Selma, Lord, Selma
[VHS 1706]    1998    Walt Disney
1/2" video       Color   1 cass., 88 min.
In 1965, during the turbulent early days of the right-to-vote movement, a young Alabama schoolgirl (Smollett) is inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Powell) to resist the degradation that her fellow African Americans are suffering. Along with a White seminary student (Astin) from the North, and against the ever-increasing threat of racial violence, she promises to do what she can to help Dr. King's efforts. Cast: Mackenzie Astin, Jurnee Smollett, Clifton Powell.
Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; Civil Rights

Seniors: Four Years In Retrospect
[VHS 1294]       1997       California Newsreel
1/2" video          Color       1 cass., 60 min.
Follows the lives of five Stanford University students portrayed in the film, "Frosh." Profiles what each of the students are doing in their senior year and how they developed and matured.

Sense and Sensibility
[DVD 550]       1995       Columbia Pictures
4 3/4" DVD      Color      1 videodisc, 136 min.
Adaption of Jane Austin's book Sense and Sensibility. Tells of the Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, whose chances at marriage seem doomed by their family’s sudden loss of fortune. Cast: Kate Winslet, Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant.
Subjects – Movies and Plays

Sensor and Transducer Principles (ITTP2, #18)
[VHS 960]       1992       Instrument Society of America
1/2" video        Color       1 cass., 30 min.
Electronic maintenance.

The Sentence
[VHS 617]       1986       Insight Media
1/2" video        Color       1 cass., 28 min.
Discusses the elements of sentence structure. Examines how to create effective sentences. Reviews parts of speech and subject-verb agreement. Discusses independent and dependent clauses. Explains how to form simple, compound, and complex sentences.

The Sentinel
[DVD 880]    2006    20th Century Fox
4 3/4" DVD   Color   1 videodisc, 108 min.
There's never been a traitor in the United States Secret Service...until now. And the evidence points to Pete Garrison, one of the most trusted agents on the force. Now on the run, with two relentless federal investigators hot on his heels, Garrison must fight to clear his name and thwart an attempt on the President's life before it's too late! Cast: Michael Douglas, Kiefer Sutherland.
Subjects – Movies and Plays

Serenity
[DVD 523]       2005      Universal Pictures
4 3/4" DVD     Color      1 videodisc, 119 min.
When the renegade crew of Serenity agrees to hide a fugitive on their spaceship, they find themselves in a battle between the relentless military might of a totalitarian regime who will destroy anything - or anyone - to get the girl back and the bloodthirsty creatures who roam the uncharted areas of space. Cast: Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres.
Subjects – Movies and Plays

Seven Living Treasures of American Craft: Living Treasures Profiles
[DVD 360]   2004     Northwest Designer Craftsmen
4 3/4" DVD    Color     1 videodisc, 196 min.
Profiles the life and work of a preeminent Pacific Northwest artist. Harold Balazs : creating wonder (28:35 min.) --Russell Day : living art (28:31 min) --Virginia Harvey : a legacy in fiber arts (27:15 min.) -- Anne Gould Hauberg : visionary (29.23 min.) -- Evert Sodergren : master woodworker (28:35 min.) -- Ramona Solberg : jeweler, teacher, traveler (28:13 min.) -- Robert Sperry : a Northwest master (21:41 min.)
Subjects – Artists ;  Washington State and Seattle

Seven Samurai
[VHS 1049-1050]       1988       Janus Films
1/2" video                  Color      2 cass., 208 min.
Originally released in 1954. Directed by Akira Kurosawa. Japanese dialogue with English subtitles. A 16th century Japanese village hires professional warriors to fend off bandits.

Sex & Sacrifices: What They Did For Love
[VHS 579]       1991       Gladney Center
1/2" video        Color       1 cass., 25 min.
Sixty young women who are or have been at the Gladney Center in Fort Worth, Texas to deliver and place their babies for adoption, talk to their peers about the consequences of being sexually active.

Sex, Drugs And Consenting Adults What's Wrong With That?
[DVD 92]        2003    Films for the Humanities and Sciences
4 3/4" DVD    Color    1 videodisc, 41 min.
To protect individuals from violence and society from anarchy, there's a necessary role for police and the law. But when people engage in behaviors that primarily harm only themselves, is it right, in a free society, for government to intervene?
Subjects - Law

Sex: Unknown
[VHS 1675]     1998    WGBH Boston Video
1/2" video       Color    1 cass., 60 min.
Bruce Reimer was born a completely normal boy. But after a freak medical accident destroyed his genitalia, high-profile psychologist and sex researcher John Money persuaded Bruce’s parents to surgically change him into a girl. Soon, Bruce was Brenda, beginning a headline-grabbing medical, sociological and psychological experiment. In the years that followed, Money trumpeted Brenda’s case as an unqualified success. And it was this very success that helped establish a standard of care for all infants with abnormal genitalia. Today, infant boys born with missing or unformed genitals continue to be castrated and surgically changed into girls. Explore the fateful consequences of gender reassignment through personal insights from the Reimer family- including candid, heartrending interviews with Janet Reimer and her son, who ultimately rejected his female identity and is now living as a man.
Subjects -- Sex and Sex Role

The Sexual Brain
[VHS 247]       1987       Films for the Humanities
1/2" video        Color       1 cass., 28 min.
Shows distinct differences between the brains of human males and females. Also shows effects of hormone injections on brain structure.

Sexuality In Mesoamerica: Machismo And Marianismo
[VHS 1468]       1996       Cinema Guild
1/2" Video         Color       1 cass., 33 min.
A study of the concept of sexuality in Mexico and Central America. Focus is on the cultural archetypes of machismo and marianismo, orientations which have defined social conduct and sexual orientation throughout Latin America. In English and Spanish with translations into English.

