Film List

Merrimack College Media Center Films may circulate to any Merrimack College student, staff or faculty member with a valid ID for a period of 24 hours or a weekend, two films per patron.

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1,2,3
  • 8 1/2
    [Media Center]EIG
    Autobiographical film about a famous film director who loses his inspiration while making a movie.
  • The 11 rules of supercomputer design
    [Media Center]DIS
    Describes the goals, process and outcome of the design of Ardent's Titan: a vector, multiprocessor architecture, combining high-performance computation and graphics for a single user to create a distributed supercomputing environment to permit instant views of complex simulations like molecular combinations, or the performance of a new airplane wing.
  • The 13th warrior
    [Media Center]THI
    After being warned by a fortune-teller that their fight against legendary creatures is doomed to failure unless they have a 13th warrior, a travelling ambassador (Banderas) is given no choice but to join a group of fierce fighters.
  • 21 grams
    [Media Center]21G
    Fate brought them together, now vengence will tear them apart. A violent car accident unexpectedly throws together the lives of a college professor, an ex-con and a young mother with a reckless past. The crossing of their paths takes them through the heights of love, the depths of revenge and the promise of redemption.
  • 25th hour
    [Media Center]HOU
    Monty Brogan is facing a seven year prison sentence for dealing drugs. On the night before he has to go to jail, he decides to go out with his friends one last time, and re-examines his life in the process.
  • The 39 steps
    [Media Center]THI
    A young Canadian makes the acquaintance of an international spy. When he finds her murdered in his flat, he takes over her mission and is pursued across Scotland by both the police and a dangerous spy ring.
  • The 39 steps
    [Media Center]THI
    A man falsely accused of murder must uncover a secret organization in order to prove his innocence.
  • 40 days and 40 nights
    [Media Center]FOR
    After being dumped by his girlfriend, Matt sleeps with every girl he meets. Finally, Matt decides the only way to stop his sex obsession is to go 40 days and 40 nights living in a world of total abstinence. Then Matt meets Erica and the betting begins to see how long Matt can hold out.
  • 42nd street
    [Media Center]FOR
    When his leading lady is sidelined with a broken foot, a Broadway producer sends in a chorus girl, who saves the show.
  • 100 years of Modern Art
    [Media Center]ROL
  • The 400 blows
    [Media Center]FOU
    A tale of a lonely Parisian youth, buffeted by school and family problems.
  • 1492
    [Media Center]CON (pt1 & pt2)
    "The film chronicles the first two landmark voyages of Columbus and takes us to the brink of his third and last"- container.
  • 2001, a space odyssey
    [Media Center]TWO
    Inspired by Clarke's epic book, the film moves from the pre-historic birth of intelligence to the emergence of man as pure thought, somewhere in the future.
  • 2010
    [Media Center]TWO
    While planet Earth poses on the brink of disaster, a team of Russian and American scientists hurtle to a rendezvous with the abandoned Discovery spacecraft and its sole known survivor, the homicidal computer HAL.

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  • A.I. Artificial intelligence
    [Media Center]AI
    Visions of a future full of astonishing android technology. David, an advanced android, embarks on an extraordinary adventure to discover the secret of his own identity. Believing in the story of Pinocchio, David dreams of becoming a real boy.
  • A.I. Artificial intelligence
    [Media Center]AIA
    Visions of a future full of astonishing android technology. David, an advanced android, embarks on an extraordinary adventure to discover the secret of his own identity. Believing in the story of Pinocchio, David dreams of becoming a real boy.
  • A nos amours
    [Media Center]NOS
    A study of a working class girl of fifteen who, looking for the affection she is denied at home, enters a series of casual sexual affairs, eventually marries, then leaves her husband to fly off to America. Winner of the French "Cesar" for best film of 1983.
  • A nous la liberte
    [Media Center]NOU
    A very funny satire on the mechanization of modern life. Chaplin borrowed the scenes of an assembly line breakdown for his movie, Modern Times.
  • Abraham Lincoln and Civil War America Part 1 by Professor William E. Gienapp. :
    [Media Center]BOO Show #17
  • Abraham's people
    Media Center ABR
  • Abrham Lincoln and Civil War America Part 2 by Professor William E. Gienapp. :
    [Media Center]BOO
  • Absolute beginners
    Media Center ABS
    Musical drama set in London, 1958. Film portrays lower class youths emerging from post-war privations and struggling to achieve mobility in the face of withering class, racial and economic barriers.
  • The Abyss
    Media Center ABY
    When a nuclear missile sub mysteriously sinks, the Navy commandeers the crew of a civilian deep-sea oil rig to help in the rescue operation. This perilous mission becomes a wondrous odyssey into the unknown as forces from the ocean's deepest region begin to make contact with the divers.
  • The accident
    [Media Center]ACC
    During a local hockey game, the arena roof collapses. Many onlookers are killed. The story follows the families as they deal with the death of their loved ones.
  • The Accused
    [Media Center]ACC
    A fiercely independent woman is gang raped, then battles the legal system twice, going after both her attackers and the onlookers whose cheering fueled and encouraged the assualt.
  • Acid rain
    [Media Center] (REF)ACI
    Explains acid rain, how it is produced, its geological interactions, and its meteorological distribution. Examines its effects on wildlife, the ecosystem, and the human body. Suggests ways in which to reduce the amount of acid rain and control its dispersal.
  • Address unknown
    [Media Center]ADD
    Ten years ago two men got away with murder. But the killers can no longer rest easily. A handful of determined sleuths are closing in on them- even though these would-be detectives aren't old enough to drive.
  • Adventures in the atomic age by Glenn T. Seaborg
    [Media Center]BOO
  • The adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
    Media Center ADV
    Ozzie and Harriet episode where Rick Nelson has his musical debut.
  • The adventures of Priscilla, queen of the desert
    [Media Center]ADV
    Bernadette, a drag queen, embarks with two friends for a wild road trip through the Australian outback in a bus named "Priscilla", where their outrageous disco act brings some interesting responses.
  • Africa
    [Media Center] AFR
    Gives a history of Africa from many locations showing life as it is today plus archive film and dramatized reconstructions.
  • The African Queen
    [Media Center] AFR
    Two very different people find themselves thrown together in the war-torn African jungle in 1914 and together they embark on a dangerous mission to destroy a German gunboat.
  • After hours
    Media Center AFT
    A word processor, looking for a break from his humdrum Manhattan routine, gets caught in a bizarre web of seemingly chance encounters with the downtown night people.
  • Against all odds
    [Media Center]AGA
    In 26 thirty minute programs, the whys and hows of statistics are presented using computer animation, colorful on-screen computations, and documentary segments.
  • The age of innocence
    [Media Center]AGE
    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.
  • The Age of the shoguns
    [Media Center](REF)JAP
    Looks at the history of Japan during the age of the Tokugawa family, the era of Edo, a period of over two-and-a-half centuries during which Japan was sealed off from the rest of the world. Topics include the established classes of daimyo, samurai, farmer and merchant, the political organization of the shogunate, the growth of the merchant class and the development of Kabuki, the delineation of Japanese sensibilities and the meaning of Seppuku.
  • Ahead of the curve by Shane Crotty. :
    [Media Center]BOO Show #16
  • Al-Jazeera: The Inside Story of the Arab News Channel that is Challenging the West by Hugh Miles
    [Media Center] BOO
  • Aladdin
    [Media Center]ALA
    Set in the mythical city of Agrabah, the story follows a street-smart peasant, Aladdin, and his mischievous pet monkey, Abu, through magical adventures.
  • Alamo bay
    Media Center ALA
    Shang, a shrimper and a veteran of the Vietnam War, like many of his friends, feels bitter resentment towards the refugees who have settled in the Gulfs' port towns and threaten their livelihood . Shang's mistress, Glory, is a courageous woman who must choose between the rights of those who have fled a warring land and her love for Shang.
  • Alexander
    [Media Center]ALE
    The story of Alexander the Great, who in 4th century BC conquered ninety percent of the known world of the time by defeating Greece, Persia, Afghanistan, and India in just eight years.
  • Alexander Nevsky
    [Media Center](REF) ALE
    One winter's day in 1242, invading German knights and serfs and warriors of Novgorod, led by Prince Alexander Nevsky, meet on the ice of Lake Peipus and fight it out with mace and axe, with pike and spear and broadsword.
  • Alexander Nevsky
    [Media Center] ALE
    Biographical story of Prince Alexander Nevsky and his successful resistance against an attempt by the Teutonic Knights to invade Russia in 1242.
  • Alfie
    Media Center ALF
    Based by Bill Naughton on his stage play of the same title, this is the story of successful London playwright who is also a wonderfully shallow womanizer trying to figure out what life is all about.
  • Alfie
    [Media Center]ALF
    Alfie is what you'd call an unrepentant womanizer. He is a limo driver working in New York City, which, of course, provides him ample opportunity to continue his womanizing ways. That is until reality slaps him in the face. His carnality eventually gets in the way, and he decides to change his wondering ways.
  • Alfred Hitchcock
    [Media Center](REF)INS
    Scenes from several of Hitchcock's films are combined with an interview of the master himself.
  • Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie
    [Media Center]MAR
    Marnie, a compulsive thief and liar is caught. Her captor impulsively marries the frigid, disturbed girl in an attempt to discover the reasons for her ongoing anti-social behavior.
  • Ali
    [Media Center]ALI
    Dramatic biography of boxing great Muhammad Ali, which focuses on the ten -year period of 1964-1974. In that time, the brash, motor-mouthed athlete quickly dominates his sport, meets and marries his first wife, converts to Islam (changing his name from Cassius Clay), and defies the United States government by refusing to submit to military conscription for duty in Vietnam. His world heavyweight champion title thus stripped from him entirely for political reasons, the champ sets about to win back his crown, culminating in a legendary unification bout against George Foreman in Zaire, dubbed the "Rumble in the Jungle."
  • Alien
    x
    An alien creature terrorizes the crew of a space craft. Rated R.
  • Alien
    [Media Center] ALI
    A routine stop on a barren planetoid infests a spaceship with an alien creature which kills off the crew one by one.
  • All about Eve
    [Media Center] ALL
  • All that jazz
    Media Center ALL
    A musical drama which both celebates show business and strips it of all the jazz and glitter. Semi-autobiographical and based loosely on the life of dancer/choreographer Bob Fosse who directed the film. He is a personality so obsessed by his career that it takes a heart attack to bring him down to earth. Winner of 4 Academy Awards.
  • All the king's men
    Media Center ALL
    A political demagogue governor of a Southern State believes that every man has his price and that the end justifies the means.
  • All the president's men
    Media Center ALL
    A dramatic reconstruction of the true story of the discovery of the White House link with the Watergate affair by two young reporters from the Washington Post.
  • All time movie greats
    [Media Center]ALL
    Compilation of original theatrical trailers and promotional films.
  • The allnighter
    Media Center ALL
    A co-ed's frustration at having spent four years at at California surf- side college without a significant romance is determined to do something about it.
  • Almos' a man
    Media Center
    Dave, a black teenager in the rural South in the 1930's, is trapped between childhood and manhood. While practicing with a cheap pistol, he accidentally shoots a mule, thus subjecting himself to more ridicule and changing his life forever.
  • Always
    [Media Center] ALW
    A portrayal of marriage as seen through the eyes of award-winning filmmaker, Henry Jaglom.
  • Amadeus
    [Media Center]AMA
    Antonio Salieri is the jealousy-ridden 18th century composer; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the hapless victim of his venom.
  • America at the movies
    [Media Center](REF) AME
    Scenes from over 80 of the best American motion pictures illustrate how the American character and spirit have been portrayed on the screen.
  • America at the movies
    [Media Center](REF) AME
    Scenes from many of the best American motion pictures convey the spirit of America, its history and its people as they have been depicted over a 50 year span.
  • American Cinema
    [Media Center](REF) AME
  • American empire by Andrew Bacevich. :
    [Media Center]BOO
  • American graffiti
    [Media Center]AME
    The misadventures of four teenagers one late summer night in 1962 become the focal point for an audience trip back to vintage rock and roll hits and the last "innocent" years of the 50's and early 60's.
  • American history X
    [Media Center]AME
    A former neo-nazi skinhead tries to prevent his younger brother from going down the same wrong path that he did.
  • The American Revolution :a history by Gordon S. Wood.:
    [Media Center]BOO
  • American splendor
    [Media Center]AME
    Pekar is a frustrated file clerk working at the local V.A. Hospital. He is also a comic book fan who befriends the young illustrator Robert Crumb and is soon inspired to create comic books based on his own life. Along his bumpy journey he meets, marries and falls in love with Joyce, an admiring comic book seller.
  • An American werewolf in London
    Media Center AME
    The European adventure of two American youths turns to terror after they are attacked by a werewolf.
  • America's games
    [Media Center]AME
    Features highlights of the XXVI Olympiad, held in Atlanta, Georgia, during Summer 1996. Includes select coverage of the Opening Ceremony, as well as select day by day coverage of individual and team events, especially those featuring American athletes.
  • Amistad
    [Media Center]AMI
    Chronicles the 1839 revolt on board a slave ship bound for America. Much of the story involves the court-room drama about the slave who led the revolt.
  • El Amor brujo
    [Media Center]ELA
    Set in Spain, a sizzling tale of young lovers separated by fate, but whose hearts still burn with a passion only for each other.
  • The Amos n' Andy Show
    Media Center AMO
    Sapphire disappears: Kingfish suspects foul play when Sapphire and Momma disappear. Young girl's mother: Andy plans to marry a girl much younger than himself until he meets her mother.
  • Ancient lives
    [Media Center](REF)VIL
    "Introduces the land of Egypt at the height of its power, and its people- -the pharaos who inhabited the great tombs and the craftsmen who built those tombs."
  • And the band played on
    [Media Center]AND
    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.
  • The Anderson platoon
    Media Center AND
    The camera captures the tension, frustration, anger, and hopelessness of war through an integrated Vietnam combat unit led by a black West Pointer, Lt. Joseph B. Anderson.
  • Andrei Roublev
    Media Center AND
    Describes the horrors of the Dante-like journey of 15th century monk and painter, Andrei Roublev, into medieval Russia.
  • Angel and the badman
    Media Center ANG
    A notorious gunslinger learns the ways of peace from a beautiful Quaker girl.
  • Angel and the badman
    Media Center ANG
    A wounded gunman avenging the death of his foster-father is nursed back to health by a young Quaker woman. She promises to marry him if he will give up his gun.
  • El Angel exterminador
    [Media Center]EXT
    The guests at a dinner party are held prisoner for several days without food, water or other essentials in a room in their host's house.
  • Angel on my shoulder
    [Media Center]ANG
    A murdered gangster forms a pact with the devil in exchange for a temporary return to earth. A classic conflict of good, evil and love.
  • Angels and insects
    [Media Center]ANG
    A poor young entomologist marries into a rich family where the women are tended like queen bees.
  • Angels in the outfield
    [Media Center]ANG
    A young boy praying for a father and a struggling baseball team praying for a pennant learn to believe in themselves with some heavenly intervention.
  • Anger magick lantern cycle
    [Media Center]KEN
  • Anger magick lantern cycle
    [Media Center]KEN
    Kustom kar kommandos: "A young man strokes his customized car with a powder puff." Puce moment: "A lavishly colored evocation of the Hollywood now gone, as shown through an afternoon in the milieu of the 1920's film star." Scorpio rising: "Brando, bikes and black leather; Christ, chains and cocaine ... The machine as totem from toy to terror. Thanatos in chrome and black leather and bursting jeans."--Container.
  • Angie
    [Media Center]ANG
    A stubbornly independent young woman with wild ambitions baffles her family and friends when she refuses to marry her longtime boyfriend when she gets pregnant.
  • Animation, the beginning
    [Media Center](REF) ANI
    Features nine examples of early animation originally released between 1906 and 1925.
  • Anna
    [Media Center]ANN
    An aging Czech film star, exiled from her native country and struggling to establish her career in Manhattan, opens her heart and home to a peasant girl who has come to America in search of the film star she idolizes.
  • Anna and the King
    [Media Center]ANN
    English schoolteacher Anna Leonowens has traveled to Siam to educate the 58 children of King Mongkut. Each has preconceived ideas about the other's world. Amid the danger of political unrest, their respect for each other turns into something more.
  • Anna Christie
    Media Center ANN
    A disillusioned prostitute returns to her father, a barge captain in New York City. She falls in love with a young seaman, and, in choosing to reveal her past to him, gambles that his love for her will remain true.
  • Anna Karenina
    [Media Center]ANN
    Tolstoy's tragic love chronicle is brought to the screen with Vivien Leigh playing a married Russian woman madly in love with a military officer. The story of this illicit romance is elaborately produced and splendidly acted with Vivien Leigh stealing the show.
  • Annihilation of Fish
    [Media Center]ANN
  • Another hour of fun with Felix the Cat
    [Media Center]FEL
    The frantic antics never stop when Felix reaches into his bag of tricks. Join Felix in his adventures with Vavoom, Wally the Walrus, the Professor, and Rock Bottom - from the North Pole to the town of Dead-Beat to the kingdom of Schnitzelvania - there's always a laugh in store.
  • Anywhere but here
    [Media Center]ANY
    Adele is a flashy, flirtatious dreamer, Her daughter Ann is a quiet, no nonsense realist. On the surface, they're like oil and water, but deep down, they're two of a kind.
  • Aparajito
    [Media Center] APA
    Young Apu & his parents have moved from a rural village to Benares and Apu learns about city life. His formal education starts and contributes to his estrangement from the conservative rural life favored by his now widowed mother. This is the second of a trilogy beginning with Pathera pancali. and followed by Apur sansar.
  • The Apartment
    [Media Center] APA
    An ambitious insurance clerk lets the company executives use his apartment for their affairs, and discovers that one of them is seeing the girl he has fallen for.
  • Apollo 13
    Media Center APO
    Stranded 205,000 miles from Earth in a crippled spacecraft, astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert fight a desperate battle to survive. Meanwhile, at Mission Control, astronaut Ken Mattingly, flight director Gene Kranz and a heroic ground crew race against time, and the odds, to bring them home.
  • Apollo 13
    [Media Center]APO
    A true story. Stranded 205,000 miles from Earth in a crippled spacecraft, astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert fight a desperate battle to survive. Meanwhile, at Mission Control, astronaut Ken Mattingly, flight director Gene Kranz and a heroic ground crew race against time, and the odds, to bring them home.
  • Apollo 13
    [Media Center]APO
    Stranded 205,000 miles from Earth in a crippled spacecraft, astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert fight a desperate battle to survive. Meanwhile, at Mission Control, astronaut Ken Mattingly, flight director Gene Kranz and a heroic ground crew race against time, and the odds, to bring them home.
  • The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
    Media Center APP
    A young Jewish man in 1948 Montreal is driven by an insatiable desire to be a somebody, and stops at nothing to get there.
  • L'argent de poche
    [Media Center]SMA
    Life from early childhood to adolescence is illustrated in episodes involving 10 children.
  • Arlington Road
    [Media Center]ARL
    A college professor suspects that his new neighbors may be right-wing terrorists.
  • Arsenal
    Media Center ARS
    An account of the Ukraine from the World War, through the February and October revolutions, to the suppression of a worker's revolt in 1918.
  • [Arsenic and old lace]
    Media Center ARS
    An easy going drama critic discovers that his kind and gentle Aunts Abby and Martha have a bizarre habit of poisoning gentlemen callers and burying them in the cellar. Live presentation by On-Stagers, February 11, 1985.
  • Arsenic and old lace
    Media Center ARS
    An easy going drama critic discovers that his kind and gentle Aunts Abby and Martha have a bizarre habit of poisoning gentlemen callers and burying them in the cellar.
  • The Art of computer animation
    [Media Center]ART
    A collection of representative works in computer animation by over thirty artists, ranging from exotic flights of fancy, to the ultra realism of simulators, to never seen before commercials. Vary in length from a few seconds to full dramas, displaying music, comedy, romance, and elegant and breath- takingly beautiful techniques.
  • As you like it
    Media Center ASY
    Film adaptation of Shakespeare's well known comedy. A pastoral romance set in the Forest of Arden in medieval France, this story is full of kindliness, good fellowship, and goodwill. Although shortened from the original, this version is considered an honest interpretation of the play, with no modern day additions.
  • Ashes and diamonds
    Media Center ASH
    Portrait of a young Polish nationalist assassin who, when World War II ends, finds himself living uncertainly, moving from echoing bars to seedy hotel rooms, finding comfort in a girl and crazy jokes.
  • Aspects of minimalism :
    [Media Center]ASP
    Host Sara Berry discusses the influences of certain artists on minimalism.
  • Au revoir les enfants
    Media Center AU
    Based on the director's life, this film chronicles Malle's experiences during the German occupation of France in World War II. Julien (Malle) is 12 years old, and the smartest boy in his class at boarding school when a new student appears. The two form a friendship even though Julien senses that there is something different about his new friend.
  • Augustine
    [Augustinian Studies]BR1720.A9 A93 1992
    Introduction to the life and works of Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo. Scenes from Rome and Milan acquaint the viewer with Augustine's world. Includes readings from his Confessions and City of God (in English), with a select few in Latin with English translation.
  • Augustine: philosopher & saint
    [Augustinian Studies]BR1720.A9 A94 1997
  • Augustine :
    [Augustinian Studies]BR1720.A9 A941 1997
  • Auschwitz
    [Media Center]AUS
    "'Auschwitz: inside the Nazi state' is the result of three years of research, drawing on the close involvement of world experts, recently discovered documents and nearly 100 interviews with camp survivors and perpetrators, many of whom are speaking on the record for the first time. Their stories are brought to life through the innovative use of archive footage, dramatic recreations of key ... moments, and their ... testimony"--Container label.
  • The Autocrats
    [Media Center](REF) AUT
    Two of Hollywood's greatest directors were Cecil B. DeMille and Erich von Stroheim. But what they shared in achievement, they never shared in success.
  • Avalon
    Media Center AVA
    The story of several generations of a family, from the arrival of immigrant Sam Krichinsky in the suburb of Baltimore called Avalon, down through his children and grandchildren. The family goes from poverty to prosperity and the world changes around them, but their love and humor hold the family together.
  • Avant garde short subjects from France
    [Media Center](REF) AVA
    In the Gance film a mad scientist discovers a sneezing powder that changes the shape of anything it touches. The Duchamp is a Dada film based on rotating circles and spirals interlaced by puns in French. Man Ray uses light patterns from rotating objects to exhibit his early Dadaistic affiliations. Partially filmed at the villa, Emakbakia which in Basque means leave me alone. Ray's second film portrays one man's difficulty in becoming committed to a woman. Astarfish symbolizes his yearning for sincere beauty without hidden, destructive qualities.
  • The awful truth
    [Media Center]AWF
    A separated couple sabotages each other's love affairs while waiting for their divorce decree to become final.

