FAU Libraries Media Center - Videographies, Communication

VH 8207 "I Have a Dream": The Nature of Great Speaking
Summary: Michael Osborn draws heavily on the work of the Roman scholar, Longinus, augmenting classical theory to enhance our current understanding of the impact of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s oration. Osborn delineates the five characteristics that contribute to the excellence of King's landmark speech, explains what great speaking is and analyzes the elements of an effective speech. Discusses ethos, or the credibility of the speaker as a trustworthy, knowledgeable, and likeable person. 026 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 5328 1860
Summary: In May 1860, the Sicilians rebelled against and defeated the troops of the King of Naples; these are the events surrounding the battle of Calatafimi which are so vividly depicted in the film 1860. 072 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3998 21 Ways to Defuse Anger and Calm People Down, Volume 1
Summary: With this video training program, you'll learn: The first thing to do when confronted by an angry co-worker, how people react to silence, and why it helps them continue calmly, how to keep yourself calm when provoked by an angry person, ways to help co-workers sidestep emotions and concentrate on solutions. 102 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3999 21 Ways to Defuse Anger and Calm People Down, Volume 2
Summary: This program will teach you 21 specific ways to mitigate anger where you work(instead of letting it control you). Among the skills you'll gain: One thing you should always do before jumping into the middle of a conflict. How to recognize and reduce"conflict conditions" where you work. How to calm people down by moving to a new environment. What to do immediately when hostility gets out of hand. 077 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3915 42nd Street
Summary: Academy award winner Warner Baxter stars as Julian Marsh, a tyrannical director of Broadway musicals. When his show's leading lady breaks her ankle on the eve of opening night, a wide-eyed chorus girl is thrust into the role. "You're going out a youngster," the director tells his terrified ingenue, "but you're coming back a star!" Director: Lloyd Bacon. 090 Min. VIDEO 1933 Subject: COMMUNICATION, MUSICAL

VH 4049 Abraham Lincoln on Communication
Summary: You'll learn how to apply Lincoln's three basic rules for speaking plainly: Take pains to make sure that your facts are right. Determine if the person you speak to is capable of understanding and accepting your message. If you knock someone down, try to pick them up. 068 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2402 Adult Conflict Resolution
Summary: Shows three typical conflict resolution situations: an interpersonal conflict involving two teachers; a conflict involving different power levels--principal and teacher; and an intergroup conflict between two groups of teachers. 040 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: PSYCHOLOGY, COMMUNICATION

VH 4348 Advertising and the End of the World
Summary: Presents a compelling and accessible argument about consumerism and its impact on the earth's future. Challenges students to re-evaluate their own everyday practices and invites us all to re-examine our commitment to future generations. 047 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: COMMUNICATION, MARKETING

VH 5216 Advertising Missionaries
Summary: In Papua New Guinea where over three quarters of the population cannot be reached by the regular advertising medium, the market is being developed by other means. 052 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: COMMUNICATION, ANTHROPOLOGY , MARKETING

VH 4386 Affluenza
Summary: A fascinating look at one of the greatest social maladies of our time: over-consumption and materialism. Explores both the comical and sobering aspects of our consumerism and its enormous impact on our families, communities and the environment. 057 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: COMMUNICATION, AMERICAN STUDIES, SOCIOLOGY

VH 3088 Afrique, Je Te Plumerai (Africa, I Will Fleece You)
Summary: Provides a masterly overview of one hundred years of cultural imperialism in Africa. Director Jean-Marie Teno uses Cameroon, the only African county colonized by three European powers, for a case study of the devastation of traditional African societies by imposed colonial cultures. This film is essential viewing for anyone who wants to understand the cultural and intellectual conflicts of present day Africa. 088 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: LIBRARY OF AFRICAN CINEMA

VH 1388 Against the Current/The Wood Goblin
Summary: A selection of 22 Soviet documentary films produced of released in the first years of the "Glasnost era." All but two of the films were produced between 1986-1988. 058 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: GLASNOST FILM FESTIVAL, THE

VH 2994 Alberto Express
Summary: Every family has its own funny little traditions, but Alberto's takes quirkiness to the most hilarious extreme. In Alberto's family, the children must pay their parents back every cent spent on their rearing; and the debt must be completely repaid before the children start a family of their own. Unfortunately, Alberto is 40 and flat broke. If he can't come up with a big chunk of change to repay his father in a hurry, he's going to have to figure out to have a family. Directed by: Arthur Joffe. 090 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3627 Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Summary: Fassbinder draws on the formula of the classic American tearjerker to tell the outrageous, touching story of a bumpy love affair between a German floorwasher and an inarticulate Arab mechanic. A moving romance, a perverse social comedy, and a biting drama. With his warm humanism and cool irony, Fassbinder is able to create art from material that in the hands of most directors would never transcend soap opera. 094 Min. VIDEO 1974 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 5669 Alien Nation
Summary: Video describes "view from the tenth circle -- The Pincers -- How did it happen?" Consequences of immigration are reviewed. 029 Min. VIDEO 1979 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 7344 All In The Family: "Archie Tells It Like It Is"
Summary: Video includes three episodes of the "All In The Family" show. 075 Min. VIDEO 1970 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4753 All Over Town
Summary: Appearing as a vaudeville team attempting to put on a performance in a theater closed since a murder took place in its darkened hall, Olsen and Johnson become involved in a mysterious shooting during a rehearsal. The boys are kidnaped, but manage to escape their captors in rollicking climax. Directed by : James W. Horne. 053 Min. VIDEO 1937 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2705 Allah Tantou (God's Will)
Summary: David Achkar reconstructs his father's life which closely parallels the rise and fall of Africa's own hopes for independence. Marof Achkar became a prominent figure in Sekou Toure's post colonial government, Guinea's U.N. ambassador and an articulate international spokesman for African causes. Recalled to Conakry in 1968, he was imprisoned and secretly executed in 1971. Director Achkar, David. 062 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: COMMUNICATION, BIOGRAPHY Series: LIBRARY OF AFRICAN CINEMA

VH 5667 Amarillo News Tapes, The
Summary: Attempts to show the underside of broadcast journalism by presenting a spoof and critique of the evening news. 025 Min. VIDEO 1980 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2372 Amazing Grace With Bill Moyers
Summary: Across distances of time and culture, "Amazing Grace" has become a courier of the spirit to millions of people. It is one of the most popular and enduring songs in the English language. This feature program explores why this is so. 090 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: COMMUNICATION, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 2499 American Dream
Summary: "American Dream" follows the true-life story of workers on strike in America's heartland, Austin, Minnesota. In 1984, the Hormel company saw a profit of $29 million. That same year they offered it's Austin meatpackers a salary cut from $10.69 to $8.25 an hour and a 30% cut in basic benefits. The strike which followed pitted worker against management, worker against worker and even brother against brother. Director: Barbara Kopple. 098 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: COMMUNICATION, AMERICAN STUDIES, ECONOMICS

VH 4718 American Friend, The
Summary: At an art auction, Ripley meets Jonathan, a picture framer who is suffering from a rare blood disease, and targets him as a potential mob assassin. Jonathan will not be suspected because he has no motive. When Jonathan is led to believe that his illness is terminal, he agrees to the murder plot so that he can leave his wife and family financial security upon his death. Directed by: Wim Wenders. 123 Min. VIDEO 1977 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4881 Amistad
Summary: Based on a true story, the movie chronicles the incredible journey of a group of enslaved Africans who overtake their captor's ship and attempt to return to their beloved homeland. When the ship La Amistad, is seized, these captives are brought to the United States where they are charged with murder and await their fate in prison. Directed by: Steven Spielberg. 155 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: COMMUNICATION, DRAMA

VH 6548 And the Dish Ran Away With the Spoon
Summary: Using poetry, interviews, music, and clips from television shows, this film highlights the effects of American television broadcasts on local cultures in Saint Lucia and Cuba. The film looks at Cuba's attempts to produce locally-oriented broadcasting, and the response to this from the United States by introducing the anti-Castro station TV Marti. 050 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: DEVELOPING STORIES 1

VH 1393 And the Past Seems But A Dream/ Theater Square
Summary: And the Past Seems But A Dream. In 1938, a group of children wrote an idealistic book called "We are from Igarka." The director planned to film their touching reunion 50 years later. But another childhood was revealed: "...a time that was much more painful than the worst nightmare." (67 min.) Theater square : On June 1, 1988, a hunger strike was organized in Yerevan's historic Theater Square over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, populated mainly by Armenians, but located in Azerbaijan. The film portrays this event without commentary or interviews. (26 min.) 1988. 093 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: GLASNOST FILM FESTIVAL, THE

VH 1741 Angano...Angano (Tales from Madagascar)
Summary: (Magasy and French with English subtitles). Venerable but unmistakably contemporary storytellers recount for the camera and their listeners the founding myths of Malagasy culture-the creation of man and woman, the origin of rice cultivation, the reason for animal sacrifice. Director: Cesar Paes. 064 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: LIBRARY OF AFRICAN CINEMA

VH 2686 Angel At My Table, An
Summary: "An Angel At My Table" chronicles the life of Janet Frame, one of the 20th century's most gifted writers. Born in the 1920's, Janet's early years of fairy tales and schoolgirl pranks were tempered by family tragedy. She retreated to her beloved books and began to write poetry and stories. As the years passed her talent grew and so did the challenges to her unique and inspired vision. Director: Jane Campion. 157 Min. VIDEO 1986 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4127 Annie Hall
Summary: The film weaves flashbacks, flash forwards, monologues, a parade of classic Allen one liners, even animation into an alternately uproarious and wistful comedy about an on again, off again romance. Directed by Woody Allen. 099 Min. VIDEO 1977 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4618 Antonia's Line
Summary: Winner of the 1995 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, this video is inspiring and uplifting. At the end of World War II, a woman returns to the place of her birth, a small Dutch village with her young daughter. Directed by: Marleen Gorris. 102 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: COMMUNICATION, DRAMA

VH 1619 Antonio Das Mortes
Summary: The bloody career of a hired killer is chronicled here. 100 Min. VIDEO 1968 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1399 Are You Going to the Ball? / Tomorrow is a Holiday
Summary: Are you going to the ball?: An unprecedented look at the Soviet Union's women's gymnastic team. Olga Korbut is featured. (28 min.). Tomorrow is a holiday: Women workers stuff live chickens into metal containers. There is not much difference between the executioners and the victims. (18 min.) 1987. 046 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: GLASNOST FILM FESTIVAL, THE

VH 8112 Argumentation: The Study of Effective Reasoning, Pt.1,Tape 1
Summary: Twenty-four lectures by Dr. David Zarefsky, Northwestern University, covering the history of rhetoric and debate and analyzing different types of arguments in various situations. Part 1, tape 1. Introducing argumentation and rhetoric; History of argumentation studies; Formal and informal argument; The emergence of controversy. 720 Min. VIDEO 2001 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 8113 Argumentation: The Study of Effective Reasoning, Pt.1,Tape 2
Summary: Part 1, Tape 2. Resolution and issues; Statis - the focal point of dispute; Presumption and burden of proof; Argument analysis and diagraming. 720 Min. VIDEO 2001 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 8114 Argumentation: The Study of Effective Reasoning, Pt.1,Tape 3
Summary: Part 1, Tape 3. Claims and evidence; Reasoning from parts to whole; Moving from cause to effect; Establishing correlations. 720 Min. VIDEO 2001 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 8115 Argumentation: The Study of Effective Reasoning, Pt.2, Tape 1
Summary: Part 2, Tape 1. Analogy, narrative and form; What makes a sound argument?; Fallacies in reasoning; Validity and fallacies reconsidered. 720 Min. VIDEO 2001 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 8116 Argumentation: The Study of Effective Reasoning, Pt.2,Tape 2
Summary: Part 2, Tape 2. Assembling a case; Attack and defense I, Attack and defense II; Language and style in argumentation. 720 Min. VIDEO 2001 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 8117 Argumentation: The Study of Effective Reasoning, Pt.2, Tape 3
Summary: Part 2, Tape 3. Arguments between friends; Arguments among experts; Public argument and democratic life; The ends of argumentation. 720 Min. VIDEO 2001 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 5654 Art of Memory
Summary: An experimental video with political and religious forms by acclaimed video artist Woody Vasulka in which documentary images of World War II, the Spanish Civil War and the Russian Revolution appear against vistas of southwestern desert landscapes. 036 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4751 As You Like It
Summary: Dramatization of Shakespeare's joyous comedy. Staring Lawrence Olivier and Elisabeth Bergner. Directed by: Paul Czinner. 096 Min. VIDEO 1936 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4717 Ashes and Diamonds
Summary: A small Polish town celebrates the war's end while two assassins plot against a communist party official. Embodies the disillusionment of a generation raised on war. Directed by: Filip Nowak. 105 Min. VIDEO 1958 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2257 Assessment and Nursing Care
Summary: Begins by discussing factors in assessment that may be influenced by a patient's ethnicity, including susceptibility to disease, normal biological variations, evaluating changes in patients with highly-pigmented skin, and variations in drug actions and responses. Discusses areas in health care in which clients may experience difficulties, including expression of pain, modesty, visiting rules, and diet. 026 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: TRANSCULTURAL PERSPECTIVES IN NURSING

VH 2154 Avant Garde and Experimental Films, Part 1
Summary: Un Chien Andalou, Regen (Rain), Uberfall, Ballet Mechinique, and The Hearts of Age. 074 Min. VIDEO 1934 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2155 Avant Garde and Experimental Films, Part 2
Summary: Three Dadaist film experiments from the silent era. "Symphonies Diagonals" uses time-lapse photography to a bizarre effect. "L'etoile De Mer": ambiguity & surrealism mix in this short where almost nothing happens but everything is implied. "Entr'acte": Early Rene Clair experiment with modernist collaborators Marcel Duchamp & Erik Satie. 042 Min. VIDEO 1928 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3021 Avant Garde Short Subjects from France
Summary: Collection of early surreal and avant garde films made between 1914 and 1928. La Fole du Dr. Tube (Abel Gance), Emak Bakia (Man Ray), La Souriante Madame Beudent (Germaine Dulac), Anemic Cinema (Marcel Duchamp) and Charleston. Silent. 090 Min. VIDEO Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3047 Baby Face
Summary: It's the age-old story of the girl so mistreated by men she's determined to get revenge. It's also a rags to riches story, because Lily Powers makes men pay for her favors in spades (she carries a briefcase with a half million in jewels and securities, believing "someday I'll have the other half"). From mill town dirt to wife of bank president George Brent, Lily leaves a trail of "discarded" men - including John Wayne in a small role! Director: Alfred EL Green. 072 Min. VIDEO 1933 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 0279 Bad Attitude
Summary: Bad Attitude devotes itself to five tapes and films by artists (as well as four campaign commercials) that look at politics in its various manifestations. Titles: JFK-"Political Campaign Ad", Camile Billops and James Hatch-"Suzanne Suzanne", Ronald Reagan-"Campaign Ad", Max Almy-"Perfect Leader", Nixon/Agnew-"Campaign Ad", Mary McFerran-"Homage to May 19th: Kathy Boudin's Story", LBJ-"Campaign Ad", Anne Waldman-"UH OH Plutonium", Linda 090 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: WHAT DOES SHE WANT

VH 3385 Ballad Of Little Jo, The
Summary: Like Unforgiven and Dances With Wolves, this critically acclaimed film is a classic Western with a modern twist. Suzy Amis is a woman who discovers that the Wild West is no place for a lady, unless she's disguised as a man. Featuring supporting performances by Bo Hopkins and Ian McKellen. This film, inspired by a true story, proves that our heroes have sometimes been cowgirls. Director: Maggie Greenwald. 124 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4409 Ballot Measure 9
Summary: In Oregon's 1992 election, Ballot Measure 9 was proposed, an anti-gay initiative which would have denied civil rights to gay people. Director Heather MacDonald speaks to representatives from both sides. 072 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4619 Bananas is My Business
Summary: This is the story of Carmen Miranda. The film reveals the lasting image of Latin American women she created and serves as a celebration of her talents. 090 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: LATIN AMERICAN ,COMMUNICATION, BIOGRAPHY

VH 5078 Bargain, The
Summary: This is the story of an outlaw who trades his talent for his freedom. Directed by: Reginald Barker. 070 Min. VIDEO 1914 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1968 Barnum
Summary: A dramatization of the life story of circus owner P.T. Barnum. Director: Terry Hughs. 113 Min. VIDEO 1986 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 5860 Basic Instinct
Summary: Catherine Tramell, a cold, calculating and beautiful novelist with an insatiable sexual appetite becomes a prime suspect when her boyfriend is brutally murdered-a crime she described in her last novel. 123 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 0916 Battle of Algiers
Summary: Dramatization of the conflict between Algerian nationalists and French colonialists that culminated in Algeria's independence in 1962. Brahim Haggiag, Jean Martin, Saadi Yacef. Director: Gillo Pontecorvo. 123 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: COMMUNICATION, DRAMA

VH 1947 Battle of San Pietro & The Marines Have Landed
Summary: Presents modern warfare from the soldier's point of view. Stresses the number of men killed in taking one military objective. Shows the people & children of San Pietro were too stunned to realize they had been liberated during World War II. 050 Min. VIDEO 1945 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2321 Be Prepared for Meetings
Summary: Guide to preparing for meetings. 024 Min. VIDEO 1985 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: TOASTMASTERS INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS SERIES

VH 2320 Be Prepared to Speak
Summary: Guide for public speaking. 027 Min. VIDEO 1985 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: TOASTMASTERS INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS SERIES

VH 4752 Beau Brummel
Summary: From the play by Clyde Fitch. Director, Harry Beaumont. 080 Min. VIDEO 1924 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 0330 Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community
Summary: Featuring filmed recollections (by Allen Ginsberg, Audre Lorde, Martin Duberman, Smilie Hillaire, Barbara Gittings, Rev. Grant Gallup, and Ann Bannon, among others) and excerpts from silent films, newsreels and Hollywood musicals, "Before Stonewall" traces the social, political and cultural development of the gay and lesbian community, revealing the hidden story of a vital American subculture. 088 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: COMMUNICATION, U.S. HISTORY

VH 2784 Before the Nickelodeon
Summary: In "Before the Nickelodeon," noted historian Charles Musser traces cinema history from 1896 to 1909. Focusing on pioneer American filmmaker Edwin S. Porter, whose seminal works include "The Great Train Robbery" and "Life of an American Fireman," "Before the Nickelodeon" explores the growth of moving pictures from an arcade novelty to a visual newspaper to universal entertainment and social arbiter. 060 Min. VIDEO 1982 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3976 Bell Hooks: Cultural Criticism and Transformation
Summary: In part One, Hooks talks about the theoretical foundations that form her work. In part Two, Hooks demonstrates the value of cultural studies in concrete analysis. 066 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: COMMUNICATION, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 2746 Bellissima
Summary: A woman living in an Italian tenement has unrealistic goals for her plain but endearing daughter when a famous director begins casting a role designed for a child. The mother's maternal fury and collision with reality highlight a poignant film. Director: Luchino Visconti. 110 Min. VIDEO Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 7345 Best Of I Love Lucy, The - Volume One
Summary: Video includes five episodes of the "I Love Lucy" show. 126 Min. VIDEO 1952 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 5649 Best of William Wegman, The
Summary: A survey of Wegman's vignettes, some of which feature his dog, Man Ray. Includes Duet, Milk Floor Piece, Stomach Song, Two Lamps, Pocket Bookman, Deodorant, Massage Chair, and Spelling Lesson. 020 Min. VIDEO 1970 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 8084 Better Together than Apart: Intercultural Communication
Summary: Entertaining lecture outlining fundamental concepts on communicating in the global community. Discusses acculturation, stages of ethnocentrism, cultural values, cultural variation, verbal and nonverbal communication, intercultural competence and stereotyping. 061 Min. VIDEO 2002 Subject: ETHNIC STUDIES ,COMMUNICATION

VH 3799 Betty Boop: Pre-Code, Volume 2
Summary: The one and only Betty Boop turns up her mega-watt starpower in a racy round of pre-Hays Code adventures from her hotsy hula with the Royal Samoans, to her daring bareback escapades under the Big Top. Then this curvaceous cutie brings down the house in a jazzy collage of cartoon classics featuring a cavalcade of rare performances by Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, Rudy Vallee and Ethel Merman. Get ready for merry musical misadventures as only Betty can "Boop-Oop-A-Doop"'em! 108 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: DEFINITIVE COLLECTION, THE

VH 3800 Betty Boop: Surrealism, Volume 3
Summary: Journey with the gutsy gamine into the wonderfully weird, sublimely surrealistic world of the Fleischer Studios where anything can happen and usually does in a series of surprise filled misadventures where even everyday objects take on loopy lives of their own! then it's prime time for good times when you join this saucy siren of the silver screen for an all out assault of manic antics from a Booped up birthday bash, to a supernaturally silly visit with a psyched-out psychic! 110 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: DEFINITIVE COLLECTION, THE

VH 7346 Beverly Hillbillies, The
Summary: Video of the 1993 motion picture "The Beverly Hillbillies". 093 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2371 Bicycle Thief, The
Summary: The story of an unemployed man and his son in war devastated Rome. The father finds a job pasting up posters, work requiring a bicycle to get around. The bicycle is stolen, setting up the film's tragic and ironic ending. Director: Vittorio De Sica. 090 Min. VIDEO 1948 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4737 Big City Interlude
Summary: In Black and White. Includes cat members Lina Basquette and Bessie Love. Directed by: Mort Blumenstock. 065 Min. VIDEO 1931 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4945 Big Heat, The
Summary: Police Sergeant Bannion is investigating the apparent suicide of a corrupt cop, then is suddenly ordered to stop. Driven to unravel the mystery, Bannion continues probing until an explosion meant for him kills his wife. Directed by: Fritz Lang. 089 Min. VIDEO 1953 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4627 Big Lever
Summary: This video shows how Leslie county, Kentucky, hosted Richard Nixon's first public appearance after resigning the presidency. 053 Min. VIDEO 1982 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4947 Big Sleep, The
Summary: Philip Marlowe, a private eye, is supposed to break up a brutal blackmail ring. Directed by: Howard Hawks. 054 Min. VIDEO 1946 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 7211 Bill Viola: Selected Works
Summary: Four video art works, each structured around a solitary movement, moment, or phenomenon. Viola explores the nature of video, the categories of perception, the cognitive and the spiritual inner life of the witness. 055 Min. VIDEO 2001 Subject: ART , COMMUNICATION

VH 4736 Bird of Paradise
Summary: A tale of South Seas romance in which an adventurer falls in love with a native girl. Directed by: King Vidor. 055 Min. VIDEO 1932 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2201 Birth of a Nation, The: Part 1
Summary: Part one of two. The controversy still rages over "The Birth of a Nation", the 1915 masterwork that reflects Director D.W. Griffith's personal sentiments about the Civil War, reconstruction, & race relations. Part 2 also includes "Making The Birth of a Nation". Lillian Gish, Henry B. Walthall, Mae Marsh & Miriam Cooper. 088 Min. VIDEO 1915 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2202 Birth of a Nation, The: Part 2
Summary: Part two of two. The controversy still rages over "The Birth of a Nation", the 1915 masterwork that reflects Director D.W. Griffith's personal sentiments about the Civil War, reconstruction, & race relations. Part 2 also includes "Making The Birth of a Nation". Lillian Gish, Henry B. Walthall, Mae Marsh & Miriam Cooper. 101 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 0567 Birth of Language, The
Summary: Explores the origin of human language and examines the differences between human and animal communication as well as the relationship of language and thought. 030 Min. VIDEO 1986 Subject: LANGUAGE SKILLS, COMMUNICATION

VH 3979 Black on White / Pioneers! O Pioneers!
Summary: 5."Black on White" examines Black English from its beginnings with American slaves to today's black "rap." 6. "Pioneers! O Pioneers! evokes the spirit of American English as it evolved from 1776 to 1920's. 116 Min. VIDEO 1986 Subject: LANGUAGE SKILLS, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES ,U.S. HISTORY , COMMUNICATION Series: STORY OF ENGLISH, THE

VH 4754 Black Pirate, The
Summary: Contains duels, sea battles, and acrobatics. Includes Douglas Fairbank's famous sliding down the sail stunt. Directed by: Albert Parker. 132 Min. VIDEO 1926 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4840 Black Press, The: Soldiers without Swords
Summary: This program forms part of the Communications Excellence to Black Audiences Award collection. After providing background on the role of Black press in the past, host Maureen Bunyan speaks with several African American press members. 085 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: COMMUNICATION, U.S. HISTORY , AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 1592 Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
Summary: Narrated by Essie Davis. Exciting excerpts from the black film industry in America in this history of a segregated art form. 052 Min. VIDEO 1986 Subject: COMMUNICATION, AFRICAN- AMERICAN

VH 1394 Black Square / Dialogues
Summary: "Black Square" tells the story of Russia's artistic avant-garde from the 1950's to 1970's, when artists' work could be smashed by a bulldozer, flooded with acid, or covered with concrete. The film is a cinematic appreciation of works only recently allowed to be exhibited and of the artists that created them. (57 min.) 1988. "Dialogues" A bacchanal of rock-jazz music erupts in an abandoned Leningrad palace. Collective singing dancing and playing makes this group of people a community and an ensemble, not just a crowd. (29 min.) 1987. 085 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: GLASNOST FILM FESTIVAL, THE

VH 1805 Blackmail
Summary: A blackmailer tries to blackmail a detective into helping him. The detective's girlfriend has killed an artist who tried to assault her. The special climax of this film is a harrowing chase across the roof of the British Museum. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. 086 Min. VIDEO 1929 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2475 Blade Runner
Summary: Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) prowls the steel and microchip jungle of 21st century Los Angeles. He's a "blade runner" stalking genetically made criminal replicants. His assignment: kill them. Their crime: wanting to be human. Letterbox format. Director Ridely Scott. 117 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 5084 Blazing Saddles
Summary: Once Mel Brooks' lunatic film gets under way, logic is lost in a blizzard of gags, jokes, quips, puns, howlers all presented in this wonderful western about a small town that won't sell their land to railroad developers. 093 Min. VIDEO 1974 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1626 Blonde Venus
Summary: Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall & Cary Grant. When her chemist husband Edward (Marshall) falls ill from radium poisoning, ex-cabaret singer Helen Farady (Dietrich) returns to the stage to pay for his expensive medical treatments but finds her life complicated by the attentions of suave playboy Nick Townsend (Grant). Director: Josef Von Sternberg. 089 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4757 Blood and Sand
Summary: Starring Rudolph Valentino as Juan Gallardo, the young matador who marries Carmen, a childhood sweetheart while achieving fame in Spain. He is happy but succumbs to charms of Dona Sol. Carmen accepts the situation but comes to nurse Juan when he is gored. He refuses her pleas to quit the bullring and meets with disaster. Later he is distracted by the sight of another man with Dona Sol and fails to defend himself. Juan dies in the arms of Carmen. Directed by: Fred Niblo. 061 Min. VIDEO 1922 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2886 Blood In The Face
Summary: Allowed access to national gatherings of U.S. radical right groups including the Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, Posse Comitatus, and the European American Alliance, BLOOD IN THE FACE straightforwardly presents the views of people whose avowed goal is to forge a political union which will transform North America into one Aryan nation. 075 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4836 Blood of a Poet (Le Sang D'Un Poete)
Summary: Symbolic, allegorical, fantasy that explores the process of artistic creation and pictures the poet's inner self. Complex and imaginative use of subconscious motifs and dreamlike images, though structured in a conscious, meaningful manner. Contains four episodes, all of which supposedly occur in the moment before a falling chimney, shown in the opening sequence, hits the ground in the concluding sequence. Directed by Jean Cocteau. 033 Min. VIDEO 1930 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3629 Blood Of The Beasts, The
Summary: George Franju presents a realistic and poetic documentary of Paris slaughterhouses. In French with English subtitles. 022 Min. VIDEO 1949 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3670 Blue Kite, The
Summary: Banned in China where the director was under close government scrutiny for making the film "without permission," The Blue Kite is the most acclaimed and controversial of all of the films to come out of the new Chinese cinema. Told from the perspective of a young boy, Tietou, it traces the fate of a Beijing family and their neighbors as they experience the political and social upheavals in 1950's and 60's China. Directed by: Tian Zhuangzhuang. 138 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: COMMUNICATION, DRAMA, ASIAN STUDIES

VH 0890 Boudu Saved From Drowning
Summary: Robeson is wrongly accused of murder and a kindly captain takes pity on him only to be betrayed by Robeson's escape. In an effort to seek revenge, the captain tracks Robeson to Africa where he has set himself up as the leader of a powerful tribe. 087 Min. VIDEO 1932 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 0909 A Bout De Souffle, (Breathless)
Summary: The story of a couple of days in the lives of two erratic young lovers in Paris, their temporary home. He is a car thief and hoodlum, and she is an expatriate American. Director: Jean-Luc Godard. Copy 1 has white subtitles, and copy 2 has yellow subtitle s that are easier to read. 089 Min. VIDEO 1960 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4862 Brain / Communication
Summary: Your brain controls everything you do. You use 100 percent of your brain every day. You use it while you're awake and while you're asleep. Your brain sends its messages to your central nervous system. / We communicate information that has an order or sequence. Newscasters often don't know or understand what they're saying because the information comes from outside their bodies. Animals communicate by making sounds. 047 Min. VIDEO Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: BILL NYE THE SCIENCE GUY

VH 1622 Brazil
Summary: A surreal black comedy about a timid clerk living in a repressive "1984"-ish future whose only escape from his bleak existence in his frequent retreats into fantasy. 131 Min. VIDEO 1985 Subject: COMMUNICATION, COMPUTERS

VH 3045 Bringing Up Baby
Summary: Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant star in this fast-paced adaptation of an original story by Oscar Wilde. Kate stars as a giddy heiress who sets her sights on a stuffy zoologist (Grant). Kate and her "pet", a leopard named "Baby", make Cary's life topsy-turvy when they all meet accidentally. Director: Howard Hawks. 102 Min. VIDEO 1938 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2149 Broken Blossoms
Summary: Based on a story, The Chink & the Child, by Thomas Burke, (1919). Directed by D.W. Griffith. Lillian Gish, Donald Crisp & Richard Barthelmess. Sentimental melodrama about a kind-hearted Chinese man (Barthelmess) who takes in a young girl (Gish) who's fleeing from her abusive, drunken father. 095 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 5053 Brother From Another Planet, The
Summary: On the run from alien officers an extraterrestrial crash lands his space ship in New York and loses in himself in Harlem. He makes fast friends in the hood and uses his super powers to help dethrone a drug kingpin. Directed by: John Sayles. 108 Min. VIDEO 1984 Subject: COMMUNICATION, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 1798 Buck and The Preacher
Summary: Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Harry Belafonte, Cameron Mitchell, Denny Miller, Nina Talbot, John Kelly & Tony Brubaker. Directed by Sidney Poitier. A group of recently freed slaves are the target of resentful vigilante nightraiders as the ex-slaves make their way west. 102 Min. VIDEO 1971 Subject: COMMUNICATION, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 1616 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie
Summary: Bugs, Wile E. Coyote, the Road Runner, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd, & Pepe Le Pew star in these Warner Brothers cartoons. Voice by Mel Blanc. Chuck Jones. 098 Min. VIDEO 1979 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4663 Bush Mama
Summary: Focuses on Dorothy, who lives in Watts, CA trying to raise her daughter while her man is in jail. After a series of devastating confrontations with the system, she is pushed over the line. Director: Haile Gerima. 098 Min. VIDEO 1976 Subject: COMMUNICATION, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 5845 Business Presentations
Summary: An oral presentation is a way for businesses to provide information to a group of people. The advantages of an oral presentation over a written one are discussed. The two parts of the presentation, the preparation and the delivery, are explored. 015 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: BUS ADMIN , COMMUNICATION Series: BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS

