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THE G-STRING MURDERS
See LADY OF BURLESQUE
GABBEH
[fs6333 VHS 75min 1996 Farsi/sub dir:Mohsen Makhmalbaf]
An elderly nomadic couple owns a magnificent carpet (gabbeh) whose story and figures come alive for them.
GABLE AND CRAWFORD COLLECTION
[fs5418]
6 films starring both Clark Gable and Joan Crawford, on 5 laserdiscs designated A-E
  • Possessed
    [5418a ]
    POSSESSED
  • Dance, Fools, Dance
    [5418a-b]
    See DANCE FOOLS DANCE
  • Chained
    [5481b-c 76min bw 1934 dir:Clarence Brown]
    Should she marry the new man she truly loves or her old lover who got a divorce to marry her?
  • Forsaking All Others
    [5481c 84min bw 1934 dir:W.S. Van Dyke cast:Robert Montgomery]
    Should she carry a torch for the guy who dumped her at the altar, or notice the guy who really loves her?
  • Love on the Run
    [5481d 80min bw 1936 dir: W. S. Van Dyke]
    Heiress dumps prince to elope with reporter and they become involved with spies.
  • Strange Cargo
    [5481d-e 105min bw 1940 dir:Frank Borzage cast:Ian Hunter]
    Prisoners escape from Devil's Island helped by a Christ-like guide.
GABRIEL OVER THE WHITE HOUSE
[4096 VHS 5412 LD 78min bw 1933 dir:Gregory La Cava cast:Walter Huston; Franchot Tone; Karen Morley]
A newly-elected President awakens from a coma a changed man and uses the dictatorial emergency power of his office to fight crime, unemployment, and world rearmament.
GABY - A True Story
[5136 LaserCLV1 115min 1987 dir:Luis Mandoki cast:Liv Ullmann; Norma Aleandro]
A girl whose cerebral palsy leaves her only limited control of her left foot and leg grows up to be a college graduate and author.
LE GAI SAVOIR
[3080 VHS 96min French subt 1968 dir:Jean-Luc Godard cast:Jean-Pierre Léaud; Juliet Berto]
A man and a woman work on making an experimental movie.
GAL YOUNG 'UN
[2850 VHS 105min 1986 dir:Victor Nuñez cast:Dana Preu; David Peck]
A prohibition-era Florida widow is charmed then exploited by a foppish hustler. From a story by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.
GALAPAGOS: Laboratory for Evolution - Experimental Conditions
[0669 VHS 36min 1971]
Describes the Galapagos Islands, showing how their isolation and variety of geographic features make them ideal for the forcing of evolution by nature and the testing of theories by man.
GALEANO: Memory, Myth and Reality, God, Message
[4904 VHS 26min Spanish 1990]
Eduardo Galeano speaks on various topics.
GALLIPOLI
[2257-2258 111min 1981 dir:Peter Weir cast:Mark Lee; Mel Gibson; Bill Kerr]
Youthful idealists enlist in the military and meet their fate in World War I.
GAMBIT
[1122-1124 16mm 109min 1966 dir:Ronald Neame cast:Michael Caine; Shirley MacLaine]
A cockney thief and a Eurasian girl conspire to steal a valuable sculpture.
THE GAMBLER
[2255-2256 u-matic 109min 1974 dir:Karel Reisz cast:James Caan; Paul Sorvino]
A college professor runs up a huge gambling debt and in a desperate long-shot to raise cash, he deceives and disillusions everyone in his life, including his girlfriend.
GANDHI
[0072 16mm, 8123 VHS 27min bw 1959]
A television-produced biography.
GANDHI
[6986 VHS 187min 1982 dir:Richard Attenborough cast:Ben Kingsley, Candace Bergen, Edward Fox]
Epic of India's modern history focussed on the nonviolent leader Mahatma Gandhi.
GANG WAR
[fs 4873 VHS 65min bw 1940 dir:Leo Popkin cast:Ralph Cooper]
Rival gangs battle for control of a city's jukebox business.
GANJA & HESS
[4654 VHS 85min 1973 dir:Bill Gunn cast:Duane Jones; Marlene Clark]
A black anthropologist, accidentally stabbed by an ancient artifact, turns into a vampire.
GARAM HAWA (HOT WINDS)
[6969 VHS 146min 1973 Urdu/sub dir:M.S. Sathyu]
A Muslim shoemaker in Agra suffers through terrible joices during the partition of India.
GARBO SILENTS
[fs5429]
3 silent black and white films starring Greta Garbo, plus an excerpt of another, on 3 laserdics designated A-C.
  • Torrent
    [5429a 88min. 1926 color tinting dir:Monta Bell cast:Ricardo Cortez]
    Vicente Blasco Iba¤ez novel of a peasant girl who becomes an opera star but still loves her lost, first sweetheart.
  • Love
    [5429a-b 81min. 1927 dir:Edmund Goulding cast:John Gilbert]
    Based on Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. Anna's love from Vrosnsky destroys her marriage and finally her.
  • Wild Orchids
    [5429b-c ]
    See WILD ORCHIDS
  • Divine Woman (excerpt)
    [5429c 9min. 1928]
    Only surviving fragment of this film. A young woman loves a soldier but wants to be a star.
THE GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS (IL GIARDINO DEI FINZI-CONTINI)
[3013 VHS JHVC 7103 VHS fs 7230 VHS restored 95min Italian subt 1971 dir:Vittorio De Sica cast:Dominique Sanda]
A drama about an aristocratic Jewish family in World War II Italy, which conveniently ignores the spectre of the concentration camp until it's too late.
GARLANDS AT THE FOOT OF THE MOUNTAIN
[3326 VHS 150min Chinese subt dir:Xie Jin]
A company in the Chinese Army fights the Vietnamese.
GARLIC IS AS GOOD AS TEN MOTHERS
[4003 VHS 51min 1977 dir:Les Blank]
A documentary of the consumption, cultivation, and curative powers of garlic.
THE GARMENT JUNGLE
[1671-1673 16mm 88min bw 1957 dir:Vincent Sherman cast:Lee J. Cobb; Kerwin Mathews; Gia Scala]
Union-gangster corruption in the garment industry.
GARTNER GROUP TRAINING VIDEOS
About 200 videos on various computer-literacy topics. See GARTNER GROUP PAGE
See also TALKING TECHNOLOGY monthly audio magazine.
GARY COOPER
[3232 VHS 22min bw]
Short film biography of the two-time Oscar winner.
GARY HILL VIDEOS
[3236 VHS 13m total 1978-1986 dir:Gary Hill]
Experimental videos.
  • Full Circle [~3.5min 1978]
  • Mediations [~4.5min 1979 & 1986]
  • Around & About [~5min 1980]
GARY HILL: SPINNING THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT VOL. 2
[fs5578 LD 58min 1984 dir:Gary Hill]
  • "Why Do Things Get in a Muddle? (Come on Petunia)"
  • "Ura Aru (the backside exists)"
    Japanese language/subtitled.
Second of three volumes exploring the interpretive space between language and image.
GARY HILL: SPINNING THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT VOL. 3
[ fs5579 LD 59min 1985-88 dir:Gary Hill]
  • "Incidence of Catastrophe"
  • "Tale Enclosure"
  • "Mediations,"
  • "Site Recite (A Prologue)".
Third of three volumes exploring the interpretive space between language and image.
GASLIGHT
[3970 VHS 5709 Laser 113min bw 1944 dir:George Cukor cast:Ingrid Bergman; Charles Boyer; Joseph Cotten]
An insane criminal tries to drive his wife insane in order to discover hidden jewels.
GATEWAYS TO THE MIND: The Story of the Human Senses
[0521 16mm 59min 1958]
Uses sensory deprivation and other experiments to show how the senses register in the brain.
GAUGIN, BAUDELAIRE, TCHAÏKOVSKI
[10009 CD-ROM PC/MAC 1995 French Language]
Art, music, and poetry of Gaugin, Baudelaire, and Tchaikovsky presented by Guy Casaril.
