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[fs 0236-0238 16mm 3022 VHS 5421 LD 9085 DVD 9470 DVD 99min bw German subt 1931 dir:Fritz Lang cast:Peter Lorre]
A psychotic child murderer is brought to justice by the Berlin underworld.
M. BUTTERFLY
[fs5510 LD 101min 1993 dir:David Cronenberg cast:Jeremy Irons; John Lone]
A French diplomat discovers his lover of 20 years is a spy and male.
MA VIE EN ROSE (MY LIFE IN PINK)
[fs9080 DVD 88min 1997 French/sub dir:Alain Berliner cast:Georges Du Fresne, MichŠle Laroque]
Little Ludovic plans out a girlish life for himself, without always getting sympathy from family and neighbors.
MAASAI: Secrets of an Ancient Culture
[4647 VHS 60min 1994]
An antique dealer in Kenya seeks to verify the authenticity of some mysterious artifacts which he thinks were used by Maasai healers.
See also MASAI.
MABEL AND FATTY
[fs 3584 VHS 61min total bw silent 1914-1916]
Three silent films featuring Fatty Arbuckle and Mabel Normand.
He Did and He Didn't
[26min 1916] A doctor and his wife have a bad evening when the wife's old flame visits, followed by a burglar.
Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco
[15min 1915] As the title says.
Mabel's Blunder
[20min 1914] A working girl gets involved romantically with the boss and his son, but the son has another girl.
MABEL'S MARRIED LIFE
See TILLIE'S PUNCTURED ROMANCE.
Mababangong bangungot
See PERFUMED NIGHTMARE
MACARIO
[3501 VHS 91min bw Spanish subt 1960 dir:Roberto Gavaldon]
A humble woodcutter who can't afford to feed his family makes a deal with Death to escape his poverty. Nominated for an Academy Award.
MacArthur
[fs 6763-64 VHS 1999 dir:Austin Hoyt]
Archival footage and first-person interviews tell the story of Douglas MacArthur.
MACBETH (Polanski)
[fs 3155 VHS 140min 1971 dir:Roman Polanski]
Violent recreation of Shakespeare's tragedy of a young Scottish nobleman's lust for power, propelled by his mad wife.
MACBETH (Welles)
[6932 VHS 112min. 1948 b/w dir:Orson Welles cast:Welles, Jeanette Nolan, Dan O'Herlihy, Roddy McDowall]
Shakespeare's Scottish play in a restored version of Welles's fierce dark film, complete with Scots accents.
THE MACHINE
[6317 VHS 96min French sub 1994 cast:Gérard Depardieu; Natalie Baye; Didier Bourdon]
A psychiatrist/inventor's latest device, a brain transfer machine, merges his mind with that of a homicidal psychopath.
MACUNAIMA
[3164 VHS Portuguese 1969 dir:Joaquim Pedro de Andrade]
A social and moral comedy featuring a young black man from the country who, through a bit of magic, becomes a white man who turns himself loose on life in the city.
MAD ABOUT MUSIC
[fs 0366-0367 16mm 98min bw 1938 dir:Norman Taurog cast:Deanna Durbin; Herbert Marshall]
A busy mother leaves her daughter in a boarding school, where she pretends a man is her father.
MAD DOG AND GLORY
[fs 4833 VHS 97min 1993 dir:John McNaughton cast:Robert DeNiro; Uma Thurman; Bill Murray]
A police detective saves the life of a gangster who rewards him with a woman for a week.
THE MAD MASTERS (LES MAÎTRES FOUS)
[fs 8075 VHS 35min. 1955 dir:Jean Rouch]
Documentary about the Hauka religious sect, mostly migrants from Niger to urban Ghana (Gold Coast). Shows the possession ceremony in which the Islamic/polytheistic pantheon is replaced by the "new gods" of Western colonialism.
MADAM SATAN
[fs 4084 VHS 116min bw 1930 dir:Cecil B. DeMille cast:Kay Johnson; Reginald Denny]
A retiring wife is jolted into taking extreme measures to win back her straying husband.
MADAMA BUTTERFLY
[fs5566 Laser 145min 1989 dir:Jean-Pierre Ponnelle cast:Mirella Freni; Placido Domingo]
The Vienna Philharmonic, conducted by Herbert von Karajan, presenting Puccini's opera.
MADAME BOVARY (1934)
[fs 2754 VHS 117min bw French subt 1934 dir:Jean Renoir]
A wife sacrifices her husband and their security for love. From the novel by Gustave Flaubert.
MADAME BOVARY (1949)
[fs 3877 VHS 5745 Laser 114min bw 1949 dir:Vincente Minnelli cast:Jennifer Jones; James Mason]
See above.
MADAME BOVARY (1991)
[fs 5057 LaserCLV2 130min French subt dir:Claude Chabrol cast:Isabelle Huppert; Jean-François Balmer]
See above.
MADAME CURIE
[fs 5746 Laser 124min. 1943 b/w dir:Mervyn LeRoy cast:Greer Garson, Walter Pigeon]
Biopic of French scientists Marie and Pierre Curie, who isolated and explored the element radium.
Madame X (Absinthe)
fs 5428LD
See DAWN OF SOUND III
Madame X: Eine Absolute Herrscherin
[fs2582 VHS 151min 1977 German/sub & English dir:Ulrike Ottinger &Tabea Blumenschein]
Women from many walks of life answer the appeal of Madame X: an absolute ruler, who promises piracy and a feminine utopia.
MÄDCHEN IN UNIFORM
[fs 3122 VHS 110min bw German subt 1931 dir:Leontine Sagan]
In an oppressive military boarding school for girls a sensitive student and a caring teacher form a bond.
MADE FOR EACH OTHER
[fs 6685VHS bw 94min 1939 dir:John Cromwell cast:James Stewart; Carole Lombard]
A married couple struggles with interfering in-laws, no money, and illness of a child.
MADELEINE'S DREAM
[0803 VHS 20min 1969]
Examination of a repetitive dream leads to self-discovery. Discusses dream therapy and gestalt psychology of Frederick Perl.
MADO
[6776VHS French language sub 130min dir:Claude Sautet cast:Michel Piccoli; Octavia Piccolo]
Complex film about the inter-relationship of love and business.
MADONNA: THE IMMACULATE COLLECTION
[fs9124 DVD 60min 1990 ]
12 music videos dating 1984-1990, including the MTV Awards "Vogue."
MADONNA: 93-99
[fs9126 DVD 67min 1999 ]
14 music videos from 1993-99.
MAESTRO DE ESGRIMA
See FENCING MASTER
MAGIC AND CATHOLICISM
SeeAYMARA FILM SERIES
THE MAGIC FLUTE (Trollfljöten)
[fs9299 DVD 135min 1975 Swedish/sub dir:Ingmar Bergman]
A Swedish production of Mozart's Freemason opera Die Zauberflöte comes to the screen.
THE MAGIC OF MÉLIÈS
[fs 5307 LaserCLV1 101min bw dir:Georges Méliès]
A collection of the work of the man who pioneered movie special effects. Includes:
  • Georges Méliès: Cinema Magician
  • The Eclipse
  • The Impossible Voyage
  • The Untamable Whiskers
  • The Cook in Trouble
  • Tchin-Chao, the Chinese Conjurer
  • The Wonderful Living Fan
  • The Mermaid
  • The Living Playing Cards
  • The Black Imp
  • The Enchanted Sedan Chair
  • The Scheming Gamblers Paradise
  • The Hilarious Posters
  • The Mysterious Retort
  • The Eclipse
  • Good Glue Sticks
  • Long Distance Wireless Photography
See also MÉLIÈS, MORE MÉLIÈS, MARVELOUS MÉLIÈS and MÉLIÈS III.
THE MAGICIAN
[fs 3900 VHS 101min bw Swedish subt 1959 dir:Ingmar Bergman cast:Max von Sydow; Ingrid Thulin]
Brooding, complex story set in 19th-century Sweden, about a magician/hypnotist who becomes involved in murder and the occult.
Magnetic Monster
fs 5489LD
See UNITED ARTISTS SCI-FI MATINEE 2
MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS
[1350 16mm 4468 VHS 27min bw 1971]
Demonstrates with three different fluids the ability of a magnetic field to cause acceleration of the fluid.
THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS
[fs 3850 VHS 5028 LaserCAV2 88min bw 1942 dir:Orson Welles cast:Joseph Cotten; Tim Holt; Anne Baxter]
From the Booth Tarkington novel about a proud family which loses its wealth and control, and its youngest son who gets his ego trimmed.
MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION
[fs 2979 VHS 108min 1954 dir:Douglas Sirk cast:Jane Wyman; Rock Hudson]
Based on the Lloyd Douglas story of a drunken playboy who reforms and becomes a respected surgeon in order to restore the eyesight of a woman he blinded in an auto accident.
MAIGRET
[fs 8056 VHS 52/eamin. 1991 cast:Michael Gambon, Ciaran Madden, James Larkin, Geoffrey Hutchings, Jack Galloway]
British TV mystery series. Six murderers are pursued by Georges Simenon's detective, Inspector Maigret, and the Paris Prefecture of Police.
THE MAJOR AND THE MINOR
[fs 6679VHS bw 100min 1942 dir:Billy Wilder cast:Ginger Rogers; Ray Milland]
Comedy about a young woman whose return home from the city is diverted by a trip to a military academy, where she falls in love with an instructor.
MAJOR DUNDEE
[fs 8010 VHS 122min. 1965 dir:Sam Peckinpah cast:Charlton Heston, Richard Harris]
Western. Cavalry officer assembles a misfit army, including a Confederate captain who is his prisoner, to avenge an Apache massacre in French Mexico.
MAJOR PROVINCES AND CONTINENTAL MARGINS
[9019 slides teacher's guide 1981]
This 35mm set of 59 slides shows the World Ocean Floor Map of Heezen and Tharp of the Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory.
MAKE BELIEVE BALLROOM
[fs 1856-1857 16mm 79min bw 1949 dir:Joseph Santley cast:Jerome Courtland; Ruth Warrick]
Two carhops compete in a radio contest to name tunes. Features several musical performers of the era.
MAKING DO
[4048 VHS 48min 1989]
Filmed in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, this documentary looks at the "informal economies" that have arisen in underdeveloped countries in response to adverse economic and social conditions.
MAKING OF A LEGEND: GONE WITH THE WIND
[fs 5747 Laser 124min. 1988 dir:David Hinton cast:Christopher Plummer]
Pulls together the story of the casting, shooting, editing, and reception of the 1939 film of Margaret Mitchell's novel.
THE MAKING OF A LIVE TV SHOW
[fs 0194 16mm 26min 1977]
Documents the production efforts of the 1971 Emmy Awards Show.
THE MAKING OF A MANUSCRIPT
[2092 u-matic 23min 1979]
Documentary on the manufacturing processes of medieval manuscripts.
THE MAKING OF THE GERMAN NATION - Second Edition
[4528 VHS 94min 1985]
Chronicles the events of European history which formed the various German-speaking areas into countries from the early 1800s up to the mid-20th century.
THE MAKING OF THE PRESIDENT - 1972
[1379-1380 16mm 90min 1973]
Documentary based on the Theodore White book of the same title.
THE MAKIOKA SISTERS
[fs 3339 VHS 140min Japanese subt 1983 dir:Kon Ichikawa]
The gentle struggle between the traditional and the new in the lives of four sisters, played against the backdrop of impending world war.
LE MALADE IMAGINAIRE
[6798-99 VHS French 126min 1989]
Stage production of Molière's last play. Argan, a hypochondriac, is at the mercy of those tending him. Part 1 [6798]; Part 2 [6799] .
MALAJUNTA
[6577 VHS 58min dir: Javier Rubel]
The military dictatorship in Argentina from 1976-83, return to democracy, trials and pardons of the military leaders.
MALCOLM X
[fs 5118 LaserCLV2 201min 1992 dir:Spike Lee cast:Denzel Washington; Angela Bassett]
The life of the Black Muslim leader.
Male and Female
fs 5470LD
See CECIL B. DEMILLE: The Greatest Showman on Earth
MALICE
[fs5632 LD 107min 1993 dir:Harold Becker cast:Alec Baldwin, Nicole Kidman, Bill Pullman]
A doctor is invited to stay with a college professor and his wife; thriller.
THE MALTESE FALCON
[fs 1060-1062 16mm 2974 VHS 5223 Laser 9246 DVD 101min bw 1941 dir:John Huston cast:Humphrey Bogart; Mary Astor]
private detective Sam Spade searches for his partner's killer and gets involved with smugglers looking for a statuette of a falcon.
MAMA BENZ: AN AFRICAN MARKET WOMAN ()
[ 8112 VHS 48min. 1994 ]
Portrait of a successful businesswoman/matriarch of the cloth market in Lomé, Togo, called a "Mama Benz" from her chauffer-driven Mercedes.
MAMA COCA
[3713 VHS 26min 1991]
Documents the dependancy of the Aymara Indians of Bolivia on coca and the failure of government attempts to replace it as their main crop.
MAMA FLORENCE AND PAPA COCK
[2749 VHS 17min 1983 dir:Alan Leder]
A personal account of an elderly Jamaican couple living amidst the growing tourist trade in Jamaica.