VH 5843 Business Writing
Summary: The structures of letters, memos, and reports are examined in detail as well as methods of organizing the message in each. 015 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: BUS ADMIN , COMMUNICATION Series: BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS

VH 2142 Buster Keaton Film Festival, Volume 1
Summary: Silent. Directed by Buster Keaton. 055 Min. VIDEO Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4835 Buster Keaton Film Festival, Volume 2
Summary: Silent. Directed by Buster Keaton. 055 Min. VIDEO Subject: COMMUNICATION, NATIVE AMERICAN

VH 7347 C'mon Get Happy!
Summary: Video includes three episodes of The Partridge Family show, which was originally broadcast in the 1970's. 075 Min. VIDEO Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY

VH 1799 Cabin in the Sky
Summary: Petunia Jackson, a poor but devout woman burdened with a shiftless husband called Little Joe. When Little Joe is seriously wounded in a fight and seems about to die, the forces of heaven and hell begin a battle for his soul. Petunia finds that she needs more than a prayer to keep her beloved Joe out of the Devil's clutches. Ethel Waters, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Lena Horne, Louis Armstrong, Rex Ingram, Kenneth Spencer, John W. Sublett, & Oscar Polk. Director: Vincente Minnelli. Directed by Vincente Minnelli. 099 Min. VIDEO 1943 Subject: COMMUNICATION, MUSICAL , AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 5253 Cable TV Industry and Beyond
Summary: An exploration of changes which have taken place in the cable and satellite television industry. A review of programming, and business aspects relating to new media environment. 050 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 5651 Cadillac Ranch Show / Media Burn
Summary:"Cadillac Ranch" show documents the creation of an installation in Amarillo, Texas, where ten Cadillacs were buried in a wheat field on Route 66 as a monument to the rise and fall of the Cadillac tail fin. " Media Burn" documents a performance piece in which a customized Cadillac Eldorado, guided by a video camera mounted on a vertical tail fin, smashed through a wall of burning TV sets in celebration of America's addiction to television. 037 Min. VIDEO 1974 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4038 Calling the Ghosts
Summary: Calling the Ghosts is the first-person account of two women caught in a war where rape was as much an everyday weapon as bullets or bombs. Jadranka Cigelj and Nusreta Sivac, childhood friends and lawyers, enjoyed the lives of "ordinary modern women" in Bosnia-Herzegovina until one day former neighbors became tormentors. Taken to the notorious Serb concentration camp of Omarska, the two women , like other Muslim and Croat women interned there, were systematically tortured and humiliated by their Serb captors. 060 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: EUROPEAN STUDIES, COMMUNICATION

VH 0967 Calling the Shots
Summary: A documentary employing film clips and interviews with contemporary directors, producers and actresses. Focuses on the diversity of films being made by women today, the power structure of the industry, and the women who have achieved recognition in it. Directed by Janis Cole and Holly Dale. 118 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 5327 Camera: Early Photography & Moving Pictures / Movement......
Summary: Examines the great pioneers of still photography and cinema together with some of the first photographs and films ever produced. 060 Min. VIDEO 1979 Subject: ART , COMMUNICATION

VH 2103 Camila
Summary: Susu Pecoraro, Imanol Arias & Hector Altiero. Directed by Maria-Luisa Bemberg. The true story of a beautiful Catholic socialite who falls in love & runs away with a young Jesuit priest. Spanish, subtitled in English. 105 Min. VIDEO 1984 Subject: COMMUNICATION, LATIN AMERICAN

VH 4169 Camille
Summary: The classic Alexandre Dumas story about a dying French courtesan falling in love with a shallow young nobleman. A clean, romantic adaptation that stands as one of the most telling monuments to Greta Garbo 's unique magic and presence on film. Director: George Cukor. 100 Min. VIDEO 1936 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 5052 Carrie
Summary: This supernatural thriller is based on the novel by Stephen King. At the center of this story is a tortured teen who has secret powers and a secret life. The ultimate revenge fantasy. Directed by: Brian DePalma. 098 Min. VIDEO 1976 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4419 Carrington
Summary: Dora Carrington, the Victorian painter is unable to possess the man she loves. Rebuffed, she embarks on a long string of loveless sexual encounters. Directed by Christopher Hampton. 122 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4121 Castro, The
Summary: Now known internationally as the world's first "gay hometown," San Francisco's Castro district was a quite, working class neighborhood of European immigrants only a few decades ago. In this moving documentary, filled with rare archival film and fresh contemporary footage, the story of the Castro's transformation is told by those who lived it, young and old, straight and gay. It's a tale of social upheaval, exuberant street culture, political assassination, and the inspiring coming of age of an entire community, an ongoing saga even today. 086 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1964 Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
Summary: Tennessee Williams' play about greed and deception in a patriarchal Southern family. Big Daddy is dying. Members of the family greedily attempt to capture his inheritance, tearing the family apart. Jessica Lang, Tommy Lee Jones, Rip Torn, David Dukes. Director: Richard Brooks. 122 Min. VIDEO 1958 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 5846 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. 119 Min. VIDEO 1982 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 7348 Caution: Nervous Mother Driving
Summary: Video includes three episodes of "The Partridge Family" show. 075 Min. VIDEO Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY

VH 3774 Celluloid Closet, The
Summary: Assembles fabulous footage from 120 films showing the changing face of cinema sexuality, from cruel stereotypes to covert love to the activist triumphs of the 1990's. Many actors, writers and commentators provide funny insightful anecdotes. Director: Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman. 102 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4425 Century of Black Cinema, A Part 1
Summary: This is a special celebrating the finest Afro-American entertainers ever to grace the silver screen. This program takes you on a journey through the careers of the fortunate, the unfortunate, the ground breakers, the spectacular, the musical, and the comical performers who have inspired millions since the first cameras rolled. 051 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: COMMUNICATION, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 4426 Century of Black Cinema, A Part 2
Summary: This is a special celebrating the finest Afro-American entertainers ever to grace the silver screen. This program takes you on a journey through the careers of the fortunate, the unfortunate, the ground breakers, the spectacular, the musical, and the comical performers who have inspired millions of people since the cameras have rolled. 052 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: COMMUNICATION, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 2318 Charge of the Light Brigade, The
Summary: Alfred Tennyson's epic poem of the heroic charge at Balaclava during the Crimean War (1853-1856) is brought to the screen in all its magnificence and glory. Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland head a stellar cast in this fictionalized portrayal of the events leading to the still unanswered account of why six hundred British Cavalrymen engaged in a suicidal charge against an overwhelming Russian force of twenty-five thousand. Director: Tony Richardson. 117 Min. VIDEO 1936 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4417 Charulata (The Lonely Wife)
Summary: Charulata is the story of a loyal, dutiful wife whose husband takes her devotion for granted. But when his young cousin, Amal, comes to live with them, Charulata catches a glimpse of what true love could be. Directed by: Satyajit Ray. 117 Min. VIDEO 1964 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2114 Cheat, The
Summary: The story of a young society woman (Fanny Ward) who comes under the control of a scheming Asiatic when she is unable to repay the money she borrows from him. With Sessue Hayakawa. Director: Cecil B. DeMille. 055 Min. VIDEO 1914 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1772 Check And Double Check
Summary: Freeman Gosden, Charles J. Correll & Sue Carol. Directed by Melville Brown. Cabdrivers Amos 'n' Andy take Duke Ellington and his Orchestra to a gig at a posh Westchester party. 073 Min. VIDEO 1930 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1391 Chernobyl/The Bam Zone
Summary: Chernobyl: This film crew was the first in the disaster zone following the meltdown of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986. They were able to shoot continuously for more than three months. (53 min.) 1986. The Bam Zone: The Baikal-Amur Mainline Railroad in Siberia is called the longest monument to the stagnation of the Brezhnev years. Behind the marches and songs praising the project, equipment was breaking down, lives were broken and souls became calloused. (18 min.) 1987. 072 Min. VIDEO 1986 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: GLASNOST FILM FESTIVAL, THE

VH 2158 Un Chien Andalou & Land Without Bread
Summary: Spanish director Luis Bunuel's first film, the surrealistic masterpiece UN CHIEN ANDALOU (An Andalusian Dog), was written over the course of a three day exchange of fantasies and dreams with Salvador Dali and contains what is, perhaps, one of the most memorable scenes in film history--a razor blade slicing an eyeball. Made in 1929, it aimed to shock rather than please its audience and soon became a film classic. His third film, LAND WITHOUT BREAD (Las Hurdas), captures many aspects of the incredible poverty, illiteracy and disease which frames the lives of the peasants of the district of Las Hurdas in Spain. 016 Min. VIDEO 1937 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4017 Chore Wars
Summary: Looks at the housework problem of the 90's along with commercials from past decades, "couple on the street" interviews and comic dramatizations to expose who isn't cleaning the toilet and why. 048 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3916 Chronicle Of A Summer
Summary: Directors, Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin; producers, Anatole Dauman and Philippe Lipchitz. A documentary film crew asks the people of Paris if they are happy. 096 Min. VIDEO 1961 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2747 Ciao Federico
Summary: A revealing portrait of Federico Fellini directing the actors who populate the surreal world of Fellini's Satyricon. Immersed in the creative process, Fellini moves through the set, a larger than life embodiment of his characters. 062 Min. VIDEO 1969 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 8201 Cinema of Senegal, The
Summary: Following a five week program at the Museum of Modern Art on film makers in Senegal, Larry Kardish interviews Senegalese film directors Paulin Soumanou Vieyra and Ousmane Sembene. Topics discussed are the growth of the number of films from Senegal, the production of these films, cultural influences, art in a post-colony society, censorship and self-censorship. Films that track the underlying concerns of society including the conflict between different religions. Also the conflict between educated Senegalese and the old traditions. 029 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 6498 Cinema Verite
Summary: The cinema verite movement of the 50s and 60s was driven by a group of rebel film makers tired of stilted documentaries. They wanted to show life as it really is. This is the first film to capture all the excitement of a revolution that changed movie-making forever, with its influences in everything from TV news to music videos to Webcams. 102 Min. VIDEO 1999 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2574 Cinematic Jazz of Julie Dash, The
Summary: Interview with Dash, a New York filmmaker. It includes excerpts from her films. 030 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: COMMUNICATION, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 3886 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. Director: Orson Welles. 119 Min. VIDEO 1941 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3706 City, The / The Power and the Land
Summary: The City - A classic in both the history of the documentary and in the dawning concern for the quality of life. Made to be exhibited at the World's Fair in New York, 1939. 44 min. B/W. The Power and the Land - Portrays a farm family in Ohio before and after electrification of their farm, contrasting the performance of farm duties with and without electricity. Discusses the economic benefits of electrification and how to form a farmer's electrical cooperative. 080 Min. VIDEO 1940 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1617 Classic Foreign Shorts
Summary: Contains three short films including the classic takeoff on Ingmar Bergman, "The Dove; The Existentialist; and the 1948 short, Loves of Franistan". 091 Min. VIDEO Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3149C Classical Hollywood Style Today
Summary: Through interviews with leading contemporary directors, studio-era veterans, top European filmmakers, young American independents, and articulate scholars and critics, this program probes Hollywood's continuing influence on American life and world culture. 030 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: AMERICAN CINEMA

VH 3076 Classics of Political Television Advertising
Summary: Hosted by Eugene Joseph McCarthy, this video program contains 78 political advertisements. The spots run the gamut from the first ones in 1950 to the "generic" spots in the 1984 elections. 060 Min. VIDEO 1986 Subject: COMMUNICATION, U.S. HISTORY

VH 4635 Close to Eden
Summary: Gombo and his family live in the ways of their ancestors. When the wheels of progress enter into their lives they are attached to a truck driven by Sergei right into a lake. Directed by Nikita Mikhalkov. In Russian with English subtitles. 109 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: COMMUNICATION, EUROPEAN STUDIES, ASIAN STUDIES, DRAMA

VH 2887 Cocaine True, Cocaine Blue
Summary: As addict share stories of broken families and life on the edge, this is a shocking inside look at a crack infested neighborhood in Philadelphia. Danny J., and addict and pusher, candidly speaks of his dependency and his abusive relationship with his wife. In this extraordinarily intimate piece, the tension escalates to violence when Danny tells how his wife stabbed him for stealing food stamps for crack. His brother speaks of his lost family, the 014 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1747 Color Adjustment
Summary: In "Color Adjustment" Marlon Riggs brings his landmark study of prejudice and perception begun in Ethnic Notions into the Television Age. From "Amos 'n Andy" to "The Cosby Show", "Color Adjustment" traces over forty years of turbulent race relations through the lens of prime time entertainment. 087 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: COMMUNICATION, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 2937 Color Purple, The
Summary: Based on Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Color Purple is a powerful film set in America's rural south. Whoopi Goldberg makes a triumphant screen debut as the radiant, indomitable Celie, the story's central character. She is complemented by a distinguished cast that includes Danny Glover, Oprah Winfrey, Margaret Avery, and Adolph Caesar. Director: Steven Spielberg. 154 Min. VIDEO 1985 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3140 Combat Film ,The
Summary: From the anti-war films that followed World War I to the morale boosting films of World War II, Hollywood has both reflected and influenced America's attitudes toward war. The Combat Film captures the tension between the reality and romance of war by looking at how directors recreated the soldier's experience. 060 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: AMERICAN CINEMA

VH 3678 Comedy, Spectacle and New Horizons
Summary: By 1907 the cinema's initial growing pains had subsided and fairly distinct generic categories of production were established. This volume examines some of the modern day cinema punctuated with authentic hand-tinted lantern slides used during early theatrical exhibition. 085 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: MOVIES BEGIN, THE: A TREASURY OF EARLY CINEMA 1894-1914

VH 4410 Coming Out Under Fire
Summary: The experiences of nine gay and lesbian veterans are documented by Academy Award nominee Arthur Dong. 071 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 5298 Communicating with Compassion
Summary: Explains a step by step method for communicating with people who are ill, injured, isolated, or in distress. Demonstrates, using real situations, four key communication skills that empower, encourage, bring hope, and lift the spirits. 040 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 7263 Communicating With Older Adults and People With Dementia
Summary: Video discusses how to communicate with someone who has a hearing deficit or dementia. 042 Min. VIDEO 1999 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: COMMUNICATING EFFECTIVELY

VH 8097 Communication Basics Plus How to Get Over the Fear
Summary: Lecture and exercises on getting over the fear of public speaking. Explains the communication process, diaphragmatic breathing, techniques to combat speech anxiety, and how to tell a story. 027 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 8096 Communication Disorders: An Introductory Guide for Teachers
Summary: Presents the common characteristics of students with language disorders, speech disorders, voice disorders, or hearing impairment. It provides strategies that teachers can implement to improve the classroom learning experiences and communication skills of students with communication disorders. 039 Min. VIDEO 2000 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2255 Communication, Part 1
Summary: Discusses verbal communication with clients. Includes guidelines for working with an interpreter and common errors which occur in this situation. Also discusses communication with clients who speak English as a second language, highlighting techniques which increase the exchange of information. 020 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: TRANSCULTURAL PERSPECTIVES IN NURSING

VH 2256 Communication, Part 2
Summary: Presents aspects of verbal and nonverbal communication, such as eye contact, gestures, expressions and communication styles, that go beyond vocabulary, grammar and verbal facility. Discusses communication with American Indian, Asian-American, Latino and African-American clients. 019 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: TRANSCULTURAL PERSPECTIVES IN NURSING

VH 2446 Communication Skills--Or How to Keep Your Mouth Shut...
Summary: This program introduces and explains the Seven Channels of Communication. The seven are laughing, Manner, Body Language, Feelings, Symbolic Communication, Territory and Behavior. Led by Dr. Glen Walter, Department of Education, Winthrop College. 030 Min. VIDEO Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3630 Complaints Of A Dutiful Daughter
Summary: Chronicles the stages of a mother's Alzheimer's disease and the evolution of a daughter's response to the illness. The desire to cure the incurable, to set right her mother's confusion and forgetfulness, to temper her mother's obsessiveness, gives way to an acceptance which is finally liberating for both daughter and mother. Director: Debbie Hoffman. 044 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2274 Connections: AT&T's Vision of the Future
Summary: This video is a futuristic look at how new products may be used in daily life. Featured are a videophone and a television screen that makes shopping at home as easy as talking on the phone. Shows how computer technology will change and affect our lives. 014 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: COMMUNICATION, COMPUTERS

VH 2940 Conquer Your Fear of Public Speaking
Summary: You will learn to : Appreciate and capitalize on your unique personal strengths, relate to one person or to a large audience, be forceful yet sensitive to your listener, develop a positive feeling about public speaking, confidently handle questions from the audience. 070 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 6927 Constructing Public Opinion
Summary: The media regularly use public opinion polls in their reporting of important news stories. But how exactly do they report them and to what end? In this interview, Professor Justin Lewis demonstrates the way in which polling data are themselves used by media to not just reflect what Americans think but instead to construct public opinion itself. 031 Min. VIDEO 2001 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 0810 Consuming Images
Summary: Examines the impact on democracy of our mass culture whose basic information comes from image-making, the media, public opinion polls, public relations and propaganda. 060 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: PUBLIC MIND, THE - BILL MOYERS

VH 8100 Conversations for Three
Summary: Demonstrates the complexity of communicating through an interpreter from the perspective of families, interpreters, and service providers. Focuses on working effectively with interpreters, understanding difficulties in communication, and ensuring accurate communication. 056 Min. VIDEO 1999 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3532 Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, The
Summary: Written by Peter Greenaway. An exclusive restaurant houses four disturbing characters. Greenaway's powerful vision of greed, love, and violence may be too strong for some tastes. Rated R. Director: Peter Greenaway. 123 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2650 Corporation with a Movie Camera
Summary: A compilation of old U.S. corporate promotional and advertising films dating from the 1920's designed to illustrate how perceptions of Third World Countries are shaped by the modern media. It interweaves excerpts from corporate sponsored films with literary texts, poetry and dramatic segments to show how public relations media functions in the creation of cultural mythology. 034 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 0281 Crack In The Tube, A
Summary: A Crack In The Tube looks closely at our TV dreams, with the underlying suggestion that a greater variety of visions ought to be possible. Ann Magnuson & Tom Rubnit-"Made For TV", Betty Furness for Westinghouse pt. 1, Dara Birnbaum-"Kiss the Girls: Make Them Cry", Sistema Sandinista de Television-"Aquien Esta Esquina (Here on This Corner), Betty Furness for Westinghouse pt. 2, Joan Braderman-"Joan Does Dynasty". 090 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: WHAT DOES SHE WANT

VH 4735 Cradle of Courage, The
Summary: A hood from San Francisco changes his ways after fighting in WWI. When he returns, he becomes a cop and is faced with bringing his old gang to justice . Directed by: William S. Hart and Lambert Hillyer. 050 Min. VIDEO Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 7163 Crazy
Summary: Focuses on the traumatic experiences of several Dutch UN soldiers who have served in trouble spots around the world, from the first peace mission in Korea in 1950 to the wars in Cambodia, Lebanon, Rwanda and Bosnia; memories that are inextricably bound up with one special song that brought solace far from home. Veterans reminisce and explain how they come to terms with their emotions, telling how music helped them through the trauma of battle. 100 Min. VIDEO 1999 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1794 Crime of Monsieur Lange, The
Summary: Jules Berry, Rene Lefevre, Florelle & Sylvia Bataille. Directed by Jean Renior. When the owner of a small publishing company disappears with the firm's capital, the employees band together to take over the company & collectively publish a series of comic books written by one of the employees. 090 Min. VIDEO 1935 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1407 Crime to Fit the Punishment, A
Summary: Discusses the pro-union motion picture, Salt of the Earth, made by film industry personnel blacklisted during the McCarthy era. Presents interviews with Paul Jarrico, producer of the 1954 film, and with others associated with the film and the labor problem it explored. 045 Min. VIDEO 1982 Subject: COMMUNICATION, DRAMA

VH 3053 Critical Thinking: How to Evaluate Information & Draw Conclusions
Summary: Critical thinking is a set of skills that are used to make rational decisions. This program will aid in developing those skills by illustrating examples of rational thinking and irrational thinking with scenarios similar to those in everyday life. 052 Min. VIDEO Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3049 Crooklyn - A Spike Lee Joint
Summary: Find a seat on the stoop and make yourself at home with the Carmichael family as they experience one very special summer in their crowded but cozy Brooklyn neighborhood. It's a time and place so magical and crazy that they nickname their hometown "Crooklyn," scarcely noting that every passing day brings with it a lifetime of rich and remarkable experiences. Alfre Woodard, Delroy Lindo, David Patrick Kelly, Jose Zuniga, Isaiah Washington, Ivelka Reyes, Spike Lee, N. Jeremi Duru, Frances Foster and others. Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired. Director: Spike Lee. 104 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1627 Cross Creek
Summary: Based on a book by Marjorie Kinnan Rawling. Mary Steenburgen, Rip Torn, Peter Coyote, Dana Hill, Alfred Woodard & Malcolm McDowell. Directed by Martin Ritt. Authoress of nature book pursues the simple life in the Florida backwoods. 115 Min. VIDEO 1983 Subject: COMMUNICATION, DRAMA, BIOGRAPHY

VH 2412 Cross Cultural Communication In Diverse Settings
Summary: This video examines how attitudes, beliefs, values, and world views in fluence the success of communication. It considers the basic characteristics an d elements of communication, and looks at cultural differences in verbal and non verbal communication. It also covers greeting sequences in different cultures. 060 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: COMMUNICATION, ED LEAD

VH 4126 Crossing Delancey
Summary: Single, attractive Isabelle ("Izzy") Grossman has a rent controlled uptown apartment and a blooming career in publishing. She also has Bubbie, a tradition minded grandmother who's hired a matchmaker to find a husband for Izzy. There's already a prospect: the corner pickle seller. Directed by: Joan Micklin Silver. 097 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4719 Cruel Story of Youth
Summary: About the disillusionment that took hold in Japan following WWII. At the center of the film are a teenage girl and her criminal boyfriend who perform sexual shakedowns on well to do middle aged men. Directed by: Nagisa Oshima. 096 Min. VIDEO 1960 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3448 Crumb
Summary: David Lynch (Blue Velvet) presents one of the most critically acclaimed films ever made. A hilarious and mysterious journey through artistic genius and sexual obsession, CRUMB is a wild ride through the mind of R. Crumb, creator of Zap Comix, Mr. Natural and Fritz the Cat. Director: Terry Zwigoff. 119 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 0917 Cry Freedom
Summary: Story of Black activist Stephen Biko and a liberal white newspaper editor who risks his own life to bring Biko's message to the world. Denzel Washington, Kevin Kline, Penelope Wilton. Director: Richard Attenborough. 157 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2504 Crying Game, The
Summary: Starring Stephen Rea and Miranda Richardson as Irish terrorists, Forest Whitaker as their hostage, and Jaye Davidson as Whitaker's exotic girlfriend, the film is a haunting humorous and shocking romantic thriller. Directed by Neil Jordan. 112 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: COMMUNICATION, DRAMA

VH 8091 Cultural Diversity in Communication Disorders: Issues and Perspectives.
Summary: In a lecture, Orlando L. Taylor, Dean of the School of Communication Arts and Sciences at Howard University, explores multicultural aspects of communication. Discusses how communication behaviors differ from standard communication norms and how diagnosis of communication disorders relates to social dialect. 062 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: COMMUNICATION, LANGUAGE SKILLS

VH 4405 Culture Wars
Summary: Through an exploration of key events, Culture Wars probes the violent anti-gay backlash in the midst of the AIDS crisis and galvanized community's response. Directed by: Tina DeFeliciantonio and Jane C. Wagner. 055 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: QUESTION OF EQUALITY, THE

VH 1641 Cutter's Way
Summary: Jeff Bridges, John Heard, Lisa Eichorn, Stephen Elliott & Ann Dusenberry. Directed by Ivan Passer. When a man is accused of murdering a teenage girl, his best friend, a veteran who has lost an eye, an arm & a leg in Vietnam, sets off with a vengeance to find the real killer. 110 Min. VIDEO 1981 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2138 D. W. Griffith (1909-1910)
Summary: Films of D.W. Griffith (1909-1910). Features "A Corner in Wheat", "Her Terrible Ordeal", "The Last Deal", "In the Border States", "Mugzy's First Sweetheart", "An Arcadian Maid", "The House with Closed Shutters", "The Usurer", "Modern Prodigal","Rose O'Salem Town","The Gold Necklace". 123 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2174 D.W. Griffith (1911)
Summary: Nine of Griffiths films. Includes; The Londale Operator, Enoch Arden(1&2), Primal Call, Fighting Blood, Bobby the Coward, Country Cupid, The Last Drop of Water, As A Boy Dreams, and The Revenue Man and His Girl. Directed by D.W. Griffith. 121 Min. VIDEO 1911 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4734 D.W. Griffith Shorts (Vol. 1)
Summary: Originally released as silent films, organ accompaniment added. Direct ed by: D.W. Griffith. 050 Min. VIDEO Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4606 Dakan
Summary: When Sori and Manga tell their parents they are in love, they respond that boys don't do that. The families try to "cure" their sons by separating them. The two sons try to live heterosexual lives. But they inevitably reunite. Director: Mohamed Camara. 087 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: COMMUNICATION, DRAMA Series: LIBRARY OF AFRICAN CINEMA

VH 2173 Dames
Summary: Containing some of Busby Berkeley's best work, Dames is the landmark musical that has it all! An ambitious songwriter (Dick Powell) and his romantic inspiration (Ruby Keeler) try to open a Broadway show. But Ruby's eccentric millionaire uncle (Hugh Herbert) has a different idea. ZaSu Pitts and Guy Kibbee provide the comic relief as meddling relatives 092 Min. VIDEO 1934 Subject: COMMUNICATION, MUSICAL

VH 1589 Dark Victory
Summary: Bette Davis, George Brent, Humphrey Bogart, Geraldine Fitzgerald & Cora Witherspoon. Directed by Edmund Goulding. Score by Max Steiner. A dissipated young socialite, diagnosed as having a year to live, must find & explore true values within that time. 106 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4733 Daughter's of Eve
Summary: A vampy showgirl leads men astray but eventually suffers for her sins in the bullring. Directed by D. W. Griffith. 065 Min. VIDEO 1928 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4099 David Copperfield
Summary: David Copperfield enjoys an idyllic life with his gentle, widower mother and his loving nurse Peggotty. Then tragedy strikes when Mr. Murdstone, a monster of cruelty, weds David's mother and drives her to an early grave. Despised by his stepfather, the boy is forced to live in misery and poverty until he runs away to throw himself upon the mercy of his eccentric aunt. Director: George Cukor. 131 Min. VIDEO 1935 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4948 Dead Man
Summary: A young man in search of a fresh start embarks on an exciting journey to a new town. When a heated love triangle ends in a double murder, Blake finds himself a wanted man. Directed by: Jim Jarmusch. 121 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 5336 Dead Poets Society
Summary: English professor John Keating, who in an age of crew cuts, sport coats and cheerless conformity, inspires his students to live life to the fullest. The charismatic teacher's emotionally charged challenge is met by his students with irrepressible enthusiasm, changing their lives forever. Directed by Peter Weir. 128 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: COMMUNICATION, DRAMA

VH 1948 Deadly Deception
Summary: Exposes the terrifying human and environmental cost of General Electric's nuclear weapons development. 029 Min. VIDEO Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 8099 Dealing with Diversity/Negotiating Cultural Communication
Summary: Part of a telecourse on diversity. Discusses characteristics of communication across cultures. Uses communication simulations and both humorous and serious personal stories to explore some of the communication styles that exit in the U.S. and in other cultures around the world. 059 Min. VIDEO 2001 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2439 Death of a Bureaucrat
Summary: A hilarious account of the tyranny of red tape in Cuba. The slapstick comedy begins with a sculptor who is buried with his union card. The widow needs the card to get her pension. A nephew is dispatched to get permission to exhume the body. He goes through the bewildering world of red tape. In Spanish with English subtitles. Directed by Tomas Gutierrez Alea. 087 Min. VIDEO 1966 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2096 Death of a Prophet
Summary: Morgan Freeman, Yolanda King. Music composed and performed by Max Roach. Ossie Davis narrates. This is the story of a 20th century prophet, Malcolm X, a man with the rare ability to change men's lives with a quiet confidence. The film brilliantly explores some of the many questions still unanswered to this day. Director: Woodie King, Jr. 060 Min. VIDEO Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES ,COMMUNICATION

VH 3866 Delicatessen
Summary: A modern comic book come to live action screen life. Its crazy quilt story takes place in a rickety apartment building. There, a sweet natured clown takes a room and becomes a catalyst in the lives of a cleaver wielding butcher, his myopic daughter, a woman with a flair for suicide, toymakers who create little boxes that go "moo," and other unusual tenants. Director: Cladie Ossard. 095 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2867 Delivering Successful Presentations
Summary: Learn how to prepare, practice, and deliver convincing presentations with this exciting new addition to the American Management Association's award winning FYI VIDEO SERIES. Shows step by step the proven tips and techniques that effective, successful presenters use to make their point. You watch successful presenters in action. You'll hear them describe their meticulous preparation, the intensive rehearsals. 028 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1864 Denmark 1902-1914 She!
Summary: Why was Copenhagen the undisputed birthplace of the mature cinema, of psychological realism on the screen, at a time when French or American film were no more than rudimentary melodramas? Film historian Noel Burch examines the Danish silent film phenomenon. 026 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: EUROPEAN STUDIES, COMMUNICATION Series: WHAT DO THOSE OLD FILMS MEAN?

