Jane Sloan Media Librarian jsloan@rci.rutgers.edu December 2003

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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.

The Age of innocence 1993

"A ravishing romance about three wealthy New Yorkers caught in a tragic love triangle, the ironically-titled story chronicles the grandeur and hypocrisy of high society in the 1870's"--Container.

MEDIA 2-2842

Alice 198?

Alice is sitting in her room full of toys reading Lewis Carroll's story, during which she too is carried off to Wonderland. As she follows the elusive white rabbit, so begins this dream expedition into the landscape of childhood, through many dangerous adventures, and ultimately to her trial before the king and queen of hearts.

MEDIA 2-1260

And the band played on 1993

Follows the struggle of a handful of strong-willed men and women who took on the fight to save lives in the face of a mysterious illness now called AIDS.

DANA. MEDIA 587 2-2604

An Angel at my table 1992

Part 1. To the is-land -- pt. 2. An Angel Mirror City -- pt. 3. The Envoy from Mirror CityChronicles the life and times of the acclaimed New Zealand author, Janet Frame.

MEDIA 2-2074

Aparajito The Unvanquished 1991

Second part of the Apu trilogy, the chronicle of a Bengali family. Apu's father brings his family to Benares but gets sick and dies. His mother must work as a cook while young Apu begins to train for the priesthood and wins a scholarship to the University of Calcutta.

DANA 275

The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman 1994

Presents the story of the long life of Miss Jane Pittman, who began her life as a slave in the South and who marched for her civil rights in the 20th century at the age of 110.

DANA 1033

Babette's gæstebud Babette's feast 1999

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. Before long, Babette has convinced them to try something other than boiled codfish and ale bread-- a gourmet French meal! Her feast scandalizes the elders, except for the visiting General. Just who is this strangely talented Babette, who has terrified this pious town with the prospect of losing their souls for enjoying too much earthly pleasure?

DANA. MEDIA 1291 2-3962

Beauty and the beast La belle et la bête 1990?

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. Contains such visual displays as tears that become real diamonds and walls that grow arms to light Beauty's path through the castle of the Beast.

DANA. MEDIA 273 2-125

Black like me 1992

A white writer travels through the racially torn South of the 1950's as a black man by chemically darkening his skin color and cutting and dyeing his hair to personally experience and write about racism and prejudice.

DANA 1009

Brideshead revisited 1988

The story of a young man's haunting relationship with an aristocratic family and their world from the early twenties to World War II.

MEDIA. . . 2-918 cassette 1 2-919 cassette 2 2-920 cassette 3 2-921 cassette 4 2-922 cassette 5 2-923 cassette 6

Bus stop 1987

A comedy-drama about a down-on-her-luck singer stranded in a snowbound bus stop in the wilds of Arizona. A romance develops between the singer and a rodeo cowboy.

DANA. MEDIA 14 2-1340

The Canterbury tales I racconti di Canterbury 1998

An adaptation of four stories from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. These stories of romance, deception, murder and lust are told in a uniquely candid and ribald way.

MEDIA 2-3925

Cartas del parque Letters from the park 1991

Two shy young lovers enlist the help of a poet to write passionate letters to each other. When the poet becomes enamored of the young woman, the three are faced with a perplexing dilemma.

DANA 636

Cat on a hot tin roof 1984

A story of deception which is destroying a patriarchal Southern family as its' members gather for the imminent demise of their "Big Daddy.".

MEDIA. 2-230 2-6244

The Children of Sanchez 1978

Sanchez is the proud patriarch of a poor Mexican family. The Sanchez clan has seen the worst of times, yet they have survived so long by sticking together. Now Consuelo, Sanchez' oldest daughter, wants to break away from the poverty and succeed on her own as an airline attendant. But Sanchez expects her to help him raise the three younger children in this single-parent, single-room household.

MEDIA 2-1950

The Children's hour 2000

When a vindictive little girl is disciplined in an exclusive girl's school, the child twists an overheard comment into slander. She accuses her teachers of lesbianism--and her gullible grandmother spreads the gossip. Outraged, the teachers, Karen and Martha fight back in court, but a child's lie is hard to disprove.

MEDIA 2-5313

Chinatown 1995

A private investigator stumbles into a land grabbing plot schemed by a ruthless millionaire. Set in pre-war California (1930's), this film provides the characteristics of the classic detective novel in the Hammett or Chandler tradition.

DANA 471

La Chute de la maison Usher The fall of the house of Usher 198?

MEDIA 2-1266

The Clouds 1975?

British adaptation of Aristophanes's comedy.

