RECENT LIBRARY VIDEO ACQUISITIONS by classification number
June 2009
Classification numbers:
A - general
B - philosophy, psychology, religion
C - biography
D - history
E - history - United States
F - history - individual states, other North American countries
G - anthropology and geography
H - business and economics
J - political science
K - law
L - education
M - music
N - art
P - literature and film
Q - sciences
R - medicine
S - agriculture
T - engineering and technology
U - military science
V - naval science
W - medicine (NLM classification)
Z - library science
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Imaginary witness [videorecording] : Hollywood and the Holocaust / produced by Daniel Anker and Ellin Baumel ; directed by Daniel Anker.
New York : Anker Productions Inc., 2009.
This documentary examines the American film and television industry's response to the rise of Adolph Hitler and the Nazi persecution of the Jews before, during, and after World War II. Extended film clips, and interviews with filmmakers, scholars, and survivors who work in the film industry, are used to tell this important story
D804.3 .I43 2009.
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Waltz with Bashir [videorecording] / an Ari Folman film ; a Bridgit Folman Film Gang, Les Films D'ici, Razor Film production.
[United States] : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 2009.
An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict, which are portrayed as animated dream sequences
DS87.53 .W358 2009B.
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We shall remain : America through native eyes. [Disc] 1, After the Mayflower [videorecording] / an American Experience film in association with Apograph Productions, Inc., Tecumseh LLC and Native American Public Telecommunications ; coordinating producer, Cathleen O'Connell.
Boston, Mass. : WGBH Educational Foundation ; [S.l.] : Distributed by PBS Home Video, c2009.
Examines the early history of Native American and English contact. Beginning with the allaince between Massasoit, chief of the Wampanoag, and the early English settlers, concludes with King Philip's war
E78.N5 W4 2009.
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Coming to light [videorecording] : Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indians / a co-production of Anne Makepeace Productions, Inc. and Thirteen/WNET ; produced, written and directed by Anne Makepeace ; executive producer, Susan Lacy.
Oley, PA : Bullfrog Films [distributor], 2000.
Edward S. Curtis was a driven, pioneer photographer who set out in 1900 to document traditional Indian life. He became the most famous photographer of his time and created an enormous body of work. This film tells the dramatic story of Curtis' life, his work, and his changing views of the people he set out to document. Native Americans who are using his photographs for cultural perservation respond to the pictures, tell stories about the people in the photographs and discuss the meaning of the images
E77.5 .C65 2000.
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We shall remain : America through native eyes. [Disc] 2, Tecumseh's vision ; Trail of tears [videorecording]/ an American Experience film in association with Apograph Productions, Inc., Tecumseh LLC and Native American Public Telecommunications ; coordinating producer, Cathleen O'Connell.
Boston, Mass. : WGBH Educational Foundation ; [S.l.] : Distributed by PBS Home Video, c2009.
Tecumseh's vision examines the influence of the Shawnee leader Tecumseh and his brother Tenskwatawa and the pan-Indian political and military alliance they formed following the Revolution. Trail of tears explores the Cherokees, who after assimilating, accepting Christianity, and waging a legal battle all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court were expelled from their homelands and force- marched to Oklahoma in the 1830s
E99.S35 T38 2009.
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We shall remain : America through native eyes. [Disc] 3, Geronimo ; Wounded Knee [videorecording] / an American Experience film in association with Apograph Productions, Inc., Tecumseh LLC and Native American Public Telecommunications ; coordinating producer, Cathleen O'Connell.
Boston, Mass. : WGBH Educational Foundation ; [S.l.] : Distributed by PBS Home Video, c2009.
Geronimo takes place at the end of the Indian Wars, when the Apache leader continued the resistance with the last Native American fighting force to surrender to the U.S. government. Wounded Knee examines the 1973 siege when the American Indian Movement faced off against the government to bring attention to the desperate conditions on Indian reservations
E99.A6 G49 2009.
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Latin America [videorecording] : challenges in the 21st century / Schlessinger Media ; produced and directed by CBS News Productions.
Wynnewood, PA : Schlessinger Media, c2004.
The great civilizations of Latin America were devastated after the arrival of the conquistadors and later the European colonizers, who created a society that was characterized by extreme differences between rich and poor -- a legacy that continues to plague Latin America to a strong degree today
F1414.2 .L327 2004.
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Wendy and Lucy [videorecording] / Oscilloscope Laboratories presents a Filmscience and Glass Eye Pix production ; produced by Neil Kopp, Anish Savjani, Larry Fessenden ; screenplay by Jon Raymond and Kelly Reichardt from the story by Jon Raymond ; directed and edited by Kelly Reichardt.
[United States] : Oscilloscope Pictures, c2009.
Wendy is a down-on-her-luck girl who's hoping to turn things around for herself with a summer job in Alaska, but finds herself stranded with no money in a small Oregon town
PN1997.2 .W46 2008.