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  • Babe
    [Media Center]BAB
    A lovable talking piglet makes friends with all the animals in the barnyard, proving to everyone on the farm that different types can get along.
  • Babe
    [Media Center]BAB
    This sequel takes the three musketeers Babe, Ferdy and Mrs. Hoggett on a crusade into the midst of a large city where despite incredible obstacles, they're able to turn enemies into friends, raise enough money to save the farm and combine the two worlds into one. Once again, it's Babe's kind and steady heart that achieves the miracles.
  • Babette's feast
    Media Center BAB
    On the desolate coast of Denmark, two elderly, religious women take in a young woman to be their housekeeper and cook, not knowing she is a superb French chef. When the chef, (who is never called upon to cook anything more complicated or mouth-watering than boiled codfish or soup), wins a large sum of money, she decides to spend it all creating a magnificent meal.
  • Baby doll
    Media Center BAB
    Archie has only one real joy in life : his thumb-sucking child-bride Baby Doll. And in just a few hours he will really have her. However, Archie ends up losing both his wife and his sanity.
  • Back to the future part III
    [Media Center]BAC
    Marty is stranded in 1955 after a freak lightning burst, and must travel back to 1885 to rescue Doc Brown. When he gets there, he finds that his friend and mentor is the blacksmith in a western town, and in love. It's up to Marty to get them out of the wild west and back to the future!
  • Bad Santa
    [Media Center]BAD
    Willie is a thief who teams up with his dwarf friend Marcus, for a very special Christmas scam. Willie gets a job as Santa Claus at a shopping mall, Marcus tags along as an elf, and they use their employee status to rob stores blind just before Christmas. But Willie is a bitter and foul-mouthed alcoholic who doesn't care much for kids. A mall's manager is certain something's wrong, so he asks the chief of security to check out Willie. Meanwhile, one of the kids Willie is forced to talk to becomes a regular customer.
  • Badlands
    Media Center BAD
    South Dakota, 1959: Kit and Holly are adrift in a double fantasy of crime and punishment..an odyssey of meaningless murder and a flight to nowhere.
  • Baisers voles
    [Media Center]STO
    Stolen Kisses is a continuation of the story of Antoine Doinel, (first told in the film The 400 Blows) and in many respects the autobiography of Francois Truffaut--his thoroughly dishonorable discharge from the army, his initially awkward but finally successful encounters with women. But the pain of encounter with the world of earlier work here becomes acceptance of life, with which comes an openness to its joy.
  • Ballad of a soldier
    BAL
    A young man refuses a medal following an heroic action and instead takes leave from the front to visit his mother. During his travels by train, truck, and on foot, he meets many people : a crippled veteran, a comic sentry, faithful and faithless wives, and a girl with whom he falls in love.
  • The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
    [Media Center]BAL
    On June 12, 1901, Gregorio Cortez, a young Mexican family man, shoots and kills a sheriff in self-defense. For the next 11 days, he eludes an inflamed posse of 600 Texas Rangers in a 450 mile chase across Texas. His manhunt captures the nation's interest and his eventual trial is tainted by the extreme emotions of the country.
  • The ballad of Little Jo
    [Media Center]BAL
    A woman discovers that the Wild West is no place for a lady--unless she's disguised as a man.
  • Bambi
    Media Center BAM
  • Bananas
    Media Center BAN
    Absurd humor borderlines on insanity as a tester of strange gadgets quits his Manhatten job and flees to South America to eventually become leader of a mythical country.
  • The Band Wagon
    Media Center BAN
    A has-been Hollywood dancer joins forces with a tempermental stage producer to put on a Broadway musical.
  • The Banger sisters
    [Media Center]BAN
    Two former groupies used to get it on with every late 60's music legend with a guitar and a Y-chromosome. Decades later, Suzette is still her brassy, sassy self and Lavinia is now a proper suburban wife and mother. When Suzette loses her job, she seeks out her "sister". Once they get together, their two world's collide.
  • Banking on life and debt
    Media Center BAN
    This documentary will show you how millions of children are sacrificed for the sake of financial stability. The video traces the post-World War II change which led to the current world economic order. Viewers travel to three continents for reports.
  • Barfly
    [Media Center]BAR
    Henry and Wanda are wedded to their bar stools, not each other, but they like each other and attempt to make a go of life on the skids.
  • Batman
    [Media Center]BAT
    The caped crusader is the only one who can save Gotham City from the maniacal Joker and his sinister plans to destroy beauty.
  • Batman forever
    [Media Center]BAT
  • Batman returns
    [Media Center]BAT
    Gotham City faces two monstrous criminal menaces: the bizarre, sinister Penguin and the slinky, mysterious Catwoman. Can Batman battle two formidable foes at once?
  • Batteries not included
    Media Center BAT
    An unscrupulous real estate developer sends thugs to a tenement to get rid of the last five tenants. The five are visited by tiny visitors from outer space who turn the tide with magical powers.
  • The battle at Elderbush Gulch
    [Media Center](REF) BAT
    The Battle at Elderbush Gulch begins with Mae Marsh and her little sister meeting Lillian Gish and her family on the stagecoach bound for the frontier settlement of Elderbush Gulch. The girls' arrival is welcomed with enthusiasm until the ranch foreman for their uncle, with whom they've come to live, refuses to let them keep their puppies in the house. Left outside, the pups run away and fall into the hands of two young Indians who, amazed at their good fortune, prepare to eat them. Marsh's screams alert her uncle, who comes running with his gun and shoots one of the braves. Unfortunately, the victim turns out to be the son of the chief. To avenge the death of his son, the chief organizes an attack on Elderbush Gulch.
  • Battle of Algiers
    [Media Center]BAT
    Dramatization of the conflict between Algerian nationalists and French colonialists that culminated in Algeria's independence in 1962.
  • The Battle of Russia
    [Media Center] BAT
    Shows the Russian defense against the Nazi invasion during World War II, focusing on the Battle of Stalingrad.
  • The Battleship Potemkin
    [Media Center](REF) BAT
    Recounts the heroic mutiny of Russian sailors in 1905. Includes the Oddessa Steps sequence, famous for its revolutionary film editing and cinematic montage.
  • Be big
    Media Center BE
    A weekend with the wives, a testimonial dinner and a missed train create excitement for Stan and Ollie.
  • The bear
    Media Center BEA
    An action-packed outdoor adventure tale about Youk, an orphaned cub, and the wounded giant grizzly who befriends him. Threatened by gunfire, they begin a desperate quest for survival.
  • Beat the devil
    Media Center BEA
    An offbeat spoof of intrigue films involving the passengers on a steamer who attempt to outfox each other for illegal control of a parcel of land believed to be rich with uranium deposits.
  • Beautiful dreamers
    Media Center BEA
    A young doctor meets Walt Whitman at a medical conference and invites him to visit the asylum for the mentally ill in the doctor's home town. At first Whitman angers the town people with his radical ideas about individuality and guiltless sexuality, but gradually they are won over by Whitman's compassion and the liberating magic his ideas work on the asylum inmates.
  • Beauty and the beast
    Media Center BEA
    Dramatized adaptation of the fairy.
  • Bed and sofa
    Media Center BED
    Satirical film which points up the social consequences of the Soviet housing shortage. A husband and wife invite a friend to live with them and sleep on the sofa, but soon the husband winds up on the sofa.
  • Bedknobs and broomsticks
    [Media Center]BED
    A witch and three waifs help defeat the Nazis in England in 1940.
  • Beer and circus by Professor Murray Sperber. :
    [Media Center]BOO
  • The Beer drinker's guide to fitness and filmmaking
    [Media Center] BEE
    Comic memoir of a filmmaker and his family. Sullivan is a filmmaker harassed by creditors, so trying to balance the demands of career and family, he embarks on an expose of his attempts at filmmaking and fatherhood.
  • Before night falls
    [Media Center]BEF
    A look at the life of Reinaldo Arenas, from childhood in Cuba to his death in New York City. His writings and homosexuality get him in trouble with Castro's Cuba and he spends two years in prison before leaving for the United States.
  • Before sunset
    [Media Center]BEF
    Two strangers met by chance, spent a night together in Vienna, and parted before sunrise. Nine years later, Jesse has written a book about the encounter. During his accelerated European book tour, he meets up with Celine in Paris. Before Jesse's flight home, he joins Celine for a picturesque walk around the city and they have an intimate conversation, ending at Celine's apartment. Will they get the chance to fall in love all over again?
  • Being John Malkovich
    [Media Center]BEI
    A struggling street puppeteer takes a job to make some money. One day he accidentally discovers a door, a portal into the brain of John Malkovich (played by John Malkovich). For 15 minutes he experiences the ultimate head trip--he is being John Malkovich.
  • Being Julia
    [Media Center]BEI
    Julia is a true diva: beautiful, talented, wealthy and famous. She has a devoted husband who has masterminded her brillant career - but after years of the spotlight she begins to suffer from a severe case of boredom and longs for something new and exciting to put the twinkle back in her eye. She finds what she is looking for in a handsome young American fan, who adds a few more sparks than Julia was hoping for.
  • Being there
    [Media Center] BEI
    A feeble-minded gardener whose entire knowledge of life comes from watching television is sent out into the real world when his employer dies. Equipped with his prize possession, his remote control unit, the gardener encounters a series of hilarious events.
  • La bella bomba
    [Media Center]LAB
    A womanizing man is made to look at his life.
  • Belleville rendez-vous
    [Media Center]TRI
    A bicyclist is kidnapped from the Tour de France by mysterious gangsters; his grandmother travels to the city of Belleville (which has a sardonic version of the Statue of Liberty in its harbor), where she tracks him down with the help of a musical trio gone to seed, the Belleville Triplets.
  • Bellman & True
    Media Center BEL
    When gangland thugs capture his beloved stepson, an alcoholic computer genius must aid the criminals in a complex bank heist.
  • Beloved
    [Media Center]BEL
    After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved". Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things start to happen.
  • Ben-Hur
    [Media Center] BEN (pt1 & pt2)
    A peace-loving prince of Judea, leads his nation against the wrath of the conquering Romans. His self-imposed destiny brings tragedy to himself, and his people, as he learns to fight, to love, to hate and, finally, to forgive.
  • Berlin
    [Media Center](REF) BER
    Shows life in Berlin on a late spring day. Uses montage, cutting, and editing to capture the dawn to midnight pulse and tempo of this city.
  • Bernice bobs her hair
    Media Center BER
    In the Midwest, around 1920, a shy girl gets advice from her cousin on how to interest men.
  • Best boy
    Media Center BES
    An Academy Award winning documentary film about fifty-two-year-old mentally retarded Phillip Wohl and how filmmaker Ira Wohl, his cousin, helped him gain a degree of independence when his parents could no longer shelter him.
  • Best in show
    [Media Center]BES
    An hilarious look at dog show participants (and the pooches who love them).
  • The Best Man
    [Media Center]BES
    Harper Stewart is a commitment-shy writer and the best man at the wedding of Lance and Mia. Unfortunately for Harper, the timing couldn't be worse. His new book is coming out and it chronicles his college life with his friends in a less than perfect light.
  • The best of George Pal
    Media Center BES
    A selection of the puppet animated films by George Pal.
  • The best of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman,
    [Media Center]MAR v1
    Living in the fictional town of Fernwood, Ohio, Mary is a housewife whose quest for perfection is hampered by her husband, her parents, her friends and her constant fear of waxy yellow buildup. Experience the good times with volume I, which contains the hilarious permiere show, the famous "chicken soup" episode and the dramatic conclusion.
  • Best of the fests 1988
    [Media Center](REF) BES
    Award-winning shorts from the Ann Arbor, Athens, Chicago International, CINE, Film Arts, New York Expo, Nissan FOCUS, Ottawa, Sinking Creek/Nashville, Student Academy Awards, and U.S. Film Festivals.
  • Best of the fests
    [Media Center](REF)BES
  • Best of the fests
    [Media Center](REF) BES
    Features award winning short films, including animation.
  • The best of W.C. Fields
    [Media Center]BES
    W.C. Fields stars in three comedy films: In one he portrays "The Golf Specialist."; in "The Fatal Glass of Beer" he portrays a trapper in the great northwest; In "The Dentist" he portrays a dentist who faces unusual and comic patients.
  • The best of Winsor McCay
    Media Center BES
    A selection of the works of Winsor McCay, the inventor of animated cartoons and drawings.
  • The Best years of our lives
    [Media Center]BES (pt1 & pt2)
    The story of the problems faced by three veterans who return home after World War II and try to pick up their lives where they left off.
  • La Bete humaine
    Media Center BET
    Fate drives a man to murder and suicide. A jealous husband forces his wife to help him murder her elderly lover, starting a series of tragic consequences.
  • Betty Boop
    [Media Center]BET
    Five fully animated cartoons.
  • Betty Boop,
    Media Center BET
  • Beyond hate
    [Media Center](REF)BEY
    Tape 1 features conversations with a variety of people who have explored the heart of hatred. Tape 2 focuses on how children learn to hate, and how attitudes toward hatred differ from culture to culture.
  • Beyond war
    Media Center BEY
    An introduction to the philosophy and organization of the Beyond War movement, which is composed of individuals dedicated to ending all violent conflict.
  • Bicentennial man
    [Media Center]BIC
    A comedy about an android "household appliance" robot who just wants to be a regular guy.
  • The bicycle thief
    [Media Center](REF)BIC
    An unemployed man gets work for which his bicycle is essential. Its theft and the man's desperate attempt to recover it evoke a story of deep poignancy.
  • Big crimewave
    Media Center BIG
    Tale of struggling screenwriter Steven Penny--a self-styled loner who lives in a cramped studio above a suburban garage--as narrated by his landlord's ten-year-old daughter Kim. In pursuit of his goal to be the "world's best crime- movie screenwriter", Penny hops a bus bound for Kansas and a twilight rendezvous with Dr. Jolly--an alleged script doctor. Penny's journey turns into a comic nightmare as Dr. Jolly shows him what he means by a new story "twist".
  • Big night
    Media Center BIG
    The story of two brothers whose Italian restaurant is on the brink of bankruptcy. Their only chance for success is to risk everything they own on an extravagant feast for bandleader Louis Prima. But their big night is complicated by a lovers' triangle, a sneaky restaurant rival, and the hilarious perfection of chef Primo.
  • The big parade
    [Media Center](REF) BIG
    Story of an American soldier and the French girl he loves, set against World War I.
  • Bill Wyman
    [Media Center] BIL
    Bill Wyman of the Rolling Stones performs three songs.
  • Billy Elliot
    [Media Center]BIL
    Eleven-year-old miner's son Billy Elliot is on his way to boxing lessons when he stumbles upon a ballet class. Billy secretly joins the class, knowing that his blue-collar family would never understand.
  • Bird on a wire
    [Media Center]BIR
    A man hidden under the FBI witness-relocation program is recognized by his former sweetheart. But before he can assume a new identity, the man he put in jail is released and comes looking for him! The two lovers are thrown together on a cross-country flight, and barely manage to evade the gangsters while rekindling the flame of love.
  • The Birds
    [Media Center]BIR
    A small California town is attacked by thousands of birds.
  • Birdy
    Media Center BIR
    Birdy, an ex-Vietnam veteran sits in an almost catatonic state in an Army hospital where he has come to believe he is one of the feathered creatures of his boyhood dreams. In an effort to break Birdy's silence, his psychiatrist brings in Birdy's loyal, best friend of his youth as they attempt to reach him and bring him back to reality.
  • Birth
    [Media Center]BIR
    A widow for ten years, Anna is looking forward to getting remarried when a mysterious boy appears claiming to be the reincarnation of her late husband.
  • The birth of a nation
    [Media Center]BIR
    A Civil War spectacular. Portrays life in the South during and after the Civil War as revealed in a story depicting the war itself, the conflict between the defeated Southerners and emancipated renegade Negroes, the despoiling of the South during the carpetbagger period, and the revival of the Southern white man's honor through the efforts of the Ku Klux Klan.
  • Black Beauty
    [Media Center]BLA
    Faithfully based on Anne Sewell's classic novel, this beloved horse story is told by its hero, the gallant Beauty, whose joyous and heartbreaking life takes him from idyllic days on a country squire's estate to London's hard, cobblestoned streets, through decades of owners both kindly and harsh.
  • Blackboard jungle
    Media Center BLA
    Film about life in an inner city high school in the 50's that was the first to utilize a rock 'n' roll soundtrack. A dedicated young teacher soon loses his idealism when he has to deal with the tensions that threaten to destroy his classroom.
  • The Blair Witch project
    [Media Center]BLA
    Three student filmmakers set out into the forest to film a documentary on a legend known as The Blair Witch. As they become lost in the woods, an unseen evil begins to stalk and harass them. They soon realize that what they are filming is not a legend, but their own descent into a horrifying encounter with the supernatural.
  • Bliss
    Media Center BLI
    A black comedy about an executive's return to life after his heart attack, only to find his family and friends had turned his world upside down.
  • The Blob
    [Media Center]BLO
    Science fiction film in which residents of a small Pennsylvania town combat a slimy space invader.
  • The blob
    [Media Center]BLO
    A small town is menaced by a blood-red mass of protoplasm from outer space that is set on consuming all of the local residents.
  • Blood on the sun
    Media Center BLO
    An American newspaper editor working in pre-World War II Japan tries to expose the menace of a Japanese militarist plan for world conquest.
  • Blood work
    [Media Center]BLO
    There is a masked killer on the loose, and the police believe its the locations that are important and that the victims are just unlucky. But retired FBI agent McCaleb thinks that it goes the other way around. The killer's victims are very specific. Forced to retire after suffering a heart attack, and receiving a new heart 2 years later, he is approached by the sister of the murdered woman whose heart he now has. Now McCaleb has to use his wits to discover who is responsible for the murders.
  • Bloody mama
    Media Center BLO
    Drama about the depression-era gang led by Kate (Ma) Barker.
  • Blow-up
    Media Center BLO
  • The Blue angel
    [Media Center] BLU
    Professor Rath, a middle aged schoolmaster, becomes infatuated with and later marries Lola-Lola, a singer in a sleazy cafe, and is increasingly degraded by her. When Lola leaves him for another man, he returns to his school a broken old man and dies.
  • The Blue angel
    [Media Center]BLU
    An obsessive fascination with a cafe singer slowly destroys a quiet professor.
  • Blue steel
    Media Center BLU
  • Bob Roberts
    Media Center BOB
  • Body heat
    Media Center BOD
    The story of Ned (Hurt) and Matty (Turner) who plot to kill Matty's rich husband so they can inherit his wealth and live happily ever after.
  • Boesman & Lena
    [Media Center]BOE
    Examines the devastating effects of racism on the human spirit through the progress of one couple's life together under Apartheid, as they are pushed from the bucolic Eden of South African farmlands into a makeshift shelter on the mudflats near Cape Town.
  • The Bomber Wars by Robin Neillands
    [Media Center] BOO
  • Bonnie and Clyde
    Media Center BON
    A likeable young couple embark on a series of increasingly violent crimes during the darkest days of the Depression.
  • Books by Howard Zinn
    [Media Center]BOO
  • Das Boot
    [Media Center] BOA
    Based on the actual experiences of World War II correspondent Lothar Gunther Buchheim, follows the cruise of a German U-boat as it undergoes battle and attack to survive and return to port only to be destroyed in an air attack upon the subpens of New Rochelle in occupied France.
  • Bound
    [Media Center]BOU
    "A mobster, his mistress and a tough female ex-con are caught in a dangerous plot, with over $2 million of the mob's money at stake."--container.
  • Le bourgeois gentilhomme
    [Media Center]LEB
    "Entertainment in the tradition of the 'Commedia Dell'arte' ; a combination of music, dance and song [performed by the Comedie Francaise]. ... The 'Would-Be Gentleman' in this case is adorned with an elegant dressing gown and an absurd chapeau, as he aspires to a higher station in life."--Program notes.
  • Bowfinger
    [Media Center]BOW
    With the help of the nerdy brother of Hollywood's biggest star, an ambitious and sexy ingenue, and an over-the-hill diva, Hollywood's least successful director stops at nothing to get his latest low-budget film produced. Includes on-location interviews with the actors.
  • The boxer
    [Media Center]BOX
    When Danny Flynn returns to his Belfast neighborhood after 14 years in prison, all he wants is to find peace, resume his career, and reclaim the love of the woman who has remained etched in his mind. As they slowly embrace the possibilities of renewed romance, they realize cultural taboos stand in the way and fighting for love could cost them their lives.
  • Boys don't cry
    [Media Center]BOY
    The story of the life of Teena Brandon, a transgender youth who preferred life in her male identity as Brandon Teena.
  • Boys on the side
    [Media Center]BOY
    A young HIV+ real estate agent begins a cross country trip with a black lesbian club singer and along the way they pick up a young pregnant woman who has just accidentally murdered her boyfriend.
  • Boyz 'n the hood
    [Media Center] BOY
    For three young men growing up in South Central Los Angeles, the "hood" is a place of drive-by shootings, unemployment, drugs and pain. But their reactions to the world around them vary- one is an unambitiuos drug dealer, his brother is a college bound teenage father, and the brother's best friend is guided by a strong father who hopes for a better life for his son.
  • Boyz 'n the hood
    [Media Center]BOY
    For three young men growing up in South Central Los Angeles, the "hood" is a place of drive-by shootings, unemployment, drugs and pain. But their reactions to the world around them vary -- one is an unambitious drug dealer, his brother is a college bound teenage father, and the brother's best friend is guided by a strong father who hopes for a better life for his son.
  • Branding, the marketing advantage
    [Media Center]GLO
    Discusses current trends toward globalization and their implications for the marketing of brand name products.
  • Brazil
    Media Center BRA
    A surrealistic view of a "perfect" future where technology reigns supreme and everyone is monitored by a secret government agency.
  • Breaker Morant
    Media Center BRE
    After the death of a British captain in the Boer War in South Africa in 1901, Lt. Morant leads his unit in pursuit of the Boers. The execution of a captured Boer and other executions leads to Morant's trial and execution.
  • Breaking the waves
    [Media Center]BRE
    Believing that her prayers to God to bring her husband home from his job on an offshore oil rig caused an accident that left him paralyzed, a pious, young Scottish woman, tragically, submits to his wish that she take on other lovers, convinced that this will aid in his recovery.
  • Breathless
    Media Center BRE
  • The bridges of Madison County
    [Media Center]BRI
    World-traveling National Geographic photographer Robert Kincaid and Iowa housewife Francesca Johnson aren't looking to turn their lives upside down. Each is at a point in life where expectations are behind them. Yet four days after meeting, they won't want to lose the love they've found.
  • The Brig
    [Media Center]BRI
    Portrays the inhumanity of military discipline in a Marine Corps prison.
  • Bringing out the dead
    [Media Center]BRI
    Frank Pierce, a New York City paramedic on the brink of madness, meets Mary Burke, the daughter of a man he tried to save. Together, Frank and Mary confront the ghosts of the past, and discover that redemption can be found among the living.
  • Broken arrow
    [Media Center]BRO
    Two military pilots engage in a no-holds-barred battle against time and each other in a race to recover two stolen nuclear warheads.
  • The Brother from another planet
    [Media Center]BRO
  • The Browning version
    [Media Center]BRO
  • The Browning version
    [Media Center]BRO
    A story of a student who inspires his brilliant yet beleaguered and unappreciated teacher. The brilliant but stern classics instructor at a posh prep school is forced out of his job and into the realization that he is despised in the classroom and at home. One student's act of kindness gives the proud academic the inspiration and courage to build his new life.
  • Buddha in the land of the Kami
    [Media Center](REF)JAP
    Begins with the creation myth of Japan and explains the origin and scope of the Kami concept; explains the arrival of Buddhism and how Buddhism and the Kami were assimilated; discusses the role of Chinese culture, style, and writing in Japanese culture; and demonstrates how the Japanese garden epitomizes the Japanese view of the relationship between man and nature, space, time, and reality.
  • Buena Vista Social Club
    [Media Center]BUE
    In 1996, a group of legendary Cuban musicians were brought together by Ry Cooder to record a CD. This film shows some of their songs being recorded in the studio, concert footage from Amsterdam and New York City, and some of the musicians talking about their lives in Cuba and how they got started in music. In Spanish and English.
  • Bugs & Daffy
    [Media Center]BUG
    Leonard Maltin introduces Warner Bros. cartoons made during World War II that cover both the home front and the war overseas.
  • Bulworth
    [Media Center]BUL
    Believing his career is over, Senator Jay Bulworth takes out an enormous insurance policy and a contract on his own life. But his impending death fills him with an outrageous desire to break the rules and tell it like it is.
  • The Burning times
    [Media Center](REF)BUR
    Discusses legends and misconceptions regarding the term "witch"; also church- and state-sanctioned torture and killing of women during witch burning times.
  • Bus stop
    [Media Center]BUS
    A comedy-drama about a naive but brash young cowboy from Montana who goes to Phoenix to compete in a rodeo and learns about life and love from a cafe singer whom he tries to force into marriage.
  • Buster Keaton, a hard act to follow
    [Media Center]BUS
    Sucessful, wealthy and world renowned, Buster Keaton was one of the top stars of the twenties. He released his comic masterpiece The General in 1926. But when his contract was sold to MGM and he lost creative control of his films, his fortunes began to slip. Fights with his producers and marital problems pushed him over the edge into alcoholism and unemployment.
  • Buster Keaton, a hard act to follow
    [Media Center]BUS
    Keaton returned to MGM as a gag writer in the 1930s. Rediscovery of his work in 1949 by film critic James Agee revived interest in his films, leading to guest shots and television appearances.
  • Buster Keaton, a hard act to follow
    [Media Center]BUS
    Sucessful, wealthy and world renowned, Buster Keaton was one of the top stars of the twenties. He released his comic masterpiece The General in 1926. But when his contract was sold to MGM and he lost creative control of his films, his fortunes began to slip. Fights with his producers and marital problems pushed him over the edge into alcoholism and unemployment. Includes rare footage from Seven chances (1925), The General (1926), Free and easy (1930), Speak easily (1932), and Grand slam opera (1936).
  • Butterfly
    [Media Center]BUT
    A shy young boy is brought out of his cocoon by a wise teacher who shows him the wonder of the natural world around him, amidst the growing tensions and chaos of the Spanish Civil War in Galicia. Spanish or French language with yellow English subtitles.
  • Bye bye Brazil
    [Media Center]BYE
    Brazil, a country coming to an end to make way for another country about to begin.

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  • Cabaret
    [Media Center]CAB
    An egocentric American girl dreams of becoming a star while working in a third-rate Berlin cabaret. Based on stories by Christopher Isherwood.
  • The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
    [Media Center]CAB
    Reality and illusion seem to lose their delineations when Dr. Caligari, the travelling hypnotist, comes to town. Truth & fiction, dreams & reality can indeed become intertangled!
  • The California reich
    [Media Center]CAL
    A documentary on the National Socialist White Peoples Party in California that characterizes the party's dogma, leaders, and influence.
  • Camilla
    [Media Center]CAM
    An unlikely pair, Jessica Tandy and Bridget Fonda, set off down the road to do everything they always wanted. On the way, they stage a kidnapping, get duped by a con man, lose their car in a lake and have the time of their lives.
  • Camille
    [Media Center]CAM
    A Parisian courtesan and a young law student fall in love and forsake their former lives.
  • Captain Blood
    [Media Center]CAP
    A young British surgeon (Errol Flynn), wrongly condemned by Judge Jeffreys for treating rebels, escapes from slavery and becomes a Caribbean pirate.
  • Captain Corelli's mandolin
    [Media Center]CAP
    In 1941, on a remote Greek island, an Italian artillery garrison is established to maintain order. One Italian officer, Captain Corelli, adopts an attitude of mutual co-existence with the Greeks and engages in such activities as music festivals and courting the daughter of a local doctor. In 1943, however, after Italy surrenders to the Allies and changes sides in the war, Captain Corelli must defend the Greek island against a German invasion.
  • Careful he might hear you
    [Media Center]CAR
  • Carnival of souls
    [Media Center]CAR
    Horror film about a young woman who survives a car crash and is subsequently plagued by odd blackouts and visions of zombielike beings.
  • Carrington
    [Media Center]CAR
    Emma Thompson stars as Dora Carrington, the Victorian Era painter whose passionate life created one of England's greatest scandals. Carrington is unable to possess the one man she loves, Lytton Strachey. Rebuffed, she embarks on a long string of loveless sexual encounters. Her heart remains true to him, but she refuses to curtail the sexual pursuits which erupt again and again in angry passion.
  • Casino
    [Media Center]CAS (pt1&2)
    In an era of over-the-top glitz, Sam "Ace" Rothstein is riding high as front man for the Mob's multi-billion-dollar Las Vegas operation. To protect their "investment," the bosses send in Ace's boyhood pal, hot-headed enforcer Nicky Santoro. It's a winning hand: Ace's brain and Nicky's muscle--until sexy wild card Ginger McKenna turns up the heat.
  • Central do Brasil
    [Media Center]CEN
    When a young boy witnesses his mother's accidental death, a lonely retired school-teacher reluctantly takes the child under her wing.
  • Central station
    [Media Center]CEN
    When a young boy witnesses his mother's accidental death, a lonely retired school-teacher reluctantly takes the child under her wing.
  • La Chambre verte
    [Media Center]GRE
    "In a most personal and rigorous film, Francois Truffaut becomes Julien Davenne, a man who so loves the dead that he can no longer love the living. Davenne's obsession with the memory of the dead wife has spread to encompass all those he knew who are now gone, a process heightened by his guilt of surviving the first World War"--Slipcase.
  • Chances are
    [Media Center]CHA
    A beautiful young woman whose picture-perfect marriage comes to a shattering halt when her husband Louie dies unexpectedly is given a second chance when Louie agrees to be "recycled" back to earth as a newborn.
  • Chaplin
    [Media Center](REF)CHA
    Portrays the amazing life and times of the "Little Tramp" from his poverty-stricken childhood in England, to his friendships, his many wives and scandalous affairs, his acting career, and his relentless pursuit by J. Edgar Hoover.
  • Chaplin
    [Media Center]CHA
    Portrays the amazing life and times of the "Little Tramp" from his poverty-stricken childhood in England, to his friendships, his many wives and scandalous affairs, his acting career, and his relentless pursuit by J. Edgar Hoover.
  • Chaplin's art of comedy
    [Media Center](REF)CHA
    Short clips from many of Chaplin's films are used to illustrate his multifaceted brand of humor.
  • Charade
    [Media Center]CHA
    A Parisienne finds her husband murdered. Four of his ex-cronies are after her believing she knows the location of a quarter million dollars in gold. She is helped by a handsome stranger ... but is he hero, spy, or murderer?
  • Charlie Chaplin
    [Media Center]CHA
  • Charlie Chaplin Film Festival
    [Media Center]CHA
    "Featuring some of Chaplin's greatest slapstick comedy, regarded as Chaplin classics." -- Container.
  • Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie
    [Media Center]DIS
    Every time a group of upper middle class friends sits down to dine, odd things happen, giving the director opportunity to satirize such targets as diplomats, socialites, and even radical terrorists.
  • Le chat
    [Media Center]LEC
    Depicts the last stages of despair of a married couple no longer able to communicate with one another, or to leave for a different life.
  • The cheating culture by David Callahan. :
    [Media Center]BOO
  • Chelovek s kino-apparatom
    [Media Center](REF)MAN
    A "camera eye" documentary without a plot, showing, through a succession of street and interior scenes, all the tricks of which the instrument is capable ; it takes a bow at the end.
  • Cheyenne autumn
    [Media Center]CHE
    The story of 300 starving Cheyenne Indians who set out on a 1500 mile journey to return to their Yellowstone homelands from the barren reservation of Oklahoma.
  • Chicken run
    [Media Center]CHI
    While the chickens on Mrs. Tweedy's farm dream of a better life, a clever hen named Ginger is hatching plans to fly the coop for good. The only problem is, chickens can't fly, or can they? Every escape attempt goes fowl until Rocky, a smooth-talking All-American rooster, crash lands in the coop. It's hardly poultry in motion when Rocky attempts to teach Ginger and her fine feathered friends to fly, but, with teamwork, determination, and a little bit of cluck, the fearless flock plots one last daring attempt in a spectacular bid for freedom.
  • Child abuse
    [Media Center](REF)CHI
    Deals with the subject of sexually and physically abused children. Offers tips on how to select a day care center and clues to help identify an abused child.
  • Choose me
    [Media Center]CHO
    Bujold stars as an inexperienced radio psychologist who gives counsel on love and sexuality. She learns the real thing when she becomes involved with her callers.
  • The chorus
    [Media Center]CHO
    Unemployed music teacher Clement Mathieu becomes the supervisor at a boarding school for the rehabilitation of minors. Dismayed by the repressive administration, he works to positively transform the students' lives through music.
  • A chorus line
    [Media Center]CHO
    A group of young performers audition for the chorus of a Broadway musical.
  • The Chosen Part 1 by Jerome Karabel
    [Media Center] BOO
  • Christians, Jews, and Moslems in Medieval Spain
    [Media Center](REF)CHR
    Describes the history of Spain from 711 to 1492, a period of Arab domination and intellectual ferment.
  • Chuck amuck
    [Media Center]CHU
    Join Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Wile E. Coyote and others for a salute to Chuck Jones, the animation pioneer, who has directed more than 250 classic cartoons, including three Academy Award winners, and created some of the world's best-loved animated stars. Includes interviews with Jones and voice master Mel Blanc and scenes from Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2th Century, For Scentimental Reasons, What's Opera, Doc? and more.
  • Ciao, Federico!
    [Media Center](REF)CIA
    A study of the style and techniques of Federico Fellini, a creative international director of motion pictures. Filmed during the shooting of Fellini's Satyricon.
  • Cidade de deus
    [Media Center]CIT
    The world's most notorious slum, Rio de Janeiro's City of God, where combat photographers and police rarely go. The true story of a young man who grew up on these streets and whose ambition as a photographer is our window in and his only way out.
  • Cinderella
    [Media Center]CIN
    Burdened with endless chores, Cinderella holds fast to dreams of someday escaping her drudgery.
  • The cinema of transgression
    [Media Center]CIN
    A collection of short experimental films.
  • Citizen Kane
    [Media Center](REF)CIT
  • Citizen Kane
    [Media Center]CIT
    Regarded as one of the finest films ever made, Citizen Kane tells the story of idealism corrupted by wealth. Prominant publisher, William Randolph Hearst, saw the film as a thinly disguised version of his career and attempted to suppress it. The controversy has faded, but not the film's power and brilliance.
  • City lights
    [Media Center](REF)CIT
    A tramp meets a millionaire who when drunk treats him as a friend but ignores him when sober, and he also wins the love of a blind girl.
  • City of angels
    [Media Center]CIT
    Nicolas Cage is Seth, an angel who must decide if he'll forsake his immortality and become human--on the chance that the woman of his dreams might love him.
  • City of joy
    [Media Center]CIT
    An American doctor, a British nurse and an illiterate Indian farmer join together to transform a Calcutta ghetto when it is threatened by the brutal local "godfather."
  • A civil action
    [Media Center]CIV
    A high-priced personal injury attorney represents eight families whose children died of leukemia after large corporations let toxic waste leak into the water supply in the Boston area. He puts his career, reputation and all that he owns on the line for the rights of his clients.
  • Civilization
    [Media Center]CIV
    A war breaks out in an imaginary but vaguely Germanic country. The women band together, refusing to produce more children to feed the war machine. This film is said to have obtained the Presidency for Woodrow Wilson.
  • Claire's knee
    [Media Center]CLA
    Satirizes a diplomat's sexual temptations. On vacation without his fiancee, he flirts with a brash, charming nymphet, while harboring a secret, peculiar obsession for her stunning teenage sister.
  • Clash by night
    [Media Center]CLA
    The drama of a lonely woman married to a fishing boat skipper who becomes involved with his best friend.
  • Clear and present danger
    [Media Center]CLE
    CIA deputy intelligence director, Jack Ryan, finds recovering laundered drug money from the Colombian cartel isn't as dangerous as the power games in the nation's capitol.
  • The client
    [Media Center]CLI
    Mark Sway is an 11-year-old torn between what he knows and what he can never tell. A hitman will snuff him out if he reveals what he learned about a Mob murder. An ambitious federal prosecutor will keep the pressure on until Mark tells all. His only ally is a courageous but unseasoned attorney who risks her career for him ... but never imagines she'll also risk her life.
  • Clockwise
    [Media Center]CLO
    A time-obsessed school administrator's ordered life falls apart when he misses his train to the national Headmasters' Conference.
  • Cocoon
    [Media Center]COC
    When the Antareans, advanced beings from another planet, arrive at an old age home in Florida, the senior citizens there get a second chance at being young in this story of youth, old age, and how people choose to live their lives.
  • Cold Mountain
    [Media Center]COL
    Inman, a young Confederate soldier, who is injured during the explosive 1864 battle of Petersburg, Virginia, is struggling to make his way home to Cold Mountain, NC, where his beloved Ada awaits him. In Inman's absence, Ada befriends Ruby, who helps her keep up her late father's farm. Meanwhile, in his travels, Inman encounters a menagerie of interesting and colorful characters.
  • Collateral
    [Media Center]COL
    Vincent is a cool, calculating contract killer at the top of his game. Max is a cabbie with big dreams looking for his next fare. This fateful night, Max becomes Vincent's collateral, and will transport him on his next mission - one night, five stops, five hits and then a perfect getaway. Together, Vincent and Max find themselves in a non-stop race against time. With the LAPD and the FBI after them, they each become dependent on the other to survive.
  • Color in the movies
    [Media Center](REF)COL
    A selection of several films (silent and with sound) showing the early usage of color in movies.
  • The Color purple
    [Media Center](REF)COL
    An uneducated woman living in the rural American south who was raped by her father, deprived of the children she bore him and forced to marry a brutal man she calls "Mister" is transformed by the friendship of two remarkable women, acquiring self-worth and the strength to forgive.
  • Comedy-- a serious business
    [Media Center]COM
    One of the first things filmmakers learned in Hollywood was how to make people laugh. Comedy was king, and battling for the throne were four box office rivals--Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton, Harry Langdon and Charlie Chaplin. In an era brimming with the visual, their comedy was the work of genius.
  • The Coming of the barbarians
    [Media Center](REF)JAP
    The Japan of shoguns and samurai, discovered by the Portuguese in 1540, soon appeared to be swept away by a wave of Westernization. This program presents a portrait of the regent Hideyoshi, illustrating his lifestyle, his taste, and his abrupt shift in direction : Christian priests and converts were persecuted and martyred and, in 1650, Japan shut tight its doors to the outside.
  • The Commissar
    [Media Center]COM
    In this drama set against the Russian Civil War, a tough Red Army commander's military career is disrupted by an unwanted pregnancy. Forced to stay with a poor Jewish family until her child is born, she finds herself transformed by the warmth and compassion of her hosts. She must ultimately decide whether to rejoin her troops or stay with her child.
  • The Commitments
    [Media Center]COM
    Story of a young rebel soul band from the Dublin ghetto, and their struggle to make it in the music business.
  • Common threads
    [Media Center]COM
    The story of the AIDS Memorial Quilt established by the San Francisco NAMES Project Foundation in 1987 to commemorate the lives lost to AIDS. From the thousands memorialized in the quilt, profiles five individuals--including a recovered IV drug user, a former Olympic decathlon star and a boy with hemophilia--whose stories reflect the diversity and common tragedy of those who have died from AIDS. Celebrates their unique personalities and achievements, interweaving these personal histories with a chronology of the epidemic's development and the negligence of the government.
  • The company
    [Media Center] COM
    A behind-the-scenes look at the world of dance as seen through the eyes of a talented young dancer on the brink of success.
  • Les Comperes
    [Media Center]LES
    When her teenage son runs away and her husband refuses to hunt for him, a frantic mother calls on two old lovers to help. This odd couple makes an hilarious search on the Riviera, bickering and competing as they defeat gangsters and motorcycle toughs to rescue the boy.
  • Computer animation festival
    [Media Center]COM
    Immerse yourself in a stunning journey of adventure, fantasy and wild humor that will entertain people of all ages. Bright, crisp computer animation awaits you in this spectacular display of imagination and technology. Computer Animation Festival Volume 2.0 expands on the theme that Volume 1.0 started by showcasing the wolrd's best computer animation shorts.
  • Con Air
    [Media Center]CON
    A prison parolee on his way to freedom faces impossible odds when the maximum security transport plane he's on is skyjacked by the most vicious criminals in the country, led by the infamous murderer Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom.
  • The confessions of Saint Augustine
    [Augustinian Studies]BR65.A6 E5 1992
  • The Conformist
    [Media Center]CON
    A rising young follower of Mussolini must assassinate his former professor, now in political exile, to demonstrate his loyalty to the Fascist state.
  • Connections 2
    [Media Center](REF)CON
    Host James Burke explores the origins and effects of those inventions that shape our modern world.
  • Contact
    [Media Center]CON
    Astronomer Dr. Ellie Arroway (Foster) receives an encrypted message, apparently from a solar system many light-years away.
  • The Conversation
    [Media Center]CON
    A provoking mystery-suspense drama explores the morality of privacy in the story of Harry Caul (Hackman), a surveillance expert, who conducts a routine surveillance job only to later find himself suspicious that he has become an unwitting player in murder scheme.
  • A conversation with B.F. Skinner
    [Media Center]CON
    B.F. Skinner discusses with Elizabeth Hall his principles of operant conditioning with respect to the science of behaviorism, and talks about his book Beyond freedom and dignity.
  • Cool hand Luke
    [Media Center]COO
    A part of a chain gang, Luke is a man who won't or can't conform to the arbitrary rules of his captivity.
  • Copycat
    [Media Center]COP
    The film features the desperate hunt for a mass murderer with an elusive m.o.: he copies serial killers of the recent past.
  • The Corn is green
    [Media Center]COR
    A spinster teacher fights to educate the poor children of a Welsh mining village.
  • The Country of the twelve peopl[es] (The Etruscans)
    [Media Center](REF)ETR
    Surveys the first Italian civilization, that of the Etruscans, particularly the influence of the Greeks on the Etruscans and their own later influence on the Romans. Briefly discusses the history of Etruria; shows tombs, ruins of cities, frescoes, and statuary; the stresses the vitality of Etruscan art.
  • Cousin Bette
    [Media Center]COU
  • The Covered wagon
    [Media Center]COV
    An epic tale of rolling wagons and the challenge of moving West.
  • Cowboys of The Saturday Matinee
    [Media Center](REF)COW
    A fond look back at some of Hollywood's best loved Western heroes and the movie elements that made them so popular.
  • Cradle will rock
    [Media Center]CRA
    A kaleidoscopic look at the extraordinary events of 1930s America, from high society to life on the streets in Depression-era New York City. Based on the true story of Orson Welles' controversial musical about a steel strike that was closed down by government decree.
  • Crazy in Alabama
    [Media Center]CRA
    Antonio Banderas' directorial debut opens in the sweltering summer of 1965, and everyone in Alabama has gone completely crazy, especially 12-year-old Peejoe's glamorous Aunt Lucille. Deciding not to let her abusive husband stand in the way of her dreams of television stardom, she gets rid of him in a most unusual way and leaves Peejoe with lots of questions and on explosive secret.
  • Crisscross
    [Media Center]CRI
    A single mother tries to bring up her 12-year-old son. They struggle to recreate a happy family after being abandoned by a husband and father who had been traumatized by his tour in Vietnam.
  • Crouching tiger, hidden dragon
    [Media Center]CRO
    Set in 19th-century China, two master warriors are faced with their greatest challenge when the treasured Green Destiny sword is stolen. A young aristocratic woman prepares for an arranged marriage, but soon reveals her superior fighting talents and her romantic past. As each warrior battles for justice, they come face-to-face with their worst enemy, and the enduring power of love.
  • The crowd
    [Media Center]CRO
    Shows the plight of workaday men and women in urban America.
  • The crucible
    [Media Center]CRU
    A group of teenage girls meets in the woods at midnight for a secret love -conjuring ceremony. When their ceremony is witnessed by the town minister, the girls suddenly find themselves accused of witchcraft and as the hysteria in the village grows, blameless victims are torn from their homes, leading to a devastating climax.
  • Cry freedom
    [Media Center]CRY
    Donald Woods (Kline) is one of the few journalist in South Africa brave enough to tell the world about apartheid. He is inspired by the heroic actions of his friend, black activist Stephen Biko, (Washington).
  • Cry, the beloved country
    [Media Center]CRY
    The story of two fathers in South Africa--one a man of peace, the other a man of power and privilege. In the wake of a tragic killing, these extraordinary men form an unlikely union.
  • The crying game
    [Media Center]CRY
    A haunting, humorous and shocking romantic thriller about Irish terrorists, their hostage and the hostage's exotic girlfriend.
  • The crying game
    [Media Center]CRY
    Stephen Rea and Miranda Richardson star as Irish terrorists, Forest Whitaker as their hostage, and Jaye Davidson as Whitaker's exotic girlfriend. The film is a haunting, humorous and shocking romantic thriller.
  • Culture matters by Lawrence Harrison. :
    [Media Center]BOO
  • Cutter's way
    [Media Center](REF)CUT
    When his best friend is accused of murder, a Vietnam veteran tries to solve the case.