GAY COUPLES: The Nature of Relationships
[6220 VHS 50min 1997]
Sociologist Dr. Pepper Schwartz documents the lives of a gay and a lesbian couple: conflict, work, friends and family, and the roles of gender and society in influencing relationships.
THE GAY DIVORCEE
[0936-0937 16mm 3457 VHS 5132 LD 107min bw 1934 dir:Mark Sandrich cast:Fred Astaire; Ginger Rogers]
Production numbers built around a plot concerning a divorce case and mistaken identity. See also fs 5353LD THE FRED ASTAIRE AND GINGER ROGERS COLLECTION
GAZON MAUDIT
See FRENCH TWIST
GELEDE: A Yoruba Masquerade
[0163 VHS 24min]
In Dahomey, Nigeria, villages celebrate the festival of the Great Mother, reaffirming women's status in a patriarchal society.
GELEIA GERAL
[2058 u-matic 40min]
A video recording of Brazilian concrete poetry, visual poetry, post-concrete poetry, text objects, verbo-graphic designs, intersemiotic creations, constructivism, etc. at a showing held at the Grinter Galleries, March 2 - April 6, 1989.
GENE KELLY COLLECTION
[fs5423]
3 musicals from 1949-55, plus extra material, starring Gene Kelly on 4 laserdiscs designated A-D.
  • On the Town
    [5423a ]
    See ON THE TOWN
  • Brigadoon
    [5423b ]
    See BRIGADOON Note: includes 3 musical numbers which were not part of the released film.
  • It's Always Fair Weather
    [5423c 102min. 1955 dir:Stanley Donen and Kelly cast:Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse, Michael Kidd]
    Comden and Green script about three war buddies in an uneasy reunion 10 years later. Includes Kelly rollerskating.
  • Gene Kelly Legacy
    [5423d ]
    Musical numbers from 9 of Kelly's films, 1942-57.
THE GENERAL
[0395-0396 16mm 5031 LaserCLV1 3864 VHS 2999 VHS 74min bw silent 1927 dir:Buster Keaton cast:Buster Keaton; Marion Mack]
Recreation of a true Civil War story. An engineer tries to take back his train and his girlfriend from Union raiders, which makes for a great chase sequence.
GENERAL DELLA ROVERE
[2988 VHS 129min bw Italian subt 1960 dir:Roberto Rossellini cast:Vittorio De Sica]
During World War II, a petty con man is persuaded by the Germans to impersonate an executed Italian general, in order to discover the identity of a resistance leader.
THE GENERAL LINE
[4203 VHS 120min bw silent 1929 dir:Sergei Eisenstein]
A story of conflict between old and new methods of farming, the film uses what Eisenstein called "polyphonic montage."
GENERAL SPANKY
[fs 5710 Laser 71min. 1936 b/w ]
Hal Roach's comedy sets Spanky, Buckwheat, and Alfalfa in a Civil War setting. Three "Our Gang Comedy" shorts included. See also OUR GANG COMEDIES.
GENERATIONS OF RESISTANCE
[0981 VHS 52min 1979 dir:Peter Davis]
Documentary about the formation, in the 20th century, of a sense of black South African unity against apartheid, including the formation of the African National Congress.
GENESIS
[4059 VHS 105min Hindi subt 1986 dir:Mrinal Sen]
A weaver and a farmer, trying to live as free men in a desolate place, are tested by the arrival of a woman.
GENESIS: A LIVING CONVERSATION
[JHVC 7135-39 VHS 120min 1996 Bill Moyers, Burton Visotzky]
Jewish and Christian/secular discussions of the first book of the Bible.
  • In God's Image: The Story of Creation; Temptation: Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. [7135]
  • The First Murder: Cain and Abel; Apocalypse: Noah and the Flood. [7136]
  • Call and Promise: Abraham and Sarah; A Family Affair: Abraham, Sarah, and Hagar. [7137]
  • The Test: Abraham and Isaac on Mount Moriah; Blessed Deception: Isaac, Rebekah, Esau, and Jacob. [7138]
  • God Wrestling: Jacob's Coming-of-Age; Exile: Joseph in Egypt. [7139]
GENETIC FINGERPRINTING
[4489 VHS 20min 1991]
Describes the use of restriction enzymes in the analysis of DNA and discusses such applications as forensic identification.
GENGHIS COHN
[JHVC 7007 VHS 100min 1994 dir:Elijah Moshinsky cast:Antony Scher, Robert Lindsay, Diana Rigg]
Based on a Romain Gary novel. A Jewish comedian dies at Dachau but returns to haunt, and perhaps help, the commandant who ordered his execution.
GENOCIDE (THE WORLD AT WAR)
[JHVC 7104 VHS 52min 1975 ]
See alsoANIMATION, THE BEGINNING
GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT
[1287-1289 16mm JHVC 7030 VHS 5282 LaserCLV1 118min bw 1947 dir:Elia Kazan cast:Gregory Peck; Dorothy McGuire]
A writer pretending to be Jewish discovers how widespread anti-Semitism is.
GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES
[3979, 3980 VHS 92min 1953 dir:Howard Hawks cast:Marilyn Monroe; Jane Russell]
Two girls from Little Rock seek fame and fortune in Paris.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER AND MIDDLE ENGLISH LITERATURE
[3692 VHS 35min 1988]
Introduces the themes, forms, and major works of medieval English literature, particularly the works of Chaucer.
GEOLOGY AND MAN
[0560 VHS 19min 1972]
"Restless Earth" segment presents the geologic perspective on human consumption of natural resources and attempts to control natural processes.
GEORGE ORWELL
[3679 VHS 120min 1984]
Biographical documentary of the author of Animal Farm and 1984, featuring interviews with many of the people who knew him.
GEORGE ORWELL: The Road to Wigan Pier
[3680 VHS 52min 1991]
An examination of Orwell's socialism, set against the coal mining town he once documented, and punctuated by depression-era music from that locale.
GEORGE STEVENS: A FILMMAKER'S JOURNEY
[fs5644 Laser 111min 1984 dir:George Stevens, Jr.]
Biography of the director, including interviews with cronies, film clips, and footage of World War II.
GEORGES DUBY: LES FEMMES ET LE POUVOIR EN FRANCE AU XIIe SIÈCLE
See DUBY
GEORGES SEURAT: Point, Counterpoint
[3865 VHS 75min 1979]
A documentary about the life and work of the painter who created the pointillist technique.
GEORGIA O'KEEFE
[1586-1587 16mm 60min 1977]
Documents the artist's life and work.
THE GERMAN WEEKLY NEWSREEL
[fs VHS bw]
Newsreels made during World War II by Nazi Germany.
  • [4395 50min German 1941]
    Four newsreels of fighting in Poland and in countries around the Mediterranean Sea and the Baltic Sea.
  • [4972 58min German subt 1943]
    Three newsreels and a comic short. Goebbel's "Total War" speech is featured in the first newsreel.
THE GERMANS AND THEIR MEN
[3754 VHS 96min German subt 1989 dir:Helke Sander]
An Austrian woman goes to Germany to look for a husband and interviews men about their attitudes.
GERMANY AWAKE
[2909 VHS 90min bw English/German subt 1968 dir:Erwin Leiser]
Documents the use of German motion pictures as Nazi propaganda tools. Film clips include: Morgenrot; Jud Süß; Der Rothschilds; Der Grosse König; Bismarck; Kolberg; Heimkehr; and Hitlerjunge Quex.
GERMANY CELEBRATES HITLER'S 50th BIRTHDAY - 1939
[fs 4918 VHS 21min bw German subt 1939]
Nazi propaganda newsreel featuring the largest military revue of the Third Reich.
GERMANY-DADA
[1492 16mm 3923 VHS 55min 1968]
Documentary about the Dadaist group of artists and writers. Filmed in the true Dadaist spirit with the cooperation of two original Dadaists, Hans Richter, and Richard Huelsenbeck.
GERMANY IN AUTUMN
[4407 VHS 126min German subt 1977 dirs:Alf Brustellin; Hans Peter Cloos; Rainer Werner Fassbinder; Alexander Kluge; Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus; Maximiliane Mainka; Edgar Reitz; Katja Rupe; Volker Schlöndorff; Bernard Sinkel; Peter Schubert]
A response by German filmmakers to the political violence in Germany in the late 1970s.
