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À LA MODE: [fs 5442 LaserCLV 89min French (English subtitles)199? dir:Rémy Duchemin cast:Jean Yanne; Ken Higelin; Florence Darel]; Comedy about a young man's rise in the fashion industry in Paris.

À NOS AMOURS: [fs 4136 VHS 110min French (English subtitles) 1983 dir:Maurice Pialat cast:Sandrine Bonnaire]; A teenage girl turns to casual love affairs seeking the love and acceptance she can't get at home.

À NOUS LA LIBERTÉ: [fs 0393-0394 16mm 2932 VHS 87min bw French (English subtitles) 1931 dir:René Clair]; A social satire about a man who escapes from prison and builds a phonograph business with an assembly line as repressive as prison.

À PROPOS DE NICE: [fs 4520 VHS 25min silent bw 1929 dir:Jean Vigo]; An experimental film using Nice, France as a backdrop for social commentary on class disparity.

A PROPÓSITO DE BUÑUEL: See DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE.

ABBOT AND COSTELLO IN HOLLYWOOD: [fs 5664 Laser 83min. 1945 b/w dir:S. Sylvan Simon cast:Bud Abbott, Lou Costello]; Two barbers become talent agents and almost ruin the career of a promising star. With THE BIG STORE.

THE ABC's OF DECISION MAKING: [0115 16mm 30min 1974]; Teaches employees a step-by-step systematic process of decision-making that assures better decisions on all levels.

ABORTION: Public Issue or Private Matter: [1889 16mm 25min 1971]; Presents some of the initial reactions to the easing of regulations against abortion.

ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL REMEMBERED: [JHVC 7132 VHS 60min 1973]; Documentary about Rabbi Heschel, who marched with Martin Luther King, Jr. and protested the Vietnam War.

ABSENCE OF MALICE: [fs 4846 VHS 117min 1981 dir:Sydney Pollack cast:Sally Field; Paul Newman]; A businessman's living is placed in jeopardy by the power of the press.

ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS: [fs VHS 1993-1994]; BBC comedy series that takes a politically incorrect look at the lives of two fashionable women.

ACCATONE: [fs 5098 LaserCLV1 116min bw Italian (English subtitles) 1961 dir:Pier Paolo Pasolini cast:Franco Citti]; A mediocre pimp, unwilling to do honest work at low wages, struggles to survive among the poor of Rome.

THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST: [fs5522 LD 121min 1988 dir:Lawrence Kasdan cast:William Hurt; Kathleen Turner; Geena Davis ]; Anne Tyler novel: a travel-book writer who hates to travel, his wife and his dog trainer and their sons, and his eccentric family.

THE ACCUSED: [fs 4847 VHS 110min 1988 dir:Jonathan Kaplan cast:Kelly McGillis; Jodie Foster]; A woman gang-raped in a bar seeks justice in a male-dominated legal system against her attackers.

ACHEBE-BALDWIN-BEBEY NEWS CONFERENCE: [2001-2003 u-matic 4976 VHS 173min 1980]; Chinua Achebe, James Baldwin, and Francis Bebey give a news conference at the University of Florida on April 11, 1980.

ACORNS - The Staple Food of California Indians: [6391 VHS 0109 16mm 28min 1962]; Demonstrates the methods used by the Pomo Indians to process acorns as a food.

Across the Pacific: [fs 5231 LD]; See THE BOGART COLLECTION

ACROSS THE MOON: [fs9156 DVD 88min 1994 dir:Lisa Gottlieb cast:Elizabeth Pe¤a, Christian Applegate]; Carmen and Kathy, their boyfriends in prison, head for the Mojave desert.

AN ACT OF CONGRESS: [1466-1467 16mm 58min 1979]; Using legislation in the House of Representatives concerning clean air, the dynamics of translating the conflicting desires of the public into law are described.

AN ACT OF FAITH: [JHVC 7092 VHS 28min 1961]; CBS documenatary about Denmark's protection of Danish Jews from Hitler's genocidal policies.

AN ACTOR'S REVENGE: [fs 4538 VHS 110min Japanese (English subtitles) 1963 dir:Kon Ichikawa cast:Kazuo Hasegawa; Fujiko Yamamoto]; A female-impersonating star of a Kabuki troupe avenges the deaths of his parents, but at a cost.

ADAMA THE FULANI MAGICIAN: [1577 VHS 22min]; Adama Hamido, a deaf street magician of West Africa who practices yan taori magic, performs and discusses his training using West African sign language.

ADAM'S RIB: [fs 5175A LaserCLV1 102min bw 1949 dir:George Cukor cast:Katharine Hepburn; Spencer Tracy]; A woman lawyer defends a woman who has shot her husband, while the lawyer's husband must prosecute the same person.

ADAPTING TO PARENTHOOD: [1892 16mm 19min 1975]; Interviews new parents to show the challenges they must meet.

ADLAND: [fs 2083 u-matic 58min 1974]; Experimental video jabbing the advertising industry.

THE ADMIRABLE CRICHTON: [fs 6702VHS 93min 1957 dir:Lewis Gilbert cast:Kenneth More; Diane Cilento]; A family of English aristocrats marooned on a tropical island survive with the help of their butler, who is elected governor.

ADMIRAL BATAILLE & THE S.S. ESOTERICA: [fs 2793 VHS 15min 1987 dir:Jim Newberry]; An experimental documentary which explains less about its subject and more about the people being interviewed.

ADOLESCENT SEXUAL CONFLICT: Are We Still Going to the Movies?: [1894 16mm 13min 1974]; Actors dramatize the difference in expectations in a boy-girl relationship.

ADOLPH HITLER: [1091 16mm 20min bw 1961]; From the CBS Biography series with Mike Wallace.

ADOLPH HITLER: 1889-1945: [2004-2005 u-matic 90min]; Examines the life and philosophy of the Nazi leader.

ADOLPH HITLER'S HOME MOVIES: See HOME MOVIES OF EVA BRAUN

ADOPTION (Örökbefogadás): [fs 2899 VHS 89min bw Hungarian (English subtitles) 1975 dir:Marta Meszaros]; A woman wants to become a mother but her married lover won't oblige her.

ADRIFT ON THE GULF STREAM: [3085 VHS 58min 1989]; NOVA takes the viewer along the Atlantic Ocean's massive "river" as it travels its full course.

ADVENTURES OF A NURSE: [fs 2036-2037 u-matic 66min 1976 dir:Eleanor Antin]; Experimental video about television soap opera with paper dolls replacing actors.

ADVENTURES OF BARON MUENCHAUSEN: See MÜNCHAUSEN

ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED: [fs 4613 VHS 64min 1927 dir:Karl Koch]; Silhouette animation of a story based on the Arabian Nights, in which a Moslem prince and Aladdin are heroes rescuing their women.

ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES: [fs VHS each 52min 1983-1984 cast:Jeremy Brett, David Burke]; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's detective stories in TV adapatations. These stories are drawn from collections of 1892-1905.
A SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA: [8143 cast:Gayle Hunnicut]; The unique Irene Adler threatens to make history by blackmailing a king.
THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: [8144, 4718 cast: Roger Hammond]; Bank robbers help solve the unemployment crisis in one Londoner's life.
THE BLUE CARBUNCLE: [8145 cast:Brian Miller]; A Christmas goose lays a sparkling blue egg for Holmes.
THE SPECKLED BAND: [8146 cast:Rosalyn Landor, Jeremy Kemp]; An heiress dies in the house of a scientist with a menagerie.
THE COPPER BEECHES: [8147 cast:Natasha Richardson]; A lovely governess with cropped hair sees sinister clues in the smiling countryside.
THE CROOKED MAN: [ 8148 cast:Lisa Daniely]; A strange death with roots in a David and Uriah story of the Indian military.
THE RESIDENT PATIENT: [4719 cast:Nicholas Clay, Roger Newell]; A wealthy man finances a medical practice so he can be the primary patient: Sherlock Holmes mystery.
THE GREEK INTERPRETER: [8149 cast:Charles Gray]; Sherlock helps his smarter brother Mycroft with a puzzle about a dark house and a strange document.
THE NAVAL TREATY: [8150 cast:David Gwillim, Alison Skilbeck]; Holmes must save Europe from war by locating an elusive document.
THE FINAL PROBLEM: [8151 cast:Eric Porter]; Holmes meets Professor Moriarty, "the Napoleon of crime," at Reichenbach Falls.
THE DANCING MEN: [8152 cast:Betsy Brantley]; A code born in Chicago causes terror in an English garden.

THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER: [fs 2751 VHS 91min 1938 dir:Norman Taurog cast:Walter Brennan; Victor Jory]; David O. Selznick production of the Mark Twain story.

ADVISE AND CONSENT: [fs 5458 LaserCLV2 138min bw 1962 dir:Otto Preminger cast:Henry Fonda; Charles Laughton]; High-level Washington politics; based on the novel by Allen Drury.

AELITA, QUEEN OF MARS: [fs 3644 VHS fs9381 DVD 113min bw silent 1924 dir:Yakov Protazanov]; A Russian engineer daydreams of rocketing to Mars to be with Aelita after he thinks he has killed his wife.

THE AENEID: [2862-2863 VHS 34min total 1991]; The legend of the founding of Rome by the defeated Trojans, as told by Virgil. Illustrated, with study questions. Parts 1 & 2: 18min, parts 3 & 4: 16min.

AERODYNAMIC GENERATION OF SOUND: [1352 16mm 4454 VHS 44min bw 1971]; Describes sound generation by turbulence resulting from an instability of a steady flow.

AFFAIRE BLUM (THE BLUM AFFAIR): [7256 VHS 109min. 1948 German (English subtitles) bw dir:Erich Engel cast:Kurt Ehrhardt]; Germany, 1926: a Jewish manufacturer is accused of murder, and prosecutors and the public ignore the truth in favor of Nazi antisemitic ideals.

AFFIRMATIONS: [fs 3283 VHS 10min 1990]; Explores the homosexual Black male and the discrimination he suffers among members of the Black heterosexual community.

AFGHAN WOMEN: [0738 VHS 17min 1975]; The role of women in a rural community in northern Afghanistan.

AFRICA: A New Look: [1555 VHS 27min 1981]; An introduction to the African continent concentrating on the people of Africa, their modern institutions, the geography of the continent, and apartheid.

AFRICA: A Voyage of Discovery: [VHS 57min each 1984]; An eight-part series telling the story of Africa through archive film and dramatized reconstructions.
Different But Equal: [2543] Early African civilizations obscured by the slave trade.
Mastering a Continent: [2543] Adaptations of African peoples to their environments.
Caravans of Gold: [2544] The gold trade in Africa prior to European domination.
Kings and Cities: [2544] A modern Nigerian kingdom vs early African kingdoms.
The Bible and the Gun: [2545] The European "invasion" of the continent.
This Magnificent African Cake: [2545] Turning Africa into European colonies.
The Rise of Nationalism: [2546] Emergence from colonial rule.
The Legacy: [2546] A view of modern Africa and its heads of state.

AFRICA CHANGES: A Young Leader in a Young Nation: [0578 VHS 14min 1970]; A young commissioner tours his East African district, trying to respond to the people's needs.

AFRICAN CALVARY: [2733 VHS 30min]; Hunger and drought on the African continent.

AFRICAN CARVING: A Dogon Kanaga Mask: [0160 VHS 19min 1975]; A carver makes a dance mask and other masks are shown, with a description of their meanings.

AFRICAN ENCOUNTERS: [VHS 1987 (except as noted)]; Studies of African culture produced by the University of Washington.
Beauty and the Beast: Two Igbo Masquerades: [3959 33min 1985] The Igbo village-group of Agwa in southwestern Igbo country.
A Krio Story: [3960 21min] Series of African folktales told by Tom Spencer-Walters.
Northern Edo Masquerades: [3961 45min] Use of masks as an important part of Edo festivities.
The Art and History of the Akan: [3962 15min] Religious significance of art in southern Ghana.
Ewe Folktale: The Hunter & the Gazelle: [3963 9min] Kofi Awoonor recites the traditional folktale.
Pt.1 Atano: River Deities of the Akan: [3964 15min] Religious shrines, artifacts, ceremonies of the Tano River area.
Pt.2 Bono Brasscasting: [3964 15min] Perhaps the last brasscasting artisan in Ghana.
Swahili Gestures: [3965 15min] The use and meaning of gestures in the Swahili language.
Kofi Awoonor Pt.1 Songs of the Village: [3966 30min] The author discusses how he became a poet.
Kofi Awoonor Pt.2 Poetry and Comments: [3966 42min] The author reads and discusses his poetry.

AFRICAN VILLAGE LIFE SERIES: [VHS]; Anthropological films on Africa.
Annual Festival of the Dead: [0093 14min 1967] A Dogon village in the Mali highlands honors its dead with a tribal ceremony.
Daily Life of the Bozo People: [0095 15min 1967] Shows fishing, house building, weaving, cooking, bathing, child care, and other activities.
Fishing on the Niger: [0130 25min 1968] Illustrates the methods of fishing of the Bozo tribe, from individuals fishing to team efforts.
Herding Cattle on the Niger: [1983 7min 1967] Shows herding and selling of cattle by the Peul (Fulani) nomads of Mali.

AFRICA'S PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY AND FOOD PRODUCTION: [35mm slides audio cassette 1986]; Geographical factors affecting food production in Africa. Three modules of 80 slides and an audio tape each. A booklet describes each slide. Produced by Dr. David Niddrie and Bob Hesterman, UF Department of Geography.
African Landscapes and Their Formation
Africa's Climate, Vegetation and Soils
Case Studies

THE AFRIKANER EXPERIENCE: [0584 VHS 36min 1978]; Traces some of the history of the Boers and South African apartheid; interviews and excerpts from an epic film expose their sense of themselves as a chosen people.

AFRIQUE, JE TE PLUMERAI (Africa, I will fleece you): [4934 VHS 88min 1992 French/sub dir:Jean-Marie Teno]; A documentary attempt to deconstruct the Africa of the colonizers and the colonized, with Cameroon and the destructive force of French educational values.

AFRO BRASIL: [2851 VHS 30min 1994]; A look at the importance of Brazil's African heritage and the emergence of black political and cultural movements.

AFTER AUTUMN: [1930 VHS 10min 1971]; Reminiscences and routines of an 82-year-old farmer,living alone.

AFTER SEX: See POST COÏTUM ANIMAL TRISTE

AFTER THE THIN MAN: [fs 2951 VHS 113min bw 1936 dir:W. S. van Dyke cast:William Powell; Myrna Loy; James Stewart]; Nora's Nob Hill cousin is accused of killing her husband, and Nick must find the real murderer. See also 5191LD THE THIN MAN COLLECTION

AGAINST THE ODDS: [VHS 10min 1982]; Entertaining biographical sketches.

AGAINST WIND AND TIDE: A Cuban Odyssey: [1564 VHS 55min 1981]; Documentary of the Cuban Mariel boatlift of 1980.

AGAMEMNON: See ORESTEIA

AGANTUK (The Stranger): [fs6583 VHS Bengali language sub 120min 1991 dir:Satyajit Ray]; Tale of Manmohan, a world traveler who returns to Calcutta after 35 years to visit his niece and is suspected of being an impostor.

L'AGE D'OR: [fs 3046 VHS 63min bw French/sub 1930 dir:Luis Buñuel]; Surrealistic first movie by Buñuel, co-authored by Salvador Dali.

THE AGE OF CHARLES II: [6589 VHS 50min 1994]; Documentary of the achievements of the age of Charles II and the life and character of the King.

THE AGE OF KENNEDY: The Presidency: [0557-0558 16mm 50min bw 1967]; An NBC documentary, narrated by Chet Huntley, covering the presidency of John F. Kennedy.

AN AGE OF REVOLUTIONS: [0808 VHS 26min 1976]; A study of the French Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, and European history up to the Franco-Prussian war.

AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR IN MATURE MALE AMERICAN BISON: [0756 VHS 12min 1975]; Patterns of aggressive behavior in free-ranging American bison, including submission patterns and sexual intent.

AGING: [1455 16mm 8115 VHS 22min 1973]; Analysis of the different ways human beings cope with getting older.

