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W.C. FIELDS: 6 SHORT FILMS (THE GOLF SPECIALIST, POOL SHARKS, THE PHARMACIST, THE FATAL GLASS OF BEER, THE DENTIST)
[fs9437 DVD min. 1915-1933 bw s ]
The misanthropic comedy of W. C. Fields in one silent and five talkie shorts, most produced by Mack Sennett.
WABASH AVENUE
[fs 1002-1003 16mm 92min bw 1950 dir:Henry Koster cast:Betty Grable; Victor Mature]
At the Chicago World Fair of 1892, two men pursue a dancer.
WAG THE DOG
[5546 LaserCLV 1997 97min dir:Barry Levinson cast:Dustin Hoffman; Robert DeNiro]
When the President is caught in a sex scandal just before the election, the White House hires a spinmaster to create a diversion to distract the public's attention
THE WAGES OF FEAR (LE SALAIRE DE LA PEUR)
[fs 0663-0665 16mm 3654 VHS 5196 LD 5446 LaserCLV2 9624 DVD 148min bw French subt 1952 dir:Henri-Georges Clouzot cast:Yves Montand; Charles Vanel]
Two men drive a truckload of nitroglycerine 300 miles over bad roads in South America.
WAGON MASTER
[fs 5599Laser bw 1950 dir:John Ford cast:Ben Johnson; Joanne Dru; Harry Carey, Jr.]
Saga of a Mormon expedition sent out to establish a new settlement in an unexplored region of the Old West.
WAITING FOR TWILIGHT
See CAREFUL.
WAITING TO EXHALE
[fs5524 LD 123min 1995 dir:Forest Whitaker cast:Whitney Houston; Angela Bassett]
Lives and loves of four African-American women. Based on the novel by Terry McMillan.
WAKE ISLAND
[3354 VHS 88min bw 1942 dir:John Farrow]
Hollywood's account of the World War II Battle of Wake Island in which outnumbered Marines fought Japanese for over two weeks.
A WALK IN THE SUN
[fs 0885-0887 16mm 117min bw 1945 dir:Lewis Milestone cast:Dana Andrews; Richard Conte]
A character study of a platoon of American soldiers fighting in Italy during World War II.
A WALK ON THE MOON
[fs9207 DVD 107min 1999 dir:Tony Goldwyn cast:Diane Lane, Liev Schreiber, Viggo Mortenson, Anna Paquin]
Catskills resort, 1969: Pearl Kantrowicz and her teen-age daughter find love and a moment of freedom at Woodstock.
A WALK THROUGH H
[fs 3718 VHS 41min 1978 dir:Peter Greenaway]
A series of slow camera pans over strange drawings, intercut with scenes of birds, with a narration discussing the drawings as maps for a journey.
A WALK THROUGH THE 20th CENTURY
[VHS 58min each 1984]
PBS documentary series narrated by Bill Moyers.
1. Change, Change
[3976] Causes and effects of changes in American culture, especially in the '60s.
2. The Democrat and the Dictator
[3973] The contrast between Roosevelt and Stalin in the 1930's and 1940's.
3. Out of the Depths - The Miner's Story
[3974] The struggles of miners in the American West in the early 1900s.
4. Postwar Hopes, Cold War Fears
[3975] America in the 1950's: economically strong and politically polarized.
5. The Twenties
[3972] Nineteen Americans who lived through the Twenties recall those times.
WALKABOUT
[fs 6036 VHS 5444 LaserCLV1 100min 1971 dir:Nicolas Roeg cast:Jenny Agutter]
An Australian aborigine youth, on his walkabout initiation rite into manhood, rescues an English brother and sister lost in the wilderness.
WALKING WITH GIANTS
[ 6499 VHS 23min. 1995 dir:Greg Tillman]
Documentary about elephants in captivity and their keepers. USC student film.
THE WALL
[fs 2809 VHS 117min Turkish subt 1983 dir:Yilmaz Guney]
Depicts the lives of young boys in an Ankara prison and their attempt to revolt to get transferred to a less brutal prison.
A WALL IN JERUSALEM
[JHVC 7088 VHS 91min 1970 ]
Documentary about the growth of Zionism in the 19th and 20th centuries, leading to the formation of Israel.
THE WANDERER
[4808 VHS 108min French subt 1967 dir:Jean-Gabriel Albicocco cast:Brigitte Fossey; Jean Blaise]
In late 19th-century France the fantasy and romance of an adolescent boy gives way to the reality of adulthood.
THE WANNSEE CONFERENCE
[3045 VHS JHVC 7127 VHS 87min German subt 1984]
A recreation of the meeting in a Berlin suburb in January, 1942, in which the leadership of the Nazi Party implemented the Holocaust.
WAR AND REMEMBRANCE
[fs 6658-64 VHS 14hrs on 7 tapes 1988 dir:Dan Curtis cast:Robert Mitchum; Jane Seymour; Hart Bochner; Victoria Tennant]
TV miniseries based on Herman Wouk's story documenting the years from 1941 to 1943. Sequel to "The Winds of War."
War and Remembrance: The Final Chapter
[fs 6665-69 VHS 1989 14hrs on 5 tapes dir:Dan Curtis cast:Robert Mitchum; Jane Seymour; Hart Bochner; Victoria Tennant]
Conclusion of the TV miniseries.
THE WAR AT HOME
[1610-1612 16mm 100min 1979]
Documents the antiwar movement in the United States during the Vietnam War.
THE WAR BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN
[fs 1029-1030 16mm 110min 1972 dir:Melville Shavelson cast:Jack Lemmon; Barbara Harris]
A partly blind cartoonist marries a divorcee and is bothered by her ex-husband. Comedy based on the material of James Thurber.
THE WAR GAME
[0456-0457 16mm 2569 VHS 47min bw 1965]
Documentary dramatization of a limited nuclear strike on England.
WAR WITHOUT WINNERS
[0674 16mm 28min 1978]
The sentiments of Americans on the prospect of nuclear war.
WAR WITHOUT WINNERS II
[1620 16mm 29min 1982]
Interviews some famous people and other citizens of both the United States and Russia concerning their thoughts on nuclear war.
WARD SIX (PAVILJON BROJ VI)
[ 6472 VHS 93min. 1976 Serbian/sub dir:Lucien Pintilie]
Anton Chekhov's story about the relationship between a doctor and the inmate of an insane asylum.
WARHOL
[5040 LaserCLV1 2761 VHS 79min 1987]
A profile of Andy Warhol's life and work.
WARHOL: PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST
[fs 8042 VHS 79min. 1987 dir:Kim Evans]
London Weekend documentary on Andy Warhol, generator of Pop Art, Happenings, Underground Cinema, and the Culture of Celebrity, including many interviews.
WARNING SHADOWS
[fs 3803 VHS 93min bw silent 1923 dir:Arthur Robison cast:Fritz Kortner; Ruth Weyher]
Subtitled "A Nocturnal Hallucination," this is a classic German expressionist film concerning a count who jealously imagines his wife's infidelity during a party.
THE WARRIORS
[fs 2177-2178 u-matic 90min 1979 dir:Walter Hill]
A gang must cross the territories of rival gangs in order to get to its home turf.
WARSAW GHETTO
[7257 VHS 1368 16mm 51min bw 1969]
Documents the plight of Jews trapped in Warsaw during the German occupation of World War II.
WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING
[4345 VHS JHVC 7128 VHS 22min bw 1993]
Describes the Nazi strategy to concentrate and decimate Jews in a section of Warsaw and the armed resistance of younger Jews.