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  • D.O.A
    [Media Center]DOA
    Classic thriller about a man who is given poison by mistake. He sets out to track down his own killer.
  • D. W. Griffith :
    [Media Center]DWG
    Narrated biography of film-maker D. W. Griffith. Includes short segments of some of his films.
  • Daffy Duck, the nuttiness continues .
    [Media Center](REF)DAF
    This wacky mallard made his movie debut in 1937 and he was an instant hit.
  • Damage
    [Media Center]DAM
    A middle-aged man and his son's fiancee are entangled in an intensely erotic affair that is as irrestible as it is destructive.
  • Dancing at Lughnasa
    [Media Center]DAN
    Despite their hardships, five sisters living in rural Ireland in 1936 are able to embrace life and all its complexities, and dance with joy in their hearts.
  • Dangerous game
    [Media Center]DAN
    A veteran film director finds the fantasy of the film he's making about an abusive marriage seeping into his real life.
    A veteran film director finds the fantasy of the film he's making about an abusive marriage seeping into his real life.
  • Dans l'empire des sens
    [Media Center]REA
    Based on one of Japan's most notorious scandals. In 1936 Sada Abe, an ex- prostitute, becomes involved in an obsessive affair with Kizicho, the master of the household where she is employed as a servant. They are willing to give up life itself for their passion.
  • Danton
    [Media Center](REF)DAN
    Georges Danton, the popular revolutionary leader, returns to Paris at a time when the new Republic is in disarray. Maximilien Robespierre and his allies have set up a monstrous dictatorship, beginning the infamous "Reign of Terror." Danton pleads with the people for an end to the bloodshed which violates the spirit of their revolution.
  • Dashiell Hammett's the glass key
    [Media Center]GLA
    Intricate mystery about a slightly corrupt politician, accused of murder, who solicits his right-hand man (Ladd) to hunt down the real killer.
  • Dave
    [Media Center]DAV
    Kevin Kline stars as an off-the-wall, temporary replacement for the missing president. His unusual style of governing and decision making tip off the opposition that something is definitely "out-of-order" in Washington.
  • The day after tomorrow
    [Media Center] DAY
    When global warming triggers the onset of a new Ice Age, tornadoes flatten Los Angeles, a tidal wave engulfs New York City and the entire Northern Hemisphere begns to freeze solid. Now, climatologist Jack Hall, his son Sam, and a small band of survivors must ride out the growing superstorm and stay alive in the face of an enemy more powerful and relentless than anything anyone has ever encountered: Mother Nature.
  • Day of the dead
    [Media Center]DAY
    A nightmarish, flesh-eating army of walking corpses rules the Earth, while a small band of scientists desperately tries to domesticate them.
  • The day of the dolphin
    [Media Center]DAY
    Scott stars as a scientist who is working on communicating with dolphins. A group of criminals want him to use the animals to assassinate the president.
  • Daylight
    [Media Center]DAY
    A former Emergency Services chief helps rescue a group of motorists stranded in the Holland tunnel after an accident closes off both ends. Includes a brief segment on how the film was made.
  • De-Lovely
    [Media Center]DEL
    An original musical portrait of American composer Cole Porter, filled with his unforgettable songs. Porter looks back on his life as if it were one of his spectacular stage shows, with the people and events of his life becoming the actors and actions onstage. Through elaborate production numbers and popular hits, Porter's elegant, excessive past comes to light - including his deeply complicated relationship with his wife, Linda Lee Porter, who was his inspiration.
  • Dead man walking
    [Media Center]DEA
    Tells the story of convicted killer Matthew Poncelet and Sister Helen Prejean, his spiritual advisor. The journey they undertake in search of the truth is powerful and profound.
  • Dead Poets Society
    [Media Center]DEA
    English professor John Keating, who, in an age of crew cuts, sport coats and cheerless conformity, inspires his students to live life to the fullest, exclaiming ... "Carpe Diem, lads! Seize the day. Make your lives extraordinary!" The charismatic teacher's emotionally charged challenge is met by his students with irrepressible enthusiasm--changing their lives forever.
  • Dead presidents
    [Media Center]DEA
    On the streets, they call cash dead presidents. And that's just what a Vietnam veteran is after when he returns home from the war, only to find himself drawn into a life of crime. With the aid of his fellow vets he plans the ultimate heist--a daring robbery of an armored car filled with unmarked U.S. currency!
  • The Dead sea scrolls
    [Media Center]DEA
    A six-part program of lectures on the Dead Sea scrolls by scholars with hands-on experience deciphering and interpreting these 2,000-year-old documents. Gives the history of their discovery and acquisition and relates ancient cultural and religious history brought to light by their interpretation, including roots of Christianity and Judaism.
  • Deadly deception
    [Media Center]DEA
    Exposes the terrifying human and environmental cost of GE's nuclear weapons development.
  • Death and the maiden
    [Media Center]DEA
    Fifteen years ago, Paulina Escobar had her life shattered when she was taken prisoner and tortured by a sadistic doctor. Now, through a chance encounter, she may have found the man responsible for her nightmares and tonight he's going to pay. But how far will she go to get even? And how can she be sure, after so many years, that she has found the right man?
  • Death becomes her
    [Media Center]DEA
    A dark comedy about greed, vanity, sex, immortality, life--and death.
  • Deconstructing Harry
    [Media Center]DEC
    Harry Block has gone through three wives, six psychiatrists and dozens of girlfriends during his long literary career. But when Harry writes a bestseller about his best friends, his best friends become his worst enemies. Now, instead of going back to his old school to be honored for his literary achievements, Harry's going straight to hell.
  • The deep end
    [Media Center]DEE
    Margaret Hall is the mother of three willing to do whatever it takes to keep her family safe, including trying to cover up the accidental death of her son's "unsavory" friend. The next day a man knocks on her door and demands money to suppress a videotape linking her son to the death, which the police have ruled a homicide.
  • Le dejeuner sur l'herbe
    [Media Center]PIC
    A professor running for the "Presidency of Europe" advocates artificial insemination as the more efficient method for human reproduction. During a scientific survy in the countryside, his views are changed by his encounter with an earthy peasant woman.
  • Deliverance
    [Media Center]DEL
    Four ordinary men descend a river in two canoes determined to test themselves against a wilderness they think they understand.
  • Dementia 13
    [Media Center]DEM
    A noble Irish family find themselves at the mercy of an axe-wielding killer and are made prisoners in their secluded ancestral castle.
  • Desert Storm, the air assault
    [Media Center]DES
    This program examines the reasons behind the success of the first month of Operation Desert Storm.
  • The Design and development of SPARC
    [Media Center]DIS
  • Despair
    [Media Center]DES
    A film based on Nabokov's novel about a schizophrenic businessman who understands the shadow falling over Germany in the early 1930's and attempts to use that knowledge to feather his own nest.
  • Desperately seeking Susan
    [Media Center]DES
    Arquette plays Roberta, a bored wife who seeks out the freewheeling Susan in an attempt to find out what life is really like for the Greenwich Village rock star groupie. Meanwhile Susan (Madonna) finds out what life is like in suburbia.
  • Detour
    [Media Center]DET
    An example of film noir which recounts the story of a man whose pursuit of the woman he loves is blocked by fate and another woman.
  • The Devil and Miss Jones
    [Media Center]DEV
    Millionaire department store owner (Charles Coburn), aghast at being burnt in effigy outside one of his own stores, takes a job as an assistant in the shoe department in order to observe the grievances of the workers at first hand.
  • Devil in a blue dress
    [Media Center]DEV
    Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins is a decorated war hero who returns home to work as a private eye. His job of finding a missing socialite puts him between the white power elite and the vibrant black commumnity of Central Avenue. As soon as Easy and his trigger-happy friend Mouse find Daphne Monet, trouble follows.
  • Devil's advocate
    [Media Center]DEV
    Attorney Kevin Lomax's 64-0 case record has brought him a tempting offer from an elite New York firm. But the job isn't what it seems. The Devil is in the details.
  • Dial M for murder
    [Media Center]DIA
    Jealous of his wife's affair with Cummings, Milland plots to frame his wife for a murder when his attempt to kill her goes awry.
  • Diamond Men
    [Media Center]DIA
  • Diamonds
    [Media Center]DIA
    A feisty ex-boxing champ and his son take a road trip from Canada to Reno, Nevada to track down 13 missing diamonds promised for throwing a fight years ago.
  • Die another day
    [Media Center]DIE
    While on assignment in North Korea, Bond is captured by government agents, where he's imprisoned and tortured for over a year. When Bond is exchanged for another prisoner, not everyone is certain 007 is still capable of doing the job. After an unscrupulous entrepreneur is discovered to be in cohoots with the other prisoner, Bond is back on the case, and he finds the two men have sinister plans which could decide the fate of the world.
  • Die hard 2
    [Media Center]DIE
    A team of terrorists is holding thousands of holiday passengers hostage at the airport in Washington, D.C. Willis battles the terrorists and the incompetent police to boot.
  • Dioxin
    [Media Center](REF)DIO
    A discussion of how links are scientifically established between environmental toxins and disease. Specific mention is given to the case of Agent Orange in Vietnam Veterans.
  • Dirty dishes
    [Media Center]DIR
    A housewife breaks out of her dull life after an explosive encounter with a lecherous neighbor and a screaming fight with her husband.
  • Dirty pretty things
    [Media Center]DIR
    Okwe, an illegal immigrant living in London, was a doctor in his homeland and now works during the day as a taxi driver, at night as a hotel desk clerk. When a prostitute tells him there's a mess in one of the hotel's bathrooms, Okwe finds a human heart in the toilet. Using his previous knowledge of medicine, he begins to solve the case of where the heart came from and soon delves into the world of body organ black-markets. He finds that his only friend, Senay, a Turkish illegal immigrant chambermaid, may be next to be used for organ parts.
  • Discovering China and Tibet
    [Media Center]DIS
    A tour of China beginning in Beijing and ending in Tibet.
  • Displaced!
    [Media Center] DIS
    Two US Army privates in the second World War keep Dachau and Buchenwald survivors alive following the Liberation. They mount a heroic effort to raise society's consciousness of the tragic situation of the refugees.
  • The Displaced person
    [Media Center]DIS
    Portrays the difficulties of integration experienced by a Polish refugee who arrives with his family at a Georgia farm in the 1940's.
  • Divide and conquer
    [Media Center]DIV
    A documentary film record of the German attack upon, and conquest of, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Holland and France.
  • Do the right thing
    [Media Center]DOT
    This powerful visual feast combines humor and drama with memorable characters while tracing the course of a single day on a block in the Bedford- Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn. It's the hottest day of the year, a scorching 24- hour period that will change the lives of its residents forever.
  • Dog day afternoon
    [Media Center]DOG
    The story of a botched bank robbery that occured August 22, 1972 in Brooklyn, New York and turned into a bizarre hostage situation lasting all day.
  • Dog star man
    [Media Center](REF)DOG
    One of Stan Brakhage's major works. Broken images of a snowbound woodsman, sexual daydreams, living cells, flowing blood, vessels, stars, suns, and other objects are presented using innovative editing.
  • Dokument Fanny och Alexander
    [Media Center]MAK
    "Ingmar Bergman wrote and directed this fascinating documentary on the making of his 1983 feature film, Fanny and Alexander."--Container.
  • Dolores Claiborne
    [Media Center]DOL
    Eighteen years ago the town accused Dolores Claiborne of murdering her husband in cold blood. Now a woman lies dead and a witness finds Dolores standing over the body. Her daughter is the only one who can save her life and the only thing that stands between guilt and innocence is the evil secret that made the daughter run away ten years ago.
  • Domestic disturbance
    [Media Center]DOM
    A divorced father discovers that his 11-year-old son's new stepfather is not what he made himself out to be. The fathers investigation into the man's past explodes into a terrifying mission to rescue his son from danger.
  • The door in the floor
    [Media Center]DOO
    Takes place during one pivotal summer in the lives of famous children's book author Ted Cole and his beautiful wife, Marion. It is a provacative story about one couple's emotional journey into a world of daring sensuality and stunning honesty.
  • Dora'a dunking doughnuts and War babies
    [Media Center]DOR
    Two delightful short comedies starring America's immortal, golden-haired girl, Shirley Temple.
  • Double indemnity
    [Media Center]DOU
    An insurance man and a suburban wife conspire to trick her husband into signing a policy that pays double for accidental death-- then push him from a train. It's an almost perfect crime.
  • A double life
    [Media Center]DOV
    An actor, Anthony John, becomes so obsessed with his role as the character Othello that he becomes a threat to those around him.
  • Down by law
    [Media Center]DOW
    A comedy feature about two lowlifes, a small time pimp and an unemployed disc jockey, framed for crime they didn't commit, who escape from jail with an eccentric Italian tourist. Set in New Orleans and the swamps of Louisiana.
  • Down in the Delta
    [Media Center]DOW
    A troubled single mother from a tough Chicago neighborhood is sent to spend a summer at her family's home in rural Mississippi.
  • Downhill racer
    [Media Center]DOW
    An American skier is followed through several years of international ski competition which ultimately leads to the Winter Olympics.
  • Dr. Caligari :
    [Media Center]DRC
  • Dr. Dolittle
    [Media Center]DRD
    A doctor finds out he can understand what animals are saying. When the animals find out, his world is turned upside down.
  • Dr. Folkman's war by Robert Cooke. :
    [Media Center]BOO
  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
    [Media Center]DRJ
    The story of a radical doctor whose experiments lead him to the discovery of a destructive potion that transforms him into a hideous creature of unbridled emotions.
  • Dr. No
    [Media Center]DRN
    The first of the James Bond films in which Bond is sent to Jamaica to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a British Secret Service Agent.
  • Dr. Strangelove
    [Media Center]DRS
    A satire in which the President and his military advisers struggle ineptly to avert a holocaust after a psychotic Air Force general launches a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union because he fears the Russians are poisoning the water supply in the United States.
  • Dr. T & the women
    [Media Center]DRT
    While a middle-aged Dallas gynecologist whose wife has become mentally ill falls for his sexy new golf pro, chaos surrounds the wedding of his daughter, and his alcoholic sister-in-law arrives with three nieces in tow.
  • Dracula
    [Media Center]DRA
    Classic tale of a vampire, Dracula, and his destruction by a determined doctor.
  • DragonHeart
    [Media Center]DRA
    Sean Connery is the voice of Draco the dragon in this tale of a knight dedicated to an ancient creed of honor and his vow to destroy all dragons.
  • The Dresser
    [Media Center]DRE
    Sir, a grandiloquent old man of the theater, has given his soul to his career, but his tyrannical rule over the company is now beginning to crack under the strain of age and illness as he prepares for his two hundred twenty-seventh performance of King Lear. Sir's dedicated dresser, Norman, submits to Sir's frequently unreasonable demands, tends to his health, and reminds him of what role he is currently playing.
  • Drifting weeds
    [Media Center]DRI
    A traveling troop of actors and their effect on the life of a small village. A beautiful visualization of a story about a father, a son, and a shared mistress. This is a remake of Ozu's earlier film: Ukigusa monogatari (1936).
  • Driving Miss Daisy
    [Media Center]DRI
    A joyous comedy about a head-strong southern lady and her ever-patient chauffeur.
  • A Dry white season
    [Media Center]DRY
    The politics of apartheid are put into meaningful, human terms in this critically acclaimed film about a prominent white schoolteacher who is awakened to the reality of South African justice.
  • Duck soup
    [Media Center]DUC
    Groucho becomes a dictator in a mythical land while Chico and Harpo run a peanut stand.
  • Duel
    [Media Center]DUE
    A businessman is menaced on the highway by a psychopathic driver of a huge diesel truck out to kill him.

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  • E.T., the extra-terrestrial
    [Media Center]ET
    A 10-year old boy befriends a creature from another planet that has been stranded on earth. A warm, insightful story of childhood innocence, frustration, courage and love. An exhilarating experience for young and old alike.
  • Each dawn I die
    [Media Center]EAC
    A crusading reporter is framed for murder and becomes a hardened prisoner.
  • Early cinema
    [Media Center](REF)EAR
  • Early cinema
    [Media Center](REF)EAR
    Compilation of early films by Edwin S. Porter from 1896 to 1916.
  • Early cinema
    [Media Center](REF)EAR
  • Earth
    [Media Center]EAR
    A Soviet film dramatizing the conflict between landowners and peasants living on a collective farm in the Ukraine, focuses on the young village chairman who, while leading local collectivization efforts, is assassinated by a landowner.
  • Echo park
    [Media Center]ECH
    An aspiring actress is landlady to a professional body builder and an insecure musician. A zany, yet passionate look at love and ambition.
  • Ed Wood
    [Media Center]EDW
    Ed Wood is a high-spirited movieman who refuses to let unfinished scenes, terrible reviews or hostile studio executives derail his big-screen dreams. With an oddball collection of showbiz misfits, Ed takes the art of bad moviemaking to an all-time low!
  • Edouard Manet
    [Media Center](REF)EDO
    Examines major paintings by Edouard Manet that influenced his contemporaries and changed the definition of later art. Explains the works in the artist's own words and in those of his friends, Zola, Baudelaire, Mallarme, and others.
  • Educating Rita
    [Media Center]EDU
    A young woman on the path to self-discovery enrolls in literature tutorials at a British university. She is assigned to a disillusioned English professor who encourages his students to forsake dead poetry and enjoy life.
  • The education of Little Tree
    [Media Center]EDU
    Eight-year old Cherokee boy Little Tree is sent to live with his mountain -dwelling grandparents after the loss of his parents. His new life is filled with joy, discovery, setbacks, triumphs, and good friends.
  • Eisenhower & Churchill by James C. Humes. :
    [Media Center]BOO
  • Elie Wiesel
    [Media Center]ELI
    Nobel peace prize laureate Elie Wiesel reflects upon his life, his work and his concerns for the future of mankind.
  • Elie Wiesel
    [Media Center]ELI
    Nobel peace prize laureate Elie Wiesel reflects upon his life, his work and his concerns for the future of mankind.
  • The emerging Chaplin
    [Media Center](REF)EME
    A biographical film about Charlie Chaplin. From early films, to his stint at Mack Sennett's studios, to the silent film classics.
  • Emma
    [Media Center]EMM
    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 and her new protegee, Harriet Smith. Her one voice of reason and restraint is Mr. Knightley, who has known her since she was a child and who watches her behaviour with wry amusement and sometimes with real anger. Emma presides over the small provincial world of Highbury with enthusiasm, but she will find it is all too easy to confuse good intentions with self-gratification.
  • The emperor's club
    [Media Center]EMP
    When a new student starts in Professor Hundert's class, little does the professor know that this student will change his life forever. They start out butting heads and end up forming a friendship that will shake the controlled world of the professor. The lessons learned will last a lifetime.
  • Enchanted April
    [Media Center]ENC
    Two proper, middle-class English women, bored with their lives and their passionless husbands, spend a month on vacation in a medieval villa on the Italian Riviera. The idyllic hideaway holds a special magic and hopes reawaken and they find ways to live and love that have long eluded them.
  • The Enchanted cottage
    [Media Center]ENC
    The story of a lonely, unattractive maid and a disfigured war hero who meet and fall in love in a mysterious cottage.
  • The enchanted studio
    [Media Center](REF)ENC
  • End of an era
    [Media Center](REF)END
    Throughout the early to mid-twenties, more and more films were made with synchronized sound and music, but it wasn't until 1927 that Warner Brothers gambled on talking pictures with "The Jazz singer". From that moment on, all that had shaped and created Hollywood was utterly transformed.
  • The end of violence
    [Media Center]END
    Someone is watching the crime-ridden streets of Los Angeles. Suddenly, nothing is private, nothing is secret and no one can hide. Is this the end of violence...or just the beginning?
  • Les Enfants du paradise
    [Media Center]CHI (pt1 & pt2)
    "Set in the theater district of early 19th century Paris, [it] re-creates a glittering world of backstage life. Garance, a stunning and elusive courtesan, is loved by four men" -- container. Generally considered to be one of the best films of all time.
  • The English patient
    [Media Center]ENG
    At the end of World War 2, four survivors live in an abandoned villa in Italy: a nurse, her English patient, a thief whose skills were put to heroic use during the war, and an Indian sapper hunting out unexploded bombs.
  • Enter the dragon
    [Media Center]ENT
    Lee goes to the island fortress of a criminal warlord, who carries on his opium smuggling and prostitution activities under the disguise of a martial arts academy.
  • Entertainer
    [Media Center]ENT
    A drama of seedy music hall life. Archie Rice, a third rate vaudevillian whose song and dance routines are unappealing and boring, is nagged by his shrewish alcoholic wife about his failures. His world comes tumbling down onto the garbage heap he has built up through his lifetime.
  • Entertaining the troops
    [Media Center]ENT
    A nostalgic salute to the Hollywood stars who brought music and laughter to the troops during World War II. Includes a reunion of Bob Hope and his performers.
  • Error-correcting codes for digital signal processing
    [Media Center]DIS
    Describes the Reed-Solomon code, the most important code for communication and magnetic storage system, as an application of the discrete Fourier transform. Decoding algorithms are described from the perspective of digital signal processing.
  • The Essence of being Japanese
    [Media Center](REF)JAP
    Covers the events of the 20th century: the earthquake of 1923, the rise of militarism, the ascension of Emperor Hirohito, the Greater East Asia Co- prosperity Sphere, the Pacific War, Hiroshima, and the American occupation of Japan. Also discusses Shinto rituals, social traits such as conformism and determination, business ethics, and the role of the kami.
  • Eternal Sunshine DVD
  • Ethical analysis in management :
    [Media Center](REF)ETH
    Suggests the need to seek philosophical tools for addressing the ethical realities of the business world, illustrates their use by managers, and examines the interest in ethics as a part of corporate leadership.
  • Ethics in America
    [Media Center](REF)ETH
    Examines a wide range of ethical positions and allows the viewer to look at his/her own ethical standards.
  • Ethics in management
    [Media Center](REF)ETH
    Ten videocassettes intended to supplement the book, "Ethics in Management.", by Kenneth E. Goodpaster.
  • Ethnic notions
    [Media Center](REF)ETH
    Covering more than one hundred years of United States history, traces the evolution of Black American caricatures and their role in political and social conflicts concerning race.
  • Evelyn
    [Media Center]EVE
    In 1953, Desmond Doyle takes on the Irish family law system and the Catholic Church in a bid to be reunited with his children. Despite a strong work ethic, Desmond has a hard time holding on to steady work. Desmond's wife walks out on the relationship and his sporadic employment eventually attracts the attention of the law. A court order sends his two sons and young daughter to separate Catholic orphanages until Desmond can prove he's capable of properly supporting them. However, Desmond discovers merely getting work is not enough to bring his children back to him.
  • The evening star
    [Media Center]EVE
    The generations grow, but life still spins around Aurora like a cyclone: her rebellious granddaughter wants to run off with Mr. Wrong; a snooty rival has come up with new ways to meddle in Aurora's life; her longtime spinster housekeeper is ready to ditch domestic work for the domestic bliss of matrimony; her great-grandson is like a poison pill; and her shrink is more than eager to cross the line separating client relationships and romantic entanglement.
  • An Evening with Alvin Ailey
    Media Center ALV
    Four short compositions performed by the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, with an introduction by Alvin Ailey.
  • An Everlasting piece
    [Media Center]EVE
    An unlikely pair of barbers plan to take over the toupee market.
  • Every which way but loose
    [Media Center]EVE
    The toughest barroom brawler west of the Rockies lives with a 165-pound orangutan named Clyde. He falls in love with a beautiful singer who leads him on a chase across the American Southwest.
  • Eve's bayou
    [Media Center]EVE
    Roz Batiste is a beautiful and dedicated mother of three, who is forced to admit that her family is falling apart due to her philandering husband Louis. Her younger daughter, Eve, witnesses one of her father's infidelities. Struggling to make sense of what she has seen, Eve turns to her older sister Cisely, who dismisses her in fear of the truth, and then to her Aunt Mozelle, a known psychic and rumored black widow. Unable to find the understanding she is looking for Eve decides to take matters into her own hands. For the Batiste family, the ties that bind may not be strong enough to keep them together, and what they learn will change their lives forever.
  • The Evil dead
    [Media Center]EVI
    The evil dead lie in wait for the one ancient incantation that will give them license to attack the living. Five vacationing college students unwittingly resurrect these demons. One by one, the students are transformed into monsters whose own thirst for revenge becomes insatiable.

