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DADDY, DON'T BE SILLY
[1886 16mm 27min]
Discusses the Equal Rights Amendment.
DADDY LONG-LEGS (& WHAT THE DAISY SAID)
[fs9390 DVD 85min. 1919 bw silent dir:Marshall Neilan cast:Mary Pickford]
Jean Webster's novel of an orphan who falls in love with her mysterious benefactor. What the Daisy Said is a 1910 D. W. Griffith short.
DAFFY AND PORKY
[fs 5685 Laser 120min. 1935-1947 ]
Tex Avery, Carl Stalling, Friz Freling, and Mel Blanc create the classic Warner Brothers cartoons starring Porky Pig and the despicable Daffy Duck.
DAILY LIFE AT THE COURT OF VERSAILLES
[4349 VHS 6788 VHS 60min French English 1981]
A story of French culture as reflected in Versailles, from its construction by Louis XIV to its abandonment by Louis XVI during the French Revolution.
DAILY LIFE OF THE BOZO PEOPLE
See AFRICAN VILLAGE LIFE SERIES
DAISY MILLER
[fs 2787 VHS 93min 1974 dir:Peter Bogdanovich cast:Cybill Shepherd; Barry Brown]
Adapted from Henry James' novella about an expatriate American living in Europe with her daffy mother and bratty kid brother.
DAMA S SOBACHKOJ
See THE LADY WITH THE DOG.
DAMALS
[4245 VHS 90min bw German 1943 dir:Rolf Hanfen cast:Zarah Leander; Hans Stüwe; Rossano Brazzi]
An English physician plagued by guilt over a case of malpractice goes to South American clinic where she is then accused of murder.
DAMES
[fs 3315 VHS 5152 LaserCLV1 90min bw 1934 dir:Ray Enright cast:Joan Blondell; Dick Powell]
A bumbling millionaire wants to spend a fortune to close "scandalous" Broadway musicals, but a chorus girl convinces him to invest in a new musical
LES DAMES DU BOIS DE BOLOGNE
[fs 4396 VHS 83min bw French subt 1944 dir:Robert Bresson cast:Maria Casares; Paul Bernard]
A jaded socialite, unhappy with her lover, tries to hurt him through another woman of questionable background.
DAMNATION OF FAUST TRILOGY
[fs 2742 VHS 22min 1983-87 dir:Dara Birnbaum]
Avant garde treatment of the Faustian legend. Set in a New York City playground, the three segments are: Evocation; Will-O-The-Wisp; and Charming Landscape.
DAMNED IN THE USA
[4921 VHS 126min 1994 Paul Yule]
"..covers the most significant battles over freedom of expression and censorship in the arts over the last five years.."
A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS
[fs 3254 VHS 100min bw 1937 dir:George Stevens cast:George Burns; Gracie Allen; Fred Astaire]
A George Gershwin musical set in London. A dancing star pursues an heiress
DANCE, FOOLS, DANCE
[fs 4094 VHS 81min bw 1931 dir:Harry Beaumont cast:Joan Crawford; Clark Gable]
Brother and sister socialites, left poor by the stock market crash, go to work as bootlegger and cub reporter and meet tragedy when the brother is involved in a turf war. See also fs 5418LD GABLE AND CRAWFORD COLLECTION
DANCE, GIRL, DANCE
[fs 3788 VHS 89min bw 1940 dir:Dorothy Arzner cast:Lucille Ball; Maureen O'Hara]
One chorus girl wants to dance artistically, the other wants to be rich and famous, and they both want the same man.
DANCING IN THE DARK
[fs 0998-0999 16mm 92min bw 1949 dir:Irving Reis cast:William Powell; Betsy Drake; Mark Stevens]
A silent movie star tries his hand as talent scout and spots his own daughter
DANCING LADY
[fs 3316 VHS 5133A LaserCLV1 94min bw 1933 dir:Robert Z. Leonard cast:Joan Crawford; Franchot Tone; Clark Gable]
Fred Astaire's debut. Crawford plays a dancer determined to get into the Broadway spotlight.
THE DANCING MEN
See ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES.
DANCING WITH THE INCAS
[3222 VHS 58min 1992]
Explores the Huayno music and musicians of Peru and the Andes, showing what happens when the ancient Inca melodies encounter the commercial music industry.
DANGEROUS
[fs 5248A LaserCLV1 79min bw 1936 dir:Alfred E. Green cast:Bette Davis; Franchot Tone]
A Broadway actress is rescued from alcoholic oblivion by the love of a man.
DANGEROUS HOURS
[fs 6235 VHS 88min bw silent 1920 dir:Fred Niblo cast:Lloyd Hughes]
An American college graduate falls in with Communist agitators.
DANGEROUS WHEN WET
[fs 5687 Laser 96min. 1953 b/w dir:Charles Walters cast:Esther Williams, Fernando Lamas]
Johnny Mercer songs, the cartoon Tom and Jerry in a water ballet, comedy and romance decorate a film about a girl who wants to swim the English Channel.
DANIEL
[JHVC 7024 VHS 130min. 1983 dir:Sidney Lumet cast:Amanda Plummer, Timothy Hutton]
Based on E.L. Doctorow's Book of Daniel. The children of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, victims of McCarthy's persecution of communists, are haunted by their parents' execution.
DANS LA VISION PERIPHÉRIQUE DU TEMOIN
[fs 2095 u-matic 13min color/bw 1986 dir:Marcel Odenbach]
Contrasts 18th-century scenes of interiors, costumes and music with scenes of Paris streets in the 1980's.
DANTE - The Journey of Our Life
[3691 VHS 30min 1991]
An introduction to the life and works of Dante Alighieri.
DANTE'S INFERNO
[fs 6123VHS 88min 1997 dir: Peter Greenaway cast: Sir John Gielgud]
An unconventional dramatization: the meaning of the first 8 cantos is interpreted by eminent scholars in visual sidebars.
DANZIG, 1939
[JHVC 7098 VHS 30min 1980 ]
Documentary about the Danzig Jewish community's successful plan to escape the coming Holocaust.
THE DARK CORNER
[fs 3448 VHS 99min bw 1946 dir:Henry Hathaway cast:Lucille Ball; Clifton Webb; William Bendix; Mark Stevens]
A private eye framed for murder and chased by the police and criminals alike can find help only from his secretary.
DARK PASSAGE
[fs 3419 VHS 5249 LaserCLV1 106min bw 1947 dir:Delmer Daves cast:Humphrey Bogart; Lauren Bacall]
Bogart escapes prison, changes his identity, and searches for the person responsible for the crime for which he was imprisoned.
THE DARK PAST
[fs 3383 VHS 74min bw 1948 dir:Rudolph Mate cast:William Holden; Nina Foch; Lee J. Cobb]
A young killer is as afraid of his own dreams as he is of the law, until a psychiatrist helps him understand why he kills.
DARK SHADOWS
See HOUSE OF DARK SHADOWS and NIGHT OF DARK SHADOWS.
DARK VICTORY
[fs 0932-0933 16mm 3264 VHS 5686 Laser 10027 DVD 9391 DVD 104min bw 1939 dir:Edmund Goulding cast:Bette Davis; George Brent]
Davis learns that she has contracted a fatal disease and tries to make the rest of her life meaningful.