WASHOE
[0120 VHS 56min bw 1968 dir:Veronika Pataky]
Documentary about the Washoe tribe of Native Americans living in and around Dresslerville, Nevada.
WATER AND POWER
[fs 5197 LaserCLV1 55min 1989 dir:Pat O'Neill]
An experimental film, dreamlike, containing elements about Los Angeles and Hollywood.
WATERGATE. A Five-Part Series.
[VHS 46min each 1994]
  1. Watergate: Break-In
    [6134] First in a five-part series of first-person accounts of Watergate. Narrated by Daniel Schorr.
  2. Watergate: Cover-Up
    [6135] The Watergate burglary: federal crime connected to the White House. The burning of files in an attempt to contain information.
  3. Watergate: Scapegoat
    [6136] Nixon's second term of office begins: the burglars demand money; John Dean refuses to take responsibility for the break-in; tapings in Oval Office are revealed.
  4. Watergate: Massacre
    [6137] The story of Archibald Cox; fears for the future of Constitutional government.
  5. Watergate: Impeachment
    [6138] Jaworski's tenure as Special Prosecutor; House Judiciary Committee's efforts to impeach Nixon.
WATERLOO BRIDGE
[fs 5811 Laser 109min. 1940 b/w dir:Mervyn LeRoy cast:Vivien Leigh, Robert Taylor]
Robert E. Sherwood's play about a London girl who, believing her officer husband dead, turns to prositiution to support herself.
A WATERPROOF ARBOREAL FROG
[1994 VHS 10min]
Describes Phyllomedusa sauvagei, a nocturnal South American tree frog adapted to heat and drought.
WATUNNA
[4453 VHS 24min 1990]
Five stories from the creation myths of the Yekuana Indians of Venezuela are told through animation based on Yekuana art.
THE WAVE
[2626 VHS 46min 1984]
A high school history teacher demonstrates why a holocaust could happen by forming a group of students who unwittingly mimic the birth of Nazism.
WAVES IN FLUIDS
[1348 16mm 4479 VHS 33min bw 1964]
Experimental demonstrations of concepts in one-dimensional wave motion using a water channel, a flume, and shock tubes.
WAX, Or The Discovery of Television Among the Bees
[fs 3204 VHS 85min 1990 dir:David Blair]
Experimental film which is a tour-de-force of video/computer image manipulation.
WAXWORKS
[fs 4046 VHS 63min bw silent 1924 dir:Paul Leni cast:Conrad Veidt; Emil Jannings; Werner Kraus]
The owner of a wax museum hires a young man to write interesting descriptions for his figures, leading to film fantasy.
WAY DOWN EAST
[fs 0338-0340 16mm 3069 VHS 3690* VHS 9438 DVD 119m (* 149m) bw silent 1920 dir:D. W. Griffith cast:Lillian Gish; Richard Barthelmess]
An innocent country girl who is seduced and discarded by a playboy, tries to fit in as a domestic for a country squire's family.
THE WAY HOME
[6934 VHS 92min 1998 dir:Shakti Butler]
World Trust video documents the work of 8 ethnic councils of women discussing racial/sexual identity, oppression, and resistance.
THE WAY OF THE WORLD
[4646 VHS 57min 1978]
William Congreve's 17th century Restoration comedy.
WAY OUT WEST
[fs 1774-1775 16mm 66min bw 1937 dir:James W. Horne cast:Stan Laurel; Oliver Hardy]
Stan and Ollie try to deliver a mine deed to the daughter of a dead prospector.
THE WAY WE WERE
[JHVC 7047 VHS 118min 1973 dir:Sydney Pollack cast:Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford]
Katie the commie and Hubbell the dilettante meet in the 30s, marry in the 40s, and divorce under the pressures of the McCarthy era witch- hunts.
THE WAYS OF WATER
[0547 16mm 13min 1971]
Washington's Olympic Peninsula is used as the setting for a portrait of the different states of water.
WAYS TO DISCIPLINE CHILDREN
[1622 16mm 15min 1977]
Describes disciplining using four methods: rewards, setting limits, listening, punishment.
WE ARE WOMAN
[1877 16mm 31min 1975]
Dramatizes the stereotyping of women and argues for social equality between the sexes.
WEAPONS OF THE SPIRIT
[4204 VHS JHVC 7129 VHS 35min 1988]
A Jewish man visits Le Chambon, France, where he was born in 1944 and where thousands of Jews were protected by the village's mostly-Protestant Christians.
WEATHER SYSTEMS IN MOTION
[4288 VHS 14min 1986]
Shows the cyclonic nature of weather systems, using photography, graphics, and weather satellite images.
WEDDING IN GALILEE
[fs 5085 LaserCLV1 116min Hebrew Arabic subt 1987 dir:Michel Khleifi]
A traditional wedding would violate curfew but a wealthy Palestinian patriarch is given permission if the Israeli military governor will be the guest of honor.
THE WEDDING MARCH
[fs 2535 VHS 113min bw silent 1928 dir:Erich von Stroheim cast:Erich Von Stroheim; Fay Wray; Zasu Pitts]
A playboy prince must marry a crippled princess for the sake of his family's fortunes, but he loves a beautiful poor girl.
WEDDING OF THE GODDESS
[0954 VHS 76min 1975]
Describes the evolution of the main religious festival of Madurai, India - the Chittirai festival, celebrating the wedding of the goddess Minakshi to the god Sundareshvara.
WEE WILLIE WINKIE
[fs 3334 VHS 85min bw 1937 dir:John Ford cast:Shirley Temple; Victor McLaglen]
Rudyard Kipling's story of a young girl who stops a rebel uprising in colonial India, by bringing a British colonel and insurgent leader together for negotiations.
WEEKEND
[1251 16mm 12min]
A family leaves their small city apartment for a trip to the country, as a way to gently remove their senile and invalid grandfather to institutional care.
WEEKEND
[fs 3678 VHS 105min French subt 1967 dir:Jean-Luc Godard cast:Jean-Pierre Leaud; Mireille Darc]
French New Wave film in which a suburban couple on a trip to the country encounter hell on Earth.
We're Not Dressing
fs 5420LD
See BING CROSBY COLLECTION
WEIRD TALES (1919)
[4237 VHS 80min silent ca1919]
A compilation of several Edgar Allan Poe stories. German title: Unheimliche Geschichten.
WELCOME HOME, STRANGER
See GOING INTERNATIONAL SERIES
WENT THE DAY WELL?
[fs 4398 VHS 92min bw 1942 dir:Alberto Cavalcanti cast:Leslie Banks; Elizabeth Allan]
German paratroopers disguised as British soldiers invade an English village.
WE'RE ALL STARS
[4874 VHS 80min Spanish subt 1993 dir:Filipe Degregori]
In Peru, a family, in order to appear on a TV game show, must cover up the divorce of the parents.
THE WEST (Ken Burns Presents The West)
[fs 9 VHS 1996 dir:Stephen Ives]
WEST AFRICA: Two Lifestyles
[0196 VHS 17min 1970]
Compares the life of a yam farmer to that of a city businesswoman.
WEST OF HESTER STREET
[3693 VHS 58min 1983]
The story of Eastern European Jewish immigrants who came to Texas through the "Galveston Plan."
WEST SIDE STORY
[5551 Laser 9105 DVD 151min 1961 dir:Robert Wise cast:Natalie Wood; Richard Beymer]
Modern-day "Romeo and Juliet," story of doomed lovers caught up in the violence of rival street gangs.
