FAU Libraries Media Center - Laserdiscs

LD 0036 36 Africa
Summary: Briefly explores the geography, history, and culture of the continent of Africa. 035 Min. LD 1998 Subject: GEOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY Series: WORLD VIDEO EXPLORER

LD 0036 54 Always
Summary: Pete Sandich is a legendary pilot with a passion for daredevil firefighting, However Dorinda, the woman he loves, and Al, Pete'e best friend, know that legends cannot take risks forever. After sacrificing himself to save Al, the ace pilot faces his most challenging mission: helping Dorinda move on with her life. 123 Min. LASERDISC 1989

LD 0036 37 American Nation, The
Summary: Covers important events in United States history. Includes 700 still images. Video lessons include short segments such as the songs of Marian Anderson at the Lincoln Memorial, Richard Nixon's visit to China, and speeches by Martin Luther King, Jr. 112 Min. LD 1995 Subject: U.S. HISTORY

LD 0036 35 Asia and the Pacific
Summary: Briefly explores the history, geography and culture of Asia and also compares the geography and sheep industries of Australia and New Zealand. 032 Min. LD 1998 Subject: GEOGRAPHY ,ASIAN STUDIES ,GEOLOGY Series: WORLD VIDEO EXPLORER

LD 0036 24 Badlands
Summary: The place is South Dakota. The time, 1959. Kit and Holly are adrift In a double fantasy of crime and punishment, an odyssey of meaningless murder, a headlong flight from nowhere to nowhere. They're playing make believe, but the bullets are real. And the blood is very real. 097 Min. LASERDISC 1973

LD 0036 47 Barbra: The Concert Live at the Arrowhear Pond
Summary: Barbra Streisand in concert. 107 Min. LASERDISC 1994

LD 0036 53 Basic Instinct
Summary: A tough but vulnerable detective investigates a murder identical to one described in the latest novel of a cold, calculating and beautiful novelist with an insatiable sexual appetite. 123 Min. LASERDISC 1992

LD 0036 22 Belle De Jour
Summary: An erotically charged tale of deceit and desire. Beautiful Catherine Deneuve stars as Severine, a perfect young housewife...who leads a shocking double life. What her loving husband Pierre doesn't know is that by day she's a high priced prostitute. But when the dangerous obsession of a customer forces her terrible secrets out into the open, Pierre must decide whether to reject her for what she has done...or accept her for who she is. 100 Min. LASERDISC 1967

LD 0036 46 Big Business
Summary: Two sets of twins are mismatched at birth, and forty years later their paths cross in Manhattan. 098 Min. LASERDISC 1988

LD 0036 48 Bird on a Wire
Summary: A man hidden under the FBI witness-relocation program is recognized by his former sweetheart. But before he can assume a new identity, the man he put in jail is released and comes looking for him! The two lovers are thrown together on a cross country flight, and barely manage to evade the gangsters while rekindling the flame of love. 110 Min. LASERDISC 1990

LD 0036 43 Blaze
Summary: Based on the real life story of stripper Blaze Starr and her romance with the governor of Louisiana. 117 Min. LASERDISC 1989

LD 0036 40 Blown Away
Summary: When an explosion jolts the city of Boston, bomb squad expert Jimmy Dove is pulled out of an early retirement and into the most harrowing work of his career. 121 Min. LASERDISC 1994

LD 0036 18 Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Summary: A deranged hypnotist who spreads death through the countryside from a ramshackle traveling carnival. Before the naive eyes of the townspeople, he unveils the contents of his coffin life cabinet: Cesare, a spidery sleepwalker who obeys his every command. But at night, once the crowds have dispersed, Caligari lifts the lid on darker intentions, unleashing the dreadful Cesare to act upon his master's murderous whims and carnal desires. LASERDISC 1996 Subject: COMMUNICATION

LD 0036 25 Cat People
Summary: A beautiful young woman discovers love for the first time only to find that the explosive experience brings with it tragic consequences. An erotic fantasy of the passion and terror that surround this girl's first love. 073 Min. LASERDISC 1942 Subject: COMMUNICATION

LD 0036 03 Citizen Kane
Summary: An American tragedy of a newspaper tycoon (based loosely on William Randolph Hearst) from his humble beginnings to the solitude of his final years. Oscar winning script was written by the 25-year-old Orson Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz. Welles was also the director. 119 Min. LASERDISC 1941 Subject: COMMUNICATION