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The private life of Henry VIII [videorecording] / Janus Films ; London Film Productions Limited presents ; a Korda-Toeplitz Production ; story and dialogue by Lajos Biró and Arthur Wimperis ; scenario by Arthur Wimperis ; directed by Alexander Korda.
[United States] : The Criterion Collection, 2009.
"Alexander Korda's first major international success is a raucous, entertaining, even poignant glimpse into the bedrooms of the infamous king and his six wives." -- Container
PN1997 .P74 1933B.
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Defiance (Motion picture : 2008). TITLE = Defiance [videorecording] / Paramount Vantage presents a Grosvenor Park/ Bedford Falls production, an Edward Zwick film ; produced by Edward Zwick, Pieter Jan Brugge ; screenplay by Clayton Frohman & Edward Zwick ; directed by Edward Zwick.
Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Home Entertainment, [2009].
The deep forests of Poland and Belorussia are the domain of the occuping Germans during World War II. The three Bielski brothers go into the forests and find the impossible task of foraging for food, weapons and survival, not just for themselves but for a large mass of fleeing Polish Jews from the German war machine. The brothers, living with the fear of discovery must contend with neighboring Soviet partisans and deciding whom to trust. They take on the responsibility of guardians and motivate hundreds of women, men, children and the elderly to join their fight against the Nazi regime while hiding in makeshift homes in the dark, cold and unforgiving forest. At the same time, the brothers turn a band of war defectors into commanding freedom fighters. Based on true events
PN1997.2 .D44 2009.
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One week [videorecording] / Metro Pictures Corp. ; producer, Joseph M. Schenck ; written and directed by Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline.
United States : Metro Pictures Corporation, 1920 ; United States : Distributed by Reel Classic Films, [2008?].
Buster and Sybil exit a chapel as newlyweds. Among the gifts is a portable house you easily put together in one week --From container
PN1997 .O543 1920B.
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The asphalt jungle [videorecording] / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; produced by Arthur Hornblow, Jr. ; screenplay by Ben Maddow, John Huston ; directed by John Huston.
[United States] : Turner Entertainment Co. : Warner Home Video, [2004].
An aging criminal is released from prison and decides to assemble the old gang to go on one last heist. Based on the book by W.R. Burnett
PN1995.9.F54 A87 2004.
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Revolutionary road [videorecording] / DreamWorks Pictures presents in association with BBC Films, an Evamere Entertainment, BBC Films, Neal Street production, a Sam Mendes film ; produced by John N. Hart, Scott Rudin, Sam Mendes, Bobby Cohen ; screenplay by Justin Haythe ; directed by Sam Mendes.
[California] : DreamWorks Home Entertainment ; Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Home Entertainment, [2009].
Frank and April Wheeler live a life that appears to be perfect. They live in the Connecticut suburbs with two young children. Frank commutes to New York City where he works in an office job that he hates. One he places little effort at, but he has yet to figure out what his passion in life is. April is a housewife who forgoes her dream of being an actress. They are not happy. One day, April suggests that they move to Paris as a means to rejuvenate their life. Initially skeptical, Frank ultimately agrees to April's plan. When circumstances change around the Wheelers, April decides she will do whatever she has to to get herself out of her unhappy existence
PN1997.2 .R48 2009.
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All the days before tomorrow [videorecording] / a Kangoo Films production ; produced by François Dompierre and Kevin Leydon ; written and directed by François Dompierre.
[United States] : Vanguard, [2009].
Joey Kern and Alexandra Holden play pals who ought to be lovers, but their timing has never been right. When Alison makes a late-night visit to Wes on the eve of leaving for Tokyo to rejoin her beau, the two chums travel down an emotional memory lane, discovering truths about their relationship in the process
PN1997.2 .A45 2009.
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13 most beautiful ... [videorecording] : songs for Andy Warhol's screen tests / a production of the Andy Warhol Museum ; subject bios by Geralyn Huxley ; with new soundtracks by Dean Wareham & Britta Phillips.
N.Y., N.Y. : Plexifilm, 2009.
"Warhol's Screen tests, which number approximately 500, are beautiful and revealing portraits of hundreds of different individuals, shot between 1964 and 1966 .... Many were included in shifting compilations such as the flatteringly- titled 13 Most Beautiful Women, 13 Most Beautiful Boys, and 50 Fantastics and 50 Personalities, which were projected in different versions each time they were screened." -- booklet , p. [2]
PN2071.A92 A13 2009.
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Rome (Television program). Season 1. TITLE = Rome. First season [videorecording] / co-producers, Robert Papazian ... [et al.] ; produced by Marco Valerio Pugini ; in association with the BBC, a presentation of Home Box Office.
[New York] : HBO Video, [2006].