WESTERN CLIPS
[fs 0244 16mm 25min bw]
Contains clips from Geronimo, The Virginian, and Canadian Pacific.
THE WESTERN DRY LANDS
See PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY OF NORTH AMERICA.
WESTFRONT 1918
[fs 3014 VHS 98min bw German subt 1930 dir:G. W. Pabst]
An anti-war film set in the German trenches during the last months of World War I.
WESTWARD THE WOMEN
[6534 VHS b/w 118min 1951 dir:William Wellman cast:Robert Taylor; Denise Darcel]
Western epic. Scout Robert Taylor escorts a wagon train of 150 women from Chicago to California.
WHALE RESCUE
[3186 VHS 58min 1988]
A PBS NOVA documentary on the theories of why whales beach themselves, and new methods of rescuing them.
WHAT DO THOSE OLD FILMS MEAN?
[fs VHS 26min each bw 1987-1989]
With a collection of rare cinema footage film historian Noel Burch presents an insight into how film developed in six countries, how it reflected the political and social movements of the time, and how it, in turn, shaped society.
WHAT DO THOSE OLD FILMS MEAN? Volume 1 [2755]
GREAT BRITAIN 1900-1912: Along the Great Divide
The contradictions in early British cinema between the "gentlemen inventors of the cinema" and film as an entertainment for the poor. Clips include:
  • Buy Your Own Cherries [R. V. Paul 1904]
  • The Dead Boys Home for the Holidays [Williamson 1903]
  • Rescued by Rover [Fitzhamon & Hepworth 1904]
  • The Tramp and the Baby's Bottle [James Bamforth 1900]
  • Modern Pirates [Arthur M. Cooper 1906]
  • A Free Ride [Cecil Hepworth 1903]
  • When Extremes Meet [Alf Collins 1905]
  • Charles Peace [William Haggar 1905]
  • A Desperate Poaching Affray [William Haggar 1903]
  • Muggins V.C. [Dave Aylot 1909]
  • Attack on a Mission Station [Mitchell & Kenyon? 1900]
  • The Flying Dispatch [Stuart Kinder 1912]
WHAT DO THOSE OLD FILMS MEAN? Volume 2 [2756]
U.S.A. 1902-1914: Tomorrow the World
Early filmmaking in America is examined against the social background of the immigrant masses, then the middle class. Clips include:
  • Levi and Cohen, The Irish Comedians [Biograph 1903]
  • Rube and Fender [Edwin S. Porter 1903]
  • Uncle Josh at the Moving Picture Show [Porter 1902]
  • Another Job for the Undertaker [Porter 1901]
  • Rube in the Subway [Porter 1905]
  • The Streets of New York [Porter 1905]
  • How They Do Things on the Bowery [Porter 1902]
  • Down the Hotel Corridor [Biograph 1903]
  • The Heathen Chinese and the Sunday School Teachers [Biograph 1904]
  • The Skyscrapers [George Dobson 1906]
  • The Execution of Czolgosz [Porter 1901]
  • How They Rob Men in Chicago [Biograph 1902]
  • Raid on a Cockfight [Biograph 1906]
  • The Female Crook and Her Easy Victim [Biograph 1905]
  • Subub Surprises the Burglar [Porter 1903]
  • Gold is Not All [D. W. Griffith 1910]
  • The Romance of an Umbrella [Stuart Blackton 1909]
  • The Italian [Reginald Barker 1914]
  • Detective Barton's Triumph [Reliance 1914]
WHAT DO THOSE OLD FILMS MEAN? Volume 3 [2757]
DENMARK 1902-1914: She!
Examines the social perspective of Denmark in which women had an advanced position for the time, where feminism was prominent and attitudes toward sexuality liberal. Clips include:
  • Bride of Death [August Blom 1912]
  • The Shop Assistant [Blom 1911]
  • The Abyss [Urban Gad 1910]
  • The Flying Circus [Alfred Lind 1912]
  • Dr. Gar el Harna [E. Schnedler-Soerensen 1911]
  • The Strongest [Schnedler-Soerensen 1912]
  • The Dangerous Ape [Blom 1911]
WHAT DO THOSE OLD FILMS MEAN? Volume 4 [2758]
FRANCE 1904-1912: The Enemy Below
The early years of the French Cinema had its appeal with the working class. Clips include:
  • Pour Me a Drop of Burgundy [Gaumont 1907]
  • Fêting Josephine [Zecca 1904]
  • Child of the Barricade [Alice Guy 1907]
  • Street-Roughs' Strike [Bozetti 1909]
  • A Factory Drama [Gaumont 1909]
  • The Incendiary [Ferdinand Zecca 1905]
  • Madame Has her Cravings [Guy 1907]
  • A Child of Paris [Léonce Perret 1913]
  • Les Vampires [Louis Feuillade 1918]
  • The Tenth Symphony [Abel Gance 1918]
  • Crainquebille [Jacques Feyder 1922]
  • Vendemiaire [Louis Feuillade 1915]
  • Judex [Louis Feuillade 1917]
WHAT DO THOSE OLD FILMS MEAN? Volume 5 [2759]
USSR 1926-1930: Born Yesterday
The sexual politics of the Soviet cinema are emphasized - issues such as the collectivization of domestic tasks and childcare and the abolition of sexual division of labor in the home. Clips include:
  • The House on Trubnaya Square [Boris Barnet 1928]
  • The Cigarette Girl of the Mosselprom [Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky 1925]
  • Katka's Apples [Fridric Ermler 1926]
  • The Devil's Wheel [Grigori Kozintsev/Ilya Trauberg 1926]
  • Kino-Eye [Dziga Vertov 1924]
  • Lace [Sergei Yutkevitch 1928]
  • Remnants of an Empire [Fridric Ermler 1929]
WHAT DO THOSE OLD FILMS MEAN? Volume 6 [2760]
GERMANY 1926-1932: Under Two Flags
Dwells on the movement for a populist cinema in Germany during the Weimar Republic. Clips include:
  • People on Sunday [Wilder/Siodmak/Ulmer 1930]
  • The Outcasts [Gerhardt Lamprecht 1925]
  • A Working Woman's Way Forward [1929]
  • Our Daily Bread [Piel Jutzi 1929]
  • Mother Krausen's Journey to Happiness [Piel Jutzi 1929]
  • Two Worlds [Werner Hochbaum 1929]
  • Bookkeeper Kremke [Mana Harder 1930]
  • Kuhle Wampe [Bertolt Brecht & Slatan Dudow 1932]
  • Berlin Alexanderplatz [Jutzi 1930]
WHAT IS THE EVIDENCE FOR/AGAINST THE EXISTENCE OF GOD?
[6517 VHS 130min. 1998 Dr. William Lane Craig, Dr. Peter W. Atkins, and William Buckley, jr., in a panel discussion at the Carter Presidential Center's Cecil B. Day Chapel.]
Religious studies, religion, philosophy
WHAT THE DAISY SAID
See DADDY LONG- LEGS.
WHAT'S SO BAD ABOUT FEELING GOOD?
[fs 1840-1841 16mm 94min 1968 dir:George Seaton cast:George Peppard; Mary Tyler Moore]
A 'happy virus' is carried into New York City by a toucan, affecting various people.
WHEN A WOMAN ASCENDS THE STAIRS
[fs 3073 VHS 110min bw Japanese subt 1960 dir:Mikio Naruse cast:Hideko Takamine; Masayumi Mori]
A young widow must run an upstairs bar to support her family.
