RECENT LIBRARY VIDEO ACQUISITIONS by classification number
August 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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The stolen eye [videorecording] / produced by Penny Robins and Susan A. Golenbock and William Talmadge ; director, Philip Cullen ; workshop devised and conducted by Jane Elliott.
[United States] : Elliott's Eyes, Inc. : [distributed by] Elliott Sales and Service, c2008.
Jane Elliott performs her blue-eyed/brown-eyed experiment on a group of white and aborigine adults in Australia. Considering how the government forcibly removed children of aboriginal parents in order to make the whole race extinct, the video illustrates what happens when the tables are turned, and the whites become the victim of this blatant discrimination
BF575.P9 S76 2008.
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Indecently exposed [videorecording] / with Jane Elliott ; produced by WestWind Pictures, Admire Productions, Inc.
[United States] : Elliott Sales and Service, c2008.
Jane Elliott performs her blue-eyed/brown-eyed experiment on a group of Canadians, turning the tables on the participants by treating the blue-eyes as "persons of color," confronting and browbeating them, while the brown-eyes (including many Native Canadians) are treated with respect
BF575.P9 I53 2008.
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Celebrating diversity [videorecording] : a universal message from the real Rain Man / featuring Fran and Kim Peek.
Port Chester, NY : National Professional Resources, c2007.
Presents the story of Kim Peek, the inspiration for the motion picture Rain man, and his father, Fran, a disability-rights advocate
BF426.P44 C45 2007.
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Happy birthday Mazu [videorecording] : empress of heaven, goddess of the sea / East meets West Educational Film Production ; produced and written by Jonathan H.X. Lee.
Los Angeles, Calif. : East Meets West Productions, [2008].
This documentary film explores the emerging transnational Empress of Heaven community in San Francisco Chinatown, among new immigrant Taiwanese- Americans. It illustrates how traditional religion is altered and adjusted to meet the demands of contemporary life, in Taiwan and America
BL1812.G63 H37 2008.
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I believe. The Baptist church [videorecording] / with Dennis Wholey ; presented by Dennis Wholey Enterprises ; Films for the Humanities & Sciences ; executive producer, Dennis Wholey ; senior producer, Jonathan Oglesby.
Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, [2008], c2007.
In this program, Dennis Wholey has a conversation about Baptist churches with the Reverend Wallace Charles Smith, senior minister at Shiloh Baptist Church in Washington, D.C. Topics of discussion include the core principles of individual soul liberty, congregant equality, and church autonomy; the right of every Baptist to interpret the Bible in his or her own way; the impetus of post- Civil War racism in the forming of African-American Baptist denominations; and the debate on whether the Baptist Church predates Catholicism or is a product of the Protestant Reformation. In addition, Shiloh Deacon James H. Grigsby III tours viewers through the church -- container
BX6235 .I2 2007B.
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Protestant Christianity [videorecording] / a Greenstar Television Production ; Liberty International Entertainment Inc.
Wynnewood, PA : Schlessinger Media, c2003.
Discusses the history of the Protestant churches, which developed in Europe in response to the Roman Catholic Church. Explores the denominations that have developed over the centuries
BX4805.2 .P768 2003.
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A Yiddish world remembered [videorecording].
New York : Two Cats Productions, c2007.
The story of Jewish life in Eastern Europe is brought to life again by some of the remaining eyewitnesses ... accompanied by never-before-seen archival films ... This television special narrated by Academy Award nominated actor Elliott Gould explores everything ... This tape contains over 20 minutes of additional footage not seen in the broadcast
DS135.E83 Y54 2007.
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Pray the Devil back to hell [videorecording] / Fork Films presents ; a film by Abigail E. Disney and Gini Reticker ; produced by Abigail E. Disney ; directed by Gini Reticker.
[Sausalito, CA?] : Distributed by Roco Films Educational, [2008].
Documentary about a group of brave and visionary women who demanded peace for Liberia, a nation torn to shreds by a bloody civil war, violent warlords and a corrupt Charles Taylor regime. Includes interviews, archival images, and scenes of present-day Liberia together to recount the experiences and memories of the women who were instrumental in bringing lasting peace to their country
DT636.5 .P73 2008.
