, animation and computer graphics to present
a portrait of immigrant working women at the turn of the
century. American Social History Film Library (28 min.)
290 HEIMAT (VHS) “A cinematic event… a massive nearly 16 hour chronicle
of life in Germany, from 1919 to 1982, as reflected in the
fluctuating fortunes of the members of one family, initially
;peasant-farmers, in the fictitious village of Schachbach in
the Rhineland. …In spite of its intimidating length,
HEIMAT is immensely, easily watchable, an
extraordinary succession of mostly ordinary events and
characters – history seen from ground level – vividly acted
by a huge cast of both professional and nonprofessional
268 Hidden Army: Women
in World War II (The)
actors.”
The Hidden Army: Rare archival film footage is woven
into a film where a defeated Hitler reflects on his gross
miscalculations in reference to the contributions of the
Felix E. Feist
King Video 1995
RKO Radio
Pictures
Wilderness Women
Film Production
The Criterion
Collection
2004
1975
1974
Oliver Stone 1993
Facets Videos
Edgar Reitz
Marathon Music
and Video
1993
1996
1995

131 Hiroshima: Why the
Bomb was Dropped
(DVD)
377 Historians on the
Record Lecture
(Video #1)
1) McPherson,
James M.
2) Harms, Robert
3) Simon, James
F.
4) Ulrich, Laurel
Thatcher
5) Willis, Gary
6) Gates, Henry
Louis, Jr.
7) Davis, David
Brion
(Video # 2)
1) Blight, David
W.
2) Schlesinger,
Arthur M., Jr.
3) Freeman,
Joanne B.
4) Limerick,
Patricia Nelson
American women in World War II.
Women in Defense: Yesterday the pioneer women helped
to win a continent, but during WWII that same spirit of
determination ignited as women sprang into action to save
the nation from the impact of total war and to protect their
homeland.
Army and Navy Nurse P.O.W.’s in WWII: “They All Came
Home”: Through interviews and archival footage, you’ll
see the story of the U.S. Army and Navy nurses who
witnessed the fall of Bataan and Corregidor and survived
the Japanese POW camps. B&W and color, 57 mins.
On August 6, 1945, the US became the first and only
country to ever use the atomic bomb against another
nation. The decision to bomb the Japanese cities of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki is as controversial today as it was
then.
Approx. 67 mins. Color & B/W
Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam
The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave
Trade
What Kind of Nation: Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall,
and the Epic Struggle to Create a United States
The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the
Creation of an American Myth
James Madison
The Bondwoman’s Narrative
In the Image of God: Religion, Moral Values, and Our
Heritage of Slavery
Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
A Life in the 20 th Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-
1950
Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic
Something in the Soil: Legacies and Reckonings in the
New West
Gilder Lehrman
Inst. Of Historian’s
Gilder Lehman
Inst. Of Historian’s
1996
October 1,
2002
November
5, 2002
December
3, 2002
January
14, 2003
February
4, 2003
March 4,
2003
April 1,
2003
September
24, 2001
November
5, 2001
January
14, 2002
February
4, 2002

5) Ellis, Joseph J.
6) Brands, H.W.
7) Blackett, R.J.M.
(Video # 3)
1) Schweninger,
Loren
2) Dower, John
W.
3) Morgan, Philip
D.
4) Delbanco,
Andrew
5) Appleby,
Joyce
6) Philips,
Kevin
(Video #4)
1) Brookhiser,
Richard
2) Kennedy, Roger
G.
3) Berlin, Ira
4) Kennedy, David
M.
5) Holt, Michael F.
6) Strouse, Jean
(Video # 5)
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin
Franklin
Divided Hearts: Britain and the American Civil War
Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-
Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry
The Real American Dream: A Meditation on Hope
Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of
Americans
The Cousins’ Wars: Religion, Politics and the Triumph of
Anglo-America
Alexander Hamilton, American
Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson: A Study in Character
Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of
Slavery in North America
Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression
and War, 1929-1945
The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party
Morgan: American Financier
Gilder Lehman
Inst. Of Historian’s
Gilder Lehman
Inst. Of Historian’s
March 4,
2002
April 15,
2002
May 6,
2002
October 2,
2000
November
6, 2000
January
22, 2001
March 5,
2001
April 2,
2001
May 7,
2001
October 4,
1999
November
8, 2000
February
7, 2000
March 20,
2000
April 17,
2000
May 15,
2000

1) Lepore, Jill
2) Davis, David
Brion and Steven
Mintz
3) Gilmore, Glenda
Elizabeth
4) Wilson, Douglas
L
5) Robertson, James
I., Jr.
6) Renehan, Edward
J., Jr.
296 History’s Mysteries
(DVD)
362 History of Britain (A)
5 DVD’s
5
Hitler’s Master Race:
The Mad Dream of the
S.S.
The Name of War: King Philip’s War and the Origins of
American Identity
The Boisterous Sea of Liberty: A Documentary History of
America from Discovery through the Civil War
Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White
Supremacy in North Carolina 1896-1920
Honor’s Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln
Stonewall Jackson: The Man, the Soldier, the Legend
The Lion’s Pride: Theodore Roosevelt and his Family in
Peace and War
From the dawn of time to the epic sweep of the twentieth
century, from the great conflicts to the inventions that
changed the world, The History Channel on DVD captures
the glory, tragedy, and drama of the human experience.
From the dawn of civilization to the 20 th century, A
History of Britain: The Complete Collection re-animates
familiar tales and illuminates overlooked aspects of
England’s past.
Archival footage of the most brutal and prestigious cult of
men to arise from the Nazi cause.
101 Hoover’s FBI A detailed portrayal of the rise of the FBI, under President
Hoover, to the skilled police agency feared today by
criminals worldwide-details of its pursuit and capture of
notorious gangsters
186 Hope and Glory The London Blitz of World War II, as seen through the
eyes of a child, in this haunting, semi-autobiographical
seriocomedy. Sebastian Rice-Edwards is the boy who sees
the war as a grand adventure. (113 min, color)
313 Hotel Terminus (VHS)
2 tapes
The life and times of Klaus Barbie. Through interviews
with Barbie sympathizers and ex-Gestapo officers, as well
as those whose lives they heartrendingly altered, this
remarkable film reveals the horrifying nature of Barbie’s
countless atrocities. But Hotel Terminus doesn’t stop
there. With a suspenseful, layer-by layer investigative
technique, Ophuls draws attention to the equally shocking
compliance of Americans and other Allies – individuals
who conspired with Barbie to hide his crimes from public
view for over 40 years.
285 House of Saud (DVD)
Approx. 4 hours and 28 min.
The House of Saud has controlled every aspect of Saudi
life and politics since the kingdom was established in
1932. But outside the Desert Kingdom, little Is known
about Saudi Arabia’s secretive royal family. In House of
Saud, Frontline explores how the AL Saud family
maintains its hold on power in the face of growing
tensions between Islam and modernity. Through
Gilder Lehman
Inst. Of Historian’s
The History
Channel
The History
Channel
October 5,
1998
November
9, 1998
December
14, 1998
March 8,
1999
April 12,
1999
May 10,
1999
2002
2000-
2002
1983
John Boorman 1987
Goldwyn Myer
Home
Entertainment
1988
WGBH - PBS 1983-
2005

interviews with members of the royal family, government
officials, and other experts from Saudi Arabia and U.s.,
the two-hour documentary also traces America’s relations
with the Saudi royal family from their first alliance in the
1930s through September 11 and beyond the present day.
Approx. 120 mins. Color
125 In Past Times: Radio Reminisces the days of radio programming, its
1992
Days
personalities, and its importance.
85 In Search of Mexican A series of programs 25, 55, 110, and 50 minutes in
Pyramids/Legacy of length, respectively (copy) that examines the social
Central
struggles that emerged in the wake of Spanish imperialism
America/Surviving
Columbus
in Mexico.
170 Indochine (DVD) Catherine Deneuve stars as an owner of a prosperous
rubber plantation in French Indochina in a sensual story of
unbridled passion set against the violence of the bloody
Communist uprising. (156 mins; color; French with yellow
English subtitles.)
Columbia TriStar 1992
102 Innocent, The Based on a Gabriele D’Annunzio story of passion and
decadence in turn-of-the-century Italy. 149 min. (Dinand
Library Video 346)
Luchino Visconti 1976
171 Irish in America From war hero & Pres. Andrew Jackson to union
organizer “Mother” Jones, you’ll meet the colorful Irish-
Americans who fought and worked their way past
oppression and into history. (2 volumes, 50 mins. Each;
color)
A & E Home video 1997
160 Italians in America Italian heritage; stories of hope & heartache, oppression & A & E Home 1998
liberation, bigotry & assimilation. Historic photographs,
film footage, and interviews w/ prominent Italian –
Americans.
Video
72 Jackie Robinson Story Jackie Robinson and Ruby Dee (76 minutes), their life and
times as two of the first professional black athletes
1950
36 James Brady James Brady’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary
Subcommittee in support of the gun control bill that bears
his namesake.
1989
256 Japan: Memories of a Commanding shoguns and samurai warriors, exotic geisha
Secret Empire
and exquisite artisans—all were part of the Japanese
“renaissance” – a period between the 16 th and 19 th
PBS 2004
centuries when Japan went from chaos and violence to a
land of ritual refinement and peace. But stability came at
a price: for nearly 250 years, Japan was a land closed to
the Western world, ruled by the Shogun under this
absolute power and control. Japan: Memories of a Secret
Empire brings to life the unknown story of a mysterious
empire, its relationship with the West, and the forging of a
nation that would emerge as one of the most important
countries in the world. Approx. 160 min.
58 Japan They Don’t Talk An NBC television documentary which examines
1986
About, (The)
differences between outward perceptions of “Japan as
Number One” (prosperous, egalitarian, etc.) and actual
disparities that exist in the quality of life enjoyed by its
people. 52 minutes
149 Japan: The Land of the Two hour guide through two thousand years of Japanese
Rising Sun
history.
56 Japanese Version A study on how Western, especially American, culture
undergoes a change when it arrives in Japan
1990
31 Jean De Florette
(English subtitles)
122 minutes (copy)
Claude Berri 1987
340 John Paul Jones Captain of the High Seas
A&E 2002
(Bibliography)
Approx. 50 mins. Color and B/W
78 Joan of Arc The life of Joan of Arc, starring Ingrid Bergman. (150 Victor Fleming