WHEN DEMOCRACY WORKS
[6985 VHS 30min 1997]
Three case studies in radical right- wing government: David Duke's campaigns; homophobic Amendment 2 in Colorado; targeting minorities withProposition 187 and Proposition 209 in California.
WHEN PARENTS GROW OLD
[1482 16mm 14min 1972]
An exerpt from the feature film I Never Sang for My Father, in which a son must decide what to do for his father whose health is failing.
WHEN THE BOYS MEET THE GIRLS
[fs 5812 Laser 96min. 1965 dir:Alvin Ganzer cast:Connie Francis, Liberace, Louis Armstrong, Peter Noonan]
A gambler's daughter and a rich boy put on a show.
WHEN THE CAT'S AWAY (CHACUN CHERCHE SON CHAT)
[fs6381 VHS 91min 1996 French/sub dir:Cédric Klapisch cast:Garance Clavel, Renée Le Calme]
Chloé's cat has disappeared and she must explore her Paris neighborhood-- and neighbors--looking for her pet.
WHEN WILL PEOPLE HELP
[1562 16mm 25min 1976]
Examines reasons why bystanders do or don't get involved in emergency situations.
WHERE HAVE ALL THE FARMS GONE?
[1873 VHS 17min 1970]
Canada's farmhouses fall into dilapidation as cheap produce is imported.
WHERE IS THE FRIEND'S HOME? (Khane-ye Doust Kodjast?)
[fs6338 VHS 90min 1989 Farsi/sub dir:Abbas Kiarostami]
The friendship of two schoolboys in neighboring Iranian villages. See also Under Olive Trees and Life and Nothing More, which reflect on the making of this film.
WHERE THE BOYS ARE
[fs 5314 LaserCLV1 100min 1960 dir:Henry Levin cast:Dolores Hart; George Hamilton]
A group of Midwestern college girls head for Daytona Beach for Spring Break.
WHERE THE GREEN ANTS DREAM
[fs 3241 VHS 99min 1984 dir:Werner Herzog]
Australian aborigines oppose uranium mining.
Whispering Chorus
fs 5470LD
See CECIL B. DEMILLE: The Greatest Showman on Earth
WHITE (TRZY KOLORY: BIALY)
[6474 VHS fs 5447 Laser 92min French/Polish/sub 1994 dir:Krzysztof Kieslowski cast:Julie Delpy; Zbigniew Zamachowski]
A man’s life disintegrates when his beautiful wife of six months deserts him, driving him to seek revenge from his home in Poland.
THE WHITE BALLOON
[fs 4955 VHS 85min Farsi subt 1995 dir:Jafar Panahi]
A little girl sets out to buy a goldfish with the last of her family's money, but encounters distractions.
THE WHITE CLIFFS OF DOVER
[fs 6728VHS bw 126min dir:Clarence Brown cast:Irene Dunne; Alan Marshall; Roddy McDowell; Van Johnson]
An American girl goes to England and marries a British baronet.
WHITE FLAME
[fs 3942 VHS 3559 VHS 26min bw silent s:Leni Riefenstahl]
Mountain villagers celebrate with a ski chase game. One of Riefenstahl's "mountain films."
WHITE HEAT
[fs 1145-1147 16mm 3364 VHS 5198 LaserCLV1 114min bw 1949 dir:RaoulWalsh cast:James Cagney; Virginia Mayo]
An FBI man infiltrates the inner circle of a psychopathic gangster.
WHITE HELL OF PITZ PALU
[fs 3811 VHS 75min bw silent 1929 dirs:Arnold Fanck; G. W. Pabst cast:Leni Riefenstahl; Gustav Diessl; Ernst Petersen]
A young couple, mountain climbing on their honeymoon, get trapped on the mountain with a man who lost his bride there.
WHITE MANE (CRIN-BLANC)
[6366 VHS fs 0279 16mm 30min 1953 dir:Albert Lamorisse]
Men try to capture and break a wild horse but a boy is able to tame it with love. VHS on same tape with RED BALLOON.
WHITE MAN'S BURDEN
[fs 4858 VHS 5851 LD 89min 1995 dir:Desmond Nakano cast:John Travolta; Harry Belafonte]
Satire in which race prejudice roles are reversed, and a white worker must deal with the odds stacked against him.
WHITE MAN'S COUNTRY
[0053 VHS 51min 1973]
Black Man's Land series: images of colonialism and independence in Kenya. African history, first as a dream of exploitation for Europeans and then as the struggle for autonomy.
WHITE NIGHTS
[fs 3613 VHS 107min bw Italian subt 1957 dir:Luchino Visconti cast:Marcello Mastroianni; Maria Schell; Jean Marais]
A young man meets a girl who is waiting for a sailor who has not returned as promised. They become involved with each other, then the sailor returns.
THE WHITE ROSE
[2526 VHS 108min German subt 1983 dir:Michael Verhoeven]
A secret society of students and their professor print and distribute thousands of anti-Nazi leaflets in Germany during World War II.
WHITE TIGER
[fs 4867 VHS 82min bw silent 1923 dir:Tod Browning cast:Raymond Griffith; Priscilla Dean; Wallace Beery]
A brother and sister separated when their father was killed, are brought together to become jewel thieves by their father's betrayer.
WHITE ZOMBIE
[fs 0580-0581 16mm 68min bw 1932 dir:Victor Halperin cast:Bela Lugosi; Madge Bellamy]
A zombie master menaces newlyweds on a Haitian sugar plantation.
WHO KILLED VINCENT CHIN?
[ 8002 VHS 82min. 1988 dir:Christine Choy and Renee Tajima]
Documentary about the brutal murder of a Chinese-American in 1982 Detroit by an autoworker (who perceived him as representative of competition from the Japanese auto industry), the murder trial, and the protests of the Asian- American community.
WHO SHALL LIVE AND WHO SHALL DIE?
[JHVC 7130 VHS 90min 1982 ]
Documentary examining the United States' reaction to Nazi anti-semitic policies and the Holocaust.
WHO THE HELL IS JULIETTE? (¿QUIÉN DIABLOS ES JULIETTE?)
[6962 VHS 91min 1199 Spanish/sub dir:Carlos Marcovich cast:Yuliet Ortega, Fabiola Quiroz, Salma Hayek]
A teenage Cuban prostitute meets a Mexican model and they begin to search for the shape of their lives.
WHO'S GOT THE ACTION?
[fs 1106-1107 16mm 93min 1962 dir:Daniel Mann cast:Dean Martin; Lana Turner]
A wife deals with her husband's gambling by becoming a bookie.
WHO'S IN CHARGE?
[2837 VHS 56min 1987]
Explores the way governing power was balanced by the U.S. Constitution between state-federal, congress-president-courts, and government-people.
WHO'S THAT KNOCKING AT MY DOOR
[fs 3653 VHS 90min bw 1968 dir:Martin Scorsese cast:Harvey Keitel; Zina Bethune]
Young man in New York's Little Italy falls in love with the wrong girl.
WHY DO THINGS GET IN A MUDDLE?
[fs 2093 u-matic 33min 1984 dir:Gary Hill]
Experimental video in which two people in a cluttered room discuss subjectivity while the camera leaves no point of view untried.
WHY MAN CREATES
[0209 16mm 25min 1970 dir:Saul Bass]
Explorations, episodes, and comments on creativity.
WHY ME?