LD 0036 09 City of Hope
Summary: An eventful few days in the fictional metropolis of Hudson: and ugly racial incident threatens to snowball, the corrupt mayor pushes a shady real-estate deal, and a botched robbery has profound implications. Vincent Spano, Tony LoBianco, Joe Morton, Todd Graff, David Strathairn, Anthony John Denison, Barbara Williams, Angela Bassett, Gloria Foster, Lawrence Tierney, John Sayles; Written and Directed by John Sayles. 130 Min. LASERDISC 1991 Subject: COMMUNICATION

LD 0036 55 Clear and Present Danger
Summary: CIA deputy intelligence director, Jack Ryan, finds recovering laundered drug money from the Colombian cartel isn't as dangerous as the power games in the nation's capital. 141 Min. LASERDISC 1994

LD 0036 42 Client, The
Summary: Mark Sway is an 11 year old torn between what he knows and what he can never tell. A hitman will snuff him in half a heartbeat if Mark reveals what he learned about a Mob murder. An ambitious federal prosecutor will keep the pressure on until Mark tells all. 121 Min. LASERDISC 1994

LD 0036 50 Corrina, Corrina
Summary: A funny, heart-warming story of a newly widowed man struggling to raise his little girl, and the woman who brings magic and laughter back into their lives when she comes to be their housekeeper. 115 Min. LASERDISC 1999

LD 0036 11 Duran Duran-Dancing on the Valentine
Summary: Three music videos featuring the group "Duran Duran." 1. The Reflex 2. Union of the Snake 3. New Moon On Monday 015 Min. LASERDISC 1984

LD 0036 38 Economics At Work
Summary: A one-semester introductory economics course developed in consultation with the National Council on Economic Education to reflect the new National Economics Standards. Engages students in the economic way of thinking, enabling them to relate to economics by presenting its concepts and principles in everyday settings. 066 Min. LASERDISC 1996 Subject: ECONOMICS

LD 0036 39 Few Good Men, A
Summary: A brash Navy lawyer is teamed up with a gung-ho litigator in a politically explosive murder case. Charged with defending two Marines accused of killing a fellow soldier, they are confronted with complex issues of loyalty and honor . 138 Min. LASERDISC 1992

LD 0036 41 Firm, The
Summary: A brilliant and ambitious Harvard Law grad joins a small, prosperous law firm in Memphis, and is soon confronted by FBI agents with evidence of corruption and murder within the firm. 154 Min. LASERDISC 1993

LD 0036 52 For the Boys
Summary: After their uproarious debut show together, it was clear that Eddie and Dixie were destined to be bigger than anyone, if they don't strangle each other first. 144 Min. LASERDISC 1991

LD 0036 13 Full Metal Jacket
Summary: A three-act Vietnam War epic co-written by Stanley Kubrick, Michael Herr and the novel's original author, Gustav Hasford. About a single Everyman impetuously passing through basic training then working in the field as an Army photo journalist and fighting at the onset of the Tet offensive. First half of the film is the most realistic bootcamp sequence ever done. Directed by Stanley Kubick. 117 Min. LASERDISC 1987 Subject: COMMUNICATION

LD 0036 49 Funny Farm
Summary: A Manhattan sportswriter abandons his career for life in the country. 101 Min. LASERDISC 1999

LD 0036 34 Geography Tools and Concepts
Summary: Briefly explores the concepts of geography, including physical features, human geography, culture, and natural resources. 035 Min. LD 1998 Subject: GEOGRAPHY ,GEOLOGY Series: WORLD VIDEO EXPLORER

LD 0036 10 Gimme Shelter
Summary: The sixties ended as violence occurred at a December 1969 free Rolling Stones concert attended by 300,000 people in Altamont, California. This "Woodstock West" became a bitter remembrance in rock history, as Hell's Angels (hired for security) do some ultimate damage to the spectators. A provocative look at an out-of-control situation. Mich Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman, Mich Taylor. Directed by David Maysles. 091 Min. LASERDISC 1970 Subject: COMMUNICATION

LD 0036 26 Halloween
Summary: The story of a faceless psychopath of terrifying strength and preternatural ubiquity who lays siege to two households of teenagers. 093 Min. LASERDISC 1978

LD 0036 44 It Could Happen to You
Summary: Charlie Long is a neighborhood police officer with a loving personality and a greedy wife Muriel. When he buys a lottery ticket at his wife's request, he impulsively promises half the winnings to a waitress, Yvonne. When it was revealed they have the winning numbers, Muriel lives to excess. 101 Min. LASERDISC 1994