MAMA, THERE'S A MAN IN YOUR BED (ROMUALD ET JULIETTE)
[fs 3571 VHS 107min French subt 1990 dir:Coline Serreau cast:Daniel Auteuil; Firmine Richard]
A cleaning lady helps the C.E.O. of a yogurt company foil two conspiracies and find even more happiness than money can buy.
MAMBO MOUTH
[4215 VHS 60min 1991]
Comedian John Leguizamo caricatures various Latino sterotypes.
MAMMA ROMA
[4883 VHS 110min bw Italian subt 1962 dir:Pier Paolo Pasolini cast:Anna Magnani; Ettore Garofolo; France Citti]
An ex-prostitute struggles to make a new life for herself but her son falls victim to their tough circumstances.
Mammy
fs 5265LD
See AL JOLSON COLLECTION
MAN AND HIS CULTURE
[0131 VHS 15min bw 1954]
Uses the device of an alien spaceship coming to earth to view objectively the nature of human culture.
MAN AND WOMAN'S GUIDE TO BREAST EXAMINATION
[1904 16mm 5min 1975]
Demonstrates how a woman's breast can be examined for lumps as a precaution against cancer.
A MAN ESCAPED
[fs 3352 VHS 102min French subt 1956 dir:Robert Bresson]
An imprisoned French Resistance leader, before he can attempt escape, must decide to kill or to trust a fellow prisoner.
A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS
[fs 3065 VHS 120min 1966 dir:Fred Zinnemann cast:Paul Scofield; Wendy Hiller; Robert Shaw; Orson Welles]
Sir Thomas More opposes Henry VIII's divorce and events lead eventually to his execution.
THE MAN FROM LARAMIE
[6536 VHS fs 9245 DVD 104min 1955 dir:Anthony Mann cast:James Stewart; Arthur Kennedy; Donald Crisp; Aline MacMahon]
Stewart's search for the gunrunners responsible for his brother's death leads him into the middle of a range war.
Man from Planet X
fs 5488LD
See UNITED ARTISTS SCI-FI MATINEE 1
THE MAN FROM THE ALAMO
[fs 6202 VHS 80min 1953 dir:Bud Boetticher cast:Glen Ford; Julia Adams]
A defender of the Alamo is sent to warn others and - because he survives - is branded a coward.
THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E COLLECTION 1
[fs 5748 Laser 8x52min. 1964-67 cast:David McCallum, Robert Vaughn]
4 discs. Good-guy television-series spies Solo and Kuriakin battle the baddies through 8 episodes, with guest stars including Shatner, Nimoy, Romero, Feldon, Shari Lewis, Joan Collins, Angela Lansbury, and Joan Crawford.
THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E COLLECTION 2
[fs 5749 Laser 8x52min. 1965-67 cast:David McCallum, Robert Vaughn]
4 discs. Good-guy television-series spies Solo and Kuriakin battle the baddies through 8 episodes, with guest stars including George Sanders, Eve Arden, Sonny and Cher, Jack Palance, Janet Leigh, and Joan Blondell
THE MAN I LOVE
[fs 6616VHS bw 90min 1947 dir:Raoul Walsh cast:Ida Lupino; Robert Alda]
A nightclub singer gets involved in her younger brother's descent into crime.
A MAN IN LOVE
[fs 3722 VHS 110min 1987 dir:Diane Kurys cast:Peter Coyote; Greta Scacchi]
A married American actor falls in love with his leading lady while he is making an Italian film, jeopardizing the film and his marriage.
THE MAN IN THE GRAY FLANNEL SUIT
[fs 5317 LaserCLV2 152min 1956 dir:Nunnally Johnson cast:Gergory Peck; Jennifer Jones; Fredric March]
A man must decide whether to put his family first or his struggle for success in the business world.
THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK (L'HOMME AU MASQUE DE FER)
[6756VHS French 132min 1998 dir: Randall Wallace cast:Leonardo DiCaprio; Jeremy Irons; John Malkovich]
Melodrama-adventure based on the Dumas novel about aging three musketeers' attempt to free the evil French King's imprisoned twin. Dubbed into French.
MAN IS NOT A BIRD
[fs 4546 VHS 80min bw Serbian subt 1965 dir:Dusan Makavejev]
An engineer is too busy with his work and communist/industry politics to get to know a girl who is attracted to him.
MAN OF IRON
[fs 4036 VHS Polish subt 1981 dir:Andrzej Wajda cast:Jerzy Radziwilowicz; Krystyna Janda]
Weaves documentary and fictional footage to dramatize the events surrounding the Solidarity strike at the Gdansk shipyard.
THE MAN OF THE CROWD
[fs 2099 u-matic 12min 1987 dir:George Snow.]
Based on the poem by Edgar Allan Poe, the video fuses the words of the nineteenth century, with visual settings of the twentieth.
MAN OF THE WEST
[6535 VHS 100min 1958 dir:Anthony Mann cast:Gary Cooper; Julie London; Lee J. Cobb; Arthur o'Connell; Jack Lord.]
A former outlaw is forced by circumsatnces to reunite with his old gang, led by his sadistic uncle, to protect those around him.
MAN OH MAN
[0070 VHS 22min 1987 dir:J. Clements]
A brief study of the qualities and attitudes of the American male. Produced at Stanford University.
MAN ON A SWING
[fs 2243-2244 u-matic 108min 1974 dir:Frank Perry cast:Cliff Robertson; Joel Grey]
A clairvoyant offers to help police solve sex-slaying, but raises more questions than answers.
MAN ON THE MOON
[fs9349 DVD 119min 1999 dir:Milos Forman cast:Jim Carrey, Courtney Love]
Andy Kaufman, the dadaist 70s comic, comes to life again in this biopic. Footage of Kaufman included on disk.
MAN RAY FILMS
[fs 3880 VHS bw silent dir:Man Ray]
  • Retour à la Raison
    [~2min 1923]
  • Emak Bakia [~15min 1926]
  • L'Étoile de Mer
    [~11min 1928]
  • Mystères du Château du Dé [~16min 1929]
THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER
[fs 5750 Laser 113min. 1942 b/w dir:William Keighley cast:Bette Davis, Monty Woolley]
Kaufman and Hart comedy revolves around the culture clashes when a media celebrity stays in a Midwestern family's home, recovering from an accident.
MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH
[fs4767 VHS 140min 1976 dir:Nicholas Roeg cast:David Bowie, Rip Torn]
Walter Tevis's fantasy novel of an alien who builds an international corporation to fund his trip home.
THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (1934)
[fs 3123 VHS 5009 Laser 9096 DVD 9439 DVD 72min bw 1934 dir:Alfred Hitchcock cast:Leslie Banks; Edna Best; Peter Lorre]
A young girl is kidnaped to prevent her parents from revealing what they have learned about an assassination plot.
THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (1955)
[fs 3124 VHS fs 5654 fs 9632 DVD 120min bw 1955 dir:Alfred Hitchcock cast:James Stewart; Doris Day]
A little boy is kidnapped to prevent his parents, a doctor and a retired actress-singer devoting herself to domesticity, from etc.
THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE
[fs 3935 VHS 5070 LaserCLV1 122min bw 1962 dir:John Ford cast:James Stewart; John Wayne; Vera Miles]
Tenderfoot lawyer wants to civilize a western town but needs help.
MAN WITH A CROSS
[fs 4511 VHS 88min bw 1943 dir:Roberto Rossellini]
A chaplain, serving with Italian forces helping Germany invade Russia in World War II, remains true to his faith.
MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA
[fs 0368-0369 16mm 2926 and 6242 VHS 10034 DVD 69min bw silent 1928 dir:Dziga Vertov]
Experimental view of Moscow through the eye of cameraman Vertov.
THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM
[fs 5588 Laser 9407 DVD bw 1955 119min dir:Otto Preminger cast:Frank Sinatra; Eleanor Parker; Kim Novak]
A drummer, Frankie Machine, out of detox and eager to get on with his big band career discovers that he hasn't really kicked his drug habit. From the novel by Nelson Algren.
MAN WITHOUT A STAR
[6532 VHS 99min 1955 dir:King Vidor cast:Kirk Douglas; Jeanne Crain; Clair Trevor]
A rugged loner is caught up in a bloody range war when he falls in love with two women. Noted for its offbeat humor.
MANAGING A DIVERSE WORKPLACE
[4074 VHS 36min 1990]
Subtitled "Understanding Different Cultural Values and Styles," this program refutes the notion that the workplace should homogenize its workforce.
MANAGING IN A CRISIS
[0992 16mm 30min 1973]
Richard Beckhard illustrates his confrontation meeting technique for resolving organizational problems in small to large group settings.
MANAGING STRESS
[1456 16mm 33min 1979]
Discusses work-related stress and ways to deal with it.
MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE
[fs 5224 Laser 9140 DVD 127min bw 1962 dir:John Frankenheimer cast:Frank Sinatra; Laurence Harvey; Janet Leigh]
American soldiers captured during the Korean War are brainwashed and released to perform violence back in the U.S.
MANDELA
[3967 VHS 136min 1987]
About Nelson Mandela of South Africa and his wife Winnie.
MANDELBROT & JULIA SETS
[3453 VHS 120min 1990]
Colorful fractal geometry images evolve on a computer monitor.
MANHANDLED
[fs 4834 VHS 53min bw silent 1924 dir:Allan Dwan cast:Gloria Swanson]
Tough times for a single girl working in the big city.
MANHATTAN
[fs 5075 Laser 9408 DVD 96min bw 1979 dir:Woody Allen cast:Woody Allen; Diane Keaton]
A comedy of love affairs and marriages.
MANHATTAN MELODRAMA
See REDISCOVERING MYRNA LOY.
MANHUNT
[fs 5337 LaserCLV1 86min 1995 dir:Jonathan Winfrey cast:Don "The Dragon" Wilson]
While on the run from his own problems, a former secret agent becomes involved with a woman caught in a police-FBI conspiracy.
MANIFESTATIONS OF SHIVA
[0161 16mm 55min]
Visual documentary of the followers of Shiva in India.
MANSFIELD PARK
[4704-4705 VHS 261min 1986 dir:David Giles cast:Anna Massey; Bernard Hepton]
The Jane Austen story of an impoverished young lady who must contend with rich, superficial relatives.
MANSFIELD PARK
[fs9368 DVD 112min. 1999 dir:Patricia Rozema cast:Embeth Davidtz, Jonny Lee Miller]
Jane Austen's novel becomes a movie in which young Fanny enlivens her rich relatives' lives.
MANTRAP
[fs 4836 VHS 67min bw silent 1926 dir:Victor Fleming cast:Clara Bow]
A city girl who marries a man from a Minnesota fishing village is tempted by a New York lawyer.
THE MANXMAN
[fs 4424 VHS 9409 DVD 85min bw silent 1929 dir:Alfred Hitchcock cast:Carl Brisson, Malcolm Keen]
A fisherman and a lawyer, best friends since childhood, love the same woman.
MAO: Long March to Power
[2782 VHS 24min bw]
Educational documentary covering Chinese history from 1924 to 1949, an era which featured the rise to power of Mao Tse-tung.
MAO: Organized Chaos
[2783 VHS 24min bw]
Educational documentary covering Chinese history from 1949 to the mid-1960's, during which time Mao used turmoil to transform a peasant society into a communist state.
MAO'S LITTLE RED VIDEO
[fs 4835 VHS 35min 1964-6]
Chinese propaganda film showing atomic bomb testing.
MAP OF LIFE: Science, Society, and the Human Genome Project
[4490 VHS 46min 1992]
Explains the goals and benefits of the quest to completely map the human genetic code and examines the social implications.
MAP OF THE HUMAN HEART
[4716 VHS 109min 1993 dir:Vincent Ward cast:Patrick Bergin; Anne Parillaud; Jason Scott Lee]
A half-white Canadian Eskimo goes to fight in World War II and finds his childhood friend - with whom he falls in love - married to the man who saved his life as a child.
MARAGOLI
[0592 VHS 58min 1978]
A commission to study the population explosion in Africa and Asia reports on the situation the Maragoli region of Kenya.
MARAT SADE
See PERSECUTION AND ASSASSINATION OF JEAN-PAUL MARAT...
MARCEL DUCHAMP: A Game of Chess
[fs 6223 VHS 56min bw/color 1963]
Biographical sketch of the French artist done around an interview he gave at the Pasadena Art Museum during a one-man show.
MARC FUMAROLI: CHÂTEAUBRIAND ET ROUSSEAU
[10024 audiocass. 60min 1995 French Language]
Lecture at the Collège de France on Chateaubriand and Rousseau.
MARCH OF THE WOODEN SOLDIERS
[fs 1697-1698 16mm 73min bw 1934 dirs:Gus Meins; Charles Rogers cast:Stan Laurel; Oliver Hardy]
Also titled Babes in Toyland, this is a filmed version of the Victor Herbert operetta.
THE MARCH OF TIME
[VHS bw 1934-1950 (1987)]
Documentaries assembled from the The March of Time newsreels produced by Time Magazine and shown in movie theatres for sixteen years.