173 Joan of Arc
minutes)
Peasant, warrior, martyr, saint. Ride to battle with the
Virgin Warrior 15 th A&E – Biography 1998
-century farm girl who would lead an army, crown a
king and forge a place as one of history’s most
extraordinary figures.
204 Joe Hill – American
Experience
Copy
128 John F. Kennedy-
Speeches Collection
An hour long look at the speeches that define JFK 1990
126 Journey to America The story of the trials of immigrants on their journeys Charles
1989
from the old world to America.
Guggenheim
371 Jules Et Jim Paris at the turn of the century. Jules, a German, befriends
Jim, a Frenchman. They meet Catherine who falls in love
with Jules and marries him with without Jim’s approval.
During the First World War the friends are separated.
Catherine and Jules have a daughter named Sabine. Jim
visits them at their chalet where Catherine soon falls in
love with him.
Approx. 101 min. B/W
Francois Truffaut 1961
379 Keita (The Heritage of The Griot reveals to Mabo the story of his distant ancestor,
the Griot)
Sundjata Keita, the 13 th Newsreeal 1994
Century founder of the great
Malian trading empire. It describes the events leading up
to sundjata’s birth as the son of the ugly, hunchbacked
second wife of a Mande king. Sundjata is crippled at birth
by his father’s first wife who fears a prophecy that he will
displace her son as king. The film tells the story of how,
from these unpromising beginnings, Sundjata first walks
and gradually acquires the strength, wisdom and occult
powers he will need to fulfill his destiny as one of the
great leaders of African legend.
Approx. 94 min.
108 Kennedys A two video chronicle of the Kennedy’s as a family,
covering their story from 1900-1980.(4 tapes)
David Espar 1992
91 Khartoum Britain’s crisis in Sudan and the siege at Khartoum (136
minutes)
1966
203 King Philip’s War June 20, 1675, Wampanoag chief, Metacom, known as
King Philip, attacked the settlement at Swansea, MA
precipitating the bloodiest war in American history. 26
mins., color
105 Know your Enemy- (63 min.) A look at how Japan attempted to assimilate
1945
Japan
cultures in the wake of its conquests.
276/115 LBJ (DVD) His personality was as big as Texas. His politics changed
America and the world. Here is the definitive film
biography of Lyndon Baines Johnson, one of the most
perplexing and fascinating figures to reach the Oval
Office. LBJ presents the full sweep of his amazing life: an
impoverished childhood in central Texas, the assassination
of President Kennedy, the War on Poverty and the war in
Vietnam, the Great Society program and riots in the inner
cities, and his withdrawal from politics, disillusioned and
defeated.
Color and B&W Approx. 235 min.
PBS 276
375 Language You Cry In “Informed by the expertise of anthropologists and Newsreel 1998
(The)
linguists, and with echoes of Alex Haley’s Roots, this film
is the kind of breath-taking detective story that will not let
you go. And thus long after the dramatic ending.
Approx. 52 minutes
363 Le Corbeau (The A mysterios writer of poison-pen letters, know only as Le Studio Canal 1943
Raven)
Corbeau, plagues a French provincial town, exposing the
collective suspicion and the rancor seething beneath the
community’s clam surface. Made during he Nazi
occupation of France, Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Le
Corbeau was attacked the right-wing Vichy regime, the
left-wing Resistance press, and the Catholic Church, and

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was banned after the liberation. But some—inclusing Jean
Cocteau and Jean-Paul Sarte – recognized the powerful
subtext of Clousot’s anti-informant, anti-Gestapo fable,
and worked to rehabilitate his directorial reputation after
the war.
Approx. 91 min. B&W
Les Carabiniers Godard’s powerful anti-war and anti-imperailist film, Les
Carabiniers, centers on two peasants who join the King’s
army. Seduced by the promise of riches, the two leave
their wives and embark into the war sending postcards
home that detail their conquests. Upon their return, they
learn that a peace treaty has been signed and in turn, are
betrayed by the king for their overzealousness.
Approx. 80 min. B&W.
353 Le Petit Soldat Set during the Algerian War, Le Petit Soldat follows
Bruno Forestier, a disillusioned young deserter who
26A La Nuit De Varennes,
Part 1 (English
subtitles)
26B La Nuit De Varennes,
Part 2 (English
subtitles)
214 Lagaan: Once upon a
time in India
becomes involved in the French nationalist movement.
Wellspring Media,
Inc.
2005
A Jean-Luc Godard 2001
133 minutes (copy) A delightfully witty and insightful
fictional treatment of the attempted escape of King Louis
XVI and his family in 1790. The film focuses on the
queen’s Restif de la Bretonne (a pornographer/journalist).
Vignettes and dialogues which illuminate late 18 th century
life and culture abound.
Eltore Scala 1982
133 minutes (copy) Eltore Scala 1982
Set in Queen Victoria’s India, Lagaan is “a story of a
battle without bloodshed” fought between Captain Russell
and the Indian villagers under his jurisdiction. English &
Hindi with English subtitles. Color. 225 mins.
Ashutosh
Gowariker
119 Last Emperor An “epic adventure” of China’s last emperor and his fall. Bernardo
Bertolucci
1987
208 Last Hurrah (The) Spencer Tracy stars as Mayor Frank Skeffington, the last
of a dying breed of grassroots politicians. 125 mins.
233 Last Samurai (The) Tom Curise plays Civil War hero Capt. Nathan Algren,
who comes to Japan to fight the Samurai and ends up
pledging himself to their cause. DVD Languages:
English/French; Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
Edwick Zwick 2004
46 Laurence Wylie in
Peyrane
39 minutes Bernard Petit 1983
272 Le Nozze Di Figaro W.A. Mozart, an opera in four acts. “One listened Derek Bailey, 1994
enthralled, as Haitink (Conductor), Hagley (Susanna) and Channel 4
Finley (Figaro) lifted a loving, carefully prepared
performance to greatness” (Opera). 190 mins.
Television
84 Life of Leonardo
DaVinci (5 parts)
Part I: The first 30 years and the influences that shaped his
future
Part II: His departure from Florence for Milan and
scientific study
Part III: “The Last Supper”
Parts IV-V: His movement between Milan and Florence
and his relationships with Raphael and Michelangelo
before his death in 1519.
109 Lincoln-PBS series The story of Abraham Lincoln’s presidential career,
through the civil war to his death.
Peter Kunhardt 1992
127 Lindbergh A PBS biography of the great aviator Charles Lindbergh 1990
350 Listen to Britain and Humphrey Jennings was one of the greatest figures in the Image
Other Films by celebrated British documentary film movement, and he is Entertainment
Humphrey Jennings most remembered for the way his work reflects the
concerns and conditions of World War II-time in the
United Kingdom.
107 Lodz Ghetto -scripted entirely from the secret diaries the inhabitants of
2001

376 Long Night’s Journey
Into Day
Journey Into Day
the ghetto left behind-writers and photographers of this
film risked their lives that we could know what this
desperate struggle was really like
The film documents South Africa‘s quest for restorative
justice as it follows four dramatically different cases that
come before the commission over the course of two and a
half years.
Is a thought provoking portrait of a wounded society
attempting to humanize itself by taking seriously the
importance of heart and conscience?
Approx. 94 min.
187 Longest Day (the) The Longest Day is a vivid, hour by hour recreation of D-
Day and the end to Nazi domination in Europe (color
302 Lost Year in Iraq (The)
DVD
178min)
In the aftermath of the fall of Saddam Hussein, a group of
Americans led by Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III set off
to Baghdad to build a new nation and establish democracy
in the Arab Middle East. One year later, with Bremer
forced to secretly exit what some have called “the most
dangerous place on earth,” the group left behind
lawlessness, insurgency, economic collapse, death,
destruction – and much of their idealism. Three years
later, as the U.S. continues to look for an exit strategy, the
government the Americans helped create and the
infrastructure they designed are being tested.
Approx. 60 min. Color
230 Lost in Translation An American movie star filming a whiskey ad in Japan
strikes up a surprising friendship with the wife of a
workaholic photographer.
279 Lucie Aubrac (DVD) The movie highlights the relationship between Lucie and
Raymond, and their and others’ heroism in battle.
Historians still debate whether, in reality, the Aubracs
became turncoats and betrayed Jean Moulin (“Max”).
Moulin, the Resistance’s mastermind and most famous
hero, subsequently died without speaking at the hands of
notorious Gestapo officer and torturer Klaus Barbie, the
“Butcher of Lyons”.
325 Lumumba (DVD) Made in the tradition of such true-life political thrillers as
Malcolm X and JFK. Lumumba is a gripping epic that
dramatizes for the first time the rise and fall of legendary
African leader Patrice Lumumba.
Approx. 115 min. Color Surround sound.
115 Lyndon B. Johnson A biography
(VHS)
227 Madame Butterfly The heart-wrenching story of a beautiful young geisha
who sacrifices her family, her religion and, ultimately, her
life for her American husband.
232 Magdalene Sisters The true stories of several young Irish women sentenced
to indefinite penal servitude in the Magdalene Laundries,
which were operated by the Catholic Church's Sisters of
Mercy.
Newsreel 2000
Ken Annakin
Frontline 1983-
2006
Sofia Coppola 2003
Claude Berri
JBA Production 2000
Frederic Mitterrand 1995
82 Man For All Seasons The story of Henry VIII’s conflict with Sir Thomas More
and his campaign to be named head of the Church of
England. Oscar winner - Best Picture 1966
1966
104 Man who would be Two British sergeants set out to build their own Empire in
King
remote Kafiristan.-based on the Rudyard Kipling story
33 Manon of the Spring
(English subtitles)
sequel to Jean de Florette 113 minutes (copy) Claude Berri 1987
169 Mao Tse Tung –
Biography
A profile of Mao Tse Tung. A & E Home video 1996
28 Marat Sade A play depicting the infamous Marquis de Sade directing
his fellow asylum mates in a re-enactment of the
assassination of French Revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat.
Peter Brook 1967
168 Martin Luther A detailed biography of a complex and fascinating man; it Simitar 1996
2004