AGROECOLOGY AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN LATIN AMERICA: [3773 VHS 57min 1990]; A survey of agricultural practices – especially the "green revolution" – and their relation to social and ecological conditions in Latin America. (This is a taped lecture.)

AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD (AGUIRRE DER ZORN GOTTES): [fs 3086 VHS fs 9607 DVD 94min German/sub 1972 dir:Werner Herzog cast:Klaus Kinski]; Searching for El Dorado, one of Pizarro's scout parties gradually perishes while exploring a river in South America.

AH, WILDERNESS!: [fs 3772 VHS 98min bw 1935 dir:Clarence Brown cast:Wallace Beery; Lionel Barrymore]; EugrnE O'Neill comedy. In the summer of 1906 in a small New England town, a young man gets postgraduate lessons in women and wine. See also SUMMER HOLIDAY.

Ah, Wilderness: [fs 9752 DVD 117min bw 1976 dir:Arvin Brown cast:Swoosie Kurtz, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Richard Backus]; Set in New England in the days of America's innocence, the comedy presents a young man's coming of age during a summer in which he experiments with poetry, politics, wicked women and alcohol, and succumbs to his first romantic crush.

AIDA: [1558-1560 16mm 96min bw 1955]; The Giuseppi Verdi opera filmed in Italy, with Sophia Loren lip-synching the main role.

AIR FORCE: [fs 3084 VHS 5617 LD 119min bw 1943 dir:Howard Hawks cast:John Garfield; Gig Young]; A bomber crew on a routine flight to Hawaii finds itself caught in key events of the beginning of World War II.

AKAHIGE: See RED BEARD

AKHMATOVA: See THE ANNA AKHMATOVA FILE.

AKIRA KUROSAWA'S DREAMS (YUME): [fs 3784 VHS 120min Japanese/sub 1990 dir:Akira Kurosawa]; Eight beautiful vignettes drawing on Japanese folktales and the modern folklore of war, nuclear devastation, and Van Gogh's art.

AL JOLSON COLLECTION: [fs5265]; 8 features starring Al Jolson on 7 laserdiscs, plus a supplement of trailers. Discs designated a-g.
Jazz Singer: [5265a]; See JAZZ SINGER
Singing Fool: [5265a-b]; See SINGING FOOL
Say it with Songs: [5265b-c 85min bw 1929 dir:Lloyd Bacon cast:Al Jolson; Davey Lee]; A radio singer goes to prison after accidentally killing a man.
Mammy: [5265c-d dir:Michael Curtiz cast:Al Jolson; Lois Moran]; A minstrel singer is framed for murder.
Big Boy: [5265d dir:Alan Crosland cast:Al Jolson; Claudia Dell]; A stableboy overcomes adversity to ride in the Kentucky Derby.
Wonder Bar: [5265d-e 84min bw 1934 dir:Lloyd Bacon cast:Al Jolson; Kay Francis]; An evening's music and melodrama in a posh Parisian nightclub
Go Into Your Dance: [5265e-f 89min 1935 dir:Archie Mayo cast:Al Jolson; Ruby Keeler]; When no producers will hire him, the women in a performer's life help him mount his own Broadway musical.
Singing Kid: [5265f-g 85min bw 1936 dir:William Keighley cast:Al Jolson; Sybil Jason]; A Broadway star who loses his voice goes to the country to recuperate.
Supplement: [5265g]; Trailers for Mammy, Wonder Bar, Go Into Your Dance, and Singing Kid, plus the 1936 Warner Brothers cartoon "I Love to Singa."

ALANIS MORISSETTE: JAGGED LITTLE PILL, LIVE: [fs 9121 DVD 90MIN 1997]; Music video based on a tour 1995-96.

THE ALASKAN EARTHQUAKE, 1964: [0548 16mm 6450 VHS 22min 1964]; Uses animation, models, and documentary footage of the 1964 Alaskan earthquake to explain the nature of earthquakes.

ALBERT EINSTEIN: The Education of a Genius: [2537 VHS 44min 1974]; Biography, Peter Ustinov narrating.

ALEX HALEY: [4579 VHS 50min 1992]; A video biography of the author produced for Swiss television.

ALEXANDER NEVSKY (ALEKSANDR NEVSKY): [0292-0294 16mm fs 3087 VHS 5087 LaserCLV1 9606 DVD 107min bw Russian/sub 1938 dir:Sergei Eisenstein]; Russian hero battles foreign invaders in 1242. DVD includes BEZHIN MEADOW.

ALFIE: [fs 3770 VHS 113min 1965 dir:Lewis Gilbert cast:Michael Caine; Shelley Winters]; The good intentions of a womanizer spring from selfishness and lead to tragedy.

ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS: [fs9059 DVD 102min 1955-59 dir:Alfred Hitchock]; Four television episodes: Lamb to the Slaughter, Banquo's Chair, Case of Mr. Pelham, and Back for Christmas.

ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S "BON VOYAGE" AND "AVENTURE MALGACHE": See HITCHCOCK'S "BON VOYAGE" AND "AVENTURE MALGACHE"

ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL: See FEAR EATS THE SOUL

ALIAS JIMMY VALENTINE: See LIBRARY OF CONGRESS VIDEO COLLECTION Vol.2

ALIAS LA GRINGA: [4213 VHS 100min Spanish/sub 1991 dir:Alberto Durant]; A likable criminal escapes from a Peruvian prison with the help of an imprisoned intellectual, but when he returns to pay back the favor he is caught up in a prison revolt.

ALIBI: [fs 6684VHS bw 84min 1929 dir:Roland West cast:Chester Morris; Harry Stubbs; Mae Busch]; Thriller about a Prohibition gangster under suspicion of murder.

ALICE DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE: [fs 5383 LaserCLV1 112min 1974 dir:Martin Scorsese cast:Ellen Burstyn; Kris Kristofferson; Jodie Foster]; A widowed housewife takes her son along to find a new life, as a chanteuse or a waitress, in the Southwest.

ALICE IN THE CITIES (Alice in den Städten): [fs 3088 VHS 110min bw German/sub 1977 dir:Wim Wenders]; True story of a photojournalist and a nine-year-old girl in search of the girl's family.

ALICE IN WONDERLAND: [fs9360 DVD 75 1951 Disney animation]; Lewis Carroll's fantasy about a girl who has trouble being the right size.

ALICE WALKER: [4583 VHS 30min bw 1992]; A profile of the Pulitzer Prize winning author, from her early life as a sharecropper's child to her present life of writing.

ALICE WALKER AND THE COLOR PURPLE: [6978 VHS 62min 199?]; Interview with the African-American author, including readings and excerpts from movie Color Purple.

Alice's Restaurant: [fs 9712 DVD 111min (French/Spanish subtitles) 1969 dir:Arthur Penn cast:Arlo Guthrie, Pat Quinn, James Broderick]; Arlo Guthrie's song is converted into a motion picture. Arlo goes to see Alice for Thanksgivng and as a favor takes her trash to the dump. When the local sheriff finds out a major manhunt begins. Arlo manages to survive the courtroom experience but it haunts him when he is to be inducted into the army via the draft.

ALIEN: [fs3181 VHS 117min 1979 dir:Ridley Scott cast:Sigourney Weaver, Ian Holm, Tom Skerrit]; Science fiction horror: a commercial spaceship becomes host to an unpleasant life-form.

ALIENNATION*: [fs 2052 u-matic 29min 1980 dirs:Barbara Latham; John Manning; Edward Rankus (*correct spelling)]; Avant garde commentary on aspects of modern living which can be seen as very odd when viewed from another perspective.

ALL ABOUT EVE: [fs 0869-0871 16mm 138min bw 1950 dir:Joseph L. Mankiewicz cast:Bette Davis; Anne Baxter; Celeste Holm; George Sanders]; A cynical view of theater life, pitting an aging actress against an upstart who is using her for advancement.

ALL GOD'S CHILDREN: [6592 VHS 26min 1996]; Documentary short about the Black Church's inclusion of African-American lesbians and gay men.

ALL MY GOOD COUNTRYMEN (VSICHNI DOBRÍ RODÁCI): [ 6475 VHS 115min. 1968 Czech/sub dir:Vojtech Jasny cast:Vlastimil Brodsky]; Nostalgic look at a Moravian village just after the 1948 socialization of Czechoslavakia.