GERMANY, PALE MOTHER (Deutschland bleiche Mutter)
[6911 VHS 123min. 1979 German/sub dir:Helma Sanders-Brahms cast: Eva Mattes, Ernst Jacobi]
A young woman married to a Nazi soldier survives the German defeat, including her own rape by American soldiers.
GERMANY, YEAR ZERO
[3043 VHS 4186 VHS 75min bw German subt 1947 dir:Roberto Rossellini]
What happens to the children of a starving, defeated nation. Made in the neo-realist style using only nonprofessional actors.
GERTIE THE DINOSAUR
[1985 16mm 7min bw silent 1909 dir:Winsor McCay]
Early animation classic.
See alsoANIMATION, THE BEGINNING and ANIMATION LEGEND: WINSOR MCCAY
GERTRUD
[2902 VHS 116min bw Danish subt 1964 dir:Carl Theodore Dreyer]
Searching for the ideal man, a woman rejects every suitor and retires to a life of solitude.
GERVAISE
[0772-0774 16mm 3445 VHS 115min bw French subt 1957 dir:René Clement cast:Maria Schell; François Perier]
Film adaptation of the Emile Zola novel L'Assommoir. The struggle of a woman to keep her family going, though her husband's alcoholism is tearing it apart.
DIE GESCHWISTER OPPERMANN (The Oppermanns)
[3099-3100 VHS JHVC 7113 VHS German/sub 1986 dir:Egon Monk]
Television miniseries based on Lion Feuchtwangler's novel of a prosperous, educated Jewish family in Berlin in 1932-33.
GESTES
[0838 16mm 28min bw French]
An introduction to the nonverbal aspect of speaking French.
GET REAL
[fs9241 DVD 110min 1999 dir:Simon Shore cast:Ben Silverstone]
A gay British teen comes to terms with himself and first love.
GHARE-BAIRE (The Home and the World )
[6580 VHS Bengali language sub 130min 1984 dir:Satyajit Ray]
Portrait of the coming of age of an Indian woman who falls in love with her husband's best friend.
Ghost Ship
fs 5487LD
See VAL LEWTON COLLECTION
GHOSTBUSTERS
[fs9154 DVD 107min 1984 dir:Ivan Reitman cast:Bill Murray, Dan Ackroyd, Harold Ramis]
Three professors of parapsychology turn to the private sector and find plenty of work.
THE GI BILL: THE LAW THAT CHANGED AMERICA
[ 8003 VHS 60min. ]
PBS documentary in which veterans reminisce about enlistment in World War II, war experiences, and the return to the chance for education, self-realization, and homeownership provided by the bill.
GIANT
[fs 5598Laser 1956 dir:George Stevens cast:Elizabeth Taylor; Rock Hudson; James Dean]
Adaptation of the novel by Edna Ferber. Story of family strife, racial bigotry and conflict between cattle barons and newly-rich oil tycoons.
GIGI
[fs 5482 LaserCLV1 117min 1958 dir:Viincente Minnelli cast:Leslie Caron; Maurice Chevalier; Louis Jourdan]
Musical film adaptation of the novel by Colette, in which a girl blossoms into a woman and conquers Paris and the heart of a marriage-shy lady's man.
GILDA
[fs 1170-1172 16mm 3265 VHS 5039 LaserCLV1 9612 DVD 110min bw 1946 dir:Charles Vidor cast:Rita Hayworth; Glenn Ford]
A gambler in a South American city resumes a love-hate relationship with an old flame, who is now married to his dangerous new boss.
GIMME SHELTER THE ROLLING STONES
[fs 9515 DVD 91min. 1970 dir:David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin]
Uncensored 30th anniversary edition of the documentary of the Stones' 1969 tour, including the disatrous free concert at Altamont.
GIOTTO AND THE PRE-RENAISSANCE
[1488 VHS 47min 1969 dir:Luciano Emmer]
A photographic tour of all the major fresco cycles of the medieval Italian artist Giotto di Bondone. Narrated by Richard Basehart.
GIRDLE ROUND THE EARTH
[0758 16mm 20min bw 1965]
A brief history of electronic communications.
THE GIRL
[2811 VHS 89min bw Hungarian subt 1968 dir:Marta Meszaros]
A young woman leaves a state orphanage and finds her mother, but a wide gulf still separates them.
THE GIRL AT THE MONCEAU BAKERY (LA BOULANGÈRE DE MONCEAU)
[6104 VHS 78min French /sub bw 1968 dir:Eric Rohmer cast:Barbet Schroeder;Claudine Soubrier, Michole Girardon]
A young man must choose between two girls when he arranges dates with them on the same day.
THE GIRL CAN'T HELP IT
[3984 VHS 99min 1956 dir:Frank Tashlin cast:Jayne Mansfield; Tom Ewell; Edmond O'Brien]
A theatrical agent grooms a gangster's dumb girl friend for stardom.
GIRL CRAZY
[5208 LaserCLV1 100min bw 1943 dir:Norman Taurog cast:Mickey Rooney; Judy Garland]
A young man more interested in a good time than education is sent west to an all-male college. Music by George and Ira Gershwin.
A GIRL FROM HUNAN
[3288 VHS 95min Chinese w/illegible subtitles dirs:Xian Hui; Yu Lan]
A young woman who marries a child husband, has an affair with a farm hand employed by the family, becomes pregnant, raises the child as being her young husband's brother.
THE GIRL FROM MISSOURI
[4119 VHS 72min bw 1934 dir:Jack Conway cast:Jean Harlow; Franchot Tone]
A young woman leaves home determined to go to New York and find a wealthy man to marry. See also fs 5422LD JEAN HARLOW COLLECTION
THE GIRL FROM PETROVKA
[1248-1249 16mm 104min 1974 dir:Robert Ellis Miller cast:Goldie Hawn; Hal Holbrook; Anthony Hopkins]
An American correspondent falls for a Russian girl.
GIRL IN EVERY PORT
[6096 VHS 79 min silent 1928 dir:Howard Hawks cast:Victor McLaglen; Robert Armstrong; Louise Brooks]
Sailor Spike Maden discovers he has competition for his girlfriends in various ports.
GIRL, INTERRUPTED
[fs9345 DVD 127min 1999 dir:James Mangold cast:Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie]
Susanna Kaysen's memoir of a sojourn in a private mental hospital in the late 1960s, as one of many troubled young women for whom madness seems an obvious lifestyle.
GIRL ON A MOTORCYCLE
[fs5565 Laser 91min 1968 dir:Jack Cardiff cast:Alain Delon; Marianne Faithfull]
A girl is obsessed with her ex-lover while married to another man.
THE GIRL WITH THE HAT BOX
[3083 VHS 67min bw silent 1927 dir:Boris Barnet cast:Anna Sten]
Silent Russian comedy involving a lottery ticket given as payment to a young hat maker.
A GIRL'S FOLLY
[3579 VHS 66min 5486 LaserCLV 30min bw silent 1917 dir:Maurice Tourneur cast:Robert Warwick; June Elvidge]
A starlet fails her screen test but is given a chance for success the "easy" way.
GIVE A GIRL A BREAK
[fs 5711 Laser 82min. 1953 dir:Stanley Donen cast:Debblie Reynolds, Marge and Gower Champion]
Backstage musical: the Director, the Composer, and the Assistant each have a proteg‚e who deserves to be a star. With EVERYTHING I HAVE IS YOURS.
GIVE 'EM HELL, HARRY
[1646-1648 16mm 120min 1975 cast:James Whitmore]
A filmed one-man stage play covering the highlights of the life of Harry S. Truman.
GIVE MY REGARDS TO BROADWAY
[1760-1761 16mm 89min 1948 dir:Lloyd Bacon cast:Dan Dailey; Charles Winninger]
An old-time vaudevillian doesn't want to break up the family act.
