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Movie Title Brief description Call # 

[Foreign Films are in brackets] 

[1001 Nacht] / Ustredni pujcovna filmu 

uvadi Karel Zeman detem Kratky film 

Narration (sound track) in German; credits in Czech; no subtitles VHS 38 

[Akermania] Volume one J'ai faim, j'ai froid (I'm hungry, I'm cold): Two young Belgian girls run away from 

their home in Brussels. 

[Alsino y el condor] = Alsino and the 

condor 

Set in Nicaragua, this film depicts the clash between Central American 

governments and Sandinista rebels. 

[Amara, Akbara, Enthon' i] Lavish action-filled account of the separation, separate lives, and eventual 

reunion of three brothers: one raised by a Hindu policeman, one raised by a 

Muslim tailor, and one raised by a Catholic priest 

[Amarcord] = I remember / une coproduzione 

italo-francese 

Memories of episodes about love, sex, politics, family life and growing up in a 

small Italian town in the 1930's 

VHS 2547 

VHS 1241 

DVD 746 

[Amoresperros] Three different people are catapulted into dramatic and unforeseen 

circumstances in the wake of a terrible car crash 

DVD 821 

[Anand] In Hindi, with English subtitles VHS 3079 

[Atame!] = Tie me up, tie me down / 

Miramax Films and El Deseo S.A 

[Au revoir les enfants] = goodbye, 

children / Nouvelles Editions de Films 

Comedy in which an orphaned mental patient kidnaps a porn star in an 

irrationally inspired bid for love 

Based on the director's life, this film chronicles Malle's experiences during the 

German occupation of France in World War II 

[Baghban] In Hindi w/English subtitles. At retirement, a father and mother go to live, 

separately, with their unwilling sons and their wives 

[Ballada o soldate] = Ballad of a soldier A young man refuses a medal following an heroic action and instead takes 

leave from the front to visit his mother. Russian with English subtitles 

[Banshun] = Late spring / Shochiku Films 

directed by Yasujiro Ozu 

[Baron Prasil] = The adventures of Baron 

Munchausen 

The story of a young woman who lives with her father and finds herself growing 

past the marriageable age. Japanese with English subtitles 

The Baron and his friends enjoy wild antics and have incredible adventures. 

They fly to the moon and visit earth 

DVD 7 

VHS 25 

VHS 2244 

DVD 1073 

VHS 448 

VHS 99 

VHS 2508 

[Baza ludzi umarlych] = depot of the dead In polish w/English subtitles. Set in the mountains of southeastern Poland, 

portrays the desperate lives of a group of outcast men who drive deadly roads in 

trucks loaded with timber 

DVD 1101 

[Bicycle thief] Italian with English subtitles VHS 2795 

[Big Shar] Polish with English subtitles. An aging card shark, Shar, plays and wins against 

Jurek, who plays with marked cards. 

DVD 966 

[Blood of a poet] Videodisc release of the 1930 motion picture DVD 542 

[Bodas de sangre] = Blood wedding / by Flamenco interpretation of the classic drama by Federico Garcia Lorca. Spanish VHS 1622 

Federico Garcia Lorca 

with English subtitles. 

[Boudu sauve des eaux] = Boudu saved A scruffy tramp is not grateful for being rescued from suicide and plagues the VHS 714 

from drowning 

family that takes him in. French with English subtitles. 

[Bout de souffle] = Breathless The story of a couple of days in the lives of two erratic young lovers in Paris, 

their temporary home. Subtitles. 

VHS 2113 

[Brigitte & Brigitte] [Up & Down] In French w/English subtitles. Two films written, directed and produced by Luc 

Moullet. In Brigitte et Brigitte (1966, 72 min., b&w) two young provincial women 

move to Paris together and become cinephiles at the Sorbonne. In Parpaillon 

(1992, 84 min., col.) a group of cyclists struggles up the slopes of the Alps 

DVD 1057 

[Bronenosets Potemkin] = Battleship 

Potemkin / a film by Sergei Eisenstein 

Potemkin re-creats the 1905 mutiny on the battleship Prince Potemkin. It 

focuses a mutiny by the battleship's crew and the subsequent massacre of 

civilians. Russian film with English subtitles. 

DVD 29 

[Bye-bye] / produced by Alain Rozanes In French with English subtitles VHS 199 

[Camp de Thiaroye] = Camp Thiaroye African soldiers, returning home after fighting in World War II, are massacred in 

a dispute over pay. French with English subtitles. 

[Canoabadas a neduabicge] = chimes at 

midnight 

Orson Welles' adaptation of the Falstaff story, taken from the Shakespeare 

plays and Holinshed's chronicles. 

VHS 2638 

DVD 633


[Carbide adn Sorrel] German w/English subtitles. After the end of World War II, workers in Dresden 

decide to build a cigarette factory. They send their colleague Kalle hundreds of 

kilometers to pick up carbide for welding. 

DVD 864 

[Catsplay] Hungarian w/English subtitles. Two sisters from Hungary reflect upon their 

lives 

DVD 900 

[Cet obscur objet du desir];"That obscure 

object of desire 

Gaumont-La Gueville" VHS 2290 

[Chelovek s kino-apparatom] = The man 

with a movie camera" 

[Chelovek s kino-apparatom] = The man 

with the movie camera 

An experimental film which uses numerous cinematic techniques (split screens, 

multiple superimpositions, variable speeds, et cetera) to present a dawn to dusk 

view of Moscow. Silent film. 

An experimental film which uses numerous cinematic techniques (split screens, 

multiple superimpositions, variable speeds, et cetera) to present a dawn to dusk 

view of the Soviet Union. Silent film. English subtitles. 

[Chong] = My heart Dolby Digital soundtrack in Korean with English, Japanese and Chinese 

subtitles 

[Chueh lieh] = Breaking with old ideas Tells the story of the struggle of Chinese peasants and workers during the Great 

Leap Forward in 1958 to create a new kind of college in the countryside 

[Chuyen tu te: Tap II] = How to behave : a 

story about kindness 

Prompted by a dying friend who urges him to lead a life of kindnes. Vietnamese 

English subtitles. 

[Cinema paradiso] Italian or French w/English subtitles. A filmmaker returns to his Sicilian 

hometown for the first time in 30 years and looks back on his life 

[Citizen Vaclav Havel goes on vacation] In Czech w/English subtitles. Recreation of a 1985 trip that Vaclav Havel, then 

a prominent dissident, took around Czechoslovakia. 

[Cleo de 5 a 7] = Cleo from five to seven A girl waiting for the result of a medical examination wanders around Paris 

thinking she has cancer 

[Close encounters of no kind] In Saurashtri & Gujarati w/Englis subtitles. This film follows the Rabari, camel 

and sheep herders of Saurashtra, India. Their nomadic lifestyle requires them to 

move herds of sheep and camels across the Saurashtrian landscape to seek 

grazing and water. 

[Como era gostoso o meu frances] = How 

tasty was my little Frenchman 

[Coolie] / directed by Prayag Raj, 

Manmohan Desai 

[Coup de torchon] = Clean slate / Films de 

la Tour 

[Dans l'empire des sens] = In the realm of 

the senses / film ecrit et realise par Nagisa 

Oshima 

[Das Blaue Licht] = The blue light / von 

Leni Riefenstahl 

[Das tapfere schneiderlein] / DEFA Studio 

fur Trickfilme 

[Day of the dead El dia de los muertos] = 

Day of the dead 

In the coastal wilds of 16th-century Brazil, a French soldier is captured by a tribe 

of man-eating Indians. Portuguese, French, Tupi with English subtitles. 

VHS 62 

DVD 32 

DVD 173 

VHS 1614 

VHS 614 

DVD 883 

DVD 1100 

VHS 717 

DVD 1097 

VHS 2524 

In Hindi-Urdu with English subtitles VHS 3083 

A black comedy about the seemingly incompetent police chief of a small African 

village. French with English subtitles. 

This erotic masterpiece is the story of an ex-prostitute. Japanese with English 

subtitles. 

A legend set in the Italian alps about a painter who defies a local legend by 

climbing a mountain. German with English subtitles. 

VHS 2288 

DVD 2 

VHS 89 

Animated fairy tale VHS 39 

Spanish material - Mexico civilization. VHS 2931 

[De cierta manera] Set in a new housing project replacing a slum area just outside of Havana, three 

young people try to readjust their lives to the new social order of Fidel Castro's 

Cuba+C18 

[Delicatessen] French w/English subtitles. In a futuristic society where meat is a rare 

commodity, a delicatessen serves up its customers as a nutritious replacement 

[Demonios en el jardin] = Demons in the 

garden 

[Der Kongress tanzt] = The Congress 

dances 

[Der Rosenkavalier] / comedy for music 

by Hugo Von Hofmannsthal 

Examines the dynamics of a post-Spanish Civil War family In Spanish with 


Operetta set during the 1815 Congress of Vienna German with English 

subtitles. 

VHS 561 

DVD 906 

VHS 732 

VHS 107 

Opera in three acts. Sung in German; English subtitles VHS 1404


[Der Wolf und die sieben Geisslein] A puppet film presenting the Grimm Brothers' fairy tale. Narrated in German VHS 37 

[Desh premee] In Hindi, with English subtitles VHS 3081 

[Deus e o diabo na terra do sol] = Black 

god, white devil 

In Brazil, a peasant -- seeking escape from poverty and hopelessness -- 

changes first into a fanatical priest and then a cangaceiro, a bandit hero. 

Portuguese with English subtitles. 

[Devdas] [In Hindi w/English subtitles] The tragic story of Devdas, a wealthy young man, 

who is loved by two women--a courtesan and his childhood sweetheart whom 

his family will not accept because of differing social classes 

[Die 3 Groschen Oper] = The 3 penny 

opera 

The story of Macheath, a well-known criminal, who marries Polly, daughter of 

the King of the beggars, Peachum. German with English subtitles. 

[Die Blechtrommel] / New World Pictures Oskar Matzerath, a self-made dwarf, narrates this story of modern society-- 

Germany from the turn of the century through the Nazi era, German with English 

subtitles. 

[Die Fledermaus] / BBC Television and 

Royal Opera House 

[Die Funf neuen Bundeslander] / Rene 

Perraudin Filmproduktion 

[Die Morder sind unter uns] = Murderers 

are among us 

Baron von Eisenstein is supposed to go to jail for eight days for a minor offense, 

but decides to attend a ball first. German with English subtitles. 

The new states of the Federal Republic of Germany are presented in 15 minute 

segments -- landscape, industry, important cities and cultural history of each 

state. In German 

In the aftermath of World War II, Susanne Wallner returns from a concentration 

camp to find that her apartment is occupied by Dr. Martens, a former officer in 

the German army. German with English subtitles. 

[Die Weisse Rose] = The White Rose The story of a secret society of students and their professor who printed and 

distributed anti-Nazi leaflets to urge German citizens to sabotage the war 

efforts. German with English subtitles. 

[Dil Chahta Hai] In Hindi w/English subtitles. The story of three men, friends since childhood, 

their individual relationships and the effect that these relationships have on 

them 

[Dilwale dulhania le jayenge] Having been brought up in London, Raj and Simran are second generation 

British Asians, who still cherish their Indian roots, culture, and values. 

VHS 2510 

DVD 273 

VHS 622 

VHS 1569 

VHS 1416 

VHS 618 

VHS 193 

VHS 1540 

DVD 1025 

DVD 744 

[Do bigha zamin] In Hindi w/English subtitles. Peasant-landlord melodrama, in which small 

landowner tries to work off debt in Calcutta 

DVD 1083 

[Dona Barbara] / Clasa Films una 

produccion de Fernando de Fuentes 

Spanish with English subtitles VHS 1649 

[Egy het Pesten es Budan] = Long 

weekend in pest & buda 

Hungarian w/English subtitles. A contemporary romantic drama set in 

picturesque Budapest. 

[Ek Jind Ek Jaan] A story of relationships and responsibility, love and revenge. In Hindi w/English 

subtitles 

[El cochecito] = The little coach / 

[presented by] Jerry Winters 

Black comedy about an old man who wants a motorized wheelchair so he can 

ride through town with his disabled friends Spanish with English subtitles. 

[El hijo de la novia] = Son of the bride Rafael is a 42-year-old divorced father and restaurant owner who is 

overwhelmed with li 

[El Nido] = The Nest / Quartet/Films 

Incorporated 

[El Otro Francisco] = The other Francisco / 

Instituto Cubano 

Alejandro, an energetic, attractive but lonely 60 year-old widower, meets Goyita, 

an intelligent and determined 12 year-old girl. Spanish with English subtitles. 

Contrasts the romantic conceptions of plantation life found in Suarez Romero's 

novel with a realistic expose of the actual historical conditions of slavery 

throughout the Americas. In Spanish 

[Electra, my love ] Hungarian w/ English subtitles. A re-imagination of the classic myth, now set on 

a desolate Hungarian plain and in the future 

[Elegy of the land] In Russing w/ English subtitles. Commemorates Russian peasant Maria 

Semionovna Voinova who, when she died, took her secrets of raising and 

working flax with her 

DVD 903 

DVD 1214 

VHS 1996 

DVD 818 

VHS 1623 

VHS 657 

DVD 914 

DVD 1056


[Eliana, Eliana] When a small-town girl moves to the bustling city of Jakarta, she must cope with 

the conflict between her traditional upbringing and the modern way of life in the 

city 

[Emperor's naked army marches on] = Yuki 

yukite shingun 

Japanese w/English subtitles. In this absorbing documentary, Kenzo Okuzaki-a 

veteran of Japan's WWII New Guinea campaign--painstakingly tracks down 

the former military officers responsible for the mysterious deaths of several 

fellow soldiers. 

DVD 1058 

DVD 963 

[Entfuhrung aus dem Serail];"The 

abduction from the Seraglio 

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart produced by BBC Television producer VHS 2203 

[Entre nous] = Between us / Gaumont Set in Lyons in the 1950s, this is the story of Madeleine and Lena who are 

trapped in a rut of middle-class complacency. French with English subtitles. 

VHS 1371 

[Es war einmal…] / produced by Erni und 

Gero Priemel EGP Film 

German fairy tale VHS 966 

[Eva Peron] Spanish w/ english subtitles. Her stormy and passionate life brought so much 

hope to Argentina in an age of political power struggles, bloody coups, military 

oppression and economic depression 

DVD 732 

[Exterminating angel] / Luis Bunuel In Spanish with English subtitles VHS 3143 

[Facts on file : what it is and how it works] 

producer Linda Parise 

Instructional film VHS 1325 

[Familie Petz] / Video Land, ein produkt 

der Videorama Ges.m.b.H 

Puppet show VHS 45 

[Family nest] Hungarian w/English subtitles. The housing shortage in Communist-ruled 

Hungary forces a young couple to live with the husband's parents in a cramped, 

one-room apartment. The proximity of too many people in too small a space 

leads to tireless arguments and hopelessness 

DVD 902 

[Fanaa] = destroyed in love A blind Kashmiri girl meets a local tour guide. In Hindi w/English subtitles DVD 1216 

[Fano] / el depa[r]tamento audiovisual del 

Colegio Universitario 

A portrait of Puerto Rican painter Epifanio Irizarry ( Fano ) VHS 2851 

[Father's law]=Prawo ojca Polish with English subtitles. Michael used to be a winner, a champion 

European Ralley race driver, until an accident shook his life. 

DVD 965 

[Fawang bie ji] = Farewell my concubine. Chinese w/English subtitles. Story that spans more than 50 years in the lives of 

two men at the Peking Opera, friends since childhood, and the woman who 

comes between them. 

DVD 885 

[Femmes aux yeux ouverts] = Women with 

open eyes / produit par Amanou 

Production 

Profiles contemporary African women in four West African countries. French 


VHS 2528 

[Frauen in mannerferufen] / Zeitspiegel In German; women and employment VHS 1813 

[Ghar Grihasti] In Hindi w/English subtitles. Janki, the eldest daughter in her family, struggles to 

care for her parents and two brothers 

[Ghayal] The story of a young boxer who avenges his brother's murder by fighting a 

corrupt system 

[Gleiwitz case] German w/English subtitles. Dramatization of a successful assault by Nazis, 

posing as Poles, on a German border radio station so that Hitler could "justify" 

his invasion of Poland. 

DVD 1084 

DVD 747 

DVD 866 

[Godavari] Sreeram and Seeta realize how perfect they are to eachother. In Telugu 

w/English subtitles. 

DVD 1215 

[Great tenors] A 1983 German television special with Erika Koth and Marcel Prawy VHS 587 

[Her third] German w/English subtitles. Twice-married and romantically involved with a 

woman, an independent woman decides to seduce a male colleague in order to 

find a father for her children 

DVD 865 

[Hijacking Agatha] Polish with English subtitles. Poland's own "Fast times at Ridgemont High", a 

coming of age Cult film about young love in Poland during the early 1990's. 

DVD 964


[Hum aapke hain koun] Two families are brought together by a marriage; when the wife dies, leaving a 

child, the wife's sister is pressured to marry the widower and become the mother 

of the child. However, the husband's brother has already fallen in love with the 

sister 

[Hum dil de chuke sanam] Romantic drama about a love triangle, set in India and Hungary. Includes lavish 

sequences of dance and music 

[I see you] In Hindi w/English subtitles. Raj Jaiswal, a star on a British TV show, starts 

falling for a woman that only he can see 

[Immoral story] In Polish w/English subtitles. Once a major star of the stage, Ewa now wiles 

away her time drinking in her dreary apartment. 

[Injong sajong polgot opta] = Nowhere to 

hide 

[Inquilaab] / [presented by] N. Veeraswamy 

Srieswari Productions 

[Je vous salue Marie] = Hail Mary / JLG 

Films directed by Jean-Luc Godard 

Chase film in which cops try to catch a master of disguise Dolby Digital 

soundtrack in Korean with English, Japanese and Chinese subtitles 

DVD 755 

DVD 748 

DVD 1078 

DVD 957 

DVD 172 

In Hindi with English subtitles VHS 3077 

A teenage virgin innocent becomes pregnant. The girl, her fiance, family and 

friends struggle to cope. French with English subtitles. 

VHS 1432 

[Je, tu, il, elle;"I] French with English subtitles VHS 716 

[Jesus of Montreal] French w/English subtitles. A Montreal shrine seeks to inspire its congregants 

by modernizing its staging of the Passion play. 

DVD 888 

[Jules et Jim] = Jules and Jim / Les Films 

du carrosse et S.E.D.I.F. 

[Jules et Jim] = Jules and Jim / Les Films 

du Carrosse, S.E.D.I.F., CBS/Fox 

Company 

Before World War I in Paris, a girl alternates between a French student, Jim, 

and a German student, Jules. French with English subtitles. 

A lighthearted story about two close friends (Jules and Jim) involved with the 

same woman (Catherine). French with English subtitles. 

[K. Asif's Mughal-e-Azam] A dramatic spectacular set in the time of the Mughals at the height of their 

power and splendour 

[Kaante] In Hindi w/English subtitles. Six Indian criminals living abroad meet in a jail cell 

and plot a robbery. 

[Kal Ho Naa Ho] [In Hindi w/English subtitles] When Aman Mathur moves into the neighborhood, 

he changes the life of Naina Catherine Kapur by pushing the quiet and serious 

girl into things she would never have dreamed of doing 

[King Lear] In Russian w/ English subtitles. A dramatization of William Shakespeare's play 

in which tragedy occurs when an old king prematurely divides his kingdom 

between his daughters in the vain hope that they will care for him in his old age 

[Krrish] In Hindi w/English subtitles Krishna is a boy with magical powers. He becomes 

entranced by a pretty girl, Priya, but Priya and her friend have hatched a plot to 

use Krishna's powers for personal gain 

[Kukushka] = The cuckoo In a land torn apart by war, two men on opposite sides are about to find out they 

have one thing in common. In Russian w/English subtitles 

[La belle et la bete] = Beauty and the 

beast 

[La Bete humaine]. / Paris Film 

Production [released by] M.M. Hakim un 

film de Jean Renoir 

Dramatized adaptation of the classic fairy tale. Tells the fable of the kindly beast 

and the self-sacrificing beauty whose love releases the prince in him. French 

with English subtitles 

A psychopathic train driver falls for a married woman, plans with her to kill her 

husband, but finally strangles her instead 

DVD 63 

VHS 1216 

DVD 745 

DVD 1080 

DVD 1113 

DVD 1050 

DVD 1088 

DVD 1225 

DVD 1 

VHS 1421 

[La Boheme] = La Boheme Italian by Giacomo Puccini" VHS 1360 

[La Cenerentola] / [music by] Gioacchino 

Rossini 

In Italian with English subtitles. VHS 543 

[La Ciudad y los perros] Four angry cadets [in a Peruvian military academy] ... set off a chain of events 

that starts with a theft and leads to murder and suicide --External container 

VHS 1902 

[La conquete du Pole]. = "The conquest of 

the North Pole 

[La Fanciulla del Wes] = The girl of the 

golden West / [by Giacomo Puccini] 

a Georges Melies" Music with English titles. VHS 2404 

In Italian; recorded live at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden on Nov. 12, 

1982. Italian with English subtitles. 

VHS 1409


[La Femme d'A cote] = The Woman next 

door 

Life is going well for Bernard Coudroy. Then new neighbors move in next door 

and Mathilde re-enters Bernard's life. French with English subtitles. 

[La Grande vadrouille] French comedy based on a novel by Gerard Oury the novel was published in 

England as: Don't look now--we're being shot at. French \ English subtitles. 

[La Historia oficial] = The Official story / 

Almi Pictures, Inc 

The wife of a businessman finds herself face to face with terror. Spanish with 

English subtitles 

[La Jetee] / Argos-Films presents A science fiction love story that occurs after World War III. French with English 

subtitles. 

[La Ley del deseo] = Law of desire Explores the relationships of a gay movie director, who has a transsexual 

brother and two lovers. Spanish with English subtitles. 

[La Linea del cielo] = Skyline / Kino 

International Corp 

A Spanish speaking photographer tries to make ends meet in New York. 

Spanish with English subtitles. 

[La pianiste] = The piano teacher. French w/ English subtitles. The story of Erika, a middle-aged classical piano 

instructor who is trapped between her rigid passion for music and her 

suffocating home life. 

VHS 2291 

VHS 693 

VHS 1244 

VHS 2371 

VHS 1934 

VHS 1242 

DVD 899 

[La Pirate] / Jacques Doillon A story of four persons who contend for one woman. French language. VHS 513 

[La Selva] Focuses on the people and industry of the rainforest region in Peru. Spanish VHS 2932 

[La Soupe aux choux] / Jean Girault An extraterrestrial visitor complicates the simple lives of two ordinary peasants. 

French language. 

[La Strada] = the road / Producers, Dino 

De Laurentiis, Carlo Ponti director, 

Federico Fellini 

A traveling entertainer buys a simple-minded girl to help him with his act. 

Italian with English subtitles. 

VHS 511 

VHS 1264 

[La vie devant soi] / Lira Films In French; starring Simone Signore VHS 692 

[La vie et rien d'autre] = Life and nothing 

but 

Two women search for the men they love in the aftermath of World War I in 

France. French with English subtitles. 

[Lage raho munna bhai] In Hindi w/English subtitles. The story revolves around the character of 

Munnabhai, who learns more about the life of Mahatma Gandhi and tries to 

apply the latter's concept of Satyagraha to modern life 

VHS 3018 

DVD 1085 

[Lamhe] In Hindi w/English subtitles. A young man, during a trip to India, falls in love with 

an older woman. She however, marries another man. 

DVD 1120 

[L'animal] / comedie realisee par Claude 

Zidi 

In French. VHS 695 

[L'annee derniere a Marienbad] = Last 

year at Marienbad 

A handsome stranger tries to convince a lovely young woman that they had a 

passionate affair a year ago perhaps at Marienbad. French and Italian with 

English stubitles. 

DVD 36 

[Late spring] A widowed father feels compelled to marry off his beloved only daughter DVD 736 

[L'Avventura] A wealthy woman disappears on a yachting trip, and her lover and her best 

friend begin an affair 

[Le fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulain] = 

Amelie from Montmartre 

French w/English subtitles. Amélie is a young woman who had a decidedly 

unusual childhood; misdiagnosed with an unusual heart condition, Amélie didn't 

attend school with other children, but spent most of her time in her room, where 

she developed a keen imagination and an active fantasy life. 

[Le Grain de sable] = The Grain of sand When Seyrig loses her stable job as a cashier at a theatre, she first tries to reestablish 

herself through a new job. French with English subtitles. 

[Le Jour se leve] / Marcel Carne , 

Jacques Prevert 

A worker who has killed a man waits in his apartment recalling a meeting with a 

young girl and an affair with another woman. French with English subtitles. 

[Le Plaisir] / Max Ophuls In French, English subititles; Filmed in 1952. From three short stories by Guy de 

Maupassant; adapted by Jacques Natanson. French with English subtitles. 

[Le Salaire de la peur] / un film de Henri- 

Georges Clouzot 

A tense drama of courage, cowardice and failure set in South America. French 

and Spanish with English subtitles. 

VHS 3116 

DVD 886 

VHS 2720 

VHS 1196 

VHS 1198 

VHS 2196


[Le sang d'un poete] = Blood of a poet / 

Jean Cocteau 

A personal film in four episodes. An avant-garde film built around a character 

who lives what he creates in the words of Cocteau. French with English 

subtitles 

[L'Eclipse] = The Eclipse A detailed study of the moody surrender of a woman to a rare and illusive love. 

Italian with English subtitles. 

[L''Ecole businnonni'ere] = Passion for life Story of a school teacher who tries to bring modern methods of education into a 

small village in Provence (France) after World War I. French with English 

subtitles. 

[Le'olo] French w/English subtitles. Léolo Lozone, a twelve-year old dreamer, uses his 

imagination to escape the realities around him through writing 

[Les choristes] = Chorus In french w/English subtitles. Unemployed music teacher Clement Mathieu 

becomes the supervisor at a boarding school for the rehabilitation of minors. 

[Les Contes d'Hoffmann] = The tales of 

Hoffmann / by Jacques Offenbach 

Seeking to exorcise the failure of his current love affair, the poet Hoffmann tells 

the tales of his three past loves. Sung in French with English subtitles. 

[Les Ripoux] = My new partner Veteran policeman Noiret teaches his new by-the-book partner the finer points 

of graft and the good life. French with English subtitles. 

[Les Ripoux] = My new partner/ un film de 

Claude Zidi 

[Les Sous-doues en vacances] / [directed 

by] Claude Zidi 

A comedy about two corrupt policemen who became rich and left the police 

service. In French 

Through the workings of a love computer Bebel meets Claudine, falls madly in 

love with her, and follows her to St. Tropez. French language. 

VHS 65 

VHS 1186 

VHS 1616 

DVD 889 

DVD 562 

VHS 1362 

VHS 539 

VHS 691 

VHS 512 

[Lola Montes] : un film / de Max Ophuls In French with English subtitles VHS 1199 

[Los Olvidados] "Luis Bunuel's production 

of The young and the damned (Los 

olvidados) 

[Los Santos inocentes] = The Holy 

innocents / basada en la novela de Miguel 

Delibes 

original screenplay by Luis Bunuel and Luis Alcoriza" Spanish with English 

subtitles. 

A rural Spanish family dreams of rising out of poverty and changing their life of 

subordination. Spanish with English subtitles. 

VHS 1246 

VHS 1243 

[Love of three oranges] / by Serge 

Prokofiev 

Opera; Sung in French with English subtitles VHS 2226 

[Love] Hungarian w/English subtitles. An emotionally precise drama of a bedridden old 

woman. Her son is in jail and her daughter-in-law makes up stories about his life 

as a filmmaker in America, forging letters from him, which his mother believes 

as she awaits his return 

DVD 915 

[Lumumba: la mort du prophete] = 

Lumumba : the death of the prophet 

Reexamines the independence struggle in the Belgian Congo and its leader, 

Patrice Lumumba. French with English subtitles. 

VHS 2144 

[Madama Butterfly] Opera; Sung in Italian with English subtitles VHS 2205 

[Manon Lescaut] / by Giacomo Puccini Opea; sung in Italian with English subtitles. VHS 1361 

[Maquilapolis] = city of factories Explores the environmental devastation and urban chaos of Tijuana's assembly 

factories and the female laborers who have organized themselves for social 

action, Spanish w/English subtitles. 

DVD 919 

[Mar adentro] = The sea inside Ramón Sampedro wants to end his life because a diving accident 28 years 

before that turned him into a quadriplegic. Spanish w/ English subtitles 

[Memorias del subdesarrollo] = 

Inconsolable memories 

A study of Cuban society before and after the revolution as seen through the 

eyes of a man who is a landlord and self-styled writer. Spanish with English 

subtitles. 

[Mis] = Teddy bear In Polist w/ English subtitles. Ryszard Ochódzki, called "Teddy Bear" by his 

friends, president of a sports club, is about to go abroad with his team. 

[Mitt liv som hund] = My life as a dog / 

Svensk Filmindustri 

[Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervos] 

= "Women on the verge of a nervous 

breakdown 

Bundled off to a rural village because his mother is ill, a boy finds unexpected 

adventure with the town's warmhearted eccentrics. Dubbed in English 

DVD 578 

VHS 1334 

DVD 958 

VHS 2891 

Farce involving a woman in love with a terrorist. Spanish with English subititles. VHS 2011


[N!owa t'ama] = the melon tossing In a large repertoire of!Kung Bushman games, the melon tossing game is 

unique in the complexity and stability of its music and in the frequency with 

which it is played 

DVD 606 

[Nicolai Gedda] A 1979 documentary entitled : The World of Nicolai Gedda VHS 583 

[Night & Fog] Newsreels and stills to tell the story of not just the Holocaust, but the horror of 

man's brutal inhumanity. In French with English subtitles. 

DVD 428 

[No habra mas penas ni olvido] = Funny 

dirty little war 

Petty rivalries erupt into a local civil war in this satire of political and human 

follies. Spanish with English subtitles. 

[Noce en Galilée] = Wedding in Galilee Hebrew and Arabic dialogue, English subtitles The elder of a Palestinian village 

under Israeli military rule, wants permission to hold a traditional wedding for his 

son that will go past the imposed curfew 

[Oedipus Mayor] In Spanish w/English subtitles. Local mayor is sent to a small town in the Andes 

to negotiate peace with the guerrilla revolutionaries, while there a romance 

begins with a widow of a war lord. 

[Offret sacrificatio] = The Sacrifice / 

Svenska Filminstitutet 

A dark and complex drama about redemption and the nuclear holocaust. 

Swedish with English subtitles. 

[Omkara] In Hindi w/English subtitles. The film follows one man's descent into sexual 

jealousy because of his passionate love for his woman and the final destruction 

of that love at the altar of blind obsession 

[Orpheus] Jean Cocteau turns the Orpheus legend into a story of a poet and his encounter 

with death and the middle world 

[Ossessione] = Obsession A wanderer falls for the wife of an innkeeper and they murder him but fate takes 

a hand. Italian with English subtitles. 

[Ossessione] = Obsession The story of the ill-fated love between Gino, a virile young drifter, who arrives by 

chance at a roadside restaurant and filling station, and Giovanna, the beautiful 

young wife of the fat old man who owns the place. 

VHS 2054 

DVD 778 

DVD 969 

VHS 362 

DVD 1074 

DVD 544 

VHS 1440 

VHS 3146 

[Overcoat] / producer Alexei Batalov Russian with English subtitles. VHS 2856 

[Overseas] = Outremer / directed by 

Brigitte Rouan 

For three beautiful sisters, the lush and privileged life of French colonial Algeria 

creates an oasis in the center of a harsh desert when revolution and dramatic 

social change erupts around them 

VHS 893 

[Pakeezah] / production, direction [& story] 

by Kamal Amrohi 

In Hindi, with English subtitles VHS 3078 

[Panch`ik Wang] = The foul king In Korean with English, Chinese, and Japanese subtitles DVD 171 

[Pan's Labyrinth] In Spanish w/English subtitles. Ofelia finds the creatures of her imagination in 

which she used to escape have become a reality and she must battle them to 

save both her mother and herself. 

DVD 1179 

[Peter the First] Part I / produced by 

Lenfilm Studios 

[Potomok Chingis-Khana] = Storm over 

Asia / production, Mezhrabpomfilm 

Russian dialogue with English subtitles VHS 3024 

Revolutionary drama centered on a young Mongol thought to be descended 

from Genghis Khan whom imperialists seek to use to further their expansionist 

interests. Silent film with English subtitles. 

[Prefab people] Hungarian w/English subtitles. A relentlessly realistic portrait of a young 

working-class couple suffering the everyday stresses of marriage. 

[Pyaasa] In Hindi w/English Subtitles. Two men fight over the love of one woman. One 

truly loves her, but the other may just want to be with her because of her money 

DVD 49 

DVD 901 

DVD 1075 

[Qayamat] / Aftab Pictures In Hindi-Urdu with English subtitles VHS 3085 

[Que he hecho yo para merecer esto?] = 

What have I done to deserve this? / 

Tesauro y Kaktus 

[Que viva Mexico] / Mosfilm Studio 

Sergei Einstein's lost masterpiece, 

reconstructed by Grigory Aleksandrov and 

Nikita Orlov 

Gloria, a very resourceful working class housewife, trying to keep her 

outrageously wacky family afloat. Spanish with English sutbitles. 

A video document of the history of Mexico, presented in four novellas: Russian 


[Rakht] In Hindi w/English subtitles. A young woman uses her psychic powers to make a 

living and her clients lead her to a murder mystery that threatens her very 

existence 

VHS 2010 

VHS 3159 

DVD 1081


[Renata Tebaldi--In concert with Franco 

Corelli] 

"Based on the book 'The American president' published by Riverhead Books." VHS 581 

[Rue Cases-Negres] = Sugar Cane Alley Jose, an eleven-year old orphan, wins a partial scholarship. French with English 

subtitles. 

VHS 2511 

[Sans toit ni loi] = Vagabond / un film de 

Agnes Varda 

[Sansho the bailiff] = Sansho-dayu / 

directed by Kenji Mizoguchi 

[Sartre by himself] / Sodaperaga and 

L'Institut National De L'Audiovisuel, Paris 

[Schauplatz Deutschland.] = Germany live 

/ Deutsche Welle 

The story of Mona, an aimless drifter whose only desire in life is to be truly free. 

French with English subtitles. 

In 11th century Japan, two noble children are sold into slavery to the tyrannical 

bailiff Sansho. Japanese with English subtitles. 

VHS 2626 

VHS 3036 

French with English narrative VHS 2359 

Four programs from the travelogue series [v. 310, v. 311, v. 312, v. 313] 

German with English subtitles. 

VHS 2879 

[Shakti] Story of a spirited mother who is willing to go to any lengths to protect and save 

her child 

DVD 751 

[Shatrang ke khiladi] In Hindi, with English subtitles VHS 3080 

[Sholay] It is a the story of a village that realizes non-violence does not mean cowardice, 

but that it can stand up to terror and lawlessness 

DVD 753 

[Sholay] / a United Producers Picture 

Sippy Films 

In Hindi with English subtitles VHS 3084 

[Sliver on the river] The Coalition for the Homeless asks the GSA to follow the intent of the Stewart 

B. McKinney Housing Assistance Act 

VHS 2978 

[Stachka] = "Strike" Goskino and Proletkult Productions". Silent film with Russian and English 

subtitles. 

VHS 3154 

[Stop mom Theresa!] The misadventures of a career girl, who decides to stop doing good for others 

and focus on finding Mr. Right. 

DVD 1059 

[Swades] In Hindi w/English subtitles A bright young scientist working at NASA returns to 

rural India on a quest to find his childhood nanny. He is drawn into her village's 

life and finds himself searching for answers to questions of progress and 

development that the village faces 

DVD 1082 

[Szabadgyalog] = Outsider Hungarian w/English subtitles. Nicknamed "Beethoven," András is a violinist 

who has been kicked out of music school in Debrecen and now makes his living 

as a disc jockey. 

[Szerencses Daniel] = Daniel takes a train [Hungarian] In December of 1956, as the Soviet Union crushes revolution in 

Hungary, large numbers of people flee the country 

[Teresa Berganza] A recital by Teresa Berganza at the Osaka International Festival on 25 April 

1975 

[Testament of Orpheus] "Special features: Villa Santo Sospir, a color film by Cocteau featuring many of 

the locations used in Testament of Orpheus; a collection of Cocteau's writings 

on the film; a Cocteau bibliofilmography"-- 

DVD 904 

VHS 3307 

VHS 580 

DVD 543 

[Tosca] / by Giacomo Puccini libretto by 

G. Giacosa and L. Illica 

Sung in Italian, with English subtitles VHS 1414 

[Tosca] / by Puccini. Unitel, Munchen Sung in Italian with English subtitles VHS 542 

[Transsexuality] Three transsexuals appear on the Phil Donahue program VHS 302 

[Tristan und Isolde: open in drei aufzugen] Conducted by Daniel Barenboim; Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele VHS 911 

[Trittico;"Il trittico] : three one-act operas by Giacomo Puccini". Sung in Italian with English subtitles. VHS 1405 

[Triumph des Willens] : das Dokument vom 

Reichsparteitag 1934 

A documentary commissioned by Adolph Hitler as the official record of the 

Nuremberg Party Rally of 1934. German with English subtitles. 

[Triumph des Willens] = Triumph of the will This film, commissioned by Adolf Hitler to record the 1934 Nazi party rally in 

Nuremberg 

[Trollflojten] = Ingmar Bergman's The 

magic flute 

A handsome young man is enlisted to rescue the Queen of the Night's daughter 

from an evil sorcerer. Swedish with English subtitles. 

VHS 1529 

DVD 447 

VHS 2227 

[Turandot] / directed by Franco Zeffirelli Sung in Italian, with English subtitles VHS 536 

[Udju azul di Yonta] = The blue eyes of 

Yonta 

Uses the device of a young woman's search for the author of a love letter to 

explore the political and social environment Portuguese province of Portuguese 

Guinea. Crioulo with English subtitles. 

VHS 2530


[Ugetsu] / Daiei Film Production Two peasants in war-torn 16th-century Japan abandon their families to seek 

their fortunes. In attaining his goal, each man destroys his own life. Japanese 


VHS 1183 

[Umberto D.] / directed by Vittorio De Sica The story of a government pensioner living alone who strives to retain a sense 

of dignity in his elder years. Italian with English subtitles. 

VHS 2806 

[Un chien Andalou] Land without bread Un chien Andalou is a silent film with musical accompaniment; French intertitles 

and English subtitles. Land without bread is in English 

VHS 3144 

[Un chien Andalou]: land without bread A surrealistic movie written over the course of a three day exchange of fantasies 

and dreams between Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali. 

VHS 3144 

[Un puente al futuro] = a bridge to the 

future 

Ecuador; description and travel VHS 2118 

[Underground] A tragicomedy about love, friendship, betrayal, manipulation and lies. Deals with 

the conflicts of Yugoslav history of the past fifty years. Serbo-Croatian and 

some German & French with English subtitles. 

DVD 587 

[Upal] = Heat In polish w/English subtitles. Two Polish cabaret performers wreak havoc in 

town as they look for a place to perform their variety act 

[Valahol Europaban] = Somewhere in 

Europe 

Hungarian w/English subtitles. "A tale of homeless war orphans in devastated 

postwar Hungary. 

[Veer-Zaara] In Hindi w/English subtitles. Saamiya Siddiqui, a Pakistani lawyer, struggles to 

unravel the truth about Veer Pratap Singh and win him justice 

[Visages de femmes] = faces of women / 

Desire Ecare - Films de la Lagune : Ivory 

Coast. 

[Viskningar och rop] = Cries and whispers / 

an film av Ingmar Bergman a Janus Films 

presentation 

Politically and stylistically adventurous film exploring the links between 

feminism, economics and tradition in modern-day Africa. French with English 

subtitles. 

Exploration of the relationships among four women--three sisters and their 

housekeeper. Swedish with english subtitles. 

[Volpone] = "Volpone " Moral comedy about a rich 16th-century Venetian ship owner who pretends to 

be dying in order to swindle money. French with English subtitles 

[Voulez-vous danser avec moi?] = Do you 

want to dance with me? 

A marital spat lands Brigitte Bardot, as Virginia, in themiddle of a murder 

investigation in this lighthearted mystery. French with English subtitles. 

[Wachsfigurenkabinett] = Waxworks A poet imagines scenarios in a wax museum fairground that involve Jack the 

Ripper, Ivan the Terrible, and Haroun al-Raschid. Silent, with English subtitles. 

DVD 1102 

DVD 905 

DVD 1077 

VHS 2515 

VHS 361 

VHS 27 

VHS 1365 

VHS 2613 

[Wend Kuuni[ = Le don de Dieu A mute foundling is raised in an African village by a weaver and his family. 

Mossi with English subtitles. 

VHS 2529 

[Werbespots] This is a collection of German commercials VHS 1103 

[Window shopping] / scenario, Chantal 

Akerman 

French dialogue, English subtitles; musical film VHS 2253 

[Witness] In Hungarian: An irreverant political satire, tracing the rise and fall of a 

hopelessly inept civil servant living during Communist rule in Hungary 

DVD 806 

[Women's empowerment project] Discusses the New Beginnings program developed by homeless women in 

Chicago. 

VHS 2979 

[Yo, la peor de todas] = I, the worst of all This historical drama tells the story of Juana Ines de la Cruz, one of the greatest 

poets of the Spanish Siglo de Oro. Spanish with English subtitles. 

VHS 90 

[Yojimbo] = the bodyguard It is a satire on greed, violence, paranoia and human weakness. Japanese with 


[Yol] / a film by Yilmaz Gurney Paints a thoughtful, compelling portrait of modern Turkey. Turkish with English 

subtitles. 

[Yuva] In Hindi w/English subtitles The paths of three young men from three stratas of 

society cross over the Hoogly Bridge on a Thursday morning, changing each of 

their lives irreversibly 

[Zakochany aniol] = Angel in love In Polish w/English subtitles. Angel Giordano, unable to return to heaven, stays 

optimistic while living with so many unhappy humans on earth. 

DVD 59 

VHS 2083 

DVD 1076 

DVD 956


[Zan Boko] / Gaston J.M. Kabore Zan boko means the place where the placenta is buried and symbolizes the 

continuity between past and present in African village societies. French with 


[Zemlya] = Earth / a Ukrainfilm-Kiev 

Production 

After the death of his grandfather, Vasil wishes the neighboring farmers to share 

the use of a tractor purchased by the village council. Ukrainian with English 

subtitles. 

[Zerbrochene Krug] = "The broken jug " The play ... pursues the court proceedings dealing with the request for 

damages by Frau Marthe Rull against Ruprecht, her daughter Eve's lover. 

German with English subtitles. 

[Zycie rodzinne] = Family life A design engineer returns to his family home after six years in Warsaw. Polish 


12 Angry men Depicts a jury of men who must decide the fate of a teenage boy who has 

murdered his abusive father 

12 angry men Classic courtroom drama about a teenage boy accused of killing his father and 

the jury that must decide his fate 

1-800-INDIA Over the past decade, India has emerged as the leader in the global market for 

white-collar "outsourcing" jobs-- a notable component of India's rapid economic 

growth. 

VHS 2527 

VHS 3160 

VHS 70 

VHS 2569 

DVD 240 

VHS 3118 

DVD 961 

1824, Gibbons vs. Ogden Presents a dramatization of the landmark Supreme Court decision in Gibbons v. 

Ogden 

VHS 549 

1968: a look for new meaning A detailed look at a pivotal year in American history DVD 369 

1985 International master series Andolfi conducts a therapy session with a blended family consisting of parents VHS 24 

20,000 leagues under the sea / Walt 

Disney 

Captain Nemo, a misguided scientist, permits three survivors of a destroyed 

frigate to accompany him on a worldwide submarine voyage in the Nautilus 

2001 : a space odyssey 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 

VHS 2281 

VHS 2296 

2001, a space odyssey ;"2001 a space odyssey DVD 28 

20th Century with Mike Wallace. Hate 

across America 

Examines the modern history of hate crimes in America VHS 995 

20th century with Mike Wallace. Sexual 

harassment and pornography 

Examines the sexual harassment of women by men in the workplace VHS 1101 

25 most influential business persons of the Who are the 25 most influential persons in business, finance and economics DVD 991 

past 25 years/Nightly business report since NBR first took to the air in 1979? NBR and the Wharton School of 

Business of the University of Pennsylvania set out to answer that question 

25 years of news Edited from miles and miles of original newsreel film, this sixty-minute program 

is a moving, living history of America, 1941-1965, from Pearl Harbor to the Gulf 

of Tonkin 

28 Women The video documentary by Muriel Magenta, artist and ASU professor of art, is a 

personal response to the struggle of single mothers who decide to enter a 

shelter to achieve self-sufficiency in a safe environment, and construct a stable 

foundation for an independent family life 

3 Godfathers After robbing a bank in Arizona, three bandits take off across the desert with 

Sheriff Buck Sweet in pursuit. The bandits discover a dying woman about to 

give birth in an abandoned wagon, and they promise to take her baby to the 

town of New Jerusalem 

VHS 1534 

DVD 615 

VHS 3328 

30-second president Moyers looks at the role of television advertising in presidential campaigns. He 

interviews Rosser Reeves and Tony Schwartz 

VHS 1639 

39 steps A man falsely accused of murder must uncover a secret organization in order to 

prove his innocence 

VHS 538 

4 Little girls A time when the civil rights movement is burning with a new flame DVD 431 

400 blows The semi-autobiographical story of fourteen-year-old Antoine Doinel, portraying 

his aloof parents, oppressive teachers, petty crime, and a friendship that would 

last a lifetime 

DVD 739 

42nd Street A Broadway musical director has troubles during rehearsal, but has a successful 

opening night 

VHS 1155


5 documentales = 5 documentaries Castro's literacy campaign. Teacher who turns troubled teenagers into 

musicians. 

VHS 563 

60 minutes : Deeadra Elizabeth Deaf woman, Deeadra Blaylock Morrison, and her training at Gallaudet College. VHS 26 

60 minutes : partial birth abortion / CBS 

Inc 

60 minutes : the high cost of dying / CBS 

Inc 

This program discusses the legal, moral, and religious aspects of late second 

trimester abortions (dilation and extraction). 

VHS 668 

This program investigates funeral home and mortuary practice in America. VHS 301 

8 1/2 / una produzione Cineriz I Semi-autobiographical film about a famous film director who loses his 

inspiration while making a movie 

VHS 1187 

89 mm od Europy = 89 mm from Europe In Europe the train tracks are 1435 mm wide. In Russia the train tracks are 

1524 mm wide. The difference is 89 mm 

VHS 2038 

9 to 5 Three female office workers combine forces to take revenge on their deceitful, 

egotistical, and thoroughly chauvinistic boss 

DVD 272 

A Bach companion : the life and work of 

Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750 

This ... documentary on Johann Sebastian Bach takes a close look at his life. VHS 686 

A marriage: diary of a lesbian Anne (quoting directly from the journal) tells the story of her protracted 

relationship with a local married woman 

A memory of two Mondays Arthur Miller's vivid comedy-drama portrays the nature of life during America's 

Great Depression 

A. Philip Randolph : for jobs & freedom Biography of the African American labor leader, journalist, and civil rights 

activist, A. Philip Randolph. 

Abandoned Young Aaron finds himself abandoned at a bleak orphanage by his recently 

divorced and despondent father. 

Abortion and the law A documentary which focuses on the legal, moral, social, and psychological 

aspects of abortion in the United States 

Abortion denied : shattering young 

women's lives / The Feminist Majority 

Foundation 

Shows the effect that parental consent and notification laws have on young 

women's rights to legal abortion 

Abortion pill After years of controversy, RU486, a pill that can end a pregnancy without 

surgery, is coming to America. 

Abortion: for survival / The Fund for the 

Feminist Majority 

Shows how the denial of abortion affects not only women's lives in the United 

States but also in the third world countries 

Abraham and his children Film investigates the similarities and differences of the content and symbol of 

the covenant Abraham made with God in relation to Judaism, Christianity, and 

Muslim faiths 

DVD 461 

DVD 317 

VHS 2538 

DVD 819 

DVD 479 

VHS 2418 

VHS 175 

VHS 1937 

VHS 2829 

Abraham and Mary Lincoln Six part program which examines the Lincolns' family life and marriage DVD 334 

Abraham; one man one God Examines evidence, including fifteen hundred cuneiform tablets discovered at 

the ancient city of Ebla 

VHS 1127 

Abraham; the secret behind "the secret"? On this inspirational DVD program, Esther and Jerry Hicks present the 

teachings of the Non-Physical entity Abraham, whom Esther calls 'infinite 

intelligence' and Jerry refers to as 'the purest form of love I've ever encountered. 

DVD 1110 

Accessing data networks Contains information on the variety of material available through online 

networks, databases, bulletin boards, and other online services 

Accessing the media Teaches groups how to focus a message, pitch a story or event, follow up on a 

press release, and deal with journalists on site to maximize coverage 

VHS 672 

VHS 2981 

Accused / Paramount Pictures 

Corporation 

A fiercely independent woman is gang raped then battles the legal system. VHS 2141 

Acid test / Key-Z Productions LSD drugs VHS 904 

ACORN abandoned buildings campaign Documents the problems caused by abandoned buildings in Chicago 

neighborhoods, including crime and fire hazards. 

VHS 2980 

Acquaintance date rape prevention Interactive satellite teleconference discussing all aspects of acquaintance rape 

on American college campuses 

VHS 1810 

Acrobatics of dance / WCBS TV A performance by the Sierra Leone National Dance Troupe of dance and 

acrobatics with the accompaniment of drums 

VHS 202


Acrobats of God ;"Acrobats of God 

(Choreographic work : Graham)" 

A satirical treatment of the creation of a ballet with particular emphasis on the 

creative efforts of the choreographer, featuring the Martha Graham Dance 

Company 

Across cultures A62 Thirteen 15 minute programs compare the cultures of the Baoule people of 

West Africa, the Tarahumara Indians of Mexico and the Japanese 

Act of conscience Chronicles the story of a family in western Massachusetts whose home was 

seized by federal marshals and IRS agents after they publicly refused to pay 

federal taxes as a protest against war and military spending 

VHS 593 

VHS 1107 

DVD 823 

Action Demonstrations of sports photography VHS 652 

Actors technique Singer/actors, dancer/singers, and actor/dancers talk about their breathing, 

voice and movement techniques. 

DVD 999 

Adam's Rib A husband and wife lawyer team clash when the wife defends a woman on trial 

for shooting her spouse. 

DVD 241 

Adam's rib A husband and wife lawyer team clash when the wife defends a woman on trial 

for shooting her spouse. 

VHS 2104 

Adapted sports and recreation riding for 

the disabled A67 

Concept, script and narration by Jan Spink VHS 1464 

Adaptive control / SME Defines adaptive control as a computer-based system which constantly 

monitors processing parameters to optimize performance. C125 

VHS 20 

Adolescent boys who are suicidal In this video, Dr. David A. Jobes demonstrates his integrative problem-solving 

approach to working with male adolescents who have contemplated or 

attempted suicide 

Adolf Hitler, 1889-1945 Portrays the life of Hitler, from his early days as an artist to his rise to power in 

the Third Reich. 

Adult-child interactions : forming 

partnerships with children / High/Scope 

Educational Research Foundation 

Part I Introduces adult-child interaction strategies, demonstrates their use in two 

work time scenes. Part II shows additional classroom scenes from each part of 

the daily routine 

DVD 1237 

VHS 388 

VHS 1153 

Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet . Volume 4 Ozzie doesn't take kindly to the new Hairstyle for Harriet , and later breaks the 

sound barrier as a Jet pilot 

VHS 849 

Advertising missionaries Three missionaries capitalizing on a growing cash economy in New Guinea VHS 951 

Aerobic exercise program designed for 

individuals with paraplegia, quadriplegia, 

cerebral palsy, leg amputations 

Four aerobic workout programs, each designed for a specific handicapping 

condition, but suitable for non-handicapped people also. 

VHS 1485 

Aerodynamic generation of sound Describes the mechanism of sound generation by turbulence resulting from an 

instability of steady flow. 

VHS 2389 

Affair to remember Love story and rendezvous DVD 327 

Affirmative action: the history of ideas Explores the historical roots of affirmative action and the current debate over its 

usefulness 

DVD 430 

Affordable housing and jobs campaign Chicago rehab Network; public housing VHS 2977 

Afghanistan : exporting the Taliban 

Revolution / Films for the Humanities & 

Sciences 

Takes a firsthand look at the results and implications of the escalating tensions 

between Afghanistan and its neighbors 

Africa An unprecedented look at the continent of Africa, as seen through the eyes of 

the African people. 

African Queen Two diametrically opposed people find themselves thrown together in the wartorn 

African jungle 

Afrique, je te plumerai A compelling and sardonic essay on the history of colonialism in Cameroon, and 

by extension, on the African continent. 

After Twilight When a theocratic new order takes over the state of Texas, unlikely freedom 

fighter Jen Frazier finds just how dangerous it can be to fight a state with "God 

on its side." 

VHS 2234 

DVD 513 

VHS 1300 

VHS 2250 

DVD 598


Against all odds : inside statistics Presents the why as well as the how of statistics using computer animation, 

colorful on-screen computations, and documentary segments 

Against the law This program explores the insanity defense by examining the cases of two 

multiple murderers who used the defense. 

Agatha Christie's Ten little Indians / Pathe 

Communications 

An Agatha Christie mystery that brings together ten total strangers at an isolated 

desert inn 

Age of aids Originally broadcast in two parts on May 30-31, 2006 as part of the Frontline 

television series 

Age of ballyhoo : the Roaring Twenties as 

seen by the people who lived it 

Documentary about the Twenties told through the use of Hollywood movies and 

newsreels of the period 

Age of the shoguns : (1600-1868) A84 Looks at the history of Japan during the age of the Tokugawa family, the era of 

Edo 

Ages of infancy : caring for young, mobile, 

and older infants 

This video presents ideas and guidelines on how to support infants as they 

move through stages of development 

Agnes of God / Columbia Pictures When, at an isolated convent, the infant of a young nun is found strangled, a 

court-appointed psychiatrist must decide if the devout but troubled girl is fit to 

stand trial 

Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes = Aguirre, wrath 

of God 

Aida / Radiotelevisione Italiana and 

Polivideo SA music by Giuseppe Verdi 

libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni 

VHS 3033 

VHS 978 

VHS 1398 

DVD 825 

VHS 14 

VHS 1544 

VHS 3129 

VHS 2286 

Allegorical story of a mad conquistador on a search for the mythical El Dorado VHS 81 

The action takes place in ancient Egypt, and tells of the love of Radames, the 

captain of the guard, for a slave girl, Aida. 

AIDS and the American family Presents educational information on AIDS, including ways it is spread and 

estimates of how many people are likely to suffer from it in the next 20 years 

AIDS quarterly : fall 1989 / with Peter 

Jennings 

AIDS show : artists involved with death 

and survival 

Talks about AIDS and civil rights in Chicago & presents status of medical 

treatment and discrimination in treatment on racial basis 

This thoughtful and provocative documentary demonstrates the social aspects 

of AIDS. 

AIDS, can I get it? Focuses on AIDS as a venereal disease rather than a mysterious plague and 

emphasizes the benefits of early detection. 

Ailey dances A ballet performance by the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and other 

musical performances 

Aime Cesaire : a voice for history = une 

voix pour l'histoire 

This series introduces the celebrated Martinican author who coined the term 

negritude and launched the movement called the Great Black Cry. 

VHS 1408 

VHS 1356 

VHS 2683 

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VHS 1998 

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Ain't scared of your jails, 1960-1961 Originally produced for television broadcast in 1986 VHS 1135 

Air crash / CBC;"Air disaster: how 

experts investigate air crashes" 

The program shows actual footage of fiery air catastrophes, VHS 263 

Airplane The passengers and crew of an airplane suffer every catastrophe in the book in 

this spoof of disaster movies 

DVD 242 

Airplane! / Paramount Pictures 

Corporation 

The passengers and crew of an airplane suffer every catastrophe in the book in 

this spoof of disaster movies 

Al Capone An account of the life of Al Capone, tracing his rise to the top of Chicago's 

underworld 

Al Qaeda files A compilation of seven highly acclaimed Frontline programs, produced both 

before and after the years following 9/11 and focusing on the inner workings of 

Al Qaeda and their ongoing conflicts with the United States 

Alaskan earthquake, 1964. / U. S. 

Geological Survey 

Uses animated scenes, documentary footage, and models to show the causes 

of earthquakes 

Alaska's inside passage Discover Alaska's true treasures along its magnificent marine highway, the 

Inside Passage. Navigate 1,000 miles of pristine coastline, with unforgettable 

stops that capture the region's rich history, fascinating wildlife, and timeless 

traditions 

Alexander Nevsky Historical drama set in 1242, dealing with the defense of Russia by prince 

Alexander Nevsky from invasion by Teutonic crusaders 

VHS 2282 

VHS 2628 

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Alfred Hitchcock's north by northwest / 

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 

Enemy agents mistake a New York City advertising executive for an American 

spy 

Alice in the cities Phillip, a footloose 31-year old journalist on the road from the United States to 

Europe, suddenly finds himself with a new traveling companion: a 9-year old girl 

named Alice 

Alice in wonderland Alice is a bored schoolgirl who yearns for a more exciting life. Things get 

"curiouser and curiouser" after she follows the frantic White Rabbit down the 

rabbit hole and has a series of surreal misadventures in the madcap world of 

Wonderland 

Alien / 20th Century Fox Terror begins when the crew of a spaceship investigates a transmission from a 

desolate planet and discover a life form that is perfectly evolved to annihilate 

mankind. 

All about Darfur Up until now the perilous events in Darfur has been explained by outsiders... 

Sudanese filmmaker Taghreed Elsanhouri talks with ordinary Sudanese in 

outdoor tea shops, markets, refugee camps and living rooms about how deeply 

rooted prejudices could suddenly burst into a wild fire of ethnic violence 

All about Eve From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington 

moves relentlessly towards her goal: taking the reins of power from the great 

actress Margo Channing. 

All my sons / Brandman Productions, Inc Set during World War II, a troubled father and son know that a second son will 

never return from the war 

All quiet on the western front A group of young World War I German recruits pass from idealism to 

disillusionment with war / B&W 1930 

All quiet on the western front In this realistic depiction of the lives of ordinary German soldiers Paul Baumer 

and his school chums are encouraged to enlist by their bombastic, sloganchanting 

teacher, but they quickly learn that actual war is more gore than glory, 

as they crawl through mud, huddle in trenches, suffer the ordeal of frenzied 

hand-to-hand combat and dodge screaming shells during World War I / Color / 

2002 ver. 

All quiet on the western front This story of World War I follows a group of young German recruits through their 

passage from idealism to disillusionment with war / B&W 1930 

DVD 378 

VHS 799 

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All that jazz Based on the life of Bob Fosse DVD 435 

All the kings men Set in the Depression, follows the life of a young farm boy who turns from an 

honest political hopeful to a powerful but corrupt governor 

DVD 998 

All the president's men After the death of his partner, San Francisco private eye Sam Spade is dragged 

into a quest for a priceless statuette 

DVD 243 

All the special children Dr. Leo Buscaglia narrates this documentary about children with physical, 

mental or learning disabilities. 

VHS 689 

All you need "..family drama about a woman who struggles to put her life in order, even while 

her family spirals out of control" - box 

DVD 610 

Allegheny uprising In pre-Revolutionary War days, a young frontiersman smashes the liquor traffic 

with the Indians 

VHS 3327 

Alles gute! : a German course for 

television 

German language- for self study and for the classroom for beginners and as a 

refresher course 

VHS 3031 

All's well that ends well The dramatization of Shakespeare's play entitled All's well that ends well VHS 221 

Alphabet Pacific 231 Anemic cinema 

Law & disorder 

Alphaville ;"Alphaville : une etrange 

adventure de Lemmy Caution 

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater / 

Danmarks Radio/ZDF/RM Arts 

A selection of avant-garde and experimental films by various directors VHS 2171 

Chaumiane Production-Film Studio le neuvieme filme de Jean Luc Godard" DVD 6 

Four short compositions performed by the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, 

with an introduction by Alvin Ailey 

VHS 1747 

Amadeus Film presents the life of Antonio Salieri, a mediocre 18th century Viennese 

composer 

DVD 339 

America enters the war / produced by 

CBS News 

America the neutral -- Wilson and war VHS 2169


America on the road / senior executive 

producer, Mert Koplin by Diego 

Echeverria 

America remembers; the events of 

September 11 and America's response 

American apartheid? / BBC Panorama 

producer, Kevin Sutcliffe 

American Avant-Garde shorts : dream of 

a rarebit fiend Salome the fall of the 

house of Usher the bridge Lot in Sodom 

A history of the automobile and its profound effects on American society VHS 1634 

Assembled from CNN Presents' two-part series of the same name, this video 

compiles CNN's coverage of 9/11 and the months that followed. Includes 

timeline of events on September 11; eyewitness accounts; and personal 

recollections by CNN's Larry King, Paula Zahn, Aaron Brown, Wolf Blitzer, and 

Judy Woodruff. 

DVD 722 

Examines African-American equality in today's society VHS 684 

Dream of a rarebit fiend presents a man who eats rarebit and then has 

nightmares;Salome stars the famous dancer Alla Nazimova; The fall of the 

house of Usher telling of the Old Testament story in terms of homosexuality 

American beauty 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. 

American Desi Through his new experiences, a college freshman struggles to understand the 

side of himself he has always turned his back on in order to fit in 

VHS 2952 

DVD 1010 

DVD 618 

American dream In this Academy Award winner for best documentary in 1991, the true-life story 

of the 1985-1986 workers' strike against Geo. A. Hormel & Company in Austin, 

Minnesota is documented from beginning to end. 

DVD 813 

American Film Theatre. Collection 1 The Iceman cometh; Rhinoceros; Butley ; Luther; The maids DVD 403 

American graffiti Four teenagers come of age in 1962 DVD 353 

American graffiti / Universal Pictures a This film portrays one night in the life of a group of high school friends just 

VHS 1992 

Lucasfilm Ltd./Coppola Co. production before they go off to college, jobs, or the army 

American gypsy : a stranger in 

everybody's land / Little Dust Productions 

a documentary by Jasmine Dellal 

America is home to one million Gypsies, or Rom, whose rich culture has long 

been mysterious to outsiders. 

VHS 1768 

American in Paris Presents the romantic adventures of a carefree young artist in post-WWII Paris DVD 239 

American musical theater / Educational 

Audio Visual Inc 

American musical theater, the 1970's / 

Educational Audio Visual Inc 

Presents a chronicle of the American musical stage from minstrel shows of the 

early 1800s through the theater of the 1960s 

Discusses popular musicals of the 1970s, reflecting on the new focus on topical 

issues 

VHS 1808 

VHS 1811 

American president Andrew Shepherd is a consummate politician and a man of integrity, who also 

happens to be a widower, ready to start dating again. 

DVD 200 

American president "Based on the book 'The American president' published by Riverhead Books." 4 

Discs. 

DVD 370 

American red Cross standard first aid / 

American National Red Cross 

This tape teaches lifesaving skills to apply in emergency situations VHS 2090 

American roots music Features historic and documentary footage of 20th century pioneering artists. DVD 338 

American scene of violence : Frederick 

Douglas and Rodney King 

American Seminar II : literacy, your 

community and its workforce 

Speaker, Dr. Houston A. Baker VHS 2773 

A teleconference with various guests discussing the need for literacy and 

problems caused by its lack in America 

VHS 1176 

American wedding An examination of American wedding style and traditions. VHS 999 

Americana / executive producer Skip 

Sherwood 

A recent Vietnam vet tries to rebuild his life through restoring a merry-go-round 

and friendships with a disturbed young woman and a garage man 

VHS 1268 

Americana / Penguin Productions Children's questions and answers about America VHS 1757 

America's greatest roller coaster thrills in 3- 

D / a Telemedia production 

Tour fourteen of the most exciting roller coasters in the nation. VHS 3090 

Americas national parks / Encounter 

Productions 

Presents a video journey showing scenic beauty in seventeen national parks in 

the United States 

VHS 682


America's relations with Eastern Europe / 

produced by Steven Kostant 

An impressionistic overview of America's historical relationship with Eastern 

Europe: 

America's Victoria Victoria fought for women's suffrage and also promoted Anglo-American cooperation 

and friendship 

An Act of Congress A documentary about how a law is made in Congress. Shows the drama and 

dynamics involved in translating the issues and the conflicting desires of people 

into the law of the land 

An Introduction / Eastman Kodak 

Company 

Anatomy of a hostile takeover / Columbia 

University Seminars 

Includes basic photographic instruction for learning how to get the most from 

your 35 mm. camera 

Chief executives, attorneys, and journalists discuss the ethical problems of 

corporate mergers 

Anatomy of a libel case Using a hypothetical case, this seminar explores the tension which exists 

between the right of a person to his or her good name and the need of the 

people to know important facts about public officials and issues. 

Ancestors / director, Thomas J. Lefler 

editor, Dianna Vozza 

Ancient and modern, the fall and rise of the 

Middle East 

And you thought they were just playing 

transdisciplinary play based assessment 

VHS 2934 

VHS 3232 

VHS 534 

VHS 641 

VHS 1862 

VHS 703 v. 

1-2 

A step by step guide to conducting genealogical research VHS 1547 

Richard Bulliet discusses the factors that caused the decline of the Middle East 

from the Golden Age of Islam to a low point after the Middle Ages and back 

again after the discovery of oil 

Shows early intervention professionals and preschool center staff how to use 

transdisciplinary play-based assessment (TPBA) 

VHS 2489 

VHS 891 

Andrea Chenier / music by Umberto 

Giordano libretto by Luigi Illica 

Performance recorded May 1, 1985 at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden VHS 1403 

Angry monk Examines the life of Gendun Choepel, a Tibetan monk who left the monastery to 

become a fierce critic of Tibet's religious conservatism, cultural isolationism and 

reactionary government. 

DVD 949 

Animated journey Provides insight into the politics, culture and personality of the East Europeans. VHS 2945 

Animation, the beginning An anthology of animated films dating from 1906 to 1927 VHS 2509 

Ankle injuries / produced in cooperation 

with the National Basketball Association 

Features trainers from several teams who discuss ankle injuries and their 

treatment 

Annie Hall Woody Allen's semiautobiographical portrait of his amorous, but ultimately 

mismatched, relationship 

Annie Hall / United Artists directed by 

Woody Allen 

A romantic and sensitive comedy revolving about the diverse and diverting 

relationships of two nervous New Yorkers 

Annual report on the United Nations This program consists of former U.S. ambassadors to the United Nations 

discussing U.N./U.S. relations 

Another country Story recounts the events which affect Guy Bennett, a clever, hedonistic young 

man nearing the end of his final year in a prestigious boarding school. He 

becomes an outcast and turns from a prime candidate for a brilliant career in the 

diplomatic service to a revelatory spirit and ultimately, a lonely exile in the Soviet 

Union 

Another side of peace An Israeli man's efforts to reach reconciliation and to come to terms with the 

deaths of his sons. 

Another sky Rose, a demure and prim governess, arrives in Marrakesh, Morocco to begin a 

new job as a paid companion to a wealthy English expatriate. As she explores 

the exotic environs of her new home, she is seduced by the men, music, and 

mystery of Morocco 

Another woman / a Jack Rollins and 

Charles H. Joffe production 

Ansel Adams : a documentary film 

/directed by Ric Burns 

Ansel Adams, photographer / produced 

by Andrea Gray and John Huszar 

VHS 1802 

DVD 85 

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DVD 917 

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Copyright notice on video: Orion Pictures Corporation ; 1988 VHS 2656 

Portrait of a great artist and ardent environmentalist-for whom life and art, 

photography and wilderness, creativity and communication, love and 

expression, were inextricably connected 

Presents a film portrait of noted American photographer Ansel Adams, focusing 

on his role as a teacher, conservationist, and artist 

DVD 76 

VHS 2738


Anthony & Cleopatra / a BBC Television 

production 

Reissue of the version released by Time-Life Video in 1981; originally broadcast 

by British Broadcasting Corp. in 1980 

Anthropology on trial / WGBH Examines the field of anthropology from the point of view of those who have 

been studied. 

Anthropology; real paople, real careers Looks at the broad array of jobs in the field of anthropology, chiefly through 

interviews with faculty and students at the Northern Arizona University Dept. of 

Anthropology 

Antietam / director, Steve McCullough 

producer, William L. Brown, 3rd 

Anti-psychotic drugs : prescription for 

despair / CBS News 

VHS 2819 

VHS 1355 

DVD 1224 

Historian William Brown brings the massive battle of Antietam to life VHS 1960 

A three-part series from Dan Rather's CBS News, with Susan Spenser, dealing 

with disfiguring neurological disorders 

VHS 443 

Apartment ambitious office clerk plans to get ahead by lending out his apartment to his 

boss, but falls in love with the boss's girlfriend 

DVD 119 

Apocalypse now / Paramount Pictures A United States Army officer/trained assassin is sent into the depths of a 

southeast Asian jungle to seek out a renegade colonel 

DVD 385 

Apocalypse; the puzzle of Revelation The book of Revelation is perhaps the Bible's most puzzling and powerful. VHS 1129 

Apocalypto As the Mayan kingdom faces its decline, the rulers insist the key to prosperity is 

to build more temples and offer human sacrifices. 

Apollo 13 It had been less than a year since the first man walked on the Moon, but to the 

American public, Apollo 13 was just another "routine" space flight. 

DVD 1164 

DVD 950 

Appalachia: no man's land Examines the question of land ownership in southern West Virginia. VHS 1345 

Apparition Silent film with a musical soundtrack VHS 2409 

Appointment with death / a production of Focuses on medically-assisted suicide in Holland, the only nation where 

VHS 3125 

K.A. Productions 

euthanasia is openly practiced and condoned 

Approaches to onsite management Documentary introducing the concepts of community onsite/decentralized waste 

management options 

VHS 1546 

Apu trilogy / directed by Satyajit Ray presents the moving saga of Apu and his family in India VHS 75 

Archenemy; the philistines New archaeological discoveries have uncovered a wealth of astonishing 

information about the Philistines' way of life 

VHS 1131 

Are you ready? A discussion regarding a cooperative medical apprenticeship program which 

places students in the office of a practicing physician 

VHS 407 

ARF : the stories behind the winning 

Case histories of the winning campaigns of the 2003 Advertising Research 

DVD 515 

campaigns of the 2003 ARF Ogilvy 

research awards 

Foundation Ogilvy Research Awards 

Argument about a marriage Documents a conflict between two groups of Bushmen (!Kung) in the Kalahari 

Desert of southern Africa over the legitimacy of a marriage and a child born out 

of 

Aristocats / Walt Disney Productions This tale begins in Paris, where a kind millionairess wills her entire estate to her 

family of cats 

Arming of the earth / Corporation for 

Entertainment & Learning 

Journalist Bill Moyers considers how the machine gun, the submarine, and the 

airplane have revolutionized the conduct of war. 

DVD 604 

VHS 556 

VHS 1626 

Around the world in 80 days Adapted from the story by Jules Verne about a man's endeavor to 

circumnavigate the world in 80 days 

DVD 1019 

Arsenic and old lace Abby and Martha have a bizarre habit of poisoning gentlemen callers DVD 352 

Arshile Gorky / a film by Charlotte Zwerin Explores the life and work of twentieth-century Armenian-American artist Arshile 

Gorky through archival footage and photographs 

VHS 1973 

Art Blakey & the jazz messengers One of the finest lineups in the history of jazz - Bobby Timmons, Jymie Merritt, 

Benny Golson, and the legendary trumpet player, Lee Morgan. This historic 

concert, filmed in Belgium in 1958, is the only known visual of this influential 

band 

DVD 897 

Art com video 3 : Max Almy Max Almy's video investigates contemporary culture, often employing state of 

the art digital video effects and computer processing. 

VHS 3027 

Art in the cultural revolution Examines the Communist Party's rigorously enforced art policies during China's 

Cultural Revolution from 1966-1976 

VHS 3203 

Art of conducting; legendary conductors of 

a golden era 

Rehearsal and performance footage presenting the work of six conductors: DVD 953


Art of memory / by Woody Vasulka with 

Daniel Nagrin and Klein 

A surrealist, live-action and computer-generated video, with some b&w inserts. VHS 3026 

Art of the classical Pas de Deux Live taped performance of selections VHS 3221 

Art of the Netherlands / Cromwell 

Productions 

Chronicles the life, times, and work of true masters of the art world. DVD 71 

Arthur Arthur Bach is very, very rich, and he's next in line for a 750 million dollar 

inheritance. 

DVD 185 

Arthur Miller and the crucible Interweaves excerpts from the BBC production of Arthur Miller's The Crucible 

with dramatizations of the congressional hearings on "un-American" activities 

involving Arthur Miller to show the fundamental themes in common with both 

and their influence on the playwright's development 

DVD 978 

Arthur Miller's Death of a salesman / a 

Roxbury and Punch production 

A social drama about an aging traveling salesman who recognizes the 

emptiness of his life and commits suicide 

VHS 1941 

Artists in wonderland / with Jim Hartz Demonstrates computers used for graphics VHS 2748 

As I am: portraits of persons with 

developmental handicap 

Young people with developmental disabilities speak about their lives, the 

problems they face, and their hopes and expectations for the future. Offers 

basic information on developmental handicaps, presents simple guidelines for 

relating to people with such handicaps and encourages employers to offer 

appropriate jobs to people with developmental disabilities 

VHS 2625 

As it was in the beginning The development of the concept of one God is discussed VHS 2685 

As you like it Film adaptation of Shakespeare's well known comedy. A pastoral romance set 

in the Forest of Arden in medieval France 

VHS 262 

As you like it / a BBC TV production in 

association with Time-Life Television 

Dramatization of William Shakespeare's play, As you like it VHS 98 

Asante market women Examines the matrilineal and polygamous Asante society of Ghana through 

interviews with women 

Ashes and diamonds / Film Polski Portrait of a young Polish nationalist assassin who, when World War II ends, 

finds himself living uncertainly 

Ashes and embers / a film by Haile 

Gerima 

An excursion into the pained psyche of a black Vietnam veteran, brought to life 

by Ethiopian-born writer-director Haile Gerima. 

VHS 963 

VHS 1217 

VHS 2886 

Aspects of central place Cambridge (England) History VHS 2950 

Asperger's syndrome: a guide for parents 

and professionals 

Assessment : charting growth / Stark 

County Educational Service Center 

At the crossroads / produced and directed 

by Steven Kostant 

At the helm of Korean business / a 

production of NHK 

At the river I stand / a film by David 

Appleby 

Athens: the Golden Age / Encyclopedia 

Britannica Films 

Covers the theory of mind of those with this challenge, and as he does, his 

ideas broaden our perception and understanding. 

Covers strategies for assessing children: the profile of progress, the 

parent/teacher/child conference, and the early childhood assessment team 

An American filmmaker searches for his cultural legacy in Hungary, Poland, and 

Germany. 

This program explores what is behind the Republic of Korea's remarkable 

economic growth 

DVD 475 

VHS 2262 

VHS 2940 

VHS 913 

Documentary of two 1968 events in the civil rights movement VHS 2094 

Lecturer Charles Kahn describes aspects of Athenian life which made the 

achievement of the Golden Age possible 

Atomic cafe / Archives Project This collage film focuses on the 40's and 50's, showing clips of soldiers wearing 

sunglasses going into areas devastated by nuclear detonation 

Attention deficit disorder : a dubious 

diagnosis? 

This program examines the hidden factors that have created a childhood A.D.D. 

epidemic. 

Auntie Mame In 1928, a 10-year-old boy goes to live with his eccentric, sophisticated aunt--a 

lady who throws a party for any occasion 

Autism Spectrum Disorders & the SCERTS 

Model 

This video series provides an overview of the SCERTS model and 

demonstrates its application in classroom, community, and home environments 

for children in early intervention through the primary school grades 

VHS 1443 

VHS 1154 

VHS 989 

DVD 118 

DVD 617


Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman The history of blacks in the South as seen through the eyes of a 110-year-old 

former slave. Based on the novel by Ernest J. Gaines 

Avant garde. 3 In the Gance film a mad scientist discovers a sneezing powder that changes the 

shape of anything it touches. 

Aviator Follows the life of Howard Hughes as the twenty something millionaire, having 

already made a fortune improving the design of oil-drilling bits, who comes to 

Hollywood with an interest in getting into the picture business. 

Awake and sing A portrait of a Jewish family in a Bronx tenement perfectly captures the spirit of 

the Depression years 

Awakenings, 1954-1956 / a production of 

Blackside 

Covers two events that helped to focus the nation's attention on the rights of 

black Americans: 

Awful truth A separated couple sabotages each other's love affairs while waiting for their 

divorce decree to become final 

Ayatollah speaks : insights into Islam in 

Iran / ABC News Productions 

Ayatollah Mahdi Hadavi Tehrani, on pilgrimage at Mecca, seeks to dispel 

popular American misconceptions of his religion and life in his homeland, Iran -- 

Container 

B.B. King blues master A video documentation of B. B. King's style and technique. King discusses the 

elements of his style 

Babe (Motion picture : 1995);"Babe Universal Pictures presents a Kennedy Miller film screenplay by George Miller 

& Chris Noonan produced by George Miller 

Babel Tragic accident in Morocco sets off a chain of events that will link four groups of 

people, who divided by cultural differences and vast distances, will discover a 

shared destiny that ultimately connects them. 