MEDIA 4-561

The Color purple 1997

"Based on Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The color purple is the richly-textured, decades-spanning story of Celie, an uneducated woman living in the rural American south. Forced to marry a brutal man she calls 'Mr.,' Celie turns inward and shares her grief only with God. But she is transformed by the friendship of two remarkable women, acquiring self-worth ... and the strength to forgive"--Container.

DANA 1006

The Country girl 1989

This is the story of three sensitive people caught in a painful tangle: Bing Cosby is the aging, alcoholic star, desperate for a chance at a come back ; William Holden is the brash, insolent young director, who believes that the actor's wife is responsible for his downfall ; and Grace Kelly is the wife whose love for her husband might destroy him.

MEDIA 2-1496

Crime et chatiment Crime and punishment 1986

An adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel. Pierre Blanchar is the tormented student murderer Raskolnikov. This film emphasizes his tortured isolation and near madness.

MEDIA 2-1871

Les dames du Bois de Bologne 1995

A woman who is growing apart from her lover finds he is also bored with the relationship. This disturbs her and she introduces him to a woman he finds appealing who has been a prostitute, a damaging circumstance to one of his class.

MEDIA 2-5328

Death in Venice 1981

An aging, homosexual world-famous composer and conductor pursues his obsessional quest for ideal beauty in Venice, Italy circa 1911. Drawn to a lovely young boy, his secret love is unrequited, and he succumbs to cholera when an epidemic hits the Lido Isle.

MEDIA 2-2866

Death of a salesman 1986

The story of the decline of an aging salesman provides a corrosive look at the dark side of the American dream. Dustin Hoffman portrays Willy Loman, whose memories, failures, self-deceptions, expections and hypocracies are revealed in an epic, yet intimate interrogation of values. Director Schlöndorff's surreal and stylized visuals provide both allegorical and pyschological richness. A film made for television.

DANA. MEDIA 72 2-895

The Decameron 1985?

Pasolini's rendition of several of Boccaccio's tales from The Decameron. Boccaccio's tales reflect on the eternal foolishness of man, but also display fasacinating details of 14th-century Italian life.

MEDIA 2-949

Deliverance 1992

Four ordinary men from the city canoe down a Georgia river determined to test themselves against a wilderness they only think they understand.

MEDIA 2-3736

Der blaue Engel The Blue angel 1993

A German professor foolishly becomes infatuated with an immoral cabaret singer.

DANA 329

Diary of a country priest 198-

The first internationally recognized work of the French cinema's most spiritual artist-director was this adaptation of Georges Bernanos' novel about a priest with a small rural parish who is thwarted by his community for his extreme piousness while he is slowly dying of cancer.

MEDIA 2-349

Don Giovanni 1991

MUSIC. MUSIC 296 cassette 1 296 cassette 2

Don Segundo Sombra 1995

Don Segundo Sombra narrates the story of Fabio Cáceres as he grows into adulthood. Don Segundo Sombra, an old "gaucho", is his mentor and model; he teaches him moral and human values through his behavior, stories, and example.

DANA 638

Doña Bárbara de Rómulo Gallegos 1987

Doña Bárbara, feared for her witchcraft, becomes involved in a land dispute with Santos Luzardo, a lawyer who has come to take charge of his property. Both she and her daughter, fall in love with the lawyer in this film reflecting the conflict between civilization and primitivism.

DANA 642

Dona Flor e seus dois maridos Dona Flor and her two husbands 1994

When a passionate young widow marries a respectable but undemonstrative man, the naked ghost of her first husband returns to make her life more interesting.

DANA 712

El Pícaro 1993

The Spanish non-hero El Pícaro is presented in a series of picaresque adventures, drawing on the writings of Cervantes, Quevedo, Alemán and others.

DANA 692

El Quijote Don Quixote 1993

An old Spaniard becomes so impressed by stories of ancient chivalry that he transforms himself into a mighty knight-errant and takes up arms in defense of the weak and the oppresssed.

MEDIA. . 2-2996 cassette 1 2-2997 cassette 2 2-2998 cassette 3 2-2999 cassette 4 2-3000 cassette 5

Emma 1997

Emma Woodhouse is a young woman who, having engineered the marriage of her companion, turns her attention toward making a match for the local vicar. Her one voice of reason is Mr. Knightley, who watches her behaviour with amusement and sometimes with real anger. Emma presides over Highbury with enthusiasm, but she will find it is all too easy to confuse good intentions with self-gratification.

DANA 1460

The Entertainer 198-1960

Laurence Olivier portrays Archie Rice, a third-rate vaudevillian in moral, spiritual and professional decline. When his raging ego demands he be admired by one and all, his world collapses onto the garbage heap he has built up through a life of self-deceit, sneaky schemes, and ruthless unconcern for those who love him.