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The war that made America [videorecording] / produced by The War That Made America, LLC ; Spy Pond Productions ; presented by WQED Multimedia, Pittsburgh.
[Alexandria, Va.] : PBS Home Video, c2006.
Dramatization of the French and Indian War between England, France, and their Native American allies, a struggle that planted the seeds for the American Revolution. Focuses on George Washington, a young officer in his twenties, and the critical role of Native Americans
E199 .W235 2006.
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Alexander Hamilton [videorecording] / Twin Cities Public Television in association with Middlemarch Films ; WGBH/Boston ; written and co-produced by Ronald H. Blumer ; produced and directed by Muffie Meyer.
Boston : WGBH Educational Foundation ; Hollywood, Calif. : Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment, 2007.
One of the most controversial men of his age, Alexander Hamilton was a gifted statesman brought down by the fatal flaws of stubbornness, extreme candor, and arrogance. His life and career were marked by power, scandal, and tragedy
E302.6.H2 A44 2007.
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Cheney's law [videorecording] / WGBH Educational Foundation ; a Frontline co-production with Kirk Documentary Group Ltd. ; produced by Michael Kirk ; produced & reported by Jim Gilmore ; written & directed by Michael Kirk.
[Alexandria, VA] : PBS Home Video, c2007.
"For three decades, Vice President Dick Cheney has waged a secretive and often bitter battle to expand the power of the presidency. Now in a direct confrontation with Congress, as the administration asserts executive privilege to head off investigations into domestic wiretapping and the firing of U.S. attorneys, FRONTLINE meticulously traces the behind-closed-doors battle within the administration over the power of the presidency and the rule of law"-- Container
E902 .C446 2007.
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Safe harbor [videorecording] / produced by Lisa and Rich Gensheimer ; directed by Mike Sparks.
North East, Pa. : Main Street Media, c2003.
In the same way fog envelops a town, the Underground Railroad is clouded by myth and obscured by legend. Neither underground nor a railroad, it was an illegal network to help slaves escape to freedom
E450 .S24 2003.
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Lewis & Clark [videorecording] : the journey of the Corps of Discovery / a film by Ken Burns ; a [production of] Florentine Films and WETA-TV ; produced by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns ; written by Dayton Duncan.
[U.S.?] : Hollywood, Calif. : PBS DVD ; Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment, c2004.
Tells the story of the most important expedition in American history, led by Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Includes the stories of the young army men, French-Canadian boatmen, Clark's African-American slave, and the Shoshone woman named Sacagawea who went with them
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Capitalism hits the fan [videorecording] : a lecture on the economic meltdown / Media Education Foundation ; written and presented by Richard Wolff ; produced & directed by Sut Jhally.
Northampton, MA : Media Education Foundation, c2009.
"Richard Wolff breaks down the root causes of today's economic crisis, showing how it was decades in the making and in fact reflects seismic failures within the structures of American-style capitalism itself. Wolff traces the sources of the economic crisis to the 1970's, when wages began to stagnate and American workers were forced into a dysfunctional spiral of borrowing and debt that ultimately exploded in the mortgage meltdown"--Container
HC106.83 .C37 2009.
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Ruzigari ma [videorecording] = Our times / director, Rakhshan Bani-Etemad ; producers, Jahangir Kosari, R. Bani-Etemad ; a production of Cinema 79 Company.
Chicago, Ill. : Facets Video, [2005].
Documenting events surrounding the 2001 Iranian presidential election, director Rakhshan Bani-Etemad works with two groups of women, one old and one young, to contrast divergent political attitudes across the generation gap. At one end of this spectrum is the director's daughter and a group of her friends who form a committee to support the incumbent, President Khatami. On the other end is a group of forty-eight older women running for office on a reform party ticket, despite being thrown off the ballot by an all-male government. The two stories are linked by the story of Arezoo Bayat and her daughter who are simply trying to scratch out a living amid the headier issue of the elections
HQ1236.5.I7 R89 2005.