Babette's feast / Metro Goldwyn Mayer With the mysterious arrival of Babette, a refugee from France's civil war, life for 

two pious sisters and their tiny hamlet begins to change. 

Back to back Two hilarious one-act plays (What Shall We Tell Caroline? and The Dock Brief) 

in which an inept lawyer defends a man who is guilty of murdering and a foultempered, 

but loving, husband seeks to shelter his wife and daughter from the 

realities of life 

DVD 1035 

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Bad boys An action comedy about two tough cops who heat up the streets of Miami DVD 680 

Bad boys II Narcotics cops Mike Lowrey (Smith) and Marcus Bennett (Lawrence) head up a 

task force investigating the flow of ecstasy into Miami. 

Bad company / Paramount Pictures A tale of friendship of survival set in the 1860's, when two runaways, a draftdodger 

and a saddle tramp, join forces 

Bad seed A mother makes the tortuous discovery that her cherubic eight year old 

daughter harbors an innate desire to kill 

Bad seed / Warner Bros Rhoda Penmark is an 8 year old well-mannered, sunny-faced perfect little lady. 

She is also an efficient, unfeeling killer. What Rhoda wants, she ruthlessly gets 

Balance of terror / Paramount Pictures 

Corporation 

It's a game of cat and mouse for Kirk and the Romulan commander, whose 

cloaking device renders his ship invisible 

Balanced scorecard Professor Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton argue that senior managers 

need the balanced scorecard approach 

Balanchine essays: Arabesque Demonstrates the Balanchine style of the Arabesque ballet movement as 

taught by Suki Schorer 

Balanchine essays: Passe and attitude Suki Schorer and Merrill Ashley provide a detailed analysis and demonstration 

of the ballet steps passé and attitude 

Balanchine essays: Port de bras and 

epaulement 

Ballad in blue / New Version By 

Cantharus Productions N.V 

Suki Schorer and Merrill Ashley provide a detailed analysis and demonstration 

of ballet port de bras and épaulement 

In London for a series of concerts, Ray Charles befriends David, a confused 

young child who recently lost his sight. 

DVD 681 

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VHS 988 

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VHS 3189 

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Ballroom II Teaches three traditionally standard ballroom dances: foxtrot, waltz, and cha 

cha. For intermediate students 

VHS 2919 

Ballroom, III / Alan Meyers & Associates "For intermediate students." VHS 3049 

BAM : beyond Baikal--a journey to eastern 

Siberia 

A journey to the seldom visited area of eastern Siberia. Uses official Russian 

footage 

VHS 568


Bambi Bambi is a young deer hailed as the 'Prince of the Forest' at his birth. As Bambi 

grows, he makes friends with the other animals of the forest, in particular a 

rabbit named Thumper and a skunk named Flower. 

Bananas Absurd humor borders on insanity as a tester of strange gadgets quits his 

Manhattan job 

Band of brothers Tells the story of Easy Company, 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne 

Division, U.S. Army, an elite rifle company that parachuted into France early on 

D-Day morning, fought in the Battle of the Bulge, captured Hitler's Eagle's Nest 

at Berchtesgaden, and suffered heavy casualties. Also includes a documentary 

about the soldiers in Easy Company 

Band wagon Fading movie musical star Tony Hunter, down and out in Hollywood, decides to 

try his luck on the Broadway stage 

Barbarians Explore the origins of the Huns, Goths, Vikings, and Mongols. Shot on location 

featuring interviews, reenactments and narrated by Clancy Brown, this brings to 

life the powerful leaders, and drive that kept empires in terror for centuries 

DVD 969 

DVD 117 

DVD 1127 v. 

1-6 

DVD 1098 

DVD 1070 v. 

1&2 

Barbarians at the gate A down-to-the-wire battle to see who is really king of the Wall Street jungle DVD 492 

Barbarians II The savage story of four of history's most fearsome tribes: the Saxons, The 

Franks, the Vandals, and the Lombards, who cut a swath of destruction through 

the heart of the Roman world for the better part of a millennium 

DVD 1071 v. 

1&2 

Barber of Seville / by Gioacchino Rossini Sung in Italian with English subtitles. DVD 397 

Barbie nation Journeying from Barbie conventions to anti-Barbie demonstrations VHS 981 

Barbiere di Siviglia;"The barber of Seville music by Gioacchino Rossini words by Cesare Sterbini Glyndebourne 

Festival Opera director 

VHS 1407 

Barefoot in the park A young, newly wed couple set up housekeeping in an attic apartment near 

Central Park in New York City 

DVD 315 

Barn builders : Pennsylvania settlers in 

Ohio 

The story of the Pennsylvanians who settled in Ohio in the 19th century. VHS 2088 

Barresi on adolescent voice This program describes the adolescent voice change, including physiological 

and acoustical research. 

DVD 795 

Barton Fink / Circle Films, Inc It's Hollywood in the 40's, and Barton Fink, the New York playwright, has arrived 

to work as a screenwriter. 

VHS 2901 

Baryshnikov by Tharp : with American 

Ballet Theatre 

Three ballets choreographed by Twyla Tharp that tell no story but are full of the 

vitality, daring, intelligence, and emotional depth that a great dancer possesses. 

C246 

VHS 2008 

Baseball / Baseball Film Project, Inc. Nine-part program on the history of baseball VHS 3117 

Baseball; a film by Ken Burns The definitive documentary of America's pastime, baseball. DVD 530 v. 1- 

10 

Basic attending skills / Allen E. Ivey and 

Norma B. Gluckstern 

Demonstrates skills used in counseling interviews VHS 1758 

Basic carpentry Step by step instructions with money and time saving tips VHS 1677 

Basic conducting techniques / by Joseph 

A. Labuta 

Intended to accompany 2nd ed. of author's textbook of the same title VHS 2480 

Basic home repair / Lane Publishing Co. 

Do It Yourself, Inc 

A step-by-step guide to major and minor interior and exterior home repairs VHS 1694 

Basic influencing skills A workshop series on microcounseling which introduces helping as a process of 

interpersonal influence 

VHS 1759 

Basic preservation techniques / Johns 

Hopkins University 

Library conservation and restoration VHS 1428 

Basics of Bassoon A beginner's guide to playing the bassoon. Covers everything from assembly to 

performance 

DVD 801 

Basie, Gillespie, Coltrane - Jazz casual Contains three episodes of the television program Jazz Casual featuring 

interviews with and performances 

DVD 325 

BASSically Karr Introduction to the techniques and challenges of playing the double bass, 

illustrated through conversation and performances 

DVD 794


Bassoon basics Members of the United States Army Field Band give instruction on improving 

bassoon playing and demonstrate proper technique 

Battle for El Salvador / WGBH-TV Traces the evolution of El Salvador's civil war and of U.S. policy toward this 

Central American country 

Battle for the Bulge / Peter Batty 

Productions 

After the D-Day disaster, Hitler began to prepare for his last desperate gamble: 

The Battle of the Bulge. 

Battle of Algiers Dramatizes the harrowing events of 1957, a key year in Algeria's struggle for 

independence from France. 

Battle of Algiers / [producer, Antonio 

Musu directed by Gillo Pontecorvo] 

Dramatization of the conflict between Algerian nationalists and French 

colonialists that culminated in Algeria's independence in 1962 

Battle of Britain The understaffed, technically inferior Royal Air Force holds off an invasion by 

the German Luftwaffe in 1940 

Battle of Midway "The Battle of Midway" is a brief documentary on the World War II Battle of 

Midway, including footage of naval and aerial operations. "Global war" focuses 

on the conduct of World War II in 1943 on the European and Pacific fronts 

Battle of Russia Shows the Russian defense against the Nazi invasion during World War II, 

focusing on the Battle of Stalingrad 

Battle of Russia / produced by the War 

Department, Special Service Division 

This documentary shows the Russian defense against the Nazi invasion during 

World War II, focusing on the Battle of Stalingrad 

VHS 970 

VHS 330 

VHS 1510 

DVD 770 

VHS 1190 

VHS 3323 

DVD 507 

VHS 3107 

VHS 1513 

Battle of the Ancre / Imperial War 

Museum. Dept. of Film 

Silent film with musical soundtrack and English titleboards; WW, 1914-1918 VHS 846 

Battle of the Bulge Originally presented on NBC television; Ardennes battle VHS 2641 

Battle of the Somme / Imperial War 

Museum 

Footage taken at the Battle of the Somme depicting the British Army's activities 

between June 26th and July 7th or 9th in their fight against the Germans 

Battleship Potemkin Recounts the heroic mutiny of Russian sailors in 1905. Includes the Oddessa 

Steps sequence, famous for its revolutionary film editing and cinematic montage 

Be prepared to speak : the step-by-step 

video guide to public speaking 

A guide to public speaking which illustrates speechwriting, speech presentation, 

and overcoming stage fright 

VHS 845 

VHS 470 

VHS 559 

Beach birds for camera A film adaptation of a modern dance work originally made for the stage. VHS 3194 

Beach, a river of sand / Encyclopedia 


This program investigates where the sand on a beach comes from, how it is 

transported along the coast and where it goes. 

VHS 2176 

Beaches A story of life-long friendship through good times and bad VHS 2497 

Beautiful mind / Universal Pictures, 

Dreamworks Pictures 

Dramatic biography of John Nash, a mathematical genius, who made an 

astonishing discovery early in his career and stood on the brink of international 

acclaim. 

Beauty and the beast Belle, whose father Maurice is imprisoned by the Beast (really an enchanted 

Prince), offers herself instead and finds the prince inside the Beast 

Beauty and the beast / Platypus 

Productions, Gaylord Production Company 

DVD 82 

DVD 222 

Closed captioned for the hearing impaired;"The shy VHS 4 

Because I said so Daphne Wilder is a mother whose love knows no bounds or boundaries. DVD 1111 

Becket Peter O'Toole, Richard Burton / Henry II, who surprises England by naming his 

fellow rouge and trusted confidant Thomas Becket as Chancellor. 

Beckett on film / Blue Angel Films 

Tyrone Productions 

Becky's story / produced by Richard 

Bonin 

Bed and sofa / produced by Sovkino, 

Moscow 

Beethoven's Fidelio / produced by Peter 

Hall 

DVD 1178 

The comprehensive cinematic interpretation of Beckett's plays. --Container DVD 79 

Examines the death, caused by an illegal abortion, of a 17 year old Indiana girl VHS 2479 

Satirical film which points up the social consequences of the Soviet housing 

shortage. 

A performance of Beethoven's only opera in which Leonore, the faithful wife, 

struggles to free her unjustly imprisoned husband Florestan from a Spanish 

dungeon 

VHS 2513 

VHS 2999


Beetlejuice A couple of likable ghosts contact the afterlife's bio-exorcist to rid their home of 

a trendy New York family that moves in 

Before I die Uses the experiences of three hypothetical patients to examine difficult issues 

such as physician-assisted suicide, final treatment options, palliative care, and 

advance directives. 

Before students will learn / The Master 

Teacher, Inc 

Beginning American Sign Language 

videocourse / Sign Enhancers 

Beginning with bong / University of 

Maryland Department of Physical Therapy 

Discusses traits of the underachiever, methods for motivating students and 

factors which affect classroom behavior. 

Learn sign language by watching the interactions in a deaf family. Instructor also 

demonstrates signs. Each tape includes introduction to new vocabulary, visit 

with the family, cultural and grammatical notes, and a practice session 

Six children with physical limitations share a day in their lives in order to show 

how they do things differently and to tell how they are the same as other people. 

Behavior control / KCTS Investigates techniques used to influence people's behavior, from subliminal 

messages to work with the mentally ill. 

Behavioral treatment of autistic children / 

Focus International Inc. 

Presents an explanation, demonstration, and long-term follow-up of a major 

breakthrough in the behavioral treatment of young autistic children based on a 

study of two clients over a period of twenty years 

DVD 244 

DVD 455 

VHS 1329 

VHS 2593 

VHS 1318 

VHS 269 

VHS 2426 

Behind the scenes with Joann Falletta / a 

production of Learning Designs 

Music can be heard as layers of sound - as melody and accompaniment. VHS 639 

Beijing The stops featured on the way include: The Forbidden City, Silk Street Market, 

Tiananmen Square, Chang'an Avenue, The Great Wall, Kung Fu, Chinese 

Opera, and Temple of Heaven 

DVD 1123 

Being Hmong means being free / 

NEWIST/CESA 7 

Highlights the history, culture and identity of Hmong immigrants and refugees 

from Laos who settled in the United States between 1975 and the early 1990s. 

Being Julia She finds what she is looking for in a handsome young American fan, who adds 

a few more sparks than Julia was hoping for 

Being There Circumstances propel a feeble-minded gardener, whose entire knowledge of life 

comes from watching television, into becoming adviser to the president 

VHS 816 

DVD 577 

DVD 116 

Ben Hur A prince of Judea leads his nation against the wrath of the conquering Romans. DVD 192 

Ben Vereen Vereen's unforgettable story with the help of the people who know him best. VHS 1120 

Bend it like Beckham Eighteen year-old Jesminder's parents want her to be a nice, conventional 

Indian girl. But she just wants to play soccer like her hero, David Beckham. 

Ben-Gurion--one place, one people / 

Nielsen-Ferns Int'l 

Examines the philosophy and political contributions of David Ben-Gurion, who 

was a pioneer of modern Zionism and prime minister of Israel 

DVD 752 

VHS 137 

Benjamin / BBC-TV A study of an infant's growth and development during the first 6 months of life VHS 182 

Benjamin Britten : Coal face, Night mail, 

Instruments of the orchestra, Steps of the 

ballet 

This series is a collection of twenty individual full length films representative of 

the British Documentary Film Movement. 

VHS 3040 

Benjamin Franklin Traces Franklin's life DVD 314 

Berlin 1945 / Lamancha Productions Ltd This film is about the final Russian conflict, the fight to take Berlin. From 

Russian archive material witness probably the bloodiest battle of World War II. 

VHS 1517 

Berlin Alexanderplatz / Tele-Culture 

presents, a Vandham Productions, Ltd. 

Berlin, the symphony of a great city = 

Berlin, die Symphonie der Grossstadt 

Bertolt Brecht / BBC Education & Training 

producer, Bob Portway 

Story of Franz Biberkopf, a former transportation worker. VHS 331 

A cross section of life in Berlin from dawn to midnight on a late spring day. 

Uses montage, cutting, and editing to capture the pulse and tempo of this city 

The German poet, playwright, and theatrical reformer is the subject of this 

program, in which those who knew him discuss his life and many works. 

VHS 1776 

VHS 1769


Best of both worlds, part I / Paramount 

Pictures directed by Cliff Bole 

Best of both worlds, part II / Paramount 

Pictures directed by Cliff Bole 

The Borg are suspected of wiping out whole colonies. VHS 961 

After Picard has been captured by the Borg, they can use all his knowledge of 

the Federation. 

Best of travels in Europe Receive a true understanding of treasured local customs, and above all, explore 

the unfamiliar, discover the unusual, and marvel at the fabled and wonderful 

places you will visit 

Best practices for brain-compatible 

classrooms 

Best practices for your website/staying out 

of legal trouble 

Discusses whether the latest research in brain psychology and physiology can 

be used to develop a more brain compatible classroom 

Discusses web publishing rights, what constitutes "fair use," privacy policies, 

trademark law and other legal concepts related to owning and maintaining a 

website 

Best years of our lives Recounts the problems faced by three returning veterans of WWII as they 

attempt to pick up the threads of their lives. 

Best years of our lives Recounts the problems faced by three returning veterans of WWII as they 

attempt to pick up the threads of their lives. 

Best years of our lives / Samuel Goldwyn 

Productions 

Bethlehem diary / a film by Antonia 

Caccia 

Better off dead? / produced by Andrew 

Liebman, Graham Chedd 

Betty LaDuke : an artist's journey from the 

Bronx to Timbuktu / SOSC Media Center 

Between the atom and the star / produced 

by the National Aeronautics and Space 

Administration 

Recounts the problems faced by three returning veterans after WWII as they 

attempt to pick up the threads of their lives 

Christmas in Bethlehem, 2000. The Israeli army has closed off Bethlehem 

since the 2nd Intifada began. 

The subject of Baby Doe has initiated court fights, legislation and considerable 

debate in medical and legal circles over the last few years. 

VHS 961 

DVD 549 

VHS 1931 

VHS 944 

DVD 245 

VHS 797 

VHS 797 

VHS 934 

VHS 2421 

This video documents the evolution and vibrancy of her life and work VHS 1696 

Deals with life in the space stations of the future VHS 569 

Between the lines An exploration of the lives of a group of friends working together on a small 

alternative newspaper 

VHS 60 

Beverly Hills Cop Detroit detective who follows the trail of a friend's murderer to the posh 

surroundings of Beverly Hills 

DVD 115 

Beverly Sills--in concert A 1979 performance by Beverly Sills with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra VHS 585 

Beyond F.A.T. City; a look back a look 

ahead 

Beyond the dream XI : a celebration of 

Black history and culture : rising influence 

of Black literature : a literary countdown to 

the new millennium 

Beyond words : the marriage of art & 

literature in bookmaking 

Messages for those who teach children with learning disabilities who constantly 

struggle with frustration anxiety and tesnion. 

A panel discussion looking back on literary roots to see what they will tell us 

about Afro-American literature in the new millennium. 

Through interviews with writers, artists, paper makers, printers, and curators, 

this film describes the history and production of contemporary fine art 

bookmaking, or livres d'artistes 

DVD 807 

VHS 939 

VHS 938 

Bhaji on the beach A comedy about a group of Indian women, living in England, who are brought 

together by a day at Blackpool 

DVD 619 

Bible's greatest secrets Archaeologists and their teams sift through the sands of history. They seek to 

unlock the mysteries of vanished civilizations and their people 

VHS 997 

Bible's greatest secrets In the Hold Land, dozens of specialized archeologists sift through sands of 

history. 

VHS 997 

Biblical angels This program searches for clues in the stories of the Bible's heavenly spirits VHS 1148 

Bicycle thief = Ladri di biciclette An unemployed man gets work for which his bicycle is essential. Its theft and 

the man's desperate attempt to recover it evoke a story of deep poignancy. 

Includes English dubbed version 

Big A 12-year-old boy's wish comes true when he asks a mechanical carnival genie 

to make him 'big' 

DVD 5 

DVD 260


Big / Twentieth Century-Fox Film 

Corporation 

A 12-year-old boy's wish comes true when he wishes to be big. With a little 

help from Zoltar, a mechanical carnival genie, Josh wakes up as a 35-year-old 

man. 

VHS 2827 

Big corporation / British Broadcasting 

Corp 

The corporation, as a myth and reality, is examined and dissected. VHS 428 

Big Jake Big Jake McCandles, is a husband who hasn't seen his wife in over 18 years. 

But he returns home after his grandson is kidnapped by a vicious outlaw gang. 

While the law gives chase in rickety automobiles, Jake saddles up with an 

Indian scout and a box of money-- even though paying a ransom isn't how Jake 

plans to exact good old frontier justice 

DVD 1201 

Big mama / produced and directed by 

Tracy Seretean 

Depicts Viola Dees, a devoted, elderly grandmother, in her struggle to raise her 

orphaned grandson in South Central Los Angeles. 

VHS 2102 

Big night The story of two brothers whose Italian restaurant is on the brink of bankruptcy. DVD 368 

Big sleep / Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc Philip Marlowe is hired by millionaire Gen. Sternwood to learn who is 

blackmailing his young, loose daughter, Carmen, with pornographic pictures. 

Bill Cosby on prejudice In a satiric diatribe in which a super bigot expresses a hatred against all minority 

groups, actor Bill Cosby exposes the prejudices which are experienced by all 

Billion dollar day / [a co-production of] 

WGBH Boston 

Billy Liar / Anglo-Amalgamated Film 

Distributors Ltd. 

Biodiversity / National Teleconference on 

BioDiversity 

Focuses on three currency traders in London, New York and Hong Kong in 

search of the best return -where timing can mean the gain or loss of thousands 

of dollars 

Billy dreams of escape from an unsympathetic, resolutely working-class family, 

a pair of demanding fiancees, and an insecure dead-end job at an undertakers 

Edited version of the National Teleconference on BioDiversity, held in 

conjunction with the National Forum on BioDiversity, September 21-25, 1986, in 

Washington, D.C., 

Biology for the new MCAT DVD study guide for the biology section of the Medical College Admission Test. 

Each section is cross-referenced to a specific chapter in The Gold Standard 

MCAT (2007) written by Brett L. Ferdinand 

Birdman of Alcatraz / Norma Productions The story of a convicted killer who avoids the depths of despair by becoming a 

world-renowned authority on birds during his imprisonment 

Birds Melanie Daniels rolls into Bodega Bay in pursuit of eligible bachelor Mitch 

Brenner, the small California town is inexplicably attacked by thousands of birds 

Birth control and the law Includes interviews with different religious and health officials and discusses the 

differences in moral attitudes towards birth control of Catholics and non- 

Catholics 

VHS 1953 

VHS 2225 

VHS 92 

VHS 2563 

VHS 1447 

DVD 1220 

VHS 2273 

DVD 114 

DVD 446 

Birth of a nation / [Epoch] A Civil War spectacular. VHS 531 

Birth of a nation / David W. Griffith 

Corporation 

Birthday basket for Tia / by Pat Mora 

illustrated by Cecily Lang 

This epic story of the Civil War as seen through the lives of two families is a 

controversial classic of film history 

With the help and interference of her cat Chica, Cecilia prepares a surprise gift 

for her great-aunt's ninetieth birthday 

Birthright, growing up Hispanic Examines the work of several Hispanic-American writers and how their poems, 

short stories, and novels reflect what it means to grow up Hispanic in America. 

DVD 10 

VHS 2293 

VHS 2315 

Bitter melons Portrays the difficulty of survival in the central Kalahari Desert in southern 

Africa. 

VHS 710 

Bittersweet Farms hand bell choir / Audio- 

Visual Services, University of Toledo 

Shows autistic youth practicing in a hand bell choir VHS 1499 

Black and tan / Duke Ellington. St. Louis 

blues / Bessie Smith 

Black and tan is the first film appearance of Duke Ellington's Orchestra 

featuring Cootie Williams and Johnny Hodges. St. Louis blues shows the 

magic of Bessie Smith's voice 

VHS 2052


Black Athena / Bandung Limited for 

Channel Four 

Explores the debate around Prof. Martin Bernal's book on the African origins of 

Greek culture, Black Athena. 

Black Dahlia Set in 1940s Los Angeles. Two police officers investigate the death of Elizabeth 

Short - also known as The Black Dahlia, a young woman who is found brutally 

murdered. 

VHS 899 

DVD 983 

Black fox : The True story of Adolf Hitler. Based on Goethe's Reineke Fuchs, an adaptation of Reynard the fox VHS 1537 

Black gold After oil, coffee is the most actively traded commodity in the world with $80 

billion in retail sales. But for every $3 cup of coffee, a coffee farmer receives 

only 3 cents. 

DVD 920 

Black is-- black ain't : a personal journey 

through black identity 

American culture has stereotyped black Americans for centuries. VHS 2092 

Black narcissus / J. Arthur Rank presents Majesty gives way to mystery, and marks a harrowing descent into madness, 

when a young British nun is ordered to establish a convent in the remote 

Himalayan mountains. 

DVD 376 

Black Panther : San Francisco State: on 

strike / a film from California Newsreel 

Black press : soldiers without swords / 

produced and directed by Stanley Nelson 

Black Panther: Interviews with founding members VHS 2091 

A history of African-American newspapers and journalism from the mid-19th 

century through the 20th century. 

Black Robe / Samuel Goldwyn Company In the 17th century, Father Laforgue is assigned to go up river into the Canadian 

wilderness on a perilous journey to convert the Huron Indians. 

Black rose A Saxon youth is run out of England during the Crusades, and goes with his 

loyal retainer to adventures in China where they become intrigued in the court of 

Kubla Kahn 

Black theatre : the making of a movement 

/ California Newsreel 

Recaptures the birth of a new theatre from the Civil Rights activism of the 

1950's, '60s, and '70s. 

Black Unicorn Provides a history of the Broadside Press and a biography of its founder, Dudley 

Randall. Includes interviews with Mr. Randall and other authors involved with 

the press over a twenty-five year period 

Blackboard jungle / Loew's Incorporated 

Metro Goldwyn Mayer 

Film about life in an inner city high school in the 50s that was the first to utilize a 

rock 'n' roll soundtrack. 

VHS 2082 

DVD 639 

DVD 1211 

VHS 2278 

VHS 1299 

VHS 930 

Blackmail / British International Pictures A girl stabs an artist who has tried to rape her and her police detective boyfriend 

conceals his knowledge of her guilt. 

VHS 550 

Blade runner / The Ladd Company A futuristic tale set in the Los Angeles of 2020 VHS 712 

Blade runner / Warner Bros. Pictures Los Angeles, 2019: Deckard, an expert blade runner, must identify and 

execute four replicants, (genetically engineered beings virtually identical to 

humans) 

DVD 19 

Blade runner : the director's cut / Warner 

Bros. 

Los Angeles, 2019: Deckard, an expert blade runner, must identify and 

execute four replicants, (genetically engineered beings virtually identical to 

humans) 

VHS 712 

Blanchine celebration, Pt. 2 Selections from ballets choreographed by George Balanchine VHS 3185 

Blanchine celebration. Pt. 1 Gala performance of the New York City Ballet commemorating its founder 

George Balanchine 

VHS 3218 

Blazing Saddles The new sheriff and his sidekick, retired gunfighter Waco Kid, protect the town 

of Rock Ridge 

DVD 113 

Blazing saddles / Warner Bros. 

produced by Michael Hertzberg 

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 

VHS 2280 

Blitz; London's longest night The story of the war's most concentrated aerial attack on London in 1941 and 

how the city nearly perished under the German barrage. 

DVD 826 

Blitzkrieg / Lamancha Productions Ltd Original archive material recording the German annihilation of Poland's 

defenses in 1939 to the final Russian onslaught against Berin in 1945 

VHS 1573 

Blockhouse Tells the story of four man entombed in a subterranean stronghold for six years 

after D-Day invasion of Normandy 

VHS 1740 

Blodiga tiden. English;"Mein Kampf : a 

blueprint for the age of chaos 

Minerva International Films VHS 1522


Blonde Venus / Paramount Pictures An aspiring young actress gives up the stage to marry a scientist who becomes 

afflicted with radium poisoning. 

Blood alley An American merchant marine captain ferries a group of Chinese refugees 

down the Yangtze River to escape the Communists 

Blood and sand Though he is branded fifth rate, he soon becomes Spain's greatest matador and 

returns home to marry his childhood sweetheart. But when a beautiful, 

passionate aristocrat seduces him, Juan succumbs to her temptations, only to 

see his own happiness and sucess crumble 

VHS 2520 

DVD 1152 

DVD 1207 

Blood diamond An ex-mercenary and a Mende fisherman join together to smuggle a rare pink 

diamond out of war-torn Sierra Leone 

DVD 1154 

Blood diamond An ex-mercenary and a Mende fisherman join together to smuggle a rare pink 

diamond out of war-torn Sierra Leone 

DVD 1155 

Blood of Jesus The story concerns the accidental shooting of a woman and of the faith in Jesus 

that brings her back. 

VHS 2887 

Blood Simple A jealous husband hires a detective to murder his wife and her lover DVD 151 

Bloody child The true story of a young U.S. Marine, just back from the Gulf War, who was 

arrested while digging a grave in the middle of the Mojave Desert for his 

murdered wife, whose bloodied body lay in the backseat of his car 

DVD 1068 

Blowup A drama recounting the adventures of a young fashion photographer in London, 

who finds indications of murder when he develops film which he shot of a man 

and woman in a park 

Blue / a film by Krzysztof Kieslowski A young woman is left devastated by the unexpected death of her husband and 

child. 

Blue angel A middle-aged schoolmaster is degraded and ultimately destroyed by his 

obsession with a cheap cafe entertainer 

Blue collar trap : an NBC News white 

paper 

Blue lamp / Ealing Studios screenplay 

by T.E.B. Clarke 

Interviews four factory workers, their wives, parents, and co-workers and 

observes each man at his job. 

British crime drama about the killing of a Scotland Yard policeman and the 

manhunt that follows 

VHS 711 

VHS 195 

VHS 520 

VHS 178 

VHS 2554 

Blue velvet A college student stumbles across a bizarre mystery and wants to know more. DVD 201 

Blue velvet / DeLaurentiis Entertainment 

Group 

A young man finds a severed ear whose trail leads him to a detective's daughter VHS 2757 

Blues The blues is a seven-part documentary film series exploring the evolution of the DVD 644 v. 

blues, featuring rare archival performance footage of Muddy Waters, Howlin' 

Wolf, Willie Dixon ... et al., also including over 100 newly-filmed performances 

by contemporary artists such as B.B. King, Bonnie Raitt, Beck ... et al. singing 

classic blues songs 

1-7 

Boat : [formerly Das Boot] / Columbia 

Pictures 

The tale follows one of the famed German U-boats as it challenges the British 

navy at every turn 

VHS 2730 

Bob Fosse biography of Broadway and musical film choreographer Bob Fosse. VHS 1102 

Bobby Revisits the night presidential-hopeful Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated at 

the Ambassador Hotel in 1968. 

DVD 1162 

Bobby Short at the Cafe Carlyle / Bobby 

Short a Lealou Production 

Join Bobby at the Cafe Carlyle for this thrilling 25-song set, delivered with his 

usual verve and charm. 

VHS 1724 

Body and soul An article about an escaped prisoner posing as a preacher causes a terrible 

nightmare for the readers 

VHS 2899 

Body as an instrument / Chimera 

Foundation for the Dance, Inc. 

Introduces non-dancers to modern dance. VHS 206 

Body heat / the Ladd Company 

produced by Fred T. Gallo 

A likable, unambitious lawyer and his siren-like lover plot to kill her wealthy 

husband 

Bolero Examines a performance of the symphony Bolero by Maurice Ravel. Deals with 

ways individual performers regard their work, and describes the converging 

excitement of the talented musicians who perform the score 

Bong and Donnell Bong, who is physically disabled, and his best friend, Donnell, are shown at 

from 3rd grade to H.S. 

Bonhoeffer Documentary on the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a young German theologian who 

was one of the first to openly resist Adolf Hitler. 

DVD 57 

VHS 632 

DVD 422 

DVD 947


Bonnie and Clyde Warner Bros. Pictures A mixture of comedy and brutal violence, this film is based on the exploits of the 

notorious American outlaws of the 1930's, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow 

Bop, the first revolution / produced by 

University Media Resources 

Borat; cultural learning's of America for 

make benefit glorious nation of Kazakhstan 

DVD 48 

Shows the beginning of Bop music in the 1940's VHS 319 

When Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev travels to America to make a 

documentary, he not only generates strong reactions regarding his extreme 

prejudices, he also tries to meet and marry Pamela Anderson 

DVD 989 

Border crossed us Indians of North America VHS 2397 

Boris Godunov / M. Musorskii Bolshoi 

teatr Soiuza SSR 

Full-length version of the Mussorgsky opera about the half-crazed Tsar VHS 2998 

Born in America / produced by University 

Media Resources 

Dr. Reginald Buckner attempts to define and to illustrate what jazz is and where 

it came from 

Born in flames : a film / by Lizzie Borden A futuristic fable of feminist turmoil still brewing ten years after a peaceful 

socialist revolution. 

Born yesterday A corrupt millionaire junk dealer, embarrassed by his girlfriend's lack of social 

sophistication, arranges to have her trained in a crash course in "culture." 

Both of my moms' names are Judy : 

children of lesbians and gays speak out 

Boundary layer control / David C. Hazen 

[Educational Services] 

This 10-minute video was produced as part of an in-service training for 

elementary-school educators and administrators. 

David C. Hazen describes and illustrates by experiment various methods of 

boundary layer control, with particular reference to aeronautics, and discusses 

in detail techniques for reducing drag and increasing lift 

VHS 314 

VHS 72 

DVD 230 

VHS 820 

VHS 2392 

Bowling for Columbine Activist filmmaker Michael Moore sets out to explore the roots of bloodshed 

from firearms 

DVD 496 

Boy can't help it; living with Tourette's 

syndrome 

This moving program paints a vivid picture of life with Tourette's syndrome DVD 417 

Boy inside Documents a young boy's struggle with Asperger syndrome DVD 1104 

Boy or girl--should the choice be ours? / 

KCTS 

Examines emerging technologies that will allow parents to detect the gender of 

their children. 

Boys and girls together / CBS News Examines the statistics and dangers associated with teenage pregnancy. 

Interviews with teens in Arkansas, California, Philadelphia, etc. 

Boys of Baraka Follows a group of 12-year-old boys from the most violent ghettos of Baltimore 

to the Baraka School, an experimental boarding school in rural Kenya, where 

children live by strict guidelines, yet are given the freedom to grow 

Boyz n the hood Three friends struggle to survive in South Central Los Angeles where friendship, 

pain, danger and love form a true picture of life in the 'hood in this critically 

acclaimed, action-filled story 

Boyz 'n the hood / Columbia Pictures 

Industries, Inc. 

Brain transplant / a production of WGBH 

Boston in association with BBC TV 

For three young men growing up in South Central Los Angeles, the hood is a 

place of drive-by shootings, unemployment, drugs and pain 

Two paralyzed drug addicts travel to Sweden to undergo a revolutionary brain 

disease treatment that is largely unavailable in the United States 

Brainstorm / MGM/UA Entertainment Co A machine records sights, sounds, sensations, thoughts, feelings, emotions, 

even your dreams and nightmares. 

Bram Stoker's Dracula Francis Ford Coppola returns to the original source of the Dracula myth, and 

from that gothic romance, he creates a modern masterpiece. 

Bram Stoker's Dracula / Columbia 

Pictures presents an American 

Zoetrope/Osiris Films production 

In this visually stunning version of the classic Dracula legend, a young beauty 

becomes the object of Dracula's devastating desire 

Brandon Teena story Brandon's coming of age struggle with identity and how his gender ambiguity 

induced feelings of betrayal among residents of a town in America's heartland 

Braveheart William Wallace is a bold Scotsman who used the steel of his blade and the fire 

of his intellect to rally his countrymen to liberation 

VHS 266 

VHS 1618 

DVD 809 

DVD 541 

VHS 2721 

VHS 1947 

VHS 2267 

DVD 642 

VHS 2996 

DVD 429 

DVD 203


Braveheart William Wallace is a bold Scotsman who used the steel of his blade and the fire 

of his intellect to rally his countrymen to liberation 

DVD 203 

Brazil / Embassy International Pictures A surrealistic nightmare vision of a perfect future where technology reigns 

supreme 

VHS 32 

Breakdown: the condition of Ohio's school 

buildings / The Ohio Coalition for Equity 

School buildings; education VHS 2061 

Breakfast at Tiffany's Romantic comedy about a New York City playgirl determined to marry a 

Brazilian millionaire. 

Breaking barriers : foreign companies that 

succeed in Japan 

Documents how several foreign companies have gained access to Japanese 

markets. 

Breaking silence Using interviews with adults who were child victims of incest, this film brings to 

the public the wide-spread problem of incest and its effect on the family 

Breakup and, Family matters / produced 

for NIT by KETC-TV A342 

Program 1. Designed to help elementary age children recognize some of the 

emotions involved in a separation or divorce. Program 2. shows some of the 

problems a young woman faces when her parents are divorced. 

Breast cancer update Explores the use of X-ray in breast cancer detection and examines the risk 

factors in breast cancer 

Breast cancer; lets get personal This documentary examines the risk factors of this widespread and deadly 

disease, explains breast anatomy and cancer symptoms, interviews women 

whose lives have been affected by it and doctors involved in treating it, and also 

demonstrates breast self-examination techniques and their importance in early 

detection 

Breast center video : what every woman 

should know 

Breast implants on trial /produced and 

directed by Jon Palfreman 

DVD 246 

VHS 1608 

VHS 721 

VHS 2364 

VHS 298 

DVD 791 

Discusses breast health care as it dispels myths about breast cancer. VHS 1676 

Covers the class action suit and individual liability suits, FDA and medical 

findings, issues of medicine and science in the courtroom. 

Bride & prejudice Based on Jane Austen's classic novel, Pride and Prejudice, with a Bollywood 

twist. In Ammritsar, the determined Mrs. Bakshi sets out to find matches for her 

four daughters. Second sister, Lalita, meets American Will Darcy - is it love? 

Bride of Frankenstein / Universal Pictures 

Corporation 

Baron von Frankenstein is blackmailed by Dr. Praetorious into reviving his 

monster and building a mate for it 

Bride wore red / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer An Italian count, seeking to prove that social position is a matter of luck, sends a 

struggling nightclub singer to a luxury resort to masquerade as a wealthy lady 

Bridge on the River Kwai British soldiers captured by the Japanese during World War II are forced to 

construct a strategic railroad bridge 

Bridge on the River Kwai / a Horizon 

Picture Columbia Pictures Corp 

Bridge to freedom (1965) / Produced by 

Blackside, Inc. and PBS Video 

Captured by the Japanese, British soldiers are forced to construct a strategic 

railroad bridge. Meanwhile, a commando team has instructions to destroy the 

vital span 

Ten years after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a 

Montgomery, Alabama bus and nearly twenty years after the Supreme Court 

decreed that separate but equal was unconstitutional 

VHS 884 

DVD 881 

VHS 2443 

VHS 2522 

DVD 112 

VHS 2323 

VHS 1138 

Bridges of Madison county Each is at a point in life where expectations are behind them. Yet four days after 

meeting, they won't want to lose the love they've found 

DVD 188 

Brig Portrays the inhumanity of military discipline in a Marine Corps prison VHS 2050 

Brilliant madness Called 'the most remarkable mathematician of the second half of the century,' 

Nash suffered a devastating breakdown at the age of thirty 

DVD 292 

Bringing out the leader in you / American 

Management Association 

Outlines eight leadership steps VHS 841 

Bringing up Baby / RKO Radio Pictures, 

Inc 

Crazy comedy about an heiress who is determined to catch a stuffy zoologist, 

and uses her pet leopard, Baby, to help get his attention 

VHS 1967 

Broadcast News Romantic triangle set in the world of television news. DVD 247 

Broadway Melody This is the first musical to win a Best Picture Oscar. Anita Page and Bessie 

Love star as two sisters in love with the same man 

DVD 1018 

Broadway; the American musical This documentary series details the razzle-dazzle history of a unique American 

art form. 

DVD 1042 v. 

1-3


Broadway's lost treasures I A one-of-a-kind compilation of Broadway showstoppers, performed by original 

cast members, televised on the Tony Awards between 1967 and 1986 

Broadway's lost treasures II A collection of great musical moments from the Tony Awards. Hosts Lauren 

Bacall, Bebe Neuwirth, Brian Stokes Mitchell, and Jerry Orbach introduce 18 

one-of-a-kind performances 

Broadway's lost treasures III The stars of Broadway shine in 23 memorable performances from the Tony 

Awards broadcasts. Legendary stars from the legendary shows strut their stuff 

in the performances that have become part of Broadway history 

Brokeback mountain It's 1963, a time in the United States when life was simple, straightforward and 

the lines between the sexes and sex roles were crisply drawn and severely 

delineated. 

Brooklyn bridge Depicts the history of the building and social impact of what was, at the time, the 

biggest bridge in the world 

Brother minister; assassination of Malcom 

x 

Brother minister is the explosive and mesmerizing documentary that dares 

reveal the mystery surrounding the assassination of Malcolm X, a truly 

American hero 

Brothers and others "Brothers and others documents the impact of the September 11th tragedy on 

Muslims and Arabs living in America. 

Brother's Grimm 19th-century "folklore collectors," Wilhem and Jacob Grimm are con artists who 

perform bogus exorcisms of "evil enchantments" while traveling from village to 

village in French-occupied Germany. 

Brothers Lumiere/George Melies / 

Granada Television 

The Brothers Lumiere tells the story of the French brothers who invented the 

first 3-D film and built the first practical mobile film camera. 

DVD 687 

DVD 688 

DVD 689 

DVD 702 

DVD 293 

DVD 829 

DVD 514 

DVD 1161 

VHS 615 

Buck stops in Brazil / WGBH-TV, Boston An inside look at the high-stakes world of international banking. VHS 590 

Bud Abbot & Lou Costello meet 

Frankenstein 

Buddha in the land of the Kami : (7th - 

12th centuries) / a co-production of 

Antenne 2 

A comic horror film in which Abbott and Costello encounter Frankenstein's 

monster, Dracula, and a mad scientist 

Begins with the creation myth of Japan and explains the origin and scope of the 

Kami concept explains the arrival of Buddhism 

Buddy Rich This concert, taped in Holland in 1978, showcases one of the tightest big bands 

in history, featuring Buddy's group Killer Force. Standout performances include 

Grand Concourse and Channel One Suite, featuring Buddy's signature drum 

solo 

DVD 186 

VHS 1542 

DVD 890 

Buddy system / Twentieth Century-Fox 

Corporation 

Emily is a single mother struggling to raise a troublesome son VHS 1257 

Bug's life Journey inside the miniature world of bugs where an ant named Flik hires 

warrior bugs to defend his colony from a horde of freeloading grasshoppers. 

DVD 877 

Bugsy, Dutch & Al : The gangsters / 

Rhino Records Inc 

See how bloodthirsty mobsters once threatened the entire nation. VHS 730 

Builders of images A series of programs looking at contemporary Latin America. VHS 3065 

Bull Durham American romantic comedy, dealing with a very minor minor-league team and 

three of its current constituents 

DVD 111 

Bullitt A star witness in a controversial court case is murdered, and the police 

detective assigned to guard him goes after the killers himself 

DVD 110 

Bully Girls This program focuses on increasing awareness of bullying among girls and 

educating viewers about how, when, and why it occurs. 

DVD 787 

Bunny Years Revealing personal stories of young women who started out as cocktail 

waitresses 

VHS 994 

Burning bright A circus performer is slowly being destroyed by the realization that he will never 

father a child. In an act of extraordinary sacrifice, his wife takes desperate 

measures to save him 

DVD 730 

Bush mama / Mypheduh Films A powerful drama of a black woman living on welfare in the Los Angeles ghetto, 

trying to care for her daughter after being stranded alone by her man's 

imprisonment for a crime he didn't commit 

VHS 2890 

Business basics: copyrights Teacher's video company VHS 1263


Business of hunger / [presented by] 

Maryknoll 

Examines a major cause of world hunger which is being created when small, 

native farmers are forced off the land 

Business of paradigms / Joel A. Barker Futurist Joel Barker explains how to anticipate and deal successfully with 

change by understanding the power of paradigms 

Butch Cassidy & the Sundance kid Blends adventure, romance and comedy to tell the story of the West's most 

likeable outlaws 

Butch minds the baby / Learning 

Corporation of America 

An ex-convict, who is an expert safecracker, at first declines to go on the job 

because he is babysitting his infant son, but then decides to bring him along. 

Bye bye Brazil / Carnaval/Unifilm Brazil, a country coming to an end to make way for another country about to 

begin 

C. S Lewis through Shadowlands / written 

by William Nicholson 

Cabaret / an ABC Pictures Corporation 

production 

His great love for Joy Davidson causes him to be devastated when she dies, 

and his Christian beliefs to be threatened 

An egocentric American girl dreams of becoming a star while working in a thirdrate 

Berlin cabaret 

VHS 1363 

VHS 1658 

DVD 248 

VHS 1989 

VHS 457 

VHS 2995 

DVD 20 

Cabin in the sky The fable of rascally Little Joe, torn between the love of his good wife Petunia 

and the wiles of good-time bad girl Georgia Brown 

DVD 1029 

Cabinet of Dr. Caligari A somnambulist commits murders at a hypnotist's bidding DVD 387 

Cabiria. English;"Cabiria Kino International release produced VHS 2799 

Caddyshack Danny Noonan, who is desperate to win the college scholarship awarded to the 

best caddy at Bushwood Country Club 

DVD 109 

Cadillac desert / Produced by KTEH/San 

Jose 

Cadillac desert relates the story of the epic quest for water and the role it has 

played in the vast transformation of the American West and many parts of the 

world 

Cain and Abel But while Genesis records the identity of Abel's killer, the world's first death 

remains, in essence, a mystery 

Caine mutiny / S.G.S. Corporation A combat-weary, paranoiac Captain Queeg, loses his nerve during a typhoon 

and is relieved of command by his first officer 

Cal / Eastern Counties Newspapers 

Group Limited 

A harrowing, sensitive love story set within the hatred of strife-torn Northern 

Ireland 

VHS 2532 

VHS 1147 

VHS 1182 

VHS 2573 

Calendar girls When Chris' best friend Annie loses her husband, Chris derives a scheme to 

memorialize him. 

DVD 1165 

Call of the wild Jack London's classic story of two men driven by gold fever, battling the 

elements in the frozen Klondike 

DVD 708 

Call of the Wild All star cast including Clark Gable in a Jack London novel about an unlikely pair. DVD 771 

Called to duty Provides an overview of firefighters and their work- Part of Toledo Stories DVD 605 

Came a hot Friday / Mirage Films It's 1949 and Wesley and his sidekick, Cyril, two conmen, have been 

successfully cheating bookmakers all across New Zealand. 

VHS 1254 

Camila / European Classics Release Recounts the true story of a young Catholic socialite from Buenos Aires VHS 1936 

Camille Claudel / Christian Fechner 

présente 

A historically accurate depiction of one of the most important collaborations in 

the history of art, that of legendary sculptor Rodin, and the creative prodigy 

Camille Claudel 

Can schools really help all children learn? Panel discusses the way in which school structures and programs help or hinder 

students' ability to learn, especially students with learning difficulties 

Canal days / camera, editor, writer, 

producer, director, John Skinner a 

production of WGTE 

Can't afford to grow old / produced & 

directed by Roger Weisberg 

A look at the history of canals in Ohio, the lore, folk-songs, the routes, plus rare 

archival photographs 

Describes the problems faced by the elderly in obtaining and paying for nursing 

and health care 

Cape fear An ex-con is determined to wreak bloody revenge on the small-town lawyer who 

helped send him to jail 

Capote In 1959, Truman Capote was a popular writer for The New Yorker. He learns 

about the horrific and senseless murder of a family of four in Halcomb, Kansas. 

Inspired by the story, Capote and his partner, Harper Lee, travel to the town to 

do research for an article. 

DVD 371 

VHS 1921 

VHS 1206 

VHS 2684 

DVD 249 

DVD 648


Captain from Castile Forced to flee his home during the Spanish Inquisition, nobleman Pedro De 

Vargas escapes with a beautiful peasant girl and joins Cortez on his dangerous 

expedition to conquer Mexico 

Captains and kings / a co-production of 

TVOntario and Mideast Productions 

Limited 

Capulin Mountain / presented by the 

National Park Service, U.S. Department of 

the Interior 

Tells how, in contrast to the West, the predominant Middle Eastern political 

orientation is toward authoritarian rule with power generally concentrated in the 

hands of a monarch or military leader 

Uses live footage with animation sequences to show the formation of the 

volcanic Capulin Mountain in New Mexico. 

DVD 1209 

VHS 2487 

VHS 1838 

Car wash An irreverent but affectionate look at a typical day in a Los Angeles car wash DVD 1022 

Caravans of gold The king and the city Gives a history of Africa from many locations showing life as it is today plus 

archive film and dramatized reconstructions. 

VHS 2752 

Career decisions for college students Provides guidance for students in making wise career choices DVD 643 

Career encounters : early childhood 

education 

Designed to give students and their education advisors the facts needed to be 

informed adequately about early childhood education as a career choice 

VHS 2239 

Caregiving : survival tips for new 

caregivers 

Survival tips for new caregivers VHS 3163 

Caring for the caregivers This program explores the emotional impact of cancer while offering insights 

into how people cope 

DVD 468 

Carmen / by Georges Bizet "Maria Ewing is the fiery, seductive gypsy who dares to love as she chooses, 

regardless of the cost. 

DVD 365 

Carmen Jones Joe, a military policeman about to make officer, is infatuated with the flirtatious 

and sexy Carmen Jones. 

DVD 1038 

Carrie An ex-con is determined to wreak bloody revenge on the small-town lawyer who 

helped send him to jail 

DVD 250 

Carry on nurse / [presented by] Nat 

Cohen and Stuart Levy a Peter Rogers 

production 

The men's ward in a British hospital declares war on its nurses and the rest of 

the hospital 

Cars Hotshot rookie race car Lightning McQueen is living life in the fast lane until he 

hits a detour on his way to the most important race of his life. 

Casa de los babys Six women are staying at a hotel in South America. Focus on the turbulent 

emotions these American women face surrounding the adoption of foreign 

babies. 

VHS 724 

DVD 855 

DVD 595 

Casablanca In World War II Morocco, seething with European refugees desperate for 

passage to neutral Lisbon 

DVD 108 

Castle / Unicorn Projects, Inc Presents an animated tale about a fictional thirteenth-century fortress and town 

built by King Edward I to subdue the rebellious Welsh. 

VHS 357 

Castro's challenge / WGBH-TV Looks at the roots of the Cuban revolution of 1959 VHS 328 

Cat ballou When her father is murdered by a powerful businessman, a woman hires a hasbeen 

gunfighter to help her gain revenge 

DVD 316 

Cat on a hot tin roof / an Avon Production 

[presented by] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 

The members of a well-to-do Southern family gather to await the impending 

death of their domineering father, Big Daddy 

VHS 1558 

Catch dance fever with Alan Meyers : 

ballroom 

Foxtrot -- Waltz -- Cha cha VHS 2604 

Catch dance fever with Alan Meyers : 

ballroom-4 

Teaches three standard ballroom dances: foxtrot, rumba, and the cha cha VHS 628 

Cathedral / Unicorn Projects, Inc Combines location sequences and animation to show the building of a Gothic 

cathedral.C373 

VHS 358 

Catherine wheel / a Catherine Wheel 

production 

A modern ballet by Twyla Tharp and David Byrne VHS 61 

Caught / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Leonora Eames fulfills her life's dream when she marries a millionaire but she 

soon discovers that her husband is mentally unstable. 

VHS 2115 

Causing others to want your leadership A series of leadership and management seminars designed for teachers and 

school administrators and presented at the Master Teacher Academy 

VHS 1670


Cavitation / [presented by] the National 

Committee for Fluid Mechanics Films 

Shows examples of cavitation on hydrofoils, marine propellers, pumps, turbines 

& dam spillways. 

VHS 2393 

Ceausescu, Eastern Europe's last dictator? Portrait of the last Stalinist leader in Eastern Europe, the events leading to his 

violent overthrow by the Romanian people in December 1989. 

VHS 2936 

Cedar Point memories : a documentary 

Bowling Green State University 

A nostalgic look at the history of Cedar Point Amusement Park VHS 2223 

Ceilings Step by step instructions with money and time saving tips, most common 

mistakes/frequent problems in installing ceilings 

VHS 1682 

Celluloid closet History of the role of gay men and lesbians on the silver screen DVD 354 

Central city / Granada Television 

International director, Eric Harrison 

producer, Julia Spark 

Ceramic tile : floors & counters / 

produced by D.I.Y., Inc 

Ceramic tile : walls / produced by D.I.Y., 

Inc 

Depicts the characteristics of central city and the central business district. 

Compares Los Angeles, Calif. and Manchester, Eng 

This video will show you the step by step procedure for installing a ceramic tile 

floor and how to tile a counter top. 

This video will show you the step by step procedure for installing ceramic tile 

around a tub, shower enclosure, or any other wall surfaces in a bathroom or 

kitchen. 

VHS 2949 

VHS 1692 

VHS 1691 

Chaconne; prodigal son Selections from ballets choreographed by George Balanchine VHS 3216 

Challenge from Asia : China and the 

Pacific Rim 

Challenge from Asia : Korea / a 

production of NHK 

Challenge of manufacturing = Race 

against time : Engineering, making it work 

Challenge of Yellowstone. / United States 

National Park Service 

Thailand, Malaysia, China, and Singapore look towards investments and joint 

ventures with Japan or Taiwan as a means to ensure a viable state of 

industrialization 

Discusses Korea's expansion into world markets and the resulting impact felt in 

Japan and the West 

VHS 915 

VHS 914 

New perspectives on manufacturing career possibilities VHS 3076 

Traces the history of national parks in the United States from Yellowstone 

National Park to the conservation ethic of today's park system 

Champion way : making it work on the job A program to develop leadership among management and to guarantee fair and 

thoughtful treatment of all employees 

Chances are / Tri-Star Pictures, Inc A beautiful young woman whose picture-perfect marriage comes to a shattering 

halt when her husband Louie dies unexpectedly 

Change in the war / produced by CBS 

News 

Change, change / senior executive 

producer, Mert Koplin 

The first part discusses the development of the airplane as a military weapon 

and the war aces who flew the planes. The second part covers the Allied 

victories at Soissons and Amiens 

The 1960s were years of rapid change in America: the increasing impact of 

television, computerization, social unrest, assassinations, the war in Vietnam 

and the landing of a man on the moon. 

Changing face of America and the world This video explores the rapidly changing demographic trends occurring in the 

United States and around the world. 

Channel flow of a compressible fluid Schlieren flow visualization and simultaneous display of the pressure 

distribution along a channel of varying area demonstrate the phenomena of 

choking, blocking and starting. 

VHS 1238 

VHS 2705 

VHS 810 

VHS 2230 

VHS 1642 

VHS 894 

VHS 2379 

Channels/inserts Modern dance production VHS 3193 

Chapayev / a Lenfilm Studio production After the revolution, an illiterate Russian who served in the Czar's army forms 

his own force to fight the White Russians. 

VHS 3161 

Chariots of fire Story of two English runners that were both driven by different means to win the 

Olympics. 

DVD 992 

Charles Weidman, on his own / Dance 

Horizons Video 

Traces the career of modern dance pioneer Charles Weidman from his roots in 

Lincoln, Neb., to his beginnings with Denishawn 

Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo A vacation at the Riviera turns into a murder investigation when a casino 

messanger ends up dead -- and $1,000,000 ends up missing! 

Charlie Chan at the circus Chan takes his entire family (all thirteen) including honourable wife to the circus. 

The owner has sent for him because he has been receiving threatening letters 

and asks Chan to investigate. 

VHS 2668 

DVD 1233 

DVD 1185


Charlie Chan at the olympics This mystery pits Charlie Chan against international spies who are using the 

Berlin Olympic games as the perfect cover for cold-blooded murder. 

Charlie Chan at the opera Chan is brought in to find the killer Gravelle (Boris Karloff) who is suspected of 

killing his wife and her lover 

Charlie Chan at the race track Equestrian adventure in which the renowned detective Charlie Chan must 

untangle the murder of a racehorse owner by an international gambling ring 

Charlie Chan in Egypt Charlie Chan is hired when an archeologist disappears during the excavation of 

ancient art treasures in Egypt. 

Charlie Chan in London With only three days to uncover the truth, Chan spends the weekend at an 

English country manor with all the suspects -- while they hun a fox, he hunts the 

real killer 

Charlie Chan in Paris Charlie is on the trail of forged bank bonds but soon encounters murder. There 

are no lack of suspects, as the trail leads through Paris streets and sewers 

Charlie Chan in Shanghai Charlie Chan and his eldest son Lee are in China and a number of confusing 

and mysterious events follow a murder at a banquet honoring the vamous 

detective. 

Charlie Chan in the black camel When beautiful starlet Shelah Fane is murdered in Hawaii, suspicion points to a 

psychic advisor with a spirited nature. But when Chan uncovers a link to the 

unsolved murder of screen heartthrob Denny Mayo, the Chinese supersleuth 

soon discovers that, in Hollywood, fame can be murder! 

Charlie Chan on Broadway A New York nightclub gal is turning from singer to canary -- with a tell-all diary 

about her mobster ex-boyfriend! But when she breaks more than a leg - and 

Chan's Number One Son is accused of the murder -- Charlie is determined to 

unmask the culprit! 

Charlie Chan's secret Charlie Chan hunts for the missing heir to a huge fortune, and ends up in the 

middle of a deadly family feud. 

Charlotte's web Fern is a young farm girl who rescues the runt, Wilbur. Wilbur the pig is saved 

from certain death and Fern visits him every day at her Uncle Homer's farm. 

Charly When a mentally challenged man named Charly undergoes experimental brain 

surgery, he is miraculously freed from the prison of his own mind. 

Chase A melodrama which portrays the complex chain of events and conflict which 

occurs when the sheriff of a Texas town, attempting to catch a fugitive convict, 

encounters interference from various alcoholic, racist, and promiscuous 

residents 

Chemical production optimization at 

Monsanto / The Institute of Management 

Sciences 

Presents a production planning model for multiple-facility chemical operations 

which was used to select the minimum cost-operating strategy for different 

production targets. 

Chemists at work / Hawkhill Video This video program is designed to give secondary and beginning college 

students an introduction to chemistry as a science. 

Chernobyl : chronicle of difficult weeks. 

The bam zone : permanent residents 

Chernobyl: This film crew was the first in the disaster zone following the 

meltdown of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986. 

Chet Baker Featuring two concerts by the foremost interpreter of the West Coast school of 

cool jazz. Filmed in Europe 15 years apart, these two shows seen together 

provide an overview of Baker's illustrious career 

Chicago At a time when crimes of passion result in celebrity headlines, nightclub 

sensation Velma Kelly and spotlight-seeking Roxie Hart both find themselves on 

Chicago's famed Murderess Row. 

Chicago jazz / produced by University 

Media Resources 

The Chicago jazz style is discussed and the contributions of various jazz 

musicians are illustrated 

Chicano! : History of the Mexican This is a four part television series documentary. It premiered nationally on PBS 

in April 1996. The program consists of four one-hour episodes. 

DVD 1183 

DVD 1186 

DVD 1184 

DVD 1188 

DVD 1187 

DVD 1182 

DVD 1181 

DVD 1231 

DVD 1232 

DVD 1234 

DVD 1044 

DVD 734 

VHS 1343 

VHS 1276 

VHS 1116 

VHS 2305 

DVD 894 

DVD 667 

VHS 316 

VHS 3304 v. 

1-3 

Chickenomics series / WRI Education A fowl approach to economics VHS 804


Childhood autism rating scale : 

demonstration tape on using the CARS / 

Eric Schopler 

Childhood autism rating scale : practice 

tape on using the CARS 

Children of a lesser god / Paramount 

Pictures Corp 

Explains the fifteen different behavior ratings used in the CARS. VHS 824 

Autism in children VHS 825 

Love story about an idealistic special education teacher and a headstrong deaf 

student 

Children of Paradise Drama about the theater and the individuals that made the stage their life. 

Includes the love story of four men for one woman 

Children of the revolution After a mad, passionate fling on a whirlwind trip to Moscow, party girl Joan 

Fraser returns home pregnant. 

Children, enfants, ninos / National Film 

Board of Canada 

Illustrates, without narration, the joys and difficulties of childhood, looking at 

everyday life of children around the world 

Children's hour / Mirisch Worldwide When a vindictive little girl is disciplined in an exclusive girl's school, the child 

twists an overheard comment into slander. 

Child's play : the world of learning / 

Educational Productions 

Looks at the value of play in the development of physical, thinking, language 

and social-emotional skills, and how play helps children prepare for later 

academic learning 

Child's play and the real world Shows how play forms an important part in the development of expression and 

imagination in children 

China Explores China, the third largest country in the world with a diverse population 

of over a billion people and alive with history, culture and beautiful landscapes 

China : ancient rhythms and modern 

currents 

Travel across 2,000 miles and 4,000 years of legends to discover the treasures 

of China. 

VHS 3 

DVD 887 

DVD 910 

VHS 1348 

VHS 3055 

VHS 3069 

VHS 1459 

DVD 1125 

VHS 2588 

China : the history and the mystery Six thousand years of Chinese history, art, beauty and violence VHS 2587 

China boom : nurturing the socialist 

marketplace / CBC International 

Describes how elements of the market economy are being adopted in China VHS 916 

China diary : for my country / produced by 

Jinhua Yang 

China in revolution / a film by Ambrica 

Productions 

A documentary recording impressions of a changing China from the perspective 

of a woman raised in China during the Cultural Revolution 

This documentary recounts the 38 years between 1911 and 1949, during which 

China was transformed from a centuries-old empire into the world's largest 

Communist state. 

VHS 2914 

VHS 3002 

China rising / Granite Productions for 

Yorkshire Television 

Chronicles the history of China with archival footage and interviews. VHS 2542 

China syndrome A television news reporter and a cameraman uncover a startling incident while 

investigating a nuclear power plant 

DVD 231 

Chinatown Private eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sun baked, pre-war 

Southern California is hired by a beautiful socialite. 

DVD 107 

Chinatown / a Paramount picture a 

Robert Evans production of a Roman 

Polanski film 

Los Angeles private eye Jake Gittes (Nicholson) is approached by a mysterious 

woman (Dunaway) who wishes to have her husband investigated. 

Chinatown / Paramount Pictures Corp In the Los Angeles of the thirties, a private detective takes on a seemingly 

routine matrimonial inquiry. 

Chinese Buddhist temples; Building faith 

sacred architecture 

"Although they may not look exactly like their counterparts in China, North 

America's Chinese Buddhist temples are closely linked to them through 

symbolism and traditions that go back more than 1,500 years 

VHS 399 

VHS 2533 

DVD 783 

Chinese primer : lessons - unit one - unit 

eight 

Chinese Primer: foundation work video VHS 1846 

Chocolat When a single mother and her young daughter move to rural France and open a 

chocolate shop - with Sunday hours - across the street from the local church, 

they are met with some resistance from the rigidly moral community. 

DVD 662 

Chocolat / regie general, Alain Artur Set in Cameroun during the waning days of French colonialism, the story 

revolves around the relationship between the young daughter of a French 

official and a black house servant 

VHS 2430 

Chomsky Kennedy lecture A lecture delivered by Norman Chomsky on the subject of cognitive psychology VHS 163


Choreography by Balanchine Dances choreographed by Balanchine: Emeralds by Faure, Diamonds by 

Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky violin concerto, performed by the New York City 

Ballet 

VHS 3219 

Choreography by Balanchine; pt. 4 Presents performances of dances choreographed by Balanchine VHS 3200 

Christianity v. 1. The founding of a faith -- v. 2. Church and empire -- v. 3. The glory of 

Byzantium -- v. 4. The faith conquers 

VHS 1162 

Christmas carol / United artists George 

Minter 

On Christmas Eve, a despicable miser is visited by three spirits who show him 

visions of Christmases past, present, and future. 

Christopher Strong / Radio Pictures Hepburn portrays a record-breaking flyer who falls hopelessly in love with a 

married man 

Christo's Valley curtain Examines the construction of the Mammoth Valley curtain, a 500-foot-high veil 

stretched across Rifle Gap, Colo., by the Bulgarian artist Christo 

Chronicles and kings Uses the Bible and archaeological evidence to present the rise and fall of 

ancient Israel. 

Chronicles of Narnia; the lion, the witch 

and the wardrobe 

Chuck Gross's women's self defense 

course 

The place is called Narnia, and it's been locked in winter for over 100 years by 

someone known as "The White Witch 

Section I teaches the control and use of fear and section II demonstrates the 

self-defense techniques 

Churchill : the private war Winston Churchill was a monumental leader of men whose inspiration and 

defiant V for Victory were the hallmarks of courage that carried Great Britain 

through the war years. Chinese with English subtitles. 

VHS 2080 

VHS 2096 

VHS 2743 

VHS 2686 

DVD 704 

VHS 1439 

VHS 1508 

Churchill : voice of a lion Winston Churchill's finest hours during World War II are documented in this 

program 

VHS 139 

Churchill : voice of a prophet Shows the retirement of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, as well as his 

continued involvement in world politics 

VHS 138 

Ciao Manhattan / Court Pictures The slow but sure decline of a young woman who was once a protegee of Andy 

Warhol 

DVD 396 

Cimarron Epic western about the Cravat family settling the Oklahoma prairie DVD 1017 

Cinderella man During the Great Depression, an everyday common-man hero, James J. 

Braddock was to become one of the most surprising sports legends in history. 

DVD 695 

Cipher in the snow / a Brigham Young 

Production 

Designed to provide motivation for an effort to meet the concerns of every child 

in the school setting. 

Circuits of fear : anxiety disorders (Producer) Anxiety disorders, the most common mental illnesses in America, 

account for approximately one third of the nation's direct and indirect mental 

health costs each year. 

Citizen Kane / an RKO Radio Picture 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. 

Citizen Bishara Begins with the final weeks of Binyamin Netanyahu's "reign" and ends with Ariel 

Sharon's electoral victory. 

Citizen Kane 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. 

VHS 2120 

VHS 2138 

DVD 389 

VHS 967 

DVD 389 

Citizen Kane The story of a powerful publisher, told by those who thought they knew him best VHS 466 

Citizen King King's effort to recast himself by embracing causes beyond the civil rights 

movement. 

City Lights A tramp wins the love of a blind flower girl and attempts to obtain money from a 

millionaire to help her regain her sight 

City lights a comedy romance in 

pantomime / directed by Charles Chaplin 

A tramp wins the love of a blind flower girl and attempts to obtain money from a 

millionaire to help her regain her sight 

DVD 589 

DVD 256 

VHS 2811 

City of promise / produced by Blackside, 

Inc. 

The context for the war on poverty shifts after 1965. VHS 573 

City on the edge of forever Kirk, Spock and a landing party discover a time portal through which McCoy 

disappears. 

VHS 946 

City slickers Comedy about three men friends who are going through mid-life crises. DVD 255


City that waits to die / BBC-TV An alert from scientists concerned with a catastrophic fate for San Francisco 

based on earthquake conditions presented by the San Andreas fault. 

Civil rights journey / Calhoun Community 

College 

A history of Huntsville's civil rights movement as seen through the eyes of 

Sonnie Hereford, III, a medical doctor from Huntsville, Alabama 

Civil war An epic documentary bringing life to America's most destructive - and defining - 

conflict. 

Civil War / Florentine Films This landmark documentary film series movingly and vividly presents the entire 

sweep of the war, from the battlefields to the home fronts 

Civil War : the fiery trial / produced by 

Peter Edwards 

Civilisation. 10, The Smile of reason. / 

BBC-TV 

On-site photography, archival photographs, art, maps, and period music bring to 

life the war's major campaigns, battles and leaders 

The Age of Enlightenment, which believed that, through reason and moderation, 

the millennium was at hand. 

VHS 419 

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Civilisation. 2, The Great thaw. / BBC-TV The era of the great Gothic, epitomized by the cathedral at Chartres. VHS 1287 

Civilisation. 7, Grandeur and obedience / 

BBC-TV 

Civilisation. 8, The Light of experience. / 

BBC-TV 

A portrait of the Baroque Age with its sense of the unity between flesh and spirit, 

dogma and sensuality, obedience and freedom. 

The seventeenth century. The Dutch are the first to grasp the change in thought 

that replaced divine authority with experience, experimentation, and 

observation, and their painters dominate this film. 

Class act / a Greenwood production Brief interviews with teachers of foreign languages concerning what they do and 

why they do it 

Class dismissed; how TV frames the 

working class 

Class divided / produced and directed by 

William Peters 

"Featuring interviews with media analysts and cultural historians, this 

documentary examines the patterns inherent in TV's disturbing depictions of 

working class people as either clowns or social deviants, stereotypical 

portrayals that reinforce the myth of meritocracy"-- 

Documents a reunion of Iowa teacher Jane Elliott and her third-grade class of 

1970, subjects that year of an ABC News television documentary entitled The 

eye of the storm . 

VHS 1292 

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Classic foreign shorts Volume 2 A collection of short films made early in the careers of well-known filmmakers VHS 2614 

Classical and romantic music Classical and romantic music is performed with accompaniment of period 

keyboard instruments. Musicians explain how they re-create the "sound-worlds" 

of 18th and 19th centuries to capture the spirit and style intended by the 

composer 

Classroom research : empowering 

teachers written by Lorraine Berry 

Cleaning up : a report on hazardous 

waste in America 

Clinical vignettes for the DSM-III-R training 

program / William H. Reid 

Clip art--use & fundamentals: 1 : using 

pre-prepared art creatively 

Interviewed teachers remark on effectiveness of several specific, demonstrated 

techniques for soliciting feedback from students 

This program looks into the strengths and weaknesses of the Superfund law, 

the agency assigned to implement and enforce it, and the industry obliged to 

finance and participate in the process of cleanup. 

(Producer) Presents nine vignettes for practice and self-evaluation in applying 

the DSM-III-R diagnostic system. 

Shows basics of designing and producing high-quality graphics projects using 

low-cost, camera-ready artwork. 

Clockwork orange / Warner Bros Depicts a harrowing journey through a near-future world of decaying cities, 

murderous adolescents and nightmarish technologies of punishment and crime 

Close encounters, of the third kind / 

Columbia/EMI Presentation 

Close to home / WGBH in association 

with NORAC Productions 

Close, closed, closure / a film by Ram 

Loevy 

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Roy Neary witnesses the arrival of flying saucer from an alien world. DVD 379 

A documentary on the prolonged and intense teacher's strike in Warren, 

Michigan in 1978. 

A portrait of life in and around the Gaza Strip 35 years after it was occupied by 

Israel in the Six Day War of 1967. 

Closer Witty, romantic and dangerous love story about chance meetings, instant 

attractions and casual betrayals. 

Cocaine and the student/athlete / a 

production of Creative Media Group, Inc. 

and ESI Productions 

Contains interviews with student athletes who used cocaine, crack, and other 

drugs and finally managed to give them up. 

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Cockfight / a film by Jud T. Marrs At cockfights in Bali, birds are matched by type, strength and fighting 

characteristics, metal spurs are tied to their legs, and bets are placed on the 

outcome: fatality, surrender, or tie-breaker 

Cocoon / Twentieth Century Fox Film 

Corporation directed by Ron Howard 

Cold fusion / NSP Communications 

Electric Power Research Institute 

Collaborative classroom management : 

video to accompany A biological brain in a 

cultural classroom 

When the Antareans, advanced beings from another planet, arrive at an old age 

home in Florida, the senior citizens there get a second chance at being young in 

this story of youth, old age 

Discusses how cold fusion experiments are conducted, why the results are so 

difficult to reproduce and verify, and implications for the future of power 

generation by cold fusion 

VHS 620 

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Accompanied by Leader's manual for Collaborative classroom management VHS 2312 

Collateral This fateful night, Max becomes Vincent's collateral, and will transport him on 

his next mission - one night, five stops, five hits and then a perfect getaway. 

Collected videotapes of Peter Campus Video artists Peter Campus uses his three short tapes to explore the 

transforming, plastic possibilities of the video medium as a means to strip away 

masks and penetrate the real 

College : what of the dream ? / produced 

and directed by Norman A. Klotz 

Colloquium on College, the undergraduate 

experience in America : at Harvard 

University, November 1986 

Based in part on the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching's 

report College 

The colloquium centered around findings of the Carnegie Foundation report 

College, the undergraduate experience in America written by Ernest L. Boyer. 

Colonial idea / British Broadcasting Corp Explores the myths and motives of colonialism using India and Great Britain as 

the prime example. 

Color adjustment / producer, director, 

writer, Marlon T. Riggs producer, Vivian 

Kleiman 

Analyzes the evolution of television's earlier, unflattering portrayal of blacks from 

1948 until 1988 

Color of friendship When Mahree is chosen to spend a semester at the Dellums' house, she 

doesn't expect that her host family would be black. 

Color purple The heart-wrenching story of a young black girl in the early 20th century who's 

forced into a brutal marriage and separated from her sister 

Color purple / Warner Brothers An uneducated woman living in the rural American south who was raped by her 

father 

Colors / Orion Pictures Corporation 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 

Come to the fairs / senior executive 

producer, Mert Koplin produced by Janet 

Roach writer, Janet Roach 

Survey of America's World's Fairs beginning with the first one held in Chicago in 

1893. 

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Coming home A sad, poignant love story set against the social upheaval of the Vietnam war. DVD 204 

Coming of the barbarians : (1540-1650) / 

a co-production of Antenne 2 

The Japan of shoguns and samurai, discovered by the Portuguese in 1540, 

soon appeared to be swept away by a wave of Westernization. 

Coming to America Pampered African Prince Akeem is a rebel who is against an arranged marriage 

and heads to Queens, New York to find a new bride. 

Commanding heights : the battle for the 

world economy 

Common threads : stories from the quilt / 

a Telling Pictures and The Couturie 

Company production 

Communication, the nonverbal agenda / 

CRM Productions 

This series explores our changing world: the new rules of the game, the winners 

and losers in the clash between government and the marketplace, the great 

debate over the impact of globalization. 

The story of the AIDS Memorial Quilt established by the San Francisco NAMES 

Project Foundation in 1987 to commemorate the lives lost to AIDS. 

Shows the value of understanding nonverbal content in communication. Helps 

business managers interpret nonverbal messages in employee relations 

Community onsite options Documentary introducing the concepts of community onsite/decentralized waste 

management options 

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Company man : myths and realities of 

lifetime employment 

Lifetime employment was once considered a driving force for Japanese 

companies. 

VHS 1603 

Competing for the future Reprint: "Competing for the Future", VHS 3162 

Competitive advantage of nations : the 

new paradigm for company 

competitiveness and global strategy 

Complete dramatic works of William 

Shakespeare / produced by BBC 

Components of multimedia / writers, Jeff 

Nielson, Rich Reeder 

Computer ethics in the computer science 

curriculum 

1. The new paradigm-- 2. The diamond at work--3. Government's role in 

competitiveness-- 4. Strategic imperatives for companies--book 

A dramatization of all 37 of Shakespeare's plays, featuring some of Britain's 

most distinguished actors and directors 

Differing from traditional forms of analog media, multimedia integrates many 

different forms of media in a common digital environment. 

Interviewees talk about including computer ethics in the computer science 

curriculum, methods of teaching, and accreditation 

Computer magic / Colyer Dupont Shows the world of computer imagery and techniques used in constructing 

various images 

Computing privacy and confidentiality Speakers discuss proprietary data and security issues privacy in context of 

information used by institutions, and other computer ethics problems 

VHS 2801 

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Computing security and crime Speakers discuss such issues as confidentiality, integrity, inadequate security 

and privacy issues 

VHS 2791 

Conflict and confrontation : dealing with the 

irate customer / developed by Jackee 

McNitt 

Demonstrates techniques for handling angry customers. VHS 167 

Conflict on the line : a case study Presents a case study in management involving a conflict between an employee 

and a supervisor, and shows the attempts of their manager to deal with the 

situation. 

Conformist / Mars Film Production A rising young follower of Mussolini must assassinate his former professor, now 

in political exile, to demonstrate his loyalty to the Fascist state 

VHS 2624 

VHS 746 

Confrontation : three approaches Educational leadership for in-school administrators. VHS 1461 

Congress Explores the history and promise of the country's most important and least 

understood institutions 

DVD 303 

Connection / written by Jack Gelber The play is about drug addicts waiting for a heroin dealer to bring the drug 

necessary for them to make their connection. 

VHS 2045 

Conqueror Set in 12th century China, this is a romance of the early life of Genghis Khan, 

who captures and falls in love with the daughter of the enemy 

VHS 3326 

Conquest of Mexico / Films for the 

Humanities 

This program provides a portrait of Cortez and his world of the New World as 

seen by a handful of Spaniards 

VHS 665 

Conservatives / Blackwell Corporation Documents the rise of the conservative movement after World War II VHS 2233 

Consolidation of concrete by vibration / 

Portland Cement Association 

Explains in a step-by-step way the process of vibration which improves the 

quality of concrete 

Constant gardener A diplomat on the hunt for his wife's murderer un covers a treacherous 

conspiracy that will destroy millions of innocent people. 

Construction of meaning in film : a case 

study of "The unique oneness of Christian 

Savage" 

Examines the composition of the film "The Unique Oneness of Christian 

Savage" 

Contempt Asked to write a screenplay for an American producer, a young French 

dramatist and his wife visit the producer's villa in Capri. 

Contempt / Avco Embassy Pictures Corp Asked to write a screenplay for an American producer, a young French 

dramatist and his wife visit the producer's villa in Capri. 

Continent on the move / a production of 

WGBH Boston and Central Television 

Enterprises for Channel 

Continental drift: : the theory of plate 

tectonics / Encyclopedia Britannica 

Educational Corporation 

A series of programs looking at contemporary Latin America. This program 

focuses on Mexico and the migration from rural areas to the cities. 

Presents a comprehensive explanation of continental drift and its effects on 

landmasses. 