Four hundred years after the founding of the Republic, Rome is the wealthiest city in the world, a cosmopolitan metropolis of one million people, epicenter of a sprawling empire. The Republic was founded on principles of shared power and fierce personal competition, never allowing one man to seize absolute control. But now, those foundations are crumbling, eaten away by corruption and excess. After eight years of war, soldiers Lucius Vorenus and Titus Pullo unwittingly become entwined in the historical events of ancient Rome. A serialized drama of love and betrayal, masters and slaves, husbands and wives, Rome chronicles a turbulent era that saw the death of a republic and the birth of an empire
PN1992.77 .R664 2006.
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Alice's house [videorecording] = a casa de Alice / FiGa Films ; Superfilmes ; produced by Zita Carvalhosa, Patrick Leblanc ; written by Chico Teixeira ; directed by Chico Teixeira.
[New York, NY] : IndiePix Films, [2009].
A São Paulo manicurist, married with 3 sons, re-examines her life and choices after a chance meeting an old flame
PN1997.2 .A445 2009.
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Kirschblüten - Hanami [videorecording] = Cherry blossoms - Hanami / Strand Releasing and Bavaria Film International präsentiert eine Olga Film Produktion mit dem Bayerischen Rundfunk, ARD/Degeto und ARTE ; ein Film von Doris Dörrie ; Buch & Regie, Doris Dörrie ; Produzenten, Molly von Fürstenberg, Harald Kügler.
Culver City, CA : Strand Releasing Home Entertainment, [2009].
Only Trudi knows that her husband Rudi is suffering from a terminal illness. She decides not to tell him and convinces him to visit their family in Berlin. When Trudi dies suddenly, Rudi vows to make up for her lost life and takes his last journey to Tokyo in the midst of the cherry blossom festival
PN1997.2 .C44 2009.
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Nenette et Boni [videorecording] / a Strand Releasing Home Video; Dacia Films preésente une co-production Dacia Films-La Sept Cinéma, avec la participation de Canal+ et du Centre National de la Cinématographie ; un film de Claire Denis ; produit par Georges Benayoun ; scénario, Jean-Pol Fargeau et Claire Denis.
Culver City, CA : Strand Releasing Home Video, c2009.
Nineteen year-old Boniface Pavone writes in his journal of the erotic dreams he has of the wife of the neighborhood baker. His estranged little sister, Nenette, reappears with a surprising revelation that will change him forever
PN1997 .N454 1998B.
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Sous les bombes [videorecording] = Under the bombs / Art'Mell, Capa, Fantascope Production and Starfield Productions in association with Rhamsa Production ; written by Philippe Aractingi and Michel Léviant ; directed by Philippe Aractingi.
Fair Lawn, NY : Film Movement, 2008.
"During a cease-fire in the Lebanon-Israel conflict of 2006, Tony, a Christian taxi-driver, brings Zeina, a Shiite woman from Beirut, to the heart of the conflict in the country's south. While they scour the rubble of local towns for Zeina's son, they discover that despite their very different backgrounds they have much in common. During their trip through the desolate countryside, the two travelers develop a deep bond as a response to the death surrounding them. Shot entirely on location during the summer of 2006, in the middle of the ruins of war-torn Lebanon. Aractingi only hired two professional actors; the rest are real refugees, journalists, soldiers, etc., playing themselves"-- Container
PN1997.2 .S673 2008.
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Zabriskie Point [videorecording] / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents a Carlo Ponti production ; a Michelangelo Antonioni film ; written by Michelangelo Antonioni ... [et al.] ; produced by Carlo Ponti ; directed by Michelangelo Antonioni.
Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2009].
Two young loners epitomize the rebellious counter-culture of the 1960s as they wander in the ominous desert terrain of the western United States
PN1997 .Z317 1970C.
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Valkyrie (Motion picture). TITLE = Valkyrie [videorecording] / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and United Artists present a Bad Hat Harry production ; an Achte Babelsberg film co- production ; directed by by Bryan Singer ; written by Christopher McQuarrie & Nathan Alexander ; produced by Bryan Singer, Christopher McQuarrie, Gilbert Adler.
Beverly Hills, CA : Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment [distributor], [2009].
Based on the incredible true story of Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg and his ingenious assassination plot targeting Adolf Hitler, this engrossing thriller reenacts the daring operation to eliminate one of the most evil tyrants the world has ever known
PN1997.2 .V35 2009.
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Ashes and diamonds [videorecording] / Kadr ; Jeck Film ; screenplay, Jerzy Andrzejewski, Andrzej Wajda ; director Andrzej Wajda.
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2009].
Maciek is a young Resistance fighter who is ordered to kill Szczuka, a Communist district leader, on the last day of World War II. The Soviet leader who has arrived in town to establish a new government. A mistake leads him to a beautiful barmaid who shows him what his life could be like and although killing has been easy for him in the past, Szczuka was a fellow soldier, and Maciek must decide whether to follow his orders
PN1997 .A84 2009.