AMERICAN LIFESTYLES 1939-1950
America's Youth 1940-1950
[2572 90min] Topics: America's youth - 1940, youth in crisis - 1943, teenage girls - 1945, fight for better schools - 1949, schools - 1950.
The American Family: The War Years 1941-1945
[2574 89min] Topics: ethnic diversity - 1941, home front - 1942, food crisis - 1943, Springfield Plan - 1944, meat shortage - 1945.
American Fashion and Leisure 1945-1950
[2573 105min] Topics: female beauty fads - 1945, Mexican vacations - 1946, fashion industry - 1947, boxing - 1948, vacationing in America - 1949, male fashions - 1950.
THE GREAT DEPRESSION
Time Marches in 1935
[Call No:4492 88min] Topics: Japan, speakeasy, London, France, NRA, Met, Huey Long, Bavaria, NY newspaper, photography, Mohawk, Leadbelly, munitions, Mexico, Navy, Russia, D.C. news.
Economy Blues
[Call No:4493 88min] Topics: Army-MacArthur, Stavisky, Ethiopia, bootleg coal, CCC, G.O.P.-Hoover, Father Coughlin, Palestine, Japan, New England, safety, ducks, strikes.
Trouble Beyond Our Shores
[Call No:4494 82min] Topics: Japan-China, Cent. Amer. narcotics, Pacific islands, TVA, France, Moscow, Hartman discovery, Father Divine, Tokyo, Devil's Island, New England fish.
War and Labor Woes
[Call No:4495 111min] Topics: future war, arson squads, Florida canal, dogs, League of Nations, railroads, Albania, relief work, Otto of Hapsburg, Texas centennial, crime, French peasants, Trujillo, horse racing, cotton farming, mobile homes.
Prosperity Ahead
[Call No:4496 106min] Topics: lunatic fringe, tidal power, milk, labor, Church of England, college football, Roosevelt, schools, theater, Leopold of Belgium, St. Lawrence seaway, working women, Chiang Kai-shek.
Reality and America's Dreams
[Call No: 4497 97min] Topics: cancer, Mormons, Miami, Turkey, swing music, temperance, child labor, volunteer criminologists, food in England, Supreme Court, Ireland, prize contests, unemployment.
MARCHING FOR FREEDOM:THE 1993 MARCH ON WASHINGTON VIDEO
[6600 VHS 78min 1993]
Documents the 700,000 people who demonstrated for gay rights.
MARGARET MEAD FILM FESTIVAL 1995
[4305 VHS 100min 1995]
The best of student-produced films/videos of the event sponsored by the University of Florida Anthropology Department. Includes:
  • Truth in Disguise [~22min]
  • Biking to Work [~12min]
  • Radio Women [~15min]
  • An Artist of Two Worlds [~20min]
  • Ice Fishin' [~4min]
  • Voting on a Way of Life [~8min]
MARGUÉRITE DURAS: LA COULEUR DES MOTS
[6813 VHS 70min 1984 French Language/sub]
Interviews with Duras on the set of India Song, and also with Delphine Seyrig, Michel Lonsdale, Bruno Nuytten, and Carlo D'Alessio.
MARIA AND JULIAN'S BLACK POTTERY
[1624 VHS 11min silent 1977]
Shows the pottery techniques of a Pueblo Indian husband and wife. Filmed in 1938 at San Idellfonso.
MARIA ANTONIA
[3659 VHS 111min Spanish subt 1990 dir:Sergio Giral]
A rebellious young woman lives on the edge, having an intermittent love affair with a boxer.
MARIA CANDELARIA
[4488 VHS 105min bw Spanish subt 1946 dir:Emilio Fernandez cast:Dolores Del Rio]
An attractive young woman is made vulnerable to the wrong men because of her mother's mistakes.
MARÍA DE ME CORAZÓN
[4684 VHS 100min Spanish subt 1983 dir:Jaime Humberto Hermosillo cast: Mar&icaute;a Rojo; Hector Bonilla]
A petty thief and a female magician are the main characters in a "startlingly erotic black comedy" authored by the director and Gabriel García Márquez.
MARIANNE & JULIANE
[4389 VHS 103min German subt 1981 dir:Margarethe von Trotta cast:Barbara Sukowa; Jutta Lampe; Rudiger Vogler]
Two sisters are caught up in the politics of the 1970s, one becoming a feminist journalist, the other a terrorist.
MARIA’S STORY: A Portrait of Love and Survival in El Salvador’s Civil War
[6198 VHS 53min 1990]
Documentary of a 39-year-old mother of three who is a leader in the guerilla movement in El Salvador.
MARIE ANTOINETTE
[fs 3299 VHS 149min bw 1938 dir:W. S. Van Dyke II cast:Norma Shearer; Tyrone Power]
Depicts the French queen from her life as an Austrian princess, as queen, and finally her execution during the French Revolution.
LA MARIÉE ÉTAIT EN NOIR
See THE BRIDE WORE BLACK
MARIJUANA
[0185 16mm 34min 1968]
Discusses clinical and legal aspects of marijuana use.
MARINE PLATE TECTONICS
[9018 slides teacher's guide 1981]
This 35mm set of 42 slides shows features of the World Ocean Floor Map of Heezen and Tharp of the Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory which are evidence of the motions of the Earth's crust.
MARIUS
[6919 VHS fs 5081 Laser 121min French subt 1931 dir:Marcel Pagnol and Alexander Korda cast:Raimu; Pierre Fresnay; Orane Demazis]
In a seaport in the south of France a young man yearns to go to sea but his life-long sweetheart expects him to marry her. Begins Pagnol's Marseilles trilogy.
See CÉSAR and FANNY
MARJORIE MORNINGSTAR
[JHVC 7038 VHS 125min 1958 dir:Irving Rapper cast:Gene Kelly, Natalie Wood]
Herman Wouk's novel about a 1930s Jewish girl in love with a summer resort theater
THE MARK OF THE HAWK
[fs 4870 VHS 85min 1958 dir:Michael Audley cast:Sidney Poitier; Eartha Kitt]
A story about racial injustice in South Africa.
THE MARK OF ZORRO
[fs 1087 16mm (25min) 9410 DVD (96min) 1920 bw silent dir:Fred Niblo cast:Douglas Fairbanks, Marguerite de la Motte, Noah Beery]
Don Diego Vega is a silly aristocrat by day, a rider of the night terrorizing the rapacious government of Spanish California by night. 16mm is clips.
MARKED WOMAN
[fs 2990 VHS 5074 5148 LaserCLV1 97min bw 1937 dir:Lloyd Bacon cast:Bette Davis; Humphrey Bogart]
The hostess of a clipjoint is persuaded by the District Attorney to testify against her gangster boss, which places her life in danger.
MARKETING TO THE STUDENTS OF TOMORROW
[6252-6253 VHS 120min 1998]
".. the latest information on how colleges and universities can expand into new markets and reach new audiences through the latest techniques and new technologies." A taped video conference presented by the PBS Adult Learning Service.
MARLENE
[fs 3721 VHS 96min 1986 dir:Maximilian Schell]
A biography of Marlene Dietrich which seeks to answer questions about a very private woman who does not want to give answers.
MARNIE
[fs 3837 VHS 5225 LaserCLV2 9350 DVD 130min 1964 dir:Alfred Hitchcock cast:Sean Connery; Tippi Hedren; Diane Baker]
A man tries to solve the mystery of a beautiful compulsive thief by marrying her.
THE MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN (DIE EHE DER MARIA BRAUN)
[fs 2903 VHS 120min German subt 1978 dir:Rainer Werner Fassbinder cast:Hanna Schygulla]
A young wife must prostitute herself to survive after World War II, thinking her husband dead.
MARRIAGE OF MARIAMU
[1602 VHS 36min Kiswahili/sub 1985]
Dramatization, starring a practicing African healer. A Tanzanian woman who can't get diagnosed and treated by modern doctors goes to a traditional healer.
MARRIED TO THE MOB
[fs 4854 VHS 104min 1988 dir:Jonathan Demme cast:Michelle Pfeiffer; Matthew Modine; Dean Stockwell]
A mob widow wanting out is trapped between a lusting mob boss and a boyfriend who is an FBI infiltrator.
A MARRIED WOMAN (UNE FEMME MARIÉE)
[fs 3924 VHS 94min bw French subt 3074 VHS(dubbed) 1965 dir:Jean-Luc Godard cast:Macha Meril; Philippe Leroy; Bernerd Noel]
A pilot's wife has an actor lover.
THE MARRYING KIND
[fs 1110-1111 16mm 93min bw 1952 dir:George Cukor cast:Judy Holliday; Aldo Ray]
A young couple on the verge of divorce recalls the memorable times of their marriage.
MARSH BLACKBIRDS
[0643 VHS 35min]
Lyrical documentary on behavior and ecology of red-wing blackbirds in Manitoba. This species is common to marshy areas of North America.
MARSTON SCIENCE LIBRARY
[3217 VHS 15min 1990]
A video tour of the University of Florida's Marston Science Library.
MARTIN LUTHER
[1500-1501 16mm 100min bw 1953]
Documents the life of the religious scholar.
MARTIN LUTHER EXCERPT
[0063 16mm 29min bw 1953]
Dramatizes Martin Luther's life from 1505 to 1521, placing the Reformation in historical perspective.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.: From Montgomery to Memphis
[0813 VHS 27min bw 1968?]
Documents the civil rights struggles of Dr. King, from the bus boycotts to his assassination.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR., "I Have a Dream"
[4009 VHS 25min bw 1963]
Dr. King's address to the 200,000 civil rights marchers gathered before the Lincoln Memorial, on August 28, 1963, in which he gave his vision for America's future.
MARVELOUS MÉLIÈS
[6355 VHS 60min bw & color silent dir:Georges Méliès ]
Fantastic films including A Trip to the Moon, Paris to Monte Carlo, The Enchanted Well, Extraordinary Illusions, the Appartition, The Doctor's Secret, and Conquest of the North Pole.
See also MÉLIÈS, MORE MÉLIÈS, MÉLIÈS III and MAGIC OF MÉLIÈS.
MARX: The Video
[fs 4177 VHS 27min 1990 dir:Laura Kipnis]
Subtitled "A Politics of Revolting Bodies," this experimental video talks about Karl Marx and his affliction of carbuncles, which interefered with his writing Das Kapital.
MARY SILLIMAN'S WAR
[4303 VHS 94min 1993 dir:Stephen Surjik]
A woman's husband is kidnaped by relatives of two men he has prosecuted for treason against the state of Connecticut during the American Revolutionary War. Authentic depiction of the era with emphasis on family life and the problem of divided loyalties in a small town.
MASADA
[6512 VHS 131 1980 dir:Boris Sagal cast:Peter O'Toole, Peter Strauss]
The long siege and terrible ending for the fortress of Masada, where Hebrew zealots held out against the Roman Army from 70 to 73 A.D.
MASAI MANHOOD
[4514 VHS 53min 1975]
Ethnography of Masai of Africa which describes male life from puberty to status of elder.
See also MAASAI.
MASAI WOMEN
[4513 VHS 52min 1974]
Ethnography of Masai of Africa which describes female life in a male-dominated society.
See also MAASAI.
THE MASCOT
[fs 5300 LaserCLV1 26min bw 1934 dir:Ladislas Starewicz]
Best example of the puppet animation of Starewicz. Included on the disc with Vampyr.
MASCULIN-FÉMININ
[fs 0959-0960 16mm 1717-1719 16mm 3125 VHS; 3554 VHS 103min bw French subt 1966 dir:Jean-Luc Godard cast:Jean-Pierre Léaud; Chantal Goya]
Boy-meets-girl love story with politics and social comment mixed in.
MASK OF DIMITRIOS
[fs 6827 VHS 96min bw 1944 dir:Jean Negulesco cast:Zachary Scott, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, Faye Emerson]
Eric Ambler mystery in which a writer investigates a drowning in Istanbul.
MASQUERADE
[fs 5607 LD 91min 1988 dir: Bob Swaim cast:Rob Lowe, Meg Tilly, Kim Cattrall]
Heiress falls for scheming yacht captain, who then falls for her.
THE MASS ORNAMENT REVISITED
[6152 VHS color and bw 1998 dir:Eric Faden]
Traces the role of crowds from the early films of Lumiere to Busby Berkeley and Nazi films of the early 1930's to, most recently, crowds rendered by digital computers.
MASTER OF THE HOUSE
[fs 3588 VHS 141min bw silent 1925 dir:Carl Theodore Dreyer]
A thoroughly rotten husband takes his "home-as-a-castle" literally.
MASTERPIECES OF CHINESE ART
[1389 VHS 28min 1973]
Shows bronze, jade, porcelain pieces and vertical scroll painting exhibited at the Taiwan National Palace Museum.
MASTERS OF RUSSIAN ANIMATION 2
[fs9300 DVD 9-17min 1969-78 Russian/sub ]
Short films by I. Ivanonov-Vano, L. Atamanov, A. Khrijanovsky, Y. Norstein, F. Khitruk, I. Garanina, A. Petrov, and V.Tarasov.