GIVE WAR A CHANCE
[6329 VHS 60min 1999 ]
Frontline report: Two Vietnam veterans, Richard Holbrooke and Admiral Leighton "Snuffy" Smith, clash in Bosnia over America's role as enforcer of world morality and peace.
GLADIATOR
[ 9516 DVD 155min. 2000 dir:Ridley Scott cast:Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix]
As Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius dies and his son Commodus takes the purple, wily and pious General Maximus falls from grace and ends up a gladiator in the ColosSeum.
GLADIATORS: BLOODSPORT OF THE COLOSEUM
[ 9517 DVD 90min. ]
David Hemmings narrates a documentary on the gladiatorial games of Ancient Rome, in which men fought to the death. Filmed in Rome, probably 1999.
GLASS JAW
[4189 VHS 20min bw 1993 dir:Michael O'Reilly]
Experimental video.
THE GLASS KEY
[3341 VHS 5209 LaserCLV1 87min bw 1935 dir:Stuart Heisler cast:Brian Donlevy; Veronica Lake; Alan Ladd]
A slightly corrupt but good-natured politician is saved by his henchman from being implicated in a murder. Based on a Dashiell Hammett mystery.
GLIMPSES OF WEST AFRICA
[4861 VHS 32min French 1990]
Looks at the geography, culture and people of the Cote d'Ivoire, Mali, and Senegal.
THE GLOBAL ASSEMBLY LINE
[1391 VHS 58min 1986]
The search by world industry for cheap labor to compete in a global economy.
THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT: The Troubled Sea
[4308 VHS 20min 1989]
Examines the major forces working against sea life, such as overfishing and pollution.
GLOBAL TELEVISION
[2100 u-matic 29min 1979]
Discusses the influence of varying technical standards and politics on the television medium in many countries.
GLOBAL WINDS
[4289 VHS 12min 1986]
Shows how temperature differences, geological features, and the Earth's rotation produce winds.
GLORIA NAYLOR
[4581 VHS 21min bw 1992]
In this interview, the black woman author "..discusses the value and difficulty of maintaining an African ... identity in a world dominated by whites."
GO BACK TO MEXICO!
[4433 VHS 57min 1992]
A PBS Frontline documentary examining the issues of illegal immigration across the Mexican border into the U.S.
GOEBBELS: Master of Propaganda
[fs 6251 VHS 51min 1998]
Documents the career of Josef Goebbels, showing his pioneering use of media to propagandize and further the Nazi cause.
GO FISH
[fs 4852 VHS 83min bw 1994 dir:Rose Troche]
"...insightful, erotically-charged film about dating, friendship, love and sex.." among lesbians.
Go Into Your Dance
fs 5265LD
See AL JOLSON COLLECTION
THE GO MASTERS
[3259 VHS 134min Japanese subt 1987 dirs:Duan Ji-Shun; Junya Sato]
Two masters of go, one Chinese and one Japanese, find their passion for the game snaring them in the politics of the era, as Japan invades China.
GO WEST (Keaton)
SeeART OF BUSTER KEATON Vol.2
GO WEST (Marx Brothers)
See AT THE CIRCUS.
GO WEST, YOUNG MAN
[1210-1211 16mm 6348 VHS 80min bw 1936 dir:Henry Hathaway cast:Mae West; Randolph Scott]
A movie star is stranded in a rural spot with car troubles and falls for a local guy.
THE GOALIE'S ANXIETY AT THE PENALTY KICK
[3105 VHS 101min German subt 1971 dir:Wim Wenders]
A soccer goalie, suspended for missing a penalty kick, becomes deranged, murders a woman, awaits capture by the police.
GOD & MONEY
[3051 VHS 43min 1986]
The Catholic bishops' pastoral letter on the economy, challenging Catholics to go beyond charity and to explore systemic economic changes which empower the poor and dignify labor.
THE GODFATHER
[3858-3859 VHS 5210 LaserCLV2 171min 1972 dir:Francis Ford Coppola cast:Marlon Brando; Al Pacino; James Caan]
Portrait of a Sicilian gangster family's rise to, and near fall from, power in America, and the transfer of power from father to son.
THE GODFATHER PART II
[3862-3863 VHS 5211 LaserCLV2 200min 1975 dir:Francis Ford Coppola cast:Al Pacino; Robert Duvall; Robert De Niro]
Continues the saga of the Corleone crime family.
GODS OF THE PLAGUE
[4238 VHS 92min bw German subt 1969 dir:Rainer Werner Fassbinder cast:Hanna Schygulla; Margarette von Trotta]
A trio of young people plans a holdup but the ex-girllfirend of one of them sells them out to the police.
GODZILLA MEETS MONA LISA
[6349 VHS 1621 16mm 58min 1983]
Cheerful look at the Centre Pompidou or Beaubourg, the "monstrous" attempt at a populist museum/music/theater space in Paris.
GOIN' SOUTH
[2265-2266 u-matic 105min 1978 dir:JackNicholson cast:Jack Nicholson; Mary Steenburgen; Christopher Lloyd]
A shrewd spinster rescues an outlaw from the gallows by marrying him, so she can put him to work.
GOING APE!
[2263-2264 u-matic 87min 1981 dir:Jeremy Joe Kronsberg cast:Tony Danza; Jessica Walter]
A former circus employee who has inherited $5 million, must protect three orangutans in order to save his inheritance.
GOING BYE-BYE!
[1867 16mm 20min bw 1933 dir:Charles Rogers cast:Stan Laurel; Oliver Hardy]
Stan and Ollie help send a criminal to jail, but the criminal escapes.
GOING INTERNATIONAL SERIES
[VHS 29min each 1983]
Aimed at preparing employees for working in a foreign country.
  • Bridging the Culture Gap
    [1603]
    An introduction to the idea of living and working in a foreign country.
  • Managing the Overseas Assignment
    [1604]
    Gives examples of specific problems Americans might have in various foreign countries.
  • Beyond Culture Shock
    [1605]
    Explains how to adjust to foreign employment, including the concerns of a spouse.
  • Welcome Home Stranger
    [1606]
    Discusses the problems facing employees when they return to the American workplace.
GOING MY WAY
[0494-0496 16mm 3413 VHS 9223 DVD 126min bw 1944 dir:Leo McCarey cast:Bing Crosby; Barry Fitzgerald]
A young priest comes to a New York slum parish and after initial friction charms the old priest.
GOING TO SCHOOL IN JAPAN
[4234 VHS 24min 1990]
Looks at the classroom structure and teaching styles of Japanese public schools and discusses the obsession to excel academically.
GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933
[0820-0821 16mm 5020 LaserCLV1 3256 VHS 96min bw 1933 dir:Mervyn LeRoy cast:Joan Blondell; Ruby Keeler; Dick Powell]
Rich-kid songwriter will marry chorus girl over parental objections: vehicle for Busby Berkeley production numbers.
GOLD DIGGERS OF 1935
[3319 VHS 5212 LaserCLV1 95min bw 1935 dir:Busby Berkeley cast:Dick Powell; Adolphe Menjou]
A medical student working at a summer resort stars in a charity show and gets the socialite's daughter.
THE GOLD RUSH
[1839 16mm (clips) 0397 VHS 2967 VHS 5304 LD 9292 DVD 72min bw silent 1925 dir:Charlie Chaplin cast:Chaplin; Mack Swain]
The Little Tramp vs the Klondike during the gold rush. 0397 represents a 1930s release of the film with an organ soundtrack; other versions are the 1942 re-release with Chaplin's narration replacing intertitles.
GOLDA MEIR
[JHVC 7071 VHS 50min 1978 ]
Walter Cronkite hosts a CBS News report on the Prime Minister of Israel, which aired just after her death.
GOLDEN AGE OF THE GERMAN CINEMA
[fs5367]
3 features and one short from 1922-27 on 3 laserdiscs; all black and white and silent.
GOLDEN AGE OF LOONEY TUNES
[fs 5712 Laser ]
5-disc set including cartoons from 1933 through 1948 by Tex Avery, Friz Freleng, Chuck Jones, Bob Clampett, and of course Mel Blanc. Bugs Bunny, Tweety Bird and Sylvester, Elmer Fudd, Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, and even Dr. Seuss's Horton are all here.