is an enlightening testament to the role of faith in all our
lives. (105 min., black and white)
Entertainment
306 Martin Luther King, Jr. Biography revisits the life and legacy of the legendary A & E’s 1997
“The Man and the leader through interviews with his confidants, and
Dream”
extensive analysis of his speeches and sermons. Through
(Biography) VHS interviews with former FBI agents, discover why J. Edgar
Hoover maintained constant surveillance on the
controversial Civil Rights leader. And interviews with
King’s allies offer a first-person view of the conflict
between the private man and the public figure.
Approx. 50 min. Color.
121 Mary Silliman’s War This film, which is based on Joy Day Buel and Richard
Buel’s The Way of Duty: A Woman and Her Family in
Revolutionary America (New York: Norton, 1984),
focuses on the war-time experiences of Mary (Fish)
Silliman (1736-1818), particularly an incident in which
Loyalist raiders captured her second husband, Gold
Selleck Silliman.
321 Master and Commander After a sneak attack by a French warship inflicts severe Home
2003
(DVD)
damage upon his vessel, Captain “Lucky” is torn between
duty and friendship as he embarks on a thrilling, highstakes
chase across two oceans to capture or destroy the
enemy at any cost.
138 min. Color
Entertainment
172 Maxine Hong Kingston Films for the
Humanities
135 Messengers form
Moscow
Formerly high-ranking Soviet officials speak candidly
about their attempts to gain Germany and Western Europe
after WWII, based on Stalin’s agenda.
158 Mexico, the Nation Copy
275 Michael Collins (DVD) Ireland, 1916. His dreams inspired hope. His words
ignited passion. His courage forged a Nation’s Destiny.
The man is a here whose fighting tactics became a model
for other 20 th -century struggles, a statesman who
negotiated Ireland’s break with England, a political martyr
slain for the great cause he lived and breathed.
Feature: 133 mins. Documentary: 51 mins.
255 Mighty Times The legacy of Rosa Parks – “The Only tired I
was, was tired of giving in.” On December 1,
1955, Rosa Parks sparked a revolution by sitting
still. Her simple act of defiance against racial
segregation on city buses inspired the African
American community of Montgomery, Alabama,
to unite against the segregationists who ran City
Hall.
297 MindWalk (VHS) Somehow it happens. A conversation begins, then the
magic of interaction and the fever of ideas take over. The
next thing you know, your train stoop is miles back. Or
the restaurant is empty and the waiter is gone. Or the sun
seeps into your dormroom. You’ve taken a Mindwalk.
You’re different than when you began.
349 Miracle Worker (The) Locked in frightening, lonely world of silence and
darkness since infancy. 7-year old Helen Keller has never
seen the sky, heard her mother’s voice or expressed her
innermost feelings. Then Annie Sullivan, a 20-year old
teacher from Boston, arrives. Having just recently
regained her own sight, the no-nonsense Annie reaches out
to Helen through the power of touch-the only tool they
have in common – and leads her bold pupil on a
miraculous journey from fear and isolation to happiness
Daniel Wolf 1995
Green Pictures 1996
Hudson & Houston 2002
Paramount 1990
Metro Goldwyn
Myer
1962

324 Modern Times (The
and light.
Approx. 106 min. B&W
Man vs. machine! And the winner is every comedy fan
Chaplin Collection) [2 when Charlie Chaplin’s Tramp confronts assembly line
DVD’s]
woes in this classic chosen in 1998 as one of the American
Film Institute’s Top-100 American Films.
Approx. 83 min. B&W.
77 Monarchy - Queen (copy) A look at the life and legacy of Elizabeth II and her
Elizabeth II, Elizabeth
R - Royals
administration
265 Mondovino Across three continents, “Mondovino” weaves together
the family succession sagas of billionaire Napa Valley
power brokers, the rivalry of two aristocratic Florentine
dynasties and the efforts of three generations of a
Burgundian family fighting to preserve their few acres of
land. But are all these struggles secondary to the exploits
of a gleefully mischievous pirate from Bordeaux who
spreads the gospel of modernity from Italy to New York to
Argentina?
Wine has been a symbol of Western civilization for
thousands of years. Never has the fight for its soul been as
desperate. Never has there been so much money –and
pride- at stake. But the battle lines are not what you’d
expect: local versus multinational, simple peasants versus
powerful captains of industry. In the world of wine, it is
never the usual suspects. 135 mins.
92 Moonstruck A romantic comedy about love and jealousy in an Italian-
American family from Brooklyn (107 minutes)
344 Motherland
Sedika Mojadidi, camera in hand accompanies her father
Afghanistan
in order to document this most difficult yet rewarding
journey. The result is Motherland Afghanistan, an
inspiring portrait of the dedication and fortitude in some of
the most harsh and unforgiving physical, political and
cultural terrain on Earth.
Warner Bros. 2003
THINKFilm 2005
83 Mother Theresa
74 Min. Color, English and Dari w/English subtitles
Shot over 5 years in 10 countries and 4 continents, this
film makes us experience how Mother Theresa
transcended all political, religious, and social barriers with
her works of love.
8 Motion Picture History
of the Korean War
Documentary on the Korean War with archival footage 1986
198 Mr. Lawrence Color; 122 min.East meets West in this brutal tale to
survive. A bleak and barren Japanese P.O.W. camp is the
setting for this gripping WWII drama.
1983
188 Mrs. Miniver (VHS) A grand wartime soap opera that garnered six Oscars.
Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon are the heads of an
average British family who must keep their brood together
during the German Blitz. (134 min, B&W)
William Wyler
Greer Carson
1942
DVD
2 World War II-ERA Shorts
2004
132 Mussolini A documentary on the leadership and accomplishments of
the Italian fascist dictator; viewers will gain significant
insight into the popularity of Mussolini both in Italy and
370 My Voyage to Italy 2
DVDs
abroad before the invasion of Abyssinia.
With My Voyage to Italy, Scorsese takes the viewer on a
fascinating journey highlighting the classics of Italian
cinema, from the neorealism of postwar Italy through its
transition into opulent period drama and surrealist fantasy.
Illuminated by insightful movie clips and his own
1987
FRF 2006
Martin Scorsese
Pictures
ca. 1935
2002

impassioned commentary, Scorsese’s deeply personal
observations offer not only an absorbing lesson in the
history of Italian film, but its direct connection to the best
in contemporary filmmaking.
Approx. 246 min. Color and B/W
343 Napoleon Bonaparte The Glory of France
Approx. 50 mins. Color & BW
4 Napoleon (with Orson Drama reenacting the career of the great French dictator
Welles)
from early victories to defeat at Waterloo.
-final years of St. Helena
-119 minutes
167 Napoleon: The Epic This biography follows the life of the great Napoleon
Life of the Great French Bonaparte—from his beginnings in military school to his
Leader (2 tapes) final days on the island of St. Helena. (115 min.)
319 National Soul (the)
(VHS)
328 New York
8 DVD’s Series
Bill Moyers discusses myths, morality, and ethics in
American life with several prominent American thinkers.
Novelist E. L. Doctorow, historian Barbara Tuchman,
playwright August Wilson, child behavior specialist T.
berry Brazelton, and others address issues such as racism,
sexism, America’s loss of moral purpose, and the
disintegration of the American family.
91 min. Color.
116 Nixon A biography
165 Nixon: Deep Secrets
From Capitol Hill (2
tapes)
An elegant, lyrical and compelling portrait of the greatest
and most complex of cities. This definite series chronicles
the history of New York from its founding in 1624 as a
Dutch trading post to its continuing pre-eminence as the
cultural and economic capital of the world.
Approx. 120 min. Color/BW
This fascinating portrait of Richard Nixon tells the story of
the rise & fall of this president, through his political
career, capturing Nixon’s most controversial moments
through his own speeches and archival footage. (90 min.)
A&E 2002
Directed by Sacha
Guitry
Simitar
Entertainment
Films for the
Humanities and
Sciences
1985
1992
PBS 1999
1996
Dan Dalton Prod. 1995
11 Normandy Invasion Documentary on D-day
-details of the preparation for that battle
1986
62 Official Story (copy)
98 Operation Desert A comprehensive look at the planning, preparation, and
Storm: Behind the implementation of one of the most complex military
Scenes of the Allied Air
Strike on Iraq
operations in history. (48 min.)
317 One, Two, Three A top-ranking executive stationed in West Berlin, is Home
1961
charged with the care of his boss’ visiting daughter. But
when he learns that she’s gone and married a fierce young
communist -- and that his boss will be arriving in town in
24 hours – Mac must transform the unwilling beatnik into
a suitable son-in-law or risk losing his chance for
advancement! Before you can say “one, two, three,” his
plans have spun out of control and into an international
incident that could infuriate the Russians, the Germans,
and, worse of all, his own suspicious wife.
Approx. 1 hour 45 min. B&W
Entertainment
351 On A clear Day You The city of Boston became the great focal point for those Films for the 2006
Can See Boston fleeing the Irish Famine of the 1850s. They worked
incredibly hard to establish themselves, and became the
first immigrant group in post-Colonial times to achieve a
political foothold.
Approx. 52 minutes.
Humanities
373 On Our Watch : The The world invoked its vow “Never Again!” after the PBS Home Video 2007