Shackled Women: Abuses Of A Patriarchal World
[VHS 1568]       1999       Films for the Humanities & Sciences
1/2" video          Color       1 cass., 41 min.
Assesses second- and third-world abuses of women's rights by the male establishment and examines how female collaboration sometimes contributes to their perpetuation. Feminist Taslima Nasreen and others speak out on topics such as dowry deaths, female circumcision, the Islamic zina law, the rigors of hijab, and child prostitution.
Subjects -- Women's Studies

Shadow Of The Thin Man
[DVD 239]       1941     MGM
4 3/4" DVD     Color     1 videodisc, 97 min.
Nick and Nora Charles are looking forward to a day of leisure, but when they make a trip to the race track, they learn that a jockey, who was recently accused of throwing a race, has just been found shot to death. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Barry Nelson.
Subjects -- Movies and Plays

Shakespeare In Love
[DVD 507]      1998      Miramax
4 3/4" DVD     Color      1 videodisc, 120 min.
When Will Shakespeare needs passionate inspiration to break a bad case of writer’s block, a secret romance with the beautiful Lady Viola starts the words flowing like never before! There are just two things he’ll have to learn about his new love: not only is she promised to marry someone else, she is successfully impersonating a man in order to play the lead in Will’s latest production at a time it was illegal for women to be actors! Cast: Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Geoffrey Rush.
Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Shakespeare, William

Shall We Dance?
[DVD 245]       1937     RKO Radio Pictures Inc.
4 3/4" DVD     B&W    1 videodisc, 109 min.
Ballet star Pete "Petrov" Peters arranges to cross the Atlantic aboard the same ship as the dancer he's fallen for but barely knows, musical star Linda Keene. By the time the ocean liner reaches New York, a little white lie has churned through the rumor mill and turned into a hot gossip item: that the two celebrities are secretly married. Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers.
Subjects -- Movies and Play

Shall We Dance
[DVD 655]      1996      Miramax
4 3/4" DVD     Color     1 videodisc, 119 min.
On his evening commute, bored accountant Sugiyama always looks for the beautiful woman who gazes wistfully out the window of the Kishikawa School of Dancing. One night he gets off the train, walks into the studio, and signs up for a class. Soon Sugiyama is so engrossed in his dancing he practices his steps on the train platform and under his desk, and becomes good enough for competition, compelling his wife to hire a private investigator to find out why he stays out late and returns home smelling of perfume. Cast: Kôji Yakusho, Tamiyo Kusakari, Naoto Takenaka. In Japanese with English subtitles.
Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Language: Japanese

Shane
[DVD 551]       1953       Paramount Pictures
4 3/4" DVD      Color      1 videodisc, 118 min.
A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smoldering settler/rancher conflict forces him to act. Cast: Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin.
Subjects – Movies and Plays

Shaping Youngest Minds
[VHS 1649]      1999      Learning Seed
1/2" video         Color      1 cass., 24 min.
Shows how daily sights, sounds, smells, touches, language and eye contact shape the chemistry and make-up of the infant's brain. Discusses critical times for learning and the effect of violent behavior on early brain development. Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
Subjects - Children and Child Development

A Shared Set Of Values: Copyright And Intellectual Property In The Academic Community
[VHS 1071]       1996       AAP
1/2" video          Color 1 cass., 10 min.
Discusses issues surrounding copyright and intellectual property infringement. Classroom discussion as well as interviews highlight the issues related to using the work of others without permission.

Sharon Olds: The Lannan Literary Series
[VHS 1506]       1991       Lannan Foundation
1/2" Video         Color       1 cass., 60 min.
Sharon Olds, award-winning poet and teacher, reads from The Dead and the Living, The Gold Cell, and unpublished work at the Los Angeles Theatre Center. She is interviewed by Lewis MacAdams.

Shattering The Silences
[VHS 203]     1996      California Newsreel
1/2" video      Color      1 cass., 86 min.
Documentary explores issues of faculty diversity in American higher education in the mid-1990s,focusing on the experience of eight minority scholars in the humanities and social sciences at various institutions.
Subjects -- Education ; Cultural Diversity

Shine
[DVD 654]      1996     Fine Line Features
4 3/4" DVD     Color    1 videodisc, 105 min.
Based on the true story of Australian pianist David Helfgott. Telling the story in flashback we see David as he grows up and into a child prodigy while his father abuses him and his siblings with the memory of his childhood in Europe and the loss of his family in the concentration camps. David finally breaks away from his father and goes away to study overseas, he later suffers a nervous breakdown and returns to Australia and a life in an institution. Many years later he is released and through several twists of fate he starts playing a piano in a bar before finally returning to the concert hall. Cast: Geoffrey Rush, Armin Mueller-Stahl, John Gielgud, Lynne Redgrave.
Subjects – Movies and Plays

Shirin Ebadi: A Simple Lawyer
[DVD 816]     2004     First Run/Icarus Films
4 3/4" DVD    Color    1 videodisc, 57 min.
Profiles Iranian attorney Shirin Ebadi, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003. Features an in-depth interview with Ebadi conducted in her Tehran office, speeches of numerous internation conferences, and a visit to the children’s center she founded. She was disbarred following the Islamic Revolution in 1979 an readmitted in the early 1990’s. She challenge’s Iran’s religious courts over a wide variety of issues, including freedom of expression, political prisoners, and democratic reform.
Subjects – Middle East ; Law and Government ; Women’s Studies

The Shootist
[DVD 27]      1976      Paramount
4 3/4" DVD   Color     1 videodisc, 98 min.
A terminally ill gunfighter seeks to retire quietly but is embroiled in one last battle. Cast: John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Ron Howard, Bill McKinney, James Stewart. Videodisc release of the 1976 motion picture.
Subjects -- Movies and Plays

Show Boat
[VHS 2038]  [VHS 2039] [VHS 2040] 
3 copies         1936       MGM/UA
1/2" video        B&W        1 cass., 115 min.
Musical about life and love among a theatrical troupe on a Mississippi riverboat in the early 1900's. Cast: Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winninger, Paul Robeson, Helen Morgan, Helen Westley. Adapted from the musical comedy with music, by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. Based on the novel by Edna Ferber. Originally produced as a motion pictures in 1936.
Subjects --Movies and Plays