Control room A chronicle providing a rare window into international perception of the Iraq War, 

courtesy of Al Jazeera, the Arab World's most popular news outlet 

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Conversation with Gwendolyn Brooks Gwendolyn Brooks, 29th consultant in poetry for the Library of Congress, 

discusses her poetry, her relation to other Black writers, and her thoughts on 

cultural identity among Black Americans 

Conversation with Ushio Amagatsu / 

Video D Studios, Inc 

Interview discusses the work of artistic director Amagatsu's theater company, 

Sankai Juku. Includes demonstrations of performance art 

Converting your attic / Do It Yourself, Inc Avian Rogers and Curt Burbick show how to convert an attic into a usable living 

space. 

Cool hand Luke Set in the southern United States, Luke is caught cutting off parking meters and 

is sentenced to the "chain gang." 

Cool sound / produced by University 

Media Resources, University of Minnesota 

Explains and illustrates the cool sound a relaxed, light, and breezy style often 

referred to as the west coast sound. 

VHS 66 

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Cooley high Fun-loving and warm movie about high school life in the 1960's. DVD 1039 

Copyright / producer/director, Barbara 

Mooneyhan 

Explains copyright infringement for video and computer disk presenting case 

examples 

Cork from Portugal Describes the cultivation and production of cork from the raw stage to finished 

product 

Cornerstones : the African Americans / 

produced by WGTE Public Broadcasting 

Cornerstones : the Germans / produced 

by WGTE Public Broadcasting 

Cornerstones : the Irish in Toledo / 


Cornerstones : the Polish in Toledo / 


Like so many other immigrant groups, African Americans came to Toledo 

seeking freedom 

In close-knit Toledo neighborhoods and in area farming communities, German 

immigrants helped bring this region to life. 

Irish immigrants built northwest Ohio from the ground up. They dug the canal, 

drained the swamp, and built churches. 

Polish immigrants settled in two distinct Toledo neighborhoods, Lagrinka, in 

the north and Kuschwantz on the southern outskirts of the city. 

Cornerstones holiday special A compilation of Toledo-area residents' memories of Christmases past and 

present 

Corporation / produced by Jay L. 

McMullen 

Cortege of eagles / John 

Houseman;"Cortege of eagles 

Cosi fan tutte : opera in two acts / music 

by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart libretto by 

Lorenzo da Ponte 

CBS Reports goes to Phillips Petroleum, one of the largest corporations in the 

United States, to examine the corporate mind, corporate power, and corporate 

decision making 

Presents Martha Graham and her company in a dance performance of Queen 

Hecuba at the fall of Rome. 

VHS 191 

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Performed at Drottningholm Theatre, Sweden VHS 1415 

Cosmos:a personal voyage Based on the 1980 television series: Cosmos DVD 342 

Cost effective strategies for expanding rail 

line capacity using simulation and 

parametric analysis 

Canadian National Railways VHS 1278 

Cotton Club / Totally Independent, Ltd In Dixie Dwyer's hands a trumpet became more than a horn and a girl became 

more than a women. 

Cotton comes to Harlem 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 

Count Basie Features one of the greatest big band orchestras captured at the height of their 

considerable powers. This recently discovered concert is the earliest known 

complete concert of Count Basie and his orchestra released on DVD 

Countdown / British Broadcasting 

Corporation and Time-Life Films 

Country & western / producer, Alan 

Meyers director, Jim Mattson 

Host James Burke traces the discoveries and inventions which gave rise to the 

motion picture. 

An introduction to cotton eyed Joe, Texas two-step, San Antonio polka, and 

Tennessee stomp. For beginning and intermediate students 

Country boys Epic tale of two boys coming of age in Kentucky's Appalachian hills, 

documenting their struggles to overcome hardship and poverty and find 

meaning in their lives 

VHS 1307 

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Country western, III / Alan Meyers & 

Associates 

Country western, IV / Alan Meyers & 

Associates 

For intermediate students VHS 3050 

You have made your choice on becoming the most popular dance couple in the 

neighborhood. 

Country/western II Some of the dances taught: more variations of the cotton eyed Joe and Texas 

two-step, Sweetheart Schottische, Western traveler and 18-step polka. 

Countryman / Island Pictures Countryman, a nature-boy fisherman with mystical powers, rescues an 

American couple whose plane has crashed. 

Coup de foudre / [directed by] Diane 

Kurys 

Courage under fire / Twentieth Century 

Fox 

Two married women, Lena and Madeline, become friends and open a boutique. 

They decide to end their marriages and live together with their children 

When an officer investigates the posthumous candidacy of the first woman to 

receive a Medal of Honor, he finds an apparent cover-up surrounding the 

actions that led to her death 

VHS 629 

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Court Jester In 12th century England, the infant king is usurped by the wicked King Roderick. DVD 106 

Cousin, cousine / Films Pomereu- 

Gaumont 

Against a background of family weddings, funerals and birthdays, the cousins, 

Marthe and Ludovic, progress from platonic attachment to irrepressible abandon 

to delightfully indecent public displays 

VHS 1857 

Cousins / Paramount Pictures Corp Danson and Rossellini play cousins-by-marriage who pretend to be lovers in 

order to punish their philandering spouses. 

VHS 2140 

Cover Girl A dancer in a Brooklyn night club catches the eye of a magazine publisher, who 

sees in her potential as a future cover girl 

VHS 3182 

Crash A car accident brings together a group of strangers in Los Angeles DVD 1036 

Crazy people / Paramount Pictures When a stressed-out ad executive proposes a truth in advertising scheme, he 

is promptly shipped off to a mental institution where, through a series of 

mishaps, he puts his plan into effect 

VHS 2236 

Creating artistry through movement: 

Dalcroze Eurhythmics in the choral setting 

Creating environments and programs 

which motivate seniors 

This 1 hour DVD provides detailed approaches to the use of Eurhythmics within 

the classroom or rehearsal setting and offers a guide to building choral artistry 

through movement."-- 

Deals with designing environments where older adults feel involved and 

discusses activities and programs which promote participation 

Cricket and the meaning of life Like most boys in his native city of Bombay, Talreja's childhood was filled with 

cricket. As an adult, however, he struggled to adapt when he moved to Toronto, 

wondering if he would have to erase his past in order to "belong" to his new 

country. 

Crime of Monsieur Lange / Interama 

Video Classics Oberon 

Crimes and misdemeanors / Orion 

Pictures Corp 

A group of workers take over a publishing house when its crooked owner, 

Batala, absconds. 

Weaving together several different stories, Woody Allen's film is about people's 

lives, loves, perceptions and ideals. 

Crisis at central high Dramatization about the events at Little Rock Central High School the year 

forced integration took place 

Crisis game : a video case on crisis 

management 

Crisis of the cultural environment : media 

& democracy in the 21st century 

Attempts to challenge viewers to think creatively and concretely about foreign 

policy decision making. 

George Gerbner addresses issues of the nature of the television industry, the 

stories television tells us and how television affects the society 

Criss cross / Universal International An armored car driver secretly meets his ex-wife and then tries to convince her 

hoodlum husband that he met her only to get her husband's help in an 

upcoming robbery 

Cronica del alba In a time of anarchist agitation and police repression, the adolescent son of a 

declining bourgeois family discovers society's falsehoods as well as life's 

pleasures 

Crooked beak of heaven / BBC Visits a potlatch and other traditional ceremonies of the Gitksan, Haida, and 

Kwakiutl Indians of British Columbia and the state of Washington. 

Crouching tiger hidden dragon Set in 19th-century China, two master warriors are faced with their greatest 

challenge when the treasured Green Destiny sword is stolen 

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Crucial early years Deals with ways in which mental growth can be assisted in infants and young 

children. Also covers the issues of group behavior and IQ testing 

Cruel sea / an Ealing Studios production Lt. Commander Ericson and his crew find they are fighting not only the 

Germans, but the age-old enemy, the sea, in this World War II action drama 

Cruising / Warner Home Video A New York City cop goes underground to lure a killer who preys on 

homosexuals. The real mystery begins when officer Burns thinks that he has 

found the murderer 

Cry freedom / Universal City Studios Story of Black activist Stephen Biko (Washington) and a liberal white newspaper 

editor Donald Woods (Kline) who risks his own life to bring Biko's message to 

the world 

VHS 2076 

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VHS 2548 

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Crying game / Miramax Films A haunting, humorous and shocking romantic thriller about Irish terrorists, their 

hostage and the hostage's exotic girlfriend 

VHS 34 

Cuba / United Artists Corporation The Batista government is falling fast and decadence abounds. VHS 1478 

Cultural diversity : at the heart of Bull / 

Bull Worldwide Information Systems 

French and American employees of Bull Systems tell about the challenges--and 

rewards--of working with people of different cultural and language backgrounds 

Cunning little vixen Singers form the European Opera Centre ; Deutsches Symphonie-Orchestrer 

Berlin ; Kent Nagano, conductor 

Curing ceremony / John K Marshall Shows a healing ceremony performed by the !Kung-speaking bushmen in 

Southwest Africa used on a ailing tribal woman 

Current events strategies Demonstrates ways of setting up spontaneous, open-ended discussion on 

topics chosen by individual pupils, for 5th grade and up 

Currents of fear / WGBH Educational 

Foundation 

A group of mothers of cancer patients and journalist Paul Brodeur raise the 

question of the cancer hazard posed by electric transmission lines and call for 

government action. 

Curse of Frankenstein A young German nobleman has uncovered life's mystery and unleashed a chain 

of blood-curdling terrors that seem similar to the monstrous horrors of a 

generation earlier. 

VHS 2781 

DVD 502 

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Curse on the gypsies / produced by 

Sueann Fincke 

Gypsies, or Rom , are a centuries old race without a homeland. VHS 627 

Cyberbullies Uses dramatizations and question and answer sessions to prevent children and 

teenagers from being bullied by others when using chat rooms, blogs, and 

instant messaging. 

DVD 781 

D.O.A. / directed by Rudolph Mate A breathtaking story has the hero becoming the victim to a slow acting poison. 

Will he succeed in solving his own murder before he dies? 

Dad / Universal City Studios, Inc A work-obsessed man returns home when his mother is hospitalized, and finds 

that his father, whom he hasn't seen for 2 years, has deteriorated. 

Dadi's family / directed by Michael 

Camerini, Rina Gill 

Daily routine : a day at the High/Scope 

Preschool 

Portrait of a farming family in India which focuses on Dadi, the grandmother, 

who manages a large household of sons, daughters-in-law and grandchildren 

Presents the rationale for each segment of the daily routine at High/Scope's halfday 

demonstration preschool in Ypsilanti, Mich 

Daisy Miller / Paramount Pictures An expatriate American lives abroad in Europe with her daffy mother and bratty 

kid brother and scandalizes the Victorian high society of 1878 

Dakota Wayne joins the territory's embattled wheat farmers in a heated range battle 

against the swindlers and their gang 

Damon Runyon's sorrowful Jones A penny-pinching frugal Broadway bookie, Sorrowful Jones (Bob Hope) inherits 

a five-year-old girl. 

Dance and human history / Columbia 

University, Dept. of Anthropology 

Dance Black America / Pennebaker 

Associates 

Dance Theatre of Harlem / co produced 

by Danmarks Radio and RM Arts 

Introduces the work of Alan Lomax and his colleagues in developing 

choreometrics, a cross-cultural method of studying the relationship of dance 

style to social structure. 

Documents a four-day festival of dancers and dance companies held at the 

Brooklyn Academy of Music 

DVD 54 

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Dazzling performances by the influential and creative all-black ballet company VHS 3019


Dances with wolves Rewarded for his heroism in the Civil War, Lt. John Dunbar wants to see the 

American frontier before it is gone. 

Dances with wolves / TIG Productions Rewarded for his heroism in the Civil War, Lt. John Dunbar wants to see the 

American frontier before it is gone. 

Dancing / created by Rhoda Grauer, 

executive producer 

Examines and celebrates dance from around the world, from traditional dance to 

classical ballet 

Dancing for Mr. B; 6 Balanchine ballerinas Portrays six of Balanchine's celebrated American ballerinas and, through them, 

also illuminates the life of their mentor 

Dancing from the inside out Three dancers from the Axis Dance Troupe tell how they became injured and 

what it means to them to be able to express themselves through dance with the 

use of wheelchairs 

Dangerous liaisons / Warner Bros. Inc A rich, scheming widow, a predatory rake and a beautiful, virtuous woman take 

the field in the age-old battle of the sexes in the eighteenth century 

Dangerous minds / Hollywood Pictures 

presents a Don Simpson and Jerry 

Bruckheimer production 

Danton / Triumph Films in association 

with Gaumont-Film Polski 

Dark ages; the fall of civilization, the rise of 

a new world order 

When an ex-Marine becomes a high school teacher, she is assigned to a tough 

class of inner-city teenagers 

Danton, the popular revolutionary leader, returns to Paris at a time when the 

new French republic is in disarray. 

Between the Fall of Rome and the dawn of the Renaissance, Europe plunged 

into a dark night of constant war, splintered sovereignties, marauding pagans, 

and more. As chaos replaced culture, Europe was beset by famine, plague, 

persecutions, and a state of war that was so persistent it was only rarely 

interrupted by peace. 

Dark eyes Dark Eyes is a tragicomic romantic fable that is as Vincent Canby noted in The 

New York Times, both enchanting and enchanted. 

Dark victory The life of a fast moving Long Island socialite skids to a stop when she 

discovers that she has less than a year to live 

Dark victory A beautiful and headstrong heiress suddenly learns that she has only six 

months to live. 

Dark voices : schizophrenia / a 

presentation of Films for the Humanities & 

Sciences 

Schizophrenia is a neurological brain disorder that affects 2.2 million Americans 

today. 

Darwin's nightmare Nile perch quickly annihilated almost all other fish life in Tanzania's lake Victoria 

after its artificial introduction in the '70s, and the omnivorous beast known as 

global capitalism. 

Dashiell Hammett's the glass key / 

Paramount Pictures screenplay by 

Jonathan Latimer directed by Stuart 

Heisler 

Data communications and computer 

networks 

Intricate mystery about a slightly corrupt politician, accused of murder, who 

solicits his right-hand man (Ladd) to hunt down the real killer 

1. Concepts, strategies and impacts of data communications and computer 

networks-- 2. Planning, design and analysis of network implementations -- 3. 

Data communications and networking technology 

Daughter from Danang Heidi seems the proverbial "all-American girl" from small-town Pulaski, 

Tennessee. But she was born Mai Thi Hiep in Danang, Vietnam, the daughter of 

an American serviceman and a Vietnamese woman. 

Daughter of suicide / Daughter One 

Productions 

Daughter of the regiment / music by 

Gaetano Donizetti 

David Carradine's tai chi workout / 

Praying Mantis Productions 

David Halberstam's the fifties / the History 

Channel 

Filmmaker Dempsey Rice tells the intimate story of her mother's life and 

eventual suicide 

DVD 537 

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An opera about a little girl who was adopted by a whole regiment VHS 2997 

Graceful, flowing movements which tone muscles, firm the body, and enhance 

flexibility 

1. The fear and the dream --2. Selling the American way --3. Let's play house -- 

4. A burning desire --5. The beat --6. The rage within ; the road to the sixties 

VHS 2933 

VHS 2540 

David's legacy / produced by the UNC 

Center for Public Television 

Discusses the safety of audio-visual carts in schools VHS 2093 

Davinci and the code he lived by Examines and recounts the life of Leonardo da Vinci, using a combination of 

reenactment, commentary by scholars, and narration 

DVD 776


Day for night / Warner Bros. a French- 

Italian co-production 

Day the cold war came home / producer, 

Tony Kahn director, Bob Comiskey 

Francis Truffaut's 1973 film, an homage to moviemaking, details the loves and 

lunacy of the closely-knit family of strangers that comprises an on-location film, 

cast and crew 

In this personal history of the Hollywood blacklist period, Tony Kahn, son of the 

blacklisted veteran Hollywood screenwriter Gordon Kahn, offers a child's eye 

view of how the blacklist affected his family 

Day the earth stood still A visitor from outer space comes with the warning that unless war is abolished, 

Earth will be destroyed 

Days of heaven / Paramount Pictures 

Corporation produced by Bert and Harold 

Schneider 

In the early 20th century a fugitive from the slums of Chicago and a shy, rich 

Texan vie for the love of the same woman 

De Gaulle : force of character Portrays the former French president as the man who stood alone to preserve 

the honor of France during World War II 

De Gaulle : republican monarch In 1958, when the second call came to save France, General De Gaulle was 

ready 

Dead birds Special features include outtakes with filmmaker's original narration and 

additional commentary; unedited camera sequences 

Dead Birds Special features include outtakes with filmmaker's original narration and 

additional commentary; unedited camera sequences; two black and white 

sequences with commentary by Robert Gardner; television interview; 

photographs with excerpts read by Robert Gardner 

Dead birds Describes a photographic and ethnographic study which was sponsored by the 

Peabody Museum from Feb. 1961 to Nov. 1963 of the Dani 

Dead man walking / PolyGram Filmed 

Entertainment 

Dead men don't wear plaid / a Universal 

picture 

Dead men talk / Granada Television 

production for Channel Four 

Tells the story of convicted killer Matthew Poncelet and Sister Helen Prejean, 

his spiritual advisor. 

Private eye Rigby Reardon investigates the death of a wealthy scientist with a 

little help from his friends. 

Discusses the use of new technology to examine human fossil remains using 

computers to determine basic questions such as time and place of origin of the 

human species 

VHS 2814 

VHS 2188 

DVD 413 

VHS 2759 

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Dealing with cancer This program narrows its focus to scrutinize breast, cervical, prostate, testicular, 

lung and skin cancers. 

DVD 454 

Dealing with diversity / A production of 

Communications Services Governors 

State University 

Title on videocassette: Who in the world is in here? VHS 871 

Dear America : letters home from 

Vietnam / Couturie Company, Inc. 

Actual letters from soldiers in Vietnam, along with rare footage, reveal what the 

war was really like for those who fought it 

VHS 2415 

Death and dying An exploration of the growing interest in patient's rights and medical ethics VHS 270 

Death and dying : A Conversation with 

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, M.D. 

Death in the morning / British 

Broadcasting Corporation and Time-Life 

Films 

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross discusses her work and philosophy, explaining how she 

handles death in her own family. She also shares her views on euthanasia and 

death with dignity 

Host James Burke traces the connection between standardization of precious 

metals used in coins, the great commercial center and library built by Alexander 

the Great, development of the compass, and creation of the atomic bomb 

Death in Venice / Warner Bros. Pictures Filmed in Venice, this drama centers around a world-famous composer and 

conductor who, on a solitary rest holiday, spies an innocent young boy and 

becomes obsessed with him 

Death of a salesman Arthur Miller's Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a middle-aged man's emotional 

turmoil 

Death of a salesman / Columbia Pictures 

Corporation 

Death of Nancy Cruzan / WGBH 

Educational Foundation 

Death warmed over / C/N Video 

Creations 

A social drama about an aging traveling salesman who recognizes the 

emptiness of his life and commits suicide 

VHS 381 

VHS 117 

VHS 2784 

DVD 319 

VHS 3054 

Power over life and death - euthanasia VHS 3124 

A presentation by Jessica Mitford at a biennial conference hosted by the Rocky 

Mountain Memorial Society 

VHS 2713


Death: an overview This step-by-step program takes the myth and mystery out of the process of 

dying and death itself, and presents both as biological and clinical realities. 

Decision simulators speed implementation 

and improve operations 

Don Rush of Weyerhaueser Company presents the company's management 

strategy for forest products, tree use, and log allocation 

DVD 486 

VHS 1281 

Decks / / DIY Video Corporation Do it yourself home improvement VHS 1686 

Decoding photographic images The program focuses on hwo the basic components of photography--line, 

shape, form, texture, balance, volume duality, point of view, depth of field, and 

perspective--contribute to an image's impact on the subconscious mind 

DVD 1062 

Deer Hunter Tracks a group of steelworker pals from a Pennsylvania blast furnace to the coal 

hunting grounds of the Alleghenies to the lethal cauldron of Vietnam. 

Deer hunter / Universal City Studios 

produced by Barry Spikings ... [et al.] 

directed by Michael Cimino 

The story of three young steel mill workers who enlist in the 101st Airborne 

Division and who are taken prisoner in Vietnam 

Deformation of continuous media Explains deformation and its resolution into component motions. Presents an 

analysis of deforming patterns, marked on a shear flow in a stationary reference 

frame and in a reference frame rotating with the pattern 

Defying expectations : the joyful victories 

of urban teachers in an age when public 

schools are under siege / Jonathan Kozol 

Recorded at the Fifth Annual International Teaching for Intelligence Conference 

held in San Francisco in 1999 

Defying gravity Feature film concerning a college student--a popular member of a social 

fraternity--who must decide between maintaining his current social status and 

acknowledging publicly that he is homosexual 

Delirium: a videotape / by Mindy Faber A documentary about the mental illness suffered by the filmmaker's mother and 

its effect on the family 

Deliverance Four ordinary men, in two canoes, descending a river they've only seen as a 

squiggly line on a map, determined to test themselves against a wilderness 

Deliverance Four ordinary men, in two canoes, descending a river they've only seen as a 

squiggly line on a map, determined to test themselves against a wilderness 

Delivering successful presentations / 

American Management Association 

Studio 5 Productions 

Democracy, leadership, commitment 

videorecording / British Broadcasting Corp 

Democrat and the dictator / Corporation 

for Entertainment & Learning 

Demonstrates how to prepare, practice, and deliver business presentations by 

using successful presenters to explain the stand-up skills 

Shows how leaders are selected, how the selection process varies from country 

to country, how people inform themselves, and how education serves the needs 

of democracy 

Journalist Bill Moyers compares and contrasts the careers of Franklin D. 

Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler, focusing on the youth, personality, leadership style, 

and political goals of each 

Departed In South Boston, the state police force are waging a war on Irish-American 

organized crime. 

Depressed man : a therapy training tape A husband's feelings of inadequacy and depression are explored and treated 

through several sessions of therapy between a family therapist and a couple in 

this re-enactment by actors. 

Depression : old problem, new therapy / a 


Sciences 

Dr. Dennis Charney, of Yale University Lydia Lewis, of the National Depressive 

and Manic Depressive Association 

Depression and manic depression Explains depression and manic depression through the experiences of several 

people 

Desensitization / Western Michigan 

University Television 

In this third part of a series on adult stuttering, the patient is shown that relaxing 

the facial, throat, and diaphragm muscles will help stop the stuttering. 

DVD 105 

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VHS 308


Desert place / WGBH Examines the various forms of plant and animal life found in the Sonoran Desert 

of the Southwest, and illustrates the concept of the desert ecosystem 

Detective school dropouts / A Cannon 

Films release 

Slapstick comedy about two inept sleuths who try to unravel a mysterious 

kidnapping 

Detour An example of film noir which recounts the story of a man whose pursuit of the 

woman he loves is blocked by fate and another woman 

Deutsch direkt! : German culture today / a 

BBC-TV production 

Invites beginning students to discover Germany and Austria, meet a variety of 

people from all walks of life, and learn to speak basic German 

VHS 390 

VHS 1438 

VHS 405 

VHS 1164 

Deutschland Sueden und Nuernberg Host, Pierre Kandorfer VHS 42 

Deutschstunde Based on the novel with same title and author VHS 2209 

Devil wears Prada Andy, a young woman who knows nothing of the fashion industry, faces all of 

the glamor that could be hers and is forced to make the decision of where she 

wants to be in her life 

DVD 924 

Diabolique. / Seven Arts Production Mystery drama about murder in a private school for boys. VHS 1836 

Diagnosis aperger's Nick's story is told by himself, his parents, members of his educational team, 

friends and the neuro-psychologist who finally made his diagnosis 

DVD 952 

Diagnostic interview / Western Michigan 


Diagnostic procedures and therapeutic 

intervention strategies for the voice 

disordered client 

Diagonistic assessment of Asperger's 

syndrome 

One of a series of videotapes delving into the problems of stuttering in adults. VHS 306 

Filmed interview and testing of a client with a voice disorder illustrating 

techniques and diagnostic strategies 

He covers the characteristics and diagnosis of Asperger's syndrome. Includes a 

live interview with an undiagnosed boy and his parents. Offers suggestions for 

explaining the diagnosis with children or adults with Asperger's syndrome 

Dial M for murder / Warner Brothers In a love triangle, the husband plots to murder his wife. When things go wrong, 

the wrong victim falls and there's no escape from the deadly consequences 

Dialogues of the Carmelites An opera based on the true story of 16 Carmelite nuns who were eventually 

guillotined for refusing to deny their belief in God during the French Revolution 

Diary of a maasai village, pt. 1 A study of life in a Maasai village as a representation of the Maasai people in 

Kenya. An attempt to describe a moment in the history of the Laibon's family 

Diary of a maasai village, pt. 2 A study of life in a Maasai village as a representation of the Maasai people in 

Kenya. An attempt to describe a moment in the history of the Laibon's family 

Dick Clark's best of Bandstand / Dick 

Clark Video produced by Paul Brownstein 

Selection of some of the best performances from the television program 

American Bandstand 

Die hard On Christmas Eve a team of terrorists has seized a building in L.A. and taken 

hostages. 

Different river / United States army Corps 

of Engineers [produced by] Centron Corp 

Digging for the truth; archaeology and the 

Bible 

Digital literacy in emerging technology : 

Scott Mandel 

Describes the economic, recreational, and transportation value of America's 

rivers and the need for flood control measures to maximize these benefits 

VHS 1738 

DVD 533 

VHS 63 

DVD 503 

DVD 1114 

DVD 1115 

VHS 1952 

DVD 220 

VHS 1470 

Biblical Archeologists set out to dig up the truth about scriptural events. VHS 3197 

Contains an interview with Scott Mandel, a leader in the literature of 

incorporating the Internet into the classroom. 

Dilemmas of development Instructional resources for teaching secondary students about public and private 

roles in community planning and development. 

Dillinger / Monogram Pictures 

Corporation 

Recreating the life and times of the infamous bank robber, this gritty drama 

traces John Dillinger's violent career from his early days as a young hoodlum 

Diner Set in 1959, a band of long-time buddies since high school gather at a local 

diner to share their escapades and make sense of their lives. 

VHS 1922 

VHS 1304 

VHS 1477 

DVD 351


Dinotopia Children's film based on James Gurney's dinosaur books VHS 3192 

Dirty Dancing Summer romance between a dance instructor and a guest at a hotel in the 

Catskills 

DVD 194 

Dirty Dozen A World War II drama in which an army major selects 12 men convicted for 

crimes of violence 

DVD 238 

Dirty dozen / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer A World War II drama in which an army major selects 12 men convicted for 

crimes of violence and offers them their freedom if they will complete a 

dangerous mission behind Nazi lines 

VHS 2729 

Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A. Gertie LaRue and her troupe of performers arrive direct from Harlem at the 

Paradise Hotel on the island of Rinidad. 

Dirty Harry A violently inclined San Francisco police inspector is the only cop who is able to 

arrest a rooftop sniper. 

Dis Ability awareness training video designed to improves one's awareness for interaction with people 

who have disabilities. Covers visual, hearing and speech disabilities as well as 

hidden disabilities such as dyslexia and epilepsy 

Discoveries of infancy : cognitive 

development and learning / producer, 

Glynn Butterfield 

Discovering the music of Latin America / 

Barr Films 

Explores the constant quest for knowledge by children in the first three years of 

life concentrating on six major areas 

Traces the history of Latin American music, pointing out the incorporation of 

many traditions 

Discreet charm of the Bourgeoisie Luis Bunuel assembles his all-star French cast at an elegant dinner party. 

However, whenever the dinner guests try to eat, they are interrupted. 

Disgraced monuments / a Monumental 

Pictures 

Distant voices / British Broadcasting 


Distant voices, still lives / Avenue 

Pictures presents a British Film Institute 

Production 

VHS 113 

DVD 199 

VHS 3103 

VHS 3128 

VHS 2431 

VHS 807 

Discusses the destruction of monuments during the 20th century VHS 1695 

Host James Burke traces the connection between medieval advances in the 

science of warfare, the discovery of large silver deposits in Czechoslovakia 

VHS 118 

Winner of the International Critic's Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1988 VHS 3072 

Dizzy Gillespie Features two historic concerts from one of the founding fathers of bebop. The 

1958 Belgium concert features Dizzy working within the small combo (with 

Sonny Stitt and Ray Brown) structure of a quintet. The second 1970 Denmark 

show focuses on Dizzy fronting the legendary Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big 

Band 

Do gifted children need special help? Dr. James T. Webb describes the traits and common behaviors of gifted chilren 

from preschool through adolescence. 

Do the right thing / a Forty Acres and a 

Mule Filmworks production 

This powerful visual feast combines humor and drama with memorable 

characters while tracing the course of a single day on a block in the Bedford- 

Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn. 

DVD 893 

VHS 155 

VHS 2139 

Do the right thing ;"Do the right thing Universal a Forty Acres and a Mule Filmworks production produced DVD 22 

Do unto others / Columbia University 

Seminars on Media & Society 

Do you like Paris? / presented by Air 

France 

Doctor death; medical ethics and doctorassisted 

suicide 

A panel of scholars, journalists, and leaders in government and public service 

discuss the ethical dimensions of personal relationships in our society 

VHS 1858 

Description and travel VHS 683 

"Dr. Death" offers an indepth explanation of his beliefs about incurable illness 

and the ethics of doctor-assisted suicide 

Doctor, I want-- / KCTS Examines the pros and cons of the health care system with physicians, 

philosophers, and officials debating questions on the definition of health, the 

right to medical care, and the limits of personal responsibility. 

DVD 420 

VHS 271 

Doctor's secret / Georges Melies Story of a doctor who cures a man of obesity with the drastic application of 

machine technology 

VHS 2406 

Does doctor know best / Columbia 

University Seminars on Media and Society 

A panel of medical experts discuss the ethics of doctor-patient relationships. VHS 1861 

Dog day afternoon Recreates the incredible circumstances surrounding an ill-fated Brooklyn bank 

robbery attempt 

DVD 254


Doing business in Mexico Provides information on the business customs necessary to know before doing 

business in Mexico. 

VHS 3086 

Doing business with China : 1987-1991 Suggests how to do business with China during the current Five Year Plan. VHS 1354 

Doll's house / World Film 

Services/Tomorrow Entertainment 

Nora, the model wife, commits forgery and risks destruction in order to save 

her husband. But after he rejects her, she leaves her husband and children to 

begin a new life 

VHS 685 

Don Giovanni / music by W. A. Mozart 

libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte. 

Performance at the Glyndebourne Festival in 1977 VHS 2202 

Donald in Mathmagic Land / Walt Disney 

Educational Productions 

Juvenile mathematics VHS 1964 

Donner party Chronicles the tale of the pioneer group that set out for California in the spring of 

1846 and ended in disaster in the snows of the Sierra Nevada Mountains the 

following winter 

DVD 1049 

Donovan's reef A straight-laced Bostonian comes searching for her father, a brawling ex-Navy 

man living on a South Pacific island (John Wayne) 

Don't look now / Paramount Pictures 

Corporation 

Psychic terror in a Gothic setting provides the chilling backdrop in this tale of a 

couple's search for the ghost of their dead daughter 

Doomed city, Berlin The effects of British bombings, filmed by Goebbels' newsreel units, has been 

suppressed until now as too harrowing to show. 

Double burden : three generations of 

working mothers 

Double exposure / Turner Network 

Television 

Filmmaker Marlene Booth describes her own experiences as a working mother 

as well as the experiences of three families for whom working outside of the 

home was a tradition for several generations of women 

Story based on the life of Margaret Bourke-White and her career as a 

pioneering woman photographer 

Double indemnity / Paramount Pictures An insurance man and a suburban wife conspire to trick her husband into 

signing a policy that pays double for accidental death -- then push him from a 

train. It's an almost perfect crime 

Double indemnity / Paramount Pictures An insurance man and a suburban wife conspire to trick her husband into 

signing a policy that pays double for accidental death-- then push him from a 

train. It's an almost perfect crime 

DVD 1189 

VHS 2651 

VHS 1521 

VHS 896 

VHS 1271 

DVD 869 

VHS 728 

Double the trouble twice the fun Gays - social life and customs VHS 1174 

Double-column addition : a teacher uses 

Piaget's theory 

Examines how children solve addition and subtraction problems and discusses 

possible applications of Jean Piaget's theories to this area 

Down syndrome The 'First 18 Months' is a reassuring and realistic introduction to the unique joys 

and challenges that children with Down syndrome bring to their families. 

Down Syndrome; the first 18 months The 'First 18 Months' is a reassuring and realistic introduction to the unique joys 

and challenges that children with Down syndrome bring to their families 

Dr. Heimlich's Home first-aid video / 

London-Hill Productions 

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / Lowe's Inc. 

directed by Victor Fleming 

Dr. Misterio's patented, video almanac of 

fun / Jack-o-Lantern Enterprises, inc 

The man who created the lifesaving Heimlich Maneuver, Dr. Heimlich offers an 

incisive no-nonsense guide to treating and when possible, preventing the most 

common home emergencies 

The story of a radical doctor whose experiments lead him to the discovery of a 

destructive potion that transforms him into a hideous creature of unbridled 

emotions 

Collection of activities, handicraft, miscellaneous facts, magic, and jokes for 

elementary and middle school children 

Dr. Strangelove A satire in which the U.S. president and his military advisors struggle ineptly to 

avert a holocaust after a psychotic 

Dr. Strangelove : or, How I learned to 

stop worrying and love the bomb / 

Columbia Pictures 

Dr. Strangelove : or, How I learned to 

stop worrying and love the bomb / 

Columbia Pictures 

A satire in which the President and his military advisers struggle ineptly to avert 

a holocaust after a psychotic Air Force general launches a nuclear attack on the 

Soviet Union 

A satire in which the 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 

VHS 1448 

DVD 508 

DVD 508 

VHS 1422 

VHS 1435 

VHS 1481 

DVD 102 

VHS 1824 

DVD 47


Dr. Temple Grandin: on visual thinking, 

sensory, careers and medicaitons 

A description of the challenges faced by someone with autism. It offers ideas on 

how others dealing with autism can meet these obstacles and improve the 

quality of their lives 

Dr. Zhivago In 2029, giant super-computers dominate the planet and to destroy man's future 

by changing the past, they send an indestructible cyborg, a Terminator 

DVD 535 

DVD 103 

Dracula / Universal Pictures Corporation Videocassette release of the 1931 motion picture by Universal VHS 2895 

Drama of creation; writers on writing Famous authors discuss creative strategies that lead to emotionally charged 

stories and dramatic narratives. 

Dramatic works of William Shakespeare A dramatization of all 5 of Shakespeare's plays, featuring some of Britain's most 

distinguished actors and directors 

Dream catcher Tells the story of two juvenile delinquents who meet while hitchhiking across 

America. The unlikely duo forge a tentative friendship as they hop trains, steal 

cars, and dodge the law, all while trying to make it to Reno, Nevada. The two 

young men are both running from their pasts and searching for the same thing: 

family 

Dream catcher Tells the story of two juvenile delinquents who meet while hitchhiking across 

America. 

Dream girls Three young women Deena Jones, Effie White, and Lorrell Robinson desire to 

become pop stars. 

Dreamworlds 2 : desire/sex/power in 

music video 

Driven to excellence Full throttle / 

Freewheelin' Films 

A controversial video that MTV tried to ban. Portrays the impact that sex and 

violence in media have on society and culture in our everyday life. 

In Driven to excellence Paul Newman and Mario Andretti discuss why they are 

dedicated to the sport of auto racing. 

Driving Miss Daisy Set in Atlanta in the 1950's, a textile factory owner insists on hiring an everpatient 

chauffeur for his aging head-strong mother. 

DROP squad DROP (Deprogramming and Restoration of Pride) is an outlaw organization that 

abducts and deprograms African-American who exploit or deny their cultural 

heritage. 

Drumset : a musical approach / Quasi 

Productions director, Steven Ross 

Dry white season / based on the novel by 

Andre Brink 

Drywall / producer, Dan Ellithorpe 

director, Bill Heitz 

Duchess of Malfi / BBC-TV and Time-Life 

Films 

DVD 1001 

DVD 483 

DVD 710 

DVD 710 

DVD 1156 

VHS 631 

VHS 1489 

DVD 925 

VHS 578 

Examines the fundamentals of jazz, rock and funk drumming in five segments VHS 1338 

Ben du Toit is a prominent white schoolteacher in South Africa, unquestioning of 

the system. 

VHS 888 

Avian Rogers and Curt Burbick detail the correct application of drywall. VHS 1689 

A dramatization of John Webster's play of the same title, about a young widow 

who becomes a victim of vengeance when she ignores her family's wishes and 

remarries 

Duck soup / Paramount Productions As Prime Minister Firefly of Freedonia, Groucho soon reduces the kingdom to 

shambles. 

Ducktators / Avro Television, Holland A unique look at the use of cartoons during World War II which proved to be an 

excellent way to deliver propagandistic ideas in a seemingly innocuous manner. 

Duel A businessman is menaced on the highway by a psychopathic driver of a huge 

diesel truck out to kill him 

Duel in the sun The hot-blooded son of a Texas land baron and his clear headed, calm brother 

become rivals when they meet a beautiful half-breed Indian girl who comes to 

live on their ranch 

Dumbo The stork delivers a baby elephant to Mrs. Jumbo, who happens to be a veteran 

of the circus, but the newborn is soon ridiculed because of his truly gigantic ears 

and is dubbed "Dumbo". 

Dutchman An emotionally unstable white woman entices, then humiliates and finally knifes 

a black man while they ride a subway train in New York City 

Dying to be thin Girls wage a deadly battle as they strive for impossible beauty. Go behind the 

shocking statistics of eating disorders and examine therapies that can help 

millions 

VHS 416 

VHS 1974 

VHS 876 

VHS 1119 

VHS 2519 

DVD 968 

DVD 614 

DVD 539


Dying to be thin Looks at the eating disorders anorexia nervosa and bulimia, current treatments VHS 982 

Dying with dignity NewsHour correspondent Susan Dentzer reports on life and death in Sun City, 

Arizona, a vibrant retirement community where hospice is the preferred form of 

end-of-life care 

Dying, death and bereavement / 

produced by the University of Hawaii, 

Center on Aging 

This program looks at the prospects of death and dying. Older people share 

their views on widowhood and grief 

DVD 476 

VHS 2840 

E.T. A 10-year old boy befriends a creature from another planet that has been 

stranded on earth 

DVD 101 

Early abstractions / Harry Smith Seven abstract animated films VHS 1742 

Early Americans / Shell Oil Company 

directed by Alan Pendry produced by 

Douglas Gordon 

Early crafts [Toledo schools] / a 

production of WGTE-TV 

Traces the rise of man from his arrival in America as a nomadic hunter during 

the ice ages, to builder of complex societies in the 15th century A.D 

\A look at crafts of early Toledo as continued today looks at weaving and 

glassblowing at Sauders Farm and Craft Village in Archbold, Ohio. 

Early dance Through historical photographs and sources, and modern performances, the 

history of dance from is traced from the comedies of the early Greeks to the 

Baroque Era 

Early years, 1817-1837 / producerdirector-editor, 

John E. Skinner a 

production of WGTE 

The history of Toledo, Ohio is presented covering the early land development by 

speculators, the planning and development of the canals, the Toledo War, and 

prominent citizens 

VHS 696 

VHS 1203 

VHS 853 

VHS 1207 

Ears wide open Music appreciation - juvenile VHS 709 

Earth first : the struggle to save 

Australia's rainforest / Gaia Films 

By focusing on a 70 square kilometer stand of rainforest in Australia VHS 2298 

East of Eden / Warner Bros. Pictures In a California farming valley in 1913, a wild adolescent rebels against his stern 

father, realizing that he favors his twin brother 

VHS 1975 

Eastern Europe, breaking with the past. Takes a look at Eastern European television as a reflection of its people's 

VHS 2944 

Show 11, A new world of television 

values, interests, lifestyles, and opinions. 

Eastern front / CBS, Inc Experience history in the making beginning with the grueling 880-day siege of 

Leningrad. 

VHS 352 

Easy rider Two motorcyclists travel across the U.S. in search of the "real" America DVD 350 

Easy rider / Raybert Productions Inc Two hippie motorcyclists tour America, using money they made by dealing dope 

in a southern California town 

Easy virtue / produced by Gainsborough 

Pictures directed by Alfred Hitchcock 

A woman goes through a divorce and attempts to overcome the tarnished 

reputation that accompanies it 

VHS 1982 

VHS 67 

Eat smart / MacNeil/Lehrer Productions The link of the American diet to heart disease and cancer is explored. VHS 2678 

Eat to your heart's content / Narrated by 

Tony Randall 

Eat, drink, and be merry / British 

Broadcasting Corporation 

A look at the relationship between diet and heart disease VHS 21 

Host James Burke traces the connection between military arms used during the 

time of Charles the Bold, canning, refrigeration, and modern space rockets 

Eccentricities of a nightingale Blythe Danner portrays the sensitive spinster Alma Winemiller in this 1948 

drama 

Echoes from Tibet / directed by Deben 

Bhattacharya 

Economics U$A. Lesson 27, International 

trade Lesson 28, Exchange rates 

Economy in transition : Japanese 

business goes abroad 

Discusses the part music plays in the lives of the Tibetan Buddhists who fled to 

the Indian village of Leh-Lakakh. 

Pt. 27 illustrates the concepts of specialization and comparative advantage and 

shows how trade may hurt certain groups but benefit society as a whole. Pt. 28 

shows the effect of exchange rates on trade, domestic economic growth, and 

inflation 

This program covers the latest international activities of Japanese businesses, 

as they respond to structural change in Japan's economy. 

Ed Thigpen on jazz drumming Discusses the basics of jazz drumming, the derivation of the basic jazz ride 

pattern, phrasing, and brush technique. Includes solos using brush and sticks 

VHS 123 

DVD 323 

VHS 2576 

VHS 1563 

VHS 1601 

VHS 1336 

Edge of seventeen A gay teen finds out who he is and what he wants DVD 625


Educating handicapped students in regular 

classrooms : secondary teachers meeting 

the challenge 

Loviah Aldinger acts as moderator on a panel of five Toledo area teachers who 

provide insights into the most effective techniques for educating handicapped 

students in regular classroom situations 

VHS 396 

Educating Rita / Columbia Pictures Rita is a working-class woman seeking the path to self-discovery. VHS 468 

Education versus energy / The Center for 

Neighborhood Technology 

Effective crisis planning : presented at the 

PRSA National Conference, October, 

1989, 

Effective oral presentations / from text by 

W.F. (Fred) Oettle 

Effective planning and budgeting for public 

relations programs / Public Relations 

Society 

This program discusses how the Chicago Public Schools could save money by 

conserving energy (mostly in lighting) 

VHS 2976 

An overview of organizational preparedness for crisis planning VHS 2925 

Presents necessary steps in preparing and giving a successful technical talk, 

from organizing your thoughts to capturing and holding your audience's attention 

VHS 377 

Discusses role of public relations personnel in a corporation VHS 2922 

Effective teacher The Effective Teacher, an eight-part program, shows what effective teachers do 

to promote student achievement with accompanying book "the first days of 

school" 

Effective use of lenses / Eastman Kodak 

Company 

Effective uses of power and authority / 

CRM Productions 


your 35 mm. camera. 

Explains the six major bases of power. Shows how effective skills of personal 

power and influence can result in improved work by employees 

DVD 654 

VHS 644 

VHS 2623 

Egypt's golden empire Examines the rise and fall of Egypt's New Kingdom, 1560 B.C. to 1080 B.C DVD 302 

Einstein's big idea Reveals the roots of this breakthrough in the human stories of scientists Michael 

Farady, Antoine Lavoisier, and Lise Meitner, whose innovative thinking helped 

lead to E=mc², and ultimately unleashed the power of the atom 

Eisenhower, years of caution / by Drew 

Middleton 

Eisenhower's Crusade in Europe / a 

March of Time production 

The architect of the Allied invasion describes himself as the supreme 

commander with no political ambitions 

Volume 1: The beginning of Hitler's bloody campaign for world domination, 

America's unpreparedness for war, the attack on Pearl Harbor;"Volume 2: The 

Germans fortified their position in France 

DVD 690 

VHS 142 

VHS 1514 

El Dorado A sheriff fights cattlemen and empire builders as he tries to tame the West DVD 1200 

El Moulid; Egyptian religious festival Shows some of the events of the Islamic religious festival of El Moulid in 

October 1987, including circumcision of young boys, parades, and Friday 

prayers 

El Norte / produced by Anna Thomas 

directed by Gregory Nava 

Elbow, wrist and hand injuries / 

[presented by] Johnson & Johnson Athletic 

Products 

A drama about a Guatamalan brother and sister seeking better lives. They set 

out for the promised land, El Norte. 

Professional football trainers describe hand, wrist and elbow injuries and their 

treatment 

DVD 954 

VHS 1423 

VHS 1806 

Electrical Based on an episode of the PBS series, The Do It Yourself Show . VHS 1684 

Electronic storyteller : television & the 

cultivation of values 

Elements of design / writers, Jeff Nielson, 

Rich Reeder 

George Gerbner explores the way stories in our culture are told by major media 

conglomerates on television 

The ability to integrate a wide variety of media onto one screen brings with it a 

new set of challenges for both graphic and instructional designers. 

VHS 218 

VHS 3101 

Elephant A realistic drama that takes the viewer inside an American high school on one 

single, ordinary day that very rapidly turns tragic. 

DVD 1203 

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf--masterclasses An opera master class conducted by Elisabeth Schwarzkopf in Edinburgh in 

1980 

VHS 584 

Elizabeth : the history channel Dramatization of the life of Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VIII by Anne Boleyn DVD 332 

Elizabeth : the history channel One of the most important rulers in history, Elizabeth I came to the throne at a 

time when England was under threat 

DVD 333


Elizabeth I Explores the intersection of the private and public life of Elizabeth I in the latter 

half of her reign, offering a personal look at her allies, her enemies, and her 

suitors as she struggles to survive in a male-dominated world 

Elizabeth II, winds of change / Nielsen 

Ferns Inc. director, Jeremy Murray-Brown 

Explores the role of Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, in world history and 

examines the power of tradition in the post-Imperial age 

Ella Fitzgerald Filmed in Belgium in 1957 and Sweden in 1963, these sets feature many of 

Ella's greatest songs. 

Embalming technique / produced by Gary 

Sokoll and Kevin L. Davis 

Emergency action : what to do until 

medical help arrives 

Emerging powers / a presentation of Wall 

Street Journal Video 

Emigrants / Warner Bros. presents a 

Svensk Filmindustri production 

This program explains and demonstrates the embalming process from receipt of 

the body to final preparation for the casket 

DVD 857 

VHS 143 

DVD 891 

VHS 546 

Know what to do before the ambulance arrives. VHS 2155 

Examines the rise of Mexico's economy, and the series of crises which led to 

economic collapse. 

Pictures of America inspire a married couple to pull up roots and join fellow 

Swedes in a quest that tests their determination and faith 

Emperor Jones A cunning manipulator takes control of a Caribbean island and declares himself 

emperor 

Empire of reason / [presented by] Direct 

Cinema Limited 

Recreates the ratification debates on the U.S. Constitution as if they were being 

covered by today's television news. Highlights the New York convention in July, 

1788 

VHS 839 

VHS 3073 

DVD 1027 

VHS 453 

Empire of the air Story of radio from 1906-1955 and the three men who made it happen DVD 301 

Empire of the rising sun. Vol. 1 This is the story of Japan and the events leading to the second World War as 

well as the action in that war as viewed at the time 

VHS 1530 

Employer-supported child care / produced 

by Academic Television Services 

This program examines a broad range of alternatives available to employers 

who are considering establishing some type of child care support for their 

employees 

Empowering people with disabilities Technology is helping the physically challenged to improve their quality of life 

through greater independence. 

Empowering students with meaningful 

learning / a Skylight Professional 

Development 

Eric Jolly discusses the benefits of integrating the joy of discovery across the 

curriculum and shares methods for designing, implementing, and assessing 

meaningful curricula for diverse student populations. 

En attendant Godot / by Samuel Beckett A presentation of the definitive version, based on the notes of Samuel Beckett, 

of his absurd play in which his non-heroes, Didi and Gogo wait and hope for 

Godot 

VHS 1923 

DVD 458 

VHS 1954 

VHS 2840 

Enchanted well / Georges Melies Silent film with English titles and musical soundtrack VHS 2408 

End of life The importance of supporting patients and their families in the making of sound 

end-of-life decisions is stressed 

DVD 470 

End of the old order, 1900-1918 / Nielsen- 

Ferns International 

First of a series which analyzes the concept and uses of power in our century. VHS 135 

Enemy of the people Dr. Thomas Stockman wants to disclose that the town's moneymaking health 

spa "Clearwater Springs" has been fouled by pollution from a tannery. 

DVD 318 

Energy : a matter of choices Shows how current energy shortages are stimulating a reassessment of the 

goals of technological progress, economic growth, and unlimited material 

comforts. 

VHS 2177 

Energy conservation Step by step instructions with money and time saving tips VHS 1678 

Energy is life, diabetic low blood sugar 

emergencies 

Engineering mechanics I, statics / Dr. 

Colby V. Ardis 

This video explains what happens when the balance of insulin in a diabetic's 

body is upset, what to do about it and why 

A twenty-part telecourse lecture in statics taught and produced by Dr. Colby V. 

Ardis, Chairman and Professor, Civil Engineering 

VHS 726 

VHS 773 

English Patient During World War II, a mysterious stranger is rescued from a fiery plane crash. DVD 237 

Enlightened machine / a production of 

WNET/New York 

Uses microcinematography, case studies, and interviews with medical experts 

to explain general brain functions, to describe the emerging field of 

neuroscience, and to survey several brain disorders 

VHS 280


Ensign to the nations Filmed in several countries, this one-hour videocassette tells of Saints in 

Europe, the Pacific Islands, Latin America, Asia, and Africa that have helped the 

kingdom of God flourish. 

Entrepreneurs, an American adventure. 

Volume 1, Entrepreneurs 

Environment under fire : ecology and 

politics in Central America 

Environments for learning / writers, Jeff 


Epilepsy : taming the brain storm / a 

Films for the Humanities presentation 

Equal rights amendment developed by 

Elizabeth F. Defeis 

Equity and access to computing resources 

/ Research Center on Computing & Society 

Era of direct broadcast satellites / a 

production of Shelburne Films 

Ergonomics : your body at work / 

produced by Coastal Video 

Communications Corp 

Describes the American entrepreneurs who laid the foundation for the American 

enterprises 

Examines the way export crops, pesticides and war contribute to mass poverty 

and ecological destruction in Central America. 

Focuses on the expanding role of multimedia applications in education and 

training environments. Examines a variety of laboratory and remote learning 

situations. Includes classroom examples 

Explores the misconceptions about epilepsy, describes epileptic seizures, and 

looks at recent research into its causes and treatment 

Barbara A. Brown and Ann E. Freedman, associated with the Women's Law 

Project, Philadelphia, talk about the provisions of the Equal Rights Amendment 

and their effect on State law. 

Discusses computer equity issues for the handicapped, for females, for the 

poor, etc 

Takes a look into the satellite technology which is about to explode onto the 

scene and is destined to dominate television broadcasting in the 90's 

VHS 3171 

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Human engineering, industrial safety VHS 2815 

Erin Brockovich Erin Brockovich is a feisty young mother who convinces attorney Ed Masry to 

hire her and promptly stumbles upon a momumental law case against a giant 

corporation. 

DVD 675 

Ernie Pepion: the art of healing Indians/Artists with disabilities VHS 3296 

Erosion and weathering : looking at the 

land / Encyclopedia Britannica Educational 

Corporation 

Errand of mercy / Paramount Pictures 

Corporation 

Eruptions of Kilauea : 1950-1960 / filmed 

by the United States Geological Survey 

Explains the basic principles of weathering and erosion and describes the vital 

functions both perform in modifying the Earth's surface 

Kirk and Spock attempt to persuade the council of neutral Organia to join the 

Federation, while the Klingons invade and enslave the planet's sheeplike 

citizens 

A photographic record of the eruptions of Kilauea, Hawaii and their effect on the 

island 

VHS 2192 

VHS 910 

VHS 1969 

Essay on women Provides insight into commonly held attitudes in a pre-E.R.A. America. DVD 472 

Essence of being Japanese Covers the events of the 20th century DVD 459 

Essential connections : ten keys to 

Recommends ways to structure and run child care programs to strengthen 

VHS 3127 

culturally sensitive child care 

children's connections with their families and their home culture --P. 1 of guide 

Estonia, a story of survival / produced 

and directed by Steven Kostant 

Estonia's experiences during WWII are included in segments on Hitler and 

Stalin 1939 , archival footage impounded by the Soviets for over 40 years. 

Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind When Joel discovers that his girlfriend, Clementine, has had their tumultuous 

relationship erased from her mind through an experimental scientific procedure, 

he decides to ease his own pain by getting the same treatment. 

VHS 2938 

DVD 565 

Ethics in the workplace; Joanne Ciulla In this program with Bill Moyers, Ciulla discusses the role of ethics in the world 

of business and the meaning of work in our culture 

DVD 1117 

Ethnic notions / producer and director, 

Marlon Riggs 

Presents examples of the way that racism is depicted in American culture. VHS 535 

Eugene O'Neill Eugene O'Neill was one of the greatest playwrights in American history. 

Through his experimental and emotionally probing dramas, he addressed the 

difficulties of human society with a deep psychological complexity 

DVD 824 

Eulerian and lagrangian descriptions in 

fluid mechanics 

Uses a computer-animated film to illustrate the two principal ways of describing 

fluid motion. 

VHS 2723


Europe : Wars within a war / CBS, Inc Concentrates on the campaigns fought in Russia, Greece, Czechoslovakia, and 

Malta during World War II 

Europe goes nuclear / produced by 

WGBH/Boston 

During the 1950's and 1960's NATO ministers agreed to rely more on nuclear 

strength to defend the continent. 

Europe, the Allies close in / CBS Inc In this video, you will witness the occupation of Paris by the Nazis and its 

ultimate liberation and the disaster at Arnhem. 

Euthanasia, murder or mercy? / produced 

by Churchill Films 

Presents various ethical, legal, medical, and sociological aspects of active 

voluntary euthanasia for the terminally ill. Experts in the field discuss the issues 

to open the topic for debate 

VHS 349 

VHS 1873 

VHS 340 

VHS 1221 

Euthanasia: false light [vidoerecording] Euthanasia VHS 1560 

Evergreen / Gaumont British Picture Corp A British music hall star retires from the stage to live in South Africa. VHS 2556 

Everyday miracle / a BBC-TV production Uses ultrasound recordings and microphotography to show the development of 

an unborn child 

Eve's bayou / Trimark Pictures presents a 

Chubbco/Addis-Wechsler production 

Roz Batiste is a beautiful and dedicated mother of three, who is forced to admit 

that her family is falling apart due to her philandering husband Louis. 

VHS 209 

DVD 62 

Evolution 7-part documentary originally produced for the PBS DVD 344 

Evolution and human equality / Insight 

Video 

Excavating the Bible / a co-production by 

Biblical Productions 

Excellence in the public sector / with Tom 

Peters Martin Sandler Productions 

Using paleontology, evolutionary biology, genetics, history of science and social 

history as his tools 

1. Deciphering the Dead Sea Scrollsk -- 2. Marine archeology searching for 

biblical proofs 3. The ancient tunnels of Jerusalem ; The mysterious mosaic of 

Galilee 

VHS 1424 

VHS 1124 

Management - employee participation VHS 2166 

Execution of Jesus And while his life is cloaked in mystery the details of his death remain even 

more veiled 

Existing light / Eastman Kodak Company Shows how to capture moods and colors you see using only light that happens 

to be on the scene 

Existing-light photography / Eastman 

Kodak Company 


your 35 mm. camera. 

Exorcist A young girl becomes possessed by the devil and causes several violent deaths 

before she can be cured 

Expanding America / Martin Sandler 

Productions 

Expanding universe / Hawkhill Associates 

writer, Bill Stonebarger 

Expeditions through German culture / 

Produktion, alert-film NDR hr 

Experimental avant garde series. Volume 

14 

Exploring with paint and corks / produced 

by High/Scope Educational Research 

Foundation 

Describes the American entrepreneurs whose business was to enhance the 

mobility of Americans by developing ever more efficient systems of 

transportation 

Part one traces the history of astronomy from ancient times to the present day. 

Part two locates earth in the immensities of space 

A video tour of the less familiar parts of Germany. Programs in this series are 

designed to teach the German language through exposing viewers to German 

literature 

Retour a la raison was made without a camera as Ray's attempt to confound 

and confuse the participants of the last great Dada convention (1923). Emak 

bakia employs textbook surrealist techniques to create an unconventional 

surreal film (1927). 

Shows how children learn and create as a preschool group plays with paint and 

uses corks and their hands to apply it to paper 

VHS 1130 

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Exterior remodeling projects / produced 

by Do It Yourself, Inc 

Explains how to install a roof, garage, door opener, etc VHS 1683 

Extraordinary illusions / Georges Melies Silent film with English titles and musical soundtrack VHS 2407 

Extraterrestrials / produced by the 

National Aeronautics and Space 


Describes the history of looking for other life forms from other galaxies VHS 564 

Eye of the storm. / ABC News Shows how a teacher in Riceville, Iowa, introduced her children to the realities 

of prejudice by using the color of eyes as the criterion of superiority. 

VHS 2207


Eyes on the prize : America's civil rights 

years. Mississippi : is this America? / 

Blackside, Inc 

Eyes on the prize II : history of the civil 

rights movement from 1965 to the present 

F. Scott Fitzgerald's Bernice bobs her hair 

/ Learning in Focus Center for 

Understanding Media r 

Focuses on the continuing civil rights struggle in Mississippi. VHS 1137 

History of the civil rights movement in the United States. Uses actual footage 

and interviews with participants in the movement 

VHS 2157- 

2164 

A young flapper bobs her hair to gain peer approval, but her plan backfires VHS 1258 

F.I.S.T. / United Artists Follows the rise and fall of union leader Johnny Kovak from his beginnings as 

an idealistic blue collar worker to head of the Federation of Inter-State Truckers 

F/X Rollie Tyler is the movies' best special effects man. He can show you a 

thousand ways to die. Now someone wants him to do it for real. 

F/X2 : the deadly art of illusion / Orion 

Pictures Corporation 

Faces of the enemy / a Quest production 

for the Catticus Corporation 

Facing hate / with Elie Wiesel and Bill 

Moyers 

It's been five years since special effects (FX) expert Rollie Tyler and cop Leo 

McCarthy teamed up to relieve the mob of $15 million through their unique 

combination of deception and detection. 

Looks at the universal concepts of enmity which spark and fuel conflicts around 

the world. 

Elie Wiesel helps probe the logic of hatred as expressed in books, religion, 

history and personal experience. When he was 15, his family perished in the 

Nazi death camp at Auschwitz. 

VHS 2896 

VHS 744 

VHS 2731 

VHS 729 

VHS 1599 

Faculty meeting Group decision making VHS 1463 

Fahrenheit 451 / Vineyard Films, Ltd Montag, a regimented fireman in charge of burning the forbidden volumes, 

meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. 

VHS 2251 

Fair play Presents measures being taken to correct the misperception that computing is a 

males-only domain 

DVD 434 

Fair play; achieving gender equity in the 

digital age 

Faith in numbers / British Broadcasting 


Fall of the Berlin Wall / a coproduction by 

Studio Hamburg and WDR 

This program exposes counterproductive classroom behaviors and presents 

measures being taken to correct the misperception that computing is a malesonly 

domain 

Host James Burke shows how such inventions as the water mill, carillon, 

jacquard loom, and a global communications network were influenced by each 

other 

DVD 464 

VHS 119 

Germany 1961-1989 VHS 1523 

Fallacies of hope / BBC-TV Surveys the development of Western Civilization during the late 1700s and the 

1800s 

Fallen idol / based upon a short story by 

Graham Greene 

Falstaff / music by Giuseppe Verdi 

libretto by Arrigo Boito directed for 

television by Brian Large 

A young boy, son of the Ambassador to England, idolizes the butler as a man 

he would like most to be 

VHS 1297 

VHS 802 

Opera in 3 acts, sung in Italian VHS 1411 

Family and intergenerational relationships This program profiles old people as spouses, parents and grandparents, and 

discusses how they sustain family traditions 

VHS 2837 

Family matters / a co-production of 


Limited 

Shows how the family is central in Middle Eastern society and politics. VHS 2485 

Family secrets : implications for theory 

and therapy / Evan Imber-Black and 

Stephen Lerner 

Family talks about sex /directed by Larry 

Yust 

Family psychotherapy VHS 1551 

Deals with common situations parents face in giving their children guidance and 

information about sex 

Family thing / United artists Pictures When an Arkansas man (Robert Duvall) learns that he has an African-American 

half brother (James Earl Jones) he travels to Chicago to meet him. 

VHS 1799 

VHS 239 

Fantasia Images are brought to life by some of the world's best music. DVD 149


Fantasia : the making of a masterpiece / 

The Walt Disney Company 

Presents the story of the creation of Walt Disney's 1940 motion picture 

Fantasia. Includes a part of the film that audiences did not see in the original 

movie release 

Far from Poland Combines documentary footage and dramatic reenactments to portray the 

Polish Solidarity Movement 

Farewell my concubine Story that spans more than 50 years in the lives of two men at the Peking 

Opera, friends since childhood, and the woman who comes between them. 

Farewell my lovely / E.K. Corporation Private eye Philip Marlowe is hired by an ex-con to find the ex-con's missing 

sweetheart. 

Farewell to arms / Warner Brothers An American ambulance driver and an English nurse find love on the battlefield 

during WW I 

Fargo A midwestern policewoman investigates a series of brutal and interconnected 

crimes. 

Fargo / PolyGram Filmed Entertainment 

in association with Working Title Films 

A midwestern policewoman investigates a series of brutal and interconnected 

crimes. 

VHS 2674 

VHS 1800 

DVD 885 

DVD 16 

VHS 15 

DVD 777 

DVD 34 

Fast Times at Ridgemont High The struggles of teenagers as they deal with independence, success, sexuality, 

money, maturity, school 

DVD 100 

Fat chance in a thin world / WGBH 

producer and director, Thea Chalow 

Examines why some people get fat and others do not. VHS 1801 

Fat man and little boy / Paramount 

Pictures 

Fat man and little boy were the names given to the first 2 atomic bombs built by 

The Manhattan Project . 

VHS 2704 

Fatal Attraction A New York attorney has a romantic fling while his wife is out of town DVD 99 

Fatal attraction ... tension-packed thriller hinged on the triangle of a man, a wife and a vengeful 

other woman --Container 

VHS 2147 

Fatal competition / British Broadcasting The conflict between the U. S. and the U.S.S.R. stems from the arms 

VHS 423 

Corp 

competition. 

Fate of a river Discusses pollution in Lake Erie and its rivers in northwest Ohio VHS 3100 

Fate of a river, revisited An update of the film Fate of a river, which was produced by the Junior League 

of Toledo in the 1960's. Discusses how water quality in the Maumee River 

Watershed has improved since then, and offers suggestions on how individuals 

can help keep watersheds clean today 

VHS 1646 

Fate of the earth / produced by WQED 

Pittsburgh 

Charts the birth of life on earth and traces the evolution of life today. 

Discusses the human role as caretaker of earth and all life on it 

Federico Fellini's La dolce vita A journalist ventures into the decadent society of modern Rome and finds that 

his values are being destroyed, leaving him totally disillusioned 

Feeling better, getting better Dr. Robert Buckman considers the placebo effect as it relates to alternative 

medicine. 

Female circumcision; human rights Documents the ritual of female genital mutilation practiced among some African 

groups 

Female closet / produced, directed and 

edited by Barbara Hammer 

A look at the art and lives of Alice Austen, Hannah Hoch, and Nicole Eisenman, 

as women and lesbians 

Female sexuality Host Sandra Ekin interviews guests Barbara Seaman, Dr. Mary Jane Sherfey, 

Shere Hite and Dr. Helen Singer Kaplan 

Female sexuality / director, Will George Barbara Seaman, Dr. Mary Jane Sherfy, Shere Hite and Dr. Helen Singer 

Kaplan talk about the changing role of female sexuality 

Feminine mistake / American Cancer 

Society made by Dave Bell Associates 

Actress Bonnie Franklin hosts a survey of the physical effects of smoking on 

women. 

Fertile memory A story of two Palestinian women whose individual struggles both define and 

transcend the politics that have torn apart their homes and their lives. 

Feudal experience Covers the political, cultural, social and economic developments in feudal 

Japan. Focuses on the Kamakura, Ashikaga and Tokugawa periods 

VHS 623 

VHS 2591 

DVD 481 

DVD 418 

VHS 439 

DVD 553 

VHS 296 

VHS 392 

DVD 787 

VHS 1549


Field of dreams / a Gordon Company 

production 

If you believe the impossible, the incredible can come true. Ray Kinsella (Kevin 

Costner) hears a voice, followed by a brief vision of a baseball field. 

Fight to die / CNN Video Explores the controversy surrounding physician-assisted suicide and patients' 

right to die. 

Fighting back, 1957-1962 / a production 

of Blackside 

Fighting for our lives : women confronting 

AIDS 

Covers stories detailing the confrontation between state and federal 

governments over enforcement of the law of equality 

(Producer) Portrays the strengths and strategies of women of color who are 

leaders in confronting HIV disease. 

Fighting Kentuckian The Duke leads a regiment of Kentucky riflemen through a French settlement, 

falls in love with a general's lovely daughter, and locks horns with a rival suitor 

who has a nefarious land-grabbing scheme up his sleeve. 

Film about a woman who-- / directed by 

Yvonne Rainer 

An experimental film in which the director focuses on the re-invention of the 

narrative in film from a feminist point-of-view 

Film before film : the ancestors of time Director Werner Nekes presents the prehistory of cinema by showing various 

types of motion pictures that led to the birth of the film. 

Films by Jane Campion / director, Jane 

Campion 

Financial planning for women : taking 

control / Venture Entertainment Group, Inc. 

Three short films from New Zealand director Jane Campion display her 

mischievous sense of irony and unique style. 

Provides financial information for women, including getting started in investing, 

finding an advisor, finance for divorced women, and retirement planning 

Finding Nemo Nemo, a clown fish, is unexpectedly taken from his home and thrust into a fish 

tank in a dentist's office overlooking Sydney Harbor. Buoyed by the 

companionship of a friendly fish named Dory 

Finding Neverland Well-known playwright James M. Barrie finds his career at a crossroads when 

his latest play flops and doubters begin to question his future. 

Finishing concrete flatwork / American 

Concrete Institute, Portland Cement 

Association 

Fire in the mind / a production of WGBH 

Boston and Central Television Enterprises 

Firebell in the night / BBC-TV and Time- 

Life Films 

Fired / WGBH and Learning Corporation 

of America 

The videotape describes and demonstrates basic procedures for finishing 

concrete flatwork, using tools and finishing techniques practiced by experienced 

concrete finishers. 

VHS 1230 

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VHS 833 

DVD 1148 

VHS 750 

VHS 2630 

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VHS 1386 

A series of programs looking at contemporary Latin America. VHS 3067 

Discusses the causes and miseries of the Civil War and the racial wounds that 

still trouble the United States 

Biff Wilson, a vice-president with a multi-divisional packaging goods firm, is fired 

after a fifteen-year-career. 

Firefly dreams Naomi, a brat from Nagoya is packed off to the country and asked to care for 

Mrs. Koide, an aging relative with Alzheimer's. Over the course of the summer, 

the two develop and extraordinary friendship that transcends age and 

experience. 

Fireworks; Puce moment; Rabbit's moon; 

Eaux d'artifice; Kustom Kar Kommandos / 

Kenneth Anger 

First blood / First Blood Associates, a 

Greenberg Bros. Partnership a Ted 

Kotcheff film 

First comes love, then comes marriage. 

Death. 

First contact / Arundel Productions 

produced and directed by Bob Connolly, 

Robin Anderson 

First moves: : welcoming a child to a new 

caregiving setting 

First on the scene : hazardous materials 

safety / prepared by Chemical 

Manufacturers Association 

Videocassette release of films originally made in 1947, 1949, 1950, 1953, and 

1965 

An ex-Green Beret, a peacetime misfit is haunted by memories of Vietnam. 

Falling foul of an over-zealous small-town sheriff, all hell is let loose as he goes 

on the run. 

Delves into the ways in which science and religion have attempted to come to 

terms with humankind's ultimate enigma 

Recounts the discovery of a flourishing native population in the interior 

highlands of New Guinea in 1930 in what had been thought to be an 

uninhabited area. 

VHS 601 

VHS 1328 

DVD 732 

VHS 1615 

VHS 35 

DVD 445 

VHS 2502 

Program for infant-toddler caregivers VHS 921 

Traffic accidents; first aid in illness and injury VHS 667


First signs of April / United States Office 

of Education, Division of Educational 

Technology 

Emphasizes for parents the fact that given the freedom and encouragement to 

use their five senses, children will continue to learn for the rest of their lives. 

First storytellers Campbell discusses the importance of accepting death as rebirth as in the myth 

of the buffalo and the story of Christ, the rite of passage in primitive societies, 

the role of mystical Shamans, and the decline of ritual in today's society 

First storytellers / executive editor, Bill 

Moyers 

Campbell discusses the importance of accepting death as rebirth as in the myth 

of the buffalo and the story of Christ, 

Fish called Wanda Wanda and her boyfriend Otto are in England to plot alongside George and Ken 

the robbery of a diamond collection 

Fish called Wanda / Metro-Goldwyn- 

Mayer Pictures, Inc 

Fisher King / TriStar Pictures directed by 

Terry Gilliam 

Comedy about a sexy American babe who sets out to seduce her boyfriend and 

partner in crime's lawyer, a polite, poised and nearly comatose Englishman 

A dee-jay who finds himself penniless is plucked from disaster by a homeless 

history professor, who lives in a fantasy world full of castles 

Fit or fat for the 90's Translating the complex mechanisms of muscle chemistry and fat metabolism 

into terms the average person can understand 

Fitting occupation / [presented by] the 

American Society of Mechanical Engineers 

Five easy pieces / Five Easy Pieces 

Productions 

Five great special events / National 

Recreation and Park Association 

Five Latin American authors speak. Juan 

Rulfo 

Five Mile Creek / made in association 

with the Disney Channel and the Seven 

Network Australia 

Program 1 shows how and why the ASME developed codes and standards in 

construction and in part manufacturing. Program 2 explores the century-old 

codes and standards activities of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers 

VHS 177 

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VHS 1794 

DVD 253 

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VHS 1654 

A brilliant, classical pianist from a well-to-do family is caught between lifestyles. VHS 2897 

Describes five successful special events adaptable to any size department or 

agency 

Joaquin Soler Serrano interviews Mexican author Juan Rulfo. Rulfo analyzes his 

two main works and describes his tragic childhood 

Determined to push through the region's first stagecoach line, a small but 

spirited group of American and Australian settlers make their stand at the 

isolated way station of Five Mile Creek. 

Five pillars of Islam The essential principles on which Islam rests--its five pillars--are discussed, 

described and put into historical context. 

Five Presidents on the Presidency / CBS 

News 

Uses interviews with five Presidents of the United States to explore their 

thoughts and feelings about the duties and responsibilities of the Presidency 

VHS 1324 

VHS 1772 

VHS 1488 

VHS 832 

VHS 567 

Five sculptors: from Columbus Ohio Records the thoughts and artistic philosophies of the group Five Sculptors as 

they install their exhibition at Artspace in Lima, Ohio 

VHS 3297 

Flags of our fathers The life stories of the men who raised the American flag at the battle of Iwo Jima DVD 1160 

Flamenco at 5:15 / National Film Board of 

Canada 

Shows how, for a brief interim each year, senior students at the National Ballet 

School of Canada meet with Susana and Antonio Robledo to learn flamenco 

dancing. 

Flapper story Using a lively blend of interviews and archival footage, this documentary takes a 

look at the flapper, the proclaimed "New woman" ideal of America's roaring 

twenties 

Flash Dance Alex Owens is a fiercely determined and beautiful 18 year old woman who 

works as a welder by day and as a dancer at a local bar at night. 

Flight from despair : depression and 

mania / a presentation of Films for the 

Humanities and Sciences 

Flow instabilities / [presented by] the 

National Committee for Fluid Mechanics 

Films 

Flow visualization / [presented by] the 

National Committee for Fluid Mechanics 

Films 

Approximately 20 million Americans are currently grappling with mood 

disorders, devastating mental illnesses 

Shows surface waves generated by wind in a water channel to illustrate the 

general features of flow instability 

Stephen J. Kline demonstrates the use of flow visualization in solving 

engineering problems and establishing mathematical models for analysis of flow 

fields. 

VHS 1981 

DVD 788 

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Flower drum song This unforgettable Broadway smash, filled with memorable songs and brilliant 

dances, centers on a Hong Kong girl who comes to San Franciso for an 

arranged marriage. 

Flowering of applied mathematics in 

America / Peter D. Lax 

Fluid dynamics of drag / produced by 

Education Development Center 

Flying blind : how traditional measures 

mislead 

DVD 1157 

Traces the development of applied mathematics in America VHS 1868 

Ascher H. Shapiro uses experiments and models to introduce and explain 

certain concepts and laws of drag 

Professor Robert S. Kaplan argues that traditional managerial measurement 

systems cannot identify which internal factors drive a company's profits and 

costs, and cannot predict future performance. 

VHS 2194 

VHS 3005 

Flying down to Rio A troupe of entertainers stranded in Rio. VHS 3060 

FMS (flexible manufacturing systems) / 

produced by Society of Manufacturing 

Engineers 

Focus on the fifties / ABC Video 

Enterprises producer, Richard Klein 

Presents a description and history of flexible manufacturing systems, a new 

approach to solving the problem of lagging productivity. 

Uses archival photographs, sound recordings, and film footage to explore world 

events, sports, life-styles, and scientific achievements of the 1950's 

Food power / Optical Data Corporation This program challenges students to analyze nutritional data and evaluate meal 

plans 

Foot injuries / produced in cooperation 

with the National Basketball Association 

For my people : the life and writing of 

Margaret Walker / Judith McCray 

For safety's sake / a CCR Video 

Corporation 

Features trainers from several teams who discuss foot injuries and their 

treatment 

Through interviews with writers, scholars, and Walker herself, this documentary 

examines the life and work of Margaret Walker 

A series of live-action segments illustrate the fundamentals of home safety, 

including accident prevention, common sense rules for being home alone, firstaid, 

and kitchen safety 

For the boys / Twentieth Century Fox A USO singer teams up with a song and dance man to entertain the troops, and 

For The Boys follows them through 3 wars and 50 years of music and memories 

For the love of dance : backstage with 

seven Canadian dance companies 

Force of evil / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and 

Enterprise Studios 

A backstage look at Canada's dance industry as seen through the eyes of 

seven of the country's dance companies. 

A racketeer's lawyer finds that his boss has found a way to bankrupt New York's 

numbers banks but gets wedged between the numbers racket and a new 

prosecutor's anti-crime campaign 

Foreign field Secrets are revealed and passions rekindled when British and American war 

vets return to Normandy on the 50th anniversary of D Day 

Foreign field Secrets are revealed and passions rekindled when British and American war 

vets return to Normandy on the 50th anniversary of D Day 

VHS 16 

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DVD 677 

DVD 677 

Forest Gump The story follows the life of low I.Q. Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks) and his meeting 

with the love of his life Jenny. 

DVD 98 

Forever James Dean / Warner Bros. 

Pictures 

A biographical introduction to James Dean VHS 2629 

Forever young / Warner Bros. presents 

an Icon Production 

It's 1939 and test pilot Daniel McCormick (Mel Gibson) has the world by the tail. VHS 2990 

Forgive us our debts Explores the impact of a country's indebtedness on the poorest members of 

society 

DVD 546 

Form drag, lift and propulsion Discusses the role of boundary layer separation in producing longitudinal and 

lateral components of force on a moving body. 

VHS 919 

Formation of natural arches and bridges Visits Arches National Park and Natural Bridges National Monument in Utah. VHS 1839 

Formulas for seduction : the cinema of 

Atom Egoyan 

The gifted Canadian director and screenwriter, Atom Egoyan talks about his 

films and filmmakers that have influenced him 

VHS 1171 

Fosse A tribute to the man behind such favorites as "Cabaret," "Chicago," "Sweet 

Charity," and "Pippin." 

DVD 300 

Four Noble Truths People possess an innate desire to seek happiness and to overcome suffering. DVD 341


France, 1904-1912 : the enemy below / 

Channel Four Television Limited 

Examines the appeal of early French cinema to the working class audience and 

the populist themes that dominated the earliest films. 

Frances Steloff : memoirs of a bookseller A look at Frances Steloff, the founder and force behind the Gotham Bookmart of 

New York City, a gathering place and center for avant-garde literature and 

artists since 1920 

Franco, Caudillo of Spain / Nielsen-Ferns 

Int. Ltd. director, Jeremy Murray-Brown 

Frank film / a film by Frank and Caroline 

Mouris 

Presents a view of the career of Francisco Franco, Spanish general and political 

leader, from his rise to power in the 1920s to his death in 1975. 