World Said “Never
Again” Then Came
Darfur
genocide in Rwanda and atrocities in Srebrenica. Then
came Darfur. Over the past four years at least 200,000
people have been killed, 2.5 million driven from their
homes, and mass rapes have once more been used as a
weapon of war in a brutal campaign by janjaweed militias
and the Sudanese government against civilians in Darfur.
Approx. 60 minutes – color
381 On the Beach The war is over. Nobody won. Only the inhabitants of
Australia and the men of the US submarine Sawfish have
escaped the nuclear destruction and radiation.The cloud is
lethal. The final chapter of human history is coming to a
close.
Approx. 2 hours 14 mins. B&W
226 Oratorio For Prague A unique document of the Soviet invasion of
295 Organizing America –
The History of Trade
Unions
178 Origin and
Development of NATO
(The)
314 Orphan Trains (the)
(DVD)
Czechoslovakia in 1968- only filmed record of the event.
Using interviews, personal accounts, and archival footage,
this program investigates the major events in the history of
American trade unions, from the formation of the first
“friendly societies” in the 18 th century, to the challenges
posed by new technologies in the 1980s and 90s.
(38 minutes, color)
NATO & Warsaw Pact alliances are studied; NATO’s
Cold War policy of containment; The Marshall Plan, the
Berlin Airlift, China’s shift to communism, & Korean
Conflict. (21 minutes, color)
In the mid-1800s, 10,000 homeless children prowled the
streets of New York City – sleeping in stairwells, in
stables, or on the docks. In 1853, a young minister,
Charles Loring Brace, organized an ambitious rescue
effort to remove then from their surroundings and send
them by train to Christian homes in the country. Between
1854 and 1929, his Children’s Aid Society in New York,
and other East Coast charities, sent more than 150,000
children to farming communities to begin new lives with
foster families. Using poignant interviews with elderly
survivors, and century-old letters from children, The
Orphan Trains explores the successes and failures of this
little known, but highly influential resettlement movement.
Approx. 60 min. Color and B&W
106 Osaka Elegy Theme of “money talks, men whine, and women do the
dirty work”
-depiction of Japanese society’s treatment of women
Home
Entertainment
1959
Jan Nemec 1990
Films for the
Humanities &
Sciences
Films for the
Humanities
2004
1999
PBS 1995
50 Out of Africa This romantic film depicts life in Kenya, circa 1914. Sydney Pollack 1985
75 P.O.W.: Days of
Waiting
(Part A)
A Personal Matter -
Gordon Hirabayashi vs.
The U.S.
(Part B)
76 PACIFIC CENTURY:
(6 cassettes)
1. Preview Tape
2. Sentimental
Imperialists
3. From the Barrel of
a Gun
4. Big Business and
The Ghosts of
Confucius, The
Story of the internment of Japanese-Americans during
WWII, told by a white American woman who joined her
Japanese-American husband in one of the camps.
Japanese-Americans redress campaign to win a formal
apology and monetary compensation from the U.S.
government for violating their constitutional rights by
forcing them into internment camps during WWII.
(copies)
A look at the great social struggles of the 20th Century in
the Pacific (copy)

Fight for
Democracy
5. Meiji Asias
Response to the
War, Reinventing
Japan
6. Inside Japan, Inc.
74 Paris 1900: La belle
époque (Documentary)
35
Passage to India
(DVD)
176 Path of Chinese
Privatization (the)
A documentary which uses original silent film footage on
Paris at the time of the 1900 World’s Fair and provides
glimpses of French politics and culture at the turn of the
century. (84 min.)
Based on Forster’s classic, this presentation depicts class
issues in colonial India via the interactions of a number of
characters.
Two Communist Party officials cruise the dusty streets of
Ma Bei village in a new Cadillac. Welcome to China,
1997. Fueled by profits from private businesses, the town
is booming, while at a plant up the road thousands of
workers, formerly protected under the communist system,
may lose their jobs under privatization. Similar situations
are developing all over China, and officials are worried
that workers may revolt. So they’ve come up with a
uniquely Chinese solution: industries will gradually phase
in privatization, letting fear of worker unrest dictate the
pace. Original BBC broadcast title: A Very Chinese
Solution. (49 minutes, color)
87 minutes
23 Paths of Glory-Stanley
Kubrick
black and white
189 Patton (DVD) Riveting portrait of one of the 20 th Century’s greatest
military geniuses. About the only Allied general Nazis
truly feared. His character and volatile personality he
could never defeat. (color. 171 mins)
221 Pearl Harbor An “extraordinary” reenactment of the attack that “jolted
America into WWII.” Explored through the lives of three
fictional characters- two pilots and a military nurse.
206 People Power In 1991, the Communist Party lost control of the Soviet
Union, the culmination of a process that had started in
1980. Meanwhile, dictatorships toppled in Africa, S.
America, and elsewhere in Eastern Europe. The people
took on the state in a show of mass defiance, grasping for
long-denied freedoms. Color & B&W; 1 hour.
152 People’s Century, The
Episode #109 - 1933:
The Master Race
Episode #119 - 1965:
The Great Leap
Focuses on Nazism in Germany from its political triumph
through the policy of genocide and the defeat of the Axis
powers.
Focuses on the Chinese Revolution (1949-53), the Great
Lead forward (1953-61), the second period of revolution
culminating in the Cultural Revolution (1962-76), and the
post-Mao period and “market socialism”.
54 Pompeii Destroyed (14 minutes) A look at how society in Pompeii came to a
dramatic end in 79AD as Mt. Vesuvius erupted.
55 Pompeii Revealed (30 minutes) A look at the archaeological uncovering of
Pompeii and its well-preserved remains.
159 Poncho Villa Copy
331 Power of Art (DVD) Focusing on eight iconic works of art, this series reveals
the history of visual imagination through the ages. “This is
not a saunter through the gallery on a drowsy Sunday
afternoon, a Grand Tour of Beauty through the ages.
Instead, it is a descent into the volcano of the creative
imagination, into the fires where some of the greatest
things humans have ever wrought were fashioned." Simon
Director-
Nicole Vedrès
1947
David Lean 1984
Franklin J.
Schaffner
1957
1970
Michael Bay 2001
WGBH Boston 1998
BBC Video 2007

Schama.
Appr. 400 min. Color
9 Prelude to War Documentary on the events between 1931-1939
-development of dictatorships
32 Presidential Campaign
Ads
259 Pride of the Yankees
(The)
13 Prisoner Without a
Name, Cell Without a
Number
-contrasts free societies with totalitarian government
A look at how political strategists come up with
propaganda in Presidential elections. (not in the video
cabinet)
Lou Gehrig’s boyhood dreams come true when he signs
on with the New York Yankees and takes the field
alongside his idol, Babe Ruth. In fact, Lou considers
himself “the luckiest man in the world” …until
unthinkable misfortune strikes, and he must summon all
his courage to face his toughest battle yet. Aprox. 2 hrs.
and 8 min. B&W
(copy)
284 Prisoner of Honor The True Story of the Scandal That Shocked the World
From the Oxcar Nominated Director of Women in Love.
At the close of the 19 th Century French Army Captian
Alfred Dreyfus was convicted of treason. Stripped of his
rank in a humiliating ceremony and sentenced to life
imprisonment on Devils Island. But Upon further
investigation by Col. Georges Picquart was uncovered that
may have condemned an innocent man. For the next
decade, Picquart would risk his career and his life to
expose the truth behind the Dreyfus Affair, the shocking
saga of anti=Semitism and treason that divided France set
the stage for the First World War and became one of the
most notorious cases of criminal injustice in history. Color
291 Prisoner of the
Mountains (DVD)
86 min.
Two Russian soldiers – a fresh recruit named Vanya and a
hardened veteran named Sasha – are taken hostage by
Chechen guerillas after a deadly ambush leaves all of their
comrades dead. Their captor, a battle-weary village elder,
wants to use them as a bartering tool to get back his own
son, held prisoner by the Russian army. But when the
trade goes sour and all trust is broken, Vanya and Sasha
realize their hours are numbered and attempt to escape
before they’re force to join their comrades in death.
Approx. 1.39 min. Color
153 Propaganda Wars, The America & Japan used heavy propaganda to win the
support of their citizens during WWII. This movie
examines the techniques used-newsreels, training films,
and feature productions- and looks at their messages,
styles and their impact.
209 Public Enemy (The) Bristling with ‘20s style, dialogue & desperation, this film
is a virtual time capsule of the Prohibition era. Stars James
262 Queen Victoria’s
Empire
(2 VHS tapes)
Cagney
Under Queen Victoria, the force of England’s industrial
and military power propelled the British Empire to its
zenith. Prime Ministers Gladstone and Disraeli, and
adventurers such as Livingstone and Rhodes, shaped a
distinctively British imperialism. Donald Sutherland
narrates this EMPIRES special, which uses personal
accounts and historical reenactments in Britain, India, and
Africa to reveal the frequent clash of personality and
culture that would mark Victoria’s reign. It is the story of
how a small island nation would come to control threefourths
of the world’s trade and one-fifth of its population
1986
Samuel Godwyn 1942
HBO Pictures 284
World Films 1996
A & E Home
Video
Brook Lapping
Productions for
PBS
1994
2001