VH 4701 Devil in a Blue Dress
Summary: Washington stars as Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins, a decorated war hero who returns home to the segregation of post-war America. Forced to accept an under the table job finding a missing socialite, Easy is caught between the white power elite and the vibrant black community of Central Avenue. And as soon as Easy and his trigger happy friend Mouse find the mysterious Daphine Monert trouble follows. Directed by: Carl Franklin. 101 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: COMMUNICATION, DRAMA, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 5652 Diamond Mind
Summary: A performance tape in which the artist is seen talking about previous experiences in life and showing some of the objects he designed at that time. The performance is concerned with the idea that people are programmed by the images they make for themselves. It is also concerned with the progression of life through new experiences. 030 Min. VIDEO 1977 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 8094 Differential Diagnosis for Aphasia
Summary: In a lecture, Richard K. Peach, a professor in the Dept. of Communication Disorders & Sciences at Rush University, discusses how to diagnose aphasic versus non-aphasic neurogenic language disorders. Shows how to organize an orderly process of data collection around a patient's medical history, mental status, speech fluency and patterns, oral and visual language capabilities, nonverbal cognitive abilities, and pragmatic abilities. 117 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: COMMUNICATION, LANGUAGE SKILLS

VH 5087 Dirty Dancing
Summary: A vivid love story, Dirty Dancing is set to pounding rhythms and vibrant dance. Directed by: Emile Ardolino. 105 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: JEWISH HERITAGE VIDEO COLLECTION

VH 2706 Distress Signals
Summary: An informative program which divulges much about global television and the workings of the market for it. It reveals attitudes and inequalities in different areas of the world, and provides vivid examples of the use and misuse of the medium - as a preserver of culture, as a forum for sharing ideas, or as a brain deadener. Shot in North America, Europe, and Africa, DISTRESS SIGNALS probes the frontiers of television's brave new world. From television's largest 055 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 8053 Divorce Iranian Style
Summary: Follows a judge (a clergy and Islamic law expert) in action in a family court, primarily dealing with marriage dispute in divorce cases. In Iran, only the husband has legal rights to divorce. The court disapproves of divorce and sees that the woman stays in the marriage. 076 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1339 Do the Right Thing
Summary: This film combines humor and drama with memorable characters while tracing the course of a single day on a block in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn. It's the hottest day of the year, a scorching 24-hour period that will change the lives of its residents forever. Directed by Spike Lee. 120 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: COMMUNICATION, DRAMA

VH 2659 Docks of New York, The
Summary: A masterpiece from one of the greatest directors in film's infant years, Josef von Sternberg. Set on the grimy waterfront, it is a story of the decaying humanity that works and lives on the wharf. In the film, a two-fisted stocker changes his life by saving a suicidal woman. But von Sternberg's images of the grim, desolate and gritty existence on the docks overwhelm the mind with what can only be warmth and humanity for these two lapsed souls. 076 Min. VIDEO 1928 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4914 Dogfight
Summary: A group of four Marines who call themselves the "Four B's" have a standing bet called Dogfight. Each man puts fifty dollars in the pot and the Marine who comes back with the ugliest date wins. Only, Devil Dog Corporal Eddie Birdlace does not know that this bet will bring him love. Directed by: Nancy Savoca. 094 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4009 Doing Business Internationally/ The Cross-Cultural Challenge
Summary: Provides a solid foundation on which participants can build skills needed to conduct business in a variety of cultural settings and thereby meet the global business challenge. Includes audio cassette and Leader's Guide. 020 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: COMMUNICATION, INT BUS , MANAGEMENT

VH 1966 Doll's House, A
Summary: Tells Ibsen's story of a woman's personal rebellion against the social forces that work to keep her a child, a doll, first in her father's house & then in her husband's. 096 Min. VIDEO 1977 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3865 Don't Look Now
Summary: Working with elements of the traditional horror genre - second sight, ESP, warnings from the dead, a mad killer - and a cinematography of disquieting beauty and dreamlike sense of dislocation, director Roeg weaves a fabric of anxiety that questions all reality. The evocative use of the back streets of Venice is a sinister participant in the action based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier . 112 Min. VIDEO 1973 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3885 Dottie Gets Spanked
Summary: Evan Bonifant, Barbar Garrick, Julie Halston, Robert Pall, Harriet Harris. Child conflicted by his fascination with television. 027 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3046 Double Indemnity
Summary: Unsuspecting Mr. Dietrichson becomes increasingly accident prone after his icily calculating wife encourages him to sign a double-indemnity policy proposed by a smooth talking insurance agent. Against a backdrop of distinctly California settings, the partners in crime plan the perfect murder to collect on the insurance. Perfect until a claims manager gets a familiar feeling of foul play and pursues the matter relentlessly. Director: Billy Wilder. 107 Min. VIDEO 1944 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3014 Down and Out in America
Summary: Takes a hard look at suffering farmers in debt who can't hold on to their land, the poor who fill the shelters and then are thrown out, and the 20 million Americans who still don't have enough to eat. This intensely distinguished expose brings the nightmare of poverty to your doorstep, giving you another look at this "land of opportunity." 057 Min. VIDEO 1985 Subject: COMMUNICATION, SOCIAL WORK

VH 4511 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Summary: The classic version of Robert Louis Stevenson's story in which the good doctor becomes addicted to the formula that turns him into a sadistic beast. Seventeen minutes from the original version, lost until recently, have been restored, including the infamous whipping scene. Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Halliwell Hobbes, Rose Hobart, Holmes Herbert, Edgar Norton; Directed by Rouben Mamoulian. 097 Min. VIDEO 1932 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4507 Dracula
Summary: Starring Bela Lugosi as the screen's most popular vampire, Count Dracula, the film creates an eerie, chilling mood that has been rarely realized since. Director: Tod Browning and Carl Laemmle, Jr. 061 Min. VIDEO 1931 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4653 Dracula's Daughter
Summary: This popular horror classic picks up where"Dracula" left off. Dr. Von Helsing, thinking he has rid London of all vampires, is instead arrested for murder. Just when Von Helsing's fate seems sealed, the bodies suddenly disappear. Soon several people are found mysteriously killed, their bodies drained of all blood. Director: Lambert Hillyer. 071 Min. VIDEO 1936 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4675 Dreamtales
Summary: Dreamtales presents two animated films, Watunna and Starlore. Watunna depicts five creation myths of the Yekuana Indians of the Venezuelan rainforest. In Starlore, award winning animator Faith Hubley, using only animation and music tells six creation stories. 035 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES, ANTHROPOLOGY, COMMUNICATION, SOCIOLOGY Series: SACRED WAYS

VH 3005 Dreamworlds II
Summary: Powerfully illustrates the systematic representations of women in music video, and how these representations tell a dangerous and narrow set of stories about what it means to be female or male; stories which impact how women think about themselves sexually, and how men think sexually about women. Shocking and often disturbing, "Dreamworlds II" gives us a critical distance from images which have become so ubiquitous, and normal, they are almost 056 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: COMMUNICATION, PSYCHOLOGY

VH 2113 Dreamworlds: Desire, Sex, Power in Rock Video
Summary: Examines the treatment of women in Rock videos and movies. Contains a gang rape scene. 055 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: COMMUNICATION, PSYCHOLOGY

VH 3919 Drowning by Numbers
Summary: Three women who have the same name methodically rid themselves of unwanted husbands. When Cissie 1 finds her husband with another woman, she impulsively drowns him in a bubble bath. Her daughter, Cissie 2, later drowns her husband at sea, and Cissie 3 ultimately dispatches hers in a community swimming pool. The local coroner, Madgett, who's an obsessive game player, agrees to declare the deaths accidental drownings in return for sexual favors. But when things don't go exactly as planned, Madgett devises a final game that could be the undoing of them all, in the surprising climax of this fascinating film. Director: Peter Greenaway. 121 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1771 Drum
Summary: Based on a novel by Kyle Onstott. This is a sexy sequel to "Mandingo" in which the plantation owner & his daughter cavort with their slaves. Drum is a rebellious mulatto slave who is powerful both as a fighter & lover. Director: Steve Carver. 102 Min. VIDEO 1976 Subject: COMMUNICATION, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 3050 Duck Soup
Summary: A pointed political satire. Groucho Marx is Rufus T. Firefly, the hilarious dictator of mythical Freedonia. Harpo and Chico are commissioned as spies by Groucho's political rival, the calculating Trentino. The film contains many of the Marx Brothers' famous sequences: the lemonade stand, a masterpiece of slow burn; the Paul Revere parody; the "We're Going to War" number. Director: Leo McCarey. 068 Min. VIDEO 1933 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2370 Duke Is Tops
Summary: Lena Horne plays a successful singer who very nearly loses her man because his career as a producer is on the skids. Lena Horne, Ralph Cooper, Lawrence Criner, Monte Hawley, Vernon McCalla, Edward Thompson. Director: William Nolte. 072 Min. VIDEO 1938 Subject: COMMUNICATION, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 1933 Dumbo
Summary: Voice by Sterling Holloway, Brophy Edward, Herman Bing & Verna Felton. One of Disney's best animated films about the experiences of a young circus elephant, who is humiliated because of his unusually large ears. Award: Cannes International Film Festival Grand Prix. 063 Min. VIDEO 1941 Subject: COMMUNICATION, LITERATURE-I

VH 6545 Dust in the Wind
Summary: A love story about a young couple from a village in the southern part of Taiwan. The boy goes to Taipei to work after graduating from junior high to earn money to send home. The girl follows him the next year, and they work hard to earn enough money to marry. When the young man spends three years in the military, the young girl marries someone else. 109 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: DRAMA, ASIAN STUDIES, COMMUNICATION

VH 2137 Early Cinema, Volume 1
Summary: A compendium of early silent shorts, mostly predating 1920, which includes: Melles' "Conquest of the North Pole"; Linder's "Man and the Statue" and "Max's Mother In Law"; Drew's "Auntie's Portrait"; Normand's "Mabel's Dramatic Career"; Mix's "An Angelic Attitude" Sennett and Swain's "Cowboy Ambrose"; Lloyd's "Just Neighbors" and Parrott's "Take the Air." 118 Min. VIDEO 1919 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 0922 Easy Rider
Summary: The classic alienated youth film of the 1960's. Two motorcyclists travel across the U.S. in search of the real America and along the way encounter drugs, sex, racism, bigotry and death. Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson. Director: Denis Hopper. 094 Min. VIDEO 1985 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1793 Eclipse, The
Summary: The surrender of a capricious young woman to a bland stockbroker. Alain Delon, Monica Vitti & Francisco Rabal. Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. Score by Giovanni Fusco. Italian, Subtitled in English. 123 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 5953 Eclipse, The
Summary: The surrender of a capricious young woman to a bland stockbroker. Alain Delon, Monica Vitti & Francisco Rabal. Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. Score by Giovanni Fusco. Italian, subtitled in English. 123 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3145 Edge Of Hollywood, The
Summary: With studios spending an average of $42 million to produce and market a film, it is little wonder that originality and creativity have been stifled by a "blockbuster mentality". The Edge of Hollywood takes a look at the new breed of "outlaw directors, a diverse group of independent filmmakers who play their own game on the fringes of traditional Hollywood. Spike Lee, Julie Dash, Joel and Ethan Coen, and Quentin Tarantino are among the directors featured in this discussion. 060 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: AMERICAN CINEMA

VH 1724 Electronic Speech, Press & Assembly
Summary: Speakers, Lance Rose, Jack Rickard, George Perry, John McMullen, Eric Lieberman, David Hughes; moderator, Eric Lieberman. Speakers discuss freedoms of electronic speech, public & private electronic assembly and electronic publishing; issues of prior restraint and chilling effects of monitoring on freedoms and possible justifications and alternatives for monitoring. 091 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: SOCIOLOGY , COMPUTERS , COMMUNICATION, DECISION & INFORMATION SYSTEMS Series: COMPUTERS, FREEDOM & PRIVACY

VH 4108 Electronic Storyteller: Television and the Cultivation...
Summary: Full title, "The Electronic Storyteller: Television and the Cultivation of Values. Provides us with an analytical framework to understand what is at stake in the debates about the media, and the implications of a society losing democratic control of the storytelling process. Features George Gerbner. Sections - 1. Storytelling and Humanity 2. Effect vs. Cultivation 3. An Example: violence and the media 4. Casting and Fate 5. Stories of Gender 6 . Stories of Class 7. Stories of Race 8. The Control of Stories. 030 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: GEORGE GERBNER ON MEDIA AND CULTURE

VH 2717 English Language: Racist and Sexist
Summary: A college credit course on the nature of language and how people communicate. 029 Min. VIDEO 1983 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: LANGUAGE & MEANING

VH 3977 An English Speaking World / Mother Tongue
Summary: 1. "An English Speaking World" shows the pervasiveness of English, now spoken by hundreds of millions of people. 2. "Mother Tongue" surveys the growth of English from its Anglo-Saxon origins through the Norman conquest. 115 Min. VIDEO 1986 Subject: LANGUAGE SKILLS,COMMUNICATION Series: STORY OF ENGLISH, THE

VH 0183 Ethnic Notions
Summary: Takes viewers on a disturbing voyage through American history. It traces for the first time the evolution of the deeply rooted stereotypes which have fueled anti-black prejudice. Through these images we can begin to understand the evolution of racial consciousness in America. 058 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: AMERICAN STUDIE,AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES ,COMMUNICATION

VH 3675 European Pioneers, The
Summary: This volume, of films made between 1895 and 1905, has been compiled by the British Film institute as a back-up resource to film screenings. Since the 1978 Brighton conference, sponsored by the International Federation of Film Archives and hosted by BFI, interest in and knowledge of early cinema has grow tremendously. Titles are organized chronologically within production companies. 058 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: MOVIES BEGIN, THE: A TREASURY OF EARLY CINEMA 1894-1914

VH 4838 Eve's Bayou
Summary: Summer heats up in rural Louisiana as the Batiste family tries to survive the secrets they've kept and the betrayals they've endured. Directed by : Kasi Lemmons. 108 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: COMMUNICATION, DRAMA, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 3682 Evelyn Fox Keller: Science and Gender
Summary: When in the 1950's, Evelyn Fox Keller sallied forth to become a scientist, she discovered it was a man's world. Training as theoretical physicist and working in both mathematical biology and the history of science, she wondered why most scientists were men and why the language of science reflected masculine metaphors and values. Keller has grappled with the meaning and consequences of these stereotypes ever since. In this program with Bill Moyers, Keller discusses how gender plays a significant role in the language that scientists use to describe their work. 030 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: WORLD OF IDEAS WITH BILL MOYERS, A

VH 3756 Execution at Midnight
Summary: Since the U.S. Resumed the death penalty in 1977, over 3,000 people in 36 states have been sentenced to death. "EXECUTION AT MIDNIGHT" (Part 1: Death Row, Part 2: The Last Hours), examines what many Americans call justice and others term barbarity. This program is based on interviews with seven inmates living on death row , all of whom were convicted of murder and have been on death row from six to twelve years. The camera's eye places the viewer in the agonizing last hour, waiting in the holding cell and being led to the execution room. 100 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: COMMUNICATION, CRIMINOLOGY

VH 7686 Exorcist, The
Summary: Motion picture drama about a young girl who becomes possessed by the devil and causes several violent deaths before she can be cured. Directed by William Friedkin. 122 Min. VIDEO 1973 Subject: DRAMA, COMMUNICATION

VH 3676 Experimentation and Discovery
Summary: This volume, of films made between 1898 and 1910, has been compiled by the British Film Institute as a back-up resource to film screenings. More than any other decade, the first ten years of the moving picture saw the greatest amount of experimentation and development. Ranging from the ingeniously creative to the boldly audacious, the films represented in this volume offer a sampling of the primitive masterworks that allowed the technical novelty of cinema to so quickly flourish into an artistically expressive medium. 093 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: MOVIES BEGIN, THE: A TREASURY OF EARLY CINEMA 1894-1914

VH 3040 Exploring Language: Thinking, Writing, Communicating...
Summary: A college credit course in the social, psychological, and psychological, and political implications of language. 029 Min. VIDEO 1981 Subject: LANGUAGE SKILLS,COMMUNICATION

VH 8141 Extreme Listening
Summary: Presents problems of listening carefully and how failures of listening cause many costly misunderstandings in the business environment. Gives techniqu es for improving accuracy of oral communication. 060 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1613 Eye Hears, the Ear Sees, The
Summary: Profile of the innovative animator, Norman McLaren, who would paint right on the film & who created his own soundtracks by painting on the magnetic audio strip. 059 Min. VIDEO 1970 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2718 Faces of the Enemy
Summary: Examines the psychology of hatred and war. Demonstrates how those considered enemies must be dehumanized in order to justify destroying them. 058 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4896 Facing Hate
Summary: In this personal testament, Nobel Laureate and human rights advocate Elie Wiesel talks with Bill Moyers about his own childhood experiences at Auschwitz. 058 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: COMMUNICATION, HOLOCAUST

VH 0280 Fact Is Stranger Than Fiction
Summary: "Fact Is Stranger Than Fiction" anthologizes seven videos which comprise worlds made up of Fantasy, Illusion, Fact, and Speculation, all of which address the sticky questions of what and how we believe. Titles: Julie Dash, "Illusions", Kleenex Napkins "Cling Like Cloth", Martha Rosler - "Semiotics of the Kitchen", M.P.O. Production - "Designs For Dreaming", Cecilia Condit - "Possibly in Michigan", Carole Anne Klonarides & Michael Owens - "Art World. 090 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: WHAT DOES SHE WANT

VH 1748 Family Across the Sea
Summary: Shows how scholars have uncovered the remarkable connections between the Gullah people of South Carolina and the people of Sierra Leone. Documents how the Gullahs incorporated many aspects of African culture in the daily life of the plantations. 056 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: COMMUNICATION, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 3575 Famous for 15 Minutes
Summary: This program looks at the "footnotes to history," the basically insignificant people in this century who nonetheless helped shape great events, from the Watergate burglars who toppled Nixon, to the secret lovers of famous people. The program also looks at people who achieved instant fame through stunts, such as going over the Niagara Fall in a barrel. 048 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: HISTORY OF THE 20TH CENTURY

VH 0929 Fanny & Alexander (Part 1)
Summary: Part comedy and part ghost story, the film, set in a rural Swedish town in 1907, tells the story of one year in the lives of the colorful Ekdahl family. Director: Ingmar Bergman. 195 Min. VIDEO 1982 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 0930 Fanny & Alexander (Part 2)
Summary: Part comedy and part ghost story, the film, set in a rural Swedish town in 1907, tells the story of one year in the lives of the colorful Ekdahl family. Director: Ingmar Bergman. 195 Min. VIDEO 1982 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4378 Fear and Favor in the Newsroom
Summary: Provides an insiders' critique of how corporate press lords constrict the free flow of ideas and information. Interviews with celebrated journalists provide case studies of stories which were spiked and reporters who were demoted or fired at prestigious organizations. Other journalists learn to practice self-censorship whenever a story may conflict with the interest of their corporate employers. 057 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2875 Fearless Public Speaking
Summary: Live action video to help the occasional speaker learn to prepare and deliver a talk that holds audience interest. The tape follows the struggles of a young tennis player as he prepares a talk showing that tactics to overcome nervousness on the tennis court can also work for public speaking. 023 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3918 Feed
Summary: This documentary from Kevin Rafferty and James Ridgeway links footage shown during the New Hampshire primary with intercepted satellite feeds of the candidates prepping to go on the air. "This is the real thing, this isn't Dana Carvey," George Bush tells a TV crew. Bill Clinton pumps up a weary smile; Ross Perot talks dirty. And all contenders stare inanely at the camera before flashing what they hope will be an electable image. 075 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 5329 Film Before Film
Summary: A look at the history of cinema. Werner Nekes charts the fascination with moving pictures which led to the birth of film: covering shadow plays, peep shows, flip books, flicks, magic lanterns, lithopanes, panoramic scrolls, colorful forms of early animation and numerous other historical artifices. 083 Min. VIDEO 1986 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3148 Film In The Television Age
Summary: In 1946, half the country was going to the movies. That same year, television networks began daily broadcasts from New York City, forever changing the face of American cinema. Film in the Television Age examines how a new era of motion picture entertainment grew out of the arrival of television on the scene and also how television was influenced by the movies. 060 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: AMERICAN CINEMA

VH 3149A Film Language
Summary: This program examines just how a movie scene is orchestrated. A Columbia University professor directs a three-minute scene, providing an intimate view of the elements that go into directorial decision making, from script analysis to set design to editing. 030 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: AMERICAN CINEMA

VH 3142 Film Noir
Summary: Film Noir takes viewers on a dark journey to the underside of American life. This program explores how the genre, reaching its peak in the 1950's, reflects the pessimism and paranoia that were signs of the times. With the nuclear threat looming and the McCarthy era in full swing, the dark scenes and visual effects of these " black films" were a mirror of the American psyche. Features excerpts from films like Double Indemnity, Chinatown, and Body Heat. 060 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: AMERICAN CINEMA

VH 3143 Film School Generation, The
Summary: Between 1969 and 1972, the seven major film studios had record losses totaling over $500 million. Out of touch with audiences, Hollywood was near bankruptcy. The Film School Generation chronicles the rise to prominence of a generation of directors who emerged from film school in the 1960's, including Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, George Lucas, and Brian De Palma. From the incoherent anarchy of Taxi Driver, to the Populist fantasy 060 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: AMERICAN CINEMA

VH 1398 Final Verdict / The Evening Sacrifice
Summary: Final verdict: A student shot a woman and her guest. The director and the killer try to understand the motivation behind the tragedy. During twenty painful months alone on deathrow, the killer discovers he is no longer the person he once was. (66 min.) 1987. Evening sacrifice: The director tried to capture the spirit of a crowd. (17 min.) 1984-1987. 083 Min. VIDEO 1984 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: GLASNOST FILM FESTIVAL, THE

VH 1739 Finzan (A Dance for the Heroes)
Summary: The story of two women's rebellion. These two women's desire to control their own lives threatens the traditions of male supremacy in the village. Customs which had bound the community together now serve to drive out these women one into exile, the other possibly to her death. Director: Cheick Sissoku. 107 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: COMMUNICATION, DRAMA Series: LIBRARY OF AFRICAN CINEMA

VH 6939 Fire
Summary: Banned in India, this film was the first to confront lesbianism in that country through a story of two sisters-in-law in loveless marriages. Directed by Deepa Mehta. 104 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: COMMUNICATION, ASIAN STUDIES

VH 4604 Flame
Summary: Flame is the story of two close friends, Florence and Nyasha, whose involvement in the war of liberation leads to very different outcomes. In 1975, while still teenagers they join the Zimbabwean freedom struggle, at its camps in Mozambique. Florence assumes the name Flame, while Nyasha takes Liberty. We watch as they grow into confident women, training as soldiers and learning about their political rights. Director: Ingrid Sinclair. 085 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: COMMUNICATION, DRAMA Series: LIBRARY OF AFRICAN CINEMA

VH 2199 Flesh and the Devil
Summary: Gretta Garbo, John Gilbert & Lars Hanson. A beautiful woman comes between two old friends in this romantic classic. Director: Clarence Brown. 103 Min. VIDEO 1927 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4758 Flirting with Fate
Summary: A poor portrait painter falls in love with a woman in one of his paintings. The painting is stolen and the distraught painter hires an assassin to end his misery. In a twist ending, all ends happily. Directed by: W. Christ y Cabane. 051 Min. VIDEO 1916 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 6236 Florida State University Lecture 1970
Summary: Video reviews perspectives of communications theorist Marshall McLuhan. 055 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: VIDEO MCLUHAN, THE

VH 2552 Forbidden Love
Summary: The ten women interviewed in "Forbidden Love" paint a portrait of lesbian sexuality and survival during the sexual dark ages of the 1950's and '60's. Against a backdrop of book covers from lesbian pulp novels, tabloid headlines, archival photographs and film clips, these women recount stories about living and loving in their clandestine world. 085 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4740 Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Summary: Partly set in Argentina, partly in France, this anti-Germany story describes the horrors of World War I as the background for a tragic story of illicit love. Directed by: Rex Ingram. 114 Min. VIDEO 1921 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1797 Four Hundred Blows, The
Summary: Jean-Pierre Leaud, Patrick Auffay, Claire Maurier & Albert Remy. Directed by Francios Truffaut. Score by Jean Constantin. French boy runs up against the authority & structures of society. 13 year old Antoine is receiving more than his share of hard knocks from selfish, unloving parents and harsh school teachers. Is Antoine a lost cause, or will his indomitable spirit prevail? With sensitivity, humor, and poignancy, Truffaut explores the pain and joy of childhood. In French, subtitled in English. 099 Min. VIDEO 1959 Subject: COMMUNICATION, DRAMA

VH 4648 Four Little Girls
Summary: On Sunday morning, Sept. 15, 1963, the church was beginning a monthly youth day service. Twenty pounds of dynamite exploded in the building, shattering windows around the church and in some of the neighboring buildings. It was under the fallen debris that the bodies of four young girls was found. They died because of the color of their skin. Director: Spike Lee. 103 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: COMMUNICATION, CIVIL RIGHTS , AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 1865 France 1904-1912 The Enemy Below
Summary: Film historian and critic Noel Burch follows the thesis that the appeal of the silent French cinema was the working class. 026 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: EUROPEAN STUDIE,COMMUNICATION Series: WHAT DO THOSE OLD FILMS MEAN?

VH 4510 Frankenstein
Summary: Dr. Frankenstein dares to tamper with life and death by creating a human monster out of lifeless body parts. Directed by James Whale. 071 Min. VIDEO 1931 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3211 Free Speech and Advertising - Who Draws the Line?
Summary: In April 1987, 14 distinguished Americans, representing the law, medicine, universities, publishing, tobacco and alcohol industries, met in Faneuil Hall to discuss the conflict between the 1st Amendment and concerns for public health. The 1976 Supreme Court ruling that truthful advertising has 1st Amendment protection conflicts with currently proposed bans on alcohol and tobacco advertising. 060 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4664 French Lieutenant's Woman, The
Summary: Romantic love and tragedy in the form of two parallel stories, that of a 19th century woman who keeps her mysterious past from the scientist who loves her, and the lead actor and actress in the film of the same story managing an illicit affair on the set. Directed by: Karel Reisz. 124 Min. VIDEO 1981 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2112 Frenzy
Summary: Jon Finch, Barry Foster, Alec McCowen, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Anna Massey & Vivien Merchant. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Score by Ron Goodwin. The Necktie Murderer is terrorizing London & the wrong man is suspected in this classic Hitchcock thriller. 116 Min. VIDEO 1980 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 5085 Frisco Kid, The
Summary: Newly-ordained orthodox rabbi Avram Belinski sets out on horseback from Philadelphia to San Francisco knowing only that California is somewhere near New York. Directed by: Robert Aldrich. 119 Min. VIDEO 1979 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4154 From Scooters to Fryers
Summary: Award winning ads for Peugeot scooters, Mazda batteries, cheese, chocolate drink, face cream, chickens, overs, cameras, copiers, loans, and the Yellow Pages. Also included: interviews with copywriter Tim Delaney, agency directors Nick Lewin, Neil French, Kevin Molony, Sebastien Chantrel, CD Joakim Jonasson, and producer Helen Langridge. 062 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: MARKETING , COMMUNICATION Series: BEST OF BROADCAST COMMERCIALS, THE

VH 5645 Full Circle/Around & About/Mediations
Summary: A compilation of three works. "Full Circle" the performer attempts to overcome the "matter" of difference between metal and electronic signals. In "Mediations", sand is placed on a loud speaker, gradually burying the speaker and the narrator's voice. In "Around & About" images are cut to the syllabic rhythm of the spoken word. 013 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 5086 Funny Girl
Summary: When Fanny gets her first break in show business her debut get her hired as a comedienne. Fanny becomes a star, falls in love and marries Nick Arnstein, a handsome gambler whose luck doesn't hold out. Directed by: William Wyler. 155 Min. VIDEO 1968 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2575 Ganja & Hess, Part 1
Summary: An anthropologist's investigations of an ancient African culture take a bizarre and deadly turn when he finds himself infected with a strange parasite that turns its hosts into vampires in this haunting and arty blaxploitation horror film. 051 Min. VIDEO 1973 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2576 Ganja & Hess, Part 2
Summary: An anthropologist's investigations of an ancient African culture take a bizarre and deadly turn when he finds himself infected with a strange parasite that turns its hosts into vampires in this haunting and arty blaxploitation horror film. 060 Min. VIDEO 1973 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2618 Gap-Toothed Women
Summary: What do model Lauren Hutton, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Conner, truck driver Rene Morena, Chaucer's wife of Bath, cartoonist Dori Seda, Cleopatra, and bellydancer Sharlyn Sawyer have in common? The answer, as you will find out in this lively film, is they all have a space between their two front teeth. The filmmakers interviewed close to 100 women with gap-teeth ranging in age from 18 months to 88 years, 40 of whom appear in the film. 031 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4739 Gaslight Follies
Summary: Directed by: Albert Herman and Travers Vale. 078 Min. VIDEO 1945 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2501 Gates of Heaven
Summary: Inspired by an article entitled "450 Dead Pets Going to Napa Valley," filmmaker Errol Morris set out to capture the event which centered around the transport of hundreds of animal remains from one pet cemetery to another. Using a straightforward cinematic approach to film his "stars"--pet cemetery proprietors, embalmers, pet owners, et al--Morris simply turns on the camera and lets them speak. Director: Errol Morris. 085 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4407 Generation Q
Summary: America's gay and lesbian youth live at a time when homosexuality is more openly talked about and accepted than ever before. Yet is it easier to be a lesbian or gay kid than it was twenty years ago? Generation Q highlights the triumphs of today's lesbian and gay youth. Directed by: Robert Byrd. 055 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: QUESTION OF EQUALITY, THE

VH 5082 Gentleman's Agreement
Summary: This stars Gregory Peck as a journalist assigned to write a series of articles on Anti-Semitism. Searching for an angle, he finally decides to pose as a Jew and soon discovers what it is like to be a victim of religious intolerance. Directed by Elia Kazan. 118 Min. VIDEO 1947 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 5578 Gentleman's Agreement
Summary: This stars Gregory Peck as a journalist assigned to write a series of articles on anti-Semitism. Searching for an angle, he finally decides to pose as a Jew and soon discovers what it is like to be a victim of religious intolerance. Directed by Elia Kazan. 118 Min. VIDEO 1947 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: JEWISH HERITAGE VIDEO COLLECTION

VH 1807 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Summary: Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn. The seagoing stars, at the crest of their careers, have a ball. Directed by Howard Hawks. 092 Min. VIDEO 1953 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1867 Germany 1926-1932 Under Two Flags
Summary: Focuses on films produced in Germany in the 20's, rarely shown or discussed today. But influenced by the achievements of the young Soviet cinema, the German social worker's movements created the German Worker's Film. Among these early productions were such landmark films as "The Other Side of the Street", "Our Daily Bread", "Mother Krausen's Journey to Happiness" and "Kuhle Wampe." 026 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: EUROPEAN STUDIE,COMMUNICATION Series: WHAT DO THOSE OLD FILMS MEAN?