LD 0036 15 Jezebel
Summary: Bette Davis is a Southern bell who loses her fiancι, played by Henry Fonda, through her selfish and spiteful ways in this pre-Civil War drama. When he becomes ill, she realizes her cruelty and rushes to nurse him back to health. Director, William Wyler. 105 Min. LASERDISC 1938 Subject: COMMUNICATION

LD 0036 17 JFK
Summary: Highly controversial examination of President John F. Kennedy's 1963 assassination, from the viewpoint of New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison. Hotly debated because of Stone's conspiracy theory, it sparked new calls to open the sealed government records from the 1977 House Select Committee on Assassinations investigation. Directed by Oliver Stone. 189 Min. LASERDISC 1991 Subject: COMMUNICATION

LD 0036 45 Joy Luck Club, The
Summary: Juxtaposes scenes from the lives of four Chinese women in pre 1949 Chin a and the lives of their American born daughters to show how the mother's experiences in China and as immigrants in the United States shaped their dreams for their daughters' lives. 139 Min. LASERDISC 1993

LD 0036 12 Madonna
Summary: A music video featuring Madonna in four of her releases. 1. Burning Up 2. Borderline 3. Lucky Star 4. Like A Virgin 017 Min. LASERDISC 1984

LD 0036 02 Magnificent Ambersons, The
Summary: Directed by Orson Welles. The rise & fall of a wealthy family at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. 088 Min. LASERDISC 1942 Subject: COMMUNICATION

LD 0036 08 Matewan
Summary: A dramatization of the famous Matewan Massacre in the 1920's, in which coal miners in West Virginia, reluctantly influenced by a young union organizer, rebelled against terrible working conditions. Chris Cooper, James Earl Jones, Mary McDonnell, William Oldham, Kevin Tighe, David Strathairn. Directed by John Sayles. 130 Min. LASERDISC 1987 Subject: COMMUNICATION

LD 0036 07 Mildred Pierce
Summary: Gripping melodrama features Crawford as a hard-working divorcee rivaling her daughter for a man's love. Adaptation of James M. Cain novel. Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Ann Blyth, Bruce Bennett. 109 Min. LASERDISC 1954 Subject: COMMUNICATION

LD 0036 31 Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Summary: A farcial retelling of the story of the quest for the Holy Grail by Kin g Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. Directed by Terry Jones and Terry Palin. 092 Min. LASERDISC 1974

LD 0036 32 Monty Python's Life of Brain
Summary: The Pythons satirize religion, capital punishment, revolutionary politics, terrorism, graffiti, science fiction, and a host of other topics through the story of Brian, a first century Judean. Directed by Terry Jones. 094 Min. LASERDISC 1979

LD 0036 20 My Beautiful Laundrette
Summary: The story of Omar, a Pakistani boy, who in order to escape his alcoholic father, starts to work for his wealthy businessman uncle, Nasser. Omar is fascinated by Nasser and the flashy Salim's business enterprises. Given his own laundrette to run, Omar enlists the help of Johnny - a white boy who was a friend at school but has latterly become involved with the National Front. Shady business deals, family politics and a sexual relationship between Omar and Johnny make up the background for this amusing yet deeply honest portrayal of life within the Pakistani community in South London. Directed by Stephen Frears. 093 Min. LASERDISC 1985 Subject: COMMUNICATION

LD 0036 29 Naked Lunch
Summary: New York City, 1953. Pest exterminator Bill Lee becomes immersed in a bizarre series of events that challenge his grip on reality, including a deadly game of "William Tell" with his wife and a barstool encounter with a mugwump - a six foot alien creature. 116 Min. LASERDISC 1991

LD 0036 01 Notorious
Summary: The 1946 Hitchcock classic that ingeniously combines a romantic story involving characters portrayed by Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman, espionage and intrigue in Rio de Janeiro, mysterious wine bottles, lethal cups of coffee, and an all-important small key. 101 Min. LASERDISC 1946 Subject: COMMUNICATION

LD 0036 33 Parrot Sketch Not Included, Twenty Years of Monty Python
Summary: Steve Martin presents a compilation of the best of the original Monty Python televison programs to celebrate its twentieth birthday. 075 Min. LASERDISC 1989

LD 0036 16 Raging Bull
Summary: One of the screen's greatest actors, Robert De Niro, teams with acclaimed director Martin Scorsese to create this film which introduced unflinching realism to stunned audiences in 1980. Raging Bull garnered eight Oscar nominations including Best Picture and Best Director, and won two including Best Actor for De Niro. 132 Min. LASERDISC 1980 Subject: COMMUNICATION