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  • F/X
    [Media Center]FX
    Rollie Tyler is the movies' best special effects man. He can show you a thousand ways to die. Now someone wants him to do it for real. But is he the weapon or the victim? He's going to need every trick from every movie he ever made just to get even--and get out alive.
  • Le fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulain
    [Media Center]AME
    Amelie is a young woman who had a decidedly unusual childhood; misdiagnosed with an unusual heart condition, Amelie didn't attend school with other children, but spent most of her time in her room, where she developed a keen imagination and an active fantasy life. Despite all this, Amelie has grown into a healthy and beautiful young woman who works in a cafe and has a whimsical, romantic nature. She decides to step into the lives of others around her to help them out.
  • The Fabulous Baker boys
    [Media Center]FAB
    For 15 years the Bakers have been playing lounges and clubs. They decide to spruce up their act by hiring a beautiful girl singer and the trio is an instant success.
  • A face in the crowd
    [Media Center]FAC
    Lonesome Rhodes, a big ol' teddy bear of a man, sits in a dusty, squalid Arkansas jail, swapping stories with his fellow drifters and plunking on his guitar. It's not much of a life -- until a chance encounter skyrockets Lonesome to more fame, money, and power than even the greediest man can handle.
  • Fahrenheit 9/11
    [Media Center]FAH
    Through actual footage, interviews, and declassified documents, Michael Moore illustrates the connections President Bush has to the royal house of Saud of Saudia Arabia and the bin Laden's, how the president got elected on fraudulent circumstances and then proceeded to blunder through his duties while ignoring warnings of the looming betrayal by his foreign partners. When the treachery hits with the 9/11 attacks, Moore explains how Bush failed to take immediate action to defend the nation.
  • Fairytale
    [Media Center]FAI
    Two little girls take photos of the winged beings they think are fairies and this puts them at the center of a controversy that sweeps England during World War I. Are they really fairies or have the photos been touched up?
  • The falcon and the snowman
    [Media Center]FAL
    Christopher Boyce and Daulton Lee were boyhood friends. As we meet them in their early twenties, Boyce has just quit the seminary, much to his father's disappointment, and has taken a job a TRW. He is soon promoted to dealing with the company's top-secret defense files, where he finds out about the CIA's tampering with elections overseas. Lee is a runaway paroled heroin addict, kept on the run between the U.S. and Mexico by the law and his narcotics deals. Boyce is driven by ideological disillusionment, Lee by greed and the need for excietment - together they enter the dangerous, deadly game of selling secrets to the Russians. With each operation, the stakes get higher, the risks loom larger. Until The Falcon And The Snowman find that the game has no winners.
  • Fame
    [Media Center]FAM
    The story of the joys and disappointments of 8 talented teenagers at New York's High School of Performing Arts.
  • Fanny and Alexander
    [Media Center]FAN (pt1 & pt2)
    Set in a rural Swedish town in 1907, presents an intimate journey through a year in the lives of the colorful Ekdahl family.
  • Fantasia
    [Media Center]FAN
    An extraordinary blend of magnificent music and classic Disney animation, featuring a host of unforgettable images, including Mickey Mouse as The Sorcerer's Apprentice.
  • Fantastic animation festival
    [Media Center]FAN
  • Fantastic planet
    [Media Center]FAN
    Animated science fiction/fantasy classic from France about the 39-foot high Draags and their tiny human looking pets called Oms. One of the Oms escapes with an educational device and rallies his people to resist the giant Draags.
  • The fantasy film worlds of George Pal
    [Media Center](REF)FAN
    Describes the magical world of the imagination of George Pal who was at the center of fantasy filmmaking before most people understood the place of fantasy in motion picture history, and gives an introduction to the people.
  • Far and away
    [Media Center]FAR
    A poor but proud Irish tenant farmer accompanies the spoiled and headstrong daughter of a wealthy landlord to America in a quest for land.
  • The far country
    [Media Center]FAR
    A solid western saga set against the colorful, scenic backdrop of Alaskan mining camps.
  • Farewell my concubine
    [Media Center]FAR
    Story that spans more than 50 years in the lives of two men at the Peking Opera, friends since childhood, and the woman who comes between them. Also an absorbing drama of the period in Chinese history from the warlord era through the Cultural Revolution.
  • Farewell my lovely
    [Media Center]FAR
    Robert Mitchum, as private eye Philip Marlowe, in a mystery filled with action, suspense and humor.
  • A Farewell to arms
    [Media Center]FAR
    The love story of a wounded American ambulance driver and an English nurse. Set on the Italian front during World War I.
  • Fargo
    [Media Center]FAR
    A midwestern policewoman investigates a series of brutal and interconnected crimes. Steadily, she tightens the net on the killers and their accomplices in a kidnapping scheme gone wildly wrong.
  • Father's little dividend
    [Media Center]FAT
    Spencer Tracy is about to become a grandfather. If he thought he wasn't ready for a son-in-law, he really isn't ready for phase two.
  • The FBI story
    [Media Center]FBI
    Stewart plays Agent Chip Hardesty, whose story covers 1924 to the late '50s. He is involved in incidents with the Ku Klux Klan, Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd, Machine Gun Kelly, Ma Barker and John Dillenger.
  • Fear and loathing in Las Vegas
    [Media Center]FEA
  • Fearless
    [Media Center]FEA
    A man who survived a plane crash with only a scratch begins to take risks with his life, while a young mother whose baby died in the crash cannot get past her grief.
  • Fellini's Amarcord
    [Media Center]FEL
  • La femme Nikita
    [Media Center]FEM
    Thriller about a street junkie who is picked up and recruited against her will for training as a killer. She is transformed into a beautiful and sophisticated woman, and soon falls in love with a soft-spoken romantic. When she receives a call and is ordered to kill someone she has to fight against the trap of her double life.
  • Festival in Cannes
    [Media Center]FES
    The story revolves around Alice Palmer (Greta Scacchi) a well known actress who has decided to direct her first film of her own script. She is approached by a fan, Kaz Naiman (Zach Norman). She finds out after talking to him that he produces movies and before she knows it, he's out collecting money for her film, 3 million dollars to be exact. But, here's the hitch, the only way they can get the 3 million dollars is if they can get Millie Marquand (Anouk Aimee) to star in the film, But non of this will be easy because a big shot Hollywood producer, Rick Yorkin (Ron Silver) wants to give her a role in a new Tom Hanks film.
  • A Few good men
    [Media Center]FEW
    A brash Navy lawyer is teamed up with a gung-ho litigator in a politically explosive murder case. Charged with defending two Marines accused of killing a fellow soldier, they are confronted with complex issues of loyalty and honor.
  • The field
    [Media Center](REF)FIE
    The field is a plot of land in rural Ireland, rented and tended by an old man. When the owner sells the land to an American developer the old man decides to fight the change, regardless of the cost.
  • Field of dreams
    [Media Center]FIE
    If you believe the impossible, the incredible can come true. Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) hears a voice, followed by a brief vision of a baseball field. He believes that if he builds a baseball diamond in his cornfield, Shoeless Joe Jackson from the infamous 1919 Chicago "Black" Sox will return to play baseball. By being willing to take a chance, Ray gets a second time up at bat in life.
  • Fiend without a face
    [Media Center]FIE
    Strange brain-like creatures attack the people near a secret Air Force radar station, devouring their brains.
  • Fifteen years of MacNeil-Lehrer
    [Media Center]FIF
    "Millions of people trust Robin MacNeil and Jim Lehrer, the most enduring news team on television. During 15 years of broadcasts, on the MacNeil/Lehrer Report and the NewsHour, these journalistic partners have witnessed history in the making. Now they've gathered highlights of their acclaimed career in the remarkable retrospective."--Container!
  • The fighting edge
    [Media Center](REF)IMM
    Discusses how the human body's immune system maintains good health and fights disease. Explores the relationship of the immune system to cancer, allergies and AIDS, and describes medical treatments. Presents a case study of a baby born with a defective immune system and tells how he was treated so that he could live a normal life. Includes animated sequences.
  • Film before film
    [Media Center](REF)FIL
    An encyclopedic look at the "prehistory" of cinema, covering shadow plays, peep shows, flip books, magic lanterns, lithopanes, panoramic scrolls, optical toys.
  • Finding family
    DS135.E9 F56 2003
    Traces the modern day journey of Heinzi Blumenstein as he returns to Europe, which he fled during the Holocaust, and meets the descendants of the Dijkstras, the Dutch family who sheltered him.
  • Finding Nemo
    [Media Center]FIN
    The fretful Marlin and his young son Nemo, become separated from each other in the Great Barrier Reef. Nemo, a clown fish, is unexpectedly taken from his home and thrust into a fish tank in a dentist's office overlooking Sydney Harbor. Buoyed by the companionship of a friendly fish named Dory, Malin embarks on a dangerous trek and finds himself the unlikely hero.
  • Finding Neverland
    [Media Center] FIN
    Well-known playwright James M. Barrie finds his career at a crossroads when his latest play flops and doubters begin to question his future. Then by chance he meets a widow and her four adventurous boys. Together they form a friendship that ignites the imagination needed to produce Barrie's greatest work. Traverses both fantasy and everyday reality, melding the difficulties of adult life with the spellbinding allure and childlike innocence of the boy who never grows up.
  • Firemen's ball
    [Media Center]FIR
    In a small provincial town, arrangements and events surrounding the firemen's annual ball, honoring a retiring firechief, go wrong at every turn.
  • The firm
    [Media Center]FIR
    A brilliant and ambitious Harvard Law grad joins a small, prosperous law firm in Memphis, and is soon confronted by FBI agents with evidence of corruption and murder within the firm.
  • The First Wives Club
    [Media Center]FIR
    Three mid-life Manhattanites have more than a longtime friendship in common. After years of helping their hubbies climb the corporate ladder of success, each has been dumped for a newer, curvier model. The trio is determined to turn their pain into gain. They come up with a cleverly devious plan to hit their exes where it really hurts--in the wallet!
  • Five easy pieces
    [Media Center]FIV
    A brilliant, classical pianist from a well-to-do family is caught between lifestyles. He has made a career out of running from job to job and woman to woman until he falls for a sophisticated woman after his father's death.
  • Fixing elections by Steven Hill. :
    [Media Center]BOO
  • Flawless
    [Media Center]FLA
    When an ex-cop suffers a stroke, he is paralyzed and unable to speak clearly. On the advice of his doctor, he seeks voice lessons from a musically inclined neighbor, whom he vehemently dislikes.
  • Flesh and bone
    [Media Center]FLE
    Set in West Texas, this is the story of Arlis Sweeney who leads an unencumbered life moving from town to town stocking vending machines. Fate brings him in contact with Kay Davies who is running away from an abusive husband and they seem to have a future together until Arlis's cruel father reappears and awakens a deep, dark memory.
  • Flesh and the Devil
    [Media Center]FLE
    Best friends love the same woman and resort to a duel.
  • Fly away home
    [Media Center]FLY
    A 13-year old girl and her estranged father learn what family is all about when they adopt an orphaned flock of geese and teach them how to fly.
  • Flying deuces
    [Media Center]FLY
    Blundering their way through a hitch in the Foreign Legion, Laurel and Hardy manage to get involved in a series of hair-raising adventures while trying to straighten out a tangled love affair between a young officer and his fiance.
  • Flying down to Rio
    [Media Center]FLY
    A dance band is a big success in Rio De Janeiro.
  • Focus
    [Media Center]FOC
    This story follows a Brooklyn man and his wife who become victims of mistaken identity at the height of World War II. Their bigoted community believes that they are Jews.
  • The fog of war
    [Media Center]FOG
    The story of America as seen through the eyes of the former Secretary of Defense, under President Kennedy and President Johnson, Robert S. McNamara. McNamara was one of the most controversial and influential political figures of the 20th century. Now, he offers a candid and intimate journey through some of the most seminal events in contemporary American history. He offers new and often surprising insights into the 1945 bombing of Tokyo, the Cuban Missile Crisis, ad the effects of the Vietnam War.
  • Folksong suites and other British band classics
    MZ20.ZM2 F65a
  • Follow the fleet
    [Media Center]FOL
    Musical comedy about two sailors romancing two sisters.
  • Footlight parade
    [Media Center]FOO
    A determined producer of cine-variety numbers gets the show going despite great difficulty. Complete with showstopping Busby Berkeley production numbers, choreographed with the colossal imagination and scope that have become Berkeley's legendary trademark, including the classic "Human Waterfall" number that displays countless beautiful chorus girls costumed in little more than ropes of pearls and showered in a colored mist from 300 tiny water sprays.
  • For a few dollars more
    [Media Center](REF)FOR
    Western drama in which two bounty hunters join forces to capture an outlaw gang leader.
  • For me and my gal
    [Media Center]FOR
    Musical comedy about a vaudeville song-and-dance team who buck tough times and World War I on their way to success in show business.
  • For richer or poorer
    [Media Center]FOR
    A real estate hustler and his wife hide from the IRS among the Amish.
  • Forget Paris
    [Media Center]FOR
    An NBA referee and an airline rep think they've found happiness together, until they meet each other's family and friends.
  • Forrest Gump
    [Media Center](REF)FOR
    Through three turbulent decades, Forrest rides a tide of events that whisks him from physical disablility to football stardom, from Vietnam hero to shrimp tycoon, from White House honors to the arms of his one true love.
  • Founding brothers by Joseph J. Ellis. :
    [Media Center]BOO
  • Four daughters
    [Media Center]FOU
    Music is their passion. The family is their joy. Widower Adam Lemp and his four lovely, musically talented daughters enjoy serenity and concerts in their Connecticut home only one thing can upset the balance - four suitors!
  • The four feathers
    [Media Center]FOU
    After an admired soldier leaves his regiment in disgrace, he sets out on a sweeping adventure to regain his honor, recapture his love and save the life of his best friend.
  • The four horsemen of the Apocalypse
    [Media Center]FOU
    The year is 1938, and the world is poised on the brink of WW II. Julio Madaraga (Lee J. Cobb) brings together three generations of his wealthy family, only to discover that the Nazi monster has set brother against brother.
  • The four P's part 1
    [Media Center]MAR
    Discusses product classifications, the product life cycle, and various pricing strategies.
  • The four P's part 2
    [Media Center]MAR
    Discusses distribution channels and the various components of the promotional mix.
  • Fourier series
    [Media Center]FOU
  • Fourier transform and applications, pt. I
    [Media Center]FOU (pt1 & pt2)
  • Frailty
    [Media Center]FRA
    The Meiks brothers, Fenton and Adam, have an idyllic relationship with their father. Their world is turned upside-down when their father suddenly announces that he has been visited by an angel who entrusted him with the holy mission of destroying "demons". Now, years after terrorizing a small Texas community, the God's Hand Killer has returned - leaving in his wake a perplexing trail of fear and death.
  • Freaks
    [Media Center]FRE
    This film features a cast of actual side-show freaks, yet the film soon reveals that the normal members of the traveling carnival are the true monsters, pitiless, conniving and murderous!
  • The French lieutenant's woman
    [Media Center]FRE
    Sarah Woodruff is ostracized by Victorian society and is abandoned by her French lieutenant lover. Charles Smithson discovers Sarah and resolves to unravel the mystery of her clandestine past.
  • Frida
    [Media Center]FRI
    The life of artist Frida Kahalo, from her humble upbringing to her worldwide fame and controversy that surrounded both her and her husband, Diego Rivera.
  • Friday night lights
    [Media Center]FRI
    Odessa is an oil town in the western part of Texas that is home to the Permian High School Panthers, the football team with the best winning record. The city's economy is in a tailspin, but football is the one thing that brings all the people of Odessa together, and on Friday nights, as many as 20,000 people fill Permian's football stadium to watch Coach Gary Gaines lead the team to victory. And in Odessa, a football victory is prized above all else. The players ponder the fact that a championship season can be as much a burden as a triumph.
  • Friendly persuasion
    [Media Center]FRI
    The story of a Quaker family and the crisis which surrounds them with the onset of the Civil War.
  • The frighteners
    [Media Center]FRI
    In the sleepy little town of Fairwater, a monstrous evil has awakened...an evil so powerful, its reach extends beyond the grave. For Frank Bannister death is a great way to make a living: ridding haunted houses of their unwelcome "guests." But as it happens, he's in cahoots with the very ghosts he promises to evict! It's the perfect scam...until Frank finds himself at the center of a dark and terrible mystery. A diabolical spirit is on a murderous rampage, and the whole town believes Frank is behind it. Desperate to find the true culprit and exorcise his own personal "demons," Frank crosses the ultimate barrier into a shadowy realm where even death can't stop a killer.
  • From the life of the marionettes
    [Media Center]FRO
    A harrowing journey into the events before and after Peter Egerton's murder and rape of an unsuspecting call girl.
  • The front page
    [Media Center]FRO
    Earle Williams, a convict about to be executed, escapes, throwing the criminal court building into chaos. Newspaper reporters try to "scoop" the story by holding Williams in a roll-top desk in the press room.
  • The fugitive
    [Media Center]FUG
    Dr. Richard Kimble, a Chicago surgeon falsely accused of killing his wife, is determined to prove his innocence by leading his pursuers to the one-armed man who actually committed the crime.
  • Full metal jacket
    [Media Center]FUL
    Vietnam war drama which begins with a depiction of the brutality of Marine Corps training and then shifts to Vietnam, focusing mainly on a group of Marines responding to the Tet Offensive of 1968.
  • The full monty
    [Media Center]FUL
    Six unemployed men, inspired by a touring group of male strippers, decide they can make a small fortune by putting on a striptease show of their own, but with one small difference. They intend to go the "full monty" and strip completely naked. In this hilarious, heartfelt comedy, these six friends discover the inner strength to bare it all in front of the world.
  • The funeral
    [Media Center]FUN
    In New York City in the 1930s, a powerful crime family is caught in a lethal crossfire between union organizers and brutal corporate bosses.
  • The funniest men of comedy
    [Media Center]FUN
    Three short films displaying the comedic gifts of four of Hollywood's funniest men.

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  • G.I. Jane
    [Media Center]GIJ
    Lieutenant O'Neil is the first woman ever given the opportunity to earn a place in the armed forces' most highly skilled combat unit--the elite Navy SEALs. But the already brutal rigors of training camp turn into an unimaginable test of courage and determination once it becomes clear that no one--powerful politicians, top military brass or her male Navy SEAL teammates--wants her to succeed.
  • Gaby
    [Media Center]GAB
    Story of a young woman who overcame near-total paralysis to become a college graduate and an acclaimed author.
  • Gag Rule: On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy by Lewis H. Lapham
    [Media Center] BOO
  • Gallipoli
    [Media Center]GAL
    A story of how the irresistible lure of adventure and the unknown bring two young men together in the Australian army in 1915.
  • The game
    [Media Center]GAM
    A self-centered businessman is enrolled in a "game" as a birthday present from his brother, and soon finds everything he controlled slipping from his grasp.
  • The game is over
    [Media Center]GAM
    A neglected wife, after several casual affairs, falls passionately in love with her own stepson. As they pursued their self-indulgent fantasy, the jilted husband calmly and viciously manipulates them to win his revenge.
  • The game of monopoly
    [Media Center]GAM
    An examination of the rise to wealth and power of the industrial titans like Carnegie, Hill, Rockefeller, Stanford and Vanderbilt. Also is the story of how President Theodore Roosevelt did battle with the monopolists and enforced the principle that corporations are no more above the law than the humblest citizen.
  • The Game they played by Stanley Cohen.:
    [Media Center]BOO
  • Gandhi
    [Media Center]GAN(pt1 & pt2)
    Story of Gandhi, not a commander or a ruler of nations, nor one with scientific gifts but a small, modest man who does what others before him could not do. He led an entire country to freedom. And he gave his people hope. Gandhi, the man of the century, is explored in the motion picture experience of a lifetime. A vision of the heart and soul of a man and an entire nation is vividly portrayed in this masterful epic that took 20 years to make.
  • The garden of the Finzi-Continis
    [Media Center]GAR
    The story of a wealthy Jewish family living in fascist Italy in 1938. A portrayal of how the Jews were stripped of possessions, dignity and freedom.
  • Garden State
    [Media Center]GAR
    Andrew is a moderately successful TV actor living in Los Angeles. He hasn't been home to the Garden State in nine years. Even the 3,000 miles has not seperated him from the domineering father Andrew left. Stunned to find himself home for his mother's funeral, "Large" finds old acquaintances around every corner, even as he does his best to avoid the inevitable confrontation with his father. By a twist of fate Large meets Sam, a girl who is everything he isn't. Her warmth and fearlessness gives Large the courage to open his heart to the joy and pain that is life.
  • Gattaca
    [Media Center]GAT
    Story about an all-too-human man who dares to defy a system obsessed with genetic perfection. Vincent is an "In-Valid," who assumes the identity of a member of the genetic elite to pursue his goal of traveling into space with the Gattaca Aerospace Corporation. However, a week before his mission, a murder marks Vincent as a suspect. With a relentless investigator in pursuit and the colleague he has fallen in love with beginning to suspect his deception, Vincent's dreams steadily unravel.
  • The General died at dawn
    [Media Center]GEN
    O'Hara, an American soldier of fortune, tries to foil the ambitions of General Yang, a ruthless warlord who plans to take over the provinces of northern China. An intriguing game of double cross ensues.
  • Gentlemen prefer blondes
    [Media Center]GEN
    A musical comedy about the adventures of two beautiful showgirls--an apparently stupid blonde golddigger and her provocative brunette friend--during a voyage from New York to Paris.
  • George Melies, cinema magician
    [Media Center]GEO
    Presents a documentary dealing with the life of French filmmaker George Melies and his contributions to the development of motion pictures and special effects photography.
  • George of the jungle
    [Media Center]GEO
    George, a buff and lovable klutz, saves his animal friends from poachers. Includes animation.
  • Georgia O'Keeffe
    [Media Center] (REF) OKE
    Explores the life and work of Georgia O'Keeffe.
  • Gerald R. Ford
    [Media Center]PRE
    President Ford discusses the War Powers Resolution and other Congressional limitations on presidential power, the personal qualities required of a President, limitations on presidential terms of office, the threat of assassination, and the difficulties that confront the legislative branch. Includes his views on decision-making in the context of the pardon of Richard Nixon, the seizure of the Mayaguez, the summit meeting at Vladivostok, and other events in the Ford presidency.
  • Germany--Dada
    [Media Center]GER
    Deals with aims and activities of the revolutionary group of artists and writers who made up the Dadaist movement in Germany. Filmed in the true Dadaist spirit with the cooperation of two original Dadaists, Hans Richter and Richard Huelsenbeck.
  • Gervaise
    [Media Center]GER
    In 19th-century Paris, a woman struggles to keep her family going but finally succumbs to the tawdry life of her drunken husband.
  • Get on the bus
    [Media Center]GET
    Follows a group of different men traveling from Los Angeles to the march in Washington, D.C. On the way they will make friends, make enemies, and make history.
  • Get out your handkerchiefs
    [Media Center]GET
    Raoul's wife, Solange, never smiles any more. Since he cannot get her to smile he decides to find her a lover who can. When that plan doesn't work, both men decide Solange needs a baby. That plan also goes awry. And then Solange meets Christian, an unhappy, but dignified thirteen year-old who achieves the seemingly impossible.
  • Gettysburg
    [Media Center]GET
    On July 1, 1863, more than 150,000 Union and Confederate soldiers were drawn into one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War. When it was all over, 50,000 men had paid the ultimate price. Today, Gettysburg is known as the turning point of the war and a pivotal event in American history. Featuring some of the most authentic Civil War battle scenes ever committed to film, and outstanding performances by the cast, "Gettysburg" accurately depicts the events, battles and personal struggles of valor on both sides of the Civil War.
  • The ghost and the darkness
    [Media Center]GHO
    Two lions on a man-eating rampage have shut down the construction of a railway in 1896 East Africa. The beasts hunt together, showing no fear of man or fire. What's more, they're killing for sport rather than for food--and they have an almost supernatural knack for knowing what traps await them. Big-game hunter Remington and construction engineer Patterson set out to stop these unstoppable monsters. But, in this astonishing tale of man against beast, the hunters become the hunted.
  • The ghost breakers
    [Media Center]GHO
    Larry Lawrence (Hope) is a hapless victim of circumstances who gets hounded by the police until he is helped by beautiful heiress Mary Carter (Goddard). She enables him to escape by stowing him in a trunk bound for Cuba. In return, he promises to help rid her inherited castle of the ghoulish creatures who refuse to leave their favorite haunt.
  • The ghost goes West
    [Media Center]GHO
    The spirit of a Scottish rogue returns to modern times to help a young member of the family. Fantasy-comedy.
  • Ghosts of Mississippi
    [Media Center]GHO
    The film features the final trial of the assassin of the '60s civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
  • The gig
    [Media Center]GIG
    A group of amateur jazzmen get a chance to fulfill a lifetime dream when they are hired for a two-week engagement at a Catskills resort.
  • Gimme shelter
    [Media Center]GIM
    A documentary of the Rolling Stones' 1969 tour of the United States, focusing on a free concert at the Altamont Speedway in California where a young man was killed during violence between the crowd and the Hell's Angels hired to "keep order."
  • Girl 6
    [Media Center](REF)GIR
    When an attractive, talented actress discovers that the only job she can get is working as a fantasy telephone operator, she decides to make the most of it.
  • The girl can't help it
    [Media Center]GIR
    Jayne Mansfield plays a blonde who is being coached to become a nightclub singer by her racketeer boyfriend. To help her along, he hires a hungry talent agent to boost her career into the big time.
  • The girl of the golden West
    [Media Center]GIR
    Song-filled saga of the sagebrush about a cowgirl and the bandit she loves.
  • Gizmo!
    [Media Center]GIZ
    A compilation of film clips on 20th-century "inventors" and their often outlandish contraptions.
  • Glengarry Glen Ross
    [Media Center]GLE
    A powerful story set in the world of real estate. Times are tough at Premiere Properties. Shelley "the machine" Levene (Lemmon) and Dave Moss (Harris) are veteran salesmen, but only Ricky Roma (Pacino) is on a hot streak. The new Glengarry sales leads could turn everything around, but the front office is holding them back until these "losers" prove themselves. Then someone decides to take matters into his own hands, stealing the Glengarry leads and leaving everyone wondering who did it.
  • The Glenn Miller story
    [Media Center]GLE
    Dramatised biography of the big band leader, showing how he rose from obscurity and poverty to fame and wealth in the early 1940's.
  • The goddess
    [Media Center]GOD
    Chronicles the life story of a Hollywood sex symbol and the price she pays for fame.
  • Gods and generals
    [Media Center]GOD
    Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain left behind a quiet life and a career as a college professor to fight for the Union. Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was a man of great religious faith who served in the defense of the Confederacy. And Gen. Robert E. Lee, who led the Confederate army, was a man who was forced to choose between his loyalty to the United States and his love of the Southern states where he was born and raised. As Chamberlain, Jackson, and Lee are followed through the declaration of war and the battles at Manassas, Antietam, Frederickburg, and Chancellorsville.
  • The Gods must be crazy
    [Media Center]GOD
    An empty Coke bottle drops from the sky near an African San hunter and is brought into his camp, but after causing much trouble to the group, he tries to return the bottle to the gods who must have dropped it.
  • Godzilla
    [Media Center]GOD
    A giant dinosaur-like monster terrorizes New York City and lays eggs in Madison Square Garden.
  • Going Hollywood, the war years
    [Media Center](REF)GOI
    Film clips from Hollywood movies made during World War II, along with commentary on Hollywood, the actors, and movie-making from 1941 to 1945.
  • Going places
    [Media Center]GOI
    Two drifters roam the French countryside, stealing cars, molesting women, and terrorizing people for a laugh. Their search for a woman who can appreciate their masculinity leads to a beautiful ex-convict.
  • The gold rush
    [Media Center](REF)GOL
    Charlie Chaplin, plays a lone prospector living in the Yukon for years who, despite many comical misadventures, suddenly strikes it rich.
  • The golden age of comedy
    [Media Center]GOL
    A compilation of American silent comedies from 1914 to 1929. Includes sequences showing Laurel and Hardy, Will Rogers, Jean Harlow, Carole Lombard, Ben Turpin, Harry Langdon, and the Keystone Cops.
  • Golden boy
    [Media Center]GOL
    Joe Bonaparte fought poverty and discouragement to become a great violinist, but to this impatient artist success comes too slowly. On the day his father presents him with a rare and expensive violin, Joe announces that he is giving up music to be a prizefighter.
  • Gone with the wind
    [Media Center](REF)GON (pt1 & pt2)
    A love story set in the deep South during the Civil War. Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler try to reshape their lives in the war-torn South.
  • The good girl
    [Media Center]GOO
    Thirty-year old Justine longs for a life more fulfilling than the one she leads with her boring husband and the dead-end job she has. But when a passionate young co-worker catches her eye and steals her heart, Justine's good girl existence takes a turn for the worse.
  • Good morning Babylon
    [Media Center]GOO
    Two Italian brothers skilled in the restoration of cathedrals leave their native country in search of wealth in America.
  • Gorillas in the mist
    [Media Center]GOR
    Story of Dian Fossey's passionate involvement in the work to save the endangered mountain gorilla from poachers.
  • Grace of my heart
    [Media Center]GRA
    A fifteen-year journey that follows songwriting sensation Denise Waverly, who struggles to escape the shadow of pop-music icons and emerge a singer in her own right. In crafting the hits the whole world sings, Denise draws on her relationships with the men in her life: a brilliant but self-destructive composer, and her songwriting partner.
  • Grand Canyon
    [Media Center](REF)GRA
    In Los Angeles, two men from very different walks of life meet and their friendship, based on a good deed, sets into motion a chain of events that surprises and affects the lives of not only the two men, but also their friends and families.
  • Le Grand chemin
    [Media Center]LEG
    Semi-autographical film, based on director Hubert's memories of being a boy left with friends in the country while his mother has a baby.
  • A Grand delusion Part 1 by Robert Mann. :
    [Media Center]BOO
  • A Grand delusion Part 2 by Robert Mann
    [Media Center]BOO
  • Grand Hotel
    [Media Center]GRA
    Berlin's mythical Grand Hotel, whose patrons glitter with the same cold brilliance as the art-deco trappings that surround them, is the scene where the lives of various guests become intertwined.
  • Grand illusion
    [Media Center](REF)GRA
    Two French Air Corps officers, one an aristocrat, are shot down and captured during World War I. In spite of their different class backgrounds, they are drawn together in escape attempts.
  • Le Grand Melies
    [Media Center]MEL
    A docudrama of the life of the pioneering cinematographer Melies followed by some of his famous short films.
  • Grant by Jean Edward Smith. :
    [Media Center]BOO
  • The grass harp
    [Media Center]GRA
    Following the death of his parents, young Collin Fenwick comes to a small southern town to live with his father's cousins, Verena and Dolly Talbo. He soon discovers that the Talbo household is anything but normal. Verena rules the house, as well as the entire town, with a stern hand. Meanwhile, her older sister Dolly charms Collin with her gentle, romantic spirit. To escape Verena's oppression, Dolly, Collin and the Talbo's eccentric maid, Catherine, run away to an old tree house in the woods. But their adventure sparks a series of events that will change not just their lives, but the future of the entire town as well.
  • The Grass is greener
    [Media Center]GRA
    A jealous English earl who wants to keep his beautiful wife first tries suave trickery but finally resorts to a duel with pistols.
  • The great lie
    [Media Center]GRE
    Davis plays a good girl Maggie, a genteel Southerner with money, taste, and breeding. Astor plays a bad girl Sandra, an arrogant concert pianist who marries Maggie's one true love (George Brent). When Brent is lost in an airplane accident, the two make a pact that suits each woman's nature.
  • The Great McGinty
    [Media Center]GRE
    Comedy about the rise and fall of a small-time, bribe-happy politician. He becomes the protege of a political boss who guides and schemes McGinty to Alderman, Mayor, and ultimately Governor with a series of payoffs, kickbacks, and bribes.
  • The great rock 'n' roll swindle
    [Media Center]GRE
    Story of the most notorious band in the world. In ten simple lessons, manager Malcolm McLaren tells the story of the Sex Pistols. Includes all their top ten hits.
  • The Great stone face
    [Media Center]BUS
    The story of Buster Keaton, from his early childhood in show business to his maturity as one of Hollywood's greatest comics. Includes footage from such classics as Fatty at Coney Island, Cops, Balloonatics, Day Dreams and The General.
  • The Greatest man in the world
    [Media Center]GRE
  • Greed
    [Media Center](REF)GRE
    Story of lives and friendships ruined by greed after one person wins a lottery-- leading to murder and human waste.
  • Green for danger
    [Media Center]GRE
    Inspector Cockrill investigates a double murder at a remote provincial English hospital during World War II, a place filled with suspicious doctors and staff. The mad killer, dispatching patients on the operating table, kills the head nurse after she reveals that a patient's death during surgery was no accident. Cockrill needs all the wit and ingenuity he can muster to untangle the web of deceit--before the murderer strikes again.
  • Gremlins
    [Media Center]GRE
    When Billy's Christmas present of a Mowgli named Gizmo accidentally gets wet and his babies eat after midnight, devilish gremlins take over the town.
  • Grosse pointe blank
    [Media Center]GRO
    A comedy about a hit man, a high school reunion, and the girl he left behind.
  • Grumpy old men
    [Media Center]GRU
    The story of neighborhood curmudgeons whose long-running feud becomes an all-out rivalry when an attractive widow moves into the house across the street.
  • Guarding Tess
    [Media Center]GUA
    A delightful comedy about a cantankerous former First Lady and her reluctant bodyguard.
  • Guilty by suspicion
    [Media Center]GUI
    An A-list director can revive his stalled career by testifying against friends who are suspected by being communists, but is drawn into a scandal involving his ex-wife.
  • Guinevere
    [Media Center]GUI
    A young girl from an affluent family rebels and becomes involved with a much older photographer.
  • Gumshoe
    [Media Center]GUM
    A private eye caper loaded with adventure, intrigue and laughs. Part-time comic and full-time dreamer, Ginley places an ad in a Liverpool paper offering his services as a detective. Before you can say "gumshoe," his mundane world turns to mayhem as this newcomer sleuth tangles with a big-time drug operation-- and murder.
  • The guys
    [Media Center]GUY
    A powerfully moving and unexpectedly humorous film about a NYC journalist who is called upon to help a fire captain pay tribute to the men he lost during the World Trade Center attacks.