in one of the greatest empires the world has known.
Running Time: approx. 219 min. B&W
223 Quiet American (The) Set in early 1950s Vietnam, a young American finds
himself in a dangerous love triangle after falling for the
mistress of a British journalist.
207 Quiet Man (The) Sean Thornton played John Wayne is an American
prizefighter who swears off boxing. Coming back to the
Irish town of his birth, a challenge to box becomes an
issue. 130 mins.
220 Rabbit-Proof Fence Set in Australia during a time when the government
established a policy that trained aboriginal children as
domestic workers in order to integrate them into white
society. Follows a group of girls during their 1,500 mile
20 Radio Priest
Spanish Civil War
journey to escape Australian authorities.
2 separate programs, 55 and 50 minutes in length, looks at
the role of missionaries during the Spanish Civil
War.(copies)
218 Ran Re-telling of King Lear mixes Japanese history,
Shakespeare’s plot and Kurosawa’s own feelings about
loyalty in this epic masterpiece. Color; 160. Japanese w/
205 Reagan
Part I and Part II
242 Reconstruction: The
Second Civil War
312 Red Empire (VHS – 7
Tapes)
English subtitles.
Heroic lifeguard, Hollywood heartthrob, fervent
ideologue, & pragmatic politician. Revered for ending the
Cold War, Reagan was criticized for his lax handling of
the Iran-Contra affair. Biography of a seemingly simple
yet complex leader. 4 hours; color
Spanning the momentous years from 1863 to 1877, this
movie tracks the stories of ordinary Americans as they
struggle to shape new lives for themselves in a world
turned upside down.
Nicholas and Alexandra rule a massive empire, one sixth
the world’s land mass, 150 million people of 100 different
nationalities. Life is hard and the workers discontent.
Moisei Muravnik, now 99 years old, recalls the Siberian
Goldfields strike of 1912 that ignites the worker’s
movement. As the People protest, Tsar Nicholas takes
command of the army while his wife consorts with the
holy man, Rasputin. The stage is set for change as the
words of Lenin ring out across the country-side. The
revolution has begun!
307 Red Files (DVD) Exposes fascinating views of history from the Soviet
perspective. Featuring powerful interviews with key
Soviet participants, never-before seen film archives and
declassified dossiers, the series tells compelling stories of
personal and political intrigue that were hidden behind the
Iron Curtain for generations.
320 Religious
Fundamentalism
17 Return of Martin
Guerre (with English
subtitles)
Approx. 240 min. Color/B&W
A preaching television evangelist; an Amish family in the
PA country side; the fiery disaster in Waco, TX; the
World Trade Center bombing; political candidate Pat
Robertson; Jewish settlers on Israel’s West Bank.
Religious fundamentalism is everywhere in the world
today. This program examines this phenomenon,
explaining what it is, where it came from, and how it
influences the American notion of the separation of church
and state. In addition, the program explores the impact of
religious fundamentalism on American society and on our
organized religions as well.
29 min. Color.
The trials of Martin Guerre, a medieval character who
fights for his identity after a long absence.
261 RFK New biography from RFK written and directed by David
Grubin for American Experience, takes as its theme lines
Philip Noyce 2002
Philip Noyce 2002
Akira Kurosawa 1998
WGBH Boston 1998
PBS DVD GOLD 242
Vestron Video 1994
PBS 1999
Films for the
Humanities and
Sciences
1995
Daniel Vigne 1982
David Gurbin 2004

from Aeschylus that Kennedy could recite from memory:
“He who learns must suffer.” RFK is a tragedy in two
acts. In Part One: The Garish Sun, RK devotes himself to
his glamorous brother John, suppressing his own
ambitions for the sake of the Kennedy name. In Part Two:
The Awful Grace of God, after an assassin’s bullet takes
his brother’s life, RFK is bereft, not only of a brother he
loved, but a role that had given meaning to his life.
Plunged into unremitting pain and grief, he struggles to
find his own voice. His suffering helps him empathize
with impoverished Americans and others who are
marginalized and disenfranchised – African-Americans,
Hispanics, and Native Americans. Just as he begun to
discover his own identify and move beyond the shadow of
his brother, he too, is assassinated – cut off in his prime as
he was still changing and growing. B/W approx. 120
min.
213 Rhapsodies in Black
(music cds)
Music and words from the Harlem Renaissance 4 discs 2000
139 Richard III Laurence Olivier’s third Shakespeare adaptation, a
treatment of the ruthless tyrant who seizes his throne and
wages war at Bosworth
Daniel Mann 1955
266 Richard Nixon: His political savvy took him to the height of governmental A&E 2005
Biography
power. Corrupt political practices caused him to suffer a
humiliating fall and ultimately cost him the presidency.
Richard M. Nixon’s life was a rollercoaster ride of
supreme highs and devastating lows. Born on a modest
ranch in Yorba Linda, California, the ambitious young
Republican was a successful two-term vice president until
a sting of political pitfalls sent him into early retirement.
After his stunning career comeback finally put him in the
seat of power at the White House, his presidency came
crashing down in the wake of the infamous Watergate
scandal. B&W and color. Approx. 100 mins.
133 Rise and Fall of the The story of the Aztecs from their humble beginnings to
Aztec Empire
their rise as the dominant culture in Mexico and their
annihilation at the hands of Cortes and the Spanish.
146 Rise and Fall of the Rarely seen film, photos, posters, and secret vaults of the
Soviet Union (parts 1
and 2)
USSR.
196 Rising Sun Color; 129 min., Sean Connery, Wesley Snipes. A liaison
officer is called to investigate the murder of a call girl in
the boardroom of a Japanese corporation. Japanese
Culture.
Philip Kaufman 1993
228 Rising Sun A special liaison officer and a detective are called in to
investigate the murder of a call-girl in the boardroom of a
Japanese corporation.
Philip Kaufman 1993
199 Road to Brown (the) B+W. 50 min. Story about segregation and the brilliant
legal campaign against it which helped to launch the Civil
Rights Movement.
216 Robespierre: The New
Man
45 minutes
136 Romero The story of Archbishop Oscar Romero and his struggle
against social injustices in El Salvador-a fight that
ultimately led to his assassination in 1980.
John Duigan 1989
97 Rommel: The Afrika Depicts Rommel’s relentlessness against British and
Korps
American troops in North Africa during WWI. (60
minutes)
53 Room of One’s Own, A A dramatic recreation of the lecture by Virginia Woolf at
Girton College in 1923 on which her book of this title is
based. Eileen Atkins is Virginia Woolf. 55 min. (Dinand
Library Video 238)
Patrick Garland 1980
378 Roots of African Tells the amazing story of the art, culture, history and Knowledge 1996

Civilization (The) civilizations of ancient West Africa. And it points to
evidence of these ancient cultures in the lives of African
Americans today.
298 Russia Land of the
(2vol. DVDs)
310 Russia’s War “Blood
Upon the Snow” (VHS
set of 5)
Approx. 25 min.
Illuminates the imperial past of the world’s largets nation.
At the heart of this epic tale are the figures whose names
have become legend: Ivan the Terrible, who expanded the
empire at the rate of 50 miles-and innumerable lives-aday;
Pter the Great, whose sweeping reforms westernized the
nation; and Catherine the Great, whose rule was marked
by conquest, change and controversy. Aprox. 200 min. +
extras
It brings to life the story of the people of the Soviet Union
during World War II who struggled to survive the
tyrannical reign of Joseph Stalin. A compelling story of
dictatorship, bloody battles, and endless courage as the
Soviet people combat not only Hitler and the German
Army, but their own leader as well.
71 S.O.S. Titanic Fact and fiction dramatize the lives of the ill-fated ship’s
passengers. (180 minutes)
311
Sacco & Vanzetti Reconstituted story of two Italian immigrants accused of
(DVD)
murder and sentenced in 1921 in U.S. by some anarquists
Portuguese/Italin and sentenced to death. This was one of the most famous
trials of the 20 th Century.
309
140
Sacco & Vanzetti
Saint Joan Based on George Bernard Shaw’s drama, Jean Seberg
Makes her debut as Joan of Arc.
151 Saints and Sinners (6 Explores the many challenges facing the Roman Catholic
vols)
Church. Traces the Church from when it became the
official religion of the early Roman Empire, through its
history, to a look to the future.
30 Salvador An account of a photojournalist’s experiences in capturing
and exposing the brutality of the Civil War in El Salvador
355 Sand Creek Massacre Is an award-winning examination of an open wound in the
(The)
souls of the Cheyenne and Arapaho people as told from
their perspective.
190 Sand Pebbles (the)
(VHS)
190 Sand Pebbles (the)
(DVD)
A U.S. gunboat stationed in 1920s China is used in a
power game between rival warlords in this sprawling
adventure saga. Steve McQueen stars as a sailor who must
buck his superiors when he sees their mission being
endangered. (179 min,color)
The Sand Pebbles tells many stories. It’s the story of
China, a slumbering giant that rouses itself to the cries of
its people – and of the Americans who are caught in its
bloody awakening. It’s the story of Frenchy (Richard
Attenborough), a crewman on the U.S.S. San Pablo who
kidnaps his Chinese bride from the auction block. Most of
all, it’s the story of Jake Holman (Steve McQueen), a
sailor who has given up trying to make peace with
anything – including himself.
246 Saturday Night Fever About a troubled Brooklyn paint store clerk by day and
undisputed king of the dance floor by night. A movie that
defined the music and fashion of a generation. It’s a
powerful & provocative urban tragedy that carries as much
191 Saving Private
Ryan(Letterboxed
Version)
significance today as it did in 1977. Color/118 min.
Seen through the eyes of a squad of American soldiers, the
story begins with WWII’s historic D-Day Invasion, then
moves beyond the beach as men embark on a special
mission. (color 3h 15min)
Unlimited, Inc.
The History
Channel
2003
PBS 1995
Billy Hale 1979
Aversatil
History Channel
2004
1988
Otto Preminger 1957
Oliver Stone 1985
Olympus Film 2006
Robert Wise 1966
Twentieth Century
Fox
1994
John Badham 1977
Steven Spielberg
1 Search for a Century: Documentary on archaeological discoveries on a 1980