DARLING
[fs 4169 VHS 122min bw 1965 dir:John Schlesinger cast:Julie Christie; Laurence Harvey; Dirk Bogarde]
A working-class girl climbs over several lovers to success.
D'ARTAGNAN
[fs 6296VHS silent 1916 cast: Louise Glaum]
The Three Musketeers of Alexandre Dumas fight corruption.
DARWIN'S REVOLUTION IN THOUGHT
[4382 VHS 50min; 4383 VHS 75min 1995]
A taped lecture in which Stephen Jay Gould talks about Charles Darwin, the theory of natural selection, and why Darwin waited so long to publish his work.
D.A.R.Y.L.
[fs 2191-2192 u-matic 100min 1985 dir:Simon Wincer cast:Mary Beth Hurt; Michael McKean]
Childless couple adopts a little boywho turns out to be a highly sophisticated robot.
DASTFOROUSH
See THE PEDDLER
THE DATE
[1080 VHS 20min 1978]
Four teenagers contemplate and discuss Going All the Way.
A DATE WITH JUDY
[fs 5689 Laser 114min. 1948 b/w dir:Richard Thorpe cast:Jane Powell, Elizabeth Taylor, Wallace Beery, Carmen Miranda]
Music, dance, song, and teen angst.
DAUGHTER RITE
[1720-1721 16mm 53min 1978 dir:Michelle Citron]
Explores the mother/daughter and sister/sibling relationships from the perspective of the daughters.
DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST
[fs 3812 VHS fs 9542 DVD 113min 1991 dir:Julie Dash cast:Cora Lee Day; Barbara-O; Cheryl Lynn Bruce]
A large African-American family, which has lived on a Georgia sea island for several generations, prepares to leave the island forever.
DAUGHTERS OF THE NILE
[4897 VHS 46min 1993]
Shows the restricted lives of traditional Islamic Egyptian women.
DAVID
[fs 2808 VHS 106min German subt 1979 dir:Peter Lilienthal]
A Jewish teenager manages to survive in Nazi Germany.
DAVID BEN-GURION
[1707 16mm 30min bw]
From the CBS Biography series with Mike Wallace.
DAVID COPPERFIELD
[fs 3278 VHS 5688 Laser 133min bw 1935 dir:George Cukor cast:Freddie Bartholomew, W.C. Fields, Maureen O'Sullivan, Basil Rathbone]
The Charles Dickens tale of an orphan boy who is forced to work in his stepfather's sweatshop.
DAVID HALBERSTAM'S THE FIFTIES
[fs 6165-6170 VHS dir:Tracy Dahlby]
Six-part documentary of the people, places and events which shaped this decade.
DAVID HOLZMAN'S DIARY
[fs 4324 VHS 5371 LaserCLV1 74min bw 1967 dir:Jim McBride cast:L.M. Kit Carson; Eileen Deitz; Lorenzo Mans]
A filmmaker attempts to understand his own life by recording it on film
DAVID L. WOLPER STUDENT DOCUMENTARY ACHIEVEMENT REELS, 1994-1996
[6174-6176 VHS]
Student documentaries selected by the International Documentary Association from entries in the annual competition.
DAVIDSBÜNDLERTÄNZE
[2775 VHS 43min 1981]
18 short pieces for the piano, written by Robert Schumann in 1837 and choreographed by George Balanchine in 1980. Performed by the New York City Ballet Company.
THE DAWN OF THE EYE: The History of Film and TV News
[fs VHS 1997]
A six-part series on the evolution of film and broadcast journalism.
DAWN OF SOUND I
[fs5426]
3 1929 musical revues, plus other material, on 4 laserdiscs. All black and white.
DAWN OF SOUND II
[fs5427]
Two complete musicals, excerpts and featurettes from 1928-1930 on 4 laserdiscs designated a-d. Mostly black-and-white with some color sequences
DAWN OF SOUND III
[fs5428]
4 black and white movies from 1928-29 plus excerpts and shorts on 4 laserdiscs designated A-D.
DAY FOR NIGHT
[fs 2570 VHS 116min 1973 dir:François Truffaut cast:Jacqueline Bisset; Jean-Pierre Leaud]
A film about filmmaking in which the comical realities of the business are exposed.
DAY OF FREEDOM - Our Fighting Forces
[fs 4394 VHS 17min bw 1935 dir:Leni Riefenstahl]
A short film made for Hitler to show the readiness of the German army to fight.
A DAY IN THE COUNTRY
[fs 0317 16mm 2914 VHS 4185 VHS 40min bw French subt 1935 dir:Jean Renoir]
Based on a story by Guy de Maupassant. An innocent girl comes of age during a holiday in the country.
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF CONGRESS
[4209 VHS 23min 1992]
A camera crew follows a member of the U.S. House of Representatives through a day on the job.
DAY OF WRATH
[fs 3789 VHS 98min bw Danish subt 1943 dir:Carl Theodore Dreyer]
In 1613 a young woman wed recently to an older pastor, wishes him dead when she falls in love with his son. When he does die she is accused of witchcraft.
THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL
[fs 1136-1138 16mm 92min bw 1951 dir:Robert Wise cast:Michael Rennie; Patricia Neal]
A peaceful alien lands his flying saucer on Earth and tries to warn humans of the danger of atomic power.
THE DAY THE UNIVERSE CHANGED
[VHS 52min each 1986]
"James Burke traces the development of Western thought through major transformations over the centuries..."
  1. It Started with the Greeks
    [4812] Overview of the series.
  2. Medieval Conflict: Faith and Reason
    [4813] Dark Ages mysticism gives way to urban rationalism.
  3. Scientific Imagination in the Renaissance
    [4814] Greek, Roman and Arab knowledge lead to a new world perspective.
  4. Printing Transforms Knowledge
    [4815] Books and literacy begin the process of nationalism.
  5. Science Revises the Heavens
    [4816] Aristotle's ideas are retired by such as Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler and Newton.
  6. The Factory and Marketplace Revolution
    [4817] Factories, urbanization and the beginnings of a consumer society.
  7. Social Impacts of New Medical Knowledge
    [4818] Statistics, anesthetics, antiseptics and microscopes boost medical care.
  8. Darwin's Revolution
    [4819] The ideas of change and adaptation replace stable and perfect creation.
  9. The New Physics: Newton Revised
    [4820] From geometric Newtonian certainty to quantum Heisenberg probability.
  10. Changing Knowledge Changing Reality
    [4821] A review of the series.
A DAY WITHOUT SUNSHINE
[1590 VHS 60min 1976 narr:James Earl Jones]
Documents the conditions of farm workers in Florida's citrus agribusiness, focussing on a moment of recession.
DAYS OF HEAVEN
[fs 2199-2200 u-matic 2789 VHS 95min 1978 dir:Terence Malick cast:Richard Gere; Sam Shepard; Brooke Adams]
A fugitive from the Chicago slums and a rich Texan are in love with the same woman.
DAZED AND CONFUSED
[fs 5250 LaserCLV1 9087 DVD 103min 1993 dir:Richard Linklater]
A slice of teenage life the last day of classes in 1976.