ALL MY HUMMINGBIRDS HAVE ALIBIS: [fs 9028 CD-ROM 1992]; Multimedia compositions by Morton Subotnik using real and computer-generated instruments, text, and art. MacIntosh only.

ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT: [fs 2987 VHS 5161 LaserCLV2 9120 DVD 130min bw 1930 dir:Lewis Milestone cast:Lew Ayres; Louis Wolheim]; Based on the anti-war novel by Erich Maria Remarque about a group of young German recruits trying to survivethe last days of World War I.

THE ALL-ROUND REDUCED PERSONALITY (Die Allseitig reduzierte Persönlichkeit-Redupers): [6575 VHS 98min bw German/sub 1977 dir:Helke Sander; Joachim Baumann]; Portrait of Edda, a free-lance photojournalist, and commentary on life in divided Berlin.

ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS: [fs 9647 DVD 89min 1955 dir:Douglas Sirk cast:Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson]; A wealthy New England widow considers marriage with a romantic young gardener; basis for ALI--FEAR EATS THE SOUL.

ALL THAT JAZZ: [fs 4605 VHS 123min 1979 dir:Bob Fosse cast:Roy Scheider]; A semi-autobiographical story of a Broadway choreographer whose drive and bad habits push him to the brink of death.

ALL THE KING'S MEN: [fs 9666 DVD 0940-0942 16mm 5277 LaserCLV1 109min bw 1949 dir:Robert Rossen cast:Broderick Crawford; Joanne Dru; John Ireland]; All The King's Men is the story of the rise of politician Willie Starks from a rural county seat to the spotlight. Along the way, he loses his initial innocence, and becomes just as corrupt as those who he assaulted before for this characteristic. Inspired by the rise and fall of southern bigwig Huey Pierce Long.

ALL THE MORNINGS OF THE WORLD (Tous les matins du monde): [fs 5384 LaserCLV1 110min French/sub 1994 dir:Alain Corneau cast:Gérard Depardieu; Jean-Pierre Marielle; Anne Brochet]; Two 17th-century composers of music for the viola da gamba, teacher and student, differ in their passions for both women and music.

ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN: [fs 4825 VHS 5400 Laser 9058 DVD 138min 1976 dir:Alan J. Pakula cast:Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford]; Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein of the Washington Post investigate the Watergate breakin with the help of Deep Throat.

ALL THIS AND HEAVEN TOO: [fs 2994 VHS 141min bw 1940 dir:Anatole Litvak cast:Bette Davis; Charles Boyer]; In 1840s Paris an aristocrat has a love affair with a servant and murder is committed.

ALL THIS AND TEX AVERY TOO: [fs 5657 Laser 115min. 1942-1955 ]; Animated cartoons from MGM, featuring Droopy, George and Junior, and the Hollywood Wolf, among others. See also TEX AVERY'S SCREWBALL CLASSICS.

ALLAH TANTOU: [fs 6038 VHS 62min French/sub 1991 dir:David Achkar]; A son's tribute to his father, an African diplomat who was executed in prison during turbulent post-colonial Guinea.

ALLAN 'N' ALLEN'S COMPLAINT: [fs 3885 VHS 30min 1982 dir:Nam June Paik]; Two avant garde video productions featuring Allen Ginsberg and Allan Kaprow.

Allegheny Uprising: [fs 5483 LD]; See JOHN WAYNE RKO COLLECTION

ALMA CORSARIA (Buccaneer Soul): [6746VHS Portuguese (English subtitles) 116min 1993 dir:Carlos Riechenbach]; Story of the friendship of 2 men beginning in 1957. Looks at Brazilian life through literature, cinema and music.

ALMONDS & RAISINS: A History of the Yiddish Cinema: [fs 4780 VHS 90min 1983]; Narrated by Orson Welles, a survey of Yiddish language movies from the perspective of the Jewish immigrant experience.

ALMOS' A MAN: [fs 2814 VHS 51min 1976 dir:Stan Lathan cast LeVar Burton; Madge Sinclair]; Based on a short story by Richard Wright that takes place in the Deep South of the 1930's and concerns a Black teenager trying to become a man too soon.

ALMOST FAMOUS: [fs 9513 DVD 123min 2000 dir:Cameron Crowe cast:Kate Hudson, Billy Crudup, Frances McDormand]; In 1973, a teenage boy is assigned by Rolling Stone magazine to tour with a rock band.

ALPHABET CITY: [fs 2227-2228 u-matic 85min 1984 dir:Amos Poe cast Vincent Spano; Zohra Lampert]; Portrait of a teenage hoodlum on New York City's Lower East Side.

THE ALPHABET CONSPIRACY: [0523 16mm 59min 1959]; Enlivened with a plot to destroy the alphabet, the science of linguistics is described.

ALPHAVILLE: [fs 3024 VHS 3757 VHS 5330 LD 9271 DVD 100min bw French/sub 1965 dir:Jean-Luc Godard cast:Eddie Constantine; Akim Tamiroff]; A private-eye is sent to a futuristic city, run by an electronic "brain," to rescue trapped scientists.

ALRAUNE: [6090 VHS 97min 1928 bw silent German cast:Brigette Helm; Paul Wegener; John Loder]; A vamp takes revenge on her scientist-father who created her.

ALSINO AND THE CONDOR (Alsino y el cóndor): [3127 VHS 90min Spanish/sub 1983 dir:Miguel Littin cast:Dean Stockwell]; Nicaraguan feature film about the madness of war in Central America.

ALTAR OF FIRE: [6392 VHS 1359 16mm 45min 1976]; A detailed account of the world's oldest surviving ritual, the Agnicayana, a Vedic sacrifice to Agni, the god of fire.

AM I A CROOK? Copyright Issues on the Internet: [6272 VHS 87min 1998]; Panelists discuss various scenarios for copyright issues in using the internet in an educational environment. PBS Adult Learning satellite broadcast.

AM I WIFE, MOTHER... OR ME?: [1336 16mm 31min 1975]; The role of wife in modern marriage, as distilled from the theatrical feature I Love You.. Goodbye (Hope Lange, Earl Holliman).

AMARCORD: [fs 3883 VHS(dubbed) 4539 VHS(Italian/sub) 9530 DVD 127min. 1974 Italian/sub dir:Federico Fellini]; Fantastical memoir of life in the 1930s growing up in Rimini, Italy, under fascism.

AMADEUS: [fs 2519 VHS 158min 1984 dir:Milos Forman cast:Tom Hulce; F. Murray Abraham]; Based on the play by Peter Shaffer, the story of Mozart and his rival Salieri.

AMARILLY OF CLOTHES-LINE ALLEY (& THE DREAM): [fs9382 DVD 67min. 1918 bw silent dir:Marshall Neilan cast:Mary Pickfrd, William Scott, Norman Kerry]; A San Francisco gentleman falls for his cleaning lady. The Dream is a Tomans Ince short from 1911.

THE AMAZING VOYAGE OF GUSTAVE FLAUBERT AND RAYMOND ROUSSEL: [fs 2063 u-matic 75min 1986 dir:Steve Fagin]; Avant garde video whose dialogue is taken from the writings of Flaubert and Roussel.

AMAZON: Land of the Flooded Forest: [4785 VHS 60min 1990]; When the Amazon annually floods its surrounding forest, many species of wildlife adapt in amazing ways.

AMERICA (1924): [fs9383 DVD 140min. 1924 bw silent dir:D. W. Griffith, cast:Neil Hamilton, Lionel Barrymore, Carol Dempster]; The American Revolution, with a dashing patriot battling an evil redcoat and his Mohawk allies.