THE GOLDEN BOAT
[6318 VHS 84min 1994 dir:Raul Ruiz]
Aburdist and violent, set on the artistic fringes of Manhattan, this film combines influences of American police shows and Mexican soap operas.
THE GOLDEN COACH
[4321 VHS 103min 1952 dir:Jean Renoir cast:Anna Magnani; Duncan Lamont]
In early 18th-century Peru three men have different designs on the leading actress of a touring company.
Golden Dawn
fs 5428LD
See DAWN OF SOUND III
THE GOLDEN HONEYMOON
[2817 VHS 52min 1980 dir:Noel Black cast:James Whitmore; Teresa Wright]
The Ring Lardner short story about a couple honeymooning in Florida on their 50th anniversary.
THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
See THE MEMOIRS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES.
DIE GOLDENE STADT
[4250 VHS 100min German 1942 dir:Veit Harlan cast:Kristina Söderbaum; Rudolf Prack; Paul Klinger]
The daughter of a German farmer yearns to live in Prague, but there she is seduced and abandoned.
LE GOLEM
[4899 VHS 96min bw French /sub 1935 dir:Julien Duvivier cast:Harry Baur; Roger Karl]
A generation after it was first created, the golem is called on again to save a Jewish leader in 16th-century Prague.
THE GOLEM (Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam)
[0313-0314 16mm 3575 VHS (118min) 9411 DVD (68min) bw silent 1920 dir:Paul Wegener cast:Paul Wegener; Albert Steinruck]
A man-made "robot" of clay is brought to life to save ghetto Jews from a pogrom.
THE GOLF SPECIALIST
[1859 16mm 18min 9437 DVD bw 1930 dir:Monte Brice cast:W. C. Fields]
Field's famous vaudeville sketch about golf.
GONE WITH THE WIND
[5007 LaserCLV2 6423-6424 VHS 9101 DVD 222min 1939 dir:Victor Fleming cast:Clark Gable; Vivien Leigh; Leslie Howard; Olivia de Havilland]
Margaret Mitchell's epic set in the Deep South. See also GONE WITH THE WIND MAKING OF A LEGEND.
GONZA THE SPEARMAN
[2812 VHS 126min Japanese subt 1986 dir:Masahiro Shinoda cast:Hiromi Go; Shima Iwashita]
In early 18th-century Japan a young soldier changes fiancees to better his social standing and pays for it.
THE GOOD EARTH
[3285 VHS 5713 Laser 138min bw 1937 dir:Sidney Franklin cast:Paul Muni; Luise Rainer]
From the novel by Pearl Buck, the story of greed ruining the lives of a simple Chinese farming couple.
GOOD EVENING, MR. WALLENBERG (Godafton, Herr Wallenberg)
[JHVC 7105 VHS 115min 1990 Swedish/sub dir:Kjell Grede cast:Stellan Skarsg†rd]
Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg works to save the Jewish population of Hungary from Hitler's Holocaust.
GOOD MORNING (OHAYO)
[fs9396 DVD 93min. 1959 Japanese/sub dir:Yasujiro Ozu cast:Masahiko Shimazu, Koji Shidara]
Suburban Tokyo: two little boys try to persuade their parents to buy a television set.
GOOD NEWS
[fs 5714 Laser 85min. 1947 dir:Charles Walters cast:June Allyson, Peter Lawford]
Comden-Green musical comedy in a 1920s college setting.
THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY 9088
[9088 DVD 161min 1966 dir:Sergio Leone cast:Clint Eastwood; Lee Van Cleef; Eli Wallach]
The "Man with No Name" teams up with two gunslingers to pursue a cache of $200,000.
GOOD WILL HUNTING
[5501 LaserCLV 1997 126min dir:Gus Van Sant cast:Robin Williams; Matt Damon; Minnie Driver; Ben Affleck]
A kid who is a janitor and math genius has four friends who love and want to help him, but he's threatened by thier help because it means abandoning his dysfunctional defense mechanisms.
GOODBYE, COLUMBUS
[JHVC 7031 VHS 105min 1969 dir:Larry Peerce cast:Richard Benjamin, Ally McGraw]
Philip Roth's novella about a the romance between two New York City Jews, a librarian and a suburban princess.
THE GOODBYE GIRL
[fs 5715 Laser 110min. 1977 dir:Herbert Ross cast:Marsha Mason, Richard Dreyfuss]
Neil Simon romance between a divorced single mother and a nutty actor who must share a New York City apartment.
GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS
[3371 VHS 5716 Laser 114min bw 1939 dir:Sam Wood cast:Robert Donat; Greer Garson]
A shy schoolmaster, who has devoted his life to his students, comes out of his shell after meeting a free-spirited woman. From the novel by James Hilton.
GODDESS REMEMBERED
See WOMEN AND SPIRITUALITY 1.
GORILLA TROUBLE
[1935 16mm 9min bw cast:Stan Laurel; Oliver Hardy]
Piano movers try to deliver a piano to a treehouse in the mountains.
GORKY
See GREAT RUSSIAN WRITERS: MAXIM GORKY.
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW
[fs 3886 VHS 4420 VHS 136min bw Italian subt 1964 dir:Pier Paolo Pasolini]
The life of Jesus according to the writings of Matthew, told with great effectiveness by a Marxist director.
GÖSTA BERLING'S SAGA
[3587 VHS 123min bw silent 1924 dir:Mauritz Stiller cast:Lars Hanson; Greta Garbo]
The tribulations of a defrocked priest, among which is a love affair with a married woman.
GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG: Fall of the Third Reich
[0765 VHS 28min bw 1972]
Part 3 of William Shirer's "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. " The history of Nazi Germany from the height of Hitler's success early in World War II until final defeat. See also HITLER'S RISE & NAZI GERMANY & NUREMBERG TRIAL.
GOYA
[6420 VHS 1489 16mm 54min 1971]
The work of the Spanish painter Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes. Narrated by Ricardo Montalban.
GRACELAND: THE AFRICAN CONCERT
[fs9123 DVD 90min 1987 dir:Michael Lindsay-Hogg cast:Paul Simon, Hugh Masakela, Miriam Makeba, Ladysmith Black Mambazo]
Simon's Graceland songs in concert in Harare, Zimbabwe, complemented by African music and a crowd of 45,000.
THE GRADUATE
[3907 VHS 9132 DVD 105min 1967 dir:Mike Nichols cast:Anne Bancroft; Dustin Hoffman; Katharine Ross]
Naive college boy is seduced by middle-aged woman, while in love with her daughter.
GRAND CANYON
[fs 9518 DVD 134min. 1991 dir:Lawrence Kasdan cast:Kevin Kline, Danny Glover]
In Los Angeles, a lawyer and a tow-truck driver become friends, and their and their families' lives over a period of years are examined.
LE GRAND CHEMIN
[5379 LaserCLV1 104min French subt 1987 dir:Jean-Loup Hubert]
In the late 50s a French city boy is sent to stay in the country while his mother has a baby.
GRAND DICTIONNAIRE LAROUSSE
[10016 CD-ROM PC/MAC 1996 French Language]
French-English, English-French dictionary.
GRAND HOTEL
[3882 VHS 5032 Laser 5717 Laser 112min bw 1932 dir:Edmund Goulding cast:Greta Garbo; Joan Crawford; John Barrymore]
A plush hotel in Berlin provides the setting for several dramas involving the guests and the staff.
GRAND ILLUSION
[0304-0306 16mm 2930 VHS 5083 LD 9155 DVD 9260 DVD 112min bw French subt 1937 dir:Jean Renoir cast:Jean Gabin; Erich von Stroheim]
A treatise on war, telling a story about French officers imprisoned by the Germans during World War I.
LE GRAND LOUVRE
[10017 CD-ROM (set of 3)PC/MAC 1998 French language]
Interactive multimedia tour of all the Louvre Museum's collections
LA GRANDE BOUFFE (THE BLOW-OUT)
[fs9336 DVD 130min 1973 French /sub dir:Marco Ferreri cast:Marcello Mastroianni, Ugo Tognazzi]
Four middle-aged men decide to kill themselves by eating too much good food.