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Mars, Venus or planet Earth? [videorecording] : women & men in a new millennium / Media Education Foundation ; Michael Kimmel ; produced by Sut Jhally.
Northhampton, Mass. : Media Education Foundation, c2008.
Overturns the conventional wisdom that men and women are differently wired and foreign to each other by advancing an interconnected view of the things men and women have in common
HQ1075 .M368 2008.
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No dumb questions [videorecording] / New Day Films ; Epiphany Productions ; produced, directed & edited by Melissa Regan.
Harriman, NY : New Day Films, c2001, 2009.
Follows three sisters, aged 6, 9 and 11, as they struggle to understand why and how Uncle Bill is becoming Aunt Barbara
HQ77.95.U6 N6 2009.
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America rebuilds [videorecording].
[Alexandria, Va.] : PBS Home Video, [2006].
Documents the clearing of the wreckage of the World Trade Center from the perspective of the construction workers, firemen, and engineers who accomplished the task in the nine months following the Sept. 2001 terrorist attacks. Also shows the dialogue among community members, victims' families, real estate developers, architects, and city officials about what should be done with the site. Part two traces the progress made during 2002 to 2006 and continues to follow the discussion and plans for memorial space and other uses of the former site of the World Trade Center
HV6432.7 .A44 2007.
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Torturing democracy [videorecording] / written and produced by Sherry Jones ; co-producer, Carey Murphy ; produced by Washington Media Associates, in association with The National Security Archive.
Oley, Pa. : Bullfrog Films, c2008.
Tells the inside story of how the U.S. government adopted torture as official policy in the aftermath of 9/11. Examines how coercive interrogation methods were used by the CIA and then in military interrogations at Guantanamo Bay and Iraq. Presents evidence that the Bush administration promoted these methods and developed legal justification for the practice
HV8599.U6 T67 2008.
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Well-founded fear [videorecording] : the Sundance cut / a film by Shari Robertson, Michael Camerini.
[New York, N.Y. : Epidavros Project, c2000].
Illustrates the process of seeking asylum in the United States. Presents the side of the asylum seeker, who gets one hour to discuss his or her case, as well as the side of the asylum officer, who gets assigned cases at random, and has an additional 90 minutes after the interview to research and compose the decision to grant asylum or deport the person
KF4836 .R63 2000B.
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The reckoning [videorecording] : the battle for the International Criminal Court / International Center for Transitional Justice Productions ; a Skylight Pictures film ; a film by Paco de Onís, Peter Kinoy, and Pamela Yates ; producer, Paco de Onís ; director, Pamela Yates.
[New York] : Skylight Pictures, c2009.
Examines the creation of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in 1998 at the Rome Conference, despite failure to ratify by the United States, China, Russia, and others. Follows prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo as he issues arrest warrants for rebel leaders of the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda, puts four Congolese warlords on trial in The Hague, charges the president of Sudan with genocide and war crimes in Darfur, challenges the UN Security Council to have him arrested, and shakes up the Colombian criminal justice system
KZ6311 .R43 2009.
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Il barbiere di Siviglia [videorecording] / by Gioacchino Rossini ; Glyndebourne Festival Opera.
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Woodstock [videorecording] : 3 days of peace & music / Warner Bros. Pictures presents a film by Michael Wadleigh, a Wadleigh-Maurice, Ltd. production ; produced by Bob Maurice ; directed by Michael Wadleigh.
Burbank, Calif. : Warner Home Video, 2009.
The entire performance of every artist was filmed at Woodstock. This footage has been archived since that history-making weekend and has only recently been re-discovered. Never before has the complete performance been shown, before now
ML38.B48 W66 2009.
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E. Design. Season 3. TITLE = E. Design. Season three [videorecording] / director, Tad Fettig ; series producer, Elizabeth Westrate ; senior producer, Beth Levison ; producer, Midori Willoughby ; production of Kontentreal Production.
[United States] : PBS Home Video, [2008].