MEDIA 2-2420

Ethan Frome 199?

Story of a man torn between his joyless marriage to one woman and his passionate desire for another.

MEDIA 2-2622

Falstaff (Chimes at midnight) 198?

Story of the friendship between the bohemian, boisterous Falstaff and the young Prince Hal, the future King of England. It dramatizes the betrayal of that friendship, and Falstaff's disillusionment when the prince does become king.

DANA 837

Far from the madding crowd 1997

Screen version of Thomas Hardy's classic love story about a headstrong young woman whose life becomes entwined with three disparate men: a dashing soldier, a wealthy landowner, and a sheep farmer.

MEDIA. 2-3213 pt. 1 2-3214 pt. 2

Forever Amber 1994

A romantic adventure of an amorous courtesan who is able to conquer any man - except the one she really wants.

MEDIA 2-5964

Gas food lodging 1992

Love and sex complicate the lives of Nora Evans and her two teenage daughters in this coming of age film set in a small New Mexico town.

MEDIA 2-2788

The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess 1993

This video is the adaptation of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera stage production of the Gershwins' classic musical drama Porgy and Bess, which portrays the lives of the occupants of Catfish Row.

MUSIC. MUSIC 291 cassette 1 291 cassette 2

Great expectations 1988

Adaptation of the Dickens story about an orphan who, in a chance meeting with an escaped convict, is lead years later to tragedy, mystery, and wealth.

MEDIA 2-464

The Great Gatsby 1988

Fitzgerald's masterful story of Jay Gatsby, the dashing, enigmatic millionaire obsessed with the elusive and spoiled Daisy Buchanan, during the Jazz Age era in which recklessness with money, liquor, women and fast cars pervaded the American consciousness.

MEDIA 2-1410

The Grifters 1991

The Grifters walk the razor's edge of life. Hard-playing, high-rollers, they're con-artists out to make a fast buck the best way they know how.

MEDIA 2-2201

Hamlet 1991

Shakespeare's tale of the Danish prince who broods long on his father's murder, but whose action, when it comes, proves swift and terrible for all.

DANA. MEDIA 657 657 2-1722

Hamlet 1997

Hamlet's father, the King of Denmark, is murdered by his brother Claudius in order to gain the throne. When the ghost of the old King tells Hamlet to kill Claudius, Hamlet is torn between the desire to avenge his father's death and his reluctance to shed blood. In the end, tragedy destroys them all.

DANA. MEDIA 973 2-1447

Hamlet 1997

An adaptation of Shakespeare's greatest creation.

DANA. MEDIA. 972 2-3267 2-3268

Henrik Ibsen's A doll's house 1998

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.

DANA. MEDIA 1564 2-5329

Henry V 1989

Young King Henry of England asserts a hereditary claim to the throne of France, gathering an army and embarking on a course that will lead to one of England's greatest battlefield triumphs and forever change the face of Europe.

DANA. DANA 1406 1406

The House of the spirits 1994

This is a romantic epic of three generations of the Trueba family. At its core is the passionate relationship between the husband and wife, enriched by stories of seduction, revenge, forgiveness, and the power of love.

DANA 631

Hughie 1984

Hughie has just died and his friend, Erie Smith is coming off a five day drunk and doesn't want to go to his room alone, now that Hughie is gone.

MEDIA 2-84

I know why the caged bird sings 1998

Young Maya leads a precarious existence in racist, Depression-era Arkansas, where she is shunted between her grandmother's house and mother's--where she is raped--and withdraws into total silence. She endures to share her realization in her valedictory address: "In order to lift your voice, you have to lift your head.".

DANA. MEDIA 1008 2-3799

The Importance of being earnest 1988

Film adaptation of the Oscar Wilde comedy about a lovestruck suitor named Jack whose fiancee can only love a man named Ernest.

MEDIA 2-1427

The Informer 1987

During the Irish rebellion a man informs on a friend in order to collect the reward.

MEDIA 2-1245

Jean de Florette 1988

Jean, a simple man from the country, inherits his mother's farm and hopes to become a gentleman farmer. His greedy, powerful neighbor, however, knows of a hidden spring on Jean's property, and plots to steal both the land and the water. Part 1 of two parts; the storyline is continued in Manon of the spring.

DANA 318

The Joy Luck Club 1993

Juxtaposes scenes from the lives of four Chinese women in pre-1949 China and the lives of their American-born daughters to show how the mothers' experiences in China and as immigrants in the United States shaped their dreams for their daughters' lives.

MEDIA 2-2611

The Joyless street 1990

A drama about the hunger and passion of the people living under the distorted conditions of inflation-ridden, post World War I Vienna.