DE CIERTA MANERA
See ONE WAY OR ANOTHER
DE ESO NON SE HABLA
See I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT
DE MAYERLING A SARAJEVO
[fs 6034 VHS 89min bw French subt 1940 dir:Max Ophuls cast:Edwige Feuillére; John Lodge; Gabrielle Dorziat]
A look at the lives of the rich and powerful just prior to the start of World War I.
THE DEAD
[fs2635 VHS 82min 1987 dir:John Huston cast:Angelica Huston, Donal McCann]
James Joyce's towering story of an evening of music and talk at the Misses Morkan's in Dublin.
DEAD BIRDS
[0110/12 VHS 83min 1964]
An ethnographic documentary of the Dani people of New Guinea.
DEAD MAN
[fs 6829 VHS 121min bw 1995 dir:Jim Jarmusch cast: Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer]
In the old West, a young man is wrongly outlawed and must learn to survive.
DEAD MAN WALKING
[fs 5592Laser 1996 122min dir:Tim Robbins cast: Susan Sarandon; Sean Penn]
Sister Helen Prejean becomes the spiritual advisor to a convict sentenced to death. Based on a true story.
DEAD MEN WALK
[fs2581 VHS 65min 1943 bw dir:Sam Newfield cast:George Zucco]
B-movie of vampire/ghost stalking his murderer.
DEAD OF NIGHT
[fs 1051-1053 16mm 98min bw 1945 dirs:Alberto Cavalcanti; Basil Dearden; Robert Hamer; Charles Crichton cast:Antony Baird; Michael Redgrave]
An architect is trapped in a cycle of dreams in which people relate their supernatural experiences to him.
DEAD RINGERS
[fs 9578 DVD 115min. 1988 dir:David Cronenberg cast:Jeremy Irons, Genevieve Bujold]
Twin womanizing, woman-hating gynecologists go mad when one of them falls in love.
DEAL ME IN
[0504 VHS 30min 1978]
A documentary on women entering the workforce, made by the University of Florida.
DEALING WITH DIVERSITY: Focus on Japanese Students in the College Classroom
[4235 VHS 17min 1993]
Interviews several Japanese students in the U.S. to discover some main differences between Japanese and U.S. college classrooms.
DEAR KITTY
[JHVC 7159 VHS 25min 1987 ]
The story of Anne Frank and her diary, for children.
DEATH IN THE SEINE
[fs 6248 VHS 44min 1994 dir:Peter Greenaway]
Studies the lives and deaths of 306 people whose bodies were recovered from the Seine during the French Revolution.
DEATH IN VENICE (MORTE A VENEZIA)
[6396 VHS fs 5586 Laser 1971 130min dir:Luchino Visconti cast:Dirk Bogarde; Mark Burns; Silvana Mangano]
From the novel by Thomas Mann. A composer on holiday becomes obsessed with a beautiful boy.
THE DEATH MARCH OF DE SOTO
[4104 VHS 8072 VHS 23min 1993]
Revises the romantic story of exploration by Hernando de Soto into a mission of conquest, torture and enslavement of Native American tribes.
DEATH OF A BUREAUCRAT
[3508 VHS 87min bw Spanish subt 1966 dir:Tomás Gutiérrez Alea]
A young man attempts to fight the system as he struggles with a galloping bureaucracy and the tyranny of red tape.
DEATH OF A GANDY DANCER
[0748 VHS 26min 1977 dir:Arthur Barron]
A boy's grandfather is greatly loved and tells tales of early railroad days, but he dies and the boy and his family must face the loss.
DEATH OF A PEASANT (Smrj Paora Dvrice)
[1962 VHS 10min 1972]
No dialogue; in 1941, men on horseback capture a group of Yugoslav peasants.
DEATH OF A SALESMAN
[fs 0489-0491 16mm 115min bw 1951 dir:Laslo Benedek cast:Fredric March; Mildred Dunnock]
Arthur Miller play about a man facing failure in business and home.
DEATH ON THE NILE
[fs 2211-2213 u-matic 140min 1978 dir:John Guillermin cast:Peter Ustinov; Bette Davis]
A Poirot mystery. When a wealthy heiress is murdered, all aboard the ship are suspects.
THE DECADE OF DESTRUCTION
[VHS 55min ea 1990 dir:Adrian Cowell]
Frontline documentaries on the Amazon Basin 1980-90. IN THE ASHES is a chronicle of peasants attempting to create farmland in the rainforest by slash and burn methods, Indian retaliating by kidnapping a colonist child, epidemic and destruction. The other tape chronicles the rise of a leader of the rubber-tappers, or seringueiros, who organized them into a union which protected the rainforest; he was assasinated in 1988.
  • IN THE ASHES OF THE FOREST 1 [2764]
  • IN THE ASHES OF THE FOREST 2 [2765]
  • THE KILLING OF CHICO MENDES [6339]
DECALOGUE 1 (DEKALOG I-VI)
[fs9256 DVD 336min 1987 Polish/sub dir:Krzystof Kieslowski]
Each of the Ten Commandments provides a theme for a 55-minute story about the inhabitants of a postwar Warsaw suburb. Professional, bourgeois, and working-class people struggle to reconcile idealism, love, death, and desire.
DECALOGUE 2 (DEKALOG VII-X)
[fs9257 DVD 224min 1987 Polish/sub dir:Krzystof Kieslowski]
Each of the Ten Commandments provides a theme for a 55-minute story about the inhabitants of a postwar Warsaw suburb. Professional, bourgeois, and working-class people struggle to reconcile idealism, love, death, and desire.
THE DECAMERON
[fs 2849 VHS 6612 VHS 116min 1970; 6558 VHS Italian/sub dir:Pier Paolo Pasolini]
Eight of Bocaccio's stories of life and lechery in the early Renaissance.
DECEPTION
[fs 3343 VHS 112min bw 1946 dir:Irving Rapper cast:Bette Davis; Claude Rains; Paul Henreid]
A European cellist returns to the U.S. at the end of the World War II to find that a former girlfriend has a rich and jealous lover.
DECONSTRUCTING HARRY
[5503 LaserCLV 1997 95min dir:Woody Allen cast:Caroline Aaron; Kirstie Allie]
Comedy about a writer whose friends turn against him after he writes a bestseller about them.
DEEP IN MY HEART
[fs 5690 Laser 132min. 1954 dir:Stanley Donen cast:Jose Ferrer, Merle Oberon]
Biopic of operetta composer Sigmund Romberg, as he seeks to write Viennese-flavored ragtime and win his true love.
DEEP-OCEAN FEATURES
[9017 slides teacher's guide 1981]
This 35mm set of 54 slides shows features of the World Ocean Floor Map of Heezen and Tharp of the Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory such as abyssal plains and fracture zones.
THE DEFINITE INTEGRAL AS A LIMIT
[1503 16mm 10min 1966]
How the definite integral measures area under a curve.
DEFORMATION OF CONTINUOUS MEDIA
[1353 16mm 4458 VHS 38min bw 1969]
An introduction to the concepts of rotation, strain, principle axes and deformation rate by analysis of patterns marked on the surface of glycerine moving in a rectilinear Couette flow.
DE GAULLE: UN GÉANT DANS L'HISTOIRE
[10011 CD-ROM PC 1997 French Language]
Interactive resource on the French leader's life.