VH 4620 Get on the Bus
Summary: Spike Lee creates different men to follow throughout the Million Man March. On the way they will make friends, make enemies, and make history. Director: Spike Lee. 121 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES ,COMMUNICATION, DRAMA

VH 3006 Getting the Message Across: A Video About Making Videos
Summary: Shows how to make videos with story-telling, human interest, action, and interviews. Designed for junior high school to university students, local cable access stations, and volunteer groups who use videos to get their message across. 031 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1736 Getting the Story
Summary: Why did it take so long for Western television to cover the famine in Ethiopia? 029 Min. VIDEO Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: CONSUMING HUNGER

VH 4243 Giant Gila Monster
Summary: A big beaded lizard has the nerve to disrupt a local record hop in a sm all Texas town, foolishly bringing upon it the wrath of the local teens. Director: Ray Kellogg. 074 Min. VIDEO 1959 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4702 Glass Shield, The
Summary: An ambitious rookie cop and his station's only female deputy uncover widespread corruption and conspiracy when they realize that an innocent man has been jailed for a shocking murder. Suddenly, these two outsiders are forced to make an impossible choice: fit into an unjust system by breaking the law they're sworn to uphold...or break the unwritten code of silence that could be their only protection. Directed by: Charles Burnett. 110 Min. VIDEO Subject: COMMUNICATION, DRAMA

VH 4589 Glitter, The: Sex, Drugs, and the Media
Summary: A documentary style program demonstrating how media advertising images actually promote beliefs, buying behaviors, and buying value systems. Stresses that young people need tools to recognize these influences to protect themselves and become "green consumers." 024 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4377 Global Communication
Summary: This program looks at the highways of optic fibers, copper wires, coaxial cables, and satellites by means of which images, sound, and computer data are transmitted around the world. It also examines telecommunication satellites which - whether they are geostationary or in orbit close to Earth - enable us to put two people on Earth, at sea, or even in the air, in contact. The program concludes with a look at cable distribution systems, which no longer serve only for broadcasting television programs but are being used to consult huge data banks and service bank transactions. 023 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: COMMUNICATION, COMPUTERS

VH 5255 Global Media
Summary: Video examines the magnitude and significance of the global communications industry. 050 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 5886 Global One: Cross-Cultural Understanding
Summary: A guide for individuals involved in international business, designed to provide a better understanding of the different protocols and customs necessary for effective cross-cultural communication. 045 Min. VIDEO 1999 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3197 Go Fish
Summary: A sassy, playfully sexy look at love among a small circle of gay young women. Max is a vivacious, aspiring writer with plenty of opinions on almost everything and a tendency to complain about being single while never actually doing anything about it. Ely, on the other hand, is a quiet, thoughtful woman whose mysterious out of town relationship may or may not be a cover up for her extreme shyness. For mutual friends, Kia, Evy and Diria, the challenge of getting Max and Ely together makes for a delightfully insightful, erotically charged film. Director: Rose Troche. 083 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2918 Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, The
Summary: This disturbing film is based on the acclaimed European novelist Peter Handke's story about Josef Bloch who, after being suspended for missing a penalty kick, wanders aimlessly around Vienna, losing his sense of reality. He picks up a movie cashier, spends the night with her and, in the morning, strangles her. He then escapes to a small town where he passively waits, reading newspaper accounts of the police dragnet that is slowly closing in on him. Director: Wim Wenders. 101 Min. VIDEO 1971 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4656 God's Stepchildren
Summary: From the story, "Naomi, Negress." Tells the story of a very light skinned African American girl, Naomi, who doesn't want to be considered a Negro. Abandoned by her real mother, she is raised by her foster mother. Forced by her foster mother to attend a Negro school, which she resents, a hate enters her heart and plays an important part in her life from then on. Directed by Oscar Micheaux. 065 Min. VIDEO 1937 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3779 Godfather, The, Part II, cassette 1
Summary: Part II of the saga of two generations of successive power within the Corleone family. Coppola tells two stories in Part II: the roots and rise of a young Don Vito, and the ascension of Michael as the new Don. Director: Francis Ford Coppola. 200 Min. VIDEO 1974 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2690 Good Fight, The
Summary: The fight for the freedom of Loyalist Spain during the 1936-39 civil war pitted an International Brigade of 40,000 civilian soldiers from 51 nations against the well-equipped insurgents of Generalissimo Francisco, leading fascist officers and troops from Spanish Morocco. Additional aid to Franco came via the Nazi Condor Legion of Junker bombers and Italian fighter planes from Mussolini, who wanted to try out his new weaponry in anticipation of the larger war. 098 Min. VIDEO 1984 Subject: COMMUNICATION, EUROPEAN STUDIE

VH 3691 Gorky Park
Summary: When three mutilated corpses are discovered in Moscow's Gorky Park, likable militia detective, Arkady Rendo is assigned to investigate the grisly crime. When one of the victims turns out to be American, Arkady becomes suspicious. Why isn't the KGB interested in the case? As Arkady digs deeper into a growing web of corruption, he finds himself being hunted by both the secret police and a tough, New York cop. Director: Michael Apted. 128 Min. VIDEO 1983 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1791 Grand Illusion
Summary: Jean Gabin, Erich Von Strohiem, Pierre Fresnay & Marcel Dalio. Directed by Jean Renior. The classic antiwar statement. Prisoners of war in a maximum security prison plot escape & muse about the meaning of freedom. One prisoner (Gabin) & the commandant (Stroheim) come to terms with each other but are separated by the necessity of adhering to the roles they play in life. 111 Min. VIDEO 1937 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4518 Great American Speeches:80 Years of Political Oratory, Pt. 1
Summary: This program features FDR's first inaugural address and "Grilled Millionaire" speech, as well as the flamboyant Huey Long's "Every Man is a King" and others. 048 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: COMMUNICATION, U.S. HISTORY Series: GREAT AMERICAN SPEECHES

VH 4519 Great American Speeches:80 Years of Political Oratory, Pt. 2
Summary: This program features FDR's declaration of war on Japan, and General Douglas MacArthur's "old soldiers never die" retirement speech before Congress. Other speeches include FDR's humorous response to Republican allegations of budgetary waste surrounding his dog, Fala; General George Patton's controversial stump speech in support of WWII, and excerpts from John L. Lewis's five hour pro union filibuster before a congressional committee studying mine safety. 039 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: COMMUNICATION, U.S. HISTORY Series: GREAT AMERICAN SPEECHES

VH 4520 Great American Speeches:80 Years of Political Oratory, Pt. 3
Summary: In this program, Nikita Khrushchev and Richard Nixon argue the merits of democracy and communism in the impromptu Kitchen Debate, complete with on screen translations. Also included are Nixon's famous Checkers speech; a 1960 campaign address to Wisconsin farmers by Senator Hubert Humphrey; and the verbal showdown between Senator Joseph McCarthy and attorney Joseph Welch at the Army-McCarthy hearings that helped end McCarthy's political career. 051 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: COMMUNICATION, U.S. HISTORY Series: GREAT AMERICAN SPEECHES

VH 4521 Great American Speeches:80 Years of Political Oratory, Pt. 4
Summary: This program contains speeches by two of the 20th century's greatest orators: John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. Included are Kennedy's inaugural address, the American University speech calling for an end to nuclear proliferation, and the politically charged "Ich bin ein Berliner" address delivered at the Berlin Wall. King's moving "I Have a Dream" speech to civil rights marchers in Washington and parts of his prophetic "When a Man Has Already Died" speech are also featured. 045 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: COMMUNICATION, U.S. HISTORY Series: GREAT AMERICAN SPEECHES

VH 4522 Great American Speeches:80 Years of Political Oratory, Pt. 5
Summary: This program begins with a fiery speech by Malcolm X that reminds us of the polarization of American political life in the 1960's. Nelson Rockefeller's condemnation of 1968 Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater as a political extremist; Goldwater's rebuttal of the charges; and Ronald Reagan's stump speech in support of Goldwater follow. Robert Kennedy's moving eulogy for Martin Luther King, Jr., concludes the program. 037 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: COMMUNICATION, U.S. HISTORY Series: GREAT AMERICAN SPEECHES

VH 4523 Great American Speeches:80 Years of Political Oratory, Pt. 6
Summary: This program features speeches by several major orators of the modern political era, including representative Barbara Jordan's stunningly eloquent appeal for nonpartisan judgment at the Nixon impeachment hearings. Ronald Reagan shows why he was known as the "great communicator" in his 1981 inaugural address. Former New York Governor Mario Cuomo's resounding keynote speech at the 1984 Democratic Convention, as well as an emotion charged 1984 campaign speech by Jesse Jackson, are also included. 055 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: COMMUNICATION, U.S. HISTORY Series: GREAT AMERICAN SPEECHES

VH 1862 Great Britain 1900-1912: Along the Great Divide
Summary: Using extremely rare films, newly scored music and a lively commentary, film historian Noel Burch explores the contradictions in early British cinema between the "gentlemen inventors of the cinema" and film as an entertainment for the poor. 026 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: EUROPEAN STUDIE,COMMUNICATION Series: WHAT DO THOSE OLD FILMS MEAN?

VH 4746 Great Director Series / G.W. Pabst
Summary: Pandora's Box, 3 Penny Opera, and The Joyless Street. Directed by: G.W . Pabst. 283 Min. VIDEO Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3674 Great Train Robbery and Other Primary Works, The
Summary: This film sequences an array of serial photographs taken by Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) in the 1880's. Muybridge began working on serial photography in 1872, at request of San Francisco railway magnate Leland Stanford. To create the illusion of movement by projecting a succession of images with his Zoopraxiscope, Muybridge found it necessary to redraw the photographs in elongated form on glass disks. In 1888 the photographer met with Thomas Edison, and the two discussed the possibility of combining Muybridge's serial photography with Edison's phonograph; the meeting stimulated Edison's interest in constructing his own, more efficient motion picture system. 075 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: MOVIES BEGIN, THE: A TREASURY OF EARLY CINEMA 1894-1914

VH 3768 Green Party Acceptance Speech, Part 1
Summary: Over 300 Green Party delegates gathered to nominate their presidential candidate, Ralph Nader, a long-time consumer rights advocate. In his acceptance speech, he spoke about the need for action by ordinary citizens to retake control of the U.S. political and economic systems. 076 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3769 Green Party Acceptance Speech, Part 2
Summary: Over 300 Green Party delegates gathered to nominate their presidential candidate, Ralph Nader, a long-time consumer rights advocate. In his acceptance speech, he spoke about the need for action by ordinary citizens to retake control of the U.S. political and economic systems. 076 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2698 Grierson
Summary: Reviews the life and work of documentary film maker John Grierson in interviews with his family, friends, and professional associates. 058 Min. VIDEO Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 8067 Gringo in Manana-Land, The: A Musical
Summary: Dee Dee Halleck's compilation of Latin America, the Hollywood version, provides a crash course in visual ideology and racial stereotyping. While the U.S. Marines engaged in more than twenty invasions of the Americas, the silver screen waged its own battles for public approval over the last one hundred years. Halleck's massive archival research has brought together a century of cinematic gringos, all driven to tame the lands of trouble and promise. The work moves viewers from shock and laughter to an intellectual appreciation of the eerie, almost statistical regularity of Hollywood's dominant propaganda themes. Directed by Dee Dee Halleck. 061 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1436 H-2 Worker
Summary: Clandestinely filmed in the cane fields and around the workers' barracks, "H-2 Worker" reveals the travesty of justice which has become a routine part of these worker's lives and which, until now had been one of America's best kept secrets. 046 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2913 Hairpiece: A Film For Nappy-Headed People
Summary: An animated satire on the question of self image for African American women living in a society where beautiful hair is viewed as hair that blows in the wind and lets you be free. 010 Min. VIDEO 1985 Subject: SOCIOLOGY , COMMUNICATION, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 2317 Hamlet
Summary: Mel Gibson and Glenn Close star in Shakespeare's Hamlet. Director: Franco Zeffirelli. 135 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: COMMUNICATION, SHAKESPEARE

VH 3690 Handful of Dust, A
Summary: Tony and Brenda Last appear to have the perfect marriage - living in fashionable England of the 30's in a Victorian country estate. But when Tony invites the dashing, yet penniless young socialite John Beaver for a weekend stay, he unknowingly ignites a series of shattering events: passion, infidelity, death. Director: Charles Sturridge. 118 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4578 Harold Innis: Patterns in Communication
Summary: An introduction to the life and work of one of the most important Canadian intellectual figures of this century. Critiques the monopolization of communication technologies in both ancient and contemporary civilizations. Featuring interviews with colleagues, family and commentators, and drawing on archival diaries, letters, photographs and film, this video emphasizes the thematic continuity between Innis' economic work and his later research in communications. 052 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: COMMUNICATION, DECISION & INFORMATION SYSTEMS

VH 5081 Harold Lloyd Films: 9 Shorts
Summary: This is a re-release of nine of Harold Lloyd's short films. 120 Min. VIDEO 1916 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4621 Hate
Summary: A tale of three hoods living in the projects outside of Paris. Each of them needs to vent the anger they feel about the police brutality that landed another friend in the hospital. Directed by Matthew Kassovitz. 095 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4882 He Got Game
Summary: This is a story about a convict given one shot at a second chance to be a father. With promises of a reduced sentence, Jake is granted temporary release from state prison in order to persuade the nation's top college basketball recruit...his estranged son Jesus...to play ball for the Governor's alma mater. Directed by: Spike Lee. 136 Min. VIDEO Subject: COMMUNICATION, DRAMA, SPORTS

VH 6768 He Said, She Said
Summary: Deborah Tannen discusses her contributions to the understanding of gender, language and communication. Gender is not the only factor influencing conversational styles: others include regional background, class, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, profession, and individual personality. 054 Min. VIDEO 2001 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4738 Headline Woman
Summary: An ongoing feud between a police commissioner and a newspaper's city editor causes a reporter to make a deal with a policeman in exchange for news. Directed by: William Nigh. 075 Min. VIDEO 1935 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 5077 Heavenly Creatures
Summary: Heavenly Creatures is the true life story of a shocking crime. Two teenage schoolgirls become great friends and create a fantasy world only they can take part in. When their parents threaten to keep them apart the girls devise a secret plan. Directed by: Peter Jackson. 099 Min. VIDEO Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2275 Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich, A
Summary: The compelling family drama about a ghetto mother, stepfather and child. The child is Benjie, a sensitive 13-year-old with a confident wit and bright academic future. The pressures of drugs and crime nearly take that bright future away. Director: Ralph Nelson. 107 Min. VIDEO 1977 Subject: COMMUNICATION, DRAMA, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 4987 Hide and Seek
Summary: The film features Lou, a 12 year old girl who daydreams in a tree house, tries not to watch a sex education film, and is horrified to discover that her best friend is taking an interest in earrings and boys. Interwoven with Lou's story are the mostly hilarious, sometimes painful recollections of adult lesbians who try to figure out how they got from there to here. Directed by Sue Friedrich. 064 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4573 High Lonesome, The Story of Bluegrass Music
Summary: Traces the evolution of bluegrass, one of America's most vital musical fusions, from its folk roots in the Kentucky hills through the innovations which shaped its most modern forms. With over 100 songs and a keen thread of the cultural and historical forces running through them, "High Lonesome" captures the heart and soul of the music and its founder Bill Monroe, along with other seminal figures. Directed by Rachel Liebling. VIDEO 1991 Subject: JAZZ , COMMUNICATION

VH 1418 High School
Summary: Originally released as a motion picture in 1968. this documentary, filmed at Philadelphia's North East High, depicts life in a large urban high school through encounters between students, teachers, and parents. 075 Min. VIDEO 1971 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1786 Hiroshima, Mon Amour
Summary: Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dallas & Pierre Barbaud. Directed by Alain Resnais. An initially casual romantic encounter between a Japanese architect & a French actress working in Hiroshima triggers a chain of memories, as the woman gradually discloses the story of her first love affair with a German soldier during World War II. In French with English Subtitles. 091 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3776 His Girl Friday
Summary: Cary Grant stars as Walter Burns, a charming and conniving newspaper editor, and Rosalind Russell stars as his ex-wife Hildy, who is also the paper's ace reporter. Hildy's big story is that she's giving up the frantic newspaper business to remarry, move to Albany and raise a family. However, Burns is still in love with Hildy, whom he refers to as "a great newspaper man." To keep her from going through with her marriage plans, Burns offers Hildy the chance to cover a red hot murder story. The battle of wills begins when Hildy must choose between her new life or follow her journalistic instincts. Director: Howard Hawks. 092 Min. VIDEO 1940 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 5668 History and Memory
Summary: After Pearl Harbor Attack in 1941, 100,000 Japanese living in the States were asked to move to a concentration camp. With family stories and some documentaries, Tajiri describes haunting impacts of this ordeal on American Japanese for generations thereafter. 032 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 5254 History of Audio Recordings
Summary: Video describes the introduction of mass communications in a historical outline, from early musical recordings to present day. 050 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 5249 History of Television
Summary: This video presents television history as an interaction of business, technology, and the tastes and concerns of the American public. 029 Min. VIDEO Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 5250 History's Turning Points II: The Television Explosion
Summary: David Sarnoff, a poor Russian immigrant, was the first person to recognize the financial and commercial potential for television. He had championed the radio mania of the 1920s and set out to put a television in every home in America. At the World's Fair in Flushing Meadows, NY on April 30th, 1939, Sarnoff unveils commercial television, the most powerful means of advertising and entertainment yet invented. 030 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4750 Hitler Youth Quex
Summary: A German youth faces a conflict of ideals between his Communist father and his growing allegiance to the Hitler Youth movement which eventually leads t o his own death. Directed by: K.A. Schenzinger. 100 Min. VIDEO 1933 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4406 Hollow Liberty
Summary: Focusing on the federal laws and policies that effectively restrict the rights of gay and lesbian Americans and relegate them to second-class citizens, Hollow Liberty looks at two major stories: the military and Bowers vs. Hardwick. Directed by: Paris Robin Hutt. 055 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: QUESTION OF EQUALITY, THE

VH 3146 Hollywood Style, The
Summary: The style of American movies evolved from the desire to tell a compelling, seamless story. The Hollywood style looks at the timeless appeal of Casablanca and other films to see how the style is "invisible", so the viewer becomes deeply involved in the story. It explores how American directors, screen writers, production designers, editors, and cinematographers create worlds that audiences are eager to enter again and again. 060 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: AMERICAN CINEMA

VH 1751 Home of the Brave
Summary: Lloyd Bridges, James Edwards, Douglas Dick, Steve Brodie, Frank Lovejoy & Jeff Corey. Directed by Mark Robson. A paralyzed black GI haunted by racist persecution & the terrors of war is helped by an Army psychiatrist. 086 Min. VIDEO 1949 Subject: COMMUNICATION, PSYCHOLOGY, DRAMA, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 4755 Home Sweet Home
Summary: Suggested by the life of John Howard Payne and his famous song "Home Sweet Home." Silent. Directed by: D.W. Griffith. 057 Min. VIDEO 1914 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 7349 Honeymooners Funniest Moments, The
Summary: Video includes a compilation of bloopers and blunders from The Honeymooners and The Jackie Gleason Show. 030 Min. VIDEO Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 7350 Honeymooners Lost Episodes, The - Volume 25
Summary: Video includes two 1950's episodes of The Honeymooners show: Ralph becomes a pawn in a gang war; Ralph is upset with the lunch he believes Alice packed in his lunchbox, then he discovers that he had someone else's lunchbox and has to apologize to Alice. 050 Min. VIDEO 1953 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2502 Horse Thief
Summary: The tale of Norbu, a horse stealer, who is driven out by his tribe in an effort to purge it of evil. Forced to live in harsh isolation with his family, Norbu repents after the death of his son, but he must revert to stealing after the birth of another child. Director: Tian Zhuangzhuang. 088 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: COMMUNICATION, DRAMA

VH 2101 Hour of the Star
Summary: Macabea is a naive nineteen-year-old from the impoverished rural north of Brazil. Living without any real chance at success, she lives on hope & her fantasies & finally achieves a single moment of happiness. Director: Suzana Amaral. 096 Min. VIDEO 1985 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4508 House of Dracula
Summary: Horror veterans Lon Chaney as the Wolf Man and John Carradine as Dracula arrive at the laboratory of Dr. Edelman to beg for a cure to relieve them of their killing instincts. The Wolf Man is sincere, but Dracula is scheming to get close to the doctor's nurse. Directed by Erle C. Kenton. 067 Min. VIDEO 1945 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4911 House of Games
Summary: Pulitzer prize winner David Mamet wrote and directed this modern film noir work. Dr. Margaret Ford who lives her life through her patients is a successful psychiatrist, until she falls in love with a con man. Directed by: David Mamet. 102 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: DRAMA, COMMUNICATION

VH 4025 How to Design Eye-Catching Brochures..., Vol. 1
Summary: Full title "How to Design Eye-Catching Brochures, Newsletters, Ads, Reports (and everything else you want people to read)." You'll acquire the special skills to a semble your headlines, text and graphics so they catch readers' eyes and elicit the responses you want. In this volume, you'll learn how to motivate your target audience, create designs and select graphic elements that are relevant to your readers, and lead them directly to your "call to action." 046 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4026 How to Design Eye-Catching Brochures..., Vol. 2
Summary: Full title "How to Design Eye-Catching Brochures, Newsletters, Ads, Reports (and everything else you want people to read)." In this volume, you'll learn to design layouts that please the eye and deliver your message. You'll go beyond the "here's how to do it" stage and discover the reasons why some layouts are brilliant and others bomb. 044 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4027 How to Design Eye-Catching Brochures..., Vol. 3
Summary: Full title "How to Design Eye-Catching Brochures, Newsletters, Ads, Reports (and everything else you want people to read)." Type does more to create a mood, get attention and convey information than any other graphic element. Type talks-and once you learn the language, it's simple a matter of deciding what you want to say. In volume 3, you'll learn tips and techniques to "spec" type for every job. 054 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4028 How to Design Eye-Catching Brochures..., Vol. 4
Summary: Full title "How to Design Eye-Catching Brochures, Newsletters, Ads, Reports (and everything else you want people to read)." In Vol. 4, you'll learn skills to boost your own natural creativity, how to generate new ideas consistently (even when you're hurried and under pressure), and how to use tried and true "creative shortcuts" when you're stuck for ideas. 055 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 0981 How to Set Up Wilsondisc
Summary: Demonstrated the basic steps of setting up and using WILSONDISC and de scribes the features of the system. 020 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 5838 How To Speak With Confidence
Summary: Bert Decker discusses and demonstrates methods to improve public speaking. 046 Min. VIDEO Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 8206 Human Communication, Interpersonal Relationships
Summary: This segment explores the unique qualities of interpersonal relationshi ps, helping to understand what distinguishes "interpersonal relationships" from other interpersonal and communication interactions. Explores the concept of sel f-disclosure and trace the stages of a relationship from development to disinteg ration, while looking at supportive and defensive communication behaviors. 029 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4741 Hunchback of Notre Dame, The
Summary: A drama about a hunchback bell ringer in the Cathedral of Notre Dame during the reign of Louis XI who falls in love with a beautiful gypsy girl. Directed by: William Dieterle. 100 Min. VIDEO 1923 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3798 Hyenas Hyenas
Summary: Director Djibril Diop Mambety brilliantly adapts Swiss dramatist Frederich Durrenmatt's celebrated parable of human greed, The Visit of the Old Woman, in to a biting satire of today's Africa - betraying the hopes of independence for the false promises of Western materialism. 113 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: LIBRARY OF AFRICAN CINEMA

VH 3450 I Am Cuba
Summary: Filmed by Russian director Mikhail Kalatozov "The Cranes are Flying", I am Cuba is an epic poem to Communist kitsch - a whirling, feverish dance through the sensuous decadence of Batista's Havana and the grinding poverty and oppression of the Cuban people. In four main stories showing the rise of the revolution. Kalatozov's astonishingly acrobatic camera takes the viewer on a rapturous roller-coaster ride of bathing beauties, landless peasants and student revolutionaries. The first movie ever jointly presented by master Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese. 141 Min. VIDEO 1964 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4895 I Confess
Summary: An exciting tale of inner spiritual turmoil and outer physical jeopardy. Father Michael Logan, to all appearances a model of clergy piety, hears a killer's confession and plunges into peril: circumstantial evidence and eyewitness accounts point to a priest as a slayer - and the sacrament of penance forbids Logan to speak out. Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock. 095 Min. VIDEO 1953 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4704 I Like it Like That
Summary: When her well meaning husband Chino is arrested, a young mother, Lisette, finds herself unprepared to support the family. Fast talking her way into a job with a record producer, Lisette quickly discovers her own hidden talents. But the boys in the neighborhood report back to Chino that Lisette is dating her bigwig boss, leading to a major confrontation that changes their life together. Directed by: Darnell Martin. 106 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4334 I See What You Say Lip Reading Program
Summary: This self help videotape and manual for consumers teaches lipreading to adults with hearing losses. Using practical, modern examples, this program teaches adults to visually recognize speech sounds in single words and phrases. The section on practice in natural speaking situations include activities, trivia, stories, and humor. 16 different speakers present hundreds of examples in noisy and quiet environments. 057 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: COMMUNICATION, LANGUAGE SKILLS

VH 4389 I Shot Andy Warhol
Summary: Valerie Solanas, a lesbian writer, loner and prostitute has come to the Big Apple with one goal in mind: to spread the gospel of her radical feminism. Desperate for an audience, she latches onto the fringes of Warhol's glamorous sex and drug laced Factory scene. But as her zeal swerves dangerously out of control, her private madness leads to a bizarre obsession with the artist himself - and a final explosive act of violence. Directed by Mary Harron. 105 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: COMMUNICATION, DRAMA

VH 3705 I, The Worst Of All (Yo, La Peor De Todas)
Summary: Drawn from Nobel Prize Winner Octavio Paz's book, THE TRAPS OF FAITH, I THE WORST OF ALL is a magnificent portrayal of 17th century Mexican poet Sister Juana Ines de la Cruz, one of the Spanish language's greatest poets. In order to pursue her passion for writing, Juana (Assumpta Serna) enters the convent. There she develops an intimate relationship with vicereine (Dominique Sanda), who inspires her poetry. But when the forces of the Inquisition invade the convent, the women have only each other to turn to. Director: Maria-Luisa Bemberg. 105 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: COMMUNICATION, WRITERS , LATIN AMERICAN ,DRAMA, BIOGRAPHY

VH 2699 I Went to the Dance
Summary: Infectious music film on Louisiana French and Zydeco music so that it's hard to stay seated...It is a feast of folkloric scholarship, human history, regional color and irresistible music, an inspiring "must see" for anyone interested in American folkways or music. The film contains all the pertinent info...blended with wonderful performances and recollections of the various musicians... The Cajun sense of love lost comes through in almost all 084 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 0812 Illusions of News
Summary: This program examines the impact of the visual image in news & politics in the electing of Presidents & the governing of America. 058 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: PUBLIC MIND, THE - BILL MOYERS

VH 5367 Image of an Assassination: A New Look at the Zapruder Film
Summary: A state-of-the-art digital replication of the home movies shot by manufacturer Abraham Zapruder of the assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963, which has become one of the most important documents of the 20th century. 045 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: COMMUNICATION, AMERICAN STUDIE

VH 6418 Images of the World and the Inscriptions of War
Summary: An experimental film in which a high compression collage of photos taken at Auschwitz by the SS and aerial shots of the camp taken by Allied bombers build inexorably into an unforgettable poem of anxiety. 075 Min. VIDEO 1999 Subject: COMMUNICATION, DRAMA, HOLOCAUST Series: FILMS OF HARUN FAROCKI

VH 4599 Imagining Indians
Summary: To produce this film, tribal communities in Arizona, Washington, Montana, South Dakota, and New Mexico were visited. The Hopi filmmaker presents a Native perspective on the misrepresentation of Native Americans in feature films. Intercut is a subtheme about how a "noble savage" view of Native Americans has gone hand-in-hand with the commodification and appropriation of their arts and material culture. 060 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: NATIVE AMERICAN,COMMUNICATION

VH 1750 Imitation of Life
Summary: Lana Turner, John Gavin, Sandra Dee & Dan O'Herlihy. Directed by Douglas Sirk. Two women friends, one white, one black, both lose rapport with their daughters as all pursue careers & romance. 124 Min. VIDEO 1959 Subject: COMMUNICATION, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 0914 Importance of Being Earnest, The
Summary: A witty, delightful story about a love struck suitor named Jack whose fiancee can only love a man named Earnest. Michael Redgrave, Michael Denison, Margaret Rutherford, Edith Evans, Dorothy Tutin, Joan Greenwood. Director: Anthony Asquith. 095 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4403 Improper Conduct
Summary: This documentary is a series of interviews with an array of Cuban intellectuals who have been persecuted under the Castro regime. The directors, Nestor Almendros and Orlando Jimenez Leal are themselves exiles. 110 Min. VIDEO 1984 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2254 Improving Nurse-Client Effectiveness
Summary: Discusses specific guidelines for working with clients whose medical beliefs, practices, and attitudes toward health care differ significantly from those of the caregiver, emphasizing how to deliver optimum health care to such clients. 028 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: TRANSCULTURAL PERSPECTIVES IN NURSING

VH 4912 In & Out
Summary: Kevin Kline plays stunned Howard, scrambling to go forth with his wedding to devoted Emily and doing his best to assert his manliness after a former student who's now a superstar actor tells an audience of millions that Howard is gay. Poor Howard is outed when he doesn't even know he is in. Directed by Frank Oz. 092 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 5643 Information Withheld / Shifters
Summary: Program 1 dramatized the nature of signs and symbols in an ascending order of complexity, from traffic signals and hieroglyphs to Michelangelo's painting of The Madonna with child with St. Joseph. Program 2 dismantles the narrative mode and distinguishes six recurring themes, including Egypt, Napoleon, the scholars, the abuse of a cat and a melodrama. 056 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 8064 An Injury to One
Summary: Provides a glimpse of early 20th century American labor history in Butt e, Montana and how the history of Butte was entirely shaped by its exploitation by the Anaconda Mining Company. Chronicles the mysterious death of Wobbly organ izer Frank Little in August 1917 who was abducted by still-unknown assailants wh o hung him from a railroad bridge. 053 Min. VIDEO 2002 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2755 Innocence Unprotected
Summary: Innocence Unprotected combines the first Serbian talkie, with those who made it some twenty years later, and with wartime newsreels. 078 Min. VIDEO 1968 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 8085 Intercultural Relationships
Summary: Describes how intercultural communication offers us the opportunity to interact with a wide range of different people, enriching our experiences. Explores the diversity of communication patterns between cultures and offers suggestions for building bridges of understanding. Considers differences in verbal codes and nonverbal codes between cultures and some of the common barriers that disrupt effective intercultural communication. 029 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: HUMAN COMMUNICATION

VH 2100 Interrogation
Summary: Krystyna Janda, Adam Ferency, Agnieszka Holland, Anna Romantowska. Directed by Richard Bugajski. The film details the horrifying abuse of a cabaret singer in 1950's Warsaw. After a one-night-stand with a military officer, she is taken into custody by the secret police and imprisoned, without ever being informed of her alleged crime. 118 Min. VIDEO 1982 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2139 Intolerance, Part 1
Summary: The 1916 epic drama that depicts man's prejudice and bigotry in four interwoven storylines that range from ancient times to modern day. Mae Marsh, Lillian Gish, Robert Harron, Constance Talmadge and Erich Von Stroheim. Directed by D.W. Griffith. 108 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2140 Intolerance, Part 2
Summary: The 1916 epic drama that depicts man's prejudice and bigotry in four interwoven storylines that range from ancient times to modern day. Mae Marsh, Lillian Gish, Robert Harron, Constance Talmadge and Erich Von Stroheim. Directed by D.W. Griffith. 069 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 8122 Introduction To Business Communications:Tools For Leadership
Summary: Introduction To Business Communications: Tools For Leadership. Group Dynamics/ Executive Producer, Lyn Goldfarb; Producer, Lynne Hill. 058 Min. VIDEO 2000 Subject: COMMUNICATION, MANAGEMENT

VH 1618 Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Summary: Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, Carolyn Jones. Directed by Don Siegel. Subtle science fiction film is a classic of paranoia as the inhabitants of a small town are gradually replaced by doubles grown from strange alien "pods". 080 Min. VIDEO 1955 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 5215 Invisible Walls
Summary: Focuses on common American beliefs about personal space, showing that people encase themselves in invisible walls about 18 inches from their bodies, and that violation of these imaginary walls cause a feeling of discomfort. 012 Min. VIDEO Subject: PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY , ANTHROPOLOGY , COMMUNICATION