[2882 VHS 10min 1979]
The stages of dying explained humorously through animation.
WHY PLANES CRASH
[2614 VHS 58min 1987]
PBS NOVA documentary on the apparent decrease in safety of air travel, using several recent airplane crashes for examples.
WHY WE FIGHT
[fs 6768-73 VHS bw 7 tapes1998 dir:Frank Capra]
Frank Capra's award-winning WWII documentaries produced as inspirational propaganda for American troops. They trace the war's history back to the 1930s.
THE WICKER MAN
[ 8084 VHS 101min. 1973 dir:Robin Hardy cast:Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland]
Anthony Shaffer story of a virtuous Calvinist policeman confronting a neo-pagan community on a Scottish island.
THE WIDE WINDOW OF MR. MALONE
[1799 VHS 25min bw]
A brief history of the New York Times newspaper, as read by a sixties suburban businessman.
WILD AT HEART
[fs 3565 VHS 125min 1990 dir:David Lynch cast:Nicolas Cage; Laura Dern]
Rebellious young lovers run away, pursued by mama's hit man.
THE WILD BUNCH
[fs 3931 VHS 5553 LaserCLV 10043CD 145min 1969 dir:Sam Peckinpah cast:William Holden; Ernest Borgnine; Robert Ryan]
Aging Western outlaws decide to quit after doing one last robbery, which is one too many.
THE WILD CHILD (L'ENFANT SAUVAGE)
[fs 3608 VHS 86min bw French subt 1970 dir:François Truffaut cast:François Truffaut]
A child who was living wild in the forest becomes a project for civilizing by a doctor.
WILD HORSES (CABALLOS SALVAJES)
[6952 122min 1995 Spanish/sub dir:Marcelo Pi¤eyro cast:Hector Alterio, Leonardo Sbaraglia]
A senior citizen and an ex-bank employee on the lam south through Argentina after a righteous heist.
WILD HORSES OF FIRE
See SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS.
WILD IN THE STREETS
[fs 5439 Laser CLV 97min 1968 dir:Barry Shear cast:Shelley Winters; Christopher Jones; Diane Varsi]
A teen rock star is so popular he is able to lower the voting age, get himself elected president, and have kids take over the country.
THE WILD ONE
[fs 5199 LaserCLV1 79min bw 1953 dir:Laslo Benedek cast:Marlon Brando; Lee Marvin]
A gang of youth on motorcycles terrorizes a small town to the extent that citizens react as vigilantes.
WILD ORCHIDS
[fs 3561 VHS 119min bw silent 1929 dir:Sidney Franklin cast:Greta Garbo; Lewis Stone]
The bored and neglected wife of a tea merchant finds a prince in Java to make things interesting. See also fs 5429LD GARBO SILENTS
WILD REEDS (LES ROSEAUX SAUVAGES)
[fs9359 DVD 110min 1994 French/sub dir:André Téchiné cast:Elodie Bouchez, Gaël Morel]
Provençal teenagers in 1962 worry about sexuality, love, the Algerian war, and growing up in general.
WILD ROVER
[fs 5813 Laser 138min. 1971 dir:Blake Edwards cast:William Holden, Ryan O'Neal]
Humorous Western heist film.
WILD STRAWBERRIES
[fs 1522-1523 16mm 3520 VHS 90min bw Swedish subt 1957 dir:Ingmar Bergman cast:Victor Sjöström]
An elderly professor reflects on his life while trying to cope with his unhappy daughter-in-law.
WILHELM TELL
[2722 VHS 84min bw silent 1923 dirs:Rudolf Dworsky; Rudolf Walther-Fein cast:Conrad Veidt]
The story of the Swiss archer forced to shoot an apple from the head of his son, the event triggering an unprising for Swiss independence.
WILLIAM HARVEY AND THE CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD
[1243 VHS 40min 1971]
Describes how William Harvey came to discover how blood circulates in the body.
WILSON'S FIGHT FOR PEACE
[0011 16mm 30min 1960]
President Woodrow Wilson's trip to Europe to try to negotiate a just peace and his losing to establish a League of Nations.
WINCHESTER '73
[fs 5200 LaserCLV1 82min bw 1950 dir:Anthony Mann cast:James Stewart; Shelley Winters]
A man searches for his stolen rifle and his father's murderer in the Old West.
THE WIND
[fs 3258 VHS 5246B LaserCLV1 142min bw silent 1928 dir:Victor Sjöström cast:Lillian Gish]
A girl from Virginia goes to live in a dustbowl town, marries the wrong man, suffers rape and storm.
WINDFALLS OR NEW THOUGHTS ON THINKING
[fs 2080 u-matic 20min 1982 dir:Matthew Geller]
Experimental video on the subjectivity of memory.
WINDOW SHOPPING
[fs 3609 VHS 96min French subt 1986 dir:Chantal Akerman]
A musical romantic comedy that takes place in a shopping mall, where everybody is interested in what's in somebody else's store.
See also EIGHTIES
THE WINDS OF WAR
[fs 6621-27 VHS 1983 14hrs., 48min.on 7 tapes dir:Herman Wouk cast:Robert Mitchum; Polly Bergen; Ali McGraw; Jan-Michael Vincent]
TV miniseries based on Herman Wouk's tale of love and courage during WWII.
WINGS
[fs 2510 VHS 139min bw silent 1927 dir:William Wellman cast:Clara Bow; Buddy Rogers; Richard Arlen]
Two young men, in love with the same girl, enlist in the Air Corps to fight in World War I.
WINGS OF DESIRE (DER HIMMEL ÜBER BERLIN)
[4428 VHS 5591 LD 130min English German subt 1988 dir:Wim Wenders cast:Bruno Ganz; Peter Falk; Solveig Dommartin]
An angel visits Berlin to ponder life and comes to wish he could be mortal and experience falling in love.
WINGS OF THE DOVE
[fs5561 Laser 102min 1997 dir:Iain Softley cast:Helena Bonham Carter; Linus Roache ]
A beautiful young society woman tries to find a way to enjoy both love and luxury.
THE WINSLOW BOY
[fs9329 DVD 110min 1999 dir:David Mamet cast:Nigel Hawthorne, Rebecca Pidgeon]
Terence Rattigan's play about an Edwardian family's attempt to defend a son's honor through litigation.
WINSTANLEY
[fs3177 VHS 96min 1975 bw dir:Kevin Brownlow & Andrew Mollo cast:Miles Halliwell]
Recreates the attempt at communal agriculture and its violent aftermath in 1649 Surrey.
WINTER LIGHT
[fs 3077 VHS 80min bw Swedish subt 1961 dir:Ingmar Bergman pers:Max von Sydow; Gunnar Bjornstrand; Ingrid Thulin]
A pastor finds himself in a crisis of personal faith one Sunday afternoon following a parishioner's suicide.
THE WINTER WAR
[fs 6689VHS Finnish language sub 125min 1990]
Finland's fight for independence during the Soviet invasion of 1939-1940, told from the soldiers' point of view.
THE WINTER'S TALE
[9002 audio 54min 1983]
Folio Theatre Players production of Shakespeare's play. On audio cassette.
WIPING THE TEARS OF SEVEN GENERATIONS
[4134 VHS 57min 1992]
Documents the tragedy of the Wounded Knee Massacre. On the 100th anniversary in 1990, 300 Lakota Sioux commemorated the Massacre by riding horseback 250 miles through sub-zero weather to Wounded Knee.
THE WISDOM OF FAITH
[VHS 58min each 1996]
Huston Smith and Bill Moyers present an informal study of religion.