Six 30-minute chapters featuring the designers and drivers of change in the world of sustainable architecture. Each episode explores the potential of the built environment to help reverse our global climate crisis
NA2542.35 .E22 2008.
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Augustus Saint-Gaudens [videorecording] : master of American sculpture / a production of Our Town Films, Inc. in association with The Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service for New Hampshire Public Television ; producer, director, writer Paul G. Sanderson III.
[United States] : PBS Home Video, [2009].
The personal and professional life of Saint-Gaudens is traced from his birth in Dublin, to his death in Cornish, New Hampshire. His story is woven through six of his major works of art, which include the Standing Lincoln in Lincoln Park, Chicago; Shaw Memorial on Boston Common; Sherman Monument in Central Park; the serenely beautiful Diana in the Philadelphia Museum of Art; and the Adams Memorial in Washington DC. Includes featurettes
NB237.S2 A9 2009.
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The linguists [videorecording] / Ironbound Films presents ; a film sponsored by National Science Foundation & Nonprofit Media Group ; produced and directed by Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller and Jeremy S. Newberger ; written by Daniel A. Miller.
[Garrison, NY] : Ironbound Films, [2009].
Dr. K. David Harrison and Dr. Gregory D. S. Anderson, traveling linguists, document world languages on the verge of extinction and the forces stifling them
P40.5.L33 L56 2009.
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Gaav [videorecording] = The cow / writer, Dariush Mehrjui ; directed by Dariush Mehrjui.
New York : First Run Features, [2004], c1969.
In a small village in Iran, Hassan cherishes his cow more than anything in the world. While he is away, the cow mysteriously dies, and the villagers protectively try to convince Hassan the cow has wandered off. Grief stricken, Hassan begins to believe he is his own beloved bovine
PK6561.M54 G313 2004.
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Mirror of the soul [videorecording] : the Forough Farrokhzad trilogy : Iran's greatest poet revealed / written and directed by Nasser Saffarian.
Chicago, IL. : Facets Multimedia, 2007.
Explores the life and work of Forough Farrokhzad, Iran's most celebrated contemporary poet, who became a legend in her own time for her innovative and controversial poetry
PK6561.F264 Z69 2007.
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Take aim at the police van [videorecording] = Sono gososha o nerae / Nikkatsu Corporation ; director, Seijun Suzuki ; producer, Ryoji Motegi ; screenplay by Shinichi Sekizawa.
[New York] : Criterion Collection, c2009.
A prison guard metes out his own brand of justice when he goes in search of the criminals who put his job--and the lives of those he was guarding--on the line
PL838.H53 S652 1960B.
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2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle [videorecording] / Rialto Pictures ; Argos Films ; production company, Anouchka Films/Argos-Films/Les Films du Carosse/Parc Film ; director, script, Jean-Luc Godard ; producers, Anatole Dauman, Raoul Lévy.
[United States] : The Criterion Collection, 2009.
Juliette, a bourgeois housewife, is a loving wife and mother whose domestic moments alternate with her days and nights as a call girl
PN1997 .A13 1967B.
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Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles [videorecording] / producer, Evelyn Paul ; writer, Danae Maroulacou ; director, Chantal Akerman.
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2009].
Evoking a sense of impending doom, follows the daily domestic routine of a middle-aged widow. Her chores include making the beds, cooking dinner for her grown son, and turning the occasional trick
PN1997 .J3633 2009.
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The last days of disco [videorecording] / co-producers, Cecilia Kate Roque and Edmon Roch ; producer, Whit Stillman ; screenplay, Whit Stillman ; director, Whit Stillman.
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2009].
Set in 1980s Manhattan, depicts the 'last days' at a disco palace, where drugs, sex and weirdness run rampant. Icy Charlotte and demure Alice toil by day as publishing house assistants but by night the two look for romance and entertainment at a premier disco club before it closes
PN1997.2 .L373 2009.
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I am waiting [videorecording] = Ore wa matteru ze / Nikkatsu Corporation ; director, Koreyoshi Kurahara ; producer, Takiko Mizunoe ; screenplay by Shintaro Ishihara.