MASTERWORKS OF THE GERMAN HORROR CINEMA (DER GOLEM & NOSFERATU & CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI)
[fs9411 DVD min. bw silent ]
"From the best surviving 35mm prints; running times are shorter than other copies we have.
MATCHMAKING MAMMA
[fs 5232 LaserCLV1 20min bw/color 1929 dir:Harry Edwards cast:Daphne Pollard; Johnny Burke; Carole Lombard]
A Mack Sennett short with some color scenes, on the same disc with Nothing Sacred.
LA MATERNELLE
[fs 6233 VHS 83min bw French/sub 1933 dirs:Jean Benoit-Levy; Maria Epstein cast:Paulette Elambert; Madeline Reaud]
"A compassionate story of the sad faced, squalid children of the Paris slums who find daily sanctuary in "La Maternelle" from the ugliness and terror of their lives at home.
MATINA HORNER: Portrait of a Person
[1881 VHS 15min 1973]
Docementary about a Harvard professor, president of Radcliffe College, who must also manage her responsibilities as a mother and wife.
MATINEE IDOL (& FRANK CAPRA'S AMERICAN DREAM)
[fs9412 DVD 56min. 1928 bw silent dir:Frank Capra cast:Bessie Love, Johnnie Walker]
A Broadway star brings an amateur company to the big time because he thinks they're funny; but he falls for the amateur star. Also includes a 109- min documentary on Capra.
MATISSE, ARAGON, PROKOFIEV: Combat contre les Ombres
[10008 CD-ROM PC/MAC 1995 French Language]
Fauve art, poetry, and music presented by Guy Casaril.
THE MATRIX
[fs9224 DVD 136min 1999 dir:the Wachowski Brothers cast:Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne]
Cyberthriller about a messiah who will free people from the illusion that the world is real.
A MATTER OF CONSCIENCE
[1474 16mm 30min 1972]
Dramatization of the events that would lead to the execution of Sir Thomas More, as he stood on principle against Henry VIII.
MATTER OF HEART
[2872 VHS 107min bw 1987]
Biography of Carl Gustav Jung, the psychiatrist.
MAURICE
[4706 VHS 139min 1987 dir:James Ivory cast:Hugh Grant; James Wilby]
E. M. Forster story of a homosexual affair between two young men in pre-WWI England.
MAURITANIA: Wealth of Blood
[4535 VHS 52min 1991]
Archetypal camel nomads, the Moors of Mauretania maintain a traditional life-style with enthusiastic support from their government - unusual for nomadic peoples.
MAVERICK
[fs 6652-57 VHS bw 6 tapes 49min ea 1957 cast:James Garner]
Six episodes from the Emmy award-winning television western.
MAXIM GORKI
[1660 16mm 40min bw 1965]
Biography of the Russian writer, including historical footage of Russia and Lenin.
MAYA DEREN EXPERIMENTAL FILMS
[fs 3892 VHS bw silent dir:Maya Deren]
  • Meshes of the Afternoon [~14min 1943]
  • At Land [~14min 1944]
  • Choreography for Camera [~2min 1945]
  • Ritual in Transfigured Time [~15min 1946]
  • Meditation on Violence [~13min 1948]
  • The Very Eye of Night [1955]
MAYA FIESTA
[3515 VHS 25min 1988 dirs:Allan Burns; Alan Saperstein]
The Kanjobal Mayas of Guatemala, who now live in Indiantown, Florida, celebrate their annual Festival of St. Michael. Written and narrated by Dr. Allan Burns of the University of Florida.
MAYA IN EXILE
[2784 VHS 28min 1985 dir:Alan Saperstein]
The Kanjobal Mayas left Guatemala to escape the civil war there. This documentary describes their new life in Florida. Produced by Alan Saperstein and Allan Burns of the University of Florida.
MAYAKOVSKY
See GREAT RUSSIAN WRITERS: VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY.
MAYAN VOICES: American Lives
[3071 VHS 55min 1994]
The third film about the Todos Santos Mayans of Guatemala shows the lives of those who emigrated to Florida and how their cultural identity is under siege from American and Latino influences.
MAYTIME
[fs 0360-0362 16mm 113min bw 1937 dir:Robert Z. Leonard cast:Jeanette MacDonald; Nelson Eddy; John Barrymore]
Opera star chooses career over penniless singer but later regrets it.
THE MAZARIN STONE
See THE MEMOIRS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES.
MBAM-BIM : A Lineage-Head in Ayikpéré
[0572 VHS 23min bw 1970 dir:Emile van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal]
Documents a patrilineal village group of the Anufo people of North Togo. Narrated from the point of view of the patriarch, who does not relish his authority.
MBIRA: NJARI, Karanga Songs in Christian Ceremonies
[0517 VHS 24min 1977 Shona]
Simon Mashoko, a rural Catholic catechist and musician is filmed performing at a variety of formal and informal religious gatherings in Shona country. Some explanatory English titles.
MCCABE AND MRS. MILLER
[fs 2957 VHS; 5116 LaserCLV2 121min 1971 dir:Robert Altman cast:Warren Beatty; Julie Christie]
A gambler opens a bordello in a turn-of-the-century Western boomtown.
THE MCCARTHY YEARS (EDWARD R. MURROW)
[6407 VHS 113min. ]
Television broadcasts as Murrow attacked Sen. Joseph McCarthy's Communist witchhunts of the 1950s.
ME AND MY PAL
[fs 1863 16mm 20min bw 1933 cast:Stan Laurel; Oliver Hardy]
Hardy becomes engrossed in a jigsaw puzzle and forgets to attend his own wedding.
MEAN STREETS
[fs 5111 LaserCLV1 112min 1973 dir:Martin Scorsese cast:Harvey Keitel; Robert De Niro]
In New York's Little Italy one of the guys gets too far in debt to the Mafia.
MEATBALLS
[fs9168 DVD 92min 1979 dir:Ivan Reitman cast:Bill Murray]
Camp North Star has a wild summer thanks to its activities director.
MECCA, THE FORBIDDEN CITY
[0763 16mm 3049 VHS 60min 1977]
Shows an annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca.
THE MECHANICAL UNIVERSE... AND BEYOND
[VHS 30min each 1985]
A history of physics and a graphical explanation of its major laws and theories.
  1. Introduction to the Mechanical Universe [4255]
  2. The Law of Falling Bodies [4255]
  3. Derivatives [4256]
  4. Inertia [4256]
  5. Vectors [4257]
  6. Newton's Laws [4257]
  7. Integration [4258]
  8. The Apple and the Moon [4258]
  9. Moving in Circles [4259]
  10. Fundamental Forces [4259]
  11. Gravity, Electricity, Magnetism [4260]
  12. The Millikan Experiment [4260]
  13. Conservation of Energy [4261]
  14. Potential Energy [4261]
  15. Conservation of Momentum [4262]
  16. Harmonic Motion [4262]
  17. Resonance [4263]
  18. Waves [4263]
  19. Angular Momentum [4264]
  20. Torques and Gyroscopes [4264]
  21. Kepler's Three Laws [4265]
  22. The Kepler Problem [4265]
  23. Energy and Eccentricity [4266]
  24. Navigating in Space [4266]
  25. Kepler to Einstein [4267]
  26. Harmony of the Spheres [4267]
  27. Beyond the Mechanical Universe [4268]
  28. Static Electricity [4268]
  29. The Electric Field [4269]
  30. Potential and Capacitance [4269]
  31. Voltage, Energy, and Force [4270]
  32. The Electric Battery [4270]
  33. Electric Circuits [4271]
  34. Magnetism [4271]
  35. The Magnetic Field [4272]
  36. Vector Fields and Hydrodynamics [4272]
  37. Electromagnetic Induction [4273]
  38. Alternating Current [4273]
  39. Maxwell's Equations [4274]
  40. Optics [4274]
  41. The Michaelson-Morley Experiment [4275]
  42. The Lorentz Transformation [4275]
  43. Velocity and Time [4276]
  44. Mass, Momentum, Energy [4276]
  45. Temperature and Gas Law [4277]
  46. Engine of Nature [4277]
  47. Entropy [4278]
  48. Low Temperatures [4278]
  49. The Atom [4279]
  50. Particles and Waves [4279]
  51. From Atoms to Quarks [4280]
  52. The Quantum Mechanical Universe [4280]
MEDEA
[fs 4007 VHS 100min Italian subt 1970 dir:Pier Paolo Pasolini cast:Maria Callas]
A non-musical interpretation of Euripides' tragedy.
MEDEA
[4432 VHS 90min1982 cast:Zoe Caldwell; Judith Anderson]
Euripides' play as performed at the Kennedy Center for stage and television.
LE MÉDECIN MALGRÉ LUI
[4128 VHS 60min 1989]
A Molière comedy of confusion and reconciliation which features a father who opposes his daughter's suitor, a wife who arranges for her husband to beat her, and a bit of strange medical practice.
MEDIA BURN
[fs 3893 VHS 37min 1975 dirs:Chip Lord; Doug Michels; Curtis Schreier (Ant Farm)]
A performance art piece in which a modified Cadillac is driven through a pyramid of burning TV sets.
MEDIA EDUCATION: An Introduction
[fs 9007 1992]
Kit contains audio, video, 35mm slides, textbook and workbook. A distance-learning in-service training pack developed by the British Film Institute and the Open University to offer an introduction to media education for teachers in primary and secondary schools. It provides a basic theoretical background along with methods of classroom instruction.
MEDIA FOR PRESENTATIONS
[1375 16mm 20min 1978]
A discussion of most of the audio-visual methods of conveying information.
MEDIA: Zbig Rybczynski - A Collection
[fs 3993 VHS 1974-84 dir:Zbig Rybczynski]
A sampling of video art from Poland.
  • Media [~1.5min]
  • The Discreet Charm of Diplomacy [~2.5min 1984]
  • Soup [~8.5min 1974]
  • The Day Before [~2min]
  • The Way to Your Neighbor [~3min]
  • Holiday [~11min 1981]
  • My Window [~2.5min 1979]
  • New Book [~11min 1975]
  • I Can't Stop [~10min 1975]
MEDIATION IN ACTION
[0203 16mm 46min bw]
Professional mediators are shown in a mock mediation session.
MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS
[4253 VHS 30min 1993]
Describes the history of early books and their manufacture.
MEDIUM COOL
[fs6440 VHS 111min. 1969 dir:Haskell Wexler cast:Robert Forster, Verna Bloom]
Chicago, 1968: the Democratic Convention. Can a television news cameraman remain detached from what he is filming?
MEET JOHN DOE
[fs 0427-0430 16mm 2986 VHS 132min bw 1941 dir:Frank Capra cast:Gary Cooper; Barbara Stanwyck; Walter Brennan]
A tramp is hired to embody the common man in a phony political drive, and almost commits suicide.
MEET ME AT THE FAIR
[fs 1093-1094 16mm 87min 1952 dir:Douglas Sirk cast:Dan Dailey; Diana Lynn]
At the turn of the century an orphan joins a carnival and is helped out by a medicine man.
MEET ME IN LAS VEGAS
[fs 5751 Laser 112min. 1956 dir:Roy Rowland cast:Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse]
Musical comedy about a gambler and his "lucky charm," a dancer.
MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS
[fs 1512-1514 16mm 3002 VHS 5027 LaserCLV1 113min 1944 dir:Vincente Minnelli cast:Judy Garland; Margaret O'Brien]
Scenes in the life of an affectionate family at the turn of the century.
MEETING IN THE AIR
[0980 VHS 27min 1973]
"Religious America" series. A Pentecostal church service and interviews of several members.
MEIN KRIEG: MY PRIVATE WAR
[fs 6052 VHS 9633 DVD 89min German subt 1991]
Six Germans who went to the Eastern Front in World War II and took movie cameras with them recount their experiences as soldiers.
MEIOSIS
[0141 VHS 14min 1980]
Describes the biological process by which a cell divides to produce a gamete.
MELBA
[fs 1341-1343 16mm 113min bw 1953 dir:Lewis Milestone cast:Patrice Munsel; Robert Morley]
Film bio of Australian opera star Nellie Melba.
MÉLIÈS (conversions)
[1958 VHS 26min bw silent dir:Georges Méliès ]
Transfer of 3 reels owned by UF (Note: quality is better than other VHS copies; no sound):
TRANSFORMATIONS BY MÉLIÈS, PRESTIDIGITATOR and BARON MÜNCHAUSEN'S DREAM.
MÉLIÈS III
[6357 VHS 45min bw silent dir:Georges Méliès ]
Includes Baron Münchausen's Dream, The Witch's Revenge, The Infernal Cauldron, The Damnation of the Monster, The Terrible Turkish Executioner.
See also preceding item, and MORE MÉLIÈS, MARVELOUS MÉLIÈS and MAGIC OF MÉLIÈS (LD).
MELVIN AND HOWARD
[fs 3201 VHS 95min 1980 dir:Jonathan Demme cast:Jason Robards; Paul Le Mat]
A perhaps true account of a young man's involvement with Howard Hughes, to the point of being named an heir.
THE MEMBER OF THE WEDDING
[fs 5450 LaserCLV1 93min 1996 dir:Fielder Cook cast:Alfre Woodard; Anna Paquin]
Film version of the Carson McCuller novel about a young girl yearning for escape from childhood.