Combines animated sequences with two simultaneous narrative sound tracks to 

create a series of complex, moving patterns which satirize contemporary 

middleclass life 

Frank Lloyd Wright Uses interviews and archival footage to tell the story of the melodramatic life 

and stunning architecture 

Frank Lloyd Wright : the Mike Wallace 

interviews 

Franz Kline remembered / a film by Carl 

Colby 

Frank Lloyd Wright was 90 years old and in New York to supervise construction 

of his last masterpiece 

VHS 2618 

VHS 2019 

VHS 144 

VHS 1972 

DVD 299 

DVD 298 

A film portrait of the late American abstract expressionist painter Franz Kline. VHS 2032 

Fred Astaire Gene Kelly, Audrey Hepburn, Jimmy Stewart, David Niven and others salute 

Fred's contributions to the art of film in this tribute to the greatest dancer of our 

times 

Freedom on my mind Documentary of the civil rights movement and the events surrounding the 

Mississippi Voter Registration Project of the early 1960's. 

Freedom writers story about a teacher in a racially divided school who gives her students what 

they've always needed, a voice. 

French alive! / Bernard Petit Video 

Productions 

Eighteen episodes portraying French language and culture designed to provide 

an opportunity for first year language students to practice their listening and 

language skills 

French chef 1, Starters and side dishes: 1. The potato show -- 2. Your own French onion 

soup -- 3. Bouillabaisse à la Marseillaise -- 4. The spinach twins -- 5. Salade 

Niçoise -- 6. French fries -- Disc 2, Main courses: 1. Boeuf bourguignon -- 2. To 

roast a chicken -- 3. The lobster show -- 4. To stuff a sausage -- 5. Tripes à la 

mode -- 6. The whole fish story -- Disc 3, Baking, desserts, and other classics: 

1. Queen of sheba cake -- 2. Cheese and wine party -- 3. Apple dessert -- 4. 

Mousse au chocolat -- 5. The good loaf -- 6. The omelette show 

French chef 2 1. Starters and side dishes. Vegetables : the French way -- Vegetable 

adventures -- Elegance with eggs -- More about potatoes -- Terrines & pâtés -- 

Hollandaise family -- disc 2. Main courses. French crêpes I -- Cooking your 

goose -- Roast suckling pig -- Fish in monk's clothing -- Cheese soufflé -- Sole 

bonne femme -- disc 3. Baking, desserts, and other classics. French crêpes II -- 

Bûche de Noël -- Croissants -- Gâteau in a cage -- French bread -- VIP cake 

French connection Two New York City narcotics detectives learn of a scheme to smuggle a large 

quantity of heroin inside an automobile being shipped from France 

VHS 3312 

VHS 2311 

DVD 1066 

VHS 2025 

DVD 716 

DVD 717 

DVD 191 

Fresa y chocolate A young college kid meets a writer and a passionate woman who teach him the 

things that aren't taught in school 

VHS 1123 

Freud today / a Blackbox production Discusses Freud's approach to thinking VHS 664 

Frida The life of artist Frida Kahlo, from her humble upbringing to her worldwide fame 

and controversy that surrounded both her and her husband, Diego Rivera 

DVD 815 

Friendly persuasion A heart-warming story about the day-to-day experiences of a Quaker family 

living in Indiana in 1862, showing their religious beliefs, their worldly 

temptations, their petty feuds, and their reactions in a time of crisis 

DVD 843 

Frog Compares frogs with other amphibians. Shows their complete life cycle VHS 2182


From a secret place : America's families 

cope with the coming out process of gay 

and lesbian youth 

From CAD to success story : creating a 

new car 

Young lesbians, gays, and their families describe their own coming out 

experiences clearly and poignantly 

Traces the development of a new BMW automobile, from design through 

construction to its becoming available to the public 

VHS 1552 

VHS 2749 

From dusk till dawn After kidnapping a father and his two kids, the Gecko brothers head south to a 

seedy Mexican bar to hide out in safety. 

VHS 1559 

From here to eternity Drama about life in the Army in the days prior to World War II. DVD 190 

From resignation to renewal Host Robert Larson presents facets of the aged and their struggle to resist 

defeat. Includes segments from four illustrative films 

VHS 403 

From Tzar to Stalin / produced and 

directed by Raphael Nussbaum 

Frozen world;"The Skin of our teeth : a 

personal view 

Excerpts of historical films covering the period of the reign of Czar Nicholas II to 

Josef Stalin 

VHS 1515 

by Kenneth Clark writer and narrator VHS 1286 

Fruit of dreams Chronicles the experience of Mexican farmworkers in the Traverse City, 

Michigan area from the 1920s to the 1970s 

Fugitive A Chicago surgeon falsely convicted of killing his wife is determined to prove his 

innocence 

Fugitive v. 1, season 1 Dr. Richard Kimble is accused in the murder of his wife. The night before he is 

scheduled to be executed, he escapes. Now the only way to prove he is 

innocent is to find the real killer 

Full circle Mediations Around & about / 

Gary Hill 

In Full circle, originally entitled Ring modulation, the performer attempts to 

overcome the matter of difference between metal and electronic signals. 

Full metal jacket Vietnam war drama which begins with a depiction of the brutality of Marine 

Corps training and then shifts to Vietnam 

Fundamental manufacturing processes: 

comouter numerical control 

Provides an introduction to the basic principles of computer numerical control 

(CNC), 

VHS 3306 

DVD 97 

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DVD 596 

Fundamentals of boundary layers Illustrates boundary layer concepts and phenomena using demonstrationexperiments 

in water and glycerin 

VHS 2382 

Funny girl A musical film that follows the early career of stage comedienne Fanny Brice DVD 206 

Furious flower : African American poetry 

1960-1995 

A video anthology of African American poetry from the last half of the 20th 

century. 

Fuses / Carolee Schneemann A silent celebration in color of heterosexual lovemaking. The artist's objective 

was to make an erotic film that was not pornographic, as well as to give an 

equal voice to women's eroticism 

VHS 2073 

VHS 554 

Future is now : reconciling change and 

continuity in authority control 

Proceedings of the OCLC Symposium, ALA annual conference June 3, 1995 VHS 902 

Future of aging / produced by the 

University of Hawaii, Center on Aging 

Annenbert/CPB project VHS 2842 

Future wave Discusses aesthetics and economics behind contemporary Japanese design. VHS 2596 

Gabriela Mistral / una production de 

Alvarez & Asociados Comunicaciones para 

Pramer 

An in-depth portrait of Gabriela Mistral, one of Latin America's most gifted poets. VHS 1777 

Gallipoli / Associated R&R Films PTY, Ltd A story of how the irresistible lure of adventure and the unknown bring two 

young men together in the Australian army in 1915 

Game / Paramount Pictures After a romantic vacation on Risa, Riker returns to the Enterprise with a 

pleasurable electronic mind game. 

Game for vultures / Video Treasures 

presents a Pyramid film for Caris 

Enterprises Limited 

Gideon Marunga and David Swansey come from two different worlds: the world 

of high finance and big deals and the world of freedom fighting and meager 

survival. 

Gangs of New York In 1846, waves of Irish immigrants poured into the New York neighborhood of 

Five Points. 

Ganja and Hess / MDM Productions 

Michael D. Moore presents 

A black anthropologist is studying the ancient culture of Myrthia which 

disappeared when it was destroyed by a transmittable amoebic parasite that 

was addicted to blood. 

VHS 355 

VHS 987 

VHS 1722 

DVD 665 

VHS 1594


Garden of delights A ruthless tycoon suffers amnesia, paralysis, and loses his ability to 

communicate after an auto accident. 

Garden of Eden / Florentine Films 

Nature Conservancy 

Explains the critical need to protect the habitats of endangered species and 

their ecosystems 

VHS 735 

VHS 2016 

Garden of forking paths A series of programs looking at contemporary Latin America. VHS 3059 

Gate of heavenly peace / produced and 

directed by Jocelyne Benzakin, J.B. 

Pictures 

Gateway / Division of Audiovisual Arts, 

National Park Service 

Gathering of men / produced by Betsy 

McCarthy 

Gattaca / Columbia Pictures presents a 

Jersey Films production 

A documentary filmed June 4, 1989 in Tiananmen Square portraying students 

rallying for democracy moments before they were gunned down by government 

troops. 

A kaleidoscopic view of Gateway National Recreation Area showing its sand 

dunes and beaches, Floyd Bennett Air Field, historic Fort Monmouth, and the 

lighthouse at Sandy Hook. 

Bill Moyers interviews Robert Bly about the confusion men feel today about their 

roles in society and in their inner lives. 

Story about an all-too-human man who dares to defy a system obsessed with 

genetic perfection. 

Gay divorcee / RKO Radio Pictures Musical comedy of bedroom confusions and misunderstandings that result when 

an American dancer begins pursuing an English woman 

Gemini science / produced by the 



Deals with Project Gemini, which was to subject men and equipment to longer 

space flights to gain experience for trips to the moon 

VHS 2913 

VHS 1233 

VHS 2131 

DVD 80 

VHS 455 

VHS 564 

Gene Kelly Shirley MacLaine hosts a tribute to Gene Kelly, with clips from "An American in 

Paris", "Cover girl", and "Singin' in the rain." 

VHS 3314 

General Silent - Buster Keaton film DVD 412 

General [The general] A locomotive is beloved by its engineer, who sets out to win the 

Civil War single handedly 

DVD 361 

General / produced by Schenck-United 

Artists 

A comedy about a young southerner who repeatedly tried to enlist in the 

Confederate Army but who was refused because he was of more value to the 

cause as the engineer of the General 

General chemistry for the new MCAT DVD study guide for the general chemistry section of the Medical College 

Admission Test. Each section is cross-referenced to a specific chapter in The 

Gold Standard MCAT (2007) written by Brett L. Ferdinand 

General line A Russian peasant woman is converted to socialist agricultural principles and 

fights superstition and bureaucracy to create a cooperative in her community 

Generation of artists / produced and 

directed by Steven Kostant 

Genetic screening--the ultimate preventive 

medicine? / KCTS 

Chronicle of the immigration experience of two young Czech artists in 

Washington, D.C., an American filmmaker travels to Prague to see the 1989 

Revolution through the eyes of his friends' parents. 

Examines options that parents have for prenatal testing of their children and 

how genetic counseling has affected some parents. 

VHS 461 

DVD 1219 

VHS 3158 

VHS 2946 

VHS 267 

Gentle on the land Gentle on the land is the account of the Raven Rocks Project in Beallsville, OH. 

T 

VHS 162 

Gentleman's agreement A journalist assigned to write a series of articles on anti-Semitism DVD 330 

Geologic time : the age of the earth Traces the history of geologic time, including methods of measurement. VHS 1577 

Geology of Hocking Hills Park / 

Instructional Video 

Located in the rolling hills of Southeastern Ohio, Hocking Hills State Park is rich 

in natural beauty and geological processes in action. 

Geopen / Effective Communication Arts Discusses production, packaging and quality control of the drug Geopen 

manufactured by the Roerig division of Pfizer Pharmaceuticals 

George Carruth; an American sculptor Discusses Carruth's move from corporate America to his work as a successful 

sculptor of fey, whimsical creatures drawn from nature, creatures that can be 

found in his shops, in catalogs, and in gift shops throughout the country 

George Eliot's Daniel Deronda Daniel Deronda is a sensitive, intelligent, young man haunted by secrets that 

shroud his birth. 

George Washington's teeth A rollicking rhyme portrays George Washington's lifelong struggle with bad 

teeth. 

Geraldo show : gypsies, tramps & 

thieves? / produced by the Investigative 

News Group 

Discusses the gypsy culture and the reputation of gypsies as tramps and 

thieves. 

VHS 827 

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Germaine Dulac's Smiling Madame Beudet 

and, The seashell and the clergyman 

Smiling Madame Beudet: A study in domestic conflicts, this film portrays the life 

and dreams of a housewife in a small town who is married to a repulsive 

businessman. 

VHS 1596 

German high command / CBS, Inc A look at the men around Hitler, those who served him, and those who tried to 

kill him 

VHS 351 

German invasion of the Soviet Union : 

Operation Barbarossa 

The German invasion of the Soviet Union: VHS 1511 

German Lutheran Churches; Building faith 

sacred architecture 

Germans : portrait of a new nation / New 

River Media production 

Germany 1925-1932 : under two flags / 

Channel 4 TV, PI Production 

Germany and the Eastern Front / 

produced by CBS News 

Germany on the road / produced by 

Deutsche Welle TV, Cologne 

Germany reunites / produced and 

directed by Steven Kostan 

Get on the bus/ Columbia Pictures 

presents a 15 Black Men 

When Lutheranism was born, the need for a new style of church was born along 

with it. Drawing on architectural examples from Germany and North America, 

this video connects principles of Lutheranism 

Five years after unification, Germany is emerging as Europe's most powerful 

country. 

The social workers' movements, influenced by the achievements of the young 

Soviet cinema, created the German Workers' Film. 

DVD 785 

VHS 533 

VHS 2620 

Behind the German lines -- Revolution in red VHS 2186 

This documentary explores the conditions in Germany two years after 

reunification 

A look at the changes in East Germany following the revolution in the Fall of 

1989 

Follows a group of different men traveling from Los Angeles to the march in 

Washington, D.C. On the way they will make friends, make enemies, and make 

history 

VHS 2880 

VHS 2942 

VHS 241 

Get real Navigating your way through adolescence can be like hiking through a minefield DVD 626 

Get Shorty Comedy; based on the novel by Elmore Leonard VHS 836 

Get up, stand up / a production of WGBH 

Boston 

A series of programs looking at contemporary Latin America. VHS 3066 

Getting a positive response in each of the Explore the 7 phases of an interview: before the interview, opening moves, the DVD 634 

seven interview phases 

interview itself, closing the interview, following up, negotiating salary, and final 

decisions. 

Getting good answers to tough interview 

questions 

Getting in tune : creating nurturing 

relationships with infants and toddlers 

Mike Farr, author and career planning specialist, discusses the steps needed to 

get and keep the job you really want 

Presents steps caregivers can take to establish supportive, responsive 

relationships with infants and toddlers 

Gettysburg / Classic Images Productions Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and Meade's Army of the Potomac met in 

combat at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 1-3, 1863 

Ghost A ghost teams up with a psychic to uncover the truth behind his murder--and to 

rescue his sweetheart from a similar fate 

Ghost and Mrs. Muir At the turn of the century a young widow and her daughter move into a cottage 

on the English coast. Soon she learns that the cottage is haunted by the ghost 

of its former owner 

DVD 631 

VHS 923 

VHS 1995 

DVD 252 

DVD 366 

Ghostbusters When ghosts go on a rampage, only three men can save the world DVD 251 

Giant 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 

DVD 488 

Giant sequoias of Sequoia, Kings Canyon 

and Yosemite National Parks 

Gifts from the earth / produced by WQED 

Pittsburgh 

Brings the natural science story of these giant trees up-to-date with information 

gathered through research during the past ten years. 

In the past decade, mankind has been made increasingly aware that earth is a 

closed system and its resources are finite. 

Gigi A musical set in Paris in which a girl trained as a high society courtesan falls in 

love with a rich and handsome boulevardier 

Gigi / screen play and lyrics by Alan Jay 

Lerner 

A musical set in Paris in which a girl trained as a high society courtesan falls in 

love with a rich and handsome boulevardier 

Gilda / Columbia Pictures A South American casino owner hires a young American as his right-hand man, 

who once was the lover of the owner's new bride 

Gimme shelter / Maysles Films, Inc Videocassette release of the landmark 1969 concert at Altamont, California, 

where the evening ended with a fatal knifing. 

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Girls like us: 4 years in the lives of 4 girls / 

Jane & Tina Productions 

Girls town / C-Hundred Film Corp and 

Boomer Pictures October Films 

Give me that big time religion / WGBH 

Boston 

Given a chance / produced by Blackside, 

Inc. 

Documentary on the attitudes and dreams of 4 teenagers from different ethnic 

and economic backgrounds 

A gritty coming-of-age tale of four tough inner-city high school friends and the 

unexpected forces that threaten to tear them apart 

VHS 1175 

VHS 256 

A close look at Jimmy Swaggart, the most popular television evangelist VHS 687 

Early 1965 is a critical period for President Johnson's war on poverty. VHS 572 

Giving birth : Four portraits Shows four couples engaged in different methods of childbirth: high technology, 

Leboyer method, natural Lamaze approach, and a midwife delivery 

Giving 'em what they want / Martin 

Sandler Productions 

Glaciers shape our earth / Executive 

producer, Laurence Jankowski 

A look at past and present entrepreneurs who have found new ways to sell and 

distribute their goods using psychology and other methods of persuasion 

Explains the formation of glaciers describes three categories of glaciers and 

land features made by glacial flow, erosion, and deposition 

Gladiator 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 

Glass menagerie / Cineplex Odeon Films A strong willed woman attempts to impose her shattered dreams into the life 

and personality of her shy, reclusive daughter 

Glen Campbell : live in London / Prism 

Entertainment 

Rhinestone cowboy; Dreams of the everyday housewife; Wichita lineman; Good 

vibrations; Help me Rhonda; By the time I get to Phoenix; Galveston; Classical 

gas; William Tell Overture; Surfer girl; Southern nights 

Global assembly line Portrays the lives of working men and women in the free trade zones of 

developing countries and North America 

Global brain / Peter Russell Explores the idea that the Earth is an integrated, self-regulating living organism, 

and asks what function humanity might have for this planetary being. 

Global groove / by Nam June Paik and 

John Godfrey 

Paik's classic 1973 video collage of live action and various types of video art 

with the theme of music as a non-verbal communication medium 

VHS 383 

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DVD 674 

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VHS 1723 

VHS 2214 

VHS 2307 

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Gloria Steinem Follows the life of the leader of the modern Women's Movement VHS 992 

Glory and the power--fundamentalisms 

observed / WETA/Washington 

This three-part series explores the rise and impact of fundamentalisms in three 

religions -- Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. 

Go back to school The two wealthiest men in America, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, give 

business students at the University of Nebraska advice on how to get a job, how 

to find success, and how to help change the world 

Go down, death / [presented by] Alfred N. 

Sack 

A morality melodrama which puts a minister's reputation in question, bringing 

him to the brink of Heaven and Hell. --Facets video catalog 9 

Go fish The death of their mother reunites the Johnson family as they gather at the 

family cabin to decide who will take care of their mentally challenged brother 

Go fish / a Can I Watch Pictures 

production 

Goddess dancers of Cambodia : classical 

Khmer ballet / WCBS TV 

Godfather / Paramount Pictures 

Corporation 

Kia, a professor, speculates with her students about who might be a lesbian in 

American society. 

Faubion Bowers interprets the dances and interviews the prima dancer who 

demonstrates the dancer's training, and with Bower's commentary, explains the 

meaning of various movements 

The Corleone Family nearly falls from power in America but rises to observe the 

passage of rites from father to son. 

Godfather DVD collection Bonus Materials Behind the scenes: The Godfather family ; On location ; Francis Coppola's 

notebook ; The music of the Godfather ; Coppola & Puzo on screenwriting ; 

Gordon Willis on cinematography ; Storyboards from The Godfather, part II and 

part III 

Godfather( DVD Collection-5 disk set) The Corleone Family nearly falls from power in America but rises to observe the 

passage of rites from father to son. 

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Godfather, Pt. I Explores the history and influence of a U.S. Mafia family. Don Corleone, the 

family patriarch, tries to ensure that his sons will inherit his position and power 

over rival Mafioso factions 

Godfather, Pt. II In this sequel, two stories are told: the roots and rise of a young Don Vito and 

the ascension of Michael as the new Don 

Godfather, Pt. III In this final story of the trilogy, Michael, now in his 60s, is dominated by two 

passions: freeing his family from crime and finding a suitable successor 

Gods must be crazy An empty Coke bottle drops from the sky near an African San hunter and is 

brought into his camp 

Gods must be crazy I & II In The gods must be crazy, an empty Coke bottle drops from the sky near Xixo, 

an African San hunter, who tries to return the bottle to the gods that must have 

dropped it. In The gods must be crazy II, Xixo's children become accidental 

stowaways on a poacher's truck and Xixo sets out to find them 

God's stepchildren / Alfred N. Sack 

presents a Micheaux production 

A light-skinned girl is abandoned by her mother and is sent by her foster mother 

to an all-Black school. 

Goebbels experiment Using archival clips from German films and television, and readings from 

Goebbels' own diaries, this documentary explores the Nazi propaganda 

machine run by Goebbels before and during World War II 

Goin' to Chicago / produced and directed 

by George King 

A group of longtime Chicago residents returns to Greenville, Mississippi for a 

reunion with family and friends. 

DVD 985 

DVD 986 

DVD 987 

VHS 2055 

DVD 854 

VHS 1589 

DVD 828 

VHS 2213 

Going my way Father O'Malley is a young priest. He is new to an established but financially 

flailing parish. 

DVD 1016 

Going to school = Ir a la escuela A documentary film about empowering children with disabilities in Los Angeles VHS 2612 

Gold rush The Little Tramp goes to the Klondike seeking gold and finds love and 

adventure 

Goldfinger / United Artists Corporation Agent 007 takes on billionaire Auric Goldfinger, who plans to throw the world 

economy into a tailspin by contaminating the gold at Fort Knox with nuclear 

radiation 

VHS 469 

DVD 384 

Golf my way / Taft Broadcasting 

Company/J.N. Productions 

Two hours of personal instruction by Jack Nicklaus VHS 31 

Gone with the wind Focuses on the life and loves of the beautiful and selfish Scarlett O'Hara. DVD 263 

Gone with the wind / Selznick 

International Pictures 

Videorecording of the 1939 motion picture by Selznick International VHS 2269 

Good book of love; sex in the Bible Narrator, Kathleen Turner DVD 448 

Good German Takes place in the ruins of post-WWII Berlin, where U.S. Army war 

correspondent Jake Geismar becomes involved with Lena Brandt, a former 

lover whose missing husband is the object of a manhunt led by both the 

American and Russian armies. 

DVD 1180 

Good morning Miss Toliver Shows how East Harlem teacher, Kay Toliver, gets her students inspired and 

motivated in the math class 

Good morning Vietnam Disc jockey Adrian Cronauer blasts the formerly staid, sanitized airwaves with a 

constant barrage of rapid-fire humor and the hottest hits from back home 

Good morning, Vietnam (Motion picture : 

1987) 

Disc jockey Adrian Cronauer blasts the formerly staid, sanitized airwaves with a 

constant barrage of rapid-fire humor and the hottest hits from back home 

Good mother Anna place her newfound lifestyle under scrutiny, shattering her relationship 

with Leo and forcing her to prove that she's a good mother 

Good night and good luck chronicles the real-life conflict between television newsman Edward R. Murrow 

and Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities 

Committee. 

Good rockin' tonight : the legacy of Sun 

Records 

A look Sun Records, a Nashville company that defined American music. Part of 

the series American Masters 

VHS 3289 

DVD 264 

VHS 3094 

DVD 491 

DVD 660 

DVD 75 

Good shepherd Thriller about the birth of the CIA DVD 1159 

Good, the bad and the ugly / United 

Artists directed by Sergio Leone 

During the American Civil War, three men seek hidden loot. With greed as their 

sole motivation, they overcome anything that gets in their way 

DVD 8


Goodbye girl When a woman's ex-husband sublets her apartment right out from under her 

and she refuses to move 

Goodbye Mr. Chips A shy British school master named Mr. Chipping devotes his life to teaching "his 

boys" after the death of his lovely, energetic American wife Katherine. 

Goodbye New York /produced by Amos 

Kollek 

The comic mishaps of Nancy who finds herself mistakenly on an Israeli kibbutz 

with no luggage, no money and no idea what to do 

Goodbye people / Embassy Pictures Corp Max Silverman who, now in his seventies, desires to reopen his beachfront hot 

dog stand that folded 22 years ago. 

Goodfellas Revolving around low-level gangster Henry Hill, this film gives an inside look at 

the Mafia from 1955-80 

Gorillas in the mist : the story of Dian 

Fossey 

Based on the true story of young anthropologist Dian Fossey who travels to the 

African mountains to study the rare gorillas 

Gosford park Drama set at the country estate of Sir William McCordle in 1932, showing the 

lives of upstairs guests and downstairs servants at a hunting party weekend 

when one of the group is murdered 

Gospel truth Shows the actual historical remains of the time and place, perhaps of the life, of 

Jesus and tells how the Christian Bible came into existence 

Gosta Berlings saga / [directed by Mauritz 

Stiller] 

The story centers around the defrocked priest, Gosta Berling, and his life and 

relationships with the people of Ekeby Manor and Varland 

Gotterdammerung = Damned Visconti's study of a family's disintegration in greed, lust and madness of prewar 

Germany. Dubbed in English 

Graduate A recent college graduate from an affluent family comes of age and finds 

himself by being led into an affair 

Graffiti verite : read the writing on the wall 

/directed by Bob Bryan 

Los Angeles graffiti artists discuss the themes and motivations of their work and 

how they evolved from taggers to artists. 

Grand Canyon / Twentieth Century Fox In Los Angeles, two men from very different walks of life meet and their 

friendship, based on a good deed, sets into motion a chain of events that 

surprises and affects their lives 

Grand Canyon, amphitheater of the gods Explores the Grand Canyon including, Hopi Point, Bright Angel Point, and 

Hermit's Rest. 

Grand hotel The glitz and glitter of Berlin's Grand Hotel comes alive with this story of love 

and betrayal. Contains both fullscreen and widescreen 

Grand illusion French prisoners determined to escape from Von Stroheim, their German captor 

- an officer and gentleman in the Prussian tradition 

Grand illusion / directed by Jean Renoir 

original screenplay by Charles Spaak and 

Jean Renoir 

Tells of two French officers captured by German forces in 1916. While 

prisoners the two officers encounter an aristocratic German officer. 

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Grand opera in Japan A collection of operas performed in Japan in the 1950's and 1960's VHS 366 

Graphic design / a Films for the 

Humanities presentation 

Graphic design: 1 : demonstrating the 

values of good design / Step-by-Step 

Video 

Shows the range and diversity of visual ideas appropriate to television 

production and the ways in which various techniques 

This video emphasizes the creative aspect, shows how to develop new 

concepts and explore various options and follows actual projects as ideas 

evolve into finished layouts 

Grease Musical concerning the romance between a teen-age gang-leader and his naive 

girlfriend, set in the 1950's 

Great artists Art historian Tim Marlow explores the lives and works of the greatest artists in 

history. 

Great Britain 1900-1912 : along the great 

divide 

Early films in Britain are reviewed and show how early filmmakers worked in a 

climate of fear, in an era of panic, that the empire was in danger. 

Great day in Havana A vibrant celebration of artists and musicians in Havana, Cuba's capital. 

Musicians, painters, sculptors, writers, and filmmakers reveal and reflect on 

Cuba's precarious political climate, its African heritage, the ironies of tourism, 

and how to live with dignity in the face of the United States embargo 

Great dictator / the Charles Chaplin Film 

Corporation 

Stars Charlie Chaplin in two totally opposite roles: a Jewish barber facing the 

constant threat of storm troopers and religious persecution the other, the 

dictator, Adenoid Hynkel 

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Great Escape high-security German prisoner-of-war camp in 1942 holds only known 

troublemakers and risk-takers, all of whom are determined to pull off the war's 

most daring escape 

DVD 94 

Great speeches Presents famous speeches, each with an introduction detailing the time, place DVD 522 v. 

and events surrounding it 

1 

Great speeches : Volume I / narrated by 

Edward Roehling 

A collection of speeches by famous persons DVD 522 

Great web of water : Central Valley 

Project 

Describes the federal Central Valley Project in California, one of the world's 

largest water management developments. 

Great Ziegfeld Ziegfeld is a theatrical impresario, whose show business empire begins when 

he stage-manages a tour for a strongman. With almost no money in the bank, 

he charms European stage star Anna Held to headline his "Follies". 

Greatest show on earth A splashy, colorful look at life under the big top that weaves the personal stories 

of the performers in with the spectacle and color of the circus. 

Greek myths Part 2 : myth as science, 

religion, and drama 

Presents several of the more important Greek myths through drama, animation, 

and great works of art 

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Greeks: crucible of civilization The story of ancient Greece's Golden Age DVD 296 

Green card / Touchstone Pictures Two strangers agree to a marriage of convenience. She gets the apartment of 

her dreams, and he gets a green card to live in the U.S. 

VHS 2892 

Gregory's girl / the Samuel Goldwyn 

Company 

Sixteen-year-old, Gregory, has his first encounter with girls. Gregory's love-life 

takes off with his infatuation with Dorothy, the first female player on his all-male 

soccer team. 

Grey's anatomy - season 1 Comedic look at the often complicated personal life and career of medical intern 

Meredith Grey, and her fellow interns at Seattle Grace Hospital 

Grey's anatomy - season 2 Comedic look at the often complicated personal life and career of medical intern 

Meredith Grey, and her fellow interns at Seattle Grace Hospital 

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Grief and healing Seven everyday people reflect on their experiences with loss, grief, and healing. DVD 437 

Grifters / Miramax Films Cineplex Odeon 

Films 

Three con artists walk on the razor's edge of life. Lilly has decided it's time to 

get out, and wants her son out, too. 

DVD 51 

Groundhog Day A romantic comedy about a weatherman caught in a personal time warp where 

it is Groundhog Day 

DVD 93 

Group theater Harold Clurman, Lee Strasberg, and Robert Lewis reminisce about the Group 

Theatre 

VHS 1172 

Groupthink / a CRM Production Discusses the eight specific traits of group behavior isolated by Dr. Irving Janis 

in his book Victims of Groupthink. 

VHS 2622 

Growing mind : a Piagetian view of young 

children 

A teacher-training film. VHS 2110 

Guess who's coming to dinner When the daughter of well-to-do liberal parents plans to marry a black doctor, 

both families must sit down face to face and examine each other's level of 

intolerance 

DVD 229 

Guess who's coming to dinner / Columbia 

Pictures Corporation 

Guide to orchestral bowings through 

musical styles 

An interracial marriage causes both sets of parents to examine each other's 

level of intolerance 

Contains examples of stringed instrument bowing styles from the orchestral 

repertoire performed by the Chamber String Players of Wisconsin, conducted by 

Vartan Manoogian 

Guillotine / Non Fiction Films Examines the history of the 'national razor' that started out strictly for execution 

and then became a source of entertainment. 

Guitarra: the guitar in Spain with Julian 

Bream. volume 1 





A history of the classical guitar in Spain. Program 1. features 16th century 

guitar music, especially vihuela music, played by Bream on a vihuela. 

A history of the classical guitar in Spain. Program 3 features the classical style 

of guitar music from the 18th and 19th centuries. 

A history of the classical guitar in Spain. Program 5 features the re-awaking of a 

national expression in Spanish music as expressed in the music of Enrique 

Granados. 

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Gullah Tales Gullah tales is set in 1930 in Southern Georgia and South Carolina and is based 

on folklore of peoples of African descent 

Gulliver's travels / Paramount Pictures An animated version of Jonathan Swift's classic satire about the little people of 

Lilliput and the giant who is beached on their shore 

Gung ho / Paramount Pictures Corp Michael Keaton persuades a Japanese auto firm to reopen his home town's 

defunct auto factory 

Guns of August / executive producer, 

Lawrence G. White 

Original newsreel clips illustrate the origins of World War I, and the major battles 

of that war 

Guns of Navarone A specialized commando team is assembled to destroy the German Army's 

mighty guns of Navarone, because they control a strategic channel in the 

Aegean Sea 

Guns, germs, and steel An epic detective story that offers a gripping expose on why the world is so 

unequal. Professor Jared Diamond traveled the globe for over 30 years trying to 

answer this question. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book. 

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Gunter Grass : Ein Portrat Presents German author Gunter Grass in different settings VHS 2126 

Guy named Joe / Loew's Incorporated 

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. 

A heartwarming tale based on the legend that pilots never die but return to 

guide fledgling airmen 

VHS 1737 

Guys & Dolls Musical comedy about the romancing of a beautiful Salvation Army missionary 

on a bet by a New York gentleman gambler. 

DVD 1033 

Gypsies Documentary - follows a traveling gypsy caravan across rural Poland. DVD 1119 

Gypsies and the freedom to hate / a 


Sciences 

H.G. Well's The invisible man / a 

Universal picture Carl Laemmle presents 

ABC News correspondent, Chris Bury, looks at an age-old prejudice that has 

resurfaced in such countries as Hungary and Czech Republic 

A scientist discovers how to make himself invisible but can't reverse the 

process. 

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Hair / United Artists A CIP feature A country boy spends time in New York City before going to serve in Vietnam. DVD 37 

Hairspray / New Line Cinema A film which captures the essence of the early 1960's through music, dancing, 

and bouffant hairdos 

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Hajj : a journey of faith / CNN Includes the history and significance of Hajj in the Islamic faith VHS 638 

Half nelson A high school teacher with a drug habit finds a friendship in an unlikely source - 

one of his troubled students 

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Half of anything Indians of North America VHS 2396 

Half of heaven / Luis Megino 

Producciones Cinematograficas, S.A 

Story of the social rise of a beautiful ambitious peasant girl, the film is a lusty 

appreciation of the power, tenacity and mysteries of women 

VHS 1935 

Halloween On Halloween night years ago, little Michael Meyers brutally slaughtered his 

sister in cold blood. 

DVD 280 

Hamlet / a Columbia Pictures Production Presents a performance of Shakespeare's Hamlet with Nicol Williamson in the 

title role 

VHS 702 

Hamlet / BBC-TV and Time-Life TV Presents a dramatization of William Shakespeare's play entitled Hamlet VHS 217 

Hamlet / Castle Rock Entertainment First-ever full-text film of Shakespeare's greatest work. Branagh sets the 

timeless tale of murder, corruption and revenge in an opulent 19th-century world 

VHS 2072 

Hamlet / Warner Bros and Nelson 

Entertainment : based on the play by 

William Shakespeare 

Film version of Shakespeare's tragedy. Hamlet, a prince of medieval Denmark, 

senses treachery involving his mother behind his royal father's death 

Hammer After spending his life trying to get off the streets of L.A., ex-Golden Gloves 

champ B.J. Hammer has finally earned his shot at boxing's big time. 

Handicap / South Carolina Educational 

Television Commission 

Dr. Lee Salk and three handicapped children discuss how it feels to be 

handicapped 

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Hannah and her sisters / Orion Pictures A look at three sisters and the relationship they have with one another, and with 

the men in their lives 

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Hansel und Gretel / DEFA Studio fur 

Trickfilme Dresden 

Puppet show of the fairy tale VHS 44


Hanya, portrait of a dance pioneer / 

University Foundation, California State 

University, Chico 

Using archival footage from the 30's and 40's, and interviews with many of her 

students, this film traces the career of Hanya Holm, dancer-choreographer, from 

the 20's through the Broadway stage 

VHS 2005 

Happy feet Emperor Penguins from Antarctica each express their true love with a special 

heartsong of their own that expresses their very being 

DVD 1108 

Hard bop sound / produced by University 

Media Resources, University of Minnesota 

Illustrates the various forms of the jazz style known as Hard Bop. VHS 321 

Hardware / produced by Minnesota 

Satellite & Technology 

Harlan County U.S.A. / a Cabin Creek 

Film production produced and directed by 

Barbara Kopple 

In this program, the viewer is taught about the equipment needed to perform 

multimedia enhanced training 

Chronicles the efforts of 180 coal-mining families to win a United Mine Workers 

contract in Kentucky. 

Harold & Maude A black comedy about a rich, disturbed, young man, fascinated with death and 

fu 

Harold and Maude / Paramount Pictures A black comedy about a rich, disturbed, young man, fascinated with death and 

funerals, who has an affair and a series of adventures with an eccentric and 

independent 80 year-old woman 

Harry and the Hendersons / Universal 

City Studios, Inc 

Harry and Walter go to New York / 

Columbia Pictures Corporation 

When an average American family meets Harry, a legendary Bigfoot creature, 

their life is turned upside down until they are able to return him back to his 

natural environment 

Lavish period farce with Caan and Gould as low-grade vaudevillians in the 

1890's who wind up trying their luck as safecrackers in New York 

Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets Finds young wizard Harry and his friends Ron and Hermoine facing new 

challenges during their second year at Hogwarts School 

Harry Potter and the goblet of fire Harry's fourth year at Hogwarts is marked by the Quidditch World Cup and the 

Triwizard Tournament, in which student representatives from three different 

wizarding schools compete in a series of increasingly challenging contests. 

Harry Potter and the prisioner of Azkaban Harry, Ron, and Hermione, now teenagers, return for their third year at 

Hogwarts 

Harry potter and the socerer's stone Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a 

great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft 

and Wizardry 

Harvest of shame Hosted by Mike Wallace, Walter Cronkite, and Dan Rather, this 4-pack set 

explores the life and groundbreaking work of Edward R. Murrow, America's 

most esteemed broadcast journalist 

Harvey Comedy about a good-natured fellow whose constant companion is a six-foot 

tall invisible rabbit. 

Harvey / Universal Pictures Co., Inc Comedy about a good-natured fellow whose constant companion is a six-foot 

tall invisible rabbit. 

Hatari! John Wayne heads a group of highly skilled professional game hunters in Africa 

who capture the ferocious big game with strong rope and cameras for zoos and 

circus attractions 

Haunting Adapted from Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House, this psychological 

thiller tells the story of four people who come to the house to study its 

supernatural phenomena 

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Haunting / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc Dr. Markway, a trained anthropologist with a special interest in psychic 

research, wants to try what he hopes will be a true exercise in terror. 

VHS 1315 

Havana postmodern : the new Cuban art / 

Balázs Béla Stúdió production 

Examines trends in contemporary Cuban art VHS 1704 

Hazing : a Greek tragedy / Media 

Production Group 

Contains a speech delivered by Eileen Stevens to a group of college students 

about the events leading to the death of her son, Chuck, from a fraternity 

hazing. 

VHS 2911 

He makes me feel like dancin' The excitement of school children learning how to dance is captured through the 

teaching process of Jacques d'Amboise 

VHS 3181 

Health care by the people A documentary about rural self-health care in a remote Latin American village, VHS 1384


Hear my song / Miramax Films A young man who has lost the affections of his lady love thinks he can win her 

back by locating the reclusive Irish tenor her mother once loved 

Hearing protection : a sound practice / 

Coastal Video Communications Corp 

Explains the physiology of the ear and describes how noise-induced hearing 

loss occurs. 

Heart of the sea "Heart of the Sea" is the inspiring portrait of surf legend Rell "Kapoliokaehukai" 

Sunn, founding member of the Women's Professional Surfing Association and 

one of Hawai'i's most beloved community leaders. 

Heartbreak kid On his honeymoon in Florida, Lenny falls head over heels in love with a college 

student vacationing with her wealthy parents 

Hearts afire; women religious of the Toledo 

Diocese 

Eight congregations of women religious in the Toledo Diocese discuss the 

important missions and traditions that they carry on today and how those 

missions evolved over time 

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Hearts and minds / Touchstone-Audjeff 

Production for BBS 

Examines the American consciousness that led to involvement in Vietnam. VHS 1180 

Heathers / New World Entertainment, Ltd Westerburg High School has a feminine elite quartet. One of the foursome is 

fed up with the group and peer pressure, starts running around with a 

motorcycle rider, and attempts to rid the school of bad apples 

VHS 949 

Heaven and hell Powerful images of Heaven, with its white light, halos and harps, and Hell, 

marked by torture, brimstone and pits of fire, have shaped thought and culture 

for thousands of years 

Heaven will protect the working girl Period still and motion pictures and words derived from interviews, memoirs, 

newspapers and other sources are assembled to show the life of immigrant 

shirtwaist makers in New York City during the first decade of the 20th century 

Hedda / Brut Productions Frustrated by the pointlessness of her middle class, married life, the strongwilled 

Hedda realizes her only satisfaction comes from manipulating others. 

Helen Keller / produced by Hearst 

Entertainment 

Heller in pink tights / a Paramount 

Pictures 

Archival films and commentary by H.v. Kaltenborn are used to trace the life of 

Helen Keller 

Fresh from the East and its bill collectors, the Healy Dramatic Company, two 

show-wagons strong, jolts into Cheyenne sometime in the early 1880's 

Helping hand Uses archival film footage, interviews, and narration to present a picture of life in 

the U.S. during the Great Depression. 

Hemingway / Townsend/Larson 

Productions 

Robert S. Townsend, portraying Ernest Hemingway, delivers a first-person 

monologue covering Hemingway's childhood 

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Henry Horner Mothers Guild A videotape produced by a group of women who live on the westside, calling 

themselves the Henry Horner Mother's Guild 

VHS 2975 

Henry IV, part I / BBC-TV and Time-Life 

TV 

Presents a dramatization of William Shakespeare's play entitled King Henry IV VHS 227 

Henry IV, part II / BBC-TV and Time-Life 

TV 

Presents a dramatization of William Shakespeare's play entitled King Henry IV VHS 230 

Henry IV, pt II Presents a dramatization of William Shakespeare's play entitled King Henry IV VHS 230 

Henry James' The turn of the screw Thriller - Lynn Redgrave VHS 1899 

Henry V / a Two Cities Film produced 

and directed by Laurence Olivier 

Presents a dramatization of William Shakespeare's play entitled Henry V VHS 22 

Henry V / BBC-TV and Time-Life TV Presents a dramatization of William Shakespeare's play entitled by King Henry 

V 

VHS 233 

Henry V / by William Shakespeare Young King Henry of England asserts a hereditary claim to the throne of France VHS 751 

Henry VI, part 1 / presented by the British 


Henry VI, part 2 / presented by the British 


A dramatization of William Shakespeare's play entitled Henry VI VHS 236 

A dramatization of William Shakespeare's play entitled Henry VI VHS 238


Henry VI, part 3 / BBC-TV and Time-Life 

TV 

Presents a dramatization of William Shakespeare's play entitled Henry VI VHS 240 

Henry VIII / BBC-TV and Time-Life TV Presents a dramatization of William Shakespeare's play entitled King Henry VIII VHS 242 

Her name came on arrows In the eastern highlands of Papua New Guinea, French anthropologist Maurice 

Godelier invites five of his Baruya friends and informants to his house to discuss 

Baruya kinship and rules of marriage. 

Hermitage After a brief history of the founding of St. Petersburg and a biographical sketch 

of Peter the Great, the viewer is taken on a tour of the galleries of the Hermitage 

Museum housing masterpieces from ancient China, Egypt, Greece, and Rome 

through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to the 20th Century 

DVD 1116 

DVD 723 

Hero Long ago, China was divided into seven kingdoms all fighting for supremacy. DVD 817 

Hero / Avco Embassy Pictures Corp A champion soccer player (Richard Harris) befriends his greatest fan, a twelveyear-old 

boy named Nimrod, who becomes disenchanted in the life of a 

prominent athlete. 

VHS 1366 

Hero as artist / [a BBC TV production] Examines how Renaissance Italy attempted to rival ancient Rome's colossal 

accomplishments in art and architecture. 

VHS 1290 

Herod the great This program explores the truth about one of the Bible's most legendary villains VHS 1158 

Heroes and men / a BBC TV production 

in association with RM Productions 

Examines the world of the Greek gods and heroes depicted by the classical 

Greek poetry and tragic dramas. 

Heroic materialism / a BBC TV production Chronicles the rise of industrialization and society's increasing reliance on 

technology, from the first Thames tunnel to the atomic bomb. 

Hero's adventure / executive editor, Bill 

Moyers 

Hester Street / Midwest Film Production, 

Inc 

Long before medieval knights charged off to slay dragons, tales of heroic 

adventures were an integral part of all world cultures. 

Russian Jewish immigrants, Jake and Gitl, encounter trials and tribulations as 

they discard their old world traditions and adjust to life in America in 1896 

Hiawatha / Videocraft International, Ltd An Indian boy named Hiawatha makes friends with the animals of the forest and 

learns to speak their language. 

Hidden agenda / Hemdale Film 

Corporation 

Hidden kingdoms : the world of microbes 

/ produced by New York Hall of Science 

In Northern Ireland, two American researchers investigate the torture of civilians 

by Government Security Forces. 

VHS 704 

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Intended to help students identify different microbes. VHS 2142 

Hidden sorrow : an overview / University 

Center on Aging 

Elder abuse and neglect in the family VHS 1656 

Hidden universe--the brain / ABC News Provides an overview of what the brain looks like, its parts and their functions, 

and how the brain works at a cellular level. 

VHS 1 

High and the mighty A commercial airliner develops engine trouble while flying over the Pacific 

Ocean. The pilot panics, so it is up to the washed-up co-pilot to get the plane 

down safely. 

DVD 1192 

High courts low blow to Doe / Sentinel 

Productions 

This program discusses the two lawsuits which lead to the legalization of 

abortion. 

High Noon This is the classic tale of a lawman who stands alone to defend a town of 

cowardly citizens against a gang of revenge-seeking criminals. 

High noon / Stanley Kramer Productions 

presents a United Artists release 

High school II / produced, directed and 

edited by Frederick Wiseman 

A civic-minded marshal, on the verge of retirement, faces a revengeful killer in a 

gun duel after the indifferent townspeople refuse to assist him 

A documentary about Central Park East Secondary School, a successful 

alternative high school in New York's Spanish Harlem. 

High School inclusion: equity gives the viewer an insider's perspective on how to make inclusive education 

work in any community. Topics include: inclusion, social justice, teachers' roles, 

innovative scheduling, heterogeneous grouping, and curriculum 

VHS 225 

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High/Scope approach for under threes / 

High/Scope UK 

This video has been produced primarily for participants of the High/Scope 

Curriculum Implementation Course for those working with under threes. 

High/Scope K-3 curriculum series Presents an active learning approach to activities and interactions in the 

classroom while children are being instructed in speaking, listening, writing, 

reading, and mathematics 

Highlights from LaBohome Mirella Freni, Gianni Raimoni, Gianni Maffeo, La Scala Orchestra and Chorus 

conducted by Herbert von Karajan 

Hilde Domin : Heimkehr ins Wort / Unda- 

Film Dr. Walter Koch GmbH & Co 

Presents the German-born lyricist Hilda Domin who spent the years of the Third 

Reich exiled in Santo Domingo and Rome. 

VHS 1169 

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VHS 2127 

Hill on Horn Douglas Hill, horn ; Elizabeth Rhodes, horn student ; Karen Zaczek Hill, piano DVD 802 

Himatsuri / Karl-Lorimar Home Video, Inc Based on actual events, with a setting in a village of old Japan. A developer 

goes to a fishing community to propose a tourist park. Tatsuo opposes him. 

Hindu temples; Building faith sacred 

architecture 

Hirohito, the Chrysanthemum throne / 

Nielsen Ferns Inc. director, Jeremy 

Murray-Brown 

Hiroshima Nagasaki, August 1945 / 

produced by Erik Barnouw 

Hindu temples are models of the Hindu universe. And while no two temp;es are 

exactly alike, they do share some common architectural features 

Examines Japanese Emperor Hirohito's role in history and discusses the vast 

economic and political changes that have occurred during his reign. 

A film report made from original footage, showing the destruction brought to 

Hiroshima and Nagasaki by two atomic bombs in August 1945 

Hiroshima, mon amour During the filming of an anti-war film in Japan, a French actress falls in love with 

a Japanese architect. While sharing an intimate relationship, they also begin 

sharing the memories of a war experienced at opposite sides of the world 

Hiroshima, mon amour / Argo Films During the filming of an anti-war film in Japan, a French actress falls in love with 

a Japanese architect. 

His girl Friday ; Cary Grant on film: a 

biography 

Hispanic Americans; the changing role of 

women 

An unscrupulous newspaper editor uses every dirty trick in the book to keep his 

ace reporter/ex-wife from retiring 

Several prominent Latina women discuss their changing role within the context 

of Hispanic family 

History & art of the geisha Step back in time to an age of tradition and culture, normally hidden from public 

view that has preserved the art of the Geisha for all eternity. 

VHS 1193 

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History and memory / by Rea Tajiri After Pearl Harbor Attack in 1941, 100,000 Japanese living in the States were 

asked to move to a concentration camp. 

VHS 1555 

History of prostitution Tells the story of sex for sale through the millennia VHS 1122 

History of rock 'n' roll (Television 

program);"The history of rock 'n' roll 

History of the Luftwaffe : [a phoenix rising] 

/ Castle Communications 

Time-Life Video & Television Telepictures Productions Warner Bros. 

Domestic Television Distribution 

Using very rare footage recently obtained from the eastern block, the Luftwaffe's 

success, structure, tactics and inherent weaknesses are chronicled 

History of violence Tom is a loving, well-respected family man from a small Indiana town. When two 

criminals show up at his diner, Tom is forced to take action and thwart the 

robbery attempt. 

History of Western art / Cromwell Films This series presents a unique and masterly survey of the greatest achievements 

in the history of art from the medieval era to the post-impressionist world. 

History told on walls History of the Fon people of Benin, whose ancestors ruled the powerful kingdom 

of Dahomey 

Hitch-hiker / an RKO Radio picture While on their way to a fishing area, two men pick up a hitchhiker -- not knowing 

that he is a sadistic and psychopathic killer 

Hitler Presents the fury of Adolph Hitler who ruthlessly dominated Europe for over four 

years, inflicting more misery and destruction than any leader before him 

VHS 3145 

VHS 1519 

DVD 705 

DVD 69 

VHS 1125 

VHS 370 

VHS 1528 

Hitler : building the war machine Traces the rise to power of Adolph Hitler as dictator of Germany VHS 1538


Hitler : portrait of a tyrant / Round Hill 

Production 

Shocking revelations are brought to light on the public and personal life of the 

man who changed the face of world history 

VHS 1507 

Hitler : the Road to power Traces the rise to power of Adolph Hitler as dictator of Germany VHS 1539 

Hitler, a career / GTO Films Using real film footage from untapped archives, the career of Adolph Hitler is 

chronicled 

VHS 1571 

Hitler, revenge to ruin / by Drew 

Middleton producer, director, Don 

Thompson 

Hitler, the road to revenge / by Drew 

Middleton producer/director, Don 

Thompson 

Hitlerjunge Quex / UFA drehbuch, K.A. 

Schenzinger, B.E. Luthge spielleitung, 

Hans Steinhoff 

Hitler's henchmen / United States War 

Department 

Hitler's master race : the mad dream of 

the S.S. / Round Hill Production 

HIV test : who should take it? what does it 

show? 

HIV/AIDS clinical trials : knowing your 

options / AIDS Clinical Trials Information 

Service 

Tells how, from the fall of France, Hitler's dream gradually turns to nightmare as 

German fortunes are checked and then reversed in the Battle of Britain, 

Operation Barbarosa, and the entry of the United States into the war. 

Traces the rise to power of Adolph Hitler as dictator of Germany, from a young 

corporal in the Kaiser's Army 

In this classic propaganda film, Quex, a German youth, faces a conflict of ideals 

between his Communist father and his growing allegiance to the Hitler youth 

movement 

Uses German motion pictures, newsreels, U.S. War Department archival 

material and captured enemy material to trace the development of Germany as 

a military power 

Adolf Hitler's dream was brought to life by the creation of the S.S., the most 

brutal and prestigious cult of men to arise from the Nazi cause. 

Stresses that HIV testing is not a test for AIDS but for antibodies for the virus 

that causes AIDS 

Includes narration and interviews with people who have participated in clinical 

trials and medical research staff 

Hoffa / directed by Danny DeVito Traces Jimmy Hoffa's turbulent career from 1935, when he first solicits truck 

drivers to join the fledgling International Brotherhood of Teamsters, to his 

disappearance in 1975 

Hollow pursuits / Paramount Pictures Geordi complains to Picard about Lt. Barclay, a painfully shy and irresponsible 

engineer. 

Holocaust : The story of man's inhumanity 

to man / produced by Robert Berger 

Homage to the Yaghans : the last Indians 

of Tierra del Fuego and Cape Horn 

Home alone / Twentieth Century Fox Film 

Corporation 

This drama unfolds through the lives of two families living in Nazi Germany. 

Follow the tragedy and triumph of the Weiss family. 

This documentary is about the destruction of one of the world's most interesting 

cultures, the Yahgan of the antipodes. 

Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister has become the man of the house, overnight! 

Accidentally left behind when his family rushes off on a Christmas vacation, 

Kevin gets busy decorating the house for the holidays. 

Home Front and victory / CBS, Inc Focus is on the conclusion of the conflict in Europe and Japan. Looks at what 

life was like as the war ended, and how Americans responded throughout the 

war from Pearl Harbor to V.J. Day 

Home safe home : the essential guide to 

keeping your home safe and secure / 

Consumers Union of United States 

A fascinating room-by-room tour that provides valuable tips on fire prevention 

and security systems, protecting your property, lowering the risks of serious 

accidents 

Home security / Presents step by step instructions with money and time saving tips, most 

common mistakes, and frequent problems 

Homecoming--- : sometimes I am 

haunted by memories of red dirt and clay 

Explores the history of African American farming since the Civil War and its 

contribution to Black cultural stability and family unity 

Homeland, Israel & Palestine Probes the continuing Arab-Israeli struggle by presenting the two opposing 

viewpoints on the problem which results when both Jews and Palestinian Arabs 

claim the same territory as their homeland 

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Homosexuals Mike Wallace hosts a social documentary on homosexuality in the United States DVD 449 

Hondo Hondo Lane, a dispatch rider for the cavalry, encounters Angie Lowe, a woman 

living alone with her young son in the midst of hostile Apache territory. 

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Hook / TriStar Pictures, Inc A high-flying adventure from the magic of Steven Spielberg, Hook stars Robin 

Williams as a grown-up Peter Pan and Dustin Hoffman as the infamous Captain 

Hook. 

Hoop dreams / Fine Line Features Follows the high school careers of two young men from inner-city Chicago as 

they pursue their dream of playing professional basketball 

Horizons, a career conference for students 

with disabilities A1186 

Presentation of a conference coordinated by Penn State and IBM to help 

college students get a job. 

Horn playing past and present Combines a history of the horn and instruction on proper playing technique 

demonstrated by members of the U.S. Army Field Band Horn Section 

Horror of Dracula Dracula, a centuries-old nobleman damned to an eternal blood-crazed half-life, 

travels from his native Transylvania to London and to a savage fate. 

Hospital / Simcha Productions, Inc In a large metropolitan hospital the patients die of neglect, the interns chase the 

nurses, the head of the hospital contemplates suicide and there's someone 

killing off the staff. A blisteringly funny satire 

Host / Paramount Pictures While en route to mediate a dispute between two warring factions in the Peliar 

system, Dr. Crusher's new romantic interest, Ambassador Odan, 

Hotel Rwanda The deeply moving true story of a five-star-hotel manager who used his wits and 

words to save more than 1,200 lives during the 1994 Rwandan conflict 

Hound of the Baskervilles / Granada 

Television Ltd 

When Sir Charles Baskerville arrives at his family's estate from America, he 

finds a death threat awaiting him and a curse hanging over the family. 

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Hounds of the Baskervilles Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson mystery DVD 540 

Hours Taking place over one day, three stories are interconnected with a novel: one is 

writing it, one is reading it, and one is living it 

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House of fools Psychiatric patients become entrenched in the Chechen War after the staff 

leave to find them a safer hospital. 

DVD 907 

How babies get made Examines the processes by which embryos develop from single cells into 

complex organisms and the efforts of scientists to discover the cellular and 

genetic mechanisms that account for both normal and abnormal embryological 

development 

VHS 2059 

How can I tell if I'm really in love? / 

Paramount Pictures Corp 

How children learn to think : a discussion 

with Constance Kamii 

How computers are changing the way we 

learn 

How difficult can this be?; the F.A.T. city 

workshop 

How do you know it's the right thing to do 

/ produced by the Public Relations Society 

of America 

Cites differences between mature and immature love, offers qualities that may 

insure a successful relationship, places sex in perspective, and distinguishes 

between love and dependency 

Constance Kamii is interviewed by Carolyn S. Dorrell on how children learn 

number concepts and to think. 

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How students use technology to impact the learning process VHS 1782 

group experiences life the way a learning disabled student does and learns 

methods of teaching and helping such students 

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This discussion centers on the issue of ethics in the field of public relations. VHS 2957 

How green was my valley A man looks back on his life as a boy in a small Welsh mining town. DVD 360 

How pianos are made / The Victory 

Institute, Inc 

How the body ages / produced by the 


How to break up a happy divorce / 

Charles Fries Productions 

How to deal with difficult people / Career 

Track Publications 

How to give exceptional customer service. 

Volume one, How to build your service 

image and customer loyalty 

A complete tour of a modern piano factory is given. Every working operation of 

the factory is shown in each part 

This program describes the changes in appearance and organ function that 

accompanies aging and how other changes can be prevented 

Madcap comedy involving a pretty divorcee trying to win back her ex-husband 

by playing on his jealousy and dating a slick man-about-town 

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Provides insights into dealing with many types of difficult people VHS 2136 

Explains five dos and don'ts of great customer service and three sources of 

power (position, knowledge, personal) that you can draw on to help serve 

customer better 

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How to give exceptional customer service. 

Volume two, How to satisfy even your most 

difficult customer 

Discusses the importance of building rapport with customers. VHS 2134 

How to interview like a professional Interviewing techniques; how to distinguish yourself in the job interview process DVD 650 

How to interview like a professional How to distinguish yourself in an interview DVD 650 

How to marry a millionaire / Twentieth 

Century-Fox Film Corporation 

Three models rent a penthouse with the hope of snaring rich husbands VHS 442 

How to prepare for change : the strategic 

management challenge / PBS Adult 

Learning Satellite Service 

How to prevent a heart attack / [produced 

for HBO by Medstar Communications] 

How to search on CD-ROM : the 

videotape tutorial / Meckler Corporation 

How to speak with confidence / with Bert 

Decker 

A national leader in strategic management explores how demographics can be 

used to anticipate and plan for future change. 

This documentary incorporates the latest medical findings into a thorough 

examination of heart disease. 

Basic introduction to database searching on CD-ROM, including PC keyboard 

layout, entry of search terms and viewing of results 

Bert Decker discusses and demonstrates methods to improve public speaking 

technique 

How to teach reading with trade books Real classroom video footage showing teachers teaching without commercial 

texts, using alternative approaches such as whole language, individualized 

reading and instructional use of trade books 

Howard Hawks' Gentlemen prefer blondes 

/ Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp 

A musical comedy about the adventures of two beautiful showgirls--an 

apparently stupid blonde golddigger and her provocative brunette friend--during 

a voyage from New York to Paris 

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Hubley collection / Hubley Studio Short, animated films produced by the Hubley Studios. VHS 2507 

Huddled masses / BBC-TV and Time-Life 

Films 

Visits ships' holds, Ellis Island, and the Lower East Side garment factory sweat 

shops in order to depict turn-of-the-century immigration. 

Huey Long Uses footage from old films to portray events in the life of the Louisiana 

politician Huey Long 

Hughie / RKO Videogroup produced by 

Iris Merlis 

Human experiment / Columbia University 


Human experiments--the price of 

knowledge / KCTS 

Human sexuality : a barrier to treatment. / 

Ronald J. Pion, Nathaniel N. Wagner 

Set in New York City in 1928, a downtrodden hotel resident confides his 

imaginary triumphs as a gambler and ladies' man to the night clerk 

(Producer) A panel of medical experts and a U.S. Supreme Court justice 

discuss the ethics of medical research. 

Looks at the question of human experimentation and the dilemmas that doctors 

and patients encounter. 

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Sex therapy VHS 635 

Human weapon / directed by Ilan Ziv Examines the history and effects of suicide bombing in conflicts around the 

world, from Iran to Sri Lanka, Israel, Lebanon, and the United States. 

Hunchback of Notre Dame Charles Laughton stars as Quasimodo, the deformed bell-ringer of Notre Dame 

and Maureen O'Hara is Esmeralda, the beautiful gypsy he adores 

Hunger / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Turner 

Entertainment Co. 

Miriam, an ageless vampire, spends her time prowling Manhattan's trendiest 

nightspots in search of new blood. 

Hunt for the Legion killer / WGBH/BBC Traces the frantic, frustrating search for a cause and cure of what came to be 

known, after its first identified victims, as Legionnaire's disease 

Hunters / Film Study Center, Peabody 

Museum, Harvard University 

Hurricane watch / Optical Data 

Corporation 

A study of the life and culture of primitive African bushmen as portrayed through 

the experiences of four aborigines hunting a giraffe on the Kalihari Desert 

This program focuses on tracking the hurricane's path at 24-hour intervals using 

latitude and longitude points 

Hustle & flow Rapper DJay, who dreams of becoming the next big rap superstar, works all the 

angles to get his first record made 

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Hymn of the nations / Arturo Toscanini 

conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra 

The sole motion picture of Arturo Toscanini, made in Dec. 1943 for the Office of 

War Information 

Hysterectomy : do I have a choice? Only 25 percent of all hysterectomies are performed to save a woman's life, 

while 75 percent are elective. This documentary can save you from 

unnecessary surgery 

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I am not a target! This effective self-defense guide empowers children with the skills they need to 

keep from becoming the next victim of predators. 

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I have a dream / Maljack Productions, Inc Martin Luther King's speech at the Lincoln Memorial, August 28, 1963 VHS 1962 

I have found it Rich and pampered sisters Sowmya and Meenakshi want for nothing except the 

true love their hearts crave. While Sowmya grudgingly places family 

responsibilities ahead of romance, Meenakshi yearns for a white knight. 

Manohar, an aspiring filmmaker, falls for Sowmya but will wed her only after 

directing his first film. 

DVD 880 

I love you, Alice B. Toklas / Warner Bros.- 

Seven Arts 

Comedy about the freaking out of a mild-mannered L.A. lawyer VHS 1379 

I married a woman / RKO Radio Pictures Madcap comedy about marital madness and business bumbling VHS 1381 

I need your full cooperation / produced and 

directed by Kathy High 

I shall not be removed : the life of Marlon 

Riggs 

Illustrations of the prevailing historical attitudes and treatment of women by the 

male medical profession in the early 20th century 

A film biography of Marlon Riggs, the gifted, gay, black filmmaker who produced 

documentary films addressing issues of identity among Afro-Americans and 

gays. 

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I wake up screaming Crime thriller of a cafe society celebrity, Vicky Lynn, who is murdered. VHS 438 

I will see such things Miranda, the movie 

/ produced for NASA 

The first program, I will see such things, describes the discovery of the planet 

Uranus by William Herschel and its exploration by Voyager 2. 

I. I. Rabi, man of the century A conversation with the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who witnessed the first 

detonation of atomic bomb and became an advocate of peaceful uses of 

nuclear power 

Ice age To avoid a bad case of global frostbite, a group of migrating misfit creatures 

embark on a hilarious quest to reunite a human baby with his tribe 

Ice age; the meltdown While Scrat the Saber-toothed Squirrel is still trying to find his precious acorn, 

the misfit trio of Manny the Mammoth, Sid the Sloth and Diego the Sabre-tooth 

Tiger have settled down in an isolated valley with numerous other animals 

Ida B. Wells : a passion for justice / 

William Greaves Productions 

Identifiable qualities : a film on Toni 

Morrison 

Identification / Western Michigan 


Born into slavery in Mississippi at the end of the Civil War, Wells became a 

school teacher and journalist 

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Interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning black novelist Toni Morrison. VHS 2467 

As the second tape in this series on adult stuttering, the problem of the patient 

is identified by both the patient and the therapist. 

Idomeneo: drama for music in three acts Returning home from the Trojan Wars during a storm, Idomeneo, the king of 

Crete, vows to sacrifice to Neptune in return for his own safety the first living 

creature he meets ashore. 

If Japan can--why can't we? / NBC News Looks at the causes for Japan's high industrial growth rate and the essentially 

static condition of U.S. industry. 

Il trovatore : [opera in four acts] / by 

Giuseppe Verdi libretto by S. Cammarano 

The plot revolves around its two female characters. Acuzena is the daughter of 

a gypsy who, fifteen years before, was burned as a witch for cursing the young 

son of a nobleman. 

Il vangelo secondo Matteo The birth, life, teachings and death on the cross of Jesus Christ presented 

almost as a cinema-verite documentary. 

Illness and disability / produced by the 


Im Lauf der Zeit : In the course of time / 

Wim Wenders Produktion 

This program examines chronic health problems of the elderly and availability of 

support services 

Depicts the experiences of two young men in Germany. One repairs cinema 

equipment, the other cannot face the world from which he came. 

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I'm learning again : college credit through 

television / Center for Communication 

Demonstrates how adults can learn college credit in their homes through 

television 

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I'm really going to miss me How do people approach life when the end is near? DVD 460 

Image makers Explores the development and character of the public relations industry through 

interviews with Ivy Lee and Edward Bernays 

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Imaginative use of filters / Eastman 

Kodak Company 

Imagining Indians / writer, producer, 

director, Victor Masayesva, Jr 

Imbedding skills in children's writing : 

transition from manuscript to cursive 

writing 


your 35 mm. camera. Discusses the various filters and the techniques for using 

them 

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Using an eclectic mix of interviews, staged scenes and graphic imagery VHS 760 

Demonstrates how to change from manuscript to cursive writing, story writing 

and punctuation 

Imitation of life / Universal International The story of two widows and their troubled daughters. In the search for success 

as an actress 

Immortal Ibsen / Borgen Production 

script, concept and direction A1221 

Insights into the interpretation and performance of playwright Henrik Ibsen's 

works around the world. 

Implementing ABM in your business Professor Robert S. Kaplan explains how activity-based costing differs from 

traditional cost systems and outlines basic implementation strategy. 

Impressionen und information uber Berlin 

/ von und mit Pierre Kandorfer 

A documentary about life in West Berlin and the schools, sporting events and 

night clubs. Includes the history of West Berlin 

Impressionists Tells the story of the first truly modern artistic movement, focusing on five of its 

most important practitioners 

Improving your clarinet Members of the United States Army Field Band discuss and demonstrate 

clarinet techniques, individual practice tips and ensemble performance skills 

In a lonely place / Columbia Pictures 

Industries, Inc 

A hotheaded Hollywood screenwriter, questioned for murder, is drawn to his 

neighbor when she confirms his alibi. 

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In crowd and social cruelty An ABC News special dealing with school social cliques and bullying DVD 462 

In harms way Epic treatment of the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the attack on the naval base DVD 1199 

In her own time / Center for Visual 

Anthropology, University of SC 

In plain English : students speak out / 

producer/director, Julia Lesage 

In search of a common destiny : Blacks 

and American society 

In search of excellence / Excel/Media 

producer, director, John Nathan 

In service to America / produced by 

Blackside, Inc. 

Focuses on cultural anthropologist Barbara Myerhoff's study of the community 

of Hasidic Jews in Los Angeles's Fairfax neighborhood. 

Fifteen students of color at the University of Oregon describe their experiences 

in an environment which is largely Euro-American. 

Includes interviews during the violence and clean-up after the Rodney King 

verdict in Los Angeles 

A documentary, shot on location, which examines examples of successful 

management in large and small companies. 

By 1967, poverty warriors increase the sophistication of their tactics at the same 

time that a number of outspoken opponents rise to national prominence. 

In the bedroom It makes Richard's blood run cold to see his wife running around with another 

man. And soon, an unthinkable tragedy happens that will tear the Fowlers apart 

In the heat of the night A small town Southern sheriff finds himself in an uneasy alliance with a big-city 

black homicide detective as they investigate a murder 

In the land of Jim Crow: equality-real vs. 

ideal 

In the symphony of the world : a portrait 

of Hildegard of Bingen 

In this affluent society / produced by 


In which we serve / Two Cities Film 

released by the Rank Organization 

Absolute dissolution of the Jim Crow laws of the post-Civil War era in the 

present day 

Documentary about Saint Hildegard of Bingen, who challenged Popes and 

Emperors, composed music, wrote volumes of visionary and poetic works and 

contributed to the knowledge of biology and medicine 

In the early 1960s, hundreds of Kentucky coal miners are displaced by 

machines and strike out at their former employers. 

The survivors of the sinking of HMS Torrin, a British destroyer, remember the 

ship's war-time career 

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In women's hands A series of programs looking at contemporary Latin America. VHS 3063 

In your own back yard : an owner's guide 

to underground storage tanks 

Safety measures; fire prevention VHS 1847 

Inauguration of the pleasure dome / 

Kenneth Anger 

Incas / a production of Public 

Broadcasting Associates, Inc 

Dionysian revel. Lord Shiva, the magician, awakes. The Scarlet Woman, 

Astarte of the moon brings the wings of snow 

From the spectacular heights of Machu Piccu to jungle valleys and desert floors, 

this video travels the awesome world of the ancient Incas. 

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Incredible moments of our XX century / 

U.S. News Video 

Looks back at the innovations, upheaval and change of the 20th century VHS 1535 

Incredibles Action-packed animated adventure about the mundane and incredible lives of a 

house full of superheroes. 

DVD 561 

Incredibly true adventure of two girls in 

love / Smash Pictures 

A story of two teenagers who unexpectedly experience the excitement, surprise 

and romantic fantasy of first love 

Independence: Egypt & Algeria Discusses how nationalism emerged in the Middle East as a result of increased 

Western involvement in the region. 

Indian pottery of San Ildefonso Maria Martinez and her son Popovi Da, noted Indian potters of the San 

Ildefonso Pueblo in New Mexico 

Indiscretion of an American wife / A 

Vittorio de Sica Production 

Love story of a couple who have only a few hours to decide whether she, an 

American wife, will return to her husband in the U.S. or remain with her lover 

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Individual and tradition / RM Arts 

WNET/New York 

This program presents the history of choreography VHS 3022 

Indomitable Teddy Roosevelt Looks at the public and private life of Theodore Roosevelt. VHS 2412 

Industrial Revolution / produced by Eddie 

& Shirley Dye 

Explains why the Industrial Revolution came to England first and explains the 

major stages in the nation's economic metamorphosis. 

Infinite voyage : sail on Voyager Dr. Edward C. Stone presents a lecture on NASA's solar system exploration 

program 

Influenza 1918 : the worst epidemic in 

American history 

Information Literacy: the perils of online 

research 

Information power : guidelines for school 

library media programs 

Ingredients for space travel / produced by 

the National Aeronautics and Space 


Influenza 1918 tells the powerful story of America's worst health crisis by 

presenting archival photographs and film footage 

Explains how to conduct solid online research by collecting information in an 

organized, efficient, and ethical way. 

Information Power, an international teleconference aired on April 12, 1988, 

consisted of a panel of presidents and past presidents of AASL and AECT and 

other library media specialists. 

Deals with controlling and maintaining the atmosphere in a space ship and the 

biological effects of weightlessness and radiation and dissociation of living 

systems from Earth-regulating influence 

Inherit the wind A small Tennessee town gained national attention in 1925 when a biology 

schoolteacher was arrested for violating state law and teaching Darwin's theory 

of evolution in the classroom 

Inherit the wind / United Artists release A small Tennessee town gained national attention in 1925 when a biology 

schoolteacher was arrested for violating state law and teaching Darwin's theory 

of evolution in the classroom 

Inner city vs. suburban schools Provides a platform for outraged parents as well as an outraged educator, 

Jonathan Kozol, who says that America's educational system is savagely 

unequal and discriminatory 

Inner game of music Based on the "Inner Game" concept of W. Timothy Gallwey, it features over 

forty demonstrations with individuals, small and large ensembles 

Inner game of music Based on the Inner Game concept of W. Timothy Gallwey, it features over forty 

demonstrations with individuals, small and large ensembles 

Innovations in technology / Apple 

Computer's Education Dept. 

Inside story of your whole body : the body 

symphony with Slim Goodbody 

Inside the global economy : with Nariman 

Behraveshi / Educational Film Center 

This program shows how personal computers are providing access to vast 

databases housing text, voice, images and video and how these merging 

technologies are changing the way people learn in schools and universities. 

Uses models to show cell structure and to explain how cells are grouped into 

tissues, organs, and organisms. 

Discusses the trend towards increased international economic integration and 

economic interdependence. 

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Inside the Vatican A rare glimpse inside the secret archives and private chapels of the Vatican. DVD 294 

Inside your schools : Teaching children to 

think 

Thought and thinking VHS 55 

Inspired by Bach. Falling down stairs Yo-Yo Ma and choreographer Mark Morris collaborate in an interdisciplinary 

artistic exploration of dance inspired by Bach's third suite for solo cello 

VHS 3178 

Installing satellite antennas Direct broadcast satellite television VHS 2869 

Instant America / Martin Sandler 

Productions 

Instant karma / Desert Wind Films 

production 

From the Pony Express to the Satellite: A look at past and present 

entrepreneurs who were instrumental in the invention and development of new 

ways in communication and their resulting revolution in our ways of life 

The producer-writer of a hit TV show has a seemingly ideal life, but in this 

romantic comedy his eccentric psychoanalyst says his problem is love 

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Integrated curriculum : an idea blossoms Covers using an integrated curriculum to meet individual student needs VHS 2261 

Integrating multimedia within the 

instructional process / writers, Jeff 


Effective use of multimedia programs requires instructors to assess many 

aspects of the software and learning environment prior to selecting and 

integrating a program within a course. 

VHS 675 

Integrating the art disciplines / The Getty 

Center for Education in the Arts 

See techniques used by teachers to teach art to a wide variety of students. VHS 3175 

Intellect, personality and mental health In this program gerontologists discuss research studies of changes in intellect 

and personality over one's lifespan as well as mental health problems of the 

aged 

VHS 2835 

Intelligent teaching : intervention and 

prevention for children at risk for failure in 

reading : a town hall panel 

Panel discussion on how to identify and support children at risk for failure in 

reading. 

Interactive digital video Surveys the soaring use of video material in entertainment and education (for 

children and adults) 

Interactive video archive. Volume 3 / 

compiled by John F. Moore 

Eight presentations from the 1989 annual AECT conference which demonstrate 

new interactive video programs designed for instructional purposes. 

Interests An interview session in which working people discuss the combination of 

personal interests with careers. 

Interfaith community organization of Pilsen 

and the heart of Chicago / Chicago Video 

Project 

Interior paint & wallpaper / Do It Yourself, 

Inc. 

Interior remodeling / produced by D.I.Y., 

Inc 

Shows how the citizens in the Pilsen area of Chicago are cooperating with 

police to rehabilitate the neighborhood 

Avian Rogers and Curt Burbick demonstrate the tools and procedures for 

preparing walls and trim for paint or wallpapering. 

In this video you will learn how to install wall shelving, kitchen counter-tops, a 

kitchen sink and a washer/dryer. 

International students and employment Interviews and panel discussions with members of the college community and 

the business world involved in finding employment for foreign students 

Interview The three job hunters prepare for going through interviews, some on their own, 

some with the help of the workshop coordinator 

Interview to win your first job View common mistakes that people make during job interviews and see how 

you can easily correct them 

Into the arms of strangers : stories of the 

Kindertransport 

Into the future : On the preservation of 

knowledge in the electronic age 

The life-affirming tale of 10,000 children saved from Hitler's grasp and placed 

with foster parents and hostels in Great Britain at the outbreak of World War II. 

Video on the hidden crisis of digital information. Will the information stored 

electronically still be accessible in the future? 

Into the west Two young brothers living in the Dublin slums run away with a magical horse, 

trying to recapture their family's traditional life as tinkers and to find the wild west 

of their imaginations 

Intolerance / directed by D.W. Griffith Made in response to charges of racial prejudice following Griffith's Birth of a 

nation 

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Introducing China / author, Mary Lee 

Nolan 

Quick introduction to the history, geography and culture of China. Discusses 

how these elements have influenced the world's most populous nation 

Introducing Dorothy Dandridge An acclaimed stage performer, Dorothy Dandridge still struggled with the 

challenge of her color, in a time that wouldn't let some stars in by the front door. 

Introducing East Asia / author, Mary Lee 

Nolan 

Introducing Japan / produced by 

Travelview International 

Discusses the similarities and unique characteristics of China, Korea and 

Japan. Includes cultural and economic reviews 

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Description and travel VHS 2583 

Introduction to report writing. Part 2 Describes the orientation of a business report audience toward topics of 

concern to organizations, and the conditions under which reports sometimes 

have to be read 

Introduction to report writing. Part one / 

Dr. R. Rudolph 

Introduction to the orchestra / Films for 

the Humanities & Sciences 

Reviews various definitions of a report. Focuses on a definition that 

emphasizes purpose, audience, objective and impartial attitude toward 

information, and style 

A brief history of the development of the orchestra progresses through the 

periods of music and their associated instruments 

Invasion of the body snatchers Plant-like extraterrestrials have invaded Santa Mira, a small town in California, 

replicating the villagers in giant seed "pods" and taking possession of their souls 

while they sleep. 

Invasion, the Allies attack / CBS, Inc Focuses on the invasion of North Africa and the D-Day landing on the beaches 

of Normandy. Also profiles the German General Erwin Rommel 

Inventing a nation / BBC-TV and Time- 

Life Films 

Inventory management at Pfizer 

Pharmaceuticals / The Institute of 

Management Sciences 

Invisible struggles; stories of northern 

segregation 

Invisible wall : autism / a presentation of 

Films for the Humanities & Sciences 

Discusses the writing of the Constitution and the secret Independence Hall 

debates which set precedence for modern politics. 