[New York] : Criterion Collection, c2009.
A restaurant manager and former boxer saves a beautiful, suicidal club hostess trying to escape the clutches of her gangster employer
PN1997 .O71 1957B.
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Repulsion [videorecording] / a Michael Klinger-Tony Tenser production ; screenplay by Roman Polanski and Gérard Brach ; produced by Gene Gutowski ; directed by Roman Polanski.
[Irvington, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, 2009.
Carol is a fragile, frigid young Belgian beauty cracking up over the course of a terrifying weekend. Left alone by her vacationing sister in their London flat, she finds herself haunted by specters, real and imagined, as her insanity grows to a violent pitch
PN1997 .R4675 1965C.
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Mad men. Season two [videorecording].
[United States] : Lions Gate Entertainment, 2009.
Returning for its second season, the Golden Globe winning series for Best TV Drama continues to blur the lines between truth and lies, perception and reality. Moving in a new direction, can Sterling Cooper keep up? Meanwhile, the private life of Don Draper becomes complicated in a new way. What is the cost of his secret identity
PN1992.77 .M33 2009.
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Absurdistan [videorecording] / a film by Veit Helmer ; written by Zaza Buadze, Veit Helmer, Gordan Mihic ; directed and produced by Veit Helmer.
[United States] : First Run Features, 2009.
Welcome to Absurdistan, a small village in the high desert mountains, just on the outskirts of reality, where magical visions and bizarre events fuse together. The village is facing a water shortage, but the men are too lazy to fix a rickety pipeline and the women are getting fed up with their good-for- nothing husbands. The women make a simple vow: 'No water, no sex'
PN1997.2 .A2328 2009B.
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Katyn [videorecording] / a film by Andrzej Wajda. Akson Studio, Telewizja Polska S.A., Telekomunikacja Polska S.A. ; przy wspofinansowaniu Polskiego Instytutu Sztuki Filmowej przedstawiaja film ; scenariusz, Andrej Wajda, Wadysaw Pasikowski, Przemysaw Nowakowski ; producent, Micha Kwiecinski ; rezyseria, Andrejz Wajda.
Port Washington, N.Y. : Koch Lorber Films ; distributed by E1 Entertainment, 2009.
Dramatization of the massacre of 20,000 people (interned Polish officers as well as civilians accused of treason by the occupying Soviet forces) by the Soviet secret police at Katyn in the spring of 1940, and the cover-up that followed. Follows the fictional stories of four families, separated from one another in the confusion of September 1939, when the Soviets and Germans invaded Poland, through the Soviet occupation in 1945 when the truth of the massacre gets suppressed
PN1997.2 .K38 2009.
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One day you'll understand [videorecording] = Plus tard / Image et Compagnie and Agav Films present a film by Amos Gitai ; produced by Serge Motai and Nicole Collet ; screenplay by Dan Franick and Jerome Clement ; adaptation by Amos Gitai and Marie-Jose Sanselme ; directed by Amos Gitai.
New York, NY : Kino International, [2009].
As the 1987 trial of Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie unfolds on television, Victor Bastien reviews old family documents and finds a distressing "Aryan declaration" authored by his late father. This new discovery throws Victor's conception of his family's history into darkness. His mother, Rivka, keeps a stubborn silence about the past, while Tania, his sister, defends their father's declaration. At the same time, Victor's wife and children grow concerned about his increasing distraction. Burning with the need to unearth the truth, Victor takes his family to the tiny village where Rivka's parents were forced to hide during the war
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La sconosciuta [videorecording] = The unknown woman / Outsider Pictures ; Medusa Film presents an Italian-French co-production Medusa Film, Manigolda Film ; realized by Juppiter Generale Cinematografica ; story and screenplay by Giuseppe Tornatore ; written and directed by Giuseppe Tornatore.
Chatsworth, CA : Image Entertainment, [2009].