Sicko
[DVD 986]    2007    Weinstein Co.
4 3/4" DVD   Color    1 videodisc, 123 min.
A documentary by Michael Moore's. As he clarifies from the outset, his subject isn't the 45 million Americans without insurance, but those whose coverage has failed to meet their needs. He starts by speaking with patients who've been denied life-saving procedures, like chemotherapy, for the most spurious of reasons. Then he travels to Canada, England, and France to see if socialized medicine is as inefficient as U.S. politicians like to claim--especially those who receive funding from pharmaceutical companies. Moore finds quality care available to all, regardless as to income.
Subjects – Medical Sciences and Nursing ; Business ; Movies and Plays

Sid & Nancy
[DVD 54]       1986    Samuel Goldwyn
4 3/4" DVD    Color    1 videodisc, 111 min.
Sid & Nancy chronicles the brief, intense attachment of two of Punk's most notorious poster children, Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious and his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen. Gary Oldman, Chloe Webb. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1986. Closed captioned.
Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; Music

The Siege
[DVD 130]      1998    Twentieth Century Fox
4 3/4" DVD     Color   1 videodisc, 116 min.
After the abduction by the US military of a Muslim religion leader, New York City become the target of escalating terrorist attacks. Anthony Hubbard, the head of the FBI/NYPD Terrorism Task Force, teams up with CIA operative Elise Kraft to capture the organization responsible for the terror in NYC. As bomb attacks go on, The US government decides to send the army into the NYC streets, lead by the General Devereaux, and declares Martial Law. Cast: Denzel Washington, Annette Bening, Bruce Willis, Tony Shalhoub.
Subjects -- Movies and Plays

Signs of Enrichment
[VHS 82]       1986        Friends of Washoe
1/2" video       Color       1 cass., 60 min.
A demonstration in which chimpanzees are shown communicating by using sign language. The goal of the film is to solicit financial support for research on chimpanzees.

The Silence Of The Lambs
[DVD 209]     1991   MGM
4 3/4" DVD    Color    1 videodisc, 118 min.
Young FBI agent Clarice Starling is assigned to help find a missing woman to save her from a psychopathic serial killer who skins his victims. Clarice attempts to gain a better insight into the twisted mind of the killer by talking to another psychopath Hannibal Lecter, who used to be a respected psychiatrist. FBI agent Jack Crawford believes that Lecter who is also a very powerful and clever mind manipulator have the answers to their questions to help locate the killer. Clarice must first try and gain Lecter's confidence before he is to give away any information. Cast: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins.
Subjects -- Movies and Plays

Silent Explosion
[VHS 143]       1986        Population Institute
1/2" video        Color        1 cass., 19 min.
Summarizes the consequences of rapid population growth rate in the developing world and what must be done to prevent potential global disasters. Contributions to support the institute's mission are encouraged.

Silent Spring
see title Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring

Silicon Run I
[VHS 1207]       1993        Ruth Carranza Productions
1/2" video           Color      1 cass., 40 min.
Covers front-end manufacturing from the growth of silicon crystals through wafer fabrication. New industrial footage and computer animation show how today's integrated circuits are made.

Silicon Run II: The Sequel
[VHS 1208]       1996        Ruth Carranza Productions
1/2" video           Color      1 cass., 34 min.
From fabricated wafers, through testing, packaging and assembly, live industrial footage and animations show how integrated circuits are used in today's computers.

Silicon Run Lite
[VHS 1209]       1997        Ruth Carranza Productions
1/2" video           Color       1 cass., 30 min.
An overview of how microchips are made and assembled into computers.

Simon Bolivar
[VHS 743]     1995     Schlessinger Video Productions
1/2" video      Color      1 cass., 30 min.
(1783-1830) Vowing not to rest until he had broken "the chains of Spain," Simon Bolivar was instrumental in uniting and liberating South America. An eloquent, persuasive speaker and writer, his political statements stirred sympathies, but gained little political support for South American countries that were badly in need of social, political and economic reform. Bolivar eventually liberated five countries, adopting a Declaration of Independence for Venezuela and making it the first free Spanish-American colony. Simon Bolivar is known today by the people of South America as El Libertador -- the Liberator. (Hispanic and Latin American Heritage Video Collection)
Subjects -- Latin America

Simon Schama’s Power of Art
[DVD 449]       2006      BBC Video
4 3/4" DVD     Color      1 videodisc, 50 min. each
Caravaggio: David with the Head of Goliath (1601)
Rome 1603. Images of the Saviour, the virgin and the saints are beautiful and pure, created to win the hearts of the faithful. But then Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio starts to paint. He says the glory of the gospel is that the saviour was made of flesh and blood. And he paints him, and those who were with him, earthier and more physical than anything that has been seen before. His models are taken from the streets, the taverns, markets and brothels. Caravaggio changes forever the sense of what painting could do, how real it could feel. But to some, this was precisely the problem - he was the man who came to destroy painting, to rob it of its spiritual lift-off power.
Rembrandt: The Conspiracy of the Batavians under Claudius Civilus (c.1666)
In The Night Watch and his portraits of the richest merchants of Amsterdam, Rembrandt has done the impossible: made something heroic, dramatic and grand out of a world of merchants and money. Yet, 10 years later, he is bankrupt, out of fashion, dismissed as an obstinately rough painter in a smooth age. Then the chance of a comeback - to decorate the halls of Amsterdam Town Hall. But instead of the classical restraint and grandeur required, Rembrandt creates the roughest, toughest history painting ever, and one of the greatest masterpieces of his age.
Bernini: The Ecstasy of St Theresa (1652)
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, boy wonder, then adult prodigy - sculptor, architect, composer, as well as a dashing Cavalier, and the personal friend of Pope Urban VIII. His sculptures have the breath of life flowing through them; in his hands stone seems to move and ripple. Then, in the late 1640s, Bernini's star falls; cracks appear in the bell-tower he has built for St Peter's. Bernini needs a miracle to restore his fortune. So he makes one: The Ecstasy of St Theresa. His marble saint levitates and quivers, hovering on the border between mystery and indecency. Devotees flock to see this holy peepshow, flesh dissolving into spirit, a mystery exuding pain and pleasure, carnal consummation and disembodied bliss. No wonder people watch.
Subjects – Art ; Artists