THE DELHI WAY
[0069 VHS 44min 1964 dir:James Ivory]
A physical and historical tour of Delhi, India.
DELIRIUM
[fs 2857 VHS 23min 1993 dir:Mindy Faber]
Experimental video about a mother and daughter.
DELIVERANCE
[fs 3778 VHS 9222 DVD 109min 1972 dir:John Boorman cast:Jon Voight; Burt Reynolds]
From the novel by James Dickey about four Atlanta men who go white water canoeing on the weekend and find trouble.
LA DENTILLIÈRE
See THE LACEMAKER
THE DENTIST
[fs 0260 16mm 20min 9437 DVDbw 1932 cast:W. C. Fields]
Comedic interpretation of a day in the life of a dentist.
DERSU UZALA
[fs 9610 DVD 110min. 1974 Russian/sub dir:Akira Kurosawa cast:Yuri Solomin, Maksim Munzuk]
Vladimir Arsenyev's novel tells of a Mongolian hunter-guide assisting a Soviet survey team in Siberia.
DESCARTES: CONSTRUIRE LA CONAISSANCE
[10010 CD-ROM PC 1997 French Language]
Interactive resource on the philosopher's thought and life.
DESERT SONG
[fs 0357-0359 16mm 96min bw 1953 dir:H. Bruce Humberstone cast:Kathryn Grayson; Gordon MacRae]
Sigmund Romberg operetta in which a mysterious hero leads North African natives against Arabs.
DESERTER
[6093 VHS 100min bw 1933 dir:V.I. Pudovkin]
A German shipyard worker is starved and beaten for protesting union corruption. Sent to the USSR, he sees a spirit of cooperation in the idyllic workers' state. See also fs 5485LD CLASSICS OF EARLY SOVIET CINEMA
DESIGN AND CONTROL OF CONCRETE MIXES
[0762 16mm 35min 1971]
Emphasizes tailoring the concrete mix to the conditions in which it will be used.
Design for Living
fs 5494LD
See THE LUBISTCH TOUCH
DESIGNING WOMAN
[fs 5691 Laser 118min. 1957 b/w dir:Vincente Minnelli cast:Lauren Bacall, Gregory Peck]
A sportwriter and a chic designer, both with long love lives, try marriage in New York City.
DESIGNS IN ENERGY
[1298 16mm 30min 1979]
Shows the construction of the Campus Federal Credit Union building, with concrete building methods and design features to minimize energy consumption
DESIRE
[fs 4319 VHS 96min bw 1936 dir:Frank Borzage cast:Marlene Dietrich; Gary Cooper]
A woman jewel thief falls in love with a tourist with whom she accidentally becomes involved.
DESPAIR: EINE REISE INS LICHT
[6914 VHS 119min. 1978 dir:Ranier Werner Fassbinder cast:Dirk Bogarde, Andrea Ferréol]
Screenplay by Tom Stoppard based on a Vladimir Nabokov novel about a Russian emigré factory owner in Germany before the rise of the Nazis. Original English-language version.
DESPERATE
[fs 3269 VHS 73min bw 1947 dir:Anthony Mann cast:Steve Brodie; Audrey Long]
An honest truck driver, victimized by racketeers, is forced to flee with his wife.
DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN
[fs 6385 VHS 9342 DVD 104min 1985 dir:Susan Seidelman cast:Madonna, Patricia Arquette]
Romance, comedy, and magic happen as a bored housewife switches identities with a trampy Free Spirit.
DESTINATION SENEGAL
[ 8064 VHS 16min. 1990 ]
A young American girl narrates a "report" on this African nation.
DESTINATION TOKYO
[fs 3435 VHS 135min bw 1943 dir:Delmer Daves cast:Cary Grant; John Garfield; Alan Hale]
The interaction of the crew of a World War II American submarine in their confined quarters when sent into Japanese waters.
DESTINOS
[VHS Spanish 1992 Language Learning Center]
A Spanish-language tutorial series in 52 episodes, using a storyline and settings in a number of Spanish-speaking countries.
DESTINY
[fs 0309-0310, 3097 VHS 114min bw silent 1921 dir:Fritz Lang]
A woman tries to save her lover from death, but her every action seems predestined.
DESTINY OF A MAN
[fs 1293 VHS 101min bw dubbed 1959 dir:Sergei Bondarchuk cast:Sergei Bondarchuk; Pavel Boriskin]
A Russian soldier who has lost his family to the war one day encounters an orphaned boy and tells him he is his father.
DESTRY RIDES AGAIN
[fs 2981 VHS 94min bw 1939 dir:George Marshall cast:Marlene Dietrich; James Stewart]
A Western satire, a lawman tames a rowdy town without resorting to violence
DETECTIVE
[fs 6062 VHS 94min French subt 1985 dir:Jean-Luc Godard cast:Johnny Hallyday; Nathalie Baye]
"..a comic homage to Godard's favourite B-movie thriller genre.." A murder mystery set in a hotel.
THE DETECTIVE
[6147 VHS 91min bw 1954 cast:Alec Guinness; Peter Finch]
Based on G.K. Chesterton's "Father Brown" detective series.
DETECTIVE
[fs 6620VHS French language sub 95min 1985 dir:Jean-Luc Godard cast:Nathalie Baye; Claude Brasseur; Jean-Pierre Leaud]
French suspense/drama chronicles the intertwining paths of criminals living in a Paris Hotel.
DETOUR
[fs9448 DVD 68min. 1945 b/w dir:Edgar G. Ulmer cast:Tom Neal, Ann Savage]
Film noir. A piano player is hitching from New York to California, but finds death and a beautiful blackmailing woman on the road.
DIE DEUTSCHE WOCHENSCHAU
See GERMAN WEEKLY NEWSREEL
DEUTSCHLAND BLEICHE MUTTER
See GERMANY PALE MOTHER
DEUX ANGLAISES ET LE CONTINENT (Two English Girls)
[fs5525 LD 130min French languge sub dir:François Truffaut cast:Jean-Pierre Léaud; Kika Markham ]
Drama chronicles the seven-year relationship between a writer and two very different sisters. Based on a novel by Henri Roché.
2000 ANS D'HISTOIRE DE FRANCE
[10081 CD-ROM PC/MAC 1998 French]
Maps, biographies, great events, daily life in France over the first two millenia.
DEVELOPMENT OF BEHAVIOR IN THE DUCK EMBRYO
[0755 VHS 21min 1964]
An experiment conducted on duck embryos, showing that they respond to sensory stimulation.
DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHILD: A Cross-Cultural Approach to Cognition
[0759 VHS 20min 1975]
Covers the expressive traits of infants and the nature of play activities, comparing children in a factory town in Japan, an agricultural village in Kenya, and a physically and linguistically isolated mountain community in Guatemala.
DEVI
[fs 0908-0910 16mm 6594 VHS 96min bw 1960 dir:Satyajit Ray]
While his son is away at school, a farmer in Bengal persuades his daughter-in-law that she is a goddess, with tragic results.
DEVIL IN THE FLESH
[fs 3655 VHS 107min Italian subt 1987 dir:Marco Bellocchio cast:Maruschka Detmers; Federico Pitzalis]
A beautiful but unstable young woman is torn between her terrorist lover and a handsome young student.
