Jane Sloan Media Librarian jsloan@rci.rutgers.edu June 2006

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Protest and Resistance

This guide is a browsing aid to selected titles in the video/DVD collections at Rutgers Libraries. The most up-to-date, accurate, and complete information regarding the libraries' holdings is available only through IRIS, our online catalog.

Ali 2002

Dramatic biography of boxing great Muhammad Ali, which focuses on the ten-year period of 1964-1974. In that time, the brash, motor-mouthed athlete quickly dominates his sport, meets and marries his first wife, converts to Islam (changing his name from Cassius Clay), and defies the United States government by refusing to submit to military conscription for duty in Vietnam. His world heavyweight championship title thus stripped from him entirely for political reasons, the champ sets about to win back his crown, culminating in a legendary unification bout against George Foreman in Zaire, dubbed the "Rumble in the Jungle.".

1 videodisc (157 min.) :

MEDIA 10-162

American beauty 2000

An emotionally & spiritually comatose suburban man decides "to hell with it all" and reverts to living as he did when he was happiest--as a carefree teenager. His desperately uptight wife and sullen daughter can only look on as he quits his corporate job to become a burger flipper, starts getting high with a strange new neighbor (whose parents are even stranger) and lusts after a pouty blonde teenager--his daughter's best friend.

1 videodisc (122 min.) :

MEDIA 10-154

Another woman 2001

When a distinguished philosophy professor turns 50, she feels compelled to take emotional stock of her life. But the deeper she digs the more her life seems to unravel, until she realizes that her search for truth is a personal odyssey of self-examination, discovery and acceptance.

1 videodisc (81 min.)

DANA 222

Bound 2000

A gangster's mistress finds a new lesbian, ex-con lover in the apartment next door and together they plan to steal over 2 million dollars from the mob.

1 videocassette (ca. 108 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5993

Boys don't cry 2000

A transgendered youth starts living as a man, and assumes the name Brandon Teena. He moves to a tiny Nebraska town and begins making new friends under his new identity. All goes well until his new friends discover his secret. Based on a true story about hope, fear, and the courage it takes to be yourself.

1 videodisc (118 min.)

DANA 212

Boys don't cry 2000

The story of the life of Teena Brandon, a transgender youth who preferred life in her male identity as Brandon Teena.

1 videocassette (118 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5312

The cider house rules 2000

Tells how far a young man must travel to find the place where he truly belongs. Homer has lived nearly his entire life within the walls of an orphanage in rural Maine and has been groomed by its proprietor to be his successor. But Homer falls in love and strikes out on his own.

1 videodisc (125 min.)

MEDIA 10-230

Crimes and misdemeanors 2005

Weaving together several different stories about people's lives, loves, perceptions, and ideals, this examines some of the toughest questions surrounding human nature.

1 videodisc (104 min.)

DANA 221

Eyes wide shut 2000

A wife's admission of unfulfilled sexual longings plunges Dr. William Harford, a New Yorker, into an erotic odyssey that could destroy his marriage and ensnare him in a lurid murder mystery.

1 videocassette (159 min.; bonus footage, 20 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5286

Fight club 2000

When a ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a soap salesman channel their aggresion into therapeutic "fight clubs", an eccentric woman gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.

1 videocassette (139 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5992

Ghost Dog the way of the samurai 2000

East meets West in this hip-hop infused samurai-gangster story in which a professional killer goes by the name of Ghost Dog and who lives by the age-old code of the samurai. When Ghost Dog's code is dangerously betrayed by the dysfunctional mafia family that occasionally employs him, he must find a way to defend himself without breaking the code of the samurai.

1 videodisc (116 min.) :

MEDIA 10-78

Girl, interrupted 2000

The fascinating true story of a young woman's life-altering stay at a famous psychiatric hospital in the late 1960's.

1 videocassette (127 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5237

Girlfight 2001

Diana Guzman is always fighting, whether at home in the housing projects with her abusive dad or at high school. She finds a new outlet for her anger at her brother'sboxing gym. With hard-core training from veteran boxing coach Hector, Diana learns she has the guts and talent to be a contender.

1 videodisc (110 min.) :

MEDIA 10-112

The Green mile 2000

Death Row guards at a penitentiary, in the 1930's, have a moral dilemma with their job when they discover one of their prisoners, a convicted murderer, has a special gift.

1 videodisc (188 min.) :

MEDIA 10-92

Heartland 2000

Against the hardships of blizzards, famine, isolation, illness and death, Clyde and Elinore defend their personal boundaries: Clyde his farm, his herd, and his willful devotion to this family; Elinore all of these and her determined consciousness both as a pioneer and as a woman.

1 videocassette (96 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5226

The house of mirth 2001

The glittering yet treacherous world of New York High Society comes to life in the heartbreaking story of Lily Bart, a renowned beauty of exquisite charm who seeks a wealthy husband but winds up disgraced and discarded.