Shows how inventories of three manufacturing plants and five regional 

distribution centers were reduced using a common sales forecast database and 

management science techniques 

q This "is an hour-long broadcast documentary about civil rights and racial 

segregation in Warren, Ohio, from 1954-1964. 

This program delves into the physiology of autism, a pervasive developmental 

disorder of the brain that can cause severe deficits in the areas of cognition, 

communication, socialization, and play. 

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2 

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Iphigenia Story of a young girl caught in the midst of political intrigue and corruption. VHS 3141 

Iphigenia / presented by the Greek Film 

Centre 

Iraq : one year later / Cable News 

Network 

Iraq : the cradle of civilization / Maryland 

Public Television and Central Independent 

Television UK 

Story of a young girl caught in the midst of political intrigue and corruption. VHS 2411 

This series of news reports shows the aftermath in Iraq of the Persian Gulf 

Conflict one year after the conflict ended 

The beginnings of civilization in the region between the Tigris and Euphrates 

Rivers and the long tradition of absolute rulers, many of whose policies have 

brought disaster on what was once the first Garden of Eden. 

Iron road With the discovery of gold in California in 1849, fortune hunters poured into the 

western United States so fast that California was added to the union as a state 

in 1850. 

VHS 813 

VHS 1104 

VHS 928 

Is America for sale? / Tony Brown 

Productions 

Discusses the Japanese purchase of American real estate VHS 2066 

Islam, empire of faith Documents the rise and growth of Islam throughout the world, from the birth of 

Prophet Muhammad in the 6th century 

DVD 68 

Island at war One of the little-known stories of WWII is the fate of the Channel Islands DVD 555 v. 

1-3 

Island in the sky A transport plane crashes on Labrador's frozen tundra. The pilot must keep his 

crew alive while waiting to be rescued. Based on the novel by Ernest K. Gann 

DVD 1194 

Isle of secret passion / Comworld 

International 

Kathy is a young and beautiful teacher who finds love and excitement among 

the ruins of Greece 

VHS 1393


Israeli boy: life on a kibbutz / produced by 

Encyclopedia Britannica Educational Corp 

Issues concerning electronic copyright; live 

from Lexis-Nexis 

Issues management : refocusing for the 

1990's / produced for PRSA by Modern 

Talking Picture Service 

Provides a view of Israeli society through the eyes of Nir, a young boy born and 

raised on a kibbutz. 

VHS 2175 

Recorded on Sept 21, 1995 at the Lexix-Nexis campus in Dayton Ohio VHS 59 

Discusses current trends in issues management and what issues management 

should be 

It happened one night A New York attorney has a romantic fling while his wife is out of town, and then 

shrugs it off. 

Italian straw hat / scenario and direction 

by Rene Clair 

Set in Paris, 1895, the plot concerns a frantic search for a duplicate of a 

Florentine straw hat eaten by a horse. 

Italy Join traveler Megan McCormick as she explores the spectacular Italian Alps 

and the modern, cultural and gastronomic cities of the North; while Justine 

Shapiro looks beyond the image of the underdeveloped South, and explores 

Rome, Naples and countryside villages, before reaching the tip of Italy's toe in 

Aspromonte 

Itam hakim, hopiit : in recognition of the 

Hopi Tricenntenial 

Storyteller Ross Macaya tells stories from the myths and history of the Hopi 

people. 

It's a wild ride at O'Leary Junior High A video field trip designed to introduce the It's A Wild Ride project described 

on the related Web site www.intel.com/education 

It's a wonderful life 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 

It's a wonderful life / Frank Capra Sentimental classic about a young man who attempts to end his own life, only to 

be shown the error of his ways by his guardian angel 

It's elementary : talking about gay issues 

in school 

It's not too late / American Society of 

Mechanical Engineers 

An exploration of what happens when experienced teachers talk to their 

students about lesbians and gay men. 

Program 1 explores engineering careers of the future and explains why a 

background in science and math is important. 

VHS 2927 

DVD 89 

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DVD 87 

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VHS 1652 

Ivan the Terrible, part one Story of the 16th century Czar of Russia, Ivan the Terrible. VHS 1498 

Ivan the Terrible. Part 2 : the Boyar 

conspiracy / screen play and direction, S. 

Eisenstein 

Ivan returns from retirement to fight the Boyars VHS 3142 

Jack Levine, feast of pure reason / David 

Sutherland 

Jaco Pastorius : : modern electric bass / 

DCI Music Video 

A documentary on American artist Jack Levine. VHS 1705 

In an extensive interview/demonstration ... he [Pastorius] explains in detail his 

ideas about right and left hand techniques, harmonies, scales and arpeggios, 

study concepts, fretless bass and more. 

Jamaica Inn / Paramount Pictures The story of a poor orphan girl who discovers that the landed squire is really a 

pirate king 

James Baldwin : the price of the ticket / a 

Karen Thorsen production 

Presents a look at author James Baldwin's life as reflected in his own words and 

reminiscences of family and friends 

VHS 1337 

VHS 474 

VHS 2156 

Jane Austen's life Jane Austen's life provides an overview of her life from birth to death. DVD 335 

Jane Eyre; BBC Television program Friendless, orphaned Jane Eyre takes a job as governess to a lively French girl. 

In time, she finds herself in love with the child's guardian. 

DVD 1105 

Japan / producer Christopher Zrike 

director, Maureen Zrike 

A travelog featuring visits to a Zen temple, a Shinto shrine, the great Buddha of 

Kamakura, Himeji Castle, and the Sanja Matsuri Festival in Tokyo 

VHS 2585 

Japan : the Orient express Discusses the automobile industry in Japan and its trade with other countries. VHS 2284 

Japan 2000 / Nebraska Educational 

Television Network in cooperation with 

U.S.-Japan Public Television Council 

Japan and the future : a time for choice / 

NHK Enterprises 

Japan bashing / producer, Bonnie Dry 

executive producer, Dolores Danska 

Examines the Japanese and their leadership in the global community VHS 2116 

This program analyzes some of the challenges now confronting Japan VHS 1609 

From anti-Chinese legislation in the 1880s to Japanese detention camps in 

World War II, to boycotts facing Korean shopkeepers today 

VHS 2844


Japan, behind the mask / hosted by John 

Pilger produced & directed by Alan 

Lowery 

Examines employment, living conditions, education, nationalism and the 

treatment of women. 

Japanese : the spoken language Intended to accompany textbook by the same title published by Yale University 

Press 

Japanese relocation. Tale of two cities Includes a separate short about the effects of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima 

and Nagasaki titled: Tale of two cities 

Japanese. / CBS News Edwin O. Reischauer, former ambassador to Japan, discusses recovery, 

growth, and westernization of Japan into a world industrial power. 

Japan's rituals of remembrance : 50 years 

after the Pacific War : a film / by John 

Nelson 

VHS 2787 

VHS 2078 

VHS 868 

VHS 2843 

World War, 1929-1945 VHS 231 

Japan's role in the world of the 1990's Hisashi Owada answers questions about Japan's global aspirations, and 

Japan's economic and diplomatic relations with the United States and other 

countries 

VHS 2352 

Jareena Documents life of a member of a transsexual sect, both at his home in the 

countryside 

VHS 952 

Jaws A man-eating shark causes havoc off the Long Island coast DVD 86 

Jaws / Universal Pictures A man-eating shark causes havoc off the Long Island coast and three men join 

together to hunt and destroy it 

VHS 2279 

Jay O'Callahan, a master class in 

storytelling / Vineyard Video Productions 

Jazz / a production of Florentine Films 

and WETA, Washington D.C 

Jazz : the intimate art / a production of 

Drew Associates for the Bell System 

Jazz age, 1919-1929 / National 

Broadcasting Company 

Jazz dance class : with Gus Giordano / 

All Night Moving Pictures 

Jazz workout / Instructional Video 

Systems with Ann Coombes 

Robert Potts interviews storyteller Jay O'Callahan, who describes why stories 

are told, how to tell stories, and the uses of storytelling. Includes demonstrations 

10 episodes tracing the history of jazz from its roots in the African-American 

community of New Orleans to its heights and continuing presence 

Compares the musical styles of jazz artists, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, 

Dave Brubeck and Charles Lloyd. Describes their backgrounds and individual 

styles of music 

Describes the spirit of the 1920's by showing clips from newsreels, and by 

presenting music of the period. Portrays life in the United States 

Gus Giordano and his dance troupe Jazz Dance Chicago present a workshop in 

jazz dance techniques. Giordano is also interviewed 

Ann Coombes leads an exercise workout intended to provide instruction in basic 

jazz dance steps 

Jazz: a film by Ken Burns Episode 1), Sandra Marie Christie (episodes 2, 8), Lewis Erskine (episodes 3, 

9), Craig Mellish (episode 3), Erik Ewers (episodes 4, 7), Tricia Reidy (episodes 

5, 10), Sarah E. Hill (episodes 5, 10), Shannon Robards (episode 5), Aaron 

Vega (episode 6) ; narrator, Keith David 

VHS 609 

VHS 1141 

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VHS 2670 

DVD 536 

Jerk Navin Johnson, adopted son of a poor black sharecropper family, has invented 

some crazy inventions that lead him from rags to riches 

DVD 266 

Jerry Maguire A sports agent suddenly discovers his scruples and promptly loses his job DVD 331 

Jesus of Nazareth Maintaining the perfect balance between religious fervor and realism, this film 

depicts the life of Christ from His birth through His resurrection. 

Jewish synagogues This video uses Jewish houses of worship from around the world and down 

through the ages to illustrate three basic floor plans and the four elements 

common to all synagogues 

Jews & Christians: a journey of faith A documentary designed to foster greater understanding between Jews and 

Christians through mutual appreciation for each faith's history and teachings 

Jezebel Julie Marsden is a Southern belle in pre-Civil War New Orleans with a knack for 

manipulating the men in her life 

JFK The story of New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison whose investigation into 

the assassination of John F. Kennedy became an obsession 

DVD 909 

DVD 757 

DVD 629 

DVD 179 

DVD 646


JFK / Warner Bros. in association with Le 

Studio Canal+, Regency Enterprises and 

Alcor Films 

JFK: the case for conspiracy / New 

Frontier Video 

Director Oliver Stone seamlessly blends archival film with acted sequences in 

his version of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy 

Robert Groden's optically enhanced film and photographs of the assassination 

of President Kennedy offer new evidence in support of a conspiracy theory. 

Jilting of Granny Weatherall A spunky old lady of eighty on her deathbed struggles to resolve tormenting 

memories of her past when she was left standing at the altar. 

VHS 2813 

VHS 1570 

VHS 186 

Joan does Dynasty / Joan Braderman Joan Braderman takes Dynasty apart and examines the pieces in this one 

woman expose 

VHS 2056 

Job search preparation / Greg Tucker Greg Tucker considers important elements in preparing for a job search VHS 324 

Job search system; the right job for you 

personality 

Joe Heany : Irish traditional singer & 

storyteller 

This program shows viewers how to select a rewarding and satisfying career by 

engaging in a reflective self-assessment process to help identify and organize a 

variety of personal information into a form that's optimal for making informed 

career decisions 

Professor Tom Barden, Department of English, interviews Joe Heany, singer of 

Irish songs and teller of Irish folk stories 

Joe Leahy's neighbors The sequel to First Contact by filmmakers Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson 

concerns Australian prospector and explorer Leahy's mixed-race son, Joe. 

Joe Louis story / original screenplay by 

Robert Sylvester 

Story of a back-alley boy who traded his violin for boxing gloves and went on to 

become the world's heavy weight champion. 

Joe Louis, for all time / MPI Home Video A documentary on the life of boxer Joe Louis, heavyweight champion of the 

world from 1937 to 1949. Emphasizes his contributions to American culture 

DVD 1099 

VHS 181 

VHS 2504 

VHS 2317 

VHS 2637 

Joe versus the volcano / Amblin 

Entertainment 

Comedy; feature film with Tom Hanks VHS 3093 

Joe Williams : a song is born Video concert filmed in 1991 at the Paul Masson Winery, featuring Joe Williams 

performing with jazz pianist George Shearing 

VHS 662 

John Cleese's wine for the confused Join John Cleese on an entertaining and informative look at the world of wine. 

Learn how to find wines that taste good to you, how to make sure you get the 

best value, and how to keep and serve wine at home 

DVD 715 

John Fitzgerald Kennedy : a celebration 

of his life and times 





This first segment in a three-volume video biography of John Kennedy traces 

his rise to the United States Senate 

This third segment in a three-volume video biography of John Kennedy traces 

Kennedy's presidential career and his assassination 

This second segment in a three-volume video biography of John Kennedy 

traces Kennedy's senatorial career and his election to the presidency in 1960 

John Huston A salute from Lauren Bacall, Orson Welles, Michael Caine, Jack Nicholson and 

others to the director of "Key Largo", "The Maltese falcon", "Moulin Rouge", 

"The treasure of Sierra Madre" and others 

John Philip duck During the Depression, a young Memphis boy trains his pet duck to do tricks in 

the fountain of a grand hotel and ends up becoming the Duck Master of the 

Peabody Hotel 

Johnny Carson : his favorite moments 1 Heeere's Johnny! -- 2 The master of laughs -- 3 The king of late night -- .4 

America says farewell 

Johnsons Designed to increase awareness of HIV/AIDS relative to a heterosexual 

population 

Joining in: a program for teaching social 

skills 

Joke of destiny / The Samuel Goldwyn 

Company 

In the videos, typical peers serve as actors and model both appropriate and 

inappropriate social skills for elementary-age children. 

The Italian Minister of the Interior and his driver are inside a computercontrolled, 

terrorist-proof, maximum-security limousine. 

Joking relationship Examines humor as an important part of institutionalized kinship behavior 

among the !Kung Bushman 

Joseph Campbell and the power of myth, 

program six masks of eternity / with Bill 

Moyers 

Campbell discusses the concepts of God, religion and eternity as revealed in 

Christian teachings 

VHS 1852 

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Joseph; master of dreams Presents the biblical story of Joseph, sold into slavery by his jealous brothers VHS 1128 

Journey into Japan. The Meiji adventure / 

Australia-Japan Foundation 

Provides insight into the country and people of Japan VHS 1550 

Joy luck club Follows the story of four lifelong friends, whose lives are filled with joy and 

heartbreak 

DVD 656 

Joy Luck Club / Hollywood Pictures Follows the story of four lifelong friends, whose lives are filled with joy and 

heartbreak 

VHS 3106 

Joy of stress : with Loretta LaRoche Explains how humor helps strengthen our immune system, reduces stress, and 

prevents Hardening of the Attitude 

VHS 1562 

Juan Moreira Another example of the gauchesa myth. VHS 2448 

Jud Suss : the indoctrination of racial 

hatred / Terra Filmkunft director, Veit 

Harlan 

Nazi propaganda film at its most inflammatory. VHS 192 

Juggler of Notre Dame / Paulist 

Productions 

Barnaby, a wandering street juggler, teams up with a hero-worshiping hobo. VHS 1249 

Julian Bream; my life in music "Julian Bream tells his remarkable story with contributions from John Williams, 

Peter Pears, Igor Stravinsky, William Walton, George Malcolm, Richard Rodney 

Bennett, Ali Akbar Kahn and The Julian Bream Consort. 

DVD 984 

Julius Caesar / Commonwealth United Film adaptation of Shakespeare's play depicting the successful conspiracy to 

assassinate the Roman emperor, Julius Caesar 

VHS 2 

July '64 In the summer of 1964, a three-night riot erupted in two predominantly black 

neighborhoods in downtown Rochester, New York 

DVD 860 

Jurassic Park Secret island theme park featuring living dinosaurs cloned from prehistoric DNA DVD 267 

Jurassic Park / Universal Pictures 

presents an Amblin Entertainment 

Production 

A wealthy entrepreneur invites a top paleontologist, a paleobotanist, a 

mathematician/theorist, and his two eager grandchildren to visit his secret island 

theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA 

Just a little red dot-- When a new student comes to school wearing a dot on her forehead, an Indian 

cultural symbol, some students express racist attitudes and negative feelings. 

Just another girl on the I.R.T / Miramax 

Films 

Just like us / AIDS Risk Reduction 

Projects 

JVC Smithsonian Folkways video 

anthology of music and dance of Africa 

JVC video anthology of world music and 

dance 

JVC/Smithsonian Folkways video 

anthology of music and dance of Europe 

JVC/Smithsonian Folkways video 

anthology of music and dance of the 

Americas 

K. Malevich : transfiguration / State 

Russian Museum 

K. Patricia Cross on classroom research : 

produced by Kathleen Kirkpatrick 

Kacicka modropierka / Kratky film studio 

napisal, Rudo Moric 

A black teenage girl living in Brooklyn dreams of medical school, a family, and 

an escape from the generational poverty of the inner city. 

VHS 3104 

VHS 3195 

DVD 393 

Presents narratives by persons who have AIDS or are HIV positive. VHS 3134 

A three-part educational project that focuses on local performance styles to 

present the folk music and dance traditions of Africa. 

VHS 771 

30 cassettes; music and dance from all over the world. VHS 778 

Concentrates on local performance styles of song, music and dance in various 

European countries 

This six-part anthology series looks at many of the folk music traditions in North, 

Central and South America, and the Caribbean Islands. 

VHS 772 

VHS 774 

Documents the life of Russian painter Kazimir Malevich VHS 1702 

Discusses the use of classroom research to enrich teaching, to help teachers 

become system observers and be more sensitive to the students' performance 

A mother duck searches for a place to build her nest and raise her young, safe 

from the eagle and the otter 

Kalahari Family A Kalahari Family represents a lifetime of documentation, research, and 

personal contact by filmmaker John Marshall 

Kalahari family A Kalahari Family represents a lifetime of documentation, research, and 

personal contact by filmmaker John Marshall 

VHS 2265 

VHS 36 

DVD 509 

DVD 509


Kamikaze : mission of death Towards the end of World War II, a desperate Japanese military launched a 

lethal plan of attack on U.S. naval fleets 

Kampfs / WGTE TV A four-part program based on the case history of a family in therapy. Therapist 

James Wares attempts to solve the problems of the Kampf family 

VHS 1505 

VHS 290 

Kansas City, the southwestern style / U. 

Media Resources, U.of Minnesota 

Traces the origin of the Kansas City jazz style VHS 318 

Kaos Five short stories, independent from one another, yet with the common theme of 

Sicilian people and peasants struggling through the misery of their everyday life 

VHS 2813 

Karl Marx : the massive dissent / British 

Broadcasting Corp 

Traces the life and writings of Karl Marx, an intellectual of varied interests, and 

the influence of his thoughts on history. 

KARR Tunes A 35 minute performance by Gary Karr done live for a grade school audience, 

presented through great musical performances, using the double bass 

KARRdiology Performance-only selections by Gary Karr from the "BASSically Karr" video, 

which is an introduction to the techniques and challenges of playing the double 

bass 

Kaye Moore : teaching group piano at 

BGSU / [Bowling Green State University] 

Kennedy, years of charisma / by Robert 

B. Semple Jr. director, Jeremy Murray- 

Brown 

Kenyatta / Anthony David Productions, 

Inc. 

Kevorkian file / produced by Michael Kirk 

directed by Michael Kirk 

VHS 424 

DVD 803 

DVD 792 

Piano instruction & study VHS 1157 

Tells that in life John Kennedy was popular, drew much praise, inspired 

affection 

Traces the life and political career of Jomo Kenyatta, first prime minister of 

independent Kenya 

Assisted suicide is examined through the use of case studies of some of 

Kevorkian's patients 

Kevorkian verdict As Dr. Jack Kevorkian faces his third criminal trial for assisting in the suicide of 

one of his desperate patients, FRONTLINE examines the improbable saga of 

Dr. Death 

Key changes: a portrait of Lisa Thorson Portrays actress/vocalist Lisa Thorson who was injured at age 21 with a spinal 

cord injury. Discusses the effect people's perceptions of her disability have had 

on her life and career 

VHS 149 

VHS 2964 

VHS 3123 

VHS 872 

VHS 3283 

Key constitutional concepts This documentary begins by introducing the Constitution and why it was created DVD 810 

Key exchange / an M-Square 

Entertainment, Inc. Ronald Winston 

production 

Romantic comedy about the ups and downs of a young New York couple. VHS 1394 

Khrushchev, the Bear's embrace Documents Nikita Khrushchev's rise to power and his unceremonious removal 

from the position of leadership in the Soviet Union. 

Khyal: Classical singing of north India Indian classical singer, Veena Sahasrabuddhe provides a unique insight into the 

Khyal form and the process of improvized performance 

Kids and sports injuries / Films for the 

Humanities & Sciences, Inc 

This program focuses on the need for safety and protective measures in 

children's sports 

Kids in crisis; a call to action This documentary focuses on the problems that youth and their families face in 

America today--told through the eyes of those facing challenges and the 

professionals who have dedicated themselves to helping others overcome 

obstacles 

VHS 150 

DVD 740 

VHS 1807 

DVD 761 

Killers (Motion picture : 1946);"Ernest 

Hemingway's the killers 

Universal International [presented by] Mark Hellinger Productions VHS 368 

Killing / Harris-Kubrik Pictures Corp A group of small-time crooks plan a daring race-track robbery --but their welllaid 

plans go awry 

DVD 53 

Killing floor / Made in USA Productions, 

Inc. I 

Killing us softly 3 / created by Jean 

Kilbourne 

Frank Custer is a young black man from rural Mississippi who, in 1917, came 

north to make his fortune at the beginning of World War I. 

Discusses the manner in which women continue to be portrayed by advertising 

and the effects this has on their images of themselves 

Kind hearts and coronets Impatient to become duke, the ninth in line decides to eliminate the eight 

relatives standing in his way in this tart black comedy. 

VHS 2523 

VHS 2046 

VHS 2557


King and I An English schoolteacher finds herself at odds with the King of Siam when she 

is hired as the teacher at the royal court in the 1860s 

DVD 178 

King Gimp Dan Keplinger was born with cerebral palsy. Filmed over thirteen years DVD 421 

King John / BBC and Time-Life Television A dramatization of Shakespeare's play King John VHS 264 

King Kong In the 1930s, a down-on-her-luck actress accompanies an over-ambitious 

filmmaker on an expedition to a remote island. There they encounter a terrifying 

giant ape who forms an attachment to the beautiful actress. 

King Lear / BBC and Time-Life Television 

producers, Cedric Messina and Jonathan 

Miller 

King Lear / William Shakespeare 

produced by Granada Television of 

England 

King, Montgomery to Memphis / the 

Martin Luther King, Jr. Foundation 

Presents William Shakespeare's plays about a foolish king who divides his 

realm between two ungrateful daughters 

Dramatization of William Shakespeare's King Lear. A play about a foolish king 

who divides his realm between his two ungrateful daughters 

Through newsreel and television excerpts this documentary captures the 

eloquence and courage in striking words and images of the civil rights leader Dr. 

Martin Luther King, Jr 

DVD 663 

VHS 210 

VHS 3091 

VHS 2023 

Kingdom of the fairies / [Georges Melies] Tells the story of a princess who is abducted by a witch and demons and is 

rescued by a mermaid queen with the help of Neptune 

VHS 2403 

Kinsey 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. 

DVD 563 

Kiri live! (v.9) Great moments series VHS 3315 

Kiss me deadly / United Artists 

presented by Victor Saville 

A detective gives a ride to a half-naked girl, who is abruptly killed by thugs. 

Almost killed himself, the detective tries to solve the murder. 

VHS 2876 

Kiss of the spider woman In a prison cell somewhere in Latin America, Molina and Valentin have only one 

thing in common-- they are both victims of society. 

VHS 94 

Kitchen cabinets Based upon the PBS television series, The Do it yourself show VHS 1680 

Kitchen toto / Cannon Group, Inc. Adult drama set in racially charged Kenya in 1950, where a young boy is taken 

in as a kitchen servant by a white family after the boy's father is murdered. 

VHS 2565 

Know your enemy : the Viet Cong An Army information film which uses captured newsreel footage produced by 

the Central Office of North Vietnam. 

VHS 165 

Know your rights as a tenant / Chicago 

Video Project 

Rental housing; resident satisfaction VHS 2973 

Kolberg Re-creates the true story of a Prussian town's rebellion against Napoleon's army 

of the occupation. 

VHS 93 

Korea : the forgotten war / Lou Reda 

Production 

June 25, 1950, the 38th Parallel marked the beginning of a war that was to be 

like no other. 

Korea : war, prosperity, democracy / Shows footage of the Korean War and current modern day Korea for the 

purpose of creating knowledge and understanding of Korea 

Koyaanisqatsi / an IRE presentation Koyaanisqatsi is a Hopi Indian word meaning variously crazy life, life in turmoil, 

life disintegrating, life out of balance and a state of life that calls for another way 

of life. 

Kramer vs. Kramer When his wife walks out, Ted Kramer and his six-year-old son have a chance to 

really get to know each other. 

Kremlin / a production of NBC News 

producer, George A. Vicas 

Presents an overview and brief tour through the Kremlin in Moscow with 

General Andrey Yakovievitch as guide. 

VHS 2639 

VHS 3137 

VHS 1959 

DVD 494 

VHS 1531 

Ku Klux Klan; a secret history History channel production VHS 3199 

Kurt Gerron's Karussell Karoussel, named for a cabaret in Theresienstadt that Kurt Gerron had created, 

shows life and fate intermeshed with the decadence of Weimar Germany 

VHS 2041 

Kustom kar kommandos; Puce moment; 

Scorpio rising / Kenneth Anger 

Videocassette release of films originally made in 1965, 1949 and 1963 VHS 1611 

L.A. confidential / Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use 

differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slaying 

DVD 39


L.A. detectives This program profiles detectives from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's 

Department 

VHS 993 

L.E.A.R., the League of Revolutionary 

Writers and Artists / Yvette Nieves-Cruz 

Examines the history of the League of Revolutionary Writers and Artists VHS 1703 

Labor policy : the American worker in the 

post-Reagan era 

Labor policy VHS 1901 

Lady & the Tramp The two wealthiest men in America, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, give 

business students at the University of Nebraska advice on how to get a job, how 

to find success, and how to help change the world 

DVD 967 

Lady Eve A conniving father and daughter meet up with the heir to a brewery fortune DVD 193 

Lady from Shanghai / Columbia Pictures 

Corporation 

A seaman becomes involved in the murderous intrigue of a crippled lawyer and 

his homicidal frustrated wife. 

VHS 435 

Lady takes a chance A sophisticated New Yorker falls in love with a rodeo cowboy DVD 1146 

Lady vanishes En route back to England by train from Switzerland, an old lady disappears and 

two young people investigate 

VHS 537 

Lady with the dog / director Josef Heifitz Starring Iya Savvina VHS 2857 

Lady, or the tiger? / by Frank Stockton Presents an updated version of Frank Stockton's suspenseful unfinished tale VHS 2180 

Ladyhawke /Twentieth Century Fox Film 

Corp 

Based on a 13th century European legend about a beautiful maiden, a stalwart 

knight and a pickpocket. 

Lady's portion The lives of Bessie Parkes and Emilie Peacocke, two pioneering women 

journalists, are featured in this program. 

Lagaan: once upon a time in India An arrogant British Army captain forces a bet on a group of farmers. If they can 

win a cricket match against the army team, they will not have to pay the tax 

called lagaan for three years 

Lamb Lamb focuses on the relationship between Brother Michael Lamb, a teacher in a 

Roman Catholic-run institution for troubled boys on the Atrim Coast of Ireland 

Land and the people Features economist John Kenneth Galbraith discussing some of the ideas and 

views on economics that are presented is his book entitled The age of 

uncertainty. 

VHS 1446 

DVD 450 

DVD 703 

VHS 2566 

VHS 425 

Landmarks of early film A compilation of the very earliest films from the first projections of moving 

images to the advent of the feature film 

DVD 40 

Landmarks of early film A compilation of the very earliest films from the first projections of moving 

images to the advent of the feature film 

DVD 40 

L'Ange bleu Ballet presentation of The blue angel VHS 3224 

Language of light / Eastman Kodak 

Company 

Explores the range of light from very bright to almost nonexistent and discusses 

how to use the intensity, contrasts, colors, and directions from which light comes 

effectively to create visual images 

VHS 647 

Language you cry in : the story of a 

Mende song 

... traces the history of this song, a burial hymn of the Mende people VHS 2154 

Laryngeal paralysis Discusses etiologic considerations, clinical features and differential diagnosis, 

therapy and prognosis. Includes demonstration with a patient 

VHS 1739 

Last Bolshevik Examines the life and work of Russian film director, Alexander Medvedkin VHS 633 

Last emperor / Columbia Pictures, Inc. 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 

Last king of Scotland Chronicles Idi Amin's rise and fall. Amin's despotic reign of terror is viewed 

through the eyes of Nicholas Garrigan, a Scottish doctor who arrives in Uganda 

in the early 1970s to serve as Amin's personal physician. 

DVD 78 

DVD 1087 

Last laugh Chronicles the fickle advantages of status as an aging hotel doorman is 

demoted to lavatory attendant 

VHS 522 

Last of England / directed by Derek 

Jarman 

A vision of a totalitarian England VHS 2965


Last revolt This program explores the great Jewish revolt that destroyed the Holy Temple 

and Jerusalem 

VHS 1160 

Last rights / directed by Barbara Powers Euthanasia, right to die. VHS 1494 

Last shot This timely and emotionally charge dramatization examines the growing 

problem of violence in our schools 

DVD 789 

Last spring: stories of hospice This program features case studies of people who have decided to take the 

hospice approach to their final weeks of life 

DVD 278 

Last supper Explores Jesus' final hours on earth VHS 1149 

Last tango in Paris An American widower in Paris, desolate at the unexplained suicide of his wife, 

plunges into a torrid sexual relationship with a stranger, a young French girl half 

his age 

DVD 208 

Last tango in Paris An American widower in Paris, desolate at the unexplained suicide of his wife, 

plunges into an erotic affair with a young French girl half his age. 

Last temptation of Christ / Universal 

Pictures 

In this controversial movie Jesus, as both fully human and fully divine, is viewed 

in this film free of sin but subject to all temptations, including sexual ones 

Last tycoon / Paramount Pictures A penetrating glimpse at big studio politics in the early days of Hollywood a 

spectacular translation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's notorious novel 

VHS 2800 

VHS 2285 

VHS 379 

Lasting impressions Bob Blackburn and students of his print making workshop talk about their art VHS 3201 

L'Atalante A newlywed wife, tired of living on a barge, sneaks off to Paris and is 

abandoned by her husband 

Latino / directed by Haskell Wexler 

produced by Benjamin Berg 

Laura / Twentieth Century-Fox Film 

Corporation 

A Chicano, a model soldier, Eddie Guerrero begins to question what he and his 

colleagues are doing, unofficially, in Nicaragua 

VHS 3138 

VHS 1928 

Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb; 1944 VHS 2875 

Laurence Olivier's Hamlet The classic version of Shakespeare's Hamlet, the towering tragedy of the 

Danish prince who feigns madness to trap his father's murderer 

Lava Flows & Lava Tubes: what they are, 

how they form 

Explains these features and shows you how they form using new and unusual 

footage of lava flows from Hawaii and around the world. 

DVD 1015 

DVD 520 

L'avventura / Michelangelo Antonioni A wealthy woman disappears on a yachting trip, and her lover and her best 

friend begin an affair 

VHS 1613 

Law of nature : park rangers in Yosemite 

Valley 

Follows rangers through their duties in Yosemite National Park VHS 1746 

Lawrence of Arabia A heroic and troubled man who organized the Arab nations to fight the Turks in 

World War I 

DVD 198 

LBJ goes to war, 1964-1965 Tells how, following the assassination of President Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson 

inherited a series of coups in Saigon 

VHS 2345 

Le Corbeau / Sinister Cinema directed 

by Henri-Geroges Clouzot 

A thriller about a town terrorized by a mysterious character known as The 

Raven whose poison-pen letters drive various townspeople to crime and 

suicide 

VHS 2245 

Lead elimination action drive Lead abatement; Chicago VHS 2974 

Leadership, style or circumstance? Identifies and differentiates two diverse types of leaders: VHS 1352 

Lean on me This is the fact-based story of high school principal Joe Clark, who armed 

himself with a bullhorn and a Louisville Slugger and slammed the door on losers 

at Eastside High in Paterson, New Jersey 

DVD 1047 

Lean on me / Warner Brothers This is the fact-based story of high school principal Joe Clark, who armed 

himself with a bullhorn and a Louisville Slugger 

Learn the racing rules / produced by SEA 

TV 

Part 1 explains port-starboard, windward-leeward and tacking-too-close, as well 

as limitations on the right-of-way boat 

Learn to sail A comprehensive, easy to follow sailing course for beginning and intermediate 

students, featuring Audrey Landers and Sam Jones taught by Steve Colgate 

VHS 801 

VHS 86 

VHS 85 

Learning and memory / WNET-13, 

Antenna-2, NHK, Radio Quebec 

Discusses how human beings remember and why they forget. VHS 284 

Learning and teaching evolution Online student lessons, multimedia library and interactive website available on 

the World Wide Web 

VHS 990


Learning in America : paying the freight Examines attempts being made to improve American public schools. VHS 1889 

Learning through play / Media Centre, 

University of Toronto 

Learning to paint with Carolyn Berry; basic 

color V. I 

Learning to paint with Carolyn Berry; basic 

color V. II 

Learning to paint with Carolyn Berry; field 

flowers 

Learning to paint with Carolyn Berry; 

Perspective 


portrait drawing 


portrait painting 

Learning to paint with Carolyn Berry; still 

life 

Learning to see and understand: 

developing visual literacy 

Consists of four programs and seven study modules which, by exploring four 

themes 

Explains color mixing techniques in detail and suggests ways to find more 

colors in one's subjects 

VHS 126 

VHS 3205 

Carolyn Berry provides viewers with the basics of color use in oil painting VHS 3206 

Using acrylics, explaining measurements, basic color combinations and telling 

secrets 

VHS 3207 

Shows the technique of incorporating perspective into paintings VHS 3210 


secrets 

VHS 3209 

Explaining measurements, basic color combinations and telling secrets VHS 3208 


secrets 

VHS 3212 

Encourages the development of visual perceptiveness and expression VHS 3183 

Learning, memory and speed of behavior This program explores what happens to mental capabilities as we age and 

examines the techniques used to maintain and enhance them 

Legacy / a film from California Newsreel Terrell Collins, a 14 year-old African American boy living in Chicago's Henry 

Horner Homes housing project and the son of a crack addict 

Legacy of a dream / produced by Richard 

Kaplan for The Martin Luther King 

Foundation 

Legacy; murder and media, politics and 

prisions 

Presents a compilation of newsreel and videotape footage showing the events 

that secured the vote for American blacks and ultimately led to the death of 

Martin Luther King, Jr. 

From murders to manhunts to a win-at-all costs political campaign, this riveting 

expose presents the disturbing story behind the passage of California's stringent 

"three strikes" law. 

Legal considerations of broadcast news Dennis Hale and journalism professors discuss legal issues journalists face in 

the areas of libel, privacy, the fairness doctrine, equal time provisions, and 

obscenity 

VHS 2834 

VHS 2152 

VHS 626 

DVD 1240 

VHS 756 

Legend of the lost Desert guide Joe January is hired to find a missing father and a legendary lost 

treasure in the North African desert 

VHS 3329 

Legend of young Robin Hood Young Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men play out the legend VHS 1250 

Legendary West / produced by Post- 

Newsweek 

This fascinating look at the myth of frontier life compares original film footage, 

rare photographs and eye witness accounts 

VHS 1648 

Legends of the fall / TriStar Pictures A passionate journey into the darkest secrets of love, betrayal, and the 

unbreakable bonds of blood. --Box 

VHS 960 

L'Elisir d'amore / Metropolitan Opera 

Association 

Dramatization of Donizetti's opera as performed by the Metropolitan Opera VHS 2200 

Lenin and the great ungluing / British 


Discusses the happenings prior to World War I and the Russian revolution. VHS 427 

Leona's sister Gerri / produced in 

association with the Newton Television 

Foundation 

Les Miserables / Twentieth Century 

Pictures, Inc 

The story of Gerri Santoro, the real person in the police photograph of an 

anonymous woman collapsed on a motel room floor, dead from an illegal 

abortion. 

Fredric March stars as the heroic Valjean, an ex-convict who rises against all 

odds from galley slave to mayor. 

VHS 828 

VHS 1783 

Lesbian sexuality / Barbara Hammer A collection of four films by Barbara Hammer VHS 2546 

Less is more : pollution prevention is good 

business / U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency 

Let that be your last battlefield / 

Paramount 

Shows how industry is putting more money and devices into converting 

environmental waste into usable by-products 

The Enterprise becomes the battleground for two aliens who have pursued 

each other through space for thousands of years in an episode dealing with the 

idea that racial inequality will still be a problem in the future. 

VHS 2750 

VHS 948 

L'ete meurtrier / [directed by] Jean Becker The central figure is beautiful, provocative, and unpredictable. VHS 515


Lethal weapon / Warner Bros. Inc. The story of two Vietnam-vets-turned-cops who have just one thing in common: 

both hate to work with partners. 

Letter Set on a rubber plantation in Malaya, this story centers on a woman's reasons 

for killing a man who was a close family friend 

Letter to three wives / Twentieth Century- 

Fox Film Corporation 

Three small town society women get a letter from a mutual acquaintance 

telling them that she is eloping with one of their husbands 

Letters from Iwo Jima Sixty-one years ago, the United States and Japanese armies met on Iwo Jima. 

Decades later, hundreds of letters are unearthed from that stark island's soil. 

The letters give faces and voices to the men who fought there, as well as the 

extraordinary general who led them. 

Letting go Shows how hospice can provide an opportunity to find comfort, companionship, 

and peace before death for terminally ill patients and their families. 

Liar, Liar When his son's wish comes true, Fletcher discovers that his biggest asset, his 

mouth, has become his biggest liability 

Liberty! the American Revolution This documentary series chronicles the events leading up to the declaration of 

war, and the lasting effects these events had on shaping our country today 

Librarian; Quest for the spear When the Serpent Brotherhood, seeking world domination, steals one of three 

parts of the magical Spear of Destiny from the library, only this librarian, aided 

by a gorgeous bodyguard, has the know-how to thwart their plan. 

VHS 2277 

DVD 1171 

VHS 2818 

DVD 1176 

DVD 480 

DVD 490 

VHS 2589 

DVD 921 

Librarian; Return to King Solomon's mines Noah Wyle reprises his role as Flynn Carsen, the nerdy yet precocious librarian, 

endeavors to find King Solomon's mines 

DVD 922 

Library & archival disaster : preparedness 

& recovery / Richard F. Young and David 

J. Tinsley 

Stresses the need for a well developed disaster plan for libraries. VHS 1855 

Library of Congress and Smithsonian video 

present African American cinema 

Library research and note taking / 

presented by Michael Piotrowski 

Lick Bush in 92 / Heart of the Empire 

Productions 

The earliest surviving feature directed by an African-American, Within our gates 

tells the story of a young African-American woman who seeks a Northern white 

patron for a Southern school for Black children. 

Describes the entire library research process, giving sound advice on how to 

take accurate and complete notes without plagiarizing 

Follows drag queen and queer mayor of Chicago, Joan Jett Blakk, through his 

1992 presidential campaign 

VHS 1588 

VHS 754 

VHS 173 

Life after life / Raymond A. Moody Raymond Moody interviews people who have survived near-death experiences VHS 663 

Life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby 

/ produced by Colin Callender directed by 

Jim Goddard 

Life and choice after Roe v. Wade / 

Columbia University Seminars on Media 

and Society 

Life and death of 9413 : a Hollywood 

extra 

Life and death of 9413 Hollywood extra 

video recording and, Seashell and the 

clergyman 

Life and debt / BBC Television produced 

and directed by Octavio Bezerra 

Cavalcanti 

Adapted by David Edgar from the novel by Charles Dickens VHS 376 

Fred Friendly hosts a program on the Bill of Rights and its effect on the United 

States 

VHS 1215 

Silent film with music soundtrack VHS 2370 

Seashell and the clergyman presents a clergyman who regrets his vow of 

celibacy and is tormented by dreams 

This film shows how dire economic conditions in Brazil have led to the murder of 

500 street children per year. 

Life and legend of Sojourner Truth Traces the life and legend of the former slave who could neither read nor write, 

yet earned a reputation as one of the most articulate and outspoken antislavery 

and women's rights activists in the United States 

Life and times of Rosie the riveter Five women, who worked in the shipyards and defense plants during World War 

II, recount their experiences at work and offer comments on society's 

expectations of them during the war effort and after the war. 

VHS 2413 

VHS 557 

DVD 436 

DVD 1238


Life elsewhere / produced by the National 

Aeronautics and Space Administration 

Theorizes the possibility of extraterrestrial life by simulating the conditions of 

other planets and studying meteorites and comets. 

Life of Emile Zola Explores the career of the novelist who championed the cause of France's 

oppressed 

Life on earth : a natural history / hosted 

by David Attenborough 

Life on three planets beyond Earth / 

produced by the National Aeronautics and 

Space Administration 

Describes how four million life forms came to be as they are on Earth, not as 

isolated oddities but as elements in a long and continuous story that began 

billions of years ago 

Theorizes on the possibility of extraterrestrial life by simulating the conditions of 

other planets. Discusses explorations by the Pioneer and Voyager spacecrafts 

Life, death & politics / CBS News Discusses how researchers are using aborted fetal tissue for experimental 

medical procedures. 

Life, law and abortion / Bill Moyers With the Helms/Hyde Senate Bill 158 (which would legislate life at conception) 

in committee hearings, Bill Moyers considers some of the moral, constitutional, 

ethical, and medical questions surrounding the bill 

Life, patent pending / WGBH Presents breakthroughs in gene engineering, along with how scientists go about 

creating new forms of life, and how the impact of the gene bonanza affects 

industry, medicine, and the scientific community 

Life's first feelings / WGBH Explores the new era of understanding infant emotional development and 

reveals the most recent findings on the surprising emotional capabilities in 

newborns and very young children 

VHS 565 

DVD 1009 

VHS 940 

VHS 565 

VHS 734 

VHS 400 

VHS 598 

VHS 293 

Life's greatest miracle A new look at the journey from conception to birth DVD 304 

Light two lamps for freedom : the United 

States Constitution and the Northwest 

Ordinance 

United States Constitution VHS 1659 

Lights, camera, action, love Tracey Simmons is a young, lovely starlet just beginning her career in 

Hollywood. 

VHS 1754 

Like water for chocolate / Touchstone 

Home Video 

Tita and Pedro are in love, but cannot marry because of a family tradition. DVD 390 

Lilies of the field A free-spirited ex-G.I. stumbles upon five German refugee nuns in Arizona and 

helps them build a chapel 

DVD 1023 

Limelight Set in 1914 London, the film stars Chaplin as an aging music hall comic who's 

convinced he can no longer move people to laughter. 

DVD 406 

Lincoln Electric Examines Lincoln Electric of Cleveland, Ohio. VHS 2733 

L'Incoronazione di Poppea / music by 

Claudio Monteverdi 

Linking for learning : a new course for 

education / Congress of the U.S., Office of 

Technology Assessment 

The Coronation of Poppea (L'Incoronazione di Poppea) was Monteverdi's last 

opera, written when he was 75, and first performed in Venice in 1642. 

A comprehensive look at the status of distance education in public schools, 

including its impact on teachers. 

Lion game A young man pretends to be a lion. A group of boys pretend to "hunt" and "kill" 

him 

Lions of capitalism : some call it greed / Beginning with agrarian America's entrance into World War I, follows the 

country's economic history through today's computerized, fast food service lifestyle 

Lipstick & Dynamite This outlandishly entertaining film tells the incredible stories of the rough-andtumble 

women who made their living on the professional wrestling circuit in the 

1940s and 50s. Archival footage and contemporary interviews spotlight these 

superstars 

Literary visions. Programs 1-26 / 

Maryland Public Television Production and 

Corporation for Community College 

Television 

VHS 1412 

VHS 830 

DVD 602 

VHS 1251 

DVD 597 

a 26 segment literature telecourse from the Anneberg CPB project VHS 736 

Little Big Man / Cinema Center Films 

screenplay by Calder Willingham 

Jack Crabb (Dustin Hoffman) is 121 years old. And he's done it all: VHS 814 

Little Caesar / First National Pictures, Inc Rico Bandello and his cohort Joe Massara head for the big city looking for 

power and quick riches. A determined man, he ruthlessly pushes his way to the 

top of the mob 

VHS 459


Little clay cart : a folk play from India A traditional Sanskrit play, written in 1400 by King Sudraka is performed by the 

Pomona College Department of Theatre and Dance. In English 

little foxes / directed by William Wyler 

produced by Samuel Goldwyn 

Regina Giddens is a woman who will stop at nothing to outwit her brothers in 

running the family business, even if it means sacrificing the health of her 

husband or the love of her young daughter 

VHS 1173 

DVD 25 

Little history worth knowing Traces the often overlooked history of people with disabilities VHS 957 

Little injustices : Laura Nader looks at the 

law / Public Broadcasting Associates 

Anthropologist Laura Nader compares the resolution of everyday legal 

complaints as conducted in a small Zapotec Indian village and in the United 

States. 

Little mermaid Ariel is a fun-loving and mischievous mermaid who is enchanted with all things 

human. 

Little miss sunshine Olive is a little girl who dreams of winning the Little Miss Sunshine contest. Her 

family wants her dream to come true, but they are so dysfunctional that they can 

barely make it through a day without some disaster befalling them. 

Little Plover River project : a study in 

sand plains hydrology 

Documents a cooperative federal-state research project to study and evaluate 

water resources of the Wisconsin sand plains region. 

Little rebellion now and then Dramatizes Shays' rebellion and the unrest during the two crucial years 

preceding the Constitutional Convention 

Living machine / produced by WQED 

Pittsburgh 

Plate tectonics, one of the most important discoveries of the 20th century, is 

explored with world-renowned scientists on location. 

Living Martyr Documentary concerning militant followers of Islam who have committed 

themselves to die in suicide attacks. 

Living on Tokyo time / Farallon Films A rock guitarist with no talent feels little connection to his Japanese heritage 

until he marries a Japanese girl who wants to stay in America but maintain a 

Sushi attitude 

VHS 764 

DVD 856 

DVD 997 

VHS 1760 

VHS 3303 

VHS 625 

VHS 976 

VHS 1390 

Living wills Examines the concept of living wills and advance directives. DVD 478 

Living with arthritis / a Milner-Fenwick 

production 

Living with grief : personally & 

professionally / a production of the Hospice 

Foundation of America 

Living with the living dead / Geraldo 

Rivera 

Looks at the problems and available treatment for arthritis. Stresses heat, 

exercise, rest, and medication (HERM) and reviews current therapies 

Noted experts in the field of grief counseling speak about dealing with some of 

the basic aspects of coping with death and grief from a variety of perspectives 

In a segment taken from the ABC television program 20/20, Geraldo Rivera 

visits Haiti to find the truth behind the zombie legend 

VHS 1132 

VHS 3088 

VHS 530 

Lluvia roja / Filmadora Mexicana El impresionante cuento historico de un coronel que adquiere fama de 

sanguinario al combatir a un grupo de rebeldes 

VHS 1239 

Local hero / an Enigma production A comedy about the interaction between Americans representing a Texas oil 

company and the inhabitants of a small village in Scotland 

DVD 373 

Locating company information / produced 

by Penn State TV 

Presents a basic introduction to business information sources VHS 1178 

Loneliness of the long distance runner An 18-year-old boy, a product of a slum environment, is sent to reform school 

where he becomes the top runner 

VHS 1118 

Lonesome dove Tale of two former Texas Rangers who leave the South Texas town of 

Lonesome Dove on an epic 2500-mile cattle drive to the lush ranch country of 

Montana. 

DVD 1121 

Long chain / British Broadcasting 


Long day's journey into night / Joseph E. 

Levine in association with Ely Landau and 

Jack J. Dreyfus, Jr 

Long night's journey into day / Iris 

Films/Iris Feminist Collective 

Host James Burke traces the connection between mercantile competition 

between the British and Dutch in the 17th centur 

Author Eugene O'Neill gives an autobiographical account of his explosive home 

life. 

For over forty years, South Africa was governed by the most notorious form of 

racial domination since Nazi Germany. 

VHS 122 

VHS 71 

VHS 2101 

Long walk home Race relations drama DVD 433 

Longest Hatred A revealing history of anti-Semitism with roots long before the Holocaust and 

branches that continue to sprout in surprising places today 

DVD 516


Longest hatred / a Nucleus production for 

Thames Television & WGBH 

Traces anti-Semitism from its earliest manifestations in antiquity to the recent 

ominous outbreaks in Germany, Russia, and elsewhere. 

Longest trail Explores the Arctic background of North and South American Indian dance 

styles 

Looker While trying to protect one of his patients from a murderer, a plastic surgeon 

discovers that the patient is connected with a research facility that plans to use 

her image on TV as part of a mind control experiment 

VHS 2570 

VHS 3186 

VHS 2252 

Looking for Langston / Sankofa Film and 

Video 

A tribute to Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance VHS 29 

Lord of the rings (3 vols.) In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and 

DVD 694 v. 

Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that 

he could rule all others. 

1-3 

Lorenzo's oil A drama based on the true story of the extraordinary mission for a medical cure 

begun by Augusto and Michaela Odone when their five-year-old son, Lorenzo, 

is diagnosed with a rare terminal disease 

VHS 3301 

Loretta Young Show, season 1 Trial run -- A family out of us -- Prisoner at one o'clock -- Girl on a flag pole -- 

Turn of a card -- Earthquake -- The one that got away -- Kid's stuff -- The Bronte 

story -- Laughing boy -- Extra feature: Biography of Loretta Young 

Loretta Young Show, season 2 Love story -- Thanksgiving at Beaver Run -- The faith of Chata' -- The night dad 

came home -- Hotel Irritant -- Inga #1 -- Lady killer -- Secret answer -- The 

mirror -- Hollywood story -- Extra feature: Loretta Young home movies 

Loretta Young Show, season 3 Act of faith -- Big little lie -- New York story -- Man's estate -- Nobody's boy -- 

Count of ten -- Clara Schumann story -- Son, this is your father -- First man to 

ask her -- Forest ranger -- Extra feature: Movie trailers with Loretta -- Bonus 

clips (a short clip of Loretta at age 16 & public service films) 

L'Orfeo : Favola in musica / da Claudio 

Monteverdi 

Los de abajo / producido por Conacite 

S.A. de C.V 

Los Mineros / produced and directed by 

Hector Galan story by Hector Galan 

Monteverdi's reworking of the most popular of all Greek myths, that of Orpheus 

and Euridice 

Los de Abajo is the most violent, passionate and brutal chronicle of the 

Mexican Revolution and of Mexican history. 

Much of the history of the western United States centers on the mining of 

precious metals, but mine development also involved the exploitation of large 

work forces. 

Losing Isaiah A woman who has adopted an abandoned child to give it a new life has to fight 

for him when his birth mother shows up and wants him back 

Loss of innocence / produced by CBS 

News 

Lost children of Rockdale County / a 

Frontline co production with 10/20 

Productions 

Lost highway / October Films presents a 

CIBY 2000/Asymmetrical production 

Film coverage. The first part discusses the U.S. government's advertising 

campaign for the war effort The second part follows American troops from the 

setting up of the draft to their arrival in France 

In 1996, a syphilis outbreak struck teenagers in the prosperous community of 

Conyers, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta. 

A successful jazz musician whose marriage is on the rocks, a man in black who 

threatens to expose him. 

DVD 682 

DVD 683 

DVD 684 

VHS 228 

VHS 2434 

VHS 927 

DVD 493 

VHS 2228 

VHS 2057 

VHS 51 

Lost in America` David Howard has put in eight long years at a big-time ad agency DVD 328 

Lost in translation A middle-aged actor and the wife of a photographer meet while on business in 

Tokyo 

DVD 657 

Lost prince After discovering that their son Prince John suffers from epilepsy and learning 

disabilities, the royals have the boy sent off to be raised in a rural farmhouse, 

lest he tarnish the family's image of superiority. Removed from the public eye 

and the attention of his parents, Prince John forms a loving bond with his nurse, 

Lalla 

DVD 641


Lost weekend A would-be writer's dissatisfaction with his life leads him on a three-day binge. 

This film gives an uncompromising look at the devastating effects of alcoholism 

Lottery The Lottery, set in a small American town, where the townspeople gather on a 

June morning to perform the annual lottery ritual 

Louis Armstrong Features two historic concerts from one of the founding fathers of bebop. The 

1958 Belgium concert features Dizzy working within the small combo (with 

Sonny Stitt and Ray Brown) structure of a quintet. The second 1970 Denmark 

show focuses on Dizzy fronting the legendary Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big 

Band 

Love & Diane In the 1980s, the crack epidemic in American inner cities left a generation of 

parents addicted and their children in a cycle of foster care and group homes. 

DVD 1013 

VHS 2191 

DVD 892 

DVD 814 

Love and the goddess Campbell talks about romantic love, beginning with the 12th century 

troubadours, and addresses questions about the image of woman 

VHS 1796 

Love is a many splendor thing A widowed Eurasian doctor and an American war correspondent stationed in 

Hong Kong begin an intensely passionate affair 

DVD 182 

Love Story A young Ivy League couple cross social barriers to marry, then must cope with 

untimely illness and death 

DVD 228 

Love, intimacy and sexuality In this program, older couples speak frankly about their enjoyment of sex. VHS 2833 

Love, Josh Filmed over the course of a year, this documentary shows the feelings of a 15 

yr. old after the death of his father 

Loving couples / Time-Life Films Romantic comedy where old values and the new morality meet in a head-on 

collision 

Low Reynolds number flows Sir Geoffrey I. Taylor describes and discusses characteristics of the motion of 

fluids using a variety of models 

Lucia / Cuban Institute of Art and Film 

Industry 

Deals with the theme of women and revolution by following the lives of three 

different women named Lucia during three different revolutionary periods. 

DVD 474 

VHS 1391 

VHS 2385 

VHS 562 

Lucia di Lammermoor Encrico tries to force his sister to wed Arturo in order to save a family fortune VHS 2204 

Lucifer rising Invocation of my demon 

brother / Kenneth Anger 

A film about the love generation--the birthday party of the Aquarian Age 

showing actual ceremonies to make Lucifer rise. 

VHS 1612 

Lucky Luciano / Harbor Productions, Inc Charles Lucky Luciano, drug trafficker deported to Italy from the U.S. VHS 2865 

Lumiere / New World Pictures One night while celebrating the winning of an award, extraordinary events occur 

that radically change the lives of four women actresses. 

Lying lips In this classic melodrama, a nightclub singer is unjustly convicted and sent to 

prison for the murder of her aunt 

Lysistrata / Zervoulakos Film retelling of Lysistrata who convinced the women they could prevent war by 

withholding sexual favors from their husbands 

M / [directed by] Fritz Lang Dramatic search for a child murderer examines police methods and the 

character of the murder as well. 

M*A*S*H Three Korean War Army surgeons adopt a hilarious, lunatic lifestyle as an 

antidote to the tragedies of their Mobile Army Surgical Hospital 

M*A*S*H* - Final season, 11 Series portrays both the horror and hilarity of the daily lives of MASH unit 4077 

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M. Butterfly / The Geffen Film Company Story of a French diplomat and a Beijing Opera star who carry on a love affair 

over almost 20 years before the diplomat discovers something shocking about 

his lover 

Mababangong bangungot / isang film ni 

Kidlat Tahimik 

A semi-autobiographical fable about a Philippino named Kidlat Tahimik and his 

awakening to, and reaction against American cultural colonialism 

DVD 1134 

DVD 1135 

DVD 1136 

DVD 1132 

VHS 3149 

VHS 2123 

Macbeth A classic tragedy about the lust for power and its ultimate bloody consequences. DVD 545 

Machine vision / SME Defines machine vision systems and describes briefly the history and various 

types of systems and their purposes. Examines manufacturing applications in 

five companies: 

VHS 19 

Machines that run / by Marc H. Raibert Documents the development of various dynamic legged systems VHS 1473 

Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World When a goofy assortment of motorists unexpectedly learn the whereabouts of a 

stolen fortune, they speed off on a side-splitting, car-bashing race for the loot 

Madame Bovary A woman rebels against conventional society, not satisfied with the limited life 

she leads, and finds tragedy. Based on the novel by Gustave Flaubert 

Madame Bovary / MK2 Productions 

SA/C.E.D. 

Emma Bovary is a woman possessed by a burning hunger for life and love--and 

a passion that can never be fulfilled. 

DVD 88 

VHS 2477 

VHS 2993 

Madame Bovary / a film by Claude Chabrol Emma Bovary is a woman possessed by a burning hunger for life and love--and 

a passion that can never be fulfilled. 

DVD 372 

Madchen in Uniform;"Maedchen in uniform supervisor VHS 2512 

Made in America / Martin Sandler 

Productions 

Madness / WNET-13, Antenna-2, NHK, 

Radio Quebec 

Describes the American entrepreneurs who laid the foundation for the 

enterprises that transformed America 

Portraits of schizophrenics and their families are used to underscore how much 

brain researchers now know and what they have yet to accomplish 

VHS 1666 

VHS 286 

Magic never ends "... a television documentary that chronicles the C.S. Lewis story. DVD 289 

Magic of Lionel electric trains / TM Books 

and Video 

Toy train expert Tom McComas takes you on a tour of six Lionel train layouts, to 

show why Lionel trains remain so popular 

Magician : a film / by Ingmar Bergman A wandering magician and his troupe arrive in Stockholm where they encounter 

considerable disdain. 

Magnificent Ambersons / Turner Home 

Entertainment 

Magnificent Ambersons / Turner Home 

Entertainment 

Portrait of the decline of an aristocratic Midwestern family as the industrial 20th 

century begins 

Portrait of the decline of an aristocratic Midwestern family as the industrial 20th 

century begins 

VHS 3089 

VHS 1248 

VHS 1567 

VHS 2960 

Magnificent seven The citizens of a small Mexican farming village hire seven gun fighters to defend 

them 

DVD 357 

Making art / The Getty Center for 

Education in the Arts 


Making dances: seven post-modern 

choreographers 

Includes interviews, rehearsal, and performance sequences with seven 

contemporary choreographers 

Making diversity work Offers practical tools to help managers develop the awareness and skills 

necessary to unite different employees and help them form productive work 

groups 

Making large classes interactive How even large classes can be made interactive discussion of strategies with 

classroom examples 

Making larger classes work While intended primarily for members of the faculty at Indiana University, and in 

particular newer faculty members. 

VHS 3220 

VHS 842 

VHS 2798 

VHS 3126


Making of Ohio / Instructional Video This program looks at the fossil record and shows the other geological 

processes which formed this land 

Making television dance An exploration of the relationship between the complex technology of television 

and the realm of dance. 

Malcolm X : make it plain / narrated by 

David McCullough 

This definitive biography weaves together interviews, archival footage, 

photographs, and an original score 

Maltese Falcon After the death of his partner, San Francisco private eye Sam Spade is dragged 

into a quest for a priceless statuette 

Maltese falcon / Warner Bros. Pictures, 

Inc 

One of Humphrey Bogart's most classic roles is presented in this special video 

recording. He plays detective Sam Spade 

Man called Bee : studying the Yanomamo Follows anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon as he collects anthropological field 

data among the Yanoama Indians of southern Venezuela 

Man escaped In 1943, Lt. Fontaine is captured by the Gestapo and is imprisoned in Fort 

Montluc. He carefully plans his escape but puts it off until sentenced to death 

Man for all seasons / screenplay by 

Robert Bolt produced and directed by 

Fred Zinnemann 

Historical drama about the opposition of Sir Thomas More to the divorce of King 

Henry VIII and the events which lead to More's execution 

Man in love An actor and actress become involved in a passionate, overpowering romance 

that threatens everything else in their lives 

Man in the iron mask Twin boys are separated at birth, one to become King of France, the other 

hidden away. 

Man in the white suit A bubbly satire, acclaimed as one of the funniest and cleverest of British 

comedies. 

Man named Lombardi / Gould 

Entertainment Corporation 

Portrait of Vince Lombardi, the football coach who drove his players to countless 

victories in high school through professional football. 

Man who knew too much An Englishman and his wife and child become involved in a plot to assassinate 

a foreign diplomat the child is kidnapped 

Man who knew too much (Motion picture : 

1955);"The man who knew too much " 

Story of an Englishman touring Morocco with his wife and child who accidentally 

becomes involved in an anarchist plot to assassinate a foreign diplomat in 

London 

VHS 826 

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DVD 184 

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VHS 3095 

Man, a plan, a canal, Panama / a WGBH 

production 

Story of the building of the Panama Canal VHS 1650 

Man, the incredible machine / National 

Geographic Society 

Uses photographs and recording techniques in examining the human body VHS 387 

Man, the measure of all things / a BBC 

TV production 

Discusses the 15th century art and architecture of humanism. VHS 1289 

Manager's job : folklore and fact Redefines the role of working managers from the traditional organizing, 

coordinating, controlling, activities to a more flexible system whereby managers 

can make themselves more effective. 

VHS 2676 

Managing care: managing death Examines what distinctions may exist between prescribing strong painkillers to 

the terminally ill, even if such hastens death, and physician-assisted suicide. 

Managing stress, anxiety, and frustration Program defines and discusses stress in terms of somatic and psychological 

manifestations, relaxation techniques and coping skills designed to last a 

lifetime 

Manchurian candidate A U.S. Army platoon, captured in the Korean conflict, is whisked to Manchuria 

for three nightmarish days 

Manchurian candidate / [M.C. 

Productions] 

Mandarin revolution / British Broadcasting 

Corp 

A U.S. Army platoon, captured in the Korean conflict, is whisked to Manchuria 

for three nightmarish days 

John Maynard Keynes and his ideas on money and economics are explored. 

His major thesis was not to change, but to conserve the existing system. 

Mandate; the president and the people From George Washington to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, examines the 

relationship between the presidency, mass media, and public opinion 

Mango tree / Satori Entertainment Corp While World War I rages, the young boys at home in a small Australian town, 

approach their own manhood 

Manhattan Allen portrays Isaac Davis, a successful comedy writer whose wife, having left 

him for another woman 

DVD 453 

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VHS 1661 

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DVD 811 

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DVD 130


Manners and morals of high capitalism / 

British Broadcasting Corp 

Manufacturing strategies / [a] Tompkins 

Associates Incorporated presentation 

Many adventures of Winnie the Pooh 

;"The many adventures of Winnie the Pooh 

The 19th century affluence of the wealthy and its' affect on the American way of 

life is discussed. 

Discusses strategic master planning in a manufacturing firm and that it is the 

most important function in management 

VHS 432 

VHS 1212 

Walt Disney story VHS 566 

Mao years, 1949-1976 / a film by Ambrica 

Productions 

China; history VHS 3001 

Mao, organized chaos / by Harrison E. 

Salisbury 

Documentary of Mao's years as ruler of China VHS 152 

Marathon Man Hoffman plays the likeable Columbia graduate student and marathon runner of 

the title, unwittingly trapped in a terrifying drama 

DVD 129 

Marbury vs. Madison In this 1803 case, the Supreme Court established its responsibility to review the 

constitutionality of acts of congress. 

VHS 161 

March of the penguins In the Antarctic, every March since the beginning of time, the quest begins to 

find the perfect mate and start a family. 

DVD 647 

Marcus Garvey: look for me in the 

whirlwind 

Jamaican immigrant who between 1916 and 1921 built the largest black mass 

movement in world history 

DVD 355 

Maria A heart wrenching love story of a terminally ill girl and the man who loved her VHS 2433 

Maria Callas in concert (1959) Selections from Barber of Seville, Macbeth, La Vestale, Il Pirata and Don Carlo VHS 367 

Maria Candelaria : Xochimilco A young woman lives as an outcast in her small village due to her mother's 

immoral past 

VHS 1468 

Maria full of grace Maria, a poor Columbian teenager, is desperate to leave a soul-crushing job. 

She accepts an offer to transport packets of heroin 

DVD 566 

Maria Stuart / Friedrich Schiller A drama about Mary Queen of Scots VHS 2125 

Marie Antoinette The story of a callous monarch, swept to her death in the torrent of the French 

Revolution. 

DVD 859 

Marilyn, say goodbye to the President / a 

BBC TV production 

This documentary is the product of a three-year investigation by senior British 

and American journalists 

Mario Benedetti In this interview, Benedetti talks about politics in Cuba and gives his views on 

Latin American literature 

Mario del Monaco A 1982 Japanese television tribute consisting of excerpts from Del Monaco's 

1959-61 operatic performances in Japan 

Mark of the maker : Twinrocker 

handmade paper 

Introduces papermakers Kathryn and Howard Clark, who, in 1972, founded 

Twinrocker, a hand paper mill in Brookston, Ind 

VHS 2644 

VHS 1764 

VHS 582 

VHS 2014 

Mark Twain Recounts Mark Twain's life told primarily through his own words. DVD 411 

Mark Twain Recounts Mark Twain's life told primarily through his own words. VHS 1225 

Marketing nonprofit organizations / a Discusses the emerging emphasis on marketing activities by nonprofit 

VHS 2883 

D.E. Visual production 

organizations such as hospitals, colleges and government agencies. How 

nonprofit organization apply the marketing concept 

Marriage of Figaro : a comic opera in 4 

acts 

Marsalis on music. Listening for clues : 

Marsalis on form 

Marshall, Texas Marshall, Texas / 

Corporation for Entertainment & Learning 

Martha Graham : the dancer revealed / a 

co-production of Thirteen/WNET 

Opera based on Beaumarchais' sequel to his Barber of Seville VHS 2201 

Wynton Marsalis shows how to enjoy a long piece of music by learning to 

identify the structure and form as he moves from Prokofiev to Gershwin, 

Ellington and Ives. 

Journalist Bill Moyers returns to his hometown of 25,000 people - Marshall, 

Texas -- to reexamine his past through the voices of current residents and 

former classmates. 

A documentary of the life of the American dancer and choreographer, Martha 

Graham 

VHS 640 

VHS 1624 

VHS 869 

Martha Graham in performance / 

Homevideo Exclusives 

Dances "conceived and choreographed by Martha Graham" VHS 2007 

Martin Luther Martin Luther nailed his treatise to the doors of the Wittenberg Cathedral and 

forever changed the Christian world. 

DVD 519


Martin Luther King, Jr. : a personal 

portrait 

Martin's day / United Artists World Film 

Services 

A personal portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr. in conversation with Arnold 

Michaelis 

Fast-paced action thriller in which two Martins, one a convict and the other a 

boy, are thrown together when the man escapes and takes the boy prisoner. 

Marty / Hecht-Lancaster+A2601 Marty is the story of a 34-year-old Bronx butcher who fears that he will never 

find love, but at a Saturday night dance he meets a lonely schoolteacher with 

similar fears 

Mary Poppins After a banker's children lose their nanny due to her frustration with them, a 

change in the wind blows in a magical nanny who matches the children's 

qualifications, but not those of their very proper father. 

Mary Silliman's war / produced by 

Heritage Films and Citadel Films 

Based on the memoir and letters of Mary Silliman whose husband, a patriot 

leader, was kidnapped by tories from their Fairfield, Conn., home during the 

American Revolutionary War 

VHS 1351 

VHS 1472 

DVD 391 

DVD 1043 

VHS 414 

Masculin, feminin; 15 faits precis An interviewer-journalist has an affair with a would-be rock star in 1960's Paris VHS 3098 

Masculin, feminine / Produced by 

Argos/Svenskfilmindustri/Sandrews/Anouc 

hka Films 

Paris in the 1960's, sexuality, and the go-go generation are explored as a young 

pseudo-revolutionary and a pretty pop singer have an affair 

Mask / Universal City Studios Based on the true story of Rocky Dennis, a disfigured teenager who, with the 

help of his fiercely loving mother, overcomes pain, loneliness and prejudice 

Massacre of innocence A Christian fundamentalist presentation of social, political, medical and biblical 

perspectives on abortion 

Master and commander During the Napoleonic Wars, a British frigate, the HMS Surprise, and the larger 

French warship, Acheron, stalk each other off of the coast of South America. 

Master conductors; a legacy of wisdom This DVD is the perfect window into the minds of three of the greatest wind 

conductors of all time 

MASTER Teacher model for resultsoriented 

teaching 

Master teacher profile; elements of delivery 

at work in the classroom 

1. Research you must know. --2. Laying down the foundation of the lesson. -- 3. 

Building the body of the lesson. --4. Harnessing the power of the lesson. -- 5. 

Sharpening the focus of the lesson 

Discussion of effective teaching techniques, demonstrated with public school 

orchestras and string orchestras 

Mastering the interview Bill Cakmis walks you through the interview process, including what kinds of 

questions to ask and how to answer the toughest queries. 

Match point Former tennis pro Chris Wilton stumbles into good fortune when Chloe Hewett, 

the daughter of a wealthy businessman and the sister of one of his tennis 

students, falls in love with him 

Matrices I have met / Paul Halmos Dr. Halmos discusses matrix approximation, unitary dilation of matrices, 

subnormal matrices, and square roots of matrices 

Matrimandir : house of the new creation 

rising in Auroville, India 

Shows still photos of the Matrimandir, a spherical structure 30 meters high, 

being built by the people of Auroville, India. 

Matrix In an anti-utopian future, the real world as we know it is nothing more than a 

computer construct 

Matter of judgment / produced for the 

Ethics Resource Center 

Matter of life and death ;"Stairway to 

heaven 

Matter of time / American International 

Pictures 

Presents five scenarios revolving around everyday challenges to the 

independence of judgment in the business world. 

VHS 1785 

VHS 1312 

VHS 1375 

DVD 666 

DVD 962 

VHS 2026 

DVD 799 

DVD 632 

DVD 738 

VHS 1383 

VHS 2049 

DVD 209 

VHS 64 

Columbia Pictures Industries VHS 2568 

Liza Minnelli plays the part of Nina, a young chambermaid working in a once 

elegant but now neglected hotel. 

Matters of life and death In this CBS News special, Martin Marty of the Park Ridge Center, members of 

Lutheran General and Good Samaritan Hospitals' ethics advisory teams, 

hospice providers, and others address the sanctity of life in a medical context 

Mau mau / Anthony David Productions, 

Inc. 

Maximizing physical potential of older 

adults 

Traces the history of the state of emergency declared by the British colonial 

government of Kenya in 1952 

This program considers ways to develop the greatest physical potential in an 

aging individual while compensating for the effects of aging 

VHS 1380 

DVD 277 

VHS 2963 

VHS 2832


Maya Deren : collected experimental films 

/ Mystic Fire Video, Inc. & Cherel Ito 

Examples of Maya Deren's work evoke and exemplify the American avant-garde 

film movement of the 1940s and 1950s 

Maya Deren: experimental films Examples of Maya Deren's work evoke and exemplify the American avant-garde 

film movement of the 1940s and 1950s 

McCarthy years Hosted by Mike Wallace, Walter Cronkite, and Dan Rather, this 4-pack set 



McCullock vs. Maryland This case brought about Supreme Court decision that the federal law should 

take precedence over state law 

McLintock! Cattle baron George Washington McLintock fights with his estranged wife who 

wants nothing from him except a divorce. His daughter and the local political 

land-grabbers are fighting with McLintock as well. Along with taming the West, 

McLintock finally "tames" everyone who has been fighting with him 

McQ A police lieutenant resigns from the force to track down some big dope dealers 

involved in killing a couple of police officers 

Me & the Mosque Journalist and filmmaker Zarqa Nawaz visits mosques throughout Canada and 

talks to scholars, colleagues, friends and neighbors about equal access for 

women 

Mean streets / E. Lee Perry, executive 

producer 

Measure for measure / BBC-TV and Time- 

Life TV 

Meat fight / Documentary Educational 

Resources 

A cheap small-time hood working his way up the bottom rungs of the Mafia 

ladder 

Presents a dramatization of William Shakespeare's play entitled Measure for 

measure 

Two !Kung Bushman argue over an antelope, killed by a hunter from one band 

which has been found and distributed by a man from another band. 

VHS 1620 

DVD 696 

DVD 726 v. 

3 

VHS 161 

DVD 1191 

DVD 1151 

DVD 916 

VHS 706 

VHS 214 

VHS 722 

Mechanical engineering accomplishments Engineering Liberty -- Mothers of invention -- On the shoulders of giants -- 

American history, a new dimension 

VHS 1653 

Media Law This series examines the news writing process through video field trips into the 

best newsrooms in the country 

VHS 380 

Media rights and responsibilities Offers perspectives on interpreting the First Amendment and the relationship 

between particular media and constitutional issues 

VHS 945 

Mediation : An introduction Joanne Katz Conflict management VHS 1943 

Medieval drama : from sanctuary to stage This definitive program traces the development of medieval drama, from 

Hildegard von Bingen's musical morality play Ordo Virtutum 

Meet your meat Shows the lives and deaths of chickens, turkeys, cows and pigs raised in factory 

farms and processed in slaughterhouses. It presents a case for vegetarianism 

and the ethical treatment of animals 

Meeting the challenge A conversation 

with President Clinton / with Hedrick Smith 

Meghan and Hayley : a world apart / The 

Ohio Coalition for Equity & Adequacy of 

School Funding 

Meiji period : (1868-1912) / a coproduction 

of Antenne 2 

President Clinton shares his vision for re-engineering America's industrial and 

trade policies, education, strategy, and tax and fiscal incentives 

The story of two girls, one from a poorly funded country school district near 

Athens, Ohio and one from a more affluent district in Beavercreek, Ohio. 

The arrival of Commodore Perry in 1854 set the stage for Japan's dramatic leap 

from the Middle Ages into modernity. 

VHS 1766 

DVD 624 

VHS 2986 

VHS 2067 

VHS 1545 

Meiosis : the key to genetic diversity This program focuses on two important functions of meiosis. VHS 2195 

Memoirs of a geisha In 1929, an impoverished nine-year-old named Chiyo is sold to a geisha house 

in Kyoto's Gion district and subjected to cruel treatment from the owners and the 

head geisha Hatsumomo. 

DVD 700 

Memories of childhood and war / 

produced and directed by Steven Kostant 

Portrays the tragedy of two world wars as recalled in the imagination and lives 

of East Europeans. 

VHS 2939 

Memphis Belle: a story of a flying fortress Portrays a bombing mission over Germany during World War II, DVD 386 

Men bathing Photographed on a 1957-58 expedition sponsored by the Peabody Museum of 

Harvard University and the Smithsonian Institution 

DVD 603


Men of bronze / Men of Bronze, Inc The definitive story of the black American soldiers of The 369th combat 

regiment, who served with the French Army in World War I 

Men of our times : Franklin Delano 

Roosevelt / Granada Video 

Men who danced / producer and director, 

Ron Honsa writer, Richard Philp 

Mental health care for women : parts 1 and 

2 / WNED 

A delightful and touching tribute to a man whose country rewarded him with the 

longest Presidency in U.S. history. 

Presents the story of the first all-male dance company in the U.S., Ted Shawn's 

Male Dancers. 

Discusses the different definitions of a normal adult, and tells how these 

stereotypes tend to effect mental health care. 

VHS 1145 

VHS 106 

VHS 2669 

VHS 300 

Merce by Merce by Paik Dance VHS 3196 

Merchant of Venice / BBC and Time-Life 

Television 

A dramatization of Shakespeare's play entitled The merchant of Venice VHS 255 

Merlin, Arthur and the Holy Grail / Emdee 

Productions, Ltd 

Three programs reveal the connection between the elusive Merlin, the 

enchanting King Arthur, and the renowned chalice used by Christ at the Last 

Supper 

Mermaid In this animated short, a mermaid returns from the dead to avenge her life, but 

finds the one who betrayed her has long since retired from the world to atone for 

his sins. 

Merry pranksters / Key-Z Productions Ken Kesey's infamous 16mm magic bus footage as written about in Tom 

Wolfe's book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test makes it's video debut after 30 

years! 

Mesrine / [directed by] Andre Genoves Depicts the life of criminal Jacques Mesrine, public enemy #1 of France and 

Quebec 

Message of the myth Campbell compares the creation stories in Genesis with creation stories from 

around the world. 