Simon Schama’s Power of Art
[DVD 450]      2006      BBC Video
4 3/4" DVD     Color     1 videodisc, 50 min. each
Turner: Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying - Typhoon Coming On ("The Slave Ship") (1840)
May, 1840. Turner brings seven paintings to exhibit at the Royal Academy Annual Exhibition, and faces the biggest critical onslaught of his life. The target of the most poisonous attacks is The Slave Ship: at once allegory, history and seascape, an explosion of scarlet and gold, lost in the ocean between history and fantasy. For contemporaries, it is "a kitchen accident", "a detestable absurdity"; Turner's art has abandoned what it is supposed to do - to look like things. Freed from the job of describing the mere look of the world, Turner shows that art can now go to the heart of the matter, to take the viewer right into the eye of the storm.
David: The Death of Marat (1793)
When the arch-denouncer and violent journalist Jean-Paul Marat, the 'friend of the people', is stabbed in his bath in July 1793, Jacques-Louis David - painter for the Revolution - promises to make an image of the martyr, for France and for the world. And so he does, creating an altarpiece for the new church of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. It is the work of a fantastic propagandist. Marat the fanatic is transformed into Marat the pure and selfless. Art has become, irreversibly, the accomplice of power.
Van Gogh: Wheatfield with Crows (1890)
"Painting," wrote Van Gogh, "is the raft that can take us safely to shore after the shipwreck." Painting sometimes calms him. Slashing now comes with the brush; convulsive energy becomes translated into the surging of his loaded brush; merciless insecurity and anguish throb in intensive, ecstatic color. He is looking in a mirror, but it is as though he is painting from inside his head. However, painting can as easily sweep him up to the edge and over it. By the summer of 1890, there are no more self-portraits; instead of leveling a brush at the reflection of his face, he levels a gun.
Subjects – Art ; Artists

Simon Schama’s Power of Art
[DVD 451]     2006     BBC Video
4 3/4" DVD   Color     1 videodisc, 50 min. each
Picasso: Guernica (1937)
Picasso - self-indulgent genius, the artist for whom the condition of modern art was to separate itself from politics and history. But the brutality of the Luftwaffe when it bombs the ancient Basque town of Guernica makes Cubism's own little wrecking action seem trivial. What is the breaking of figurative art beside the breaking of bodies and the burning of homes? Picasso, anguished about the fate of his country, wants to do what was assumed could never be done - make a modern history painting.
Rothko: Black On Maroon (1958)
New York, 1958. Rothko is commissioned to paint a series of large abstractions for what will be the Seagram Building restaurant - the Four Seasons, mid-town Manhattan. It is, says Rothko, "a place where the richest bastards in New York will come to feed and show off... I hope to ruin the appetite of every son-of-a-bitch who eats in that room." For Rothko, this will be the iron test of art's power in the relentless drone of the modern world. Can it interrupt and startle, or will it just be waved away like an annoying waiter? Is it just another consumer durable, or the saving of our souls?
Subjects – Art ; Artists

Sin City
[DVD 524]      2005      Dimension Films
4 3/4" DVD    Color      1 videodisc, 124 min.
Four tales of crime adapted from Frank Miller's popular comics, focusing around a muscular brute who's looking for the person responsible for the death of his beloved Goldie, a man fed up with Sin City's corrupt law enforcement who takes the law into his own hands after a horrible mistake, a cop who risks his life to protect a girl from a deformed pedophile, and a hit man looking to make a little cash. Cast: Bruce Willis, Clive Owen, Mickey Rourke, Elijah Wood.
Subjects – Movies and Plays

Sin Nombre = Nameless
[DVD 1009]    2009    Universal Studios
4 3/4" DVD    Color    1 videodisc, 96 mins.
Seeking the promise of America, a beautiful young woman, Sayra from Honduas, joins her father on an odyssey to cross the gauntlet of the Latin American countryside. Along the way, she crosses paths with a teenaged Mexican gang member, El Casper, who is maneuvering to outrun his violent past. Together they have to rely on faith, trust and street smarts if they are to survive their increasingly perilous journey towards the hope of new lives. In Spanish with English subtitles. Cast: Paulina Gaitan, Edgar M. Flores.
Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Latin America and the Caribbean; Language: Spanish

Sister Wendy in Conversation with Bill Moyers
[VHS 559]    1997    WGBH/PBS
1/2" video       Color   1 cass., 60 min.
Meet Sister Wendy Beckett, Britain's self-taught art nun turned international celebrity, in this rare television interview with America's best-known television commentator, Bill Moyers. In this deeply personal conversation inspired by the PBS broadcast of her five-part series on the history of Western Art, Sister Wendy's Story of Painting, Sister Wendy shares her views on looking at art, living in seclusion, and falling into the role of a television star. Sister Wendy Beckett- who never watched TV before she was on it- believes that each work of art has a fascinating story to tell about what it means to be human. Her eloquence and charm are matched only by her fearlessness; no subject in art is off-limits to Sister Wendy.
Subjects – Art ; Moyers, Bill

Siuslaw: A Report on Herbicides in Oregon
[VHS 930]       1974        Dow Video Productions
1/2" video         Color       1 cass., 27 min.
Discusses the use of dioxin in the Oregon forests to clear underbrush and promote timber growth, eradicate weeds poisonous to livestock, and to clear roads and highways to make them safe and attractive.

Six Generations Of Suffragettes The Women's Rights Movement
[DVD 96]       2003     Films for the Humanities & Sciences
4 3/4" DVD   Color    1 videodisc, 15 min.
From Elizabeth Cady Stanton to her great-great-great-granddaughter Elizabeth Jenkins-Sahlin, six generations of Stanton women have fought for equality in the voting booth, the classroom, and the workplace. This concise overview of the women's movement in America uses interviews, archival footage, and photos to spotlight key contributors, such as the Stantons and Susan B. Anthony, and history-making moments in the ongoing struggle for equal rights, ranging from the first Women's Rights Convention in 1848 to the protest marches of the 1960s and 70s.
Subjects -- United States: History ; Women’s Studies

Six Great Ideas: Goodness
[VHS 15]       1982       WNET/Films Inc.
1/2" video      Color        1 cass., 60 min.
The impact of the word "ought" in our lives and its role in determining the meaning of goodness prefaces an insight into happiness-the ultimate good-which consists in having obtained everything that everyone "ought" to want.