LES GRANDS MOMENTS DU XXe SIÈCLE
[9041 CD-ROM PC/MAC 1998 French Language]
Sylvain Augier presents 65 great moments of the 20th century from a hexagonal perspective.
THE GRAPES OF WRATH
[0514-0516 16mm 3426 VHS 5281 LaserCLV2 128min bw 1940 dir:John Ford cast:Henry Fonda; Jane Darwell; John Carradine]
John Steinbeck story of dustbowl farmers moving to California during the Great Depression.
GRASS: A Nation's Battle for Life
[5052 Laser 70min bw silent 1925 dirs:Merian C. Cooper; Ernest B. Schoedsack]
Two adventurers team with journalist Marguerite Harrison to film the story of their trip into Persia and the migration of the Bakhtiari tribe. See also PEOPLE OF THE WIND, for a 1975 documentary on the same migration.
GRAY'S ANATOMY
[fs4760 VHS 80min 10097 dir:Stephen Soderbergh cast:Spalding Gray]
The monologuist has an eye disease, and looks into alternative healing.
THE GREAT AMERICAN BROADCAST
[1756-1757 16mm 90min bw 1941 dir:Archie Mayo cast:Alice Faye; John Payne; Jack Okie; Cesar Romero]
Romance and the early years of the radio industry.
A GREAT DAY IN HARLEM
[5362 LaserCLV1 60min 1994 dir:Jean Bach]
Documents the garthering of many famous jazz musicians for a magazine photograph in Harlem in 1958.
THE GREAT DEPRESSION: We Have a Plan
[4297 VHS 60min 1993]
The last episode of the 7-part PBS series deals with grass-roots challenges to FDR's New Deal.
THE GREAT DICTATOR
[1191-1193 16mm JHVC 7008 VHS 5325 LaserCLV2 125min bw 1940 dir:Charlie Chaplin cast:Charlie Chaplin; Paulette Goddard; Jack Oakie]
Chaplin's first talkie, a parody of Hitler and Mussolini, in which a Jewish barber is mistaken for the country's dictator.
GREAT EXPECTATIONS
[0917-0918 16mm 9119 DVD 118min bw 1946 dir:David Lean cast:John Mills; Valerie Hobson]
Charles Dicken's story of an orphan boy anonymously funded and aspiring to high society.
GREAT FIGURES OF THE BIBLE 1
[JHVC 7140 VHS 60min 1993 ]
Elie Wiesel discusses the human condition. Story of Temptation: Adam and Eve and After.
GREAT FIGURES OF THE BIBLE 2
[JHVC 7141 VHS 60min 1993 ]
Elie Wiesel discusses the human condition. The First Murder: The Story of Cain and Abel.
GREAT FIGURES OF THE BIBLE 3
[JHVC 7142 VHS 60min 1993 ]
Elie Wiesel discusses the human condition. About Fathers and Sons: Abraham and the Binding of Isaac.
GREAT FIGURES OF THE BIBLE 4 not yet arrived
[JHVC 7143 VHS 60min 1993 ]
Elie Wiesel discusses the human condition. Suffering and Sacrifice: The Story of Job.
GREAT FIGURES OF THE BIBLE 5
[JHVC 7144 VHS 60min 1993 ]
Elie Wiesel discusses the human condition. The Agony of Power: The Story of Moses
GREAT FIGURES OF THE BIBLE 6
[JHVC 7145 VHS 60min 1993 ]
Elie Wiesel discusses the human condition. Greatness and Passion: The Story of David.
GREAT HAMLETS part 1
[6928 VHS 56MIN 1985 cast:Jean-Louis Barrault, Richard Burton, Vittorio Gassman, John Gielgud, Ben Kingsley, Laurence Olivier, Maximilian Schell, Innokenti Smoktunovsky, Nicol Williamson, Mandy Patinkin]
Interviews, mostly by Trevor Nunn, with great Hamlets. Many clips of performance, and Burton does "What a piece of work is man" impromptu.
THE GREAT HEALTH CARE DEBATE
[4593 VHS 60min 1994]
A Bill Moyers documentary covering the role of the media and special interest groups in defeating President Clinton's initiative to reform the national health care system.
THE GREAT K&A TRAIN ROBBERY
[fs 6695VHS silent/orig musical score 53min 1927 cast:Tom Mix; Dorothy Dwan]
Railroad detective poses as a masked outlaw to capture a gang of thieves.
THE GREAT LIE
[5248B LaserCLV1 101min bw 1941 dir:Edmund Goulding cast:Bette Davis; George Brent; Mary Astor]
A wealthy Southerner and a concert pianist vie for the same man and each marries him in turn. When he is killed in a plane crash, his widow makes a deal with the pregnant pianist to keep his child as her own.
GREAT LOCOMOTIVE CHASE
[fs9293 DVD 87min 1956 dir:Francis D. Lyon cast:Fess Parker, Jeffrey Hunter]
In 1862, the Andrews' Raiders, Union soldiers, steal a train and attempt to destroy the railroad and so end the Civil War.
Compare Buster Keaton'sTHE GENERAL.
THE GREAT MADCAP
[4434 VHS 90min bw Spanish subt 1949 dir:Luis Buñuel cast:Fernando Soler; Rosario Granados]
A rich Mexican family fakes impoverishment in order to save the head of the family - and themselves - from ruin.
THE GREAT McGINTY
[2976 VHS 81min bw 1940 dir:Preston Sturges cast:Brian Donlevy; Akim Tamiroff]
A hungry hobo gets involved in dirty politics and eventually becomes governor.
GREAT RUSSIAN WRITERS: ALEXANDER BLOK
[ 6484 VHS 30min. 2000 (?) ]
Biography, with film of places he lived and worked, of the Russian impressionistic poet, who died in 1921.
GREAT RUSSIAN WRITERS: ANTON CHEKHOV
[ 6389 VHS 30min. 2000 (?) ]
Biography, with film of places he lived and worked, of the Russian author and playwright, who died in 1904.
GREAT RUSSIAN WRITERS: FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
[ 6485 VHS 30min. 2000 (?) ]
Biography, with film of places he lived and worked, of the Russian novelist, who died in 1881.
GREAT RUSSIAN WRITERS: MAXIM GORKY
[ 6486 VHS 30min. 2000 (?) ]
Biography, with film of places he lived and worked, of the Russian Socialist Realism founder and writer, who died in 1936.
GREAT RUSSIAN WRITERS: VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY
[ 6487 VHS 30min. 2000 (?) ]
Biography, with film of places he lived and worked, of the Russian poet of the Revolution, who died in 1930.
GREAT RUSSIAN WRITERS: BORIS PASTERNAK
[ 6488 VHS 30min. 2000 (?) ]
Biography, with film of places he lived and worked, of the Soviet Russian poet, who won the Nobel Prize for his novel Dr. Zhivago and died in 1960.
GREAT RUSSIAN WRITERS: ALEXANDER PUSHKIN
[ 6489 VHS 30min. 2000 (?) ]
Biography, with film of places he lived and worked, of the Russian writer, who died in 1837.
GREAT RUSSIAN WRITERS: LEO TOLSTOY
[ 6490 VHS 30min. 2000 (?) ]
Biography, with film of places he lived and worked, of the Russian novelist, who died in 1910.
THE GREAT ST. LOUIS BANK ROBBERY
[fs 5555Laser 1959 88min dir:Charles Guggenheim cast:Steve McQueen; David Clarke]
Fact-based drama about a group of criminals planning a daring bank heist.
THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY (Lubin)
[1956 VHS 7min bw silent 1904 dir:Sigmund "Pop" Lubin]
A "knockoff" of the Porter film, meant to exploit its name. See below.
THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY
[1957 16mm 8min bw silent 1903 dir:Edwin S. Porter]
The first film to tell a story.
See also THE MOVIES BEGIN, PIONEER CINEMA, or EDWIN S. PORTER FILMS
A GREAT TREE HAS FALLEN
[6403 VHS 0061 16mm 22min 1973]
Documents the 8-day funeral of the king of the Ashanti nation in Ghana.