Irena is a mysterious Ukrainian woman with a secret who works her way into the lives of an Italian, affluent young family. She stops at nothing to become the couple's trusted maid and beloved nanny to their fragile young daughter. But deep cracks underneath Irena's dedication soon become apparent as her horrific past and chilling obsession are revealed
PN1997.2 .S4 2009.
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Nun va-guldun [videorecording] = Moment of innocence / written, directed, and edited by Mohsen Makhmalbaf ; produced by Pakhshiran ... [et al.].
[New York, N.Y.] : New Yorker Video, c2005.
Reconstructs an incident in the director's life. A former policeman wants to play in Makhmalbaf's next film. It turns out that they had already met, twenty years before, when Makhmalbaf was arrested for stabbing the same policeman while trying to take his gun. Makhmalbaf decides that they should recreate this incident on film, each from their own point of view
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Trinity blood [videorecording] : the complete series / English version by FUNimation Productions, Ltd. ; producers, Carly Hunter, Justin Cook ; original Japanese version: Trinity Blood Partners ; director, Tomohiro Hirata.
[Fort Worth, Tex.] : FUNimation Entertainment, c2005.
In a distant future devastated by Armageddon, a new empire emerges from the darkness, ruled by a powerful race with unmatched strength. They are the Methuselah, but to the humans they are simply reviled as vampires. The struggle between humans and the Methuselah has raged for centuries, but now some from both sides desire a peaceful coexistence. Abel Nightlord is a Catholic priest hired by the Vatican to protect humans from vampires. But Abel isn't human; he is a vampire that preys on the blood of other vampires. And as the war intensifies, his encounter with a young human girl named Esther could very well alter the fate of the two races as Abel and Esther join forces to battle the deadliest of evils
PN6790.J34 T6762 2005.
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The Colour of paradise [videorecording] / Sony Pictures Classics ; [Varahonar Film Company] ; director and writer, Majid Majidi.
[Tehran, Iran : Varahonar Film Co.] ; Culver City, CA : Distributed by Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, c[1999], 2000.
Mohammad joyfully returns to his tiny village on summer vacation from the Institute for the Blind in Tehran, unaware of his father's intention to disown him. Engaged to be married, the widowed man has kept Mohammad a secret from his fiancée, certain the boy's disability will destroy his only chance for happiness. With the wedding swiftly approaching Mohammad's future hangs precariously in the balance as his father struggles against his destiny, unable to see the wonder of life and love that is so clear to his son
PN1995.9.C4 C656 2000.
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Dokhtaran khorshid [videorecording] = Daughters of the sun / Farabi Cinema Foundation ; produced by J. Kosari ; written and directed by Maryam Shahriar.
Chicago : Facets Video, [2004].
Amanagol, the daughter of a poor rural family in Iran, becomes Aman when her father shaves her head, disguises her as a boy, and dispatches her to another village to work weaving carpets. Her secret is jeopardized when a co- worker falls in love with her
PN1997 .D6389 2004 DVD.
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Goodbye solo [videorecording] / Gigantic Pictures ; ITVS ; Lucky Hat Entertainment ; Noruz Films ; directed by Ramin Bahrani.
Santa Monica, Calif. : Lionsgate, [2009].
On the lonely roads of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, two men forge an improbable friendship that will change both of their lives forever. Solo is a Senegalese cab driver working to provide a better life for his young family. William is a tough Southern good ol' boy with a lifetime of regrets. Solo's American dream is just beginning, while William's is quickly winding down. Despite their differences, both men soon realize they need each other more than either is willing to admit
PN1997.2 .G66 2009.
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Du zan [videorecording] = Two women / Arta Film & Arman Film ; filmnamah Tahminah Milani.
Hayward, CA : Iranian Film Society ; [dist. by] irmovies.com, [1999?].
Chronicles the lives of two women attending architectural school at Tehran University during the first years of the Islamic Republic
PN1997 .D6923 1998.
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Die innere Sicherheit [videorecording] = The state I am in / a Schramm Film Koerner & Weber production in collaboration with Hessischer Rundfunk and ARTE ; screenwriters, Christian Petzold, Harun Farocki ; producers, Florian Koerner von Gustorf, Michael Weber ; director, Christian Petzold.