AMERICA: A Personal History of the United States by Alistair Cooke: [VHS 52min each 1973; also some 16mm holdings]; A study of American history by a former British citizen.
New Found Land: [6870]First attempts to colonize North America; the French and Spanish heritage and the British estabishment of dominion.
Home from Home: [6871] Early immigrants from the British Isles pour into the East Coast. From Plymouth to Jamestown American ideals form in all their varieties.
Making a Revolution: [6872] Colonies draw together in common complaints against the mother country and the American tradition of arming the common man is born.
Inventing a Nation: [6873] Compromise and strong personalities give birth to the government of the United States, and frontier men begin the growth of the country.
Gone West: [6874] From the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 to the Gold Rush of 1849, white men explore, fight Indians, and settle the land.
Fireball in the Night: [6875] The civil war and the civil rights struggles.
Domesticating a Wilderness: [6876]The Mormons make Utah bloom; Little Big Horn and Wounded Knee mark the extension of U.S. rule into the West.
Money on the Land: [6877] Prospectors, industrialists, and inventors propel the country from an agrarian society toward urbanization.
Huddled Masses: [6878] Second wave of immigration, Ellis Island, urban ethnic neighborhoods and industries, the tycoons who made their fortunes using immigrants.
Promise fulfilled and Promise Broken: [6879] Prosperity in the 20s is followed by the Crash and the New Deal.
The Arsenal: [6880] "The American way of war," beginning with colonial Williamsburg and ending with the Strategic Air Command.
First Impact: [6881]Cooke's personal experience in getting to know the American cultures.
More Abundant Life: [6882]Impressions and reflections on the promise and experience of America..

AMERICA IN PERSPECTIVE: [VHS 29min each 1992]; Attempts to place in perspective the major economic, political, diplomatic, and social developments in U.S. history since 1877.
The Closing of the Frontier: [3474] The Western U.S. and the Indians.
The Rise of Big Business: [3474] Rapid industrialization in late 1800's.
Labor's Struggle: [3475] Working class life before the turn of the century.
The Huddled Masses: [3475] Urbanization and immigration.
The American Dream Deferred: [3476] Minority repression, especially African Americans.
The Populist Challenge: [3476] Governing an industrialized country.
War and Empire: [3477] Spanish-American War.
The Progressive Impulse: [3477] Turn-of-the-century political reform.
The Progressive Presidents: [3478] Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson.
The Big Stick: [3478] U.S. foreign policy and Latin America.
The Great War: [3479] World War I.
Transitions and Tensions: [3479] The 1920s.
Hard Times: [3480] The Great Depression.
The New Deal: [3480] Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The Road to War: [3481] Foreign policy prior to Pearl Harbor.
The Good War: [3481] World War II.
The Cold War Begins: [3482]
An Age of Conformity: [3482] Domestic life in the 1940s and 1950s.
Toward the American Dream: [3483] Civil Rights movement in the 1960s.
Expanding the American Dream: [3483] Minorities in the 1960s and 1970s.
The Limits of Power: Vietnam: [3484]
The Limits of Politics: [3484] Richard Nixon and Watergate.
The Conservative Resurgence: [3485] Politics in the 1970s and 1980s.
An Era of Excess: [3485] Economics and society in the 1980s.
The Cold War Ends: [3486] Foreign policy since 1976.
Looking Backward, Looking Forward: [3486]

AMERICA ON THE MOON: [1928 16mm 10min 1969]; Synopsis of the Apollo 11 moon mission.

THE AMERICAN ADVENTURE: [VHS 30min each 1987]; An overview of American history from the first English settlements up to the Civil War and the Reconstruction.
Consequences of Contact: [3461]
English Colonization of Chesapeake: [3461]
A Puritan Way: [3462]
Diversification of the Colonies: [3462]
The Colonial Experience: [3463]
A New Society: [3463]
Struggle for Dominance: [3464]
A Revolution for Independence: [3464]
The Problem of Confederation: [3465]
Creating a Stronger Union: [3465]
The Republic in a Hostile World: [3466]
The Rural Republic: [3466]
The Failure of Diplomacy: [3467]
Good Feelings and Bad: [3467]
The Expanding Nation: [3468]
The South's Slave System: [3468]
The Jacksonian Persuasion: [3469]
Reforming the Republic: [3469]
Manifest Destiny: [3470]
Agitation and Compromise: [3470]
The Fitful Fifties: [3471]
Crisis of Union: [3471]
A Frightful Conflict: [3472]
The Home Fronts: [3472]
Reconstructing the South: [3473]
The End of an Era: [3473]

AMERICAN AVANT GARDE FILMS: [fs 4991 VHS 91min bw]
Dream of a Rarebit Fiend: [6min silent tinted 1906 dir:Edwin S. Porter]; Winsor McCay's cartoon comes to the screen.
Salome: [30min bw silent 1922 dir:Natasha Rambova cast:Alla Nazimova]; Basedon Oscar Wilde's play as illustrated by Beardsley. See also an apparently longer version SALOME
The Fall of the House of Usher
Lot in Sodom: [28min bw 1933 dirs:James Watson, Melville Webber]; The Bible story.
The Bridge: [15min bw 1931 dir:Charles Vidor]; A version of Ambrose Bierce's An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.

THE AMERICAN FRIEND: [fs 3919 VHS 127min English German/sub 1977 dir:Wim Wenders cast:Dennis Hopper; Bruno Ganz]; An ordinary German picture framer gets involved with criminals.

AMERICAN GIGOLO: [fs 2222-2223 u-matic 117min 1980 dir:Paul Schrader cast:Richard Gere; Lauren Hutton]; A male prostitute is framed for murder.

AMERICAN GOVERNMENT: Inside Your Government: [5342 LaserCAV2 3.5" discs 2 booklets 1994]; A survey of the American federal government intended for computer-assisted lecturing with audio-visual material from laser discs. Contains software for Apple System 6+ and Windows ver. 3+.

AMERICAN GRAFFITI: [5552 LaserCLV 112min 1973 dir:George Lucas cast:Richard Dreyfuss; Ron Howard]; The lives, loves, and misadventures of a group of Southern California teens one night in 1962.

AMERICAN HOT WAX: [fs 2235-2236 u-matic 91min 1978 dir:Floyd Mutrux cast:Tim McIntire; Jay Leno]; The story of Alan Freed, the man whobrought rock 'n' roll to America's teenagers.

AN AMERICAN IN PARIS: [6553 VHS fs 9036 DVD 114min 1951 dir:Vincente Minelli cast:Gene Kelly; Leslie Caron; Oscar Levant]; Musical about a romance between a young American artist in post-WWII Paris and a French shopgirl.

AMERICAN MADNESS: [fs 6091 VHS 76min 1932 (remastered) bw dir:Frank Capra cast:Walter Huston; Pat O'Brien]; Drama set during the Great Depression. A bank is robbed and the Chief Teller, an ex-convict, is the prime suspect.

AMERICAN MUSICAL THEATER: [fs 4108 VHS 61min 1986]; A history of musical theater in the U.S. from the early days of minstrel shows to the big Broadway shows of the sixties. A studyguide is included.

AMERICAN REVOLUTION TRILOGY: [16mm c1950]; "Public service" films produced by an insurance company which give an outline of the American Revolutionary War.
The Eve of the Revolution: [0029 17min] From the French and Indian War of 1754.
The Trying Years: [0030 18min] Re-enactments of early events in the Revolution.
The Victory is Won: [0031 18min] Factors in winning the war.

THE AMERICAN SOLDIER: [fs 4390 VHS 80min bw German/sub 1970 dir:Rainer Werner Fassbinder cast:Karl Scheydt; Elga Sorbas; Margarethe von Trotta; Jan George]; A film noir mood piece where the underworld assassin is a German veteran of Vietnam War experience.

AMERICAN SPECTACLE: [1468 VHS 34min 1966]; Van Heflin guides an NBC news tour of the more spectacular features of the geography of the United States.

AN AMERICAN TAIL: [JHVC 7155 VHS 81min 1986 animation]; Steven Spielberg-Don Bluth collaboration. Fievel Mouskewitz and his family leave a Russian shtetl to come to New York.

AN AMERICAN TAIL: FIEVEL GOES WEST: [JHVC 7156 VHS 75min 1991 animation]; Fievel the mouse and his family decide to leave New York and find a new life on the frontier.

AN AMERICAN TIME CAPSULE: [1970 VHS 3min 1968]; American history in three minutes, as 1300 images of events in history flash by, each a fraction of a second in duration.