THE GREAT WAR
[0001 VHS 52min bw 1966]
Henry Salomon documentary using mostly archival film footage, on World War I and the events which led to American participation.
THE GREAT WAR And the Shaping of the 20th Century
[6027-6030 VHS 464min (58min each) 1996]
PBS documentary on World War I and the effects it had on the rest of the 20th century.
  • Explosion
    [6027]
    An overview of the forces and events that caused the war.
  • Stalemate
    [6027]
    Explains how modern weaponry led to trench warfare.
  • Total War
    [6028]
    Shows the involvement of diverse people in the war, and the war against civilians.
  • Slaughter
    [6028]
    Describes such battlegrounds as Verdun and The Somme.
  • Mutiny
    [6029]
    Soldiers finally rebel at the waste of lives; Russians rebel against the tsar.
  • Collapse
    [6029]
    Explains how the war came to a halt through loss of manpower and the entrance of the U.S. into the war.
  • Hatred and Hunger
    [6030]
    Shows how the peace treaty forced on Germany did not resolve the issues that led to the war.
  • War Without End
    [6030]
    A severely punished Germany becomes a breeding ground for revenge.
THE GREAT ZIEGFELD
[3297-3298 VHS 176min bw 1936 dir:Robert Z. Leonard cast:William Powell; Myrna Loy]
The film biography of showman Florenz Ziegfeld.
GREECE: THE IMMORTAL LAND
[0675 16mm 40min 1962]
A general documentary of Greece.
GREED
[1723-1725 16mm 3306 VHS 5019 LaserCLV2 133min bw silent 1924 dir:Erich von Stroheim cast:Zasu Pitts; Gibson Gowland; Jean Hersholt]
Three WWI-era Californians have their friendship and lives destroyed by avarice when one of them wins a lottery jackpot.
THE GREEK INTERPRETER
See ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES.
GREEK LANGUAGE AND PEOPLE
[VHS English/Greek subt 1987 Language Learning Center]
Designed to teach the beginning student to speak conversational Greek, learn the alphabet, and read Greek, the series also introduces the viewer to the customs and lifestyles of Greece.
GREEK TEMPLE
[6418 VHS 1487 16mm 54min 1969]
Displays the art and architecture of ancient Greece.
THE GREEN BERETS
[fs 4829 VHS 142min 1968 dirs:John Wayne; Ray Kellogg cast:John Wayne; David Janssen; Jim Hutton]
First Hollywood film about the Vietnam War, with the Army Special Forces as its focus.
GREEN CARD: AN AMERICAN ROMANCE
[2038-2039 u-matic 80min 1982 dirs:Bruce & Norman Yonemoto]
Drama about the legal and emotional problems of immigration. A Japanese woman wants to enjoy the freedom of America and the love of an American man.
GREEN DOLPHIN STREET
[fs 5718 Laser 142min. 1947 b/w dir:Victor Saville cast:Lana Turner, Van Heflin, Donna Reed]
Elizabeth Goudge novel in which two New Zealand colonists and two sisters struggle with love and nature's forces.
THE GREEN MILE
[fs9346 DVD 188min 1999 dir:Frank Darabont cast:Tom Hanks, Michael Clarke Duncan]
Stephen King's novel in which a death-row inmate with spiritual gifts revitalizes the guards in his 1930s prison.
THE GREEN ROOM (LA CHAMBRE VERTE)
[fs6350 VHS 95min 1978 French /sub dir:François Truffaut cast:Truffaut, Nathalie Baye, Jean Dasté]
Henry James' story The Altar of the Dead inspires a dark story of love and mourning set in the 1920s.
THE GREEN WALL
[3504 VHS 110min Spanish subt 1970 dir:Armando Robles Godoy]
The story of a young married couple from Lima who try to carve a life for themselves out of the Peruvian jungle, the "green wall."
THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT
[4222 VHS 26min 1990]
Describes the relationship between sunlight and CO2 in the Earth's atmosphere and other geologic and extraterrestrial effects on climate.
THE GRETA GARBO COLLECTION
[5173 Laser 1991]
A collection of four feature films on four discs which may be borrowed individually or collectively. See individual titles:
GREYSTOKE: THE LEGEND OF TARZAN, LORD OF THE APES
[6834 VHS 130min 1983 dir:Hugh Hudson cast:Christopher Lambert, Ian Holm, Ralph Richardson, Andie McDowell]
Edgar Rice Burroughs' hero grows up in the jungle, but D'Arnot teaches him French and brings him back to his family in England, where he must choose between cruel civilization or the cruel jungle.
IL GRIDO
[4410 VHS fs 9613 DVD 115min bw Italian/sub 1957 dir:Michelangelo Antonioni cast:Steve Cochran; Alida Valli]
Suddenly rejected by the woman he has lived with for seven years, a man drifts away to find someone else.
D. W. GRIFFITH SHORTS (1908-1909)
[2933 VHS bw silent]
  • Crossroads of Life [~9min]
  • Adventures of Dolly [~9min]
  • A Calamitous Elopement [~10min]
  • The Curtain Pole [~10min]
  • The Jones Have Amateur Theatricals [~6min]
  • A Drunkard's Reformation [~12min]
  • What Drink Did [~12min]
  • Confidence [~11min]
  • Resurrection [~14min]
  • Her First Biscuits [~7min]
  • Violin Maker of Cremona [~13min]
  • Lonely Villa [~9min]
D. W. GRIFFITH SHORTS (1909)
[2934 VHS bw silent]
  • The Country Doctor [~12min]
  • The Renunciation [~12min]
  • Sweet and Twenty [~7min]
  • The Mended Lute [~8min]
  • The Sealed Room [~10min]
  • 1776 or the Hassian Renegades [~12min]
  • Pippa Passes [~13min]
  • Lines of White on a Sullen Sea [~13min]
  • The Gibson Goddess [~7min]
  • The Light That Came
D. W. GRIFFITH SHORTS (1909-1910)
[2960 VHS bw silent]
  • A Corner in Wheat [~13min]
  • Her Terrible Ordeal [~12min]
  • The Last Deal [~12min]
  • In the Border States [~13min]
  • Mugzy's First Sweetheart [~12min]
  • An Arcadian Maid [~7min]
  • House with Closed Shutters [~13min]
  • The Usurer [~12min]
  • Modern Prodigal [~14min]
  • Rose o' Salem Town [~13min]
D. W. GRIFFITH SHORTS (1909-1911)
[2935 VHS 120min bw silent]
  • Those Awful Hats [~3min]
  • The Son's Return [~10min]
  • A Strange Meeting [~12min]
  • Romance of Western Hills [~13min]
  • Sorrows of the Unfaithful [~7min]
  • What Shall We Do With Our Old [~12min]
  • The Long Road [~14min]
  • Love in the Hills [~13min]
  • A Woman Scorned [~13min]
  • With the Enemy's Help [~12min]
D. W. GRIFFITH SHORTS (1910-1911)
[2936 VHS 120min bw silent]
  • The Message of the Violin [~13min]
  • The Fugitive [~13min]
  • Sunshine Sue [~13min]
  • Winning Back His Love [~12min]
  • When a Man Loves [~13min]
  • Two Paths [~13min]
  • His Trust [~13min]
  • Fates Turning [~10min]
  • Fisher Folks [~13min]
  • Lily of the Tenements [~12min]
D. W. GRIFFITH SHORTS (1911)
[2937 VHS 120min bw silent]
  • The Lonedale Operator [~13min]
  • Enoch Arden I & II [~22min]
  • Primal Call [~13min]
  • Fighting Blood [~14min]
  • Bobby the Coward [~13min]
  • Country Cupid [~14min]
  • Last Drop of Water [~12min]
  • As a Boy Dreams [~11min]
  • The Revenue Man and His Girl
D. W. GRIFFITH SHORTS (1911-1912)
[2949 VHS 129min bw silent]
  • A Squaw's Love [~12min]
  • Adventures of Billy [~13min]
  • The Battle [~13min]
  • Through Darkening Vales [~11min]