VH 1852 Invocation: Maya Deren - A Film By Jo Ann Kaplan
Summary: A history of the films of Maya Deren, an important American independent film maker, with remembrances of her by her colleagues. 053 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4759 Iron Mask, The
Summary: The fearless d'Artagnan rights the wrongs in France during the reign of Louis XIII. Directed by: Alexandre Dumas. 086 Min. VIDEO 1929 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4509 Island of Lost Souls
Summary: This is an adaptation of the book "The Island of Dr. Moreau". Dr. Moreau lives in his own private South Seas island and transforms animals into partial humans. Directed by Erle C. Kenton. 071 Min. VIDEO 1932 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 8118 It's Not What You Say: Mastering Basic Communication
Summary: One of a three-part video series of videos describing winning strategies to show you the difference word choice can make. Find out what nonverbal communication is all about and understand the power of emotional love. 026 Min. VIDEO 2003 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1782 Italianamerican & The Big Shave
Summary: "Italianamerican"--Scorsese captures the rapid-fire storytelling of his two irrepressible parents and in the process becomes little "Marty" all over again. Shot on location in his parents' little Italy apartment. "The Big Shave" --A young man nicks himself shaving and suddenly, an ordinary morning is transformed into a frightening religious experience. 054 Min. VIDEO 1974 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3549 Jaws
Summary: In 1975, director Steven Spielberg brought Peter Benchley's best-selling novel to the screen. One of the greatest box-office attractions in motion picture history. Jaws left an indelible mark upon the movie-going (and beach-going!) public, distilling a sea of fear from these five words:"Don't go in the water." Once the terror begins, Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss and Robert Shaw must join forces on a desperate quest to destroy a killer embodying nearly three tons of instant white death. 125 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3778 La Jetee
Summary: After the destruction of World War III, a desperate band of survivors, living underground, uses their remaining scientific resources to find a way out of the radioactive impasse. They draw upon the future for the means of survival by performing experiments in time travel. The hero voyages into the past before the bombs fell, where he encounters a woman he had glimpsed as a child at the Paris airport. He falls in love and chooses to remain with her rather than return to his hopeless future, but one cannot escape time. Directed by Chris Marker. Plus 1934 "Buck Rogers" film shown at the Chicago World's Fair and cult cartoon "Bambi Meets Godzilla!" 042 Min. VIDEO 1962 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1628 La Joli Mai (The Happy Month of May)
Summary: A series of interviews with ordinary people in the streets of Paris speaking about their lives and feelings while living in France in May of 1962, the year of Algerian War came to an end. In French, with English titles added; narration in English. 024 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4716 Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000
Summary: Tells the story of eight veterans of 1968, stranded between revolution and accommodation, each with their own eccentric answers to the problems of society. Directed by: Alain Tanner. 110 Min. VIDEO 1976 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2595 Ju Dou
Summary: They were destined, if not doomed, to be together. She was the mill owner's battered bride; he was his overworked nephew. Out of their plight grew a profound and powerful secret love. Their hearts were free, but only murder could free the lovers from the tyranny of the mill owner. Or could it? Gong Li, Li Bao-Tian, Li Wei, Zhang Yi, Sheng Jian. Directed by Z. Yi-mou and Y. Feng Liang. 098 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4742 Jud Suss
Summary: The anti-Jewish images it propounded contributed greatly to Hitler's policy, aimed at European Jews. The real power of the film lies in its blending of art and propaganda to create a devastating subconscious anti-Semitic statement. Directed by: Veit Harlan. 100 Min. VIDEO 1940 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1795 Jungle Fever
Summary: A married black architect's affair with his white secretary provides the backdrop for a cold look at interracial love. Wesley Snipes, Annabella Sciorra , Spike Lee, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Samuel L. Jackson, Lonette McKee, John Turturro, Anthony Quinn, Halle Berry, Tyra Ferrell. Explores the provocative consequences of interracial relationships. Director: Spike Lee. Soundtrack by Stevie Wonder. 131 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: COMMUNICATION, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 4622 Just Another Girl on the I.R.T.
Summary: A spirited Brooklyn teenager coping with life in the projects fiercely wants to go to college and become a doctor. Directed by Leslie Harris. 096 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: COMMUNICATION, DRAMA, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 4743 Juve Contre Fantomas
Summary: The second chapter of the Fantomas serial about the adventures of Fantomas, the mysterious bandit in a black hood who is relentlessly tracked by Juve, the detective. Directed by: Louis Feuillade. 045 Min. VIDEO 1913 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2916 Keys To Effective Speaking
Summary: Gives the 3 p's of effective public speaking: preparation, practice, and performance. 055 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2573 Killer of Sheep
Summary: Shows the struggle of an African American slaughter house worker to survive economic and social obstacles. 079 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: COMMUNICATION, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 2315 Killing Floor, The
Summary: Set in the early 1900's, this true story retells the often brutal and violent beginnings of the U.S. Labor Movement through the eyes of a Southern black share cropper who finds work in a Chicago slaughterhouse. Director: Bill Duke. 118 Min. VIDEO 1985 Subject: COMMUNICATION, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 2529 Killing Screens, The: Media and the Culture of Violence
Summary: Featuring Dr. George Gerbner, the foremost and most respected communication scholar. "The Killing Screens" addresses the psychological, political, social, and developmental impacts of growing and living within a cultural environment of pervasive, ritualized violent representation. Noted lecturer and educational film maker Dr. Jean Kilbourne guides us through the questions and perspectives offered by Dr. Gerbner. 040 Min. VIDEO Subject: PSYCHOLOGY, COMMUNICATION, SOCIOLOGY Series: GEORGE GERBNER ON MEDIA AND CULTURE

VH 1435 Killing Us Softly
Summary: Explores the image of women presented by modern advertising. Illustrates, with examples, the use of women as sex objects. See also "Still Killing Us Softly",VH 3548. 030 Min. VIDEO 1979 Subject: COMMUNICATION, MARKETING

VH 3077 Kindergarten
Summary: A semi-autobiographical film which follows the adventures of a young boy, violin in hand, cast adrift in Russia during World War II. Chock full of colorful characters, songs, poetry and surreal interludes, the film bursts with exuberance and deeply felt sentiment that characterize Yevtushenko's finest poems. 143 Min. VIDEO 1983 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3051 King Kong
Summary: Behold the discovery of the giant ape King Kong on Skull Island, his terrifying battle against the prehistoric creatures that live there, and his brutal murder of the ship's sailors who follow him. See Kong's voyage to New York and his fatal attraction to the beautiful Fay Wray, leading to death and destruction as Kong pursues Fay through New York City. Witness the awe-inspiring finale as Kong ascends the Empire State Building - only to be shot. Director: Merian C. Cooper. 100 Min. VIDEO 1933 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 0910 Kiss of the Spider Woman
Summary: Release of the 1985 motion picture. Based on the novel of the same title by Manuel Puig, originally published in Spanish as: El beso de la mujer arana. In a prison cell somewhere in Latin America, Molina and Valentin have only one thing in common--they are both victims of society. This is the complex story of the relationship that develops between two men with radically different perspectives on life. William Hurt, Raul Julia, Sonia. Director: Hector Babenco. 119 Min. VIDEO 1986 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 7565 KPFA On The Air
Summary: Film reviews America's first listener-supported community radio station, KPFA, during the station's first fifty years. 056 Min. VIDEO 2000 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4747 Kriemhilde's Revenge
Summary: Kriemhilde avenges the murder of Siegfried by marrying Attila the Hun and causing mass slaughter. Directed by: Fritz Lang. 095 Min. VIDEO 1924 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4623 L'Atalante
Summary: This is the restored version of the 1934 film by Jean Vigo. This video tells the story of a young woman's stormy initiation into marriage. In French with English subtitles. Directed by Jean Vigo. 087 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: COMMUNICATION, DRAMA

VH 4946 L'Avventura
Summary: A wealthy woman disappears while on a yachting trip and her lover and best friend begin having a love affair. Directed by: Michelangelo Antonioni. In Italian with English subtitles. 145 Min. VIDEO 1960 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4655 Lair of the White Worm, The
Summary: James D'Ampton returns to his country castle in England. Legend has it that James' distant ancestor once slayed the local dragon - a monstrous white worm with a fondness for the sweet flesh of virgins. The young Lord dismissed the legend as folklore, until archaeology student, Angus Flint, unearths a massive reptilian skull and the ancient worship site of a pagan snake god on James' property. Directed by Ken Russell. 093 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 8105 Language Development
Summary: Intended for teachers, parents, youth workers and volunteers, defines language and instructional needs for inner city children. Topics include strategies for parents to use in order to develop their children's language abilities. Social context are emphasized in the language development of children birth to adolescence. 048 Min. VIDEO 2000 Subject: LANGUAGE SKILLS,COMMUNICATION

VH 5246 Language of the Body
Summary: Although humans can make more than 3000 hand gestures even the simplest has numerous variations and interpretations. This program, filmed on five continents catalogues not only hand gestures, but facial expressions. 050 Min. VIDEO 1999 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2716 Language Taboos: Cultural
Summary: A college credit course on the nature of language and how people communicate. 029 Min. VIDEO 1983 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: LANGUAGE & MEANING

VH 6932 Last Bolshevik, The
Summary: Examines the life and work of Russian film director, Alexander Medvedki n. 118 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4402 Last Call At Maud's
Summary: Last Call at Maud's is a look at the life and times of the world's longest running lesbian bar, San Francisco's Maud's. Opened in 1966, Maud's was a popular meeting place until it closed its doors in 1989. Directed by: Paris Poirier. 077 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1614 Lesbian Humor: Films of Barbara Hammer
Summary: Details & issues of personal relationships are explored in a sensitive & humorous way. VIDEO 1989 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4155 Little Mermaid, The
Summary: Mermaids are supposed to stay under the sea, but there was never a mermaid quite like Ariel. The headstrong teenager longs to be part of the magical world on land, much to the dismay of her father, King Triton. When she falls in love with a human prince, Ariel looks to Ursula, a divinely diabolical sea witch, who makes Ariel human in exchange for her golden voice. With the help of her friends, shy, lovable Flounder and Sebastian, a reggae-singing crab, Ariel must win her prince's love in a thrilling race against time. 083 Min. VIDEO Subject: COMMUNICATION, MUSICAL

VH 3449 Look Who's Talking
Summary: If you've always wanted to know what a baby thinks of the world around him, you've finally got your chance. With Bruce Willis supplying the voice of Mikey's thoughts, this is one baby who says exactly what's on his mind. Director: Amy Heckerling. 096 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2870 Looking for Langston
Summary: Swooning, stylish, and sexy, the film is a musing meditation of the black poet Langston Hughes. Across its multi-textured elements, the film attempts to reclaim Langston Hughes as an important black gay voice in American culture. Enlisting the poetry of Essex Hamphill and Bruce Nugent, and dedicated to the memory of James Baldwin. A lyrical exploration of black and white gay identities. Original footage of the Cotton Club in the 1920's and period blues. 045 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: COMMUNICATION, WRITERS , AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 5079 Lost World, The
Summary: Professor Challenger, the man of vision, persuades his colleagues to return to a remote South American plateau where he has discovered living dinosaurs. 090 Min. VIDEO 1925 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4749 Love Never Dies
Summary: Based on the novel, "The Cottage of Delight" by William Nathaniel Harben. Directed by: King Vidor. 055 Min. VIDEO 1922 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4748 Love of Jeanne Ney, The
Summary: A blind girl in a story of politics, intrigue, and robbery and murder. Directed by: G.W. Pabst. 098 Min. VIDEO 1927 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3090 Lumumba: Death of a Prophet
Summary: Patrice Lumumba (1925-61) is remembered less for his lasting achievements than as a shining symbol of the struggle for self determination. This film is director Raoul Peck's moving mediation on the tragic events of Lumumba's twelve month rise and fall as Zaire's first and only popularly elected prime minister. Directed by Raoul Peck. 070 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: LIBRARY OF AFRICAN CINEMA

VH 3887 Lyrical Nitrate
Summary: Directed by Peter Delpeut. Nitrate stock was the only film in use during the early days of filmmaking and half the films shot on the extremely volatile stock are thought to have disintegrated. Delpeut preserved some crumbling fragments of stock found in an Amsterdam theater and put them together with an appropriate period soundtrack. 050 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 5076 Mademoiselle Striptease
Summary: Brigitte Bardot is a romp of a girl who becomes tied-in with the theft of a rare and valuable book, and her shenanigans as she tries to get herself disinvolved. Directed by: Marc Allegret. 099 Min. VIDEO 1956 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3677 Magic Of Melies, The
Summary: In 1896, Georges Melies began taking short actualities, which he showed at his Theatre-Robert Houdin. Melies's films were extremely influential and popular in the United States during the 1901-1903 period, until the production of violent crime films in Great Britain and the United States took cinema in a new direction. Melies, however, continued to produce a combination of spectacular story films and trick pictures, many of which are included in this volume. Director: Melies. 103 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: MOVIES BEGIN, THE: A TREASURY OF EARLY CINEMA 1894-1914

VH 7581 Makhmalbaf: Unveiling an Islamic Filmmaker
Summary: Excerpts of interviews with thirteen Iranian artists, writers, critics, and journalists who now live in America. The interviewees comment on Makhmalbaf and his films. Includes clips from Makhmalbaf's films and a brief phone interview with him. 066 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1409 Making "Do The Right Thing"
Summary: Captures the people, places, things and often humorous incidents behind the making of Spike Lee's movie, "Do The Right Thing," during ten weeks in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. 060 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3003 Making Your Point Without Saying a Word
Summary: You can communicate more effectively by mastering the subtle visual and vocal aspects of presenting yourself - by learning how to send the right nonverbal signals at the right times. You'll get expert advice on how to use gestures, posture, eye contact, tone of voice, and facial expression to get your ideas across - and get the results you want. Shows you how to increase the impact and power of what you say - and how you say it - with a focus on 030 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3762 Malcolm X: His Own Story As It Really Happened
Summary: Adapted for the screen from the autobiography he wrote with Alex Haley's assistance, Malcolm X is a stirring portrait of the man whose life has become a rallying cry for millions. Seen in rare footage - and captured with full force in his firebrand speeches and interviews. Newsreel footage and other filmed sequences reveal the man behind the headlines - from boyhood to his terrifying assassination. 092 Min. VIDEO 1972 Subject: COMMUNICATION, BIOGRAPHY , AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 0911 Maltese Falcon, The
Summary: Videocassette release of the 1941 motion picture. Based on the novel by Dashiell Hammett. After the death of his partner, private eye Sam Spade is dragged into a quest for a priceless statuette. Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George, Peter Lorre, Barton Maclane, Lee Patrick, Sydney Greenstreet. Director: John Huston. 101 Min. VIDEO 1941 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1414 Man Escaped, A
Summary: In 1943, Lt. Fontaine is captured by the Gestapo and is imprisoned in Fort Montluc. He carefully plans his escape but puts it off until sentenced to death. 102 Min. VIDEO Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4894 Man Who Knew Too Much, The
Summary: A wealthy British couple who, on a vacation in St. Moritz, unwittingly befriend a secret agent investigating a political assassination plot. Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock. 075 Min. VIDEO 1934 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2819 Man with a Movie Camera, The
Summary: A plotless, experimental view of Moscow through the creative eye of the cameraman Dziga Vertov, founder of the Kino Eye. The editing methods and camera techniques used in this silent film were very influential and still stand up to scrutiny today. 094 Min. VIDEO 1985 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4005 Managing Across Cultures
Summary: Provides insight on the importance of negotiation skills when dealing with international business enterprises. 027 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: COMMUNICATION, INT BUS , MANAGEMENT

VH 1340 Mandela
Summary: The story of Nelson and Winnie Mandela is about one couple standing for a whole nation's political history. It is a stirring tale of passion and reason in a land still divided by racial prejudice and hate. Director: Philip Saville. 135 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1770 Mandingo
Summary: Based on a novel by Kyle Onstott. Shows the true brutalizing nature of slavery, which made victims of both owner and slave. Director Richard Fleischer. 126 Min. VIDEO 1975 Subject: COMMUNICATION, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 2715 Manipulation of Language & Meaning, The
Summary: A part of Language and Meaning series. A college credit course on the nature of language and how people communicate. 029 Min. VIDEO 1983 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: LANGUAGE & MEANING

VH 2327 Manufacturing Consent--Pt. 1, Thought Control in a Dem. Soc.
Summary: Focuses on democratic societies where populations not disciplined by force are subjected to more subtle forms of ideological control. Shocking examples of media deception permeate Chomsky's critique of the forces at work behind the daily news. Chomsky encourages his listeners to extricate themselves from this "web of deceit" by undertaking a course of "intellectual self-defense." 095 Min. VIDEO Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: MANUFACTURING CONSENT--NOAM CHOMSKY AND THE MEDIA

VH 2328 Manufacturing Consent--Pt. 2, Activating Dissent
Summary: Explores the political life and times of the controversial author, linguist, and radical philosopher Noam Chomsky. Focuses on Chomsky's analysis of ideological manipulation in democratic societies. 072 Min. VIDEO Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: MANUFACTURING CONSENT--NOAM CHOMSKY AND THE MEDIA

VH 1745 Mapantsula (Hustler)
Summary: (Zulu, subtitled in English). Thomas Mogotlane. Directed by Oliver Schmitz. Mogotlane plays Panic, a petty township hoodlum whose "looking out for number one" attitude undergoes a gradual change as he finds himself caught up in forces that are too large for him to ignore. 104 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: COMMUNICATION, DRAMA Series: LIBRARY OF AFRICAN CINEMA

VH 2753 Marianne & Juliane
Summary: Powerful combination of relationships and politics in West Germany as experienced through the lives of two sisters, Juliane, a feminist editor, and Marianne, a political terrorist. Based on the lives of Gudrun and Christiane Ensslin. Director: Margarethe Von Trotta. English subtitles. 103 Min. VIDEO 1981 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1629 Marlene
Summary: Legendary film star Marlene Dietrich is the elusive subject of actor Maximillian Schell's frustrating but always compelling film biography. Director: Maximillian Schell. 097 Min. VIDEO 1986 Subject: COMMUNICATION, BIOGRAPHY

VH 2098 Marriage of Maria Braun, The
Summary: Hanna Schygulla & Klaus Lowitsch. Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Score by Peer Raben. A provocative portrait of a sensuous beauty who sells herself for wealth, & the husband who sacrifices his freedom for her. In German with English subtitles. 120 Min. VIDEO 1979 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1396 Marshal Blucher: A Portrait Against
Summary: The film tries to unlock the riddle of the dramatic 1930s in the Soviet Union through the biography of one hero. Marshal Vasily Blucher was declared an "enemy of the people" and perished in Stalin's torture chambers. Rare archival footage illustrates the excesses of the Stalin era. 069 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: COMMUNICATION, BIOGRAPHY Series: GLASNOST FILM FESTIVAL, THE

VH 4651 Martin
Summary: Martin is a misunderstood young man who happens to be a vampire...maybe. The sun really just bothers his eyes a little, garlic and crosses have no effect, and he has no fangs. He also doesn't have any vampiric powers, which makes acquiring blood an extremely harrowing experience for all involved. An excellent combination of satire and gore. Director: George A. Romero. 096 Min. VIDEO 1977 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3657 Martin Luther King - "I Have a Dream"
Summary: When 200,000 civil rights marchers - black and white - gathered at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, they expected to hear strong words from their spiritual leader, Martin Luther King. What they did not expect was a speech of such heartfelt passion and poetic eloquence that it echoes still in our memory. 025 Min. VIDEO 1986 Subject: CIVIL RIGHTS , COMMUNICATION, U.S. HISTORY , AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 0913 Marty
Summary: Marty is a tender and heartwarming love story. A 34-year-old Brooklyn plain-looking butcher fears that he will never find love but at a Saturday night dance he meets a girl with similar fears. Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair. Director: Delbert Mann. 094 Min. VIDEO 1955 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1611 Maya Deren Experimental Films
Summary: Collected experimental films. "Meshes of the Afternoon," "At Land," "A Study in Choreography for Camera," "Ritual in Transfigured Time", "Meditation on Violence," & "The Very Eye of Night." Director: Maya Deren. 076 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 6232 McLuhan Videos 1958-1964
Summary: Presents the most complete video record of communications theorist Marshall McLuhan. Using video footage from the 1940's to the late 1970's, this program traces the development of McLuhan's thinking and takes the viewer through McLuhan's rise to prominence on the world stage. McLuhan discusses and argues his themes in the classroom, on the lecture circuit, on TV talk shows and news magazines programs. 051 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: VIDEO MCLUHAN, THE

VH 6233 McLuhan Videos 1965-1970
Summary: Video presents the perspectives of communications theorist Marshall McLuhan. 040 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: VIDEO MCLUHAN, THE

VH 6234 McLuhan Videos 1972-1979
Summary: Video presents perspectives of communication theorist Marshall McLuhan. 043 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: VIDEO MCLUHAN, THE

VH 4941 Mean Streets
Summary: This is Martin Scorsese's semi-autobiographical tale of the lifestyles of the first generation sons and daughters of New York's Little Italy. Directed by: Martin Scorsese. 112 Min. VIDEO 1973 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 8088 Media Truth of Fiction
Summary: Self defense against misleading statistics! Teaches critical thinking skills needed to determine the truth or fiction behind results obtained from opinion polls, research studies, or other sets of data. 023 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1408 Media War in El Salvador
Summary: Examines the use and influence of the media during elections in El Salvador. 023 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: COMMUNICATION, LATIN AMERICAN

VH 4715 Medium Cool
Summary: The time: 1968. The place: Chicago, setting of the Democratic National Convention and a hotbed of political and social change. As protesters and police face off in the streets, fate brings together an unlikely pair: John, a dispassionate TV news cameraman, and Eileen, a warmhearted Appalachian raising her son in a Chicago ghetto. Their relationship deepens and so does the impending danger, as John and Eileen are swept into a maelstrom of fear and violence that has captured the attention of an entire nation. Directed by: Haskell Wexler. 111 Min. VIDEO 1969 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1054 Meetings, Bloody Meetings
Summary: Illustrates the basic principles for conducting more productive meetings. 030 Min. VIDEO 1976 Subject: MANAGEMENT, COMMUNICATION

VH 1621 Memories of Underdevelopment
Summary: Set in the early 1960's. An antirevolutionary, Europeanized intellectual takes a stand against the new government in Cuba. Director: Tomas Gutierrez Alea. 097 Min. VIDEO 1968 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 8098 Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus: But We Have To Live
Summary: Shares the successes and failures of six couples as they test the martial advice offered by John Gray, author of the phenomenal bestseller "Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus." Directed by David Goodman. 090 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2655 Mental Health: Communicating Therapeutically
Summary: Explores the relation of psychological effects of illness and hospitalization on the patient. Specific techniques and blocks to communication are addressed. VIDEO 1992 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3224 Message from Minister Louis Farrakhan, A
Summary: Series of speeches delivered in the months preceding and immediately following the Million Man March in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 16, 1995. 158 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES ,COMMUNICATION, CIVIL RIGHTS

VH 1674 Metropolis
Summary: This futuristic city is controlled by tyrannical industrialists who live in splendor, while slavelike workers live underground in squalor. Director: Fritz Lang. 090 Min. VIDEO 1927 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 6693 Mickey Mouse Monopoly
Summary: Takes a close and critical look at the animated films produced by the Disney Company, and at the world these films create (in terms of the stories told about race, gender and class) and reaches disturbing conclusions about the values propagated under the guise of innocence and fun. 052 Min. VIDEO 2001 Subject: AMERICAN STUDIE,COMMUNICATION, MARKETING

VH 3860 Midnight Cowboy
Summary: Focuses on the strangely moving relationship between two losers: Joe, a native Texan who is convinced he can make a living in the city by selling himself to lonely rich women, and Ratso Rizzo, the seedy, crippled con artist who becomes Joe's only friend. Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Brenda Vaccaro. Based on the novel by James Leo Herlihy. Director: John Schlesinger. 113 Min. VIDEO 1969 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 5252 Midnight Ramble
Summary: Centers its story around the career of the foremost of early filmmakers , the controversial and prolific Oscar Micheaux. Originally an author and ranch er, Micheaux decided to direct a film based on his novel, "The Homesteader," an d went on to direct over 40 more features. His race movies were among the first to explore taboo subjects such as alcoholism, crime, morality, education, class conflict - even interracial relationships, racism, and lynching. 057 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3382 Midnight Ramble - The Story Of the Black Film Industry
Summary: Recounts the history of a remarkable film industry that produced close to 500 movies for African-American audiences between 1910 and World War II. The success of D.W. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation" in 1915 helped inspire the formation of more than thirty "race" movie companies who sought to counteract the loathsome stereotypes shown in the film. By the 1920's, these companies were producing films that gave a more dignified view of African-American life in hundreds of movie theaters. 057 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: COMMUNICATION, AMERICAN STUDIE,AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES Series: AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, THE

VH 5206 Midwinter's Tale, A
Summary: Writers/director Kenneth Branagh serves up a Hamlet on wry with this salute to dyed-in-the-wool and often wooly-brained thespians. 098 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: COMMUNICATION, SHAKESPEARE

VH 3890 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. Director: Michael Curtiz. 112 Min. VIDEO 1945 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3218 Million Man March, The (Part 1)
Summary: Coverage of the Million Man March in Washington, D.C., on Oct 16, 1995, organized by Louis Farrakhan. 313 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES ,COMMUNICATION, CIVIL RIGHTS

VH 3219 Million Man March, The (Part 2)
Summary: Minister Louis Farrakhan speech delivered at the historic Million Man March in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 16, 1995. 280 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES ,COMMUNICATION, CIVIL RIGHTS

VH 2349 Mississippi Masala
Summary: An interracial romance sets off a cultural collision in a small Southern town when Mina, a sheltered Indian woman, falls in love with Demetrius, an ambitious black man with his own carpet-cleaning business. Denzel Washington, Sarita Choudhury, Roshan Seth, Sharmilla Tagore, Charles S. Dutton, Joe Seneca, Ranjit Chowdhry. Director: Mira Nair. 118 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: COMMUNICATION, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 1691 Mo' Better Blues
Summary: Talented trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed by his music and indecisive about his girlfriends Indigo and Clarke. But when he is forced to come to the aid of his manager and childhood friend, Bleek finds his world more fragile than he ever imagined. Denzel Washington, Spike Lee, Joie Lee, Wesley Snipes, Cynda Williams, Giancarlo Esposito, Robin Harris, Bill Nunn, John Turturro, Dick Anthony Williams. Director: Spike Lee. 129 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: COMMUNICATION, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 0908 Modern Times
Summary: This movie is a satire on the effects of mass production on the lives of factory workers and shows Charlie Chaplin as a factory worker, jailbird, night watchman, and a singing waiter. Director: Charlie Chaplin. 087 Min. VIDEO 1936 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3553 Morning After, The
Summary: A superb cast stars in director Sidney Lumet's classic, suspenseful thriller. Jan Fonda, nominated for an Oscar for her portrayal of a struggling alcoholic, awakens in a strange bed - next to a murdered man. She flees in panic that eventually turns into terror. Jeff Bridges is the redneck ex-cop trying to help her through the increasing suspense. Raul Julia is Fonda's suave, ambitious estranged husband. Lumet's seemingly calm sun-drenched Los Angeles provides a startling contrast to the film's frightening reality. 103 Min. VIDEO 1986 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 8090 Motor Disorders of Speech
Summary: In a lecture, J. Douglas Noll, Head of the Dept. of Audiology and speec h Pathology at Purdue University, discusses various types of speech disorders, c ausitive lesions, and therapies. Covers neuroanatomy (upper and lower motor neu rone); model of hierarchies of oral communication (intellectualization, symboliz ation, translation, motor execution); deficits at any level (mental retardation, psychosis, aphasia, apraxia of speech, dysarthria); types of dysarthria, inclui dng flaccid (bulbar), spastic (pseudobulbar), mixed (spastic-flaccial, e.g., amy otrohic lateral sclerosis), ataxic (cerebellar degeneration), hypokinetic (Parki nson's disease), and hyperkinetic (chorea, dystonia); and therapy. 100 Min. VIDEO 1976 Subject: COMMUNICATION, LANGUAGE SKILLS

VH 4148 Mr. Hulot's Holiday
Summary: A wildly funny satire of middle class vacationers on a summer holiday. Mr. Hulot's presence at a very proper French seaside resort provokes one outrageous catastrophe after another. A hilarious blend of colorful characters, sparse dialogue, impeccably timed sight gags, and an innovative sound track. Directed by: Jacques Tati. 086 Min. VIDEO 1953 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1547 Mr. Motto's Last Warning
Summary: The great Japanese detective finds himself up to his neck in murder and clues and has to handle a seemingly endless crew of dangerous suspects. Peter Lorre, George Sanders, Robert Coote, John Carradine. Director: Peter Lorre. 071 Min. VIDEO 1939 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1625 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Summary: Jean Arthur, James Stewart and Claude Rains star in Frank Capra's, "Mr. Smith Goes To Washington," the award winning 1939 classic about an idealistic , small town senator who heads to Washington and suddenly finds himself single-handedly battling ruthless politicians out to destroy him. Director: Frank Capra. 125 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4880 Mumia: A Case for Reasonable Doubt?
Summary: Mumia was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of Daniel Faulkner, a 25 year old white Philadelphia policeman. His conviction has been protested by a number of activists and celebrities who call him a political prisoner because of the perceived irregularities in both the evidence and the conduct of his trial. 074 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: COMMUNICATION, CRIMINOLOGY, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 1808 Murder
Summary: Herbert Marshall & Nora Barring. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Believing a convicted actress is innocent, a jurist conducts his own investigation. Early sound experimentation with background stream-of-consciousness monologues. 092 Min. VIDEO 1930 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3978 Muse of Fire,A / Guid Scots Tongue, The
Summary: 3. "A Muse of Fire" Covers the Age of Exploration, as pilgrims and pirates carried English to the New World. 4."The Guid Scots Tongue" Traces the Scottish influence from Northern Ireland to Appalachia. 116 Min. VIDEO 1986 Subject: LANGUAGE SKILLS,U.S. HISTORY , COMMUNICATION, SHAKESPEARE Series: STORY OF ENGLISH, THE

VH 3085 Mutiny on the Corporate Sponsorship
Summary: Covers corporate sponsorship of the media. Topics included are public access to television and corporate control of the media, and freedom of speech and the press. 056 Min. VIDEO Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3980 Muvver Tongue, The / Loaded Weapon, The
Summary: 7. "The Muvver Tongue" describes how British colonialism helped spread English across the globe. 8. "The Loaded Weapon" centers around the Irish influence on the language, beginning in the 17th century. 115 Min. VIDEO 1986 Subject: LANGUAGE SKILLS,COMMUNICATION Series: STORY OF ENGLISH, THE

VH 3846 My Fair Lady
Summary: Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison star as the unforgettable Eliza Doolittle and Professor Henry Higgins in one of the most beloved movie musicals of all time. Director: George Cukor. 171 Min. VIDEO 1964 Subject: COMMUNICATION, THEATRE , MUSICAL

VH 2506 My Own Private Idaho
Summary: River Phoenix is Mike, a narcoleptic street hustler haunted by his idyllic memories of childhood and obsessed with finding his estranged mother. Keanu Reeves is Scott, a runaway rich kid who's on a personal "crusade" to find the meaning of life, biding his time until he inherits his father's estate. Together they're lost in a bizarre world of wealthy strangers and stranger than life adventures. Director: Gus Van Sant. 105 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: COMMUNICATION, DRAMA

VH 1588 My Uncle
Summary: Written, Directed by, and starring Jacques Tati. Dubbed in English. About the jobless brother-in-law of a wealthy Paris factory owner with no prospects for getting work. The factory owner, his wife and son live in an ultra-modern house, Mr. Hulot does not. 109 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3775 Mystery Train
Summary: Set in Memphis, Jim Jarmusch creates three intertwined tales featuring a unique and compelling cast of characters - A teenage couple from Japan on a pilgrimage to Graceland. A mysterious Italian beauty with plenty of cash, escorting her dead husband's body back to Italy. And an angry, unemployed and armed misfit who goes by the name of Elvis. Their lives will converge tonight at the crossroads of myth and circumstance. Director: Jim Jarmusch. 110 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3017 Nanook of the North
Summary: Created and directed by the legendary Robert J. Flaherty, NANOOK OF THE NORTH embodies the beauty and danger of life in the far north. The camera follows the Eskimo Nanook and his family as they battle the elements and enjoy moments of respite in affection and play. This film masterpiece epitomizes Flaherty's genius at capturing the rhythms of the natural 069 Min. VIDEO 1922 Subject: COMMUNICATION, ANTHROPOLOGY

VH 1383 Nanook Revisited
Summary: The filmmaker revisits the Inuit village where Robert Flaherty filmed Nanook of the North. Examines the realities behind the ground-breaking documentary and the changes since it was made almost 70 years ago. 055 Min. VIDEO 1980 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4605 Narmada Diary, A
Summary: Five years in the life of Narmada Bachao Andolan, the Save Narmad Movement, which has spearheaded the agitation against the dam is documented. In a situation where government resettlement rehabilitation programs have proved inadequate and inappropriate. 060 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: COMMUNICATION, ASIAN STUDIES, ENVIRONMENT

VH 7596 Narrowcasting:Technology and the Rise of the Christian Right
Summary: Discusses how some Christian broadcasters are using their facilities to promote conservative political goals. Using such "wedge issues" as abortion and homophobia, these broadcasters are shaping national dialogue and shaping policies. 029 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3673 Native Land
Summary: Defiantly outspoken and stunningly visual, Native Land exemplifies a phenomenon unique to the era of the Great Depression: a mobilization of artists in a united fight against the social injustices besieging an economically crippled nation. Directed by Leo Hurwitz and Paul Strand. 088 Min. VIDEO 1934 Subject: COMMUNICATION, DRAMA, NATIVE AMERICAN,CIVIL RIGHTS