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  • Hadaka no shima
    [Media Center](REF)ISL
    With almost no dialogue, depicts life and death in a family of four that must eke out its livelihood on a small, waterless island of Japan's Inland Sea.
  • Hail the conquering hero
    [Media Center]HAI
    Unable to face his home-town folks who think he's gone off to war, Woodrow Layfayette Pershing Truesmith takes a ship-yard job and has his friends help him keep up the deception.
  • Hamlet
    [Media Center]HAM
    Hamlet, the Shakespeare tragedy of the Danish prince who feigns madness to trap his father's murderer.
  • The hand that rocks the cradle
    [Media Center]HAN
    When a gynecologist commits suicide after being accused of sexually molesting a patient, his wife deceptively becomes the live-in housekeeper for the woman and, as a bizarre form of revenge, proceeds to make the woman's family her own.
  • Hangmen also die
    [Media Center]HAN
    Pursued by the Germans after the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Dr. Svoboda enlists the aid of a young woman who is oblivious to the lethal crosscurrents that surround her in Czechoslovakia. As she learns more about the mysterious doctor, she grows aware of the involvement of her father and fiance in the resistance, and soon finds herself entangled in the revolution's secret operations.
  • Hannah and her sisters
    [Media Center]HAN
    An intimate look at three women and the relationships they have with each other and the men in their lives.
  • The harder they come
    [Media Center]HAR
    Cliff is the hero of this saga: a country boy who is ruthlessly exploited, first by his employer, then by the producer of his hit record, and who at last becomes a pot-pushing desperado in an effort to live up to the code of his favorite movie heroes.
  • Harold and Maude
    [Media Center]HAR
    A young man obsessed with death falls in love with a 79-year-old woman.
  • Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban
    [Media Center] HAR
    Harry, Ron and Hermione, now teenagers, return for their third year at Hogwarts. There they are forced to face escaped prisoner, Sirius Black, who poses a great threat to Harry. In addition to new experiences, Harry must overcome the threats of Dementors, outsmart a werewolf and finally deal with the truth about Sirius and his relationship with his parents. Harry and friends master advanced magic classes, cross time barriers and change the course of more than one life.
  • Hazard of the game
    [Media Center](REF)HAZ
    Silent films are often remembered for their physical gags--always good for a laugh, over in a second. But behind these gags lay planning, courage and skill. Stuntmen took the risks while the stars took the credit--and it was a firm rule that no stuntman could reveal the tricks of his trade. Here at last, legendary stuntmen Yakima Canutt, Harvey Parry, Bob Rose and Paul Malvern tell the hair-raising stories behind their greatest stunts.
  • He got game
    [Media Center]HEG
    Tells the story of Jesus Shuttlesworth, the most sought after high school basketball prospect in the nation. Jesus and his dream to make it to the big ranks in professional basketball are overshadowed by his father, Jake, who is spending his life in prison for killing Jesus'mother.
  • Hear my song
    [Media Center]HEA
    For his own personal reasons, a young Irish man tries to lure an expatriot Irish singer back home, but the singer has been dodging taxes for 25 years and is quite reluctant.
  • Hear my song
    [Media Center]HEA
    A young man who has lost the affections of his lady love thinks he can win her back by locating the reclusive Irish tenor her mother once loved.
  • Heart and souls
    [Media Center]HEA
    Four souls learn why they are earthbound and tied to a hard driving executive--through him, they each have one chance to resolve the unfinished business in their lives.
  • Hearts in Atlantis
    [Media Center]HEA
    As a mid-aged man's friend dies, Bobby takes a look back at his childhood memories ... When mysterious out-of-towner, Ted, moves into the boarding house that 11-year-old Bobby shares with his self-involved mother, Bobby jumps at the chance to befriend an adult who talks to him straightforwardly. Ted enlists Bobby to read him the newspaper daily--and to keep an eye out for the "low men" bent on capturing Ted, who possesses a strange mind-reading power.
  • Hearts of darkness, a filmmaker's apocalypse
    [Media Center]HEA
    Documentary about the filming of the motion picture, Apocalypse Now, made by the director's wife, Eleanor Coppola. It's the history of a film beset by physical and personal troubles, such as the destruction of the sets by a hurricane and the heart attack that almost cost the life of one of the stars, Martin Sheen. Includes recent interviews with cast and crew.
  • Heat
    [Media Center]HEA
    Vincent Hanna is a brilliant L.A. cop following the trail from a deadly armed robbery to a crew headed by master thief Neil McCauley. The trouble is, McCauley's expertise is at least equal to Hanna's.
  • Heaven and Earth
    [Media Center]HEA
    The story of the war in Vietnam told from the viewpoint of a young Vietnamese peasant woman.
  • Heavenly creatures
    [Media Center]HEA
    Based on an actual crime, Heavenly Creatures is the story of two teenage girls who form an intense bond that leads to shocking consequences.
  • Heavy petting
    [Media Center]HEA
    Comedy film about the first sexual experiences of a group of famous people. Includes the sexual confessions of Abbie Hoffman, David Byrne, John Oates, Sandra Bernhard, Josh Mostel, Spalding Gray, and a dozen more. Also includes screen legends in their most memorable takes- Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, Marlon Brando, Elvis Presley, Tuesday Weld and many more.
  • Hell town
    [Media Center]HEL
    In one of his early pictures, Wayne takes on cattle rustlers and falls in love with the beautiful Marsha Hunt.
  • Hell's house
    [Media Center]HEL
    A naive child takes a rap for a bootlegger and is sent to an appalling reformatory. The children are overworked and underfed, bullied incessantly, and vindictively punished. A feeling of helplessness will grip you as you see the sufferings of a pathetic orphan imprisoned in a situation from which he cannot escape. One of the first films for both Pat O'Brien and Bette Davis.
  • Help!
    [Media Center]HEL
    Ringo's life is imperiled by an ancient sacrificial ring stuck on his famous finger. The ring makes him a target of a group of hilariously demented oriental mystics, who chase the boys from London to the Swiss Alps to the Bahamas.
  • Henry
    [Media Center]HEN
    Henry is a solitary drifter who leads his ex-jailmate Otis, on a senseless killing spree. Picking their victims at random, their methods of execution are always different. Otis' sister Becky comes to Chicago to visit and unsuspectingly falls in love with Henry.
  • Henry V
    [Media Center]HEN
    Historical play about the English king who defeated the Frence at Agincourt.
  • Henry V
    [Media Center]HEN
    Henry V is Shakespeare's dramatic depiction of England's Henry as he strives to claim the crown of France. Henry finally establishes an alliance with France when he meets and marries Catherine of Valois after his army is victorious.
  • Hero
    [Media Center]HER
    Davis is ace reporter Gale Gayley, who literally falls into the story of a lifetime when she's a passenger on an airplane that crashes into a Chicago bridge. In the smoke and darkness, she's saved by a rude, foul-mouthed "hero", who promptly disappears into the night...leaving only his shoe behind.
  • The hi-lo country
    [Media Center]HIL
    Two friends returning from World War II team up with an old rancher to raise cattle the cowboy way, in conflict with a corporate cattle rancher who employs half the town of Hi-Lo, N.M. When one of the friends has an affair with the wife of the corporate rancher's foreman, the conflict increases.
  • High command
    [Media Center]HIG
    A bittersweet love story of an English army officer who falls in love with the wife of a colleague.
  • High noon
    [Media Center]HIG
    A retired marshal's wedding is interrupted when he learns a killer he had sent to jail will return to town on the noon train to seek revenge. He takes up his badge and guns again, alienating his new bride.
  • Hiroshima, mon amour
    [Media Center]HIR
    During a love affair with a Japanese architect, a French actress recalls a previous affair with a German soldier during World War II. Includes newsreel footage of the bombing and its aftermath.
  • His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis
    [Media Center] BOO
  • His girl Friday
    [Media Center]HIS
    Ace reporter Hilde Parks (Russell) is ready to quit journalism and get married, but a prison escape, her editor, a concealed escapee, and a dedication to news conspire to prevent it.
  • His royal slyness
    [Media Center]HIS
    Double Feature: HIS ROYAL SLYNESS [30 min.]: Harold Lloyd takes the place of a lookalike prince when the prince is needed at home. After struggles and confusion, Lloyd, the imitation prince, emerges a revolutionary hero. HAUNTED SPOOKS: [20 min.] Every girl Harold falls in love with is lost to another boy, until he meets Hillary.
  • L'histoire d'Adele H
    [Media Center]STO
    In 1863, the beautiful younger daughter of world-famous author Victor Hugo crosses the Atlantic in desperate pursuit of the man she believed to be her fiance, her lover, her destiny, the mirror of her soul. For months and years she waits for him, harrasses him, throws herself in his path. Finally, her intensity gives way to madness.
  • A history of Ireland
    [Media Center]HIS
    Describes the various stages of Irish history starting with ancient Ireland and Newgrange on through to the Celts, St. Patrick, the Vikings, the Normans, penal times, the great famine, the 1916 rising, and the formation of the republic. Also incorporates a section on Irish genealogy, "Tracing your roots."
  • Hitchcock double feature
    [Media Center]HIT
    The Man who knew too much is the story of an Englishman and his wife and child who accidentally become involved in an anarchist plot to assassinate a foreign diplomat in London. Before Mr. Lawrence can turn over a coded message to the British Foreign Office, his child is kidnapped and held safe only so long as he remains silent. In Young and innocent, a woman's body is washed ashore with the belt of a man's raincoat, obviously the murder weapon. Robert Tisdale, owner of the raincoat, is being chased by the police. Tisdale is on a manhunt of his own, after the real killer, the man who stole his raincoat and he enlists the aid of the daughter of the chief constable.
  • The hitman
    [Media Center]HIT
    Police officer Cliff Garrett is betrayed and left for dead by his crooked partner. He survives, and, determined to get revenge at any cost, goes undercover as Danny Grogan, a vicious, calculating hitman hired by the mob.
  • Hobson's choice
    [Media Center]HOB
    A tyrannical bootshop owner in Victorian London with three unmarried daughters tries to control their lives and marriages while they have different ideas.
  • Hollywood
    [Media Center](REF)HOL
    Traces the development of the American silent film.
  • The Hollywood clowns
    [Media Center](REF)HOL
    Features film clips from Abbott & Costello, Charlie Chaplin, W.C. Fields, Buster Keaton, and many more of Hollywood's funniest comedians.
  • Hollywood goes to war
    [Media Center](REF)HOL
    The outbreak of World War I provided Hollywood with one of its greatest sources of plots - and profits. As the American mood shifted away from neutrality, Hollywood followed, abandoning films with pacificst themes for stories of war at the front.
  • Hollywood shuffle
    [Media Center]HOL
    Bobby Taylor waits for his big break as an actor and dreams of leading roles, Academy Awards, stretch limos and adoring fans.
  • Holy smoke
    [Media Center]HOL
    The Campion sisters have written a clever, humorous, yet subtle story of how badly a family can react when their religion of choice is passed over by one of their own in favor of something they find too exotic. While on a journey of discovery in India, young Ruth Barron falls under the influence of a charismatic religious guru. Her desperate parents then hire P.J. Waters, a macho cult deprogrammer, who confronts Ruth in a remote desert hideaway. However, P.J. quickly learns that he has quite possibly met his match in the intelligent and iron-willed Ruth.
  • Home for the holidays
    [Media Center]HOM
    Claudia Larson is a divorced single mom who just lost her job and now has to fly home for the traditional family Thanksgiving in Baltimore. From the plane, she calls for reinforcements--and her brother Tommy makes it down from Boston with a little surprise: a handsome friend named Leo. Between dropping the turkey in their sister's lap and a few fist fights on the front lawn, Claudia and Tommy recapture their childhood- -and Claudia and Leo explore the sweet possibility of romance.
  • Un Homme et une femme 20 ans deja
    [Media Center]MAN
    Twenty years after a script girl and a daredevil race driver fell in love, the ex-lovers meet to make a film about their love affair.
  • Honeymoon in Vegas
    [Media Center]HON
    Comedy about New York private investigator who promises his mother on her death bed that he will never marry. When he finally proposes to his long- suffering girlfriend Betsy, they head for Las Vegas, but before they can say "I do", Jack loses her in a poker game to a card shark and he has to travel to Hawaii and back in order to get his shanghaied fiancee back.
  • Hope floats
    [Media Center]HOP
    After a very sloppy and painful divorce, a woman who comes back to her home town in Smithville Texas with her daughter, has to deal with the people in her town.
  • Hopscotch
    [Media Center]HOP
    When Miles Kendig is fired from his top CIA job, he decides to tell all by writing a book.
  • The horse whisperer
    [Media Center]HOR
    After a terrible accident, Grace retreats into silence & her horse, Pilgrim, is driven mad by pain. Her mother gambles that a healer, a horse whisperer, can heal both Pilgrim & her daughter.
  • The hours
    [Media Center]HOU
    In 1929, Virginia Woolf is starting to write her novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway, ' under the care of doctors and family. In 1951, Laura Brown is planning for her husband's birthday, but is preoccupied with reading Woolf's novel. In 2001, Clarrisa Vaughn is planning an award party for her friend, an author dying of AIDS. Taking place over one day, all three stories are interconnected with the novel: one is writing it, one is reading it, and one is living it.
  • House of games
    [Media Center](REF)HOU
    A famed psychiatrist finds herself drawn into a dangerous underworld of a con man when she tries to help a patient whose life has been threatened.
  • The house of mirth
    [Media Center]HOU
    The glittering yet treacherous world of New York High Society comes to life in the heartbreaking story of Lily Bart, a renowned beauty of exquisite charm who seeks a wealthy husband.
  • How rare a possession
    [Media Center]HOW
    The origin of the Book of Mormon, its history, including a brief history of the Church, and its impact on two men: Parley P. Pratt and Vincenzo Di Francesca.
  • How Stella got her groove back
    [Media Center]HOW
    "Through good times and bad, Stella and Delilah have always looked out for each other and now that Stella's spending too much time at work, Delilah feels it's time for a change. But a quick trip to Jamaica turns into an exhilarating voyage of self-discovery as Stella learns to open her heart and find love -- even if it's with a man twenty years younger!"-Container.
  • How to get ahead in advertising
    [Media Center]HOW
    A burned-out young advertising executive experiences a crisis when a mysterious giant pimple on his neck starts making career decisions for him.
  • How to light for videography
    [Media Center](REF)HOW
    Lighting basics and subtleties for professional looking video.
  • How to make an American quilt
    [Media Center]HOW
    A young woman visits her grandmother one summer to think over a marriage proposal, and the women in a quilting bee confide to her the stories of the loves that have shaped their lives.
  • How to record sound for video
    [Media Center](REF)HOW
    How to make your audio enhance your video.
  • How to shoot a wedding
    [Media Center](REF)HOW
    Complete instructions for videographers on the different aspects of wedding photography, including locations, camera angles, types of equipment needed and the best way to film the reception.
  • How to shoot home video, the basics
    [Media Center]HOW
    An instructional program for videographers, basic camera theory, sound, lighting, compositions and directing and continuity.
  • How to shoot sports action
    [Media Center](REF)HOW
    A discussion of techniques to create videorecordings of sports events for entertainment or for analysis by coaches and teams. Eight sports are covered, including team sports such as football, baseball, and basketball as well as individual games such as tennis and golf.
  • How to succeed in business without really trying
    [Media Center]HOW
    The story follows J. Pierpont Finch as he makes a meteoric rise from mailroom to junior executive, captures the heart of a pretty office worker and the admiring eye of the president -- all in the morning of his second day at work. It's only a matter of hours 'til his sights are set on the company boardroom.
  • Howard the Duck
    [Media Center]HOW
    Howard is a fast-talking, cigar-chomping, beer-loving duck from a parallel universe who somehow winds up in Cleveland. The incredible fantasy has Howard the object of everybody's desire, in love with rock singer Lea Thompson, and doing battle with the evil Dark Overlord as he attempts to return to his own planet.
  • The human stain
    [Media Center]HUM
    Coleman Silk is a respected professor at a New England college who suddenly finds his life unraveling after a comment he makes about some African- American students is misinterpreted as a racial slur. As the scandal heats up, Nathan Zuckerman, a writer researching a biography of Silk, begins to dig deeply into Silk's life. Eventually, matters are made worse when Coleman's affair with a young married janitor named Faunia Farley is exposed. But amid the controversy, Silk must struggle to keep his greatest secret, a secret he's held for the majority of his life, from becoming made public.
  • The hunchback of Notre Dame
    [Media Center]HUN
    Based on the book by Victor Hugo, this classic motion picture tells the story of Quasimodo, a grotesque hunchback, and his devotion to the gypsy girl, Esmerelda, who has been accused of witchcraft. Esmerelda is sentenced to hang and Quasimodo at the risk of his own life, attempts to rescue her.
  • The hunchback of Notre Dame
    [Media Center]HUN
    The story of the grotesque hunchback, Quasimodo, and his devotion to the gypsy girl, Esmeralda, in 15th century France.
  • The hurricane
    [Media Center]HUR
    Set in the South Seas, a love story of two people seeking to escape the vengeance of a relentless policeman. Helped by a terrible, destructive hurricane, they begin a new life for themselves and their child.
  • The hustler
    [Media Center]HUS
    Itinerant pool shark challenges the top man for the championship, sacrificing everything until he realizes the stakes are too high.

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  • I am Sam
    [Media Center]IAM
    Sam Dawson has the mental capacity of a 7-year-old. He works at a Starbucks and is obsessed with the Beatles. He has a daughter with a homeless woman; she abandons them as soon as they leave the hospital. He names his daughter Lucy Diamond (after the Beatles song), and raises her. But as she reaches age 7 herself, Sam's limitations start to become a problem at school; she's intentionally holding back to avoid looking smarter than him. The authorities take her away, and Sam shames high-priced lawyer Rita Harrison into taking his case pro bono. In the process, he teaches her a great deal about love, and whether it's really all you need.
  • I.Q
    [Media Center]IQ
    All the world knows about Einstein the scientific genius. But what about Einstein the matchmaker? I.Q. puts this fanciful notion to the test and comes up with winning results in this fun, warm-hearted romantic comedy.
  • I remember mama
    [Media Center]IRE
    Portrays the struggles of a Norwegian immigrant family at the turn of the century in San Francisco.
  • I, robot
    [Media Center] IRO
    In the year 2035, robots are a common, trusted part of life. But that trust is broken when a scientist is found dead, and a skeptical Chicago police detective investigating the murder believes that a robot is responsible. It seems impossible for a robot to break the Three Laws of Robotics, for if that were to happen there would be nothing to stop them from taking over the world. Aiding the detective in his investigation is a psychologist who specializes in the psyches of robots. Will technology ultimately lead to mankind's salvation or annihilation?
  • I shot Andy Warhol
    [Media Center]ISH
    A journey into the cultural whirlwind of events surrounding Valerie Solanas' shooting of pop-art superstar Andy Warhol.
  • "I want to finish this job"
    [Media Center]LIN
    The turmoil of the Civil War formed the backdrop for Lincoln's re- election campaign in 1864, and we see how this explosive drama plays out in this episode. With Ulysses S. Grant now in charge of the Union armies, the bloodiest fighting of the war was underway, and the death toll continued to rise. Lincoln's call for more soldiers made the president unpopular, and his enemies hatched plans for his defeat. Behind the scenes, we get an intimate view of how Lincoln the man coped with the pain of so many casualites. While he was sorely tested by the cruel conflicts of war, his compassion never flagged. Above all, he wanted to finish the job of preserving the Union.
  • Ian Fleming's Diamonds are forever
    [Media Center]DIA
    Agent 007 tries to expose an elaborate diamond smuggling operation.
  • Cosmic eye
    [Media Center]COS
    Three musicians from outer space bring a message of peace to our planet. In the process they observe, from a variety of cultural perspectives, ideas about the origins and destiny of planet Earth.
  • Ice Age
    [Media Center]ICE
    Twenty thousand years ago, as the earth was being overrun with glaciers, Manny, Diego, Sid and Scrat become a courageous quartet of migrating misfits braving the frozen terrain and embarking on an incrdible journey. Creatures everywhere were fleeing the onslaught of the new Ice Age...
  • The ice storm
    [Media Center]ICE
    In the weekend after Thanksgiving in 1973 the Hoods are skidding out of control. Benjamin Hood reels from drink to drink, trying not to think about his trouble at the office. His wife, Elena, is reading self-help books and losing patience with her husband's lies. Their son, Paul, home for the holidays, escapes to the city to pursue an alluring rich girl from his prep school. And young, budding nymphomaniac, Wendy Hood roams the neighborhood, innocently exploring liquor cabinets and lingerie drawers of her friends' parents, looking for something new. Then an ice storm hits, the worst in a century.
  • An ideal husband
    [Media Center]ANI
    Sir Robert Chiltern (Jeremy Northam) is a successful Government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs. Chieveley (Julianne Moore) appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert turns for help to his friend Lord Goring (Rupert Everett), an apparently idle philanderer and the despair of his father. Goring knows the lady of old, and, for him, takes the whole thing pretty seriously.
  • If--
    [Media Center](REF)IF
    The story of a British boarding school and three unruly seniors who fail to conform. The students at College House are kept in line by tradition, strict discipline, and prefects. Documents the repressive conditions and the pain of rebelling as it builds to its surreal and violent ending when the students have their day.
  • Ikiru
    [Media Center]IKI
    A middle aged bureaucrat learns that he has cancer and tries to find meaning in his life by exploring pleasure, his family, and an affair with a young woman. None of these satisfies him so he dedicates himself to getting a park built that the system had previously blocked.
  • Il Bidone
    [Media Center]ILB
  • I'm all right Jack
    [Media Center]I'M
    A college graduate tries to make it in the blue collar work force in Great Britain and ends up precipitating a national strike and general chaos.
  • I'm not Rappaport
    [Media Center]IMN
    Eighty-one year old Nat Moyer is a compulsive and fanciful talker, a feisty philosopher, and a troublemaker given to assuming personalities. His daily companion on a bench in New York's Central Park is Midge Carter, a half- blind apartment house superintendent. Midge's approach to life is realistic and down-to-earth, making him the perfect foil for Nat. With vaudevillian flair, these appealing oldsters outrageously take on the world and its multiple threats --drug dealers and muggers, enlightened children, forced retirement, and the spector of the old folks' home.
  • Imitation of life
    [Media Center]IMI
    This is the story of two widows and their troubled daughters, In the search for success as an actress, Lora neglects her daughter. Lora's black housekeeper's daughter repudiates her mother by trying to pass for white. As the years pass, each of the four women realizes that she has been living out an emotionally fruitless existence.
  • The Immortal battalion
    [Media Center]IMM
    The first-hand story of the adventures of a platoon of raw recruits who mature into highly trained, heroic soldiers ready to defend their nation during World War II.
  • The imported bridegroom
    [Media Center]IMP
    Asriel Stroon, a widowed landlord in turn-of-the-century America, goes back to the "Old Country" and prays at his father's grave for the Almighty to wipe away his sins. While there, he bids on a bridegroom for his daughter, Flora, but Flora wants to marry an "American" doctor. Asriel's expensive gift to her costs more than the beleagered father paid for.
  • The in crowd
    [Media Center]INC
    Check out who's checked in when young hotties gather at Cliffmont Country Club for a sinister summer. Everyone has killer looks, and one even has the looks of a killer.
  • In good company
    [Media Center] ING
    Dan is in advertising and a dedicated family man. He seems to have it all, until a younger man is hired to replace him. Before long, he is forced to be deferential to his new boss, not only in the office but also when Carter begins dating his daughter.
  • In love and war
    [Media Center]INL
    Young Ernie Hemingway lied about his age to participate in World War I and ended up in the ambulance corps. He fell in love with a nurse but it was ill fated.
  • In search of excellence
    [Media Center](REF)SEA
    Discusses management strategies of some of America's most successful companies. The program covers three main topics: corporate values (examples from IBM and Disney World), innovation (examples from 3M and Apple Computer), and people--customers and employees (examples from Stew Leonard's Dairy, North American Tool and Die, Dana and McDonald's).
  • In society
    [Media Center]INS
    Plumbers Abbott and Costello go to fix a leaky sink in an uptown home, and end up going to a bigwig shindig out in the country, with hilarious results.
  • In the company of men
    [Media Center]INT
    Chad, furious about the way women are ruining his man's world, enlists his wishy-washy co-worker in a callous plan to date then dump a vulnerable secretary.
  • In the heat of the night
    [Media Center]INT
    Oscar-winning crime thriller in which Sidney Poitier as a Philadelphia detective gets involved in a killing while passing through a Southern town.
  • In the interests of justice by Deborah Rhode. :
    [Media Center]BOO
  • In the line of fire
    [Media Center]INT
    Frank Horrigan, a veteran Secret Service agent haunted by his failure to protect JFK from assassination gets a chance to redeem himself when a brilliant psychopath threatens to kill the current president and take Horrigan with him.
  • In the name of the father
    [Media Center]INT
    Fact-based film about Gerry Conlon, the young Irish punk who is caught in the wrong place at the wrong time and forced to confess to a terrorist bombing. He and his father, along with friends of Gerry, are found guilty and sentenced to life in prison. There, his father shows his true strength, and Gerry works to prove their innocence and clear his father's name.
  • In the shadow of the Reich :
    D804.G4 .I57 1997
    "This documentary studies the step-by-step process that led the medical profession in the Third Reich down an unethical road to genocide. It graphically documents the racial theories and eugenics principles that set the stage for the doctors' participation in sterilization and euthanasia, the selections at the death camps, as well as inhuman and unethical human experimentation. It provides the historical basis for many current dilemmas in bio-ethical work."
  • In the year of the pig
    [Media Center]VIE
    Tells the story of the Vietnam War beginning with the French, through increasing American involvement. Discusses the military, political and social aspects on both sides of the war, and concludes that American involvement is a mistake.
  • L'Incoronazione di Poppea
    [Media Center](REF)POP
    The Coronation of Poppea (L'Incoronazione di Poppea) was Monteverdi's last opera, written when he was 75, and first performed in Venice in 1642. The opera tells the amoral story of the Roman Emperor Nero's love affair with the scheming and seductive Poppea, with evil triumphing over good, while the allegorical figures from the Prologue - Fortune, Virtue and Love look on.
  • Indecent proposal
    [Media Center]IND
    A young couple very much in love can end their financial worries by allowing the wife to spend one night with a handsome billionaire (Redford); in return, they will get one million dollars. Will they accept this offer?
  • Independence Day
    [Media Center]IND
    Massive spaceships appear in Earth's skies and wonder turns to terror as the ships blast destructive beams of fire down on cities all over the planet. The world's only hope lies with a determined band of survivors.
  • Indiana Jones and the last crusade
    [Media Center]IND
    Harrison Ford dons his rumpled fedora for the third time as Indiana Jones, and Sean Connery joins the thrill-a-minute fun as Indy's feisty dad. Filmmakers Steven Spielberg and George Lucas make sure this father-son duo never lack for adventure. The Joneses set out to find the mystically-empowered Holy Grail - and encounter so many spectacular pursuits and narrow escapes that this movie is more than the culmination of Indy's exploits.
  • Indochine
    [Media Center]IND
    A love triangle set in the days just before the communist uprising in Indochina. A plantation owner finds that her adopted daughter has fallen in love with the owner's secret lover.
  • The indomitable Teddy Roosevelt
    [Media Center]IND
    A look at the public and private life of Theodore Roosevelt, America's 26th President. Interweaves rare archival footage of Roosevelt in a reenactment of his life and the political and historical events of the period.
  • The Informer
    [Media Center]INF
    Depicts the disintegration of the character of an Irish rebel who succumbs to temptation and betrays his friend to the Black and Tans for the twenty pounds reward offered for the capture of the revolutionary leader.
  • Ingmar Bergman's The magic flute
    [Media Center](REF)MAG
    Mozart tells the story of a handsome young prince's quest to save a beautiful princess from the forces of evil. It's a marvelous tale of mysticism, good vs. bad, and the power of love.
  • Inherit the wind
    [Media Center](REF)INH
    A small Tennessee town gained national attention in 1925 when a biology schoolteacher was arrested for violating state law and teaching Darwin's theory of evolution in the classroom.
  • Inherit the wind
    [Media Center]INH
    A small Tennessee town gained national attention in 1925 when a biology schoolteacher was arrested for violating state law and teaching Darwin's theory of evolution in the classroom.
  • Innocence
    [Media Center]INN
  • The Inside secrets of interviewing
    [Media Center]DOY
    Top personnel and business consultants cover the 10 secrets to successful interviews, including preparation, dress, what to say, and how to follow up.
  • Inside the C.I.A
    [Media Center](REF)INS (pt1-3)
    Shows the C.I.A. of today and its role in the political intrigues of the recent past.
  • Insomnia
    [Media Center]INS
    Crime never sleeps and neither does the veteran LAPD homicide detective invited to Nightmute, Alaska to head a murder investigation there. He finds the investigation disrupted by an ever-shining midnight sun that wreaks sleep- depriving havoc on his body clock. As his consciousness becomes more unstable, he is nagged by a sense of personal guilt over a second crime that might just be real.
  • Insult to Injury by Ray Bourhis
    [Media Center] BOO
  • Insult to Injury by Ray Bourhis
    [Media Center] BOO
  • International house
    [Media Center]INT
    Slapstick comedy. A scientist has invented a radio you can see: television. Every country wants the rights so hordes of agents converge on the scientist to do their best (worst!!).
  • Internet shopping in the 21st century
    [Media Center]INT
    This series of one-hour television specials features in-depth, candid interviews with internationally recognized and respected CEOs in conversation about high-level business issues. Jeff Greenfield interviews Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com and David Dyer, president and CEO of Land's End, to discuss e-commerce. Students and faculty at the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School in the studio audience ask additional questions.
  • Intolerance
    [Media Center]INT
    Made in response to charges of racial prejudice following Griffith's Birth of a nation. Film uses four separate historical events from the fall of Babylon to the twentieth century to show that intolerance pervades in the minds of all people. Each story has its own set of characters.
  • Introduction to modem technology
    [Media Center]DIS
    Summarizes the history of advances in modem theory and practice, with emphasis on implementable coded modulation schemes whose performance approaches the limits on communications efficiency known since the work of Shannon in 1948.
  • Introduction to optical communications
    [Media Center]DIS
    Describes how digital communications and the invention of the laser led to the development of optical communications.
  • Invaders from Mars
    [Media Center]INV
    A courageous young boy battles the hideous Martians who have "taken over" his parents--and who now threaten to subjugate the entire planet!
  • Invasion of the body snatchers
    [Media Center]INV
  • Les invasions barbares
    [Media Center]BAR
    Examines the varying personal politics - economic and sexual - at play among an aging group of friends, lovers, and ex-spouses. Remy and Louise are divorced. Their son Sebastien lives in capitalist splendor in London. Their estranged daughter sails boats throughout the world. But the slightly estranged family is brought together by Remy's losing battle with terminal cancer, and the hedonistic, ex-radical father and straight-laced son have to overcome their differences.
  • Invitation to the dance
    [Media Center]INV
    Three separate stories, each told almost entirely in dance.
  • The Ipcress file
    [Media Center]IPC
    When an undercover gang kidnaps and brainwashes key scientists, the master spy of London's secret service leaps into action.
  • Iphigenia
    [Media Center](REF)IPH
    Story of a young girl caught in the midst of political intrigue and corruption. Under the leadership of Agamemnon, the Greek army is about to set sail to engage in a great battle, but the winds refuse to blow. When the army grows restless, Agamemnon seeks to improve morale by providing better food, but accidentally slays a sacred deer. His punishment, say the gods, is the sacrifice of his daughter, Iphigenia. Agamemnon sends for Iphigenia with a message that she will marry the great solider Achilles. Iphigenia arrives for the wedding, accompanied by her mother, Clytemnestra--and the tragic story begins to unfold.
  • Iris
    [Media Center]IRI
    Adapted from the memoirs of literary critic John Bayley, the film recounts his courtship of and long marriage to British novelist Iris Murdoch. The scenario tacks back and forth from the young Iris--ready to seduce one and all with her coy command of words and sex appeal--to the elder Iris--slowly giving way to the cruel erasure of Alzheimer's.
  • Irish America by Maureen Dezell.:
    [Media Center]BOO
  • Islamic art
    [Media Center](REF)ISL
    "Discusses the architecture and sculpture of mosques and Koranic schools, the illumination and calligraphy of sacred texts, music, the art of the garden, and the influence of the abstract arabesque on Western art."--Container.
  • The Island of Dr. Moreau
    [Media Center]ISL
  • It came from Hollywood
    [Media Center](REF)ITC
    A collection of excerpts from the best of Hollywood's bad films.
  • It happened one night
    [Media Center]ITH
    A runaway heiress falls in love with a reporter who is chasing her across America.
  • It's alive
    [Media Center]ITS
    An everyday Los Angeles couple gives birth to a hideous humanoid whose escape and murderous rampage causes city wide terror.
  • Ivan the Terrible,
    [Media Center]IVA (pt1 & pt2)

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  • Jackson Pollock
    [Media Center](REF)JAC
    Combines archival footage of Jackson Pollock's life and work with reminiscences from his contemporaries, and explores the truth and legends surrounding this controversial painter.
  • Jailhouse rock
    [Media Center]JAI
    Presley plays a convict who takes up singing while behind bars. When a beautiful woman gives him a break in records, he uses his aggressiveness and talent to succeed in music and movies.
  • Jakob the liar
    [Media Center]JAK
    In Nazi-occupied Poland a poor Jewish cafe owner invents fictitious news bulletins about Allied advances against the Nazis. These lies keep hope and humor alive among the ghetto inhabitants.
  • Je vous salue Marie
    [Media Center]HAI
    A teenage virgin innocent becomes pregnant. The girl, her fiance, family and friends struggle to cope.
  • Jean de Florette
    [Media Center]JEA
    A poor man struggles to earn a living on a farm he inherits, but his evil neighbor plots to steal the property to gain the spring it contains.
  • Jerry Maguire
    [Media Center]JER
    A sports agent suddenly discovers his scruples and promptly loses his job. But with the help of one loyal colleague and one outrageous client, he learns that loving well is the best revenge.
  • Jerusalem
    [Media Center]JER
    "A kaleidoscopic view of Jerusalem and its people as they are today--the remarkable outcome of 3,000 years of history, hope, and faith" -- Container.
  • Jesus' son
    [Media Center]JES
    A rumpled, hapless young man in his twenties, FH bounces through his days with his dreams and hallucinations blurring and merging into reality. The shaky center of his universe is his beloved on-again, off-again, girlfriend Michelle.
  • A Jew among the Germans
    [Media Center]JEW
    Marian Marzynski, Polish Holocaust survivor, sets out on a personal quest to find out how Germans are going to design a memorial to the murder of six million Jews, to be unveiled on the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II. Over three years he meets artists, architects and planners who struggle with questions of guilt, responsibility and memory. He struggles with his own relationship to the German people and meets a young "third generation" of Germans who declare their distance from their parents and grandparents.
  • The Jewish customs
    [Media Center]JEW
    Introduces and explains the significance of major Jewish religious practices and ritual objects, including the Sabbath, the concept of kosher, lighting of the Hanukah menorah, Mezuzah and Tefilin, and Tzedakah, the Jewish concept of charity.
  • JFK
    [Media Center]JFK (pt1 & pt2)
    Director Oliver Stone seamlessly blends archival film with acted sequences in his version of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which alleges that there was a massive plot and cover-up surrounding JFK's death.
  • Jim Bailey
    [Media Center]JIM
    "Jim Bailey ... has made numerous TV appearances from which the following appear on this compilation ... concluding with a segment from a recent photo layout of July Garland, Barbra Streisand, Marilyn Monroe & Madonna"--Container.
  • Jimmy Carter
    [Media Center]PRE
    President Carter discusses the presidency from the perspective of a Washington outsider who sought to make human rights a centerpiece of his administration. Carter reflects upon the nature of presidential leadership, illustrated by the Camp David accords, the Iran hostage crisis, the Panama Canal Treaty, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and the energy crisis.
  • Jimmy Neutron, boy genius
    [Media Center]JIM
    Aliens abduct all adults; genius Jimmy and his friends build an interstellar spacefleet and rescue them, and get home in time for dinner.
  • John Huston
    [Media Center]JOH
    Biographical study of John Huston told through interviews with family and friends. Also discusses his professional life through scenes from his most famous films and interviews with stars who worked with him.
  • John Paul II, the millennial pope
    [Media Center]JOH
    The dramatic story of one of the most celebrated leaders of the millennium, from his boyhood to his life as one of the most popular leaders of all time.
  • John Paul II
    [Media Center]JOH
    Provides a journey through the 20th C. to the sources of Pope John Paul II's character and beliefs and the world's reaction to him.
  • Joining the club by Dan Oren
    [Media Center]BOO
  • Joseph Campbell and The power of myth
    [Media Center]POW
    Interview/Documentary on myths and religions and how they have unified man through time.
  • The Joy Luck Club
    [Media Center]JOY
    Follows the story of four lifelong friends, whose lives are filled with joy and heartbreak, and shows how their experiences have affected the hopes and dreams they hold for each of their children.
  • The Joy that kills
    [Media Center]JOY
    A drama about a young woman whose heart ailment keeps her prisoner in her home, at the insistence of her over-protective husband.
  • Joyless street
    [Media Center]JOY
    A drama about the hunger and passion of the people living under the distorted conditions of the inflation-ridden, postwar Vienna.
  • Juarez
    [Media Center]JUA
    A revolutionary leader causes the downfall of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico.
  • Jude
    [Media Center]JUD
    Young and unworldly Jude Fawley dreams of emulating his mentor and schoolmaster, Phillotson. Jude studies diligently but his dream is interrupted when he is seduced by Arabella, a neighbor's daughter. Believing falsely that Arabella is pregnant, Jude marries her, but the marriage soon fails. When Jude decides to pursue his studies at Christminster he falls recklessly in love with his cousin, Sue Bridehead but the relationship proves to have tragic consequences.
  • Julius Caesar
    [Media Center](REF)JUL
    Film adaptation of Shakespeare's play depicting the successful conspiracy to assassinate the Roman emperor, Julius Caesar.
  • Jumanji
    [Media Center]JUM
    When Alan Parrish discovers a mysterious board game, he doesn't realize its unimaginable powers until he is magically transported into the untamed jungles of Jumanji! There he remains for 26 years until he is freed from the game's spell by two unsuspecting children. Now a grown man, Alan tries to outwit the game's powerful forces in this imaginative adventure that combines breathtaking special effects with an enchanting mixture of comedy, magic and thrills.