Six Great Ideas: Justice
[VHS 706]       1982        WNET/Films Inc.
1/2" video         Color       1 cass., 60 min.
Is justice the key to an individual's pursuit of happiness? Is it better to suffer injustice at the hands of others or to be unjust to them? The corrosive effect of injustice on the human spirit is also discussed.

The Sixth Sense
[DVD 873]    1999    Walt Disney Productions
4 3/4" DVD   Color    1 videodisc, 106 min.
When Dr. Malcolm Crowe, a distinguished child psychologist, meets Cole Sear, a frightened, confused, eight-year-old, Dr. Crowe is completely unprepared to face the truth of what haunts Cole. The discovery of Cole's incredible sixth sense leads them to mysterious places with unforgettable consequences! Cast: Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment. Directed by M. Night Shyamalan.
Subjects – Movies and Plays

The Sixties, 1960-1964
[VHS 1703]    1990    MPI Home Video
1/2" video       Color    1 cass., 60 min.
Looks at the events of the years 1960-64, such as the Cuban missile crisis, the Bay of Pigs, the Berlin Wall, the civil war in Vietnam, civil rights, John Glenn's space flight, etc., and tells of their significance in American history. (History of the 20th century ; v. 7 )
Subjects -- United States: History

Sizwe Bansi is dead
[VHS 1410]         1978         Insight Media
1/2" video            Color        1 cass., 60 min.
Presents a dramatization of the play by Athol Fugard, John Kani and Winston Ntshona. Preceding and following the play Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee express views on the play's theme, the struggle for human dignity in apartheid-ruled South Africa. Filmed as it was staged at the Royal Court Theater in 1974.

The Skeleton Key
[DVD 882]    2005    Universal Studios
4 3/4" DVD  Color     1 videodisc, 104 min.
A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past and the morbid goings-on centered around a group of Hoodoo (old African American magic) practitioners. Cast: Kate Hudson, Peter Sarsgaard
Subjects – Movies and Plays

Skin of Our Teeth
see title Civilization, #1: Skin of Our Teeth

Slacker Uprising
[DVD 1011]    2007    Brave New Films
4 3/4" DVD    Color    1 videodisc, 99 mins.
Traces Michael Moore's 62-city tour of the swing states during the 2004 Presidential election. Moore's goal was to convince millions of non-voting 'slackers' - mostly between the ages of 18-29 - to give voting a try.
Subjects – Law and Government ; Political Science

The Slanted Screen: Asian Men In Film And Television
[DVD 815]     2006     AAMM Productions
4 3/4" DVD   Color     1 videodisc, 60 min.
Explores the portrayals of Asian men in American cinema, chronicling the experiences of actors who have had to struggle against ethnic stereotyping and limiting roles. The film presents a critical examination of Hollywood's image-making machine, through a fascinating parade of 50 film clips spanning a century. Includes interviews with actors Mako, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, James Shigeta, Dustin Nguyen, Phillip Rhee, Will Yun Lee, Tzi Ma, Jason Scott Lee, comedian Bobby Lee, producer Terence Chang, casting director Heidi Levitt, writer Frank Chin, and directors Gene Cajayon and Eric Byler.
Subjects – Asian Americans ; Television, Film, and Video

Slaughterhouse-Five
[DVD 416]       1972         Universal Pictures
4 3/4" DVD     Color         1 videodisc, 104 min.
Billy Pilgrim has become unstuck in time and jumps back and forth in his life with no control over where he is going next. Sometimes he is in his home on Cape Cod, sometimes he is deep in World War II Europe and sometimes he is on the planet Tralfamadore. In the end he learns he must concentrate on the good things and ignore the bad in life. Based on the novel by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Cast: Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, Valerie Perrine.
Subjects – Movies and Plays

Slavery And The Making Of America, #1: The Downward Spiral
[DVD 170]       2004     Ambrose/PBS
4 3/4" DVD     Color     1 videodisc, 60 min.
Opens in the 1620s with the introduction of 11 men of African descent and mixed ethnicity into slavery in New Amsterdam. Working side by side with white indentured servants, these men labored to lay the foundations of the Dutch colony that would later become New York. There were no laws defining the limitations imposed on slaves at this point in time. Enslaved people could bring suits to court, earn wages, and marry. But in the span of a hundred years, everything changed. By the early 18th century, the trade of African slaves in America was expanding to accommodate an agricultural economy growing in the hands of ambitious planters. After the 1731 Stono Rebellion many colonies adopted strict "black codes" transforming the social system into one of legal racial oppression.
Subjects: African Americans ; United States: History

Slavery And The Making Of America, #2: Liberty In The Air
[DVD 171]       2004     Ambrose/PBS
4 3/4" DVD     Color     1 videodisc, 60 min.
From the 1740s to the 1830s, the institution of slavery continued to support economic development. As the slave population reproduced, American planters became less dependent on the African slave trade. Ensuing generations of slaves developed a unique culture that blended elements of African and American life. We follow the paths of several African Americans, including Thomas Jefferson's slave Jupiter, Colonel Tye, Elizabeth Freeman, David Walker, and Maria Stewart, as they respond to the increasingly restrictive system of slavery. At the core of this episode is the Revolutionary War, an event which reveals the contradictions of a nation seeking independence while simultaneously denying freedom to its black citizens.
Subjects: African Americans ; United States: History

Slavery And The Making Of America, #3: Seeds Of Destruction
[DVD 172]       2004     Ambrose/PBS
4 3/4" DVD     Color     1 videodisc, 60 min.
One by one the Northern states, led by Vermont in 1777, adopted laws to abolish and phase out slavery. Simultaneously, slavery in the Southern United States entered the period of its greatest expansion. At the beginning of the 1800s, we examine slavery's increasing divisiveness in America as the nation develops westward and cotton replaces tobacco as the country's most valuable crop. The episode weaves national events through the personal histories of two African American slaves -- Harriet Jacobs and Louis Hughes -- who not only managed to escape bondage, but also exposed the horrific realities of the slave experience in autobiographical narratives. These and other stories of physical, psychological, and sexual exploitation fed the fires of a reinvigorated abolitionist movement. With a diverse membership comprised of men and women, blacks and whites, and led by figures including Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, and Amy Post, abolitionist sentiment gathered strength in the North, contributing to the widening fissure and imminent break-up of the nation.
Subjects: African Americans ; United States: History

