Feature Films and Plays

Movies and Plays See also: Drama and Theater Television, Film, and Video *Oscar for "Best Picture"* Animation Musical Film Noir Western Science Fiction Horror 2 Days in the Valley [DVD 868] 1996 HBO 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 104 mins A mild-mannered hit man is hired by an icy killer to assist him on his latest job. When two vice cops stumble on the murder scene, their investigation leads to a colorful array of San Fernando Valley denizens, including a has-been director and a snobbish art dealer whose lives come together in unexpected and interesting ways. This clever thriller fits nicely into the eccentric category of "Only in California." Cast: James Spader, Eric Stoltz, Jeff Daniels, Danny Aiello. Subjects – Movies and Plays 12 Angry Men [DVD 323] 1957 MGM 4 3/4" DVD B&W 1 videodisc, 96 min. The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Latino man is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and shut case of murder soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other. Cast: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb. Based on the play, all of the action takes place on the stage of the jury room. Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; Law and Government 21 [DVD 859] 2008 Columbia Pictures 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 123 mins Fact-based story about six MIT students who were trained by an unorthodox math professor to become experts in card counting in blackjack and subsequently took Vegas casinos for millions in winnings. Cast: Kevin Spacey, Jim Sturgess, Kate Bosworth. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Mathematics and Statistics The 39 Steps [VHS 1083] 1935 Madacy Music Group 1/2" video B&W 1 cass., 83 min. A man is falsely accused of murdering a spy and is chased across Scotland as he tries to uncover a secret organization and catch the real villain. Cast: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Godfrey Tearle, Peggy Ashcroft. The Alfred Hitchcock Collection. Subjects -- Movies and Plays 1984 [DVD 479] 1984 MGM 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 110 min. George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society where Big Brother is watching. Winston Smith endures a squalid existence in totalitarian Oceania rewriting history the government does not approve of while under the constant surveillance of Big Brother. His life takes a horrifying turn when he begins a forbidden love affair and commits the crime of independent thought. Cast: John Hurt, Richard Burton. Subjects – Movies and Plays 2001, A Space Odyssey [DVD 126] 1968 MGM 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 148 min. The monoliths have been watching us. They gave us the "evolutionary kick in the pants" we needed to survive at the Dawn of Time. In 1999, we discovered a second monolith on the moon. Now, in the year 2001, the S.S. Discovery and its crew, Captains Dave Bowman and Frank Poole, and their onboard computer, HAL-9000, must discover what alien force is watching us. A science fiction film which moves from the pre-historic birth of intelligence toward the emergence of man as pure thought somewhere in the future. Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke. Cast: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood. Closed captioned. Subjects -- Movies and Plays 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea [VHS 1678] 1916 Kino Video 1/2" video B&W 1 cass., 105 min. A team of 19^th Century American scientists investigate a series of naval disturbances believed to be caused by a sea monster. They soon find that the creature is actually the Nautilius, a submarine piloted by Captain Nemo, a hate-driven renegade seaman. Released by Universal in 1916, the first great special effects spectacular of the early cinema. Cast: Allan Holubar, Jane Gail, Dan Hanlon. Based on the novel by Jules Verne. Subjects -- Movies and Plays The Adventures Of Pinocchio [DVD 60] 1997 New Line Cinema 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 94 min. A wooden puppet full of tricks and mischief, with a talent for getting into and out of trouble, wants more than anything else to become a real boy. Based on a story by Carlo Collodi. Cast: Landau, Martin, Thomas, Jonathan Taylor. Closed captioned. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Ah, Wilderness! By Eugene O'Neill [VHS 1833] 1976 Broadway Theatre Archive 1/2" video Color 1 cass., 118 min. A Long Wharf Theatre Company production of Eugene O'Neill's nostalgic paean to the rites of adolescence. This affectionate comedy presents a 17 year old boy's coming of age during a summer in 1906 New England where he experiments with his first romantic crush, poetry, politics, wicked women and alcohol. Cast: Swoosie Kurtz, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Richard Backus, William Swetland, Joyce Ebert. PBS television broadcast for Great Performances, Theater in America. Subjects -- Movies and Plays After The Thin Man [DVD 237] 1936 MGM 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 112 min. Back in San Francisco after solving his last case in New York, Nick and Nora find another case. Nora's cousin Selma is accused of having murdered her husband, but for Nick it's clear that she is not the murderer and he starts to investigate. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewart. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Air Force One [DVD 851] 1997 Sony Pictures 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 124 mins Terrorists have seized Air Force One thirty thousand feet in the air with the President, his family, and more than fifty other people on board. The terrorists threaten to execute a hostage every 30 minutes if their demands are not met. Cast: Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, Glenn Close. Subjects – Movies and Plays Akira [DVD 993] 1988 Geneon Pictures 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 124 mins Set in 2019 in the new metropolis of Neo-Tokyo, Kaneda is a bike gang leader whose close friend Tetsuo gets involved in a government secret project known as Akira. On his way to save Tetsuo, Kaneda runs into a group of anti-government activists, greedy politicians, irresponsible scientists and a powerful military leader. The confrontation sparks off Tetsuo's supernatural power leading to bloody death, a coup attempt and the final battle in Tokyo Olympiad where Akira's secrets were buried 30 years ago. Based on a comic book series by artist-writer Katsuhiro Ôtomo. Animation. Subjects – Movies and Plays Akira Kurosawa's Dreams [DVD 928] 1991 Warner Home Video 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 cass., 120 min. Consists of eight episodes which among other things explore the costs of war, the perils of nuclear power and humankind's need to harmonize with nature. In Japanese with English subtitles. Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; Language: Japanese Al Otro Lado = To The Other Side [DVD 818] 2005 Univision Communications / Nuevo Cine 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 85 min. The story of three young children in three different countries. Despite their differences and distances from each other, they all share the same dilemma of losing a parent to another country and then struggling with their loss. In Spanish and Arabic with optional Spanish subtitles during Arabic dialogue or optional English subtitles throughout. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Language: Spanish ; Immigration and Emigration Alexandr Nevsky [DVD 927] 1986 Mosfilm Studios/Crown Video 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 cass., 112 min. A historical feature film originally released in 1938. Russian with English subtitles. A story of the invasion of Russia in 1241 by the Teutonic Knights. Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; Language: Russian ; Soviet Union and Russia Ali [DVD 51] 2002 Columbia TriStar 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 157 min. Dramatic biography of boxing great Muhammad Ali, which focuses on the ten-year period of 1964-1974. In that time, the brash, motor-mouthed athlete quickly dominates his sport, meets and marries his first wife, converts to Islam (changing his name from Cassius Clay), and defies the United States government by refusing to submit to military conscription for duty in Vietnam. His world heavyweight champion title thus stripped from him entirely for political reasons, the champ sets about to win back his crown, culminating in a legendary unification bout against George Foreman in Zaire, dubbed the "Rumble in the Jungle." Cast: Will Smith, Jamie Foxx, Jon Voight, Mario Van Peebles, Ron Silver, Jeffrey Wright, Mykelti Williamson, Jada Pinkett Smith, Nona M. Gaye, Michael Michele, Joe Morton. Closed captioned. Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; African Americans Alice In Wonderland By Lewis Carroll [VHS 1834] 1983 Broadway Theatre Archive 1/2" video Color 1 cass., 87 min. From the elaborate Broadway revival of the 1932 Eva Le Gallienne/Florida Friebus production comes a whimsical retelling of the Lewis Carroll classic. Cast: Richard Burton, Colleen Dewhurst, Donald O'Conner. PBS television broadcast for Great Performances, Theater in America. Subjects -- Movies and Plays All About Eve [DVD 485] 1950 20th Century Fox 4 3/4" DVD b&w 1 videodisc, 138 min. From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo Channing. Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critic sees through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit. Cast: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill. Subjects – Movies and Plays All Quiet on the Western Front [DVD 492] 1930 IFC Films 4 3/4" DVD b&w 1 videodisc, 132 min. Adaptation of the Remarque WWI novel on his a searing indictment of the insanity of war. Focuses on the fates of young Paul Bauman and his classmates who have enlisted to fight in the German army during WWI. Still on fire with the patriotism instilled by their teacher, they arrive for training eager to face death. When they reach the front lines they realize that the German troops have few supplies and no food. The carnage of the battle shocks the boys and some are driven mad. Day after day the recruits huddle in the trenches frightened starving and unable to gain ground realizing that it is not glorious to die for one's fatherland. Cast: Lew Ayres, Arnold Lucy, Louis Wolheim. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; World War 1914-1918; Europe: Germany All the King's Men [DVD 486] 1949 Columbia Pictures 4 3/4" DVD b&w 1 videodisc, 109 min. Willie Stark, a charismatic populist Southern politician (inspired by the real Louisiana Governor Huey Long) who belies his "man of the people" roots as he ruthlessly maneuvers, lies, and deals his way into the halls of power. His right-hand man, Jack Burden, a newsman turned political flack hangs on to Stark's early idealism even in the face of Stark's most reprehensible acts of corruption. Cast: Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Joanne Dru, and John Derek. Subjects – Movies and Plays Along Came A Spider [DVD 61] 2001 Paramount 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 103 min. Dr. Alex Cross is back to work the case of a girl who was kidnapped from her Washington, D.C. school, a place where senators and diplomats send their children. Its up to Alex to profile the kidnapper and find the girl. Cast: Morgan Freeman, Monica Potter, Michael Wincott, Penelope Ann Miller, Dylan Baker, Michael Moriarty, Rika Booren, Jay O. Sanders, Billy Burke. Closed captioned. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Amadeus [DVD 536] 1984 Orion Pictures. 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 160 min. Antonio Salieri believes that Mozart's music is divine. He wishes he was himself as good a musician as Mozart so that he can praise the Lord through composing. But he can't understand why God favored Mozart, such a vulgar creature, to be his instrument. Salieri's envy has made him an enemy of God whose greatness was evident in Mozart. He is set to take revenge on God through the destruction of Mozart. Cast: F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Music American Beauty [DVD 399] 1999 DreamWorks 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 122 min. An emotionally & spiritually comatose suburban man decides "to hell with it all" and reverts to living as he did when he was happiest--as a carefree teenager. His desperately uptight wife and sullen daughter can only look on as he quits his corporate job to become a burger flipper, starts getting high with a strange new neighbor (whose parents are even stranger) and lusts after a pouty blonde teenager--his daughter’s best friend. Cast: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening. Subjects – Movies and Plays American Gangster [DVD 876] 2007 Universal Studios 4 3/4" DVD Color 2 videodisc, 174 min. In 1970s America, a detective works to bring down the drug empire of Frank Lucas, a heroin kingpin from Manhattan, who is smuggling the drug into the country from the Far East. Cast: Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe. Subjects – Movies and Plays American Graffiti [DVD 797] 1973 Lucasfilms 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 112 min. Where were you in '62? A couple of high school grads spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college. Cast: Richard Dreyfus, Ron Howard, Cindy Williams, Paul LeMat. Directed by George Lucas. see also: More American Graffiti Subjects – Movies and Plays An American in Paris [DVD 283] 1951 MGM 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 114 min. Jerry Mulligan, a struggling American painter in Paris, is "discovered" by an influential heiress with an interest in more than Jerry's art. Jerry in turn falls for Lise, a young French girl already engaged to a cabaret singer. Jerry jokes, sings and dances with his best friend, an acerbic would-be concert pianist, while romantic complications abound. Musical. Cast: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron. Subjects -- Movies and Plays American Made [DVD 478] 1998 American Film Institute 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 25 min. A Sikh family on the way to the Grand Canyon is stranded in a remote area when their car breaks down. The father, clad in a traditional turban, tries to get the attention of passing motorists, but they speed by. His teenaged son thinks that no motorists will stop because they think his dad looks like a terrorist. Thus begins a conflict between assimilation and identity, faith and compromise, conformity versus prejudice. Cast: Bernard White, Kalpen Modi, Sakina Jaffrey, Te'amir Yohannes Sweeney. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Race Relations American Me [DVD 966] 1992 MCA Universal 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 126 min. Tells the story about the creation of one of the biggest hispanic gangs in California, the Mexican Mafia from the viewpoint of Santana, the co-creator of the gang, from his parents violent youth all the way to the time he spends in prison. An enthralling look at gang violence and how it effects our youth as it becomes a truly vicious cycle. Cast: Edward James Olmos, William Forsythe, Pepe Serna, Evelina Fernandez. Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; Latinos/Hispanic Americans And The Band Played On [DVD 926] 1993 HBO Home Video 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 cass., 140 min. Dr. Don Francis, a researcher at the Centers for Disease Control, seeks to uncover the cause of a number of mysterious deaths. Based on the book by Randy Shilts. Cast: Mathew Modine, Alan Alda, Patrick Bauchau. Closed captioned. Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; Diseases: Aids/HIV ; Homosexuality Andy Goldsworthy's Rivers & Tides [DVD 337] 2004 Docurama 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 90 min. Depicts the magical relationship between art and nature while painting a visually intoxicating portrait of famed artist Andy Goldsworthy. Gorgeously shot and masterfully edited, the film follows the bohemian free spirit Goldsworthy all over the world as he demonstrates and opens up about his unique creative process. From his long-winding rock walls and icicle sculptures to his interlocking leaf chains and multicolored pools of flowers, Goldsworthy's painstakingly intricate masterpieces are made entirely of materials found in Mother Nature who threatens and often succeeds in destroying his art, sometimes before it is even finished. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Art Angels In America [DVD 145] 2003 HBO Video 4 3/4" DVD Color 2 videodisc,352 min. Set in 1985. Revolves around two very different men with AIDS, one fictional, one fictionalized. Roy Cohn, personifies all the hypocrisy, delusion and callousness of the official response to the plague. Nothing shakes Roy's lack of empathy: even on his death bed, he's fighting with his gay nurse and taunting the woman he helped put to death, Ethel Rosenberg. The other patient is Prior Walter, who is visited by an angel and deserted by his self-pitying lover, Louis. Louis moves on to a relationship with Joe Pitt, a Mormon lawyer whose closeted homosexuality drives his wife to delusions and brings his mother to New York. Cast: Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson. Directed by Mike Nichols. Based on the play by Tony Kushner. Closed captioned. Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; Homosexuality Angels With Dirty Faces [DVD 230] 1949 Warner Bros. 4 3/4" DVD B&W 1 videodisc, 114 min. Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connolly were tough kids who grew up together in the toughest part of New York --- Hell's Kitchen. Early on, Rocky gets sent to reform school, where he learns how to be a first class criminal. Jerry, who had escaped from the law, goes straight and becomes a priest. As adults, they reunite in the old neighborhood: Jerry works with the kids who, like he and Rocky, could end up on either side of the law. Rocky has returned looking for a safe place to stay till he can get back into his old racketeering organization -- something that his old partner isn't anxious to have happen. Lots of rapid fire wisecracks, roughhousing and gunfire ensues. Cast: James Cagney, Pat O’Brien. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Another Thin Man [DVD 238] 1939 MGM 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 103 min. In this adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's "The Farewell Murder". Col. MacFay, an explosives manufacturer, is being threatened by a mysterious man wanting revenge for a past injustice. He calls in Nick and Nora (with new baby) to sort things out. When MacFay is murdered, that man is the obvious suspect- maybe too obvious. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Virginia Grey. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Animal Farm [DVD 925] 1955 Video Images 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 cass., 72 min. Animated motion picture based on the George Orwell fable about farm animals who, after revolting against their cruel owner, are taken over by the pigs. Animated film. Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; Political Science Annie Hall [DVD 543] 1977 Miramax. 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 122 min. Romantic adventures of neurotic New York comedian Alvy Singer and his equally neurotic girlfriend Annie Hall. The film traces the course of their relationship from their first meeting, and serves as an interesting historical document about love in the 1970s. Cast: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton. Subjects – Movies and Plays Antigone [VHS 1451] 1972 The Broadway Theatre Archive 1/2" Video Color 1 cass., 90 min. A filmed play adaptation from the Jean Anouilh reinterpretation of the Sophocles tragedy. First written and produced during the Nazi Occupation. A young woman facing a morally corrupt world raises powerful questions of human interaction in regard to collaboration, responsibility and personal integrity. Cast: Genevieve Bujold, Stacy Keach, Fritz Weaver, Leah Chandler, James Naughton, Betty Miller. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Any Given Sunday [DVD 858] 1999 Sony 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 150 mins. A behind the scenes look at the life and death struggles of modern day gladiators and those who lead them. A star quarterback gets knocked out of the game and an unknown third stringer is called in to replace him. The unknown gives a stunning performance and forces the aging coach to reevaluate his game plans and life. A new co-owner/president adds to the pressure of winning and must prove herself in a male dominated world. The coach of the fictional Miami Sharks football team struggles with the a dilemma, what to do with the old friend who's past his prime and the young hotshot who could save the franchise but first has to learn what being a team player is all about. Cast: Al Pacino, Jamie Foxx , Dennis Quaid. Directed by Oliver Stone. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Sports, Recreation and Fitness Aparajito = The Unvanquished (Apu Trilogy, #2) [VHS 916] 1956 Sony Pictures Classics 1/2" video b&w 1 cass., 111 min. After living awhile in Benares, 10 year old Apu and his mother move in with her uncle in a small Bengali village. Apu enters a local school, where he does well. By the time he graduates, he has a scholarship to study at a college in Calcutta. So off he goes. His mother is torn by his leaving, and by his growing independence. She loves her son very much and wants him to succeed, but she does not want to be left alone. Cast: Kanu Bannerjee, Karuna Bannerjee, Pinaki Sengupta, and Smaran Ghosal. Directed by Satyajit Ray. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Asia: India The Apartment [DVD 547] 1960 United Artists 4 3/4" DVD b&w 1 videodisc, 125 min. Bud Baxter is a struggling clerk in a huge New York insurance company discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder - by lending out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. He often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits and one night he's left with a major problem to solve. Cast: Jack Lemon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred McMurray. Subjects – Movies and Plays Apocalypse Now [DVD 6] 1979 Paramount 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 153 min. A United States Army officer/trained assassin is sent into the depths of a southeast Asian jungle to seek out a renegade colonel and terminate his command during the Vietnam War. Inspired by the story: Heart of Darkness / by Joseph Conrad. Originally produced as motion picture in 1979. Cast: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest, Albert Hall, Sam Bottoms, Larry Fishburne, Dennis Hopper. Directed and produced by Francis Ford Coppola. Closed captioned. Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; Vietnamese Conflict Apu Trilogy #1: Pather Panchali = Song of the Little Road #2: Aparajito = The Unvanquished #3: The World of Apu Around the World in 80 Days [DVD 531] 1956 United Artists 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 183 min. Adaptation of Jules Verne's novel about a Victorian Englishman who bets that with the new steamships and railways he can do what the title says. Cast: David Niven, Cantinflas. Subjects – Movies and Plays Astaire & Rogers Collection, Volume 1 see titles: The Barkleys of Broadway Follow the Fleet Shall We Dance? Swing Time Top Hat Austin Powers - International Man Of Mystery [DVD 863] 1997 New Line Cinema 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 94 mins Frozen in the 60's, secret agent Austin Powers is thawed back into action to once again battle his archenemy Dr. Evil. With his sexy sidekick Ms. Kensington, Austin must stop Dr. Evil's outrageous plot to control the world. But first, this time-warped swinger must get hip quick and discover that there's no free love in the 90's! Cast: Mike Myers, Elizabeth Hurley, Michael York, Mimi Rogers, Robert Wagner. Subjects – Movies and Plays Austin Powers - The Spy Who Shagged Me [DVD 864] 1999 New Line Cinema 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 95 mins Dr. Evil is back...and has invented a new time machine that allows him to go back to the 60's and steal Austin Powers's mojo, inadvertently leaving him "shagless". Cast: Mike Myers, Heather Graham, Michael York, Robert Wagner, Rob Lowe. Subjects – Movies and Plays The Avengers [VHS 131] 1998 Warner Bros. 1/2" Video Color 1 cass., 89 min. John Steed and Emma Peel fight crime with style. Sir August DeWynter is an evil genius out to control the world with his high-tech weather machine. This madman poses quite a threat to mankind with his raging ice storms, scorching temperatures and mechanical buzz-bombing bees. But come cold, heat or dreaded plight, our two heroes never lose their cool. Tea anyone? Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Uma Thurman, Sean Connery. Closed captioned. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Baby Take A Bow [DVD 223] 1934 Fox Films 4 3/4" DVD B&W/Colorized 1 videodisc, 76 min. When little Shirley Ellison’s ex-con father is accused of stealing a pearl necklace, the youngster springs into action to solve the mystery through a hilarious game of hide and seek. Cast: Shirley Temple, James Dunn, Claire Trevor. Subjects --- Movies and Plays Bamboozled [DVD 400] 2000 New Line Cinema 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 136 min. Dark, biting satire of the television industry, focusing on an Ivy-League educated black writer at a major network. Frustrated that his ideas for a "Cosby Show"-esque take on the black family has been rejected by network brass, he devises an outlandish scheme: reviving the minstrel show. The hook: instead of white actors in black face, the show stars black actors in even blacker face. The show becomes an instant smash, but with the success also comes repercussions for all involved. Cast: Damon Wayans, Savion Glover, Jada Pinkett-Smith, Tommy Davidson, Michael Rapaport. Directed by Spike Lee. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Television, Film and Video ; African Americans The Barkleys of Broadway [DVD 243] 1949 MGM 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 109 min. Josh and Dinah Barkley are a successful (though argumentative) musical-comedy team, yet Dinah chafes as Galatea to her husband's Pygmalion. When serious playwright Jacques Barredout envisions her as a great dramatic actress, Dinah is not hard to persuade. Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Batman Begins [DVD 909] 2005 Warner Bros. 4 3/4" DVD Color 2 videodisc, 140 min. The story of how Bruce Wayne became what he was destined to be: Batman. Cast: Christian Bale, Mark Boone Junior, Richard Brake, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman. Subjects – Movies and Plays The Battle at Elderbush Gulch [VHS 176] 1913 Biograph Co./Kartes Video 1/2" video B&W 1 cass., 25 min. D.W. Griffith film. Two orphans go to live with their uncle who refuses to let them keep their puppies. The puppies fall into the hands of some Indians who cooks them for dinner. The uncle shoots the Chief's son and a battle results. Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; Indians of North America The Battleship Potemkin [DVD 924] 1984 Crown Video 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 cass., 75 min. A dramatic reenactment of the mutiny aboard the Russian battleship Potemkin in 1905. Originally issued as a silent motion picture in the Soviet Union in 1925. Directed by Sergei Eisenstein. With English subtitles. Subjects -- Soviet Union and Russia ; Movies and Plays A Beautiful Mind [DVD 216] 2001 Universal 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 134 min. Inspired by the true story of mathematician John Forbes Nash, Jr., one of three Nobelists celebrated in 1994 for their work in game theory. From the heights of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes Nash, Jr. experienced it all. A mathematical genius, he made an astonishing discovery early in his career and stood on the brink of international acclaim. But the handsome and arrogant Nash soon found himself on a painful and harrowing journey, suffering from schizophrenia.. After many years of struggle, he eventually triumphed over his illness, and late in life received the Nobel Prize. Cast: Jennifer Connelly, Russell Crowe. Directed by Ron Howard. Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; Mathematics and Statistics ; Psychology Beautiful Thing [VHS 1430] 1997 Columbia TriStar Home Video 1/2" Video Color 1 cass., 90 min. Set in London's lower class suburbs, this is the story of a teenager who has discovered that he's gay and his love for another teenager who lives next door. Based on the play by Jonathan Harvey. Cast: Linda Henry, Glen Berry, Scott Neal. Closed captioned. Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; Homosexuality Beckett On Film : 19 Films X 19 Directors [DVD 68-71] 2001 Blue Angel Films 4 3/4" DVD Color 4 videodisc The hugely ambitious Beckett on Film project gathered together 19 different directors to turn the 19 stage works written by Samuel Beckett into films. [DVD 68] Waiting for Godot (120 min.); Not I (4 min.); Rough for Theatre I (20 min); Ohio Impromptu ( 12 min.); Documentary. [DVD 69] Krapp’s Last Tape (58 min); What Where (12 min.); Footfalls ( 28 min.); Come and Go (8 min.); Act Without Words I (16 min.) [DVD 70] Happy Days (79 min.); Catastrophe (7 min.); Rough for Theatre II (30 min.); Breath (45 sec.); That Time (20 min.) [DVD 71] Endgame (84 min.); Act Without Words II (11 min.); A Piece of Monologue (20 min.); Play (16 min.); Rockaby (16 min.) Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; Drama and Theater Behind Locked Doors [DVD 3] 1948 Kino on Video 4 3/4" DVD B&W 1 videodisc, 62 min. A journalist fakes mental illness to have himself committed to an asylum where he believes a crooked judge is hiding. Cast: Richard Carlson, Lucille Bremer, Dickie Moore, Thomas Browne Henry, Tor Johnson, Douglas Fowley. Film noir. Subjects -- Movies and Plays The Belle of Amherst [DVD 923] 1994 Kino on Video 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 cass., 90 min. Portrays America's first notable poetess, Emily Dickinson, through an examination of her writing and observations of her life and family. Cast: Julie Harris. Subjects -- Poetry ; Movies and Plays Ben-Hur [DVD 532] 1959 MGM 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 214 min. Judah Ben-Hur lives as a rich Jewish prince and merchant in Jerusalem at the beginning of the 1st century. Together with the new governor his old friend Messala arrives as commanding officer of the Roman legions. At first they are happy to meet after a long time but their different politic views separate them. During the welcome parade a brick falls down from Judah's house and barely misses the governor. Although Messala knows that they are not guilty he sends Judah to the galleys and throws his mother and sister into prison. Judah swears to come back and take revenge. Cast: Charlton Heston, Stephen Boyd, Sam Jaffe, Jack Hawkins. Subjects – Movies and Plays The Best Years Of Our Lives [DVD 50] 1946 MGM 4 3/4" DVD B&W 1 videodisc, 168 min. Recounts the problems faced by three returning veterans of WWII as they attempt to pick up the threads of their lives. Captain Derry is returning to a loveless marriage, Sergeant Stephenson is a stranger to a family that's grown up without him, and sailor Parrish is tormented by the loss of his hands. Cast: Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo, Cathy O'Donnell, Hoagy Carmichael, Harold Russell, Gladys George, Roman Bohnen, Ray Collins, Victor Cutler. Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; World War, 1939-1945 Better Luck Tomorrow [DVD 401] 2003 Paramount 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 100 min. Ben, an Asian American perfectionist and overachiever whose tunnel vision leads to nothing less than graduating at the top of his class. As he struggles to achieve social success, he discovers his darker side. He and his friends: Virgil, Daric and Han lead a double life of mischief and petty crimes to alleviate the pressures of perfection. As their adopted identity grows, the gang tumbles into a downward spiral of excitement, excess and fun. Cast: Parry Shen, Jason Tobin, Sung Kang, Roger Fan, John Cho. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Asian Americans Beyond The Horizon By Eugene O'Neill [VHS 1835] 1976 Broadway Theatre Archive 1/2" video Color 1 cass., 117 min. The play concerns two brothers in love with the same girl. Her rejection of one of them and marriage to the other tears apart a family and sets the stage for all three characters' discontent and disillusionment. Cast: John Houseman, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Maria Tucci. PBS television broadcast for Great Performances, Theater in America. Subjects -- Movies and Plays The Big Sleep [DVD 336] 1946 Warner Bros. 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 114 min. Private-eye Philip Marlowe is hired to keep an eye on General Sternwood's youngest daughter, Carmen, who has fallen into bad company and is likely to do some damage to herself and her family before long. He soon finds himself falling in love with her older sister, Vivien, who initially takes a deep dislike to Mr. Marlowe. However, the plot thickens when murder follows murder. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall. Subjects – Movies and Plays Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss [VHS 1431] 1998 Trimark Home Video 1/2" Video Color 1 cass., 92 min. A romance about a fledgling photographer (Sean P. Hayes) who falls in love with a gorgeous musician while re-creating Hollywood's great screen kisses with men only. Cast: Sean P. Hayes, Brad Rowe, Richard Ganoung, Meredith Scott Lynn. Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; Homosexuality The Birth Of A Nation [DVD 49] 1915 David W. Griffith 4 3/4" DVD B&W 1 videodisc, 187 min. This epic story of the Civil War as seen through the lives of two families is a controversial classic of film history. Griffith had turned a lurid, negro-phobic play called "The Clansman" into a three-hour Civil War epic that in sweep and scope set a standard for film spectacle and absorbing historical melodrama. Cast: Lillian Gish, Henry B. Walthall, Mae Marsh, Miriam Cooper, Robert Harron, Wallace Reid, Donald Crisp, Raoul Walsh. Originally produced as a silent motion picture in 1915. Music sound track added in 1992. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Black Caesar [DVD 922] 1973 MGM 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 cass., 94 min. Fred Williamson is imposing, tough and unflappable as a street kid who muscles his way into the big time mob racket. Cast: Fred Williamson, Minnie Gentry, Julius W. Harris, D'Urville Martin, Don Pedro Colley, Gloria Hendry, Art Lund, Val Avery, Phillip Roye. Subjects -- Movies and Plays The Black Dahlia [DVD 879] 2006 Universal Studios 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 121 mins Set in 1946, Los Angeles, two cops, Bucky Bleichert and his partner, Lee Blanchard, investigate the death of Elizabeth Short, a young woman found brutally murdered. Bucky soon realizes that his girlfriend had ties to the deceased, and soon after that, he begins uncovering corruption and conspiracy within the police department. Cast: Josh Hartnett, Scarlett Johansson Director: Brian De Palma. Subjects – Movies and Plays The Black Stallion [DVD 974] 1989 MGM/UA Home Video 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 cass., 117 min. A 17-year old boy is befriended by a wild black stallion he saved from a shipwreck at sea. The boy trains the horse and rides him to victory in a race. Francis Ford Coppola, director. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Blade Runner (4-Disc Collector’s Edition) [DVD 777] 1982 Warner Bros. 4 3/4" DVD Color 4 videodisc, 117 min. each Deckard, a blade runner, has to track down and terminate 4 replicants who hijacked a ship in space and have returned to earth seeking their maker. Based on the novel "Do androids dream of electric sheep?" by Philip K. Dick. Cast: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Edward James Olmos. Includes 3 archival versions and the 25th anniversary Blade Runner: The Final Cut edition by the director Ridley Scott. Subjects – Movies and Plays Blazing Saddles [DVD 48] 1974 Warner Bros. 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 148 min. The new sheriff and his sidekick, retired gunfighter Waco Kid, protect the town of Rock Ridge from the men who want to run the railroad through the town. Cast: Mel Brooks, Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, David Huddleston, Claude Ennis Starrett Jr., Madeline Kahn, Harvey Korman. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Blow [DVD 860] 2001 New Line Cinema 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 124 mins Chronicles the three-decade rise and fall of George Jung, a normal American kid who makes a personal vow against poverty, builds a marijuana empire in the '60s, multiplies his fortune with the Colombian Medellín cocaine cartel, and blows it all with a series of police busts culminating in one final, long-term jail sentence. This is the story of a nice guy who made wrong choices all his life, almost single-handedly created the American cocaine trade, and got exactly what he deserved. Based on a true story. Cast: Johnny Depp, Tony Amendola, Penélope Cruz Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Drugs and Drug Abuse The Blue Hotel [VHS 26] 1977 Learning in Focus/Perspective 1/2" video Color 1 cass., 55 min. Story of a young Swede's arrival at a hotel of a frontier Nebraska town expecting the wild west of dime novels. Shows his inability to relate positively to others and his involvement in a fateful card game and fight. Based on the short story by Stephen Crane. Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; Literature and Writing The Boat [DVD 948] 1982 Columbia Pictures 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 cass., 150 min. The story of U-96, one of Germany's famed U-boats, on patrol during World War II in the Atlantic. Originally in German entitled "Das Boot." Dubbed into English. Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; World War, 1939-1945 Body and Soul (Paul Robeson: Portraits of the Artist) [DVD 632] 1925 Micheaux Film/Criterion Collection 4 3/4" DVD b&w, silent 1 videodisc, 102 min. A melodrama railing against the hypocrisies of the church, casting Robeson in dual roles as a jackleg preacher and a well-meaning inventor. As a minister he is malevolent and sinister behind his righteous facade. He consorts with, and later extorts from, the owner of a gambling house, and betrays an honest girl, eventually driving them both to ruin. Cast: Paul Robeson, Mercedes Gilbert, Julia Theresa Russell. Subjects – Movies and Plays Boogie Nights [DVD 796] 1997 New Line Cinema 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 155 min. Eddie Adams, a young man working in a nightclub, is discovered by porn director Jack Horner, who soon puts Eddie, renamed Dirk Diggler, and his "talent" on the top of the pornography industry. But when the 1980s arrive, Dirk and his colleagues in the porn industry have to cope with a new era as well as the baggage they bring with them from the 1970s. Cast: Burt Reynolds, Mark Wahlberg. Subjects – Movies and Plays Borderline (Paul Robeson: Portraits of the Artist) [DVD 632] 1930 Pool Films/Criterion Collection 4 3/4" DVD b&w, silent 1 videodisc, 63 min. A negro woman having an adulterous affair with a white man causes his wife to go mad and re-enforces the towns-folk's prejudice against Negroes. Cast: Paul Robeson, Eslanda Robeson. Subjects – Movies and Plays Born On The Fourth Of July [DVD 217] 1989 Universal 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 145 min. The biography of Ron Kovic. As young man joins the army and fights in Vietnam, only to become a wheelchair-bound paraplegic resulting from battle. He becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for. Cast: Tom Cruise, Kyra Sedgwick. Directed by Oliver Stone. Subjects -- Movies and Plays; Vietnamese Conflict Bounce [DVD 7] 2000 Miramax 4 3/4" DVD Color 2 videodiscs, 106 min. Buddy Amaral is a smooth-talking, skirt-chasing ad exec who is enjoying his high-powered career. Then, a sudden twist of fate changes everything and leads him into the life of Abby Janello, with whom he eventually falls head-over-heels in love. Cast: Ben Affleck, Gwyneth Paltrow, Joe Morton, Natasha Henstridge, Tony Goldwyn, Johnny Galecki, David Paymer, Alex D. Linz, Jennifer Grey. Closed captioned. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Bowling For Columbine [DVD 125] 2002 United Artists 4 3/4" DVD Color 2 videodisc, 120 min. The United States of America is notorious for its astronomical number of people killed by firearms for a developed nation without a civil war. With his signature sense of angry humor, activist filmmaker Michael Moore sets out to explore the roots of this bloodshed. In doing so, he learns that the conventional answers of easy availability of guns, violent national history, violent entertainment and even poverty are inadequate to explain this violence when other cultures share those same factors without the equivalent carnage. In order to arrive at a possible explanation, Michael Moore takes on a deeper examination of America's culture of fear, bigotry and violence in a nation with widespread gun ownership. Furthermore, he seeks to investigate and confront the powerful elite political and corporate interests fanning this culture for their own unscrupulous gain. Closed captioned. Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; Law ; Political Science Boys Don't Cry [DVD 338] 1999 20^th Century Fox 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 118 min. Based on actual events. Brandon Teena is the popular new guy in a tiny Nebraska town. He hangs out with the guys, drinking, cussing, and bumper surfing, and he charms the young women, who've never met a more sensitive and considerate young man. Life is good for Brandon, now that he's one of the guys and dating hometown beauty Lana. However, he's forgotten to mention one important detail. It's not that he's wanted in another town for assorted crimes, but that Brandon Teena was actually born a woman named Teena Brandon. When his best friends make this discovery, Brandon's life is ripped apart by betrayal, humiliation, rape, and murder. Cast: Hilary Swank; Chloë Sevigny Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Sex and Sex Role The Boys In The Band [VHS 1438] 1970 CBS/Fox Video 1/2" Video Color 1 cass., 119 min. A heterosexual is accidentally invited to a homosexual gathering at a birthday party, and tension builds as tempers fray. Based on the play of the same title by Mart Crowley. Cast: Kenneth Nelson, Frederick Combs, Cliff Gorman, Laurence Lukinbill. Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; Homosexuality Braveheart [DVD 538] 1995 Paramount Pictures. 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 177 min. Epic based on the life of legendary thirteenth century Scottish hero William Wallace. Returning to his homeland following the death of an heirless king, Edward the Longshanks King of England has captured Scotland's throne and threatens the freedom of all Scottish people. Initially Wallace is content to stand by the wayside yearning for the simple life of building a home and raising a family. However when the woman he loves suffers a cruel fate at the hands of English soldiers Wallace gathers an amateur but passionately rebellious army and takes a stand against the new rule. Cast: Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, and Patrick McGoohan Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Europe: Great Britain Brazil [DVD 481] 1985 Universal Pictures 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 143 min. Sam Lowry is a harried technocrat in a futuristic society that is needlessly convoluted and inefficient. He dreams of a life where he can fly away from technology and overpowering bureaucracy, and spend eternity with the woman of his dreams. While trying to rectify the wrongful arrest of one Harry Buttle, Lowry meets the woman he is always chasing in his dreams, Jill Layton. Meanwhile, the bureaucracy has fingered him responsible for a rash of terrorist bombings, and both Sam and Jill's lives are put in danger. Cast: Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro Subjects – Movies and Plays Bread & Roses [DVD 53] 2000 Parallax Pictures, 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 110 min. A group of immigrant workers take a stand against the million dollar corporations who employ them. Cast: Pilar Padilla, Adrien Brody, Elpidia Carrillo. Closed captioned. Subjects -- Movies and Plays The Breakfast Club [DVD 949] 1985 MCA Universal 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 cass., 92 min. John Hughes's popular 1985 teen drama finds a diverse group of high school students--a jock (Emilio Estevez), a metalhead (Judd Nelson), a weirdo (Ally Sheedy), a princess (Molly Ringwald), and a nerd (Anthony Michael Hall)--sharing a Saturday in detention at their high school for one minor infraction or another. Over the course of a day, they talk through the social barriers that ordinarily keep them apart, and new alliances are born, though not without a lot of pain first. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Bride & Prejudice [DVD 772] 2004 Miramax 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 111 min. A Bollywood update of Jane Austen's classic tale, in which Mrs. Bakshi is eager to find suitable husbands for her four unmarried daughters. When the rich single gentlemen Balraj and Darcy come to visit, the Bakshis have high hopes, though circumstance and boorish opinions threaten to get in the way of romance. Cast: Aishwarya Rai, Martin Henderson, Nadira Babbar, Anupam Kher. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Asia: India The Bridge On The River Kwai [DVD 65] 1957 Columbia 4 3/4" DVD Color 2 videodisc, 162 min. British soldiers captured by the Japanese during World War II are forced to construct a strategic railroad bridge which a commando team is instructed by the British High Command to destroy. Cast: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Sessh¯u Hayakawa. Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; World War 1939-1945 Bright Eyes [DVD 224] 1934 Fox Films 4 3/4" DVD B&W/Colorized 1 videodisc, 83 min. When a maid is accidentally hit by a car and killed, her young orphaned daughter is forced to live with the snooty couple her mother used to work for. A custody battle soon ensues between an aviator who adores the little girl and the couple's crotchety Uncle Ned. Cast: Shirley Temple, James Dunn, Charles Sellen Subjects -- Movies and Plays The Broadway Melody [DVD 281] 1929 MGM 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 110 min. Harriet and Queenie Mahoney, a vaudeville act, come to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis Zanfield's shows. Eddie was in love with Harriet, but when he meets Queenie, he falls in love to her, but she is courted by Jock Warriner, a member of the New Yorker high society. It takes a while till Queenie recognizes, that she is for Jock nothing more than a toy, and it also takes a while till Harriet recognizes, that Eddie is in love with Queenie. Cast: Charles King, Anita Page, Bessie Love. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Brokeback Mountain [DVD 368] 2005 Universal Pictures 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 134 min. In 1963,two young men hire on as ranch hands in the Wyoming mountains. During the long months of isolation, an unusual bond starts to develop between them, one which they are only vaguely aware of--until one night when it rises to the surface in a passionate encounter. When the season ends, they part ways, only to realize the true depth of their feelings. Thus begins a decades-long affair that the two of them desperately try to hide from those around them--one which will prove simultaneously beautiful and devastating. Cast: Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Randy Quaid. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Homosexuality Broken Arrow [DVD 891] 1996 20th Century Fox 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 108 min. When a B-3 Stealth Bomber crashes in the Utah desert during a top-secret test run, the military quickly moves in to retrieve its two "broken arrows." But the situation spins wildly out of control after one of the pilots reveals the crash to be part of an incredible nuclear extortion plot. Cast: John Travolta, Christian Slater. Subjects – Movies and Plays Broken Flowers [DVD 402] 2005 Universal Pictures 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 106 min. Confirmed bachelor Don has just been dumped by his latest lover, Sherry. Don begins to resign himself to being alone and left to his own devices. However, he becomes compelled to reflect on his past when he receives a mysterious pink letter by mail. It is from an anonymous former lover and informs him that he has a 19-year-old son who may be looking for his father. Don is urged to investigate the contents of the letter by his closest friend and neighbor, Winston. Hesitant to travel at all, Don nonetheless embarks on a cross-country trip in search of clues from four former loves. Unannounced, he visits each of these women and finds that they hold new surprises for Don as he confronts his past. Cast: Bill Murray. Subjects – Movies and Plays Bruce Almighty [DVD 870] 2003 Universal Studios 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 102 min. Bruce, a frustrated Buffalo TV reporter, stuck doing puff-pieces while a lesser colleague gets the anchor job he covets. Bruce demands an explanation from God, who pays him a visit and lets Bruce take over while he takes a brief vacation. Cast: Jim Carrey, Jennifer Aniston, Morgan Freeman. Subjects – Movies and Plays Buena Vista Social Club [DVD 46] 1999 Artisan Entertainment 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 105 min. In 1996, music legend Ry Cooder went to Cuba to search for buried treasure. He found gold. Looking for lost songs and forgotten singers, Cooder discovered an exotic land of passion, sensuality and music. Performers: Ry Cooder, Ibrahim Ferrer, Rubén González, Eliades Ochoa, Omara Portuondo, Compay Segundo. Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; Music ; Latin America Burn The Floor [VHS 1870] 2000 Universal 1/2" video Color 1 cass., 97 min. This dance extravaganza features 44 of the world's champion ballroom and Latin dancers and was filmed at its world premiere in 1999. Features championship dance couples from fifteen different countries. The show explores beyond Ballroom and Latin dance styles - including rhumba, samba, cha cha, waltz, jive, jitterbug, swing, mambo, salsa, tango and quickstep. The traditional pivots, voltas, swirls and sways of Ballroom dancing have been pulled apart and stitched back together with sexy, saucy, hip gyrating abandonment. Subjects -- Dance ; Movies and Plays Bus Stop [DVD 8] 1956 Twentieth Century Fox 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 105 min. A comedy-drama about a naive but brash young cowboy from Montana who goes to Phoenix to compete in a rodeo and learns about life and love from a cafe singer whom he tries to force into marriage. Based on the play of the same title by William Inge. Originally released as a motion picture in 1956. Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Don Murray, Arthur O'Connell, Betty Field, Eileen Heckart. Subjects -- Movies and Plays The Business Of Fancydancing [DVD 403] 2002 Wellspring Media 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 103 min. Since their high school graduation, former Spokane Reservation best friends Seymour and Aristotle have taken different paths. Both ventured off to college in Seattle, but while Seymour embraced the opportunities of the white world, Aristotle returned home embittered. Sixteen years later, they are brought together following the sudden death of an old childhood buddy. Seymour, now an openly gay poet and unofficial spokesman for American Indians, is met with resentment on “the rez.” At the wake, tensions are heightened, and Aristotle’s long festering bitterness is dangerously exposed. Cast: Evan Adams, Gene Tagaban. Based upon Sherman Alexie's book of poetry of the same name. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Indians of North America Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid [DVD 921] 1969 Twentieth Century Fox 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 cass., 111 min. Blends adventure, romance and comedy to tell the story of the West's most likeable outlaws, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, as they set out for Bolivia with the law on their heels. Cast: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross. Directed by George Roy Hill. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Caddyshack [DVD 905] 1980 Orion Pictures 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 98 min. An exclusive golf course has to deal with a brash new member and a destructive dancing gopher. Cast: Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Bill Murray. Subjects – Movies and Plays Calendar [DVD 417] 1993 Zeitgeist Films 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 74 min. A photographer and his wife take photographs of Armenian churches for use in a calendar. Their driver, a local resident, expounds on the history of the churches while the wife translates. The photographer becomes jealous of his wife's bonding with the driver. In a series of flash-forwards, the photographer stages identical dinners with several women, who pretend to talk on the phone while he writes. His wife, now estranged from him, leaves repeated messages on his answering machine, asking why he never contacts her. (The Essential Egoyan) Cast: Atom Egoyan, Arsinée Khanjian Subjects – Movies and Plays The Candidate [DVD 174] 1972 Warner Brothers 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 110 min. While Richard Nixon is on his way to re-election by a landslide, a young, honest, idealistic lawyer begins to learn the truth about running for office. Bill McKay, a California Democratic candidate for U.S. Senator, a man of integrity and ideals, will now let the great American political machine manipulate him, because now he’s got to win. Cast: Robert Redford, Peter Boyle, Melvin Douglas. Subjects – Movies and Plays Carrie [DVD 589] 1976 United Artists 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 98 mins. Carrie White is a shy and abused girl, brought up almost in isolation, by her psychotically religious mother Margaret. An embarrassing incident at school causes her fellow pupils to tease Carrie ruthlessly and her teacher disciplines them severely. Determined to have revenge, the other students hatch a plot against Carrie, which turns horribly wrong when Carrie's strange mental powers are unleashed during the school prom. Cast: Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, and John Travolta. Directed by Brian De Palma. Subjects – Movies and Plays Casablanca [DVD 9] 1942 Warner Bros. 4 3/4" DVD B&W 1 videodisc, 103 min. During World War II, Morocco is seething with European refugees desperate for passage to neutral Lisbon. Only a world-weary and bitter nightclub owner can help his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis. Originally released as a motion picture in 1942. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Cast Away [DVD 10] 2000 Twentieth Century Fox 4 3/4" DVD Color 2 videodiscs, 143 min. A FedEx systems engineer's ruled-by-the-clock existence abruptly ends when a harrowing plane crash leaves him isolated on a remote island. Originally released as a motion picture in 2000. Cast: Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, Nick Searcy. Closed captioned. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Cat On A Hot Tin Roof [DVD 779] 1958 MGM 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 108 min. Brick, an alcoholic ex-football player, drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife, Maggie. His reunion with his father, Big Daddy, who is dying of cancer, jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son. Cast: Paul Newman, Elizabeth Taylor. Subjects – Movies and Plays Cautiva [DVD 508] 2005 Primo Plana Film Group 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 115 min. Cristina’s life is thrown into turmoil when she is suddenly escorted from her strict Catholic school and told that she is really Sofía Lombardi, the daughter of activists who disappeared in the ’70s. Questioning everything she once thought true, Cristina embarks on a journey to find her true identity. Meeting others like herself, the young girl soon discovers the real-life horrors of Argentina’s relatively recent past and the nightmare that claimed tens of thousands of lives during the country’s ’Dirty War.’ Cast: Barbara Lombardo, Mercedes Funes. Spanish dialogue, English subtitles. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Language: Spanish ; Latin America and Caribbean Central Station [DVD 884] 1998 Sony Pictures 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 113 mins Inside Rio de Janeiro’s bustling Central Stations, two very unlikely souls, a motherless young boy and a lonely retired school teacher become inextricably linked and form an uncommon bond as they venture from the bustling city to Brazil's remote northeast region in search of the boy's father. In Portuguese with English subtitles. Cast: Fernanda Montenegro, Vinícius de Oliveira. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Latin America and Caribbean Chaplin [DVD 970] 1993 Caroloco Pictures 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 135 min. Based on "My autobiography" by Charles Chaplin. Chaplin's poverty-stricken childhood in England comes to life, along with his friendships with Mack Sennett and Douglas Fairbanks, his many wives and scandalous affairs, and his relentless pursuit by J. Edgar Hoover. Cast: Robert Downey, Dan Aykroyd, Kevin Kline. Directed by Richard Attenborough. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Chaplin Mutuals, Vol. 1 [DVD 967] 1998 Kino on Video 4 3/4" DVD B&W 1 videodisc Originally produced as short motion pictures in May 1916 through October 1917. The Immigrant – The Adventurer – The Cure –Easy Street. Cast: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, Henry Bergman, Albert Austin. Originally silent; orchestral score added. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Chaplin Mutuals, Vol. 2 [DVD 968] 1998 Kino on Video 4 3/4" DVD B&W 1 videodisc Originally produced as short motion pictures in May 1916 through October 1917. The Count – The vagabond – The fireman – Behind the Screen. Cast: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, Henry Bergman, Albert Austin. Originally silent; orchestral score added. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Chaplin Mutuals, Vol. 3 [DVD 969] 1998 Kino on Video 4 3/4" DVD B&W 1 videodisc Originally produced as short motion pictures in May 1916 through October 1917. One A.M. – The Pawn Shop – The Floorwalker – The Rink. Cast: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, Henry Bergman, Albert Austin. Originally silent; orchestral score added. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Chaplin’s Essanay Comedies, Vol 1 [DVD 972] 1915 Image Entertainment 4 3/4" DVD b&w 1 videodisc His New Job ; A Night Out ; The Champion ; In the Park ; A Jitney Elopement. Silent comedies produced by the Essanay Film Manufacturing Company. Cast: Charlie Chaplain. Subjects – Movies and Plays Chaplin’s Essanay Comedies, Vol 2 [DVD 973] 1915 Image Entertainment 4 3/4" DVD b&w 1 videodisc The Tramp ; By the Sea ; Work ; A Woman ; The Bank ; His Regeneration. Silent comedies produced by the Essanay Film Manufacturing Company. Cast: Charlie Chaplain. Subjects – Movies and Plays Chaplin’s Essanay Comedies, Vol 3 [DVD 974] 1915 Image Entertainment 4 3/4" DVD b&w 1 videodisc Shanghaied ; A Night in the Show ; Police ; Burlesque on “Carmen” ; Triple Trouble. Silent comedies produced by the Essanay Film Manufacturing Company. Cast: Charlie Chaplain. Subjects – Movies and Plays Chaplin's Goliath: In Search of Scotland's Forgotten Star [DVD 971] 1996 Image Entertainment 4 3/4" DVD b&w, Color 1 videodisc, 52 min. Biography of Eric Campbell, the tall actor who was most famous for playing the quintessential villan for Charles Chaplin's Tramp character. Subjects – Movies and Plays Chariots of Fire [DVD 534] 1981 Warner Bros. 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 123 min. The true story of two British track athletes competing in the 1924 Summer Olympics. One is a devout Scottish missionary who runs for God, the other is a Jewish student at Cambridge who runs for fame and to escape prejudice. Cast: Ben Cross, Ian Charleson. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Europe: Great Britain Chicago [DVD 540] 2002 Miramax. 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 113min. Murderesses Velma Kelly, a chanteuse and tease who killed her husband and sister after finding them in bed together, and Roxie Hart, who killed her boyfriend when she discovered he wasn't going to make her a star, find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago. Cast: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Renée Zellweger,Richard Gere. Subjects – Movies and Plays Children of a Lesser God [VHS 746] 1987 Paramount Pictures Corp. 1/2" video Color 1 cass., 119 min. Love story about an idealistic special education teacher and his relationship with a headstrong deaf woman named Sarah. Cast: William Hurt, Marlee Matlin. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Children of Heaven = Bacheha-Ye aseman [DVD 773] 1997 Miramax 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 89 min. Zohre's shoes are gone; her older brother Ali lost them. They are poor, there are no shoes for Zohre until they come up with an idea: they will share one pair of shoes, Ali's. This uncomfortable arrangement leads to one adventure after another as they attempt to hide the plan from their parents and teachers, attend to their schoolwork and errands, and acquire a new pair of shoes for Zahra. In Farsi with English subtitles. Cast: Mohammad Amir Naji, Amir Farrokh Hashemian, and Bahare Seddiqi. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Middle East Children of Men [DVD 518] 2006 Universal Pictures 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 109 min. Set in 2027, when no child has been born for 18 years and science is at loss to explain the reason. In London in a climate of nationalistic violence, Theo Faron, a disillusioned government bureaucrat agrees to help transport and protect a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea where her child's birth may help scientists to save the future of mankind. Cast: Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Michael Caine. Subjects – Movies and Plays Chinatown [DVD 945] 1974 Paramount 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 cass., 131 min. Private eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky climate of sunbaked southern California of the 1930s, is hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair. He is swept into a maelstorm of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together for one, unforgettable night in Chinatown. Cast: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Hillerman, Perry Lopez, Burt Young, Bruce Glover, Joe Mantell, Roy Jenson, Diane Ladd, Dick Bakalyan, John Huston. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Chokher Bali: A Passion Play [DVD 156] 2004 Venus Records & Tapes 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 120 min. Set between 1902 and 1905, this is a story the deception and relationship manipulation involving four young people. We are introduced to Binodini (Aishwarya Rai) who becomes a widow within a year of her marriage. Binodini is an educated and liberated woman - who refuses to conform to her expected widow status - something completely taboo in that era. In search of a new lifestyle she moves to Kolkatta into the rich family of Mahindra (Prosinjeet Chatterji), Ashalata (Raima Sen) and Behari. Binodini manipulates the female folk of the house so she can draw closer to the men. Ashalata and Binodini refer to each other as Chokher Bali, which loosely translates to “sand in the eyes”. Based on the novel by Rabindranath Tagore. Language soundtracks: Bengali, dubbed Hindi; subtitled in English. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Asia: India A Christmas Carol [VHS 1216] 1984 20th Century Home Entertainment 1/2" video Color 1 cass., 100 min. Christmas elicits nothing more than "Bah, humbug!" from Ebenezer Scrooge, a miser whose sole pursuit of financial success has left him a bitter and lonely old man. But on Christmas Eve a visit from the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future ultimately teaches him to open his heart to the spirit of Christmas and the joys of friends and family. Book by Charles Dickens. Cast: George C. Scott Subjects -- Movies and Plays Cimarron [DVD 282] 1931 RKO Radio Pictures 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 131 min. When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat claims a plot of the free land for himself and moves his family there from Wichita. A newspaperman, lawyer, and just about everything else, Cravat soon becomes a leading citizen of the boom town of Osage. Once the town is established, however, he begins to feel confined once again, and heads for the Cherokee Strip, leaving his family behind. During this and other absences, his wife Sabra must learn to take care of herself and soon becomes prominent in her own right. Based on the novel by Edna Ferber. Cast: Richard Dix, Irene Dunne. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Cinderella [DVD 781] 1950 Walt Disney 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 74 min. When Cinderella's cruel stepmother prevents her from attending the Royal Ball, she gets some unexpected help from the lovable mice Gus and Jaq, and from her Fairy Godmother. An animated fairy tale. Subjects – Movies and Plays Citizen Kane [DVD 11] 1941 Warner Bros. 4 3/4" DVD B&W 2 videodiscs, 119 min., 113 min. An all-powerful press magnate, Kane, dies in his fabulous castle Xanadu, his last word being "Rosebud", which leads a reporter to seek the meaning behind the word and find the meaning of Kane. Prominant publisher, William Randolph Hearst, saw the film as a thinly disguised version of his career and attempted to suppress it. Cast: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead, Ruth Warrick, Ray Collins, Erskine Sanford, Everett Sloane, William Alland, Paul Stewart, George Coulouris. Closed captioned. Subjects -- Movies and Plays City Lights: A Comedy Romance in Pantomime [VHS 1030] 1931 CBS Fox video 1/2" video B&W 1 cass., 87 min. A blind flower girl falls in love with the little tramp and he with her. He helps her out of financial troubles and pays for her to have an operation to restore her sight. He does not know if she will still love him when she can see. Preceded by previews of other Chaplin films. Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill. Subjects -- Movies and Plays The Class = Entre Les Murs [DVD 929] 2008 Sony Pictures Classics 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 130 min. Teacher François Marin and his colleagues are preparing for another school year teaching at a racially mixed inner city high school in Paris which represents a microcosm of the conflicting cultures and attitudes in contemporary France. The film chronicles François' verbal confrontations with his French, African, Caribbean, Moroccan, Turkish, and Asian students. Marin tries to get through to his students, sometimes with success and sometimes resulting in utter failure. Even Marin has his breaking point, which may result in him doing things he would probably admit to himself are wrong. But after all is said and done, there is next year and another group of students. In French with English subtitles. Cast: François Bégaudeau, Agame Malembo-Emene. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Language: French ; Education Clerks [DVD 794] 1994 Miramax 4 3/4" DVD b&w 1 videodisc, 92 min. A day in the lives of two convenience clerks named Dante and Randal as they annoy customers, discuss movies, and play hockey on the store roof. Cast: Brian O’Halloran, Jeff Anderson. . Subjects – Movies and Plays Click [DVD 509] 2006 Columbia 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 107 min. A workaholic architect finds a universal remote that allows him to fast-forward and rewind to different parts of his life. Complications arise when the remote starts to overrule his choices. Cast: Adam Sandler, Kate Beckinsale, Christopher Walken. Subjects – Movies and Plays Clockers (Spike Lee Joint Collection) [DVD 381] 1995 Universal Pictures 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 128 min. Strike is a young city drug pusher under the tutelage of drug-lord Rodney Little, who, when not playing with model trains or drinking Moo for his ulcer, just likes to chill with his brothers near the benches outside the project houses. When a night man at a fast-food restaurant is found with four bullets in his body, Strike's older brother turns himself in as the killer. Det. Rocco Klein doesn't buy the story, however, and sets out to find the truth, and it seems that all the fingers point toward Strike & Rodney. Cast: Harvey Keitel, John Turturro, Delroy Lindo, Mekhi Phifer. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; African Americans Coal Miner's Daughter [DVD 946] 1980 MCA 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 cass., 124 min. Drama of the life of Loretta Lynn, the "Queen of Country Music." At eighteen and mother of four, she finds time to sing and write songs. After making a record and going to Nashville, she gets a chance at the Grand Ole Opry, which launches her career into super stardom. Cast: Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones. Subjects -- Movies and Plays The Color Of Paradise [DVD 622] 1999 Varahonar Film Co. 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc. 90 min. Mohammad joyfully returns to his tiny village on summer vacation from the Institute for the Blind in Tehran, unaware of his father’s intention to disown him. Engaged to be married, the widowed man has kept Mohammad a secret from his fiance´e, certain the boy’s disability will destroy his only chance for happiness. With the wedding swiftly approaching Mohammad’s future hangs precariously in the balance as his father struggles against his destiny, unable to see the wonder of life and love that is so clear to his son. In Farsi with optional English, French, or Spanish subtitles. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Middle East Color Purple [DVD 667] 1985 Warner Bros. 4 3/4" DVD Color 2 videodisc, 154 min. Follows the life of Celie, a young black girl growing up in the early 1900's. The first time we see Celie, she is 14 - and pregnant - by her father. We stay with her for the next 30 years of her tough life, forced into a brutal marriage and separated from the only person who she loves and lover her, her sister. Based on the book by Alice Walker. Cast: Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Margaret Avery, Oprah Winfrey. Directed by Steven Speilberg. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; African Americans Colors [DVD 47] 1988 Artisan Entertainment 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 127 min. Two L.A. cops, one a veteran and one a rookie, try to bring peace to the war raging on the streets of L.A. Cast: Sean Penn, Robert Duvall, Maria Conchita Alonso, Randy Brooks. Originally released as a motion picture in 1988. Closed captioned. Subjects -- Movies and Plays The Complete Thin Man Collection see titles: The Thin Man After The Thin Man Another Thin Man Shadow Of The Thin Man The Thin Man Goes Home Song Of The Thin Man Alias Nick and Nora: Two Documentary Profiles The Constant Gardener [DVD 877] 2005 Universal Studios 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 129 min. A diplomat on the hunt for his wife s murderer uncovers a treacherous conspiracy that will destroy millions of innocent people unless he can reveal its sinister roots. Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz. Subjects – Movies and Plays The Contender [DVD 104] 2000 DreamWorks Pictures 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 127 min. As soon as a woman is nominated to replace the deceased vice president of the USA, her political enemies search in her private life for ways to bring her down. Cast: Joan Allen, Gary Oldman, Jeff Bridges, Christian Slater. Closed captioned. Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; Presidents: United States ; Women’s Studies Cool Hand Luke [DVD 12] 1967 Warner 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 127 min. Set in the southern United States, Luke is caught cutting off parking meters and is sentenced to the "chain gang." Cast: Paul Newman, George Kennedy, J.D. Cannon, Robert Drivas, Lou Antonio, Strother Martin, Jo Van Fleet. Closed captioned. Subjects -- Movies and Plays The Cotton Club [DVD 56] 1984 MGM 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 129 min. In 1928 New York, spirits are high and jazz, dancing and gangsters rule supreme. Harlem's Cotton Club is in the center of it all, where rich upper-eastsiders mix with dressed-up mobsters. On stage is gifted coronet player Dixie Dwyer, who dreams of the big time, and tap sensation Sandman Williams who can't touch his girl, the lovely singer Lila Rose Oliver, because of strict club rules. As tension rises, so do tempers, and the nightclub becomes a pressure-cooker of jilted loves and mob jobs. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Cast: Richard Gere, Gregory Hines, Diane Lane, Lonette McKee. Closed captioned. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Cotton Comes To Harlem [DVD 33] 1970 United Artists 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 96 min. St. Jacques is Coffin Ed Johnson and Cambridge is Gravedigger Jones, black cops who suspect preacher Lockhart's back-to-Africa campaign is a swindle. Neatly combines action and comedy. Cast: Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St. Jacques, Calvin Lockhart, Judy Pace, Redd Foxx, John Anderson, Emily Yancy, Lou Jacobi, Eugene Roche, J.D. Cannon. Closed captioned. Subjects -- Movies and Plays The Counterfeiters [DVD 600] 2007 Sony Pictures 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc. 99 min. Germany, 1936. Salomon "Sally" Sorowitsch is the king of counterfeiters. He lives a life of cards, booze, and women. Suddenly his luck runs dry when he is arrested thrown into the Mauthausen concentration camp. There, Salomon exhibits exceptional skills and is soon transferred to the upgraded camp of Sachsenhausen. Hand-picked for his unique skill, Salomon and a group of professionals are forced to produce fake foreign currency for the Nazi’s. In German with subtitles. Cast: Karl Markovics, August Diehl, Devid Striesow. Based on the book "The devil's workshop" by Adolf Burger. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Holocaust, Jewish 1939 Crash [DVD 836] [DVD 837] 2005 Lions Gate 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 113 min. (2 copies) Several stories interweave during two days in Los Angeles involving a collection of inter-related characters, a black police detective with a drugged out mother and a thieving younger brother, two car thieves who are constantly theorizing on society and race, the distracted district attorney and his irritated and pampered wife, a racist veteran cop (caring for a sick father at home) who disgusts his more idealistic younger partner, a successful black Hollywood director and his wife who must deal with racist cop, a Persian-immigrant father who buys a gun to protect his shop, a Hispanic locksmith and his young daughter who is afraid of bullets, and more. Cast: Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon. Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; Race Relations Crooklyn (Spike Lee Joint Collection) [DVD 383] 1994 Universal Pictures 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 114 min. Spike Lee's semiautobiographical, film about the good and bad times for a Brooklyn family in the '70s. The centerpiece of the movie is Troy, a little girl who views the ups and downs of her parents' experiences, and who navigates the life of her neighborhood. Cast: Delroy Lindo, Alfre Woodard, Zelda Harris. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; African Americans The Crucible [DVD 956] 1996 Twentieth Century Fox 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc,123 min. A group of teenage girls meets in the woods at midnight for a secret love-conjuring ceremony. When the ceremony is witnessed by the town minister, the girls are accused of witchcraft. Soon the entire village is consumed by hysteria, and innocent victims are put on trial, leading to a devastating climax. Based on the play of the same title by Arthur Miller. Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Paul Scofield. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Cruel Intentions [DVD 848] 1999 Sony 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 97 mins. A modern-day teen update of "Les Liaisons Dangereuses". Kathryn makes a bet that her step-brother, Sebastian, won't be able to bed Annette (a virgin, who wants to wait until love). If he loses, Kathryn gets his Jaguar, if he wins, he gets Kathryn. Cast: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Reese Witherspoon. Subjects – Movies and Plays Cry Freedom [DVD 364] 1987 Universal Pictures 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 157 min. Donald Woods is chief editor at the liberal newspaper Daily Dispatch in South Africa. He has written several editorials critical of the views of Steve Biko. But after having met him for the first time, he changes his views. They meet several times, and this means that Woods and his family get attention from the security police. When Steve Biko dies in police custody, he writes a book about Biko. The only way to get it published is for Woods himself to illegally escape the country. Cast: Kevin Kline, Denzel Washington. Subjects – Africa ; Movies and Plays ; Journalism Curly Top [DVD 225] 1935 Twentieth Century Fox 4 3/4" DVD B&W/Colorized 1 videodisc, 75 min. Wealthy Edward Morgan becomes charmed with a curly-haired orphan and her pretty older sister Mary and arranges to adopt both under the alias of "Mr. Jones." As he spends more time with them, he soon finds himself falling in love with Mary. Cast: Shirley Temple, John boles, Rochelle Hudson. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Dances with Wolves [DVD 487] 1990 MGM 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 181 min. Lt. John Dunbar is dubbed a hero after he accidentally leads Union troops to a victory during the Civil War. He requests a position on the western frontier, but finds it deserted. He soon finds out he is not alone, but meets a wolf he dubs "Two-socks" and a curious Indian tribe. Befriending the very people he's sent to protect the outpost from, the Sioux Indians, Dunbar slowly comes to revere those he once feared. But when the encroaching US Army threatens to overrun the Sioux, he is forced to make a choice, one that will forever change his destiny and that of a proud and defiant nation.. Cast: Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Indians of North America Dark Water [DVD 519] 2005 Touchstone Pictures 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 105 min. A mother and daughter, still wounded from a bitter custody dispute, hole up in a run-down apartment building. Suddenly the apartment seems to take on a life of its own. Mysterious noises, persistent leaks of dark water and other strange things begin to happen and they are targeted by the ghost of former resident. Cast: Jennifer Connelly, John C. Reilly, Tim Roth. Subjects – Movies and Plays The Death of a Salesman [DVD 954] 1986 Karl-Lorimar Home video 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 135 min. Arthur Miller's corrosive look at the dark side of the American dream. Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Kate Reid, Stephen Lang, Charles Durning. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Deer Hunter [DVD 544] 1978 Universal Pictures 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 182 min. Michael, Nick, and Steven are three buddies from the steel mill town of Clairton, Penn. They are like schoolmates, hanging out in a local bar and enjoying weekends of deer-hunting. But their placid life is soon to be changed after they enlist in the airborne infantry of Vietnam. So they all celebrate a goodbye at Steven's wedding and leave for Vietnam. After some time and many horrors the three friends fall in the hands of the Vietcong and are brought to a prison camp where they are forced to play Russian roulette against each other. Cast: Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep, John Savage, Christopher Walken Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Vietnam Conflict The Departed [DVD 541] 2006 Warner Bros. 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 151 min. Two just-graduated officers from Massachusetts State Police Academy follow opposite sides of the law: William Costigan is assigned to work undercover with the Irish mobster Frank Costello to get evidences to arrest him. His true identity is only known by his superiors. Colin Sullivan, a hardened young criminal who has infiltrated the state police as an informer for the syndicate, is promoted in the Massachusetts State Police to a position of power in the Special Investigation Unit. Each police officer gives his best effort trying to disclose the identity of the other "rat". Cast: Jack Nicholson, Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio. Subjects – Movies and Plays Desert Hearts [VHS 1433] 1985 Metro Goldwyn Meyer Home Entertainment 1/2" Video Color 1 cass., 91 min. Vivian is a repressed English professor who goes to Reno in 1959 for a quickie divorce. She spends the weeks waiting for final divorce papers at a dumpy dude ranch, where she meets Cay, a beautiful young casino worker. The two develop a friendship that stirs desires in Vivian she cannot deny. Slowly their attraction deepens into bold sensuality as they develop a bond that renews their hearts--and breaks all the rules. Based on the novel: Desert of the heart / by Jane Rule. Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; Homosexuality Destry Rides Again [DVD 211] 1939 Universal 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 129 min Kent, the unscrupulous boss of Bottleneck has Sheriff Keogh killed when he asks one too many questions about a rigged poker game that gives Kent a stranglehold over the local cattle rangers. The mayor, who is in cahoots with Kent appoints the town drunk, Dimsdale, as the new sheriff assuming that he'll be easy to control. But what the mayor doesn't know is that Dimsdale was a deputy under famous lawman, Tom Destry, and is able to call upon the equally formidable Tom Destry Jr. to be his deputy. Cast: James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich. (The James Stewart Hollywood legend collection) Subjects -- Movies and Plays Devil in a Blue Dress [DVD 335] 1995 Tristar Prod. 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 102 min. It is 1948 in LA and Ezikeal "Easy" Rawlins, an African-American World War II veteran, is looking for work. At his friend's bar, he is introduced to a white man, DeWitt Albright, who is looking for someone to help him find a missing white woman assumed to be hiding somewhere in LA's Black community. This woman, Daphane Monet, happens to be the fiancée of a wealthy "blue blood," Todd Carter, who is currently the favorite in the city's mayoralty race. Daphane Monet is known to frequent the Black jazz clubs in LA. Easy, innocently, accepts Albright's offer; however, he quickly finds himself amidst murder, crooked cops, ruthless politicians, and brutalizing hoodlums. Cast: Denzell Washington, Tom Sizemore, Jennifer Beals, Don Cheadle. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; African Americans The Diary of Anne Frank [DVD 286] 1951 20th Century Fox 4 3/4" DVD B&W 1 videodisc, 180 min. Harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends is forced into hiding in an attic in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam during WWII. Based on Anne Frank's diary, and the stage play. Cast: Millie Perkins ; Joseph Schildkraut ; Shelley Winters. Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; Holocaust, Jewish 1939 Dinosaur [DVD 13] 2001 Disney 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 82 min. Dinosaur tells the story of Aladar, an iguanodon who is separated from his own kind and raised by a clan of lemurs. When a meteor shower destroys their home, Aladar and his family follow a herd of dinosaurs heading for the safety of the "nesting grounds." Together they must stand strong amidst food and water shortages, the threat of Carnotaur attacks, and Aladar's run-ins with the herd's stubborn leader, Kron. An Animated film. Closed captioned. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee Joint Collection) [DVD 382] 1989 Universal Pictures 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 120 min. Spike Lee's incendiary look at race relations in America, circa 1989, is so colorful and exuberant for its first three-quarters that you can almost forget the terrible confrontation that the movie inexorably builds toward. Set on one block in Bedford-Stuyvesant on the hottest day of the summer, the movie shows the whole spectrum of life in this neighborhood and then leaves it up to us to decide if, in the end, anybody actually does the "right thing." Cast: Danny Aiello, Rick Aiello, Paul Benjamin, and Ossie Davis Subjects – Movies and Plays ; African Americans The Doctor [DVD 700] 1991 Touchstone Pictures 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 122 mins. “Doctors make the worst patients.” This is true for Dr. Jack McKee. He's rich and he has no problems, until he is diagnosed with throat cancer. Cast: William Hurt, Christine Lahti, Elizabeth Perkins, and Mandy Patinkin Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Medical Sciences and Nursing Dr. Strangelove, Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb [DVD 175] 1963 Columbia Pictures 4 3/4" DVD B&W 1 videodisc, 90 min. A satire in which the U.S. president and his military advisors struggle ineptly to avert a holocaust after a psychotic Air Force general launches a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union because he fears that the Russians are poisoning the water supply in the United States. Cast: Peter Sellers, George Scott. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Subjects – Movies and Plays Doctor Zhivago [DVD 131] 1965 MGM 4 3/4" DVD Color 2 videodisc, 200 min. A Russian epic, the movie traces the life of surgeon-poet Yury Zhivago before and during the Russian Revolution. Married to an upper-class girl who is devoted to him, yet in love with an unfortunate woman who becomes his muse, Zhivago is torn between fidelity and passion. Sympathetic with the revolution but shaken by the wars and purges, he struggles to retain his individualism as a humanist amid the spirit of collectivism. Based on the novel by Boris Pasternak. Directed by David Lean. Cast: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger. Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; Soviet Union Don Quixote [DVD 938] 1933 Video Sig 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 76 min. Originally issued as a motion picture in 1933. Directed by G.W. Pabst, with Feodor Chaliapine as Don Quixote and George Robey as Sancho Panza. With the aid of his squire Sancho Panza, Don Quixote attempts to redress the wrongs of the world. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Donnie Darko [DVD 696] 2001 20th Century Fox 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 113 mins A troubled teenager, Donnie Darko, escapes death when a jet-engine crashes in his bedroom, because he follows a giant bunny leading him outside. The bunny, called Frank, tells him that the world will end in 28 days. As the final date comes closer and closer Donnie is drawn into an alarming series of events that may or may not be a product of growing insanity. Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Mary McDonnell, and Holmes Osborne Subjects – Movies and Plays Double Indemnity [DVD 780] 1944 Paramount 4 3/4" DVD b&w 1 videodisc, 107 min. An insurance rep lets himself be talked into a murder/insurance fraud scheme that arouses an insurance investigator's suspicions. Cast: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson. Directed by Billy Wilder. Subjects – Movies and Plays Double Jeopardy [DVD 838] 1999 Columbia Pictures 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 105 mins Young Libby Parsons has a loving, successful husband, an adorable son, and an island home to die for. One morning, after a romantic sailing expedition with her husband, Libby finds herself covered in blood. Her husband's missing, the boat resembles a murder scene, and there's a knife on the deck. Libby is charged with murder and jailed, with her young son stripped from her custody. It's all cut-and-dried, except for one thing, Libby's husband isn't dead, and she's about to track him down. Thanks to the Fifth Amendment's double jeopardy rule, she can't be charged twice for his murder. Cast: Ashley Judd, Tommy Lee Jones Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Law Driving Miss Daisy [DVD 176] 1989 Warner Bros. 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 99 min. Set in Atlanta in the 1950's, a textile factory owner insists on hiring an ever-patient chauffeur for his aging head-strong mother. The Jewish woman and her African American driver eventually build a relationship over many years. Based on the play by Alfred Uhry. Cast: Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy, Dan Aykroyd. Subjects – Movies and Plays Early Summer: Bakushu [VHS 1388] 1951 Janus Films 1/2" video B&W 1 cass., 135 min. Details the conflicting senses of obligation and individualism faced by a young daughter as her family-arranged wedding approaches. Release of the 1951 motion picture Bakushu. Japanese with English subtitles. Subjects -- Movies and Plays; Language: Japanese Earth [DVD 936] 1998 Zeitgeist Films 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 101 min. Set in 1947 in Lahore before India and Pakistan became independent, where Hindu, Sikh, Parsee, and Muslim share a peaceful co-existence. Events are seen from the point of view of eight-year-old Lenny, a girl from an affluent Parsee family. Lenny's nanny, Shantya, is involved with the Muslim Masseur. When a train of Muslims arrives at the local depot and all the passengers are found murdered, the various sects turn against each other, and the city is soon aflame. Cast: Maia Sethna. Director: Deepa Mehta. In Hindi with English subtitles. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Asia: India East Of Eden [DVD 778] 1955 Warner Bros. 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 115 min. In the Salinas Valley, in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother Aron for the love of their father Adam. Cal is frustrated at every turn, from his reaction to the war, to how to get ahead in business and in life, to how to relate to estranged mother. Based on the novel by John Steinbeck. Cast: James Dean, Julie Harris. Directed by Elia Kazan. Subjects – Movies and Plays Eat Drink Man Woman [DVD 661] 1994 Samuel Goldwyn Co. 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 123 min. Senior Master Chef Chu lives in a large house in Taipei with his three unmarried daughters, Jia-Jen, a chemistry teacher converted to Christianity, Jia-Chien, an airline executive, and Jia-Ning, a student who also works in a fast food restaurant. Life in the house revolves around the ritual of an elaborate dinner each Sunday, and the love lives of all the family members. Cast: Sihung Lung, Yu-Wen Wang, Chien-lien Wu, Kuei-Mei Yang, Sylvia Chang. In Chinese with English subtitles. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Language: Chinese El Norte (The North) [DVD 638] 1983 Frontera Films 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 141 min. also available as: [VHS 1707] 1983 Frontera Films 1/2" video Color 1 cass., 141 min. A brother and sister, two young Indians from Guatemala, set out to find a better life when their father is killed by government soldiers and their mother is taken away. Their journey to the north, the "promised land," is frought with dangers and when they reach Los Angeles they are "illegals" submerged in an alien culture.,. Cast: Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez, David Villalpando, Ernesto Gómez Cruz. Spanish and English dialogue; English subtitles. Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; Latin America ; Language: Spanish Elephant [DVD 406] 2003 HBO Films 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 80 min. Gus Van Sant's realistic drama takes us inside an American high school on one, single ordinary day that very rapidly turns tragic. Elephant demonstrates that high school life is a complex landscape where the vitality and beauty of young lives can shift from light to darkness with surreal speed. It's an ordinary high school day. Except that it's not. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Education Eleventh Hour [DVD 455-456] 2005 Granada International 4 3/4" DVD Color 2 videodisc, 90 min. each episode Scientific troubleshooter for the British government professor Ian Hood, Special Advisor to the government's Joint Sciences Committee, and his Scottish bodyguard Rachel Young take on rogue scientists and the world-wide troubles they cause. A British TV series that lasted for 4 episodes. Cast: Patrick Stewart, Ashley Jensen Subjects – Movies and Plays Emperor Jones (Paul Robeson: Portraits of the Artist) [DVD 633] 1935 United Artists/Criterion Collection 4 3/4" DVD b&w 1 videodisc, 80 min. The story concerns Brutus Jones, a black man of the depression era who lacks the moral stamina to resist the various temptations set before him. He ultimately finds himself on a remote island where he uses his superior intellect and physically intimidating presence to set himself up as "Emperor." But his own past troubles have hardened him. Instead of ruling in justice, he uses his position to bleed the population--and they revolt against him. A big-screen adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's play. Cast: Paul Robeson, Dudley Digges. Subjects – Movies and Plays Empire [DVD 966] 2002 Universal Studios 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 90 min. A big time drug dealer is looking to get out of the game and sees his chance with a big deal with a new friend who happens to be a Wall St. stockbroker. Thinking this will be his chance to go out on top Victor soon finds out that he has been double crossed and his last option is to get revenge. Cast: John Leguizamo, Peter Sarsgaard, Denise Richards. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Latinos/Hispanic Americans Empire Of The Sun [DVD 14] 1987 Warner 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 153 min. Story of James Graham, a boy whose privileged life is upturned by the Japanese invasion of Shanghai on December 8, 1941. Separated from his parents, he is eventually captured, and taken to Soo Chow confinement camp, next to a captured Chinese airfield. Amidst the sickness and food shortages in the camp, Jim attempts to reconstruct his former life, all the while bringing spirit and dignity to those around him. Cast: John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson, Nigel Havers, Christian Bale. Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; World War, 1939-1945 Employee of the Month [DVD 853] 2006 Lions Gate 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 108 mins For years Zack Bradley has been working hard at hardly working at the local Super Club. That's until a hottie named Amy becomes the new cashier. After discovering she's willing to date the next guy to become "Employee of the Month", Zack takes on current titleholder in a super-smackdown to see who will win the honor, and Amy's heart. Cast: Dane Cook, Jessica Simpson, Dax Shepard. Subjects – Movies and Plays The English Patient [DVD 539] 1996 Miramax 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 162 min. A dying burn victim, a nurse, a thief, and a Sikh sapper find themselves in each others’ company in an old Italian villa close to the end of World War II. Through flashbacks, we see the life of the burn victim, whose passionate love of a woman and choices he made for her ultimately change the lives of one other person in the villa. Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, and Kristin Scott Subjects – Movies and Plays Everything Is Illuminated [DVD 284] 2005 Warner Bros. 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 106 min. A young Jewish American man endeavors to find the woman who saved his grandfather during World War II in a Ukrainian village, that was ultimately razed by the Nazis, with the help of a local who speaks weirdly funny broken English. Based on the novel by JonathanSafran Foer. Cast: Elijah Wood, Eugene Kurtz. Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; Holocaust, Jewish 1939 Fahrenheit 9/11 [DVD 146] 2004 Columbia TriStar 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 122 min. Through actual footage, interviews, and declassified documents, Michael Moore illustrates the connections President George W. Bush has to the royal house of Saud of Saudia Arabia and the bin Laden's, how the president got elected on fraudulent circumstances and then proceeded to blunder through his duties while ignoring warnings of the looming betrayal by his foreign partners. When the treachery hits with the 9/11 attacks, Moore explains how Bush failed to take immediate action to defend the nation. Special features: "The release of 'Fahrenheit 9/11'" featurette; montage: the people of Iraq on the eve of invasion; new scene: Homeland Security, Miami style; outside Abu Ghraib Prison; Eyewitness account from Samara, Iraq; Extended interview with Abdul Henderson; Ella Lipscomb at the Washington, D.C. premiere; Arab-American comedians - their acts and experiences after 9/11; Condoleezza Rice's 9/11 Commission Testimony; Rose Garden press briefing after 9/11 Commission appearance. Closed captioned. Subjects -- Political Science ; Movies and Plays Family Viewing [DVD 418] 1987 Zeitgeist Films 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 86 min. Van's father, Stan, is fond of video, always taping scenes of daily family life. But he does not take care of Van's grandmother, Armen. Although he could afford having her at home, she is spending her days watching TV in an old people's home. Van often visits her. He meets Aline, whose mother is in the next bed. Van wants to get his grandma out of the old people's home. Aline will help. Actually, Van, whose mother left, years ago, is looking for a real family life. (The Essential Egoyan) Cast: David Hemblen, Arsinée Khanjian, Aidan Tierney Subjects – Movies and Plays Fantastic Four [DVD 910] 2005 20th Century Fox 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 106 min. A group of astronauts gain superpowers after a cosmic radiation exposure and must use them to oppose the plans of their enemy, Doctor Victor Von Doom. Based on a Marvel comic book series. Cast: Ioan Gruffudd, Michael Chiklis, Chris Evans, Jessica Alba, Hamish Linklater. Subjects – Movies and Plays Far From Heaven [DVD 792] 2002 Universal 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 108 min. Cathy is the perfect 50s housewife, living the perfect 50s life: healthy kids, successful husband, social prominence. Then one night she surprises her husband Frank kissing another man, and her tidy world starts spinning out of control. In her confusion and grief, she finds consolation in the friendship of their African-American gardener, Raymond - a socially taboo relationship that leads to the further disintegration of life as she knew it. Despite Cathy and Frank's struggle to keep their marriage afloat, the reality of his homosexuality and her feelings for Raymond open a painful, if more honest, chapter in their lives. Cast: Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid. Subjects – Movies and Plays The Fast Runner [DVD 127] 2001 National Film Board of Canada 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 161 min. A small nomadic community is cursed by an unknown shaman. When Atanarjuat falls in love with a woman already promised to the son of the clan's leader, he has to fight for her. She is won by Atanarjuat and the leader plots to attack him in his sleep. Escaping, he sets off running across the ice, embarking on a harrowing adventure of survival in the brutal wilderness. He returns stronger and wiser to reclaim his life and stop the curse that has divided his people. Cast:, Paul Apak Angilirq, Norman Cohn, Zacharias Kunuk. Closed captioned. Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; Indians of North America A Few Good Men [DVD 869] 1992 Columbia Pictures 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 138 mins At Guantanamo Bay, Gitmo, a marine is assaulted in the middle of the night and dies shortly thereafter of respiratory complications. The defense counsel for the two accused marines believes they were just following orders, as part of the marine's unofficial "code red" where there is self policing within the ranks, and that there was no intent of murder. In a dramatic courtroom thriller, the Navy lawyer who has never seen the inside of the courtroom, defends two stubborn Marines who have been accused of murdering a colleague. Cast : Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Law Fiddler On The Roof [DVD 197] 1971 MGM 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 179 min. Musical about Tevye, a poor Jewish milkman with five unmarried daughters to support in a village in Czarist Russia. With a sharp tongued wife at home and growing anti-Semitism in the village, Tevye talks to God about his troubles. His people's traditions keep him strong when his existence is as precariously balanced as a fiddler on the roof. Adapted from the stories of Sholem Aleichem. Cast: Topol, Norma Crane. Produced and directed by Norman Jewison. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Fifth Of July By Lanford Wilson [VHS 1836] 1983 Broadway Theatre Archive 1/2" video Color 1 cass., 117 min. In Lanford Wilson's acclaimed Broadway play, college friends who agitated for what they hoped would be a better world, find themselves looking for a way to revive their dreams. Cast: Richard Thomas, Swoosie Kurtz, Jeff Daniels. PBS television broadcast for Great Performances, Theater in America Subjects -- Movies and Plays Fight Club [DVD 668] 1999 20th Century Fox 4 3/4" DVD Color 2 videodisc, 139 min. The narrator suffers from insomnia. He tries different ways to cure this, but he does not succeed. He does get some sleep, but his conditions rebounds back into it's original state when he meets a lovely young woman, whose name is Marla. He soon meets an enigmatic young man named Tyler and after a short conversation both become fast friends. Both like to relieve their inner tensions by hitting each other. Soon word gets around about their fights, and lots of young people also get interested, then a club is formed. Cast: Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Helena Bonham Carter, Meat Loaf, Zach Grenier. Subjects – Movies and Plays The Final Cut [DVD 520] 2004 Lions Gate Films 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 96 min. The story is set in a world where implanted microchips can record all moments of an individual's life. The chips are removed upon death so the images can be edited into something of a highlight reel for loved ones who want to remember the deceased. Robin Williams plays a cutter, someone with the power of final edit over people's recorded histories. His latest assignment is one that puts him in danger. Cast: Robin Williams, Mira Sorvino, Jim Caviezel. Subjects – Movies and Plays Finding Forrester [DVD 288] 2000 Sony Pictures 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 180 min. Because of scoring exceptionally high on a state wide standardized exam and being an exceptionally good basketball player Jamal Wallace, an African American teen writing prodigy, is sent to a prestigious prep school in Manhattan. He soon befriends the reclusive writer, William Forrester. The friendship leads William to overcome his reclusivness and for Jamal to overcome the racial prejudices and pursue his true dream - writing. Cast: Sean Connery ; Rob Brown. Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; African Americans Fire [DVD 935] 1997 Zeitgeist Films 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 108 min. Two women, Radha and Sita are married to two brothers, Ashok and Jatin. Ashok decides to become an aesthetic and celibate, and Jatin ignores Sita, to whom his marriage was arranged, for other women. Alone and ignored, it is only a matter of time before Radha and Sita look to one another for comfort and to satisfy their own passions. Banned in India. Cast: Karishma Jhalani, Ramanjeet Kaur Director: Deepa Mehta. In Hindi with English subtitles. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Asia: India ; Homosexuality Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn and Other Identities [VHS 582] 1993 PBS/American Playhouse 1/2" video Color 1 cass., 82 min. Anna Deavere Smith uses interwoven monologues and assumes the personalities of nearly 30 characters caught in the racial turmoil that erupted in the Crown Heights area of Brooklyn following the death of an African American child and the stabbing of a 29-year-old rabbinical student. Closed captioned. Subjects -- African Americans ; Drama and Theater ; Movies and Plays A Florida Enchantment [VHS 1974] 1914 Mad Phat Enterprises 1/2" video Color 1 cass., 63 min. Frustrated by her fiancé's affairs with hotel maids, a New York heiress pops one of the magic seeds that change women into men and men into women. But after shaving "her" morning mustache, she forgets vengeance under newfound pleasure in embracing other women at the Ft. Lauderdale resort. Director: Sidney Drew. Cast: Edith Storey, Rosa Rio. Silent motion picture. Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; Women’s Studies ; Homosexuality Flyboys [DVD 874] 2006 MGM 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 140 min. Inspired by the true story of the legendary Lafayette Escadrille, this action-packed epic tells the tale of America's first fighter pilots. These courageous young men distinguish themselves in a manner that none before them had dared, becoming true heroes who experience triumph, tragedy, love, and loss amid the chaos of World War I. Hang on for the ride of your life! Cast: James Franco, Jennifer Decker. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; World War, 1914-1918 Follow the Fleet [DVD 244] 1936 RKO Radio Pictures Inc. 4 3/4" DVD B&W 1 videodisc, 110 min. When the fleet puts in at San Francisco, sailor Bake Baker tries to rekindle the flame with his old dancing partner, Sherry Martin, while Bake's buddy Bilge Smith romances Sherry's sister Connie. But it's not all smooth sailing: Bake has a habit of losing Sherry's jobs for her; and despite Connie's dreams, Bilge is not ready to settle down. Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Forrest Gump [DVD 15] 1994 Paramount 4 3/4" DVD Color 2 videodiscs, 141 min. The story follows the life of low I.Q. Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks) and his meeting with the love of his life Jenny. The film chronicles his accidental experiences with some of the most important people and events in America from the late 1950's through the 1970's including a meeting with Elvis Presley, JFK, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, fighting in Vietnam, etc. The problem is, he doesn't realize the significance of his actions. Cast: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Mykelti Williamson, Sally Field. Closed captioned. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Freedom Writers [DVD 407] 2003 Paramount Pictures 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 122 min. A true story about a teacher in a racially divided school who gives her students what they’ve always needed, a voice. Erin Gruwell comes to a southern California high school bubbling over with naive optimism. She quickly discovers that her unruly classroom is not easily won over by her good intentions. After a few floundering attempts to connect with her students, Gruwell gives them the assignment of keeping journals about their own lives, This assignment is something that the class can bite into with relish. This eventually bonds them together and pushes racial rivalries aside. Draws heavily from the published journals of the real students themselves. Cast: Hilary Swank, Patrick Dempsey. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Literature and Writing ; Race Relations The French Connection [DVD 503] 1971 20th Century Fox 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 104 min. Popeye Doyle and Buddy Russo get wind of a big shipment of Heroin and begin a tail of the suspects, and their French Connection, two French nationals who are the European link. As money troubles begin for the hoods they decide to kill Popeye and Buddy to give them enough room to bring in the Heroin. During the surveillance and eventual bust is one of the most gripping and memorable car chase sequences ever filmed. Cast: Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider. Subjects – Movies and Plays From Here to Eternity [DVD 488] 1953 Columbia Pictures 4 3/4" DVD b&w 1 videodisc, 118 min. The setting is an army base in Hawaii in 1941before the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Robert E. Lee Prewitt, a bugler refuses to fight for the company boxing team; he has reasons for giving up the sport. His refusal results in harsh treatment from the company commander, whose bored wife is having an affair with the tough-but-fair sergeant. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Frank Sinatra, Donna Reed. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; World War, 1939-1945 The Front [VHS 199] 1976 Columbia TriStar 1/2" video Color 1 cass., 94 min. A searing indictment of the McCarthy era blacklisting and Communist witchhunts of the 1950's. Woody Allen plays a hapless ghost writer fated to become a symbolic hero. Cast: Woody Allen, Zero Mostel, Herschel Bernardi, Michael Murphy, Andrea Marcovicci. Subjects -- Movies and Plays The Funeral [VHS 1369] 1987 Itami Productions 1/2" video Color 1 cass., 124 min. An old man's unexpected death creates hilarious havoc with his family. The traditional three-day undertaking becomes a sly comedy of manners as the younger generation struggles with the complex rituals of the Buddhist ceremony. In Japanese with English subtitles. Title on container: Juzo Itami's The funeral. Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; Language: Japanese Gandhi [DVD 535] 1982 Columbia Pictures 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 188 min. The biography of Mahatma Gandhi, who rose from a small-time lawyer in South Africa to India's spiritual leader through his philosophy of non-violent but direct-action protest. Cast: Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, John Gielgud. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Asia: India Gangsters Collection see titles: Angels With Dirty Faces Little Caesar The Petrified Forest Public Enemy The Roaring Twenties White Heat The Game [DVD 16] 1998 PolyGram 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 128 min. A shrewd and successful businessman is given an unexpected birthday gift from his brother that threatens to dismantle everything he has built in his life. Cast: Michael Douglas, Sean Penn, James Rebhorn, Deborah Kara Unger, Peter Donat, Carroll Baker, Armin Mueller-Stahl. Closed captioned. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Gentleman’s Agreement [DVD 497] 1947 MGM 4 3/4" DVD b&w 1 videodisc, 134 min. A sometimes powerful study of anti-Semitism in nicer circles. Assigned to write a series of articles on anti-Semitism, a hotshot magazine writer who has been blind to the problem, passes himself off as Jewish and watches the WASPs squirm. Cast: Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, John Garfield, Celeste Holm Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Jews and Jewish Americans Ghost Rider [DVD 846] 2007 Sony 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 114 mins A feature film adaptation of a Marvel Comics title. A young motorcyclist sells his soul to the Devil to save his father, and then to release himself from his obligation years later, he becomes the Ghost Rider to defeat the Devil's much more evil son, Blackheart. Cast: Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Sam Elliott. Subjects – Movies and Plays Giant [DVD 955] 1956 Warner Home Video 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc., 262 min. Bick Benedict, his society-gilded wife and three generations of land-rich Texas sons and daughters love, swagger, connive and clash in a monumental drama of family strife, racial bigotry and conflict between cattle barons and newly-rich oil tycoons. Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Carroll Baker, Jane Withers, Chill Wills, Mercedes McCambridge, Sal Mineo, Dennis Hopper, Judith Evelyn, Paul Fix. Based on the novel Giant by Edna Ferber. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Gideon's Trumpet [DVD 953] 1980 Hallmark Hall of Fame 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 110 min. Clarence Earl Gideon, a semi-literate drifter, is arrested for breaking into a pool room and for petty theft. When he asks the court to appoint a lawyer for his defense because he cannot afford one, his request is denied. Acting as his own lawyer, Gideon is convicted and sent to jail. While in prison, he begins a hand-written campaign directed to the U.S. Supreme Court, contending that every defendant is entitled to legal representation. The Court agrees to hear Gideon's case, and, in a landmark decision, rules in his favor. Cast: Henry Fonda, Anthony Lewis, David W. Rintels, Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; Law Gigi [DVD 277] 1958 MGM 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 119 min. In turn-of-the-century Paris, Gaston Lachaille is a bon vivant much like his uncle, Honore (who thanks heaven for little girls). But Gaston is becoming bored with the high life ... especially the women. He only truly enjoys the time that he spends with one of his uncle's old friends, Madame Alvarez, and her grand-daughter, the precocious and carefree Gigi. Gigi is being groomed to follow in her grandmother's footsteps as a famous courtesan. Gaston and Gigi enjoy a platonic friendship, until he notices that she is no longer a little girl. A Lerner-Loewe musical based on the novel by Collette. Cast: Leslie Caron, Louis Jourdon, Maurice Chevalier. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Girl, Interrupted [DVD 660] 1999 Columbia Pictures 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 127 min. Susanna is depressed and directionless after finishing high school in the late 1960's. A suicide attempt lands her in Claymore, a mental institution. She befriends the band of troubled women in her ward (Georgina the pathological liar, the sexually abused Daisy, the burn victim Polly) but falls under the hypnotic sway of Lisa, the wildest and most hardened of the bunch. Cast: Wynona Ryder, Angelina Jolie. Subjects – Movies and Plays Gladiator [DVD 17] 2000 DreamWorks 4 3/4" DVD Color 2 videodiscs, 155 min. A Roman general refuses to transfer his loyalty to the new Emperor, Commodus. He becomes a slave and then a gladiator, fighting in the Roman Colosseum in defiance of the Emperor. Cast: Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed, Derek Jacobi, Djimon Hounsou, Richard Harris. Closed captioned. Subjects -- Movies and Plays The Glass Menagerie By Tennessee Williams [VHS 1837] 1973 Broadway Theatre Archive 1/2" video Color 1 cass., 120 min. Based on the play by Tennessee Williams. A strong willed mother whose pre-occupation with the past as a southern belle, and her unrealistic dreams for her children's futures, threaten to smother her painfully shy, lame daughter and her aspiring writer son. A gentleman caller's visit offers false hope and disrupts the family's precarious balance. Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Sam Waterston, Michael Moriarty. PBS television broadcast for Great Performances, Theater in America. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Glory [DVD 78] 1989 TriStar 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 94 min Two idealistic young Bostonians lead the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, America's first Black regiment in the Civil War. Cast: Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes, Morgan Freeman. Closed captioned. Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; African Americans ; United States: History The Godfather [DVD 394] 1972 Paramount Pictures 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 104 min. The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son. Cast: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Based on the book by Mario Puzo. Subjects – Movies and Plays The Godfather, Part II [DVD 395-396] 1974 Paramount Pictures 4 3/4" DVD Color 2 videodiscs, 200 min. The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920's New York is portrayed while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on his crime syndicate stretching from Lake Tahoe, Nevada to pre-Revolution 1958 Cuba. Cast: Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, John Cazale, Robert De Niro. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Subjects – Movies and Plays The Godfather, Part III [DVD 397] 1990 Paramount Pictures 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 169 min. An aging Don Michael Corleone seeks to legitimize his crime family's interests and remove himself from the violent underworld but is kept back by the ambitions of the young. While he attempts to link the Corleone's finances with the Vatican, Michael must deal with the machinations of a hungrier gangster seeking to upset the existing Mafioso order and a young protégé’s love affair with his daughter. Cast: Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Andy Garcia. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Subjects – Movies and Plays The Godfather: Bonus Disc: Behind The Scenes [DVD 398] 2001 Paramount Pictures 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 180 min. Coppola's notebook on adapting the Mario Puzo novel for the screen.; A Documentary on the Making of the Films (73 minutes) ; Additional Scenes ; Cast Rehearsals ; Filming Locations Featurette ; Storyboards ; Cinematography of The Godfather ; The Music of The Godfather The Corleone Family Tree ; The Godfather Historical Time Line. Subjects – Movies and Plays The Gods Must Be Crazy [DVD 462] 1980 CAT Films 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 109 min. A Sho in the Kalahari desert encounters technology for the first time--in the shape of a Coke bottle. He takes it back to his people, and they use it for many tasks. The people start to fight over it, so he decides to return it to the God--where he thinks it came from. Meanwhile, we are introduced to a school teacher assigned to a small village, a despotic revolutionary, and a clumsy biologist. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Africa The Gods Must Be Crazy II [DVD 462] 1989 Columbia Pictures 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 98 min. Xixo is back again. This time, his children accidentally stow away on a fast-moving poachers' truck, unable to get off, and Xixo sets out to rescue them. Along the way, he encounters a couple of soldiers trying to capture each other and a pilot and passenger of a small plane, who are each having a few problems of their own. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Africa Going My Way [DVD 528] 1944 Paramount Pictures 4 3/4" DVD b&w 1 videodisc, 130 min. A new priest shows up at the parish of a crusty old priest named Father Fitzgibbon. The new man, Father O'Malley, must ingratiate himself with both the old man and his congregation. There are various ups and downs in their relationship but on the whole, it all seems to be going rather well. Then one night, the church burns to the ground. Cast: Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald. Subjects – Movies and Plays The Gold Rush (The Chaplin Collection)** [DVD 390-391] 1942 United Artists 4 3/4" DVD b&w 2 videodisc Original version was released in 1925. Disc 1, The film (96 min.): (The Little Tramp (Chaplin) finds himself in the Yukon, along with a swarm of prospectors heading over Chilkoot Pass (an amazing sight restaged by Chaplin in his opening scenes, filmed in the snowy Sierra Nevadas). When the Tramp is trapped in a mountain cabin with two other fortune hunters, Chaplin stages a veritable ballet of starvation, culminating in the cooking of a leathery boot. Back in town, the Tramp is smitten by a dance-hall girl (Georgia Hale), but it seems impossible that she could ever notice him. The Gold Rush is one of Chaplin's simplest, loveliest features; and despite its high comedy, it never strays far from Chaplin's keen grasp of loneliness. In 1942, Chaplin reedited the film and added music and his own narration for a successful rerelease. Disc 2, Special Features (61 min.) Subjects – Movies and Plays Gone With The Wind [DVD 128] 1939 MGM 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 233 min. Focuses on the life and loves of the beautiful and selfish Scarlett O'Hara. The story begins on the O'Haras' Georgia plantation of Tara in antebellum days and moves through the Civil War and Reconstruction. Based on the novel by Margaret Mitchell. Cast: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia De Havilland. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; United States: History Good Bye Lenin! [DVD 642] 2003 X-Filme Creative Pool 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 121 min. A woman with 2 children living in Eastern Berlin during the Cold War loses her husband to the West and chooses to become a devout and loyal Socialist. She is even honored for her work by the Socialist Government. In 1989, after seeing her son protesting against the Socialist she has a Heart Attack and falls into a coma lasting 8 months. While she is in the coma East and West Germany reunite. When she awakes from her coma her children are told any shock would be fatal. In an attempt to save her life the children who now live fully westernized lives convert one room of their house back into Eastern Socialist style. They keep their mother there for many months feeding her fake news about the socialist government included recorded television. In German with English subtitles. Cast: Daniel Bruhl, Katrin Sass. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Language: German Good Night, And, Good Luck [DVD 331] 2006 Warner 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 93 min. Takes place during the early days of broadcast journalism in 1950's America. It chronicles the real-life conflict between television newsman Edward R. Murrow and Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee. With a desire to report the facts and enlighten the public, Murrow, and his dedicated staff - headed by his producer Fred Friendly and Joe Wershba in the CBS newsroom - defy corporate and sponsorship pressures to examine the lies and scaremongering tactics perpetrated by McCarthy during his communist 'witch-hunts'. A very public feud develops when the Senator responds by accusing the anchor of being a communist. In this climate of fear and reprisal, the CBS crew carries on and their tenacity will prove historic and monumental. Cast: David Strathairn, Patricia Clarkson, George Clooney, Jeff Daniels. Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; Journalism The Good, The Bad And The Ugly [DVD 18] 1966 MGM/UA 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 176 min. During the American Civil War, three men seek hidden loot. With greed as their sole motivation, they overcome anything that gets in their way--including each other. Very violent and drawn out western. Originally issued as a motion picture in 1966. Cast: Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef, Aldo Giuffre. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Gorillas in the Mist: The Adventure of Dian Fossey [DVD 461] 1988 Universal Studios 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 130 min. The story of primatologist Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them. She becomes the first person on record to make friendly physical contact with them while waging sometimes-physical war on natives and Europeans who decimate the gorillas for trophies or zoo fodder. Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Bryan Brown, Julie Harris, John Omirah Milu. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Zoology The Gospel at Colonus [DVD 641] 2008 New Video Group 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 90 min. This filmed version of the much-lauded 1985 Philadelphia performance traces the epic storyline of the original text, while also interweaving aspects of Oedipus Rex, Antigone, and the Christian salvific narrative. Taking up the dramatic tension and emotional turmoil of classical tragedy and infusing it with passionate, inventive performances and an electrifying gospel and soul inflected musical montage.Cast: Javetta Steele, Isabell Monk, Robert Earl Jones, Carl Lumbly, Clarence Fountain and the Blind Boys of Alabama. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Music The Graduate [DVD 408] 1967 MGM 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 106 min. Ben has recently graduated college, with his parents now expecting great things from him. At his "Homecoming" party, Mrs. Robinson, the wife of his father's business partner, has Ben drive her home, which leads to an affair between the two. The affair eventually ends, but comes back to haunt him when he finds himself falling for Elaine, Mrs. Robinson's daughter. Cast: Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman, Katharine Ross. Subjects – Movies and Plays Grand Hotel [DVD 493] 1933 MGM 4 3/4" DVD b&w 1 videodisc, 112 min. “People come. People go. Nothing ever happens,” one world-weary patron of Berlin’s finest hotel comments. We witness the glorious comings, goings and intersecting stories of a ruined aristocrat, terminally ill clerk, ruthless tycoon, scheming stenographer, and a disillusioned ballerina. Cast: John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Frank Conroy, Joan Crawford. Subjects – Movies and Plays The Grapes Of Wrath [DVD 592] 1940 Twentieth Century-Fox 4 3/4" DVD b&w 1 videodisc. 129 min. The migration of the Joad family to California from their dust-bowl farm in Oklahoma during the Great Depression. Based on the novel by John Steinbeck. Darryl F. Zanuck's production ; directed by John Ford. Cast: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine. Subjects – Movies and Plays Grave Of The Fireflies [DVD 628] 1988 Studio Ghibli/Central Park Media 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 88 min. Two orphans in war-time Kobe, Japan, face fire-bombs, hunger, homelessness, and despair as the war and their lives come to an end. Based on the novel by Akiyuki Nosaka. written and directed by Isao Takahata. In English and Japanese with English subtitles. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Language: Japanese Grease [DVD 941] 1978 Paramount 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 110 min. A musical love story set in a fifties high school. Issued as a motion picture. Cast: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard, Channing. Subjects -- Movies and Plays The Great Debaters [DVD 590] 2007 Genius Products 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 124 mins. A drama based on the true story of Melvin B. Tolson, a professor at Wiley College Texas, a private, historically black, liberal arts college. In 1935, he inspired students to form the school's first debate team, which went on to challenge Harvard in the national championship. Cast: Denzel Washington, Forest Whitaker, Damien Leake, and Gregory Nicotero. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Education ; African Americans The Great Dictator (The Chaplin Collection) [DVD 388-389] 1940 United Artists 4 3/4" DVD b&w 2 videodisc Disc 1, The film (124 min.): Chaplin plays both Adenoid Hynkel, the power-mad ruler of Tomania, and a humble Jewish barber suffering under the dictator's rule. Paulette Goddard, Chaplin's wife at the time, plays the barber's beloved; and the rotund comedian Jack Oakie turns in a weirdly accurate burlesque of Mussolini, as a bellowing fellow dictator named Benzino Napaloni, Dictator of Bacteria. Chaplin himself hits one of his highest moments in the amazing sequence where he performs a dance of love with a large inflated globe of the world. Never has the hunger for world domination been more rhapsodically expressed. The slapstick is swift and sharp, but it was not enough for Chaplin. He ends the film with the barber's six-minute speech calling for peace and prophesying a hopeful future for troubled mankind. This was the last appearance of Chaplin's Little Tramp character, and not coincidentally it was his first all-talking picture. Disc 2, Special Features (113 min.) Subjects – Movies and Plays ; World War, 1939-1945 The Great McGinty [VHS 200] 1940 MCA Universal 1/2" video B&W 1 cass., 82 min. Comedy about the rise and fall of a small-time, bribe-happy politician. Cast: Brian Donlevy, Muriel Angelus, Akim Tamiroff. Subjects -- Movies and Plays The Great Ziegfeld [DVD 278] 1936 MGM 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 176 min. At the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, sideshow barker Flo Ziegfeld turns the tables on his more successful neighbor Billings, and steals his girlfriend to boot. This pattern is repeated throughout their lives, as Ziegfeld makes and loses many fortunes putting on ever bigger, more spectacular shows (sections of which appear in the film). French revue star Anna Held becomes his first wife, but it's not easy being married to the man who "glorified the American girl." Late in life, now married to Billie Burke, he seems to be all washed up, but...Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer. Subjects -- Movies and Plays The Greatest Show on Earth [DVD 530] 1952 Paramount Pictures 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 152 min. To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though this moves his girlfriend Holly from her hard-won center trapeze spot. Holly and Sebastian begin a dangerous one-upmanship duel in the ring, while he pursues her on the ground. Subplots involve the secret past of Buttons the Clown and the efforts of racketeers to move in on the game concessions. Cast: Charlton Heston, Betty Hutton, Cornel Wilde. Subjects – Movies and Plays Groundhog Day [DVD 178] 1993 Columbia Pictures 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 101 min. A romantic comedy about a weatherman caught in a personal time warp where it is Groundhog Day again, and again, and again. First he uses this to his advantage, but then he realizes that he might be doomed to spend the rest of eternity in the same place, seeing the same people, and doing the same thing every day. Cast: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Guarding Tess [DVD 850] 1994 New Line Productions 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 96 mins A Secret Service agent unable to get out of his assignment watching over an exasperating former first lady, widow of a former U.S. President, and close personal friend of the President. She is very difficult to guard and makes him crazy with her whims and demands. He wants off her detail. Cast: Shirley MacLaine, Nicolas Cage. Subjects – Movies and Plays Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner [DVD 775] 1967 MGM 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 108 min. Joey Drayton brings her fiancé, Dr. John Prentice, home to sunny San Francisco to meet her affluent parents. Their liberal persuasions are now put to the test, for although the young man is an ideal choice, he's highly intelligent and internationally respected in the medical field, and he's impeccably mannered, handsome, well dressed and of a respectable California family, and he's black. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katherine Hepburn, Sidney Poitier. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Race Relations Guys & Balls [DVD 1005] 2005 Liberation Entertainment 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 102 mins. Ecki is thrown off his soccer team when the other members find out he's gay. With the help of his sister and a former soccer star, he forms an all-gay team and challenges his old teammates to a grudge match. Cast: Maximilian Brückner, Lisa Potthoff, Dietmar Bär, and David Rott. In German with English subtitles. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Homosexuality ; Language: German ; Sports, Fitness and Recreation Hamlet By William Shakespeare [VHS 1838-1839] 1990 Broadway Theatre Archive 1/2" video Color 2 cass., 180 min. This version of Shakespeare's tragedy of Hamlet, prince of Denmark, is presented in modern dress. Cast: Kevin Kline, Dana Ivey, Diane Venora. PBS television broadcast for Great Performances, Theater in America. Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; Shakespeare, William Hamlet (Complete Dramatic Works Of William Shakespeare) [DVD 301] 1981 BBC/Ambrose Films 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 222 min.. Dramatization of William Shakespeare's play in which a Danish prince finally avenges the murder of his father, the king, by killing his uncle, Claudius, who murdered the king, usurped the throne, and married Hamlet's mother, Gertrude. In this richly costumed production, the greatest tragedy ever written maintains all the tension of a murder mystery as it examines the fundamental issues of justice, guilt and death Cast: Derek Jacobi, Claire Bloom, Eric Porter, Patrick Stewart, Patrick Allen. Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; Shakespeare, William The Handmaid’s Tale [DVD 482] 1990 MGM 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 109 min. Set in a post-civil war, Fascistic future America, the religious right has taken over and established the Republic of Gilead. Kate is a criminal, guilty of the crime of trying to escape from the Gilead, and is sentenced to become a Handmaid. The ravages of war and pollution has left only a small percentage of women able to bear children. The job of a Handmaid is to be a surrogate mother for loyal couples who can’t have children. After ruthless group training in the proper way to behave, Kate is assigned as Handmaid to the Commander. At the same time, a resistance movement begins to challenge the regime. Cast: Natasha Richardson, Robert Duvall, Aidan Quinn, Faye Dunaway. Subjects – Movies and Plays Harvey [DVD 214] 1950 Universal 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 104 min. A middle aged drunk has been driving his sister and niece wild by introducing everyone he meets to his pal Harvey. Harvey is a big white rabbit, six feet three and a half inches tall, which only Elwood (and occasionally his sister when she's feeling odd) can see. The sister, Veta Louise Simmons, tries to have Elwood committed to Chumleys Rest sanatorium, but they let Elwood out and lock her up. After sorting out the mistake, Dr Chumley goes after Elwood himself. . Cast. James Stewart, Josephine Hull. (The James Stewart Hollywood legend collection) Subjects -- Movies and Plays He Said, She Said [VHS 1535] 1991 Paramount 1/2" video Color 1 cass., 115 min. Comedy about the co-hosts of a talk show who fall in love, and tell the story of their relationship. The first segment covers his side, and the second tells the story from her side. Cast: Kevin Bacon, Elizabeth Perkins. Rated Pg-13. Closed captioned. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Heidi [DVD 226] 1937 Twentieth Century Fox 4 3/4" DVD B&W/Colorized 1 videodisc, 88 min. When little Heidi is stolen by her cruel aunt (who sells her) her grouchy grandfather searches for her. Meanwhile she brings happiness to the invalid daughter of a wealthy man. Cast: Shirley Temple, Jean Hersholt. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Henry IV, Part I [VHS 20-21] 1980 BBC-TV/Time-Life 1/2" video Color 2 cass., 147 min. Presents a dramatization of William Shakespeare's play entitled King Henry IV. Cast: Jon Finch, Anthony Quayle, David Gwillim. Henry V [VHS 75-76] 1945 Films for the Humanities 1/2" video Color 2 cass., 136 min. Presents a performance of William Shakepeare's Henry V with Laurence Olivier in the title role. Includes scenes of London's Globe Theatre. Originally released in 1945 by Two Cities Films. Hester Street [DVD 472] 1975 Midwest Films 4 3/4" DVD b&w 1 videodisc, 90 min. A delightfully quaint film about the assimilation of Jewish immigrants in America in the late 1800s. Jake is a self-made Yankee who has shaved his beard and side curls in favor of an updated look. An émigré from Russia, Jake's been living in New York's Lower East Side for five years, taking up with a new woman and earning enough money to support his dance hall ways. To his dismay, his wife, Gitl and son, Yossele, join him from the Old World. Jake is embarrassed by his wife, who retains her religious ways, wearing the wigs and scarves that tradition dictates. In turn, Gitl is distraught over the changes in Jake, who insists on calling their son Joey and trying to modernize them both. Cast: Carol Kane Steven Keats Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Jews High Art [DVD 699] 2004 Focus Features 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 103 mins. What will an artist do (or won't) for recognition, and what’s the price for that recognition? Syd is an editor at a painfully pretentious art magazine; by chance, she becomes acquainted with lesbian photographer Lucy and her Dietrich-like, weirdo German girlfriend. Syd becomes captivated with Lucy and her work and, smelling a career move, offers to feature her in the next issue of the magazine. The two become attracted, but their relationship is fraught with perils--Syd loses her rather square boyfriend, Lucy's girlfriend takes a hike, the avaricious management at the magazine pressures Syd. Soon, the pair begin to travel down the road of heroin addiction. Cast: Radha Mitchell, Ally Sheedy, Patricia Clarkson. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Homosexuality High Noon [DVD 19] 1952 Artisan 4 3/4" DVD B&W 1 videodisc, 107 min. A retired marshal's wedding is interrupted when he learns a killer he had sent to jail will return to town on the noon train to seek revenge. The townspeople refuse to help him, so he is forced to take up his badge and guns again, alienating his new bride, a Quaker who is opposed to violence. Cast: Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Bridges, Katy Jurado, Lon Chaney, Henry Morgan, Lee Van Cleef. Originally released as a motion picture in 1952. Closed captioned. Subjects -- Movies and Plays The Hills Have Eyes [DVD 861] 2006 Fox Searchlight Pictures 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 107 mins While traveling in a trailer to California through the New Mexico Desert, a family is misled to a shortcut going to nowhere by the owner of an isolated gas station and wrecks the car in a rock. Along the night and on the next day, they are attacked by a group of deformed cannibals, fruit of the atmospheric nuclear tests conducted by USA from 1945 to 1962 in that spot. Absolutely trapped by the psychotics, they have to fight to survive. Cast: Ted Levine, Kathleen Quinlan. Subjects – Movies and Plays The Hills Have Eyes 2 [DVD 862] 2007 Fox Searchlight Pictures 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 89 mins A team of trainees of the National Guard brings supply to the New Mexico Desert for a group of soldiers and scientists that are installing a monitoring system in Sector 16. They do not find anybody in the camp, and they receive a blurred distress signal from the hills. Their sergeant gathers a rescue team, and they are attacked and trapped by deformed cannibals, having to fight to survive. Cast: Daniella Alonso, Jacob Vargas. Subjects – Movies and Plays Himalaya [DVD 103] 1999 Kino on Video 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc,104 min. The story of a generational struggle for the leadership of a tiny mountain village between its proud old chief and a headstrong young caravanner. The balance of power shifts uneasily as they make their annual salt trek across the Himalayas. In Tibetan with English subtitles. Closed captioned. Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; Asia: Tibet A History Of Violence [DVD 866] 2005 New Line Productions 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 96 mins A mild-mannered man becomes a local hero through an act of violence when he kills two-sought-after criminals at his diner. This thrust him into the spotlight and sets off repercussions that will shake his family to its very core. Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello. Subjects – Movies and Plays The Hitch-Hiker [DVD 5] 1953 Kino on Video 4 3/4" DVD B&W 1 videodisc, 70 min. The only true 'film noir' ever directed by a woman, Ida Lupino. This tour de force thriller is a classic, tension-packed, three-way dance of death about two middle-class American homebodies (Edmond O'Brien and Frank Lovejoy) on vacation in Mexico on a long-awaited fishing trip. Suddenly their car and their very lives are commandeered by a psychopathic serial killer. Cast: Edmond O'Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman. Closed captioned. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Hollywoodland [DVD 856] 2006 Universal Studios 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 127mins This fact-based mystery of Hollywoodland takes place in 1959, with the death of "Adventures of Superman" TV star George Reeves. Officially ruled a suicide but never conclusively solved, private detective Louis Simo investigates his death for his grieving mother who suspects foul play. Cast: Ben Affleck, Diane Lane, Adrien Brody, Bob Hoskins. Subjects – Movies and Plays Housekeeping [VHS 623] 1987 RCA/Columbia Pictures 1/2" video Color 1 cass., 117 min. In the Pacific Northwest during the 1950's, two young sisters whose mother has abandoned them wind up living with their Aunt Sylvie, whose views of the world and its conventions don't quite live up the most people's expectations. Cast: Christine Lahti, Sara Walker, Andrea Burchill. Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; Psychology ; Washington State and Seattle How Green Was My Valley [DVD 495] 1941 20th Century Fox 4 3/4" DVD b&w 1 videodisc, 118 min. Sixty year-old Huw Morgan looks back on his life as a 10-year-old boy in a small Welsh mining town. The youngest of seven children to Mr. and Mrs. Morgan, a hardy couple who've seen the best and worst of times in their South Wales mining town. They're facing one of the worst times as Mr. Morgan refuses to join a miners union whose members have begun a long-term strike. Family tensions grow and Huw must learn many of life's harsher lessons under the tutelage of the local preacher, who has fallen in love with Huw's sister. Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee, Donald Crisp, Roddy McDowall. Subjects – Movies and Plays ;Labor and Trade Unions Ice Age [DVD 129] 2002 Twentieth Century Fox 4 3/4" DVD Color 2 videodisc, 81 min. Twenty thousand years ago, as the Earth was being overrun with glaciers, and animals were scurrying to save themselves from the upcoming Ice Age, a sloth named Sid, a woolly mammoth named Manny, a saber-toothed tiger named Diego, and an acorn-loving saber-toothed squirrel named Scrat are forced to become unlikely heroes. The four reluctantly come together when they have to return a human child to its father while braving the deadly elements of the impending Ice Age. An animated film. Closed captioned. Subjects -- Movies and Plays The Iceman Cometh By Eugene O'Neill [VHS 1840-1841] 1960 Broadway Theatre Archive 1/2" video B&W 2 cass., 210 min. A group of has-beens in Harry Hope's saloon wait for the annual visit of Hickey (Robards), a happy salesman. Hickey arrives a changed character and tries to make each man see reality and face the truth about himself. Cast: Jason Robards, Myron McCormick, Tom Pedi. PBS television broadcast for Great Performances, Theater in America. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Imitation Of Life [VHS 1429] 1934 Universal Home Video 1/2" Video B&W 1 cass., 111 min Bea, an entrepreneurial single mother, and her housemaid Delilah build a fortune together--but success doesn't save them from sorrow in the passing years. Delilah's daughter rejects her mother and her race, while Bea must choose between the man she loves and the daughter who loves him, too. Based on the novel by Fannie Hurst. Cast: Claudette Colbert, Warren Williams, Louise Beavers, Fredi Washington, Rochelle Hudson, Ned Sparks. Closed captioned. Subjects -- Movies and Plays The Immigrant Experience: The Long, Long Journey [VHS 719] 1986 Learning Corp. of America 1/2" video Color 1 cass., 30 min. Drama of a young Polish immigrant at the turn of the century and his "journey", with disappointments and sacrifices along the way, from greenhorn to a real American which took all of his life. The Importance of Being Earnest [DVD 287] 2002 Miramax 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 180 min. Whenever Jack Worthing slips away to London from his Hertfordshire estate he says he is going to see his (fictitious) wayward brother Earnest. Once there he keeps his privacy by calling himself Earnest - luckily so as his beloved Gwendolen declares she could only love an Earnest. Her cousin Algy is the one person who knows Jack's secret and one day he travels down to the estate, announcing himself to Jack's attractive ward Cecily as bad brother Earnest. Cecily is much taken with him and with his name, so on Jack's return home and Gwendoen's unexpectedly arrival it becomes clear there are both too many and too few Earnests earnestly courting. Based on the novel by Oscar Wilde. Cast: Reese Witherspoon ; Colin Firth ; Rupert Everett. Subjects -- Movies and Plays In the Heat of the Night [DVD 500] 1967 United Artists 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 109 min. Virgil Tibbs is a Philadelphia Homicide detective home to see his mother in the rural south. He is arrested on general principles when a rich white man is found dead, and Tibbs' being Black is enough reason. When his identity is established, his boss offers his services to the small town sheriff who has little experience with murder investigations. But neither man can solve this cas alone. Putting aside their differences and prejudices, they join forces in a desperate race against time to discover the truth. Cast: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger Subjects – Movies and Plays An Inconvenient Truth [DVD 334] 2006 Paramount 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 100 min. Director Davis Guggenheim eloquently weaves the science of global warming with Mr. Gore's personal history and lifelong commitment to reversing the effects of global climate change. A longtime advocate for the environment, Gore presents a wide array of facts and information in a thoughtful and compelling way. Al Gore strips his presentations of politics, laying out the facts for the audience to draw their own conclusions in a charming, funny and engaging style, and by the end has everyone on the edge of their seats, gripped by his haunting message," said Guggenheim. An Inconvenient Truth is not a story of despair but rather a rallying cry to protect the one earth we all share. It is now clear that we face a deepening global climate crisis that requires us to act boldly, quickly, and wisely," said Gore. Subjects – Environmental Sciences ; Movies and Plays The Incredibly True Adventure Of Two Girls In Love [VHS 1436] 1995 New Line Home Video 1/2" Video Color 1 cass., 94 min. A story of two teenagers who unexpectedly experience the excitement, surprise and romantic fantasy of first love. Cast: Laurel Holloman, Nicole Parker. Inherit The Wind [DVD 321] 1960 United Artists 4 3/4" DVD B&W 1 videodisc, 128 min. Teacher B.T. Cates is arrested for teaching Darwin's theories. Famous lawyer Henry Drummond defends him; fundamentalist politician Matthew Brady prosecutes. This is a very thinly disguised rendition of the 1925 "Scopes monkey trial" with debates between Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan taken largely from the transcripts. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Harry Morgan, Dick York. Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; Law and Government The Interpreter [DVD 878] 2005 Universal Studios 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 128 min. In one of the hidden corridors of power at United Nations headquarters, translator Silvia Broome overhears a potentially explosive secret about a planned assassination attempt. But when federal agent Tobin Keller investigates her claim and digs deeper into Silvia's dangerous past, he begins to question whether she is a victim - or a suspect. Cast: Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn. Subjects – Movies and Plays Inside Man [DVD 870] 2006 Columbia Pictures 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 129 mins An NYPD Detective struggles to outsmart a high-stakes bank robber who, along with a well-trained crew of accomplices, has seized control of a Wall Street bank, turning what initially looks like a hostage crisis into a personal crusade to expose some mysterious evil secrets. Cast: Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster. Directed by Spike Lee. Subjects – Movies and Plays Iris [DVD 446] 2001 Miramax 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 91 min. Based on the life of revered British writer and philosopher Iris Murdoch. As a young academic, teaching philosophy at Oxford, Murdoch meets and eventually falls in love with fellow professor John Bayley, a man whose awkwardness seems in stark opposition to the spirited self-confidence of his future wife. The story unfolds as snippets of time, seen through Bayley's eyes. He recalls their first encounter over 40 years ago, activities they enjoyed doing together, and Iris' charismatic and individualistic personality. These images portray Murdoch as a vibrant young woman with great intellect and are contrasted with the novelist's later life, after the effects of Alzheimer's disease have ravaged her. Murdoch's great mind deteriorates until she is reduced to a mere vestige of her former self, unable to perform simple tasks and completely reliant on her at times frustrated yet devoted husband. Cast: Judi Dench, Kate Winslet, Jim Broadbent. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Literature and Writing It by Stephen King's see title Stephen King's It It Happened One Night [VHS 1010] 1934 Columbia Tristar 1/2" video B&W 1 cass., 105 min. Ellie Andrews escapes from her millionaire father, who wants to stop her from marrying a playboy. En route to New York, Ellie gets involved with Peter Warner, an out-of-work newsman. Academy Award winner for Best Picture, 1934. Cast: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert. It's A Wonderful Life [DVD 52] 1946 Republic 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 160 min. George Bailey, a desperate and suicidal man, is visited by a guardian angel who shows him how important he has been to those around him in his life. Cast: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell, Henry Travers, Beulah Bondi, Gloria Grahame. Produced and directed by Frank Capra. Originally released as motion picture in 1946. Closed captioned. Subjects -- Movies and Plays James Stewart Hollywood Legend Collection see titles: Harvey Rear Window Vertigo Winchester ‘73 The Jazz Singer [VHS 206] 1927 MGM/UA 1/2" video b&w 1 cass., 89 min. A melodramatic story of a Jewish cantor's son (Al Jolson) who aspires to be a jazz singer despite his father's objection and religious tradition. In motion picture history, this was the first feature film to utilize synchronous sound. Jolson's songs include "Toot, toot, tootsie", "Blue skies", and "Mammy." Cast: Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Warner Oland, William Demarest, Myrna Loy. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Jericho (Paul Robeson: Portraits of the Artist) [DVD 634] 1937 United Artists/Criterion Collection 4 3/4" DVD b&w 1 videodisc, 98 min. During the Great War, a Negro corporal, Jericho Jackson, disobeys an order and saves crewmen trapped below deck after an attack. A sergeant dies in the incident; Jackson is court-martialed and sentenced to death. He bolts, and his captain unjustly gets a five-year sentence for aiding his escape; the captain vows to bring Jackson to justice. Meanwhile, Jackson has stolen a boat and sailed from Bordeaux to Morocco where his skills as a physician give him a new lease on life. He becomes a chief responsible for negotiating peace among tribes and leading the annual great salt caravan. A confrontation with his old captain is, however, unavoidable. Cast: Paul Robeson, Henry Wilcoxon. Subjects – Movies and Plays JFK [DVD 782] 1991 Warner Bros. 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 206 min. Part fact and part opinion, mainly of Jim Garrison and director Oliver Stone, as to the events surrounding the proposed conspiracy of the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas. Cast: Kevin Costner Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Presidents: United States Jungle Fever (Spike Lee Joint Collection) [DVD 381] 1991 Universal Pictures 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 132 min. A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried that the racial difference would make an already taboo relationship even worse. Cast: Wesley Snipes, Annabella Sciorra. Subjects – Movies and Plays Juno [DVD 665] 2007 20th Century Fox 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 96 min. After a one time sexual encounter with her friend Paulie, 16 year old Juno finds herself faced with an unplanned pregnancy. While in the waiting room of an abortion clinic, the quirky and whip-sharp Juno decides she is unwilling to terminate the pregnancy and decides to find an adoptive couple. When she chooses a couple who placed a classified ad in the PennySaver personals, Juno gets drawn further into their lives than she anticipated. Cast: Ellen Page Michael Cera. Subjects – Movies and Plays Juno And The Paycock [VHS 1090] 1932 Madacy Music Group 1/2" video b&w 1 cass., 85 min. Drama about one family's tragedy within the struggles of the Irish Republic. The mother, Juno, has a non-working strutting "paycock" of a husband, a son shot as an informer, and a pregnant daughter rejected by a lover and boyfriend. Cast: Barry Fitzgerald, Marie O'Neal, Edward Chapman, Sidney Morgan. The Alfred Hitchcock collection. Keita! The Heritage Of The Griot [DVD 1012] 1994 California Newsreel 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 94 mins. The story of Mabo Keïta, contemporary boy from Burkina Faso, learning the history of his family. When a djéliba, a master griot or bard, arrives mysteriously at the home of Mabo Keïta to teach him "the meaning of his name," the boy and griot are inevitably brought into conflict with his Westernized mother and schoolteacher, who have rejected African tradition. The griot reveals to Mabo the story of his distant ancestor, Sundjata Keïta, the 13th century founder of the great Malian trading empire. Based on an important work of African oral literature, the Sundjata epic. Subjects – Africa ; Movies and Plays The Kid [DVD 20] 2000 Disney 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 104 min. Successful, high-powered Russ Duritz has spent all of his incredibly empty life forgetting the child he used to be--until one day, he meets him face-to-face! Cast: Bruce Willis, Spencer Breslin, Emily Mortimer, Lily Tomlin, Chi McBride. Closed captioned. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Kids [DVD 248] & [DVD 249] 1995 Miramax 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 101 min. (2 copies) A disturbing portrayal of teenage life, AIDS, and the Kids of New York City. Controversial in its content, the film exposes the grim reality of a group of skate-boarders in the space of 24 hours. Primarily the story consists of Telly (Leo Fitzpatrick) a 17 year old slacker whose mission is to de-flower as many young girls as possible, whilst unprotected. Things turn bad when an old flame finds out she has tested positive for HIV and the only person she has had sex with is Telly. She chases through New York to find him but is too late as he has already de-flowered yet another innocent pre-teen. Subjects -- Movies and Plays The King and I [DVD 251] 1956 20^th Century Fox 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 151 min. Mrs. Anna Leonowens and her son Louis arrive in Bangkok, where she has contracted to teach English to the children of the royal household. She threatens to leave when the house she had been promised is not available, but falls in love with the children and stays. Music by Rodgers and Hammerstein. Cast: Deborah Kerr, Yul Brynner. Subjects -- Movies and Plays King Lear [VHS 28-29] 1983 Films for the Humanities 1/2" video Color 2 cass., 148 min. Here is perhaps William Shakespeare's greatest most bitter tragedy. Justice does not triumph, suffering brings no reward, pride does not lead to destruction. Laurence Olivier leads a brilliant cast in a wrenchingly beautiful production. King Lear By William Shakespeare [VHS 1842-1843] 1974 Broadway Theatre Archive 1/2" video Color 2 cass., 120 min. A New York Shakespeare Festival production of William Shakespeare's play in which tragedy occurs when an old king divides his kingdom between his daughters. Cast: James Earl Jones, Raul Julia, Paul Sorvino. PBS television broadcast for Great Performances, Theater in America. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Kinsey [DVD 221] 2004 20th Century Fox 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 118 min. Kinsey is a portrait of a man driven to uncover the most private secrets of the nation, and journey into the mystery of human behavior. His 1948 book Sexual Behavior in the Human Male irrevocably changed American culture and created a media sensation. Cast: Liam Neeson, Laura Linney. Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; Psychology ; Sex and Sex Role Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance [VHS 602] 1983 Pacific Arts 1/2" video Color 1 cass., 87 min. Koyaanisqatsi, a word from the Hopi language meaning crazy life, life in turmoil, life out of balance. Francis Ford Coppola presents an unusual visual of life out of balance using high-tech filmmaking. Kramer vs. Kramer [VHS 745] 1979 RCA/Columbia Pictures 1/2" video Color 1 cass., 105 min. Ted Kramer's wife leaves him with their six year old son so that she may find herself. After he comes to enjoy the parenting task and has made progress in his relationship with his son, his wife returns and wants custody of their child. A custody battle in the courts ensues. Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Jane Alexander. The Lady Vanishes [VHS 1084] 1938 Madacy Music Group 1/2" video b&w 1 cass., 93 min. An old woman's disappearance during a train ride from Switzerland to England leads a young couple into a web of international espionage in this mystery-comedy. Cast: Michael Redgrave, Margaret Lockwood, Paul Lukas, Dame May Whitty. The Alfred Hitchcock Collection. The Laramie Project [DVD 110] 2002 HBO Films 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 96 min. In October 1998, 21 year-old Matthew Shepard was found savagely beaten, tied to a fence and left to die in Laramie, Wyoming. This film is a dramatization of a town forced to confront itself in the reflective glare of the national spotlight, responding with love, anger, sympathy, support, and defiance. Cast: Moises Kaufman, Christina Ricci, Steve Buscemi, Laura Linney, Summer Phoenix, Peter Fonda. Closed captioned. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Homosexuality The Last Emperor [DVD 21] 1987 Columbia Pictures 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 218 min. The true story of Pu Yi, who, at the age of 3, toddled to the Imperial Dragon Throne to become "Lord of 10,000 Years," China's last emperor. Cast: John Lone, Peter O'Toole. Closed captioned. Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; Asia: China The Last Starfighter [DVD 907] 1984 Universal Pictures 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 101 min. A modestly budgeted sci-fi with the distinction of offering some of the first examples of purely computer-generated animation. Alex, a restless teenager,lives in a trailer court where his mother is manager and everyone is like a big extended family. When he racks up an impressive score on the Starfighter Video Game, he finds himself spirited away to the besieged planet and thrust into the midst of an intergalactic war. The game is actually a test for prospective starship pilots, planted by embattled aliens under siege from an evil invader. Cast: Lance Guest,Robert Preston. Subjects – Movies and Plays Law & Order - The First Year [DVD 317] 1990 Universal 4 3/4" DVD Color 6 videodisc, 17 hrs., 20 min. A groundbreaking cop show when it debuted in 1990. It has since earned Emmys for Best Dramatic Series. The first half of each hour-long episode is classic police procedural in which "Law," personified in the first season by partners Greevey (George Dzundza) and Mike Logan (Christopher Noth) investigate a crime and make an arrest. The second half chronicles the ensuing trial, as prosecuted by assistant district attorneys Ben Stone (Michael Moriarty) and Paul Robinette (Richard Brooks) under the supervision of Steven Hill's Adam Schiff. Several episodes take their inspiration from the headlines. 22 episodes. Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; Law & Government Lawrence Of Arabia [DVD 133] 1962 Columbia 4 3/4" DVD Color 2 videodisc, 227 min. Presents the story of T.E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole), the heroic and troubled man who organized the Arab nations to fight the Turks in World War I and then, having reached a pinnacle of power in Mideast politics, retired to postwar military obscurity. Based on T.E. Lawrence's Seven pillars of wisdom. Directed by David Lean. Cast: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Omar Sharif. Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; Middle East Leaving Las Vegas [DVD 659] 1995 United Artists 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 111 min Ben is a former movie executive who's lost his wife and family in a sea of alcoholic self-destruction. He's come to Las Vegas literally to drink himself to death, and that's when he meets Sera, a prostitute who falls in love with him--and he with her--despite their mutual dead-end existence. Cast: Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue. Subjects – Movies and Plays Lev Tolstoi (Leo Tolstoy): The Death of Lev Tolstoi [DVD 740] 1984 International Film Exchange/Ruscico 4 3/4" DVD Color 2 videodisc, 160 mins. The film consists of two parts: “Insomnia” and “Departure”. We shall meet Lev Tolstoy in the final years of his life at Yasnaya Polyana. We shall see him surrounded by his family, friends, acquaintances and absolute strangers who were coming to the great man and artist from all over the world. We shall hear “the voice of his thoughts”. In his sleepless nights, we shall follow his memory of the happy youthful years and the crucial, hard ones. We shall witness Tolstoy’s tragic departure from Yasnaya Polyana and his death at an obscure little station of Astapovo. The last film of the classic of national cinema, director Sergey Gerasimov (“Quiet Flows the Don”, “The Brave Seven”), and of his wife and corroborator, the famous film actress Tamara Makarova (“Masquerade”, “The First-Grader”). Music by: Chekalov Pavel. Cast: Gerasimov Sergey, Makarova Tamara, Navratil Borzhevoy, Petrenko Alexey, Ustimenko Marina, Proskurin Viktor, Vasileva Ekaterina, Eremenko Nikolay. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Philosophy ; Literature, Writers, and Writing ; Soviet Union and Russia The Life of Emile Zola [DVD 527] 1937 Warner Bros. 4 3/4" DVD b&w 1 videodisc, 116 min. The biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfus Affair, the scandalous railroading of a military captain for treason in the 1890’s and anti-semitism in France. The elderly Zola's gradual involvement in the case, climaxes with his electrifying "J'accuse!" essay and subsequent trial for libel. Cast: Paul Muni. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Europe: France ; Jews and Jewish Americans Lilies of the Field [DVD 512] 1963 MGM 4 3/4" DVD b&w 1 videodisc, 95 min. Homer Smith, an itinerant handyman, is driving through the Arizona desert when he meets five impoverished nuns. Stopping to fix their leaky farmhouse roof, Homer discovers that not only will the Mother Superior not pay him for the job, but she also wants him to build their chapel for free! Hesitant at first, Homer soon finds himself single-handedly raising the chapel and the financing. Cast: Sidney Poitier, Lilia Skala, Stanley Adams. Subjects – Movies and Plays Little Caesar [DVD 231] 1931 Warner Bros. 4 3/4" DVD b&w 1 videodisc, 79 min. Rico joins Sam Ventori's gang. He replaces Sam as leader, pushes rival gang leader Arnie Lorch out of town, then goes after the job of next-higher-up Pete Montana. He accepts when "Big Boy" offers him that prize but his sights are set higher still. They are also cast on his best friend Joe's girl Olga. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Little Miss Broadway [DVD 227] 1938 Twentieth Century Fox 4 3/4" DVD b&w/Colorized 1 videodisc, 70 min. An orphan (Temple) is provisionally adopted by the manager (Ellis) of a hotel populated by show business people. The hotel's owner (Oliver) doesn't like the entertainers and wants the girl returned to the orphanage. Cast: Shirley Temple, Edward Ellis, Edna Mae Oliver. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Limelight (The Chaplin Collection) [DVD 392-393] 1952 United Artists 4 3/4" DVD b&w 2 videodisc Disc 1, The film 137 min.): Chaplin stars as Calvero, a fading clown who helps a paralyzed dancer regain the use of her legs and achieve great fame, but of course at grave cost to Calvero. The film is famous for featuring the only onscreen teaming of Chaplin with the other legendary comic of the silent era, Buster Keaton, and is equally infamous for Chaplin having allegedly cut out most of Keaton's best bits in their sequence together. Disc 2, Special Features (150 min.) Subjects – Movies and Plays The Lives of Others [DVD 480] 2006 Sony Pictures 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 110 min. East Berlin, 1984. Capt. Gerd Wiesler, Stasi officer and surveillance specialist has a simple assignment: keep an eye on Georg Dreyman, a respected playwright, and his actress girlfriend. Though Dreyman is known to associate with a blacklisted director, Dreyman’s record is spotless. Wiesler discovers that the Minister has an ulterior motive in spying on this seemingly upright citizen. During the investigation, Wiesler unexpectedly finds himself in sympathy with the people - or at least to this one particular person. In German with optional English, French, or Spanish subtitles. Cast: Martina Gedeck, Ulrich Mühe, Sebastian Koch. Subjects – Movies and Plays Lolita [DVD 292] 1962 MGM 4 3/4" DVD b&w 1 videodisc, 152 min. Middle-aged novelist Humbert Humbert rents a room in Charlotte Haze's house after he falls passionately in love with her daughter Lolita. There are three slight problems, though - one, Charlotte is madly in love with him (unrequited, needless to say); two, Lolita is only fourteen; three, there's a very peculiar figure by the name of Clare Quilty who keeps popping up in the most unexpected places (and sporting equally unexpected accents), who seems to have a similarly unhealthy interest in Lolita. Based on the novel by Vladimir Nabokov. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Cast: James Mason, Shelley Winters, Sue Lyon. Subjects -- Movies and Plays The Long Walk Home [DVD 894] 1991 New Visions Pictures 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc., 98 min. Odessa Cotter (Whoopi Goldberg) works as a maid for Miriam Thompson (Sissy Spacek). When Odessa honors the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott, Miriam offers her a ride. This puts their lives in danger for civil rights and draws them closer as friends. The Lord Of The Rings, #1: The Fellowship Of The Ring [DVD 134] 2001 New Line Cinema 4 3/4" DVD Color 2 videodisc,178 min. In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-Earth still it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell, by chance, into the hands of the Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins. On his eleventy-first birthday, Bilbo disappeared, bequeathing to his young cousin, Frodo, the Ruling Ring, and a perilous quest: to journey across Middle-Earth, deep into the shadow of the Dark Lord and destroy the Ring by casting it into the Cracks of Doom. Based on the novel by J.R.R. Tolkien. Cast: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Orlando Bloom. Subjects – Movies and Plays The Lord Of The Rings, #2: The Two Towers [DVD 135] 2002 New Line Cinema 4 3/4" DVD Color 2 videodisc,175 min. Join Frodo, Gandalf, Aragorn, and brave members of he Fellowship as they continue their quest to destroy the Ring of Power. As darkness descends on Middle-earth, a strange creature named Gollum leads the heroes to the Balck Gates of Mordor. The rest of Middle-earth prepares for a battle that will decide the fate of all. Based on the novel by J.R.R. Tolkien. Cast: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Orlando Bloom. Subjects – Movies and Plays The Lord Of The Rings, #3: Return Of The King [DVD 136] 2003 New Line Cinema 4 3/4" DVD Color 2 videodisc, 200 min. Frodo makes his way through the darkness to Mount Doom to destroy the One Ring. Aragon learns of his destiny as the true King and the others prepare for a massive battle that will determine the fate of Middle-Earth. Based on the novel by J.R.R. Tolkien. Cast: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Orlando Bloom. Subjects – Movies and Plays Lost in Space [DVD 906] 1998 New Line Cinema 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 130 min. Based on the 1960’s TV series. With the Earth running short of natural energy resources the Jupiter mission to colonize and exploit Alpha Prime seems to be the only chance of survival. Professor John Robinson ('William Hurt' ) together with his wife Maureen, his family and fighter pilot Don West (lead a desperate attempt to create a Hyper-Gate in orbit around the planet Alpha Prime to enable the rescue of Earth to begin. Cast: William Hurt, Mimi Rogers. Subjects – Movies and Plays The Lost Weekend [DVD 529] 1945 Paramount Pictures 4 3/4" DVD b&w 1 videodisc, 101 min. Don Birnam, long-time alcoholic, has been "on the wagon" for ten days and seems to be over the worst; but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender. In flashbacks we see past events, all gone wrong because of the bottle, but this bout looks like it is his last. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Diseases Lured [DVD 4] 1947 Kino on Video 4 3/4" DVD b&w 1 videodisc, 102 min. A serial killer terrorizes London by luring women into meeting with him through the personal ads in the newspaper and taunting the police with gruesome poems. Cast: George Sanders, Lucille Ball, Boris Karloff, Charles Coburn, Sir Cedric Hardwick. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Lust For Life [DVD 950] 1956 MGM/UA 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 123 min. The life of Vincent Van Gogh. Based on the novel by Irving Stone. Cast: Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, James Donald, Pamela Brown. Directed by Vincente Minnelli. Subjects - Movies and Plays ; Artists M Butterfly [VHS 555] 1993 Warner Bros. 1/2" video Color 1 cass., 101 min. During the Cultural Revolution in China in the mid-1960s, a French diplomat falls in love with a singer in the Beijing Opera. Interwoven with allusions to the Puccini opera "Madam Butterfly", a story of love and betrayal unfolds. Cast: Jeremy Irons, John Lone. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Asia: China Ma Vie En Rose = My Life In Pink [DVD 94] 1997 Columbia/Sony Pictures Classics 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 88 min. Ludovic is waiting for a miracle. With seven-year-old certainty, he believes he was meant to be a little girl and that the mistake will soon be corrected. But where he expects the miraculous, Ludo finds only rejection, isolation and guilt--as the intense reactions of family, friends, and neighbors strip away every innocent lace and bauble. In French with English subtitles. Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; Women’s Studies Machuca [DVD 1002] 2004 Columbia 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 115 mins. In 1973, in Santiago of Chile of the first socialist president democratically elected in a Latin-American country, President Salvador Allende, the principal of the Saint Patrick School, Father McEnroe makes a trial of integration between students of the upper and lower classes. The bourgeois boy Gonzalo Infante and the boy from the slum Pedro Machuca become great friends, while the conflicts on the streets leads Chile to the bloody and repressive military coup of General Augusto Pinochet on 11 September 1973, changing definitely their lives, their relationship and their country. In Spanish with English subtitles. Cast: Matias Quer, Ariel Mateluna, Manuela Martelli, Aline Kuppenheim Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Latin America and the Caribbean ; Language: Spanish Madame Butterfly [VHS 1047] 1997 Columbia Tristar 1/2" video Color 1 cass., 129 min. Giacomo Puccini's perennially favored opera of sacrifice, love and the clash of East and West. Opera sung in Italian with English subtitles. Cast: Ying Huang, Richard Troxell, Ning Liang, Richard Cowan, Jing Ma Fan. Maedchen In Uniform [VHS 1440] 1978 Janus Films 1/2" Video b&w 1 cass., 90 min. Living in the prison-like confines of a Prussian boarding school for the daughters of army officers, a young girl finds herself choked by the institution's strict regimentation and rigid discipline. Under the unbending rule of a matriarchal staff, she falls in love with the school's only caring teacher. When the principal finds out about the affair, her harsh, cruel punishment drives the girl to the brink of suicide. In German, with English subtitles. The Magnificent Seven [DVD 548] 1960 MGM 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 128 min. The citizens of a small Mexican farming village hire seven gun fighters to defend them from a ruthless and exploitative group of bandits led by Calvera. As Calvera’s next raid approaches, the peasants and the gun fighters work together to prepare to defend the village. Cast: Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson. Subjects – Movies and Plays Major Barbara [VHS 371-372] 1941 Janus Films/Voyager Co. 1/2" video Color 2 cassettes Cast: Wendy Hiller, Rex Harrison, Robert Morley. Major Barbara is a idealistic Salvation Army soldier dedicated to saving the poor from the abuses of the rich. Based on a play by George Bernard Shaw. Malcolm X [DVD 776] 1992 Warner Bros. 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 202 min. Screen version of the life of Malcolm X, who through his religious conversion to Islam, found the strength to rise up from a criminal past to become an influential civil rights leader. Based on the book "The autobiography of Malcolm X" as told to Alex Haley. Cast: Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett. Directed by Spike Lee. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; African Americans The Maltese Falcon [DVD 229] 1941 Warner Bros. 4 3/4" DVD b&w 1 videodisc, 101 min. Sam Spade is a partner in a private-eye firm who finds himself hounded by police when his partner is killed whilst tailing a man. The girl who asked him to follow the man turns out not to be who she says she is, and is really involved in something to do with the `Maltese Falcon', a gold-encrusted life-sized statue of a falcon, the only one of its kind. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor. Subjects -- Movies and Plays A Man for All Seasons [DVD 489] 1966 Columbia Pictures 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 120 min. At the film's heart is the standoff between King Henry VIII and Sir Thomas More. Henry wants More's official approval of divorce from Queen Katherine so he can marry Anne Bolyen, but More's strict ethical and religious code will not let him waffle. More resigns as chancellor, hoping to be able to live out his life as a private citizen. But Henry will settle for nothing less than the public approval by the much respected More to his headstrong course. Cast: Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Robert Shaw. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Europe: Great Britain The Man Who Knew Too Much [VHS 1082] 1934 Madacy Music Group 1/2" video b&w 1 cass., 74 min. A child is kidnapped by spies to keep her father from investigating his lead on a murder, but the father springs into action, finds the child and endangers both their lives. Cast: Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Peter Lorre. The Alfred Hitchcock Collection. The Man Who Planted Trees [VHS 501] 1987 Direct Cinema Limited 1/2" video Color 1 cass., 30 min. The story of a man who plants trees and nurtures an oak forest, changing barren surroundings into an oasis. French title "L'homme que plantait des arbres". Animated film. The Manchurian Candidate [DVD 179] 1962 MGM 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 127 min. A U.S. Army platoon, captured in the Korean conflict, is whisked to Manchuria for three nightmarish days of experimental drug-and-hypnosis-induced conditioning to carry out the orders of the enemy upon release. When a decorated Korean War veteran who has been brainwashed starts to commit political assassinations, his old military commander begins to suspect and must stop him. Cast: Laurence Harvey, Frank Sinatra, Angela Lansbury, Janet Leigh. Directed by John Frankenheimer. Subjects -- Movies and Plays The Manhattan Project, The Deadly Game [VHS 1708] 1986 HBO Cannon Video 1/2" video Color 1 cass., 117 min. Paul Stevens' high school science project has gotten a little out of hand. He just built an atomic bomb. Now he's got 11 hours to make sure it doesn't work. Cast: John Lithgow, Christopher Collet, Cynthia Nixon. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Maria Full Of Grace [DVD 549] 2004 HBO Films 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 101 min. In a small village in Colombia, the pregnant seventeen years old Maria supports her family with her salary working in a floriculture. She is fired and with a total lack of perspective of finding a new job, she decides to accept the offer to work as a drug mule, flying to USA with sixty-two pellets of cocaine in her stomach. Once in New York, things do not happen as planned. Cast: Catalina Sandino Moreno. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Latin America and Caribbean ; Drugs and Drug Abuse The Mark of the Hawk [VHS 852] 1958 Universal International Pictures 1/2" video Color 1 cass., 83 min. The man called Obam struggles with the increasingly hostile forces facing each other in a colonial African country. The African natives want their land and lives back from the British colonists. Obam's motives are questioned by his own people, in particular his brother Kanda. With the help of his wife Renee and missionary Bruce Craig, will he be able to get things under control before the country self-destructs? Cast: Sidney Poitier, Clifton Macklin, Eartha Kitt, John McIntire. Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; Africa Marty [DVD 499] 1955 United Artists 4 3/4" DVD b&w 1 videodisc, 94 min. Marty is a 34-year-old butcher whose Italian family is constantly after him to get married. He meets plain-looking schoolteacher Clara. They are both lonely, unglamorous people who have resigned themselves to their unloved lives. But they manage, in time, to grope their way to love. Cast: Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Immigration & Emigration Master Harold -- and the Boys [VHS 161] 1986 Showtime Entertainment 1/2" video Color 1 cass., 90 min. Young man whose crippled, alcoholic father is to be released from the hospital, discusses the meaning of life with and vents his frustrations on the 2 black men who work in the family owned tea room. Set in South Africa, 1950. Cast: Matthew Broder, Zakes Mokae. Play by Athol Fugard. Matrix [DVD 73] 1999 Warner Bros. 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 136 min. In the near future, a computer hacker named Neo discovers that all life on Earth may be nothing more than an elaborate facade created by a malevolent cyber-intelligence, for the purpose of placating us while our life essence is "farmed" to fuel the Matrix's campaign of domination in the "real" world. He joins like-minded Rebel warriors Morpheus and Trinity in their struggle to overthrow the Matrix. Cast: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie Ann Moss. Subjects - Movies and Plays Meet The Fockers [DVD 844] 2004 Universal 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 115 mins Sequel to "Meet the Parents". This time around, Jack and Dina Byrnes climb into Jack's new kevlar-lined RV with daughter Pam, soon-to-be son-in-law Gaylord, and Jack's infant grandson from his other daughter for the trip to Florida to meet Gaylord's parents, Bernie and Roz Focker. Cast: Ben Stiller, Barbra Streisand, Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Blythe Danner, Teri Polo. Subjects – Movies and Plays Memento [DVD 409] 2000 Columbia TriStar 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 113 min. An intricate crime story about a man who has lost his short term memory due to a rare brain disorder. Now he is out to catch his wife’s murderer, whose identity he cannot ever know for sure. The more he tries to figure out what is true and real, the more he sinks deeper into a multi-layered abyss of uncertainty and surprises. Cast: Christopher Nolan, Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano. Subjects – Movies and Plays Memoirs of a Geisha [DVD 664] 2005 Columbia Pictures 4 3/4" DVD Color 2 videodisc, 145 min. In 1929, a poor fisherman sells his 9-year-old daughter to a geisha house in Kyoto. Chiyo will be an unpaid servant until it is determined if she is beautiful enough for apprenticeship, and the house’s cliente`le Run by Mother, the ruling geisha is Hatsumomo, and little Pumpkin her only friend. Trained under strict discipline for a lifetime of entertaining and flattering wealthy men, Sayuri grows up lovely, accomplished, and the target of jealous rivals. Love is no part of this cloistered world, although geisha lore hints that even if they fall in love with clients--the operative word is client, and that love is never free. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Asia: Japan The Men Who Step On The Tiger's Tail = Tora no o o fumu otokotachi [VHS 1389] 1945 Public Media Home Vision 1/2" video b&w 1 cass., 60 min. A famous general and his six followers pose as monks in an attempt to escape across the border, though they learn the authorities who have been ordered to capture them are now aware of their disguise. Directed by Akira Kurosawa. In Japanese with English subtitles. The Messengers [DVD 865] 2007 Sony Pictures 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 90 mins Desperate for a fresh start after a tough two years in Chicago, the Solomon family retreats to a desolate sunflower farm in North Dakota. But the calm of farm life is shattered when 16-year-old Jess and her 3-year-old brother Ben begin to see nightmarish apparitions throughout their new home that nobody else can see. As the visions grow darker, they become fear-inspiring experiences and Jess’ parents start to question their daughter’s sanity. Now, Jess must find a way to save her family. Cast: Kristen Stewart, Dylan McDermott, Penelope Ann Miller. Subjects – Movies and Plays Miami Vice [DVD 521] 2006 Universal Pictures 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 134 min. When an informer, his family and two FBI agents are killed by an international gang of drug dealers, Detectives James 'Sonny' Crockett and Ricardo 'Rico' Tubbs are assigned to work undercover for the FBI in a joint operation to disclose which agency leaked the information to the criminals. Based on the 1980's TV action/drama, this update focuses on vice detectives Crockett and Tubbs as their respective personal and professional lives become dangerously intertwined. Cast Jamie Foxx, Colin Farrell. Subjects – Movies and Plays Midnight Cowboy [DVD 502] 1969 United Artists 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 113 min. Texas greenhorn Joe Buck arrives in New York City for the first time. Preening himself as a real 'hustler', he finds that he is the one getting 'hustled' until he teams up with a down-and-out but resilient outcast named Ratso Rizzo. In their efforts to bilk a hostile world rebuffing them at every turn, this unlikely pair progress from partners in shady business to comrades. Cast: Dustin Hoffman, John Voight. Subjects – Movies and Plays The Milagro Beanfield War [VHS 752] 1988 Warner Home 1/2" video Color 1 cass., 118 min. When a Chicano handyman from the Milagro Valley decides to irrigate his small beanfield by "borrowing" some water from a large and potentially destructive development site, he unknowingly sets off a chain reaction. Cast: Sonia Braga, Melanie Griffith, John Heard, Christopher Walken. Directed by Robert Redford. Milk [DVD 801] 2008 Focus Features 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 128 min. The story of Harvey Milk, and his struggles as an American gay activist who fought for gay rights and became California's first openly gay elected official. Using flashbacks from a statement recorded late in life and archival footage, this film traces Milk's career from his 40th birthday to his murder. Cast: Sean Penn, Josh Brolin. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Homosexuality Millennium Actress = Sennen Joyu [DVD 1000] 2001 DreamWorks 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 87 mins. After nearly 30 years of living in strict seclusion, the aged film star Chioyoko Fujiwara grants an interview to journalist Genya Tachibana. As their conversation begins, Kan intercuts scenes from Chioyoko's films with her memories of pursuing the mysterious artist she met as a young girl. Accompanied by his blasé cameraman, Tashibana finds himself within Chioyoko's memories and films, alternately observing and aiding the woman he adores. Animation. In Japanese with English subtitles. Cast: Miyoko Shôji, Mami Koyama Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Language: Japanese Million Dollar Baby [DVD 490] 2004 Warner Bros. 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 132 min. “i don't train girls" trainer Frankie Dunn growls. Maggie Fitzgerald, a poor thirty-one year old waitress from the very lower classes and with a dysfunctional loser family, decides to make a difference through boxing. She convinces the experienced hardened boxing trainer Frankie Dunn to coach her and be her manager, with the support of his old partner Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris, who sees her potential as a boxer. Cast: Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman. Subjects – Movies and Plays The Miracle Worker [DVD 951] 1962 MGM/UA 4 3/4" DVD b&w 1 videodisc, 107 min. A drama of Anne Sullivan's attempts to teach her blind and deaf pupil, Helen Keller, to communicate. Cast: Patty Duke, Anne Bancroft. Originally issued as a motion picture. Based on the play by William Gibson. The Miracle Worker [VHS 1973] 2000 Walt Disney 1/2" video Color 1 cass., 90 min. The contemporary version of the classic true story of Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan. Based on the play by William Gibson. Cast: Alison Elliott, Hallie Kate Eisenberg, David Strathairn. Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; Deaf Studies and Language Miss Evers' Boys [DVD 147] 1997 HBO Video 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc,118 min. In 1932, Nurse Eunice Evers is invited to work with doctors on the "Tuskegee Experiment" to study the effects of syphilis. She is faced with a terrible dilemma when she learns the patients are denied treatment that could cure them. Cast: Alfre Woodard, Larry Fishburne. Based on the play by David Feldshuh. Closed captioned. Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; African Americans ; Diseases The Mission [VHS 1673] 1986 Warner Home Video 1/2" video Color 1 cass., 125 min. A powerful epic about a man of the sword and a man of the cloth who unite to shield a South American Indian tribe from brutal subjugation by 18th century colonial empires. Parts of dialogue are in the Guarani Indian language. Cast: Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons, Ray McAnally, Ronald Pickup, Chuck Low, Aidan Quinn, Cherie Lunghi. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Mississippi Masala [DVD 952] 1992 Columbia Tristar 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 118 min. Set in Mississippi, a young black businessman falls in love with a young Indian immigrant whose family was expelled from Uganda by Idi Amin. Cast: Denzel Washington, Roshan Seth, Sarita Choudhury. Mo’ Better Blues (Spike Lee Joint Collection) [DVD 382] 1990 Universal Pictures 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 129 min. Opens with Bleek as a child learning to play the trumpet, his friends want him to come out and play but mother insists he finish his lessons. Bleek grows into adulthood and forms his own band - The Bleek Gilliam Quartet. The story of Bleek's and Shadow's friendly rivalry on stage which spills into their professional relationship and threatens to tear apart the quartet. Cast: Denzel Washington, Spike Lee, Wesley Snipes. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; African Americans Moby Dick [DVD 22] 1956 MGM 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 115 min. Consumed by an insane rage, Captain Ahab has but one purpose in life-- revenge on the great white whale who maimed and disfigured him. Cast: Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Leo Genn, James Robertson Justice, Harry Andrews, Bernard Miles, Mervyn Johns, Orson Welles. Based on the novel by Herman Melville. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Modern Times (The Chaplin Collection) [DVD 386-387] 1936 United Artists 4 3/4" DVD b&w 2 videodisc Disc 1, The film (87 min): Charlie Chaplin is in glorious form in this legendary satire of the mechanized world. As a factory worker driven bonkers by the soulless momentum of work, Chaplin executes a series of slapstick routines around machines, including a memorable encounter with an automatic feeding apparatus. The pantomime is triumphant, but Chaplin also draws a lively relationship between the Tramp and a street gamine. She's played by Paulette Goddard, then Chaplin's wife and probably his best leading lady. Disc 2: Special Features (134 min.) Subjects – Movies and Plays Monsieur Ibrahim Et Les Fleurs Du Coran [DVD 154] 2003 Sony Pictures Classics 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 95 min. During the early 1960s, Paris was an explosion of life. Against this background, in a working class neighborhood, two unlikely characters--a young Jew and an Turkish Muslim grocer--begin a friendship. When we meet Moise, also known as Momo, he is in effect an orphan even though he lives with his failed father; he is more drawn to the local prostitutes who treat him with genuine affection. Momo buys his groceries at the neighborhood shop, a crowded dark space owned and run by Ibrahim, a silent exotic looking man who sees and knows more than he lets on, telling Momo that he "knows what is in his Koran". After Momo is abandoned by his father, Ibrahim becomes the one grownup in Momo's life. Cast: Omar Sharif, Pierre Boulanger. Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; Middle East Monsoon Wedding [DVD 959] 2001 Universal Studios 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 114 min. Two families from different cultures come together for an arranged marriage in New Delhi during the monsoon season. Between a stressed-out father a bride with a burning passion for someone else and a wedding planner with her own agenda, forget the rain, it’ll be a miracle if the wedding happens. Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Lillete Dubey, Shefali Shetty, and Vijay Raaz. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Asia: India Moolaadé [DVD 931] 2004 IFC Films 4 3/4" DVD Color 2 videodisc, 124 min. Set in Burkina Faso, an inspiring story about a group of women who stand up for their rights against the traditions of their village. This is the day when six 4-9-year-old girls are to be circumcised. The operation is horrible torture and sometimes lethal, and that some circumcised women can only give birth by Caesarean section. Two of the girls have drowned themselves in the well to escape the operation. The four other girls seek "magical protection" (moolaadé) by a woman who seven years before refused to have her daughter circumcised. When a she shelters the group of girls from suffering female circumcision, she starts a conflict that tears her village apart. Cast: Fatoumata Coulibaly, Maimouna Helene Diarra, Dominique T. Zeida. Last film written and directed by Ousmane Sembene. In French with English subtitles. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Africa ; Language: French ; Women's Studies A Moon For The Misbegotten By Eugene O'Neill [VHS 1844] 1975 Broadway Theatre Archive 1/2" video Color 1 cass., 140 min. In a towering performance, the late, great Jason Robards portrays a cynical, self-hating alcoholic actor based on O'Neill's elder brother, Jamie. The majestic Colleen Dewhurst plays the earthy, gruff daughter of his scheming Irish tenant farmer with whom the failed actor spends a soul-baring night of guilt-ridden confessions, tenderness, and absolution. PBS television broadcast for Great Performances, Theater in America. Subjects -- Movies and Plays More American Graffiti [DVD 797] 1979 Lucasfilms/Universal 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 110 min. Six years after American Graffiti, George Lucas answered the call for an update on his classic characters with this ambitious sequel. The action is spread over four different New Year's Eves in the sixties. Milner is drag racing, the Toad is dodging bullets in Vietnam, Debbie is a San Francisco hippie, and Steve and Laurie weather a domestic crisis. Cast: Ron Howard, Cindy Williams, Paul LeMat. see also: American Graffiti Subjects – Movies and Plays Mostly Martha = Bella Martha [DVD 643] 2001 Paramount Pictures 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 106 min. Martha, the domineering chef at a fancy restaurant, has her rigid routine broken when her sister dies in a car wreck, leaving behind her 9-year-old daughter Lina. Martha takes the girl in, but has no gift for maternal expression; she offers Lina food, but Lina refuses to eat. Meanwhile, her control over her kitchen is threatened when her boss hires a buoyant Italian named Mario to assist, and Martha finds herself flailing in an effort to reestablish control of her life. Cast: Martina Gedeck, Sergio Castellitto, Maxime Foerste. In German with English subtitles. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Language: German Moulin Rouge [DVD 410] 2001 20th Century Fox 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 113 min. A poet falls for a beautiful courtesan whom a jealous duke covets in this stylish musical, with music drawn from familiar 20th century sources. Cast: Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor. Subjects – Movies and Plays Mourning Becomes Electra By Eugene O'Neill [VHS 1845-1847] 1978 Broadway Theatre Archive 1/2" video Color 3 cass., 360 min. A classic American drama of love, revenge, murder and suicide set against the backdrop of a small New England town in the post-Civil War era. Cast: Bruce Davison, Joan Hackett, Roberta Maxwell. PBS television broadcast for Great Performances, Theater in America. Subjects -- Movies and Plays The Movies Begin, #1: The Great Train Robbery and Other Primary Works [VHS 1009] 1994 Kino Video 1/2" video b&w 1 cass., 75 min. Features works by Edwin S. Porter, Thomas A. Edison, Louis Lumiere, Georges Melies, Edward J. Muybridge, American Muloscope & Biograph Co., The Edison Manufacturing Co, and others. Homage to Muybridge--The May Irwin kiss--Serpentine dance--Sandow--The Glenroy brothers--Cock fight--Baignade en mere--Enfants pechant des erevells--Lion--McKinley at home--Pack train on Chilkoot pass--Le scarabee d'or. Mr. Smith Goes To Washington [DVD 23] 1939 Columbia TriStar 4 3/4" DVD b&w 1 videodisc, 130 min. Washington's youngest senator exposes corruption in high places, almost at the cost of his career. Cast: Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold, Guy Kibbee, Thomas Mitchell, Beulah Bondi. Directed by Frank Capra. Closed captioned. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Mrs. Miniver [DVD 496] 1942 MGM 4 3/4" DVD b&w 1 videodisc, 134 min. Mrs. Miniver, a middle-class British housewife holds her family together as World War II literally hits their home. A memorable WWII spirit-lifter about an idealized England that tends its prize-winning roses while confronting the terror of war with a stiff upper lip. A relationship between Mrs. Miniver's college-age son and the upper-crust Carol dramatizes the erosion of class barriers under the pressures of wartime. Cast: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Teresa Wright, and Dame May Whitty Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Europe: Great Britain ; World War, 1939-1945 Murder [VHS 1087] 1930 Madacy Music Group 1/2" video b&w 1 cass., 92 min. A girl is convicted of murder, but one of the jurors sets out to prove her innocent. Cast: Herbert Marshall, Norah Baring, Phyllis Konstan. The Alfred Hitchcock collection. The Music Man [DVD 250] 1962 Warner Bros. 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 151 min. Confidence man Harold Hill arrives at staid River City intending to cheat the community with his standard scam of offering to equip and train a boy's marching band, then skip town with the money since he has no music skill anyway. Things go awry when he falls for a librarian he tries to divert from exposing him while he inadvertently enriches the town with a love of music. Music by Meredith Willson. Cast: Robert Preston, Shirley Jones. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Mutiny on the Bounty [DVD 494 ] 1935 MGM 4 3/4" DVD b&w 1 videodisc, 132 min. Chronicles the real-life mutiny aboard the Bounty in 1789 against the ship’s captain William Bligh. The Bounty sails from Britain for Tahiti to obtain a cargo of breadfruit plants. Captain Bligh is in charge and he over-zealously enforces discipline by various methods, his favorite being flogging. Bligh cuts rations and works his men so hard that even first mate Fletcher Christian finds him hard to comprehend. Tahiti is paradise compared to life on the Bounty under Bligh. When the Bounty is loaded and sets sail to return, the harsh treatment by their Captain is too much for the crew and Christian leads a mutiny. They set Bligh and his supporters adrift on a boat and return the Bounty to Tahiti. What they did not count on is the Captain's return. Cast: Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone Subjects – Movies and Plays : Europe: Great Britain My Darling Clementine [DVD 289] 1946 20^th Century Fox 4 3/4" DVD b&w 1 videodisc, 97 min. Wyatt Earp and his brothers Morgan and Virgil ride into Tombstone and leave brother James in charge of their cattle herd. On their return they find their cattle stolen and James dead. Wyatt takes on the job of town marshal, making his brothers deputies, and vows to stay in Tombstone until James' killers are found. A Western retelling the tale of the Shoot-out at the OK Corral directed by John Ford. Cast: Henry Ford, Linda Darnell. Subjects -- Movies and Plays My Dinner with Andre [DVD 636] 1981 New Yorker Films 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 110 min. Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory, apparently playing themselves, share their lives over the course of an evening meal at a restaurant. Gregory, a theater director from New York, is the more talkative of the pair. He relates to Shawn his tales of dropping out, traveling around the world, and experiencing the variety of ways people live, such as a monk who could balance his entire weight on his fingertips. Shawn listens avidly, but questions the value of Gregory's seeming abandonment of the pragmatic aspects of life. Cast: Wallace Shawn, Andre Gregory. Subjects – Movies and Plays My Fair Lady [DVD 279] 1964 Warner Bros. 4 3/4" DVD Color 2 videodisc, 170 min. A misogynistic and snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society. A Lerner-Loewe musical based on the play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison. Subjects -- Movies and Plays My Neighbor Totoro [DVD 627] 1988 Studio Ghibli/Walt Disney 4 3/4" DVD Color 2 videodisc. 86 min. Deep inside a tree trunk, two children discover a fascinating new world inhabited by Totoros, amazing, charming creatures who become their friends. Special features (disc 1): Behind the microphone (with Dakota Fanning and Elle Fanning); opening & ending title sequence art (without credits); original Japanese theatrical trailer. Special features (disc 2): Original Japanese storyboards (in English or Japanese, with optional English subtitles). In Japanese, dubbed English or dubbed French; with optional English subtitles. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Language: Japanese Naqoyqatsi: Life As War [DVD 594] 2002 Miramax 4 3/4" DVD Color w/b&w 1 videodisc. 89 min. In this cinematic concert, the concluding film of the Qatsi Trilogy preceded by critically acclaimed Koyaanisqatsi ("Life out of balance"), and Powaqqatsi ("Life in transformation"), mesmerizing images reanimated from everyday reality, then visually altered with state-of-the-art digital techniques, chronicle the shift from a world organized by the principles of nature to one dominated by technology, the synthetic and the virtual. Extremes of intimacy and spectacle, tragedy and hope fuse in a tidal wave of visuals and music, giving rise to a unique artistic experience that reflects Reggio's vision of a brave new globalized world. Subjects – Movies and Plays National Velvet [DVD 24] 1944 Warner 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 124 min. A determined girl and boy and a spirited thoroughbred horse join forces to attain the seemingly impossible dream of winning the Grand National Steeplechase. Cast: Mickey Rooney, Elizabeth Taylor, Donald Crisp. Closed captioned. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind = Kaze No Tani No Naushika [DVD 630] 1984 Studio Ghibli/Walt Disney 4 3/4" DVD Color 2 videodisc, 117 min. Nausicaa is the princess of a rural valley that lives at peace on the edge of a deadly fungal wasteland, until a ship carrying a weapon from a bygone industrial age crashes nearby. When warriors from a far country come to retrieve the artifact, their invasion draws Nausicaa¨ and her people into a sprawling political conflict. Set 1,000 years after a global war that nearly destroyed all life on Earth. Special features: disc 1: Behind the microphone with voice talent from the film: Alison Lohman, Uma Thurman, Patrick Stewart and Edward James Olmos; original Japanese trailers; The birth of Studio Ghibli featurette (28 min.). disc 2: complete storyboards. Dialogue in English with optional sound track in Japanese with optional English subtitles. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Language: Japanese The Negotiator [DVD 867] 1998 Warner Bros. 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 139 mins In the midst of an elaborate conspiracy, an expert negotiator is driven to the edge when he's framed for the murder of his partner, as well as embezzling money from his department's pension fund. His only chance to prove his innocence is to take hostages himself, acquire the services of another expert negotiator, and find out who's running the conspiracy before it's too late. Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Spacey Subjects – Movies and Plays Never Cry Wolf [DVD 897] 1983 Walt Disney Productions 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 105 min. Tyler, a young inexperienced biologist, is deposited alone onto a frozen arctic wasteland to study the wolves. Based on the book by Farley Mowat. Cast: Charles Martin Smith, Brian Dennehy. Next [DVD 852] 2004 Paramount 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 96 mins. A mediocre Las Vegas magician can see into the future--but only about two minutes at the most. Just enough to pull off his act and to make some money at the gambling tables, so long as he's discreet. Unfortunately, he hasn't been discreet enough and a government agent discovers his precognitive talent and wants to use him to track down terrorists. Cast: Nicolas Cage, Julianne Moore, Jessica Biel. Subjects – Movies and Plays Next of Kin [DVD 419] 1984 Zeitgeist Films 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 92 min. Twenty-three-year old Peter Foster is an only child who lives at home, where he constantly hears his parents arguing. Because Peter does nothing all day, the family goes to a clinic where a therapist videotapes them. After Peter watches his tape, he views the tape of a troubled Armenian family, who gave their only son away for adoption when they arrived in Canada. Peter decides to visit this family, and he pretends to be their son, Bedros Deryan. The Deryan family welcomes him with open arms, and Peter tries to patch up the poor relationship between George Deryan and his daughter Azah. (The Essential Egoyan) Cast: Patrick Tierney, Arsinée Khanjian, Berge Fazlian Subjects – Movies and Plays Night At The Museum [DVD 889] 2006 20th Century Fox 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 110 mins Larry Daley, an underachieving inventor waiting for his ship to come in while getting evicted from one apartment after another, takes a job as night watchman at New York City's Museum of Natural History. What the soon-to-retire guards don't tell him is that an ancient pharaoh's tablet in the museum causes everything on display to come to life at night. Thus, Larry meets representations of Teddy Roosevelt, Attila the Hun, fire-worshipping cavemen, and Roman Empire soldiers, and learns to cope with an excitable T-Rex and man-eating, ancient animals. Cast: Ben Stiller, Dick Van Dyke, Mickey Rooney, Bill Cobbs. Subjects - Movies and Plays The Nightmare Before Christmas [VHS 121] 1993 Touchstone 1/2" video Color 1 cass., 76 min. Based on a story and characters by Tim Burton. Jack Skellington, the pumpkin king of Halloween Town, is bored with doing the same thing every year for Halloween. One day he stumbles into Christmas Town, and is so taken with the idea of Christmas that he tries to get the resident bats, ghouls, and goblins of Halloween town to help him put on Christmas instead of Halloween -- but alas, they can't get it quite right. Animated film. Closed captioned. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Nine Queens = Nueve reinas [DVD 626] 2000 Patagonik Film Group 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc. 115 min. A psychological thriller about two small-time con-men who team up to pull off a big-time score involving a set of valuable counterfeit stamps known as The Nine Queens. When the rule changes suddenly, the two crooks end up pitted against one another. Cast: Gastón Pauls, Ricardo Darin. Spanish with English and French subtitles. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Language: Spanish No Country for Old Men [DVD 542] 2007 United Artists 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 93 min. In rural Texas, welder and hunter Llewelyn Moss discovers the remains of several drug runners who have all killed each other in an exchange gone violently wrong. Rather than report the discovery to the police, Moss decides to simply take the two million dollars for himself. This puts the psychopathic killer, Anton Chigurh, on his trail as he dispassionately murders nearly every rival, bystander and even employer in his pursuit of his quarry and the money. Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin. Subjects – Movies and Plays El Norte (The North) [DVD 638] 1983 Frontera Films 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 141 min. A brother and sister, two young Indians from Guatemala, set out to find a better life when their father is killed by government soldiers and their mother is taken away. Their journey to the north, the "promised land," is frought with dangers and when they reach Los Angeles they are "illegals" submerged in an alien culture.,. Cast: Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez, David Villalpando, Ernesto Gómez Cruz. Spanish and English dialogue; English subtitles. Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; Latin America ; Language: Spanish Number 17 [VHS 1089] 1932 Madacy Music Group 1/2" video b&w 1 cass., 85 min. An unsuspecting innocent hobo accidentally stumbles onto a hideout of jewel thieves. Originally released as a motion picture in 1932. Cast: Leon M. Lion, Anne Grey. The Alfred Hitchcock collection. O Brother, Where Art Thou? [DVD 44] 2000 Touchstone 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 103 min. Loosely based on Homer's "Odyssey", this is the story of three convicts-- escapees from a prison farm in Mississippi-- and their adventure as they travel home in hopes of recovering buried loot before it's lost forever in a flood. Cast: George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, Charles Durning, John Goodman. Closed captioned. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Oedipus the King: The Rise of Greek Tragedy [VHS 12] 19-- Films for the Humanities 1/2" video Color 1 cass., 45 min. Seeks to explain tragedy as a form and to acquaint audiences with its foremost example, Oedipus the King. Presents Oedipus and tragedy as they really are, as psychological literary expression. James Mason and Claire Bloom. Oklahoma! [DVD 430] 1955 Twentieth Century Fox 1/2" video Color 1 videodisc, 145 min. also available as: [VHS 1670] 1955 Twentieth Century Fox 1/2" video Color 1 cass., 145 min. Adapted from Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical play based upon a dramatic play by Lynn Riggs. Includes original theatrical trailer. A cowboy wins his girl despite the intervention of a sinister hired hand. Cast: Gordon MacRae, Gloria Grahame, Shirley Jones, Gene Nelson, Charlotte Greenwood, Eddie Albert, James Whitmore, Rod Steiger. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Oliver! [DVD 501] 1968 Columbia Pictures 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 153 min. Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens's classic tale of an orphan who runs away from the orphanage and hooks up with a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by an elderly mentor. Cast: Ron Moody, Oliver Reed, Shani Wallis, Mark Lester. Subjects – Movies and Plays The Omen [DVD 666] 2006 20th Century Fox 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 110 min. A remake of the 1976 horror classic The Omen (1976). An American diplomat substitutes an orphan for his own stillborn baby in order to spare his unknowing wife. But after a series of grotesque murders and dire warnings, he comes to the chilling realization that his young son may literally be the devil incarnate. Cast: Live Schreiber, Julia Stiles. Subjects – Movies and Plays On Golden Pond [DVD 26] 1981 Artisan 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 105 min. While at their summer home on Golden Pond, the Thayer family is forced to renew their bonds of love and overcome the generational friction that has existed for years. Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Jane Fonda, Doug McKeon, Dabney Coleman, William Lanteau. Subjects -- Movies and Plays On the Waterfront [DVD 498] 1954 Columbia Pictures 4 3/4" DVD b&w 1 videodisc, 134 min. "I coulda been a contenda." Shot on location around the docks of Hoboken, New Jersey, in the mid-1950s, it tells the fact-based story of a longshoreman (Brando's Terry Malloy) who is blackballed and savagely beaten for informing against the mobsters who have taken over his union and sold it out to the bosses. Cast: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Eva Marie Saint. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Labor and Trade Unions Once [DVD 513] 2006 20th Century Fox 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 86 min. An Irish busker meets a Czech flower seller while singing on the streets of Dublin. She likes what she hears and lets him know. Turns out she's a musician, too. They work on a few songs together and a friendship is forged. Since he broke up with his girlfriend, the guy has been drifting, unable and unwilling to get his life in order. The girl encourages him to pursue a record deal, and the guy emerges from his funk. Then he makes a move on the girl, who rejects his advances. He's confused, but as he comes to find, there's a reason she’s keeping her distance. Cast: Glen Hansard, Markéta Irglová Subjects – Movies and Plays One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest [DVD 218] 1975 United Artist/Warner Bros. 4 3/4" DVD Color 2 videodisc, 133 min. McMurphy has been dating a fifteen year old (fifteen going on thirty-five) and is sentenced for a short term for contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Rather than spend his time in jail, he convinces the guards that he's crazy enough to need psychiatric care and is sent to a hospital. He fits in frighteningly well, and his different point of view actually begins to cause some of the patients to progress. Nurse Ratched becomes his personal cross to bear as his resistance to the hospital routine gets on her nerves. Based on the novel by Ken Kesey. Cast: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; Psychology The Onion Movie [DVD 885] 2008 20th Century Fox 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 80 mins Based on the satirical nationwide newspaper The Onion. Sarcastic headlines are turned into slapstick skits starring three news reporters reporting on idiotic events either live or in the studio. When an anchorman is asked to compromise his journalistic integrity to please a new corporate sponsor, he doesn't just get mad, he gets...angry. Cast: Len Cariou, Dana Dobbs, Kip Kendall. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Journalism Ordinary People [DVD 533] 1980 Paramount Pictures 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 124 min. The accidental death of the older son of an affluent family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother, the good-natured father, and the guilt-ridden younger son. Cast: Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Timothy Hutton. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Psychology Out of Africa [DVD 537] 1985 Universal Pictures. 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 150 min. True story of Karen Blixen, a strong-willed woman who, with her philandering husband, runs a coffee plantation in Kenya, circa 1914. To her astonishment, she soon discovers herself falling in love with the land, its people and a mysterious white hunter. It is rich in beautiful images of Africa and in the romantic tone surrounding Blixen's gradual discovery of her life and voice. Cast: Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Africa The Outlaw [DVD 291] 1943 Howard Hughes Productions 4 3/4" DVD b&w 1 videodisc, 116 min. Newly appointed sheriff Pat Garrett is pleased when his old friend Doc Holliday arrives in Lincoln, New Mexico on the stage. Doc is trailing his stolen horse, and it is discovered in the possession of Billy the Kid. In a surprising turnaround, Billy and Doc become friends. This causes the friendship between Doc and Pat to cool. The odd relationship between Doc and Billy grows stranger when Doc hides Billy at his girl, Rio's, place after Billy is shot. She falls for Billy, although he treats her very badly. Interaction between these four is played out against an Indian attack before a final showdown reduces the group's number. The first American film that defied the "Production Code" of the Hays Office, which dictated what could and could not be shown on screen. Cast: Jane Russell. Subjects -- Movies and Plays The Ox-Bow Incident [VHS 510] 1943 20th Century Fox/Key Video 1/2" video b&w 1 cass., 75 min. When a rancher is reported murdered by cattle rustlers, the people of Ox-bow decide to take justice into their own hands. They lynch three men who turn out to be innocent. Starring Henry Fonda. Panther [VHS 1902] 1995 PolyGram Video 1/2" video Color 1 cass., 123 min. A semi-historic film about the origins of The Black Panther Party of Self-Defense. The movie spans about 3 years (1966-68) of the Black Panther's history in Oakland. Panther also uses historical footage (B/W) to emphasize some points. In Oakland, California, 1968, The Black Panthers led by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale have armed themselves and are ready to fight for freedom. To the people, they're heroes, but to the FBI they're Public Enemy Number One. Now the Feds will do everything they can--on the right or wrong side of the law--to bring them down. Based on the novel by Melvin Van Peebles. Cast: Kadeem Hardison, Bokeem Woodbine, Joe Don Baker. Closed captioned. Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; African Americans Paradise Now [DVD 933] 2005 Warner Independent Pictures 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 91 min. In Nablus, on the West Bank, Said and Khaled, two Palestinian friends, who’ve experienced living under another nations rule for their whole lives feel oppression, humiliation and consider themselves prisoners in their own land. As soon as a friend presents them with an opportunity to avenge their way of life, we follow their steps as they prepare themselves for their final act of resistance, a suicide mission in Tel-Aviv. Cast: Lubna Azabal, Hamza Abu-Aiaash. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Middle East Parting Glances [VHS 1441] 1991 First Run Features 1/2" Video Color 1 cass., 90 min. The hectic rhythms of the Big Apple, a direct confrontation with AIDS and a relationship in its final stages are the focus of this contemporary New York drama about two gay lovers saying goodbye. Cast: Richard Ganoung, John Bolger, Steve Buscemi. Closed captioned. A Passage to India [VHS 65] 1985 Columbia Pictures 1/2" video Color 1 cass., 163 min. Based on the novel by E.M. Forster. Adela Quested travels to India with her fiance's mother. They befriend a young Indian man who invites them on a picnic to Marabar Caves and who is later accused of attempting to rape Miss Quested. Pather Panchali = Song of the Little Road (Apu Trilogy, #1) [VHS 915] 1955 Sony Pictures Classics 1/2" video b&w 1 cass., 121 min. Sometime in the early years of the century, a boy, Apu, is born to a poor Brahmin family in a village in Bengal. The father, a poet and priest, cannot earn enough to keep his family going. Apu's sister, Durga, is forever stealing guavas from the neighbour's orchards. All these add to the daily struggles of the mother's life, notwithstanding her constant bickering with old aunt who lives with the family. Cast: Kanu Bannerjee, Karuna Bannerjee Directed by Satyajit Ray In Bengali with English subtitles. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Asia: India Patton [DVD 944] 1970 Twentieth Century Fox 4 3/4" DVD Color 2 videodisc, 170 min. A story of the adventures of the World War II American general George Patton, who defeated Rommel in Africa and sped across Europe with his Third Army after the D-Day invasion. Cast: George C. Scott, Karl Malden. Paul Robeson: Portraits of the Artist: Criterion Collection [DVD 632-635] 2007 Criterion Collection 4 3/4" DVD Color, b&w 4 videodiscs All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson (1898-1976) was a towering figure and a trailblazer many times over. He was perhaps most groundbreaking, however, in the medium of film. The son of an escaped slave, Robeson managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America striving to project positive images of black characters. Increasingly politically minded, Robeson eventually left movies behind, using his international celebrity to speak for those denied their civil liberties around the world and ultimately becoming a victim of ideological persecution himself. Outsider: [DVD 632] Body and Soul ; [DVD 632] Borderline Icon: [DVD 633] Emperor Jones ; [DVD 633] Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist Pioneer: [DVD 634] Sanders of the River ; [DVD 634] Jericho Citizen of the World: [DVD 635] Native Land ; [DVD 635] The Proud Valley Subjects – African American ; Movies and Plays Paul's Case [VHS 27] 19-- Coronet Films 1/2" video Color 1 cass., 58 min. A sensitive yong man is consumed with vague ideas of a higher life while he lives in a world absolutely at odds with that vision. As the discrepancy between Paul's dreams and reality widens and his alienation becomes more intense, he tries to escape. Based on the short story by Willa Cather. Pay It Forward [DVD 25] 2001 Warner 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 123 min. Just imagine. You do a favor that really helps someone and tell him or her not to pay it back, but to pay it forward to three other people who, in turn, each pay it forward to three more and on and on into a global outpouring of kindness and decency. When a junior high student starts "paying it forward" for a social studies project, unusual things happen in this bittersweet and uplifting tale. Cast: Kevin Spacey, Helen Hunt, Haley Joel Osment, Jay Mohr, James Caviezel, Jon Bon Jovi, Angie Dickinson. Closed captioned. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Pearl Harbor [VHS 129-130] 2001 Touchstone 1/2" video Color 2 cass., 183 min. Two childhood best friends, Rafe and Danny, grow up wanting to fly planes. When Rafe gets the chance to join the Royal Air Force during World War II, he takes it, leaving his new love, Evelyn, a dedicated Navy nurse, and Danny, also a pilot, behind. Danny and Evelyn are transferred separately to the idyllic paradise of Hawaii, where they eventually meet through a connection to Rafe, who has been declared missing. But just as the love triangle begins to get complicated, Dec. 7, 1941 arrives, changing all of their lives forever. Cast: Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale, Alec Baldwin, Cuba Gooding, Jr. Closed captioned. Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; World War 1939-1945 A Peck On The Cheek [DVD 999] 2002 Film Movement 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 136 mins. Amudha, adopted by Thiru and Indira and growing up with the couples two sons, is blissfully unaware of her parentage, until the couple decides to inform her of it on her ninth birthday. At first shocked into disbelief, Amudha then expresses her determination to seek out her biological mother who had abandoned her as a newborn baby. The search takes the family to strife-torn Sri Lanka, where Amudha comes face-to-face with reality, and reconciles herself to it. In Tamil and Sinhala with English subtitles. Cast: R. Madhavan, Simran (alias) Rishi Novel Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Asia: India A Perfect Murder [DVD 857] 1999 Warner Bros. 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 157 mins. A powerful Wall Street power broker tries to get his wife's lover to murder her. Cast: Michael Douglas, Gwyneth Paltrow, Viggo Mortensen. Subjects – Movies and Plays Persepolis [DVD 593] 2007 Sony Pictures Classics 4 3/4" DVD b&w 1 videodisc. 95 min. In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family. Their long dream is realized when the hated Shah is defeated in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, Marji grows up to witness first hand how the new Iran has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Marji dangerously refusing to remain silent at this injustice, her parents send her abroad to Vienna to study. This change proves an equally difficult trial for Marji and finds herself in a different culture loaded with abrasive characters and profound disappointments that deeply trouble her. Even when she returns home, Marji finds that both she and her homeland have changed too much and the young woman and her loving family must decide where she truly belongs. An animated feature based on the graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi. Cast: Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Darrieux, Danielle. French or dubbed English dialogue. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Language: French ; Middle East The Petrified Forest [DVD 232] 1936 Warner Bros. 4 3/4" DVD b&w 1 videodisc, 83 min. A rundown diner bakes in the Arizona heat. Inside, fugitive killer Duke Mantee sweats out a manhunt, holding disillusioned writer Alan Squier, young Gabby Maple and a handful of others hostage. Cast: Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Philadelphia [DVD 413] 1993 Columbia TriStar 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 125 min. Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops, their courage overcomes the prejudice and corruption of their powerful adversaries. Cast: Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Homosexuality ; Law & Government The Piano Lesson [DVD 82] 1995 Hallmark Hall of Fame 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 104 min August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning tale of a family caught between their heritage and a dream for the future. The Charles family clashes over the fate of a magnificent, carved piano that carries their family's story from their days as slaves. Boy Willie wants to sell the piano to buy a farm--the same fields their family worked as slaves. But his sister, Berniece, refuses to part with it. For her, the piano is their very soul, a legacy of pride and struggle that symbolizes their survival as a family. To resolve the conflict they must first deal with the past. Cast: Lloyd Richards, Charles S. Dutton, Alfre Woodard. Closed captioned. Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; African Americans The Pink Panther [DVD 514] 2006 MGM 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 93 min. Loosely based on the 1964 Peter Sellers original film, where the detective must solve the murder of a famous soccer coach and find out who stole the infamous Pink Panther diamond. Cast: Steve Martin, Kevin Kline, Beyonce Knowles. Subjects – Movies and Plays Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest [DVD 908] 2005 Walt Disney 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 151 min. Jack Sparrow races to recover the heart of Davy Jones to avoid enslaving his soul to Jones' service, as other friends and foes seek the heart for their own agenda as well. Cast: Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Subjects – Movies and Plays A Place In The World [DVD 300] 1993 Transmundo Films 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 120 min. Mario and Ana, in voluntary exile from Buenos Aires, live in a remote Argentine valley with their 12-year-old son Ernesto. Mario runs a school and a wool cooperative; Ana, a doctor, heads a clinic with Nelda, a progressive nun. Into this idealistic family comes Hans, a jaded Spanish geological engineer -- surveying the land for the local patron, to see if it can be dammed for hydro-electric power, which would drive the peasants from the land into the cities. Spanish with English subtitles. Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; Language: Spanish ; Latin America and Caribbean Platoon [DVD 506] 1986 MGM 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 120 min. Chris is a young, naive American who gives up college and volunteers for combat in Vietnam. As an infantryman his loyalty is tested by two superior officers: Sergeant Elias, a former hippie humanist who really cares about his men, and Sergeant Barnes, a moody, macho soldier who may have gone over to the dark side. A line is drawn between the two officers and a number of men in the platoon when an illegal killing occurs during a village raid. As the war continues, Chris himself draws towards psychological meltdown. As he struggles for survival, he soon realizes he is fighting two battles, the conflict with the enemy and the conflict between the men within his platoon. Cast: Charlie Sheen, Willem Dafoe, Tom Berenger. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Vietnamese Conflict Pocahontas [VHS 650] 1995 Walt Disney Pictures 1/2" Video Color 1 cass., 81 min. In 1607, a group of British adventurers, including John Smith, led by the greedy Virginia Company governor Ratcliffe, set sail for the New World, seeking gold and other treasures. In Virginia, Pocahontas, Chief Powhatan's daughter, ponders her life as she is faced with marriage to the stern warrior, Kocoum. The British establish the settlement of Jamestown, Virginia and dig up the countryside for gold. Smith meets Pocahontas and they overcome their initial conflicts. She teaches him about her world. Relations between the British and the Indians deteriorate. Powhatan captures Smith and is about to execute him, but Pocahontas intervenes and Powhatan sets him free. When Ratcliffe tries to kill Powhatan, Smith saves him but is seriously wounded. He must return to England and Pocahontas must stay. Animated film. Closed captioned. Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; Indians of North America ; Women’s Studies Pollock [DVD 658] 2000 Sony Pictures 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 122 min. At the end of the 1940's, abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) is featured in Life magazine. Flashback to 1941, he's living with his brother in a tiny apartment in New York City, drinking too much, and exhibiting an occasional painting in group shows. That's when he meets artist Lee Krasner, who puts her career on hold to be his companion, lover, champion, wife, and, in essence, caretaker. To get him away from booze, insecurity, and the stress of city life, they move to the Hamptons where nature and sobriety help Pollock achieve a breakthrough in style: a critic praises, then Life magazine calls. But so do old demons: the end is nasty, brutish, and short. Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden, Amy Madigan. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Artists Powaqqatsi: Life In Transformation [DVD 554] 1988 MGM 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 97 min. Powaqqatsi, or "life in transformation," is the second part of a projected trilogy of experimental documentaries whose titles derive from Hopi compound nouns. The now legendary Koyaanisqatsi, or "life out of balance," was the first. Naqoyqatsi, or "life in war," is the third. This film calls into question everything we think we know about contemporary society. By juxtaposing images of ancient cultures with those of modern life, Powaqqatsi masterfully portrays the human cost of progress. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Technology ; World History Pride and Prejudice [DVD 369-370 ] 1996 BBC/A&E 4 3/4" DVD Color 2 videodisc, 300 min. In this lavish, mini-series adaptation of Jane Austen's 19th century classical romance, Elizabeth Bennett is a strong-willed yet sensible young woman in a well-off but lower class family with five sisters, a long-suffering but loving father and a mother anxious to marry them to wealthy young gentlemen. At a local ball, she encounters one such wealthy young man but Mr. Darcy is arrogant, cold and rude, it is hatred at first sight. As her older sister Jane falls in love with Mr. Darcy's best friend Mr. Bingley, and her youngest sister Lydia flirts with anyone in a military uniform, Lizzie finds herself fighting off the attentions of the unctuous Mr. Collins and quite taken by the charming Mr. Wickham - who also happens to be an enemy of Mr. Darcy. Cast: Jennifer Ehle, Colin Firth Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Literature and Writing The Proud Valley (Paul Robeson: Portraits of the Artist) [DVD 635] 1940 Ealing Studios/Criterion Collection 4 3/4" DVD b&w 1 videodisc, 76 min. David Goliath, a Black American sailor who drifts to Wales by way of England, searching for work, joins rank - and - file Welsh miners organizing against the powers that be. Initially he wins the respect of the very musically oriented Welsh people through his singing (as did Robeson in real life). He shares the hardships of their lives, and becomes a working class hero as he helps to better their working conditions and ultimately, during a mining accident, sacrifices his life to save fellow miners. Cast: Paul Robeson, Edward Chapman. Subjects – Movies and Plays Psycho [DVD 219] 1960 Universal 4 3/4" DVD b&w 1 videodisc, 109 min. A young female embezzler arrives at the Bates Motel after stealing $40 thousand, which has terrible secrets of its own in the form of an odd proprietor and his domineering, never-seen mother. Cast: Tony Perkins, Janet Leigh. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock Subjects -- Movies and Plays Public Enemy [DVD 233] 1931 Warner Bros. 4 3/4" DVD b&w 1 videodisc, 83 min. Tom's bad way of life is constantly set up against his brother Mike's, who has a job during the day and goes to night school. Mike will enroll in the Marines to fight in WWI. He will come back and will constantly try to put Tom back on the right path. Cast: James Cagney, Jean Harlow. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Pulp Fiction [DVD 384-385] 1994 Miramax 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 164 min. A clever, dark film that tells 4 separate stories that are gradually brought together. Involves two low-rent hit men, their boss and his sexy wife, a prizefighter and a pair of desperate robbers. Cast: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth. Closed-captioned . Subjects -- Movies and Plays Pulse [DVD 522] 2006 Dimension Films 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 90 min. College students discover a kind of wi-fi conduit that allows malevolent spirits to be transmitted from their afterlife to our world via the Internet. Cast: Kristen Bell, Christina Milian. Subjects - Movies and Plays Pygmalion [DVD 943] 1938 Janus Films/Embassy Home Enter. 4 3/4" DVD B&W 1 videodisc, 96 min. George Bernard Shaw's story of professor Henry Higgins' efforts to make Eliza Doolittle, a flower girl, into an elegant lady of society. Starring Leslie Howard, Wendy Hiller, and Anthony Asquith. Quiz Show [DVD 669] 1994 Hollywood Pictures 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 133 min. An idealistic young lawyer working for a Congressional subcommittee in the late 1950s discovers that TV quiz shows are being fixed. His investigation focuses on two contestants on the show "Twenty-One": Herbert Stempel a brash working-class Jew from Queens, and Charles Van Doren, the patrician scion of one of America's leading literary families. Based on a true story.Cast: Ralph Fiennes, John Turturro, Rob Morrow. Directed by Robert Redford. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Television, Film & Video ; Law & Government The Railrodder and Buster Keaton Rides Again [VHS 1679] 1995 Kino Video 1/2" video b&w 1 cass., 81 min. In The railrodder (25 min., col., 1965) Keaton crosses Canada in a gas powered railway handcar; Buster Keaton rides again (56 min., B&W, 1965) shows Keaton at work on The railrodder. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Rain Man [DVD 208] 1988 United Artists 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 134 min. Charlie Babbitt, a young businessman aggressively pursuing his fortune in collector automobiles, hears that the wealthy father from whom he has been estranged for years, has died. He attends the funeral planning to remain only long enough to hear the will and receive the fortune he believes is coming to him. He is shocked to learn that most of the fortune has been left in trust to his mentally handicapped brother he didn’t know he had, Raymond, an autistic savant. Charlie kidnaps him to California, planning to keep him "hostage" until the institution where Raymond has been living, delivers half of Raymond's inheritance he believes rightly to be his. Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; Psychology The Rainmaker [DVD 322] 1997 Paramount 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 135 min. A young Tennessee lawyer fresh out of college takes the case of his life in this amazing courtroom drama. When a big insurance company tries to keep from having to pay for the care that a young man diagnosed with leukemia needs, the family decides to hire a lawyer. Rudy (Damon) takes on this client in his first case after the head of his law office has to hide because he's wanted by the feds. He must overcome many obstacles inside and outside the courtroom as he attempts to find out what it means to be a lawyer and how far you have to go before you become a sell-out. Based on the novel by John Grisham. Cast: Matt Damon, Danny DeVito, Jon Voight. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Subjects --Movies and Plays ; Law and Government Raise the Red Lantern [DVD 656] 1991 Era International (HK) Ltd. 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 125 min. China in the 1920's. After her father's death, nineteen year old Songlian is forced to marry Chen Zuoqian, the lord of a powerful family. Fifty year old Chen has already three wives, each of them living in separate houses within the great castle. The competition between the wives is tough, as their master's attention carries power, status and privilege. Each night Chen must decide with which wife to spend the night and a red lantern is lit in front of the house of his choice and each wife schemes and plots to make sure it's hers. Cast: Li Gong, Caifei He, Cuifen Cao, Jingwu Ma, Qi Zhao. In Mandarin Chinese with English subtitles. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Language: Chinese A Raisin In The Sun [DVD 898] 1996 Monterey Home video 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 171 min. An insurance check can allow the Youngers to escape their frustrating life in a crowded Chicago apartment, but escape means different things to each family member. Cast: Danny Glover, Esther Rolle, Starletta DuPois, Yanckey, Kim. Rear Window [DVD 213] 1954 Universal 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 112 min. Professional photographer L.B. "Jeff" Jeffries breaks his leg while getting an action shot at an auto race. Confined to his New York apartment, he spends his time looking out of the rear window observing the neighbors. He begins to suspect that the man opposite may have murdered his wife. Jeff enlists the help of his society model girlfriend Lisa Freemont and his nurse Stella to investigate. Cast. James Stewart, Kim Novak. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. (The James Stewart Hollywood legend collection) Subjects -- Movies and Plays Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm [DVD 228] 1938 Twentieth Century Fox 4 3/4" DVD b&w/Colorized 1 videodisc, 80 min. Rebecca's Uncle Harry leaves her with Aunt Miranda who forbids her to associate with show people. But neighbor Anthony Kent is a talent scout who secretly set it up for her to broadcast. Cast: Shirley Temple, Randolph Scott Subjects -- Movies and Plays Rebel Without A Cause [DVD 778] 1955 Warner Bros. 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 111 min. Jim Stark is the new kid in town. He has been in trouble elsewhere; that's why his family has had to move before. Here he hopes to find the love he doesn't get from his middle-class family. Though he finds some of this in his relation with Judy, and a form of it in both Plato's adulation and Ray's real concern for him, Jim must still prove himself to his peers in switchblade knife fights and "chickie" games in which cars race toward a seaside cliff. Cast – James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo Subjects – Movies and Plays The Reckoning [DVD 373] 2003 Paramount 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 112 min. Set in 14th century England, Nicholas, a young priest who has broken his vow of chastity and in turn becomes a fugitive, escaping from his fellow monks and their judgment. Posing as an actor in a traveling acting troupe, Nicholas, along with the actors, discovers that a young woman convicted of killing a boy is actually innocent and the troupe sets out to prove her innocence by incorporating the crime into their plays. Cast: Willem DaFoe, Paul Bettany. Subjects – Movies and Plays Red Eye [DVD 872] 2005 Dreamworks 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 85 min. A woman is kidnapped by a stranger on a routine flight. Threatened by the potential murder of her father, she is pulled into a plot to assist her captor in offing a politician. Cast: Rachel McAdams, Cillian Murphy. Subjects – Movies and Plays Reefer Madness [DVD 285] 1936 G&H Productions 4 3/4" DVD b&w/Colorized 1 videodisc, 66 min. Propaganda film that relates the story, as told by high school principal Dr. Carroll to parents at a PTA meeting, of the scourge of marijuana. The tale revolves around Mae and Jack, accomplices in the distribution of marijuana, who manage to entice the local high school kids to stop by Mae's apartment to smoke reefer. The lives of all who are involved with this menace are inevitably shattered. One youngster becomes so addicted to the killer weed that a judge orders him to be committed for life to a mental hospital! Dr. Carroll advises us to not incur the same tragedy. Became a cult hit in 1972 when the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) rescued it from the Library of Congress film archive. Includes all-new color version and the restored original black-and-white version. Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; Drugs and Drug Abuse The Replacements [DVD 515] 2000 Warner Bros. 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 118 min. When the NFL goes on strike, the team owner of the Washington Sentinels, calls former NFL coach Jimmy McGinty out of retirement to coach a rag-tag team of replacement players to finish the season's last four games. Cast: Keanu Reeves, Gene Hackman. Subjects – Movies and Plays Richard II [VHS 10-11] 1979 BBC-TV/Time-Life 1/2" video Color 2 cass., 157 min In the 14th century Kings and Queens ruled by divine right. Even a rebellion against the most corrupt monarch was viewed as an uprising against heaven itself. This play by William Shakespeare is the story of just such a rebellion. The Right Stuff [DVD 686] 1983 Warner Bros. 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 193 mins The first seven Mercury astronauts: we go behind the prepackaged, unblemished saints we knew through the media to find imperfect human beings who were actually even more heroic. The astronauts are heroes, no doubt about it. As space pioneer Chuck Yaeger bitterly points out, these men all knew the risks they were taking as they rode their primitive capsules into space. They knew they were powered by rockets that could explode them into the tiniest of atoms. There were the fierce fires of re-entry that could reduce them to cinders, as well as the possibility of no re-entry, leaving them to perish miserably in their orbits. Yet these men eagerly took those risks. They were made of the right stuff. Cast: Sam Shepard, Ed Harris, Scott Glenn, Dennis Quaid, Fred Ward. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Space Exploration The Ring Two [DVD 882] 2005 20th Century Fox 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 110 min. Six months after encountering Samara and her killer video tape, Rachel Keller and her son Aiden leave the city to live in a small rural town where they think they'll be safe. Soon after they arrive, however, Rachel hears about a college student who died nearby in circumstances similar to Samara's past victims. Now it appears that Aiden's life is in danger from Samara once more, and Rachel must investigate the little girl's past if she wants to save her son. Cast: Naomi Watts, David Dorfman. Subjects – Movies and Plays Road To Perdition [DVD 72] 2002 DreamWorks 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 cass., 117 min. Michael Sullivan works as an enforcer for his adopted father, Irish gangster John Rooney. When Sullivan's son, Mike Jr., witnesses one of his father's killings on Rooney's behalf, the gangster decides that his ward and his family are liabilities that must be removed. Sullivan tries to safeguard his son and get even with the man who betrayed him, while his son focuses on bonding with his emotionally distant father. Cast: Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Jude Law. Closed captioned. Subjects -- Movies and Plays The Roaring Twenties [DVD 234] 1939 Warner Bros. 4 3/4" DVD b&w 1 videodisc, 104 min. After the WWI Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere. Cast: James Cagney, Priscilla Lane, Humphrey Bogart. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Rocky [DVD 504] 1976 United Artists 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 104 min. The 'Italian Stallion', Rocky Balboa, is an down and out boxer in downtown Philadelphia. His one chance to make a better life for himself is through his boxing and Adrian, a girl who works in the local pet store. Through a publicity stunt, Rocky is set up to fight Apollo Creed, the current heavyweight champion who is already set to win. Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burgess Meredith, Carl Weathers. Subjects – Movies and Plays Romeo and Juliet [DVD 991] 1968 Paramount 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 138 mins Shakespeare's classic play of tragic love between members of opposing families. Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet was unique in its day for casting kids in the play's pivotal roles. Cast: Leonard Whiting, Olivia Hussey. Directed by Franco Zeffirelli. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Shakespeare, William Romeo and Juliet [DVD 992] 1996 20th Century Fox 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 120 mins An unconventional adaptation of William Shakespeare's classic love story. Romeo and Juliet, the youthful star-crossed lovers of the past have been moved from it's Elizabethan origins to the futuristic urban backdrop of Verona Beach. Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes. Directed by Baz Luhrmann. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Shakespeare, William Roots [VHS 1210-1215] 1977 Ruth Carranza Productions 1/2" video Color 7 cass., 591 min. An adaptation of Alex Haley's book Roots, in which he traces his family's history from the mid-18th century when one of his ancestors was captured in Africa and sold into slavery. Follows the struggle for freedom that began with the boy's abduction to America and continued throughout the generations that followed. Cast: LeVar Burton, John Amos, Ben Vereen, Cicely Tyson, Leslie Uggams, Lou Gosset. The Royal Family By George S. Kaufman & Edna Ferber [VHS 1860] 1977 Broadway Theatre Archive 1/2" video Color 1 cass., 120 min. A 1927 comedy about an eminent and slightly eccentric theatrical clan. A Barrymore-like brood, the Cavendishes are as flamboyant offstage as they are on. Their real-life family drama occurs in a Manhattan apartment when the grand matriarch, Fanny Cavendish, learns that her daughter and granddaughter may both be giving up the stage for marriage. Complicating the situation is the arrival of Fanny's son, Tony-- a matinee idol on the run from a breach-of-promise suit. Cast: rosemary Harris, Eva Le Gallienne, Sam Levene. PBS television broadcast for Great Performances, Theater in America. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Run Lola Run [DVD 644] 1999 Sony Pictures 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 81 min. Lola receives a phone call from her boyfriend Manny. He carelessly lost 100,000 deutsche marks in a subway train that belongs to a seedy gangster. Lola has 20 min to raise this amount and meet Manny. Otherwise, he will rob a store to get the money. Three different alternatives may happen depending on some minor event along Lola's run. Cast: Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu. In German with English subtitles. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Language: German RV [DVD 516] 2006 Columbia Pictures 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 99 min. Bob is determined to combine work and pleasure. He rents a recreational motor home to drive his wife and kids on a scenic vacation to the Colorado Rockies. While trying to enjoy some much needed, quality time with his family, Bob is secretly preparing a presentation for a high-stakes corporate merger. Their dysfunctional road trip leads to repeated encounters with the perky Gornicke family. The Gornicke’s don’t appear to be too bright, but to Bob, they represent the familial togetherness that Bob was hoping to regain. Cast: Robin Williams, Cheryl Hines. Subjects – Movies and Plays Sabotage [VHS 1081] 1936 Madacy Music Group 1/2" video b&w 1 cass., 76 min. A seemingly mild-mannered London theatre manager, unbeknownst to his wife and child, is actually a deadly saboteur. Cast: Sylvia Sidney, Oscar Homolka, John Loder, Desmond Tester. The Alfred Hitchcock Collection. Safe [DVD 414] 1995 Sony Pictures 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 119 min. Eerie medical thriller shows us that our environment has finally turned against us. Carol, a typical upper middle-class housewife, begins to complain of vague symptoms of illness. Her family doctor treats her concerns dismissively and suggests a psychiatrist. Eventually, an allergist tells her that she has Environmental Illness. In essence, she has become allergic to the Twentieth Century. She sees Wrenwood as her only salvation, a New Agey center run (quite profitably) by a clichéd, easy-talking, demagogic guru. Unsettling and ambiguous, we are never sure about each character's hidden agenda, as they revolve around Carol, a timid, frightened pawn, overwhelmed by her condition. Cast: Julianne Moore, Peter Friedman. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Environmental Sciences Salaam Bombay [DVD 934] 1988 Cinecom Pictures 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 113 min. The story of Krishna, Manju, Chillum and the other children on the streets of Bombay. Sometimes they can get a temporary job selling tea, but mostly they have to beg for money and keep out of the way of the police. Cast: Shafiq Syed, Hansa Vithal, Raghuvir Yadav. In Hindi with English subtitles. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Asia: India Salt Of The Earth [VHS 1813] 1954 MPI 1/2" video b&w 1 cass., 94 min. In New Mexico, Mexican zinc miners, fed up with the life-threatening conditions under which they work, organize a walk-out. The racist management of the company tries to end the strike, with a variety of extremely violent and cruel tactics. A controversial drama about the struggles of striking mineworkers in a small New Mexico town whose views are socialistic and surprisingly feminist. Many of the actors and the film's director were blacklisted after its release. When SALT OF THE EARTH was first released, it was considered to be a propaganda film in favor of communism. Some of its makers faced a McCarthy-era Congress, and its director served time in jail. Cast: Juan Chacon, Charles Coleman, Will Geer, Rosaura Revueltas, Mervin Williams. Subjects - Movies and Plays ; Latinos/Hispanic Americans ; Labor and Trade Unions Sanders of the River (Paul Robeson: Portraits of the Artist) [DVD 634] 1935 United Artists/Criterion Collection 4 3/4" DVD b&w 1 videodisc, 98 min. British District Officer in Nigeria in the 1930's rules his area strictly but justly, and struggles with gun-runners and slavers with the aid of a loyal native chief. Cast: Paul Robeson, Leslie Banks. Subjects – Movies and Plays Sanshiro Sugata = Judo saga [VHS 1377] 1996 Janus Films 1/2" video b&w 1 cass., 79 min. Based on the novel by Tsuneo Tomita. Story of a handsome, bumptious young man who wishes to learn judo as a path to philosophical knowledge, rather than a mere set of self-defense techniques. In Japanese with English subtitles. Series: The Japanese classic collection. Directed and written by Akira Kurosawa. Saving Private Ryan [DVD 415] 1998 DreamWorks Pictures 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 169 min. After surviving the invasion of Normandy on D-Day, Captain John Miller must take his men behind enemy lines to find Private Ryan, whose three brothers have been killed in combat. Faced with impossible odds, the men question their orders. Why are eight men risking their lives to save just one? Surrounded by the brutal realities of war, each man searches for his own answer and the strength to triumph over uncertain future with honor, decency and courage. Cast: Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore. Directed by Steven Spielberg. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; World War, 1939-1945 Saw [DVD 845] 2004 Lion’s Gate 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 103 mins With a dead body laying between them, two men wake up in the secure lair of a serial killer who's been nicknamed "Jigsaw" by the police because of his unusual calling card. The two men are chained by their ankles to pipes. They have a task, one must kill the other by 6:00, or his wife and daughter will die. Cast: Cary Elwes, Leigh Whannell, Danny Glover. Subjects – Movies and Plays Scary Movie [DVD 887] 2000 Dimension Films 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 88 mins. A group of teenagers including Cindy Campbell and Bobby Prinze, accidentally hit a man when driving, and dispose of the body, but now they are being stalked by a very recognizable masked killer. The victim count increases, whilst Cindy must survive the carnage that has she has seen in so many films before. A parody on horror movies. Cast: Carmen Electra, Jon Abrahams, Rick Ducommun. Subjects – Movies and Plays Scary Movie 4 [DVD 888] 2006 Weinstein Company 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 83 min. Lampoons the latest horror movies. In this case, the main targets are War of the Worlds, The Village, The Grudge, Saw, and Tom Cruise jumping all over Oprah's couch (the scariest of the lot). Along the way, potshots get taken at non-horror fare like Brokeback Mountain and Million Dollar Baby, as well as obvious targets like Michael Jackson and George W. Bush, among others. Subjects – Movies and Plays Schindler's List [DVD 942] 1994 MCA Home video 4 3/4" DVD Color 2 cass., 197 min. The true story of the enigmatic Oskar Schnidler, a member of the Nazi party, womanizer and war profiteer, who saved the lives of more than 1,100 Jews during the Holocaust. Cast: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes.Produced and directed by Steven Spielberg. School Daze [DVD 32] 2000 Columbia 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 121 min. A music-filled, off-beat contemporary comedy that takes an unforgettable look at black college life. Cast: Larry Fishburne, Giancarlo Esposito, Tisha Campbell, Kyme, Joe Seneca, Art Evans, Ellen Holly, Ossie Davis. Directed by Spike Lee. Closed captioned. Subjects -- Movies and Plays The Scorpion King [DVD 886] 2002 Universal Pictures 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 90 mins In an ancient time, predating the pyramids, the evil king Memnon is using the psychic powers of his sorceress Cassandra to foretell his great victories. In a last ditch effort to stop Memnon from taking over the world, the leaders of the remaining free tribes hire the assassin Mathayus to kill the sorceress. But Mathayus ends up getting much more than he bargained for. Now with the help of the trickster Arpid, tribal leader Balthazar and an unexpected ally, it's up to Mathayus to fulfill his destiny and become the great Scorpion King. Cast: : Dwayne Johnson, Steven Brand. Subjects – Movies and Plays The Seagull By Anton Chekhov [VHS 1848] 1975 Broadway Theatre Archive 1/2" video Color 1 cass., 120 min. A classic comedy-drama depicting man's propensity for destroying those he is close to. The main protagonists are Trepleff, the youthful aspiring writer who dreams of bringing new forms to the theatre and Irina Arkadina, Trepleff's self-centered mother, an accomplished actress, who derides her son's ambitions. Cast: Frank Langella, Blythe Danner, Olympia Dukakis. PBS television broadcast for Great Performances, Theater in America. Subjects -- Movies and Plays The Searchers [VHS 1052] 1956 Warner Bros. 1/2" video Color 1 cass., 119 min. Originally released in 1956. Ex-Confederate, Indian-hater searches for his young niece who's been taken captive by renegade Comanches who massacred her family. In his obsessive, five-year quest, he comes across something he didn't expect to find--his humanity. Cast: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Natalie Wood. Closed captioned. Secret Agent [VHS 1088] 1936 Madacy Music Group 1/2" video b&w 1 cass., 86 min. A British spy travels to Switzerland during World War I with his fictional wife and an eccentric hired assassin to find and kill a German spy, but first they must guess who it is. Cast: John Gielgud, Madeleine Carroll, Peter Lorre, Robert Young. The Alfred Hitchcock collection. 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. Closed captioned. Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; Civil Rights 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 Samurai [VHS 1049-1050] 1954 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. 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 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 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 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 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 Shirley Temple Collection see titles: Baby Take A Bow Bright Eyes Curly TopHeidi Little Miss Broadway Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm Shooter [DVD 890] 2007 Paramount 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 124 mins A marksman living in exile is coaxed back into action after learning of a plot to kill the president. Ultimately double-crossed and framed for the attempt, he goes on the run to track the real killer and find out who exactly set him up, and why. Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Michael Peña. Subjects – Movies and Plays 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. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Show Boat [VHS 2038] [VHS 2039] [VHS 2040] 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. 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. 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 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 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 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 Sizwe Bansi Is Dead [VHS 1410] 1974 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 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 ; Literature and Writing 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. Closed captioned. Subjects -- Movies and Plays 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. 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. Closed captioned. Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; Asian Americans ; World War 1939-1945 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 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. Closed captioned. 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. Closed captioned. 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. Closed captioned. Subjects - Movies and Plays ; World War, 1939-1945 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 Soylent Green [VHS 178] 1973 MGM/UA 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 dictorial Soylent Company. Cast: Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, Edward G. Robinson, Harry Harrison. 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 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 Spirited Away [DVD 629] 2001 Studio Ghibli/Walt Disney 4 3/4" DVD Color 2 videodisc, 125 min. When a young girl gets trapped in a strange new world of spirits, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free herself and rescue her parents Special features: special introduction by John Lasseter; the art of "Spirited away"; The Nippon Television special; select storyboard-to-scene comparison; voice talent featurette; original Japanese trailers. English, French, Japanese or Spanish dialogue. Written & directed by Hayao Miyazaki. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Language: Japanese Stagecoach [DVD 290] 1939 Walter Wagner Productions 4 3/4" DVD b&w 1 videodisc, 96 min. A simple stagecoach trip is complicated by the fact that Geronimo is on the warpath in the area. The passengers on the coach include a drunken doctor, a pregnant woman, a bank manager who has taken off with his client's money, and the famous Ringo Kid, among others. Cast: John Wayne, Clair Trevor. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Stand and Deliver [VHS 751] 1988 Warner Home 1/2" video Color 1 cass., 103 min. Teacher Jaime Excalante inspires his East L.A. barrio students to pass the National Advanced Placement Calculus Exam. Based on a true story. Cast: James Edward Olmos, Lou Diamond Phillips, Rosana De Soto, Andy Garcia. A Star Is Born [DVD 940] 1937 Kino on Video 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 cass., 111 min. A fading star meets an aspiring actress, falls in love with and marries her. Her career skyrockets, while his continues to fade with tragic results. Videocassette release of the 1937 motion picture. Cast: Janet Gaynor, Fredric March, Adolphe Menjou, May Robson, Andy Devine, Lionel Stander. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Star Wars #4: The New Hope [DVD 596] 1977 20th Century Fox 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc. 125 min. A rebel ship is being boarded by the tyrannical Darth Vader. Luke Skywalker, with his new allies, Han Solo, Chewbacca, Ben Kenobi, C-3PO, R2-D2, attempt to rescue rebel leader, Princess Leia, from the clutches of the Empire. The conclusion is culminated as the Rebels, including Skywalker and flying ace Wedge Antilles make an attack on the Empires most powerful and ominous weapon, the Death Star. Cast: Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill. Directed by George Lucas. Subjects – Movies and Plays Star Wars #5: The Empire Strikes Back [DVD 597] 1980 20th Century Fox 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc. 127 min. Fleeing the evil Galactic Empire, the rebels abandon their new base on Hoth. Princess Leia, Han Solo, R2-D2 and C-3P0 escape in the damaged Millenium Falcon. Later, on Bespin, they are captured by Lord Darth Vader. Luke Skywalker, meanwhile, follows Ben Kenobi's posthumous command and receives Jedi training by Yoda on Dagobah. Cast: Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill. Subjects – Movies and Plays Star Wars #6: Return Of The Jedi [DVD 598] 1983 20th Century Fox 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc. 132 min. Darth Vader and the Empire are building a new, indestructible Death Star. Meanwhile, Han Solo has been imprisoned, and Luke Skywalker has sent R2D2 and C3PO to try and free him. Princess Leia, disguised as a bounty hunter, and Chewbacca go along as well. The final battle takes place on the moon of Endor, with its natural inhabitants, the Ewoks, lending a hand to the rebels. Cast: Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill. Subjects – Movies and Plays Star Wars: Bonus Disc [DVD 599] 2004 20th Century Fox 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc. min. includes the most comprehensive feature-length documentary ever produced on the Star Wars saga; and never-before-seen footage from the making of all three films. Cast: Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill. Subjects – Movies and Plays Stephen King's It [VHS 1691] 1990 Warner 1/2" video Color 1 cass., 192 min. It can be anything. A fanged monster that won't stay on the movie screen. Something ominous lurking in the basement. A malevolent force in a small New England town takes the shape of a clown, but It isn't clowning around. Instead, It terrifies youngsters with their innermost fears, bringing some to their untimely doom -- until a group of wily neighborhood kids fight back. Thirty years later the evil resurfaces: meaner, angrier, deadlier. And the friends who vividly remember the terrors of their youth reunite to make a desperate stand against It. Cast: Harry Anderson, Dennis Christopher, Richard Masur, Annette O'Toole, Tim Reid, John Ritter, Richard Thomas, Tim Curry. Subjects -- Movies and Plays The Sting [DVD 491] 1973 Universal 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 129 min. In 1930s Chicago, a young con man seeking revenge for his murdered partner teams up with a master of the big con to get even by pulling off the big con on the mob boss. Cast: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw. Subjects – Movies and Plays The Story of Qiu Ju [DVD 1004] 1993 Sony Pictures 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 100 mins. A woman is obsessed with exacting an apology from the chief of her small village. When the chief kicks a chili farmer between the legs, all the farmer's wife wants is an apology. The chief's reticence sends Qiu Ju on a misguided journey through the legal system in search of satisfaction. What she gets, however, is a harsh lesson in "be careful of what you ask for”. Cast: Li Gong, Peiqi Liu, Liuchun Yang, and Quesheng Lei. In Cantonese with English subtitles. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Asia: China ; Language: Chinese A Streetcar Named Desire [DVD 779] & [DVD 28] 1951 Warner Bros. 4 3/4" DVD b&w 1 videodisc, 125 min. Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her. Cast: Vivian Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden. Based on the play by Tennessee Williams. Directed by Elia Kazan. Subjects – Movies and Plays Sudden Fear [DVD 2] 1952 Kino on Video 4 3/4" DVD b&w 1 videodisc, 110 min. A wealthy lady playwright marries a worthless actor who plans to kill her. Cast: Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame, Bruce Bennett, Virginia Huston, Touch Conners. Subjects -- Movies and Plays The Sunshine Boys [DVD 181] 1975 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 111 min. Two feuding vaudeville comedians who toured the country for 43 years as The Sunshine Boys are reunited after years apart to make a television commercial. Based on the play by Neil Simon. Cast: Walter Matthau, George Burns. Subjects – Movies and Plays Superman Returns [DVD 904] 2006 Warner Bros. 4 3/4" DVD Color 2 videodisc, 154 min. After a long visit to the lost remains of the planet Krypton, the Man of Steel returns to earth to become the peoples savior once again and reclaim the love of Lois Lane. Cast: Brandon Routh, Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth. Subjects – Movies and Plays The Swampdwellers [DVD 739] 1973 Phoenix Learning Group 4 3/4" DVD b&w 1 videodisc, 40 mins. Wole Soyinka, Nigerian playwright and novelist, won international acclaim in 1958 when his play, This adaptation of the play was directed and performed by Africans and is an authentic and personal drama about their changing continent. A young man returns to his village from the city and discovers he has grown too sophisticated to accept his parents’ beliefs blindly. He becomes aware of the corruption, ignorance and superstition in their lives. Disillusioned also by urban life, he is caught between two conflicting cultures, unable to identify with either. This is an African interpretation of African life. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Africa Swing Time [DVD 246] 1936 RKO Radio Pictures Inc. 4 3/4" DVD b&w 1 videodisc, 103 min. Lucky is tricked into missing his wedding to Margaret by the other members of Pop's magic and dance act, and has to make $25000 to be allowed to marry her. He and Pop go to New York where they run into Penny, a dancing instructor. She and Lucky form a successful dance partnership, but romance is blighted (till the end of the film at least!) by his old attachment to Margaret and hers for Ricardo, the band leader who won't play for them to dance together. Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street [DVD 732] 2007 DreamWorks 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 116 mins. After hard years in exile for a crime he didn't commit, Benjamin Barker, now Sweeney Todd, returns to London to find his wife dead and his daughter in the hands of the evil Judge Turpin, the man who sent him away. He opens a barber shop above Mrs. Lovett's Meat Pie Shop, where she sells the city's worst pie. With her help, Todd means to rid London of the corrupt aristocracy and in his anger, goes on a murderous rampage on all London. He lures his victims with a charming smile before casually ending their lives with a flick of his razor across their necks, but not one man nor ten thousand men killed can satisfy Sweeney's lust for vengeance on those who've caused his years of pain. Cast: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter. Directed by Tim Burton. Subjects - Movies and Plays Swordfish [DVD 842] 2001 Warner 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 99 mins When the DEA shut down its dummy corporation operation codenamed SWORDFISH in 1986, they had generated $400 million. They let sit around until fifteen years of compound interest has swelled it to $9.5 billion. A covert counter-terrorist unit called Black Cell wants the money to help finance their raise-the-stakes vengeance war against international terrorism, but it's all locked away behind super-encryption. A convicted computer hacker, who only wants to see his daughter again but can't afford the legal fees, is recruited to slice into the government mainframes and get the money. Cast: John Travolta, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Don Cheadle, Sam Shepard. Subjects – Movies and Plays Sylvia [DVD 662] 2004 Universal 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 110 min. Born in Boston, MA, in 1932, Plath developed a talent as a writer and published her first poem when she was eight years old. That same year, Plath was forced to confront the unexpected death of her father. In 1950, she began studying at Smith College on a literary scholarship. In 1955, she was granted a Fulbright Scholarship to study in England at Cambridge. There, Plath met Ted Hughes, a respected author. The two fell in love, and married in 1958. However, marriage, family, and a growing reputation as an important poet failed to bring Plath happiness. Cast: Gwyneth Paltrow, Daniel Craig, Lucy Davenport, David Birkin. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Poetry Taming Of The Shrew [DVD 1001] 1967 Columbia 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 122 mins. Petruchio is a poverty-stricken gentleman from Verona who journeys to Padua in search of a wealthy wife. There he meets Katharina, a self-willed shrew who leads Petruchio on a merry chase before he successfully circumvents her attempts to avoid marriage. After the honeymoon, Kate helps Petruchio win a wager that he has the most obedient wife. In reality, Kate has found a more effective way to dominate her mate. A bawdy version of a Shakespeare classic. Cast: Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor. Directed by Franco Zeffirelli. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Shakespeare, William Tartuffe, or, The Imposter [VHS 641] 1984 RKO/Home Video 1/2" video Color 1 cass., 110 min. A religious hypocrite establishes himself within a well-to-do Parisian bourgeois household. A play by Moliere as presented by The Royal Shakespeare Company on BBC-TV. Cast: Antony Sher, Nigel Hawthorne, Alison Steadman. Taxi Driver [DVD 158] 1976 Columbia Pictures 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 135 min. A New York cab driver is driven to obsession when he attempts to save a teenage prostitute and embarks on a violent rampage against a world of filth and corruption. Cast: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd. Directed by Martin Scorsese. Subjects – Movies and Plays Team America: World Police [DVD 841] 2004 Paramount 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 98 mins A group of marionette puppets form Team America, an international police force dedicated to maintaining global stability. Discovering that a power hungry dictator, Kim Jong II, plans to destroy the world and is brokering weapons of mass destruction to terrorists, the team enlists the undercover help of Broadway star Gary Johnston and embarks on a harrowing mission to save the world. Opposed to this, is the Film Actors' Guild, or F.A.G., whose members include puppets representing actors Alec Baldwin, Tim Robbins, Matt Damon, Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn. In spite of the lack of support they receive, the team sticks to their plan of saving the world and putting an end to terrorism. Cast: Trey Parker, Matt Stone. Subjects – Movies and Plays Terms of Endearment [DVD 505] 1983 Paramount 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 131 min. A combative mother and daughter see each other through various ups and downs in love and loss, and most especially through a terminal illness. Cast: Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito. Subjects – Movies and Plays That's Entertainment! [VHS 1877] 1974; Turner Entertainment 1/2" video Color 1 cass., 134 min. Musical sequences from nearly 100 MGM musicals, commemorating the 50th anniversary of MGM. Closed captioned. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Thelma & Louise [DVD 332] 1991 MGM 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 129 min. Louise is working in a fast food restaurant as a waitress and has some problems with her friend Jimmy, who, as a musician, is always on the road. Thelma is married to Darryl who likes his wife to stay quiet in the kitchen so that he can watch football on TV. One day they decide to break out of their normal life and jump in the car and hit the road. Their journey, however, turns into a flight when Louise kills a man who threatens to rape Thelma. They decide to go to Mexico, but soon they are hunted by American police. Cast: Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Harvey Keitel. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Them! [VHS 1392] 1954 Warner Bros. 1/2" video b&w 1 cass., 93 min. Man has split the atom and created the ultimate weapon. But how could he have known he would also create Them? The terror begins when a hardnosed patrolman discovers a dazed child wandering in the New Mexico desert near a car and house trailer destroyed by a mysterious force. He next discovers a ransacked general store; its cash drawers are full but the sugar supply is missing. And on the floor lies a battered corpse containing enough formic acid to kill 20 men. Cast: James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, James Arness. The Thin Man [DVD 236] 1934 MGM 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 93 min. Young Dorothy Wynant approaches amateur sleuth Nick Charles when her inventor father appears to be a major suspect in a murder case. In fact, Dorothy is so worried about her father's guilt that she tries to convince Nick that she did it. Nick's wife Nora wants him on the case so that she can experience some of the excitement herself. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O’Sullivan. Subjects -- Movies and Plays The Thin Man Goes Home [DVD 240] 1945 MGM 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 100 min. Nick and Nora Charles return home to spend time with Nick's family. But Daddy isn't proud of Nick for being a detective instead of becoming a doctor like him. Nora thinks Nick solving a case will get him respect from his Dad. She spreads the word that Nick's out there to solve a case; to stir the skeletons in the closet and create a case. Will a case appear? Will Nick solve it? As people drop dead, there's something about a painting that everyone wants! Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Lucile Watson. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Things to Come [VHS 2] 1936 London Film/Reel Images 1/2" video b&w 1 cass., 92 min. The story predicts that a World War would begin in December 1940. Civilization is destroyed and then rebuilt gradually from barbarism. Culminates in a lunar launch as man progresses into the cosmos. This Is Spinal Tap [DVD 795] 1984 Embassy Pictures 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 82 min. Marti DeBergi is a film-maker who decides to make a documentary, a rockumentary actually, about the world's loudest band, the British heavy metal group Spinal Tap. The movie is in fact a biting satire and spoof of the whole rock and roll scene that passes itself off as a real documentary of a real band. Hilarious behind-the-scenes footage is combined with faux-concert clips to breath life into the imaginary group. Cast: Rob Reiner, Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, Ed Begley Jr., Dana Carvey, Fran Drescher. . Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Music Thousand Pieces Of Gold [VHS 1416] 1999 Plaza Entertainment 1/2" Video Color 1 cass., 105 min. True story of a young Chinese woman torn from her homeland and forced to survive in the frontier land of America. An innocent woman in an Idaho mining town's thriving bordello, Lalu rebels and pays a terrible price for her fight against racism and sexism. Wagered as a piece of property, Lalu is handed over to her new owner, Charlie, who opens the door to a whole new life for Lalu--and for himself. Adapted from the novel by Ruthanne Lum McCunn. Cast: Rosalind Chao, Dennis Dun, Michael Paul Chan, Chris Cooper. The Three Faces Of Eve [DVD 220] 1957 Twentieth Century Fox 4 3/4" DVD b&w 1 videodisc, 91 min. A depressed housewife, Eve White, is brought by her husband to consult a psychiatrist because her behavior has been strange. Her surprised doctor is soon confronted with a different but equally inadequate personality, the sexy Eve Black. He recognizes the case as an example of the rare condition, multiple personality disorder, and embarks on a course of psychotherapy in search of the woman's missing memories. Cast: Joanne Woodward, David Wayne, Lee J. Cobb. Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; Psychology The Time Of Your Life By William Saroyan [VHS 1849] 1976 Broadway Theatre Archive 1/2" video Color 1 cass., 120 min. At a San Francisco bar in 1939 lonely, lovelorn, weary, and cynical characters drift in and out of the bar and each others lives. At least one of the relationships stands a chance of enduring: a brawny innocent named Tom is falling in love with a vulnerable young hooker named Kitty. Cast: Patti LuPone, Gerald Gutierrez. PBS television broadcast for Great Performances, Theater in America. Subjects -- Movies and Plays A Time to Kill [DVD 325] 1996 MGM 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 149 min. When Tonya Hailey, an innocent little African-American girl is raped and beaten by 2 beer-guzzling rednecks, the town of Clanton, Mississippi is shocked. Her father, Carl Lee, is outraged, and figuring he could not see those boys set free, decides to take justice into his own hands and kills them in the court house, in front of numerous witnesses. Now it up to Jake Brigance to get Carl Lee off the hook. Will he be able to prove that a black man can get a fair trial in Mississippi? Based on the novel by John Grisham. Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock. Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; Law and Government ; African Americans Titanic [DVD 939] 1997 Paramount 4 3/4" DVD Color 2 cass., 194 min. In his search for a blue diamond once owned by Louis XVI that was believed to have gone down with the Titanic, Brock Lovett discovers an intriguing sketch of a beautiful woman wearing the diamond on her neck. When the sketch appears on a news program, an old lady steps forward, claiming to be the woman in the drawing. She then recounts a beautiful story that took place on the ill-fated ship, a story of love that knew no boundaries. Titanic. Produced by James Cameron. Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Bill Paxton, Gloria Stuart. Subjects -- Movies and Plays To Kill a Mockingbird [DVD 901] 1962 MCA Home Video 4 3/4" DVD b&w 1 cass., 131 min. A southern small town lawyer defends a black man falsely accused of rape. His compassionate, but doomed defense costs him many friends, but earns him the admiration of his two children. Based on the novel by Harper Lee. Cast: Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Philip Afford, Robert Duvall, John Megna. Tootsie [DVD 90] 1982 Columbia Pictures 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 116 min. Michael Dorsey is an out-of-work actor who makes himself up as a woman to get a job. When his girlfriend, Sandy, fails an audition for a soap opera, Michael dresses up as "Dorothy Michaels" and lands the part. All goes well until "Dorothy" falls in love with beautiful co-star, Julie, and Julie's father, Les, falls for "Dorothy." Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange. Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; Women’s Studies Top Hat [DVD 247] 1935 RKO Radio Pictures Inc. 4 3/4" DVD b&w 1 videodisc, 101 min. Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel, much to the annoyance of sleeping Dale Tremont below. She goes upstairs to complain and the two are immediately attracted to each other. Complications arise when Dale mistakes Jerry for Horace. Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Toy Story [DVD 793] 1995 Disney Pixar 4 3/4" DVD Color 2 videodisc, 81 min. Imagination runs rampant when toys become mobile when not watched. Two toys, Woody and Buzz Lightyear despise each other like no other. But, when the toys are separated from their home, a truce is formed between them all in an effort to journey home. Bonus disc included. An animated film. Cast: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen. Subjects – Movies and Plays Toys [VHS 936] 1993 Fox 1/2" video Color 1 cass., 122 min. When his army general uncle takes over Zevo Toys, toy designer Leslie Zevo's whimsical, carefree world changes overnight, and he must find a way to save the company and grow up without losing his playful spirit. Cast: Robin Williams, Michael Gambon, Joan Cusack, Robin Wright, LL Cool J. Traffic [DVD 847] 2001 Universal Studios 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 147 mins A tapestry of three separate stories woven together by a common theme: the war on drugs. In Ohio, there's the newly appointed government drug czar who realizes after he's accepted the job that he may have gotten into a no-win situation. In San Diego, a drug kingpin is arrested on information provided by an informant who was nabbed by two undercover detectives. And south of the border, a Mexican cop finds himself caught between both his home country and the U.S., as corrupt government officials duke it out with the drug cartel for control of trafficking various drugs back and forth across the border. Cast: Michael Douglas, Benicio Del Toro, Catherine Zeta-Jones. Subjects – Movies and Plays Transamerica [DVD 367] 2005 Belladonna Productions 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 104 min. Bree, a pre-operative, male-to-female transsexual, holds down two jobs and saves every penny so that she can pay for one last operation that will make her a woman at last. One week before her sex-change operation, Bree receives a call from Toby, a 17-year-old identifying himself as her son from a college liaison. Bree's psychiatrist won't approve the surgery until Bree deals with this relationship. So Bree flies to New York City and Toby is handed over to her without a word of explanation. Toby believes the woman to be some Christian missionary determined to convert reprobates to Jesus and Bree sees no reason to clear up the misunderstanding and offers him a ride back to Los Angeles without disclosing that she is his father. Bree and her family all play their parts in this exploration of family, gender, and expectations. Cast: Felicity Huffman, Kevin Zegers. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Sex and Sex Roles Trainspotting [DVD 653] 1996 Miramax 4 3/4" DVD Color 2 videodisc, 94 min. Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends. A very honest film about the nature of addiction, specifically heroin and the alternating pleasure and pain of substance abuse. Cast: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller. Subjects – Movies and Plays True Grit [DVD 30] 1969 Paramount 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 127 min. U.S. Marshall Rooster Cogburn is hired by a 14-year-old girl to kill the man who murdered her father and stole the family nest egg. She accepts the help of a Texas Ranger, who is intent on the reward, and accompanies them on the quest. Cast: John Wayne, Glen Campbell, Kim Darby, Jeremy Slate, Robert Duvall, Strother Martin. Closed captioned. Subjects -- Movies and Plays The Truman Show [DVD 180] 1998 Paramount Pictures 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 103 min. Truman's life is a fake. He lives in a big studio with hidden cameras everywhere. His friends and co-workers are actors who play their roles in the most popular television series in the world: The Truman show. He thinks he is an ordinary man and has no idea about how he is being exploited. What will he do when he finds out? Cast: Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Ed Harris. Subjects – Movies and Plays Tuesdays With Morrie [DVD 453] 1999 Harpo Films 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 89 min. Mitch became caught up with his career as a sport commentator and journalist. He ignored his girlfriend and did not make time to do things in life that are of the most value to a human being. Morrie was one of Mitch's professors in college and a famous scholar. One day Mitch was watching television and saw Morrie giving an interview stating that he is dying of Lou Gehrig disease or ALS. Cast: Jack Lemon, Hank Azaria Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Diseases Turtles Can Fly [DVD 930] 2004 New Yorker Films 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 98 min. On the Iraqi-Turkish border, enterprising 13-year-old 'satellite (Soran Ebrahim) is the de facto leader of a Kurdish village, thanks to his ability to install satellite dishes and translate news of the pending US invasion. Organizing fellow orphans into landmine-collection teams so that they can eke out a living, he is all business until the arrival of a clairvoyant boy and his quiet, beautiful sister. Cast: Soran Ebrahim, Avaz Latif. Directed by Bahman Ghobadi. In Kurdish with English subtitles. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Middle East Two for the Money [DVD 855] 2005 Universal Studios 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 122 mins When Brandon Lang becomes the protégé of the sports gambling's power player, he swiftly becomes the golden boy of the high-rolling world for consistently picking football winners. Now, with millions on the line, he finds himself in a deadly game of con-versus-con with his new mentor. Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Al Pacino, Rene Russo, Armand Assante. Subjects – Movies and Plays Two Men and a Wardrobe [MP 303] 1957 Polish Film University 16mm film b&w 1 reel, 15 min. A fantasy-parable about 2 men who are denied the hospitality of a town because they carry a large wardrobe closet with them. Silent film by Roman Polanski. Uncle Tom's Cabin [VHS 521] 1987 Republic Pictures 1/2" video Color 1 cass., 108 min. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s timeless classic of slavery and survival in the Old South comes alive in this moving tribute to the strength of the human spirit. Eliza and George run a gauntlet of slave hunters in a deperate flight for freedom, while a noble slave named Tom falls under the whip of the vicious Simon Legree. Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Avery Brooks, Phylicia Rashad, Bruce Dern. Closed captioned. Subjects -- Literature and Writing ; African Americans ; Movies and Plays Unforgiven [VHS 1051] 1992 Warner Bros. 1/2" video Color 1 cass., 131 min. Two retired outlaws take up their guns one last time to collect a bounty offered by a group of prostitutes seeking revenge and run up against the sadistic sheriff of Big Whiskey, Montana. Cast: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris. Winner of four Academy Awards including Best Picture. Closed captioned. The Unforgiven [VHS 1428] 1960 MGM/UA Home Video 1/2" Video Color 1 cass., 123 min. A supposedly peace-loving community is shaken when the daughter of one of its white settlers is accused of being an Indian. Based on a novel by Alan LeMay. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Audrey Hepburn, Audie Murphy, John Saxon, Charles Bickford, Lillian Gish. Vacancy [DVD 526] 2007 Screen Gems 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 85 min. A young couple find themselves stranded in the middle of nowhere when their car breaks down. Without any other alternative, they decide to spend the night in a nasty low budget motel in the middle of nowhere. While watching some amateurish slash movies in the VCR, they realize that they have been shot in their room. Soon they discover that they are trapped in the place and surrounded by sadistic filmmakers of snuff movies. Cast: Luke Wilson, Kate Bechinsale. Subjects – Movies and Plays Valentine [DVD 839] 2001 Warner 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 96 mins Five comely and well-to-do female friends receive dire threats inside anonymous valentines. When two of them meet violent ends, the remaining trio suspect that the killer may be a former, nerdy classmate whom they spurned years before at a school dance. Cast: Denise Richards, David Boreanaz. Subjects – Movies and Plays Vertigo [DVD 212] 1958 Universal 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 129 min. San Francisco police detective Scottie Fergusson develops a fear of heights and is forced to retire when a colleague falls to his death during a chase. An old college friend (Gavin Elster) hires Scottie to watch his wife Madeleine who has reportedly become possessed by her ancestor's spirit named Carlotta. Scottie follows her around San Francisco and is drawn to Madeleine and her obsession with death. He unwittingly becomes a figure in a complex plot, and is determined to discover the truth behind it all. Cast. James Stewart, Grace Kelly. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. (The James Stewart Hollywood legend collection) Subjects -- Movies and Plays Victim [VHS 1437] 1997 Home Vision Cinema 1/2" Video b&w 1 cass., 100 min. Dramatization of the problems of the criminalization of homosexual acts between consenting adults. Bogarde plays a successful barrister who places his career on the line by 'coming out' in order to expose a blackmail racket. It was the first British film to concentrate on male homosexuality and was made with the specific intention of supporting the new recommendations of the 1957 Wolfenden Committee for the partial decriminalization of male homosexual acts. Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms, Dennis Price, Nigel Stock, Peter McEnery. Closed captioned. Vincent & Theo [VHS 1634] 1990 MGM Home Entertainment 1/2" video Color 1 cass., 141 min. This film paints a provocative picture of the tragic life of artist Vincent Van Gogh and his obsessively dedicated brother Theo. Cast: Tim Roth, Paul Rhys. Closed captioned. Subjects - Movies and Plays ; Artists Waltz With Bashir [DVD 998] 2008 Sony Pictures Classics 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 90 mins. After not being able to recall the time he spent on an Israeli Army mission during the 1982 Lebanon War, Ari attempts to unravel the mystery by traveling around the world to interview old friends and comrades. As the pieces of the puzzle begin to come together, his memory begins to return in illustrations that are surreal. The title refers to Lebanese leader Bashir Gemayel. At the end of the animated film is a very short part of the film that shows real people dead and alive. This film fuses animation and documentary. In Hebrew with English subtitles. Cast: Ari Folman, Ron Ben-Yishai Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Middle East The Wanderers [VHS 207] 1979 Warner 1/2" video Color 1 cass., 117 min. An Italian-American teenage gang about to graduate high school, prowl the Bronx in 1963 feeling that something is slipping away from them. This is a rich fabric of comedy and tragedy, fantasy and farce that recalls every mystery and complexity of adolescence. Wonderful '60's soundtrack. Cast: Ken Wahl, John Friedrich, Karen Allen, Toni Kalen. Based upon the novel by Richard Price. Subjects -- Movies and Plays War Games: The Dead Code [DVD 849] 2008 MGM 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 100 mins. A computer hacker engages a government super-computer named Ripley in an online terrorist-attack simulation game. Little does he know, Ripley has been designed to appeal to potential terrorists. After certain glitches Ripley becomes paranoid and is attempting to overtake control over everything and lead civilization, once again, to the brink of Armageddon. Cast: Colm Feore, Amanda Walsh, Matt Lanter. Subjects – Movies and Plays War of the Worlds [DVD 458] 2005 Dreamworks 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 117 min. Ray Ferrier is a working class man living in New Jersey. He has become estranged from his family and his life isn’t in order. His small town life is shaken violently by the arrival of destructive intruders: Aliens which have come up from the ground, en masse, to destroy Earth and all the humans living on it. As the aliens plow through the country in a wave of mass destruction and violence, Ray must put aside thoughts of himself and come to the defense of his children. As the world fends for itself, it’s inhabitants must save humanity from a far greater force that threatens to destroy it. Based on the novel by H.G. Wells. Directed by Steven Spielberg. Cast: Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning. Subjects – Movies and Plays Water [DVD 937] 2006 20th Century Fox 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 117 min. In 1938, Chuyia a child bride whose husband dies before their union is consummated is relegated to life in an ashram in Varanasi (Benares) for other "unwanted" widows. Narayan, a follower of Gandhi, falls in love with her but can she break with tradition and religious teaching to marry him? Cast: Sarala, Lisa Ray, John Abraham Director: Deepa Mehta. In Hindi with English subtitles. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Asia: India The Weather Man [DVD 854] 2005 Paramount 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 102 mins. Popular Chicago weatherman Dave Spritz has a shot at the big time when a national morning television show calls him for an audition. Professionally, Dave is on top of the world, but his personal life is in complete disarray. The harder he tries to hold on, the more he loses his grip. His painful divorce, his Pulitzer Prize-winning dad's illness, and trouble with his kids have Dave poised on the knife's edge between stability and calamity. Trying to gain control of his situation, Dave slowly comes to realize that life, much like the weather, is completely unpredictable. Cast: Nicolas Cage, Hope Davis, Nicholas Hoult, Michael Caine. Subjects – Movies and Plays The Wedding Singer [DVD 459] 1998 New Line Cinema 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 97 min. Robbie Hart is a master of ceremonies, left at the altar at his own wedding. He becomes someone who can only destroy other people’s weddings until he meets a waitress named Julia. Julia, however, is about to have a wedding of her own and may be lost forever. Cast: Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore. Subjects – Movies and Plays West Side Story [DVD 45] 1961 Touchstone 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 152 min. This musical sets the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet against a backdrop of the rivalry of two street gangs, the Sharks and the Jets, in New York of the 1950s. A young woman who is sister to the Sharks leader has her first taste of love with the former head of the Jets. Cast: Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno, George Chakaris. Closed captioned. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Whale Rider [DVD 595] 2002 Columbia TriStar 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc. 101 min. The Whangara people of New Zealand believe their ancestor Paikea was saved from drowning by riding home on the back of a whale. The tribal group has since granted leadership positions to the first-born males, believing them to be descendants of Paikea. But then a young mother dies in childbirth along with her newborn male son. His twin sister survives and the little girl, Pai, is brought up by her grandparents. Learning the skills of chiefdom from her uncle, Pai shows that she possesses a natural leadership ability. Cast: Keisha Castle-Hughes, Rawiri Paratene, Vicky Haughton. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Pacific Islands When Night Is Falling [VHS 1434] 1996 Evergreen Entertainment 1/2" Video Color 1 cass., 94 min. The story of a teacher at a conservative religious college named Camille whose life is turned upside down when, through a chance encounter, she meets a beautiful circus performer named Petra. Walking an emotional high-wire between the familiar past and the forbidden future, Camille must choose between the love she cannot forget and the desire she cannot resist. Closed captioned. Where the Spirit Lives [VHS 68] 1990 Amazing Spirit Productions 1/2" video Color 1 cass., 97 min. Set in Canada, the story involves two Indian children who are kidnapped by the government and placed in state boarding schools where they are emotionally and sexually abused. After learning that their parents are not dead, they escape. Where the Truth Lies [DVD 875] 2005 THINKFilm 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 107 min. A female journalist tries to uncover the truth behind the breakup, years earlier, of a celebrated comedy team after the duo found a girl dead in their hotel room. Though both had airtight alibis and neither was accused, the incident put an end to their act. Cast: Kevin Bacon, Colin Firth, Alison Lohman. Directed by Atom Egoyan. Subjects – Movies and Plays White Heat [DVD 235] 1931 Warner Bros. 4 3/4" DVD b&w 1 videodisc, 79 min. Cody Jarrett is the sadistic leader of a ruthless gang of thieves. Afflicted by terrible headaches and fiercely devoted to his 'Ma,' Cody is a volatile, violent, and eccentric leader. Cody's top henchman wants to lead the gang and attempts to have an 'accident' happen to Cody, while he is running the gang from in jail. But Cody is saved by an undercover cop, who thereby befriends him and infiltrates the gang. Finally, the stage is set for Cody's ultimate betrayal and downfall, during a big heist at a chemical plant. Cast: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Why Has Bodhi-Dharma left for the East? [VHS 1368] 1996 Milestone Film & Video 1/2" video Color 1 cass., 135 min. In a remote monastery high up in the mountains an old master, a young monk and an orphaned boy devote themselves to their Buddhist teachings. As the master faces death, he must lead his disciples away from their past ties to the outside world and its rapidly changing values, and point them toward their quest for enlightenment. In Korean with English subtitles. The Wild Bunch [VHS 1053] 1969 Warner Bros.-Seven Arts 1/2" video Color 1 cass., 145 min. The brutal story of violent men who lived during the Mexican revolution in the year 1913. Portrays a band of magnificent losers in a dying lawless West. Cast: William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Ben Johnson. Screenplay by Sam Peckinpah. Closed captioned. Wilde [VHS 1435] 1998 Columbia Tristar Home Video 1/2" Video Color 1 cass., 116 min. Notorious poet and playwright Oscar Wilde devours all that life has to offer, but there's only so much that late Victorian England will tolerate. As Wilde delves into a taboo world of unrealized homosexual desire, his life rapidly becomes a turbulent charade. He cannot escape the repercussions wrought by a "pure" society, nor will he hide in shame for being true to his nature. Cast: Stephen Fry, Jude Law, Vanessa Redgrave. Closed captioned. Winchester ‘73 [DVD 215] 1950 Universal 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 92 min. In a marksmanship contest, Lin McAdam (Stewart) wins a prized Winchester rifle, which is immediately stolen by the runner-up, Dutch Henry Brown (McNally.) This "story of a rifle" then follows McAdams' pursuit, and the rifle as it changes hands, until a final showdown and shoot-out on a rocky mountain precipice. Cast. James Stewart, Shelley Winters. (The James Stewart Hollywood legend collection) Subjects -- Movies and Plays Winged Migration = Peuple Migrateur [DVD 97] 2003 Columbia/Sony Pictures Classics 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 89 min. Follows bird migrations flying over the seven continents: from one pole to the other, from the seas to snowcapped mountains, from the canopy of heaven to mangroves and swamps. Closed captioned. Subjects -- Zoology ; Movies and Plays Wit [DVD 64] 2001 HBO 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 99 min. An English professor, who alienates her students, has always had control over her life. That is until she is diagnosed with a devastating illness. She agrees to undergo a series of procedures that are brutal, extensive and experimental. She finds that the fine line between life and death can only be walked with wit. Based on the 1999 Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Margaret Edson. Cast: Emma Thompson, Christopher Lloyd, Eileen Atkins, Harold Pinter. Directed by Mike Nichols. Closed captioned. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Witness [VHS 744] 1985 Paramount 1/2" video Color 1 cass., 112 min. When an Amish woman and her son get caught up in the murder of an undercover narcotics agent, John Book, a Philadelphia detective, comes to their aid. Cast: Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis. The Wizard Of Oz [DVD 31] 1939 Warner 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 101 min. Musical fantasy tale about a little Kansas girl named Dorothy who visits the magical land of Oz. Cast: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Billie Burke, Margaret Hamilton, Charley Grapewin, Toto (dog). Closed captioned. Subjects -- Movies and Plays Woodstock - 3 Days of Peace & Music (Director’s Cut) [DVD 328] 1994 Warner Bros. 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 225 min. An intimate look at the Woodstock Music & Art Festival held in Bethel, NY in 1969, from preparation through cleanup, with historic access to insiders, blistering concert footage, and portraits of the concertgoers; negative and positive aspects are shown, from drug use by performers to naked fans sliding in the mud, from the collapse of the fences by the unexpected hordes to the surreal arrival of National Guard helicopters with food and medical assistance for the impromptu city of 500,000. Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; Music Working By Studs Terkel [VHS 1850] 1982 Broadway Theatre Archive 1/2" video Color 1 cass., 90 min. Musical adaptation of Studs Terkel's book examines the average worker's viewpoint…showing that he or she is anything but average. Based on a series of interviews with real working people. Working is both an exploration of the individuals' occupations and a lament for lost hopes and dreams. Songs by James Taylor, Stephen Schwartz and others. Cast: Barry Bostwick, Rita Moreno, James Taylor. PBS television broadcast for Great Performances, Theater in America. Subjects -- Movies and Plays ; Labor and Trade Unions The World Is Not Enough [DVD 58] 1999 MGM 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 128 min. James Bond, Agent 007 is the world's only hope against Renard, a high-tech terrorist with a most unusual and deadly characteristic: a brain-lodged bullet that renders him impervious to pain. Cast : Pierce Brosnan, Sophie Marceau, Robert Carlyle, Judi Dench. Subjects -- Movies and Plays The World of Apu (Apu Trilogy, #3) [VHS 917] 1959 Sony Pictures Classics 1/2" video b&w 1 cass., 111 min. It's the early 1930s, and Apu is a grown man. A dreamer and a writer like his long-dead father, Apu is working on a novel about his life. When his best friend asks him to his sister's wedding, Apu has no idea that he'll be the one going home with the bride. Poor Aparna is betrothed to an insane man and when his illness becomes apparent, the wedding is cancelled. But Aparna will be cursed unless another bridegroom is found. Apu, in a weak moment, agrees to marry Aparna in return for a job. Then the unexpected happens. Aparna and Apu fall deeply in love. But Aparna dies in childbirth, Apu leaves Calcutta, crazy with grief, and his son Kajal is left abandoned with his wife's parents. Only after a long period of total indifference to worldly responsibilities, does Apu become capable of returning to the world. Cast: Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore. Directed by Satyajit Ray. In Bengali with English subtitles. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Asia: India World Trade Center [DVD 840] 2006 Paramount 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 129 mins A dramatization of the events of World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001. The unforgettable true story of the courageous rescue and survival of two Port Authority policemen who were trapped in the rubble after they volunteered to go in and help. An intimate look at the events of the day as seen through the eyes of the survivors, their families and their rescuers. Cast: Nicolas Cage, Michael Peña. directed by Oliver Stone. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; United States: History X-Files [VHS 126] 1998 Twentieth Century 1/2" video Color 1 cass., 122 min. When a terrorist bomb destroys a building in Dallas Texas, FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully are drawn into a dangerous conspiracy. With the dubious assistance of a paranoid doctor, Mulder and Scully risk their careers and their lives to hunt down a deadly virus which may be exterrestrial in origin -- and could destroy all life on earth. Cast: David Duchovny, Gillian, Anderson. Closed captioned. Subjects -- Movies and Plays X-Men [DVD 911] 2000 20th Century Fox 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 104 min. Two mutants come to a private academy for mutants whose resident superhero team must oppose a powerful mutant terrorist organization. Cast: Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, Subjects – Movies and Plays X-Men United [DVD 912] 2003 20th Century Fox 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 133 min. the second film of this Marvel comics franchise ups the ante on Professor Xavier and the superhero mutants from the first film, pitting them against a mutant-hating scientist who's determined to wipe out the mutant race by tricking Xavier into abusing his telepathic powers. Cast: Patrick Stewart, Brian Cox, Halle Berry. Subjects – Movies and Plays Yesterday [DVD 320] 2004 HBO Films 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 95 min. After falling ill, Yesterday learns that she is HIV positive. With her husband in denial and a young daughter to tend to, Yesterday’s one goal is to live long enough to see her child go to school. Set against the awesome, harsh landscapes of South Africa. Cast: Kenneth Khambula, Leleti Khumalo Subjects – Movies and Plays, Diseases: Aids/HIV ; Africa You, Me and Dupree [DVD 837] 2006 Universal Studios 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 110 mins Newlyweds Carl and Molly are just beginning their life together when Carl's oldest friend, the down-and-out bachelor Randy Dupree, crashes on the couch. Cast: Owen Wilson, Kate Hudson, Matt Dillon. Subjects – Movies and Plays Young And Innocent [VHS 1085] 1937 Madacy Music Group 1/2" video b&w 1 cass., 82 min. A fugitive on the run and a young girl who is convinced of his innocence form the basis of this early Hitchcock thriller. Cast: Nova Philbeam, Derrick De Marney. The Alfred Hitchcock collection. Zodiac [DVD 843] 2007 Paramount 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 videodisc, 157 mins A serial killer in the San Francisco Bay Area taunts police with his letters and cryptic messages. We follow the investigators and reporters in this lightly fictionalized account of the true 1970's case as they search for the murderer, becoming obsessed with the case. An cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac killer. Based on Robert Graysmith's book, the movie's focus is the lives and careers of the detectives and newspaper people. Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards, Robert Downey Jr. Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Law Zoot Suit [DVD 902] 1991 MCA Home Video 4 3/4" DVD Color 1 cass., 104 min. Dramatization of the events surrounding the zoot suit riots in Los Angeles in the 1940s and the Sleepy Lagoon murder trial in which the police tried to frame a group of Mexican Americans. Cast: Daniel Valdez, Tyne Daly, Charles Aldman, Edward James Olmos. Based on a play by Luis Valdez.	to Subject Listing