The Discovery of
Martin’s Hundred
Plantation
plantation which supplied many agricultural needs of
Colonial Williamsburg
212 Searchers (The) The frontier & the men and women who challenged it.
Color; 119 mins. John Wayne
179 Seeing Red Warm, human, funny, engaging portrait of 50 years of
American Communism from its heyday in the 1930s
through the bitter McCarthy era witchhunts of the 1950s.
287 Self Made Hero (VHS) At once a feeble slave to his mother’s madness, history
will remember Albert’s captivating rise to heroism as a
leader of the French Resistance. As brilliantly as de
Gaulle eludes his nation’s collaboration with the Nazis, so
will Albert shed his life of mediocrity in favor of one more
fantastical. Restricted from service, Albert can only watch
as the war ends without him. He desperately resolves to
flee to Paris where his inspired gift of deception and
trickery will lead to a tenaciously drawn plan reinventing a
new and heroic identity for himself a true reminder that he
best lives are often the ones we make up. Approx. 105
min. Color
192 Sergeant York In his Academy Award-winning role, Gary Cooper
portrays the quiet, pacifistic Tennessee farmer who went
on to become a hero on the battlefields of World War I.
Stirring tale of true heroism
45 Seven Samurai (2 tapes) This 197 minute black and white video takes you into the
world of agrarian Japan - a world in which dangerous
bandits roam the countryside.
301 Sheen Gems These are “SHEEN GEMS” – excerpts remastered from
many of Fulton J. Sheen’s Emmy Award Winning
Television Programs titled, “Life is Worth Living.”
Aprox. 110 min. (54 min. vol.1) B&W
352 Shoot the Piano Player Relates the adventures of mild-mannered piano player as
he stumbles into the criminal underworld and whirlwind
love affair. Loaded with gags, guns, clowns and thugs,
this razor-sharp homage to the American gangster film is
pure nouvelle vague.
34 Siena: Chronicles of a A 28 minute look at the Medieval and Renaissance mecca
Medieval Commune
of Siena - its life and society during its golden age
111 Silk Road A look at the culture encountered in the course of a
modern day
-traces the path of Marco Polo
40 Sorceress The orthodox Church clashes with popular religion in this
based-on-fact story of a thirteenth-century friar hunting
heretics in the French countryside, and the woman healer
he encounters and persecutes. Accurate historical and
anthropological view of women’s roles, medicine, and
faith, in medieval culture.
175 Sorrow and the Pity
(the)
384 South Africa Belongs to
Us
Genre-defining, epic-length documentary about the French
collaboration with the Nazis in WWII. Considered a
masterpiece of its genre by critics. Wrenching film is
compulsory viewing for history buffs,documentary fans.
A film portraying the daily struggles in the lives of black
women in South Africa. With observational portraits of
five ordinary women, and with the insight of four women
activists, the film depicts the battle of the black woman for
human dignity in the face of apartheid: from the struggle
for a roof over her head and food for her children, to black
consciousness-raising and the total liberation of her
people.
Approx. 57 minutes. Color
James Klein &
Julia Reichert
1984
Patrick Godeau 1997
Howard Hawks 1941
Akira Kurosawa 1954
The Fulton J.
Sheen Company
Francois Truffaut 1960
Rogers and Schaff 1988
Director: Marcel
Ophuls
1990
1971
Icarus Films 1980

162 South Korea: The
Struggle for Democracy
Topics include: N/S partition, the Korean War, student &
union riots, the justification of military rule under the
guise of national security, the growing role of women in
the struggle for democracy. 27 mins, color
308 Stalingrad (DVD) The Eastern Front experienced the viciousness of war on a
scale of unimaginable horror and brutality. The Bloodiest
and most savage fighting took place in Stalingrad between
August 2942 and February 1943. Stalin’s city on the
Volga had military significance for Hitler. It carried the
name of his enemy and therefore had to be destroyed. The
ensuing battle sealed the fates of hundreds of thousands of
soldiers and civilians and marked the turning point of
World War II. It was the beginning of the end of Nazi
Germany.
385 Stealing Heaven (DVD)
Approx. 165 minutes Color & B&W.
The true erotic romance of Abelard and Heloise has stood
for centuries as an example of desire so intense it will
brave any consequence. In this epic love story of sensual
revolution two lovers buy moments of rapture through
incredible sacrifice. Peter Abelard is a brilliant professor
renowned for his wit and integrity. Young Heloise is an
uncommon combination of beauty and intelligence. When
they meet, the spark that begins in their minds soon
engulfs them completely. But 12th century Paris forbids
teachers the pleasures of the flesh, and Heloise is
controlled by her greedy uncle. Still, no rule or reason can
stem their raging passion. A terrible, bloody chain of
events will change their lives forever-and earn Abelard
and Heloise a place among the greatest lovers of all time.
Approx. 115 minutes. Color
Films for the
Humanities &
Sciences
Synapse Films 2003
6 Stilwell Road Documentary on the magnetic personality of General
Stilwell of the United States
1986
65 Story of Anna
A documentary of this St. Petersburg poet, this film delves Jill Janows 1991
Akhmatova
into Akhmatova’s struggle against oppression.
252 Sugihara: Conspiracy How a heroic Japanese diplomat saves Jewish refugees in Diane Estelle
of Kindness
World War II (runs approximately 82 minutes)
Vicari
224 Suleyman The
Explores the breathtaking palaces and mosques of the Suzanne Bauman 1987
Magnificent
Ottoman Empire and focuses on the dramatic life and
personality of Sultan Suleyman.
380 Summer 0f Love This American experience presents a complex portrait of
the notorious even that many consider the peak of the
1960’s counter-culture movement.
PBS 2007
138 Theodore Roosevelt (copy) A biography.
144 Thomas Jefferson: A candid look at the unpredictable and contradictory life Stuart Rekant 1995
Philosopher of Freedom of one our nation’s greatest leaders.
-Hosted by Peter Graves
44 Three Sovereigns for A detailed account of the “witch hysteria” of 1692 in Philip Leacock 1986
Sarah
Salem, MA via the narrative of one woman’s efforts to
clear her accused sisters’ names
57(Missing) To Die To Live: The (63 minutes) A look at the struggle that the Hiroshima
Survivors of Hiroshima disaster’s survivors had to face in the wake of the horror.
182 To Render A Life A documentary on the lives of 3 desperately poor cotton
tenant families in Hale County, Alabama in 1936. (90
minutes, color)
Ross Spears 1992
354 Thomas Jefferson Revered as the author of the Declaration of Independence,
the most sacred document in American History, yet
condemned as a lifelong owner of slaves, Thomas
Jefferson remains the enigma that is America.
Appro. 180 min.
Color/B&W
PBS 1997
193 Tora! Tora!
Color 144mins.War epic that recreates the attack on Pearl Richard Fleischer 1970
(Letterboxed Version) Harbor and the events leading up to it.
NTSC
1988
1998