Slavery and the Making of America, #4: The Challenge of Freedom
[DVD 173]       2004    Ambrose/PBS
4 3/4" DVD     Color    1 videodisc, 60 min.
We look at Civil War and Reconstruction through the experiences of South Carolina slave Robert Smalls. It chronicles Smalls' daring escape to freedom, his military service, and his tenure as a congressman after the war. As the events of Smalls' life unfold, the complexities of this period in American history are revealed. The episode shows the transformation of the war from a struggle for union to a battle over slavery. It examines the black contribution to the war effort and traces the gains and losses of newly freed African Americans during Reconstruction. The 13th amendment abolished slavery in 1865, the 14th and 15th amendments guaranteed black civil rights, and the Freedmen's Bureau offered aid to former slaves throughout the 1870s. Yet simultaneously, the formation of militant groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan threatened the future of racial equality and segregation laws began to appear across the country. Slavery's eradication had not brought an end to black oppression.
Subjects: African Americans ; United States: History

Slaying The Dragon
[VHS 1309]       1988        NAATA
1/2" video          Color       1 cass., 60 min.
Analyzes the roles and images of Asian women promulgated by the Hollywood film industry and network television over the past fifty years. Film clips and interviews with Asian American actresses and media critics trace the history of these stereotypes entering the mainstream over the decades. Interviews with Asian American women as they respond to the impact these stereotypes have on their relationships with men, their work, and themselves.

Slingshot Hip Hop
[DVD 997]     2009    Fresh Booza
4 3/4" DVD   Color    1 videodisc, 86 mins.
Follow Tamer, Suhell, and Mahmoud of DAM, the first ever Palestinian Hip Hop group, from their early awkward studio recordings, through the outbreak of the second Intifada, to fiery sold-out shows all over the world.
Subjects – Music ; Middle East

Slither
[DVD 525]      2006      Universal Pictures
4 3/4" DVD    Color      1 videodisc, 95 min.
A small town is taken over by an alien plague, turning residents into zombies and all forms of mutant monsters. Cast: Nathan Fillion, Don Thompson
Subjects – Movies and Plays

Slumdog Millionaire
[DVD 771]      2008     Fox/Warner Bros.
4 3/4" DVD    Color     1 videodisc, 120 min.
A Mumbai teen who grew up in the slums, becomes a contestant on the Indian version of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" He is arrested under suspicion of cheating, and while being interrogated, events from his life history are shown which explain why he knows the answers. Cast: Dev Patel, Anil Kapoor, Saurabh Shukla, and Rajendranath Zutshi. In English and Hindi.
Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Asia: India

Small Soldiers
[VHS 123]    1998    DreamWorks
1/2" video    Color      1 cass., 110 min.
Meet the Commando Elite--toy action figures with an attitude. They've escaped from their boxes along with the Gorgonites, kindhearted but unusual-looking creatures. Now teenager Alan Abernathy gets enlisted to help the Gorgonites and rescue the girl of his dreams before the whole town is turned upside down. Animated film.
Subjects -- Movies and Plays

Smile of Reason
see title Civilization, #10: Smile of Reason

Smoke Signals
[DVD 637]     1999    Miramax Films
4 3/4" DVD   Color   1 videodisc, 89 min.
A bittersweet comedy about two young Native-Americans, Victor and Thomas, who leave their small town for an adventure in self-discovery. Based on stories by Sherman Alexie from the book: The Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in heaven. Cast: Adam Beach, Evan Adams, Irene Bedard, Gary Farmer, Tantoo Cardinal.

Smoker's Luck
[VHS 110]       1985        BBC/Films Inc.
1/2" video        Color        1 cass., 50 min.
Discusses major tobacco-related diseases and other damaging effects that smoking can have on the health of both smokers and non-smokers. Focuses on research done in Great Britain.

Snakes on a Plane
[DVD 881]    2006    New Line Cinema
4 3/4" DVD  Color    1 videodisc, 106 min.
An FBI agent takes on a plane full of deadly and poisonous snakes, deliberately released to kill a witness being flown from Honolulu to Los Angeles to testify against a mob boss. Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Julianna Margulies.
Subjects – Movies and Plays

Snow Falling On Cedars
[DVD 59]     1999    Universal Pictures
4 3/4" DVD   Color   1 videodisc, 128 min.
A murder trial has upset the quiet community of San Piedro, and now this tranquil village has become the center of controversy. For a local reporter the trial strikes home when he finds his ex-lover is linked to the case. Based on the novel by David Guterson. Cast: Ethan Hawke, James Cromwell, Richard Jenkins, Youki Kudoh, James Rebhorn, Sam Shepard, Rick Yune, Max von Sydow.
Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; Asian Americans ; World War 1939-1945

Solar Energy: Saved by the Sun (The American Experience)
[DVD 677]     2007     WGBH/PBS
4 3/4" DVD   Color      1 videodisc, 56 min.
With rising oil prices and political turmoil in the Middle East, there's new urgency and enthusiasm for finding ways to make solar power more efficient and affordable. From individuals installing solar panels on their roofs to industrial-scale projects in the Mojave desert featuring massive arrays of mirrors, solar power is gaining ground in the US. And in Germany, the world's leading developer of solar power is on track to produce 30 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020. Breakthroughs in nanotechnology could make solar's future even brighter. NOVA presents a provocative mix of scientist, economists, and ordinary citizens who are all pushing the envelope of solar power's untapped potential.
Subjects – Environmental Sciences ; Technology