MEDIA 2-1863

King Solomon's mines 1937

The search for King Solomon's mines leads a safari through the treacherous terrain of the desert, fending off sandstorms, Zulus, and a volcanic eruption.

DANA. MEDIA 815 2-2991

Krapp's last tape 1988

Jack McGowran, a well-known Beckett actor, appears in a restored 1971 television version of "Krapp's last tape", the tale of an aging, dehumanized man reliving his life of thirty years before as he prepares his memoirs with the aid of an old tape recorder.

DANA. MEDIA 1571 1571 2-1764

Lady Macbeth von Mzensk 1999

The tale of Katerina Ismailova, who is trapped in a loveless marriage. The action takes place in Mtsensk immediately before the Russian Revolution of 1917. In the tradition of "Anna Karenina" and "Madame Bovary," Katerina's fatalistic pursuit of passion has disastrous results.

MUSIC 29

Lancelot du lac 1995

Set in the last days of the doomed quest by Lancelot and the rest of King Arthur's knights for the Holy Grail, this is a tale of the end of the age of chivalry and the death of a dream.

MEDIA 2-5334

The last of the Mohicans 1999

The love of Hawkeye, rugged frontiersman and adopted son of the Mohicans, and Cora Munro, aristocratic daughter of a British colonel, blazes amidst a brutal conflict between the British, the French and Native American allies in colonial America.

MEDIA 10-94

La Leyenda del alcalde de Zalamea 1993

"A major key to understanding Spanish values is understanding the Spanish concepts of honor and loyalty. The story of the alcalde of Zalamea is a traditional exemplification of those concepts, and of the potentially irreconcilable conflict between them"--Container.

DANA. DANA 678 cassette 1 678 cassette 2

A life in the theatre 1994

The entertaining backstage story of two repertory actors: the old master of his craft and the rising young star he takes under his wing.

DANA 559

Life on a string 1993

A fable of a blind boy who is promised the restoration of his sight if he devotes his life to music.

MEDIA 2-2599

Little Dorrit, film one nobody's fault 1989

Arthur Clennan returns to his native London after spending 20 years in China and is bursting with enterprise. When Arthur's dreams and investments falter it's simply "nobody's fault." Or is it? "Little Dorritt," an eye-filling epic told in two films ("Nobody's fault," "Little Dorritt's story") captures the teeming world of Charles Dickens' Victorian England.

MEDIA. 2-1461 cassette 1 2-1462 cassette 2

Little Dorrit, film two Little Dorrit's story 1989

Life in London's debtor prison may have stunted Amy Dorrit's growth a bit, but her spirit soars. Newcomer Sarah Pickering portrays indomitable Amy Dorrit, Derek Jacobi plays good-hearted, weak-willed Clennam and Alec Guiness is Amy's father who "does what he can" to give his threadbare debtor-prison life a genteel air.

MEDIA. 2-1464 cassette 1 2-1465 cassette 2

The Lottery 1969

"The Lottery," Shirley Jackson's most famous story, was filmed in the setting of a small American town. The townspeople--a group of decent, ordinary families--gather on a June morning to perform the annual lottery ritual. The matter-of-fact way in which the ceremony proceeds accentuates its brutality and senselessness in our time.

DANA. MEDIA 986 2-1134

Love of a clown = Pagliacci 195

Based on the opera of the same title by Ruggiero Leoncavallo, about a jealous actor who uses his role as a duped husband and clown to seek personal revenge against his unfaithful wife.

MUSIC 293

The man who mistook his wife for a hat a neurological opera 1988

Case story sung as opera of a man diagnosed with visual agnosia, a condition in which he can see, but cannot make sense of what he sees.

MUSIC 453

Mansfield Park 1995

True virtue triumph's over superficiality in this distinguished BBC production of Jane Austen's celebrated novel set in 18th century England. Young, impoverished Fanny Price arrives at the elegant estate of her uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram. Snubbed by Everyone except her cousin Edmund, she begins her long struggle for accceptance by her shallow relatives who believe wealth automatically means quality.

MEDIA. 2-2889 cassette 1 2-2890 cassette 2

Marianela 1987

"The story of a disfigured orphan whose only solace is to serve as guide to a young and handsome blind man, Pablo. When he recovers his eyesight, Marianela's fragile world is shattered."--External container.

DANA 392

The Marquise 1993

Comedy set in Paris, 1735, involving a Compte, his daughter, and his former mistress, the beautiful, witty and cunning Marquise.

MEDIA 2-2083

McCabe & Mrs. Miller 1991

Cold, austere Presbyterian Church is just another small mining town in the turn-of-the-century Pacific Northwest: a perfect place for John Q.McCabe and Constance Miller to bring a touch of "civilization". He's a small-time gambler who dreams of running a big-time bordello. She's a madam from Seattle who arrives to make that dream come true.