222 Tora! Tora! Tora! The Recreates the stunning attack on American forces by the
attack on Pearl Harbor Japanese. Chronicles both sides of the Pearl Harbor story.
236 Tree of Clogs A poignant look at rural peasant life in Northern Italy at
the turn of the century. This moving story brings to life
the hardships & adversity facing a family struggling to
survive under oppressive rule. Italian w/ Eng. Subtitles;
177 Mins.
333 Treasures III ( 4-
DVD’s)
1. Program Notes
(booklet)
2. Americans in
the Making
3. Toil an
dTyranny
4. New Women
5. The City
Reformed
311
Sacco and Vanzetti
270 Tuskegee Airmen (The)
(DVD)
Prohibition, abortion, unions, atheism, the vote for
women, worker safety, organized crime, loan sharking,
race relations, juvenile justice, homelessness, immigration
– virtually no social issue was too controversial for movies
during their firs decades – these movies helped change
America.
Approx. 738 min.
48 Tree of Wooden Clogs Fictional tale of an Italian peasant family. 185 min. in 2
parts (MRC Ital Video)
309
True Story of Sacco and From the dawn of time to the epic sweep of the twentieth
Vanzetti
century, from the great conflicts to the inventions that
changed the world.
Portuguese/Italian
Fireballs of high-speed air action explode off the screen in
this exciting story of the "Fighting 99th" -”the first
squadron of black American pilots to be allowed to fight
for their country.
Approx. 106 min. Color
60 Twenty-Four Eyes “Beauty and innocence are lost as war and progress
intrude upon a rural village,” leaving deep impressions on
225 Umm Kulthum: A
Voice Like Egypt
318 Under the Flag of the
Rising Sun (DVD)
twelve young schoolchildren.
Connects the life of Kulthum, a peasant turned worldrenowned
Arabic female vocalist, to the epic story of 20 th
century Egypt as it shook off colonialism and confronted
modernity.
Sachiko Hidari gives a towering performance as the war
widow who returns year after year to the Ministry of
Welfare, trying to clear the name of her disgraced
husband: a sergeant court-martialed and executed for
desertion at the end of the war. Seeking out four survivors
from her husband’s garrison, she pursues the truth and
uncovers a RASHOMON-like mystery conveyed with all
the impact and rage one would expect from Kinji
Fukasaku.
96 min. B&W – Japanese with optional English subtitles
41
249
Union Maids Classic portrait of women auto workers in the 1930’s. 60
minutes
Victory in the Pacific Target Tokyo – Ronald Regan narrates this 1945
film on the B-29’s first mission – Discussion:
The Bomb and the End of the War. Black and
White (approx. 120 min.)
145 Vezelay This film includes spectacular photography of the basilica
at Vezelay, in France, and the rituals conducted within;
William Segal’s thoughtful and engaging commentary. In
every image and gesture Vezelay joyously probes the
eternal question of individual identity and the obstacles
Richard Fleischer 1970
Ermanno Olmi 2004
Ntl Film
Preservation
Foundation
2007
Ermano Olmi 1978
History Channel
Versatil Home
Video
2004
HBO Home Video 2000
Keisuke Kinoshita 1954
Michal Goldman 1996
HVe 2005
PBS 2005
Ken Burns 1996

150 Vietnam: A Television
History (7 volumes)
1. Roots of a War;
The First Vietnam
War (1945- 1954)
2. America’s
Mandarin (1954-
1963); LBJ Goes to
War (1964-1965)
3. America Takes
Charge (1965-
1967); America’s
Enemy (1954-
1967)
4. Tet 1968;
Vietnamizing the
War (1968-1973)
5. Cambodia and
Laos: Peace Is at
Hand (1968-1973)
6. Homefront USA;
The End of the
Tunnel (1973-
1975)
7. Legacies
90 Vietnam: The War At
Home
201 Walk a Mile in My
Shoes
21
Walk Through the 20 th
Century: Propaganda
Why We Fight:
Prelude to War
118 Walter Ruether
25 Wannsee Conference
on the Final Solution
(English subtitles)
332 War at Home (The)
(DVD)
and exhilaration of seeing, searching and being. (44
minutes)
Meet the people who masterminded the war, and the
Americans and Vietnamese who fought it.(13 hours)
Covers: the anti-war movement in America, political
activities at U. of Wisconsin at Madison, genuine people’s
revolt (100 minutes, Academy Award nominee for Best
Documentary)
Documents the history & social impact of the Nat’l Assoc.
for Advancement of Colored People. Serves as a visual
“witness” to events that have threatened the well-being,
growth, & lives of African Americans 2 parts, 24 minutes
each, Color
2 separate programs relating to whatever might be inferred
from their titles (copy)
90 minute account of the Wansee Conference at which
Hitler’s strategy to exterminate the Jews of Europe was
determined (copy)
It vividly chronicles the anti-war protest movement of the
1960’s and 70’s. The Film provides an illuminating look
at the home front of the Vietnam War – the war that
students and other anti-war dissidents waged on America’s
political system, military and notions of patriotism.
Approx. 100 min. Color
154 War in the Pacific, The Combat footage and exclusive interviews with veterans
and military experts bring the conflict in the Pacific
theater of WWII to life. This film recalls the desperation,
the loss, the courage & ultimately, the triumph that
epitomized war in “the enemy’s backyard.”
161 War Room, The An adventure story about 2 men, James Carville and
George Stephanopoulos, and their effort and determination
in conducting Clinton’s political campaign in 1992 -- and
winning.
WGBH TV 1983
Gene Davis Group,
Inc.
Glenn Silver &
Barry Alexander
Brown
A & E Home
Video
Vidmark
Entertainment
348 What We Want, What Accompanying the Newsreel films is a massive quantity of AK Press 2006
1979
1983
1994

We Believe: The Black
Panther Party Library (4
DVDs)
337 Weather Underground
(The) DVD
383 The West
(5 DVD Series)
(Disc I)
The People
(Disc II)
Empire Upon the Trails
The Speck of the Future
(Disc III)
Death Runs Riot
The Grandest
Enterprise Under
God
rare and exclusive materials culled from Roz Payne’s
extensive collection of FBI documents, correspondence,
and interviews with Panthers and their supporters. It’s all
here, the government-sponsored repression, the trials,
exile, triumph, and reunion.
One of the top documentaries of the year, this awardwinning
film interweaves extensive archival material with
modern-day interviews to explore the incredible story of
the “Weather Underground.” As former members reflect
candidly about the idealistic passion that drove them to
“bring the war home,” they paint a compelling portrait of
troubled and revolutionary times, with unexpected and
often striking connections to the current world situation.
Approx. 92 mins. + extras
Color & B/W
Presented by Ken Burns and directed by Stephen Ives, this
12 hour film chronicles the epic saga of America’s most
vast and turbulent region, beginning before European
settlement and continuing into the 20 th century.
Approx. 12 hours. Color/B&W
From the beginning of time, the West has been a land of
myth. The original Native American inhabitants linked
their creation stories to the majestic mountains, searing
deserts and silent forests. To Europeans such as Cabeza
de Vaca and Coronado, the West was a “wilderness” to be
conquered-filled with boundless treasure, souls to save or
defeat, and new horizons to explore.
In the early 1800s, no one knew who would control the
seemingly infinite spaces of the West. But hopeful
Americans began moving there nevertheless, and the
individual trails they followed eventually merged into the
single path of “Manifest Destiny.”
In 1848, a sawmill worker named James Marshall reached
down into the streambed of the American River in
California-and came up with the future of the West in the
palm of his hand. He had discovered gold. During the
next year alone, in one of the most astounding human
stampedes in history, more than 50,000 fortune-seekers
would swarm the Sierra Nevada mountains in a headlong
scramble for riches.
The West has always symbolized hope and new
beginnings. But in the 1850s, as more American pioneers
poured west, they brought with them the nation’s oldest,
most divisive issue-slavery. And the rough frontier would
supply the sparks that would ignite the Civil War.
After the Civil War reunited the North and the South,
Americans set out with a new energy and optimism to
finally unite the country, East and West. They embarked
on one of the greatest technological achievements of the
age, to conquer the forbidding mountains, harsh deserts
and awesome distances by building the first
transcontinental railroad.
Docu Rama 2003
PBS Home Video 1996

(Disc IV)
Fight No More Forever
The Geography of
Hope
(Disc V)
Ghost Dance
By the 1870s, there were only a few pockets of resistance
against the United States’ push to conquer the West. On
the Great Plains, Sitting Bull followed his mystical visions
and urged his Lakota people to fight rather than surrender
their sacred Black Hills and traditional way of life. On a
hot summer day at the Little Bighorn, they would defeat
another warrior equally sure of his own invincibility-
George Armstrong Custer. But Custer’s “Last Stand”
would also become, in effect, the last stand of the Sioux as
a free people.
By the late 1870s, the American conquest of the West was
nearly complete. In one decade, with Native Americans
effectively confined to reservations, some four and a half
million new settlers would arrive to stake their claim to the
future. Homesteaders proudly built their homes of prairie
sod, then battled drought and hard times to keep them.
By the late 1880s, Americans were astounded by the
changes they had brought to the West. Mining towns such
as Butte, Montana were now full-fledged industrial cities,
magnets of opportunity to workers from around the world,
but also places where the landscape itself was under
assault.
One Sky Above Us
As the 20 th century neared, Americans celebrated with the
World Columbian Exposition, where they were told that
the frontier had closed-symbolized by one state proudly
displaying an entire herd of buffalo…stuffed. But in the
real West, for every frontier story that ended, another one
began.
122 When Ireland Starved Chronicles the famine in Ireland during the mid-nineteenth
century as British despots stripped the land for England’s
359 When the Forest Ran
Red
293 Who Owns History?
(DVD)
own health and wealth.
Twenty years before the Revolutionary War, the British,
French, and Native American empires fight for control of
the American wilderness. Here George Washington
begins his military career at the center of a murder
mystery, and suffers defeat at Fort Necessity. In response,
British General Edward Braddock leads an army to
America and marches on the French, leading to a surprise
battle that will change American history.
Daniel Boorstin, Eric Foner, James Horton, and Robert
royal discuss revised history, new history and the
rewriting of history.
26 minutes, color
Irish Visions
History Center 2001-
2007
Paladin
Films for the
Humanities &
Sciences
292 Why History (DVD) Documentary. C-SPAN 2006
269 Windtalkers In the brutal World War II Battle of Saipan, Sergeant Joe John Woo, Lion 2002
Enders guards- and ultimately befriends- Ben Yahzee, a
young Navajo trained in the one wartime code never
broken by the enemy, the Navajo Code. But if Yahzee
should fall into Japanese hands, how far will Enders go to
save the military’s most powerful secret? John Woo
directs this “exciting” “against-all-odds battle adventure”
written by John rice and Joe Batteer and inspired by the
true story of the Navajo soldiers whose courage and
sacrifices helped win the war in the Pacific. 2 Hr.14 mins.
Rock Productions
282 Wind that Shakes the Driven by a deep sense of duty and a love for his country, IFC 2006
Barley (The) (DVD) Damien abandons his burgeoning career as a doctor and
joins his brother Teddy in a dangerous and violent fight
2004