DEVIL IS A GENTLEMAN
[JHVC 7099 VHS 12min 1983 ]
CBS 60 Minutes segment exploring the life of Adolf Eichmann.
DEVIL IS A WOMAN
[fs6571 VHS 80min 1931 b/w dir:Josef Von Sternberg cast:Marlene Dietrich, Cesar Romero, Edward Everett Horton, Lionell Atwill]
Seville, 1900: A very beautiful woman comes between a Spanish revolutionary and his best friend.
THE DEVIL, PROBABLY (LE DIABLE PROBABLEMENT)
[fs 8062 VHS 95min. 1977 French/sub dir:Robert Bresson cast:Antoine Monnier, Tina Irissari]
Charles, of the post-May 1968 generation, seeks redemption in activism, revolution, love, the Church, and psychoanalysis-- but finds no reason for living.
THE DEVIL'S DAUGHTER
[fs 4871 VHS 60min bw 1939 dir:Arthur Leonard cast:Nina Mae McKinney]
A young woman goes to Jamaica to claim her late father's plantation and encounters voodoo and a jealous half-sister
THE DEVIL'S WANTON
[fs 0615-0616 16mm 3594 VHS 78min bw Swedish subt 1949 dir:Ingmar Bergman]
The posing of existential questions using the characters of a film director, a poet, a wife, a prostitute, a pimp, and others.
THE DHIMMIS: To Be a Jew in Arab Lands
[7244 VHS 29min 1975]
A country-by-country recounting of Jewish life among the Arabs.
EL DÍA QUE ME QUIERES
[3173 VHS 95min bw Spanish, 1935 dir:John Reinhardt cast:Carlos Gardel; Rosita Moreno]
A man relinquishes his family fortune to live in poverty with the woman he loves.
DIABOLIQUE (1955)
[fs 0655-0657 16mm 3567 VHS 9283 DVD 107min bw French subt 1955 dir: Henri-Georges Clouzot cast:Simone Signoret; Vera Clouzot]
The wife and the mistress of a tyrannical headmaster conspire to murder him.
DIABOLIQUE (1996)
[fs5575 LD 107min 1996 dir:Jeremiah S. Chechik cast:Sharon Stone; Isabelle Adjani; Chazz Palmintieri]
Remake of the Henri Clouzot thriller about a school headmaster and the women in his life.
DIAL M FOR MURDER
[fs 3415 VHS 100min 1954 dir:Alfred Hitchcock cast:Ray Milland; Grace Kelly]
A man plots to murder his wife by blackmailing a killer to commit the murder
DIAMOND MIND
[fs 2560 VHS 30min 1977 dir:Les Levine]
Art video in which the artist talks about his life experiences, shows some objects he designed, and puts across the idea that people are programmed by the images they make for themselves.
DIAMONDS OF THE NIGHT
[fs 6199 VHS 64min bw Czech/sub 1964 dir:Jan Nemec cast:Ladislav Jansky; Antonin Kumbera]
Expressionistic study of two Jewish boys who escape from a concentration camp train and are hunted down.
DIANE
[fs 5692 Laser 110min. 1955 b/w dir:David Miller cast:Lana Turner, Roger Moore]
Diane de Poitiers, kindly received at the court of François I, is assigned to prepare his son, the future Henri II, for his marriage to Catherine De Medicis.
DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID
[fs 6687VHS bw 81min 1946 dir:Jean Renoir cast:Paulette Goddard; Burgess Meredith]
A serving girl in a wealthy French household of the 1880's has her choice of suitors offering wealth, position, or romance.
DIARY OF A COUNTRY PRIEST
[fs 3098 VHS 4170 VHS 5351 Laser CLV1 120min bw French subt 1951 dir:Robert Bresson cast:Claude Laydu]
A young parish priest leads a saintly life despite being misunderstood by his troublesome parishioners.
DIARY OF A LOST GIRL
[fs 3237 VHS 104min bw silent 1929 dir:G. W. Pabst cast:Louise Brooks]
A young woman is raped, gives birth, is put in a detention home, then a brothel, inherits money, marries, and then is widowed.
THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK
[JHVC 7100-01 VHS fs 5279 LaserCLV2 184min bw 1959 dir:George Stevens cast:Millie Perkins; Joseph Schildkraut; Shelley Winters]
The movie adaptation of the true story told by a Jewish girl in her diary as she and her family hid from the Nazis in Amsterdam.
DICTIONNAIRE HACHETTE OXFORD
[10012 CD-ROM PC/MAC 1997 French Language]
Fr-English, English-French with models for letter, resumés, ads, etc. Also online in the LLC.
DICTIONNAIRE LAROUSSE DE LA LANGUE FRANÇAISE
[10007 CD-ROM PC/MAC 1996 French Language]
French-French dictionary of words, quotations, synonyms, and terminology groups.
UN DIMANCHE À LA CAMPAGNE
See SUNDAY IN THE COUNTRY
DINER
[fs9251 DVD 110min 1982 dir:Barry Levinson cast:Kevin Bacon, Steve Guttenberg]
Baltimore, 1950s: a group of men hang out at a diner and contemplate growing up.
DINNER AT EIGHT
[fs 3836 VHS 5034 LaserCLV1 111min bw 1933 dir:George Cukor cast:Marie Dressler; John Barrymore; Edmund Lowe; Jean Harlow; Wallace Beery; Lionel Barrymore]
A nouveau riche is desperate to give a dinner party for a visiting English peer. From a play by Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman.
THE DINNER GAME (Le Dîner de Cons)
[fs9284 DVD 81min 1998 French/sub dir:Francis Veber cast:Thierry Lhermite, Jacques Villeret]
Club members compete to invite the dumbest dinner guest; one of them is obliged to get to know his moron.
DIPLOMANIACS
[fs 5047 LaserCLV1 61min bw 1933 dir:William A. Seiter cast:Bert Wheeler; Robert Woolsey]
Two looney barbers represent an Indian tribe at an international peace conference in Geneva.
DIRECTED BY ANDREI TARKOVSKY
See THE SACRIFICE (OFFRET).
DIRTY DANCING
[JHVC 7026 VHS 105min 1987 dir:Emile Ardolino cast:Jennifer Grey, Patrick Swayze, Jerry Orbach]
A Jewish doctor's daughter finds romance with a dance instructor at a Catskills resort in 1963.
DIRTY GERTIE FROM HARLEM, U.S.A
[fs 3797 VHS 60min bw 1946 dir:Spencer Williams cast:Francine Everett]
A retelling of the Somerset Maugham story Rain by an African-American cast.
DIRTY HARRY
[fs 5585Laser 1971 102min dir:Don Siegel cast:Clint Eastwood; Harry Guardino]
A San Francisco cop chases a rooftop sniper.
DIRTY WORK
[fs 1920 16mm 9min bw 1933 dir:Lloyd French cast:Stan Laurel; Oliver Hardy]
A pair of chimney sweeps cause problems for an eccentric scientist.
THE DISAPPEARED ONES
[4902 VHS 8min Spanish/sub]
Music video that documents the situation in Ayacucho, Peru, where Indian peasants are trapped between the Peruvian army and the Shining Path guerillas - and often disappear.