MEDIA 2-3789

Medea 1970

Medea, high priestess of the Golden Fleece, falls in love with Jason, and, stealing the prized article, flees with him to Corinth. Jason eventually betrays her, however, when he falls in love with the daughter of Creon. In a white heat of anger, Medea murders Creon, his daughter, and finally her two sons by Jason, then flees, leaving him to face a wifeless, childless future.

DANA. MEDIA 21 2-1453

Medea 1991

A modern-language production of the classic tragedy of a proud woman betrayed by the man she loves.

DANA 1602

Mouchette 198-

A 14-year old friendless schoolgirl, Mouchette, lives with her alcoholic bootlegger father and bedridden dying mother. One day she witness a fight between Arsene and Mathieu. When she tries to console Arsene after he accuses himself of killing Mathieu, he misinterprets her actions and rapes her. Her mother's death and other tragedies increase her hostility and isolation from the world around her. She kills herself.

MEDIA 2-708

My sister Eileen 1992

The Sherwood sisters, Ruth (Garrett) and Eileen (Leigh), move from Ohio to New York City to seek their fame and fortune, Ruth as an author, and Eileen as an actress. When Ruth writes about her sister in one of her short stories, magazine editor Robert Baker (Lemmon), to whom Ruth has sent the story, expresses an interest in meeting the head-turning Eileen.

MEDIA 2-2073

Native son 1994

Set in Chicago, Native son tells the story of Bigger Thomas, a young black man who accidentally murders his employer's daughter while performing his duties as chauffeur. The combined forces of institutional racism and condescending white liberalism pursue Thomas to an unhappy end. The author plays the leading role in this film version.

DANA 596

Neil Simon's the heartbreak kid 1998

Lenny Cantrow (Grodin), an ambitious 27-year-old sporting goods salesman, meets a girl named Lila (Berlin) in a Manhattan singles bar. Following a brief courtship, Lenny proposes marriage. On their honeymoon in Florida, Lenny decides that he's made a mistake. Lenny falls head over heels in love with a college student (Shepherd) vacationing with her wealthy parents but there is one small complication-- he's a newlywed!

MEDIA 2-3822

Niebla 1980

An adaptation of Unamuno's absurdist novel in which the central character seeks to justify his existence by ultimately confronting the author.

MEDIA 2-9

Night and the city 1993

Harry Fabian, a London hustler and con man, dreams of scamming his way into the big time. When he plunges into the wrestling world as a promoter, Harry thinks he has found his ticket to the top, but learns he must scheme his way around the ruthless boss of London's underworld.

MEDIA 2-3578

'Night, mother 1987

Sissy Spacek and Anne Bancroft star in this taut, emotional study about a mother's attempt to stop her distraught daughter from committing suicide. The moving production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play casts Sissy Spacek as an epileptic with a failed marriage and a delinquent son who decides to take control the only way she can--by taking her own life. Bancroft, as the widowed mother with whom she lives, is oblivious to her daughter's depression until she becomes frightfully aware of her plans.

MEDIA 2-1486

The Night of the hunter 1991

A tale of a psychopathic self-styled preacher, who marries and murders a young widow for her money, pursues her children to get his hand on it, only to meet his match in the form of a saintly farm woman, who becomes the children's protector.

DANA 940

Northanger Abbey 1992

In 19th century Bath, a girl enamoured of macabre Gothic novels experiences intrigue, adventure, and romance, especially when the romantic Henry Tilney invites her to his eerie ancestral home.

MEDIA 2-3612

Nosferatu 1984

The first film adaptation of the story of the Transylvanian vampire, Count Dracula.

MEDIA 2-187

Nosferatu the Vampire (Dracula) 198?

The first film adaptation of the story of the Transylvanian vampire, Count Dracula. Hutter, a real estate clerk falls into the clutches of Count Orlock (Nosferatu, the vampire), but escapes. The count moves from his castle in a coffin full of earth and travels to Bremen, bringing a swarm of plague rats. Hutter's wife resolves to destroy the count by keeping him at her bed side till sun rise when the count's body dissolves in the sun's rays and the wife dies.

MEDIA 2-1584

Oedipus at Colonus 1987

This adaptation of Sophocles' play recounts the blind, exiled Oedipus' final days.

MEDIA. 2-2304 cassette 1 2-2305 cassette 2

Oedipus Rex 1988

Sophocles' tragedy as it might have been enacted in ancient Athens, with actors wearing stylized costumes and masks.