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Last holiday [videorecording] / director, Henry Cass ; producer, Stephen Mitchell, A.D. Peters, and J.B. Priestly ; screenplay, J.B. Priestley.
[United States] : The Criterion Collection, [2009].
Told by his doctor he has no more than a few months to live, drab British workingman George Bird decides to spend his savings on lodging at a seaside resort. Once there, however, he finds his identity caught between upstairs and downstairs, the guest and the "help.
PN1997 .L37 2009.
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Bergman Island [videorecording] : Ingmar Bergman on Fårö Island,cinema and life / by Marie Nyreröd.
[United States] : The Criterion Collection, c2009.
A candid interview with the reclusive director at his home on Faro Island, as he discusses his fears, regrets, films, and passion for his work
PN1998.3.B47 A5 2009.
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My dinner with André [videorecording] / presented by George W. George in association with Michael White ; screenplay by Wallace Shawn, Andre Gregory ; produced by George W. George, Beverly Karp ; directed by Louis Malle.
[Irvington, NY] : The Criterion Collection, 2009.
An actor has dinner with his friend, a theater director, at an Upper West Side restaurant, and discuss everything from money to death to love
PN1997 .M892 1981B.
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Kill the messenger [videorecording] / Home Box Office.
[New York, NY] : HBO Video, [2009].
Comic superstar Chris Rock stars in his fifth solo stand-up performance. From three of Chris's international performances - at South Africa's Carnival City Casino, London's Carling Apollo Hammersmith, and New York's legendary Apollo Theater. He delivers his adults-only take on dozens of social, political and celebrity issues
PN1969.C65 C47 2009.
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Catherine the Great [videorecording] / Janus Films ; a London Films production ; produced by Alexander Korda ; story and dialogue by Lajos Biro, Arthur Wimperis and Melchior Lengyel ; scenario & continuity by Arthur Wimperis & Marjorie Deans ; directed by Paul Czinner.
[United States] : The Criterion Collection, 2009.
Peek into the life of Catherine II, from the beautiful royal courts of 18th century Russia to her troubled marriage to Peter III (portrayed in nearly 'screwball' fashion)
PN1997 .C3724 1934B.
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Rembrandt [videorecording] / Janus Films ; British Lion Film Corpn. Ltd. presents ; a London Film production ; Alexander Korda presents ; from the film play by Carl Zuckmayer ; scenario, June Head ; directed by Alexander Korda.
[United States] : The Criterion Collection, 2009.
"Beginning with Rembrandt in his prime, the film tracks his quiet descent into loneliness and isolated self-expression following the death of his wife." - - Container
PN1997 .R458 1936B.
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The origins of film. Disc 1, African American cinema I ; African American cinema II [videorecording] / Library of Congress.
New York, N.Y. : Unapix Entertainment ; Chatsworth, CA : Image Entertainment [distributor], c2001.
African American cinema I: Within our gates: Tells the story of a young African-American who seeks a Northern white patron for a Southern school for Black children. NOTE = African American cinema II: Scar of shame: An aspiring middle-class black composer marries a woman to rescue her from the ghetto but soon comes to shun her lower-class status. Sissle and Blake: A short film of the entertainment team of Noble Sissle (on vocals) and Eubie Blake (on piano)
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Man on fire (Motion picture : 2004). TITLE = Man on fire [videorecording] / Fox 2000 Pictures and Regency Enterprises present a New Regency/Scott Free production, a Tony Scott film ; produced by Arnon Milchan, Tony Scott, Lucas Foster ; screenplay by Brian Helgelund ; directed by Tony Scott.
Beverly Hills, CA : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, c2004.
Hard-drinking, burnt-out ex-CIA operative John Creasy has given up on life. That is until his friend Rayburn gets him a job as a bodyguard to nine- year-old Pita Ramos. Bit by bit, Creasy begins to reclaim his soul, but when Pita is kidnapped, and ultimately presumed to be dead, Creasy unleashes a firestorm of apocalyptic vengeance against everyone responsible
PN1997 .M2423 2004.
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The private life of Don Juan [videorecording] / Janus Films ; London Film Productions Ltd. ; distributed by United Artists ; story & dialogue by Frederick Lonsdale and Lajos Biro ; directed by Alexander Korda.
[United States] : The Criterion Collection, 2009, 1934.
When Don Juan fakes his own death - only to find that he has promptly been forgotten - can a raven-haired beauty coax him back into the business
PQ2603.A7 H62 1934B.
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Physics of spaceflight series [videorecording].
Lakeville, MN : Physics Curriculum and Instructions, c2001.
A three-part program developed in cooperation with NASA presents physics principles as they apply to spaceflight and space related events
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