Some American Feminists
[DVD 784]     1980     National Film Board of Canada
4 3/4" DVD   Color     1 videodisc, 56 min.
Interviews and newsreel footage place the American feminist movement in an historical perspective. Six of the women who gave impetus to the movement discuss those issues that most concern them. Interviews with Ti-Grace Atkinson, Rita Mae Brown, Betty Freidan, Margo Jefferson, Lila Karp, and Kate Millett.
Subjects – Women’s Studies

Some Like It Hot
[DVD 774]     1959     MGM
4 3/4" DVD    b&w     1 videodisc, 122 min.
Two struggling musicians witness the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and try to find a way out of the city before they are found and killed by the mob. The only job that will pay their way is an all girl band so the two dress up as women. Cast: Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Marilyn Monroe. Directed by Billy Wilder.
Subjects – Movies and Plays

Something in the Rain
[VHS 554]    1991    National Center for Farmworker Health
1/2" video     Color    1 cass., 6 min.
A music video by singer/songwriter Tish Hinojosa created in collaboration with NCFH and FADE IN: Productions. The song and video deal with the story of a family of farmworkers whose children have been exposed to pesticides. Included at the end of the video are two Public Service Announcements 30 and 60 seconds long, in English and Spanish.
Subjects – Latinos/Hispanic Americans ; Agriculture ; Environmental Sciences

Sondheim A Celebration At Carnegie
[VHS 2041]        1993       RCA Victor Video
1/2" video           Color       1 cass., 85 min.
also available in:
[DVD 205]   4 3/4" DVD    Color    1 videodisc, 85 min.
[DVD 206]   4 3/4" DVD    Color    1 videodisc, 85 min.
On June 10, 1992, an all-star cast from the worlds of Broadway, the movies, popular and classical music converged on Carnegie Hall to celebrate the work of Stephen. Performed by various artists ; American Theatre Orchestra ; Paul Gemignani, conductor. A PBS television series "Great Performances".
Subjects -- Music ; Drama and Theater

Song Of The Thin Man
[DVD 241]       1945     MGM
4 3/4" DVD     Color    1 videodisc, 100 min.
Nick and Nora Charles are attending a charity benefit aboard a gambling ship. The festive atmosphere conceals many tensions among those connected with the ship, with most of the friction centering around Tommy Drake, its unpopular, spiteful band-leader. When he is murdered later that night, suspicion falls on Phil Brant, who had argued with Drake earlier in the evening. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Keenan Wynn.
Subjects -- Movies and Plays

Songcatcher
[DVD 55]       1999    Lions Gate
4 3/4" DVD    Color    1 videodisc, 116 min.
When musicologist Doctor Lily Penleric is passed over, again, for a prominent teaching position, she decides to leave the city to visit her sister in the rugged mountains of Appalachia. While there, Lily, discovers a well spring of emotional "love songs" (ballads) that have been passed down through generations from the original Irish and Scottish immigrants who have settled in the area. Determined to document the history of the songs, and the recording of them as well, she is profoundly changed by the generosity, strength and freedom of the fiercely proud mountain people. Cast: Janet McTeer, Aidan Quinn, Pat Carroll, Jane Adams, Greg Russell Cook, Iris DeMent, Stephanie Roth Haberle, David Patrick Kelly, E. Katherine Kerr, Taj Mahal, Emmy Rossum. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1999.
Subjects -- Movies and Plays

Soul Food
[VHS 128]   1997    20th Century Fox
1/2" video    Color   1 cass., 114 min.
Sunday dinner at Mother Joe's is a mouth-watering, 40-year tradition. As seen through the eyes of her grandson Ahmad, love and laughs are always on the menu, despite the usual rivalries simmering between his mom Maxine and her sisters Teri and Bird. But when serious bickering starts to tear the family apart, the good times suddenly stop. Now it's up to Ahmad to get everyone back together and teach them the true meaning of soul food. Cast: Vanessa L. Williams, Vivica A. Fox, Nia Long, Michael Beach, Mekhi Phifer.
Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; African Americans

The Sound Of Music 
[VHS 1861]     1965     Twentieth Century-Fox
1/2" video        Color     1 cass., 175 min.
Julie Andrews lights up the screen as Maria, the spirited young woman who leaves the convent to become a governess to the seven young children of Captain von Trapp, an autocratic widower whose strict household rules leave no room for music or merriment. Based on the musical by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. Cast: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer.
Subjects - Movies and Plays ; World War, 1939-1945

Sounder Commuter Rail
[VHS 1387]       1998        Sound Regional Transit Authority
1/2" video           Color        1 cass., 19 mins.
Sounder train service is explained using Vancouver, British Columbia's commuter train system,  West Coast Express, as an example. Ken Harvey hosts and interviews Sound Transit, West Coast and Pacific Railway officials, as well as train passengers. Series: Moving ahead with Sound Transit

South Pacific
[DVD 252]       1958     20^th Century Fox
4 3/4" DVD     Color    1 videodisc, 133 min.
Can a girl from Small Rock find happiness with a mature French planter she got to know one enchanted evening away from the military hospital where she is a nurse? Or should she just wash that man out of her hair? Bloody Mary is the philosopher of the island and it's hard to believe she could be the mother of Liat who has captured the heart of Lt. Joseph Cable USMC. The war gets closer and the saga of Nellie Forbush and Emile de Becque becomes serious drama. Music by Rodgers and Hammerstein. Cast: Rossano Brazzi, Mitzi Gaynor, John Kerr.
Subjects -- Movies and Plays

Southeast Asia
[VHS 537]        1989       Educational Design
1/2" video         Color       1 cass., 49 min.
Pt. 1. The factors in common -- pt. 2. Many ways of life -- pt. 3. Beliefs and bread -- pt. 4. Fun, and the future. Covers geography, religion, social life and customs, and economics. (Global Cultures Series)

Soylent Green
[VHS 178]       1973        MGM/UA Home video 
1/2" video         Color       1 cass., 87 min.
A science-fiction story. The year is 2022 and New York City teems with 40-million citizens. The environmental erosion is so complete that people must rely on a wafer-like greenish foodstuff called Soylent. Policeman Thorn investigates the murder of a magnate in the dictatorial Soylent Company. Cast: Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, Edward G. Robinson, Harry Harrison.