VH 3086 Netroots: Cultivating the Digital Park
Summary: Describes the need for non-commercial "space" on the information superhighway, where less economically-advantaged people can access information applicable to their local needs. A truly democratic society will provide universal and free access to the Internet. 026 Min. VIDEO Subject: COMMUNICATION, DECISION & INFORMATION SYSTEMS

VH 4795 New Skills for Global Management
Summary: Stephen Rhinesmith teaches how to manage the complexity and conflicts that are inherent in being a global competitor. Working with executive from Pepsi-Cola, KPMG Peat Marwick, Siemens, and Grace Cocoa, he demonstrates how to manage multicultural teams by first recognizing one's own cultural background and biases. 035 Min. VIDEO Subject: INT BUS , MANAGEMENT, BUS ADMIN , COMMUNICATION

VH 3981 New Year's Words: A Look into the Future
Summary: 9. "New Year's Words: A Look into the Future" questions whether English, like Latin, will become a dead language. 058 Min. VIDEO 1986 Subject: LANGUAGE SKILLS,COMMUNICATION Series: STORY OF ENGLISH, THE

VH 2165 Night and Fog
Summary: Disturbing rumination on the atrocities of the Holocaust is one of the most powerful films ever made. Director: Alain Resnais. 032 Min. VIDEO 1955 Subject: COMMUNICATION, HOLOCAUST

VH 5508 Night and Fog
Summary: Disturbing rumination on the atrocities of the Holocaust is one of the most powerful films ever made. Director: Alain Resnais. 032 Min. VIDEO 1955 Subject: HOLOCAUST , COMMUNICATION Series: JEWISH HERITAGE VIDEO COLLECTION

VH 7597 No Carrier: Accessing the Telecommunications Act of 1996
Summary: Discusses the privatization of the public sphere of media and the concentrations and mergers of corporate media not possible prior to the adoption of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. In this country, the only threat to a free press was thought to come from the government; however, what has been overlooked historically is the threat that corporate control of the media can have upon the output of the media. 023 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 8119 Non-Verbal Communication
Summary: Video discusses haw to interpret nonverbal messages, as well as how to use them to become a better communicator by focusing on seven topics - personal space, touch, body movement, artifacts (things we do to our bodies), environment, tone of voice and facial expression. 045 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: COMMUNICATION, LANGUAGE SKILLS

VH 3864 North by Northwest
Summary: Roger Thornhill is not a spy. And he's certainly no murderer. Nevertheless, Thornhill's a wanted man: enemy agents want him dead, the police want him arrested, and a cool, mysterious blonde just plain wants him. A victim of mistaken identity, Thornhill can't afford to make any mistakes of his own - so he embarks on a death defying run for his life. Relentlessly pursued by plane, train and automobile, Thornhill's cross country chase finally ends atop Mt. Rushmore where, if he doesn't watch his step, he could be in for a terrible fall. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. 136 Min. VIDEO 1959 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4130 Notorious
Summary: In this riveting World War II drama, the daughter of a convicted Nazi traitor is hired by an American secret agent to go undercover and find German scientists hiding in Brazil. To prove her loyalty to America, she agrees to marry her father's former Nazi conspirator, even though she and the agent have fallen in love. Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock. 103 Min. VIDEO 1946 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3411 Nukes in Space
Summary: A forceful expose of the government's plan to expand the use of nuclear power weapons in outer space. It reveals the dangers of launching 72 pounds of plutonium to power space exploration (the Cassini Project), taxpayer subsidies, and the clear alternative (solar power). 053 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2070 Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, An
Summary: Based on the short story by Ambrose Bierce. A short film with a devastating effect. A man is about to be hung, accused of sabotage during the Civil War. Manipulating the flow of time, the film tells the story of his final moments on the gallows. Winner of an Academy Award and the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival. Director: Robert Enrico. 029 Min. VIDEO 1962 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1593 October
Summary: Sergei Eisenstein's film tribute to the beginning of the Russian Revolution of 1917. The revolt, the rise & fall of the Provisional government, the civil war, & the struggles of the people to defend themselves against the White Army, are all portrayed through visual images. 102 Min. VIDEO 1927 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4015 Official Story, The
Summary: Details the collapse of an affluent Argentinean family. Alicia, the wife of a successful businessman, faces the ultimate challenge when she begins to suspect that her adopted daughter may have been stolen from a family of "Los desaparecidos"(the disappeared ones). Determined to find out the truth, Alicia risks everything, even at the cost of her own family. Director: Luis Puenzo. 110 Min. VIDEO 1985 Subject: LANGUAGE SKILLS,COMMUNICATION

VH 5644 Oh Nothing
Summary: A mediated romance, an urban love story created from 1 second "spots" of desire, design, consumerism and distraction. In the beautifully designed city of Toronto, Rebecca and Kevin battle each other, the corporate sponsors, and their own minds in a continual game of distraction. 012 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 6235 Ohio State University Panel 1958
Summary: Video presentation concerning communication theorist Marshall McLuhan. 030 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: VIDEO MCLUHAN, THE

VH 1331 Olympia: Festival of Beauty, Part II
Summary: Videocassette release of the 1936-1938 documentary, the film of the Olympic Games, part II, includes field hockey, soccer, aquatic, bicycling, sailing and rowing events, marathon and by Leni Riefenstahl-Produktion. 096 Min. VIDEO 1984 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1610 Open City
Summary: Directed by Roberto Rossellini. Episodic, highly influential classic that shows the effects of the German occupation during World War II on the citizens of Rome. Notable for being filmed by director Rossellini under the Nazi's noses, using unknown actors & a shoestring budget. In Italian, subtitled in English. 103 Min. VIDEO 1945 Subject: EUROPEAN STUDIE,SOCIOLOGY , COMMUNICATION

VH 5950 Open City
Summary: Directed by Roberto Rossellini. Episodic, highly influential classic that shows the effects of the German occupation during World War II on the citizens of Rome. Notable for being filmed by director Rossellini under the Nazi's noses, using unknown actors & a shoestring budget. In Italian, subtitled in English. 103 Min. VIDEO 1945 Subject: COMMUNICATION, EUROPEAN STUDIE,SOCIOLOGY

VH 5951 Open City
Summary: Directed by Roberto Rossellini. Episodic, highly influential classic that shows the effects of the German occupation during World War II on the citizens of Rome. Notable for being filmed by director Rossellini under the Nazi's noses, using unknown actors & a shoestring budget. In Italian, subtitled in English. 101 Min. VIDEO 1945 Subject: COMMUNICATION, EUROPEAN STUDIE,SOCIOLOGY

VH 3619 Opening Night
Summary: Academy Award nominee Gena Rowlands (Best Actress - A Woman Under The Influence) and screen favorites Ben Gazzara and John Cassavetes deliver riveting performances in this story of heartfelt emotion and electrifying courage. Rowlands shines as Myrtle Gordon, a Broadway actress at the height of a brilliant career. But when suddenly touched by personal crisis, she faces the drama of real life. Director: John Cassavetes. 144 Min. VIDEO Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4732 Orchids and Ermine
Summary: Silent. Black and White. A shortened version of the 1927 seven reel feature released by First National Pictures. Directed by Alfred Santell. 075 Min. VIDEO 1926 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 8095 Orientation to Fluency Disorders
Summary: Training tape intended for college and university students. Uses clinical footage of people with a variety of fluency disorders to illustrate various dimensions of the problem, and discuss therapeutic approaches. Interviews with stutterers, primarily adult, about their disability -- what produces it, what their reactions to it are, how other people respond to it. Normal disfluencies are contrasted with those of stutterers, both adults and children, and core stuttering behavior as well as secondary behaviors are demonstrated along with coping mechanisms. Drs. Herbert Rubin and George Shames discuss causal theories and definitions of stuttering. 090 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2172 Origins of Cinema, The Volume VI
Summary: "Films restored from the Library of Congress paper prints." Includes examples of motion pictures from America, France and Great Britain produced between 1899 and 1908. Includes several films by George Melies among other. 105 Min. VIDEO Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3534 Orlando
Summary: A film adaptation of Virginia Woolf's 1928 novel which covers 400 years in the life of an English nobleman, who not only defies death but evolves from a man to a woman in the intervening years. Director: Sally Potter. 093 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4731 Orphans of the Storm
Summary: Two sisters who are cruelly separated are caught up in the French revolution of 1789. Directed by: D.W. Griffith. 122 Min. VIDEO 1921 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2072 Orpheus Descending
Summary: Vanessa Redgrave & Kevin Anderson. Lady Torrance is saddled with the burden of running her caustic husband's Dry Goods Store while he recuperates upstairs from a lengthy illness. Her fate is sealed however when a young drifter-musician, Val Xavier walks into her life. Director: Peter Hall. 117 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1735 Ouaga: African Cinema Now
Summary: Features, the making of Sarraounia and the Pan African film Festival. 051 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3671 Our Daily Bread
Summary: Perhaps no other feature film made during the Great Depression addressed the plight of the migrant laborer and dispossessed urbanite with the sincerity and conviction of King Vidor's Our Daily Bread. Director: King Vidor. 074 Min. VIDEO 1934 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4404 Out Rage '69
Summary: Revisiting key historical moments that sparked the formation of the gay and lesbian rights movement, Out Rage '69 explores the 1960's, when political and social unrest burst into the Stonewall riots of 1969. 055 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: QUESTION OF EQUALITY, THE

VH 5670 Out Takes
Summary: Shows different attitudes people have about gay people. 013 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4024 Overcoming Your Fear
Summary: Part 2 of a two part series. Part 1 is "Understanding Your Fear." You will learn: Specific remedies for physical symptoms such as a wobbly voice, shaky hands and a racing heart, Mental imagery techniques to help you prepare for a presentation, 10 ways to tame pre-talk jitters once you're in the room with your audience, The best way to get through the first 2 minutes of your speech, no matter how nervous you are, Evaluating your performance, what went right/wrong, and what you will change next time. 042 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: SPEAKING WITHOUT FEAR OR NERVOUSNESS

VH 2723 Panama Deception, The
Summary: In 1989 Panama was turned inside out by 26,000 U.S. government troops searching for one man, Manuel Noriega. Stealth fighters roared overhead, media reports were suppressed, and the civilian body count may have risen into the thousands. While the U.S. government was telling one story, an intrepid group of filmmakers were braving roadblocks and bullets to bring America the truth. This film documents what really happened. See mass graves unearthed exposing 091 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3024 Paris 1900
Summary: Documentary about life in Paris between 1900 and 1914, largely composed of stills from Cinematheque Francaise. English narration by Monty Wooley. Alain Resnais worked as assistant production supervisor on the film. French songs sung by Claude Dauphin. Directed by Nicole Verdres. 119 Min. VIDEO 1950 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2603 Paris is Burning
Summary: Documentary about the young men of Harlem who originated "voguing," and turned these stylized dance competitions into glittering expressions of fierce personal pride. A story of street-wise urban survival, gay self-affirmation and the pursuit of a desperate dream. Director: Jennie Livingston. 076 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2505 Parting Glances
Summary: Michael is editing an S&M science fiction novel he can't stand, his friend and former lover Nick is dying of AIDS and his current lover Robert is about to leave for two years in Africa. And there begins a surprisingly funny, wonderfully acted love story set in the gay scene of Manhattan. Director: Bill Sherwood. 090 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: COMMUNICATION, DRAMA

VH 2709 Patently Offensive: Porn Under Siege
Summary: Examines pornography in its social and historical context. As a dominant force in popular entertainment, porn has redefined the image culture. Its iconography has been coopted by music videos, Hollywood films, tv sitcoms, and especially advertising: the most powerful socializing agents in contemporary life. Contains exclusive footage of the controversial Meese Commission hearings on pornography as well as riveting interviews with 058 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2619 Pathfinder
Summary: Pathfinder unfolds as a savage tribe murders a young boy's entire family in the snow-covered great northern tundra. Razor sharp cross bows and the love of the girl he desperately needs delivers the boy into manhood in an adventure of gripping action and pure suspense. A battle of good against evil and overwhelming odds is fought to the finish. Director: Nils Guip. 088 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4124 Pawnbroker, The
Summary: An embittered survivor of a Nazi death camp can't escape the ghosts of his past or the powerful lesson that awaits him in the future. Now a Harlem pawnbroker, Sol Nazeman condemns the dregs of society who pass through his shop and ridicules his idealistic assistant, Ortiz. But when Ortiz puts his life on the line for Sol, only then does he learn the ultimate truth about hope and humanity. Directed by: Sidney Lumet. 116 Min. VIDEO 1964 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1417 Perfumed Nightmare
Summary: A semi-autobiographical fable about a Filipino named Kidlat Tahimik and his awakening to, and reaction against American cultural colonialism. 092 Min. VIDEO 1986 Subject: COMMUNICATION, DRAMA

VH 6940 Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese, Part 1
Summary: Martin Scorsese presents a personal and topical look at American movies mainly from the 30's to the 60's focusing on the director's tasks and options. Using clips and interviews with directors, Scorsese charts a comprehensive course through the rich history of the American cinema. 076 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: COMMUNICATION, MUSICAL

VH 6941 Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese, Part 2
Summary: Martin Scorsese presents a personal and topical look at American movies mainly from the 30's to the 60's focusing on the director's tasks and options. Using clips and interviews with directors, Scorsese charts a comprehensive course through the rich history of the American cinema. 079 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: COMMUNICATION, MUSICAL

VH 6942 Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese, Part 3
Summary: Martin Scorsese presents a personal and topical look at American movies mainly from the 30's to the 60's focusing on the director's tasks and options. Using clips and interviews with directors, Scorsese charts a comprehensive course through the rich history of the American cinema. 074 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: COMMUNICATION, MUSICAL

VH 6341 Personal Space: Exploring Human Proxemics
Summary: Discusses the concept of personal space and the interpersonal and cultural issues that define it. 028 Min. VIDEO 1999 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ON NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION

VH 3018 Persuasion Gone Awry
Summary: Presents several types of persuasion fallacies & gives examples of each. 028 Min. VIDEO Subject: COMMUNICATION, PSYCHOLOGY

VH 8086 Persuasive Language
Summary: Introduces the concept of persuasion and supports the exploration of pe rsuasion as the focus of an explicit language study. 030 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: LANGUAGE SKILLS,COMMUNICATION

VH 3863 Phantom of Liberty, The
Summary: Links playful nightmares to hilarious satire in a bold mockery of mankind's pretensions to freedom. Director: Luis Bunuel. 104 Min. VIDEO 1974 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3997 Piano Lesson, The
Summary: The Charles family has survived a turbulent past. At the heart of their struggle stands a magnificent piano. A carved piano that carries their family's story from their days as slaves. Boy Willie wants to sell the piano to buy a farm, the same fields their family worked as slaves, but his sister Bernice refuses to part with it. Director: Lloyd Richards. 099 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: COMMUNICATION, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 2891 Picnic
Summary: Based on William Inge's Pulitzer Prize-winning play. A revealing look into the hearts and minds of a select group of Kansas townsfolk over Labor Day weekend, this story William Holden as an itinerant drifter who swings into town, stirring up trouble and awakening the dormant libido of Kim Novak. Director: Joshua Logan. 113 Min. VIDEO 1955 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4913 Pierrot Le Fou
Summary: After attending a mindless party full of shallow chatter, Ferdinand feels his mundane world is closing in on him. Desperately wanting to escape he finds himself in the arms of another woman. Unaware that Marianna's past still haunts her, they take off for the south of France where these two lovers meet their final fate. Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard. In French with English subtitles. 110 Min. VIDEO 1965 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2171 Pioneers of the French Cinema-Volume One
Summary: The museum of Modern Art Film library here assembles many of the very pictures that appeared in first programs in recreation of the experience of the first audiences ever to watch motion pictures on a screen. 060 Min. VIDEO 1900 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 5056 Platoon
Summary: Based on the first hand experience of director Oliver Stone, this is the story of every soldier whose innocence was lost in the war torn jungles of Vietnam. 120 Min. VIDEO 1986 Subject: COMMUNICATION, AMERICAN STUDIE

VH 2500 Player, The
Summary: When callous movie studio executive Griffin Mill starts receiving anonymous death threats from a rejected screenwriter, his already shaky career begins to crumble. Finally, his desperation drives him to kill, but did he rub out the wrong writer? Director: Robert Altman. 124 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: COMMUNICATION, DRAMA

VH 1792 Playtime (Jacques Tati)
Summary: Jacques Tati & Barbara Dennek. Directed by Jacques Tati. Score by Francis Lemarque. This fourth film in the Mr. Hulot series explores the difficulty Mr. Hulot has when trying to keep an appointment. Everything gets in his way from skyscrapers to clumsy waiters. In French with English subtitles. 108 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4156 Pocahontas
Summary: Along Virginia's lush tidewaters, Pocahontas, the free spirited young daughter of Chief Powhatan, wonders what adventures await "just around the riverbend." In sails the gold loving governor Ratcliffe, with his pampered pug Percy and a ship full of English settlers-led by their courageous Captain John Smith. Joined by her playful pals Meeko, a mischievous raccoon, and feisty hummingbird, Flit, Pocahontas relies on the lively wisdom of Grandmother Willow. A chance meeting with Captain Smith leads to a friendship that will change history, as the Native Americans and English settlers learn to live side by side. 081 Min. VIDEO Subject: COMMUNICATION, MUSICAL , NATIVE AMERICAN

VH 1620 Portrait of Teresa
Summary: Daisy Granados, Adolfo Llaurado. Directed by Pastory Vega. Teresa is a housewife and mother who works in a textile factory. Her involvement in political and cultural groups incurs the displeasure of her husband, who expects her to be waiting with a hot meal when he comes home at night. 103 Min. VIDEO 1979 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2669 Power of Suggestion, The - Part 1
Summary:VH 2669-71. Provides a set of tools for studying the history, economics, formulas and myths of soaps. Part 1 contains: The History of Soap Operas, The Economics of Television and How Soap Operas Work. 041 Min. VIDEO Subject: COMMUNICATION, SOCIOLOGY

VH 2670 Power of Suggestion, The - Part 2
Summary:VH 2669-71. Provides a set of tools for studying the history, economics, formulas and myths of soaps. Part 2 contains Stereotypes, How Soaps Remodel Women and Sex on Soap Operas. 037 Min. VIDEO Subject: COMMUNICATION, SOCIOLOGY

VH 2671 Power of Suggestion, The - Part 3
Summary:VH 2669-71. Provides a set of tools for studying the history, economics, formulas and myths of soaps. Part 1 contains Erica Kane's Love Life, The Phenomenon of Luke and Laura, Summary and Update Roll and Credits. 035 Min. VIDEO Subject: COMMUNICATION, SOCIOLOGY

VH 7634 Powerful Communication Skills: How to Communicate with Con..
Summary: Joe Healey presents a program that helps to identify key elements of communicating and gives specific techniques for improving. 077 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2530 Praise House
Summary: Original stage play written by Angelyn DeBord; screenplay adaptation by Julie Dash. "Based on a concept by Jawole Willa Jo Zollar for Urban Bush Women." The visual images presented in this film illustrate "spirituality and the gift of artistry in three generations of African-American women"--Prologue. 030 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: COMMUNICATION, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 4333 Preparing Your First Speech
Summary: This program offers suggestions and guidelines for the beginning speaker and follows a student through the entire process involved. It includes techniques to use in choosing a topic, and speech preparation and delivery. 018 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4337 Pretty Woman
Summary: When successful corporate mogul Edward Lewis meets independent and carefree Vivian Ward, their two lives are worlds apart. But Vivian's energetic spirit challenges Edward's no nonsense, business-minded approach to life, sparking an immediate attraction. He teaches her about the finer things in life, she teaches him that love could be the best investment he ever made. Directed by Garry Marshall. 119 Min. VIDEO Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4662 Price of Power, The: Money in Politics
Summary: Zeroes in on the price candidates pay to win election to public office. Media drives campaigns...money drives media. Investigates where candidates get their money and what they trade in their quest for political power. Takes a look at wealth and its influence on our first amendment rights and analyzes the role of money in campaigns including local, state, and national races. 022 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3917 Primary
Summary: This remarkably candid and revealing account of the 1960 Wisconsin Democratic presidential primary campaign, in which Senator John F. Kennedy upset Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, marked the beginning of cinema verite in America. Primary highlights not only a defining moment in Kennedy's journey to the White House, but also the beginning of politics as a media event. 060 Min. VIDEO 1960 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2071 Private Conversations-On The Set of, Death of a Salesman
Summary: A candid look at the filming of the play. Depicts the process of interpreting the play for the screen through the collaboration of the author, actor & director. 082 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 0312 Professional's Guide to Better Teleconferencing, A
Summary: Discusses different ways that may be employed to improve the quality of the program that is presented and in turn hold the viewer's attention. 106 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3744 Propaganda Wars,The: Japan & the U.S.& the Battle for Hearts
Summary: America and Japan used heavy propaganda to win the support of their citizens during World War II. American films showed Japanese as evil, maniacal sadists. Japanese newsreels depicted Americans as ruthless, uncivilized barbarians. Both countries used hyperbole, overstatements and exaggeration to get their message across. Examines the techniques used--newsreels, training films, and feature productions--and looks at their messages, styles and their impact. Historians and documentary units from Japan and the U.S. collaborate together to give this program an honest analysis of the two nations motivations and the means by which their methods were achieved. 050 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1838 Psycho
Summary: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, Martin Balsam, John Gavin & John McIntire. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Score by Bernard Herrmann. Hitchcock's classic in horror stars Perkins as a lonely young man who manages the desolate Bates motel with his jealous & overprotective mother. 109 Min. VIDEO 1960 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 0919 Purple Rose of Cairo, The
Summary: Cecilia is a poor waitress whose only escape is the thrill and excitement of going to the movies. Suddenly, while watching her favorite movie, the leading man jumps out of the picture to be with her. Confusion abounds as the actors he has left in the movie try to get him back. Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels, Danny Aiello. Directed by Woody Allen. 082 Min. VIDEO 1985 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4414 Putting the Demo Back into Democracy
Summary: A critical examination of the holdings, workings and effect of six media companies. Viacom, Walt Disney, News Corporation, Time Warner, GE/NBC, and Westinghouse/CBS are all covered in this documentary hosted by Robert McChesney, Professor of Journalism at the University of Wisconsin. 064 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2702 Quartier Mozart
Summary: The story of 48 hours in a working class neighborhood in Yaounde, Cameroon's capital. It recounts the education of a young schoolgirl, Queen of the Hood, still proud like a woman who has never known men. Maman Thekla, the local sorceress, helps her enter the body of a young stud, My Guy, so she can understand the real "sexual politics" of the quarter. 081 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: LIBRARY OF AFRICAN CINEMA

VH 3487 Quay X 4: Four New Short Films (Brothers Quay)
Summary: Includes "Are We Still Married?", "Look What The Cat Drug In", "Tales From The Vienna Woods", "Can't Go Wrong Without You". 015 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2892 Question of Silence, A
Summary: An extraordinary murder is committed by three women, all strangers to each other. During the trial, their deep-seated rage towards the male-dominated society in which they live stuns the courtroom. The judge appoints a female psychiatrist to study the case, and gradually she comes to understand and sympathize with the three women and to question her own feelings toward men. Not Rated, in Dutch with English subtitles. Director: Marlene Gorris. 092 Min. VIDEO 1983 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4418 Quilombo
Summary: Director Carlos Diegues's historical saga is a fusion of folklore, political impact, and dynamic story telling. The story derives from fact: in 17th century Brazil, groups of runaway slaves escaped to mountainous jungle strongholds, where they formed self-governing communities known as quilombos. 114 Min. VIDEO 1984 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4387 Race, Gender, and Power in America, Part 1 of 2
Summary: Panelists at this afternoon session discussed the state of sexual harassment laws since the Hill-Thomas hearings. The panelists discussed images and portrayal of sexual harassment in popular culture. Anita Hill reflected on the experience of testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee from the perspective of a single, black woman appearing before the committee without a patron. 088 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: COMMUNICATION, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 4388 Race, Gender, and Power in America, Part 2 of 2
Summary: Panelists at this afternoon session discussed the state of sexual harassment laws since the Hill-Thomas hearings. The panelists discussed images and portrayal of sexual harassment in popular culture. Anita Hill reflected on the experience of testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee from the perspective of a single, black woman appearing before the committee without a patron. She used images of black women from literature and verse. 115 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: COMMUNICATION, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 3760 Race, the Floating Signifier
Summary: This program goes beyond the vast body of knowledge available on the effects of racism to help us understand the deeper questions about how race is represented. Hall shows that the meaning of racial signifiers (like skin color) are never fixed, but depend upon cultural context, and are discursive constructs, or "floating signifiers." 060 Min. VIDEO Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3888 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. 129 Min. VIDEO 1980 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4942 Raiders of the Lost Ark
Summary: Archaeologist Indiana Jones will stop at nothing to keep Nazis from obtaining the mystical Ark of the Covenant. Directed by: Steven Spielberg. 115 Min. VIDEO 1981 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 0348 Raise The Red Lantern
Summary: Set in 1920's China, 19 year-old Songlian (Gong Li) has become Fourth Wife to the wealthy Chen. Yet she must share her husband with his three existing wives. Each wife has her own house on the estate, and each must wait until dusk for the arrival of a red lantern. Where the lantern is carried signifies which wife the master will sleep with that night. The lantern brings with it privileges none of the wives will sacrifice without a fight. Directed by Zhang Yimou. 125 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: DRAMA, COMMUNICATION

VH 1612 Ramparts of Clay
Summary: Leila Schenna. Directed by Jean-Louis Berluccelli. This film portrays the struggles of a young Tunisian woman to liberate herself from the subservient role her people's ancient customs demand. She seizes her opportunity when a strike erupts between a large company and working-class villagers. In Arabic, subtitled in English. 085 Min. VIDEO 1970 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 0915 Rashomon
Summary: Originally released as a motion picture produced in Japan in 1950. In medieval Japan, four people involved in a rape and murder recite their differing versions of the sequence of the events. Director: Akira Kurosawa. 083 Min. VIDEO 1986 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2003 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. VIDEO 1954 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4084 Reassemblage
Summary: Introduces the land and people of Senegal, West Africa without Western biases that usually pervade documentaries on non-western cultures. 041 Min. VIDEO 1982 Subject: COMMUNICATION, ANTHROPOLOGY

VH 2111 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. 132 Min. VIDEO 1940 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1623 Red and the White, The
Summary: Directed by Miklos Jansco. The Russian Civil War of 1918. 092 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4943 Red Desert
Summary: Giuliana has become sensitive to her environment since her nervous breakdown. Alienated from modern existence she seeks some emotional basis for hope: in family, in group sex, and in an affair with her husband's colleague. Directed by: Michelangelo Antonioni. In Italian with English subtitles. 120 Min. VIDEO 1964 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 5650 Red Tapes, The
Summary: Although most of the videotape takes place while viewing a blank screen, other segments involve props, voice overs, appropriated images, sound collages, and most importantly Vita Acconci himself. His attitude toward the audience is both seductive and antagonistic as he moves from a stream of consciousness inner life rant about power, sexuality, his sexuality, and then reaches out to us. 142 Min. VIDEO 1976 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 0902 Reds, Part 1
Summary: The story of the love affair of John Reed and Louise Bryant in a war torn world and how the Russian revolution shook their lives. Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Edward Herrmann, Jerzy Kosinski, Jack Nicholson, Paul Sorvino, Maureen Stapleton. Director: Warren Beatty. Two videocassettes,VH 902 & 903. 100 Min. VIDEO 1982 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 0903 Reds, Part 2
Summary: The story of the love affair of John Reed and Louise Bryant in a war torn world and how the Russian revolution shook their lives. Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Edward Herrmann, Jerzy Kosinski, Jack Nicholson, Paul Sorvino, Maureen Stapleton. Director: Warren Beatty. Two videocassettes,VH 902 & 903. 195 Min. VIDEO 1982 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4745 Reggie Mixes In
Summary: When rich Doug befriends Bessie, he takes a job as a bar bouncer to be near where she works, and gets more action than he expected. Directed by: D.W. Griffith. 058 Min. VIDEO 1916 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4093 Remote Control
Summary: This program looks at the past, present and future of television, and questions whether the capabilities of new technologies, such as the information superhighway and satellites, will be directed toward sales or service. 057 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: SIGNAL TO NOISE: LIFE WITH TELEVISION

VH 5844 Research and Report Writing
Summary: This program investigates information gathering and presentation and discusses the various sources of information such as research reports, surveys, and newspapers. Methods to organize the information into a clear report are then given. 015 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: BUS ADMIN , COMMUNICATION Series: BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS

VH 2020 Revolt of Mother, The
Summary: Set on a New England farm in 1890, this program shows how Sarah overcomes her penny-pinching husband's failure to keep his promise to build the family a better home. As witnesses to their mother's revolt & compassionate reconciliation, daughter Nanny & son Sammy are themselves changed forever. 060 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: LITERATURE-I , COMMUNICATION Series: AMERICAN SHORT STORY COLLECTION, THE

VH 3451 Road Scholar
Summary: Take satirist, poet and all-around wise -guy Andrei Codrescu. Put him behind the wheel of a blazing cherry-red '68 Cadillac convertible. And strap yourself in for a zany, freewheeling version of that most venerable of American traditions: the cross-country road trip. Director: Roger Weisberg and Jean De Segonzac. 082 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2871 Rock Hudson's Home Movies
Summary: An assortment of clips from Rock Hudson's Hollywood career. Employing a narrative commentary from beyond the grave the film invents an eclectic form of biography. The closer you look at Hudson's films the more you see the actor winking behind his eyes. From his days as an obscure contract player to the revelations about his "gay lifestyle," the film provides an innovative and exciting look at the life of a legend. 063 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: COMMUNICATION, BIOGRAPHY

VH 1787 Roger & Me
Summary: Directed by Michael Moore. Quixote-like quest to meet with GM Chairman Roger Smith & convince him to visit Flint for a firsthand examination of what was occurring there. 091 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: COMMUNICATION, SOCIOLOGY

VH 3144 Romantic Comedy
Summary: From It Happened One Night to When Harry Met Sally, romantic comedies often indirectly reveal truths about the battle of the sexes. Featuring some of cinema's most glamorous stars, the romantic comedy uses mild slapstick and witty repartee in bringing its star-crossed lovers together, while challenging our ideas about men and women. Directors James L. Brooks ( Broadcast News), Amy Heckerling (Look Who's Talking), and Nora Ephron (when Harry Net Sally) take a 060 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: AMERICAN CINEMA

VH 4892 Rope
Summary: Granger and Dall are two friends who strangle a classmate for intellectual thrills and then proceed to invite his family and mutual friends for dinner, with the body stuffed inside the trunk they use for a buffet table. Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock. 081 Min. VIDEO 1948 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4350 Round Midnight
Summary: An elegant, evocative ode to bebop - the free spirited but technically demanding jazz that blossomed during the postwar era - and to the expatriate black Americans who created, nurtured and lived it. Directed by Bertrand Tavernier. 132 Min. VIDEO 1986 Subject: COMMUNICATION, JAZZ , AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 2141 Rules of the Game
Summary: Directed by Jean Renoir. Contrasts the affairs of the French aristocracy & their servants at a weekend house party. 105 Min. VIDEO Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3683 Running Mate: Gender and Politics in the Editorial Cartoons
Summary: Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy as the first woman chosen by a major party for the vice presidency of the United States provided editorial cartoonists access to a rich and previously untapped lode of material. "RUNNING MATE" examines their portrayals of Ferraro during the campaign. Drawn from a study of 172 cartoons in 12 U.S. newspapers, this program reveals the gender stereotypes which hounded the Mondale/Ferraro ticket from the moment she was chosen. 047 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: COMMUNICATION, ART