MEMOIRS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES [fs VHS each 50min 1994 cast:Jeremy Brett, Edward Hardwicke, Rosalie Williams]
TV adaptations of a later group (mostly 1917-27) of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's detective stories, featuring a more mature Holmes.
MEMORIAS DE UN MEXICANO [LOST]
[2767 VHS 45min bw 1985 dir:Salvador Toscano]
Documents the Mexican Revolution, 1904 to 1924.
MEMORIAS DO CARCERE
[6327-28 VHS Portuguese 1984 dir:Nelson Pereira dos Santos]
True story of a writer's experiences in prison in Rio de Janeiro.
MEMORIES OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT (MEMORIAS DEL SUBDESARROLLO)
[0479-0481 16mm 3126 VHS 97min bw Spanish subt 1968 dir:Tomás Gutiérrez Alea]
Set in the early 1960s, a Cuban intellectual is too idealistic to leave for Miami, but also too decadent to fit into the new Cuban society.
MEMORY/ALL ECHO
[fs 3033 VHS 27min 1990 dir:Yun-ah Hong]
An experimental film on the topics of political unrest and the role of women in South Korea.
MEMPHIS BELLE
[5549 LaserCLV 107min 1990 dir:Michael Canton-Jones cast:Matthew Modine; Eric Stoltz]
World War II adventure of the final flight of the B-17 bomber, the Memphis Belle.
THE MEN WHO TREAD ON THE TIGER'S TAIL
[fs 3322 VHS 60min bw Japanese subt 1945 dir:Akira Kurosawa]
Based on a popular kabuki drama, a nobleman and a few retainers, disguised as monks, attempt to flee from authorities.
THE MENDE
[4534 VHS 51min 1990]
Ethnography of rural life in Sierra Leone, a village of 260 people who live in mud, brick, and tin houses in the forest.
MEN IN BLACK
[fs 5437 LD DVD 98min. 1997 dir:Barry Sonnenfeld cast:Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith]
Alien immigration takes on a whole new meaning as federal agents help friendly folks from outer space settle, and fight the unfriendly ones. DVD Includes a second disk with "Making of" and "Edit a scene" features.
MEN OF THE FIGHTING LADY
[fs 5752 Laser 70min. 1954 dir:Andrew Marton cast:Van Johnson, Walter Pigeon]
Korean war movie: the lives of fighter pilots stationed on an aircraft carrier.
MENINO DE ENGENHO
See PLANTATION BOY
MEN'S LIVES
[0804 VHS 43min 1974 dir:Josh Haring & Will Roberts]
Examines American boyhood and male cultural values in the seventies. Note: first 10 minutes are damaged.
MENSCHEN AM SONTAGG
[6519 VHS silent French subtitles]
A lighthearted look at the lives of two young couples who spend Sunday in a park.
MENSCHENFRAUEN
[fs 3610 VHS 100min German subt 1980 dir:Valie Export]
A married journalist has ongoing affairs with three other women, who eventually discover this and attempt to recover their pride.
MEPHISTO
[4744 VHS 134min dubbed 1981 dir:István Szabó cast:Klaus Maria Brandauer; Krystyna Janda]
Brilliant German actor sells himself to get ahead when the Nazis come to power. Prequel toCOLONEL REDL.
LE MÉPRIS
See CONTEMPT
THE MERCHANT OF FOUR SEASONS
[fs 3570 VHS 88min German subt 1972 dir:Rainer Werner Fassbinder]
A fruit peddler trapped in an unhappy marriage and frustrated with his life disintegrates mentally and emotionally, drinking himself to death as he toasts his loved ones at dinner.
MERCHANTS OF COOL
[ 8113 VHS 60min 1999? ]
The selling of popular culture to American teenagers in the 1990s.
MERE CHRISTIANITY
[9065 audiotape 1952 C.S. Lewis 8 1-hour cassettes]
C.S. Lewis's thoughts about the Christian faith.
MERRY CHRISTMAS, MR. LAWRENCE
[fs 3430 VHS 124min 1983 dir:Nagisa Oshima cast:David Bowie; Tom Conti]
A war of wills between a Japanese P.O.W. camp commander and a British army officer.
MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON
[fs 0586 16mm 20min bw 1943 dir:Maya Deren]
Experimental film.
See alsoMAYA DEREN EXPERIMENTAL FILMS
MESSAGE FROM AFRICAN HEALERS
[6431 VHS 1498 VHS 25min 1980]
Documents the treatment of mental illness in Zaire, emphasizing the strong connection between traditional culture and the treatment.
MESSIDOR
[fs6358 VHS 118min 1981 French/sub dir:Alain Tanner cast:Clémentine Amouroux, Catherine Rétoré]
Two teenaged Swiss girls abandon bourgeois life and compete to survive as aimless rural vagabonds.
METHODOLOGY: The Psychologist and the Experiment
[6406 VHS 1463 16mm 31min 1975]
Documents a social psychology experiment (fear and affiliation) with humans, and a physiological psychology experiment using kittens.
Metro Movietone shorts
fs 5428LD
See DAWN OF SOUND III
METROPOLIS
[fs 0319-0320 16mm 3921 and 4401 VHS 5471 Laser 9138 DVD 120min bw 1926 silent dir:Fritz Lang cast:Brigitte Helm; Alfred Abel]
Class struggle in a futuristic mechanized society.
MEXICO: The Frozen Revolution
[0088-0089 16mm 1632 VHS 60min 1970 dir:Raymondo Gleyzer]
Documentary outlining the Porfiriato period leading up to the 1910-17 revolution and the revolution itself, then moving ahead to the development of the single-party system and the presidencies of Díaz Ordaz and Echevarría.
MI VIDA LOCA
[4644 VHS 100min 1993 dir:Allison Anders]
In Los Angeles two girls who were best friends become mothers by the same boy who soon dies in a gang turf war.
MIAMI - HAVANA
[4299 VHS 60min 1992]
Shows the devastation to Cuban families kept fragmented by the continued lack of formal diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Cuba.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
[6808VHS French 14min]
Presents Montaigne and the world he described in his "Essais."
MICKEY ONE
[fs 5339 LaserCLV1 bw 1965 dir:Arthur Penn cast:Warren Beatty]
A nightclub comic feels he is being pursued by someone, perhaps the mob, for something he did.
MICKEY'S ROUNDUP
[fs 1828 16mm 18min bw]
In the style of the Our Gang comedies, young boys form a football league and win the big game with comedic efforts.
MICROCHIP AL CHIP
[3138 VHS 18min 1991]
An avant garde video which makes a statement against the overuse of Chile's forests in the production of exported paper.
THE MICRO-ELECTRONIC REVOLUTION
[2096 u-matic 58m total 1979]
An episode of the Fast Forward series which discusses the revolution of information processing, storage and transmission resulting from the microprocessor chip.
MIDAQ ALLEY (EL CALLEJÓN DE LOS MILAGROS)
[6963 VHS 140min 1995 Spanish/sub dir:Jorge Fons cast:Ernesto G¢mez Cruz, Maria Rojo, Salma Hayek]
Nagub Mafouz novel relocated to Mexico city; three neighbors find their dreams shatter their lives.
MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT
[fs 1402-1404 16mm 118min bw 1959 dir:Delbert Mann cast:Kim Novak; Fredric March]
From a play by Paddy Chayevsky, an elderly garment executive falls in love with a much younger woman.
MIDNIGHT COWBOY
[fs 3220 VHS 113min 1969 dir:John Schlesinger cast:Dustin Hoffman; Jon Voight]
A country boy and a city boy, both losers, try to hustle their way to a better life but fail.
MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL
[fs5633 LD 155min. 1997 dir:Clint Eastwood cast:John Cusack, Kevin Spacey]
John Berendt's book about Savannah's citizens.
MIDNIGHT OFFERINGS
[fs 2189-2190 u-matic 108min 1981 dir:Rod Holcomb]
A seemingly innocent cheerleader uses supernatural powers in a contest between good and evil.
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (Reinhardt)
[fs 4320 VHS 5753 LD 150min bw 1935 dirs:Max Reinhardt; William Dieterle cast:James Cagney; Dick Powell, Joe E. Brown]
Hollywood staging of the Shakespeare comedy.
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
[3824-3825 VHS 165min 1982 dir:Emile Ardolino and James Lapine cast:William Hurt, Diane Venora]
A New York Shakespeare Festival production, featuring William Hurt.
MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (Hall)
[6929 VHS 124min. 1968 dir:Peter Hall cast:Diana Rigg, David Warner, Helen Mirren, Ian Holm, Judi Dench, Ian Richardson]
TV version of Shakespeare's comedy emphasizes the fairies' earthiness.
MIDWAY
[fs 6735VHS 132min 1976 dir:Jack Smight cast:Charlton Heston; Henry Fonda]
Dramatization of the World War II naval battle on Midway Island.>
A MIDWIFE'S TALE
[6767VHS 88min 1997 dir:Richard Rogers cast:Kaiulani Lee]
Two women, 200 years apart, are linked by a diary one of them left behind. Set in Maine during the decades following the American Revolution.
THE MIKADO
[fs 1044-1045 16mm 80min 1939 dir:Victor Schertzinger cast:Kenny Baker; John Barclay]
Filmed version of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta.
MILDRED PIERCE
[fs 0913-0914 16mm 3128 VHS 6826 VHS 5073 LaserCLV1 5104 LaserCLV1 109min bw 1945 dir:Michael Curtiz cast:Joan Crawford; Jack Carson; Zachary Scott]
A self-made woman competes with her daughter for a man.
MILES OF SMILES, YEARS OF STRUGGLE
[1615-1616 16mm 8097 VHS 59min 1982]
Documents the Black Pullman Porters whose unionization in 1925 provided part of the foundation for the modern civil rights movement.
THE MILKY WAY (LA VOIE LACTÉE)
[fs 5123 LaserCLV1 105min French subt 1969 dir:Luis Buñuel cast:Michel Piccoli; Delphine Seyrig]
A series of vignettes satirizing organized religion.
MILLER'S CROSSING
[fs 4178 VHS 5226 LaserCLV1 115min 1990 dir:Joel Coen cast:Gabriel Byrne; Albert Finney]
An Irish mob boss and his lieutenant vie for the same woman while an Italian mobster tries to take over.
LE MILLION
[fs9301 DVD 81min 1931 French/sub b/w dir:René Clair cast:Annabella]
Musical delight in which a man must retrieve his coat, which has in it the winning lottery ticket.
MILLION DOLLAR MERMAID
[fs 3791 VHS 5754 Laser 111min 1952 dir:Mervyn LeRoy cast:Esther Williams; Victor Mature]
Australian athelete Annette Kellerman pioneers women's swimwear.
MILTON BY HIMSELF
[3826 6009 VHS 27min 1986]
Documentary of the life and times of John Milton.
MIN AND BILL
[fs 3292 VHS 70min bw 1930 dir:George Hill cast:Wallace Beery; Marie Dressler]
A waterfront character and her friend try to keep social workers from taking her daughter away.
MINA TANNENBAUM
[fs 6311VHS 128min Fr language sub 1993 dir:Martine Dugowson cast:Romane Bohringer; Elsa Zylberstein]
Story of two Jewish girls growing up in Paris who meet at age 7 and continue their friendship for the next 25 years.
MINBO or The Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion
[fs 6255 VHS 123min Japanese/sub 1992 dir:Juzo Itami cast:Nobuku Miyamoto; Akira Takarada; Yasuo Daichi]
"Hired to protect a hotel against blackmailing mobsters, the courageous (woman) attorney rallies employees to fight back and win."
THE MINDS OF MEN
[0124 VHS 30min bw 1966]
Documents some of the activities of UNESCO, especially in Latin America and Africa.
MINISTRY OF FEAR
[fs 6291 VHS 87min bw 1944 dir:Fritz Lang cast:Ray Milland; Marjorie Reynolds]
A man released from a mental hospital becomes the target of a Nazi spy ring.
THE MINIVER STORY
[fs 4179 VHS 104min bw 1950 dir:H. C. Potter cast:Greer Garson; Walter Pidgeon]
Sequel to Mrs. Miniver: what happens to the Miniver family after the end of World War II.
MINT TEA
[fs 1371 16mm 19min bw French 1961]
A study of people in a Parisian cafe.
THE MIRACLE
[fs 4333 VHS 41min bw Italian subt 1948 dir:Roberto Rossellini cast:Anna Magnani]
A simple peasant woman believes she has been visited by an angel and her baby is the messiah.
See also AMORE.
MIRACLE IN MILAN
[fs 3762 VHS 5227 LaserCLV1 96min Italian subt 1951 dir:Vittorio De Sica]
With divine help, a young man champions the cause of homeless people against the greedy and powerful.
MIRACLE IN ROME
[4483 VHS 76min Spanish subt 1988 dir:Lisandro Duque Naranjo]
When a man visits the grave of his seven-year-old daughter and finds her disinterred and perfectly preserved, he tries to have her declared a saint. From a story by Gabriel García Márquez.