1 videocassette (140 min.) :

DANA. DANA. DANA 1548 1548 1548

I am Sam love is all you need 2002

Sam Dawson has the mental capacity of a 7-year-old. He works at a Starbucks and is obsessed with the Beatles. He has a daughter with a homeless woman; she abandons them as soon as they leave the hospital. He names his daughter Lucy Diamond (after the Beatles song), and raises her. But as she reaches age 7 herself, Sam's limitations start to become a problem at school; she's intentionally holding back to avoid looking smarter than him. The authorities take her away, and Sam shames high-priced lawyer Rita Harrison into taking his case pro bono. In the process, he teaches her a great deal about love, and whether it's really all you need.

1 videodisc (134 min.) :

MEDIA 10-113

A.I. Artificial intelligence 2002

Visions of a future full of astonishing android technology, David, an advanced android, embarks on an extraordinary adventure to discover the secret of his own identity.

1 videocassette (145 min.) :

DANA 1706

Iron jawed angels 2004

Alice Paul and Lucy Burns were two defiant suffragist women who fought for the passage of the 19th Amendment. The two activists broke from the mainstream women's rights movement and created a more radical wing, daring to push the boundaries to secure women's voting rights in 1920. In a country dominated by chauvinism, this is no easy fight. Along the way, sacrifices are made: Alice gives up a chance for love, and collegue Inez Mulholland gives up her life.

1 videodisc (123 min.)

DANA 210

Keep the faith, baby 2003

Based on the true story of Adam Clayton Powell, a larger-than-life wartime congressman with an unconventional style. He started out as a preacher, but with his passion for justice, he led an impressive two-decade career - shaking up Congress with his gutsy determination to spearhead a movement that aimed to make life better for African Americans everywhere. He was eventually thrown out of Congress on charges of misconduct.

1 videodisc (ca. 106 min.)

DANA 86

A knight's tale 2001

Performer Note: Heath Ledger, Mark Addy, Rufus Sewell, Paul Bettany, Shannyn Sossamon, Alan Tudyk, Laura FraserThe rousing story of lowborn Willian Thatcher's quest to change his stars, win the heart of an exceedingly fair maiden and rock his medieval world. Follow this fearless squire and his band of medieval misfits as they careen their way toward impossible glory that's part romance, part road trip and part exuberant swashbuckling.

1 videocassette (132 min.)

MEDIA 2-7404

The long kiss goodnight 2001

After eight years of amnesia, a schoolteacher learns she was once a lethal assassin for the CIA, and teams up with a wise-cracking detective to uncover her past before a hi-tech army of corrupt government renegades kills them both.

1 videocassette (120 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5991

The lost boys 2004

A young teen thinks his town of Santa Cruz is infested with vampires, and becomes convinced of it when his own brother starts turning into one. Includes a commentary with director Joel Schumacher; featurettes; deleted scenes; and much more.

2 videodiscs (97 min.)

MEDIA 10-408

Mulholland Dr 2002

Two women are caught up in a mystery and web of erotic passion.

1 videocassette (147 min.)

MEDIA 2-6374

The name of the rose 2004

Investigating the deaths of two monks, a visiting brother discovers a secret library containing rare books considered lost to the world and dangerous to the Catholic faith.

1 videodisc (131 min.)

MEDIA 10-550

"O" 2002

A provocative tale of jealousy, seduction and betrayal. A controversial modern-day version of Shakespeare's classic "Othello". "O" is the schools' best basketball player and NBA hopeful. He is adored by all including his coach and a beautiful classmate. "O" has a troubled friend, who is the coaches' son and he is deeply resentful of his fathers preference to "O" on and off the court. The seeds of mistrust are sown and it sets into motion a disturbing chain of events.

2 videodiscs (94 min.)

DANA 94

O brother, where art thou? 2000

Loosely based on Homer's "Odyssey", three escaped chain gang convicts have to travel home to try and recover buried loot from a bank heist. Along the way they meet up with some strange characters.

1 videocassette (ca. 103 min.)

DANA 2013

Pollock 2001

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. Pollock and Krasner escape to the country to marry, and soon, Pollock creates the work that makes him the first internationally-famous modern painter in America. But with fame and fortune comes a volatile temper and severe self-doubt; before long, Pollock's life threatens to explode.

1 videodisc (122 min.) :

MEDIA 10-105

Selma, Lord, Selma 2000

In 1965, a young Alabama schoolgirl is inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to resist the degradation that her fellow African Americans are suffering. Along with a White seminary student from the North, she promises to do what she can to help Dr. King's efforts.

1 videocassette (ca. 88 min.)

DANA 2066

Startup.com 2001

A riviting story about how friendship can be devoured in an effort to storm the e-business world. Two boyhood friends, one is a gentle soul with a daughter and the other is an ambitious business-school graduate, launch an internet company. It's a test between loyalty or success.

1 videocassette (103 min.) :

DANA 1555

The sum of all fears 2002

CIA agent Jack Ryan finds himself in a race against time to stop terrorists who plan to ignite a war between the U.S. and Russia by detonating a nuclear bomb at the Super Bowl game.

1 videodisc (123 min.) :

MEDIA 10-156

Waking life 2002

Join Wiley Wiggins as he searches for answers to the question of whether we are sleepwalking through our waking state or wake-walking through our dreams.

1 videodisc (101 min.) :

DANA 6

Zora is my name! 2003

Dramatiization of the life of Zora Neale Hurston, who wrote of the folklore of the rural south.

1 videocassette (88 min.) :

DANA 1813