AMERICAN VISIONS: The History of American Art and Architecture: [fs VHS 60min each 1996]; [6043] The Founding Fathers adopt classicism to serve the democratic ideal.
The Promised Land: [6044] Portraiture of pre-Revolutionary settlers of North America and their use of art.
The Wilderness and the West: [6045] Manifest Destiny embodied in the art of landscape and wildlife painting.
The Gilded Age: [6046] From Civil War photography to the Brooklyn Bridge, the diversity of 19th century American art.
A Wave from the Atlantic: [6047] The early 20th century, from pictures of immigrant tenements to the designs of Frank Lloyd Wright.
Streamlines and Breadlines: [6048] The 1920's and 1930's, from New York skyscrapers to Hoover Dam, from boom to bust.
The Empire of Signs: [6049] After World War II American artists break from the past, from the abstract expressionism of Jackson Pollack to the pop art of Andy Warhol.
The Age of Anxiety: [6050] How art has reflected the tumult of the latter part of the 20th century, plus a survey of contemporary artists.

AMERICANER SHADCHEN (American Matchmaker): [JHVC 7000 VHS 87min 1940 Yiddish/sub bw dir:Edgar G. Ulmer cast:Leo Fuchs, Judith Abarbanel]; American Matchmaker marries Yiddish theater and screwball comedy. Follwed by the 15-min. short I WANT TO BE A BOARDER also starring Fuchs.

AMERICANIZATION OF EMILY: [fs 5259 LaserCLV1 5658 Laser 117min bw 1964 dir:Arthur Hiller cast:James Garner; Julie Andrews]; An admiral's aide de camp and devout coward finds himself on Omaha Beach on D-Day of World War II for Navy publicity.

AMERICAS: [VHS 55min each 1993]; A documentary series covering many aspects of Latin American civilization, including Latino populations in the United States.
The Garden of Forking Paths: [3737, 8101] 'Dilemmas of National Development,' features some of the problems of Argentina.
Capital Sins: [3738, 8101] 'Authoritarianism and Democratization,' documents Brazil in particular.
Continent on the Move: [3739, 8102]'Migration and Urbanization,' features Mexico.
Mirrors of the Heart: [3740, 8102]'Race and Identity,' personal racial identity is discussed using Haiti, Bolivia and the Dominican Republic.
In Women's Hands: [3741, 8103]'The Changing Roles of Women,' Chile is featured.
Miracles Are Not Enough: [3742, 8103]'Continuity and Change in Religion,' Brazil and Nicaragua are featured.
Builders of Images: [3743, 8104] 'Latin American Cultural Identity,' the arts in Puerto Rico, Brazil, Mexico and Argentina are documented.
Get Up, Stand Up: [3744, 8104] 'Problems of Sovereignty,' Colombia, Jamaica and Panama arediscussed.
Fire in the Mind: [3745, 8105] 'Revolutions and Revolutionaries,' El Salvador, Peru, Mexico, Cuba and Nicaragua are covered.
Latin American & Caribbean Presence in the U.S.: [3746, 8105] 'Americas,' Documents the presence of Latino populations in California, Miami and New York City.

AMERICAS IN TRANSITION: [1607 VHS 29min 1982 dir:Obie Benz]; Presentation of the U.S. involvement in Latin American politics from the 1950s to 1980, with comments from author Carlos Fuentes, former CIA director Lyman Kirkpatrick, and others directly involved.

AMERICA'S POLITICAL PARTIES---The Democratic Party:1960-1992: [6172/VHS 58min]; Follows the Democratic party; includes rare film clips and original campaign TV commercials.

AMERICA'S POLITICAL PARTIES---The Republican Party:1960-1992: [6173/VHS 52min]; Opens with Goldwater's 1960 convention speech; includes archival film footage, clips of eachelection's candidates.

AMERICA'S STATE CAPITALS: [VHS 52min each 1994]; Historical and geographical facts about each of the 50 states in the order in which they entered the Union.
Volume 1: [4650]: DE, PA, NJ, GA, CT, MA, MD, SC, NH, VA, NY, NC, RI
Volume 2: [4651]: VT, KY, TN, OH, LA, IN, MS, IL, AL, ME, MO, AR, MI
Volume 3: [4652]: FL, TX, IA, WI, CA, MN, OR, KS, WV, NV, NB, CO
Volume 4: [4653]: ND, SD, MT, WA, ID, WY, UT, OK, NM, AZ, AK, HI

AMF (@MF): [10006 CD-ROM PC/MAC 1997-98 FRENCH]; Québec-Téléphone's links to Francophone websites.

L'AMI DE MON AMIE: See BOYFRIENDS AND GIRLFRIENDS

AMNESTY INTERACTIVE: [fs 10029 CD-ROM 1994]; A multimedia history and atlas of human rights narrated by Leonard Nimoy. MacIntosh and Windows.

AMONG THE WILD CHIMPANZEES: [6393 VHS 59min. 1984]; Jane Goodall's first two decades of working with the chimps of Gombe Reservation in Tanzania.

AMOR BANDIDO: [6749VHS Portuguese language sub 90min 1981 dir:Bruno Barreto cast:Paulo Gracindo; Cristina Ache]; Set in the Copacabana district of Rio de Janeiro, two young lovers and the girl's detective father search for a mad killer.

AMORE: [fs 4316 VHS 78min bw Italian/sub 1948 dir:Roberto Rossellini cast:Anna Magnani; Federico Fellini]; Contains two short films.
The Human Voice: From a one-act play by Jean Cocteau, a woman talks on a telephone to a lover who is jilting her.
The Miracle: A simple peasant woman believes she has been impregnated by an angel and her baby is the messiah. See also THE MIRACLE.

L'AMOUR EN FUITE: See LOVE ON THE RUN

L'AMOUR L'APRÈS-MIDI: See CHLOE IN THE AFTERNOON

O AMULETO DE OGUM: [3533 VHS 112min Portuguese 1974 dir:Nelson Pereira Dos Santos]; A young boy who wears an amulet of Ogum, a Brazilian voodoo deity, becomes a successful mobster, for a while.

AN ANDALUSIAN DOG (Un chien andalou): [fs 0448 16mm 3822 VHS 5301 LaserCLV1 17min bw silent 1929 dir:Luis Buñuel]; A satire on avant garde films, in which bizarre scenes are strung together like errant thoughts.

ANANSI THE SPIDER: [1996 VHS 10min 1969 dir:Gerald McDermott]; Animated adventures of Anansi, the trickster-hero of Ghana's Ashanti people. Narrated by Athmani Magoma.

ANASTENARIA: [0220 16mm 17min bw 1969]; Documents the fire-walking and sacrificial ceremony held in Haghia Helene of Serres in northern Greece.

ANATOMY OF A MURDER: [fs9361 DVD 160 1959 bw dir:Otto Preminger cast:James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara]; Robert Traver novel (based on a real case) becomes a gritty courtroom drama involving rape and homicide.

ANATOMY OF TIME (DE TIJDREIZIGER): [fs 6508 VHS 17min. 1995 Dutch & French/sub dir:Dick Tuinder]; Two French film historians, Sophie and Jean-Luc expatiate on their discovery of a hitherto unknown 1890s filmmaker and his fascination with what film does to time.

ANCHORS AWEIGH: [fs 0363-0365 16mm fs 9272 DVD 5656 Laser 140min 1945 dir:George Sidney cast:Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly]; Two sailors sing and seek romance on leave in Los Angeles; Kelly dances with Jerry the cartoon mouse.

THE ANCIENT AFRICANS: [4622 VHS 27min 1970]; Introduction to Africa's past civilizations, comparing the archaeology with views of contemporary derivative culture.

ANCIENT PROJECTILE POINTS: [0103 VHS 28min 1972]; Demonstration of the pressure flaking techniques used in making bladed stone tools in prehistoric times.

...AND GOD CREATED WOMAN (ET DIEU... CRÉA LA FEMME): [fs9362 DVD 92 1956 French/sub dir:Roger Vadim cast:Brigitte Bardot, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Curd Jürgens]; A sexy orphan marries the brother of the man she really loves.

And the Band Played On: [fs 9673 DVD 141min Spanish (English/Spanish/French subtitles) 1993 dir:Roger Spottiswoode cast:Matthew Modine, Ian McKellan, Alan Alda, Angelica Huston]; Story of the discovery of AIDS. From the early days when numerous San Francisco homosexuals began dying from unknown causes, to the identification of the HIV virus. Based on bestselling book by Randy Shilts.