MIRACLE OF INTERVALE AVENUE
[JHVC 7039 VHS 65min 1983 Documentary about a South Bronx neighborhood in which the few remaining Jews keep their culture alive with the help of their new neighbors.]
THE MIRACLE OF MORGAN'S CREEK
[fs 2503 VHS 98min bw 1944 dir:Preston Sturges cast:Eddie Bracken; Betty Hutton; William Demarest]
A young woman gets too patriotic with a G.I. at an all-night party, gets pregnant, and can't remember the name of the father.
THE MIRACLE PLANET
[VHS 60min each 1989]
Visually impressive intoduction to the geology of the Earth.
1. The Third Planet
[4226] Origin of the Earth, the significance of craters.
2. The Heat Within
[4227] Interior structure of Earth and its processes.
3. Life from the Sea
[4228] Role of the oceans in geological processes.
4. Patterns in the Air
[4229] Evolution of the atmosphere and weather.
5. Riddles of Sand and Ice
[4230] Clues to climate changes found in deserts and ice caps.
6. The Home Planet
[4231] Examines prospects for human life on Earth.
THE MIRACLE WOMAN
[fs 6158 VHS 90min bw 1931 dir:Frank Capra cast:Barbara Stanwyck; David Manners]
A pastor's daughter is enlisted by a con artist to pose as an evangelist.
THE MIRACLE WORKER
[fs 3416 VHS 107min bw 1962 dir:Arthur Penn cast:Anne Bancroft; Patty Duke]
The story of Helen Keller and her teacher Anne Sullivan, from the Broadway play by William Gibson.
MIRAGE
[fs5622 LD 92min. 1995 dir.:Paul Williams cast:Edward James Olmos, Sean Young]
Ex-cop is bodyguard to a multiple-personality-disorder case who is both a rich environmentalist and a stripper. Thriller.
MIRCH MASALA
See SPICES
MIRELE EFROS
[JHVC 7058 VHS 80min 1939 Yiddish/sub bw dir:Josef Berne cast:Berta Gersten, Michael Rosenberg, Ruth Elbaum]
Jacob Gordin's play about a Jewish widow and her cruel daughter-in-law. "The Jewish Queen Lear."
MIRÓ, The Catalan Master
[6275 VHS 55min Spanish]
"..20th century surrealist Joán Miró talks about his life and the various influences on his work."
MIRROR
[fs 3768 VHS 106min Russian subt 1974 dir:Andrei Tarkovsky cast:Oleg Yanovsky; Margarita Terekhova]
A fragmented series of autobiographical episodes which mirror Soviet history.
LE MISANTHROPE
[4926-4927 VHS 125min French 1994]
The play by Molière.
LES MISÉRABLES
[6809-10 VHS French 228min]
Dramatization of Victor Hugo's novel in which Inspector Javert pursues the ever more saintly Jean Valjean. Part 1 [6809]; Part 2 [6810]
MISERY & FORTUNE OF WOMEN
See QUÉ VIVA MÉXICO (Da zdravstvuyet Meksika!).
THE MISFITS
[fs 5755 Laser 124min. 1961 b/w dir:John Huston cast:Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe]
Arthur Miller wrote the screenplay about a lonely young woman who joins three cowboys to round up wild mustangs.
MISS GOODALL AND THE WILD CHIMPANZEES
[1885 16mm 27min 1964]
Follows English anthropologist Jane Goodall as she lives with and observes wild chimpanzees in East African jungles.
See also AMONG THE WILD CHIMPANZEES.
MISS LULU BETT
[fs 6297VHS silent 1921 cast:Lois Wilson; Milton Sills]
MISSISSIPPI BURNING
[fs 5369 LaserCLV2 127min 1988 dir:Alan Parker cast:Gene Hackman; Willem Dafoe]
Dramatizes a true event in which the FBI was brought into a small town to find out what happened to three missing civil rights workers in 1964.
MISSISSIPPI MASALA
[fs6856 VHS 117min. 1991 dir:Mira Nair cast:Denzel Washington, Roshan Seth, Satrita Choudhury]
An Afro-American businessman and the daughter of Indian immigrants from Africa fall in love, exciting all kinds of emotions in their cultures.
MISSISSIPPI MERMAID (LA SIRÈNE DU MISSISSIPPI)
[fs 5228 LaserCLV1 109min French subt 1969 dir:François Truffaut cast:Jean-Paul Belmondo; Cathérine Deneuve]
A lonely plantation owner in Réunion advertises for a wife and is rewarded with a mystery woman.
MISSISSIPPI TRIANGLE
[4743 VHS 77min 1987]
Explores the history and lives of Asians living in Mississippi and their relationships to whites and blacks.
MISTAKEN IDENTITY
[fs 4855 VHS 60min bw 1941 dirs:George P. Quigley; Arthur Leonard]
A murder mystery set in a nightclub. An all-African-American cast.
MISTER ROBERTS
[fs 5596Laser 1955 121min dir:John Ford, Mervyn LeRoy cast:Henry Fonda; James Cagney; William Powell; Jack Lemmon]
Sailors on the USS Reluctant during World War II fight to survive the indignities of war.
LES MISTONS
[fs 1384 16mm 3869 VHS 6754 VHS 9169 DVD 18min bw French subt 1957 dir:François Truffaut] Children watch a young courting couple. VHS and DVD are anthologies.
THE MISTRESS
[fs 3311 VHS 106min bw Japanese subt 1953 dir:Shiro Toyoda]
A woman believes that she is married to a prosperous man, but suddenly discovers that he is already married and that she is no more than his mistress.
MITOSIS
[0140 VHS 15min 1980]
Describes the biological process in which a cell devides and reproduces itself.
MITT THE PRINCE
[fs 0787 16mm 21min bw silent 1920s cast:Snub Pollard]
Snub passes himself off as a prince to crash a Hollywood party.
THE MITZVAH MACHINE
[JHVC 7164 VHS 10min 1987 ]
Animated. Jeff makes a robot that undergoes the Bar Mitzvah in his place.
MIXED-UP ADVENTURE
[6953 VHS 94min 1993 Spanish/sub dir:Juan Carlos Escheverria ]
Little Maggie is kidnapped twice, once by a benign but ambitious teenage boy, once by a real bad guy. From Venezuela.
THE MODEL AND THE MARRIAGE BROKER
[fs 1692-1694 16mm 103min bw 1951 dir:George Cukor cast:Jeanne Crain; Scott Brady; Thelma Ritter]
Chronicles the humorous efforts of a marriage broker to help a lonely model without her knowing it.
MODERN TIMES
[fs 1280 VHS (silent) 2985 VHS 87min 5305 LD 103min bw 1936 dir:Charlie Chaplin cast:Charlie Chaplin; Paulette Goddard]
A factory worker can't stand his job any longer but can't find other work in the Depression Era. Note: 1280 is a silent version with titles.
THE MODERNS
[fs 3604 VHS 126min 1988 dir:Alan Rudolph cast:Keith Carradine; Genevieve Bujold]
An art collector commissions an artist to forge masterpieces, while his wife tries to seduce him. Set in 1920s Paris.
Mogambo
fs 5172LD
See THE CLARK GABLE COLLECTION
MOLIÈRE: UNE VIE POUR LE THÉÂTRE
[9047 CD-ROM PC/MAC 1997 French Language]
Texts of 33 plays of Molière plus 12 filmed scenes and a cultural & biographical context by Ph. Caubère.
MOIRÉ
[3460 VHS 18min]
Features the kinetic art of Venezuelan artist Jose Maria Cruxent, a leader in the kinetic art movement.
MOLLY'S PILGRIM
[JHVC 7165 VHS 23min 1985 dir:Jeffrey D. Brown]
A Russian-Jewish girl brings a different perspective on Thanksgiving to her grade-school class.
MONA LISA
[fs 9577 DVD 104min. 1986 dir:Neil Jordan cast:Bob Hoskins, Cathy Tyson, Michael Caine]
A gangster's chauffeur begins to feel protective towards the call girl he drives.
MONANIEBA
See REPENTANCE.
MON ONCLE
[fs 3130 VHS 114min 5376 LaserCLV1 fs 9596 DVD 116min bw French/sub 1958 dir:Jacques Tati]
Mr. Hulot encounters the gadgety home of his brother-in-law.
DVD includes a 1947 Tati short, L'ÉCOLE DES FACTEURS.
MON ONCLE D'AMÉRIQUE
[fs 2842 VHS 123min French subt 1980 dir:Alain Resnais cast:Gérard Depardieu; Nicole Garcia; Roger Pierre]
Three people under stress fantasize about a rich uncle in America who will help them.
LE MONDE: L'HISTOIRE AU JOUR LE JOUR 1939-1996
[9043 CD-ROM PC/MAC 1997 French Language]
245 Page Ones of the French newspaper, with maps, photos, radio clips, etc. for context.
MONDO
[6816 VHS 80min 1994 French Language/sub dir: Tony Gatlif cast:Ovidou Balan, Philippe Petit]
A homeless gypsy boy makes friends on the streets of Nice.
MONIKA
[fs 3202 VHS 82min bw Swedish subt 1953 dir:Ingmar Bergman cast: Harriet Andersson; Lars Ekborg]
A young woman discovers that sex and the boy next door will not give her the means to live happily ever after.
MONKEY BUSINESS
[fs 3490 VHS 5229 LaserCLV1 77min bw 1931 dir:Norman Z. McLeod cast:Marx Brothers; Thelma Todd]
Stowaways on a luxury liner.
MONSIEUR BEAUCAIRE
[fs 1664-1665 16mm 93min bw 1946 dir:George Marshall cast:Bob Hope; Joan Caulfield]
Louis XV's barber goes on a suicide mission.
MONSIEUR HIRE
[fs 3628 VHS 88min French subt 1990 dir:Patrice LeConte]
A murder suspect and voyeur is sought out by the girl-next-door who has discovered him spying on her.
MONSIEUR RENÉ MAGRITTE
[3866 VHS 60min 1978]
Documents the life of the surrealist artist.
MONSIEUR VERDOUX
[fs 2564 VHS 9302 DVD 122min bw 1947 dir:Charlie Chaplin cast:Charlie Chaplin; Martha Raye]
A Parisian Bluebeard murders wives for their money but is a pacifist at heart. Black comedy.
Monster that Challenged the World
fs 5488LD
See UNITED ARTISTS SCI-FI MATINEE 1
Monte Carlo
fs 5494LD
See THE LUBISTCH TOUCH
MONTEREY POP
[fs 5377 LaserCLV1 79min 1968 dir:D. A. Pennebaker]
Documents the Monterey International Pop Festival held in June 1967.
MONTHLY ANCESTRAL OFFERING IN HINDUISM (Image India)
[1982 VHS 8min dir:Daniel Smith]
An offering by a Brahmin householder, in his Madras home on the morning of the new moon, to assist the spirits of family ancestors.
MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS
[fs DVD 1969-73 cast:John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, Eric Idle]
  • 1[fs9170 DVD 102min 1969-70]The first three episodes of the British TV comedy shows first season.
  • 2 [fs9171 DVD 102min 1969-70]Episodes 4-5-6 of the British TV comedy shows first season.
  • 3 [fs9172 DVD 102min 1969-70]Episodes 7-8-9 of the British TV comedy shows first season. Includes the Lumberjack Song.
  • 4 [fs9173 DVD 135min 1969-70] Episodes 10-11-12-13 of the British TV comedy show's first season.
  • 5 [fs9351 DVD 102min 1970] Episodes 14, 15, and 16 of the British TV comedy show's third season.
  • 6 [fs9352 DVD 102min 1970] Episodes 17, 18, and 19 of the British TV comedy show's third season.
  • 7 [fs9353 DVD 102min 1970] Episodes 20, 21, and 22 of the British TV comedy show's third season.
  • 9 [fs9303 DVD 102min 1972-73] Episodes 27-28-29 of the British TV comedy show's third season.
  • 10 [fs9304 DVD 102min 1972-73] Episodes 30-31-32 of the British TV comedy show's third season.
  • 11[fs9305 DVD 102min 1972-73] Episodes 33-34-35 of the British TV comedy show's third season.
  • 12[fs9306 DVD 135min 1972-73] Episodes 36-37-38-39 of the British TV comedy show's third season.
MOON OVER HARLEM
[fs9320 DVD 68min 1939 b/w dir:Edgar G. Ulmer cast:Bud Harris, Cora Green]
Rich woman thinks her daughter and husband are up to something; gangsters prey on pushcart vendors; Sidney Bechet plays jazz. DVD has 2 films; see THE STRANGE WOMAN AND MOON OVER HARLEM
MOONFLEET
[5308 LaserCLV1 83min 1955 dir:Fritz Lang cast:Stewart Granger; George Sanders]
18th-century English gentleman's smuggling business is disrupted by a boy he takes in.
MOONRISE
[fs 4100 VHS 90min bw 1948 dir:Frank Borzage cast:Dane Clark; Gail Russell]
The son of a killer finds his misery multiplied when he is goaded into violence and kills a man.
MOONSTONE
[6149 VHS 120min 1997 dir:Robert Bierman cast:Greg Wise; Patricia Hodge]
Adaptation of Wilkie Collins' mystery. The theft of the Moonstone, a sacred Hindu diamond, supposedly cursed if removed from its shrine.