LD 0036 05 Rear Window
Summary: Jimmy Stewart, Grace Kelly, Raymond Burr. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. As a photographer with a broken leg, Stewart takes up the fine art of spying on his Greenwich Village neighbors during a summer heat wave. But things really begin to get hot for Stewart, Kelly and the unassuming audience when he suspects his neighbor (Burr) of murdering his invalid wife and burying the body in a flower garden. 113 Min. LASERDISC 1954 Subject: COMMUNICATION

LD 0036 28 Rebecca
Summary: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Judith Anderson, Nigel Bruce, C. Aubrey Smith & Gladys Cooper. Alfred Hitchcock's American directorial debut. A timid young girl marries a widower only to find her new home haunted by the memory of Rebecca, the first Lady de Winter. The new Mrs. de Winter must discover the secret locked in her husband's heart, the truth about Rebecca. 130 Min. LASERDISC 1940 Subject: COMMUNICATION

LD 0036 51 Rookie of the Year
Summary: When the cast is removed from his severely broken arm, a clumsy 12 year old is shocked to find his arm has become a 100 mile per hour thunderbolt, and is signed as ace pitcher for the Chicago Cubs. 103 Min. LASERDISC 1993

LD 0036 23 Shadow of a Doubt
Summary: When Uncle Charlie comes to visit his relatives in the sleepy town of Santa Rosa, his niece begins to suspect her uncle is hiding some terrible secret. Convinced by the police that he is really the Merry Widow murderer, the niece becomes the object of an increasingly deadly war of nerves as Uncle Charlie attempts to do away with the girl without arousing anyone's suspicion. 108 Min. LASERDISC 1942

LD 0036 14 Story of Qiu Ju, The
Summary: From Zhang Yimou, the director of the Oscar-nominated Ju Dou and Raise the Red Lantern, comes the award-winning comic fable, The Story of Qiu Ju. In a small Chinese village, Qing Lai and the Village Chief get into an argument over land-Qing wants to build a shed for drying his chilies, but the government has very strict rules when it comes to the use of farm land, and his request is denied. As the two argue, Qing makes an unfortunate remark about the Chief's failure to father a son, a shortcoming that has resulted in four daughters. Incensed, the Chief kicks the farmer in the groin. Enter Qiu Ju, Qing's wife. In a quixotic odyssey that takes her from her small village to the provincial capitol, she is relentless in her one-woman crusade to wreak a simple justice from the proud Chief. She wants him to apologize. 100 Min. LASERDISC 1992 Subject: COMMUNICATION

LD 0036 21 Strangers on a Train
Summary: A tennis star hates his estranged wife and wants to be free to marry an other woman. On a train, he meets Bruno, who hates his father. Bruno has a chillingly simple plan: each could kill the other's victim. No motive, no clues, nothing to link the two but a casual meeting of strangers on a train. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. 101 Min. LASERDISC 1951

LD 0036 27 Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The
Summary: This is the bizarre and tragically gruesome account of what happened to five young friends one summer afternoon in rural Texas. After hearing reports of grave robbing, the group sets out to check on a family grave. Soon after, one by one they wander into the murderous clutches of Leatherface. 083 Min. LASERDISC 1974

LD 0036 06 Vertigo
Summary: Hitchcock's romantic story of obsession, manipulation and fear. Stewart plays a detective forced to retire after his fear of heights causes the death of a fellow policeman and perhaps, the death of a woman he'd been hired to follow. The appearance of her double image, leads to a mesmerizing cycle of madness and lies. James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore, Ellen Corby; Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. 128 Min. LASERDISC 1958 Subject: COMMUNICATION

LD 0036 19 Working Girl
Summary: The tale of a young secretary determined to make good in a world of big business, malevolent bosses and corporate intrigue. Struggling for recognition amid the vast secretarial pool of a giant Wall Street brokerage, Tess McGill is convinced she's destined for bigger and better things. Then, in a single day, she discovers that her boyfriend is unfaithful and that her devious boss is planning to steal Tess' idea for a major deal. Fed up, Tess undergoes a total transformation: new clothes, new attitude and "serious" hair. Passing herself off as a top exec from the brokerage, Tess cajoles her way into the life of the one man who can make her big deal a reality. 113 Min. LASERDISC 1988 Subject: COMMUNICATION

LD 0036 56 Young Mr. Lincoln
Summary: A fictionalized account of Abraham Lincoln's early years as a lawyer in Springfield, IL. 099 Min. LASERDISC 1939