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