MOONSTRUCK
[9077 DVD 102min 1987 dir:Norman Jewison cast:Cher; Nicholas Cage; Olympia Dukakis]
Romantic comedy. The brother of an Italian-American widow's fiance falls in love with her.
MORAL JUDGMENT AND REASONING
[0972 16mm 17min 1978]
Discusses development of morality from three perspectives: Freud, observational learning, and Piaget's cognitive development.
MORALITY
[2877 VHS 28min 1977]
Uses the theories of Piaget to trace the moral development of children.
MORE MÉLIÈS
[6356 VHS bw silent dir:Georges Méliès ]
Includes nn Where No Man Rests, Spiritualist Photographer, Magic Lantern, Clockmaker's Dream, Cook in Trouble, Bob Kick, Oracle of Delphi, Living Statue, Jupiter's Thunderbolt, Mermaid, Kingdom of the Fairies, Jack & Jim, Jack Jaggs, Mystical Flame.
See also MÉLIÈS, MARVELOUS MÉLIÈS and MÉLIÈS III and MAGIC OF MÉLIÈS
MORE THAN BROKEN GLASS: Memories of Kristallnacht
[2628 VHS 57min 1988]
Recounts the night in 1938 when the Nazis openly attacked Jewish businesses, presaging the Holocaust.
MOROCCO
[6791VHS 47min]
Lonely Planet video of adventurous travel through Morocco.
MOROCCO
[fs 3441 VHS 92min bw 1930 dir:Josef von Sternberg cast:Marlene Dietrich; Gary Cooper; Adolph Menjou]
A love triangle between a cabaret singer, a soldier, and an aristocrat, set in North Africa.
THE MORTAL STORM
[fs 4315 VHS 100min bw 1940 dir:Frank Borzage cast:Margaret Sullavan; James Stewart; Robert Young]
As Hitler rises to power in Germany in 1933 a group of friends is torn apart by questions of loyalty.
MORTE A VENEZIA
See DEATH IN VENICE.
MORTE E VIDA SEVERINA
[2777 VHS 58min Portuguese 1980]
A television production. Narrative poem is set to music and taped amid Brazil's impoverished countryside and city tenements.
MOSCOW DOES NOT BELIEVE IN TEARS (MOSKVA SLEZAM NE VERIT)
[ 6465 VHS 150min. 1981 Russian/sub bw dir:Vladimir Menshov cast:Vera Alentova, Irina Muravyova]
Three women's lives in the Soviet capital are examined, first in 1958 when they are planning their lives, then in 1978.
THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME
[fs9225 DVD 9365 DVD 63min 1932 bw dir:Irving Pichel, Ernest B. Schoedsack cast:Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Leslie Banks]
Richard Connel's short story of a hunter who wants to hunt a man.
MOTHER (1926)
[fs 0370-0371 16mm 3131 VHS 10036 DVD 73min bw silent 1926 dir:V. I. Pudovkin]
A mother incriminates her strike-breaking son but realizes her error. Communist social propaganda.
MOTHER (1952)
[fs 3277 VHS 98min bw Japanese subt 1952 dir:Mikio Naruse]
A mother sacrifices greatly in post-war Japan to see her children survive into better times.
MOTHER KÜSTERS GOES TO HEAVEN (MUTTER KÜSTERS FAHRT SUM HIMMEL)
[4379 VHS 108min German subt 1976 dir:Rainer Werner Fassbinder cast:Brigitte Mira; Ingrid Caven]
After a factory worker goes berserk and kills himself his widow attempts to clear his name.
MOTHER OF MANY CHILDREN
[4130 VHS 58min 1977]
Focuses on the cycles of personal growth from birth to old age of Canadian native women, as experienced and recounted in a series of interviews with Indian and Inuit women.
MOUCHETTE
[fs 3792 VHS 90min bw French subt 1966 dir:Robert Bresson]
A teenage girl is mired in poverty and misery and comes to a bitter and tragic end.
MOUNTAIN GLACIERS
[0562 16mm 19min 1966]
Explains the formation and effects of glaciers, with examples from New Zealand, Alaska and the Antarctic.
MOUNTAIN GORILLA
[0753 VHS 16min 1959]
A year-long study of gorillas in their natural habitat in central Africa.
MOUNTAIN MUSIC OF PERU
[2766 VHS 60min Spanish/Quechua/Aymara subt]
Documents traditional Andean music, dance, and related customs.
LE MOUTON À CINQ PATTES
See THE SHEEP HAS FIVE LEGS.
THE MOVIES BEGIN
[fs VHS 1994]
Documents the evolution of early cinema from a technical curiosity to an influential medium of artistic expression. Includes over 120 early film works.
  • THE MOVIES BEGIN Volume 1 [2615 75min] THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY AND OTHER PRIMARY WORKS
  • Series Photography [Eadweard Muybridge]
  • The May Irwin Kiss [William Heise 1896]
  • Serpentine Dance [Dickson & Heise 1895]
  • Serpentine Dance [Heise 1896]
  • Sandow [Dickson/Heise 1894]
  • The Glenroy Brothers [Dickson/Heise 1894]
  • Cock Fight [James White/Heise 1896]
  • The Barber Shop [Dickson/Heise 1894]
  • Feeding the Doves [White/Heise 1896]
  • Seminary Girls [White/Heise 1897]
  • Swimming in the Sea [Lumière 1895]
  • Children Fishing for Shrimp [Lumière 1896]
  • Loading a Boiler [Lumière 1896]
  • Dragoons Crossing the Saône [Lumière 1896]
  • Promenade of Ostriches [Lumière 1896]
  • Childish Quarrel [Lumière 1895]
  • Lion, London Zoological Garden [Lumière 1896]
  • Photograph [Lumière 1895]
  • Transformation of Hats [Lumière 1895]
  • Carmaux: Drawing Out the Coke [Lumière 1896]
  • Poultry Yard [Lumière 1896]
  • Arab Cortege, Geneva [Lumière 1896]
  • New York, Brooklyn Bridge [Lumière 1896]
  • New York: Broadway at Union Square [Lumière 1896]
  • Policeman's Parade, Chicago [Lumière 1896]
  • A Trip to the Moon [Georges Méliès 1902]
  • McKinley at Home [Dickson 1896]
  • Pack Train on Chilkoot Pass [Edison 1898]
  • Skyscrapers of New York from North River [Edison 1903]
  • The Georgetown Loop [Biograph 1901]
  • San Francisco: Aftermath of the Earthquake [Edison, Lubin 1906]
  • The Dog and Its Various Merits [Pathé 1908]
  • Moscow Clad in Snow [Pathé 1908]
  • Airplane Flight & Wreck [unknown 1910]
  • A Fire in a Burlesque Theatre [Biograph 1904]
  • Airy Fairy Lillian Tries on Her New Corset [Biograph 1905]
  • From Show Girl to Burlesque Queen [Biograph 1903]
  • Troubles of a Manager of a Burlesque Show [Biograph 1903]
  • The Great Train Robbery [Porter 1903]
  • The Whole Dam Family and the Dam Dog [Lubin 1905]
  • The Golden Beetle [Pathé 1907]
  • THE MOVIES BEGIN Volume 2 [2616 58min] THE EUROPEAN PIONEERS
  • Leaving the Lumière Factory [Lumière 1895]
  • The Baby's Meal [Lumière 1895]
  • Demolition of a Wall [Lumière 1896]
  • The Sprinkler Sprinkled [Lumière 1895]
  • Arrival of Congress Members at Neuville-sur- Saône [Lumière 1895]
  • The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat [Lumière 1895]
  • Card Party [Lumière 1895]
  • Boat Leaving the Port [Lumière 1895]
  • Leaving Jerusalem by Railway [Lumière 1896]
  • Snowball Fight [Lumière 1896]
  • A Fire Run [Lumière 1896]
  • Niagara Falls [Lumière 1896]
  • Spanish Bullfight [Lumière 1897]
  • Rough Sea at Dover [Paul 1895]
  • Come Along Do! [Paul 1898]
  • The Derby [Robert W. Paul 1896]
  • The Countryman and the Cinematograph [Paul 1901]
  • A Chess Dispute [Paul 1903]
  • Extraordinary Cab Accident [Paul 1903]
  • Buy Your Own Cherries [Paul 1904]
  • The (?) Motorist [Walter R. Booth 1906]
  • The Miller and the Sweep [Smith 1898]
  • The Kiss in the Tunnel [Smith 1899]
  • Let Me Dream Again [George A. Smith 1900]
  • Grandma's Reading Glass [Smith 1900]
  • As Seen Through a Telescope [Smith 1900]
  • Sick Kitten [Smith 1903]
  • Mary Jane's Mishap, or Don't Fool with Paraffin [Smith 1903]
  • Daring Daylight Burglary [Mottershaw 1903]
  • Desperate Poaching Affray [Haggar 1903]
  • The Kiss in the Tunnel [James Bamforth 1899]
  • Ladies' Skirts Nailed to a Fence [Bamforth 1900]
  • The Bitter Bit [Bamforth 1900]
  • Rough Sea [Bamforth 1900]
  • Attack on a China Mission [Williamson 1900]
  • The Big Swallow [Williamson 1901]
  • Stop Thief [Williamson 1901]
  • Fire! [James Williamson 1901]
  • An Interesting Story [Williamson 1905]
  • THE MOVIES BEGIN Volume 3 [2617 93min] EXPERIMENTATION AND DISCOVERY
  • How It Feels to Be Run Over [Hepworth 1900]
  • Explosion of a Motor Car [Hepworth 1900]
  • Rescued by Rover [Fitzhamon/Hepworth 1905]
  • The Other Side of the Hedge [Fitzhamon 1905]
  • That Fatal Sneeze [Lewis Fitzhamon 1905]
  • A Visit to Peek Frean & Co.'s Biscuit Works [Cricks & Martin 1906]
  • A Day in the Life of a Coal Miner [Kineto 1910]
  • Peeping Tom [Pathé 1901]
  • Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves [Zecca 1902]
  • Story of a Crime [Zecca 1901]
  • Dream and Reality [Zecca 1901]
  • Revolution in Odessa [Lucien Nouquet 1905]
  • Aladin or the Marvelous Lamp [unknown 1906]
  • The Runaway Horse [Zecca 1907]
  • A Narrow Escape/The Physician of the Castle [Pathé 1908]
  • Magic Bricks [Gaston Velle 1908]
  • Dewars Scotch Whiskey/Dewar's - It's Scotch [1897]
  • The Gay Shoe Clerk [Edwin S. Porter 1903]
  • Dream of a Rarebit Fiend [Porter/McCutcheon 1906]
  • THE MOVIES BEGIN Volume 4 [2618 103min] THE MAGIC OF MÉLIÈS
  • The Untamable Whiskers [1904]
  • The Cook in Trouble [1904]
  • Tchin-Chao: the Chinese Conjuror [1904]
  • The Wonderful Living Fan [1904]
  • The Mermaid [1904]
  • The Living Playing Cards [1905]
  • The Black Imp [1905]
  • The Enchanted Sedan Chair [1905]
  • The Scheming Gambler's Paradise [1905]
  • The Hilarious Posters [1906]
  • The Mysterious Retort [1906]
  • The Eclipse: the Courtship of Sun and Moon [1907]
  • Good Glue Sticks [1907]
  • Long Distance Wireless Photography [1908]
  • An Impossible Voyage [1904]
  • Georges Méliès: Cinema Magician [Montgomery/Martinengo 1978.]
  • THE MOVIES BEGIN Volume 5 [2619] COMEDY, SPECTACLE, AND NEW HORIZONS
  • The Policeman's Little Run [Pathé 1907]
  • Troubles of a Grass Widower [Pathé 1908]
  • Nero, or the Burning of Rome [Ambrosio 1909]
  • Onésime, Clock-maker [Durand/Bourbon 1912]
  • Winsor McCay or Little Nemo [McCay 1911]
  • Making an American Citizen [Alice Guy-Blaché 1912]
  • The Girl and Her Trust [D. W. Griffith 1912]
  • The Bangville Police [Henry Lehrman 1913]
MOVIES LEARN TO TALK
[fs 0443 16mm 26min bw 1960]
Shows early attempts to add sound to movies, culminating in the first successful sound motion picture, The Jazz Singer.
MOVING ON: The Hunger for Land in Zimbabwe
[1042 VHS 52min 1982]
An agricultural history of Zimbabwe contrasting a large thriving farm of colonial settlers with a poor farm of a native family.
MOZART STRING QUARTET IN C MAJOR
[fs 9029 CD-ROM 1991]
Multimedia performance by Robert Winter of the Dissonant Quartet packed with text and visual facts. MacIntosh only.
MR. AND MRS. SMITH
[fs 3251 VHS 95min bw 1941 dir:Alfred Hitchcock cast:Carole Lombard; Robert Montgomery]
A quarrelsome couple discover they aren't married.
MR. ARKADIN
[fs 3510 VHS 5101 LaserCLV1 98min bw 1955 dir:Orson Welles cast:Orson Welles; Michael Redgrave]
An eccentric millionaire who claims to suffer from amnesia hires a smuggler to investigate his past.