Spanish Alive!
[VHS 71]        1988       Heinle & Heinle Pub. Co.
1/2" video       Color       1 cass., 60 min.
Allows Spanish language students to see, hear, and imitate Spanish speakers in Spain, Central America, South America, and the United States as they greet each other, ask directions, order food, shop, and ride the subway.

Spanish From Within
[VHS 72]        1988       Heinle & Heinle Pub. Co.
1/2" video        Color      1 cass., 60 min.
Allows Spanish language students to experience the sights and sounds of places such as Spain, Colombia, Argentina, Costa Rica, Mexico, and the United States.

The Spectrum Of Autism
[DVD 965]    2002     Fanlight Productions
4 3/4" DVD   Color    1 videodisc, 34 min.
Sshare in the experiences of several families who have struggled to love and care for children who fall at various points on the spectrum of autism. Learn about the symptoms which first alerted them to the possibility of a developmental disorder in their child, and the challenges they faced in obtaining an accurate diagnosis, and then in securing proper treatment and an educational setting appropriate to their children's needs. Hear as well the perspectives of clinicians and educators who explain the difficulties they face in recognizing autism, and point to some of the common developmental signs which may be early signals of the disorder. These include delays or regression in learning to talk; difficulties in understanding and integrating various forms of sensory stimuli; and failure to develop normal speech, language or early social skills.
Subjects – Diseases ; Children and Child Development ; Psychology

Speaking Parts
[DVD 420]      1989      Zeitgeist Films
4 3/4" DVD    Color      1 videodisc, 93 min.
A struggling, bit-part actor's job as a hotel custodian is a front for his real job: being rented out as a gigolo by his woman supervisor. A female co-worker is obsessed with him, but he ignores and avoids her. He leaves his acting resume in the hotel room of a woman screenwriter, who is casting for a TV movie based on the true story of her deceased brother. She hires him to play the lead and the two begin an affair. She becomes increasingly distraught as it becomes evident that the movie's producer is changing her story. (The Essential Egoyan) Cast: Michael McManus, Arsinée Khanjian
Subjects – Movies and Plays

Speaking Shakespearean Verse
[VHS 184]        1979       Films for the Humanities
1/2" video         Color       1 cass., 50 min.
Members of the Royal Shakespeare Company give a workshop on styles of speaking verse. Discusses approaches to the problem of speaking verse in drama, and ends with a demonstration of how the RSC works on a text in rehearsal.

The Speeches Of Adolf Hitler
[VHS 2010]     1990     MPI Home Video
1/2" video      B&W     1 cass., 46 min.
Anthology of speeches delivered by Adolf Hitler. Shows the propaganda oratory techniques and demonic phrases that helped Hitler hold a hypnotic grip over the German masses. (The Speeches Collection)
Subjects: Speeches and Public Speaking ; World War 1939-1945 ; Europe: Germany

Speeches of Dwight D. Eisenhower
[VHS 569]       1988        MPI Home video 
1/2" video         Color       1 cass., 60 min.
Dwight D. Eisenhower was not this country's most forceful or dynamic President and neither was he the most eloquent public speaker. His speeches do not zing with witticisms and rhetorical barbs, but they do communicate the forthrightness of the man.

Speeches of Harry Truman
[VHS 567]        1990       MPI Home video 
1/2" video        Color        1 cass., 55 min.
Bring back the "Give 'em hell" President, Harry S. Truman, and hear his speeches about the decision to drop the first atomic bomb, the spread of communism in Asia, the unionization of industry, his firing of Macarthur and more.

The Speeches Of Malcolm X
[VHS 2011]    1997    MPI Home Video
1/2" video      B&W    1 cass., 41 min.
Presents a collection of Malcolm X's speeches, showing the evolution of his ideas and attitudes. (The Speeches Collection)
Subjects: African Americans ; Civil Rights ; Speeches and Public Speaking

The Speeches Of Martin Luther King
[VHS 2012]    1990    MPI Home Video
1/2" video      B&W      1 cass., 60 min.
Presents some of the speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. from the early days as a young pastor in Montgomery, to the great march on Washington.  Includes the final prophetic speech in Memphis just days before his tragic assassination. (The Speeches Collection)
Subjects: King, Martin Luther Jr. ; African Americans ;  Speeches and Public Speaking

Speeches of Robert F. Kennedy
[VHS 568]       1990        MPI Home video 
1/2" video         Color       1 cass., 55 min.
Robert Kennedy was one of the most moving and effective speakers of our time. Here are his speeches at Columbia University, to the Democratic Convention in 1964, his proposals on Vietnam policies, and his emotional eulogy at the funeral of his brother.

Speeches of Winston Churchill
[VHS 570]        1988       MPI Home video 
1/2" video         Color       1 cass., 60 min.
Churchill was the British lion, its bulldog, the defender of its freedom, the pride of her people. He led his tiny island nation through trying times with his eloquent, heart-felt exhortations. Experience firsthand what those words meant to the British.

Spellbound
[DVD 74]       1945        Selznick International Pictures
4 3/4" DVD    Color        1 videodisc, 111 min.
The head of the Green Manors mental asylum Dr. Murchison is retiring to be replaced by Dr. Edwards, a famous psychiatrist. Edwards arrives and is immediately attracted to the beautiful but cold Dr. Constance Petersen. However, it soon becomes apparent that Dr. Edwards is in fact a paranoid amnesiac imposter. He goes on the run with Constance who tries to help his condition and solve the mystery of what happened to the real Dr. Edwards. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Gregory Peck, Ingrid Bergman.
Subjects - Movies and Plays

Sports Shoe Wars Battle Of The Giants In China
[DVD 703]     2008      Films for the Humanities and Sciences
4 3/4" DVD    Color     1 videodisc, 27 mins
Three athletic footwear companies, Nike, Adidas, and homegrown upstart Li Ning, have faced off in a high-stakes battle for China’s gigantic market. This program examines Adidas’ rising prominence in the country, an ascension due in no small part to its well-publicized Olympic Games sponsorship. Li Ning’s efforts to retain its precarious hold on the urban market are also studied. Dialogue in Chinese, German and English with English translation.
Subjects – Advertising ; Asia: China