VH 7083 Saadia: A Moroccan Woman in the Resistance
Summary: An animated short documentary about one woman's experiences in the Moroccan resistance and her ambition to free her country from French colonialism. This film was made with the paint on glass technique. 004 Min. VIDEO 1999 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1744 Saaraba (Utopia)
Summary: Saaraba is a Wolof word for a mythical place free of the misery and contradictions of daily existence, equivalent to the Western idea of Utopia or El Dorado. Presents an unsparing indictment of a corrupt older generation (in Senegal) chasing material wealth, power and the lifestyle of the former French colonialists. Director: Amadon Seck. 086 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: COMMUNICATION, DRAMA Series: LIBRARY OF AFRICAN CINEMA

VH 2409 Sabotage
Summary: A woman suspects that her kindly husband is keeping something from her. He indeed is a saboteur, plotting to explode a highly explosive bomb in an underground station on Lord Mayor's Day. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. 076 Min. VIDEO 1936 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4730 Salome
Summary: The Biblical story of the temptress and the death of John the Baptist. Directed by: Charles Bryant. 034 Min. VIDEO 1922 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 0945 Salt of the Earth
Summary: A social drama which depicts the attempt of a New Mexican mining company to break a union strike of underprivileged Mexican and American workers who endeavor to prevent their wives from participation on an equal basis in the strike. Rosaura Revueltas, Juan Chacon, Will Geer. Director: Herbert Biberman. 094 Min. VIDEO 1954 Subject: COMMUNICATION, DRAMA

VH 3089 Sango Malo, The Village Teacher
Summary: A tale of two schoolteachers and two philosophies of education. The strict headmaster insist on a conventional French style curriculum which doesn't challenge the village power structure. When an innovative young teacher Sango Malo arrives, he introduces a more practical education designed to make the peasants the focus of rural development. Soon his ideas spread to the rest of the village and the peasants open a cooperative store and farm. Directed by Bassek Ba Kobhio. 094 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: LIBRARY OF AFRICAN CINEMA

VH 3615 Sans Soleil
Summary: An unknown woman reads and comments on the letters she receives from a friend - a freelance cameraman who travels around the world and wonders about the meaning of his work and about the role of the memory he helps create. Photographed in the high tech world of Tokyo and the low tech regions of West Africa, SANS SOLEIL is a literate, rueful, humorous and astute meditation on nothing less complex than the quality of life on earth and its ever-changing characteristics. Explores the immense diversity of the human species and its differing societies. Director: Chris Marker. 100 Min. VIDEO 1982 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2200 Scar of Shame
Summary: Harry Henderson, Lucia Lynn Moses, Norman John Stone, Ann Kennedy, William E. Pettus, Pearl MacCormick, Lawrence Chenault. In no film was the racial theme more apparent than in "Scar of Shame", the story about an ill-matched marriage between a black concert pianist and a poor, lower class young black woman. Secretly ashamed of her, the young man keeps his wife hidden from his socially-prominent, middle-class mother. Director: Frank Perugini. 090 Min. VIDEO 1927 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3777 Scarlet Street
Summary: Christopher Cross is a timid and unassuming clerk who sees his life change quickly when he saves a beautiful woman from a dark alley assailant late one night. Kitty March is the femme fatale who seizes the opportunity to use her influence over Cross to swindle him out of a fortune. Kitty's lecherous lover, Johnny Prince, orchestrates the master plan that will bring he and Kitty quick wealth at Cross's expense. Director: Fritz Lang. 103 Min. VIDEO 1945 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1392 Scenes at a Fountain/ The Limit
Summary: Scenes at a fountain: A powerful, 600-foot-high column of fire, the world's largest natural gas fire--burned for over a year on the shores of the Caspian Sea. The film dramatically documents the courageous firemen who risked their lives to cap the howling blaze. (28 min.) 1986. Limit: The horrible effects of drinking on human beings. Families are divided, homes are neglected, children are hungry. (14 min.) 1986. 042 Min. VIDEO 1986 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: GLASNOST FILM FESTIVAL, THE

VH 2877 Scenes From The Surreal
Summary: Svankmajer is a master of magical surrealism, melding clay animation, live action and stop animation techniques, constructing startling scenarios inspired by his childhood and his dreams. Titles: Darkness Light Darkness-7 mins., Manly Games-14 mins., Death of Stalinism-10 mins., Jan Svankmajer-27 mins., The Animator of Prague-27 mins. 058 Min. VIDEO Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 0918 School Daze
Summary: A music-filled, off-beat contemporary comedy that takes an unforgettable look at black college life. Larry Fishburne, Giancarlo Esposito, Tisha Campbell, Kyme, Joe Seneca, Art Evans, Ellen Holly, Spike Lee and Ossie Davis. Director Spike Lee. 114 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4125 School Ties
Summary: When David Greene, a working class teenager in Pennsylvania during the 1950' s, receives a football scholarship to an exclusive New England prep school, it seems an opportunity too good to be true. David becomes the team hero and wins the attentions of a beautiful debutante. But the ties of his newfound friendships are broken when a student reveals the secret David has tried to conceal. Directed by: Robert Mandel. 110 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1846 Secreto De Romelia, El (Romelia's Secret)
Summary: Diana Bracho, Pedro Armendariz, Dolores Beristain, Subtitled in English. Directed by Busi Cortes. 101 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 8063 Seeing is Believing: Handicams, Human Rights and the News
Summary: Discusses the history of the camcorder and how it has become the eyes o f the world. Directed by Katerina Cizek and Peter Wintonick. 059 Min. VIDEO 2002 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3019 Seeing Red
Summary: From over 400 interviews with present and former American Communists, filmmakers Reichert and Klein paint a warm, human, funny portrait of 50 years of American Communism from its heyday in the 1930's through the bitter McCarthy era witch hunts of the 1950's. 100 Min. VIDEO 1984 Subject: COMMUNICATION, U.S. HISTORY

VH 1738 Selling the Feeling
Summary: What did the Hands Across America event tell us about hunger in America and how were the images of our own homeless and hungry used? 029 Min. VIDEO Subject: COMMUNICATION, SOCIAL WORK Series: CONSUMING HUNGER

VH 4374 Selling the Future
Summary: What once took 100,000 hours of work to accomplish in the mid 20th century, can now be completed in just 10,000 hours thanks to technology. While this growing new virtual community can provide support and information, not everyone is enamored of cyberspace and its development. 052 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: COMPUTERS , COMMUNICATION Series: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND THE FUTURE

VH 4624 Set it Off
Summary: Four women take the law into their own hands and try to get some pay-back by robbing the city's biggest banks. Directed by Gary Gray. 123 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4909 Sexism in Language
Summary: This program presents closely analyzed examples that show how sexism and anti-sexism may be contained in language use--in song lyrics, everyday conversation, newspaper reports, written conversations, and satire. 026 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: LANGUAGE SKILLS,COMMUNICATION

VH 2323 Sexual Stereotypes In Media: Superman and the Bride
Summary: This program shows how pervasive stereotypes are of man as Superman and woman as his slavish bride--on film and TV, in the fiction on which they are based, even in so-called documentaries. Bombarded from all sides by this point of view, women as well men commonly accept the stereotypes. 040 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: COMMUNICATION, SOCIOLOGY

VH 4891 Shadow of a Doubt
Summary: Joseph Cotten stars as the charming Uncle Charlie, a beguiling killer who travels from Philadelphia to California just one step ahead of the law. But soon his unknowing niece begins to suspect her uncle of being the Merry Widow murderer, and a deadly game of cat and mouse begins. Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock. 108 Min. VIDEO 1942 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1586 Shall We Dance
Summary: Fred and Ginger swirl, swoop and glide over the ocean waves in this frothy, lighthearted musical made at the height of their career together. Fred, ever elegant, plays a ballet dancer who, deep in his toes, longs to be a hoofer. Ginger, sweet and sexy, plays a musical comedy star coaxed into forming a dance team with him. The inimitable Edward Everett Horton garners laughs as Fred's loveable but confused manager. Director: Mark Sandrich. 109 Min. VIDEO 1937 Subject: COMMUNICATION, MUSICAL , DANCE

VH 0097 Shaping the Future Telecommunications
Summary: Recruitment video. 015 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1737 Shaping the Image
Summary: What happened to the images of starving Africans once they became part of our television culture? The famine in Ethiopia. 029 Min. VIDEO Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: CONSUMING HUNGER

VH 1690 She's Gotta Have It
Summary: Tracy Camila Johns, Spike Lee, Tommy Redmond Hicks & John Canada Terrell. Director: Spike Lee. An independent-minded young black woman (Johns) has three men after her, but is in no hurry to choose between them. 084 Min. VIDEO 1986 Subject: COMMUNICATION, DRAMA, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 4572 Sherman's March
Summary: An autobiographical film about the quest for true romance, as the filmmaker follows the route of General Sherman's Civil War march through Georgia and the Carolinas. Directed by Ross McElwee. 157 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 8103 Signs of the Times: the History of Writing
Summary: Traces the evolution of communication from hieroglyphics and cuneiform, to a thousand years later to Gutenberg's printing press and its diffusion of id eas for the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Age of Revolutions. The impac t of technology preceded a digital revolution and the explosion of personal comp uters and the internet. Shows our world as it was, is now, and will be. 052 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: COMMUNICATION, WORLD HISTORY, EARLY CIV

VH 4421 Silences of the Palace
Summary: Written and directed by Moufida Tlatli. Set in Tunisia in the 1950's. Alia, the young servant-girl is misused by her masters and wooed by the rebel. Arabic with English subtitles. Directed by Moufida Tlatli. 127 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3052 Sisters of the Gion, The
Summary: Mizoguchi's most famous and arguable best pre war film Two geisha sisters in Tokyo's red light district reflect the tension in Japanese culture by waging a quiet battle of tradition vs. progressiveness. Highly acclaimed. In Japanese with English subtitles. 072 Min. VIDEO 1936 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2620 Slacker
Summary: Talented film maker Richard Linklater's first feature is a wickedly funny social satire on a growing generation of young idlers or "slackers" in Austin, Texas. Set in coffee houses, clubs, bars, apartments, stores and the streets of this college town, SLACKER is fascinating series of rambling vignettes sprinkled with would-be philosophers, musicians, anti-artists, film makers, conspiracy buffs, UFO enthusiasts, anarchists, street people, and crazies. 097 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4729 Slapsticks
Summary: This anthology features bits and pieces of the films that made the world laugh before movies learned to talk. Directed by: Mack Sennett. 076 Min. VIDEO Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3232 Sleeping with the Enemy
Summary: At first, Martin Burney appeared to be the man of Laura's dreams. He was handsome, successful, and seductively attentive. It wasn't until they were married that she discovered the real Martin was a woman's worst nightmare compulsive, controlling, and dangerously violent. After three years of living in fear and dread, Laura plans her escape. Director: Joseph Ruben. 099 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3020 Smiling Madame Beudet / Seashell and the Clergyman, The
Summary: Two seminal films by this essential figure of the French silent, experimental cinema, Germaine Dulac. SMILING MADAME BEUDET employs some of the techniques of the "theater of silence" and impressionistic camera. The romantic Madame Beudet is married to a dull and insensitive tradesman who irritates her so mush that she dreams of other lovers and of killing him. Silent with sparse inter-titles in French. SEASHELL AND THE CLERGYMAN scripted 057 Min. VIDEO 1922 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4153 Sneakers, Laptops, and the Homeless
Summary: Nike and Apple, Pepsi, McDonald's, fast cars, fast food, dog food, and some public service award winners for the Red Cross, anti-drinking/driving, and the Coalition for the Homeless. Seventy-five ads and interviews with Joe Pytka, CD Jeff Goodby, DCs Adrian Hayward (Australia) and Fujio Iwasaki (Japan) and London director Tarsem. 076 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: MARKETING , COMMUNICATION Series: BEST OF BROADCAST COMMERCIALS, THE

VH 5201 Sometimes a Great Notion
Summary: Ken Kesey's best-selling novel about a two-fisted Oregon lumber family is the basis for this film. The story concerns a family that bucks the close-knit timber community in which they live to deliver a shipment of logs in defiance of a strike. Directed by: Paul Newman. 115 Min. VIDEO 1971 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4852 Sorrows of Satan, The
Summary: Struggling writer unwittingly makes a deal with Satan for material success. Based on the Faust legend. Directed by: D.W. Griffith. 090 Min. VIDEO 1926 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4851 Soul Fire
Summary: South Pacific high seas induce Cupid's arrow. Directed by John S. Robertson. 100 Min. VIDEO 1925 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4705 Soul Food
Summary: Sunday dinner at Mother Joe's is a mouth watering, 40 year tradition. As seen through the eyes of her grandson Ahmad, love and laughs are always on the menu, despite the usual rivalries simmering between his mom Maxine and her sisters. Directed by: George Tillman Jr. 114 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 5080 Spanish Dancer
Summary: A gypsy dancer is frequently called to perform for King Philip and Queen Isabella. 065 Min. VIDEO 1923 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 8120 Speaking with Confidence
Summary: Shows students how to plan on oral presentation that includes confidence builders in the planning stage. It also shows students how to prepare for a confident delivery which includes techniques for eliminating stage fright. Techniques such as planning, outlining, developing attention getting introductions, relaxation are demonstrated and presented, to be practiced with follow up activities. 025 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 8145 Speaking with Confidence, Critiquing Public Speeches
Summary: This program considers how to analyze the merits of a speech, stressing that personal biases influence how one evaluates a speech. It discusses how to evaluate topic selection, the purpose of the speech, and the speaker's proofs, organizaton, and delivery. 030 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 8146 Speaking with Confidence, Special Occasions
Summary: This program examines the unique aspects of delivering a speech for suc h special occasions as welcomes and farewells, and graduatons, retirement cermon ies, and award presentations. It also considers delivering speeches for sad occ aions. 026 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1017 Speeches of John F. Kennedy, The
Summary: Presents John F. Kennedy's major addresses from his 1960 Presidential campaign through his three years in office. 060 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: AMERICAN STUDIE,COMMUNICATION

VH 4601 Speeches of Malcolm X, The
Summary: This covers the era in which the black leader's public life during which his evolving attitudes can slowly be detected. Malcolm addresses a 1963 Black Front Unity Rally. He gives his opinion on the intended effect of the Civil Rights Act, speaks out about housing and self defense in Harlem in 1964, and discusses police brutality. 041 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES ,CIVIL RIGHTS , COMMUNICATION Series: SPEECHES COLLECTION, THE

VH 1012 Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr., The
Summary: Presents a collection of Martin Luther King, Jr's. major speeches and minor asides, tracing the development of his oratorical style. 060 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES ,COMMUNICATION, CIVIL RIGHTS

VH 4600 Speeches of Nelson Mandela, The
Summary: Nelson Mandela dedicated his life to the battle against racial oppression in South Africa. His activities against apartheid led to his conviction. After his 1990 release, Mandela was elected president in the country's first all-race election. This video offers a compelling demonstration of his oratory prowess, from his long fight against apartheid, to his triumphant release from prison and ensuing political career. 070 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: CIVIL RIGHTS , COMMUNICATION Series: SPEECHES COLLECTION, THE

VH 4603 Speeches of Sitting Bull, The
Summary: Voiced by Native American E. Donald Two Rivers, features a sample of heartfelt addresses from the legendary Indian leader. These speeches convey Sitting Bull's disappointment over the injustice faced by his people, as he meets American representatives before and after Little Bighorn. 035 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: NATIVE AMERICAN,CIVIL RIGHTS , COMMUNICATION Series: SPEECHES COLLECTION, THE

VH 4890 Spellbound
Summary: Dr. Murchison has retired from his position as head of the Green Manors Mental Asylum, and his replacement, the famous psychiatrist Dr. Edwards, finds himself attracted to the beautiful, but cold, Dr. Constance Petersen. However, Dr. Petersen soon realizes that he is a paranoid amnesiac imposter and tries to cure him while solving the mystery of what happened to the real Dr. Edwards. Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock. 111 Min. VIDEO Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4889 Stage Fright
Summary: Eve Gill, a drama student, who envisions the acting challenge of a lifetime in the desperate predicament of a friend she feels is being framed by flamboyant stage star Charlotte Inwood for a killing. Her plan? To pose as a maid, go to work for Charlotte and uncover the truth of the matter. Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock. 110 Min. VIDEO 1950 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1889 Stage Sisters
Summary: An epic tale of the theater by China's most popular film director, Xie Jin. 112 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: PERSPECTIVES ON CHINESE CINEMA

VH 3048 Stagecoach
Summary: Nine disparate travelers are thrust together in a perilous journey, a ride on a stagecoach destined for Apache territory. Directed by John Ford. 097 Min. VIDEO 1939 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3139 Star, The
Summary: Stars can be a studio's greatest asset and a crucial factor in box-office success. For actors of the 1930's and 40's, stardom was a hotly sought after commodity. On every studio lot, finishing schools educated future luminaries on how to be famous. This program reveals how Joan Crawford and others achieved and maintained star status, often adjusting their own personalities to the largely fictitious images studio publicists contrived for them. 060 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: AMERICAN CINEMA

VH 3548 Still Killing Us Softly
Summary: Based on lectures of Dr. Jean Kilbourne this documentary examines ads from magazines, newspapers, album covers, and billboard to analyze an industry which preys on the fears and insecurities of consumers. A companion work to "Killing Us Softly",VH 1435. 032 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4910 Stop It! Students Speak out About Sexual Harassment
Summary: Students speaking out themselves about inappropriate sexual behavior make this program particularly effective in raising awareness about sexual harassment. This program addresses sexual harassment from the student point of view, from the experiences of those who have perpetrated it and of those who have been victimized by it. 017 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 5051 La Strada
Summary: In her first starring role, Giulietta Masina perfectly combines comedy and pathos as the slow-witted innocent who falls for an abusive, circus strongman. For a time she finds comfort with a funny clown, until all three people are destroyed. Directed by: Federico Fellini. 107 Min. VIDEO 1954 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3455 Straight From The Heart
Summary: Videocassette release of a 1994 motion picture. Produced and directed by Dee Mosbacher and Frances Reid; writer, Sharon Wood; editor, Deborah Hoffmann; music, Mary Watkins; cinematography, Frances Reid; narrator, Robert McAfee Brown. Parents of gay children tell of their struggles with homophobia. 024 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4888 Strangers on a Train
Summary: A tennis star hates his estranged wife and wants to be free to marry another 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. VIDEO 1951 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1624 Strike
Summary: Eisenstein's debut , and a silent classic. Russian film concerns the suppression of a 1912 worker's strike. Director: Sergei Eisenstein. 082 Min. VIDEO 1924 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3147 Studio System, The
Summary: Using Paramount Pictures as a case study, this program looks at the "factory system", perfected by major film studios in 1930's Hollywood. The studio system combined the best talent in the industry and also allowed for individual expression. By the 1950's, television, limited budgets, and non-exclusive contracts meant the beginning of the end for old studio system. The "New Hollywood" is owned by huge corporations that tend to overemphasize 060 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: AMERICAN CINEMA

VH 8093 Stuttering Therapy: Broad Spectrum Behavior Modification
Summary: Lecture by Martin R. Adams, Dept. of Audiology and Speech Sciences, Pur due University. Provides brief descriptions and discusses a select few behavior therapy techniques. Intended to stir interest in the various approaches, to of fer evidence bearing on their effectiveness, and to direct the viewer to more de tailed sources of information about these techniques. 107 Min. VIDEO 1976 Subject: COMMUNICATION, LANGUAGE SKILLS

VH 2992 Sugar Cane Alley
Summary: On a lush sugar cane plantation in Martinique lies a dirt road called Sugar Cane Alley, lined with the shacks of the poor black families who work in the cane fields. In one of these live Jose, a bright, mischievous 11-year-old orphan and his grandmother, a tough, wise woman determined to save Jose from the hard life of the plantation. When Jose wins a partial scholarship at a school in the city, she is ready to sacrifice everything for his chance at an education. Director Euzhan Palcy. 107 Min. VIDEO 1985 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3412 Sugar Scandal: A Special Report
Summary: Hosted by Ed Asner and presented by the National Audubon Society. This video gives a brief history of the fight between environmentalists and sugar farmers in South Florida over who should pay to clean up the Everglades. SeeVH 3453 "Sugar Scandal: Sugar Farming in Florida's Everglades", a longer and more detailed version. 011 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: COMMUNICATION, ENVIRONMENT, ECOLOGY

VH 4626 Sunny Side of Life
Summary: A.P. Carter and his wife Sara began recording the songs of the Virginia mountain people in the 1920's. They gained fame and brought the music of the Southwest Mountains to the world. 056 Min. VIDEO 1985 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1766 Super Fly
Summary: Priest (Ron O'Neal), a big time cocaine dealer is a Black prince of the streets. He's slick, he's smart, he's got the high uptown style and everything else the pusher's life provides. But Priest wants out from its confinements and treacheries. And he wants to go out in the highest style-which means one final and extra-special deal. Carl Lee, Julius W. Harris. Directed by Gordon Parks, Jr. 090 Min. VIDEO 1972 Subject: COMMUNICATION, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 2730 Suspicion
Summary: Ranks as one of Alfred Hitchcock's most skillfully crafted tales of suspense and deception. The tension begins shortly after Linda McLiadlaw (Joan Fontaine), a shy and wealthy woman, marries Johnnie Aysgarth (Cary Grant), a rather charming if irresponsible man with a somewhat mysterious past. The tension grows as Linda is presented with evidence that suggests her dear husband is not exactly the man she thought him to be. Is he indeed a thief? Or worse? Director: Alfred Hitchcock. 099 Min. VIDEO 1941 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 5054 Swimming to Cambodia
Summary: Director Jonathan Demme's riveting concert film of Spalding Gray's live stage performance about life in general. Gray tells of what he felt about our secret bombing of Cambodia and the genocide committed by the Khmer Rouge on their own people. 085 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2701 Ta Dona
Summary: The story of the quest for secret knowledge by a young Bambara man. Here the hero, Sidy, is a modern agricultural expert in the Ministry of Rivers and Forests. While working in a peasant village, he is also searching for the seventh canari, a forgotten, secret Bambara herbal remedy used in childbirth. Faced with a scorching drought and a corrupt government, Sidy manages to save the village and rediscover the seventh canari. 102 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: COMMUNICATION, DRAMA Series: LIBRARY OF AFRICAN CINEMA

VH 1390 Tailor, The/ Early on Sunday
Summary: The tailor: A sobering look at the spiritual void and disillusionment of the current generation of middle-aged adults. By the dawn of the Brezhnev years, they were aged before their time, having lost the opportunity for creative self-realization. (50 min.) 1988. Early on Sunday: on Sunday morning in winter several old village women go to the forest to gather wood. Their unpretentious observations evoke bursts of laughter, feelings of compassion, and an immense respect for the dignity and patience of these women. (16 min.) 1988. 066 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: GLASNOST FILM FESTIVAL, THE

VH 4607 Taking Pictures
Summary: Australian documentary filmmakers explore the issues and pitfalls of filming across cultural boundaries through interviews and samples of their films of Papua New Guinea including Trobriand Cricket, First Contact, The Shark Callers of Kontu, Joe Leah's Neighbors, Black Harvest, Cannibal tours, and others. 056 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY , COMMUNICATION

VH 2802 Talking To Strangers
Summary: The ways animals communicate to each other: Most use ripples in the air but the sea is also full of sound of animals communicating. The loudest of all sounds in nature is made by blue whales, who can sing to each other on opposite sides of the ocean. Competing male frogs in Panama make so much noise they have a special system to avoid jamming each others' signals. 060 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: BIOLOGY , COMMUNICATION Series: TRIALS OF LIFE, THE

VH 4654 Targets
Summary: An aging horror film star plans his retirement, convinced that real life is too scary for his films to have an audience. A mad sniper at a drive-in movie seems to prove he's right. Directed by Peter Bogdanovich. 092 Min. VIDEO 1967 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4625 Taxing Woman's Return, A
Summary: A tenacious tax inspector is investigating a corrupt fundamentalist order. Directed by Juzo Itami. 127 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3023 Teach the Children
Summary: Children ages 6 - 11 spend more time watching television than they do in a classroom. This film is designed to help teachers, parents, and students scrutinize television's hidden curriculum. Intercutting clips from Saturday morning cartoons, sitcoms and music videos with commentary by critics, scholars and network executives. Explores the values television communicates and the role models it provides. 056 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 0228 Teamwork with Pat Riley
Summary: Outlines the eight building blocks in Riley's theory of teamwork: togetherness, equality, attitude, meshing, "We" versus "I", Organization, role-playing, and kindred spirits. Emphasizes the importance of valuing the contribution of each team member. 024 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: MANAGEMENT, COMMUNICATION, PSYCHOLOGY

VH 5251 Television Window to the World
Summary: Chronicles the incredible story of television, from the vision of Philo Farnsworth, a Utah farmboy who developed the first working system in 1925, to the latest technological breakthroughs that are transforming the medium. Interviews with media moguls and TV personalities, including legendary anchorman Walter Cronkite, provide an insider's look at the huge industry TV has become. 050 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 7530 Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press
Summary: A documentary on the life and work of George Seldes, America's most imp ortant press critic. The film includes archival footage and photographs, and pr ovides a fresh perspective on 20th century history, while raising profound quest ions about America's news media. 111 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1389 Temple, The
Summary: A film about the 1000th anniversary of Christianity in Russia. A holiday celebration at the Trinity-Sergius Monastery at Zagorsk. A burned house of worship is restored by the entire community. A talk with a young monk and an 80 year old parish priest. 059 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: GLASNOST FILM FESTIVAL, THE

VH 4756 Temptress, The
Summary: An unhappy wife falls in love with a Spanish engineer. When it is revealed that Elena is not only married, but has also been the mistress of a banker, Robledo returns to South America. Subsequently, Elena and her husband also go to South America. Years later Robledo returns to Paris and runs into Elena who does not seem to recognize him. Elena has become a pathetic drunkard who is apparently beyond Robledo's help. Directed by: Mauritz Stiller. 090 Min. VIDEO 1926 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4944 Terminator, The
Summary: In the year of darkness, 2029, the rulers of this planet decide they will reshape the future by changing the past. A brilliant flash of light and an earsplitting explosion mark the arrival of the Terminator, a cyborg sent to present day Earth. His task is to kill a young woman whose life will have great significance on years to come. Directed by: James Cameron. 108 Min. VIDEO 1985 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4170 That Obscure Object of Desire
Summary: Fernando Rey stars as the fifty-ish gentleman who falls desperately in love with a woman half his age. The master of surrealism, Bunuel teases the audience by using two actresses with similar features to play the heroine, alternating between a dainty virgin and a sensual pleasurist. Bunuel's darkly humorous satire illustrates the unfathomable nature of sexual obsession and remains a lasting tribute to his unique cinematic vision. Director: Luis Bunuel. 100 Min. VIDEO 1976 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2198 That's Black Entertainment
Summary: Prejudice and segregation was a curse on all Americans in the 30's and 40's. One of the most interesting results of that racial prejudice was an underground film industry that sprang up in the black community. Black producers, directors and actors were truer to the realities of life as they experienced and felt them than their white counterparts. 060 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2110 Thelma & Louise
Summary: Geena Davis, Susan Sarandon. Directed by Ridley Scott. When unhappy housewife Thelma (Davis) and her wisecracking waitress friend Louise (Sarandon) decide to take a break from their lives - they embark on a trip that leads to a tragic incident at a roadside honky tonk. In an instant, their weekend "getaway" becomes just that as they flee across the American southwest with the police a two-step behind. 130 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4850 Thief of Baghdad, The
Summary: Ahmed the Thief is happy to be a vagabond rogue until he falls in love with the beautiful Princess. He must prove himself worthier of her hand than his rival, the evil Prince of the Mongols, who has come to seize the Princess and Baghdad, for his own. Directed by: Raoul Walsh. 154 Min. VIDEO 1924 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1932 Thin Blue Line, The
Summary: True story of a drifter sentenced to death for a murder committed by a minor. His sentence was overturned & he was released from jail 6 months after this film was released. 101 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: COMMUNICATION, CRIMINOLOGY

VH 1395 This is How We Live/ Homecoming
Summary: This is how we live: A look at the alienation of many Soviet young people. (30 min.) 1987. Homecoming: Veterans of the Soviet involvement in Afghanistan returned home with unresolved feelings about a demoralizing and unpopular war. The first film to document the human impact of the Afghan war. (17 min.) 1987. 047 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: GLASNOST FILM FESTIVAL, THE

VH 2503 This is Spinal Tap
Summary: Master comedy directory Rob Reiner ("The Princess Bride," "When Harry Met Sally...") takes you on the infamous U.S. tour of Britain's loudest heavy metal band, Spinal Tap, in this hilarious behind-the-scenes mock rockumentary. 093 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: COMMUNICATION, DRAMA

VH 2774 This Is The Internet: Road Map For The Information Highway
Summary: Introduces Internet resources, including programs, games, graphics, news and discussion groups. It explains electronic mail, moving files between computers, meeting people online, and the world's most popular Internet interface, Mosaic. 020 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: COMMUNICATION, COMPUTERS

VH 4744 Three Ages, The
Summary: Silent film with musical score. A parody of D.W. Griffith's "Intolerance" with Keaton in prehistoric days, ancient Rome, and modern times. Directed by: Buster Keaton. 058 Min. VIDEO 1928 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4408 Times of Harvey Milk
Summary: A portrait of Harvey Milk, a charismatic grass-roots activist, and one of the first avowed homosexuals elected to political office. Through television news footage and interviews, follows him from his early days as a Castro Street businessman to his murder, along with San Francisco Mayor George Moscone, in 1978. relates these events to the ongoing movement for gay rights in the United States. Directed by: Rob Epstein. 087 Min. VIDEO 1984 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 0009 To Kill a Mockingbird
Summary: Based on the novel of the same name by Harper Lee. Two children in a small southern town are thrust into an adult world of racial bigotry and hatred when their lawyer father chooses to defend a black man unjustly accused of raping a white girl. Gregory Peck, Brock Peters, Phillip Alford, Mary Dadham, Robert Duvall, Rosemary Murphy, William Windom. Director: Robert Mulligan. 129 Min. VIDEO 1962 Subject: WRITERS , SOCIOLOGY , COMMUNICATION

VH 5664 Tomboychik
Summary: Conversations between a Jewish boy and his grandmother. 015 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2025 Tomorrow
Summary: Robert Duvall & Olga Bellin. Directed by Joseph Anthony. A Mississippi farmer (Duvall) befriends a homeless pregnant woman & falls in love with her, only to have her die in childbirth shortly after they marry. 102 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1907 Tongues Untied
Summary: Derogatory accusations, judgements, and jokes in our culture are met head on by this video about black, male, and gay identity. Poetry, personal testimony, and drama unite to oppose the homophobia and racism that attempt to split a person into opposing loyalties. 055 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: COMMUNICATION, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 3889 Touch Of Evil
Summary: Touch of Evil features Orson Welles as Hank Quinlan, a crooked police chief who frames a Mexican youth as part of an intricate criminal plot. Charlton Heston is an upright Mexican narcotics investigator who clashes with the bigoted Quinlan after probing into his dark past. 108 Min. VIDEO 1958 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 7058 Tough Guise
Summary: Presents the first program to look systematically at the relationship between the images of popular culture and the social construction of masculine identities in the United States in the late 20th century. 085 Min. VIDEO 1999 Subject: SOCIOLOGY , COMMUNICATION