AND THE SHIP SAILS ON (E LA NAVE VA): [fs 3894 VHS fs 9531 DVD 130min Italian/sub 1984 dir:Federico Fellini cast:Freddie Jones]; Allegorical film about the passengers and crew of a ship in 1914.

ANDEAN WOMEN: See AYMARA FILM SERIES

THE ANDERSON PLATOON: [fs 4135 VHS 64min bw 1966 dir:Pierre Schoendorffer]; Documents the day-to-day and minute-to-minute drama of a platoon of American soldiers in the Vietnam War.

ANDRÉ MALRAUX: [6807VHS French 28min]; Portrait of the writer and critic.

ANDREI RUBLEV: [ 6459 VHS fs 9532 DVD 185min. 1969 Russian/sub bw dir:Andrei Tarkovsky cast:Anatoly Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov]; Medieval Russia as seen by a 15th-century icon painter.

ANDREW WYETH: [1570-1571 16mm 63min 1984]; Biography of the American painter Andrew Wyeth.

ANDY HARDY GETS SPRING FEVER: [fs 3021 VHS 85min bw 1939 dir:W. S. van Dyke cast:Mickey Rooney; Lewis Stone]; Andy writes, produces, and plays the lead in the annual school play.

ANDY HARDY MEETS A DEBUTANTE: [fs 3020 VHS 5067A LaserCLV1 89min bw 1940 dir:George B. Seitz cast:Mickey Rooney; Judy Garland]; Andy is dazzled by a photo of a debutante in a society magazine and goes to New York to try to meet her.

ANDY HARDY'S DOUBLE LIFE: [fs 3016 VHS 93min bw 1942 dir:George B. Seitz cast:Mickey Rooney; Esther Williams]; Andy is engaged to two girls at once, among other complications.

ANDY HARDY'S PRIVATE SECRETARY: [fs 3018 VHS 5058B LaserCLV1 102min bw 1941 dir:George B. Seitz cast:Mickey Rooney; Kathryn Grayson]; Andy flunks his senior English exam.

ANDY KAUFMAN: The Andy Kaufman Show: [fs9273 DVD 58min]; 9 skits by the earnestly fraudulent 1970s comic, designed as a late-night television talk show.

ANGÈLE: [6922 VHS fs 3543 132min. 1934 French/sub bw dir:Marcel Pagnol cast:Fernandel, Orane Demazis]; Based on Jean Giono's novel Un des Baumugnes. Country girl Angèle is rescued from a brothel in Marseilles by a servant, and from her father's wrath by a virtuous lover.

ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES: [fs 3491 VHS 5162 LaserCLV1 97min bw 1938 dir:Michael Curtiz cast:James Cagney; Pat O'Brien; Humphrey Bogart]; A criminal visits his old neighborhood and becomes an object lesson for the local kids.

ANGOTEE: The Story of an Eskimo Boy: [0116 VHS 31min 1955 dir:Douglas Wilkinson]; Semi-documentary, enacted by Chesterfield area Inuit, of the life of an Eskimo boy from birth through his first seal kill, marriage, and leaving home.

ANGST ESSEN SEELE AUF: See FEAR EATS THE SOUL

ANIMAL CRACKERS: [fs 3249 VHS 5238 LaserCLV1 JHVC-VHS 7001 98min bw 1930 dir:Victor Heerman cast:Marx Brothers; Margaret Dumont]; Captain Spaulding goes wild in high society.

THE ANIMATED HAGGADAH: [JHVC 7157 VHS 27min 1986]; A family Seder becomes a tour of the Passover event of Exodus.

ANIMATION LEGEND: Winsor McCay: [fs 5278 Laser 100min]; A selection of the work of the first great film animator.
Little Nemo: [side 1 1911]
How a Mosquito Operates: [side 1 1912]
Gertie the Dinosaur: [side 1 1914]
Sinking of the Lusitania: [side 2 1918]
The Centaurs: [side 2 1918-21]
Gertie on Tour: [side 2 1918-21]
Flip's Circus: [side 2 1918-21]
Bug Vaudeville: [side 3 1921]
The Pet: [side 3 1921]
The Flying House: [side 4 1921]

ANIMATION, THE BEGINNING

[fs 2534 VHS 109min bw silent 1906-1927]

A sampling of the earliest cartoons.

Humorous Phases Funny Faces

[~4min 1906]
La Rateleur (The Dentures)

[~3min 1909]
Fantasmagoria

[~1min 1909]
The Automatic Moving Co.

[~4min 1910]
Little Nemo

[~9min 1911]
Revenge of the Kinematograph Camera

[~10min 1912]
Professor Bonehead Shipwrecked

[~3min 1912]
Gertie the Dinosaur

[~9min 1914]
The Dinosaur and the Missing Link

[~5min 1917]
Sinking of the Lusitania

[~8min 1918]
Bobby Bumps Puts a Beanery on the Bum

[~5min 1918]
Perpetual Motion

[~5min 1919]
Modelling

[~7min 1921]
Bubbles

[~7min 1922]
Laugh-O-Grams

[~2min 1918]
Puss-N-Boots

[~11min 1922]
Alice on the Farm

[~9min 1925]
Small Town Sheriff

[~6min 1925]
Felix in Hollywood

[~8min 1925]
Oswald and the Mechanical Cow

[~6min 1927]

THE ANNA AKHMATOVA FILE: [ 6481 VHS 65min. 1989 Russian/sub dir:Semeon Aranovitch]; Docmentary using both authentic materials and dramatized sections, about the great poet of the Stalinist era.

ANNA CHRISTIE: [fs 3289 VHS 5173A Laser 86min bw 1930 dir:Clarence Brown cast:Greta Garbo; Charles Bickford]; Adapted from a play by Eugene O'Neill. Garbo, in her first talking picture, plays an ex-hooker who finds true love with a sailor.

ANNIE GET YOUR GUN: [fs 9499 DVD 107min. 1950 dir:George Sidney cast:Betty Hutton, Howard Keel]; Irving Berlin musical about frontier sharpshooters in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show. Extras include Susan Lucci discussing the Broadway role and Judy Garland's scenes.

ANNA KARENINA: [fs 4352 VHS 5173D LaserCLV1 95min bw 1935 dir:Clarence Brown cast:Greta Garbo; Fredric March; Freddie Bartholomew; Maureen O'Sullivan]; From the Tolstoy novel of a married woman blindly in love with an army officer.

ANNIE HALL: [fs 3904 VHS JHVC 7002 93min 1977 dir:Woody Allen cast:Woody Allen; Diane Keaton]; Autobiographical love story with lots of Woody Allen's humorous philosophical commentary.

ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF THE DEAD: See AFRICAN VILLAGE LIFE SERIES

ANOTHER FINE MESS: [fs 1780 16mm 30min bw dir:James Parrott cast:Stan Laurel; Oliver Hardy]; Two loiterers try to hide from a policeman in a mansion.

Another Thin Man: fs 5191LD; See THE THIN MAN COLLECTION

ANTHROPOLOGISTS AT WORK: Careers Making a Difference: [3194 VHS 36min 1993]; A career-oriented introduction to the field of applied anthropology.

Anticipation of the Night: [fs 8305 VHS 42min silent 1958 dir:Stan Brakhage]; A film in the first person. The protagonist's eventual suicide is a result of his inability to participate in the 'untutored' seeing experience of a child.

ANTILLES: Guadeloupe - Martinique: [4800 VHS 54min French 1995]; A video tourist guide for the islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique.

ANTOINE AND COLETTE & LES MISTONS: [fs9169 DVD 30min 1962 French/sub dir:François Truffaut cast:Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marie-France Pisier]; Two short films. The first shows Antoine Doinel in love; originally part of the fim LOVE AT TWENTY (L'AMOUR À VINGT ANS). See alsoLES MISTONS.

ANTONIO DAS MORTES: [2912 VHS 100min Portuguese/sub 1968 dir:Glauber Rocha]; The story of the matador of cangacieros, a paid killer of rebels and bandits in the backlands of Brazil.