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  • Kameradschaft
    [Media Center]KAM
    German miners cross the border to come to the assistance of French miners trapped by an explosion. Based on an actual incident.
  • Keeper of the flame
    [Media Center]KEE
    While investigating a politician's death, a reporter (Tracy) falls in love with the widow (Hepburn) only to find that she may be part of a treason plot.
  • Kill Bill,
    [Media Center]KIL
    Four years after taking a bullet in the head at her own wedding, the bride emerges from a coma and decides its time for payback ... with a vengeance. Having been gunned down by her former boss and his deadly squad of international assassins, it's a kill-or-be-killed fight. She didn't start this deadly series of events, but she is definitely determined to finish the business.
  • Kill Bill
    [Media Center]KIL
    The Bride continues on her deadly pursuit of her former partners in the Deadly Viper Assasination Squad, who, in a furious assalt, attempted to murder her and her unborn child on her wedding day. As the Bride faces off against allies-turned-nemeses Budd and Elle, she flashes back to the day for her deadly wedding. We learn how she was recruited and trained and about her relationship with Squad leader Bill.
  • Killer
    [Media Center]KIL
    Jeffrey is the killer hired by the mob for one last job. Lee is a relentless cop whose mission is to stop Jeffrey at all cost. The two enemies form a strange bond that blurs the line between good and evil. When Jeffrey is double-crossed by the mob in a shootout, Lee traces him in a church while Jeffrey's mistress is caught in a crossfire.
  • Killer
    [Media Center]KIL
    Based on the true story of two men--one sworn to uphold our system of justice, the other, a brutal by-product of that same system.
  • The killing
    [Media Center]KIL
    A straightforward accounting of a racetrack robbery engineered by a group of small-time crooks.
  • The Killing fields
    [Media Center]KIL
    Dith Pran is an aide, translator and friend of two journalists who are covering the war in Cambodia. He is eventually exiled to the labor camps in Cambodia's countryside, where he endures four years of starvation, torture and war before escaping to Thailand.
  • Kind hearts and coronets
    [Media Center]KIN
  • King Henry IV
    [Media Center]HEN
    One of four productions of the story of two powerful dynasties who contested their rights to the crown across nearly two centuries of murder, intrigue, rebellion and bloody battle.
  • King Henry IV
    [Media Center](REF)HEN (pt1 & pt2)
    Presents a dramatization of William Shakespeare's play.
  • King Henry V
    [Media Center](REF)HEN(pt1 & pt2)
  • King kong
    [Media Center]KIN
    A film expedition brings a giant ape to New York from a remote island.
  • King Lear
    [Media Center](REF)KIN
  • King Lear
    [Media Center]KIN
    Presents William Shakespeare's play about a foolish king who divides his realm between two ungrateful daughters.
  • The King of Marvin Gardens
    [Media Center]KIN
    Gritty story of small-time losers and big-time dreamers in Atlantic City.
  • King Richard II
    [Media Center](REF)RIC
  • Kinsey
    [Media Center]KIN
    Kinsey is a portrait of a man driven to uncover the most private secrets of the nation, and journey into the mystery of human behavior. His 1948 book Sexual Behavior in the Human Male irrevocably changed American culture and created a media sensation.
  • Kipps
    [Media Center]KIP
  • Kiss of death
    [Media Center]KIS
    An ex-con is coerced into a deal by the police to inform on his former associates. As a result a psychopathic killer goes after him for revenge.
  • Kiss of the spider woman
    [Media Center]KIS
    Two prisoners with radically different viewpoints pass the time with one telling stories from old movies. Braga appears as three different people in the various stories.
  • Kiss the girls
    [Media Center]KIS
    Washington DC detective Dr. Alex Cross (Morgan Freeman) travels to North Carolina to investigate the apparent kidnapping of his niece (Gina Ravera). Aided by escaped kidnapee Kate McTiernan (Ashley Judd), Cross hunts down the kidnapper, who operates under the pseudonym "Cassanova."
  • Kiss tomorrow goodbye
    [Media Center]KIS
    A tough hoodlum muscles in on a gang of small-time thieves and begins a series of big-time robberies.
  • Knife in the water
    [Media Center]KNI
    A middle-aged journalist and his wife invite a footloose young hitch- hiker aboard their sailboat for a Sunday outing in the Polish lake district. Like two peacocks, the men proceed to flaunt their virilty before the woman, revealing a cynical sadism on the part of the husband and a growing resentment in the knife-wielding youth.
  • Knockout workout, kickboxing
    [Media Center]KNO
    Fitness expert and kickboxing trainer Stephanie Steele presents a unique, high-energy, whole body workout based on the martial art of kickboxing. To help select the kickboxing workout that's ideal for you, special color coding on the screen indicates the best routines for beginner, intermediate and advanced levels.
  • Korea
    [Media Center]KOR
    Shows footage of the Korean War and current modern day Korea for the purpose of creating knowledge and understanding of Korea.
  • Kovacs on the corner
    [Media Center]KOV
    A presentation of the 1952, NBC-TV Kovacs on the corner shows.
  • The Krays
    [Media Center]KRA
    Based on a true story of English brothers who used a liking for violence to promote a crime career which horrified society for its senseless brutality.
  • Kundun
    [Media Center]KUN
    In a remote area of Tibet a two-year-old child is identified as the Dalai Lama. The story follows him into adulthood where he tries to rule his nation at one of the most challenging times in its history.

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  • L.A. confidential
    [Media Center]LAC
    Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slaying of the patrons at an all-night diner in this lush tribute to tough film noir crime films.
  • La Dolce vita
    [Media Center]DOL (pt1 & pt2)
    A third rate journalist takes an odyssey into the so-called "sweet life" of high society in modern Rome, only to have all his values destroyed and to be left totally disillusioned by the insensitivities he sees among the degenerate pleasure seekers.
  • The lady from Shanghai
    [Media Center](REF)LAD
  • The lady vanishes
    [Media Center]LAD
    Enroute back to England by train from Switzerland, an old lady disappears and two young people investigate.
  • L'age d'or
    [Media Center]AGE
    Surrealistic film about two lovers who mock convention and the society intent on preventing them from satisfying their desire.
  • Lakeboat
    [Media Center]LAK
    A grad student lands a summer job on a Great Lakes steel freighter. Short on experience, he learns more than he bargained for about life, love and lost potential.
  • Land without bread
    [Media Center]LAN
    Documentary about the mental deficiency, starvation and inbreeding among Spanish peasants in the poorest district of northern Spain, Las Hurdes.
  • Lara Croft
    [Media Center]LAR
    With her father presumed dead, Lara must race to recover an ancient artifact that can alter space and time if not destroyed. She finds the key that will unlock the two sections that must be put together in order for the artifact to work. She must fight her nemises in order to restore harmony and all before the planets and sun align.
  • The Last Campaign by Zachary Karabell.:
    [Media Center]BOO
  • The last detail
    [Media Center]LAS
    Two hard-boiled petty officers are detailed to take a young sailor from a Virginia naval base to a New Hampshire naval prison to serve an eight year sentence for a trivial offense.
  • The Last emperor
    [Media Center]LAS
    The true story of Pu Yi, who, at the age of 3, toddled to the throne to become China's last emperor.
  • The Last hurrah
    [Media Center](REF)LAS
    An aging mayor faces strong political opposition from a banker and his friends.
  • The last laugh
    [Media Center]LAS
    The story of a hotel doorman who is demoted to washroom attendant because of his age. Humiliated, the considers suicide. Then, by a strange twist of fate, he becomes a millionaire. This silent film is told entirely by camera, without title cards.
  • The Last of the Mohicans
    [Media Center]LAS
    Set in 1757 during the French and Indian War, two English sisters travel through the war zone to join their father, a British army officer in command of a besieged fort. Hawkeye, a renegade Yankee scout, and his Mohican Indian friends come to their aid. Based on the James Fenimore Cooper novel of the same name.
  • The Last of the Mohicans
    [Media Center]LAS
    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.
  • The last picture show
    [Media Center]LAS
    Story of the social and sexual mores in small-town Texas.
  • Last year at Marienbad
    [Media Center]LAS
    Among an assembly of guests in a vast baroque mansion, the narrator/hero tries to persuade a woman that they have met before, and that she has agreed to go away with him, leaving the man who has accompanied her to the mansion.
  • L'Atalante
    Media Center ATA
    Study of married life set in the frustrating confines of a barge--the bride is bored and craves the excitement of Paris. An eccentric barge hand, Pere Jules, brings them back together.
  • Laurel and Hardy comedy classics
    [Media Center]LAU
    Stan and Ollie find themselves in one fine mess after another: delivering a piano up a long, long flight of steps; watching their "Brats"; sneaking out on the "little woman"; out west, at sea; at war; and in many other situations where, if anything can go wrong, they'll make sure it does.
  • Laurel and Hardy comedy classics
    [Media Center]LAU
    Four classic comedy shorts by Laurel and Hardy, all from 1932-1933.
  • Laurel & Hardy on the lam
    [Media Center]LAU
    Stan and Ollie keep running away from trouble, but it keeps finding them in this collection of four hilarious short subjects. This video includes rare home movie footage and photographs of the boys at work and play collected and narrated by Stan's daughter, Lois Laurel.
  • Laurel Canyon
    [Media Center]LAU
    Harvard graduate Sam and his fiancee, Alex, move into Sam's mother's house in upscale Laurel Canyon, thinking that she would not be there. Only problem is that she is still there, supposedly finishing up a record that she's producing for her boy toy, Ian's band. Sam's mom seems more interested in smoking pot and drinking than actually working, though. Alex doesn't mind, but Sam is quite upset. Alex starts off focused as she works on finishing a dissertation on genomics, but is soon distracted. Meanwhile, Sam is equally distracted by the beautiful intern Sara.
  • The Lavender Hill mob
    [Media Center]LAV
    Alec Guinness is a shy, innocuous bank clerk who conspires with a frustrated sculptor to steal a million pounds in gold bars from the Bank of England. The twist of the plot is in their getaway plan to remold the gold into miniature models of the Eiffel Tower.
  • Law, pragmatism and governance by Richard Posner.:
    [Media Center]BOO
  • Lawrence of Arabia
    [Media Center]LAW
    The story of T.E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole), the heroic and troubled man who organized the Arab nations to fight the Turks in World War I and then, having reached a pinnacle of power in Mideast politics, retired to postwar military obscurity.
  • A league of their own
    [Media Center]LEA
    A washed-up ballplayer is hired to coach in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League while the male pros are at war in 1943, and finds himself drawn back into the game by the heart and heroics of his team.
  • Leaving Normal
    [Media Center]LEA
    Naive Marianne Johnson has just walked out on another failed marriage. Cynical cocktail waitress Darly Peters has just served her last drink. Together, these two mismatched wanderers are about to chart an unpredictable course for misadventure and hilarity.
  • A Legend in the making by Richard J. Tofel
    [Media Center]BOO
  • Leo McCarey's Good Sam
    [Media Center]GOO
    Black comedy about a small town businessman who helps out all sorts of friends, relatives and others who need money, but when he needs money can find no one to help him.
  • Let's go to the movies
    [Media Center](REF)LET
    A group of short subjects designed to introduce the viewers to the various occupations involved in making the movies.
  • Letter to Brezhnev
    [Media Center]LET
    A rural English girl falls in love with a Russian sailor and problems ensue.
  • Liar liar
    [Media Center]LIA
    Fletcher Reede is a fast-talking attorney and habitual liar. When his son Max blows out the candles on this fifth birthday cake, Max has just one wish-- that his dad stop lying for 24 hours. When his son's wish comes true, Fletcher discovers that his biggest asset, his mouth, has become his biggest liability.
  • Liberty Heights
    [Media Center]LIB
    A Jewish family living in the Liberty Heights area of Baltimore experiences the social changes of 1954.
  • Life
    [Media Center]LIF
    Eddie Murphy is the fast talking con-artist Rayford Gibson and Martin Lawrence is the conservative bank teller Claude Banks. The two are accidentally teamed up to become the funniest "odd couple" east of the Mississippi. There is no limit to their comical misfortune as they are placed at the scene of a crime and their mistaken identity lands them right in front of the judge. This hysterical comedy gives a whole new meaning to friends for life.
  • The life aquatic with Steve Zissou
    [Media Center]LIF
  • Life as a house
    [Media Center]LIF
    In a final attempt to make something meaningful with his life, George launches a last ditch effort to build the house of his dreams. In the process, he renovates his crumbling relationship with friends and family.
  • Life looks back
    [Media Center]LIF
    This historic chronicle from LIFE Magazine is a stirring compilation of unforgettable photographs and film footage that capture the most memorable events of the shocking sixties, soul-searching seventies and soaring eighties.
  • Lifeboat
    [Media Center]LIF
    When an American vessel is torpedoed in World War II, 8 survivors crowd into an ill-equipped lifeboat. Also saved is a crew member from the German sub. He is given command of the boat, but not one knows where he is taking them.
  • Lili
    [Media Center]LIL
    A shy, young orphan is befriended by a group of carnival puppets.
  • Lilo & Stitch
    [Media Center]LIL
    The result of an illegal experiment in genetic mutation, Experiment #626, is so horrifyingly hostile that it's been locked up by its inventors. It escapes to Earth where Lilo, a young Hawaiian girl, mistakes it for a strange dog, adopts it, and renames it Stitch. As Stitch becomes part of Lilo's unusual family life Lilo's innocence and the aloha spirit of the Islands confuse and ultimately civilize the creature.
  • Limbo
    [Media Center]LIM
  • Limbo: Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams by Alfred Lubrano
    [Media Center] BOO
  • The lion king
    [Media Center]LIO
    Set in the Serengeti, this animated coming-of-age saga tells of the love between a proud lion ruler, Mufasa, and his son Simba. Out from the shadows prowl Simba's envious Uncle Scar and his hyena henchmen. Their scheming for the throne leads to tragedy and Simba's exile. Befriended by the warthog Pumbaa and the meerkat Timon, Simba forgets his responsibilities and adopts the carefree life of "Hakuna Matata." But Rafiki, a wise baboon, helps Simba reclaim his true destiny in the "circle of life."
  • The Little mermaid
    [Media Center]LIT
    A headstrong teenage mermaid longs to be part of the magical world on land when she falls in love with a human prince.
  • The little minister
    [Media Center]LIT
    In 1840 Scotland, the gypsy girl with whom the new pastor falls insuitably in love, is really the local earl's wayward daughter.
  • A little princess
    [Media Center]LIT
    Sara Crewe, the pampered daughter of an Army officer, is left in a strict boarding school when her father goes off to war. When he is reported dead, her world is turned upside down and she is made a servant at the school, yet she refuses to let her spirit be broken.
  • Little shop of horrors
    [Media Center]LIT
    In this musical, Mushnik's Flower Shop houses an exotic potted plant called Audrey II. People are rushing in to see it, but if they knew the truth, they would rush right out.
  • Little voice
    [Media Center]LIT
    Painfully shy "little voice" can only express herself by singing in the voices of others, but once her mother's sleazy boyfriend (Caine) overhears her incredible voice he'll do anything to drag the recluse into the spotlight and make her a star.
  • Little women
    [Media Center]LIT
    Story of four sisters who grow up together in Massachusetts during the Civil War.
  • Live at the Village Vanguard
    [Media Center]LIV
    Six jazz concerts commemorating the 50th anniversary of this Famous New York City jazz club.
  • The lives of a Bengal Lancer
    [Media Center]LIV
    Adventure film set in India with Cooper as the leader of crack troops fighting the Afghans at the Khyber Pass.
  • Living on Tokyo time
    [Media Center] LIV
    A rock guitarist with no talent feels little connection to his Japanese heritage until he marries a Japanese girl who wants to stay in America but maintain a Sushi attitude.
  • Living out loud
    [Media Center]LIV
    A newly divorced woman is consumed by vindictive fantasies of her ex- husband and his young bride until she finds unexpected companionship in a bold and sassy jazz singer at a local club and the down-on-his-luck elevator operator in her fashionable Fifth Avenue building.
  • Local hero
    [Media Center]LOC
    Knox Oil and Gas Company wants to buy, raze and replace a sleepy Scottish seaside village with refineries and deep-water docks. They send their top deal- maker and trouble-shooter to handle the negotiations.
  • Logan's run
    [Media Center]LOG
    The occupants of the perfect world of the 23rd century experience total pleasure until their 30th birthday when they face a ritualistic execution. Two of the inhabitants approaching their 30th birthdays decide to attempt a flight to find refuge from their hedonistic, automated world.
  • Lolita
    [Media Center]LOL
    The story of the passion of a middle aged man for a young teenager.
  • Lolita
    [Media Center]LOL
    A middle-aged man marries an opressive widow in order to be near and carry on an affair with her nymphet daughter.
  • Lone star
    [Media Center](REF)LON
    Everyone worships the late great legendary sheriff of a Texas border town, except his son who is the current sheriff solving a murder he suspects can be traced back to Dad.
  • Lone star
    [Media Center]LON
    An unsolved murder in a Texas border town uncovers a tale of corruption, intrigue, and forbidden love.
  • The lonely passion of Judith Hearne
    [Media Center]LON
    Judith is a naive, abandoned spinster struggling to maintain her fragile dignity in a succession of shoddy Dublin boarding houses. A younger man enters her life with promises of love and companionship. When her fantasy is shattered she must face her loneliness and summon up the spiritual courage to carry on.
  • Long day's journey into night
    [Media Center]LON
    Author Eugene O'Neill gives an autobiographical account of his explosive homelife. Fused by a drug-addicted mother, a father who wallows in drink after realizing he is no longer a famous actor and an older brother who is emotionally unstable and misfit, the family is reflected by their youngest son, who at 23 is a sensitive and aspiring writer.
  • Un long dimanche de fiancailles
    [Media Center] VER
  • Long John Silver's return to Treasure Island
    [Media Center]LON
    In this loose adaptation of the classic Robert Lewis Stevenson story, Robert Newton reprises his role as the parrot-toting, peg-legged Long John Silver. With fresh clues to the location of the famed loot on Treasure Island, Long John Silver and his sidekick, Hawkins, set out to locate the riches.
  • The Long riders
    [Media Center]LON
    The story of the Jesse James Gang, with the Carradine brothers playing the youngers and the Keach brothers starring as Jesse and Frank James.
  • Longtime companion
    [Media Center]LON
    Story of a small group of friends whose lives are disrupted by AIDS.
  • Look away! by William C. Davis
    [Media Center]BOO
  • Look back in anger
    [Media Center]LOO
    Jimmy is a self-loathing and frustrated musician who works at a candy shop. He takes out his rage on his long suffering wife and his business partner and best friend, who lives next door. Jimmy's marital problems come to a head when his wife discovers that she's pregnant and one of her friends, an actress, comes to stay with them.
  • Lord of the flies
    [Media Center]LOR
    Adaptation of William Golding's novel about a group of English boys completely cut off from society who revert to brutal, primitive savagery.
  • The lord of the rings, the fellowship of the ring
    [Media Center]LOR
    In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-Earth still it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell, by chance, into the hands of the Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins. On his eleventy-first birthday, Bilbo disappeared, bequeathing to his young cousin, Frodo, the Ruling Ring, and a perilous quest: to journey across Middle-Earth, deep into the shadow of the Dark Lord and destroy the Ring by casting it into the Cracks of Doom.
  • Lorenzo's oil
    [Media Center]LOR
    A drama based on the true story of the extraordinary mission for a medical cure begun by Augusto and Michaela Odone when their five-year-old son, Lorenzo, is diagnosed with a rare terminal disease.
  • Lost horizon
    [Media Center]LOS
    Fleeing war-torn China, a small planeload of people are hijacked to an idyllic valley in the Himalayas where time has virtually stopped. There Conway, a British diplomat, falls in love with a beautiful woman, and is asked to remain in Shangri-La as its new leader.
  • Lost in America
    [Media Center]LOS
    Disappointed with his job prospects, David Howard (Brooks) and his wife sell their home and stocks and set out to discover America through traveling in their new motor home.
  • Lost in Yonkers
    [Media Center]LOS
    During World War 2, two brothers are sent to live with their cold, stern grandmother when their mother dies. The only thing that saves them is their lovely but simple aunt and their uncle, a small-time gangster.
  • Love actually
    [Media Center]LOV
    It's all about love and holiday cheer in London. The Prime Minister is smitten with his caterer; a widower's young son nurses the ultimate schoolboy crush; a writer falls for his Portuguese housekeeper; a devoted wife and mother copes with her potentially unfaithful husband; and a lovelorn American is desperately attracted to a colleague.
  • Love affair
    [Media Center]LOV
    A man and a woman who are to marry other people meet on a ship, flirt, part, and discover that they are in love.
  • Love and death on Long Island
    [Media Center]LOV
    A conservative British author finds his life changed after he travels to the U.S. to meet a struggling B-movie star.
  • Love at large
    [Media Center]LOV
    Mystery/comedy about two private eyes, two suspects, two wives and too many girlfriends!
  • The Love goddesses
    [Media Center](REF)LOV
    A documentary of sex sirens through movie history. A sixty year treatment of women on screen reflects with extraordinary accuracy the customs, manners and mores of the time.
  • Love is a many-splendored thing
    [Media Center]LOV
    A widowed Eurasian doctor and an American correspondent stationed in Hong Kong begin an intensely passionate affair, but when the journalist is transferred to Korea where war has broken out, tragedy strikes.
  • Love Liza
    [Media Center]LOV
    Successful web designer Wilson Joel's life spirals out of control after the sudden suicide of his wife. Unable to read the note she left him, Wilson forges new, unpredictable relationships with friends, co-workers and his stunned mother-in-law. But when he starts taking a dangerous drug, it could take what's left of his blown-apart life and extinguish it completely.
  • A love song for Bobby Long
    [Media Center]LOV
    An estranged teenage girl returns to her family home only to discover she has an unexpected roommate; her late mother's lover, a boozy academic who's slowly drinking himself to death.
  • The loved one
    [Media Center]LOV
    A black comedy on the Southern California way of life... and death. A simple vacation turns into a chaotic ride through Los Angeles for a young English poet. The satire is targeted at the mortuary business (both the human and pet variety), religious cults, the military, Hollywood, British ex-patriots, and the space race.
  • The lover
    [Media Center]LOV
    A poor French teenager embarks on a love affair with a wealthy Chinese man in 1929 French colonial Vietnam, defying the boundaries of age, race and class.
  • Lowell Thomas remembers
    [Media Center](REF)WAR
    This is a retrospective look at the 1940's, utilizing the 20th Century Fox Movietone newsreels of the period. Narrated and introduced by Lowell Thomas.
  • Lumiere
    [Media Center]LUM
    One night while celebrating the winning of an award, extraodinary events occur that radically change the lives of four women actresses. Lumiere explores the relationship of women, and the way the lives of these particular women shape their careers.