Metal; a headbanger's journey A global journey to find out why heavy metal music has been consistently 

stereotyped, dismissed and condemned and yet is loved so passionately by its 

millions of fans 

VHS 169 

VHS 895 

VHS 905 

VHS 510 

VHS 1793 

DVD 923 

Metamorphic rocks Tells how rocks have been changed by pressure and/or heat. It also explores 

slate, granite, marble, etc 

VHS 1581 

Metropolis An expressionistic vision of a struggle between management and labor in a city 

of the future 

VHS 462 

Metropolis / British Broadcasting Corp Examines the problems and assets of today's metropolis. VHS 429 

Mexico earthquake, September 19, 1985 Discusses the findings of a team of experts from the National Bureau of 

Standards 

Middle East series. Change, Turkey and 

Saudi Arabia / TV Ontario 

Representatives from Turkey and Saudi Arabia discuss critical recent 

development which have shaped the modern contours of two countries at 

opposite ends of the spectrum of contemporary Middle Eastern change 

VHS 1475 

VHS 2494 

Middle East series. Holy land / TV Ontario Tells how the Middle East is birthplace to three of the world's great religions VHS 2484 

Middle East series. Identity, Lebanon / TV 

Ontario 

Middle East series. Sects and violence / 

TV Ontario 

Middle East series. The torchbearers / TV 

Ontario 

Middle manager as innovator / presented 

by MTI Teleprograms Inc 

Middlemen / a co-production of 


Limited 

Shows how Lebanon stands as a microcosm of the Middle East's paramount 

problem, how to define identity and allegiance 

Explains how the three major religions of the Middle East are differentiated into 

various smaller sects which compete for influence and souls 

Emphasizes the crucial role of Islam in the history of the Middle East in bridging 

the 800 year gap between the fall of Rome and the onset of the European 

Renaissance in the early fourteenth century 

Award-winning author Rosabeth Moss Kanter hosts this examination of two 

companies 

Introduces the general theme of the series which is the search for 

understanding the constancy of turmoil in the Middle East 

VHS 2495 

VHS 2488 

VHS 2483 

VHS 2677 

VHS 2482 

Midnight cowboy A Texas "cowboy" takes a bus to New York in search of lonely, rich women DVD 269 

Midnight ramble : the story of the Black film 

industry / [a Northern Light Productions 

film] 

A documentary recounting the history of the independent film industry that 

produced close to 500 race movies for African-American audiences between 

1910 and 1940. 

VHS 105


Midnight shadow Mr. Wilson who owns Texas land with oil on it is murdered. Two young family 

friends solve the crime in Shreveport, La 

VHS 2525 

Midsummer night's dream / Warner Bros. 

Pictures, Inc 

An enchanting drama of the impetuous yearnings of love among mere mortals VHS 472 

Midwife's tale / a film by Laurie Kahn- 

Leavitt 

The life of a frontier midwife, Martha Ballard, in Hallowell, Maine is 

reconstructed from her diary by historian Laurel Ulrich 

Mightier than the sword Examines the historical context and cultural background preceding and 

surrounding the birth of Jesus 

Mike Rose, educating the disadvantaged Mike Rose, director of the writing program at UCLA, has spent his life working 

with people on the edges of society 

Mildred Pierce / Warner Bros Mildred Pierce is a woman who will do anything to satisfy the demands of her 

spoiled daughter Veda, including divorce, opening her own business, and 

possibly murder 

Miles of smiles, years of struggle Discusses the struggle of Black Pullman porters to unionize, even though 

rebuked by white organized labor 

Milestones of the century, I : the great wars 

/ produced by Pathe News 

Records over 30 momentous events in world history from 1890-1960, featuring 

Franklin D. Roosevelt leading the nation 

Million dollar baby Frankie is a former boxing manager, who initially refuses to train Maggie due to 

her gender and age. When he agrees to train her and she raises to the top, they 

form a special bond 

VHS 417 

VHS 2687 

VHS 3057 

DVD 382 

VHS 2222 

VHS 540 

DVD 594 

Millions like us / Gainsborough Pictures 

Ltd 

Memorable depiction of ordinary people coping with war. VHS 2559 

Mind of a serial killer Presents the real story behind the elite FBI unit popularized in the film The 

silence of the lambs 

VHS 983 

Minefield : the U. S. and the Muslim world 

/ ABC News Productions 

Minerals and rocks / produced by 

Encyclopedia Britannica 

Minerals exploration / produced by NASA 

Lewis Research Center 

ABC News anchor, Peter Jennings, gives a tour of the political, religious, and 

cultural complexities of the Islamic world 

DVD 74 

Investigates the structure and composition of minerals VHS 2193 

Highlights the use of aerial and satellite technology to locate the best area for 

mineral exploration. 

VHS 1576 

Miracle of life A documentary which shows the actual conception and development of a baby. VHS 168 

Miracle on 34th Street / Twentieth 

Century Fox Film Corporation 

In this Oscar-winning classic, a Macy's Department Store Santa who insists his 

name is Kris Kringle teaches everyone a lesson in love, faith and the value of 

imagination 

VHS 2081 

Miracles are not enough A series of programs looking at contemporary Latin America. VHS 3064 

Miracles by design Dr. Gregory B. Olson discusses the relatively young field of materials science. VHS 2453 

Mirrors of the heart A series of programs looking at contemporary Latin America. This program 

examines the changing role of religion and the Catholic Church in Brazil and 

Nicaragua. 

VHS 3062 

Miss Potter Based on the life of Beatrix Potter, author of the beloved children's classic "The 

tale of Peter Rabbit" 

DVD 1212 

Missiles of October / A dramatic reenactment of the Cuban missile crisis of October 16, 1962. VHS 1815 

Mission / Warner Bros 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 

Missionary / HandMade Films Returning from 10 years of spreading the Word in Africa, the Rev. Charles 

Fortescue is sent to London's East End to run a mission to fallen women 

Missouri traveler / producer, Patrick Ford 

director, Jerry Hopper 

Depicts a runaway orphan boy who arrives at a small rural community where he 

hopes to become a farmer 

Mixed blessings: changing Irish identity Looks at Limerick's growing economy: heavy foreign investment, a growing 

service industry, high levels of immigration and a real estate explosion. 

Modern times / [presented by] Classic 

Entertainment, Inc. 

This movie is a devastating satire on the effects of mass production on the lives 

of factory workers 

VHS 811 

VHS 917 

VHS 1231 

DVD 1103 

VHS 1980


Modification and monitoring / Western 

Michigan University Television 

Modification--cancellation / Western 

Michigan University Television 

Modular elliptic curves and Fermat's last 

theorem / Kenneth A. Ribet 

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi : politics of oil / 

produced by Nielsen-Ferns 

In the sixth part of this series, the patient attempts to overcome his speech 

abnormalities by using the feel of the word rather than the sound of it 

The fifth part of this series deals with the patient not rewarding his stuttering by 

continuing his speech fluently. 

VHS 311 

VHS 310 

Ribet gives two lectures about his proof of the Taniyama Connection VHS 2908 

Details the life of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran from his succession in 

1941 to his exile in 1979 

Mokarrameh : memories & dreams Mokarrameh, a woman in rural Iran, began painting as a means for consolation 

for the death of a beloved cow. 

Mona / short story by Francis King 

adapted by Thomas Ellice 

Mona, a young schoolgirl, becomes friendly with a sickly war hero, despite the 

protests of her family and nearby villagers. 

VHS 153 

VHS 936 

VHS 1752 

Mona lisa smile Art history profesor with a lot to teach about life and much to learn about 

romance 

DVD 1177 

Money / conceived, shot and directed by 

Henry Hills 

Video art; National Endowment for the arts. VHS 1495 

Monsoon wedding Love, lust and hope envelop an upper middle-class Indian family and their worldwide 

guests as they celebrate for four days the arranged marriage of their 

daughter to an East Indian man from Texas 

DVD 699 

Monsters, Inc. Monsters James P. Sullivan (Sully) and his partner Mike Wazowski work for 

Monsters, Inc., a utility company that collects children's screams to generate 

energy for the city Monstropolis. 

Moonblood : a Yanomamb creation myth 

as told by Dedeheiwa 

Recounts the myth of creation in which Moon is described as a villain who is 

shot with an arrow and whose blood covers the earth. 

DVD 878 

VHS 741 

Moonstruck An Italian widow finds romance through the intervention of the Manhattan moon. DVD 128 

Moral development / CRM Productions a 

film by Tom Lazarus 

More treasures from American Film 

Archives; 1894-1931: 50 films 

Mosaico cultural : Images from Spanishspeaking 

cultures / Harry Rosser 

Examines two of the major theories in the field of moral development by using 

Dr. Stanley Milgrim's famous obedience experiment to pose a serious moral 

dilemma. Features Dr. David Rosenhan 

An anthology of films from American film archives. In addition to rare silent-era 

features, includes cartoons and animation, documentaries and newsreels, 

earliest American movies, pioneering sound and color experiments, serial 

episodes, trailers for lost films, advertisements, avant-garde shorts, 

ethnographic footage, films of ethnic communities, and other film types invented 

during the first four decades of the motion picture. 

VHS 1347 

DVD 884 v. 

1-3 

2 videocassettes VHS 2966 

Mosquito Coast Allie Fox is fed up. Angered by a world whose nuclear doomsday clock is 

always two minutes away 

Most astounding circus acts of all time / 

Irvin Feld and Kenneth Feld Productions, 

Inc 

Mother / Mezhrabpom-Russ directed by 

V.I. Pudovkin 

Mother India / Mehboob Productions 

Private directed by Mehboob 

Mother Teresa : a life of devotion / a coproduction 

of BBC-TV and BBC 

Motion picture history of the Korean War / 

Office of armed Forces Information and 

Education 

Video of the most courageous performers in circus history - includes Namba, 

who climbs ladders on his head 

A heroic young revolutionary gives his life fighting against the misery and 

poverty of Tsarist Russia in the futile prewar revolution of 1905 

An award-winning drama presented by Mehboob Productions, of a rural family 

in India, starring Nargis Rajkumar and Sunil Dutt 

A portrait of Mother Teresa highlighted by interviews with those who knew her 

and featuring extensive footage from her long life of service 

Presents the Korean War fighting and the problems encountered by American 

and United Nations forces during the major phases of the battle 

VHS 2716 

VHS 1725 

VHS 3156 

VHS 3082 

VHS 246 

VHS 1572 

Motivational patterns Shows that one should capitalize on ones gifts and understand ones interests 

and abilities 

VHS 272 

Motorcycle Diaries South American journey DVD 574 

Motorist : terufuin dorimu! /directed by 

Chip Lord 

The driver of a 1962 Ford Thunderbird travels west to sell his car to a Japanese 

buyer. 

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Moulin Rouge Christian, an idealistic and impoverished young writer who, newly arrived in 

Montmartre, is haphazardly inducted into a circle of young bohemians led by 

Toulouse-Lautrec. 

Mountain of the Lord The mountain of the Lord recounts the forty-year history of the building of the 

Salt Lake Temple. 

Moving picture boys in the Great War / 

Post-Newsweek Productions 

Documentary study of changing American attitudes as isolationism is 

abandoned and the United States becomes directly involved in World War I. 

Mr. & Mrs. Smith A comedy film directed by Alfred Hitchcock about a married couple who find out 

that through a technicality their marriage is invalid 

Mr. Blandings builds his dream house Cary Grant plays a successful New York advertising executive who wants to 

escape his current living situation. He decides to design his own dream house in 

the suburbs and the project turns wrong when the bills never end and the 

problems never stop 

DVD 673 

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Mr. Deeds goes to town Longfellow Deeds (Cooper), a small-town poet, inherits $20 million from his 

uncle and wants to give it away to needy people 

DVD 227 

Mr. North A star-studded comedy in which neither scullery maid nor tycoon can resist the 

charge of Mr. North's electrifying personality 

VHS 1711 

Mr. Skeffington Fanny (Bette Davis) thrives on the adulation of countless suiters before and 

after she marries Job Skeffington 

DVD 1170 

Mr. Smith goes to Washington Washington's youngest senator exposes corruption in high places, almost at the 

cost of his career 

DVD 127 

Mrs. Dalloway The captivating and romantic story based on the critically-acclaimed Virginia 

Woolf novel of the same name 

DVD 552 

Mrs. Doubtfire divorced father who wants to spend more time with his children DVD 270 

Mrs. Doubtfire / Twentieth Century Fox Comedy; Robin Williams, Sally Field, Pierce Brosnan, VHS 2991 

Mrs. Henderson Recently widowed and well-to-do Laura Henderson needs a diversion to see her 

through war torn London. 

Mrs. Miniver The story of a middle-class British family and their struggle to survive during 

WWII. Mrs. Miniver nobly tends her rose garden while her stalwart husband 

participates in the evacuation at Dunkirk. 

Multimedia : How does it really work in 

the classroom? 

Multimedia design team / produced by 

Minnesota Satellite & Technology 

Multimedia in language and literacy / 

Apple Computer's Education Group 

Multimedia revolution : today & tomorrow 

/ Minnesota Satellite & Technology 

First broadcast in a series whose goal is to both discuss and demonstrate the 

ways that technology can make us and our students more productive in higher 

education 

Reviews skills required and other factors to be considered before attempting to 

develop multimedia learning projects 

DVD 737 

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This program explores how Macintosh technology is enhancing literacy VHS 798 

Program reviews some of the best applications of multimedia technology in the 

rapidly developing new communications media. 

VHS 678 

Mummy A mummy is accidentally revived after 3,700 years by a British archeology team. DVD 837 

Munchhausen The famous Baron Munchhausen is called to the court of St. Petersburg. VHS 108 

Murder / British International Pictures 

directed by Alfred Hitchcock 

Murder 101 / MTE, Inc. produced by 

Oscar L. Costo, directed by Bill Condon 

An actress is convicted of murder, but one of the jurists is the only person who 

believes in her innocence and painstakingly reconstructs a murder to prove her 

innocent 

Slow-paced thriller involving a rumpled college professor who's class 

assignment to concoct a perfect crime ends up with his being framed for murder 

Murder she wrote - season 1 Jessica Fletcher, a famous mystery writer, has a knack for solving murders on 

and off the page that will have you guessing whodunit until the very end 



VHS 473 

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Murphy's fault / Anglo Pacific Films A struggling Hollywood writer and night watchman is a walking disaster, an 

accident waiting to happen. 

Music & lyrics Alex Fletcher is a washed-up 80s pop star who has been reduced to working the 

nostalgia circuit of county fairs and amusement parks. 

Music and dance of Pakistan / WCBS TV Faubion Bowers hosts a performance by the National Folk Ensemble of 

Pakistan. Includes examples of water music, and group and solo dances 

Music in the old time way : traditional 

music and musicians from the Southern 

Appalachians 

DVD 1141 

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Surveys traditional Appalachian old time dance music. VHS 2053 

Music of India This live-action program identifies and demonstrates various instruments [used 

in Indian music] and presents them in concert 

DVD 741 

Music of Japan Identifies and demonstrates instruments used in Japanese music DVD 742 

Music under the stars; 50 years with Sam 

Szor 

Celebrates The Toledo Concert Band's conductor Sam Szor, as he marks a halfcentury 

of leading the popular outdoor summer concerts. ... This program 

features decades of performance clips sure to delight viewers of all ages, and 

musical memories from Toledo's own "Mr. Music," Samuel P. Szor 

VHS 3300 

Muslims This program looks closely at what it means to be a Muslim in the 21st century DVD 297 

Mussolini / MPI Home Video release From his humble origins to ascent as the ultimate power in Italy, this program 

dissects this phenomenal figure 

Mutiny on the Bounty In 1789, the HMS Bounty sets sail under Captain William Bligh. Bligh is the 

cruelest taskmaster and his cruelties become more than first mate Christian can 

bear. 

VHS 1520 

DVD 501 

Mutual respect / / Academy Home 

Entertainment 

Money cannot buy what no relationship can exist without ... mutual respect VHS 1745 

My brother's keeper / produced by 


The Nixon administration and the National Welfare Rights Organization VHS 575 

My country, my country Working alone in Iraq over eight months, director/cinematographer Laura 

Poitras creates an extraordinarily intimate portrait of Iraqis living under U.S. 

occupation 

DVD 990 

My fair lady A Cockney waif is transformed by a linguistics professor into an elegant lady DVD 126 

My fair lady Based on the play "Pygmalion" by George Shaw DVD 724 

My father the President A personal tour of Sagamore Hill, home of Theodore Roosevelt, guided by his 

daughter, Ethel Roosevelt Derby. Includes newsreel footage and family movies 

VHS 2782 

My left foot / Miramax Films Based on Christy Brown's true life story, My Left Foot is the story of a man who 

triumphs over impossible odds to achieve greatness 

My Louisiana sky Growing up in Saitter, Louisiana, in the 1950s, twelve-year-old Tiger Ann 

struggles with her feelings about her stern, but loving grandmother 

VHS 2545 

DVD 73 

My man Godfrey A zany millionaire family invites a tramp to be their butler DVD 457 

My own private Idaho / Fine Line Cinema This wildly adventurous road movie of the 90's is about two young hustlers who 

discover friendship and adventure on the twisting, turning road of life. 

VHS 8


My philosophy / L. Ron Hubbard A video presentation of a dramatic reading of L. Ron Hubbard's My philosophy. VHS 1151 

Mystery of the master builders / WBGH 

Boston Robin Bates, 

writer/producer/director 

Modern engineering technology is now being used to perform structural analysis 

of ancient buildings. 

Mystery of the senses This documentary series explores the senses of hearing, smell, taste, touch, 

and vision. 5 vols. 

Mystic pizza / The Samuel Goldwyn 

Company 

Three young women, waitresses at a pizza parlor in Mystic, Connecticut, spend 

a special summer discovering romance 

Mystic river Boston childhood friends Jimmy, Sean and Dave are reunited after a brutal 

murder. Reformed convict Jimmy and his devoted wife Annabeth find out that 

their teenage daughter Katie has been beaten and killed. 

VHS 1651 

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Myths and realities of aging This program debunks the common myths of aging: VHS 2830 

N!ai : the story of a !Kung woman A1764 A compilation of footage of the !Kung people of Namibia from 1951 through 

1978. 

VHS 2501 

N/um tchai / John Marshall Documents a formalized Bushman curing ceremony in the Kalahari Desert area 

of South West Africa by showing an all-night n/um tchai (medicine dance) 

VHS 740 

Naamikaaged : dancer for the people / 

produced by Thomas Vennum, Jr 

Follows a young Ojibwe, Richard LaFernier, as he sets up his tent, honors his 

ancestors 

VHS 2581 

Naked city / Universal Pictures A squad of homicide detectives roam through the seamier parts of New York 

City as they solve a murder case. 

DVD 55 

Naked time / Paramount Pictures 

Corporation 

Sent to pick up a research team, the Enterprise finds the scientists dead. VHS 941 

Nanami, first love / directed by Susumu 

Hani 

Erotic psycho-drama of a sexually abused Japanese youth VHS 1195 

Nanook of the North / Robert J. Flaherty Early documentary about a family of Native North Americans who live in the 

Arctic region of Quebec, Canada. 

VHS 1748 

Napoleon / Images Film Archive, Inc A biography of Napoleon VHS 1181 

Napoleon : 1812 the road to Moscow Explores the military history of Napoleon's campaign in Russia VHS 3096 

NASA-- the 25th year / producer, writer, 

J.L. Headlee 

Traces the history of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration VHS 1536 

Nashville / ABC Entertainment Set in Tennessee, Nashville interweaves the stories of 24 characters during 5 

days in the capital of country music. 

VHS 2590 

National AIDS awareness test / written by 

Paul Lowenwarter 

Questions and answers on AIDS interviews with experts VHS 1333 

National parks, our treasured lands Outlines the geographic scope and the diversity of sites within the United States 

national park system 

VHS 1237 

Native American myths / Encyclopedia 

Britannica Educational Corporation 

An animated film presenting five American Indian myths of the Seneca, Haida, 

Klamath, Cherokee, and Hopi tribes 

Natural approach Presents the theory and classroom techniques of a method of teaching foreign 

language developed by Stephen D. Krashen and Tracy D. Terrell 

Natural born killers Fugitive lovers Mickey and Mallory kill lots of people, and become media 

superstars. 

Natural minimal surfaces via theory and 

computation 

Prof. Hoffman presents the basic analysis and geometry necessary to 

understand the mathematical study of minimal surfaces 

VHS 2173 

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Navigating the social world Ideas that will give the viewer strategies to teach social skills and increase 

social awareness in children with Asperger's syndrome 

DVD 510 

Navigator A slapstick comedy about the adventures of a land-lubber DVD 349 

Nazi concentration camps The official film record of the Nazi death camps as photographed by Allied 

forces advancing into Germany. 

VHS 454 

Nazi designers of death / a Nova 

Production by BBC-TV in association with 

WGBH/Boston 

Interviews with historians, including architectural theorist Robert Jan van Pelt, 

on the growing body of evidence found in architectural plans of the systematic 

designing and building of gas chambers 

VHS 354 

Nefertari; search for eternal life "This video takes the viewer on a journey through the tomb [of Nefertari], VHS 1161


Negotiating corporate change Case study dramatization of a corporation under pressure to cut costs and a 

manager's efforts to negotiate with subordinates who resist change 

Negotiating the job offer / Greg Tucker, 

narrator 

Greg Turner outlines the steps involved in obtaining a job, from the initial 

interview, to early behavior on the job 

Negotiation / J. Stephen Hazel Teaches skill-deficient adolescents social skills that will improve their everyday 

interactions with parents, teachers, peers, and others 

Neighborhood Tokyo Portrays Miyamoto-cho, a community family enterprise just south of central 

Tokyo. 

Neither blessing nor curse A presentation of two documentaries on older persons. Titles are Arthur and 

Lillie, and Nell and Fred 

Network Satirical look at the politics and power struggles of television executives as a 

network news anchorman turns the tables on the "ratings." 

Network / directed by Sidney Lumet 

produced by Howard Gottfried 

A satirical look at the politics and power struggles of television executives as a 

network news anchorman turns the tables on the ratings 

Never cry wolf / Walt Disney Productions An unforgettable odyssey of self-discovery and startling adventure begins as 

Tyler, a young, inexperienced biologist, is deposited alone onto a frozen Arctic 

wasteland. 

Never too late The evil squire schemes to wed the beautiful farmer's daughter by jailing her 

fiance. Based on the ca. 1850 book It is never too late, by Charles Reade 

New civil war / with Peter Jennings an 

ABC News production 

New course of action : telecourses, a 

faculty perspective 

Tells seven distinct stories involving people under pressure from forces 

vehemently opposed to abortion or equally determined that a woman should 

have the right to choose 

For college teachers and administrators. Shows the kinds of courses available 

for television and what to expect when using them in the classroom or offcampus. 

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New Germany Part 1. Nation with a country -- Part 2. The emergence of a modern state DVD 554 

New Germany : 1933-1939 / directed by 

Hugh Ragget 

Grievous conditions which allowed the rise of Hitler are reviewed and the nature 

of the public enthusiasm, which was a form of hysteria, is portrayed. 

New Jack city Gangster film, set in New York City during the 1980s, about a young, rich, smart 

drug baron who thinks he's untouchable, and the tough, street-smart cops 

determined to bring him down 

New Orleans traditional / produced by 

University Media Resources, University of 

Minnesota 

Shows how jazz grew from a combination of African and religious music into a 

New Orleans style in the early 20th century 

New worlds, new forms This program examines the heritage that enslaved Africans brought to North 

and South America via dance. 

New York big bands, the Swing era / 

produced by University Media Resources 

Newest issues in brain research / a 

Skylight Professional Development 

production 

News from home : a film / by Chantal 

Akerman 

News writing : / Produced by Peter 

Berkow 

Nichols & May : take two / Castle Hill 

Productions Inc. and American Masters, 

Thirteen/WNET 

By 1926 jazz had moved from Chicago to New York because band bookings 

and music publishing was centered there 

Recorded at the Fifth International Teaching for Intelligence Conference held in 

San Francisco in 1999 

Images of a bleak Manhattan are accompanied by recitations in English of the 

text of letters to the director, Chantal Akerman, from her mother in Belgium 

VHS 481 

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VHS 2258 

Eight video cassettes. VHS 3136 

Excerpts from the 1960's Nichols and May comedy shows, with commentary by 

well known TV personalities and others 

Night at the museum Larry Daley is a divorced father who can't seem to keep a job for more than a 

week. He applies for a job at the Museum of Natural History and is assigned as 

a night guard. 

VHS 545 

DVD 1067


Night at the opera A New York scandal, a riot on a ship, and an evening of insanity in a concert 

hall are some of the problems resulting from Groucho's outrageous business 

schemes. 

DVD 775 

Night of the hunter A psychotic self-styled preacher marries and murders a young widow for her 

money. 

DVD 282 

Night of the living dead A simple, peaceful countryside is being terrorized by killer zombies DVD 400 

Night porter The chance meeting of a woman and a former Nazi SS officer brings back 

memories of their sado-masochistic relationship in a concentration camp years 

before 

VHS 1441 

Night shift / written by Lowell Ganz and 

Babaloo Mandel 

Nitrate kisses / A film by Barbara 

Hammer director, cinematographer, 

editor, Barbara Hammer 

Charles Lumley [Winkler] used to be a high-pressure Wall Street financial 

analyst, but now he's working the night shift at the New York City morgue. 

Explores eroded emulsions and images for lost vestiges of lesbian and gay 

culture. 

VHS 2263 

VHS 1595 

No applause, just throw money Featuring 101 New York performers in a kaleidoscope of images and sound VHS 2018 

No easy walk (1962-66) / Produced by 

Blackside, Inc. and PBS Video 

No going back : a pro-choice 

perspective / Federation of Feminist 

Women's Health Center 

No heroic measures / Carle Medical 


No lies / produced & directed by Mitchell 

W. Block 

Depicts three major movements. Retells the stories of three cities involved in 

the civil rights movement 

Discusses the abortion situation in the United States and the results which could 

occur from the Supreme Court review of the Roe vs. Wade case. 

This program portrays a woman's struggle to have her incompetent aunt's 

feeding tube removed. 

A dramatization in cinema verite style which deals with problems of rape faced 

by a woman in New York City 

No maps on my taps Veteran jazz tap dancing stars, including Bunny Briggs, Chuck Green, and 

Sandman Sims, reminisce about their art and careers 

NO! "No! provides a comprehensive lens through which to examine the impact of 

sexual violence on Black women and girls 

Noel Coward's Bitter sweet / Metro- 

Goldwyn-Mayer 

Noise pollution : a Films for the 

Humanities presentation 

None but the lonely heart / RKO Radio 

Pictures 

Non-verbal communication / produced by 

Northeastern University 

Normal infant reflexes and development / 

the Hospital for Sick Children 

On the eve of her wedding to a priggish Londoner, a Victorian girl and her 

dashing music teacher elope to Vienna, where he hopes to sell his music 

A discussion of the damage of noise pollution on the human hearing and 

research to reduce noise in the environment 

The story of a Cockney wanderer and his mother set in London's pre-war East 

End 

Emphasizes the importance of facial expressions, spatial relationships, 

touching, etc. in pharmacist/patient communication 

This video presentation depicts normal primitive reflexes in the newborn and 

describes their development 

Normal people scare me; film about autism 17- year old Taylor Cross captures life and living with autism through interviews 

with over 65 subjects who have either Asperger's syndrome or autism 

Norman Rockwell and the Saturday 

Evening Post : the golden years, 1943- 

1963 

This inside story of the best twenty years of Norman Rockwell's memorable 

Saturday Evening Post covers 

VHS 1136 

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Normandy : the great crusade Presents a documentary on the invasion of Normandy at the close of World War 

II. 

VHS 3121 

North American Free Trade Agreement Trade regulation VHS 3108 

North by Northwest / directed by Alfred 

Hitchcock 

A chase thriller in which a businessman is mistaken for a spy VHS 68 

Nosferatu / directed by F. W. Murnau The first vampire movie. Count Orlock (Nosferatu, the vampire) leaves his 

castle in the Carpathians and travels by ship to Bremen, bringing coffins filled 

with dirt and plague rats 

VHS 521


Not on the sidelines living & playing with a 

disability 

Four ordinary people whose lives were suddenly changed by injury or illness 

when they were teens or young adults - and about how their involvement in 

sports has helped give them the focus and drive to create new, active lives. 

Not so long ago / NBC-TV Portrays life in America--the personalities and the major events of the frivolous 

and fateful years 1945 to 1950 

Notes on a scandal Barbara is a cynical schoolteacher who is close to retirement. Her only means of 

taking the edge off her desperate loneliness is writing in her journal. 

VHS 3285 

VHS 2044 

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Notorious A beautiful woman with a tainted past is enlisted by American agent Devlin to 

spy on a ring of Nazis 

DVD 125 

Notti di Cabiria;"Nights of Cabiria directed by Federico Fellini story and scenario by Federico Fellini DVD 45 

Now, voyager A young woman escapes the smothering influence of her wealthy and very 

conservative mother through the help of a psychiatrist and an ocean cruise, 

where she finds love, which helps her to become her own person 

DVD 1169 

Nowhere to hide : [Ramsey Clark in Iraq] Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark and a camera crew travel through Iraq 

to document civilian casualties during the Allied bombing in February, 1991 

Nuclear winter : changing our way of 

thinking / Carl Sagan 

Dr. Sagan explains the theory of nuclear winter and describes the catastrophic 

consequences of nuclear winter for the entire earth. 

VHS 1105 

VHS 2302 

Nucleic acids techniques : an overview The techniques in genetic engineering video library VHS 1357 

Nude in art The classical ; the Renaissance; The enlightenment ; the modern DVD 410 

Nuer / produced by Robert Gardner Presents the most important relationships and events in the lives of the Nuer, 

Nilotic people in Sudan and on the Ethiopian border. 

VHS 1433 

Number our days / produced and directed 

by Lynne Littman 

Portrait of a community of elderly eastern European Jews living in Venice, 

California. 

Nuremberg A film record of the trials of the Nazi leaders at Nuremberg, Germany. Includes 

scenes from films made by the Nazis which were presented as the documentary 

evidence of the atrocities committed at concentration camps 

Nuremberg trials This American Experience production draws upon rare archival material and 

eyewitness accounts to re-create the dramatic tribunal that defines trial 

procedure for state criminals to this day 

Nuremberg trials : a film document of the 

trial of the principal German war criminals 

Nutrition, eating to live or living to eat 

and, Obesity, the slimming of America 

This is a Russian-made documentary which shows the trials for war crimes and 

footage of World War II and its crimes 

The first title shows how the typical high-fat, high-cholesterol American diet is 

linked to cardiovascular disease 

Nutty professor A timid, nearsighted University chemistry teacher who stumbles onto a magical 

potion in his lab 

Oak Openings Region: discovering our 

natural heritage 

Obeah wedding / a Ralph Holness 

production 

Introduction to the Oak Openings Region, Discusses its origins, plant and 

animal life found there, and efforts to protect the area and to educate people 

about its value and beauty 

Story of a middle class woman who falls victim to a Casanova whose only 

desire is to take advantage of women 

Obedience / Stanley Milgram Presents an experiment conducted during 1962 at Yale University on obedience 

to authority. 

Obeyiing or resisting authority; a 

psychological retrospective 

ABC News program sets up a psychological test in which an authority figure 

urges men and women to inflict pain. Social psychologist Dr. Jerry Burger 

interprets the disturbing findings. 

VHS 2002 

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Oboe Introduction to the techniques and challenges of playing the oboe, illustrated 

through conversation and performances 

DVD 797 

Observing Kassandra : A Tran 

disciplinary play-based assessment of a 

child with severe disabilities 

People with disabilities VHS 892 

Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge A Civil War story about a rebel who is to be hanged by Union Soldiers for trying 

to destroy a bridge and stop the Union Army. 

VHS 1965


Octavio Paz : Mexico's muse Poet, writer, editor, diplomat, and Nobel Laureate, Octavio Paz is among the 

best-known Latin American literary figures. 

October / Mosfilm Studios, USSR Extraordinary silent film by the Russian master, Sergei M. Eisenstein, detailing 

the events leading up to the Russian Revolution. 

October : ten days that shook the world / 

Mosfilm Studios, USSR 

Extraordinary silent film by the Russian master, Sergei M. Eisenstein, detailing 

the events leading up to the Russian Revolution. 

VHS 1778 

VHS 3157 

DVD 61 

Odd couple Based on the play of the same title by Neil Simon DVD 313 

Odd man out / screenplay by F.L. Green 

and R.C. Sherriff 

Oedipus the King / by Sophocles a new 

translation by Don Taylor 

An IRA gunman, wounded and on the run in Belfast, is helped and hindered by 

a variety of people 

Oedipus, King of Thebes, comes to ruin when he determines to learn the 

identity of the murderer of Laius, the former king 

DVD 381 

VHS 2821 

Oesterreich Deutschland TV report; no. 6 VHS 43 

Of mice and men / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer In Depression-era California, two migrant workers dream of better days on a 

spread of their own 

VHS 3035 

Of pure blood : an investigation into the Through interviews and Nazi film footage, this tape traces the history of Hitler's VHS 1584 

creation of a super race 

attempts to breed the perfect Aryan race 

Officer and a gentleman A timeless tale of romance, friendship, and growth DVD 275 

Offstage, onstage; inside the Stratford Cameras go backstage during an entire season of the Stratford Festival to 

DVD 1051 

festival 

capture the creative spirit at the heart of a treasured Canadian theatre company 

O'genio Ray Charles live in Brazil Featuring a very rare 1963 performance of Ray Charles in Sao Paulo, Brazil, 

recorded one day before his 33rd birthday, the concert material showcased on 

this disc is a remarkable find. 

DVD 538 

Ohio AIDS project : AIDS education in 

Ohio colleges and universities 

HIV infection VHS 2454 

Ohio' canal era Presents a documentary on the history of canals in Ohio. DVD 948 

Ohio workers 1803-1990 / produced by 

WBGU-TV, Bowling Green State University 

Working class; Ohio VHS 2458 

Ohioans define a thorough and efficient 

system : the people speak / The OCEAS 

The OCEASF presents an update on legislative action for school funding VHS 1115 

Ohio's hot spots part one See some of the favorite train watching spots in the Buckeye State. VHS 1732 

Old Heidelberg / an Ernst Lubitsch 

Production directed by Ernst Lubitsch 

Duty calls and a prince must give up the one thing he prizes: the girl with whom 

he's in love 

VHS 3151 

Old maid / Warner Bros. Pictures A woman gives birth to a daughter after the man both she and a cousin love is 

killed. 

VHS 1228 

Old man and the sea / a film by Alexander 

Petrov 

An animated adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's story. VHS 2003 

Old ways, new game Shows the stakes of the global economic competition for individual Americans 

and for the nation. 

VHS 2982 

Oliver! A young orphan, Oliver is left to fend for himself until he is befriended by a band 

of young thieves who quickly train him in their craft. 

DVD 994 

Oliver! (the sound disc) Sound disc DVD 994 So 

Omaha project : a rare book adventure Four OCLC staff members and 40 volunteers use the OCLC database to help 

the FBI inventory more than 20,000 stolen rare books 

VHS 2361 

Omen A chilling suspense mystery, this riveting tale of the supernatural explores the 

Biblical prophecy 

DVD 181 

On becoming a desktop publisher The tutorial details the kinds of hardware and software available VHS 1669 

On being gay : a conversation with Brian 

McNaught 

Award winning author, counselor, and lecturer Brian McNaught describes his 

youth and experiences as a homosexual, discussing society's attitudes towards 

the gay community 

VHS 77 

On common ground : a tour of the United 

Nations 

Tour guide VHS 2652 

On Golden pond / ITC Films, Inc This movie poignantly deals with the conflicts between three generations as 

they spend their summer together on a lake in New England 

VHS 2741


On our own terms: Moyers on dying [1] Living with dying -- [2] Different kind of care -- [3] Death of one's own -- [4] 

Time to change 

DVD 473 

On the town Three sailors have a 24-hour shore leave to enjoy New York. DVD 1046 

On the waterfront An ex-fighter gets a job working on the gang-ridden waterfront under a crooked 

gangster boss 

DVD 124 

On the waterfront / Columbia Pictures 

Corporation 

A young dockworker, Terry Malloy, tries to break the hold of a waterfront boss. VHS 2065 

On the wings of books A guide for adults that shows the benefits derived from, and the resources and 

skills needed for enriching young minds (children from birth through third grade 

and beyond) with fine literature. 

VHS 3318 

Once around / Universal City Studios, Inc The oldest daughter of a close-knit Italian family falls in love with an abrasive, 

obnoxious but forcefully charming businessman. 

VHS 2826 

Once upon a time in the west Classic western. A man preparing to welcome his new wife to his home is 

killed, along with his entire family 

DVD 780 

Once upon a time..when we were colored Tells the story of growing up in the segregation-era South DVD 434 

Once upon the Maumee A look at Toledo's past with a focus on the downtown area. Included are feats 

and "firsts" accomplished by early Toledoans. Innovative and daring, Toledo's 

boom time period around the turn of the century is captured in this brief history 

of the city 

VHS 1645 

One drop rule / Elixer Productions Inc. Explores the recurring and divisive issue in African American communities of 

skin color. 

VHS 2221 

One flew over the cuckoo's nest Tells the adventures of a free-spirited mental ward inmate whose rebelliousness 

pits him against the repressive head nurse 

DVD 123 

One flew over the cuckoo's nest Tells the adventures of a free-spirited mental ward inmate whose rebelliousness 

pits him against the repressive head nurse 

VHS 1144 

One God / [Alden Films] Actor Martin Balsam narrates this film about the oneness of God VHS 304 

One in ten : the Kinsey percentage : the 

hidden agenda 

Scientists (some of them former colleagues of Alfred Kinsey) refute Kinsey's 

report 

One night with the king Tells the story of Hadassah, the young Jewish girl who becomes the Biblical 

Esther, Queen of Persia. Despite her position, Hadassah's life is in danger, as 

the state has decreed that all Jews will be put to death. Defying warnings to 

remain silent, however, Hadassah struggles to save her people, evens as she 

seeks to win the heart of the king 

One shot : the life and work of Teenie 

Harris / Kenneth Love 

Tells the story of Teenie Harris, an African American photographer who started 

out as a numbers runner for his brother in Pittsburgh. 

VHS 1556 

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One survivor remembers Gerda Weissmann Klein takes us on her journey of survival of the Holocaust VHS 1997 

One year later / Western Michigan 


Open forum : a look at partial birth 

abortions 

Operation Barbarossa / Peter Batty 

Productions 

Operations research + you = an exciting 

career 

Opportunity, the land and its people / 

Martin Sandler Productions 

The final part of this series deals with a follow-up exam of the patient and his 

problem. 

VHS 313 

Abortion; religious aspects VHS 1565 

This narrative, this noteworthy documentary is concerned more with the 

background and build up to that assault 

VHS 1527 

Written, produced and directed by Olga Rakich VHS 3075 

How American developed our resources and transformed America into an 

industrial nation. 

Oral historian's work ...explains and demonstrates all you need to know to complete a successful 

oral history project. --Container 

Ordinary people / a Wildwood Enterprises 

production 

The ordinary existence of an upper middle class family is shattered with the 

death of the older son and the struggle of the younger son against guilt and 

suicide 

VHS 1664 

VHS 1474 

VHS 1984 

Oresteia Starring: Jode' DePriest, Greg Teachout, Rachael Walker VHS 973 

Organic chemistry for the new MCAT DVD study guide for the organic chemistry section of the Medical College 

Admission Test. Each section is cross-referenced to a specific chapter in The 

Gold Standard MCAT 

DVD 1221 

Organizational structures and personalities Discusses organizational personalities and philosophies VHS 276


Orgasmic expulsions of fluid in the sexually 

stimulated female 

Orientation to multimedia / produced by 

Minnesota Satellite & Technology 

Deals with fluid excreted during orgasm caused by stimulation of the G-spot. VHS 1372 

Contains an overview of the techniques and applications in producing 

multimedia programs 

VHS 669 

Origin of satan Pagels speaks to the Jesus Seminar on the figure of Satan in biblical teaching DVD 822 

Orlando / Adventure Pictures "Orlando, an English nobleman, defies the laws of nature with surprising results. DVD 383 

Orphans of the storm / D.W. Griffith Two sisters are caught up in the French revolution of 1789 DVD 14 

Otello : opera in four acts / by Giuseppe 

Verdi 

Conductor, Zoltan Pesko ; chorus & orchestra of the Arena Di Verona VHS 1410 

Othello Ten survivors struggle to reach safety after an ocean liner capsizes in mid sea DVD 224 

Othello / BBC and Time-Life Television 

producers, Cedric Messina and Jonathan 

Miller 

Presents William Shakespeare's play about a man whose jealousy of his wife 

leads to tragic consequences 

Other The twisted story of 12-year-old twins whose devotion to one another is played 

out in a macabre game of murder 

Other campaigns / produced by CBS 

News 

Other epidemic : what every woman 

needs to know about breast cancer / an 

ABC News production 

Other faces of AIDS / Maryland Public 

Broadcasting 

Film coverage of the battle of Caporetto the battles of the Isonzo the campaign 

over Serbia 

This ABC News special report, hosted by Linda Ellerbee, presents personal 

stories of survivors of breast cancer 

Discusses the rapid spread of AIDS through the Black, Hispanic, and other 

minority communities. 

Our constitution; a conversation This conversation between Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and Justice Stephen 

G. Breyer on the constitution, taped in 2005 

Our daily bread : and other films of the 

great Depression / Film Preservation 

Associates 

Our daily bread. Depression-era drama in which a young couple leads a group 

of unemployed people in making a communal farm succeed. 

Our friend, Martin A routine class project for a diverse group of six-graders turns into a magical, 

time-traveling adventure 

Our grieving hearts: stories of parental 

bereavement 

Our threatened heritage / National 

Wildlife Federation 

A search that begins with tears, denial, and guilt at surviving one's offspring, but 

often ends in a new equilibrium and a heightened sense of the sacredness of 

life 

An in-depth look at endangered tropical forests and strategies for slowing 

destruction 

Our town Videocassette release of a 1977 television presentation of Thornton Wilder's 

play 

Out in South Africa / produced, directed, 

and edited by Barbara Hammer 

A look at the social and political conditions for gay and lesbian people in presentday 

South Africa. 

Out of Africa The true story of Karen Blixen, a strong-willed woman who runs a coffee 

plantation in Kenya in 1914 

Out of Ireland / an American Focus 

production 

Out of obscurity / a film from California 

Newsreel 

Out of the ashes / produced and directed 

by Alan Rosenthal 

Examines the history of the seven million Irish who emigrated to America in the 

18th, 19th and 20th centuries 

Details a little-known chapter in civil rights history. In 1939 five young men 

staged what is believed to be the nation's first sit-in 

VHS 258 

DVD 981 

VHS 2229 

VHS 2855 

VHS 2681 

DVD 812 

DVD 44 

VHS 3228 

DVD 484 

VHS 2297 

VHS 411 

VHS 440 

DVD 225 

VHS 3165 

VHS 2220 

Describes the life of early 20th century European Jews, 1917-1945 VHS 1920 

Out of the depths : the miner's story Takes a look at coal-miners in Colorado at the turn of the century VHS 1641 

Out of the mouths of babes / Canadian 


Out of the mouths of babes : a videotape 

/ by Sherry Millner & Ernest Larsen 

Presents a description of the development of language as a grammatical 

construct in early childhood. 

This video proposes an ironic metaphor to grasp the follies of United States 

policy in Central America. 

VHS 2712 

VHS 2414 

Out of the past / RKO Radio Pictures, Inc Suspenseful tale of double-crosses, deceit and murder VHS 373


Outpost of progress A dramatic adaptation of a literary classic by Joseph Conrad, exploring universal 

themes dealing with individual morality and the responsibility of civilization 

VHS 3309 

Over the Brooklyn bridge Comedy about a Brooklyn luncheonette owner who dreams of owning a chic 

restaurant. 

VHS 1751 

Overview / a production of the Chedd- 

Angier Production Company 

A project of COMAP, the Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications VHS 259 

Pachmayr's skeet shooting with Ken 

Robertson 

Pachmayr's trapshooting with Ken 

Robertson 

Pacific century / A co-production of 

Pacific Basin Institute 

Pacific Gas & Electric Co. / produced by 

Valed, inc 

Pachmayr Gun Works'top instructor Ken Robertson demonstrates proper skeet 

shooting technique and strategy, and instructs students with a variety of abilities 

Former California State and International Trap Champion Ken Robertson 

analyzes the fundamentals of trapshooting for beginners through experts 

The Pacific Century is the story of how, from the 19th century onward, modern 

nations have emerged from the rich and varied cultures and societies of Pacific 

Asia. ... 

Panel members of Pacific Gas and Electric Company present hydro system 

features 

VHS 1915 

VHS 1916 

VHS 3032 

VHS 1279 

Pacific perimeter / CBS, Inc Provides a look at some of the greatest air and sea action of the entire Pacific, 

from the jungle campaigns of New Guinea, 

VHS 346 

Pack of lies : the advertising of tobacco / 

produced and edited by Sut Jhally 

A hard-hitting expose of the advertising strategies of the tobacco industry VHS 28282 

Padre padrone / RAI Radiotelevisione 

italiana 

Pa-hay-okee, grassy waters / National 

Park Service 

Gavino Ledda (Marconi) recounts his domination by his oppressive father 

(Antonutti) when growing up. 

Explores the natural features, wildlife, and the relationship between man and 

nature in the Everglades of south Florida 

Painted veil Set in the 1920s. A young English couple, Walter a middle class doctor and 

Kitty, an upper-class woman, get married for all the wrong reasons and relocate 

to Shanghai. 

DVD 23 

VHS 1232 

DVD 1163 

Paisan / a film by Roberto Rossellini Six stories dealing with Italian and American soldiers meeting under battle 

conditions during World War II 

VHS 705 

Palm Play Demonstrates palm presentation patterns used by dancers throughout the world VHS 3184 

Paneling Step by step instructions with money and time saving tips, most common 

mistakes/frequent problems 

Panic / a Films for the Humanities and 

Sciences presentation produced by the 

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center 

Several people describe panic attacks and agoraphobia. Professionals discuss 

how to deal with anxieties and their effects with medication and other therapies 

Paradise Lost Set in 1932 during the depression, the story unfolds in the modest two-family 

home of Leo and Clara Gordon as misfortune strikes 

Paradise lost Explores the history and influence of the Bible from the Reformation to the 

present day. 

Paradise now The story of what may be the last 48 hours in the lives of two Palestinian men 

who have been recruited as suicide bombers. When they are intercepted at the 

Israeli border, a young woman who discovers their plan causes them to 

reconsider their actions 

Paradise now / directed by Julian Beck 

and Judith Malina 

This videotape was shot during the last presentations of Paradise Now in 

Brussels and before 7,000 spectators in the Berlin Sportspalast. Expressionistic 

coloring has been injected by electronic means. 

VHS 1690 

VHS 2627 

DVD 320 

VHS 2691 

DVD 652 

VHS 2051 

Parenteral medications / produced by Eli 

Lilly and Company 

Parenteral therapy VHS 2438 

Parent-teacher conferences Reviews the purposes of parent-teacher conferences, outlines objectives and 

considers specific problems and situations. 

VHS 1826 

Paris 1900 A chronicle of Parisian life from 1900 to 1914, using newsreels, early silent film, 

and other memorabilia. 

VHS 3016


Paris au temps de Proust, 1880-1914 Presents a portrait of the Paris Proust knew and wrote about, the Paris of the 

Belle Epoque, here portrayed in all its elegance and decadent splendor 

Paris is burning / Prestige Off White 

Productions produced and directed by 

Jennie Livingston 

Documentary about the young homosexual men of Harlem who originated 

voguing and turned these stylized dance competitions into glittering 

expressions of fierce personal pride. 

VHS 1425 

VHS 2845 

Paris to Monte Carlo / Georges Melies This is the story of an automobile trip from Paris to Monte Carlo. VHS 2416 

Paris, Texas / Twentieth Century-Fox 

Film Corp 

Partnerships with parents / produced by 

S.C. ETV for NAEYC 

An amnesiac, long thought dead, slowly begins to remember his past. VHS 2445 

Discusses how parents and teachers can work together for the benefit of 

preschool children, foster communications, and resolve difficulties with 

schedules of both parents and schools 

VHS 2254 

Passenger / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc TV reporter David Locke endures a world of defeat and hopelessness. VHS 1450 

Passion for excellence / Tom Peters 

CBS/Fox Video 

Discusses enthusiasm, passion and desire as management qualities in 

business and industry to promote company profit and personal satisfaction 

VHS 608 

Passion of Christ Concerns the last twelve hours in the life of Jesus of Nazareth. DVD 521 

Passion of Joan of Arc = La passion de 

Jeanne d'Arc 

Paste-up. 1 : pre-press fundamentals for 

professional production / a joint production 

The trial and execution of Joan of Arc, based on actual court records, but 

compressed into a single day. 

This presentation introduces basic materials and tools for keylining, basic pasteup 

techniques, type and lettering 

VHS 1897 

VHS 2246 

Path to Publication; agents, editors & 

publishers 

Vocational guidance DVD 1007 

Path to Publication; elements of writing Vocational guidance DVD 1002 

Path to Publication; publishing short stories Vocational guidance DVD 1005 

Path to Publication; readings & 

conversations 


Path to publication; what to write Vocational guidance for creative writing DVD 756 

Path to Publication; what to write Vocational guidance DVD 756 c. 2 

Path to Publication; writing for different 

genres 


Path to Publication; writing the novel Vocational guidance DVD 1004 

Pather panchali / Satyajit Ray Story of a poor family in India and the misfortunes that befall the family 

members 

VHS 2085 

Paths of glory / Harris-Kubrick Pictures, 

Corp 

During World War I on the French front, a regiment of soldiers are set up for 

suicide missions and are generally manipulated in ways that show no regard for 

their lives 

Patsy Cline; sweet dreams still Sweet Dreams Still is the essential video anthology of Patsy's filmed musical 

performances. From 'red hot mama' to the Nashville sound, this program 

showcases the many facets of a brilliant body of work that ended all too soon 

Patsy Cline; sweet dreams still Sweet Dreams Still is the essential video anthology of Patsy's filmed musical 

performances. From 'red hot mama' to the Nashville sound, this program 

showcases the many facets of a brilliant body of work that ended all too soon 

VHS 2103 

DVD 712 

DVD 712 

Patton Story of General Patton in World War II DVD 146 

Paul Cadmus, enfant terrible at 80 / David 

Sutherland Productions 

A documentary on American painter and printmaker Paul Cadmus VHS 1697 

Paul Glabicki animation tape / produced 

in association with Picture Start 

Four works featuring Glabicki's hand-drawn geometric animation VHS 2505 

Paul Taylor & Company : an artist and his 

work 

Shows how Paul Taylor, an exponent of modern dance, functions as creator and 

performer. 

VHS 596


Peace trees in Auroville / an Auroville 

Video production 

Pedagogy tapes/Oberlin Conservatory of 

Music 

The Peace Trees program brings together youth from the Soviet Union, India 

and the United States to plant trees. 

v. 1] : Introduction to the Vocal Arts Center ; Equipment and its use in the 

teaching of singing -- [v. 2] : Covering in the low male voice. -- [v. 3] : Three 

approaches to breath management. -- [v. 4] : Set 2 Package : Tape 1 : Female 

onset and agility. -- [v. 5] : Set 2 Package : Tape 2 : Breath management & 

agility in male voices. -- [v. 6] : Set 2 Package : Tape 3 : Registration & 

resonance balance in female voices. -- [v. 7] : Set 2 Package : Tape 4 : 

Registration & resonance balance in male voices 

Peege / [presented by] Phoenix Films Inc. A dramatization which shows how a young man who comes from college for the 

Christmas holidays is able to break through communication barriers 

Peeping Tom / a Michael Powell 

production 

Penny for your thoughts / [produced by 

the University Police Dept. of the 

University of Texas 

A study of a voyeuristic maniac who kills women while filming them with his 

camera 

Two car thieves respond to questions about how they strip or steal cars and 

motorcycles. 

People environments Presents the career planning technique of John Holland, developed to help 

persons determine their most supportive and rewarding people environment 

People is born / produced and directed by 

Eugene Marner 

Pepe le Moko / Paris Film [directed by] 

Julien Duvivier 

This study of civilization focuses on the origin of the Jewish people and their 

development of the concept of God. 

A famous gangster is safe from the police while hiding in the Casbah section of 

Algiers, but falls in love and follows the lady into danger 

VHS 2069 

VHS 3320 

VHS 3112 

VHS 3029 

VHS 2021 

VHS 275 

VHS 1917 

VHS 1194 

Perfect furlough / Universal Pictures Co Life is bleak for the soldiers stationed at an Arctic outpost. VHS 1211 

Perils of Pauline / a Paramount picture 

produced by Sol C. Siegel 

Betty Hutton, John Lund, Billy De Wolfe, William Demarest VHS 1753 

Perry Mason. Season 1, v. 1 "In every episode, defense attorney Mason matches wits with his courtroom DVD 1227 v. 

adversary D.A. Hamilton Burger. Every time, Mason--aided by devoted 

secretary Della Street and loyal private eye Paul Drake--uncovers evidence that 

clears his client of murder." 

1-5 

Perry Mason. Season 2 v. 1 Defense attorney Perry Mason induces climactic witness-stand confessions that 

always clear his clients, usually with the help of confidential secretary Della 

Street and sidekick Paul Drake. As they work against DA Hamilton Burger and 

Lt. Arthur Tragg to clear a client, is it any surprise they succeed every time? 

Perry Mason. Season, 1 v. 2 "In every episode, defense attorney Mason matches wits with his courtroom 

adversary D.A. Hamilton Burger. Every time, Mason--aided by devoted 

secretary Della Street and loyal private eye Paul Drake--uncovers evidence that 

clears his client of murder." 

Persistence of vision Volume One, 

Monitoring the media / produced by Bruce 

Ferguson 

Persistence of vision. Volume 3, New 

narrative / produced by Bill Ferguson 

Persistent women artists : Pablita Velarde, 

Miné Okubo, Lois Mailou Jones 

One of a series of video recordings that present examples of some of the best 

recent video art. 

A collection of video art pieces in which some new storytellers continue to 

expand the vocabulary of narrative through the innovative use of audio-visual 

forms 

International artist and art educator Betty LaDuke interviews three American 

women artists 

Persona / Svensk Filmindustri The surface story is about a famous actress who withdraws into silence and the 

nurse who becomes her companion at an isolated sea-side cottage 

Persuasion with sound & image : applying 

new behavioral ideas to public relations / 

Andrew McGowan 

Looks at placement of images on the screen in television commercials as well 

as the use of black and white filming, real situations, soft lighting and music. 

Peru : a golden treasure Shows sites of interest in Cuzco, Chan Chan, Lima, Machu Picchu and other 

areas of Peru 

DVD 1229 v. 

1-4 

DVD 1228 v. 

1-5 

VHS 747 

VHS 748 

VHS 1707 

VHS 1189 

VHS 2924 

VHS 2920


Pete Rose / Sports Legends Video, Inc Tom Seaver hosts a review of the career of baseball's Charlie Hustle , Pete 

Rose. 

VHS 1453 

Peter Pan Fantastic adventures await Wendy Darling and her brothers when Peter Pan 

whisks them away to the magical world of Never Land. 

DVD 970 

Peters / WGTE TV A four-part program based on the case history of a family in therapy. VHS 288 

Phantom of the opera A melodrama about a strange man who lives in the catacombs below the Paris 

Opera House 

DVD 196 

Phantom of the opera A melodrama about a strange man who lives in the catacombs below the Paris 

Opera House and his love affair with an opera starlet whom he tutors 

VHS 532 

Philadelphia Two competing lawyer join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS 

discrimination. 

DVD 1204 

Philadelphia experiment / New World 

Pictures 

At first the experiment, designed to prevent radar detection, seems successful. VHS 2268 

Philadelphia story Romantic comedy about a rich, spoiled socialite who learns some things about 

who she is and what she really wants 

DVD 281 

Philip Johnson : self portrait / Creative Arts 

Television 

America's pre-eminent senior architect wittily discusses his life VHS 1699 

Photographer / Apple Film Production Film deals with 400 color slides made by Lodz Ghetto Nazi's chief accountant 

and an amateur photographer Walter Genewein, for whom taking photographs 

of human misery was a hobby. 

VHS 2068 

Photographers and the films they choose 

/ Eastman Kodak Company 

Photographing people / Eastman Kodak 

Company 

Physical management of velopharyngeal 

inadequacy : surgical and dental 

intervention 

Discusses how and why to choose between color or black-and-white film and 

the right type, size and speed of film to meet your particular needs 


your 35 mm. camera. Discusses how to best photograph people 

In this telecast, Dr. Sadove discusses the components of evaluation and 

management for velopharyngeal insufficiency 

Physics for the new MCAT DVD study guide for the physics section of the Medical College Admission Test. 

Each section is cross-referenced to a specific chapter in The Gold Standard 

MCAT (2007) written by Brett L. Ferdinand 

VHS 648 

VHS 649 

VHS 1949 

DVD 1218 

Piaf / [directed by] Guy Casaril A dramatization of the life of French singer Edith Piaf VHS 514 

Pianist Based on the memoirs of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew, who was a brilliant 

pianist. He watched as his family was shipped off to Nazi labor camps. He 

managed to escape and lived for years in the ruins of Warsaw, hiding from the 

Nazis 

DVD 668 

Piano teacher The story of Erika, a middle-aged classical piano instructor who is trapped 

between her rigid passion for music and her suffocating home life. 

DVD 899 

Pick-up artist / Twentieth Century-Fox 

Film Corporation 

Jack is a true pick-up artist who will not take no for an answer from any woman. VHS 1321 

Pickup on South Street / Twentieth 

Century-Fox presents 

Gangster film; 1953 VHS 369 

Picnic The story covers one Labor Day week-end in a small Kansas town DVD 329 

Picture of Dorian Gray / Loew's Inc After viewing a portrait of himself, a wealthy young man expresses his desire to 

stay youthful while the portrait grows old. 

VHS 1977 

Picture's worth a thousand words : 

interpreting visual information / the Center 

for Humanities 

Contains a series of still images with narration designed to demonstrate how 

visual images, including seemingly objective images such as photographs, 

maps, and charts, present only a partial, and usually biased, view of reality 

VHS 190 

Piece of the action / Warner Bros Two rip-off artists find themselves doing community work and becoming role 

models for 30 incorrigible ghetto kids 

VHS 2894 

Pillow book / Channel Four Films Inspired by the writings of Sei Shonagon, a female courtier who lived during the 

Heian Dynasty in 10th century Japan 

DVD 43 

Pillow talk A romantic comedy in which a carefree bachelor and carefree career girl DVD 258


Pilsen resurrection project / Chicago 

Video Project 

Pinks and the blues / WGBH-TV 

director, Veronica L. Young 

Pirates of the Caribbean; curse of the 

black pearl 

Shows how the Pilsen area of Chicago is being rehabilitated with the help of the 

citizens 

Probes the subtle ways in which parents and teachers condition babies and 

young children to accept traditional sex roles 

The roguish yet charming Captain Jack Sparrow's idyllic pirate life capsizes 

after his nemesis, the wily Captain Barbossa, steals his ship, the Black Pearl, 

and later attacks the town of Port Royal. 

Pirates of the Caribbean; dead man's chest Captain Jack owes a blood debt to the legendary Davy Jones, who captains the 

ghostly Flying Dutchman. 

Place in the sun George Stevens' stunning adaptation of Theodore Dreiser's An American 

tragedy garnered six Academy Awards 

Plan-do-review process Preschool teachers and aides are shown how to handle a variety of situations 

encountered in typical day-care operations 

Plan-do-review with found materials / 

produced by High/Scope Educational 

Research Foundation 

Shows a teacher planning, conducting, and evaluating a small group activity 

time for preschool children using natural objects such as nutshells, twigs, and 

cedar sprigs 

VHS 2971 

VHS 391 

DVD 982 

DVD 872 

DVD 233 

VHS 1152 

VHS 1222 

Planet earth; the complete series A stunning 11-part series that captures rare action, impossible locations, and DVD 1126 v. 

intimate moments with our planet's best-loved, wildest, and most elusive 

creatures 

1-5 

Planet of the apes Four American astronauts crash-land on an unchartered planet and discover it 

is ruled by a race of intelligent apes 

DVD 211 

Plate tectonics : the puzzle of the 

continents / directed by Herb Saperstone 

Continental drift VHS 1568 

Platoon Chris Taylor who arrives in Vietnam and quickly discovers that his worst 

enemies are not just the Viet Cong 

Plato's Apology : the life and teachings of 

Socrates / produced by Encyclopedia 


Play, the seed of learning / Stark County 

Educational Service Center 

Lecturer Mortimer J. Adler uses dramatized scenes from the dialogs of Plato in 

presenting a character study of Socrates. 

Examines the role of play in the classroom as a means of learning, socialization, 

and assessment 

Player A celebrity-studded thriller of murderous obsession among Hollywood's 

glamorous elite 

Player / a Fine Line Features release of 

an Avenue Pictures 

Playgrounds : providing safe challenges / 

a production of Indiana University 

Television 

Playing away / Film Four International 

produced by Brian Skilton and Vijay 

Amarnani 

Playing for keeps / Playing For Keeps 

Corp 

Playing unfair; the media image of the 

female athlete 

A celebrity-studded thriller of murderous obsession among Hollywood's 


Shows the kinds of children's playgrounds found on school grounds, in parks, at 

day care centers, and elsewhere. 

A comedy about a cricket match where a West Indian team from London plays 

the stiff and shooty local team in their proper little village 

DVD 135 

VHS 1444 

VHS 2259 

VHS 2968 c. 

2 

VHS 2968 

VHS 2478 

VHS 2903 

Three teens try to turn a run-down hotel into a rock 'n' roll resort VHS 1727 

Coverage of women's sports lags far behind men's and focuses on female 

athletes' femininity and sexuality over their achievements on the court and field 

Playtime Jacques Tati stars as his world-famous character, Mr. Hulot, in this hilarious 

romp concerning Hulot's difficulty in coping with modern life. 

Please let me die / Robert B. White A documentary which considers the ethical and legal questions involved when a 

severely maimed burn victim expresses his right to die 

Pleasure of finding things out : a 

conversation with Richard Feynman, 

physicist, Nobel laureate, teacher 

Plumbing & electrical / [produced by D. I. 

Y. Video Corp.] 

Richard Feynman discusses events in his life, from his earliest learning 

experiences to his present work in hadron theory 

Step by step instructions for plumbing and electrical work, with money and time 

saving tips 

Poe's tales of terror Various Poe biographers explore the tragedy-laden life and literary genius of 

Edgar Allan Poe. Also included are reenactments of scenes from Poe's life and 

dramatized synopses of The pit and the pendulum, The fall of the house of 

Usher, The raven, Ligeia and The tell-tale heart 

DVD 743 

VHS 1219 

VHS 208 

VHS 1647 

VHS 1679 

DVD 976


Poletown lives! / George Corsetti, 

producer/director 

Polish experience / produced and 


Documentary that tells from the residents' point of view the story of Poletown, an 

inner-city Detroit neighborhood that was destroyed in 1981. 

Includes documentaries on Polish history, The Solidarity Movement, and the 

impact of Soviet domination for over four decades 

Politics of abortion / CBS News A discussion of the move to reverse the 1973 Supreme Court decision to 

legalize abortion 

Politics, privacy, and the press / Columbia 


A panel of prominent American journalists and politicians consider the ethics of 

privacy as it relates to public figures and the news media. 

VHS 1970 

VHS 2943 

VHS 382 

VHS 1867 

Polizeibericht -- Uberfall: ein Kurzfilm Experimental, silent, short film VHS 2395 

Pollock "Fellow artists and lovers Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner are at the center of 

New York's 1940's art scene, but as Krasner neglects her work to push Pollock's 

career forward, Pollock begins to unravel emotionally. 

DVD 820 

Poltergeist Life is very pleasant for a California family until a host of other-worldly forces 

invades their peaceful suburban home. 

DVD 189 

Port of New York A customs agent is determined to catch the gang of drug smugglers that killed 

his partner 

VHS 1712 

Poseidon adventure Ten survivors struggle to reach safety after an ocean liner capsizes in mid sea DVD 234 

Positive images: portraits of women with 

disabilities / a film by Julie Harrison and 

Harilyn Rousso 

Documentary follows the day-to-day lives of three working women, each of 

whom has a disability. 

Positive Motion Documentary about a dance group in San Francisco, where all of the members 

are men with AIDS or HIV. 

Posse / PolyGram Filmed Entertainment 

a Working Title Production a Mario Van 

Peebles film 

Postman always rings twice / Turner 

Entertainment Co 

Post-war hopes, cold war fears / senior 

executive producer, Mert Koplin 

Postwar Japan -- 40 years of change / 

NHK Enterprises 

Potomac fever /directed by Richard D. 

Soto 

Poverty, chastity, obedience: discerning a 

vocation in the 21st century 

Powaqqatsi / Cannon Films, Inc. and 

Cannon International 

Power and glory / presented by John 

Romer 

Power game. Part I, Congress / Philip 

Burton Productions 

Power game. Part II, Pentagon / Philip 


Power game. Part III, unelected / Philip 


Power game. Part IV, presidency / Philip 


Western about a mostly black posse who do battle with a pompous, racist 

colonel, and a vicious white sheriff who wants to take over a peaceful black 

frontier settlement 

Steamy tale of a drifter offered a job at a roadside diner by the owner, an easygoing 

older man. 

Describes life in America after World War II, a time of rash optimism and 

neuroses. 

VHS 1282 

VHS 3204 

VHS 115 

VHS 436 

VHS 1635 

Outlines Japan's rise from the ashes of wartime destruction VHS 1600 

A profile of two freshman representatives, Peter Vislosky and Tom Delay, who 

are introduced to politics and power after being elected to Congress 

VHS 451 

Nuns DVD 463 

Powaqqatsi is an American Indian word meaning life in transformation, and the 

film is about how expanding technology and mega-cities are affecting smallscale 

indigenous cultures. 

Shows how Charlemagne used the Bible as a medium to bring Europe out of 

the illiteracy of the Dark Ages. 

VHS 2786 

VHS 2690 

Based on the book The power game--how Washington works by Hedrick Smith VHS 1841 




Power of myth Bill Moyers and Joseph Campbell discuss the themes and roots of human myth DVD 290 

Power of one Sustainable living requires learning to live in harmony with the natural world and 

to do so in a way that allows community and commerce to thrive 

DVD 786


Power of positive thinking / Norman 

Vincent Peale 

Power of the word / produced by Arnold 

Labaton, Marc Siegel 

Precarious peace / produced by CBS 

News 

Pred dozhzdot;"Before the rain : a tale in 

three parts 

Preparez vos mouchoirs;"[Get out your 

handkerchiefs] 

Seven selected chapters from Dr. Peale's book tell how to take charge of your 

thoughts and re-make your life to fulfill dreams and aspirations 

Follows the growing identity of the Jews as followers of Judaism after the 

destruction of the Temple in 586 B.C. until the 2nd century B.C 

The first part discusses Woodrow Wilson's efforts in support of humane terms 

for the peace treaty. 

VHS 1856 

VHS 1918 

VHS 2231 

AIM Productions VHS 360 

une co-production Franco-Belge Les Films Ariane C.A.P.A.C. Paris VHS 694 

Preschool years : foundation for learning Several authorities describe the importance for pre-Kindergarten children of 

being read to, taken to the library 

Presidents and politics with Richard Strout Journalist Richard Strout reminisces about his career as a reporter covering 

Washington and the White House. 

Pressure fields and fluid acceleration Presents steady-flow experiments in which the pressure gradient, as the main 

force affecting fluid acceleration, is demonstrated 

Presumed innocent / a Mirage production 

: an Alan J. Pakula film 

Rusty Sabich is an up-and-comer in the county prosecutor's office. He's 

intelligent, hard working, dependable. And, just maybe, he's also a murderer 

VHS 187 

VHS 1633 

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VHS 745 

Pretty woman Corporate mogul hires prostitute to be his companion for a week DVD 212 

Prick up your ears Based on the true story of the murder/suicide of playwright Joe Orton and his 

lover, Ken Halliwell 

DVD 523 

Pride and prejudice / directed by Robert 

Z. Leonard produced by Hunt Stromberg 

Jane Austen's classic comedy of lighthearted commentary on aristocratic and 

near-aristocratic English country life 

Pride and prejudice, or, First impressions Amusing story of a young woman's adventures and misadventures in the society 

of the 19th century English gentry 

Primal furnace / Electric Research 

Institute 

Describes types of geothermal resources, the historical uses of geothermal 

energy, and the techniques which allow its conversion into electricity 

VHS 456 

VHS 2915 

VHS 2020 

Primary sedimentary features / Laurence 

Jankowski 

Explains that sedimentation is the deposit of materials carried by water VHS 1582 

Princess bride Return to a time when men were men and swamps were fire swamps, full of 

quicksand and rodents 

DVD 215 

Princess bride / executive producer, 

Norman Lear 

Printing basics for non-printers. 1 : an 

abridged guide to printing fundamentals / 

produced by Goldshell Film 

Return to a time when men were men and swamps were fire swamps, full of 

quicksand and rodents of unusual size. 

Teaches the fundamentals of printing and shows how printers can become a 

valuable ally when it comes to reducing costs and improving quality 

Prisoner of second avenue A soon-to-be-unemployed executive visits the country to avoid a nervous 

breakdown. Unfortunately, the dark cloud of tribulation seems to follow him in 

this comic nightmare 

Prisoners among us; Italian-American 

identity & world war II 

Chronicles the experiences of Italian-Americans and Italian prisoners of war 

during World War II, and their assimilation into American culture. Includes 

historical photographs, archival footage, literature, music, poetry, and personal 

interviews 

Private Benjamin A pampered, spoiled upper-middle class widow joins the army. The army will 

never be the same 

Private life of Henry VIII / London Film 

Production directed by Alexander Korda 

Based on the life of Henry VIII, King of England who married six times and who 

finally settled down with a hatchet-faced old crab who was the only wife to get 

the best of him 

Privilege /directed by Yvonne Rainer Interweaving the real and fictional, the personal and political, the filmmaker 

delves into concepts such as sexual identity and unequal economies of race, 

gender, and class while making a film on menopause 

Prize winner of Defiance, Ohio Based on the true story of Evelyn Ryan. Offers a revealing study of the 

housewife's plight during the Eisenhower era, along with an inspiring tale of 

tenacity and survival against formidable odds. 

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Prizewinning photos--what makes them 

click / Eastman Kodak Company 

Problem solving / J. Stephen Hazel ... [et 

al.] producer, Norman E. Baxley 

Get expert advice on how to take exciting, humorous, memorable photos. 

Discover what makes a photograph a prizewinner, and learn to look at the world 

with an imaginative eye 

Teaches skill-deficient adolescents social skills that will improve their everyday 

interactions with parents, teachers, peers, and others 

Producers A legendary producer and his mild-mannered accountant face catastrophe when 

their play unexpectedly becomes a success 

Professional telephone skills / 

CareerTrack Publications 

Profiles in diplomacy : the U.S. foreign 

service / Dick Young Productions, Ltd. 

Profit the earth / Specials, Science and 

Outreach Unit 

Project Mercury--an early step into space / 



Shows how to handle angry callers, confused callers, impatient callers, non- 

English speaking callers - all callers - with tact, professionalism and composure 

Gives students a firsthand look at six Foreign Service officers as they fulfill their 

duties abroad and at the Department of State in Washington, D.C 

Focusing on the new environmentalists, this film profiles six individuals and one 

company which are leading the way toward producing change by working within 

the system instead of adhering to the earlier confrontational style 

VHS 650 

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DVD 261 

VHS 2135 

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VHS 50 

Illustrates the history of the Mercury space project VHS 570 

Promise of new educational technology An examination of the use of interactive technologies (computers, video, 

telecommunications) in the American public schools 

VHS 829 

Prophets and promise of classical 

capitalism / British Broadcasting Corp 

Three men are noted for their work in defining capitalism in its' purest form. VHS 431 

Prophetssoul catchers Asks whether these figures really did exist and studies the cause and meaning 

of their proclaimed divine messages 

Prospero's books / Miramax Films Prospero's books envisions a magical realm of exquisite beauty, where the 

innocence of love and dreams of revenge collide to create a tempest 

VHS 1146 

VHS 2516 

Prostitution : sex and the law Examines how the sellers of sex operate in spite of the law VHS 996 

Protecting your home from wildfire Shows homeowners a few simple precautions that will help protect their homes 

from wildfires 

VHS 3305 

Protest and communication / [a BBC TV 

production] 

Examines the advent of the Reformation in 15th century Europe and the 

religious revivalism and reform in that period. 

Psycho Horror melodrama in which a woman disappears after spending the night in an 

isolated motel 

Psycho / Universal Pictures Horror melodrama in which a woman disappears after spending the night in an 

isolated motel 

Psychological residuals of slavery / by 

Kenneth V. Hardy produced by Stephen 

Lerner 

Psychology of the heart / American 

Association of State Psychology Boards 

Public relations law : presented at the 

PRSA National Conference 

Public trust, private interest / Columbia 


Dr. Kenneth V. Hardy, internationally acclaimed family therapist and educator, 

examines the negative psychological legacy of slavery for African Americans 

Illustrates some of the legal and administrative requirements for a disciplinary 

hearing before a professional licensing board. 

Discusses major legal principles having an impact on public relations and 

presents an overview of ethics in public relations 

A panel of prominent Americans explore the concept of accountability and trust 

within government, between one official and another, and between government 

and the citizens it serves. 

VHS 1291 

VHS 477 

DVD 41 

VHS 1553 

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VHS 2921 

VHS 1860 

Puerto Rico : arte e identidad Traces the themes and characteristics present in the plastic arts of Puerto Rico VHS 1259 

Pulp fiction Clever, dark film that tells 4 separate stories that are gradually brought together. VHS 838 

Pulp fiction / Miramax Films produced by 

Lawrence Bender 

Punishing parents; who is responsible for 

delinquent kids? 

Clever, dark film that tells four separate stories that are gradually brought 

together. 

John Stossel gathers opinions in the heated debate over accountability for a 

child's delinquent actions by talking with parents, children, teens, survivors, and 

the judges who are handing down rulings on where exactly to place blame. 

DVD 3 

DVD 1242


PUNK: Attitude Acclaimed director Don Letts explores the music, fashion, and attitude that 

came to define 'Punk' and the impact it had on pop culture 

DVD 1213 

Puppetry : worlds of imagination / 

produced by Speckled Koi 

Presents an overview of American puppetry VHS 1698 

Pursuit of happiness / a BBC TV 

production 

Examines the music, architecture and art of 18th century Europe, focusing on 

Germany. 

VHS 1294 

Pursuit of happyness True story of Chris Gardner, a struggling salesman trying to make ends meet. DVD 1037 

Puss in boots = Le chat botte Ballet, based on the story by Charles Perrault VHS 3317 

Put more leadership into you style Presents a formula for increasing leadership potential by showing how to 

acquire the skills, techniques, and principles practiced by men and women who 

occupy leadership roles in a variety of settings 

VHS 3316 

Put-in-Bay video post card II Focuses on South Bass Island's history, restaurants, tourist attractions, shops, 

etc 

Putting it all together : geodemographics 

preside over database marriages / PBS 

Adult Learning 

Computer technology now makes it possible to segment and target hot markets 

by demographics, psychographics, geographic location and consumer behavior. 

Pyramid / Unicorn Projects, Inc Animated segments follow the intricate step-by-step process of the building of 

an ancient Egyptian pyramid 

Quadrophenia / The Who Films, Ltd Songs by The Who set the background for this story of the passions of British 

street kids, circa 1964 

Quality control : an American idea takes 

root in Japan / NHK Enterprises 

This program investigates how Japanese companies use quality control (QC) in 

order to answer the question of why they were able to harvest the fruits of QC, 

even though the idea was born in the United States 

Quartier Mozart Quartier Mozart' uses traditional Cameroonian folk beliefs to explore the sexual 

politics of an urban neighborhood. 

Quatermass experiment : the creeping 

unknown / Exclusic Films 

When a rocket ship crashes to earth after its first space mission, astronaut 

Victor Caroon barely survives. 

VHS 2820 

VHS 1908 

VHS 356 

VHS 2574 

VHS 1606 

VHS 2531 

VHS 2571 

Quatre cents coups;"The 400 blows Les Films Carrosse" VHS 1869 

Queen An intimate, moving portrait of Queen Elizabeth and Tony Blair following the 

untimely death of Princess Diana. 

DVD 1065 

Queen Esther; far away and long ago Examines the story of Esther, as told in the Book of Esther in the Old Testament 

of the Bible 

VHS 1126 

Queen of the gypsies Queen of the Gypsies is the first American biography of legendary Spanish 

dancer, Carmen Amaya who brought the passion and duende of Flamenco puro 

to the international stage 

VHS 3322 

Question of color : color consciousness in 

Black America 

Question of power / produced by David L. 

Brown, Jane Kinzler, Tom Anderson 

Question of when : an inspector's guide to 

underground storage tanks 

Examines the issue of color consciousness within the black community. VHS 2219 

Covers the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power plant and anti-nuclear demonstrators VHS 2301 

Gives a technical explanation of how an underground storage tank should be 

properly installed. 

Quiet man An American prizefighter returns to Ireland in order to forget the past and live 

peacefully in his village birthplace 

Quiet one / director, Sidney Meyers 

producer, Janice Loeb 

Quilombo / CDK Producoes Ltda. 

producer, Augusto Arraes 

An award-winning documentary filmed on the streets of Harlem in the late 

1940's which shows the devastating psychological effects of life in the ghetto on 

a ten year-old boy named Donald. 