VH 2700 Touki Bouki
Summary: Touki Bouki with its jump cuts, its casual mixing of fantasy and reality, its subversive blend of humor and pathos has an exuberance reminiscent of the French New Wave at its best. The film reveals an Africa confronting a seemingly inevitable modernity, where Western materialism is sweeping aside all traditional ties and values. Directed by Djibril Diop Mambety. 086 Min. VIDEO 1973 Subject: COMMUNICATION, DRAMA Series: LIBRARY OF AFRICAN CINEMA

VH 2869 Traffic
Summary: A laugh filled look at modern society and the automobile, captures the absurdities of human behavior on the street and behind the wheel. Mr. Hulot returns to the screen as an absentminded inventor trying to transport his ultramodern camper to Amsterdam of an auto show. The route along the frenzied superhighway is paved with brilliant string of pantomime feats and sound gags, including one of the most balletic car crashed ever recorded. 089 Min. VIDEO 1971 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4849 Traffic in Souls
Summary: Two sisters work at a New York candy store. One of them, Lorna, is abducted by white slavers. The other sister helps capture the villains and secure Lorna's freedom. Directed by: George Loane. 050 Min. VIDEO 1913 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 5060 Trees Lounge
Summary: All Tommy wants from life is a job, a girl, and a good time. The harder he tries, the worse things get. And the more time he spends at Trees Lounge. 094 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3755 Trial By Television
Summary: From sensational television news coverage and "movies-of-the-week" to cameras in every courtroom in America, the effect of mass audience participation during the law enforcement process poses serious questions about the outcome of criminal proceedings. In "TRIAL BY TELEVISION" host Bill Kurtis explores both sides of this heated issue, interviewing victims and experts, including defense attorney Alan Dershowitz and New York State Supreme Court Justice John A.K. Bradley. This Investigative Report provides fascinating stories of actual cases that have been complicated by too much media attention, including the story of Ellen Levin, mother of manslaughter victim Jennifer Levin. 050 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: COMMUNICATION, CRIMINOLOGY

VH 1397 Trial, The (Part Two) / Adonis XIV
Summary: The Trial dramatically portray the awakening - tortuous and difficult - of contemporary civil identity. City squares, auditoriums, theater stages, and museums are the settings for this "count of conscience" on the past and future of the Soviet Union. (55 min.) 1988. Adonis XIV: Its horns ornamented with little bells, a "Judas" goat serenely leads a herd of animals to the slaughterhouse. "Everyone who sees this short story should look around and ask himself, why did I survive?" one Soviet film director said. Censors banned the film for nine years. (9 min.) 1986. 064 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: GLASNOST FILM FESTIVAL, THE

VH 5666 Trick or Drink
Summary: Autobiographical account of an adult child of alcoholic parents. 020 Min. VIDEO 1984 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2703 Triumph of the Will
Summary: A shamelessly biased, unabashedly subjective rendering of the infamous 1934 Nuremberg rallies of the Nazi party. An essential document of Hitler the orator and mesmerizer of the masses. Revels in the monumental architecture of Albert Speer, the formal precision of the marching cadres, the almost religious exaltation of Hitler as the mystical personification of the dreams and ideals of his people, capturing kinetically with a mastery of technique that is both 112 Min. VIDEO 1935 Subject: COMMUNICATION, EUROPEAN STUDIE

VH 5847 True Lies
Summary: Harry Tasker is a top spy for the ultra-secret Omega Sector, although to his wife he's just a boring computer salesman--then his two lives collide in this non-stop action adventure. 141 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1615 True Stories
Summary: John Goodman, Swoosie Kurtz, Spalding Gray, Annie McEnroe, Pops Staple s, Tito Larriva & Jo Harvey Allen. Directed by David Byrne. Fancifully offbeat comedy with music tells tall tales of Texas townsfolk. 089 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 8127 Tube, The
Summary: After his daughter threw a fit when the television was turned off, Swis s journalist Luc Mariot decided to find out what effect television has on viewer s. He travels throughout Europe, Japan, and the U.S. gathering information abou t television and its physical and psychological effects. 081 Min. VIDEO 2001 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4412 TV Nation, Vol. 1
Summary: From Michael Moore, who armed with a TV crew and a sense of humor exposes the excesses of corporate America and examines the absurdity of modern politics and popular culture. 120 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4413 TV Nation, Vol. 2
Summary: From Michael Moore, who with his correspondents expose the excesses of corporate America and examine the absurdity of modern politics and popular culture. 116 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4092 TV Reality
Summary: This program focuses on the information function of television, and ad dresses concerns that the profit motive has corrupted this public service. 057 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: SIGNAL TO NOISE: LIFE WITH TELEVISION

VH 4380 TV Violence and You
Summary: The effects on viewers of both blatant violence and subtle violence imagery are analyzed. We see how the disproportionate violence shown on the news makes viewers perceive their environment as more violent than it actually is. Violence in cartoons, which never appears to have consequences, is shown to hinder a child's ability to assess whether or not actions are potentially damaging. The put-down, frequently seen in sitcoms, is also discussed as damaging to viewers, because the violence that can result from such goading is rarely portrayed in the show. Violent relationships portrayed between men and women are analyzed within the context of the growing incidence of rape. Violence at sports events is also discussed. 030 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: COMMUNICATION, CRIMINOLOGY

VH 4178 Twice Upon a Time
Summary: In a once upon a time world, our heroes are Ralph, the all purpose animal, and his constant companion Mumford, who only talks in sound effects. Their mission is nothing short of saving the cosmos from the dastardly plot of Sunonamess Botch, who wants to unleash a barrage of nightmare bombs to ensure nonstop bad dreams. They cross paths with a colorful array of characters. Directors: John Korty & Charles Swenson. 075 Min. VIDEO 1983 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3084 Twist Barbie: Lynn Spigel Dreams of a Plastic Feminism
Summary: Is your liberation measured in hairstyles, dress variety and occupational persona? From inside Barbie's house, this USC professor and avid Barbie collector dreams of feminism and femininity, high art vs. "low culture" and Barbie gender-bending activism. Barbie is a multimillion dollar business and this show looks at the many layers of marketing, collecting, displaying and discussing - all of course with a twist. 029 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1796 Two Daughters
Summary: Original Indian language-subtitled in English. Told in two parts, "Two Daughters" tells of the hungers, pains and joys of youth in terms of compassionate understanding and truth. Director: Satyajit Ray. In original Indian language with English subtitles. 115 Min. VIDEO 1961 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1863 U.S.A 1902-1914 Tomorrow the World
Summary: Film historian Noel Burch examines early filmmaking in America against the social background of the immigrant masses streaming into the slums, factories and sweat-shops of an industrialized America. 026 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: AMERICAN STUDIE,COMMUNICATION Series: WHAT DO THOSE OLD FILMS MEAN?

VH 4848 Umberto D
Summary: An elderly man lives alone, except for his dog, on a meager pension determined to retain his dignity to the end. Directed by: Vittorio DeSica. 089 Min. VIDEO 1955 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 6933 Underground Orchestra, The
Summary: Profiles musicians who have fled political repression and who now play on the sidewalks of Paris and in the Metro. Among those interviewed are a pianist from Argentina, a violinist from Sarajevo, a harpist from Venezuela, and singers from Mali and Vietnam. 111 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2348 Understanding Different Cultural Values and Styles
Summary: This program refutes the melting pot theory, explaining that employees do not, and should not be expected to, set aside their particular cultural values when they come to work. The program presents the views of African Americans, Hispanics, Asians, and Native Americans who share their work experiences and demonstrate that what minorities want from coworkers and management is no more than an open mind and a chance to make good. 056 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: MANAGEMENT, COMMUNICATION, PSYCHOLOGY Series: MOSAIC WORKPLACE, THE

VH 2302 Understanding Our Biases and Assumptions
Summary: This program deals with the nature of biases and preconceptions, pointing out that almost everyone sees the world from his or her own perspective and stressing the need to examine one's own thinking about "us" and "them." It challenges viewers to examine their own biases and overcome them. 014 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: MANAGEMENT, COMMUNICATION, PSYCHOLOGY Series: MOSAIC WORKPLACE, THE

VH 4023 Understanding Your Fear
Summary: Part 1 of a two part series. Part 2 is "Overcoming Your Fear." You will learn: How to identify the fears at the core of your speaking phobia, 3 essential "fear busters" to use every time you speak in public, proven ways to regain your composure when you feel yourself starting to "lose it", "Psych Talk" techniques, using them to give yourself a burst of confidence and energy right before you speak, and confidence building practice, how and where to do it, and who should observe. 057 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: SPEAKING WITHOUT FEAR OR NERVOUSNESS

VH 2430 Union Maids
Summary: A documentary in which three women relate their participation in the labor movement of the 1930's. Each recalls the Depression and the intolerable conditions through which they lived and worked. They discuss the role of women in labor unions then and now, the relationship to the Women's Liberation Movement, and the future of labor unions in the United States. 048 Min. VIDEO 1976 Subject: AMERICAN STUDIE,COMMUNICATION, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 5198 Unlocking Language
Summary: In this video the birth of language is discussed. Topics explored are the ability of language to express abstractions, the role of evolution in the development of languages, and language as an innately guided behavior in unborn babies. 029 Min. VIDEO 1999 Subject: LANGUAGE SKILLS,COMMUNICATION

VH 3535 Untouchables, The
Summary: This classic confrontation between good and evil stars Kevin Costner as federal agent Eliot Ness, Robert De Niro as gangland kingpin Al Capone and Sean Connery as Malone, the cop who teaches Ness how to best the mob: shoot fast and shoot first. Directed by Brian De Palma. 119 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3914 Up Close & Personal
Summary: When aspiring news reporter Tally Atwater tries to break into television, only veteran newsman Warren Justice will give her a shot. In time, he teaches her everything she knows about news and she teaches him how to love again! But with her rise from local TV weather girl to network anchor, Tally and Warren must balance the dream of success with their desire for each other. Director: John Avnet. 124 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1773 Uptown Saturday Night
Summary: An all-star cast of unlikely heroes survives car crashes, church picnics, politicians, private eyes, hustlers, & shootouts - all to retrieve a lottery ticket. Directed by: Sidney Poitier. 104 Min. VIDEO 1974 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1866 USSR 1926-1930 Born Yesterday
Summary: Film historian Noel Burch focus on the sexual politics of Soviet cinema--issues such as the collectivization of domestic tasks and childcare and the abolition of sexual division of labor in the home. 026 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: COMMUNICATION, EUROPEAN STUDIE Series: WHAT DO THOSE OLD FILMS MEAN?

VH 4008 Valuing Diversity: Multi-Cultural Communication
Summary: Gives viewers practical suggestions on how to decrease their discomfort communicating with diverse people. 019 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 0282 Variety Is The Spice Of Life
Summary: This video imagines a more generous world in which a variety of love and lovers is not just permitted but welcomed. Circumventing the traditional Battle of the Sexes is at the heart of these tapes, where a sense of humor and an understanding of the construction of sexuality underlie their conception. Fleischer Studio, Inc.-"In My Merry Oldsmobile", Jill Kroesen-"Lowell Moves to New York", Valie Export-"A Perfect Pair", Linda Look-"Luchare", Lyn 075 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: WHAT DOES SHE WANT

VH 1211 Vartan Gregorian
Summary: Vartan Gregorian, head of the New York Public Library, talks about the increase in the amount of information and knowledge in our work and the affect of this increase on education and learning. 029 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: SOCIOLOGY , COMMUNICATION, DECISION & INFORMATION SYSTEMS Series: WORLD OF IDEAS WITH BILL MOYERS, A

VH 5646 Vertical Roll
Summary: The technique of vertical roll is used structurally and rhythmically to create perceptual illusions. 020 Min. VIDEO 1972 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2105 Vertigo
Summary: Based on a novel, D'Entre Les Morts, by Pierre Boileau & Thomas Narcejac. James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore, Henry Jones & Ellen Corby. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Score by Bernard Herrmann. This haunting tale of obsession, phobia, & murder centers on a troubled San Francisco detective (Stewart) who's terrified of heights & obsessed with a lost love & her look-alike. 128 Min. VIDEO 1958 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4906 Video Rhetorics: Televised Advertising in American Politics
Summary: Political spots as paradigms of American politics, how political advertising uses popular genres, how popular genres become public styles of political aesthetics for American politics, how music in electoral spots on television communicate feelings of political leadership, how genres and music orchestrate campaign spots. 063 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1743 La Vie Est Belle (Life is Rosy)
Summary: Tells the "rags to riches" story of a poor rural musician who realizes that to succeed in today's music world he must go to the city and break into radio and television. In Kinshasa he uses his wit and talent to win a beautiful wife, trick his greedy boss and succeed in singing his "theme song" on national television. Director: Lamy Bernard & N. Mweze. 085 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: COMMUNICATION, DRAMA, MUSICAL Series: LIBRARY OF AFRICAN CINEMA

VH 4577 Viewers
Summary: This is a video for use in teaching critical television viewing skills in the classroom. An analysis of what is shown on TV takes place in 6 parts: newscasting, the creative process, economics, commercials, stereotypes and editing. 079 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: CREATING CRITICAL TV

VH 4375 Virtual Wasteland, The
Summary: This program explores a future where technological advances have produced a society divided and disconnected. A visit to Singapore, which is the most advanced technical society in the world and where the future is embraced enthusiastically shows that technology has not set its people free. On the contrary, it is one of the most oppressed and oppressive societies in the world, a "Disneyland with death penalties" observes William Gibson. 052 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: COMMUNICATION, COMPUTERS Series: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND THE FUTURE

VH 5647 Vital Statistics of a Citizen, Simply Obtained
Summary: This tape examines the objectification of women in a technological society. In the primary scene, a woman's body is measured in a clinical setting and compared with standard measurements. Voice overs, symbolic scenes, and photographs suggest the implications of using social standards of measurement. 040 Min. VIDEO 1977 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 8102 Voice of Your Own, A
Summary: Rodenburg, the Head of Voice at the Royal National Theatre London, shows untrained people how to develop vocal power and confidence with the techniques that she has developed, including vocal warm-ups and breathing exercises. 073 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2312 W.C. Fields Festival Vol. 1
Summary: A collection of three of W.C. Fields' greatest comedy shorts: "The Fat al Glass of Beer" 1933 18 min. A satire on an old melodrama "Stolen Bonds." It is set in a Yukon cabin, Field's son consumes one beer too many and winds up in the jug for stealing bonds. "The Golf Specialist" 1932 20 min. Fields goes to a famous Florida resort. The house detective's wife falls for him. He takes he r to the golf course and does his notorious golf routine. 056 Min. VIDEO 1986 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3196 Walker
Summary: The astonishing story of a real life American soldier of fortune who declared himself president of Nicaragua in 1855 and ruled the country for two turbulent years. William Walker (Ed Harris) puts together a band of mercenaries and leads a violent and bloody invasion of the Latin American nation. He then installs himself as the self proclaimed leader in the belief that he knows what's best for the country's citizens. Director: Alex Cox. 095 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 5648 Wallace + Theresa
Summary: The artist takes the propensity to read and interprets it as a given condition, and constructs a layering of images, sounds, printed and written words, and voice - all and each of which reciprocally narrate one another, where narration is, substantially, the event. 014 Min. VIDEO 1985 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 0327 Warning: The Media May Be Hazardous To Your Health
Summary: A synthesis of how beauty pageants, weight loss, eating disorders, cosmetic surgery, TV ads, music videos, cartoons, pornography, toys and language usage all interact to form our idea of "beauty" and sex. Clips of Madonna, fashion models, Pee Wee Herman and a wide variety of commercials are interwoven to create an insightful, dynamic and humorous look at sexism in the 90's. Based on a slideshow by activist, writer and national lecturer, Ann J. Simonton. 036 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: COMMUNICATION, PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY

VH 3015 Wartime Moments
Summary: Throughout World War II Britain's greatest film poet, Humphrey Jennings, concentrated on the homefront and the ways men, women and children lived their lives. "Listen to Britain", perhaps his most outstanding film, celebrates the perseverance of everyday behavior in the face of total war. Children perform schoolyard rituals as army trucks and tanks suddenly rumble through town. 081 Min. VIDEO 1941 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4091 Watching TV Watching Us
Summary: This program analyzes the business aspect of television, and the phenomenal amount of money that goes into programming and advertising strategies. 057 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: SIGNAL TO NOISE: LIFE WITH TELEVISION

VH 4847 Waxworks
Summary: A poet imagines scenarios in a wax museum fairground that involve Jack the ripper, Ivan the Terrible, and Haroun al-Raschid. Directed by: Paul Leni. 060 Min. VIDEO 1922 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 7301 Way We Communicate...Video, Audio & Multimedia Systems, The
Summary: Teaches the fundamentals of the technology behind basic communications equipment. 016 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4123 Way We Were, The
Summary: The story begins on a college campus in 1937 where Hubbell Gardiner is the popular star athlete while Katie Morosky is the abrasive defender of radical causes. It is only by chance that eight years later they meet in a bar and fall in love. Their marriage is strained by their inevitable conflicts and reaches a painful end when Hubbell, now a screenwriter in Hollywood, is threatened by McCarthy's communist hunters and takes the easy way out, while Katie is determined to fight them. Directed by: Sidney Pollack. 118 Min. VIDEO 1974 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 0278 We Are Not Sugar And Spice And Everything Nice
Summary: Takes us from teenaged girls with their mothers, to a teenaged girl who leaves home; from girls constructing themselves in the "image" of women, to women deciding on a different image; and from the family that stays together, to the couple that is dissolving its marital bond, revealing many different views of relatedness and relationships. Titles: Ilene Segalove-"Mom Tapes", Mindy Faber-"Suburban Queen", Ardele Lister-"Split", Branda Miller-"That's It Forget". 072 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: WHAT DOES SHE WANT

VH 5059 Wedding, A
Summary: Director Robert Altman makes a satiric statement about the institution of marriage in the United States. Two families overflowing with lunatics attempt to get along for one afternoon, but succeed in exposing one another's secrets. 125 Min. VIDEO 1978 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1671 Wedding in Galilee
Summary: Directed by Michael Kheifi. Depicts Palestinian traditions that are becoming threatened by 20th century inroads. 113 Min. VIDEO 1986 Subject: COMMUNICATION, MIDDLE EAST STUDIES, SOCIOLOGY

VH 1587 Wedding March, The
Summary: Erich Von Stroheim, Fay Wray, ZaSu Pitts, Matthew Betz & George Fawcett. Directed by Erich Von Stroheim. Score by J.S. Zamecnik & Louis De Francesco. A prince challenges the importance of love in a marriage. 113 Min. VIDEO 1928 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1788 Weekend
Summary: Despite their often-expressed desire to kill one another, a shamelessly greedy Parisian couple, Corinne and Roland, set out for a ritual weekend visit to her parents home in the country. Enroute, the scheming bourgeois couple encounter an appallingly funny progression of traffic jams, burning cars, and cannibalistic revolutionaries. Director: Jean-Luc Godard. 105 Min. VIDEO 1967 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1746 Wend Kuuni (God's Gift)
Summary: A mute child without memory is found under a tree by a peddler. He is adopted by the peddler's village who in gratitude rename him, Wend Kuuni or "God's gift.' In a series of flashbacks, we learn how bigotry and cruelty ironically drove Wend Kuuni to discover the compassion of his adopted village. Director: Gaston Kabore. 070 Min. VIDEO 1982 Subject: COMMUNICATION, DRAMA Series: LIBRARY OF AFRICAN CINEMA

VH 5658 Wendy Clarke's Love Tapes
Summary: A compilation of eight 3-minute monologues that are spontaneous revelations about love made by people of all ages and from all walks of life. 028 Min. VIDEO 1982 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3141 Western, The
Summary: Uniquely American, westerns portray the open frontier; the lawless edge of civilization; the legendary outlaw; and the solitary, enigmatic often reluctant hero. Yet to limit the western to these images alone is to miss its true scope: central to the style are dramatic stories from the American experience. This program looks at the development of the western and its chances for survival in the future. 060 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: AMERICAN CINEMA

VH 2893 What You Take For Granted
Summary: The tentative friendship of Anna, a feisty truck driver and Diana, an upper middle-class doctor, provides the core for an unusual, intimate and moving look at women's experiences in jobs traditionally held by men. Based on actual interviews of forty working women, the film intercuts the story of Anna and Diana with fictionalized interviews of four other non-traditionally employed women. 075 Min. VIDEO 1983 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4420 Where is the Friends Home?
Summary: A traveler searching for his friend's home finds himself on an excursion through places and moments of great beauty and wonder. Farsi dialogue with English subtitles. Directed by Abbas Kiarostami. 090 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4634 White Balloon, The
Summary: A young girl's desire for a pretty goldfish, her family cannot afford sparks an adventure. With the shops closed for the New Year in Tehran, Razieh pleads with her mother to buy her the fish she has seen in a pet store. Directed by Jafar Panahi. 085 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 5057 Wild Strawberries
Summary: Wild Strawberries confronts eternal questions of loneliness, aging, and mortality with a warmth and humanity not often found in Bergman's world. This film follows an aged doctor's journey through a compelling landscape of dream and memory as he travels to receive an honorary degree. Haunting flashbacks along the way force him to confront his failings. Directed by Ingmar Bergman. 090 Min. VIDEO 1959 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 0885 Wild Women Don't Have the Blues
Summary: The story of Ma Rainey, Ethel Waters, Bessie Smith, Alberta Hunter, Ida Cox, and other pioneering blues singers from early in the century. We learn of their vision, struggles, pain and humor. The film recreates the stories of these legendary women who left their mark on the music and the heart of America. 058 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: COMMUNICATION, JAZZ , AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 2313 Wildcats
Summary: Central High: an inner-Chicago combat zone sometimes called a school. It's the home of the Wildcats, a brawn-before-brains football team of rowdy rappers, bruisers and losers. Goldie Hawn stars as Molly, the coach who turns a down-and-out team's wayward ways into winning plays. Director: Michael Ritchie. 106 Min. VIDEO 1986 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2685 Wings of Desire
Summary: An ethereal, haunting modern fable about one of many angels observing human life in and above the broken existence of Berlin, and how he begins to long to experience life as humans do. Director: Wim Wenders. In German with English subtitles, and with black-and-white sequences. 130 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2498 Within Our Gates
Summary: Oscar Micheaux's "Within Our Gates" is the earliest surviving feature directed by an African American. However, this startling film, unseen for 75 years, is far more than a historic curiosity. The 1993 Library of Congress intertitle restoration reveals it as passionate social history, confronting racism head on through a story of a young African American woman who seeks a Northern white patron for a Southern school for black children. Director: Oscar Micheaux. 079 Min. VIDEO 1919 Subject: COMMUNICATION, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 4846 Woman in the Dunes
Summary: An entomologist needing shelter for the night is advised by some village people to stay in a shack at the bottom of a sandpit. The next morning the rope ladder is gone and he is trapped. Gradually, he accepts the realization that he is expected to stay and help the woman in the sandpit shovel sand. Directed by: Teshigahara Hiroshi. 123 Min. VIDEO 1964 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2776 Women of Brewster Place, The (Part One)
Summary: A drama that celebrates the human spirit's indomitable will to survive in the face of hopeless poverty, shattering tragedy and the senseless violence that stalks the cold city streets of the slums. Oprah Winfrey plays Mattie Michael, a proud, big hearted woman whose life has been plagued by a series of grievous misfortunes, landing her alone, middle-age and penniless in a crumbling neighborhood. Director: Donna Deitch. 090 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: COMMUNICATION, DRAMA, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 3531 Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown
Summary: Surreal and hilarious romp through the lives of film dubber Maura, her ex-lover, his crazed ex-mistress, his new lover, his son, and his son's girlfriend. They meet in a comedy of errors, missed phone calls, and rental notices, while discovering the truth and necessity of love. Director: Pedro Almodovar. 088 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 5346 Women Producers in Hollywood
Summary: In this program, respected female producers, including Gale Ann Hurd, Lynda Obst, Lauren Shuler-Donner, and Lucy Fisher, demonstrate the stages of the production process and discuss obstacles they have overcome along the road to success. 052 Min. VIDEO 1999 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1887 Women's Story
Summary: Directed by Peng Xiaolian. The plight of Chinese women, seen from a woman's point of view. A gentle & touching tale of three peasant women who flee their village in order to taste freedom in the big city & escape the sexist oppression of traditional life in rural China. In Chinese, subtitled in English. 096 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: PERSPECTIVES ON CHINESE CINEMA

VH 2367 Women Who Made The Movies
Summary: This program traces the careers and films of such filmmakers as Alice Guy Blache, the first person to make a film with a plot (in 1896), and the first person to synchronize sound with film. Others documented include Ida Lupino, better known for her acting, Ruth Ann Baldwin, director of many early Westerns, Leni Riefenstahl, Hitler's film propagandist, as well as many other women who made a lasting contribution to cinema history. 056 Min. VIDEOS 1991 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 0283 Women With A Past
Summary: Women With A Past intercuts four accounts by artists of their lives into one very heady mix. Their stories not only provide basic training in the arts, but dispel the myth of the inarticulate artist indifferent to the social complexities of her time. Interviews of; Christine Choy by Joyce Bolinger, Nalani McClendon and Chris Straayer, Yvonne Rainer by Lyn Blumenthal, Martha Rosler by Craig Owens, Nancy Spero by Kate Horsfield. 070 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: COMMUNICATION, ART Series: WHAT DOES SHE WANT

VH 2889 Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl, The, Part 1
Summary: An account of the woman best known as Hitler's moviemaker and recently hailed by the New York Times as "one of the greatest woman filmmakers ever". In this program, Leni Riefenstahl addresses her past for the first time on camera. While she never actually joined the Nazi Party, as the creator of the single most effective propaganda film ever made, "Triumph of the Will". Riefenstahl has spent much of her life trying to live down her association with the Third Riech. 096 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2890 Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl, The, Part 2
Summary: An account of the woman best known as Hitler's moviemaker and recently hailed by the New York Times as "one of the greatest woman filmmakers ever". In this program, Leni Riefenstahl addresses her past for the first time on camera. While she never actually joined the Nazi Party, as the creator of the single most effective propaganda film ever made, "Triumph of the Will". Riefenstahl has spent much of her life trying to live down her association with the Third Riech. 092 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2272 Word in Edgewise, A
Summary: A truly articulate, unaffected statement about a basic human activity, this excellent video explains the role of language in shaping behavior. It is a good synthesis of all that has been explored by linguists about sex bias in everyday speech and writing. Cites illustrations of abuses as well as suggestions for improvement. 026 Min. VIDEO 1986 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3149B Writing And Thinking About Film
Summary: Noted independent filmmaker John Sayles (Matewan) joins a number of scholars in an analysis of Fritz Lang's 1946 film Scarlet Street. This "how -to" guide furnishes viewers with a hands-on demonstration of practical film criticism. 030 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: AMERICAN CINEMA

VH 8051 Writing Desire
Summary: A video essay on the new dream screen of the Internet and how it impacts on the global circulation of women's bodies from the third world to the first world. Although under age Philippine "pen pals" and post-Soviet mail order brides have been part of the transnational exchange of sex in the post-colonial and post-Cold War marketplace of desire before the digital age, the Internet has accelerated these transactions. 026 Min. VIDEO 2000 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4893 Wrong Man, The
Summary: Henry Fonda stars as Manny Balestrero, a wronged man filled with visible but unspoken rage. Vera Miles plays his wife, driven to madness by the ordeal. Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock. 105 Min. VIDEO 1956 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2917 Wrong Move
Summary: The essentially humorous story about an intense, self-absorbed young writer who has never written anything, but longs to someday experience the life he hopes to write about. Wilhelm drives across Germany, searching for things to experience firsthand. Along the way he meets an ex-Nazi and his mute companion, a wandering poet and an actress who, together, challenge Wilhelm's desire to become a writer. "WRONG MOVE" is freely adapted from Goethe's "Wilhelm Meister's. Director: Wim Wenders. 103 Min. VIDEO 1975 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1740 Yeelen (Brightness)
Summary: "Yeelen" tells the story of Nianankoro, a young warrior destined to destroy a corrupt older society, the secret "Komo" cult, and with it his father, and inevitably himself. The video follows him on a quest across arid Bambara, Fulani and Dogon lands, and through a cross-section of West African cultures and folklore. Director: Cisse Soulemane. 105 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: LIBRARY OF AFRICAN CINEMA

VH 1890 Yellow Earth
Summary: The landmark film of China's Fifth Generation with cinematography by Zhang Yimou. Director: Chen Kaige. 089 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: PERSPECTIVES ON CHINESE CINEMA

VH 4090 Yellow Tale Blues: Two American Families
Summary: Reveals nearly a century of disparaging images of Asians. These familiar images are juxtaposed with portraits of the Choys, an immigrant, working class family, and the Tajimas, a fourth generation middle class California family. Seeing the efforts of these families to establish themselves in America makes the celluloid images seem both laughable and sad. 030 Min. VIDEO Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3814 Yidl With His Fiddle (Yidl Mitn Fidl)
Summary: Molly Picon plays a shtetl girl who, disguised as a boy, goes off with her father and a band of traveling musicians into the Polish countryside. Made in pre war Poland, the film provides a warm rendering of Eastern European Jewish life, made all the more fun and wonderful by Molly Picon's unequaled ability to amuse and entertain. Subtitled in English. 092 Min. VIDEO 1936 Subject: MUSICAL , COMMUNICATION

VH 1785 Yol
Summary: Five Turkish prisoners are granted temporary leave to visit their families. An acclaimed, heartfelt film, written by Yilmaz Guney while he himself was in prison. A potent protest against totalitarianism. Director: Serif Goren. 126 Min. VIDEO 1982 Subject: COMMUNICATION, DRAMA

VH 6237 York University Lecture 1979
Summary: Video reviews perspectives of communications theorist Marshall McLuhan. 031 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: COMMUNICATION Series: VIDEO MCLUHAN, THE

VH 1023 You're Not Communicating (2nd Edition)
Summary: Video focuses on five vital elements of effective communication and delineates the responsibilities of the message sender. Cover such topics as concise expression, timing and feedback. 023 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2410 Young And Innocent
Summary: Derrick de Marney is a young writer accused of murder. He escapes, meets a young girl and persuades her to help him. That's the start of many adventures with tramps, hotel lounges, lime pits and slow-witted policemen inextricably involved. The search for evidence to prove the writer's innocence continues while romance begins. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. 082 Min. VIDEO 1937 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 3891 Young and the Damned, The (Los Olvidados)
Summary: The film focuses on Pedro, a young boy whose mother has no use for him, and who becomes involved with a malevolent gang of delinquents; and on Jaibo, an older, more hardened youth, who leads Pedro deeper into the world of crime. The movie is absolutely overflowing with images that are disturbing for their eroticism, violence or pure irrationality. Director: Luis Bunuel. 079 Min. VIDEO 1950 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4007 Your Cultural Passport to International Business
Summary: Introduces business practices and etiquette that would be useful to know if one were conducting business outside of the United States. 028 Min. VIDEO Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 1742 Zan Boko (Homeland)
Summary: This video tells the story of a village swallowed up by one of Africa's sprawling cities. Through this commonplace event, the film reveals the transformation of an agrarian, subsistence society into an industrialized, commodity economy and of an oral culture into a mass media culture. "Zan Boko" is also the story of two men, from different worlds but sharing a common integrity. Director: Gaston Kabore. 094 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: COMMUNICATION, DRAMA Series: LIBRARY OF AFRICAN CINEMA

VH 5083 Zelig
Summary: Conceived as a mock documentary, Zelig is an amazing true case history of a man who is able to change his personality to fit in all possible situations. Directed by: Woody Allen. 079 Min. VIDEO 1983 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 2156 Zero in Conduct
Summary: An early French sound film set in a boy's school and featuring a charming rebellion against authority. In French with English subtitles. 048 Min. VIDEO Subject: COMMUNICATION