THE DISCIPLE
[fs 3572 VHS 80min bw silent 1915 dir:William S. Hart cast:William S. Hart; Dorothy Dalton]
A parson tries to clean up a western town while his wife is beguiled by a gambler.
DISCLOSURE
[fs 5606 LD 129min 1994 dir:Barry Levinson cast:Michael Douglas, Demi Moore]
A DigiCom exec is sexually harassed by his boss.
DISCOVERING THE MUSIC OF INDIA
[0049 16mm 22min 1969]
Describes Carnatic and Hisdustani music and dance, the traditional instruments, and points to differences from Western music.
DISCOVERING THE MUSIC OF JAPAN
[0048 VHS 22min 1967]
Shows traditional Japanese instruments, with music, dancing and singing.
THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE (LE CHARME DISCRET DE LA BOURGEOISIE)
[fs 4146 VHS 100min French subt 1972 dir:Luis Buñuel cast:Fernando Rey; Delphine Seyrig, Bulle Ogier]
A dinner party is the point of intersection for the dreams of each of the participants. For DVD, see next item.
DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE & A PROPÓSITO DE BUÑUEL & EL NÁUFRAGO DE LA CALLE DE PROVIDENCIA
[fs 9543 DVD]
For main film, see preceding entry. DVD includes 24-min homage to Buñuel by Arturo Ripstein and Rafael Castanedo, "Castaway on the street of Providence" (1970); and a 98-min documentary by Jose Luis Lopez-Linares and Javier Rioyo, "Speaking of Buñuel" (2000)
THE DISNEYLAND ANTHOLOGY
[fs 5602Laser color, bw 1954-1957 315min]
Programs from five shows in the Disneyland television series: The Disneyland Story, A Day in the Life of Donald Duck, Along the Oregon Trail, The Crisler Story/Prowlers of the Everglades, Adventures in Fantasy, and Mars and Beyond.
THE DISPUTATION
[JHVC 7133 VHS 65min 1986 ]
Re-creation of a debate between Pablo Christiani, a converso, and Rabbi Moses ben Nachman, in 1263 before King James of Aragon.
DISRAELI
[20006 audiocass. 1978]
Vernon Bogdanor and Paul Smith discuss the Victorian statesman.
THE DISSEMINATION OF SCIENCE: Frankland and Popular Scientific Education
[0833 16mm 28min 1973]
Documents the way in which scientists communicated in Victorian England and focuses on the work of Edward Frankland.
DISSOLUTION AND RESETTLEMENT: 1945-1950
[3185 VHS 30min]
Discusses the difficulties of the Holocaust survivors in establishing new lives, and the formation of the Jewish state in Palestine.
DISTANT THUNDER
[6780 VHS fs 6582 VHS Hindi language sub 100min 1973 dir:Satyajit Ray]
Drama of the effects of famine in India during WWII when the government controlled the food supply to feed troops, letting the populace starve.
DIVA
[fs9285 DVD 123min 1981 French/sub dir:Jean-Jacques Beineix cast:Richard Bohringer, Frédéric Andréi]
A young man's secret tape of a black American opera singer (Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez) has repercussions for her, corrupt cops and gangsters, Japanese record pirates, and a guru with a shoplifting Vietnamese sidekick.
DIVERTIMENTO
[fs 6240 VHS 126min French/sub 1993 dir:Jacques Rivette cast:Michel Piccoli; Jane Birkin; Emmanuelle Béart]
A re-edited and different version of La Belle Noiseuse, in which an artist finds a model capable of reawakening his creative energy.
DIVIDE AND CONQUER
[1060-1061 16mm 60min bw 1943]
U.S. War Department film shows World War II German invasion of northern Europe and evacuation of British forces at Dunkirk.
DIVIDED BRAIN AND CONSCIOUSNESS
[1401 16mm 22min 1977]
A brief discussion of the functions of the brain which occur on one side or the other, along with an experiment which shows the right hemisphere is affected by hypnosis.
DIVIDED UNION SERIES
[VHS 51min each 1987]
A documentary bout the American Civil War.
  1. Forward to Sumter
    [2567] From the rise of the Republican party to secession within the South, industrialization in the North, and the impact of the cotton gin on the economic development of the South.
  2. Conclusion at Appomattox
    [2568] From Lee's surrender at Appomattox to the assassination of Lincoln and the struggle for reunification of the Union. Discusses the War's continuing impact on American life.
DIVINE HORSEMEN: The Living Gods of Haiti
[2921 VHS 52min bw 1947-1951 dir:Maya Deren]
Discussion of the Boudoun religion of Haiti. Rituals of the Rada, Petro and Congo cults, whose devotees commune with cosmic powers through invocations, ritual offerings, song and dance.
DIVORCE ITALIAN STYLE
[4893 VHS 104min bw Italian/sub 1962 dir:Pietro Germi cast:Marcello Mastroianni; Daniela Rocca; Leopoldo Trieste]
Tiring of his wife, an Italian baron sets out to find her a lover so he can catch her cheating and kill her
DO THE RIGHT THING
[fs 4171 VHS 5299 LaserCLV2 5321 LaserCLV3 9579 DVD 120min 1989 dir:Spike Lee cast:Danny Aiello; Spike Lee]
Friction between a pizza restaurant owner and the people of the neighborhood leads to violence in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn.
DVD includes a supplemental disk with "Making of" documentary, press interviews, music videos, etc.
DO YOU HEAR THAT?
[4132 VHS 35min 1992]
Shows the techniques for helping hearing-impaired children learn to speak. A professional therapist works with children from seven months to six years in age.
DOCKS OF NEW YORK
[fs 2509 VHS 76min bw silent 1928 dir:Josef von Sternberg cast:George Bancroft; Betty Compson]
A belligerent longshoreman changes his life by saving a suicidal woman
DOCTOR, LAWYER, INDIAN CHIEF
[4131 VHS 29min 1986]
Documents five native Canadian women who have achieved success in a variety of careers.
DOCTOR ZHIVAGO
[fs 5694 Laser 200min. 1965 dir:David Lean cast:Julie Christie, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay, Rod Steiger, Geraldine Chaplin]
Boris Pasternak's novel of the Russian Revolution seen through the eyes of a poet-doctor.
DOCTORA
[2061 u-matic 3290 VHS 52min 1983]
The life and work of Dr. Ruth Tichauer, a 74-year-old physician in Bolivia who treats the Aymara Indians.
DOCUMENTARY MASTERPIECES BY JOHN GRIERSON
[fs 6314VHS 75min bw & color 1931-1960 dir:John Grierson]
Five documentaries by John Grierson
DODES 'KA-DEN
[fs 2522 VHS 140min Japanese subt 1970 dir:Akira Kurosawa cast:Yoshitaka Zushi]
A group of Tokyo slum dwellers huddle together on the desolate fringes of the city and survive on hope and dreams.
DODGE CITY
[fs 5695 Laser 100min. 1939 b/w dir:Micheal Curtiz cast:Errol Flynn, Olivia de Haviland]
Western: can a sherrif bring law and order to a rough town?
DOES ANYONE NEED ME ANYMORE?
[1337 16mm 29min 1975]
A woman whose children have grown up and moved away must find new purpose in her life and marriage.