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  • Ma nuit chez Maud
    [Media Center]MYN
    Jean-Louis Trintignant plays an engineer seeking the perfect mate. Just when he thinks he has found her, he finds himself accidentally spending the night sharing the bed of a seductive divorcee, Maud.
  • The machinist
    [Media Center]MAC
    An industrial worker hasn't slept in a year. He is living a nightmare where cryptic notes appear, and has visions of a co-worker no one else can see. Are these mysteries part of a plot to drive him mad? Or, has fatigue simply robbed him of reason?
    An industrial worker hasn't slept in a year. He is living a nightmare where cryptic notes appear, and has visions of a co-worker no one else can see. Are these mysteries part of a plot to drive him mad? Or, has fatigue simply robbed him of reason?
  • Madame de--
    [Media Center]MAD
  • Made in heaven
    [Media Center]MAD
    An untimely death sends Mike to heaven, where he falls in love with a soul who has to descend to earth. He risks everything in his search for her.
  • The Madness of King George
    [Media Center]MAD
    Based on the life of King George III, this is the story of royal intrigue, sexual indiscretions, backstairs plotting and a battle for power between Parliament and the throne, all occuring while the king is being treated for an unknown illness.
  • The Magdalene sisters
    [Media Center]MAG
    Award-winning drama based on a true story. Margaret, Rose and Bernadette arrive at the Magdalene Laundries, an institution for "fallen" women, where they will atone for their sins through a regimented life of work and prayer. Overseen by the monstrous Sister Bridget, they soon learn that friendship and conversation are frowned upon, as they are stripped of their liberty and dignity. However, a loyal bond forms between the three women as they find comfort, laughter and hope.
  • The magic Christian
    [Media Center]MAG
    An eccentric millionaire spends his wealth deflating those who pursue money or power.
  • The magician
    [Media Center]MAG
    A wandering magician and his troupe arrive in Stockholm where they encounter considerable disdain. The magician's presence, however, begins to merge the supernatural with the comic, resulting in a thinking man's horror film.
  • Magick lantern cycle
    [Media Center](REF)MAG (Scorpio Rising)
  • The magnificent Ambersons
    [Media Center]MAG
    Booth Tarkington's novel portraying the decline of an aristocratic Midwestern family at the dawn of the industrial 20th century, brought to the screen by Orson Welles.
  • The magnificent seven
    [Media Center](REF)MAG
    A Western set in New Mexico about seven gunslingers hired to protect a Mexican village.
  • The Making of a legend
    [Media Center](REF)MAK
    Footage includes: screen tests for Scarlett; special effects and the "burning of Atlanta"; the world premiere.
  • The making of a president, 1860-1862
    [Media Center]LIN
    Journey back from the White House to Lincoln's poor backwoods home, and visit the roots from which his legend grew. Lincoln's words, and those of the people who knew him, are made vivid by exceptional photographs from the definitive Lincoln archives. They capture not only the president's powerful face and those of his family and contemporaries, but also many personal details that reveal so much-- images of his home, his horse, his bar, his dog, his books and even his back yard. Also, trace the growth of the man's ambition to succeed and his simple eloquence, which moved all those who heard him speak. It takes us to the threshold of Lincoln's greatest challenge-- to be both America's President and the Union Army's Commander-in-Chief. At the eye of the hurricane that was the Civil War, Lincoln held the moral compass to guide his nation onward.
  • The making of Jurassic Park
    [Media Center]MAK
    James Earl Jones narrates this intimate account of the various stages in the filming of Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park.
  • Making the most of college by Richard J. Light :
    [Media Center]BOO Show #13
  • La mala educacion
    [Media Center]BAD
    Traces the effects of sexual abuse and religious schooling on the lives of two lifelong friends.
  • Le malade imaginaire :
    [Media Center]LEM
  • The Maltese falcon
    [Media Center](REF)MAL
    After the death of his partner, private eye Sam Spade is dragged into a quest for a priceless statuette.
  • Mambo mouth
    [Media Center]MAM
    John Leguizamo's monologues illustrate six fierce and funny Latin characters: Agamemnon, Loco Louie, Pepe, Manny the Fanny, Angel, and the Crossover King.
  • The Man in the moon
    [Media Center]MAN
    In rural Louisiana of the 1950's, 2 young sisters share everything together, until they meet a young man to whom they are both attracted.
  • Man of Aran
    [Media Center]MAN
    Depicts the daily existence and fight for survival of the fisherfolk living on the remote and barren Aran Islands of Ireland.
  • A man of no importance
    [Media Center]MAN
    A bus driver dreams of producing a play by his hero, Oscar Wilde, with his theatrical troupe of untalented amateurs. When a beautiful young woman gets on his bus he forges ahead with his plan in spite of the opposition of his sister and his landlord.
  • Man on the moon
    [Media Center]MAN
    A portrayal of the life of the late comedian Andy Kaufman.
  • The man they could not hang
    [Media Center]MAN
    Doctor Savaard kills a student in order to test a mechanical heart designed to restore life to the dead. He is caught, prosecuted and hanged by the authorities. Savaard's assistant then restores his body. Savaard, however, returns as a maddened killer who takes vengeance against six jurors who sentenced him to death.
  • The Man who knew too much
    [Media Center]MAN
    An innocent American couple touring Morocco with their son get caught up in a web of international intrigue, kidnapping and assassination.
  • The man who loved women
    [Media Center](REF)MAN
    Comedy of a man's lifetime obsession with women. Beginning with his funeral and working back through his memoirs, this is the story of a bachelor Bertrand Morane, a man who falls in love with almost all the women he ever meets.
  • The man who wasn't there
    [Media Center]MAN
    In a sleepy Northern California town in the 1940s, Ed Crane, a humble barber, suspeacts that his wife Doris is having an affair with her boss. When a stranger comes into town hinting that there is a fortune to be made in investing in the new invention of dry cleaning, Ed hatches a blackmail scheme he hopes will make him rich and get him some revenge at the same time. His plan goes horribly awry when he accidentally commits a murder for which Doris is blamed, landing her in jail, and Ed at the mercy of big-city lawyer Freddy Riedenschneider.
  • The Man with the megaphone
    [Media Center](REF)MAN
    Silent film directors were a flamboyant breed--pioneers who invented the art of film direction as they went along. Working conditions were chaotic. Open sets were built side by side and back to back, and live "mood" music was provided according to each star's taste. Despite deafening noise and constant distraction, directors talked their cast through every move and emotion, and from this confusion came great films.
  • The man without a face
    [Media Center]MAN
    Mel Gibson makes his directing debut in this compelling tale of man's triumph over loneliness, a boy's transition to adulthood and a special summer when companionship and encouragement transformed two lives.
  • The man you loved to hate
    [Media Center](REF)MAN
    A look at the bizarre career of Erich von Stroheim, with interviews of his wife, girlfriend, cinematographer, producer and other associates and friends.
  • The Manchurian candidate
    [Media Center]MAN
    A Korean war hero is brainwashed when captured and is used as a tool in a political assassination plot to be triggered by his domineering mother.
  • The Manchurian candidate
    [Media Center]MAN
    When his army unit is ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saves his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, Major Ben Marco, is knocked unconscious. Using the incident for political gain, Shaw eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, but Marco is haunted by dreams of what really happened in Iraq. As Marco investigates, the story begins to unravel. He begins to figure that the entire unit was kidnapped and brainwashed as part of a plot to get Shaw into the White House. Now the Manchurian Global corporation appears desperate to stop him from finding out.
  • The Manchurian candidate
    [Media Center]MAN
    When his army unit is ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saves his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, Major Ben Marco, is knocked unconscious. Using the incident for political gain, Shaw eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, but Marco is haunted by dreams of what really happened in Iraq. As Marco investigates, the story begins to unravel. He begins to figure that the entire unit was kidnapped and brainwashed as part of a plot to get Shaw into the White House. Now the Manchurian Global corporation appears desperate to stop him from finding out.
  • Manhattan
    [Media Center]MAN
    Describes the relationships of Isaac Davis, a successful New York television comedy writer, aged 42, with a variety of other New Yorkers.
  • Manhattan murder mystery
    [Media Center]MAN
    A bored Manhattan housewife becomes convinced her next-door neighbor has committed a murder.
  • Manon des sources
    [Media Center]MAN
    Jean de Florette's daughter Manon wreaks revenge on the villagers who ruined her father ten years earlier.
  • Mansfield Park
    [Media Center]MAN (pt1 & pt2)
    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.
  • Mansfield Park
    [Media Center]MAN
    When Fanny Price is sent away to live with her rich cousins, she's meant to learn the ways of proper society but manages to enlighten them as well.
  • Mao
    [Media Center](REF)MAO
    Documentary showing how Mao gained peasant support and used military force to become the ruler of China.
  • Mao
    [Media Center](REF)MAO
    Documentary of Mao's years as ruler of China.
  • Map of the human heart
    [Media Center]MAP
    A young Eskimo boy is taken from his people for medical treatment, and although he returns to the land of his birth, he remains forever lost between 2 cultures.
  • A map of the world
    [Media Center]MAP
    After her neighbor's child dies while in her care, Alice must fight to find forgiveness not only from her friend but from within herself.
  • A map of the world
    [Media Center]MAP
    After her neighbor's child dies while in her care, Alice must fight to find forgiveness not only from her friend but from within herself.
  • Mar adentro
    [Media Center]SEA
  • Marathon man
    [Media Center]MAR
    Hoffman stars as a Columbia graduate student caught in a drama around a murderous Nazi fugitive.
  • Maria full of grace
    [Media Center]MAR
    Maria, a poor Columbian teenager, is desperate to leave a soul-crushing job. She accepts an offer to transport packets of heroin - which she swallows - to the United States. The ruthless world of drug trafficking proves to be more than she bargained for.
  • El Mariachi
    [Media Center]ELM
    All he wants is to be a mariachi, like his father, his grandfather and his great grandfather before him. But the town he thinks will bring him luck brings only a curse--of deadly mistaken identity. Forced to trade his guitar for a gun, the mariachi is playing for his life.
  • Marketing planning
    [Media Center]MAR
    Discusses the marketing process: mission statements, objectives, market share, marketing plans, situational analysis, and goals.
  • Marketing research and information
    [Media Center]MAR
    Discusses how to gather consumer data for marketing.
  • Marlene
    [Media Center]MAR
    Portrait of the screen legend, Marlene Dietrich, forged by Schell from film clips and interviews with an uncooparative Dietrich who refused to let herself be filmed.
  • The Marriage of Figaro
    [Media Center](REF)MAR
    Opera based on Beaumarchais' sequel to his Barber of Seville.
  • Marty
    [Media Center]MAR
    Marty is a tender and heartwarming love story. A 34-year-old Brooklyn plain-looking butcher fears that he will never find love but at a Saturday night dance he meets a girl with similar fears.
  • Marvin's room
    [Media Center]MAR
    A disfunctional family takes a journey of self-discovery and reconciliation and learns to reach out to one another.
  • Mary of Scotland
    [Media Center]MAR
    Historical drama about the ill-fated Mary, Queen of Scots, and her cousin Elizabeth, Queen of England.
  • Mary Poppins
    [Media Center]MAR
    An irrepressible nanny soars out of the London skies, bringing a carpetbag of magical adventures into the lives of the Banks family on Cherry Tree Lane. Blends live-action and animation.
  • Mary Reilly
    [Media Center]MAR
    The story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde told from the perspective of his maid, Mary Reilly.
  • Mask
    [Media Center]MAS
  • The mask
    [Media Center]MAS
    "A mild-mannered bank clerk discovers a mysterious ancient mask that brings his innermost desires to wild, screaming life!"... [container].
  • Masters of animation
    [Media Center](REF)MAS
    Represents the peak achievements of 7,000 artists from 13 countries. This series provides an opportunity to experience the exciting diversity of the world's leading animation artists, and shows examples of state of the art animation technology.
  • Masters of Animation Vol 2
    [Media Center](REF)MAS
  • Matchstick men
    [Media Center]MAT
    Neurotic con man Roy suffers from several emotional problems, including obsessive-compulsive disorder. He and his partner Frank swindle people out of money. Frank wants to pull a really big job, but Roy is too consumed with fear and panic attacks to join him. Only cigarettes and his trusty illegal prescription drugs seem to keep him going. When Roy finds himself in desperate need of more pills, he is forced to see legitimate psychotherapist Dr. Klein. Roy discovers he has a daughter from his previous marriage and Dr. Klein suggests Roy spend time with her.
  • Matewan
    [Media Center]MAT
    Dramatized version of the battles which took place in the coal fields of West Virginia in the 1920's when the union and the coal companies were at odds.
  • Matinee at the Bijou
    [Media Center](REF)MAT
    Presents a cartoon, a short subject, a feature, and a serial from the 1930s.
  • Matisse in Nice, 1917-1930
    [Media Center]MAT
    Explores Matisse's move from Paris to Nice where he depicted the Mediterranean landscapes as well as female nudes in interior settings, such as hi Odalisque series.
  • The matrix revolutions
    [Media Center]MAT
    Neo remains unconscious in the real world, caught in a mysterious subway station that lies between the machine world and the matrix. Bane is still a conduit for Agent Smith, who continues to grow more out of control. Meanwhile, the sentinels are coming dangerously close to Zion. Trinity and Morpheus bargain with The Merovingian to free Neo. Neo, after meeting The Oracle, decides he must leave Zion and go for the machine mainframe. One final battle must ensue, and the future of both races is at stake.
  • Media
    [Media Center]MED
    Born in Poland and now living in New York City, Zbig Rybczynski is an award-winning director of films and videos. His work is noted for technical innovation and surreal humor. This film brings together some of his best work from 1974 to 1984.
  • Media
    [Media Center]MED
    Born in Poland and now living in New York City, Zbig Rybczynski is an award winning director of films and videos. His work is noted for technical innovation and surreal humor. This video brings together some of his best work from 1974 to 1984.
  • Medicine man
    [Media Center]MED
    Jack Benny is the smooth-talking, traveling medicine man peddling his health tonic through the dusty Midwest towns in the 1930's. He falls in love with the beautiful Betty Bronson but soon is being chased out of town by the local sheriff.
  • Medium cool
    [Media Center]MED
    This story is about a television cameraman in 1968 Chicago who chooses not to get personally concerned about the ugliness he must film each day for his station. But the hate and hypocrisy command his attentions at last, and he becomes increasingly involved in the realities he finds with his camera.
    Set in 1968 in Chicago at the time of the Democratic National.
  • Meet Joe Black
    [Media Center]MEE
    Media tycoon William Parrish strikes a deal with Death, who has shown up in human form as Joe Black. Parrish wants to live a little longer; Black wants to experience life for the first time. But when Black falls in love with Parrish's daughter, Parrish must fight for his own future and for those he loves.
  • Meet John Doe
    [Media Center]MEE
    An ordinary man becomes the symbol of the average American during the Depression.
  • Meet John Doe
    [Media Center]MEE
    Reporter sends faked letter to newspaper, purportedly from man planning to commit suicide. When it creates a sensation, newspaper gets down-and-out fellow to pose as the letter-writer, and he becomes the flagbearer of the common man.
  • Meet me in St. Louis
    [Media Center]MEE
    The Smith family is crushed to learn of father's transfer to New York. The five children don't want to leave their friends, or, most of all, miss the the St. Louis World Fair.
  • Meeting Venus
    [Media Center]MEE
    Romantic comedy in which Close is the seductive star whose passions enflame backstage mayhem and onstage triumph.
  • The Meiji Period
    [Media Center](REF)JAP
    The arrival of Commodore Perry in 1854 set the stage for Japan's dramatic leap from the Middle Ages into modernity. In 1868, the last shogun gave way to a 15-year-old Emperor who dressed in Western-style clothes. Edo became Tokyo, education became a national passion, and the dichotomy between ancient shared values and new imported styles and forms deepened.
  • Memento
    [Media Center]MEM
    An intricate crime story about a man who has lost his short term memory due to a rare brain disorder. Now he is out to catch his wife's murderer, whose identity he cannot ever know for sure. The more he tries to figure out what is true and real, the more he sinks deeper into a multi-layered abyss of uncertainty and surprises.
  • Memories of Hollywood
    [Media Center](REF)MEM
    A tribute to the music of film composers consisting of film clips accompanied by the music of Miklos Rozsa, John Morris, Elmer Bernstein, Howard Shore, Henry Mancini, Lee Holdridge, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Georges Delerue, Glenn Miller, Bill Conti. Contains no dialogue.
  • Memories of underdevelopment
    [Media Center](REF)MEM
    A study of Cuban society before and after the revolution as seen through the eyes of a man who is a landlord and self-styled writer.
  • The Memphis Belle
    [Media Center]MEM
    Portrays a bombing mission over Germany during World War II. Follows the "Flying Fortress" (B-17 bomber) Memphis Belle as it leads a squadron of bombers on a daring daylight attack on the submarine pens at Wilhelmshaven, Germany. The entire mission is documented, including preparations, the bombing action itself, and the return to base.
  • Memphis Belle
    [Media Center]MEM
    The production of this acclaimed documentary was supervised by Lt. Col. William Wyler, who went on to direct many well-known commercial films. It portrays the final mission of the B-17 flying fortress "Memphis Belle"--A bombing mission over Germany during World War II, including preparations for the raid, the takeoff from England, the flight, bombing the submarine base at Wilhelmshaven, and the return to base.
  • Men in black
    [Media Center]MEN
    New York City is being threatened by a villainous bug who has inhabited the body of a farmer. The mission is to locate and exterminate the bug before it destroys the planet.
  • Men of respect
    [Media Center]MEN
    A fearless mobster wins the respect and admiration of a powerful godfather by assassinating the leaders of a rival family. Inspired by Shakespeare's MacBeth.
  • Menschenfrauen
    [Media Center]MEN
    Focuses on journalist Franz S. and his relationship with four women. Eventually the women catch on and use their various strengths as individuals and as women to undermine his superiority.
  • The Metaphysical Club by Louis Menand.:
    [Media Center]BOO Show #11
  • MGM, greatest moments
    [Media Center]MGM
    Join host Roddy McDowall for this presentation of some of the most memorable scenes from classic Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films.
  • Michael
    [Media Center]MIC
    Two reporters from a Chicago-based tabloid, along with an "angel expert," are asked to travel to rural Iowa to investigate a claim from an old woman that she shares her motel with a real, live archangel named Michael.
  • Michelagniolo
    [Media Center](REF)MIC
    A presentation, in autobiographical form, of the life and works of the great Italian High Renaissance artist and poet Michelangelo, as taken from his own writings and the writings of contemporary biographers of him. Also included is a still-frame catalog of Michelangelo's art works.
  • Midnight cowboy
    [Media Center]MID
    A Texas "cowboy" takes a bus to New York in search of lonely, rich women who will pay for his sexual services, but spends a hard winter helping a con man.
  • A Midsummer night's dream
    [Media Center](REF)MID
    Shakespeare's comedy of four star-crossed lovers lost in a misty wood one magical night.
  • The mighty
    [Media Center]MIG
  • Mighty Aphrodite
    [Media Center]MIG
    When a sportswriter tries to track down the mother of his adopted son, he discovers she is a prostitute and pornographic film star.
  • Mighty Joe Young
    [Media Center]MIG
    A huge gorilla is brought from Africa to perform in a night club act.
    A huge gorilla is brought from Africa to perform in a night club act.
  • A mighty wind
    [Media Center]MIG
    Guest and his reliable group of repertory players (including Fred Willard, Parker Posey, and Bob Balaban) apply their improvisational genius to a latter- day reunion of fictional '60s-era folk singers, a comedic goldmine that Guest first explored 30 years earlier on The National Lampoon Radio Hour.
  • MIIB
    [Media Center]MIIB
    Four years after agents J and K averted an intergalactic disaster J is still working for the MIB while K has returned to the comforts of civilian life. While investigating a seemingly routine crime, J uncovers a diabolical plot masterminded by Serleena, an evil Kylothian monster who disguises herself as a sexy lingerie model. It's a race against the clock as J must find and convince K --who not only has no memory of his time spent with the agency, but is also the only person alive who has the expertise to save the galaxy--to reunite with the MIB before Earth is destroyed completely.
  • Mike's murder
    [Media Center]MIK
    A frightening tale of a young woman who slips unexpectedly over the knife -edge that separates everyday reality from a shadowy world of drugs, violence and death.
  • Mildred Pierce
    [Media Center]MIL
  • Millennium
    [Media Center]MIL
    After the mid-air collision of two jumbo jets, the NTBS investigator finds a strange alien device amid the rubble.
  • Miller's crossing
    [Media Center]MIL
    The control of the gangster-political boss of an eastern city is slipping. The situation is complicated by a woman- both the boss and his trusted lieutenant are in love with her. Then the boss's control is challenged by an upstart Italian underboss and his ruthless henchman.
  • Million dollar baby
    [Media Center]MIL
    Frankie is a former boxing manager, who initially refuses to train Maggie due to her gender and age. With her talent and his coaching, the spirited young fighter rises through the ranks of women's boxing and the pair form a touching bond in the process.
  • The Milton Berle show
    [Media Center]MIL
    This broadcast, selected from the television series, The Milton Berle Show, features Milton Berle and a variety of other entertainers who perform musical acts and comedy routines.
  • Mindwalk
    [Media Center](REF)MIN
    On the impressive island-abbey of Mont St. Michel, some very dissimilar vacationers are caught up in the spontaneous and life-affirming sweep of self- expression and new ideas.
  • The Minority quarterback by Ira Berkow
    [Media Center]BOO
  • Minority report
    [Media Center]MIN
    Washington, D.C. has been murder-free thanks to astounding technology which identifies killers before they commit their crimes. But when the chief of the Pre-crime unit is himself accused of a future murder, he has just 36 hours to discover who sets him up.
  • The Miracle of life
    [Media Center]MIR
    A documentary which shows the actual conception and development of a baby. Looks inside the male and female reproductive organs to show the formation of sperm and the passage of a fertilized egg through the fallopian tube. Uses a microscope to observe DNA, chromosomes, and other minute body details building up to the moment of birth.
  • The miracle of Morgan's Creek
    [Media Center]MIR
    A spoof on motherhood. Trudy attends a farewell party for local servicemen and is shocked when she discovers her unfortunate condition after that hazy night. Her 4-F idolater offers himself as a substitute father.
  • Miracle on 34th Street
    [Media Center]MIR
  • The mirror has two faces
    [Media Center]MIR
    Rose still lives with her mother and desperately longs for passion in her life. Gregory is a mathematics professor who has been burned by passionate relationships and longs for a sexless union based on friendship and respect. Fate brings these two together and without physical attraction to complicate matters they become best friends and soon agree to an unconventional marriage built on intellectual passion instead of sexual heat. Then they fall in love.
  • The misadventures of Buster Keaton
    [Media Center]MIS
    "Buster Keaton plays the wacky owner of a sporting goods store who moonlights as the director/producer of a small theatre" -- Container.
  • The misadventures of Buster Keaton (1950)
    [Media Center]MIS
    A feature-length classic filled with scenes of Buster Keaton's perfect comic timing.
  • Miss Julie
    [Media Center]MIS
    On a late 19th-century estate, a celebration of wine and beer leads to a scandalous encounter between a count's daughter and his footman. Can a servant support a noblewoman, who, without her father's money, is no more privileged than he?
  • "Miss Make-Do" Lost in the Pershing Point Hotel
    [Media Center]MIS
  • The missing
    [Media Center]MIS
    Maggie is a young plainswoman raising her two daughters in the desolate wilderness of New Mexico. When daughter Lily is kidnapped by a dark-hooded phantom with shape-shifting powers, Maggie's long-estranged father offers to help find her. Though stunned by his return, Maggie knows she must swallow both hurt and pride if she is ever to see Lily again. Unaware of the frightening events that lurk in the distance, father and daughter set out to track down the fiend that took Lily. But lying in wait is horror so unspeakable it will change them all forever.
  • The Mission
    [Media Center](REF)MIS
    Epic adventure in the Amazon about a priest and a military man who unite to protect an Indian tribe from the colonial empires.
  • Mission: impossible
    [Media Center]MIS
    A secret agent framed for the deaths of his espionage team, tries to discover the truth.
  • Mississippi burning
    [Media Center]MIS
    Set in Mississippi in 1964, this is a fictionalized version of the case of the murder of three young civil rights workers, the FBI's attempts to find the missing boys and the clash between the authorities and the locals in a Klan- dominated town.
  • Modern problems
    [Media Center]MOD
    A jealous harried air traffic controller, left by his girlfriend, comes in contact with nuclear waste and receives kinetic powers, which he uses to win her back.
  • Modern romance
    [Media Center]MOD
    A hollywood film editor risks his future with his girlfriend to search for his perfect mate.
    Columbia: VH10585.
  • The Moderns
    [Media Center]MOD
    An expatriate American in 1920's Paris is commissioned to forge three masterpieces, but the art collector's wife has something other than painting on her mind.
  • Le Moine et la sorciere
    [Media Center]SOR
    A drama set in the 13th century concerning a Dominican friar, sent by the Pope to seek out heretics, and a forest woman who performs ancient healing rituals. An historically accurate dramatization of the conflict between ancient customs and religious dogma.
  • Mona Lisa
    [Media Center]MON
    An ex-con and a call girl are thrown together when he becomes her chauffeur. Initially he detests her but winds up under her spell.
  • Mondo Elvis
    [Media Center]MON
    Award winning film that takes a searing look at Elvis Presley's most fanatic followers.
  • Monsieur ibrahim
    [Media Center]MON
    The legendary Omar Sharif makes a triumphant return to the screen as an elderly widower who mentors a troubled teenager in this critically acclaimed story of friendship, love, and understanding. Cesar Award winner and Golden Globe nominee.
  • Monsieur Verdoux
    [Media Center]MON
    Deals with a middle-aged blue-beard, Henri Verdoux, played by Chaplin. The world was not ready for Chaplin's indictment of all war as murder. Since then "Monsieur Verdoux" has become one of the most popular of the Chaplin films, a genuine case of a movie ahead of its time.
  • Monster
    [Media Center]MON
    Based on the true story of Aileen Wuornos, a prostitute who was executed in 2002 for the brutal murders of at least 6 men in Florida. Homeless most of her life, Wuornos subsisted by working as a prostitute. In Florida, down to her last five dollars and pondering suicide, she stopped into a bar for a beer where she meets Selby. One night, after a john attacks her, Aileen pulls a gun and kills the man. Aileen's loathing for the men who pay her for sex becomes so extreme that she begins killing her customers regardless of their behavior.
  • Monster in the closet
    [Media Center]MON
    A gory horror spoof about a rash of San Francisco murders that all take place inside closets.
  • The Monster Squad
    [Media Center]MON
    When Count Dracula flys in from Transylvania to retrieve an ancient amulet, he calls upon some "old friends" to help in his search. With the weird Wolfman, grotesque Gill-Man, mildewed Mummy and freaky Frankenstein by his side, the creepy Count has until midnight to find the amulet and gain final control over the delicate balance between good and evil in the world. When police are baffled and parents perplexed, it takes the Monster Squad, headquartered in the local treehouse, to correctly diagnose the full-moon madness as actual monster mayhem.
  • Monster's ball
    [Media Center]MON
    Hank and Leticia inhabit stark, queasy realities of the contemporary South, he as a death row corrections officer and she as the soon-to-be widow of an inmate whose execution Hank helps conduct. In the aftermath of the execution, both lose their children to tragic deaths and they form an unlikely bond.
  • Monsters, Inc
    [Media Center]MON
    In the world behind our closet doors monsters are lurking to collect the energy of our screams. At Monsters, Inc., James P. Sullivan (Sully) is the top scream-generator with his partner Mike Wazowski. But, there's still a scream shortage in the monster world. One night, Sully and Mike accidentally let a human girl through her closet door into Monstropolis, and pandemonium ensues. Sully and Mike work to return the little girl to her own world, while the CEO of Monsters, Inc. tries to capture her, to use her to collect more scream energy. Will Sully and Mike succeed?
  • Monsters, madmen & machines
    [Media Center](REF)MON
    A look at the incredible, fascinating and often prophetic inventions and creatures that have populated science fiction films for well over six decades of cinema history.
  • A month by the lake
    [Media Center]MON
    Two women pursue a handsome bachelor at a luxurious lakeside resort.
  • Monty Python live at the Hollywood Bowl
    [Media Center]MON
  • Moonlight mile
    [Media Center]MOO
    Set in the early '70s, Joe is distraught after the death of his fiancee. He moves in with her parents, Ben and JoJo, while trying to sort out all of the legal troubles and painful details of the wedding cancellations. While trying to locate the wedding invitations in the mail, Joe meets Bertie, whose boyfriend has been MIA in Vietnam. Despite his growing relationship with his late fiancee's parents, Joe begins to foster a romance with Bertie.
  • Morocco
    [Media Center]MOR
    In her American film debut, sultry Marlene Dietrich is a cabaret singer who arrives in Morocco and continues her wicked career by enslaving all the men in sight, but true love reaches her at last.
  • The mother
    [Media Center](REF)MOT
    Relates the injustices caused by the Tsarist regime and which lead to the mother's conversion to Communism during the 1905 revolution.
  • Mother
    [Media Center]MOT
    After two failed marriages, a science fiction writer decides coming to terms with his mom will improve his chances for a successful relationship, so he moves in with his mom.
  • The mothman prophecies
    [Media Center]MOT
    This story is based on events which occurred in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Distraught by the sudden, tragic death of his wife, a journalist finds himself mysteriously drawn to a small West Virginia town when his car inexplicably strands him. He soon learns that many of the town's residents have been beset by bizarre events, including sightings of an eerie "moth-like" entity, an entity similiar to the one seen by his late wife.
  • Moulin Rouge!
    [Media Center]MOU
    Christian (McGregor), an idealistic and impoverished young writer who, newly arrived in Montmartre, is haphazardly inducted into a circle of young bohemians led by Toulouse-Lautrec. A comedy of mistaken identities ensues, quickly enmeshing the young poet in a love triangle involving the unobtainable and consumptive Satine (Kidman), queen courtesan of the Moulin Rouge, and the foppish Duke of Roxbury, his villainous rival for her affections.
  • Movies of the 1920's
    [Media Center]MOV
    A dazzling look back at the favorite films and stars of the 1920's. Included are clips of the work of Chaplin, Fairbanks, Pickford, Keaton and others, plus a primitive studio tour of the time and peek at the celebrities' mansions.
  • Movies of the 1930's
    [Media Center]MOV
    Focuses on the films of the 1930's, also features a visit to Hearst Castle.
  • Movies of the 1940's
    [Media Center]MOV
    A look back at the favorite films and stars of the 1940's. Included are movies made as pre-war propaganda, and the post-war films that helped us redefine our values. Includes an entertaining look at those who turned waiters and busboys at the "Hollywood canteens" and "servicemen clubs".
  • Mr. and Mrs. Smith
    [Media Center]MRM
    Because of a legal hitch, a young couple discover that their marriage is void. The couple separate and decide to give single life a go, reluctently on the husband's part, as he hopes to win his "un-wife" back.
  • Mr. Holland's opus
    [Media Center]MRH
    A frustrated composer comes to realize that his real passion is teaching and that his legacy is not a truly memorable piece of music, but the generations of young people whose lives he affects.
  • Mr. Hulot's holiday
    [Media Center]MRH
  • Mr. Jones
    [Media Center]MRJ
    A man who is a manic-depressive on the verge of self-destruction is saved by the love of the concerned therapist assigned to his case.
  • Mr. Klein
    [Media Center]MRK
    The intriguing story of one man in search of another who shares his name - a man who has stolen his identity. Eventually Klein's search for the imposter becomes a trap into which he falls.
  • Mr. Smith goes to Washington
    [Media Center]MRS
    Stewart plays a freshman senator in Washington, D.C. who becomes involved in political infighting when a project of his is undermined by unscrupulous others who want to build a dam.
  • Mrs. Dalloway
    [Media Center]MRS
    As Clarissa Dalloway prepares for an elaborate party, she remembers another summer in the past, when she was a beautiful young woman. Her preparations are interrupted by the unexpected arrival of a former suitor from that long-ago summer. As the day of the party unfolds, Mrs. Dalloway's life also becomes strangely intertwined with a young man she never meets, but whose tragic fate strikes a chord of truth, deep in her soul, that she cannot deny.
  • Mrs. Parker and the vicious circle
    [Media Center]MRS
    Dorothy Parker, a brilliant writer with a razor-sharp tongue, shares a professional but intimate relationship with comic genius Robert Benchley. But when she meets Charlie McArthur, she falls hopelessly in love, a condition even a literary genius can't seem to cure.
  • Mrs. Parker and the vicious circle
    [Media Center]MRS
    Dorothy Parker, a brilliant writer with a razor-sharp tongue, shares a professional but intimate relationship with comic genius Robert Benchley. But when she meets Charlie McArthur, she falls hopelessly in love, a condition even literary genius can't seem to cure.
  • Mrs. Soffel
    [Media Center]MRS
    Keaton stars as the wife of a prison warden who falls in love with one of the inmates on death row. She helps him in his escape attempt.
  • Much ado about nothing
    [Media Center](REF)MUC
  • Mulholland Dr
    [Media Center]MUL
    A beautiful woman riding in a limosine along Los Angeles' Mulholland Drive is targeted by a would-be shooter, but before he can pull the trigger, she is injured when her limo is hit by another car. The woman stumbles away from the accident and meets up with a plucky ingenue new to L.A. But are things really as they seem?
  • The mummy returns
    [Media Center]
    It's now 1933, 10 years after Rick and Evie met. They're married, settled in London and are raising their 8 year old son, Alex. Imhotep's corpse has been brought to the British Museum, and resurrected; the mummy walks the earth again, determined to become immortal. Another force born of the darkest rituals of ancient Egyptian mysticism, even more powerful than Imhotep, has also been set loose in the world. When these two forces clash, the world will hang in the balance, sending the O'Connells on a desperate race to save the world, and rescue their son.
  • Murder my sweet
    [Media Center]MUR
    The story of a private detective who gets drawn into a complex web of murder, blackmail, and double-dealing while searching for a missing jade necklace.
  • Murmur of the heart
    [Media Center]MUR
    Set in France in 1954, Murmur of the Heart is a tender story of the intellectual, moral and sexual awakening of an adolescent boy.
  • Music of the heart
    [Media Center]MUS
    A single mother with little more than talent and the determination to make a difference, Roberta Guaspari overcame the skepticism of everyone who didn't think she should be teaching violin to students in a tough inner-city neighborhood.
  • My brilliant career
    [Media Center]MYB
  • My darling Clementine
    [Media Center]MYD
    A melodrama which tells of the adventures of Wyatt Earp as marshall of Tombstone, Ariz., and friend, Doc Holliday. The shoot-out at the O.K. Corral leads to the defeat of the Clanton gang.
  • My favorite year
    [Media Center]MYF
    O'Toole stars as a movie idol forced by the IRS to face deportation or appear on a TV talk show. He chooses the TV show, and it is Linn-Baker's job to make sure he shows up sober.
  • My first mister
    [Media Center]MYF
    A wickedly perceptive comedy about the life-altering, emotional armor- piercing friendship between a lonely 17-year-old rebel looking for a job and a conservative, middle-aged salesman.
  • My life
    [Media Center]MYL
    A high-powered executive, diagnosed with terminal cancer, begins filming a home movie he calls "My life," in which he teaches his unborn son all the things a man must know: how to shave, how to slam dunk, and most of all, how to love.
  • My life as a dog
    [Media Center](REF)MYL
    Bundled off to a rural village while his ill mother recuperates, young Ingemar finds unexpected adventure with the town's warmhearted eccentrics.
  • My little chickadee
    [Media Center]MYL
    A shady lady and an incompetent cardshark unmask a villain in the old west.
  • My man Godfrey
    [Media Center]MYM
    A zany millionaire family invites a tramp to be their butler and find that he is richer than they are.
  • My uncle
    [Media Center]MYU
    M. Hulot, in contrast to his more wealthy sister and brother-in-law M. and Mme. Arpel, is constantly at odds with the modern world. In order to change M. Hulot's way of life, M. Arpel gives him a job in his plastics factory. The whole plan falls comically apart, and M. Hulot is finally transferred to one of the company's foreign offices.
  • Mystery train
    [Media Center](REF)MYS
    A teenage couple from Japan on a pilgramage to Graceland, a mysterious Italian beauty escorting her husband's body back to Italy and an unemployed, armed misfit known as Elvis meet in Memphis. Their intertwined tales create a comic masterpiece.
  • Mystic river
    [Media Center]MYS
    Boston childhood friends Jimmy, Sean and Dave are reunited after a brutal murder. Reformed confict Jimmy and his devoted wife Annabeth find out that their teenage daughter Katie has been beaten and killed. Jimmy's old friend Sean is the homicide detective assigned to the case. Jimmy gets his relatives, the Savage brothers to conduct their own investigation. Jimmy and Sean soon suspect their old pal Dave, who now lives a quite life, but harbors some disturbing secrets of his own.
  • The myth of moral justice by Thane Rosenbaum. :
    [Media Center]BOO