MR. BLANDINGS BUILDS HIS DREAM HOUSE
[fs 1282-1283 16mm 3274 VHS 94min bw 1948 dir:H. C. Potter cast:Cary Grant; Myrna Loy]
A city couple attempt to build a house in the country.
MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN
[fs 0961-0963 16mm 2969 VHS 9332 DVD 115min bw 1936 dir:Frank Capra cast:Gary Cooper; JeanArthur]
A man inherits millions and wants to give it all away.
MR. HULOT'S HOLIDAY (LES VACANCES DE M. HULOT)
[fs 0596-0597 16mm 3129 VHS 5093 LaserCLV1 fs 9597 DVD 86min bw French subt 1953 dir:Jacques Tati]
Monsieur Hulot has a funny vacation in a resort town.
DVD includes René Clément's short SOIGNE TON GAUCHE (1936) starring Tati.
MR. KLEIN
[fs6384 VHS 124min 1977 French/sub dir:Joseph Losey cast:Alain Delon, Jeanne Moreau]
Paris 1942: An art dealer discovers his identity is being borrowed by a Jewish resistance fighter whose name is also Klein.
MR. LUCKY
[fs 3261 VHS 98min bw 1948 dir:H. C. Potter cast:Cary Grant; Laraine Day]
Gambling-ship owner falls in love with his victim and goes straight.
MR. SATURDAY NIGHT
[JHVC 7011 VHS 119min. 1992 dir:Billy Crystal cast:Crystal, Helen Hunt]
Buddy Young, Jr. rises from Catskill comedian to live television star.
MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON
[fs 3851 VHS 125min 5303 LD 9333 DVD 130min bw 1939 dir:Frank Capra cast:James Stewart; Jean Arthur]
A young senator must filibuster to foil the plans of his corrupted fellow senator.
MRS. DOUBTFIRE
[fs5517 LD 125min 1993 dir:Chris Columbus cast:Robin Williams; Sally Field; Pierce Brosnan ]
A divorced father dresses as a woman to work as housekeeper for his ex-wife to be with his children.
MRS. MINIVER
[fs 3335 VHS 5266 LaserCLV2 134min bw 1942 dir:William Wyler cast:Greer Garson; Walter Pidgeon]
A middle-class English family learns to cope with war conditions.
MRS. SOFFEL
[fs 5756 Laser 112min. 1985 dir:Gillian Armstrong cast:Diane Keaton, Mel Gibson]
Pittsburgh, 1901: The warden's wife joins two death-row prisoners in an escape.
MUJER ANTE EL ESPEJO
[3637 VHS 17min Spanish subt]
Documentary. A Cuban ballerina has reached the peak of her career at the same time as motherhood.
MUJERES AL BORDE DE UN ATAQUE DE NERVIOS (dir. Almodóvar)
See WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
MULAN
[fs9216 DVD 88min 1998 Walt Disney animated]
China, Heroic Age: a girl disguised as a soldier helps repell the Huns.
THE MULTINATIONAL CORPORATION
[0990 VHS 32min]
Discusses characteristics and problems of such businesses.
MULTIPLY... AND SUBDUE THE EARTH
[0740-0741 16mm 67min bw 1969]
Documents the problems caused by an expanding population and careless planning or complete disregard for the effects of development.
MÜNCHAUSEN
[2715 VHS 110min German subt 1943 dir:Josef von Baky cast:Hans Albers; Brigitte Horney]
Lavish wartime production ordered by the Nazis, about the legendary adventures of the legendary German baron. AKA The Adventures of Baron Münchausen.
THE MUNICH CRISIS
[0970-0971 16mm 58min 1967]
A British documentary detailing the role of British politicians in trying to keep Hitler's lust for Czechoslovakia from igniting World War II.
MURDER
[fs 9095 DVD 94min b/w 1938 dir:Alfred Hitchcock cast:Herbert Marshall, Norah Barring]
A juror believes a woman convicted of murder is innocent and sets out to apprehend the killer.
MURDER and murder
[6565 VHS 113min 1996 dir:Yvonne Rainer]
Follows two middle-aged women through love, mastectomy, and life.
MURDER, MY SWEET
[fs 5230 LaserCLV1 95min bw 1945 dir:Edward Dmytryk cast:Dick Powell; Claire Trevor; Anne Shirley]
Private eye Philip Marlowe is hired to search for a missing girlfriend but finds much more. From the novel Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler.
THE MURDERERS ARE AMONG US (DIE MÖRDER SIND UNTER UNS)
[6077 VHS 6779 VHS 84min bw 1946 German/sub dir:Wolfgang Staudte cast: Hildegard Knef]
A postwar romantic thriller. A German army doctor and a concentration camp survivor return to a devastated Berlin.
MURIEL
[fs 3577 VHS 115min French subt 1963 dir:Alain Resnais]
A widow and her stepson are both misled by past loves.
MUSÉE D'ORSAY: VISITE VIRTUELLE
[9044 CD-ROM PC/MAC 1996 French Language]
Navigate the Halls of the Orsay Museum's collection of 19th-c. Art; examine the works in their cultural context.
MUSEUM WITHOUT WALLS
See individual titles:
THE MUSIC BOX
[fs 0399 16mm 24min bw 1932 cast:Stan Laurel; Oliver Hardy]
Two piano movers struggle to deliver a piano, only to have it destroyed in error by its recipient. Academy award for best short film.
MUSIC BOX
[JHVC 7110 VHS 126min 1988 dir:Costa-Gavras cast:Jessica Lange, Armin Muller-Stahl]
A Chicago lawyer defends her Hungarian-born father when he is accused of war crimes in connection with the Holocaust.
THE MUSIC MAN
[fs5532 LD 151min 1962 dir:Morton DaCosta cast:Robert Preston; Shirley Jones; Buddy Hackett ]
Musical about Professor Harold Hill, a conman who starts a boys' band in a small Iowa town.
THE MUSIC ROOM (dir Ray); see JALSAGHAR
THE MUSIC OF CHANCE
[fs 5202 LaserCLV1 98min 1993 dir:Philip Haas cast:James Spader; Mandy Patinkin]
A gambler and his friend set out to make easy money from a couple of millionaires but wind up as debtors at hard labor.
MUSICAL TRAMP
[fs 1936 16mm 9min bw silent cast:Charlie Chaplin]
A piano delivery man delivers to the wrong address.
MUSKETEERS OF PIG ALLEY
[fs 1960 16mm 10min bw silent 1912 dir:D. W. Griffith]
See alsoGRIFFITH, D. W. - SHORTS (1912 #3) and below.
MUSKETEERS OF PIG ALLEY & Selected Biograph Shorts 1912-1913
[fs 4080 VHS 117m total bw silent 1912-1913 dir:D. W. Griffith]
  • The Musketeers of Pig Alley [~17min 1912]
  • The Burglar's Dilemma [~15min 1912]
  • The Sunbeam [~15min 1912]
  • The Painted Lady [~13min 1912]
  • One Is Business, the Other Crime [~15min 1912]
  • Death's Marathon [~15min 1912]
  • The Battle at Elderbush Gulch [~28min 1913]
MUSLIMS IN MANGO; Arabic Writing and Prayer
[0573 VHS 35min bw 1974 dir:E.A.B. van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal & E.A. van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal-Baerends]
Describes the practice of Islam in North Togo.
MUSSOLINI VISITS HITLER: 1937
[fs 4919 VHS 30min bw German subt 1937]
Nazi documentary showing various public and official functions of the two dictators.
MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY (1935)
[fs 0827-0829 16mm 3307 VHS 5757 Laser 133min bw 1935 dir:Frank Lloyd cast:Charles Laughton; Clark Gable]
The lure of Pacific-island paradises and the harshness of a British Navy captain contribute to mutiny on the H.M.S. Bounty.
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MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY (1962)
[fs 5758 Laser 186min. 1962 dir:Lewis Milestone cast:Marlon Brand, Trevor Howard]
Nordhoff and Hall's novel gets a new treatment with the aristocratic Fletcher Christian loathing the workaholic Captain Bligh.
MY BEST GIRL
[fs9413 DVD 79min. 1927 bw silent dir:Sam Taylor cast:Mary Pickford, Charles Buddy Rogers]
Five-and-dime store clerk Maggie falls for a fellow clerk, who's really the boss's son!
MY DARLING CLEMENTINE
[fs 2541 VHS 5056 LaserCLV1 97min 1946 dir:John Ford cast:Henry Fonda; Victor Mature; Walter Brennan]
Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and events leading up to the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
MY DINNER WITH ANDRÉ
[fs 3558 VHS 110min 1981 dir:Louis Malle cast:André Gregory; Wallace Shawn]
Two old friends who work in theater and have not seen each other in a long time, have a philosophical conversation over dinner.
MY FAVORITE SPY
[fs 5046 LaserCLV1 86min bw 1942 dir:Tay Garnett cast:Kay Kyser; Ellen Drew; Jane Wyman]
Kay Kyser is called upon by the Army to ferret out a gang of spies who have infiltrated his nightclub.
MY FAVORITE WIFE
[fs 2563 VHS 88min bw 1940 dir:Garson Kanin cast:Cary Grant; Irene Dunne]
A wife declared legally dead returns to her husband as he is about to remarry.
MY FAVORITE YEAR
[JHVC 7012 VHS 92min 1992 dir:Richard Benjamin cast:Mark Linn-Baker, Peter O'Toole, Joseph Bologna]
Young gag writer must keep a flamboyant Errol-Flynn-like guest star sober and ready to go live on King Kaiser's comedy hour (read Your Show of Shows).
MY FEMINISM
[ 6737VHS 55min 1997 dir:Dominique Cardona, Laurie Colbert]
Feminism presented as a significant revolution. Includes interviews with activists including Gloria Steinem and Urvashi Vaid.
MY LIFE AND TIMES WITH ANTONIN ARTAUD (EN COMPAGNIE D'ANTONIN ARTAUD)
[fs4768 VHS 93min 1993 French/sub dir:Gérard Mordillat cast:Sami Frey, Marc Barbé]
Paris, 1946: a young poet befriends the drug-addicted Theater of Cruelty master, just out of the insane asylum.
MY LIFE TO LIVE (Vivre sa Vie)
[fs 3411 VHS 5405 and 5440 Laser 9174 DVD 85min French subt 1962 dir:Jean-Luc Godard]
A salesgirl who works in a record store is unable to pay her rent from her salary. She is evicted by her landlady and turns to prostitution in order to survive.
MY MAN GODFREY
[fs 0271-0272 16mm 90min b/w 1936; 9079 DVD 96min dir:Gregory LaCava cast:William Powell; Carole Lombard]
A family hires an apparently destitute man as a butler and discovers his deep pockets of wisdom, love, and old money.
MY MICHAEL
[2893 VHS 95min Hebrew subt 1975 dir:Dan Wolman]
The young wife of a scientist finds her life limited and lonely in 1950's Jerusalem.
MY NAME IS IVAN (IVANOVO DETSVO; IVAN'S CHILDHOOD)
[fs 3986 VHS 84min bw Russian subt 1962 dir:Andrei Tarkovsky]
A Russian youth is sent as a spy into Nazi territory.
MY NEW PARTNER (LES RIPOUX)
[fs 5050 LaserCLV1 105min French subt 1985 dir:Claude Zidi cast:Philippe Noiret; Thierry Lhermitte]
A veteran cop takes on a new young partner and introduces him to his idea of the good life on the beat.
MY NIGHT AT MAUD'S (MA NUIT CHEZ MAUD)
[fs 3030 VHS 6105 VHS 9046 DVD 9259 DVD 110min 1969 French/sub bw dir:Eric Rohmer cast:Jean-Louis Trintignant]
A man who plans to marry a woman he saw at Mass spends the night discussing Pascal with an attractive divorcée.
MY SEX LIFE (Comment je me suis disputé... ma vie sexuelle)
[fs9369 DVD 178min. 1996 French/sub dir:Arnaud Desplechin cast:Mathieu Almaric]
Paul, almost 30, contemplates the complex webs of his career as assistant philosophy professor, his family and friends, and his loves.
THE MYSTERIOUS LADY
[fs 3619 VHS 96min bw silent 1928 dir:Fred Niblo cast:Greta Garbo; Conrad Nagel]
Austrian military officer falls in love with a woman, unaware she is a Russian spy.
THE MYSTERY OF KASPAR HAUSER
SeeEVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF AND GOD AGAINST ALL
THE MYSTERY OF STONEHENGE
[0125-0126 16mm 8134 VHS 57min 1965]
A documentary about the investigation of astronomical uses for the prehistoric British site .
MYSTERY TRAIN
[fs 4071 VHS 110min 1989 dir:Jim Jarmusch]
A Memphis triptych of stories of people trying to make connections on the train of life: a Japanese couple on a pilgrimmage to Elvis, an Italian widow accompanying her husband's body, and an out-of-work, out-of-it, gun-toting "Elvis."
THE MYTH OF NATIONALISM
[0809 16mm 30min 1976]
Discusses the period of history between the Franco-Prussian War and World War I.