  • Tape 1 [4697] Hinduism and Buddhism
  • Tape 2 [4698] Confucianism
  • Tape 3 [4699] Christianity and Judaism
  • Tape 4 [4700] Islam
  • Tape 5 [4701] A Personal Philosophy
WITH THESE HANDS: The ILGWU
[0204 VHS 40min bw 1950]
The founding of the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union as seen through the life stories of some of its members. Note: Poor quality, jerky visual.
WITH THESE HANDS: How Women Feed Africa
[1685 16mm 33min 1987]
African women in Kenya, Zimbabwe and Burkina Faso and their hardships in male-dominated cultures.
WITHIN OUR GATES
See LIBRARY OF CONGRESS VIDEO COLLECTION Vol.1
WITHNAIL AND I
[fs 4907 VHS 104min 1986 dir:Bruce Robinson cast:Paul McGann; Richard E. Grant]
Two starving actors come to a parting of the ways when one gets a lead role.
WITHOUT CONSENT
[2883 VHS 25min 1987]
Dramatizes date rape to make the viewer consider how it happens and who is responsible.
WITHOUT LOVE
[fs 5814 Laser 111min. 1945 b/w dir:Harold S. Bucquet cast:Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn]
Phillip Barry comedy about a wartime marriage for appearance's sake between a widow and the chemist who is working in her basement.
WITNESS
[fs 2031-2032 u-matic 112min 1985 dir:Peter Weir cast:Harrison Ford; Kelly McGillis]
A young Amish boy is the witness to a murder, and a big city detective hides out in the Amish community in order to protect him.
WITNESS TO THE HOLOCAUST
[3698 VHS 120min bw 1982]
A seven-part study of the atrocities against Jews by the Nazis and the German people during the World War II era. A companion tape 'A Time To Remember' and a study guide are also included.
WITNESS: VOICES FROM THE HOLOCAUST
[JHVC 7123 VHS 86min 1999 ]
Drawing on the Yale University Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, the story of the Holocaust is presented by eyewitnesses and particpants.
WITNESSES TO THE HOLOCAUST: THE TRIAL OF ADOLF EICHMANN
[JHVC 7131 VHS 90min 1987]
Documentary narrated by Joel Grey about the 1961 trial of the Nazi SS chief responsible for engineering much of the Holocaust.
THE WIZARD OF OZ
[fs 4894 VHS 93min bw silent 1925 dir:Larry Semon cast:Larry Semon; Dorothy Dwan; Bryant Washburn; Oliver Hardy]
A silent version of the L. Frank Baum story without witches and featuring much stunt work.
THE WIZARD OF OZ
[fs 2964 VHS 101min 1939 dir:Victor Fleming cast:Judy Garland; Ray Bolger; Bert Lahr; Jack Haley]
A tornado plunges a Kansas farmgirl into a fantasy of escape and adventure while she is unconscious.
See also The Ultimate Oz [Call No: 5459].
THE WODAABE
[6016 VHS 52min 1988]
Ethnographic film of a nomadic people who live in the Sahel near the Sahara.
WOLF
[fs 4888 VHS 125min 1994 dir:Mike Nichols cast:Jack Nicholson; Michelle Pfeiffer]
A timid book editor becomes a werewolf and is then framed for the murder of his wife.
THE WOLF MAN
[fs 1034-1035 16mm 3526 VHS 70min bw 1941 dir:George Waggner cast:Lon Chaney Jr; Claude Rains]
The son of an English squire is bitten by a werewolf and becomes one himself.
WOLF TRAP (VLCI JAMA)
[ 6480 VHS 95min. 1957 Czech/sub bw dir:Jir¡ Weiss cast:Jana Brejchov , Miroslav Dolezal]
A Moravian village in the 1920s: A veterinarian is torn between his domineering wife,and the teenaged orphan they adopt.
A WOMAN
[fs 1805 16mm 15min bw silent 1915cast:Charlie Chaplin]
Charlie is quick in getting a girl to marry him.
A WOMAN CALLED GOLDA
[JHVC 7189-7190 VHS 192min 1982 dir:Alan Gibson cast:Ingrid Bergman, Judy Davis]
TV drama of the life of Israel's prime minister Golda Meir, from childhood among Russian Pograms to an American adolescence and involvement in the kibbutzes of pre-Israel Palestine.
WOMAN IN FLAMES (DIE FLAMBIERTE FRAU)
[fs 3174 VHS 106min German subt 1984 dir:Robert van Ackeren]
A middle classs woman leaves a boring marriage to become a prostitute.
THE WOMAN IN GREEN
See SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE WOMAN IN GREEN
WOMAN IN THE DUNES
[fs 0929-0931 16mm 130min bw Japanese subt 1964 dir:Hiroshi Teshigahara]
An entomologist becomes trapped with a woman in a sandpit and is inexorably forced to resign himself to a primitive existence.
THE WOMAN IN THE MOON
[fs 3639 VHS 146min bw silent 1929 dir:Fritz Lang]
Two scientists are forced to journey to the moon by criminals who want to mine its gold.
THE WOMAN IN WHITE
[6322 VHS 120min 1997 dir:Tim Fywell]
Masterpiece Theatre adaptation of Wilkie Collins' mystery thriller.
WOMAN IN THE WINDOW
[6084 99min bw 1944 dir:Fritz Lang cast:Edward G. Robinson; Joan Bennett; Raymond Massey]
A naïve college professor's research into criminal behavior leads him to a chance acquaintance with a beautiful woman which, in turn, leads to murder and blackmail.
A WOMAN IS A WOMAN (UNE FEMME EST UNE FEMME)
[fs 3047 VHS 9117 DVD 80min bw French subt 1960 dir:Jean-Luc Godard cast:Jean-Paul Belmondo; Jean-Claude Brialy; Anna Karina]
A stripper wants to have a baby, but her boyfriend is not interested in becoming a father, so she enlists his best friend to be the father.
THE WOMAN MEN YEARN FOR
[4578 VHS 74min bw silent German titles 1928 cast:Marlene Dietrich]
A wealthy young man falls in love with a temptress, who seems to plot to defraud the young man but falls in love, too.
THE WOMAN NEXT DOOR (LA FEMME D'À CÔTÉ)
[fs 4618 VHS 5511 LD 106min French subt dir:François Truffaut cast:Gérard Depardieu; Fanny Ardant]
Former lovers, now married to other people, find themselves next-door neighbors and unable to resist each other.
A WOMAN OF AFFAIRS
[fs 3512 VHS 5815 Laser 108min bw silent 1928 dir:Clarence Brown cast:Greta Garbo; John Gilbert]
A wealthy young woman, unlucky in love and recently widowed, decides to live fast if not long.
WOMAN OF THE YEAR
[fs9455 DVD 112min. 1942 b/w dir:George Stevens cast:Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy]
Love and marriage between an intellectual feminist wartime political expert who can't cook and a sportswriter who loves her in spite of these defects.
WOMAN WHO IS ME
[1076 VHS 15min 1977]
Uses animation to explore how men and women see each other.
THE WOMEN
[fs 3427 VHS 5816 Laser 133min bw 1939 dir:George Cukor cast:Joan Crawford; Norma Shearer; Rosalind Russell]
Clare Booth Luce's play satirizes the female side of high society. See also OPPOSITE SEX.
WOMEN, AMEN!
[1876 16mm 15min 197?]
Discusses feminist ideas through the example of a woman divinity student who is also a wife and mother.