A dramatization which chronicles the Palmares quilombo, the most famous of 

the 17th century Brazilian groups of runaway black slaves. 

Quincy Jones Two concerts, filmed in Belgium and Switzerland in 1960, spotlight a young "Q" 

conducting his "dream band" are some of the finest examples of big band jazz 

Rabin on Strings This string education program presents ideas to keep the string teacher in 

schools or studios 

Race against prime time / David 

Shulman 

Documentary which explores how television news coverage of violent racial 

conflicts acts in complicated ways to exacerbate community and individual 

conflicts 

VHS 1848 

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Race for the double helix Set in the years 1951-1953 and told from the point of view of the young scientist 

James Jim Watson 

Race to catch a buckyball / a NOVA 

production 

Describes the research leading to the discovery of a new form of pure carbon, 

C60, which has the potential to revolutionize science 

Race to save the planet / WGBH Boston Shows ways that the physical environment of the Earth is being changed by 

man and suggests actions to preserve it 

Race; the power of an illusion Episode one explores how recent scientific discoveries have toppled the 

concept of biological race. Episode two questions the belief that race has 

always been with us. 

VHS 3132 

VHS 170 

VHS 2333 

DVD 832 

Racism 101 / Documentary Consortium A discussion of race relations on United States college and university campuses 

during the 1980s 

VHS 1644 

Rafferty and the gold dust twins / a 

Gruskoff, Venture, Linson production 

A ex-marine is forced to drive two footloose female drifters to New Orleans VHS 1728 

Rage in Harlem / Miramax Films A beautiful young woman from Mississippi arrives in Harlem with a chest full of 

stolen gold. 

VHS 2898 

Raggedy Rawney When a young military recruit named Tom (Dexter Fletcher) goes AWOL after 

his first taste of battle, he must disguise himself with face paint and women's 

clothing to avoid being captured by his vengeful commanding officer. 

DVD 557 

Raging bull ;"Raging bull based on the book by Jake La Motta screenplay by Paul Schrader and Mardik 

Martin producers 

DVD 31 

Raiders of the lost ark Indiana Jones is a bullwhip-cracking archeologist VHS 1112 

Rain man / United Artists Pictures, Inc A callous young hustler living in California finds his father has died and left him 

only rose bushes and a '49 Buick convertible. 

VHS 2822 

Raisin in the sun / Columbia Pictures 

Corporation 

The life of a struggling black family in a cramped Chicago flat and how it was 

affected by the promise of a $10,000 life insurance check 

VHS 1986 

Raising Arizona An ex-con and a police officer decide to get married and start a family DVD 348 

Ran / Greenwich Film Production [a film 

by Akira Kurosawa] 

Rarefied gas dynamics / National 


Set in 16th century Japan, an aging ruler, Lord Hidetora, announces his 

intention to divide his land equally among his three sons. 

Shows the evolution of flow fields as density is varied from continuum levels to 

the rarefied levels of free-molecule flow. 

Rashomon / RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. Four people involved in the murder of a gentleman in feudal Japan and the 

seduction of his wife report differing views of what actually happened 

DVD 9 

VHS 2391 

VHS 1894 

Rasputin / directed by Elem Klimov Starring Alexei Petrenko VHS 2959 

Ravi Shankar Explains and demonstrates the basic elements of sitar and tabla music for a 

western audience 

DVD 693 

Ray Ray Charles went blind at the age of seven. Inspired by his mother who insisted 

he make his own way, he found his calling at the keyboard. 

DVD 571 

Reagan's shield / produced by 

WGBH/Boston and Central Independent 

Television/England 

Realities of change in urban schools : 

from discipline to ? / Audio-Visual 

Services, University of Toledo 

The heart of President Reagan's nuclear program, the Strategic Defense 

Initiative, is the focus of this program, as well as his major arms control 

initiatives 

VHS 1881 

Speaker Robert Peterson; urban education VHS 1491 

Rear Window As a photographer with a broken leg, Stewart takes up the fine art of spying on 

his Greenwich Village neighbors 

DVD 134 

Rebecca A young bride is brought by her new husband to his manor house in England. DVD 177 

Rebel hearts Discusses the lives of Sarah and Angelina Grimke and their work to abolish 

slavery. 

VHS 3231 

Rebel without a cause The teen-aged son of a well-to-do family gets involved in violence DVD 345 

Rebel without a cause / Warner Bros. 

Pictures screenplay by Stewart Stern 

Teen-age son of a well-to-do family gets involved in violence when he attempts 

to win the approval of a gang of high-school hoodlums 

VHS 1978


Recreation therapy, developing a treatment 

plan / Veterans Administration Medical 

Center, Northport, NY 

Recuerdos de mi barrio : spontaneous 

settlement in Cali, Colombia 

Presents three interviews between a VA recreation therapist and an alcoholic 

client based on these elements: 

Discusses the land reform and population growth issues in the Cali Region of 

Colombia, using the barrio El Vergel as a case study 

Red balloon / Films de France Ltd. Films Academy award winning children's film about a young. No dialogue, entire story 

told in music and sound 

Red dawn / United Artists Corporation A group of high school students escape and wage warfare in defense of their 

parents, their friends and their country 

Red rain Gina "Bom Boom" Guidi, a woman boxer tells her story, about how she became 

a boxer. 

Red shoes / Pinewood Films Centers on the dilemma of a young ballerina who's torn between the demands 

of career and love 

Red shoes / Pinewood Films Ltd Centers on the dilemma of a young ballerina who's torn between the demands 

of career and love 

Redemption While awaiting execution in prison, Stan 'Tookie' Williams, founder of the L.A. 

Crips street gang, denounces the lifestyle that landed him behind bars. 

Determined to stop violence, he begins writing anti-gang books for children, 

earning him critical acclaim - and four Nobel Peace Prize nominations 

VHS 1454 

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VHS 1716 

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DVD 620 

Red-light districts A unique journey into the heart of modern prostitution VHS 1111 

Reducing inventory at Blue Bell / Penn 

State University 

Reducing logistics costs at General Motors 

/ produced by Valed, Inc 

Reel bad Arabs; how Hollywood vilifies a 

people 

Refrigerator mothers / produced by 

Kartemquin Educational Films 

Shows how models for inventory targets, manufacturing requirements and 

production scheduling were used with a seasonal demand forecasting technique 

and diagnostic computer simulation to reduce inventories 

VHS 1274 

Cost control; management science VHS 1280 

Throughout its history Hollywood has portrayed Arabs as buffoons or bandits. DVD 1040 

From the 1950s through the early 1970s, the American medical establishment 

thought it had found the cause of autism: poor mothering. 

VHS 873 

Regarding Henry ;"Regarding Henry a Paramount Picture directed by Mike Nichols" VHS 547 

Reggae Sunsplash : a tribute to Bob 

Marley / Reggae Tribute Corporation 

Live concert produced by the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission VHS 2292 

Regle du jeu (Motion picture : 1939);"The 

Rules of the game 

Video Classics VHS 1191 

Regulators, our invisible government / Host E.G. Marshall shows the work of the Environmental Protection Agency in VHS 1150 

WVIA producer, Jerry Colbert 

translating federal law into specific regulations. 

Reluctant hero : Brand Whitlock / WBGU- In depth look at Brand Whitlock, author, reform mayor of Toledo, Ohio, 

VHS 3153 

TV 

ambassador to Belgium before and during the first World War 

Remaking the world / Project of the Presents the activities of Muslims in Egypt who seek to establish an Islamic 

VHS 2694 

University of Chicago 

state as an alternative to Western secularism and materialism. 

Renata Tebaldi : la voce d'angelo A 1983 French documentary which contains an interview with Renata Tebaldi, 

and concert and opera excerpts 

VHS 586 

Renoir shorts / by Jean Renoir Silent films. The little match girl has musical accompaniment VHS 2208 

Rent Focuses on the year in the life of a group of friends in New York's East Village. 

The "bohemians" live carefree lives of art, music, sex, and drugs. 

DVD 1174 

Repo man / Universal City Studios Harry Dean Stanton and Emilio Estevez, as ace Repo Men, are out to beat 

ruthless government agents, UFO cultists, hired thugs, a lobotomized nuclear 

scientist and the infamous Rodriguez Brothers. 

VHS 2499 

Research as part of the process / Public 

Relations Society of America 

Presented at the PRSA National Conference VHS 2926 

Researching for information Discusses several ways to look for career information. Includes interviews of 

several experts 

VHS 277


Residential school experience: a century of 

genocide in the Americas 

Respectfully yours : Magda Gerber's 

approach to professional infant/toddler 

care 

Restless conscience : resistance to Hitler 

within Germany, 1939-1945 / Hava Kohav 

Beller 

This film tells the story of Native American children being taken from their 

parents and forcibly sent to residential schools in Canada and in the United 

States. 

Gerber looks for caregivers sensitive to the infant and sees the child care 

environment through the eyes and experiences of infants 

This documentary examines the activities of the anti-Nazi resistance within 

Germany from 1933 to 1944. 

VHS 3294 

VHS 925 

VHS 2013 

Resume Three job hunters seek a position at a bank. VHS 278 

Return to the heart of darkness Examines new challenges in central and eastern Africa, reporting on the 

instability created by Hutu guerillas known as the FDLR. 

DVD 960 

Reuben, Reuben / 20th Century Fox the 

Taft Entertainment Company 

A Scottish poet sponges off hospitable women in a New England college town, 

then falls in love with a beautiful young student 

Reunion An understated account of the liberation of French prisoners from Nazi 

concentration camps. Shows the removal of the prisoners to temporary 

hospitals and pictures joyful reunions with families and friends in Paris 

Reunion / supervised and edited by Peter 

F. Elgar p 

An understated account of the liberation of French prisoners from Nazi 

concentration camps. 

Revealing profit opportunity with ABM Professor Robert S. Kaplan explains the fundamental concepts of activity-based 

costing and management. 

Revenger's tragedy / [director, John 

Keefe producer, Jon Chambers] 

Story traditionally attributed to Cyril Tourneur. Deals in a macabre way with 

private revenge 

Reversal of fortune / Reversal Films, Inc Did European aristocrat Claus von Bulow attempt to murder his wife Sunny at 

their luxurious Newport mansion in 1980? 

Reversing Roe : the Norma McCorvey 

story 

Revolution in Nicaragua / WGBH-TV in 

association with the Blackwell Corporation 

Revolution, Iraq & Iran / a co-production 

of TVOntario 

The story of the woman whose case was used to challenge the Texas abortion 

law and eventually became the Jane Roe of the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court 

decision 

Discusses the revolution of 1979 in which the Sandinistas overthrew the 

Somoza dynasty which had ruled Nicaragua for almost 50 years. 

Explores causes and effects of different types of revolution that have plagued 

the Middle East, especially since World War II 

Revolutions of the wheel / Scott Sterling 1. The tradition of no tradition -- 2. The great move west -- 3. Peter Voulkos and 

the Otis Group -- 4. Robert Arneson and the Davis Group -- 5. The width of a 

circle 

Rheological behavior of fluids /National 


Rhythms and drives / WNET-13, Antenna- 

2, NHK, Radio 

Illustrates the rheological behavior of fluids which do not obey the Navier-Stokes 

equations. 

Uses vignettes from both the animal world and human society to help 

understand instinctive, subconscious rhythms and drives and the workings of 

the primitive portion of the human brain. 

VHS 1256 

DVD 527 

VHS 527 

VHS 3007 

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VHS 329 

VHS 2493 

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Rich Little's trivia game The perfect video party tape VHS 1283 

Richard II / BBC-TV and Time-Life TV Presents a dramatization of William Shakespeare's play entitled King Richard II VHS 245 

Richard III / BBC and Time-Life 

Television 

Richard Tee, contemporary piano/ / 

Richard Tee 

Presents William Shakespeare's play about Richard of Gloucester, a selfproclaimed 

villain, who usurps the crown from King Edward IV 

Richard Tee, pianist, discusses his own learning experiences as a boy. He also 

shares with viewers demonstrations of his technique today 

VHS 248 

VHS 1335 

Richard Wright : Black boy Biographical sketch of the Afro-American writer, Richard Wright. VHS 2535 

Rick Steves' Europe Germany's romantic Rhine and Rothenburg -- Munich and the foothills of the 

Alps -- Berlin, resilient, reunited and reborn -- Germany's Black Forest and 

Cologne -- Best of the Alps, Switzerland's Jungfrau region -- Travel skills 

DVD 548 

Riding the Rails Tells the story of the 250,000 teenagers who left their homes and hopped freight 

trains during the Great Depression 

DVD 531


Right choice / produced & directed by 

Robert Crowther 

Discusses the importance of high ethical standards in the field of personal 

selling and factors that influence the ethical conduct of sales personnel 

VHS 2884 

Right to choose to die / National 

Hemlock Society 

Euthanasia VHS 1999 

Right to die Examines the legal, ethical, and emotional issues surrounding a patient's 

request to have his ventilator turned off and be allowed to die 

VHS 619 

Right to die : the choice is yours / 

produced by Tophal Productions, Inc 

Rigoberta Menchú; Cassandra and 

crusader 

Discusses the right to refuse medical treatment and gives information about 

living wills. 

VHS 1939 

An interview with Rigoberta Menchú, an Indian rights advocate from Guatemala. DVD 414 

Rigoletto Rigoletto, the court jester, plans revenge against his daughter's seducer, the 

Duke of Mantova 

Rio grande A Cavalry unit on the Mexican border in the 1880s conducts a campaign against 

marauding Indians 

Rio Lobo A spectacular robbery of a Union pay train by Confederate guerillas leads to the 

train's colonel befriending the leaders of the robbery when the war ends. 

Together, they seek the Union traitors responsible for a string of Confederate 

train robberies 

Rip off funerals Looks at how some funeral homes take advantage of their grief stricken 

customers 

Rise and fall of Jim Crow Offers the first comprehensive look at race relations in America between the 

Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement. 

Rise and fall of Jim Crow The rise and fall of Jim Crow offers the first comprehensive look at race 

relations in America between the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement 

Rise and fall of money / British 


Rise and fall of the Third Reich : 

Gotterdammerung, fall of the Third Reich / 

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc 

Rise of Catherine the Great / a London 

Film Production 

Rite of passage / a Documentary 

Educational Resources production 

River that harms / University of Southern 

California, School of Journalism 

Rivers, the work of running water / 

Encyclopedia Britannica Educational Corp. 

Road to Brown : the untold story of the 

man who killed Jim Crow / University of 

Virginia 

Road to disaster / University of Mid- 

America 

DVD 498 

DVD 1145 

DVD 1202 

VHS 295 

DVD 550 

VHS 953 

Chronicles the advancements and pitfalls of the development of banks. VHS 426 

Traces the collapse of the Hitler regime from the invasion of Russia in 1941 to 

Hitler's suicide in Berlin in 1945. 

VHS 1585 

Russia history; 1934 motion picture VHS 3023 

A documentary about life among the !Kung, who live in the Kalahari desert in 

Botswana. 

Documents the largest radioactive waste accident in the United States which 

has threatened the water supply and life of the Navajo Indians who live along 

the river polluted by the spill. 

Compares the Colorado and Mississippi rivers and reveals how running water 

sculpts the geologic features of the land. 

The story of segregation and the brilliant legal campaign against it which helped 

to launch the Civil Rights movement. 

A history of Japan beginning with Japan's invasion and conquest of Manchuria 

and ending with the bombing in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Japan's surrender 

to the Allies 

Road to freedom: Vernon Johns story Racial violence results in rape and murder, Vernon Johns calls to his middle 

class black congregation to stand up for their rights 

Road to Haymarket / Committee for Labor 

Access 

Road to Haymarket / Committee for Labor 

Access 

Re-creation of the incidents which lead to the Haymarket incident in Chicago in 

1886, in which police shot people at a labor rally 

Re-creation of the incidents which lead to the Haymarket incident in Chicago in 

1886, in which police shot people at a labor rally 

Road to Morocco The lone survivors of a ship wrecked in the Mediterranean, our heroes find 

themselves in the company of Princess Shalimar ( 

Road to nowhere / a presentation of Films 

for the Humanities and Sciences 

Road to the Stamping ground / Polygon 

Pictures 

Using an untraveled highway built by Tito to connect Croatia and Serbia as a 

metaphor, this documentary examines the breakup of Yugoslavia into heavily 

armed and contentious ethnic camps 

Kylian's ballet Stamping ground was inspired by the Australian aborigine dance 

ceremony he witnessed in 1980. 

VHS 743 

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VHS 1994


Roads from the ghetto / produced and 

directed by Eugene Marner 

Discusses the complexity of Jewish life forced by the end of the closed ghetto 

societies between 1789 and 1917. Spans the era between the Industrial 

Revolution and the Balfour Declaration 

Robert F. Kennedy : Attorney General A panel discussion held at Duquesne University School of Law on April 12, 

1996 discussing Robert F. Kennedy's career as United States Attorney General. 

VHS 1919 

VHS 1100 

Robert Schumann's Davidsbündlertänze Dance in America VHS 3191 

Robert Thurman on Tibet Robert A.F. Thurman presents lectures on the history of Tibet and the role of 

Tibetan Buddhism from ancient times to the present 

Robinsons / WGTE TV A four-part program dealing with the case history of a family in therapy. 

Therapist Wayne Graves attempts to solve the problems of the Robinsons 

Robotic welding and robotic painting / 

SME 

Robots in assembly and packaging / 

Society of Manufacturing Engineers 

In the first part, the use of robots for welding tasks is examined In the second 

part, the use of robots for painting is examined at Ford Motor Co. 

Five case studies illustrate different applications and benefits for using robots in 

assembly and packaging 

Robots in service industries Narrated by professional engineers, this tape focuses on how robots equipped 

with technology capabilities such as vision and sensors can perform 

complicated and repetitive service-related functions 

Robots in the air and space : the sky is 

not the limit 

Rocket men : Robert Goddard and the 

adventure of space exploration 

Rocks that form on the earth's surface / 

Encyclopedia Britannica Films 

Narrated by professional engineers, this tape focuses on new developments in 

adapting robotic and automation technologies to the U.S. space program 

The story of Robert Goddard and the other scientific visionaries who developed 

the powerful rockets that play an important role in space exploration 

Uses demonstrations and examples in discussing the origin and composition of 

sedimentary rocks. 

Rocks that originate underground Discusses the physical structure of rocks thrust to the earth's surface from 

geological cataclysms such as volcanoes and earthquakes 

Rocky Rocky Balboa, the underdog, gets his million-to-one shot at love, self-respect 

and the world heavyweight boxing crown 

Roger & me / Warner Bros. presents a 

Dog Eat Dog Films production 

A documentary about Flint, Michigan native Michael Moore and his efforts to 

meet with General Motors' president Roger Smith 

Rohypnol: the date rape drug / ABC News Discussion of the use of rohypnol (roofies) to sedate women in social situations 

in order to rape them 

Roid roulette : anabolic steroids, a 

dangerous game / MPG, Media Production 

Group 

Role of the President's Cabinet / United 

States Civil Service Commission 

A question and answer format examines steroid use by eliciting comments from 

a physician, nurse therapist, journalist, coach and high school student. 

DVD 306 

VHS 292 

VHS 18 

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Presents highlights of a panel discussion on the role of the President's Cabinet VHS 188 

Role reversal Concerns the gender stereotyping and gender swapping experiences of two 

women and two men 

Roles : the script for children of denial / 

with Claudia Black 

Claudia Black discusses common emotional problems found in children of 

alcoholic parents and what can be done to help them 

Roma / [directed by] Federico Fellini A film adaptation of Federico Fellini's reminiscences of Rome before World War 

II, as compared to the present as it was when the film was originally produced 

(1972) 

VHS 3198 

VHS 2737 

VHS 2847 

Roma, citta aperta ;"Open city directed by Roberto Rossellini produced by Excelsa" VHS 1467 

Roman city / Unicorn Projects, Inc Shows how the Romans planned and constructed their cities for the people who 

lived within them and used these cities to link their vast empire into a 

commercial and political unit. 

VHS 359 

Roman Holiday A modern-day princess rebels against her royal obligations and explores Rome 

on her own. 

DVD 213 

Romance and reality : a personal view / 

by Kenneth Clark 

Surveys the development of Western civilization during the 13th century. VHS 1288


Romancing the stone / Twentieth Century- 

Fox 

Romeo and Juliet / Paramount Pictures 

Corporation 

Rommel : the strange death of the desert 

fox 

A romance writer, seeking her kidnapped sister in South America, experiences 

the adventures of a story-book heroine when aided by a rugged jungle hunter 

VHS 2272 

Teenagers fall in love, but are opposed by their families VHS 471 

Rommel was Germany's youngest field marshal. The world held him in awe as 

he led the notorious Ghost Division 

VHS 1504 

Room of one's own A call to women to declare their independence, talent and freedom to write, 

think, love 

DVD 419 

Room with a view / Cinecom International 

Films 

All she wanted was a room with a view on her first trip to Florence. VHS 2649 

Roosevelt and U.S. history, 1882-1929 Presents a biography of Roosevelt's early years from his youth through his 

marriage and early political career. 

VHS 332 

Roosevelt and U.S. history, 1930-1945 Presents a biography of Roosevelt's later years from his first presidential 

campaign through World War II and the Yalta Conference. 

VHS 333 

Roots Television series; follows several generations in the lives of a slave family. DVD 1106 

Rope / Transatlantic Picture Corp Two friends strangle a classmate and then proceed to invite his family and 

friends to dinner, with the body stuffed inside the trunk they use for the table. 

Rose for Emily / Chubbuck Cinema 

Company 

Presents the story of a reclusive spinster slowly slipping past the boundaries of 

sanity. 

Rosemary's baby After unwittingly becoming friendly with a coven of witches and warlocks, a 

young wife is impregnated by the Devil 

Rosewood / Warner Bros. directed by 

John Singleton 

Rotating flows / Dave Fultz produced by 

Education Development Center 

In 1923 a black town in Florida was burned to the ground, its people murdered 

because of a lie. 

VHS 30 

VHS 2792 

DVD 165 

VHS 244 

Illustrates the phenomena associated with rotation of homogenous fluids. VHS 2387 

Rotation In German w/English subtitles. The main character, the mechanic Behnke, 

wants to join the Nazi party to secure a good living. However, after his Jewish 

neighbors are taken away, he changes his views. Trying to remain 'a nonpolitical 

man, ' he withdraws from reality and becomes a Nazi laborer."-- 

Rouch in reverse / directed by Manthia 

Diawara 

Route 66 : an American odyssey / James 

H. Jenner 

The first film to look at European anthropology from the perspective of its 

subjects. 

Get your kicks on an armchair adventure through the heart and history of 

America. 

Roxanne C.D. Bales has an astonishingly long nose. He harbors a secret love for a 

beautiful astronomy student who is attracted to another man 

Roxanne A comedy of romantic misadventure. C. D. Bales (Martin) has an astonishingly 

long nose. 

Royal wedding A musical set during Princess Elizabeth's wedding to Philip Mountbatten. A 

brother-sister dance team go to London and get caught up in romance 

DVD 867 

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VHS 2012 

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Ruby Bridges One of the first Black students to integrate public elementary school VHS 3229 

Rudyard Kipling's Jungle book Based on Kipling's stories of Mowgli, the human boy raised by the wolves who 

returns to live with humans and show them the values he has learned from the 

jungle 

VHS 603 

Rumble fish / Hot Weather Films Two brothers whose desire to break out of their urban trap eventually leads to 

death for one and a new beginning for the other. 

Run Dick, run Jane / Department of 

Motion Picture Production, Brigham Young 

University 

Illustrates through laboratory statistics and case studies, the benefits of a 

personal fitness program. 

Run Lola Run A thrilling post-MTV, roller-coaster ride about two star-crossed lovers who have 

only minutes to change the course of their lives 

Rush to burn / Greenpeace Greenpeace activists and concerned residents tell of the dangers of burning 

hazardous wastes 

Russia : then & now / Clay Francisco 

Films 

Travels through Moscow, St. Petersburg, Ukraine, Yalta, Sochi, Samarkand, 

Trans-Siberian Railroad, Lake Baikal, and more. 

VHS 2274 

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Sabbath of peace Actor Eli Wallach narrates this film about the meaning of the Sabbath as a day 

of love, respect, and peace to Jews, Moslems, and Christians. Filmed in cinema 

verite style 

Sabotage / British-Gaumont Picture Corp Crime drama investigation of sabotage in London. An undercover Scotland Yard 

detective infiltrates the home of a theatre operator who is suspected of sabotage 

Sabrina The daughter of the chauffeur for an immensely wealthy family returns from 

Paris and dazzles the family's two sons 

Sacrifice and bliss / Joan Konner Campbell discusses the role of sacrifice in myth, which symbolizes the 

necessity for rebirth. He also talks about the significance of sacrifice. 

Saheri's choice: arranged marriages in 

India 

Severe penalties for breaking engagements are discussed, along with divorce 

negotiations should the marriage fail. A candid glimpse into contemporary 

Indian society 

Saints & spirits A documentary on one group of Moroccan Muslims. Tells how they view their 

worship of saints and spirits as part of the wider Islamic tradition and shows 

them visiting shrines in Marrakech and in the Atlas Mountains 

Salaam Bombay! Krisha, a ten year old boy, has been abandoned in Bombay by his mother. He 

tries to earn money to go home while he lives in the streets 

Salesman / a Maysles Films, Inc. 

production A2230 

A documentary feature film in cinema verite style which closely follows the 

activities of four door-to-door Bible salesmen on their routes 

Salome / by Richard Strauss An operatic setting of the biblical story of the princess Salome and the events 

that led to the death of John the Baptist 

Salome;"Salome music by Richard Strauss based on the play by Oscar Wilde German 

translation by Hedwig Lachmann" 

Salt of the earth / Independent Production 

Corporation 

Saltboxes and schools : the New England 

landscape of Southeastern Ohio 

When striking Chicano miners are barred from picketing the zinc mines, their 

wives take up the battle 

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A documentary to mark the Bicentennial of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 VHS 2089 

Salvation Set in Kansas in 1915, thirteen year-old Langston Hughes's aunt's well meaning 

efforts to bring him into the spiritual fold results in a moral crisis when he has to 

choose between pleasing his elders or being true to himself 

DVD 975 

Salvation A prime time preacher and tel-evangelist turns airtime into checks in the mail 

and is blackmailed by fervent members of his television flock 

VHS 1319 

Sam Abell : Sight and insight Viewers go on assignment with Abell to photograph Shaker heritage in Kentucky 

and Maine 

VHS 2243 

Sam. / Office of the Superintendent of 

Public Instruction 

Special education; physical education and training VHS 1367 

Samuel Beckett : Eh Joe, Footfalls, 

Rockaby 

Performances of three of Samuel Beckett's plays, Eh Joe Footfalls Rockaby VHS 1771 

Samuel Shellabarger's Prince of foxes The Duke hopes to marry his sister who is widowed to the apparent heir of 

Ferrara in which impedes his conquest of central Italy. 

DVD 1210 

San Andreas Fault This program gives evidence of the geological forces at work in the San 

Andreas fault system and relates these forces to the causes of earthquakes. 

VHS 2184 

San Francisco Clark Gable stars in romantic drama DVD 784 

Sanctuary, the Great Smoky Mountains 

National Park / National Park Service 

Examines the landscape, foliage, and wildlife of the Great Smoky Mountains 

National Park during the changing seasons 

Sankofa The story about the transformation of Mona, a self-possessed African-American 

woman sent on a spiritual journey in time to experience the pain of slavery and 

the discovery of her African identity 

Satellite magic Covers the scope of capabilities and purposes of satellites in mass 

communication and telecommunication 

Satellite TV : basics II. / Shelburne Films Presents technical concepts regarding use of satellites in television 

transmission and reception 

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Saudi Arabia : friend or foe? / ABC News Background report on Saudi Arabia by Chris Bury. Assessment by Ted Koppel, 

Richard Murphy and Daniel Pipes of the reliability of the Saudis in the war 

against terrorism 

Savage acts / American Social History 

Productions 

Using political cartoons, animations, documentary film and excerpts from 

diaries, examines American imperialism, expansionist policies and wars at the 

beginning of the 20th century. 

VHS 879 

VHS 851 

Saving Private Ryan Captain John Miller must take his men behind enemy lines to find Private Ryan, 

whose three brothers have been killed in combat. 

DVD 132 

Say it by signing / Crown Publishers 

directed by Adam Friedman 

A video guide to the basics of sign language --Container VHS 1744 

Say yes /directed by Larry Yust 

CineTelFilms 

Scaffolding self-regulated learning in the 

primary grades 

Farce in which a young man will inherit $250 million if he can contrive to get 

married within 24 hours 

Analyzes how instruction has traditionally occurred and presents an alternative 

model for teachers. 

Scandinavian and Soviet fronts / CBS Inc Events and battles that led to the invasion of Norway, the Russo-Finnish War, 

the Nazi blitz on Moscow and the daring resistance movement during 

Denmark's occupation 

Scanners / Avco Embassy Pictures A thriller about several Scanners who attempt to gain international political 

power by using their supernatural ability to destroy people by merely twitching 

their brains 

Scar of shame In no film was the racial theme more apparent than in this story about an illmatched 

marriage between a black concert pianist and a poor, lower class 

young black woman. 

Scarecrow In a 17th century Massachusetts town, a scarecrow is magically transformed 

into a man and charged with the mission of destroying true love 

Scarlet Street / Universal A timid and unassuming clerk is pulled into a world of crime and deception by a 

seductive woman and her manipulative boyfriend 

Schindler's list The story of a Catholic war profiteer, Oskar Schindler, who risked his life and 

went bankrupt in order to save more than 1,000 Jews from certain death in 

concentration camps. 

Schizophrenia, the voices from within / 


Susan Browning discusses the causes, problems and treatments of 

schizophrenia with Lionel Aldridge and Joe Rodgers, two former schizophrenic 

patients. 

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Schneewittchen / DEFA Studio fur 

Spielfilme 

German language; Snow White and the seven dwarfs VHS 40 

School-museum collaboration / Getty 

Center for Education in the Arts 


Screwball hotel / Universal Pictures Miami's swank Rochester Hotel is in debt up to its doorknobs, and the owner is 

being taken to the cleaners by his partner. 

VHS 1497 

Sea chase German naval officer Karl Ehrlich loves his country and hates Hitler. As World 

War II erupts, Ehrlich defies orders and takes his freighter on a fox-and-hound 

pursuit from the Germans and the British 

DVD 1150 

Sea inside Ramón Sampedro wants to end his life because a diving accident 28 years 

before that turned him into a quadriplegic. Spanish w/ English subtitles 

Seabiscuit Based on a true story. A half-blind ex-prizefighter and mustang breaker team up 

with a millionaire and his rough-hewn, undersized horse, Seabiscuit. The men 

bring Seabiscuit to incredible heights, helping to turn a long shot into a legend. 

Eventually, Seabiscuit earns Horse of the Year honors in 1938 

Sean's story Covers inclusion of handicapped children in the Baltimore County (Maryland) 

Public School system. 

Search for an American voice in theater / 

ngelus Novus Productions 

This six-part series traces the history of stage drama and the American 

imagination, from pre-Revolutionary days to the late 20th century.C97 

Search for ecstasy / WCBS Faubion Bowers provides commentary for native dances by the National Dance 

Company of Morocco 

Searchers / Warner Bros. Pictures 

presents 

Wayne plays ex-Confederate soldier Ethan Edwards, an Indian-hater who 

believes more in bullets than words. 

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Seasons in the sea / Thirteen/WNET and 

Howard Hall 

Secondary flow / National Committee for 

Fluid Mechanics Films 

Nature with George Page VHS 2718 

Demonstrates secondary flows caused by the imposition of primary-flow 

pressure gradients on low-momentum fluid in sheer layers 

VHS 2388 

Secret agent An espionage thriller set in Geneva, seasoned with romance. VHS 476 

Secret Egypt : Your passport to the timeless rituals of a culture where the fires of an ancient 

wisdom still burn. 

VHS 250 

Secret garden / Rosemont Productions, 

Ltd. 

After the sudden death of her parents, Mary Lennox is sent from their home in 

India to the English estate of a distant family friend. 

VHS 2994 

Secret honor: a political myth Uses a fictional account to try to understand Richard Nixon's personality VHS 1710 

Secret life of Geisha Exotic, sensuous, exquisitely mysterious. For centuries, the seductive grace of 

the Japanese geisha has fascinated and confounded outsiders who have 

attempted to fathom this secretive world of tradition, intrigue, and pleasure. 

Secret life of Sergei Eisenstein / 

Produced by Polivideo 

Uses rare archive material to tell the story of one of the worlds greatest filmmakers, 

as he saw it 

DVD 651 

VHS 3155 

Secret life of the brain 4. Vols. DVD 336 

Secret life of the brain / David Grubin 

Productions 

Secrets of professional film-to-video 

transfers 

This series explores the startling new map of the brain that has emerged from 

the past decade of neuroscience 

This tape will teach you the correct procedures for transferring film to video, the 

various equipment setups available, from the simplest to the most complex, and 

which methods produce the best results 

Secrets of sex: the Kama Sutra A world of pleasure -- Sacred words -- Temples of delight -- Hidden pleasures -- 

Erotica 

Secrets of the dead Discusses the rise and fall of the Bonanno Family, as well as the techniques 

used by the FBI to bring down this notorious mob family 

See it now Hosted by Mike Wallace, Walter Cronkite, and Dan Rather, this 4-pack set 



Seeds of destiny Documents Nazi Germany's plan to subjugate its European neighbors by 

withholding necessary food, clothing, and medical attention. 

Seeds of war / CBS, Inc A look at the events that set the stage for the massive conflict of World War II: 

the conditions in 1920s Germany, the war between China and Japan, and the 

crisis at Munich 

Seeing for himself / William Albert 

Allard 

Seeking the first Americans Public 

Broadcasting Associates 

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Photography; photojournalism VHS 2241 

Archaeologists from Texas to Alaska search for clues to the identity of the first 

people to tread the North American continent 

Segovia master class I / Kroll Productions Andres Segovia, guitarist, teaches and performs gifted students in the 

celebrated master class series 

Seize the day / Learning in Focus, Inc Tommy Wilhelm's life is falling apart. He's quit his job and can't find other work, 

his marriage has failed. 

Selected works by William Wegman, 1970- 

78 / William Wegman 

Selecting carpet / producer, Sarah 

Tringas 

A compilation of Wegman's video vignettes. Includes Duet, Milk floor piece, 

Stomach song, Two lamps, Deodorant, Massage chair, and Spelling lesson 

Avian Rogers and Cathy Crane discuss the basic decorating and design 

concepts in each room of a house with a special section on selecting the right 

carpet. 

Self-knowledge and beliefs Part of a series on career and life planning which consists of three parts: selfknowledge, 

educational and occupational exploration, and career planning 

Selma, Lord, Selma Based on the book by Sheyann Webb and Rachel West Nelson as told to Frank 

Sikora 

Senhora aparecida = Our lady aparecida In the Portuguese village of Senhora Aparecida, the annual festival is being 

prepared. The biers that reach fifteen meters high and which are carried by 70 

men are being erected and decorated. 

Sense & sensibility Tells of the Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, whose 

chances at marriage seem doomed by their family's sudden loss of fortune 

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Sense perception / [with Irwin A. Moon 

Moody Institute of Science.] 

Presents demonstrative experiments to illustrate that the brain is the interpreter 

for sensory reception 

Senso / a Janus Films presentation In 1866, an Italian countess falls into a tempestuous affair with a dashing 

Austrian officer. 

Sentinels of silence / producer, Manuel 

Arango 

Presents spectacular views, filmed almost entirely from a helicopter, of seven 

important archaeological sites in Mexico. 

Separate but equal This film dramatizes the events leading to the landmark Supreme Court decision 

outlawing segregation 

Separate peace / Paramount Pictures Gene Forrester looks back 15 years to a year at prep school during World War II 

when jealousy and rivalry with his best friend caused an accident 

Seraphic dialogue ;"Seraphic dialogue 

(Choreographic work : Graham)" 

Presents Martha Graham and her company in a dance interpretation of Joan of 

Arc. 

Sergeant York / Warner Brothers The screen biography of Alvin York, a Tennessee mountain man who became a 

hero of World War I 

Setting up the learning environment / 

High/Scope Press 

Provides guidelines for educators and caretakers of preschoolers on how to 

arrange and define play areas and how to select and store materials 

Settlers / a film by Ruth Walk In the Palestinian Territories, in the city of Hebron on the West Bank, seven 

Orthodox families and their forty-three children comprise the Jewish settlement 

of Tel Rumeida. 

Seven beauties = Pasqualino 

settebellezze 

A small-time casanova with no political convictions and fewer brains shoots his 

sister's pimp to save the family honor. 

Seven brides for seven brothers When the new bride of a roughneck Oregon pioneer finds she has to keep 

house for her husband's six rowdy brothers 

Seven samurai / screenplay by Akira 

Kurosawa 

A 16th century Japanese village hires professional warriors to fend off bandits. 

When the samurai arrive, a spectacular series of battles begins 

Seven samurai / Toho Company A 16th century Japanese village hires professional warriors to fend off bandits. 

When the samurai arrive, a spectacular series of battles begins 

Seven year itch / Charles K. Feldman 

Group Productions 

Seven year itch / Charles K. Feldman 

Group Productions 

Seventh seal / by Ingmar Bergman 

Svensk Filmindustry 

A husband of seven years, alone in New York while his family vacations, 

fantasizes an affair with the TV model in the upstairs apartment 

A husband of seven years, alone in New York while his family vacations, 

fantasizes an affair with the TV model in the upstairs apartment 

Set in the 14th century, a knight returning home from the Crusades encounters 

Death who challenges him to a chess game. 

Seventh seal / Svensk Filmindustry A knight returning home from the Crusades encounters Death, who agrees to a 

chess game. In the balance hang the lives of the knight and a group of traveling 

players 

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Sexual chemistry Discusses the search for a mate and finding love VHS 991 

Sexuality : getting it together / Harold 

Lear, Helen Singer Kaplan 

Sexuality & aging / Health & Sciences 

Television Network 

Group discussion with role playing and film clip viewing in order to prepare 

medical students for dealing with patients' sexual problems. 

Sexual function and satisfaction are both desirable and possible for the majority 

of older adults. 

VHS 637 

VHS 874 

Sexuality education for the 21st century Sex instruction for teenagers VHS 235 

Shadows in the sun Japanese memories of World War II by following a group of war veterans and 

the survivors of the war dead on a visit to grave sites in New Guinea. 

Shaft Detective John Shaft is hired by a Harlem mobster to find his kidnapped 

teenage daughter and finds himself up against some Mafia chieftains who want 

to take over a chunk of the black underworld's uptown territory 

VHS 232 

DVD 685 

Shakers Ken Burns creates a moving portrait of this group DVD 307 

Shakers Discusses the growth and decline of Shaker communal living VHS 1359


Shakespeare in love Will Shakespeare needs passionate inspiration to break a bad case of writer's 

block 

Shakespeare in love 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! 

Shakespeare: the animated tales Shakespeare's most powerful plays come to life in this dramatic series. These 

adaptations were animated by leading Russian artists and feature performances 

by world-renowned actors 

Shakespeare's globe Behind-the-scenes preparations, rehearsals, backstage drama and performance 

extracts from a production of Romeo and Juliet, together with glimpses into 

Globe Education workshops and activities, the exhibition and tours 

DVD 358 

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2 

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1-4 

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Shakissha and friends Documents the transfer of a 10 year old girl with spina bifida from a school for 

handicapped children to a mainstream class 

DVD 423 

Shakuntala; a play by Kalidasa "The Department of Theatre & Dance Pomona College presents Shakuntala a 

play by Kalidasa" -- opening credits disc 1 

DVD 1063 

Shampoo George is one of L.A.'s most desirable men, a Beverly Hills hairdresser who 

makes all his female clients look, and feel, better than ever. 

DVD 167 

Shane A drifter and retired gunfighter assists a homestead family terrorized by an aging 

cattleman and his hired gun 

DVD 168 

Shane / Paramount Pictures Corporation A stranger seeking refuge in a Wyoming valley helps a homesteader and his 

neighbors in their struggle against ruthless cattle ranchers 

VHS 1988 

Shape of Life The story of the beginnings of all animal life using innovative camera techniques 

and computer animation. 4 parts. 

DVD 427 

Shark Tale Hilarious, animated, undersea adventure DVD 569 

Shawshank redemption City banker Andy Dufresne arrived at Shawshank Prison in 1947. Convicted of 

two brutal murders, he received a double life sentence. 

DVD 671 

She must be seeing things A lesbian lawyer fears that her lover, a filmmaker, may turn to heterosexuality as 

the result of her latest film project about a 17th century nun intent on leaving her 

convent 

VHS 719 

Shedding light on the European single 

market / MultiMedia, Inc. 

Discusses the working principles of the Single Market VHS 3109 

Sheik (Silent) The sheik originally released as a motion picture in 1921 DVD 197 

Sheltering sky / Warner Bros. Pictures 

produced by Jeremy Thomas 

Shenandoah, the gift / Division of 

Audiovisual Arts, National Park Service 

Sherman's march / a film by Ross 

McElwee 

A couple, drawn by desire to the Sahara, follow their passionate obsessions in 

an attempt to recapture the love they once shared 

Through historical footage and live photography tells the story of the 

Shenandoah National Park in Virginia 

Ross McElwee's quest for true romance takes him along General Sherman's 

Civil War march with laughable results 

Shining A young boy and his parents spend the winter in a resort hotel which is 

possessed by ghosts 

Shining / Warner Bros. Pictures Unforgettable images of terror envelope a family isolated and snowbound in a 

huge resort hotel with a macabre history of violence. 

Shining through / Twentieth Century Fox During World War II a secretary from Queens convinces her boss, a Colonel in 

American intelligence, to let her go undercover behind enemy lines in Germany 

Shirley Valentine / Paramount Pictures A wisecracking, completely unpredictable English housewife, bored with her 

suburban life, takes a chance on adventure when a friend invites her on a 

vacation to Greece 

Shock corridor / directed by Samuel Fuller A journalist gets himself admitted to a mental hospital to solve the murder of an 

inmate 

Shock of the new / Time Life Films This provocative series on modern art picks up at the threshold of the 20th 

century. Includes interviews with, among others, Matisse, Picasso, and Dali 

Shocking accident / produced by 

Christine Oestreicher 

Shoe-shine / adaptation and screen play 

by Sergio Amidei .. 

Dramatizes the story of a boy who is orphaned by an accident when he is nine 

years old, and the grief he feels 

Two shoeshine boys in Nazi-occupied Rome become involved in black 

marketeering, with tragic consequences 

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Shoot the piano player Charlie is a timid cafe pianist who has given up his former life as a concert 

pianist, a career which has destroyed his marriage. 

VHS 2318 

Shootist A terminally ill gunfighter seeks to retire quietly but is embroiled in one last 

battle 

DVD 1198 

Shop around the corner The setting is pre-World War II Budapest. Bickering co-workers in a gift shop 

don't realize they're lonely hearts pen pals 

DVD 175 

Shopping bag lady Mildred Dunnock portrays an old woman who roams the street collecting other 

people's throw-aways 

VHS 444 

Short animations of Larry Jordan A program of wonder, discovery and animation magic by filmmaker Larry Jordan VHS 2506 

SHORT cinema journal. 1:2, Dreams Cafe bar, Bride of Resistor, Girl's own story, Depth solitude, "Guy walks into a 

bar 

Short. 3, Authority Night and fog-- A girl's own story -- Joe-- Performance McKean -- Dada -- Flying 

over mother-- Os cameradas --The Whites 

Shot in the dark Bumbling Inspector Clouseau's attempt to prove the innocence of a voluptuous 

French maid 

Shoulder injuries / National Basketball 

Association 

Features trainers from several teams who discuss shoulder injuries and their 

treatment 

Show Boat Musical extravaganza which celebrates the loves and heartbreaks of a 

Mississippi riverboat troupe, starting with a young girl whose heart is stolen by a 

dashing gambler 

Showdown on Tobacco Road / Merrell 

Dow Pharmaceuticals Inc. 

Shows what happens when one of America's most popular products, cigarettes, 

is found to be one of the most serious health risks in the country 

Shrek A reclusive ogre and a chatterbox donkey go on a quest to rescue a princess for 

a tyrannical lord 

Shrek 2 Animated. Happily ever after never seem so far away when a trip to meet the inlaws 

turns into another hilarious adventure. 

Shrek 3-D When we last left Shrek and Fiona, the newlyweds were singing and dancing 

late into the night with Donkey. The honeymoon has barely begun when 

Princess Fiona is ambushed by the ghostly Lord Farquaad's henchman, 

Thelonius. Picks up where 'Shrek' left off and ends where 'Shrek 2' begins 

Shrinking pyramids / Optical Data 

Corporation 

This program focuses on the proportional relationships of the action figures and 

the pyramids 

Sideways Miles is a divorced man and a failed writer who teaches junior high English. He 

decides to take his best friend, somewhat famous actor Jack, on a weeklong 

drive through California's wine country. There they explore their failures and 

question their relationships 

Sighet, Sighet / produced by Harold 

Becker 

Signed English video learning system / 

Hands Up Enterprises 

Signs out of time: the story of 

archaeologist Marija Gimbutas 

DVD 17 

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DVD 279 

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Childhood and youth; VHS 2040 

An illustrated guide to sign language VHS 558 

Reveals evidence of peaceful, woman-honoring, Goddess-worshiping, and 

egalitarian civilizations that existed for thousands of years without war 

DVD 525 

Silence / a film by Ingmar Bergman A forceful narrative of two sisters one is a frustrated lesbian with no future, the 

other a free-loving mother of a 10-year old boy 

VHS 1185 

Silence of the lambs FBI agent Clarice Starling is assigned to help find a missing woman to save her 

from a psychopathic serial killer 

DVD 139 

Silent feminists : America's first women 

directors 

A documentary of America's first women directors. VHS 2035 

Simeon del desierto ;"Simon of the desert Luis Bunuel" VHS 1245 

Since the American way of death / 

WTTW-TV, Chicago 

A follow-up of what has happened in the funeral industry since the publication of 

The American way of death, by Jessica Mitford in 1963 

VHS 386 

Singin' in the rain ;"Singin' in the rain Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen" VHS 725 

Singing in the rain "Silent movies are giving way to talking pictures, and a hoofer-turned-matinee 

idol is caught in that bumpy transition 

DVD 174 

Sinta on sax Donald Sinta, saxophone DVD 796


Sister Wendy : the complete collection Painting, grand tour, odyssey, pains of glass DVD 343 

Sister Wendy's American collection She guides you through six of America's greatest art museums." DVD 324 

Six wives of Henry VIII The episodes are intended to portray the courtly and private lives of Henry and 

his wives 

DVD 337 

Sixth sense A noted child psychologist attempts to help a frightened 8-year-old boy who is 

experiencing terrifying visions of the dead 

DVD 672 

Sixties, seventies and the future, pt. 1 / 

University of Minnesota 

Traces the jazz movement in the changing times of the 1960's and 1970's VHS 322 

Sixties, seventies and the future, pt. 2 Examines the future of the jazz movement VHS 323 

Skin deep / Iris Films A diverse group of college students reveal their honest feelings and attitudes 

about race and racism. 

VHS 2217 

Slaughterhouse five / Universal City 

Studios, Inc. 

The story of Billy Pilgrim who is ordinary in almost every respect but one VHS 1840 

Sleeper Miles Monroe enters the hospital in 1973 for a minor ulcer operation only to 

wake up 200 years later after being defrosted 

DVD 138 

Sleeping beauty / a Walt Disney 

production directing animators, Milt Kahl . 

Destined to become a sleeping beauty upon pricking her finger at the spinning 

wheel 

Sleepless in Seattle After hearing a man confess his love for his dearly departed wife on a call-in 

radio show, a woman falls deeply, inexplicably in love with him. 

Slim hopes : advertising and the 

obsession with thinness 

Slovak Churches; Building faith sacred 

architecture 

Slow fires : on the preservation of the 

human record / a Terry Sanders film 

Illustrated lecture which explores the manner in which women are portrayed by 

advertising with the focus on thinness. 

Straddling two worlds of Christian belief, Slovak churches are places where 

Byzantine and Roman Catholic religions meet and merge 

Story of the deterioration of materials upon which the record of mankind has 

been written, drawn or photographed. 

VHS 97 

DVD 169 

VHS 847 

DVD 805 

VHS 1418 

Small group decision-making Group decision making VHS 1462 

Smoke signals Story of the journey of two Coeur d'Alene Indian boys from Idaho to Arizona. DVD 58 

Smultronstallet ;"Wild strawberries " An old man gains understanding of himself and his son through dreams of his 

death and visions from his past 

Snow white & the seven dwarfs Fairy tale story of Snow White and the adventures she has with the seven 

dwarfs, the prince, and the evil queen 

So you want to be president Presents an assortment of facts about the qualifications and characteristics of 

U.S. presidents, from George Washington to Bill Clinton 

So, this is philosophy? / producers and 

directors, John R. Glenn and Michael J. 

Rice 

Social class / produced by Dallas 

Telecourses 

A humorous treatment of the study of philosophy, pivoting on the question of 

what is right and wrong. 

Explores social class in the United States by focusing on two teenage girls from 

different classes. 

Social roles and relationships in old age This program looks at how family, friendship and work roles evolve and continue 

as we age. 

Societal and political aspects of aging / 


Software / produced by Minnesota 

Satellite & Technology 

This program considers individual and governmental responsibilities for the 

financial support of older citizens 

Explores the multitude of software packages available, the training needed to 

run them and the background needed to produce effective multimedia learning 

projects 

Software and intellectual property Speakers discuss such issues as illegal copying of software, policy questions, 

copyright, and property rights as pertain to computer ethics 

Solar energy; saved by the sun Discover the latest thinking from solar enthusiasts and skeptics as it 

investigates these cutting-edge research developments. The program 

introduces viewers to the scientists and businesspeople who are racing to make 

solar power practical 

Soldier of Fortune Clark Gable stars in a rousing adventure about a woman whose husband has 

been unjustly imprisoned. 

VHS 700 

DVD 232 

VHS 979 

VHS 452 

VHS 870 

VHS 2836 

VHS 2841 

VHS 671 

VHS 2788 

DVD 1222 

DVD 773


Soldier's story / Columbia Pictures 

Industries, Inc 

A black army attorney is sent to Fort Neal near the end of WW II to investigate 

the murder of Sgt. Waters, a black man who despised his own roots 

Sole mani / a film by Mario Mariotti Mario Mariotti transforms his hands into a group of orchestra members, 

performing to a lively score 

Some applications of group 

representations / Nolan Wallach 

Presents examples of applications of Lie theory showing how the subject has 

gone beyond its roots. 

Some girls / Wildwood Enterprises In this comedy about sexual manners and romance, the outlandish meets the 

ordinary as a family of eccentrics do their level best to disarm a normal, redblooded 

American boy 

VHS 1143 

VHS 2031 

VHS 2237 

VHS 1451 

Some like it hot Two unemployed musicians accidentally witness the St. Valentine's Day 

Massacre 

DVD 137 

Someone to love / Paramount Pictures 

Corporation 

Comedy which centers around a movie director's puzzled search for romance VHS 1397 

Something for everyone / Film Australia Explains how a Chinese commune works and the life of its members VHS 420 

Sommersby / Regency Enterprises A Civil War veteran returns to his hometown a changed man-- leading his wife 

and others who knew him to doubt his identity 

Son of fury; the story of Benjamin Blake Set in the 19th century, the illegitimate son of a British aristrocrat, Benjamin 

Blake, is forced into servitude by a wicked uncle. 

Sons of Katie Elder The day that Katie Elder is buried, her four sons return home to Clearwater, 

Texas, to pay their last respects. It is a he-man story, as well as, a drama of the 

maternal influence of Katie Elder, her sacrifice, love and incredible valor. The 

hopes and aspirations for her sons are movingly communicated from beginning 

to conclusion 

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz / Universidad 

Nacional Autonoma de Mexico 

Sorry, wrong number / Hal Wallis 

Productions, Inc 

Recounts the life and times of Sister Juana Ines de la Cruz, a 17th century nun, 

scholar, and an outstanding lyric poet of Mexico's colonial period 

Young, rich, bedridden Barbara Stanwyck dials a telephone number one night 

and overhears two men plotting the murder of an unidentified woman. 

Sound of music Maria, the spirited young woman who leaves the convent to become a 

governess to the seven young children of Captain von Trapp 

Sounder This is the story of an 11-year-old black youngster, "Boy." When his 

sharecropper father is arrested and sentenced to five years at hard labor after 

stealing food to feed his family. 

Soup for one / Warner Brothers 

produced by Marvin Worth 

Sous le soleil de Satan / Daniel Toscan 

du Plantier 

South Park : insults to injuries / Comedy 

Central 

VHS 2958 

DVD 1208 

DVD 1193 

VHS 2794 

VHS 808 

DVD 259 

DVD 1031 

This satirical comedy is a sendup of the swinging singles scene VHS 1396 

Two opposing souls attract in their conflict: a simple priest who mortifies himself 

in his quest for godliness and promiscuous teenager who has killed one of her 

wealthy older lovers 

In It Hits the Fan the citizens of South Park use the word sh*t 162 times after 

the word is popularized on a favorite TV show. 

VHS 2429 

DVD 83 

South Park : Timmy Timmy 2000 -- 4th grade -- Helen Keller, the musical DVD 155 

Southern Poverty Law Center 

Montgomery, Alabama 

Offers several case histories of persons helped by The Southern Poverty Law 

Center in Montgomery, Alabama whose human and civil rights were violated 

VHS 1924 

Spanish Civil War. History 1936 -1939 VHS 1643 

Spanish TV commercials part I Commercials about your favorite products in Spanish. Includes ads for 

Reynolds's Wrap, Kellogg's Corn Flakes, etc. 

VHS 2009 

Spare the rod / United States Office of 

Education 

Explains that discipline is often needed to teach children how to take care of 

themselves and live in a world with other people. 

Speaking parts Tied together by the medium of video an aspiring actor, his obsessed hotel coworker, 

and a television writer become enmeshed in a tangled web of psychosexual 

desire leading to death 

Speaking Shakespearean verse Members of the Royal Shakespeare Company present a workshop before a 

television studio audience in which they interpret the rhythms and pronunciation 

of Shakespeare's English 

VHS 176 

VHS 2517 

VHS 854


Speeches of Adolph Hitler Anthology of speeches delivered by Adolph Hitler. Shows the propaganda 

oratory techniques that helped Hitler hold a hypnotic grip over the German 

masses 

VHS 1524 

Speeches of John F. Kennedy 60 min. in their own words. VHS 1541 

Speeches of Martin Luther King / MPI 

Home Video 

This collection of Martin Luther King, Jr. speeches follows his early days as a 

young pastor in Montgomery, to the great march on Washington. 

VHS 2643 

Speed Jack Traven, an L.A.P.D. SWAT team specialist who is sent to diffuse a bomb 

that a revenge-driven extortionist has planted on a bus 

DVD 223 

Spellbound Follows the lives of eight young Americans who share one goal: to win the 1999 

National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. 

DVD 506 

Spellbound Alfred Hitchcock suspense thriller DVD 84 

Spices / produced by National Film 

Development Corp 

Explores a community's reaction to an oppressed woman's plight, as she spurns 

the unwanted advances of a tax collector and takes refuge in a pepper factory 

VHS 53 

Spinal Tap Once upon a time, Spinal Tap had a big hit song. Now, nearly two decades 

later, Spinal Tap still clings to some glint of their lost glory 

DVD 144 

Spiral staircase A young woman who cannot speak is stalked by a repeat killer at her uncle's 

mansion 

DVD 718 

Spirit of ethnography a humorous look at the field of cultural anthropology. VHS 3222 

Spirit of Rome / Encyclopedia Britannica 

Films 

Uses dramatic scenes from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and George Bernard 

Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra to depict the tremendous spectacle of ancient 

Rome. 

VHS 1442 

Spirit of the beehive A moving and poetic journey into the haunted world of a child's inner life VHS 733 

Spirit to spirit : Nikki Giovanni / Mirra 

Bank 

Poet Nikki Giovanni performs readings from her works, revealing her personal 

history and values against a backdrop of serious issues ranging from racism to 

romance 

VHS 2015 

Splendor in the grass A story of first love between two teenagers in a 1920s Kansas town. DVD 235 

Split-infinitive world of English grammar pt. 

1 

Sport of religion : ritual athletes of Persia / 

WCBS TV 

Explains advanced concepts in English grammar Vols. 1 & 2 VHS 2002 V. 

1 & 2 

The Ritual Athletes of Persia perform exercises to religious and historical poetry VHS 207 

accompanied by a drummer who acts as a solo voice 

Sports photography today! Documents a workshop presented by Sports Illustrated staff and contract 

photographers 

VHS 2242 

Spotsylvania / Classics Images 

Productions 

A chronicle of the opening rounds in General Grant's spring campaign of 1864. VHS 2043 

Spreading war / produced by CBS News The battle of Jutland; D-Day at Gallipoli VHS 2150 

Stabilization / Western Michigan 


Stacking the deck / United States Office 

of Education 

The seventh part of this series deals with the patient working on his own to 

stabilize his condition. 

Explains how individuals develop either self-confidence or self-doubt and how 

they learn whether or not they are competent and possess basic coping skills. 

Stagecoach / United Artists Nine travelers are thrust together in a perilous journey, a ride on a stagecoach 

destined for Apache territory 

Stagecoach / Walter Wanger Productions 

directed by John Ford 

Stale roles and tight buns : images of 

men in advertising 

Stalin, man and image / Nielsen-Ferns 

International 

Stalin, the power of fear / Nielsen-Ferns 

International 

Nine passengers board a Cheyenne-bound stagecoach, each with an urgent 

reason for the journey 

Critiques the image of the male figure as found in advertising. Uses negative 

stereotypes of men to argue for a well rounded view of issues involving male 

socialization 

Stalin's power of controlling the media and his skill in creating appropriate myths 

about the past are revealed in this program 

Examines Stalin's reign of fear, and total control of the people and events of the 

Soviet Union. Reviews the external challenges to his power and the legacy he 

left 

Stand and deliver / Warner Bros. Pictures Story of Jaime Escalante, a math teacher at East Los Angeles' Garfield High 

School, who refuses to write off his inner-city students as losers. 

VHS 312 

VHS 174 

DVD 21 

VHS 2476 

VHS 2189 

VHS 158 

VHS 157 

VHS 815


Star Bette Davis stars in the story of a fading movie star who is convinced that she 

needs only one good picture to reestablish her popularity and fortune 

Star is born / Selznick International 

Pictures 

Star is born / Selznick International 

Pictures 

Drunken waning movie star Norman Maine meets showgirl Esther Blodgett 

when he literally stumbles into her act one night 

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 

Star struck / Palm Beach Pictures Sydney, Australia is the setting for this story of Jackie, a raucous, orange-haired 

punk singer who will do almost anything for a shot at the music world. 

Star trek II : the wrath of Khan / 

Paramount Pictures Corporation 

Star trek, Deep space nine: Emissary 

Paramount Pictures Corporation 

Star Trek, the television series : the 

changeling / Paramount Pictures Corp 

Star trek. vol. 1 More tribbles, more 

troubles The infinite Vulcan / Gene 

Roddenberry 

Star Trek: the next generation (Television 

program);"Yesterday's Enterprise 

Starry messenger / BBC-TV and Time- 

Life Films 

States of mind / WNET-13, Antenna-2, 

NHK, Radio Quebec 

Station Manpower Planning System / 

United Airlines produced by Valed, inc 

The Federation Starship U.S.S. Enterprise is on routine training maneuvers, and 

Admiral James T. Kirk seems resigned to the fact that this may be his last space 

mission. 

DVD 1172 

DVD 170 

VHS 112 

VHS 1344 

VHS 887 

Original feature length pilot episode VHS 903 

While investigating the destruction of the Malurian System and its four billion 

inhabitants, Kirk discovers Nomad, a robotic space probe gone wild. Its next 

target -- Earth! 

VHS 947 

Episode one: More tribbles, more troubles -- Episode two: The infinite Vulcan VHS 920 

Paramount Pictures" VHS 932 

Highlights man's early study of astronomy. Traces the origins of the scientific 

revolution through the conflict between fact and religious dogma 

Surveys the current state of our knowledge of the human brain and examines 

how this knowledge will be applied in the future to the fields of medicine and 

artificial intelligence 

United SMPS uses integer and linear programming as well as network 

optimization techniques in forecasting manpower needs, for budgeting, and 

printing employee's schedule options 

VHS 600 

VHS 287 

VHS 1273 

Statistics confident conclusions Explains statistical inference and how it is based on calculations of probability. VHS 261 

Statistics, picture this : statistics, place 

your bets 

Picture this discusses pictorial data using graphs, histograms, and box plates 

to reveal changes and patterns that can then be examined in terms of mean, 

median, quartile and outlier. 

VHS 260 

Statue of liberty The fascinating story of this universally admired monument is told DVD 308 

Stavisky / un film de Alain Resnais En exquisite recounting of the climatic days in 1933 in the career of Stavisky, 

the con man turned international financier whose ruin resulted in political 

scandal and his own mysterious death 

VHS 3017 

Stella Dallas / Samuel Goldwyn A mother sacrifices everything for her daughter's happiness and eventually 

gives up the girl for her own good 

VHS 2521 

Step style Demonstrates dance step styles used throughout the world VHS 3213 

Stephen Hawking's universe Six programs DVD 340 

Steroids, shortcut to make-believe muscles 

/ Creative Media Group, Inc. 

Still killing us softly : advertising's image 

of women / a film by Jean Kilbourne 

Still life giving : a journey into outsider art / 

directed by Bill Weaver 

Stimulating creativity / Public Relations 

Society of America 

Uses on-camera interviews with athletes, health educators, and medical 

professionals to explore the problem of the non-medical use of anabolic 

steroids. Tells how to decide not to choose steroids for muscle building 

Discusses the manner in which women continue to be portrayed by advertising 

and the effects this has on women, men, and children and their images of 

themselves 

VHS 1389 

VHS 1823 

Outsider art - United States VHS 1700 

Discusses how to be creative in public relations VHS 2923


Sting Two con men set out to avenge the death of a mutual friend in 1930s Chicago. 

They swindle a powerful crime lord, pitting brain against brawn and pistol 

Stomp out loud "Using ordinary objects to make extraordinary sounds, STOMP is a unique 

combination of percussion, movement and visual comedy. 

Stories from near & far I, Crocodile / Fred Marcellio-- Possum magic / Mem Fox -- Hot Hippo / Mwenye 

Hadithi -- Tikki Tikki Tembo / Arlene Mosel 

Storm from the east / series producer, 

Robert Marshall an NHK, BBC coproduction 

Eight hundred years ago Europe awoke to a terrible army which suddenly 

appeared out of the eastern mists. 

Stormy weather Dancing great Bill Williamson takes a look back on the beginnings of his career 

and his romance with fellow rising star Selina. Their romance is brief because 

Selina does not want to settle down. The movie includes an all-star show hosted 

by Cab Calloway 

Story of Kauko : aspects of primary health 

care in Finland : a film / by Jyrki Innamaa 

and Jussi Tapola 

Describes the public health care system of Finland, with special emphasis on 

cardiovascular care. 

Story of oil / TV Ontario Shows how the expansion of the Middle East's oil industry has sharply affected 

Western life-styles in recent years 

Story of the Anasazi The Anasazi civilization evolved thousands of years ago, and then some 800 

years ago abruptly disappeared. 

Story of the great black swamp Gives the history of the great black swamp of northwestern Ohio as well as the 

frontier life 

Story of Vernon and Irene Castle Depicts the lives of the famous turn-of-the century dance team, Vernon and 

Irene Castle 

Strange demise of Jim Crow This documentary reveals the behind-the-scenes compromises, negotiations, 

and the controversial news black-outs which helped bring about the quiet 

desegregation of commercial establishments in Houston, Texas 

DVD 996 

DVD 1175 

DVD 635 

VHS 2541 

DVD 1021 

VHS 889 

VHS 2490 

VHS 1234 

VHS 450 

VHS 3180 

VHS 2314 

Strange fruit A history of the anti-lynching protest song made famous by Billie Holiday. 

Includes footage of Billie Holiday performing the song 

DVD 858 

Strange love of Martha Ivers A woman kills her wealthy aunt in a row over the woman's boyfriend DVD 56 

Stranger Frank Kindler is a Nazi war criminal who has fled to America, where he 

disguises himself as a small town schoolteacher. Mary is the young woman who 

falls in love with the devious, yet charming Kindler 

DVD 879 

Stranger in the mirror Presents the cases of two individuals suffering with visual agnosia VHS 984 

Stranger than paradise / Samuel Goldwyn 

Company 

Strangers next door : welcoming Muslims 

/ produced by CBS News 

The story starts in New York, when Eddie and Willie's inert lifestyle is suddenly 

intruded upon by Willie's young Hungarian cousin Eva 

Looks at Christian and Jewish efforts to welcome Muslims more readily into 

American culture, specifically the work of the Greater Detroit Interfaith 

Roundtable. 

Strangers on a train A tennis star (Guy) is harassed on a train by a psychotic (Bruno)who wants to 

swap murders 

Strategia del ragno / RAI Radiotelevisione 

Italiana Red Films s.r.l 

Revisiting the village in the Po Valley where a man was murdered by Fascists in 

1936, reveals the man was a traitor executed by his own men 

Strategies for success Part of a series on career and life planning which consists of three parts: selfknowledge, 

educational and occupational exploration, and career planning 

Stratified flow / produced by Education 

Development Center Incorporated 

Demonstrates the interface wave between fluids of varying densities, internal 

and lee waves of two-layer fluids, and the behavior and effects of continuously 

stratified fluids especially as they flow over various obstacles 

Street of shame / Daiei Film Production Set in 1955, the film examines the dreams and problems of the prostitutes living 

in one Tokyo brothel 

Street with no name / released through 

Twentieth Century-Fox 

Determined to unravel a crime, FBI Inspector Briggs sends his best agent 

undercover to penetrate the inner circle of the notorious Stiles gang. 

VHS 1265 

VHS 878 

DVD 285 

VHS 2846 

DVD 1028 

VHS 2390 

VHS 1208 

VHS 434


Streetcar named Desire ;"A streetcar 

named Desire 

Streetcar named Desire ;"A streetcar 

named Desire 

Streetwise / a film by Martin Bell, Mary 

Ellen Mark, Cheryl McCall 

Strength and flexibility exercise program 

for individuals with all types of physical 

disabilities 

Strengthening academic excellence : how 

teaching and learning centers respond 

Stress and disease / Human Relations 

Media, Inc. 

Stress and emotion / WNET-13, Antenna- 

2, NHK, Radio Quebec 

An uncensored version of the story of a repressed widow who visits her sister in 

New Orleans and is raped and driven mad by her brother-in-law 

Charles K. Feldman Group Productions directed by Elia Kazan produced by 

Charles K. Feldman screen play by Tennessee Williams adaptation by Oscar 

Saul" 

DVD 156 

VHS 1445 

Shows the lives of 9 homeless teenagers, ranging in age from 13 to 19 VHS 900 

A fitness instructor and two physically handicapped persons demonstrate 

exercises which all handicapped persons can use to develop strength and 

flexibility. 

A panel of leaders in higher education addresses the questions of defining 

goals, planning programs, achieving results and answer questions about 

developing teaching and learning centers for faculty and teaching assistants 

VHS 1486 

VHS 2460 

Teaches about the causes and effects of stress and how it can affect health. VHS 1327 

Uses two case histories, one dealing with a man who suffered an accidental 

frontal lobotomy, and the other, a stress-ridden professional, to explain the 

interrelationship of pain, anxiety, behavior, and the brain 

Strictly ballroom A championship ballroom dancer who's breaking all the rules and his ugly 

duckling dancing partner make their dreams come true together 

Strike up the band Highlights of the 1980 High School Bands of America Northern Regional 

Championship held in Toledo 

Stringer & early years "Stringer" is Gittinger's reflections and his film footage as he recounts highlights 

of his career during the early days of newsreels from 1928-1949. 

VHS 283 

DVD 407 

VHS 447 

DVD 768 

Stroszek / Werner Herzog Film 

production 

Bruno Stroszek can't keep from getting into trouble. VHS 2481 

Structure of documentaries John Mansfield talks with Michael Latham about various easily- learned 

techniques which underlie successful documentaries 

DVD 1091 

Struggle and success : the African 

American experience in Japan / Regge Life 

Struggle for China : the story of the 

Chinese revolution 1900-1949 

Struggles in steel : a story of African- 

American steelworkers / Tony Buba and 

Raymond Henderson 

Afro-Americans discuss conflicting views of race relations in Japan based on 

their personal experiences 

VHS 3013 

China history; communism VHS 7 

Interviews with more than 70 retired black steelworkers who tell of struggles with 

the company, the union and white co-workers to break out of the black job 

ghetto. 

Student of Prague / Essex Films Presents an old German legend about a poor student in Prague who falls in love 

with a wealthy countess, sells his reflection to an agent of the devil in order to 

become rich, then buys it back at the expense of his life 

Student stress : coping with academic 

pressures 

Student writing groups : demonstrating 

the process 

VHS 2536 

VHS 875 

Stress; high school students VHS 1358 

Demonstrates how writing groups focus on writing as an act of communication 

by careful listening, critical thinking, and the clear expression of ideas 

Styles of leadership Uses a common business problem regarding a new contract to show how it 

might be handled by four different types of leaders, comparing the major 

characteristics of each and the effect on subordinates 

Succeeding at reengineering / Michael 

Hammer 

Successful deployment of management 

science throughout Citgo Petroleum 

Corporation 

VHS 731 

VHS 184 

Corporate reorganizational change VHS 3167 

Management science VHS 1277 

Successful interviewing / Greg Tucker Shows what recruiters look for, questions interviewers will ask, questions the 

candidate might want to ask, and how to dress for an interview 

VHS 325


Successful negotiating It presents a win-win approach to negotiation that can produce more amicable 

outcomes and stronger relationships 

Suddenly human / Paramount Pictures Responding to a distress call from a stricken vessel, an away team from the 

Enterprise discover that the ship is manned by five Talarian teenagers, one of 

whom is actually a human, Jono 

Suffering of Sudan Peabody Award-winning program goes inside the Bredjing Refugee Camp in 

neighboring Chad, visits a tiny clinic run by Doctors Without Borders, and rides 

with the Sudan Liberation Army to give viewers a glimpse of what the UN is 

calling one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world 

VHS 840 

VHS 962 

DVD 1052 

Suicide; a guide for prevention This program replaces myths with facts about suicide DVD 416 

Sullivan's travels A successful Hollywood director disguises himself as a bum DVD 347 

Summer's end / a film by Beth Brickell Tells a story about an eleven-year-old girl's growing pains as she encounters 

societal pressures to become feminine. 

VHS 2037 

Sunset Boulevard Statement on the dark & desperate side of Hollywood DVD 136 

Sunset Boulevard / Paramount Pictures A harsh look at Hollywood in which an aging silent-movie queen makes a tragic VHS 1991 

Corporation 

attempt to return to stardom 

Super fly Priest is a prince of the streets, a charismatic businessman who wants out of 

cocaine-dealing. 

DVD 1026 

Superconducting super collider / 

Introduces viewers to the principles underlying the need for this technologically VHS 1809 

produced by Boston University 

advanced apparatus 

Support project : to improve care at the Focuses on the goals and outcomes of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's VHS 918 

end of life / Plainsong Productions 

controversial Support Study, which looked at the ways very seriously ill patients 

are cared for in American hospitals today. 

Supporting children in resolving conflicts / 

High/Scope Press 

Surface tension in fluid mechanics / 

produced by Education Development 

Center 

Describes six problem-solving steps that adults can use to help children resolve 

conflicts successfully 

VHS 1214 

Presents a series of experiments to show that surfaces exert forces. VHS 2383 

Surname Viet, given name Nam : film / by 

Trinh T. Minh-ha 

Women; Vietnam social conditions; interviews VHS 180 

Susan B. Anthony slept here Looks at the lives, landmarks and famous places of 7 famous American women DVD 482 

Suzanne Farrell : elusive muse / a film by 

Anne Belle & Deborah Dickson 

Sweating Indian style : conflicts over 

Native American ritual / University of 

Southern California 

Sweet smell of success / Norma-Curtleigh 

Productions 

This Academy Award-nominated documentary eloquently weaves together 

vintage and extraordinary never-before-seen archival clips of Suzanne Farrell's 

radiant performances of Balanchine ballets 

Presents opposing views on non-Native Americans' participation in traditional 

American Indian rites 

Film about a popular and powerful newspaper columnist and a slimy press 

agent in New York. 

VHS 2033 

VHS 752 

VHS 433 

Swing & bop An introduction to dancing to the music of the 1950's and 1960's for beginning 

and intermediate students 

VHS 2606 

Swing & bop, II Dancing to the music of the 1950s and 1960s for intermediate students VHS 2917 

Swing & bop, III / Alan Meyers & 

Associates 

Dance for intermediate students VHS 3051 

Swing & bop, IV / Alan Meyers & 

Associates 

Dance for intermediate students VHS 630 

Swoon / Fine Line Features A thriller that presents the true case of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, 

brilliant young men from good Jewish families, who were convicted for 

murdering a 13-year-old boy 

VHS 2552 

Symphony in D workshop / produced by 

RM Arts, 

Systemic change in schools : the 

superintendent's view of what works 

Includes a full performance of the Kylian ballet, Symphony in D VHS 1993 

Panel discussion by school administrators across the United States offering 

their perspective on the current state of education 

Szenen einer ehe : das fruhstucksei Based on a short story by Loriot, this is a comedy about scenes from a 

marriage. Controversy arises over how the breakfast egg is prepared 

VHS 1925 

VHS 1814


T.S. Eliot : the waste land he Waste Land powerfully expresses the disillusionment and disgust of the post- 

World War I era in Europe 

VHS 2071 

Taj Mahal; story of Muslim India For more than 300 years, the Taj Mahal has stood as the symbol of the rich 

court life of the Moghuls and of Shah Jahan's love for his wife 

DVD 758 

Takanaka world / Masayoshi Takanaka Japan's virtuoso rock/jazz fusion guitarist presents a feast for your eyes and 

ears --container 

VHS 1255 

Take the money & run Hilarious satire of crime movies DVD 147 

Talk radio / Cineplex Odeon Films A Dallas talk radio host subjects his ex-wife and co-workers to a darkly comic 

marathon bout of compulsive risk-taking with his unstable radio audience 

VHS 2735 

Talking cure: case studies in 

psychotherapy 

Actual therapy sessions with patients at England's renowned Tavistock Clinic 

have been filmed 

DVD 497 v. 

6 

Tall in the saddle Cowboy Wayne avoids women until he goes to work at Raines' ranch DVD 1153 

Tall men Clark Gable & Robery Ryan battle outlaws, Indians, nature and each other 

during a torturous cattle drive. 

DVD 772 

Tank closure without tears : an 

inspector's safety guide 

Tannhauser / Richard Wagner 

Metropolitan Opera 

Tap dancing for beginners / Video 

Classroom 

Covers tank closure safety for use by state and local underground storage tank 

inspectors 

Presents scenes from the telecast performance of Tannhauser on November 22 

and December 20, 1982 

Master tap choreographer Henry Le Tang demonstrates the basics of tap 

dancing with dancer Honi Coles 

VHS 1817 

VHS 2199 

VHS 2006 

Tartuffe A religious hypocrite insinuates himself into a wealthy Parisian family VHS 2047 

Taste of honey / The Samuel Goldwyn 

Company 

Taxi driver / Columbia Pictures Industries, 

Inc 

Taxi driver / Columbia Pictures Industries, 

Inc 

A lonely teenage girl finds the affection she lacks from her mother in an affair 

with a Black sailor 

A New York cab driver is driven to obsession when he attempts to save a 

teenage prostitute 

A psychotic New York City cab driver goes on a violent rampage in an effort to 

rid the city of undesirables 

VHS 2572 

DVD 157 

VHS 2881 

Tchao pantin / a film by Claude Berri Exceptional portrait of an ex-cop who befriends a lonely street kid who pushes 

drugs for a living 

VHS 2289 

TEACCH program for teachers : 

treatment and education of autistic children 

in NC 

Autism in children VHS 2145 

Teach your children / MacNeil/Lehrer 

Productions ese 

Teachers, parents and children : growth 

through cooperation / James M. Smith 

Discusses what and how American children are taught VHS 1892 

Stresses the importance of communication between parents, teachers and 

children 

VHS 1458 

Teaching computer ethics : strategies and 

cases 

Situation ethics VHS 2746 

Teaching French with Allons-y! Primarily intended for use with the second edition of Allons-y, this video assists 

teachers in designing classroom activities for first-year French students 

VHS 2024 

Teaching strategies and techniques that 

encourage learning / The Master Teacher 

and ProServe 

Teaching strategies for students who have 

a low motivation to learn 

Teaching strategies for students with poor 

work habits, poor study skills, and a poor 

testing history 

Teaching, learning, & technology : a 

planning guide demo video 

Technical mathematics / University 

Television Services, University of Toledo 

Offers specific ideas and techniques a teacher can use to motivate reluctant 

learners 

VHS 1332 

Focuses on students who lack motivation to succeed in school VHS 2167 

Focuses on students whose poor work habits and lack of study skills cause 

them to be at risk of not finding success in school 

VHS 2168 

A demonstration video outlining the Teaching, learning & technology guide VHS 3113 

This series consists of lessons in beginning algebra VHS 855 

Techniques for teaching critical thinking Carol Adams leads a workshop which focuses on improving the quality of 

students' responses 

VHS 1911 

Technology and deaf culture Looks at the implications of cochlear implant technology on the deaf community. DVD 466


Technology and the evolving classroom / 

Apple Computer's K-12 Education Division 

Teen programming. (The Little things that 

count). Risk management in programming 

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II : the 

secret of the ooze 

Teleconferencing means business : an 

independent video course / producers, 

Lorne Parker 

Tell them I'm a mermaid / Embassy 

Television, Taper Productions, KTTV 

Tempest / Columbia Pictures Industries, 

Inc 

A discussion of the advantages of computer technology in education, showing 

how computer applications can build on a student's curiosity 

Session #1 features ideas for programming and monitoring youth recreation 

programs. Session #5 deals with incorporating risk management and liability 

prevention into recreation program planning 

VHS 2779 

VHS 1322 

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles face a new challenge VHS 1749 

1. Teleconferencing as a communications tool -- 2. Technology & applications -- 

3. Organizational developments 

Shows a musical theater presentation in which seven women with various 

disabilities describe their attitudes toward being handicapped 

No longer able to tolerate the compromises he has made, Phillip Dimitrious 

flees from his stormy marriage to Antonia. 