DANA. MEDIA 56 56 2-1341

On the beach 1996

Radioactive fallout from a nuclear war has wiped out the entire northern hemisphere. Australia is the only civilized area spared from destruction. With fallout expected momentarily, the Australians review their lives, establish new relationships and prepare for their tragic demise.

MEDIA 2-3791

Once upon a time ... when we were colored 1996

Tells the story of growing up in the segregation-era South, in a community that faced adversity and held together with amazing dignity and grace.

DANA 1011

Our Town 1940

The simple narration of the lives, hopes, and struggles of people of the small New Hampshire town of Grovers at the beginning of this century. The language is profound in its simplicity, coupled with a classically poignant film score of Aaron Copland.

DANA 36

Our town 1977

The Pulitzer Prize and Emmy Award-winning play about love, life and death in a small American town.

DANA. MEDIA 544 2-1437

A Passage to India 1984

Set in India in 1928, a young English woman travels with her fiance's mother to Chandrapore to visit her fiancee who is city magistrate. Appalled at the treatment of the Indians by the British, they befriend a young Indian doctor, who oversteps the accepted boundaries between the classes by inviting the women on a picnic excursion. In a strange turn of events, the doctor is accused of attempted rape of the young English woman. What actually did happen is the central riddle of the film.

MEDIA 2-1902

Paths of glory 1997

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.

MEDIA MEDIA 2-5681 2-853

The Pearl 198?

The story of a poor Mexican fisherman whose dreams of wealth are both realized and shattered.

MEDIA 2-2637

Pelle the conqueror Pelle Erobreren 1988

A poor widower and his son Pelle leave Sweden and set off on a sailing ship bound for Denmark where they hope to find a better life.

DANA 328

The Persecution and assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as performed by the inmates of the asylum at Charenton under the direction of the Marquis de Sade 1989

The infamous Marquis de Sade, confined to the asylum at Charenton near Paris, directs the other inmates in a re-enactment of the bloody assassination of French revolutionary leader Jean-Paul Marat.

MEDIA 2-1763

The Philadelphia story 1992

A sophisticated romantic comedy about a rich, spoiled socialite who learns some things about who she is and what she really wants on the eve of her second marriage.

MEDIA 2-3788

The Plague Peste 1994

In a city quarantined due to a highly contagious disease that is killing more people everyday, three men face the greatest test of their lives, and each responds in a different way to the challenge.

DANA 601

A Portrait of the artist as a young man 1989

"...adaptation of Joyce's autobiographial novel in which the author, through the character of Stephen Dedalus, portrays his youht, Irish Catholic upbringing, and his coming of age at a Dublin university"--Container.

DANA. MEDIA 923 2-3241

Pride and prejudice 1990

In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the suit of a snobbish gentleman as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters.

MEDIA 2-2466

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 1990

Story of an eccentric teacher in an all-girls school in Edinburgh during the 1930's.

MEDIA 2-2666

Pubis angelical 1988

While in her hospital bed, a woman reflects on her life and the roles men have played in her life, against a backdrop of Argentine political events.

DANA 637

Pygmalion 1987

The delightful story of Professor Henry Higgins' efforts to make Eliza Doolittle, a pretty flower girl, into an elegant young lady of society. With first-rate performances by Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller, and George Bernard Shaw's adaptation of his own play, Pygmalion still retains all of its wit and elegance.

MEDIA 2-1449

Raise the red lantern 1992

The 19-year-old Songlian (Gong Li) has become Fourth Wife to the wealthy Chen, and she must share her husband with his other three wives. When Songlian discovers that the other wives manipulate and cheat for their husband's favors, a battle of wills commences between the women that can only bring misfortune to all concerned.

DANA. MEDIA 520 2-2353

A Raisin in the sun 1987

Film of the award-winning play about a struggling black family living on Chicago's South Side and the impact of an unexpected insurance bequest. Each family member sees the bequest as the means of realizing dreams and of escape from grinding frustrations.

DANA 1040

A raisin in the sun 1999

Film of the award-winning play about a struggling black family living on Chicago's South Side and the impact of an unexpected insurance bequest. Each family member sees the bequest as the means of realizing dreams and of escape from grinding frustrations.

MEDIA 10-90

The red badge of courage 1985

During his service in the Civil War, a young Union soldier matures to manhood and finds peace of mind as he comes to grips with his conflicting emotions about war.

MEDIA 2-137

La Rein Margot Queen Margot 1995

Thrown into a political marriage of convenience by her ruthlessly power-hungry family, the beautiful Margot soon finds herself hopelessly drawn into their murderous affairs. It's then she realizes her only hope of escape lies somewhere between the heroic soldier who loves her and the enemy husband who could save her.