[Toronto, Ont.] : Project X Distribution, c2009.
Together with their adolescent daughter, two former terrorists have been living underground in Portugal for years. Complications arise when their daughter falls in love and the family's secret life is revealed. On the run, they return to Germany where the parents end up robbing a bank
PN1997 .I495 2000B.
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Tokyo! [videorecording] / Liberation Entertainment presents a Comme des Cinémas production ; coproduction: Bitters End, Kansai Telecasting Corporation, Sponge Entertainment, Arte France Cinéma, WDR, Coin Film in association with Backup Films ; producers, Masa Sawada and Michiko Yoshitake.
Los Angeles, CA : Liberation Entertainment, [2009].
Three stories set in Tokyo. A young woman finds her life useless and goes on to experience a metamorphosis. A disheveled Caucasian who calls himself "Merde" emerges from a manhole to face arrest, trial, and execution, he speaks a language only his look-alike attorney understands. A recluse experiences human contact when a pizza-delivery girl faints at his door during an earthquake. He conquers fear to seek her out
PN1997.2 .T65 2008B.
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Osennii marafon [videorecording] = Autumn marathon / Mosfilm.
[Russia?] : Ruscico, 2000.
A mild-mannered college professor finds his life made difficult by hounding students, a nagging wife, a demanding mistress, and a neighbor who insists the professor jog with him each morning at dawn
PN1997 .O7458 1970B.
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Stiliagi [videorecording] / "Krasnaia strela", "Rossiia" predstavliaiut ; pri podderzhke Ministerstva kultury Rossiiskoi Federatsii ; proizvodstvo Rekun-sinema ; v filme Valeriia Todorovskogo.
Rostov : "Global", 2008.
Set in 1955, young Russian rebels copy American fashions, hairdos and slang in an attempt to establish their independence against the backdrop of grey uniformity of the post-Stalinist Soviet Union
PN1997.2 .S75 2008B.
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Italianets [videorecording] = The Italian / Sony Pictures Classics ; a Lenfilm Studios production ; producer, Andrei Zertsalov ; written by Andrei Romanov ; directed by Andrei Kravchuk.
Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 2007, c2005.
After discovering his mother is still alive, a six-year-old Russian boy runs away from his orphanage and sets out on a perilous journey to find her. Pursued by orphanage staff and the police, Vanya Solntsev must now face the most difficult challenges of his young life in this story inspired by true events
PN1995.9.M45 I835536487 2007.
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Sugar [videorecording] / Journeyman Pictures ; Hunting Lane Films ; Gowanus Projections ; Single A Films ; produced by Paul S. Mezey, Jamie Patricof, Jeremy Kipp Walker ; written by Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck ; directed by Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck.
Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2009].
Miguel 'Sugar' Santos is a talented Dominican baseball player who longs to break into the American big league and earn the money needed to support his impoverished family. He is a talented pitcher who might just have what it takes to earn a prized spot on a Major League Baseball team. Before that happens he'll have to prove his worth in the minor leagues. Advancing in baseball's minor league system at the tender age of 19, Miguel is warmly welcomed into the small- town Iowa home of his host family. He struggles with language and cultural barriers despite the kindness of strangers. Subsequently forced to reevaluate his life's ambition after his once-trusty arm becomes unreliable. The previously single-minded pitcher gradually begins to question both the world he lives in and the role he has chosen to play in it
PN1997.2 .S84 2009.
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TSirk [videorecording] / Mosfilm ; postanovka Grigoriia Alexandrova.
[Russia] : Studiia Panoramna, c2003.
An American circus star who has a black baby tries to find happiness in the Soviet Union
PN1997 .T79 1936C.
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Rusty knife [videorecording] = Sabita knife / Nikkatsu Corporation ; director, Toshio Masuda ; producer, Takiko Mizunoe ; written by Shintaro Ishihara ; screenplay by Shintaro Ishihara, Toshio Masuda.
[New York] : Criterion Collection, c2009.
Best friends trying to go straight after a youth of crime are tracked down to testify against former associates in a murder trial
PN1997 .S122 1958B.
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Cruel gun story [videorecording] = Kenju zankoku monogatari / Nikkatsu Corporation ; director, Takumi Furukawa ; written by Haruhiko Oyabu ; screenplay by Hisataka Kai.
[New York] : Criterion Collection, c2009.
Fresh out of jail, a thief is pulled into a tricky plot to hold up an armored car
PN1997 .K433 1964B.
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A Colt is my passport [videorecording]= Colt wa ore no passport / director, Takashi Nomura ; producer, Takeo Yanagawa ; screenplay by Nobuo Yamada, Shuichi Nagahara.
[New York] : Criterion Collection, c2009.
A hit man is hired by yakuza to rub out a rival gang's boss, only to be betrayed and targeted by both sides
PN1997 .C626 1967B.
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The class [videorecording] / Haut et Court ; France 2 Cinema ; a film by Laurent Cantet.
Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, p2009.
Based on Bégaudeau's autobiographical novel. François and his fellow teachers prepare for a new year at a high school in a tough Paris neighborhood. Armed with the best intentions, they brace themselves to not let discouragement stop them from trying to give the best education to their students. Cultures and attitudes often clash in the classroom, a microcosm of contemporary France. As amusing and inspiring as the teenaged students can be, their difficult behavior can still jeopardize any teacher's enthusiasm for the low-paying job. François insists on an atmosphere of respect and diligence. Neither stuffy nor severe, his extravagant frankness often takes the students by surprise. But his classroom ethics are put to the test when his students begin to challenge his methods
PQ2702.E34 E582 2008B.
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Little Dorrit [videorecording] / Adapted by Andrew Davis ; direct by Dearbhla Walsh, Adam Smith, Diamuid lawrence ; produced by Lisa Osborne ; a BBC drama/WGBH co-production.
[U.K.] : BBC, c1996, c2009.
Amy Dorrit has spent her young life with her family in London's debtor prison. Arthur Clennam, a kindly but ineffectual gentleman, who returns to England from China after twenty years, risks everything to help little Dorrits's family
PR4562.A3 1996C.
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The Noel Coward trilogy [videorecording] : a celebration of an extraordinary life / a BBC, NVC Arts, Thirteen WNET co-production ; director & producer Adam Low.
West Branch, NJ : Kultur, c2008.
These three entertaining and informative programs celebrate the life, career and legacy of Noel Coward, Britain's beloved actor, playwright, and composer
PR6005.O85 Z635 2008.
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Made in U.S.A. [videorecording] / Rialto Pictures, un film de JLG.
[United States] : The Criterion Collection, [2009].
A chaotic crime thriller and acidly funny critique of consumerism, the plot hinges on a female private investigator's search for a former lover who might have been assassinated
PS3573.E9 J842 1966B.
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Zora Neale Hurston [videorecording] : jump at the sun / producer and writer, Kristy Andersen ; director, Sam Pollard ; co-produced by Bay Bottom News and Thirteen/WNET's American Masters.
[Tampa, Fla.] : Bay Bottom News, c2008.
A biography of African American author, anthropologist, and folklorist Zora Neale Hurston, the first black woman to enter the American literary canon
PS3515.U789 Z98 2008.
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Khanah siyah ast [videorecording] = The house is black / directed by Forough Farrokhzad.
Chicago, Ill. : Facets Multimedia, 2005.
A portrait of forgotten people in the leprosy colony in Tabriz, Iran. Includes Farrokhzad's striking poem read by the poet. NOTE = "Images from the Qajar Dynasty": A short documentary on the Qajar (or Ghajar) family that ruled Iran from 1785-1925. Includes rare photos and early films shot at the Shah's court, along with family portraits. NOTE = "The school blown away by the wind" (aka The school that was blown away): Set at the school for nomad children seen in the film Gabbeh, an old man visits the classroom, is at first mistaken for an inspector, but is eventually revealed as a former teacher who has stopped by to relive memories of this happy time in his life
RA644.L3 K52 2005.
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