VHS 1370 

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Ten blocks on the Camino real one-act play stars Martin Sheen as an American G.I. named Kilroy, an ex-boxer 

with the soul of a poet 

DVD 322 

Ten commandments of communicating 

with people with disabilities 

This video uses humorous vignettes to deliver its disability awareness message VHS 964 

Ten minutes to live / Micheaux Film 

Corporation 

A mystery-musical built around a threatening note which gives the heroine only 

ten minutes to live. 

VHS 1592 

Tenant A clerk rents a decrepit flat. The flat's previous occupant had leaped to her 

death from its window 

VHS 2648 

Teorema / Intra Film scritto e diretto da 

Pier Paolo Pasolini 

A mysterious young man visits the family of a wealthy Italian industrialist. VHS 2544 

Terminator In 2029, giant super-computers dominate the planet and to destroy man's future 

by changing the past, they send an indestructible cyborg, a Terminator 

DVD 142 

Terminator 2 A lethal cyborg, the T-1000, has been sent back from 2029 A.D. DVD 359 

Terms of endearment A comedy-drama about the evolving relationship over 30 years of a mother and 

daughter 

VHS 2000 

Terrorism, instrument of fear / a 

Promedion production 

Testament / Paramount Pictures 

Corporation 

Tet, 1968 / WGBH, Boston producer, 

Austin Hoyt 

Thank you, Mr. President / David John 

Mendelsohn Productions 

Thank you, Sarah; the woman who saved 

Thanksgiving 

The program includes historical background for the events leading up to and 

including the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center and 

Pentagon. 

A nuclear strike has occurred. No one knows who made it or why, but the 

unthinkable has happened, and nothing can ever be the same. 

Tells how, during the Vietnam war, Tet holiday attacks came in areas the United 

States thought to be secure, including Saigon. 

Selects best moments from the televised press conferences of President 

Kennedy, the first President to hold such meetings. 

Sarah Hale, a magazine editor and author, believed in its importance, and 

persuaded President Lincoln to transform Thanksgiving Day into a national 

holiday. 

That championship season Friendship and betrayal, success and failure, past and present--the dreams and 

realities of the game of life are explored in a moving experience 

That delicate balance II--Our Bill of Rights 

: two accused: chronicle of a rape trial 

Fred Friendly hosts this series on the Bill of Rights and its effect on the United 

States. 

That was rock : (the TAMI/TNT show) Program of rock music performances, comprising b&w excerpts from The 

T.A.M.I. 

That's a family! / directed by Debra 

Chasnoff 

That's dancing / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 

Inc. 

Designed for children in elementary school, this film shows the many different 

shapes that families take today. 

Presents musical film sequences with over 50 famous dancers from film, ballet, 

and Broadway 

That's entertainment! Musical sequences from nearly 100 MGM musicals, commemorating the 50th 

anniversary of MGM 

The Brothers Quay collection : ten 

astonishing short films, 1984-1993 

The Brothers Quay create puppet animation, where decaying dolls, primitive 

machinery, and other found objects interact in an expressionist world of ultrareality 

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The man who shot Liberty Valance The story of a man who becomes a legend and an important political figure by 

falsely claiming he shot a ruthless gunman (Liberty Valance) 

The Overbeck sisters : a legacy of spirit Features interviews with museum directors, ceramics experts, who recount the 

story of these remarkably independent and creative sisters 

The player / Fine Line Features ; Avenue 

Pictures in association with Spelling 

Entertainment 

The State Russian Museum / State 

Russian Museum 

Theatre and the revolution / produced 

and directed by Steven Kostant 

A celebrity-studded thriller of murderous obsession among Hollywood's 


DVD 1197 

VHS 1701 

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Showcases the art and architecture of the State Russian Museum VHS 1706 

Explores the use of theatre in Eastern Europe for political purposes. VHS 2941 

Thelma & Louise / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Two friends, one an unhappy housewife the other a wise-cracking waitress, 

decide to take a vacation from their lives, but things soon get out of control after 

an incident at a roadside cafe 

Thelonious Monk Thelonious Monk revolutionized jazz with his innovative musical approach and 

these performances filmed in Norway and Denmark in 1966 allow viewers the 

rare opportunity to experience Monk's genius up close 

DVD 77 

DVD 898 

Them! / Warner Bros. Inc Man has split the atom and created the ultimate weapon. VHS 912 

Theories of development I This module is an overview of theory in action. Theories include: cognitive, 

psychosexual, psychosocial, behaviorist, social learning, and sociocultural. 

DVD 1061 

Theories of personality Explains five major schools of thought on development of personality: 

psychoanalytic theories; humanistic theories, trait theories; behavioral\social 

learning; and cognitive theories 

DVD 1060 

There's something about Mary Man hoping for a second chance at wooing the girl of his dreams DVD 143 

They went that-a-way & that-a-way / 

International Picture Show Company 

Word comes from the Governor's mansion that police officers are needed for a 

perilous undercover assignment to pose as convicts in order to retrieve stolen 

government funds stashed in the local maximum security prison 

VHS 1342 

Thin blue line / a Miramax Films release Documentary about the conviction and imprisonment of Randall Adams for the 

killing of a Dallas policeman 

VHS 2893 

Thin man Crime/comedy thriller DVD 346 

Thin man / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp. In New York over Christmas, a tipsy detective and his wife and dog solve the 

murder of an eccentric inventor 

VHS 666 

Thine is the kingdom Shows how Emperor Constantine transformed the Roman Empire into a 

Christian Empire in the fourth century. Describes the age of Christian 

architecture in Europe. 

VHS 2689 

Things to come / London Films H.G. Wells' prophetic vision of the future from the destruction of society by a 

great war (1940-1966) into an ideal future of 2036 that is full of mechanical 

marvels. Climax is moon shot from a huge cannon 

Thinking & rural at-risk students / 

Research for Better Schools 

Third Avenue : only the strong survive / 

Keiko Tsuno, Jon Alpert 

Third man / produced and directed by 

Carol Reed 

Third man / produced and directed by 

Carol Reed 

Thirty two short films about Glenn Gould / 

Rhombus Media 

This bloody, blundering business;"This 

bloody 

Focusing on the rural school environment, the video discusses why significant 

numbers of students fail to achieve their academic potential. 

Presents a look at the seamy side of urban life by focusing on six people who 

live or work along New York's Third Avenue 

Adventure writer searches for a friend who turns out to be the king-pin of the 

Austrian black market 

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Videocassette release of the 1949 motion picture VHS 2874 

Thirty-two vignettes, spanning pianist Glenn Gould's life from age four until his 

death at fifty, give an impressionistic depiction of his life 

VHS 200 

blundering business or VHS 1201 

This is our land / A BBC production Profiles Israel's Gush Emunim, a sect of radical, religious Jews who are 

spearheading the construction of Jewish settlements on the occupied West 

Bank 

This land / Shell Oil Co., Film Division Deals with the geological evolution of the North American continent from the 

dawn of life to the coming of man 

VHS 2693 

VHS 697


This reporter Hosted by Mike Wallace, Walter Cronkite, and Dan Rather, this 4-pack set 



This sporting life / Independent Artists 

Production Limited 

The story of a professional rugby player who carries the violence of the football 

field into every area of his life 

DVD 726 v. 

1 

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Thomas Hart Benton Features the life and career of American artist Thomas Hart Benton. DVD 399 

Thomas Jefferson Chronicles the life of Thomas Jefferson DVD 309 

Thorn Birds The epic story of a priest, Father Ralph de Bricassart, torn between God and DVD 692 v. 

human passion and a beautiful girl, Maggie Cleary, desiring only what she 

cannot have, spanning five decades of ambition, fear, longing and revenge, and 

set against the vast horizons of Australia's Outback 

1-2 

Thorn Birds; the missing years The time is World War II. De Bricassart heroically rescues refugees in Rome, 

then is sent by the Vatican to the sprawling Australian sheep ranch he thought 

he had left behind forever. A reunion with Maggie leads to new temptations and 

a crisis 

Those lips, those eyes / United Artists 

Corporation 

Thousand cranes / an rtemis Wildlife 

Foundation production 

Three approaches to psychotherapy. Part 

I, Dr. Carl Rogers 


II, Dr. Frederick Perls 


III, Dr. Albert Ellis 

Three faiths, one God: Judaism, 

Christianity, Isalm 

Harry Crystal (Langella), a musical comedy hero, is stuck playing the 

boondocks, but determined to make it on Broadway. 

Follows American ornithologist George Archibald, who teamed up with his 

Soviet counterpart in a ten-year struggle to save the endangered Siberian crane 

of the Soviet Union 

DVD 692 v. 

3 

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Describes client-centered therapy as practiced by Dr. Carl Rogers. VHS 132 

Describes the Gestalt therapy as practiced by Dr. Frederick Perls. VHS 133 

Describes rational-emotive psychotherapy as practiced by Dr. Albert Ellis. VHS 134 

"Compares similarities and differences in religious beliefs and practices that 

Islam has with Christianity and Judaism" 

Three gorges Using interviews and computer simulation, this video provides insight into the 

complex issues surrounding the Three Gorges 

Three men and a baby / Touchstone 

Pictures 

Three handsome Manhattan bachelors find their dating and mating rituals 

irreparably damaged when an unexpected new roommate 

Three sisters / BBC-TV A dramatization of Anton Chekhov's play of the same title, about three welleducated, 

cultured sisters suffering from boredom and meaninglessness in their 

dull, provincial environment 

Three Soviet masters compilation : 

Eisenstein, Dziga-Vertov & Pudovkin 

Three Soviet films-- the first is a Mosfilm documentary (1968?) about the 

destroyed Eisenstein film 'Bezhin lug' with an attempt at a reconstruction of the 

film. 

DVD 628 

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Through a glass darkly / Svensk 

Filmindustri / a film by Ingmar Bergman 

A gloomy look at God and love through the eyes of a tormented family. VHS 1188 

Through deaf eyes Explores nearly 200 years of Deaf life in America. Presents the experiences of 

American history from the perspective of deaf citizens. 

DVD 1167 

Through with life / scenario en regie: 

Willem Ouverkerk 

Thunder in the skies / British 


Medical specialists, psychiatrists, social workers, and family members are all 

involved in determining how to deal with an elderly patient's wish to die 

Host James Burke details many of the changes in building construction and 

energy usage which occurred when the climate of Europe changed dramatically 

in the 13th century. 

Thunderbird woman "Where's Winona? When Thunderbird Woman is not spending time with her 

three children, she might be off on a speaking tour, or dancing at the powwow, 

or be found behind her desk working on her latest book, or down in the 

Southwest organizing resistance against uranium and coal mining on 

reservation lands, or out in a canoe harvesting wild rice...This film finds her" 

Tic code / Gun for Hire Films Set against the background of the Greenwich Village jazz scene, this is the 

story of a boy with Tourette's Syndrome whose only escape from his troubles is 

into the world of jazz music 

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Til murder do us part A vengeful divorcee is tried for killing her ex-husband and his new wife DVD 388


Time based competition / Harvard 

Business School Management Programs 

Alan Murray presents three programs on time-focused industrial production and 

management. 

Time for revenge A demolition worker at a remote copper mine rigs a dynamite accident to 

blackmail the corrupt company. 

Time to live and a time to die The film depicts a family transplanted from mainland China to Taiwan in the 

early 1950s 

Time together : learning to play with young 

children 

Tirez sur le pianiste / Les Films de la 

Pleiade 

Helps adults understand their role in play, and shows how to join play, keep 

children involved and support the natural process of learning 

A timid cafe pianist has given up his career as a concert pianist, a career which 

had destroyed his marriage. 

Titanic Two people from different worlds meet and fall in love on the brief, tragic maiden 

voyage of the grand ocean liner Titanic 

Tito, power of resistance / Nielsen-Ferns 

Int'l 

Documents how Yugoslavian President Tito used resistance to achieve power 

and then used that power to change the course of history 

To be a teacher / NBC News Offers a look into the lives of teachers, the people who spend their days 

nurturing the nation's young 

To build a fire / BBC TV Retells Jack London's suspenseful tale of a man's struggle against the extreme 

weather of the Alaskan wilderness and his attempts to build the fire he must 

have in order to survive 

To catch a cloud : a thoughtful look at 

acid rain 

Attempts to dispel the propaganda surrounding the acid rain issue by offering a 

rational presentation about the nature of the atmosphere. 

To catch a thief A retired American jewel thief living on the French Riviera seeks to prove his 

innocence by exposing the burglar who has been imitating his technique 

To defend a killer / Columbia University 


To find the Baruya story : an 

anthropologist at work with a New Guinea 

tribe 

To have and have not / Warner Bros. 

Pictures 

To kill a mockingbird / directed by Robert 

Mulligan 

To kill a mockingbird / directed by Robert 

Mulligan 

A hypothetical murder case provides the context for discussion by a panel of 

jurists, journalists, clergy 

This ... film, photographed in both 1969 and 1982, illustrates an anthropologist's 

[Maurice Godelier] 

In 1940, an American charter boat captain in Martinique gets involved with a 

young female drifter and some French freedom fighters who are trying to elude 

local Nazi collaborators 

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A white woman accuses a black man of rape. DVD 153 

Two children in a small southern town are thrust into an adult world of racial 

bigotry and hatred when their lawyer father chooses to defend a black man 

unjustly accused of raping a white girl 

To live / The Samuel Goldwyn Company In a smoky gambling den in 1940's China, a drunken young man runs through 

his family's fortune, losing their ancestral home and all their possessions. 

To make the balance / Laura Nader Describes procedures used in a court in a bilingual Spanish-Zapotec town in 

Mexico in a legal system where there is no gap between the legal profession 

and the man on the street 

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To Sir, with love A teacher in England abandons the traditional curriculum of education in dealing 

with a class of students rejected by other schools 

DVD 1045 

To water by air Presents the method of finding ground water using the fracture trace method of 

prospecting and explains its use 

VHS 1779 

Today & tomorrow Flutist James Galway discusses music of the 20th century and the frequent 

difficulties in understanding this new music 

VHS 213 

Today's innovators, tomorrow's 

technologies 

Teleconference taped March 25, 1993; Audio-visual education VHS 2780 

Together in care : meeting the intimacy 

needs of infants & toddlers in groups 

Tokyo : capital of Japan / Trigon Film for 

Institut fur Film und Bild 

Discusses the need for infants and toddlers in group child care situations to 

have a continuing relationship with a few caring people in an intimate setting 

VHS 3130 

Examines issues that the burden of overpopulation can bring VHS 57


Tokyo pop / Tokyo Pop Inc A Tokyo rocker with dreams of fame meets a spunky American who says she 

knows how to turn his dreams into reality 

Tokyo-ga / Wim Wenders 

Produktion/Chris Sievernich 

Filmproduktion 

A film diary of Wenders' journey to Tokyo to discover the city he came to know 

through the films of Yasujiro Ozu 

Toledo on the air Looks at the development and growth of local television stations, journalists, 

performers, and programs. Includes commercials for local businesses 

Toledo region : your basic practical 

everyday place to live 

Toledo stores: The Trianon, the Paramount 

and Kin Wa Low: the best nights of our 

lives 

Toledo stories; Adoption; home, heart & 

hope 

Discusses Toledo in terms of its livability and what it has to offer its residents 

and those of the surrounding area 

For generations of people in northwest Ohio, downtown Toledo was a hot spot, 

offering plenty of big city entertainment. Anybody looking for a night out could 

choose from several movie theaters, supper clubs with floor shows, and dance 

halls featuring nationally known bands. This WGTE production revisits some of 

those establishments, and talks to the men and women who went there to work, 

or fall in love, or spend some of the best nights of their lives 

Men and women who volunteer for Adopt America Network, devoting 

themselves to finding loving and permanent homes for children with special 

needs 

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Toledo stories; Legacy of glass Provides a brief overview of paint by numbers "art." DVD 579 

Toledo stories; Let's all go down to 

Tiedtke's 

Toledo stories; Lutheran Homes society, a 

history of compassion 

Toledo stories; metro parks of the Toledo 

area 

Before there were franchises of chain stores in every town, before there were 

enormous superstores, there was the kind of department store where they knew 

their customers and where the customers enjoyed shopping. In Toledo, it was 

Tiedtke's. There were many downtown department stores in Toledo in the '40s, 

'50s and '60s, but Tiedtke's was the community's center. 

Traces the history of the Lutheran Homes Society from its inception in Germany 

to its arrival in Northwestern Ohio 

DVD 588 

DVD 583 

A history of the metro parks found in and around Toledo. Touches on each park DVD 585 

Toledo stories; Owens-Illinois; 100 years Rare archival film and photographs chronicle the rise of this company from 

small local firm to an international corporation. 

Toledo stories; Tatum legacy Life and times of jass pianist Art Tatum, Toledo native, with recollections from 

family and friends, includes theatrical footage of a 1920s speakeasy. 

Toledo stories; the early years The fascinating story of Toledo's growth and development from a swampy, 

unsettled wilderness to a major urban/industrial center. 

Toledo stories; the storried life of millie 

Benson 

Discusses the life of Mildred Benson with emphasis on her persona of Carolyn 

Keene and her authorship of the Nancy Drew books 

Toledo stories; The Toledo Mud Hens story A visual history of Mud Hens and its ball parks. Includes archival photographs, 

film and interviews with former players, fans and managers 

Toledo stories; Toledo bar association; a 

legal history 

Toledo stories; Toledo museum of art; a 

centennial portrait 

Gives viewers a new awareness of what the Bench and Bar have contributed to 

improve the lives of residents living in our community 

The remarkable history of this institution is captured through interviews and rare 

archival photographs and film 

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Toledo stories; Toledo Zoo, a living history Provides a history of the zoo from its inception to 2000 DVD 592 

Toledo stories; whatever happened to 

paint by numbers? 

Provides a brief overview of paint by numbers "art." DVD 580 

Tom Hanks presents return with honor A documentary film that interviews American pilots who became prisoners of 

war in Vietnam 

DVD 288 

Tomie dePaola Charlie needs a cloak (8 min.) -- Strega Nona (9 min.) -- The clown of God (10 

min.) 

DVD 638 

Toni Morrison / an RM Arts production Toni Morrison discusses slavery and its legacy and the difficulties of writing 

about the painful subjects that occur in her novel Beloved 

VHS 305 

Too late tomorrow / produced by Van 

Genderen Film Productions 

Looks beyond the obvious progress in matters of health and shows how people 

live their lives in some developing countries, accepting disease and misery as 

part of their daily existence 

VHS 2654


Tools for teaching developmentally 

appropriate practice 

This all-new training videotape series teaches the key points of NAEYC's bestselling 

Developmentally appropriate practice in early childhood programs 

revised edition 

Tootsie Michael Dorsey is an out-of-work actor who makes himself up as a woman to 

get a job. 

Tootsie / Columbia Pictures Industries, 

Inc 

Michael Dorsey is an out-of-work actor who makes himself up as a woman to 

get a job. 

Top hat Rogers and Astaire are caught up in a mistaken identity plot, in which Rogers 

assumes that Astaire is already married, and is alternatively charmed and 

repelled by his advances 

VHS 2121 

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Topper / [presented by] Hal Roach A sophisticated and playful couple become ghosts and haunt the life of a stuffy 

banker. A comedy 

VHS 1979 

Tora! Tora! Tora! / 20th Century Fox A dramatization which chronicles the bombing of Pearl Harbor from both the 

Japanese and American points of view 

VHS 2650 

Total fitness for busy professionals / with 

Judy Greenan 

Get and stay healthy at work and at home VHS 2132 

Total war Surveys the destructive elements of war as seen by the civilians who faced the 

brunt of World War II. 

VHS 1564 

Touch and go A hockey star is mugged by a grade school youngster. When the hockey player 

visits the boy's mom, he falls for the boy's Hispanic mother 

VHS 1314 

Touch of evil / Universal Pictures Co. An elaborate mystery involving a corrupt police official in a squalid town on the 

Mexican border 

Touch of evil / Universal Pictures Co. An elaborate mystery involving a corrupt police official in a squalid town on the 

Mexican border and a murder that ensnares a narcotics agent and his wife 

Touched by the revolution / produced and 


Tough guise : violence, media, and the 

crisis in masculinity 

DVD 283 

VHS 2877 

Portrays the lives of ethnic Hungarians living in Romania. VHS 2937 

Presents the first program to look systematically at the relationship between the 

images of popular culture and the social construction of masculine identities in 

the US in the late 20th century. 

VHS 3168 

Toy story Woody the cowboy and Buzz Lightyear, two talking toys, have a fantastic 

adventure when they go out into the world. 

DVD 876 

Toy story II The fun and adventure continues when Andy goes off to cowboy camp and the 

toys are left to their own devices. 

DVD 875 

TR and his times A look at Theodore Roosevelt, who helped shape America at the turn of the 

century. 

VHS 1625 

Tragedy of Macbeth / screenplay by 

Roman Polanski and Kenneth Tynan 

English drama VHS 2734 

Trail of a terrorist On December 14, 1999, Algerian born terrorist Ahmed Ressam was arrested in 

Port Angeles, Washington, bound for Los Angeles International Airport with a 

trunk full of explosives. 

VHS 965 

Trail of a terrorist : the ominous lesson of 

Ahmed Rassam 

On the eve of the millennium, Ahmed Rassam was arrested by a U.S. border 

guard as he attempted to smuggle in a bomb intended for a terrorist attack. 

Trailblazers of modern dance Reviews the history of modern dance in America from its beginnings in the early 

1900s to the appearance of Martha Graham in the early 1930s. 

VHS 882 

VHS 2114 

Train robbers Three Civil War veterans team up with a train robber's widow to recover the loot 

from her husband's last job--a cool half-million in gold which is hidden 

somewhere south of the Mexican border. 

DVD 1149 

Trainspotting Four friends try to make it in the world on their own terms DVD 30 

Trainwreck of ideologies Footage from the 1998 dedication of the brass plaque designating the 

Haymarket monument as a national historical site. 

VHS 3187 

Trajan's column / produced by RAI, 

Discusses the political history and art of the monument. This tape pans over VHS 2099 

Ratiotelevisione Italiana 

Trajan's column and illustrates in minutest detail the daily social life of the 

Romans and of their barbaric opponents


Trance and dance in Bali A performance of the kris dance, a Balinese ceremonial dance which 

dramatizes the never-ending struggle between the witch and the dragon--the 

death-dealing and the life-protecting--as it is given in the village of Pagoetan in 

1937-1939. 

Transcending the limits : near-death 

experience / International Association for 

Near-Death Studies 

Transforming critical thinking principles into 

teaching strategies 

Combines personal accounts of those who have had near-death experiences 

with in-depth discussion from the country's top researchers in the field 

In this program, a variety of grade levels and subject matter illustrations are 

used to illustrate how critical thinking principles that are integrated into modes of 

teaching become mode of learning as well 

VHS 3047 

VHS 3014 

VHS 2435 

Transgender revolution A look at a growing segment of people who do not accept their biological gender VHS 1163 

Transitions: destruction of a mother explores the relationship between language, thought, and culture, and examines 

the impact of language loss in Native American communities 

VHS 3293 

Travelogue / by Robert Arnold This program is a travelogue of the United States illustrated by a montage of 

postcards 

VHS 2457 

Treasure of the Sierra Madre / Warner 

Bros. Pictures 

A story of gold-prospecting greed and human nature at its worst VHS 2444 

Treasures from American film archives : 

50 preserved films 

An anthology of films from 18 American film archives. DVD 66 

Tree of wooden clogs / G.P.C. Gruppo 

Preduzione Cinema- Milan 

Trigger effect / British Broadcasting 


Trip to the moon = Le Voyage dans la 

Lune / G. Melies 

Deceptively simple tale of a small community of peasants in Italy at the turn of 

the century. 

In Upper Egypt, host James Burke explains how plowing, building, writing, 

taxation, and astronomy began and how they became interdependent. 

A fantasy. Trick photography is used in presenting thirty tableaux which picture 

travel in outer space by rocket. Silent film. 

Trobriand cricket Shows how the Trobriand Islanders have transformed the British game of cricket 

over the last seventy years into a unique Trobriand sport 

Trouble behind / Cicada Films produced 

and directed by Robby Henson 

White racism is discussed in the context of the town of Corbin, Ky., where on 

Oct. 31, 1919 a race riot drove all of the Black residents out of town. Since that 

date few Blacks have attempted to settle in Corbin. 

Trouble in the barkers' class Sarah Hale, a magazine editor and author, believed in its importance, and 

persuaded President Lincoln to transform Thanksgiving Day into a national 

holiday. 

Trouble with Harry / Alfred J. Hitchcock 

Productions 

In the New England woods several people have various reasons to find and 

bury the same body. 

Troublesome creek; a Midwestern The Jordan family has farmed in Iowa for generations. Due to the crisis of the 

'80s and '90s, they are in danger of losing the farm. One of the daughters 

comes back home to document the extraordinary efforts the family makes to 

keep their farm 

Troy In 1193 B.C., Prince Paris, the son of the King of Troy falls in love with Helen, 

the wife of the king of Sparta, and convinces her to follow him away from her 

husband, Menelaus. The result is an epic war in which the Greeks sail to Troy 

and lay siege. 

True Grit U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn helps a headstrong young girl find the man who 

murdered her father in Native American territory and fled with the family 

savings. 

True romance / a Morgan Creek 

production 

Truman, years of decision / by Turner 

Catledge 

Lovers find themselves in possession of a suitcase full of valuable mob 

contraband and plan to take the goods from Detroit to Los Angeles to sell them, 

but the gangsters and the police have other ideas 

Explains that few people had great expectations of the man from Missouri when 

he took over after FDR 

Truth about semi-auto firearms Because of projected legislation regarding semi-automatic weapons and 

confusion over their definition, an expert demonstrates the difference between 

fully and semi-automatic firearms 

Truth on trial / Columbia University 

Seminars on Media and Society 

A panel of American jurists, a philosopher, and a newspaper editor discuss 

whether the purpose of a trial is to discover the truth 

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Tuba & euphonium Members of the United States Army Field Band provide instruction in improving 

tuba- and euphonium-playing skills 

VHS 971 

Tucker: the man and his dream / 

Lucasfilm, Ltd.(LFL) 

Tucker is an engineer and showman who has a vision of the car of the future. VHS 2647 

Turandot / by Giacomo Puccini A beautiful but icy Chinese princess is won by a handsome prince traveling the 

countryside incognito 

VHS 1413 

Turbulence / produced by Education 

Development Center 

Illustrates aspects of turbulence VHS 2380 

Turn of the century / Polytel Film Flutist James Galway discusses the influences on Western music at the turn of 

the 20th century. 

VHS 215 

Turn of the screw Henry James' chilling ghost tale about a governess hired by a charming 

bachelor to look after two young children in a grand mansion in rural England 

where sinister events place their lives in jeopardy 

DVD 1086 

Turnabout intruder Science fiction television program (Star Trek 79th episode) VHS 954 

Tuskegee airmen / HBO Pictures It is 1943 and the Germans are winning the Second World War as the U.S. 

suffers huge losses on the ground and in the air. 

VHS 909 

Twelfth night / BBC-TV and Time-Life TV Presents a dramatization of William Shakespeare's play entitled Twelfth night VHS 224 

Twelve disciples of Nelson Mandela This film is an intimate tale about an African-American family, the anti-apartheid 

movement and the quest for reconciliation between a father and son 

DVD 861 

Twelve monkeys / Universal Pictures Cole arrives at a mental hospital, claiming to be a time traveler from the year 

2035. 

VHS 835 

Twenties Usually seen as an age of speakeasies, flappers and high living, the 1920's also 

saw millions of workers struggling for better wages. 

VHS 1640 

Twentieth century: Last of the romantics 

and, Guitar: A final education 

Guitar music, arranged VHS 1402 

Twist of Faith The deeply personal story of a man who confronts the trauma of past sexual 

abuse by a local priest, only to find his decision shatters his relationships with 

his family, community, and faith 

Twisted cross / NBC-TV produced by 

Henry Salomon 

Two brains / a production of WNET/New 

York 

Shows how turmoil and economic chaos in Germany following World War I 

contributed to the success of Hitler and the Nazi Party. 

DVD 774 

VHS 518 

Examines the unique functions of each hemisphere of the human brain VHS 285 

Two days in October Examines the critical events that took place in the fall of 1967, from the ambush 

of an American battalion by the Viet Cong that led to skepticism of whether the 

Vietnamese conflict was winnable, to the first violent anti-war demonstration on 

a campus in Wisconsin 

Two Marys: two views of slavery Dramatized excerpts from the diaries of Mary Prince, born into slavery in 

Bermuda in 1789, and Lady Maria Nugent, married to an island governor and 

slaveowner in Jamaica, providing first-hand accounts by different women of their 

experiences of slavery 

Two masterpieces of modern 

choreography / choreography by Doris 

Humphrey 

Brief introduction giving background of choreographer and history of particular 

dance precedes each performance 

Two Toledos In an exploration of cultural exchange through art, American documentary 

filmmakers Jacob David and Joel Washing focus on two distinctly different cities 

with the same name. Visually rich cinematography of the Toledo, Ohio, skyline 

and the ancient architecture of Toledo, Spain 

Two worlds of Jennie Logan / Charles 

Fries Productions, Inc 

A murder mystery/romantic drama that takes place simultaneously in two 

centuries 

Tyler Perry's Daddy's little girls Monty is a blue-collar mechanic who enlists the help of a successful-but-lonely 

attorney while trying to gain custody of his three daughters from his treacherous 

ex-wife and her larcenous boyfriend. 

Typhoid May; the most dangerous woman 

in America 

When six members of a wealthy family contracted typhoid fever in ... August 

1906, one question puzzled everyone: how would such an upscale summer 

enclave become infected with this hightly contagious 'slum disease'? 

DVD 640 

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Tzigane; music by Maurice Ravel Andante from Divertimento No. 15; The four temperaments VHS 3215 

U.N. & global problems : questions of 

national sovereignty, the North/South 

dialogue /Southern Center for International 

Studies 

U.N. peacekeeping role : expectations and 

accomplishments/ Southern Center for 

International Studies 

U.S. Supreme Court / Encyclopedia 

Britannica Educational Corporation 

U.S./U.N. relations : changing over time 

/Southern Center for International Studies 

U.S./U.N. relations : structural and political 

problems / a production of Southern 

Center for International Studies 

U.S.-Afghanistan relations : gaining 

perspective / ABC News 

U.S.S.R. 1924-1928 : born yesterday! / PI 

Production ... 

U.S.S.R./U.S. in the U.N. : cooperation and 

competition 

U-Boats : the wolf pack presented by 

Midwich Entertainment 

UCITA : a guide to understanding and 

action 

Edited from an historic meeting of six former U.S. Ambassadors to the United 

Nations 


Nations 

VHS 2472 

VHS 2470 

U.S. Supreme Court VHS 2178 


Nations 


Nations 

America's relationship to Afghanistan since the Cold War and the background to 

the Afghan-Russia war 

Explores the prominence of themes of social disorder, change, and 

experimentation in post-revolutionary Soviet cinema of the 1930s. 


Nations 

Presents the fascinating and frightening story of the Nazi submarine attack force 

( Wolf Pack ) 

VHS 2468 

VHS 2469 

DVD 72 

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VHS 1512 

A discussion of the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act VHS 877 

Ulysses. S. Grant warrior, president This biography of Ulysses S. Grant paints a nuance portrait of one of America's 

most paradoxical leaders 

DVD 310 

Unapproachable Leslie Caron, Daniel Webb and Leslie Malton star in this drama of sex, power 

and money. 

VHS 1346 

Unbearable lightness of being Set in Czechoslovakia in the 1960's, the story revolves around a young doctor 

who has a way with women and an aversion to politics 

DVD 158 

Under orders, under fire : (part II) / 

Columbia University Seminars on Media 

and Society 

A panel of prominent Americans consider the ethics of confidentiality. VHS 1864 

Under orders, under fire. Part I / Columbia 


A panel of prominent Americans consider what course of action is demanded by 

loyalty to one's country. 

Underground A tragicomedy about love, friendship, betrayal, manipulation and lies. Deals with 

the conflicts of Yugoslav history of the past fifty years. Serbo-Croatian and 

some German & French with English subtitles. 

Underground movement Examines through close-up photography the movements of underground 

creatures with emphasis on moles and earthworms. 

Underground water. Water trapped in between grains of rock underground is explored in this 

program. 

Understanding hate crimes A dramatization of the effects on a community after a junior high school student 

is abducted and beaten to death for being gay. 

Understanding Japan / Educational Video 

Network, Inc. 

Understanding reengineering / Michael 

Hammer 

This program looks at the country of Japan. Provides an introduction to its 

geography, culture and history 

VHS 1863 

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Corporate reorganizational change VHS 3166 

Understanding the big band Pointers for playing piano, guitar, bass and drums in the jazz band VHS 968 

Understanding the brain-mind connection Renate and Geoffrey Caine explore twelve principles of brain-based learning 

and the importance of addressing the emotional side of student learning I 

VHS 1927 

Understanding the oboe This video is a guide to band directors and oboe students in the purchase of an 

instrument and selection and adjustment of reeds 

Understanding the thinking classroom / 

Barbara Presseisen 

Interview with Barbara Presseisen, former professor at Temple University and 

Swarthmore College 

VHS 969 

VHS 1944


Une chante, l'autre pas ;"One sings the other doesn't VHS 2287 

Unequal education / a presentation of 


The initial segment Failing our children focuses on inequality in the education 

available in rich and poor New York neighborhood schools. 

VHS 3058 

Unexplained : sexual attraction How are we able to explain sexual attraction? VHS 998 

Unforgiven / Warner Bros. presents a 

Malpaso production 

Unforgiven / Warner Bros. presents a 

Malpaso production 

Unforgiviable blackness; the rise and fall of 

Jack Johnson 

Two retired, down-on-their luck outlaws pick up their guns one last time to 

collect a bounty offered by the vengeful prostitutes of the remote Wyoming town 

of Big Whiskey 

Two retired, down-on-their luck outlaws pick up their guns one last time to 

collect a bounty offered by the vengeful prostitutes of the remote Wyoming town 

of Big Whiskey 

Story of the first African American boxer to win the most coveted title in all of 

sports and his struggle in and out of the ring to live ass a free man. 

Unification II / Paramount Pictures After locating Spock on Romulus, Picard informs him of his father's death and 

learns of the legendary Vulcan's plans to reunify his people and the Romulans. 

Uniqueness of the early childhood 

profession: a discussion with Millie Almy / 

National Association for the Education of 

Young Children 

In an interview with Carolyn S. Dorrell, Millie Almy describes how early 

childhood education differs from other levels of education. 

DVD 145 

VHS 2967 

DVD 590 

VHS 1117 

VHS 1302 

United States, 1902-1914 : tomorrow the 

world 

Examines early filmmaking in the United States. VHS 2616 

Universe within / producer, Beth Hoppe Using microphotography to explore the hidden world inside the human body VHS 3099 

Unmentionables Using both new and old photographs and scenes of models and fashion shows VHS 1110 

Untamed world of English punctuation English language - punctuation Vols. 1&2 VHS 1660 

Up south : African-American migration in 

the era of the Great War 

Up your alley / Unknown Film 

Co./Loganworks Ltd 

Upstairs/downstairs / a co-production of 

MacNeil/Lehrer Productions 

Urban classrooms : effective changes for 

school improvement 

Urban frontier, 1837-1852 Anthony 

Wayne bridge / a production of WGTE 

Between 1916 and 1921, 500,000 African-Americans moved from the South to 

cities in the North. 

Romantic fable about an enterprising young newspaper reporter looking for the 

big story to boost her career. 

VHS 852 

VHS 1272 

Explores the problem of inequality in the American education system VHS 1890 

Discusses issues pertinent to urban education such as school violence, cultural 

diversity, and the affective side of learning 

The urban frontier depicts the early growth and history of Toledo which was 

formed in 1837. 

Urbanplan A simulation of urban redevelopment issues, designed to help students 

understand general land use and community planning issues, principles, and 

processes. 

Using flash effectively / Eastman Kodak 

Company 

Using multimedia for business and 

education 

Using nine powerful motivators in the 

classroom / Master Teacher, Inc 

Using the secondary needs to arouse 

interest in learning / Master Teacher, Inc 

Using what we know : applying Piaget's 

developmental theory in primary 

classrooms 

VHS 1914 

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VHS 1305 

Discusses flash photography using a 35 mm. camera VHS 651 

A videoconference that defines multimedia, discusses hardware options, and 

demonstrates business and educational applications 

Examines nine motivators of individual actions and lists ways they can be used 

to enhance student motivation 

Defines secondary needs for humans and how these needs have an effect on 

learning. Suggests ways to help students and teachers meet these needs 

VHS 3087 

VHS 1331 

VHS 1330 

Shows three teachers working with their classes. VHS 2257 

Usual suspects When twenty-nine dead bodies are found floating in Long Beach harbor, a U.S. 

Customs agent investigates 

Utilities / a Robert Cooper presentation 

the Canada Trust Company 

A crusading social worker and a lady cop team up to take on the utility 

companies 

VHS 834 

VHS 1377


Vacco v. Quill / produced by Abigail 

Pogrebin 

Vaclav Havel : leadership in Eastern 

Europe 

Explores the issues involved in a supreme court case centered on Dr. Timothy 

Quill 

Havel's life-long struggle against totalitarianism and his rise to national 

leadership in Czechoslovakia, Eastern Europe, and the world is depicted in this 

film. 

VHS 907 

VHS 2935 

Vagina monologues Ensler's performance of her award-winning, one-woman play DVD 426 

Valley Forge : the battle for survival Recreation of the events of the Continental Army under the command of 

General Washington in Pennsylvania during the winter of 1977. 

VHS 254 

Values matter most : a television essay Ben Wattenberg examines the values issue --crime, welfare, race, discipline, 

drugs, prayer, etc.--in American politics. 

VHS 1598 

Vampyr A subtle, disturbing version of the vampire legend. A young man becomes 

involved with an attempt to stop the vampire and save a family 

VHS 1790 

Vanishing line / a film by Maren R. 

Monsen, M.D 

Variations / Western Michigan University 

Television 

Vasectomy performed in the office / Philip 

Roen 

Veiled aristocrats / Micheaux Pictures 

Corp. 

Film follows physician/filmmaker Maren Monsen and hospice social worker Jim 

Brigham as they visit some of his terminally ill clients. 

The fourth part of the series on adult stuttering deals with the attempt to vary the 

stuttering by the patient. 

Dr. Philip Roen explains the step-by-step process involved in the operation, and 

then talks through the process as he performs a vasectomy operation in his 

office 

Twenty years after leaving home, John Walden returns, having achieved his 

ambition to become a lawyer. 

Vera Drake Vera Drake tells of a woman in 1950s England who is devoted to caring for her 

family, but secretly aids women who want to terminate unwanted pregnancies 

Vertigo Detective with a fear of heights is drawn into a complex plot involving a woman 

who is apparently being driven to suicide by one of her ancestors 

Vertigo / Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions, 

Inc. 

Vertigo / Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions, 

Inc 

Scottie Ferguson, a San Francisco police detective is forced to retire when a 

freak accident gives him a severe case of acrophobia. 

An elaborately constructed murder story and a fascinating study in sexual 

obsession. 

Vibrations and pagan rites A2708 Flutist James Galway takes the viewer backward through time to demonstrate 

how ageless and universal is the human impulse to make music 

Victim / Allied Filmmakers A highly respected, but closeted barrister, Melville Farr, risks his marriage and 

reputation to take on an elusive blackmail ring terrorizing gay men with the 

threat of public exposure and police action 

Victor Victoria A poverty-stricken singer in Depression-era Paris becomes convinced that the 

only way she can earn a living on the nightclub circuit is to masquerade as a 

man 

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Victoria & Albert The moving romantic story of two lovers who create an intimate private world 

amidst the pomp and politics of the court of St. James 

DVD 287 

Victory at sea A sweeping record of the naval battles of World War II DVD 511 v. 

1-4 

Video against AIDS / Video Data Bank 9 sections, examine the personal and political issues surrounding the AIDS 

crisis in the U.S 

VHS 3015 

Video guide to (dis)ability awareness / an 

Idea Bank production 

Video Images presents a Videoyesteryear 

recording : avant garde #2 / 

Videoyesteryear 

Videodrome / a Filmplan International 

production 

Viens chez moi, j'habite chez une copine 

/ [directed by] Patrice Leconte 

The program lets the experts--those with disabilities--describe how they want to 

treated 

VHS 2928 

Silent films with music soundtracks VHS 2369 

Cable TV programmer Max Renn seeks out the ultimate in bizarre shows for his 

channel. 

An inveterate charmer spends an evening with a couple of pals in a small 

apartment, and stays on 

Vietnam : chronicle of a war / CBS Inc Drawing upon the resources of the CBS News Archives, this program traces the 

history of the devastating conflict 

VHS 2518 

VHS 2706 

VHS 166


Vietnam in the year of the pig / Turin Film 

Corporation 

Vietnam requiem / produced by Else, 

Couturie & Korty, Inc. 

Vietnam, 1945-1975, the ten thousand day 

war, volume 8 : Frontline America / TDW 

Copyright Holding Ltd 

From the French involvement in Vietnam to the U.S. escalation, this film offers a 

thought provoking excursion through Vietnam and the brutality of war 

Five men, each decorated for valor in Vietnam, are interviewed from prison 

where they are now serving time for crimes committed since their return from 

the war. 

VHS 1791 

VHS 2276 

An overview of Nixon's determination to obtain peace through pressure. VHS 110 

Vietnam, a television history. Episode 3, 

America's Mandarin, 1954-1963 

Division of Vietnam brought Catholics and pro-French northerners to the south. VHS 2344 

Village of round and square houses A grandmother explains to her listeners why, in their village on the side of a 

volcano, the men live in square houses and the women in round ones. [cartoon] 

VHS 2039 

Village of the Fire Nation : the people who 

came out from the ground / WGTE Toledo 

Univ. of Toledo professor David Stothers and his students unearth an historic 

village 

Virgin machine / directed by Monika Treut Initially intending to write a story, a young journalist researches and tries to find 

romantic love in Hamburg. 

Virgin spring / A.B. Svensk Filmindustri A grim exploration of a young girl's rape and murder, and her father's revenge, 

in medieval Sweden 

Viridiana / Gustavo Alatriste, [Mexico] 

produced by Uninci Films 59 

Vision and movement / WNET-13, 

Antenna-2, NHK, Radio Quebec 

Visiting the Indians with George Catlin / 

produced by the University of Iowa Motion 

Picture Unit 

Viridiana, about to take final religious vows, visits her uncle at his country 

estate. 

Explains how humans perceive the world and how the brain coordinates vision 

and movement 

Uses images produced by Catlin in his 1830's expedition to study and record 

the appearance and customs of the nomadic hunters, 

Visual supports in the classroom Illustrates effective use of visual supports can help children with autism and 

related pervasive developmental disorders function independently and make 

more sense of the sometimes confusing world around them 

VHS 394 

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Vocal collection #1 A selection of opera excerpts taken from television broadcasts VHS 364 

Vocal collection #2 A collection of opera excerpts from television VHS 365 

Voice registration: a pictorial and 

This video shows students of Oberlin College doing various registration 

VHS 3321 

performance tutorial/Oberlin Conservatory 

of Music 

exercises while being Fiberscoped 

Voices Women and men who favor the pro-choice option on abortion speak out VHS 2105 

Voices in a deaf theater This documentary chronicles the rehearsal process of four hearing actors and 

four deaf actors as they collaborate on a production of The Glass Menagerie at 

Gallaudet University 

Voices of dissent as America fights back / 

ABC News Productions ABC News 

Volcano scapes : Pele's march to the 

Pacific! 

Vorticity / produced by Educational 

Services Incorporated 

W.E.B. Du Bois, a biography in four voices 

/ production of Scribe Video Center 

Waffen-SS : [Hitler's elite fighting force] / 

Castle Communications 

Wages of fear / C.I.C.C. Filmsonor 

Vera Films/Fonorama 

Waging war against the new terrorism : 

originally broadcast on 3/18/02 / ABC 

News 

Three segments featuring people critical of American internal and external 

responses to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. 

VHS 3284 

VHS 881 

Summarizes volcanic activity in Hawaii between 1983 and 1986 VHS 1466 

Experimental demonstrations of phenomena relating to vorticity, to circulation, 

and to the theorems of Crocco, Kelvin, and Helmholtz 

Four prominent African-American writers each narrate a period in the life of the 

sociologist and author W.E.B. Du Bois, and describe his impact on their work. 

The history of Wafen SS, initially formed as a fighting force but whose reputation 

will forever remain one of infamy 

VHS 2394 

VHS 2537 

VHS 1526 

A tense drama of courage, cowardice and failure set in South America. DVD 24 

Examines today's terrorism, in which negotiation plays no part and mass 

destruction is the goal. 

VHS 880


Waiting for Godot / directed by Alan 

Schneider 

Production of the play which marked a break from everything previously 

considered theatrical form. 

Waiting for the moon An engrossing and fascinating exploration of the complex relationship of 

Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas 

Wake of the red witch Involved in a bitter feud with the owner of the East Indies Trading Company, 

Captain Ralls deliberately sinks the richly laden Red Witch. His plan to salvage 

the wreck is thwarted by love for a woman 

Walk the line Traces Johnny Cash's life from his childhood to the middle of his musical 

career, with special attention to his relationship with singer June Carter 

VHS 385 

VHS 1726 

VHS 3325 

DVD 706 

Walk this way / Learning Wave 


Designed to help educators meet the challenge of tolerance education. VHS 776 

Walkabout / 20th Century-Fox Stranded in the Australian desert, an English girl and her small brother are 

rescued by an aborigine boy who has journeyed into the outback on his 

walkabout 

DVD 26 

Wallace & Gromit curse of the were-rabbit With only days to go before the annual Giant Vegetable Competition they find 

that their business is booming. They come to find out that running a "humane" 

pest control outfit can have its drawbacks. Suddenly, a large and mysterious 

veg-ravaging "beast" begins attacking the town's sacred vegetable plots at 

night. 

Walter Cronkite remembers & The Battle of 

the Bulge / CBS Inc 

Wannsee Conference / a co-production of 

Infafilm GMBH Munich 

Wanted, a million teachers / 

MacNeil/Lehrer Productions 

Walter Cronkite gives his own fascinating perspective on the war during his 

experience as a war correspondent in Europe 

Recreates the conference at Wannsee in Berlin January 2, 1942, attended by 

Nazi leaders to determine the fate of the Jewish people 

Discusses the profession of teaching in America, its image, and why teachers 

leave. 

War against Japan / CBS, Inc Walter Cronkite guides us through the building of the Burma Road, the fighting 

at Tarawa 

War and peace / a Polytel Film coproduction 

War and peace in the nuclear age. A 

bigger bang for the buck / WGBH and 

Central Independent Television 

War and peace in the nuclear age. At the 

brink / WGBH and Central Independent 

Television 

War and peace in the nuclear age. Carter's 

new world / WGBH and Central 

Independent Television 

War and peace in the nuclear age. Dawn 

/ WGBH and Central Independent 

Television 

War and peace in the nuclear age. Haves 

and have-nots / WGBH and Central 


War and peace in the nuclear age. Missile 

experimental / WGBH and Central 


War and peace in the nuclear age. One 

step forward-- / WGBH and Central 


War and peace in the nuclear age. The 

education of Robert McNamara / WGBH 

and Central Independent Television 

War and peace in the nuclear age. The 

weapon of choice / WGBH and Central 


James Galway discusses the music of the time period between the two World 

Wars 

Looks at the development of U.S. nuclear policy during the Eisenhower 

administration 

Focuses on the background, events, and aftermath of the Cuban missile crisis 

of 1962 

Describes the decline of detente and the Carter administration's failure to realize 

its hopes for a ratified SALT II treaty 

Traces the development of the first atomic bomb against the backdrop of World 

War II 

Examines the growth of nuclear weapons capability and the efforts to halt the 

spread of these weapons 

DVD 653 

VHS 339 

VHS 1957 

VHS 1891 

VHS 344 

VHS 216 

VHS 1872 

VHS 1874 

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VHS 1870 

VHS 1877 

Charts the development of the MX and Midgetman weapons systems VHS 1880 

Tells the story of the Nixon-Kissinger era of detente and the negotiations that 

resulted in the SALT I treaty 

Examines changes in both force structure and nuclear strategy implemented 

under the leadership of Robert McNamara, U.S. Secretary of Defense from 

1960 to 1968 

Explores the origins of the cold war from 1947 to 1953 and the increasing 

prominence of nuclear weapons in U.S. defense planning 

VHS 1876 

VHS 1875 

VHS 1871


War and peace in the nuclear age. Visions 

of war and peace / WGBH and Central 


War and peace in the nuclear age. Zero 

hour / WGBH and Central Independent 

Television 

War at home / produced/directed by 

Glenn Silber, Barry Alexander Brown 

War atrocities : the horrors of war / Patnel 

Productions 

Considers the future of the nuclear age in light of the past and examines a 

range of policy options 

Focuses on Europe in the 1970s and 1980s, particularly on NATO's 

controversial decisions to deploy additional missiles to defend the continent. 

Case study events taking place at the University of Wisconsin, in Madison, are 

used as a microcosm of the national protest movement throughout the 60's and 

early 70's. 

U.S. newsreel footage and captured German and Japanese film which describe 

concentration camps 

VHS 1882 

VHS 1879 

VHS 2377 

VHS 519 

War begins / produced by CBS News Atrocity 1914 -- They sank the Lusitania VHS 2149 

War ends / produced by CBS News Film coverage. The first part the Battle of the Argonne, . The second part 

covers the last weeks of the war, I 

War letters American wars from the viewpoint of the men and women on the frontlines and 

those who waited at home 

War Wagon Taw Jackson is a rancher who is dead set on capturing an iron-clad stagecoach 

belonging to cattle baron West Catlin, the man who stole his fortune and good 

name years before 

VHS 2232 

DVD 311 

VHS 3324 

Warnung vor Mama An episode of a German television program VHS 727 

Warsaw ghetto / produced by BBC 

Television 

Actual photographs and films which were taken by cameramen of the German 

Army, the Secret Service, and the Gestapo who were assigned to record life 

and death in the ghetto. 

VHS 1525 

Water Water rights; law and legislation - Texas VHS 3111 

Watermelon man A comedy concerning a bigoted white man who is permanently turned black and 

must now contend with a shocked wife, his kids, angry neighbors, cold 

shoulders at the office and a back seat on the bus 

DVD 1041 

Waves in fluids Visualizes some of the basic phenomena of wave motion in fluids VHS 2384 

Waves, coastlines and beaches. Program dealing with the geological processes which take place where ocean 

meets land. 

VHS 1580 

Way down East / directed by D. W. 

Griffith 

Way down East / directed by D. W. 

Griffith 

Way down South / Variety Film Producers 

presentation 

Way home / produced and directed by 

Shakti Butler 

Melodrama about a young woman who is lured into a fake marriage, becomes 

pregnant and is abandoned. 

A young orphan girl is seduced and has a baby which dies. She is taken on as a 

servant by a farming family out of the house into the wintry countryside. 

DVD 159 

VHS 524 

Black artists of the silver screen VHS 1587 

Over the course of eight months, 64 women come together to share their 

experiences of oppression through the lens of race. 

Way I see it / Eastman Kodak Company Includes basic photographic instruction for learning how to get the most from 

your 35 mm. camera and shows four photographers' views on taking pictures 

Way we were The romance and marriage of opposites-- the love that binds them together and 

the differences that tear them apart. 

Wayang Golek:performing arts of Sunda Wayang Golk is the rod-puppet theater of Sunda (West Java), Indonesia, which 

incorporates a vibrant mixture of storytelling, songs, and instrumental music. 

This 

VHS 1763 

VHS 656 

DVD 160 

DVD 749 

We bring a quilt / The NAMES Project The AIDS Memorial Quilt covered the Ellipse in Washington, D.C. on the 

weekend of October 7, 1988. 

VHS 2187 

We the kids; the preamble to the 

Constitution of the United States 

An illustrated preamble to the Constitution of the United States DVD 1092 

We the people : the president and the 

constitution President Gerald Ford 


constitution President Jimmy Carter 

Gerald Ford discusses problems of congress, Nixon pardon, Mayaguez crisis, 

etc 

Jimmy Carter discusses Iran hostage crisis, Camp David Accords, Congress, 

Imperial Presidency, etc 

VHS 2696 

VHS 2697



constitution President Richard Nixon 


constitution President Ronald Reagan 

Weather machine / WNET/13, in 

collaboration with British Broadcasting 

Corporation 

Wedding camels = a Turkana marriage / 

produced and directed by David and Judith 

MacDougall 

Welcome to Spivey's Corner, N.C. / 

Perspective Films 

Welcoming all children creating inclusive 

child care 

Welfare reform's new deal / produced by 

CO-TV 

Richard Nixon discusses 1973 Arab-Israeli conflict, Vietnam War, covert 

operations, Congress, media, etc 

Ronald Reagan discusses Granada invasion, gun control, Congress and the 

budget, Line Item Veto, etc 

Part 1 deals with methods used to observe climatic changes. Part 2 discusses 

changes in global climate, including major and minor ice ages, 

Shows the preparations for the wedding of the daughter of Lorang, one of the 

senior men of the region. Turkana with English subtitles. 

VHS 2695 

VHS 2698 

VHS 179 

VHS 723 

Presents scenes from the 10th annual hollerin' contest VHS 104 

Good quality child care environments include children with special needs. VHS 2235 

Discusses the impact of welfare reform legislation on women, children, 

adolescents, immigrants, workers, students, people with HIV/AIDS, the elderly 

and the disabled 

West side story 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. 

Wetlands, our natural partners in 

wastewater management / National 

Science Foundation 

Documents research in Michigan and Florida where wetlands are being used for 

advanced wastewater treatment. 

VHS 713 

DVD 362 

VHS 1437 

Whale rider The Whangara people believe their ancestor Paikea was saved from drowning 

by riding home on the back of a whale. 

DVD 911 

What about death? Designed to stimulate interest in life extension VHS 611 

What Americans should know about 

asthma / produced by Walter J. Klein 

Company, Ltd 

Masters of medicine; health care professionals VHS 1417 

What can we do about violence? Part three 

: A Bill Moyers special 

What do those old films mean? V. 3, 

Denmark 1902-1914 : she! 

Tragic story of nine year-old James Darby, who sent a letter to President Clinton 

asking him to stop the violence in his city as part of a classroom project. 

Examines the psychological realism and innovative filmmaking techniques 

exhibited in early Danish silent films. 

What ever happened to baby Jane? An aging ex-vaudeville child star initiates a psychotic reign of terror over her 

crippled sister, a former movie-queen of the 1930's 

What ever happened to baby Jane? In a decaying Hollywood mansion, Jane Hudson, a former child star, and her 

sister Blanche, a movie queen forced into retirement after a crippling accident, 

live in virtual isolation 

VHS 3147 

VHS 2617 

DVD 161 

DVD 836 

What every woman should know about 

menopause 

An informative guide to menopause VHS 2909 

What goes on at sex therapy clinics / 

Harold Lear 

Sex therapy VHS 634 

What happened to Kerouac? / Vidmark This is a masterful film biography of the great American writer Jack Kerouac VHS 906 

What is computer ethics? Interviewees talk about the social impact of computer technology, the term 

computer ethics 

VHS 2745 

What is discipline, anyway? and, The 

reality therapy approach / David Bell 

Associates 

Offers a wide variety of viewpoints on school discipline VHS 551 

What is life? Designed to stimulate interest in exploring the fundamental questions of biology 

and life 

VHS 610 

What is the limit? Explores the effects of the population explosion in developing countries VHS 589 

What people are calling PMS / National 

Film Board of Canada 

What sex am I? / Joseph Feury 

Productions 

This film helps to counter the misinformation and confusion about the 

premenstrual phase of a woman's cycle 

VHS 2930 

A thought-provoking discussion of sex changes in humans. VHS 1261


What you are is-- / produced by 

CBS/FOX Video 

What you are is not necessarily what you 

will be 

What you are is where you see / with Dr. 

Morris Massey 

A program designed to help in understanding the relationship between values 

and human behavior 

Using a time chart, Dr. Massey categorizes groups of people according to the 

value systems programmed into specific generations 

Describes how one can, using the past and present as a base, see what the 

future may bring 

VHS 10 

VHS 171 

What you are is where you were when-- Dr. Massey analyzes the social and technological developments of the twentieth 

century in America 

VHS 172 

What's new about menopause? Case studies of women of various ages experiencing menopause, including new 

therapies using hormones 

VHS 576 

What's race got to do with it? This program "chronicles the experiences of a new generation of college 

students 

DVD 862 

Wheel of fortune / British Broadcasting 


The connection between astrology, ancient Greek medical manuscripts VHS 120 

Wheels / [produced by WGTE-TV.] A look at Toledo's role in manufacturing bicycles, carriages, wagons and 

motorized vehicles 

VHS 1205 

When Billy borke his head A documentary about how the handicapped experience life in the United States. VHS 958 

When Harry met Sally Will sex ruin a perfect relationship between a man and a woman? DVD 121 

When the earth moves / U.S. Department 

of the Interior, Geological Survey 

Discusses the geologic hazards that are present throughout the United States. VHS 1968 

When the subject turns to sex. / Harold 

Lear.-- 

A doctor and four medical students discuss taking sex histories VHS 636 

Where do you want to work? Interviews with several career people about one's working environment as a 

major factor in career satisfaction 

VHS 274 

Where have all the dolphins gone? Discusses the killing of dolphins VHS 2299 

Whiffs / Distributed by Media Home 

Entertainment, Inc 

Battling the Establishment armed with only a sharp wit and a slap stick VHS 1317 

Whisky galore / Ealing Studios, Ltd When a ship loaded with whisky is wrecked on a Scottish island, a battle of wits 

ensues between the canny Scots islanders and the local customs inspector 

VHS 1220 

White heat / directed by Raoul Walsh 

produced by Louis F. Edelman 

A psychopathic gangster and a ruthless killer who is anything but rational with 

his fierce headaches and strong mother-fixation 

VHS 9 

VHS 441 

White man's country Traces the history of British imperialism in Kenya VHS 2962 

White shamans, plastic medicine man Explores the popularization and commercialization of Native American spiritual 

traditions 

VHS 3295 

Who did what to whom II A training film designed to help people recognize four behavioral principles VHS 2378 

Who framed Roger Rabbit? Comedy; Received 4 Academy awards! VHS 2410 

Who owns my life : the Sue Rodriguez 

story / Sharon Bartlett 

Right to die VHS 1948 

Who plays God? Explores a variety of life and death situations to illustrate the spectrum of highly 

controversial ethical decisions made daily in modern American medicine. 

DVD 477 

Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? Drop in for drinks with George and Martha. VHS 1316 

Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? / Warner 

Bros. Pictures, Inc 

A freewheeling, headlong slide into the corrosive hell of a marriage twisted by 

years of hatred and humiliation 

DVD 162 

Whose choice? Recruits and informs new workers for abortion rights. VHS 806 

Whose death is it anyway? : tough 

choices for the end of life 

Why graduate school in science and 

engineering? 

Why me? / National Film Board of 

Canada 

A studio audience watches videos of real-life end-of-life decision-making and 

discusses their reactions with the moderator 

VHS 885 

Teleconference, produced by the GEM Program VHS 2353 

An animated film in which a patient learns from his doctor that he has only a 

short time to live. 

Why mosquitoes buzz in people's ears Why mosquitoes buzz in people's ears / Verna Aardema -- A story, a story / Gail 

E. Haley -- The village of round and square houses / Ann Grifalconi 

VHS 3105 

DVD 636


Why the hate? : America, from a Muslim 

point of view / Films for the Humanities & 

Sciences 

This timely ABC News program explores the mixed emotions felt by many 

Muslins toward the U.S. 

VHS 1762 

Why the towers fell Engineers begin searching for clues that would tell them why the towers fell DVD 312 

Why we fight / produced by the Special 

Service Division, Army Service Forces 

Why we fight / produced by the Special 

Service Division, Army Service Forces 

Explores a half-century of U.S. foreign policy from World War II to the Iraq War, 

revealing how, as Dwight Eisenhower had warned in his 1961 Farewell Address, 

political and corporate interests have become alarmingly entangled in the 

business of war. 

Propaganda series produced by the United States government which 

documents the causes and exhorts Americans to support World War 2 

DVD 913 

VHS 3115 

Why women are dissatisfied with their 

gynecologists / WNED TV 

Discusses health care from the consumer's point of view. VHS 299 

Why you buy : how ads persuade / 

Personalized Productions 

Describes six persuasion tactics used in advertising VHS 189 

Wicked lady A 17-century beauty steals the wealthy groom of her best friend and becomes 

Lady Skelton. 

VHS 2561 

Wild at heart / Heron Communications Two young lovers are on the run from her nasty mother. Filled with David 

Lynch's trademark offbeat characters 

VHS 1932 

Wild Bunch The brutal story of violent men who lived during the Mexican revolution in the 

year 1913 

DVD 120 

Wild by law : the rise of environmentalism 

and the creation of the Wilderness Act 

The Wilderness Act of 1964 is the legacy of three men: VHS 212 

Wild duck / BBC-TV A middle class family whose illusions of happiness and comfort are shattered by 

the arrival of a self-proclaimed truth teller 

Wild Hogs Four middle-aged men decide to take a motorcycle road trip from Cincinnati to 

the Pacific in order to get away from their lives which are leading them nowhere. 

Will school reform ever work? / a Skylight 

Professional Development 

William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet / 

[presented by] Twentieth Century 

Peter Senge's theory of learning organization provides the context for this 

examination of the current state of school reform in the United States 

A modern adaptation of the classic love story, moved to the futuristic urban 

backdrop of Verona Beach 

William Steig Library Sylvester and the magic pebble -- The amazing bone -- Doctor DeSoto -- Brave 

Irene -- Getting to know William Steig 

Willmar 8 / a film from California 

Newsreel 

Tells about the eight women who went on strike against the Citizen's National 

Bank in Willmar, Minn., because of employment discrimination. 

Wind and the lion In turn-of-the century Morocco, a sheik kidnaps a feisty American woman and 

her children, holding them hostage until President Roosevelt sends in the troops 

to free them 

Windows to the mind 1. Social interaction and brain development -- 2. Electronic media and brain 

development -- 3. Teaching and the human brain --4. Mindshifts 

Winds of war Tells an epic story of military strategy, politics, romance, and family conflict set 

against the backdrop of world events from 1938 through the Japanese attack on 

Pearl Harbor in 1941. 

Windwalker / Windwalker Productions A dying Cheyenne chief shares the memories of his extraordinary life with his 

grandchildren. 

VHS 413 

DVD 1235 

VHS 1913 

VHS 759 

DVD 637 

VHS 2224 

DVD 725 

VHS 1910 

DVD 1122 v. 

1-6 

VHS 78 

Wings / Paramount Famous Lasky Corp The story of two men who have gone to war and the girl they both leave behind VHS 3150 

Wings of desire / Road Movies and Argos 

Films 

Romantic fantasy about an angel who wishes he were mortal, set in East Berlin 

before the wall came down 

Winning / a Universal picture Fast cars, a hot romance, and a behind-the-scenes look at the world famous 

Indy 500 

Winning strategies / a co-production of 

Hedrick Smith Productions, Inc. 

Winning trap : sports & our kids / Home 

Video Programs Ltd. production 

The program shows some of the concrete strategies that American companies 

are using to recapture America's competitive edge 

Discusses the impact of winning is everything on youth sports and what the 

alternatives are 

VHS 1192 

VHS 1376 

VHS 2985 

VHS 1966


Winter light / A.B. Svensk Filmindustri a 

film by Ingmar Bergman 

A tormented, widowed pastor finds one winter day that he no longer has any 

faith in God 

WIPP Trail : nuclear waste controversy The WIPP Trail is a forum of the many diverse opinions on transportation and 

disposal of nuclear waste 

Wisdom of faith pt. 1. Hinduism and Buddhism (58 min.) -- pt. 2. Confucianism (58 min.) -- pt. 3. 

Christianity and Judaism (58 min.) -- pt. 4. Islam (58 min.) -- pt. 5. A personal 

philosophy (58 min.) 

Witch Craft among the Azande Focuses on the human side of the Azande tribe of the African Sudan, and the 

deep conviction that all misfortunes result from witchcraft. Follows a farmer as 

he seeks magical relief for an ill wife by consulting oracles and by the ritual 

poisoning of a chicken 

VHS 1218 

VHS 2306 

DVD 471 

DVD 529 

Witchcraft among the Azande / Granada 

Television International 

Focuses on the human side of the Azande tribe of the African Sudan VHS 529 

With a femine touch Readings from the poetry of some of the foremost women poets, including 

works by Edna St. Vincent Millay, Emily Dickinson, Emily Bronte, Sylvia Plath 

and Charlotte Bronte 

VHS 3310 

With America's enemy, 1954-1967 / 

WGBH, Boston 

With honors / Warner Bros. presents a 

Spring Creek Production 

Without due process : Japanese 

Americans and World War II / by Gerald 

and Misha Griffith 

Presents a view of the war in Vietnam as experienced by the followers of Ho Chi 

Minh a 

The University of Life. The School of Hard Knocks. Simon Wilder is an 

alumnus of each. 

Describes the violation of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution, which insists 

on due process of law. 

VHS 2346 

VHS 52 

VHS 234 

Without pity; a film about abilities Introduces a cross section of disabled Americans who live full, productive lives 

despite their disabilities 

DVD 424 

Without reservations: notes on racism in 

Montana 

Native Americans in Montana reflect on the prevalence of racism in the state. VHS 3292 

Witness When a young Amish woman and her son get caught up in the murder of an 

undercover narcotics agent 

DVD 163 

Wizard of Oz Musical fantasy tale about a little Kansas girl named Dorothy who visits the 

magical land of Oz 

VHS 1266 

Wizard of Oz Musical fantasy tale about a little Kansas girl named Dorothy who visits the 

magical land of Oz 

DVD 164 

WKRP in Cincinnati; complete 1st season Join WKRP's hilarious staff--program director Andy Travis, deejays Dr. Johnny 

Fever and Venus Flytrap, neurotic newsman Les Nessman, sultry receptionist 

Jennifer Marlowe and the rest--both on and off the air as they take their 

floundering station from hard times to hard rock 

Wolfgang Mozart / History Television 

Network Productions 

Mozart scholars paint a portrait of the outcast master whose work would 

revolutionize nearly every area of music. 

DVD 1107 v. 

1 

VHS 817 

Woman of the year Hilarious excursion into the battle of the sexes DVD 326 

Women artists; the other side of the picture discuss the dearth of women's artwork in major galleries and examine the 

poignant social history of women in the fine arts 

DVD 425 

Women in classical Greek drama Film clips from notable productions support this in-depth discussion DVD 398 

Women of Hull-House Women social reformers VHS 883 

Women of summer Documents an historic moment when feminists, unionists and educators came 

together to pursue a common social idea. From 1921 to 1938, seventeen 

hundred blue collar women participated in a controversial and inspired 

educational experiment known as the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women 

Workers 

VHS 2295 

Woodrow Wilson Story of a professor who became one of America's greatest presidents. DVD 305 

Word is out : stories of some of our lives / 

a film by Mariposa Film Group 

Work, retirement and economic status 

/University of Hawaii, Center on Aging 

Interviews with 26 diverse people who speak out about their experiences as gay 

men and women 

Labor force trends for older people, early retirement and new job opportunities 

for older workers 

Workfare, welfare : what's fair? Focuses on a workfare program designed to get people off welfare rolls and into 

jobs 

Working Girl A young secretary in New York named Tess McGill has the brains, looks and 

charm to make it big. 

VHS 2550 

VHS 2838 

VHS 1597 

DVD 219


Working girls / Miramax Films Drama about the experiences of women paid to guarantee satisfaction VHS 715 

Working with Japan 1. Preparation -- 2. First meeting --3. Negotiating -- 4. Business entertaining -- 5. 

Women in business -- 6. Managing the relationship 

VHS 1500 

World according to Garp / Warner Bros., 

Inc 

World at 12GHz / Shelburne Films 

production 

Garp is a man whose life unfolds from cradle to grave in counterpoint to the 

dizzy, violent, cruel and casually destructive rhythms of our anxious age 

Discusses the KU-Band satellite explains how it functions with back-yard dishes 

and a master control station 

VHS 1833 

VHS 2868 

World at war An historical collection in words and film of World War II DVD 505 v. 

1-5 

World in flames. Part 1, From Hitler's rise 

to power to the Blitzkrieg 

The first part examines how Hitler came into power and the changes he wrought VHS 1583 

World of Alwin Nikolais. Program 1 Compilation drawn from 5 multi-media works choreographed by Alwin Nikolais VHS 253 

World of chemistry / Educational Film 

Center and the University of Maryland 

World of dredging / U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers 

Journey through the exciting world of chemistry with Nobel laureate Ronald 

Hoffmann as your guide. T 

Shows how the Corps of Engineers, acting on its own and in cooperation with 

private dredging companies 

World of ideas anthology / Bill Moyers Bill Moyers listening and talking with scientists, writers, artists, philosophers 

and historians 

World of ideas; Susan Sontag Susan Sontag, the renowned writer and human rights activist, talks with Bill 

Moyers about her book Regarding the pain of others. 

VHS 2592 

VHS 1619 

VHS 2128 - 

30 

DVD 1064 

World united against IDS Describes the spread of the AIDS epidemic VHS 2653 

World war II Propaganda series originally produced by the United States government for the 

Morale Services Division which documents the causes and events leading up to 

World War II and exhorts Americans to support the war effort 

World War II Connects the process of erecting the National World War II Memorial in 

Washington, DC, with the stories of the people who experienced and lived 

through the war 

DVD 512 v. 

1-4 

DVD 593 

World War II WW II 1939-1945 / Time inc. VHS 1509 

World War II : after Pearl Harbor (1941- 

45) / Universal Archives 

Uses American and foreign films to depict the war in Europe and the Pacific VHS 1575 

World War II : before Pearl Harbor (1931- 

41) / Universal Archives 

World War two / Films for the 

Humanities & Sciences 

Details the Axis countries' activities which culminated in the U.S. entry into WW 

II 

VHS 1574 

Provides documentary film of World War II VHS 335 

World without bodies this video documentary shares the visit of five disabled persons to the 

Psychiatric Kranksenhaus in Bernburg, Germany 

VHS 955 

Worn path This program is based on a Eudora Welty short story about a 95-year-old 

African-American woman 

VHS 986 

Worship of nature / [a BBC TV 

production] 

Examines the rise of the romantic movement in 19th century England. VHS 1296 

Wreckers "The fight for women's voting rights is told through the writings of two turn-of-thecentury 

suffragettes 

DVD 451 

Wrecker's ball : three dances by Paul 

Taylor 

Three modern dance works respectively set to pop songs of the 1940s, 1950s, 

and 1960s. 

Wrestling with manhood How so-called 'entertainment' is related to homophobia, sexual assault and 

relationship violence 

Writing a business report synopsis / 

presented by Renee Lapham 

Describes the process of writing an executive synopsis for the beginning of a 

report 

VHS 249 

DVD 402 

VHS 755 

Writing social stories with Carol Gray Autism, social skills, study & teaching VHS 1660 

Writing women's lives Eight prominent contemporary women authors tell about what matters to them in 

regard to childhood, love, marriage and children, starting out, the creative 

process, publishing, politics, philosophy, success and motivation 

DVD 467 

Wuthering Heights / produced by Samuel 

Goldwyn 

Story of the impact of an abused waif, Heathcliff, on two Yorkshire families, at 

the close of the 18th century. 

VHS 1773


Yankee doodle dandy A rousing musical depicting the life of George M. Cohan--playwright, entertainer, 

and composer 

Yankee Samurai : the little iron men Story of the Nisei 100-442nd regiment during World War II. Interviews with 

survivors 

Yankee years / WGBH-TV in association 

with the Blackwell Corporation 

Looks at the turbulent years from the Spanish-American War in 1898 to the 

1950's 

Year of living dangerously An ambitious Australian reporter on his first overseas assignment, is befriended 

by a Eurasian cameraman, Billy Kwan, with connections in high places. 

Yellow wallpaper : / screenplay by Marie 

Ashton 

Yellowstone under fire / a production of 

Production West, Inc. for Frontline 

An aspiring writer, completely isolated, creates a world inside the wallpaper in 

her room 

Examines the impact of exploration for oil and minerals and the timber industry 

on Yellowstone National Park 

DVD 495 

VHS 2642 

VHS 327 

DVD 623 

VHS 2948 

VHS 2063 

Yellowstone, the first national park / a 

presentation of Reader's Digest 

Explores Yellowstone National Park VHS 1734 

Yesterday After falling ill, Yesterday learns that she is HIV positive DVD 816 

Yesterday, tomorrow, and you / British 


Yidl in the middle : growing up Jewish in 

Iowa 

Yosemite, a gift of creation / a 

presentation of Reader's Digest 

Presents essential moments from the previous programs in the series in order 

to illustrate common factors that make for change at different times and in 

different places. 

VHS 125 

This film looks at growing up 'different' in America. VHS 831 

Explores the natural beauty of Yosemite National Park. Includes Yosemite Falls, 

Bridalveil Falls, El Capitan, Yosemite Valley 

You can handle them all Step-by-step approach to changing inappropriate behavior to appropriate 

behavior 

You can't take it with you Comedy about the Sycamores, an eccentric family of free spirits, and the 

problems that arises when Alice, the one stable member, falls for her boss's son 

VHS 1736 

VHS 2632-35 

DVD 1012 

You can't take it with you The chronicles of the antic activities of the eccentric Sycamore family and their 

bizarre pastimes. 

VHS 1313 

You don't know dick Provides honest and riveting portraits of six men who once were women. VHS 950 

You may call her Madam Secretary Life and work of Frances Perkins, who served as Secretary of Labor VHS 1493 

Young and innocent /director, Alfred 

Hitchcock 

A young screenwriter, suspected of murdering an actress, enlists the aid of the 

daughter of the chief constable 

Young at art Highlights the work of the young artists in all grades, K-12. Using interviews with 

students as well as the art teachers who have mentored the budding artists 

VHS 463 

DVD 766 

Young Frankenstein Dr. Frankenstein soon discovers the scientist's step-by-step manual explaining 

how to bring a corpse to life. 

DVD 152 

Young Mr. Lincoln / 20th Century-Fox A fictionalized account of Abraham Lincoln's early years as a lawyer in 

Springfield, Ill. 

VHS 2621 

Your financial future. Investment basics. Basic facts to help the beginning investor reach their goal VHS 757 

Your job in Germany / produced by the 

Army Pictorial Service 

Training films for the U.S. Army Occupation Forces following World War II VHS 605 

Your mythic journey / Bill Moyers Explore our lives as an ongoing narrative, to discover the stories we've been 

living without ever knowing it 

VHS 2660 

Your right to decide : Ohio's living will law Explains how Ohio's living will law works and how to use the law to control 

health care decisions that affect one's life 

VHS 2935 

Zero-G and space suits : National 

Aeronautics and Space Administration 

Deals with Apollo space suits, including their pressure garment assembly and 

life support systems 

VHS 570 

Zielinskis / WGTE TV A four-part program based on the case history of a family in therapy. VHS 294 

Zora Neale Hurston; a heart with room for 

every joy 

This video examines the rich legacy of the writings of Zora Neale Hurston DVD 1008

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