MEDIA XX(1748889.1)

A Renaissance of Monteverdi 1981

Explains the cultural, political, and historical background to a courtly madrigal by Claudio Monteverdi. Scenes of rehearsal and preparation lead to a fully staged production of a ballo from the Madrigals of Love and War.

MUSIC 139

Saint Joan 1994

Graham Green's adaptation of Bernard Shaw's play about the life of Joan of Arc.

MEDIA 2-5317

Sanskrit drama the vision of vasavadatta 1980

Examines the work of Mrinalini Sarabhai as teacher and interpreter of classical Sanskrit drama and dance forms. Presents segments of the play "The vision of Vasavadatta" by Bhasa.

DOUGLASS 135

Scarlet Street 1991

A timid, lonely, middle-aged man becomes involved with a femme fatale, her boyfriend, and murder.

MEDIA 2-2605

School for scandal 1990

Live TV adaptation of the classic Sheridan satire of 18th century English morals and manners.

MEDIA DANA 2-1480 665

The Sea gull Chaika 1986?

A study of the languid melancholia of the residents of an isolated country estate in 19th century provincial Russia.

DANA 340

The Segmented invertebrates ; The First forests 1981

In the first program, naturalist David Attenborough examines the evolution of segmented worms, trilobites and crustaceans. In the second program, Attenborough traces the movement and adaptation of algae and moss-like plants from a water environment to the land. The program also uses microphotography to reveal unsuspected details in mosses, liverworts, ferns, cycads, and conifers.

MEDIA 2-1928

Shadows of forgotten ancestors Tini zabutykh predkiv 1994

The heartbreaking story of Ivan and Marichka, whose love blooms, only to brutally die, in the remote Carpathian Mountains of medieval Russia.

DANA 540

Sounder 1988

The story of a black sharecropper family's struggle in Louisiana during the depession. Paun Winfield in desperation steals food for his family and goes to prison. Cecily Tyson keeps the family together with love, security and strength while he is in prison.

MEDIA 2-692

Sounder 1996

The story of a black sharecropper family's struggle in Louisiana during the depession. When the father in desperation steals food for his family and goes to prison, the mother keeps the family together with love, security and strength while he away.

DANA 1010

The Southerner 198?

A farm laborer attempts to establish himself by setting up his own cotton farm with his wife and children. During one year, everything goes wrong: the crops are destroyed by a storm, a neighbor ruins their vegetable patch, one of the children falls sick, and no one will help.

MEDIA 2-1290

The Southerner 1945

A farm laborer attempts to establish himself by setting up his own cotton farm with his wife and children. During one year, everything goes wrong: the crops are destroyed by a storm, a neighbor ruins their vegetable patch, one of the children falls sick, and no one will help.

MEDIA. 5-462 reel 1 5-463 reel 2 5-464 reel 3

Stormy weather 1990

Imaginatively photographed though otherwise conventional all-Black musical featuring a host of top musical performers. Portrays a rising club singer who has an on-again, off-again relationship with another performer.

DANA. JAZZ 589 355

The Summer of Miss Forbes El verano de la Senora Forbes 1991

Explores the excitement of repressed desire. Miss Forbes is a governess hired to look after two boys whose parents have taken a six-week vacation. By day, she runs the household with oppressive discipline, prompting the boys to fantasize about her brutal murder. By night, she parades around the house naked, drunk on tequila. The boys spy on her nighttime binges and her attempted seduction of their scuba teacher. But ever their plans for her death are not as grim as her ultimate fate.

DANA 634

Susanne Simonin, la religieuse The Nun 1990

Freely adapted from Diderot's classic 18th century novel, the film tells the story of a 16-year-old girl compelled by her mother to enter a convent. Convinced by the mother superior, the girl accepts her vows, but soon meets with harsh rigor and abuse when the kindly superior is followed by a cruel successor. Her desperate attempts at freedom land her first in another convent and finally, tragically, in the outside world.

MEDIA 2-2789

Sweeney Todd the demon barber of Fleet Street 1984

This videotape of the original Broadway show was produced before a live audience at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles during the National tour. It is an adaptation of the play "Sweeney Todd," in which the title character is not only a barber, but also a thief and murderer.

MUSIC 167

Sweeney Todd the demon barber of Fleet Street 1984

This videotape of the original Broadway show was produced before a live audience at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles during the National tour. It is an adaptation of the play "Sweeney Todd," in which the title character is not only a barber, but also a thief and murderer.

MEDIA 2-86

The Teddy bears 1907

This short silent film is an adaptation of the story Goldilocks and the three bears. As the three bears go off on a walk one winter afternoon, a little girl enters their house, tastes their food, and falls asleep in the baby bear's bed. When the bears return, they find the little girl, and chase her out of the house and through a forest. There they meet a hunter who shoots the mother and father bears, and takes the baby bear, along with all of his "teddy" bears, away.