ANTONIONI: DOCUMENTS AND TESTIMONIALS: See L'AVVENTURA.

ANY OLD PORT: [fs 1808 16mm 20min bw 1931 cast:Stan Laurel; Oliver Hardy]

APA: EGY HIT NAPOLÓJA: See FATHER: DIARY OF ONE WEEK.

APARAJITO: [fs 6222 VHS 113min bw Bengali sub 1956 dir:Satyajit Ray]; The second part of the Apu Trilogy, in which a family tragedy forces an adult decision on the youthful Apu. See also Pather Panchali and The World of Apu.

APIUS AND VIRGINIA by R.B.: [4746 VHS 87min 1994]; "Based on Chaucer's Physician's Tale in which a Roman father beheads his only daughter to save her from the lust of a wicked judge."

APOCALYPSE NOW: [fs 2511 VHS 9057 DVD139min 1979 dir:Francis Ford Coppola cast:Marlon Brando; Robert Duvall; Martin Sheen]; Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness set in the Vietnam War.

APOLLO 13: [fs 9050 DVD 155min 1995 dir:Ron Howard cast:Tom Hanks, Gary Sinise, Kevin Bacon, Ed Harris]; Jim Lovell leads his moon-bound crew back from space after their spacecraft is damaged.

THE APOSTLE: [fs5557 Laser 134min 1997 dir:Robert Duvall cast:Robert Duvall; Farrah Fawcett; Billy Bob Thornton ]; A charismatic preacher attacks his wife's lover and escapes to the bayou to build a church of his own and find redemption.

APPALACHIAN SPRING: [0143 VHS 32min bw 1959]; Martha Graham and company perform the Aaron Copland ballet on an Isamu Noguchi set.

APPEALS TO SANTIAGO: [6394 VHS 0034 16mm 28min 1968]; Documentary of an eight-day Mayan Indian festival in the southern Mexican town of Tenejapa.

APPLIED MATHEMATICS: [VHS approx. 10min each episode 1989]; Shows how the various fields of mathematics are used in business and everyday life.

APPOINTMENT FOR LOVE: [fs 1038-1039 16mm 89min bw 1941 dir:William A. Seiter cast:Charles Boyer; Margaret Sullavan]; A comedy in which a husband and wife with separate careers find marriage almost impossible.

THE APPRENTICESHIP OF DUDDY KRAVITZ: [fs 2507 VHS JHVC 7018 121min 1974 dir:Ted Kotcheff cast:Richard Dreyfuss; Jack Warden]; Mordechai Richler's novel is a humorous tale of a likable unscrupulous kid from the Jewish ghetto in 1940s Montreal.

APPRENTICESHIP OF MORDECHAI RICHLER: [JHVC 7019 VHS 57MIN 1988 ]; Documentary about the author of The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, about Jewish life in Canada and especially Montreal

APRIL IN PARIS: [fs 1320-1322 16mm 101min 1952 dir:David Butler cast:Doris Day; Ray Bolger]; A showgirl is mistakenly invited to a U.S. arts festival in Paris and bewitches the man in charge.

ARAB AND JEW: WOUNDED SPIRITS IN A PROMISED: [JHVC 7064 VHS 120min 1989 ]; David K. Shipler examines the old and new hopes and fears that lock Arabs and Jews in struggle over Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip.

ARBITRATION: The Truth of the Matter: [0993 16mm 47min 1975]; Documents the arbitrator's role in a case of law, and explains the difficulties in giving and taking testimony.

ARBUCKLE AND KEATON 1: [fs 9568 DVD 125min. 1917-1919 b/w & tinted silent dir:Roscoe Arbuckle cast:Arbuckle, Buster Keaton]; Comique/Paramount shorts: The Bell Boy, The Butcher Boy, Out West, Moonshine, and The Hayseed. Lots of slapstick schtick, genre parodies.

ARBUCKLE AND KEATON 2: [fs 9569 DVD 121min. 1918-1920 b/w & tinted silent dir:Roscoe Arbuckle cast:Arbuckle, Buster Keaton]; Comique/Paramount shorts:Back Stage, Good Night, Nurse! Coney Island, The Rough House, The Garage. More great gags, crossdressing classics, and signature routines.

ARCHAEOLOGICAL DATING: Retracing Time: [1627 VHS 18min 1976]; Using a Southwestern Pueblo site, examines dating by pottery topology and stratigraphy, tree-rings, archaeomagnetism, and obsidian hydration.

ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE FIELD / ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE LAB: [3031 VHS 13min 1989]; Two-part video provided by the Florida Museum of Natural History, produced by Susan Milbrath.

ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE CINEMA: [fs 0439 16mm 30min bw 1963]; Documentary of the evolution of the cinema, with film clips to represent the various stages of development.; See also ORIGINS OF THE MOTION PICTURE

ARCHITECTS ARCHITECTURE: [1715 VHS 35min]; Philip Johnson, Ulrich Frantzen, and Warren Cox and George Hardman talk about the ideas, nature, and process of architecture circa the late 1970s.

THE ARCHITECTURE OF DOOM (Undergångens arkitektur): [4928 VHS 9363 DVD 119min 1991 Peter Cohen]; A study of the development of the Nazi aesthetic of purity and classicism in art, music, architecture, and popular culture.

ARE YOU A RACIST?: [3035 VHS 49min 1986]; Follows a five-day encounter between four white and four non-white Britons, who explore the issue of racism by talking about their feelings and experiences.

AREA UNDER A CURVE: [1499 16mm 14min 1966]; How calculus determines the area under a curve if the curve is a defined function.

ARENA: [1964 VHS 10min 1970 dir:Istvan Ventilla]; Montage of images and brief shots showing a football stadium from before the game to after it. Music by Babatunde Olatunje.

L'ARGENT: [fs 4537 VHS 82min French/sub 1983 dir:Robert Bresson]; Counterfeit money passed by two boys to boost their allowances ultimately causes the arrest of an innocent man who turns to crime.

ARGENTINA IN THE THIRTIES: [2558 VHS 22min 1985]; Produced by the Pan American Institute of Geography and History. Compiled mainly from newsreel footage of the period.

ARGENTINA'S JEWS: Days of Awe: [7243 VHS 55min 1980]; From agriculture in Moiseville to urban life in Buenos Aires.

ARGENTINISIMA I: [3092 VHS 95min Spanish 1969]; Inspired by the verses of Atahualpa Yupanqui, takes the viewer on an imaginary voyage, alternating between fantasy and reality.

ARGUMENT FROM DESIGN: [0742 16mm 25min bw 1974]; Historically documents the philosophical debate over the existence of God which uses the supposition that design implies the existence of a designer.

ARIA: [fs 3621 VHS 90min 1988 dirs:Robert Altman; Ken Russell; Derek Jarman; Jean-Luc Godard; Nicolas Roeg; Julien Temple; Bill Bryden; Franc Roddam; Charles Sturridge; Bruce Beresford]; A collection of short films by international directors, each inspired by an opera aria.

ARIEL: [fs 3670 VHS 74min Finnish/sub 1989 dir:Aki Kaurismäki]; An unemployed Finnish miner drives a Cadillac convertible into a series of criminal and comic misadventures.

ARLINGTON ROAD: [fs9055 DVD 117min 1998 dir:Mark Pellington cast:Jeff Bridges, Tim Robbins]; Are the nice neighbors right-wing terrorists, or is the professor paranoid?

ARMAGEDDON: [fs 9570 DVD 153min. 1998 dir:Michael Bay cast:Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Liv Tyler]; An asteroid is heading for earth--brave men must blow it up to avert disaster! Special edition includes numerous supplements.

ARMSTRONG: [fs9056 DVD 99min 1997 dir:Menahim Golan cast:Frank Zagarino, Joe Lara]; A newly-widowed woman and a man must foil Russian criminals selling nuclear warheads to terrorists.

ARSENAL: [fs 2927 VHS 65min bw silent 1929 dir:Alexander Dovzhenko]; Traces the growth of resistance in Russia from Czarist times to the post-World War I period.

ART IS: [0855 16mm 28min 1971]; Demonstrates the variety, vitality, and accessibility of art, displaying the talents of various artists, composers, and performers.

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