WOMEN AND ISLAM
[4519 VHS 30min 1993]
An interview with Leila Ahmed, a professor of women's studies, who argues for a less conservative role of women in Islamic society.
WOMEN AND SPIRITUALITY 1: GODDESS REMEMBERED
[ 8022 VHS 55min. 1989 dir:Donna Read]
Presents the evidence for an ancient Mediterranean goddess-worshipping culture without wars or territorial conflicts.
WOMEN AND SPIRITUALITY 2: THE BURNING TIMES
[ 8023 VHS 56min. 1990 dir:Donna Read]
Presents the persecution of women deemed "witches" by Christian churches and states in the Renaissance and Enlightenment eras.
WOMEN AND SPIRITUALITY 3: FULL CIRCLE
[ 8024 VHS 56min. 1992 dir:Donna Read]
Presents late 20th century goddess religions, at the personal, communal, and ecological levels.
WOMEN GENERALS OF THE YANG FAMILY
[fs 3406 VHS 135min Chinese subt(illegible) 1960 dirs:Cui Wei; Chen Huaikai]
A film of a Peking opera which tells of a matriarch and other women of a noble family taking over command of their army.
WOMEN GET THE VOTE
[0527 VHS 27min bw]
Documents the movement to amend the Constitution to give women the right to vote.
WOMEN IN RELIGION
[VHS 28min each 1993]
A series of interviews with noted female scholars examines women's roles in various religions.
Tape 1 [4190]
  • Introduction: Dr. Phyllis Senese, Dr. Christine St. Peter
  • Hinduism: Dr. Vasudha Narayanan
  • Christianity: Dr. Morny Joy
  • Buddhism: Dr. Eva Dargyay
Tape 2 [4191]
WOMEN OF NIGER
[4979 VHS 26min 1983 dir:Anne Laure]
"A passionate account of how women in Niger are battling enormous social and religious obstacles to win their democratic rights."
A WOMAN OF PARIS
[fs9297 DVD 90min 1923 b/w silent dir:Charlie Chaplin cast:Edna Purviance, Adolphe Menjou]
Sad story of a young girl who leaves her true love for a rich man. See main listing for this item A KING IN NEW YORK.
WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN (MUJERES AL BORDE DE UN ATAQUE DE NERVIOS)
[fs 3795 VHS 88min Spanish subt 1988 dir:Pedro Almodóvar cast:Carmen Maura; Julieta Serrano]
The love lives of three women collapse and converge in a comedy of desperation and revenge.
WOMEN: UP THE CAREER LADDER
[1871 16mm 27min bw 1972]
A group of women discuss the problems they have in pursuing careers in male-dominated workplaces.
WOMEN WHO MADE THE MOVIES
[fs 4889/VHS 56min 1991]
Documents the women who directed movies from the very earliest days of cinema to current times.
WOMEN WITH A PAST
[2790 VHS 70min 1987]
Interviews of four female artists: Christine Choy, Yvonne Rainer, Martha Rosler, and Nancy Spero.
THE WOMEN'S CONSTRUCTION COLLECTIVE
[3191 VHS 10min 1986]
Describes a five-week course in Jamaica to train female construction helpers at large building sites.
WON TON TON, THE DOG WHO SAVED HOLLYWOOD
[fs 2181-2182 u-matic 92min 1976 dir:Michael Winner cast:Bruce Dern; Madeline Kahn; Art Carney]
A lost dog becomes a movie star in a spoof of 1920's Hollywood.
Wonder Bar
fs 5265LD
See AL JOLSON COLLECTION
WONDER BOYS
[fs 9566 DVD 112min. 2000 dir:Curtis Hanson cast:Michael Douglas, Tobey Maguire, Frances McDormand]
Michael Chabon's academic novel about a Carnegie Mellon professor who has not written his second novel but has gotten the chancellor pregnant.
THE WONDERFUL, HORRIBLE LIFE OF LENI RIEFENSTAHL
[fs 4405-4406 VHS 5349 Laser 10003 DVD 188min German subt 1993]
The legendary German filmmaker, at age 91, comments on her career and revisits the sites of some of her work.
THE WOODEN GUN
[2891 VHS JHVC 7090 VHS 91min Hebrew subt 1979 dir:Ilan Moshenson]
In Tel Aviv during the 1950s, two rival groups of preteens have very different sets of values from their elders who were not born in Israel.
WORDS AND MUSIC
[fs 6729VHS 122min 1948 dir:Norman Taurog cast:June Allyson; Perry Como; Judy Garland; Lena Horne; Gene Kelly; Mickey Rooney; Tom Drake]
Musical based on the career of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart.
A WORKER'S INTRODUCTION TO TIME STUDY
[0969 16mm 30min 1976]
Demonstrates how production times are calculated for factory tasks.
WORKING GIRLS
[fs 3506 VHS 90min 1986 dir:Lizzie Borden]
A semi-documentary covering a typical day at a Manhattan brothel.
WORKING WITH TROUBLED EMPLOYEES
[0991 16mm 30min 1973]
A discussion of how supervisors should evaluate and respond to employees who have mental problems.
THE WORKS OF LA FONTAINE
[4350 VHS 27min 1985]
Discusses the life and work of the French author using illustrations from 18th-century books.
WORLD AND TIME ENOUGH
[6597 VHS 92min 1996 dir:Eric Mueller cast:Gregory Giles; Matt Guidry ]
Comic drama about a gay couple, one of whom is HIV-positive.
THE WORLD AT THE U.N. PLAZA
[0027 16mm 29min 1968]
Illustrates the work of the U.S. Mission to the United Nations.
THE WORLD AT WAR
[VHS 52min each 1980-1982]
1. A New Germany: 1933-39 [4443]
Conditions in Germany prove ideal for Adolph Hitler to gain control of the country's government and the people's hearts and minds.
2. Distant War: 1939-40 [4529]
Poland invaded and conquered, Britain loses in Norway, Churchill elected, Germany strikes into France.
3. France Falls: May-June 1940 [4530]
The German army skirts the Maginot line and humiliates the large but ill-prepared French army.
4. Alone - Britain: May 1940-June 1941 [4445]
England survives repeated air raids by the Luftwaffe, discouraging Hitler's plans to invade.
5. Barbarossa: June-December 1941 [4446]
Hitler turns from crippled - but unconquered - Britain and targets Russia. But Russia is large, and cold in winter.
6. Banzai - Japan Strikes: December 1941 [3632]
Japan, seeking unrestricted access to raw materials it needs for expansion, tires of negotiations and strikes at Pearl Harbor.
9. Stalingrad [4444]
When the Russians dig in and defend their showcase industrial city until the winter arrives, the Germans are set for their first defeat under Hitler.
16. Inside the Reich: Germany 1940-44 [4430]
Depicts the people's attitudes at various stages of the war as formed by Nazi propaganda and countered by such truths as the Jewish holocaust.
20. Genocide [4431]
Explains the ideology and thorough planning that went into the Nazi S.S. effort to exterminate all the Jews in Europe. Graphically presents the results.
22. Japan: 1941-45 [3633]
Many Japanese, stunned and fearful when war was declared, exulted in victories in Hong Kong, Malaya, and Singapore.
THE WORLD OF APU (APUR SANSAR)
[fs 1394-1395 16mm 2906 VHS 103min bw Bengali subt 1959 dir:Satyajit Ray cast:Soumitra Chatterjee]
The concluding film on the life of Apu, in which he becomes a husband and father.