MEDIA 1-91

To sir, with love 1984

A teacher in England abandons the traditional curriculum of education in dealing with a class of students rejected by other schools.

MEDIA 2-2804

Two daughters 1996?

Post office -- SamaptiTwo stories "The Post office" and "Samapti" express the hungers, pains and joys of youth in terms of compassionate understanding and truth. The "Post office" a new postmaster is taken care of by an orphan girl. In "Samapti" a student returns home to his village to find his mother has arranged a marriage for him.

DANA 602

Two women 1998

Realistic drama of an Italian widow who, along with her young daughter, are brutally raped by Allied soldiers in World War II.

MEDIA 10-139

Ugetsu 1993?

A tale of greed, ambition, and enchantment set in sixteenth century Japan. A potter and his neighbor abandon their wives in order to seek their fortunes from war. Their wives, however, suffer the consquences of their husbands' ambitions.

DANA 324

Un Señor muy viejo con unas alas enormes A very old man with enormous wing[s] 1991

Amid the debris of a Columbian cyclone lands a man whose seemingly miraculous anatomy attracts the curious and devout from around the world. Silent and disheveled, this fantastical "creature" is housed in a chicken coop as onlookers wait for his heavenly message which turns out to be a very mixed blessing.

DANA 635

Uncle Tom's cabin 1987

Film adaptation of Stowe's novel about slavery in the antebellum South that fueled much of the abolitionist debate.

MEDIA 2-3833

Uncle Tom's cabin (2 versions, 1903 & 1914) the earliest verions of H.B. Stowe's classic 1996

Uncle tom's cabin, or, Slavery days (1903) / directed by Edwin C. Porter (17:35) -- Uncle tom's cabin (1914) / a Minot Films release, Inc. ; directed by William Robert Daly ; based on the play by George L. Aiken and the novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe ; producer, J.V. Ritchey (43:00)The earliest film versions of Harriet Beecher Stowe's classic novel. Both films explore the story of Tom, Simon Legree, oppressed slaves, and life in the antebellum South. Music added.

MEDIA 2-6191

Une femme douce Gentle woman 1995

When the teenage wife of a pawnbroker suddenly and inexplicably commits suicide, her distraught husband tries to understand what could have led to such a desperate act. The story unfolds in flashbacks, revealing a pattern of miscommunication and abuse.

MEDIA 2-3418

La Vida es sueño Auto sacramental 1994

King Basilio has imprisoned his son, Segismundo, because the child was born under an inauspicious horoscope, and the king wants to spare his country the rule of a tyrant. When the question of succession is raised, the king confesses his doubts about the prophecy, and decides to put the prince to the test.

DANA 682

Washington Square 1998

Catherine is a lonely young woman in search of happiness...until she is swept off her feet by the handsome Morris Townsend. Suspicious of the young man's true intentions, however, her controlling father threatens to disown Catherine if she follows her heart and marries against his wishes.

DANA. MEDIA 1413 1413 2-3978

The World of Apu Apur sansar 1991

The third part of the Apu trilogy. The shy young man, Apu, is drawn into marriage out of regard for friendship and Hindu custom. He quickly realizes his love for his wife and they are blissfully happy for a year, until she dies in childbirth, leaving him the desolate father of a child.

DANA 332

Yeelen Brightness 1987

A film adaptation of one of the great oral epics of the Bambara people, set during the powerful Mali Empire of the 13th century. Tells the story of Nianankoro, a young Bambara warrior destined to destroy a corrupt older society, the secret Komo cult, and with it his father, and, inevitably, himself. The climactic flash of light which floods the screen at the film's end ushers in a new purified world order and captures the Bambara belief in time as circular, not linear, always returning to that initial "brightness" which created the world.

MEDIA. DANA 5-789 reel 1 5-790 reel 2 5-791 reel 3 357

Yentl 1983

Yentl is the daughter of a kindly scholar, a man able to instill in his daughter a love of learning as deep as his own. In turn of the centuryEastern Europe, however, women are denied higher education. Yentl disguises herself as a young man in order to gain entrance to a Yeshiva, an orthodox Jewish school.

MEDIA 2-56

Yo soy el que tu buscas I'm the one you're looking for 1991

Through the exotic streets of Barcelona's underworld, the darker side of love and sexuality comes to life in this psychological thriller about a beautiful celebrity model seeking revenge from her rapist. Vengeful desire becomes an uncontrollable obsession when she teams up with a short-tempered taxi driver and a hot-blooded erotic dancer in her frantic search.

DANA 633