  • The Miser's Heart [~12min]
  • Failure [~12min]
  • Saved from Himself [~13min]
  • For His Son [~12min]
  • The Transformation of Mike [~13min]
D. W. GRIFFITH SHORTS (1912 #1)
[3036 VHS 120min bw silent]
  • Sunbeam [~13min]
  • Iola's Promise [~12min]
  • The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch [~12min]
  • A Girl and Her Trust [~12min]
  • The Female of the Species [~12min]
  • Lesser Evil [~10min]
  • A Beast at Bay [~13min]
  • Lena and the Geese [~12min]
  • Man's Genesis [~11min]
  • The Sands O'Dee [~13min]
D. W. GRIFFITH SHORTS (1912 #2)
[3037 VHS 120min bw silent]
  • The Narrow Road [~13min]
  • Under Burning Skies [~13min]
  • One is Business the Other Crime [~14min]
  • School Teacher and the Waif [~13min]
  • A Change of Spirit [~11min]
  • Unseen Enemy [~12min]
  • Blind Love [~11min]
  • Two Daughters of Eve [~10min]
  • Friends [~11min]
  • So Near Yet So Far [~12min]
D. W. GRIFFITH SHORTS (1912 #3)
[3038 VHS 120min bw silent]
  • Painted Lady [~13min]
  • Musketeers of Pig Alley [~13min]
  • Massacre [~17min]
  • New York Hat [~12min]
  • Burglars' Dilemma [~14min]
  • The God Within [~11min]
  • Telephone Girl and the Lady [~15min]
  • Oil and Water [~17min]
D. W. GRIFFITH SHORTS (1913)
[2938 VHS 120min bw silent]
  • The Unwelcome Guest [~18min]
  • Near to the Earth [~13min]
  • The Wanderer [~12min]
  • House of Darkness [~13min]
  • His Mother's Son [~13min]
  • Timely Interception [~12min]
  • Death's Marathon [~13min]
  • Mothering Heart [~20min]
D. W. GRIFFITH SHORTS (1913-1914)
[2939 VHS 120min bw silent]
  • The Switch Tower [~13min]
  • Brute Force [~14min]
  • The Reformers [~19min]
  • Battle of Elderbush Gulch [~23min]
  • Pathways of Life [~34min]
D.W. Griffith, Years of Discovery:1909-1913
[fs 5603Laser bw dir:D.W. Griffith]
Twenty-two short films directed for the Biograph Company. Includes The Musketeers of Pig Alley, The Battle at Elderbush Gulch, The New York Hat, and A Corner in Wheat.
THE GRIFTERS
[fs5577 LD 114min 1991 dir:Stephen Frears cast:John Cusack; Anjelica Huston; Annette Bening]
Drama about three Southern California con artists.
GRISBI (Don't Touch the Loot)
[4325 VHS 94min bw dubbed 1953 dir:Jacques Becker cast:Jean Gabin; Rene Dary]
A successful gold heist goes bad when others try to rob the robbers.
DIE GROSSE FREIHEIT Nr.7
[4251 VHS 100min German 1944 dir:Helmüt Käutner cast:Hans Albers; Ilse Werner; Hans Söhnker]
A merchant naval officer, reduced to singing in a club in Hamburg's St. Pauli district is anguished by his niece's affair with a dockworker.
DIE GROSSE LIEBE (The Great Love)
[6568 VHS 90min b/w German language 1942 dir:Rolf Hansen]
Musical. A German Air Force officer falls in love with a celebrated revue singer in Berlin during WWII. Notable for depiction of effects of war on civilians.
GROUP DYNAMICS: Groupthink
[1450 16mm 22min 1973]
A discussion of how and why people's values and decisions converge when in a group.
GROWING OLD: Something to Live For
[0632 16mm 8124 VHS 15min 1978]
Discusses the facts and myths about aging while making the point that the elderly need something to live for, something useful to do.
GUADALCANAL DIARY
[fs 6736]
VHS 93min bw 1943 dir:Lewis Seiler cast:Preston Foster; Lloyd Nolan
World War II film in which a group of Marines try to secure a major Pacific military base.
GUADALCANAL: THE ISLAND OF DEATH
[fs VHS 60min.ea 1999]
3-part documentary on the decisive battle of the Pacific theater in World War II.
  • 1: Operation Watchtower
    [fs 8019]
    Pearl Harbor, Midway, and the decision to strike in the Solomon Islands.
  • 2: Code Name Cactus
    [fs 8020]
    The Marines invade the island and the Japanese retaliation.
  • 3: Decisive Battle
    [fs 8021]
    Naval battles, air battles, and the arrival of the Army to relieve the Marines as the U.S. defeats Japan.
GUANTANAMERA
[6958 VHS 104min 1995 Spanish/sub dir:Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Juan Carlos Tabío cast:Mirtha Ibarra, Raul Eguren]
A diva's funeral procession wends its way through Cuba, with abundant satire and romance.
LA GUERRA DEL CERDO
[3503 VHS 90min Spanish subt 1975 dir:Leopoldo Torre Nilsson]
The younger generation decides to exterminate the older generation. Based on a story by Adolfo Bioy Casares.
LA GUERRE EST FINIE (THE WAR IS OVER)
[4369 VHS fs 9614 DVD 120min bw French /sub 1966 dir:Alain Resnais cast:Yves Montand; Ingrid Thulin]
Three days in the life of a Spanish exile in France plotting to overthrow Franco.
LA GUERRE DE TROIE N'AURA PAS LIEU
[6555 VHS 110min French /sub 1991]
Production of Giraudoux's play about the conflict between two views of war:the greatest risk and ultimate folly or an act of patriotism and glory. A commentary on the growing menace of Nazi Germany.
GUN CRAZY
[3514 VHS 86min bw 1948 dir:Joseph H. Lewis cast:Peggy Cummins; John Dall]
A carnival markswoman and a paranoid World War II veteran share a mutual love of firearms and go on a crime spree in the tradition of Bonnie and Clyde.
GUNCRAZY
[fs 9490 DVD 97min. 1992 dir:Tamra Davis cast:Drew Barrymore, James LeGros]
An abused teen-ager learns about guns from her convict penpal, and uses one on her abuser.
THE GUNFIGHTER
[2995 VHS 84min bw 1950 dir:Henry King cast:Gregory Peck]
A weary gunfighter must continually defend his reputation.
GUNGA DIN
[3905 VHS 117min bw 1939 dir:George Stevens cast:Cary Grant; Victor McLaglen; Douglas Fairbanks Jr]
The story of three soldier-comrades battling the Punjabs in India, loosely based on the poem by Rudyard Kipling.
GUSTAVE CAILLEBOTTE or The Adventures of the Gaze
[fs 6054 VHS 59min 1994 dir:Alain Jaubert]
A study of the art of Caillebotte, a painter of Parisian street scenes and a patron of the arts.
GUTEN TAG
[0681-0706 16mm 15m each bw 1969]
German language instruction films.
GUTEN TAG II
[0707-0732 16mm 15m each bw 1969]
German language instruction films.
A GUY NAMED JOE
[fs 5719 Laser 120min. 1944 b/w dir:Victor Fleming cast:Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne, Van Heflin]
A brave pilot's ghost guides his widow towards remarriage with a worthy airman.
GUYS AND DOLLS
[fs9255 DVD 149min 1955 dir:Joseph Mankiewicz cast:Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra, Jean Simmons]
Damon Runyan's stories of Broadway gamblers, missionaries, and strippers in the Frank Loesser musical comedy.
GYPSY
[fs9265 DVD 143min 1962 dir:Mervyn Leroy cast:Rosalind Russel, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden]
Jule Styne-Stephen Sondheim musical based on the rise of stripper Gypsy Rose Lee from vaudeville through burlesque to the Ziegfield Follies.
GYPSY BLOOD
[4069 VHS 78min bw silent 1918 dir:Ernst Lubitsch cast:Pola Negri]
From the novel by Prosper Mérimée, the beautiful and wicked gypsy Carmen lures a virtuous young soldier into a life of crime.