for freedom. As the Irish Freedom fighters’ bold tactics
bring the British to breaking point, both sides finally agree
to a treaty to end the bloodshed. But despite the apparent
victory, civil war erupts, and families who once fought
side by side find themselves pitted against one another as
sworn enemies, putting their loyalties to the ultimate test.
18 Winston Churchill A candid look into the life and times of the late, great
123 World on Display: The
St. Louis World’s Fair
of 1904
294 Women of Hull House
The): Harnessing
Statistics for
Progressive Reform
315 World at War (the)
(11 DVD Series)
(Volume I)
A New Germany
Distant War
France Falls
The Making of the
Series
(Volume II)
Alone
Barbarossa
Banzai!
On Our Way
Churchill. (copy)
An introspective look at turn of the century America,
complete with all of its novelties at St. Louis in 1904.
Horrified by the living conditions in Chicago’s tenements
Jane Addams opened Hull House in 1889, a place where
she, Julia Lathrop, and other fellow activists could provide
outreach services to the poor and uneducated people of the
neighborhood –and by applying statistical analysis to realworld
problems, pave the way for far-reaching social
reform.
(18 minutes, color)
Penetrating interviews with eyewitness participants – from
Hitler’s secretary to Alger Hiss to ordinary citizens who
stood outside the battle lines – add spine-tingling, first
hand-accounts to an already unforgettable viewing
experience. Approx. 22 hours and 37 min. + 12 hrs. extras
With Germany buckling under the weight of humiliating
defeat and unprecedented economic depression, Adolf
Hitler and the Nazis quickly gain power and momentum,
while Poland and the rest of the world look on nervously.
Germany’s invasion of Poland forces Britain into war, and
the island nation’s early defeat brings Winston Churchill
into power. Meanwhile, France is next on Hitler’s list.
France discovers it is woefully unprepared for modern
warfare as the Nazi war machine easily skirts around the
Maginot Line. Britain retreats and prepares for invasion.
As compelling as the landmark 26 episode television
documentary it celebrates, this is a fascinating behind-thescenes
look at the individuals, the technology, and the
historical resources that made this still relevant
examination of World War II such a powerful and
unforgettable visual experience.
Though the Battle of Dunkirk successfully rescues nearly
35,000 Allied troops from certain defeat, London’s only
respite from constant bombing comes when Hitler turns
toward Russia.
Having blitzkrieged through Europe, the German Panzers
plow deep into Russian territory, only to be stopped by a
brutal winter and endless mud.
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor and brings America into the
war while sweeping its way across the Pacific theater.
Americans are divided between fighting the Japanese and
the Nazis, Hitler solves the conflict by declaring war on
Charles Jarrott 1986
Films for the
Humanities &
Sciences
2004
A&E 1973
1933-
1939
September
1939-May
1940
May-June
1940
May
1940-May
1941
June-
December
1941
1931-
1942
1939-

(Volume III)
The Desert
Stalingrad
Wolf Pack
Red Star
(Volume IV)
Whirlwind
Tough Old Gut
It’s a Lovely Day
Tomorrow
Home Fires
(Volume V)
Inside the Reich
Morning
Occupation
Pincers
the States.
Back and forth across 600 miles of desert between Egypt
and Libya, Bernard Montgomery’s “Desert Rats” finally
defeat Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps at El Alamein,
preparing the way for an Allied victory in Italy.
Stunning Nazi color footage showcases Germany’s first
major defeat at Stalingrad and subsequent surrender on
February 2, 1943.
The Germans coordinate their submarine forces into lethal
“wolf packs” that destroy countless convoys delivering
food and supplies to Britain-captured in breathtaking
underwater footage.
Eyewitnesses recount the siege of Leningrad, in which
nearly one million of its three million inhabitants died in
battle or from cold and starvation. Remarkably, the
Russians went on to defeat the Germans.
Fueled by revenge, the British show their mettle, and with
the help of American forces retake the skies and bomb
Germany into submission.
Eleven months after Pearl Harbor, Churchill convinces the
American forces to join the Allies in taking Italy. After an
initial setback in North Africa, the German war machine
begins losing its air of invincibility.
After an initial retreat in the jungle environs of Burma,
Louis Mountbatten’s arrival in 1943 boosts morale and
leads to the first major Japanese defeat at Arakan.
A nation under duress finds its strength in unity, while
Germany’s defeat in the Battle of Britain sends their
bombing raids into the countryside.
Initial victory in Europe turns sour after the defeat at
Stalingrad, yet Germany prepares to fight to the end-even
after an assassination attempt on the Fuhrer.
On the morning of June 6, 1944, the Allies stage the
largest human invasion in history on the beaches of
Normandy. The human cost is enormous, and for the
Germans it is the beginning of the end.
Though a neutral country, Holland is attacked by Germany
without warning in 1940. During the next four years life
carries on seemingly without incident, but underneath
resistance never dies.
The end of war appears close at hand with the liberation of
Paris in 1944, but the Americans and British disagree on
how to advance. Meanwhile, Poland suffers devastating
losses to achieve victory.
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(Volume VI)
Genocide
Nemesis
Japan
Pacific
(Volume VII)
The Bomb
Reckoning
Remember
(Volume VIII)
Hitler’s Germany: The
People’s Community
Hitler’s Germany: Total
War
The Two Deaths of
Adolf Hitler
(Volume IX)
Secretary to Hitler
Warrior
From the very beginning of the Nazis’ rise to power, the
notion of the Aryan ideal was already in place. By the end
of the war, the world would know the full horror of its
ghastly vision.
As the Allies close in on Berlin, the Russians lose more
than 100,000 men in battle. Hitler hides in his bunker and
contemplates his own end.
Initially apprehensive about the outcome of declaring war,
the Japanese quickly turn to celebration with early victory.
In the end, their worst fears are unimaginably exceeded.
Under the command of General MacArthur and Admiral
Nimitz, the Allies slowly but assuredly achieve victory in
the Pacific, one island at a time.
On August 6, 1945, the Enola Gay delivers the world’s
first atomic bomb to Hiroshima, killing and injuring nearly
140,000 people in one stroke. The world would be forever
altered.
Disagreements over Germany’s recovery and reparations,
the Nuremberg Trials, and distrust among the Allies show
that concluding a war is a vastly difficult endeavor.
Heartbreaking first-hand remembrances from a vast array
of survivors on both sides of the war.
The harsh outcome of the first world war left Germany
ripe for Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party’s swift rise to
power, promising a devastated nation’s return to
international prominence. With its stark, eye-catching
iconography and Aryan ideals, the Third Reich set the
stage for the 20 th century’s second world war.
Continuing the in-depth look at Hitler’s regime through
the words of ordinary citizens, the makers of The World at
War examine the day-to-day realities of life in Germany as
the Allies fire-bombed and invaded cities, and ultimately
achieved victory.
Did Hitler die from a self-inflicted gunshot? Or did he
swallow cyanide with his recent bride Eva Braun?
Interviews with Hitler’s secretary and Russian doctors
attempt to lay the controversy to rest.
A remarkable first-hand account of the last days of the
Fuhrer and the collapse of the Third Reich through the
eyes and words of his personal secretary, Traudi Junge.
A measured and decidedly unromantic look at the heat of
battle, Warrior weaves together eyewitness accounts and
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From War to Peace
(Volume X)
The Final Solution Part
I
The Final Solution Part
II
(Volume XI)
Making the Series: A
30 th Anniversary
Retrospective
rarely seen archival footage to reveal the deadly realities
of combat.
Renowned historian Stephen Ambrose examines the
aftermath of World War II. Was peace truly gained? Or
did a new war, with weapons of policy, take its place?
The makers of The World at War investigate one nation’s
belief in the necessity of genocide. Terrifying and
unforgettable stories related by death camp survivors and
compelling interviews with German participants probe one
of the modern age’s darkest moments.
Archival photographs and shocking footage filmed by the
Nazis themselves capture the full horror of Germany’s
systematic extermination of millions of Jews. Unflinching
and often disturbing, this is a profound and necessary
examination into the darkest corners of humanity.
Commemorating the 30 th anniversary of the original
broadcast of Sir Jeremy Isaac’s The World at War in 1973,
this two-hour program combines previously unreleased
interviews with the makers of this landmark in television
documentary production.
Experiences of War
Prominent scholars and military figures recount specifics
of the war, from first-hand accounts of Okinawa to the D-
Day landing, and analyze key wartime actions in these
previously unseen and extended interviews taken from the
film archives at the Imperial War Museum.
336 “X” (Malcom) “Here is a man who rose up from the dregs of society,
spent time in jail, reeducated himself and, through spiritual
enlightenment, rose to the top,”
Approx. 201 mins. Color
59 Yamaguchi Story Documentary which shows how some Japanese today seek
after spiritual fulfillment through so-called “new
religions” and a revitalized Buddhism in the face of the
personal stress and social pressures found in modern
society. 47 minutes
210 Yankee Doodle Dandy James Cagney portrays career of song-and-dance man
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Year of Living
Dangerously (The)
George M. Cohan. B&W; 126 mins.
Takes place in Indonesia in 1965 and follows an
Australian reporter and an embassy aide in a time of
revolutionary unrest under the Sukarno government.
113 Yojimbo A black and white “samurai film” starring Toshiro
Mifune, who plays a “vouin” (masterless) wandering
samurai who gets embroiled in a feud between rival
village gangs. 110 min.
Warner Bros. 1992
Dr. Jamie Hubbard
Peter Weir 1983
Akiro Kurosawa 1961