THE WORLD OF SHOLOM ALEICHEM
[fs 4908 VHS 95min bw 1959 cast:Zero Mostel; Nancy Walker; Jack Gilford]
Television production of three plays: A Tale of Chelm, Bontche Schweig, and The High School.
WORLD POPULATION ATLAS FILE
[10075 CD-ROM]
Interactive maps, etc. relating to demographics.
THE WORLD, THE FLESH, AND THE DEVIL
[fs 5817 Laser 95min. 1958 b/w dir:Ranald MacDougall cast:Harry Belafonte, Inger Stevens, Mel Ferrer]
Science fiction: after a nuclear holocaust, Manhattan has only three people, who must rebuild the human race.
A WORLD TO PERCEIVE
[0208 16mm 29min bw]
Demonstrates the role of perception in handling and processing information from the environment, and the way in which our personalities affect our perception.
WORLD WAR I
[VHS bw 1988]
A visual history of World War I produced by CBS News.
Volume 1 - [4437 or 6644]
  • Seeds of War [49min]
  • The War Begins [49min]
  • The Western Front [48min]
Volume 2 - [4438 or 6645]
  • Spreading War [48min]
  • America Enters the War [48min]
Volume 3 - [4439 or 6646]
  • Germany and the Eastern Front [49min]
  • The Loss of Innocence [48min]
Volume 4 - [4440 or 6647]
  • Other Campaigns [49min]
  • A Change in War [49min]
Volume 5 - [4441 or 6648]
  • War Ends [49min]
  • A Precarious Peace [49min]
WORLD WAR II IN COLOR
[fs9331 DVD 180min ]
Compilation of color documentary films of great battles of World War Two. Also a government film, "Combat America."
WORLD WAR II LOST COLOR ARCHIVES
[fs9472-9473 DVD 104 + 67min. 1999 ]
1: NEW WORLD ORDER, TOTAL WAR Television documentary covering the opening of the European and Pacific fronts in World War II: Hitler's role in the Spanish Civil War, Dunkirk, Pearl Harbor, the Eastern Front and the Battle of Stalingrad.
2: TRIUMPH AND DESPAIR: The final year of World War II: the D-Day landing, the Battle of the Bulge, the Pacific war culminating in the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, and V-E and V-J Day. Includes some footage of the liberation of the Nazi death camps
WORLD WIDE WEB: Gateway to Effective Learning
[6010 VHS 88min 1997]
Taped videoconference in which five panelists demonstrate internet resources and answer questions on the prospect of the world wide web as a learning environment.
WOYZECK
[4376 VHS 82min German subt 1978 dir:Werner Herzog cast:Klaus Kinski; Eva Mattes]
An abused private in the German army goes insane and becomes a murderer.
W.R.: MYSTERIES OF THE ORGANISM
[fs 4547 VHS 84min English/Serbian/ sub 1971 dir:Dusan Makavejev]
" ..a black comedy, political circus, a fantasy on the fascism and communism of human bodies... "
THE WRATH OF GRAPES
[3977 VHS 16min 1987]
United Farm Workers video showing the dangers of pesticides.
THE WRITE COURSE
[VHS 30min each 1984]
A telecourse covering the writing skills of good composition.
  1. The Beginning
    [2639] Introduces the course as a teaching device and previews its content, format and sequence.
  2. Why Write?
    [2639] Introduces contemporary theories on the writing process.
  3. The Writing Process
    [2640] Clarifies the misconceptions generally held about writing.
  4. The Audience
    [2640] Explains the basic relationship between the writer to the audience.
  5. Audience and Style
    [2641] Shows how the audience affects style through the level of diction and choice of language.
  6. Discovering Ideas
    [2641] The viewer sees how techniques are used to generate topic ideas.
  7. The Drama of Thinking
    [2642] How structured sets of questions are used to determine the topic of the article.
  8. Sharpening the Focus
    [2642] The writing process is explored from generating ideas to narrowing a broad range of ideas to a specific topic.
  9. Structuring the Topic
    [2643] The need for clearly structured writing in order to properly communicate with a specific audience.
  10. Beginning and Ending
    [2643] The introductory and concluding paragraphs in expository essays.
  11. Developing Form
    [2644] How the writer selects the style of his/her work rather than imitating.
  12. Narration and Description
    [2644] Traditional rhetorical patterns are examined along with traditional expository patterns.
  13. Process and Analysis
    [2645] Prepares the viewer to write a practical paper and adds to diction and sentence skills.
  14. Definition
    [2645] Several methods and examples of writing extended definitions.
  15. Argumentation
    [2646] The relationship of formal logic and clear writing.
  16. Paragraph Patterns
    [2646] The approach is to treat the paragraph flexibly and realistically, avoiding traditional misconceptions.
  17. Sentence Patterns
    [2647] Rhetorical aspects of the sentence with the emphasis on style rather than grammar.
  18. Sentence Strategy
    [2647] The revision of sentences to fit rhetoricalcontext.
  19. Words and Meanings
    [2648] The use of words as a stylistic device.
  20. Word Strategy
    [2648] Common abuses of words.
  21. Revision Strategies
    [2649] The revision stage of the writing process, and how revision is more than just proofreading and editing.
  22. Using the Writer's Tools
    [2649] The books which can help students with the tasks of editing and proofreading.
  23. Discovering the Library
    [2650] Traces the task of researching a topic in the library to writing a paper using the research information obtained.
  24. Writing a Research Paper
    [2650] Steps to follow for producing a research paper.
  25. Writing About Books
    [2651] Attempts to change misconceptions about book reviews while encouraging the viewer to advance beyond summaries.
  26. The Essay Test
    [2651] Concentrates on the particular requirements of these special assignments.
  27. Writing at Work
    [2652] A practical approach to the writing of common forms of business communications.
  28. Report and Proposal Writing
    [2652] Considers proposal and report writing.
  29. Style
    [2653] Treats the complex ideas of voice, tone and point of view.
  30. New Direction
    [2653] A motivational summary about writing in college.
WRITING IN WATER
[fs 2793 VHS 28min 1987 dir:Stephen R. Roszell]
Documentary using multiple viewpoints of a rural family's recollections of a harrowing event in their past.
WRITTEN ON THE WIND
[fs 2986 VHS 9646 DVD 99min 1956 dir:Douglas Sirk cast:Robert Stack, Rock Hudson, Dorothy Malone, Lauren Bacall]
Texas oil millionaires suffer from erotic confusion, focused on a character played by Mr. Hudson.
THE WRONG MAN
[fs 3150 VHS 5072 LaserCLV1 105min bw 1956 dir:Alfred Hitchcock cast:Henry Fonda; Vera Miles]
Based on a true story about a New York City musician wrongly accused of robbery.
WRONG MOVE
[fs 3151 VHS 103min German subt 1978 dir:Wim Wenders]
An aspiring writer wanders around Germany seeking experience and inspiration to actually write something.
WUNSCHKONZERT
[6567 VHS 100min b/w German language 1940 dir:Eduard von Borsody ]
Love story which takes place in Germany during World War II.
WUTHERING HEIGHTS
[fs2580 VHS 107min 1992 dir:Peter Kosminsky cast:Juliette Binoche, Ralph Fiennes]
"Emily Bronte" watches the Earnshaws and Lintons catalyzed by Heathcliff for two generations.
THE WYETH PHENOMENON
[0151 16mm 28min 1968]
Shows many of Andrew Wyeth's paintings and includes interviews with his sister and his son.