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  • Naked
    [Media Center]NAK
    A complex drifter embarks on a bizarre odyssey through the streets of London, interacting with a succession of lost souls in the city.
  • The naked gun
    [Media Center]NAK
    In this comic spoof, a granite jawed and rock brained police detective uncovers a mind control plot to kill the Queen of England.
  • Naked lunch
    [Media Center](REF)NAK
    From the container: A pest-control man seeks escape from his troubled existence and flees to Interzone, a hallucinatory version of Tangiers, where reality and fantasy have merged.
  • Nanook of the North
    [Media Center]NAN
    Presents a documentary on the life of an Eskimo family pitting their strength against a vast and inhospitable Arctic. Juxtaposes their struggle for survival against the elements with the warmth of the little family as they go about their daily affairs. With captions.
  • Napoleon
    [Media Center]NAP (pt1 & pt2)
    A historical epic on the life of Napoleon from boyhood to military triumph including treatment of the French Revolution.
  • Napoleon Bonaparte
    [Media Center](REF)NAP
    This program presents the life of Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821).
  • National Lampoon's Loaded weapon 1
    [Media Center]NAT
    In this spoof of the Lethal weapon videos, two dangerously over-the-edge detectives uncover a despicable plot to simultaneously rot America's brains and teeth with drug-laced Wilderness Girl cookies.
  • Navigating the sea of information
    [Tech Serv] Z710 .N38 1997
    Instructional video shows ways to plan a strategy for research by explaining how information is organized in a library and describing navigational aids to online searching.
  • The navigator
    [Media Center]NAV
    Tale of a psychic boy in a medieval English village who, to protect villagers from the plague, leads a tunneling expedition which emerges in a modern city in 1988.
  • The negotiator
    [Media Center]NEG
    Two of of the best Chicago police negotiators, Danny Roman and Chris Sabian, square off when Roman, framed for murdering his partner, becomes a desperate man driven to desperate means to smoke out the real killers.
  • Nell
    [Media Center]NEL
    When Dr. Jerry Lovell discovers a young woman living by herself in the backwoods of North Carolina, he is intrigued by her erratic behavior and unique pattern of speech. Together with a psychologist, Lovell becomes determined to pierce Nell's private world and protect her from the courts and a life of scientific study.
  • The New American Militarism: How Americans are Seduced by War by Andrew J. Bacevich
    [Media Center] BOO
  • New York stories
    [Media Center]NEW
    A trilogy about life in the big city. "Life lessons" is the tale of a passionate painter (Nolte) torn between his obsession for his art and his infatuation with his sultry assistant (Arquette). "Life without Zoe" is a wimsical fantasy of a very grown-up 12 year old who brings charm and magic to life in New York. "Oedipus wrecks" is the story of a neurotic lawyer (Allen) who cannot escape the influence of his mother.
  • Nice girls--
    [Media Center]NIC
    A collection of award-winning short films--animation, comedy, documentary, drama and experimental--which look into the lives and through the lenses of women today.
  • Nicholas Nickleby
    [Media Center]NIC
    Nicholas becomes the head of the family when his father dies unexpectedly. Keeping watch over his mother and his sister Kate becomes an even greater challenge when Nicholas discovers that his father lost the family fortune due to ill-advised investments. Without a shilling to his name, Nicholas turns to his wealthy but unforgiving Uncle Ralph for help.
  • Night and day
    [Media Center]NIG
    An exploration of the life and times of Cole Porter.
  • The Night of the hunter
    [Media Center]NIG
    Two children are stalked by a murdering psychopathic preacher who wants their father's stolen fortune.
  • Night of the living dead
    [Media Center]NIG
    This film has got everything a horror lover could ask for. Flesh-eating zombies activated by radiation from a space rocket ravage the countryside. A powerhouse of erie terror brought to the screen.
  • Night on earth
    [Media Center](REF)NIG
    In cities around the globe (Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Rome, Helsinki), the occupants of five taxi cabs are headed for some unexpected destinations.
  • Nights of Cabiria =Le Notti Di Cabiria
    [Media Center]NIG
    Cabiria, a simple-minded prostitute, searches Rome for true love. She is romanced and abandoned by men who exploit her. She endures even in the face of tragedy with the vain hope of finding marriage and happiness.
  • Ninotchka
    [Media Center]NIN
    A Soviet official in Paris soon turns to pleasure as she discovers the magic of Paris and finds herself succumbing to the special charms of a suave Frenchman named Leon D'Algout.
  • Nixon
    [Media Center]NIX (2 parts)
    Drama about the fall of Richard Nixon based on the view that a dark, murderous conspiracy controls the world.
  • No drums, no bugles
    [Media Center]NOD
    The true story of Ashby Gatrell, a young conscientious objector who spends three years hiding in a cave in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia during the Civil War.
  • No excuses by Stephan and Abigail Thernstrom.:
    [Media Center]BOO
  • No man's land
    [Media Center]NOM
    Set during the height of the Bosnian War in 1993, a group of Bosnian soldiers are advancing on Serb territory under the cover of a foggy night. At daybreak, the fog lifts, and the Serbs open fire. Soon there is only one Bosnian survivor because he was able to dive into a trench in no man's land. He then watches as two Serbian soldiers use the body of a fallen Bosnian to bait a land mine. He fires on them, killing one, and taking the second hostage. Now both are alone and equally armed, so they are forced to share a wary trust as they try to attract help from either side.
  • Nobody's fool
    [Media Center]NOB
    In this affectionate story of small town life in upstate New York, Sully, a fitfully employed 60-year-old construction worker, is a cheerful curmudgeon who has made a lifetime of bad decisions. He unexpectedly has a chance to make right some of them when his estranged son and grandson drop back into his life.
  • Noce en Galilee
    [Media Center]WED
    The elder of a Palestinian village in Israel is given permission to hold a traditional wedding for his son on the condition that the Israeli military governor and his staff be guests of honor at the ceremony.
  • Noon wine
    [Media Center]NOO
    On a small Texas farm at the turn of the century, a Swedish immigrant asks for work and begins his new life. Through no fault of his own, he causes the downfall of his new found employer when a suspicious visitor comes to call.
  • Norma Rae
    [Media Center]NOR
    Grinding out her life in a small southern town as a worker in a non-union textile shop, Norma Rae (Sally Field) joins forces with a New York labor organizer to unionize the southern mill.
  • El norte =
    [Media Center]ELN
    Beginning in the remote mountain jungles of Guatemala, awash with the lushness of nature and the rainbow colors of the Mayans, this highly-acclaimed drama about a brother and sister seeking a better life centers on two young Indians. When their father is killed by government soliders and their mother taken away, they set out for the "promised land" to the north--El Norte.
  • North Dallas forty
    [Media Center]NOR
    Depicts an aging pro football player who, through a woman he meets, is drawn away from the masculine, violent world in which he has lived so long. In doing so, he finds himself at odds with the team's management.
  • North star
    [Media Center]NOR
    World War II drama, paying tribute to the Russian people. Focuses on a small village which is enjoying the last days of peace in the summer of 1941. When the Nazis invade the Soviet Union, some of the people become freedom- fighting guerillas, others openly make life difficult for the occupying forces.
  • Northfork
    [Media Center]NOR
    Set in 1955, the residents of a small Montana community are forced to move their homes to make way for a new dam.
  • The notebook
    [Media Center]NOT
    Allie Hamilton and Noah Calhoun meet one evening at a carnival. But they are separated by Allie's parents who dissaprove of Noah's unwealthy family, and move Allie away. When Allie doesn't hear from Noah after several years, she meets and becomes engaged to a handsome young soldier named Lon. Allie, with her love still alive for Noah, stops by Noah's home to check on him. Seeing that their reunion has rekindled a passionate romance, Allie must now choose between true love and the match that her parents approve of.
  • Nothing sacred
    [Media Center]NOT
    Comedy about a New York newspaper man who tries to save his job with an exclusive story on a young woman thought to be dying from radium poisoning.
  • Notorious
    [Media Center]NOT
    Working undercover for the U.S. government in Rio, the daughter of a convicted Nazi traitor marries a ruthless Nazi spy, but then begins a love affair with her American contact. Torn between passion and patriotism, they must sacrifice their feelings or risk destruction.
  • Now voyager
    [Media Center]NOW
    A dowdy spinster becomes a self-assured woman after psychiatric treatment only to embark on a doomed affair.
  • Nuit et brouillard =
    [Media Center]NIG
    Examines the world of concentration camps in World War II. In French with English subtitles.
  • Nurse Betty
    [Media Center]NUR
    Betty never misses an episode of her favorite soap opera, "A Reason to Love". After a mind-altering run-in with two hit-men while watching an episode, Betty transforms into "Nurse Betty" and embarks on a mission to find her one true love, Dr. David Ravell--Container.
  • Nuts in May
    [Media Center]NUT
    Hilarious and appalling things happen to Keith and Candice-Marie, a pair of terrifically self-satisfied, middle-class vegetarians still high on love- philosophy of the 1960's, when they go on a camping trip in Dorset.

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  • O.C. and Stiggs
    [Media Center]OC
    Two rambunctious teen have dedicated their summer vacation to making life miserable for the quintessential nerd (Dooley).
  • O Lucky man!
    [Media Center]OLU (2 pts)
    A surrealistic allegory about a young coffee salesman who pushes his way to the top, only to fall and rise again.
  • Observations under the volcano
    [Media Center]OBS
    This video shows a behind-the-scenes look at the making of John Huston's film version of Malcom Lowry's "Under the volcano". It allows the viewer to listen in on the private conversations of director John Huston and his stars and crew during the filming in Mexico.
  • Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge
    [Media Center](REF)OCC
    A dramatization about the last minutes in the life of a condemned man of the American Civil War who stands on a bridge awaiting his hanging.
  • October
    [Media Center]OCT
    Depicts events and circumstances which culminated in the Russian Revolution of October 1917. Describes the Kerensky regime, the European theater of World War I, and discusses the conflicting plans and ambitions of various participants.
  • Oedipus Rex
    [Media Center]OED
    The Shakespearean Festival Players, speaking through Greek masks, present the tragedy of Oedipus, who, having unwittingly slain his father and unknowingly married his mother, is driven by the plague that has swept through his kingdom to track down the evildoer who has polluted his land and its people.
  • Of mice and men
    [Media Center]OFM
    In Depression-era California, two migrant workers dream of better days on a spread of their own until an act of unintentional violence leads to tragic consequences.
  • The Official story
    [Media Center]OFF
    Set in present day Argentina, the movie follows the sheltered wife of a wealthy businessman who finds herself face to face with a legacy of terror as she begins to discover that her own daughter, adopted at birth, may have been stolen from a family of "los desaparencidos" (the disappeared ones). A true account of a woman chosing to either live a lie or risk tearing her own family apart.
  • Offret sacrificatio
    [Media Center]SAC
    When a middle aged intellectual in retirement on an island in the Baltic Sea witnesses signs of what he believes to be a nuclear holocaust, he offers to make the ultimate sacrifice in return for the salvation of mankind.
  • Olympia
    [Media Center]OLY (2 parts)
    Highlights of the 1936 Olympic Games, held in Berlin, Germany.
  • On Capitol Hill by Julian E. Zelizer
    [Media Center] BOO
  • On the Take by Jerome P. Kassirer
    [Media Center] BOO
  • On the waterfront
    [Media Center]ONT
    A young dockworker tries to break the hold of a waterfront boss.
  • One eight seven
    [Media Center]ONE
    Dedicated science instructor Trevor Garfield is a man with a passion for learning. Garfield is skilled, smart, committed: the total package as a teacher. But he's also human. And what he confronts in a school turned increasingly into a battlefield may be more than he can bear. Maybe he'll quit teaching. Or caring. Or maybe he'll take justice into his own hands.
  • One fine day
    [Media Center]ONE
    Two single parents are inadvertently thrown together for one chaotic day -- and love, of course, blooms.
  • One hour photo
    [Media Center]ONE
    Sy works in photo processing. His favorite customers are the Yorkin family. Sy dotes on the Yorkins whenever they drop off film to be processed and they are indulgent of Sy's attentions. What the Yorkins don't know is Sy has been obsessively making copies of their photos, imagining himself to be "Uncle Sy," a member of the family. Sy's tenuous hold on reality begins to collapse when he develops a roll of film brought in by a new customer that suggests infidelity and the notion that his ideal family may be falling apart is troubling for Sy.
  • One true thing
    [Media Center]ONE
    When crisis confronts Katherine and George Gulden they turn to their grown daughter, Ellen, for support.
  • Open city
    [Media Center](REF)OPE
    An inspirational film, and representative of neo-realistic cinema, about Rome during the Nazi occupation. A priest who is helping the Italian resistance fighters is discovered and arrested by the SS.
  • Open city
    [Media Center](REF)OPE
    An underground agent, after being cornered by Germans, desparately attempts to stay alive without endangering his resistance friends.
  • Open range
    [Media Center]OPE
    Boss Spearman, a rugged old-timer, free grazes cattle. He and Charley have been partners for ten years. The pair and their employees, Mose and Buttons, are driving their cattle across the West. Mose is attacked and thrown in jail during a visit to a town. The local cattle rancher, Baxter, wants the free grazers off his land and when Boss and Charley retrieve Mose, they are warned that they have until the next day to be out of the area. Charley confesses his past as a killer during the Civil War and strikes up a tentative romance with Sue, the sister of the town doctor.
  • Operation petticoat
    [Media Center]OPE
    The U.S.S. Sea Tiger is forced out to sea prematurely by any enemy air attack. The sub leaks, and limps along its path. Five stranded Army nurses board it and initiate their own renovations....and the sub ends up a blushing pink, making it a target for both Japanese and American forces.
  • The opportunists
    [Media Center]OPP
    A struggling mechanic (Christopher Walken) is doing his best to make a new life away from his safe-cracking past. But with mounting bills and lessening choices, he reluctantly agrees to one last heist. It's supposed to be an easy job, but with an inexperienced partner (Peter McDonald) at his side, he finds himself right back in a world of trouble.
  • Ordet
    [Media Center]ORD
    A study of spiritual faith and love ; the film tells of the death of Inger in childbirth and her resurrection, a miracle that is seen as the result of human love. The film opens as a family of marshland farmers trail an idiot son (Johannes) who calls himself Christ. It closes as the demented theological student approaches the open coffin of his sister-in-law and, at the urging of her child, brings her back to life.
  • Ordinary people
    [Media Center]ORD
    The "ordinary" existence of an upper middle class family is shattered with the death of the older son and the struggle of the younger son against guilt and suicide.
  • The Origins of cinema
    [Media Center](REF)ORI
    Traces the origins of the cinema from early examples of narrative films from the Edison Company, photographed by Edwin S. Porter, through the work of D.W. Griffith and other independent filmmakers.
  • The origins of cinema
    [Media Center]ORI
    Traces the origins of the cinema from early examples of narrative films from the Edison Company, photographed by Edwin S. Porter, through the work of D.W. Griffith and other independent filmmakers.
  • Orlando
    [Media Center]ORL
    This sumptuous epic tells the life story of one remarkable individual, Orlando. From the lavish courts of Elizabeth I, his extraordinary journey takes him across arid Asian deserts through to formal 18th century English salons. There, transformed as a woman, her quest for love is finally resolved in 20th century London.
  • Oscar and Lucinda
    [Media Center]OSC
    Oscar is an Anglican priest who gambles discreetly and donates his winnings to help the poor. Lucinda is an Australian businesswoman who boldly defies the rules of 19th-century society. When they meet over an innocent game of cards, their passion for gambling leads them both down a road of romance, chance and fate that changes their lives forever.
  • The other side of Sunday
    [Media Center]OTH
    A coming of age story about a vicar's daughter who longs for the things she was denied growing up in a conservative household.
  • Our daily bread
    [Media Center]OUR
    Depression era drama. Led by an energetic, young couple, a cross-section of America's unemployed cooperate to make a communal farm succeed.
  • Our Gang comedy festival
    [Media Center]OUR
    This compilation spans over 20 years of classic Our Gang comedies including rarely seen silent footage.
  • Our town
    [Media Center]OUR
    Story about everyday life at the turn of the century in a fictional small town in New England.
  • Our town
    [Media Center]OUR
    Deals with birth, life, and death in a small New Hampshire community.
  • Out of Africa
    [Media Center]OUT
    The story of Karen Blixen, her philandering husband, her struggles with a coffee plantation in Kenya, and her love for the mysterious safari leader.
  • Out of sight
    [Media Center]OUT
    When a convicted bank robber breaks out of jail, he is determined to make one last heist.
  • Ox Bow incident
    [Media Center]OXB
    A cowboy is unable to prevent three wandering travellers from being unjustly lynched for murder.
  • Ozzie and Harriet
    [Media Center]OZZ
    "David decides to write for the school newletter and Ricky tries to 'help' him"--container.

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  • Padre, padrone =
    [Media Center]PAD
    A powerful story of a son's development under an oppressive father. Gavino Ledda lives in solitude as an illiterate Sardinian shephard. His father is the brutal instrument of that solitude. Year after year Gavino is isolated alone with his flock in the mountains; separated from family, schools and the collectivity of his town. Finally, he rebels against his father and his own illiteracy. Studying by himself, Gavino earns his degree and writes a book about himself.
  • Painters painting
    [Media Center](REF)PAI
    Emile de Antonio was a close friend to many New York painters long before the art world thrust them into international prominence. At this exciting and pivotal moment, de Antonio filmed and interviewed the painters informally in their studios. Artists interviewed include Willem de Kooning, Andy Warhol, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman, Jules Olitski, Frank Stella, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Helen Frankenthaler, Kenneth Noland, Larry Poons, Phillip Pavia, and Hans Hoffman.
  • Paisan
    [Media Center]PAI
    Six stories dealing with Italian and American soldiers meeting under battle conditions during World War II.
  • Palermo connection
    [Media Center]PAL
    An Italian-American running for mayor of New York City makes campaign promises that lead to confrontations with the Mafia.
  • The Palm Beach story
    [Media Center]PAL
    A young wife leaves her husband and heads for Palm Beach where she meets one of the world's richest men. When the husband shows up to reclaim his wife, the millionaire's man-mad sister falls for him!
  • Panic room
    [Media Center]PAN
    Trapped in their New York brownstone's panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg and her daughter Sarah play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with three intruders during a brutal home invasion. But the room itself is the focal point because what the intruders really want is inside it.
  • Paper clips
    D804.3 .P3747 2006
    Struggling to grasp the concept of 6 million Holocaust victims, the students at Whitwell Middle School in rural Tennessee decide to collect 6 million paper clips to better understand the extent of this crime against humanity. Because Norwegians invented the paper clip and used it as a symbol of solidarity against the Nazis, students started collecting them to help visualize such vast numbers of victims. As word spread online and in the media, paper clips poured in from around the world, 11 million of which are enshrined in an authentic German railcar standing in the schoolyard.
  • Paper moon
    [Media Center]PAP
    A nine-year old cigarette-smoking orphan joins a smooth-talking Bible salesman driving through Depression-era Kansas and manages to show the con man some new tricks.
  • Parallel processing
    [Media Center](REF)DIS
    A lecture presented by Dr. Agerwala at Columbia University, describing various forms of parallel processing, including clusters, multiprocessors and highly parallel processors.
  • Passed away
    [Media Center]UPR
    A crazy mix of family members must spend the weekend together when their dear old dad suddenly passes away! Dealing with grief is easy--dealing with each other, hilarious.
  • Passion fish
    [Media Center]PAS
    May-Alice Culhane, a TV soap opera star, becomes paralyzed in a car accident. She returns to her deserted family home in Louisiana's Cajun Country and nastily rejects a succession of nurses. She spends her days drinking and watching TV until Chantelle forces her to shape up. Chantelle is recovering from drug addiction, because of which her father took her daughter away. The two learn that they need each other and become friends.
  • The Passion of Jeanne d'Arc
    [Media Center]PAS
    The trial and execution of Joan of Arc, based on actual court records, but compressed into a single day. Extensive use of close-ups, expressionistic camera angles, and historically accurate sets and costumes. With English titles.
  • The passion of the Christ
    [Media Center]PAS
    Concerns the last twelve hours in the life of Jesus of Nazareth. In the Garden of Gethsemane near the Mount of Olives, Jesus is betrayed by Judas Iscariot. Jesus is condemned to death for blasphemy and brought before Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor of Judea, for sentencing. The roaring crowd demands his death, so Pilate orders his crucifixion. Jesus is severely beaten and made to carry his cross up to Golgotha, the hill outside Jerusalem, where he is nailed to the cross. With his mother looking on, he dies.
  • Passport to Pimlico
    [Media Center](REF)PAS
    When an unexploded bomb goes off on a derelict site in the town of Pimlico, investigators discover not only buried treasure, but more importantly an old document decreeing that Pimlico be recognized as Burgundian soil.
  • Pastime
    [Media Center]PAS
    Roy Dean Bream, an aging minor league pitcher who had one shot at the major leagues--and pitched a grand slam to Stan Musial--has spent twenty years in the minors, still dreaming of returning to "the Bigs." Tyrone Debray, an insecure 17-year-old hurler with an arm of steel, is Bream's unlikely friend. Together, the oldtimer and the whiz kid challenge the racism, envy and disbelief of the other players. But when the big league call finally comes, only one player will make the cut.
  • Patch Adams
    [Media Center]PAT
    Meet Dr. Patch Adams, who believes humor is the best medicine, and wil do about anything to make his patients laugh-- even if it means risking his own career.
  • Pather panchali
    [Media Center]PAT
    A poor Bengali family survives in a village but wider horizons tempt the father. The protection of family members' reputations, the relationship of the family group to an elderly 'aunt', and first confrontations with death contribute to the early development of the boy Apu. His father's dreams prevail over the objections of his mother so that at the end of the film the family moves to the big city of Benares. Apu's experiences are followed in the second film of the trilogy: Aparajito" and his growth to early manhood in the final film "Apur Sansar".
  • Paul Monette
    [Media Center]PAU
    A biographical documentary which was shot over three and a half years, explores Paul's life and work from his seemingly idyllic New England boyhood, and his closeted adolescence to his development into a successful writer, committed lover and activist, until his death from AIDS in February, 1995.
  • Paul's case
    [Media Center]PAU
    The story of a romantic young man who drops out of high school in turn-of -the-century Pittsburgh and journeys to New York City.
  • The peacemaker
    [Media Center]PEA
    When a nuclear bomb goes missing in the former Soviet Union, a diplomat and a Special Forces Colonel join forces to avert disaster.
  • Peggy Guggenheim
    [Media Center]PEG
    Peggy Guggenheim presents her collection of modern paintings and sculpture in her palace on the Grand Canal in Venice, constituting a survey of 20th-century art.
  • People with diabetes can enjoy healthier lives!
    [Media Center]PEO
    This video shows that if you keep your blood sugar level as near normal as possible, you may dramatically reduce your risk for long-term eye, kidney, and nerve complications.
  • Persistence of vision
    [Media Center](REF)PER
    Nine video works that portray broadcast television as a tool of commerce and state power.
  • Persistence of vision
    [Media Center](REF)PER
    A collection of video art pieces in which some new storytellers continue to expand the vocabulary of narrative through the innovative use of audio-visual forms.
  • Persuasive speaking
    [Media Center]
    Give instructions on how to make effective speeches and presentations.
  • Peter Pan
    [Media Center]PET
    Peter Pan teaches Wendy and her brothers to fly to Never-Never Land, where they share some exciting adventures with Indians and pirates.
  • The Phantom of the Opera
    [Media Center]PHA
  • The Phantom tollbooth
    [Media Center]PHA
    Patrick stars as Milo, a boy bored with everything until he stumbles into a world of animation when he passes through a toll-booth. He soon begins a trip to the Kingdom of Wisdom, and learns the value of time from a "watch" dog named Tock.
  • Phil Donahue examines the human animal
    [Media Center]FAM
    Phil Donahue examines today's family, and discusses problems which threaten marriage and family life. Looks at the urban family, comparing the "traditional" family and the "corporate" family. Shows the strain on today's farm families as the economy threatens the existence of the family farm. Shows how unemployment devastates the family provider and damages his relationship with family members. Tells how sex roles are changing in today's family. Includes comments from members of urban and farm families, and from experts, including Dr. Benjamin Spock.
  • The Philadelphia story
    [Media Center]PHI
    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.
  • The piano
    [Media Center]PIA
    A young mute woman and her child travel to New Zealand in the 1800s for an arranged marriage to a farmer there. After the marriage she meets another man, and the competition for her love begins. Only one of the men realizes that her affections can only be won through her beloved piano.
  • Pieces of April
    [Media Center]PIE
    Family outcast April lives in a beat-up apartment in New York's Lower East Side with her boyfriend, Bobby. In order to spend some time with her dying mother, April invites her conservative suburban family to her place for a Thanksgiving feast. While she frantically tries to complete the meal, the family drives in from Pennsylvania sharing less-than-pleasant opinions about April's lifestyle. Her dad tries to think positively, while sister Beth flaunts her good-girl status and brother Timmy captures it all on film.
  • The pioneers
    [Media Center](REF)PIO
    Includes rare footage and excerpts from WINGS (1927), THE WIND (1928), NOAH'S ARK (1928), and, in early Technicolor, THE BLACK PIRATE (1926); interviews with Lillian Gish, Dolores Costello, Blanche Sweet, Jackie Coogan, King Vidor, and much more!
  • Plan 9 from outer space
    [Media Center]PLA
    Aliens attempt to take over the Earth (for the 9th time) with an army of zombies.
  • Planes, trains and automobiles
    [Media Center]PLA
    Neal Page (Martin) wants to fly home to spend Thanksgiving with his family. Del Griffith (Candy) leads Page on a hilarious cross-country wild goose chase that keeps him from tasting his turkey.
  • Planet of the apes
    [Media Center]PLA
    Four American astronauts crashland on an unchartered planet and discover it is ruled by a race of intelligent apes who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Astronaut Taylor (Heston) soon finds himelf among the hunted, his life in the hands of a benevolent chimpanzee scientist (McDowall).
  • Play it again, Sam
    [Media Center]PLA
    A movie buff periodically receives tips from the spirit of Humphrey Bogart on how to make it with women.
  • The Player
    [Media Center](REF)PLA
    A celebrity-studded thriller of murderous obsession among Hollywood's glamorous elite.
  • Playtime
    [Media Center]PLA
    A group of American tourists and Monsieur Hulot (Tati) cope with modern life in Paris.
  • Pleasantville
    [Media Center]PLE
    90's teens David and Jennifer get zapped into the perfect suburbia of a black & white 50's sitcom, Pleasantville. 90's pop culture clashes with 50's family values and chaos ensues, turning the town of Pleasantville upside down and black and white into color.
  • Point of no return
    [Media Center]POI
    Bridget Fonda stars as Maggie, a woman transformed by a covert government agency from a Death Row inmate into an elite assassin living on borrowed time.
  • The Polar Express
    [Media Center] POL
    When a doubting young boy takes an extraordinary train ride to the North Pole, he embarks on a journey of self-discovery that shows him that the wonder of life never fades for those who believe.
  • Pollock
    [Media Center]POL
    Fellow artists and lovers Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner are at the center of New York's 1940's art scene, but as Krasner neglects her work to push Pollock's career forward, Pollock begins to unravel emotionally. Pollock and Krasner escape to the country to marry, and soon, Pollock creates the work that makes him the first internationally-famous modern painter in America. But with fame and fortune comes a volatile temper and severe self-doubt; before long, Pollock's life threatens to explode.
  • Pollock
    [Media Center]POL
    "Fellow artists and lovers Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner are at the center of New York's 1940's art scene, but as Krasner neglects her work to push Pollock's career forward, Pollock begins to unravel emotionally. Pollock and Krasner escape to the country to marry, and soon, Pollock creates the work that makes him the first internationally-famous modern painter in America. But with fame and fortune comes a volatile temper and severe self-doubt; before long, Pollock's life threatens to explode"--Container.
  • Popeye
    [Media Center]POP
  • Porky Pig's screwball comedies
    [Media Center]POR
  • A portrait of the artist as a young man
    [Media Center]JAM
    An adaptation of Joyce's autobiographical novel in which the author, through the character of Stephen Dedalus, portrays his youth, his Irish Catholic upbringing, and his coming of age at a Dublin University.
  • Ports of call
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  • Possessed
    [Media Center]POS
    Ambitious factory worker dreams of satin gowns and diamond earrings. In an effort to realize her dreams she moves to New York and pursues a relationship with an influential lawyer.
  • Il Postino
    [Media Center](REF)ILP
    The postman, Mario, enlists the aid of the poet Pablo Neruda to conquer the heart of the beautiful Beatrice.
  • The Postman always rings twice
    [Media Center]POS
    A drifter is offered a job at a roadside diner by the owner, an easy- going older man. When the drifter and the owner's voluptuous wife fall in love, they plot to kill her husband and run away together.
  • The postman always rings twice
    [Media Center]POS
    A drifter and the bored young wife of a middle-aged cafe owner become lovers, murder her husband, escape justice--but eventually are caught in their own web.
  • Powaqqatsi
    [Media Center]POW
    A visual collage with scenes from various cultures around the world showing how the lure of technology and of mega-cities is affecting small-scale indigenous cultures. Filmed in Brazil, Egypt. Kenya, Peru, India, Hong Kong, Israel, France, Nepal, and Berlin.
  • The Power and Promise of Humane Education by Zoe Weil
    [Media Center] BOO
  • Die Praxis der Liebe
    [Media Center]PRA
    "Combines a thriller narrative with experimental images to tell the story of Judith, a [television] journalist whose investigation of a murder implicates her two male lovers (an arms dealer and a psychiatrist). Through these relationships, Judith discovers that in a world of male power struggles, love is complicit, marginal or impossible. The film makes a stunningly coherent indictment of male-dominated society."--Container.
  • The preacher's wife
    [Media Center]PRE
    An angel comes to Earth to help out a preacher whose faith is failing and whose marriage is also suffering.
  • Prelude to war
    [Media Center]PRE
    Reviews events from 1933 to 1939, including the Japanese conquest of Manchuria, the Italian conquest of Ethiopia, and the rise of Hitler. Also discusses the Axis plan of world conquest.
  • Present memories
    [Media Center]PRE
    Six Holocaust survivors relate their stories of survival, beginning with the prewar years and continuing through the end of the war. Documented with original images.
  • Pretty woman
    [Media Center]PRE
    A successful corporate mogul meets an independent and carefree prostitute. He teaches her about the finer things in life and she teaches him that love could be the best investment he ever made.
  • Prick up your ears
    [Media Center]PRI
    Based on the true story of the murder/suicide of playwright Joe Orton and his lover, Ken Halliwell. When Orton, after years of unsuccessful collaboration with Halliwell, breaks away and achieves fame and fortune on his own, Halliwell cracks, hammers Orton to death and then kills himself.
  • Pride and prejudice
    [Media Center]PRI (pt1 and pt2)
    Nineteenth century life in England, with the story of the turbulant relationship between Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy.
  • Pride before the fall by John Heilemann. :
    [Media Center]BOO
  • Primary colors
    [Media Center]PRI
    Follows a virtually unknown Southern governor on a quest for the White House with his strong, savvy and equally ambitious wife.
  • Prisoner of paradise
    [Media Center]PRI
    The startling true story of Kurt Gerron, a beloved German-Jewish actor, director and cabaret star in Berlin in the 1920's and '30's. He was captured and sent to a concentration camp where he was ordered to write pro-Nazi propaganda films.
  • Prizzi's honor
    [Media Center]PRI
    Nicholson stars as a hit-man who falls in love with a free-lance killer hired by his bosses to eliminate a mutual foe.
  • Protocol
    [Media Center]PRO
    A daffy Washington D.C. waitress saves a visiting Arab dignitary from an assassination attempt and goes from serving drinks to serving her country in the State Department's protocol branch.
  • Psycho
    [Media Center]PSY
    Horror melodrama in which a woman disappears after spending the night in an isolated motel which adjoins an eerie Victorian mansion, inhabited by a disturbed young man and his mother.
  • Public enemy
    [Media Center]PUB
    Two slum boys start out as bootleggers and climb to be big-time gangsters.
  • Public Intellectuals by Judge Richard Posner. :
    [Media Center]BOO
  • The Purple rose of Cairo
    [Media Center]PUR
    Cecilia is a poor waitress whose only escape is the thrill and excitement of going to the movies. Suddenly, while watching her favorite movie, the leading man jumps out of the picture to be with her. Confusion abounds as the actors he has left in the movie try to get him back.
  • The Purple rose of Cairo
    [Media Center]PUR
    Farrow is a depression-era waitress whose fantasy comes true when her screen idol steps off the screen to be with her. The actors are left in a scene they can't escape and the movie-makers are panicked when they try to get the actor back.
  • The Pyx
    [Media Center]PYX
    Prostitute is murdered, possibly the sacrificial victim of a satanic cult.

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  • The quest
    [Media Center]QUE
    Cody is a young man of adventurous spirit, always looking for a challenge or a new way to do things. Whatever questions there are to be asked, he's the one asking! Living with his guardian, Cody learns of an ancient myth, the story of "Donkegin." He is told to leave it alone, but the legend sparks his lively imagination. Defying all authority, Cody and his girlfriend Wendy embark on a search that takes them into the shadow-land of mystery and to the edge of death. With a backdrop of spectacular secnery, The Quest is a film of wondrous adventure; of a time in all our lives when the most important thing is finding our own truth.
  • The quiet man
    [Media Center]QUI
    An American prizefighter returns to Ireland in order to forget the past and live peacefully in his village birthplace. He falls in love with the hot- tempered sister of a belligerent neighbor, and trouble ensues over the payment of her dowry.
  • Quills
    [Media Center]QUI
    History's most infamous sexual adventurer lives in a madhouse, where a beautiful laundry maid helps him smuggle his erotic stories to the printer.
  • Quiz show
    [Media Center]QUI
    Fame and fortune become a hotbed of scandal when a Washington investigator uncovers corruption beneath the TV's hottest quiz show's glittering facade. The scandal implicates both the wildly popular champion and the disgruntled ex-champ.

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  • Race and reunion by David W. Blight
    [Media Center]BOO
  • Radio
    [Media Center]RAD
    The story of the relationship between a prominent high school football coach in a small South Carolina town and the illiterate, mentally-challenged man nicknamed Radio whom he mentors. Although their friendship raises some eyebrows at first, Radio's growth under the coach's guidance ultimately inspires the local townsfolk.
  • Radio days
    [Media Center]RAD
    The story of a young man who is bewitched by the radio and of the reality behind the scenes that he cannot see.
  • Radio