DOG DAY AFTERNOON
[fs 5323 LaserCLV2 125min 1975 dir:Sidney Lumet cast:Al Pacino; Charles Durning]
First-time bank robbers bungle the job into a hostage-taking media event with a sorry ending.
DOG STAR MAN
[fs 2515 VHS 78min silent 1964 dir:Stan Brakhage]
An experimental film representing the creation of the universe using superimpositions, painting of film, distortion and rhythmic montage.
DOGMA
[fs9264 DVD 128min 1999 dir:Kevin Smith cast:Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Linda Fiorentino]
God, a sceptic, and Chris Rock must prevent two renegade angels from "destroying existence."
A DOG'S LIFE
See THE KID.
LA DOLCE VITA
[fs 1437-1440 16mm 3897-3898 VHS 174min bw Italian subt 1961 dir:Federico Fellini cast:Marcello Mastroianni; Anita Ekberg]
Tabloid reporter sees his life in shallow Rome society as worthless but can't change.
DOLL FACE
[6397 VHS fs 1770-1771 16mm 80min bw 1945 dir:Lewis Seiler cast:Vivian Blaine; Dennis O'Keefe; Carmen Miranda; Perry Como]
A burlesque dancer makes it on Broadway.
DOLLAR
[fs 5120 LaserCLV1 74min bw Swedish subt 1938 dir:Gustav Molander cast:Ingrid Bergman]
Three different couples, related through marriage, flirt with each other's spouses because they are dissatisfied with their marriages.
A DOLL'S HOUSE
[6556 VHS 96min 1973 cast:Claire Bloom; Anthony Hopkins]
Adaptation of the Ibsen play about a woman who tries to help her banker husband by forging a loan signature.
THE DOLLY SISTERS
[fs5576 LD 114min 1945 dir:Irving Cummings cast:Betty Grable; John Payne; June Haver ]
Musical about Hungarian twin sisters who become famous as a song and dance team.
DOM JUAN
[6786VHS bw French language 106min 1989 dir:Maracel Bluwal cast: Michel Piccoli, Claude Brasseur]
Molière play performed in relatively modern dress and settings. Don Juan chooses Hell.
DOMICILE CONJUGALE
See BED AND BOARD
DOMINION: ACT I (TANK POLICE)
[fs 3649 VHS 40min Japanese subt 1989 dir:Koichi Mashimo]
Animated science fiction series set in a Bladerunner-style future. This episode introduces the Tank Police.
DON JUAN MY LOVE (DON JUAN MI QUERIDO FANTASMO)
[6944 VHS 96min 1990 Spanish/sub dir:Antonio Mercero cast:Juan Luis Galiardo, Rossy de Palma]
Don Juan's centuries in Purgatory culminate in his being sent to earth to redeem himself with a good deed.
DONDE DIGO DIEGO RIVERA
[6970 VHS 56min 1993 Spanish (NO sub) ]
Documentary about the Mexican muralist and painter, with tour of Rivera museum.
DON TAPSCOTT: NEW LEARNING FOR THE NEW ECONOMY (PARADIGM SHIFT: THE NEW PROMISE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY)
[ 8012 VHS 21 + 46min.]
Two lectures by Mr. Tapscott on the effect of the Internet, or "Digital Economy", on American education. Probably 1995-98.
DON'T GET PERSONAL
[fs 1754-1755 16mm 60min bw 1942 dir:Charles Lamont cast:Hugh Herbert]
The peculiar heir of a pickle company gets involved in a radio soap opera
DON'T LOOK NOW
[fs 3955 VHS 110min 1974 dir:Nicolas Roeg cast:Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland]
The parents of a dead child seek occult help in Venice and find only more tragedy.
DON'T SHOOT THE WHITE SWANS
[2772-2773 VHS 133min Russian 1980 dir:Rodion Nachapetov]
A sensitive and artistic man is unable to find a niche in a materialistic society which will reward his creativity.
DON'T TOUCH THE WHITE WOMAN (Non Toccare La Donna Bianca)
[fs9286 DVD 110min 1973 Italian/sub dir:MarcoFerreri cast:Marcello Mastroianno, Catherine Deneuve]
General Custer battles Indians in 1970s Paris.
DOOM OF DRACULA
[fs 1945 VHS 10min bw]
Clips from the 1931 film DRACULA.
DOORWAY TO THE PAST
[0108 VHS 29min 1969]
A documentary with re-enactments on historical archaeology in America mentioning the ideas of Thomas Jefferson, produced by Colonial Williamsburg.
DOSTOYEVSKY
See GREAT RUSSIAN WRITERS: FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY.
DOSTOEVSKY: 1821-1881
[1338 VHS 55min 1976]
A study of Fyodor Dostoevsky's life and works by Malcolm Muggeridge, showing the influences of his experiences on his novels.
THE DOUBLE DAY
[1244 VHS 56min 1975]
Documents the conditions of women's lives in Latin America, with emphasis on their desire for change.
DOUBLE INDEMNITY
[fs 3385 VHS 5280 LaserCLV1 107min bw 1944 dir:Billy Wilder cast:Barbara Stanwyck; Fred MacMurray; Edward G. Robinson]
From the James M. Cain novel about a housewife who plots the murder of her husband.
A DOUBLE LIFE
[fs 3361 VHS 103min bw 1947 dir:George Cukor cast:Ronald Colman; Signe Hasso; Edmond O'Brien; Shelley Winters]
A stage actor loses himself in the role of Othello and it carries over tragically to his personal life.
THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VERONIQUE (LA VIE DOUBLE DE VÉRONIQUE)
[ 6501 VHS 96min. 1991 French & Polish/sub dir:Kryzstof Kieslowski cast:Irène Jacob]
The French girl Véronique and the Polish Weronika are doubles, both beautiful, musically gifted, and fragile. One gives her life to sing; the other keeps hers.
DOUBLE LUNAR DOGS
[fs 2006 u-matic 28min 1984 dir:Joan Jonas]
A vision of post-apocalyptic survival aboard a "spacecraft" travelling aimlessly through the universe.
DOUBLE SUICIDE
[fs 3412 VHS 105min bw Japanese subt 1969 dir:Masahiro Shinoda]
A merchant of paper products neglects his business due to his relentless pursuit of a prostitute.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR
[1382-1383 16mm 62min 1976]
A portrait of the World War II general.
LE DOULOS
[fs 3556 VHS 108min bw French subt 1962 dir:Jean-Pierre Melville cast:Jean-Paul Belmondo]
Complex mystery about a man just released from prison and an informer
DOWN AND OUT IN AMERICA
[3154 VHS 60min 1986 dir:Lee Grant]
Illustrates the plight of America's homeless in both an urban and rural setting through interviews. 1986 Academy Award winner for Best Documentary
DOWN BY LAW
[fs 4968 VHS 90min bw 1986 dir:Jim Jarmusch cast:Tom Waits; John Lurie; Roberto Benigni]
Three men end up in jail together and then escape into the swamps of Louisiana.
DOWN IN THE DUMPS
[ 8004 VHS 26min. 1988 ]
Documentary examines the problems of garbage management in American cities, and some technological or organizational solutions.
DR. CYCLOPS
[fs 0542 16mm 20min bw 1940 dir:Ernest B. Schoedsack]
Clips. Jungle travellers are miniaturized by mad scientist.
DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE (1920)
[fs 1085 16mm (25min) 9392 DVD (79min) 1920 bw silent dir:John Stuart Robertson cast:John Barrymore, Nita Naldi]
Robert Louis Stevenson's tale of the medical man who discovers his own dark side in trying to purge himself of it. Bonus scrap of 1911 version. 16mm is clips.
DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE (1932)
[fs 3522 VHS 5693 Laser 97min bw 1932 dir:Rouben Mamoulian cast:Fredric March]
A London doctor's experiments with chemistry turn him into the monstrous Mr. Hyde. From the Robert Louis Stevenson story.
DR. MABUSE THE GAMBLER
[fs 3943-3944 VHS 242min bw silent 1922 dir:Fritz Lang]
A criminal mastermind uses blackmail and hypnotism in his quest to gain world domination.
DR. STRANGELOVE; Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
[fs 0475-0476 16mm 2962 VHS 6682 VHS 9231 DVD 9611 DVD 101min bw 1963 dir:Stanley Kubrick cast:Peter Sellers; George C. Scott]
Cold War black comedy in which a paranoid American general launches a nuclear attack on the U.S.S.R.
DRACULA
[fs 1946* 16mm 3246 VHS 75min bw 1931 dir:Tod Browning cast:Bela Lugosi (*10min of clips)]
A Transylvanian count moves to London, places several under his spell, but finally meets his match.
DRAGON CHOW
[fs 3815 VHS 75min bw German subt 1987 dir:Jan Schütte cast:Bhasker; Ric Young]
A Pakistani immigrant in Germany teams up with a Chinese waiter to open their own restaurant.
DRAGONSLAYER
[fs 2239-2240 u-matic 110min 1981 dir:Matthew Robbins cast:Peter MacNicol; Ralph Richardson]
An apprentice sorcerer must fight a huge dragon that is terrorizing the land.
THE DREAM
See AMARILLY OF CLOTHES-LINE ALLEY.
DREAM DANCES OF THE KASHIA POMO
[6398 VHS 0107 16mm 30min 1964]
Five dances by Pomo Indian women which express traditional beliefs and also reflect recent influences such as Christianity and World War II.
DREAM OF A RAREBIT FIEND
[5-6min silent b/w or tinted 1906 dir:Edwin S. Porter]
Winsor McCay's newspaper cartoons inspired this exercise in special effects that details the uneasy night of a gentleman who has eaten and drunk too much. Avalable in the following VHS compilations:
AMERICAN AVANT-GARDE FILMS
EDWIN S. PORTER FILMS
EXPERIMENTATION AND DISCOVERY
PIONEER CINEMA.
DREAM OF THE WILD HORSES
[fs 1963 16mm 9min 1960]
Expressive photography of wild horses splashing in water.
See also 1960s AVANT GARDE SHORTS
DRESSED TO KILL
See SHERLOCK HOLMES: DRESSED TO KILL
DREYFUS
[fs 4917 VHS 91min bw German 1930 dir:Richard Oswald cast:Fritz Kortner; Grete Mosheim; Oskar Homolka]
".. a careful reconstruction of the Dreyfus case.." and "..a courageous statement in an increasingly anti-Semitic Germany."
DRIFTING
[2886 VHS 80min Hebrew subt 1982 dir:Amos Guttman]
Controversial Israeli film which has been called the best gay film ever made. A young man comes to terms with his own homosexuality.
DRITTE GENERATION, DIE
[4300 VHS 110min German 1979 dir:Rainer Werner Fassbinder cast:Harry Baer; Hark Bohm]
Black comedy about political terrorists in West Germany.
DRIVE
See EDDIE.
DRIVING MISS DAISY
[JHVC 7025 VHS 99min. 1989 dir:Bruce Beresford cast:Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy, Dan Ackroyd]
Alfred Uhry's play about the relationship between an elderly Jewish lady in Atlanta and her chauffeur as Civil Rights comes to the South.
DRUG DEBATE
[0187 16mm 25min bw 1962]
Film produced by pharmaceutical industry to explain their position on the antitrust hearings of 1959-1961 before the U.S. congress.
DRUGS AND THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
[0188 16mm 18min 1967]
Documents the negative effects that illicit and prescription drugs can have on the nervous system and body organs.
DRUGSTORE COWBOY
[fs9145 DVD 104min 1989 dir:Gus van Sant cast:Matt Dillon, Kelly Lynch]
A family of four young drug addicts rob drugstores to survive.
DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK
[fs 3275 VHS 103min bw 1939 dir:John Ford cast:Claudette Colbert; Henry Fonda]
Cultured newlywed must adjust to the wilderness when her husband goes off to do battle with Indians.
DRY CLEANING (Nettoyage à Sec)
[fs9287 DVD 97min 1999 French/sub dir:Anne Fontaine cast:Miou-Miou, Charles Berling]
A provincial married couple, bound to their work routine, falls in love with a drag queen.
GEORGES DUBY: LES FEMMES ET LE POUVOIR EN FRANCE AU XIIe SIÈCLE
[10022 audiocass. 60min 1994 French Language]
Lecture at the Collège de France on women in France in the 12th century.
DUCK SOUP
[fs 1414-1415 16mm 3840 VHS 5451 LaserCLV1 70min bw 1933 dir:Leo McCarey cast:Marx Brothers]
An incompetent becomes president of Fredonia and wages war on its scheming neighbor.
THE DUELISTS
[fs 4015 VHS 101min 1978 dir:Ridley Scott cast:Keith Carradine; Harvey Keitel; Albert Finney]
Adaptation of a Joseph Conrad story. In the early 1800's two Hussar officers engage in a series of duels over a 16-year period.
DUNE
[6831 VHS 137min 1984 dir:David Lynch cast: Kyle Maclachlan, Linda Hunt, Sting]
The Frank Herbert novel about intergalactic spice trade and the messianic Paul Atreides comes to the big screen.
DUST IN THE WIND
[fs 4058 VHS 109min Taiwanese subt 1987 dir:Hou Hsiao-hsien]
Two young lovers, too poor to continue school, move to Taipei to find work, but the boy is drafted into the army and the girl marries someone else
DUTCHMAN
[4587 VHS 55min bw 1967 dir:Anthony Harvey cast:Al Freeman, Jr.; Shirley Knight]
Filmed production of the play by LeRoi Jones about a psychotic white woman who accosts a middle class black man on a subway train.
D.W. Griffith shorts(many volumes, VHS and LD)
See Griffith Shorts
DWIGHT EISENHOWER
[1385-1386 16mm 62min 1976]
Biography of the World War II general and U.S. president.
THE DYING DETECTIVE
See THE MEMOIRS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES.
DYNAMICS OF MALE DOMINANCE: BABOONS
[1531 vhs 34min 1964]
Irven Devore studies the behavior and ecology of a baboon troop in Kenya's Nairobi park, following one male from youth to old age.
THE DYNASTY: THE NEHRU-GANDHI STORY
[6948 VHS 180min 1998 ]
Documentary covering Indian politics leading up to independence in 1947, and on through 1991 when Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated.