FAU Libraries Media Center - Videographies, Motion Picture

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 Calafimi which are so vividly depicted in the film 1860. 072 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: COMMUNICATION

VH 4706 2001: A Space Odyssey
Summary: Explores the mysteries of interplanetary space, and of human destiny. Moving from the prehistoric birth of intelligence to the emergence of man as pure thought. Directed by: Stanley Kubrick. 139 Min. VIDEO 1968 Subject: COMPUTERS

VH 5731 7th Voyage of Sinbad, The
Summary: The legendary Sinbad's incredible adventures continue in this epic. Sinbad, bold sailor and prince of Baghdad, sets out for the mysterious island of Colossa where he hopes to obtain the egg of roc--a fierce giant bird. The egg will help restore to normal size the Princess Parisa. 094 Min. VIDEO 1987

VH 2900 8 ˝ (Fellini)
Summary: Federico Fellini's great comic fantasy - is the most influential picture of the last quarter of a century. No other film has been more closely associated with a director and his style or with the genre of autobiographical filmmaking. Fellini cast Marcello Mastroianni as Guido - a movie director - who is unable to find inspiration to begin a new production, even though he is at the peak of his career. 138 Min. VIDEO 1980

VH 6385 Abyss, The
Summary: An epic underwater adventure where a nuclear missile sub mysteriously sinks. The Navy commandeers the crew of a civilian deep sea oil rig to help in the rescue operation. This perilous mission becomes a wondrous odyssey into the unknown as forces from the ocean's deepest region begin to make contact with the divers. Directed by James Cameron. 140 Min. VIDEO 1990

VH 7534 Accidental Tourist, The
Summary: The orderly life of a travel guidebooks author is hilariously disrupted by his estranged wife and an eccentric dog trainer. Directed by Lawrence Kasdan. 121 Min. VIDEO 1988

VH 5027 Accompanist, The
Summary: A collaborator in occupied Paris, merchant Charles Brice sees the war as an opportunity to increase his wealth - and ensure the devotion of his wife, a beautiful singer. But his moral compromise is mirrored by his wife's infidelity, and she pursues a leader of the French Resistance with the same hunger that he pursues German marks. Caught in the middle of their emotional whirlpool is an awkward young pianist who observes everything - and who sacrifices her own chance at happiness by living in their dark shadow. Directed by Claude Miller. 111 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: CLASSICAL

VH 8420 The Actor
Summary: A wild comedy of marital discord in which a popular film actor, who longs to be a serious actor, has become wealth making mindless commercially-liked comedies. Meanwhile, his wife has become obsessed with her inability to have a child and insists that Akbar take a second wife, a mute waif of a gypsy girl who will disappear after being well paid for providing them with an infant. Written and directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf. 084 Min. VIDEO 2001 Subject: MIDDLE EAST, DRAMA

VH 4207 Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, The
Summary: Buckaroo Banzai is a top neurosurgeon, race car driver, rock star and comic book hero - and probably the last hope of the human race. His latest experiments have opened the door to the 8th dimension and have unwittingly begun an interstellar battle for the world. On one side are the Red Lectroids, whose leader inhabits the body of Dr. Lizardo. On the other, the Black Lectroids and our hero Buckaroo, backed by his rock and roll commandos, The Hong Kong Cavaliers, and his sweetheart Penny Priddy. Director: W.D. Richter. 103 Min. VIDEO 1984

VH 1965 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Summary: Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is the legendary America n author's most famous masterpiece. It is a most thoughtful, moving and joyous story of an unusual friendship and a boy's exciting journey toward adulthood. 121 Min. VIDEO 1985 Subject: LITERATURE-I

VH 7364 Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes, The
Summary: Sherlock Holmes solves the case of the "Star Of Delhi" jewels, while battling his arch enemy, Professor Moriarty. 082 Min. VIDEO 1939 Series: SHERLOCK HOLMES

VH 5029 African Queen, The
Summary: A gin loving river trader rescues an abandoned missionary on the war torn "African Queen." Their perilous escape turns into an outright battle against nature, the Germans and finally each other as the tempestuous pair realize they've fallen in love. Directed by John Huston. 104 Min. VIDEO 1951

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 7503 After The Thin Man
Summary: Motion picture is a murder and detective story starring William Powell and Myrna Loy. Directed by W.S. Van Dyke. 113 Min. VIDEO 1936 Series: DIAMOND JUBILEE COLLECTION

VH 6653 Afterglow
Summary: A handyman wreaks havoc and builds romance in two marriages. Desperate to have a baby, Marianne hires Lucky Mann to remodel a nursery. There's just one problem: Marianne's not pregnant and her husband isn't interested in sex. directed by Alan Rudolph. 114 Min. VIDEO 1997

VH 6494 Agatha
Summary: On the evening of December 4, 1926, Agatha Christie, the world's greatest mystery writer, drove off in her car and disappeared. What really happened to her during those missing eleven days. 098 Min. VIDEO 1978

VH 7709 Agatha Christie's Ordeal By Innocence
Summary: Motion picture murder mystery about a man falsely convicted and executed for the murder of his mother. Directed by Desmond Davis. 091 Min. VIDEO 1984

VH 7666 Agatha Christie's The Seven Dials Mystery
Summary: Television program detective/ mystery theme about the investigation of a man found murdered in a woman's bedroom. Directed by Tony Wharmby. 116 Min. VIDEO 1980

VH 7665 Agatha Christie's Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
Summary: Detective/ mystery motion picture centered around a dying man's last question from his deathbed on the rugged coast of Wales, England. Directed by Jack Williams. 144 Min. VIDEO 1979

VH 7438 Agony and the Ecstasy, The
Summary: Historical drama depicting Michelangelo's artistic conflicts with Pope Julius II, who commissions him to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Directed by Carol Reed. 139 Min. VIDEO 1988

VH 7166 Air Force One
Summary: The U.S. President, who said he would not negotiate with terrorists, is faced with a nearly impossible decision when Russian terrorists hijack Air Force One. The nearly impossible decision is to give in to terrorist demands or sacrifice not only the country's dignity, but the lives of his wife and daughter. 125 Min. VIDEO

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 tear jerker 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 4187 Alice, Sweet Alice
Summary: A horrific chiller most notable for being Brooke Shields' first movie. Paula Sheppard plays Shields' psychotic twelve year old sister, Alice, and Linda Miller is their mother in this unnerving thriller. Director: Alfred Sole. 108 Min. VIDEO 1977

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 6016 Alien Nation
Summary: Science fiction drama set in Los Angeles in the 1990's about a whole culture of aliens called "Newcomers" who land in the Mojave Desert and are allowed refuge by the US government. Directed by Graham Baker. 090 Min. VIDEO 1988

VH 1577 Aliens
Summary: Sigourney Weaver returns as Ripley, the only survivor from mankind's first encounter with the Alien. Her account of the Alien and the fate of her crew is received with skepticism - until transmissions from a space colonists who have since settled on the Alien's planet abruptly stop. Determined to end the recurring nightmares of her terrifying ordeal and to completely exterminate the deadly creature, Ripley joins a team of high-tech combat vets sent to investigate the disappearance of the space colonists! Directed by: James Cameron. 138 Min. VIDEO 1986

VH 7522 All Over Town
Summary: Motion picture comedy, starring Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson, about a vaudeville comedy duo who attempt to put on a performance. Directed by James Horne. 062 Min. VIDEO 1937 Series: VIDEO FILM CLASSICS

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 7710 All This And Heaven Too
Summary: Motion picture drama about the murder of a wife who was insanely jealous of a romantic attachment between her husband and another woman. Directed by Anatole Litvak. 121 Min. VIDEO 1940 Subject: DRAMA

VH 7197 Allosaurus - A Walking With Dinosaurs Special
Summary: Video is an animated portrayal of "Big Al", an Allosaurus, which existed 145 million years ago. Based upon the most complete Allosaurus skeleton discovered, this film tells the life story of "Big Al" from hatchling to 15-year-old adolescent. 060 Min. VIDEO 2000

VH 7081 Almacita di Desolato
Summary: "Based on old legends, the film depicts a fictional agricultural community in an isolated part of Curacao at the turn of the century. The central theme of the film is the struggle between creative and destructive forces...." 112 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: DRAMA

VH 2004 Almos' a Man
Summary: David, a black teenage farm worker in the Deep South during the late 1930's persuades his mother to give him part of his earnings for a used handgun. While practicing with it, he accidentally kills a mule. Consequently, his father demeans him in front of the landowner, who demands that he work 25 months to pay for the animal. At nightfall, armed with vague notions of manhood & independence, David retrieves his gun & hops aboard a passing train. 051 Min. VIDEO 1977 Subject: LITERATURE-I, AFRICAN-AMERICAN Series: AMERICAN SHORT STORY COLLECTION, THE

VH 7518 Amazing Adventure
Summary: Motion picture comedy, starring Cary Grant and Mary Brian, about a young millionaire, who can't stand so much wealth. Directed by Alfred Zeisler. 063 Min. VIDEO 1937 Series: VIDEO FILM CLASSICS

VH 7719 America's Dream
Summary: Motion picture presents three adaptations of short stories by African American authors. The stories focus on the struggle of Black men and women in the face of changing attitudes. Directed by Kevin Rodney Sullivan. 087 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN, DRAMA

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 6346 American Graffiti
Summary: Cars, cruising, rock and roll: the misadventures of a group of four California teenagers one late summer night before college in 1962. Directed by George Lucas. 112 Min. VIDEO 1998

VH 5481 American Matchmaker/I Want To Be A Boarder
Summary: The first film is a story of second generation American Jewish immigrants (87 min.). The second film is a story of a husband and wife who pretend to be landlady and tenant (15 min.). 102 Min. VIDEO 1990 Series: JEWISH HERITAGE VIDEO COLLECTION

VH 6710 American Me
Summary: Drama based on the true story of a youth from the streets of East Los Angeles who becomes the leader of the Mexican Mafia while in Folsom prison. After ruling the prison harshly, he is released to the reality of barrio life and his past will not permit him to make a new life. Contains a vehement anti-drug and anti-gang theme. Directed by Edward James Olmos. 126 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: LATIN AMERICAN, CRIMINOLOGY

VH 6949 American Pie
Summary: Follows the hapless adventures of four "unlucky in love" high school friends as they gear up for the prom. Directed by Paul Weitz. 096 Min. VIDEO 1999

VH 5456 American Tail, An
Summary: Steven Spielberg presents a warm and delightful animated feature about a Jewish mouse who immigrates to America from Russia in the late nineteenth century and gets separated from his family. Directed by Don Bluth. 081 Min. VIDEO 1986 Series: JEWISH HERITAGE VIDEO COLLECTION

VH 5457 American Tail, An: Fievel Goes West
Summary: Steven Spielberg's Jewish immigrant mouse, Fievel Mousekewitz, travels to the Wild West in this animated feature. Directed by Phil Nebbelink. 075 Min. VIDEO 1991 Series: JEWISH HERITAGE VIDEO COLLECTION

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 4209 Among the Cinders
Summary: The story of Nick, a youth of 16, coming of age in his native land, New Zealand, and a glowing chronicle of his rites of passage into the adult mysteries. Overcome with guilt over the accidental death of his friend, Nick is taken to the farms, the goldfields and the gumfields of his grandfather's younger days. It is here in the wilderness that Nick meets an older woman, Sally, who has become hostile toward men - until she meets Nick. Director: Rolf Haedrich. 109 Min. VIDEO 1983

VH 4208 And God Created Woman
Summary: The story of Juliette, a woman capable of bringing even the strongest man to his knees. Juliette is a sexually restless young woman involved with three different men in the same town. The men battle for her affection, but the insatiable young vixen cannot be tamed-even by marriage. Director: Roger Vadim. 090 Min. VIDEO 1957

VH 5730 Andromeda Strain, The
Summary: Directed by Robert Wise. This record of the earth's first biological crisis is perhaps the most painstakingly authentic science fiction thriller ever made. When a satellite falls to earth near a remote New Mexico village, the recovery team finds everyone in the area dead except an infant and an old derelict. The survivors are brought to a five story underground lab where scientists attempt to determine the nature of the deadly microbe before it starts a worldwide epidemic. 130 Min. VIDEO 1970

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 7674 Angel On My Shoulder
Summary: Motion picture drama about a deal struck between a murdered gangster and the devil in return for a temporary return to earth. Directed by Archie Mayo. 100 Min. VIDEO 1946

VH 5063 Angels and Insects
Summary: Story of a young scientist who marries the woman of his dreams, only to find himself tangled in a nightmarish web of shocking sexual secrets. Directed by Philip Hass. 118 Min. VIDEO 1994

VH 5482 Animal Crackers
Summary: A classic of screen history, this film introduces Groucho's most famous character, Captain Spaulding, whose song became the theme of his "You Bet Your Life" TV program. This is the Marx brothers second movie. Director: Victor Heerman. 097 Min. VIDEO 1930 Series: JEWISH HERITAGE VIDEO COLLECTION

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 5483 Annie Hall
Summary: Woody Allen brilliantly captures the classic neurotic, paranoid, cynical, morbid, guilt ridden New York Jewish male in his Academy Award winning masterpiece. This story depicts an interfaith relationship--one that is doomed to failure by vast cultural and emotional differences. Director: Woody Allen. 094 Min. VIDEO 1977 Series: JEWISH HERITAGE VIDEO COLLECTION

VH 8248 Antigone
Summary: The Greek tragedy of Sophocles in which King Creonarders Antigone's death for burying her slain brother against the King's desire. Directed by George Tzavellas. 086 Min. VIDEO 1989

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 4423 Aparajito (The Unvanquished)
Summary: The saga of Apu and his family continues in the second chapter of the Apu Trilogy. Following Apu and his family to the city, director Satyajit Ray introduces you to many unforgettable images and characters. Tragedy strikes and Apu must choose between the life of his father chose or a life of his own. 113 Min. VIDEO 1956 Subject: DRAMA Series: APU TRILOGY

VH 6495 Apartment Zero
Summary: Two very different men are both caught in an intricate web of deceit, perversion and murder. Adrian is reserved, stand-offish, and desperately lonely. Jack is strikingly handsome, charming, and alluring. One of them is a cold-blooded, serial killer. 114 Min. VIDEO 1989

VH 5061 Apocalypse Now
Summary: A vision of a man's heart of darkness revealed through the madness of the Vietnam War. Lieutenant Willard receives orders to seek out a renegade military outpost led by the mysterious Colonel Kurtz. Willard's mission: "Terminate with extreme prejudice." Directed by Francis Coppola. 153 Min. VIDEO 1979

VH 7172 Apollo 13
Summary: Stranded 205, 000 miles from Earth in a crippled spacecraft, astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert fight a desperate battle to survive. Meanwhile, at Mission Control, astronaut Ken Mattingly, flight director Gene Kranz and a heroic ground crew race against time, and the odds, to being them home. Directed by Ron Howard. 134 Min. VIDEO 1995

VH 5743 Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, The
Summary: The story of a young man in the Montreal Jewish ghetto of the 1940's who works and schemes his way out of the clutter and poverty of his surroundings. Directed by Ted Kotcheff. 121 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: DRAMA Series: JEWISH HERITAGE VIDEO COLLECTION

VH 3384 Arsenic And Old Lace
Summary: Adaptation of the classic Joseph Kesselring play. Easy-going drama critic Grant is caught in a sticky situation when he learns of his aunt's favorite pastime. Apparently the kind, sweet, lonely spinster lures gentlemen to the house and serve them elderberry wine with a touch of arsenic, then they bury the bodies in cellar - a cellar which also serves as the Panama Canal for Grant's cousin. Director: Frank Capra. 120 Min. VIDEO 1944

VH 7537 As Good As It Gets
Summary: In New York City, Melvin Udall, a cranky, bigoted, obsessive-compulsive writer, finds his life turned upside down when neighboring gay artist Simon is hospitalized and his dog is entrusted to Melvin. In addition, Carol, the only waitress who will tolerate him, must leave work to care for her sick son, making it impossible for Melvin to eat breakfast. Directed by James L. Brooks. 139 Min. VIDEO 1997

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 7766 Ashakara
Summary: In this modern African tale set in Togo, an African doctor finds a cure to a deadly virus and decides to mass produce the drug at low cost in Africa. However, a pharmaceutical multinational does not want the doctor to succeed and sends an agent to Africa, first to buy the drug, then to destroy it. A film by Gerard Louvin. 094 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: DRAMA

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 7711 Asphalt Jungle, The
Summary: Motion picture classic crime film about a planned jewel heist and the pursuit of the gangsters by the police. Directed by John Huston. 112 Min. VIDEO 1950

VH 7436 Autumn in New York
Summary: At 48 years old, Manhattan restauranteur Will Keane adores women, but has never thought seriously about marriage or commitment until he meets Charlotte Fielding. As their relationship blossoms, they both realize that this love will last a lifetime, but for Charlotte a lifetime may be much shorter than either of them is prepared to accept. Directed by Joan Chen. 104 Min. VIDEO 2000

VH 5569 Avalon
Summary: The story of several generations of a family, from the arrival of immigrant Sam Krichinsky in the suburb of Baltimore called Avalon, down through his children and grandchildren. 126 Min. VIDEO 1990 Series: JEWISH HERITAGE VIDEO COLLECTION

VH 7399 Avengers, The: Dial A Deadly Number
Summary: British secret agents, Jonathan steed and Emma Peel, become involved in solving a murder associated with a stock manipulation scheme. 055 Min. VIDEO 1965

VH 8065 Avi Mograbi's Happy Birthday, Mr. Mograbi
Summary: Mograbi, a documentary filmmaker, is hired to make a film about the celebrations of Israel's fiftieth birthday. However, the Palestinians are also mar king the fiftieth anniversary -- of the creation of the Palestinian refugee problem. During an interview concerning the Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration, Mograbi discovers that this year his own 42nd birthday and the State of Israel's fiftieth anniversary coincide. Directed by Avi Mograbi. 077 Min. VIDEO 1999

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 5031 Bad Lieutenant
Summary: He has survived on the streets for twenty years. He's a gambler, a thief, a junkie, a killer, and a cop. Now he's investigating the most shocking case of his life, and as he moves closer to the truth his self destructive past is closing in. Directed by Abel Ferrara. 096 Min. VIDEO 1992

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 5034 Bananas
Summary: Easy going gadget tester Fielding Mellish is going nowhere fast...until his dippy, politically radical girlfriend dumps him and sends him flying off the deep end. Trying to win her back, Mellish joins up with Latin American revolutionaries and in short order becomes the toast of the diplomatic world and the target of the CIA! Directed by Woody Allen. 082 Min. VIDEO 1971

VH 7432 Band Wagon, The
Summary: Musical about a song and dance man who reluctantly agrees to take part in a Broadway show. Directed by Vincente Minnelli. 112 Min. VIDEO 1953

VH 5035 Barfly
Summary: Henry and Wanda aren't exactly husband and wife. They're wedded to their bar stools. But they do like each other. Henry is a man of brilliant bravado, a swaggering, glowering clown prince and court poet of central L.A.'s bars and flophouses. Wanda is a distressed goddess whose beauty and directness sear like a laser beam. The movie captures their giddy, gin soaked attempts to make a go of life on the skids. Directed by Barbet Schroeder. 100 Min. VIDEO 1987

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 2005 Barn Burning
Summary: In the story of the late 19th century South, the son of a tenant farmer is torn between trying to win his father's acceptance & his aversion to his father's unrelenting & violent nature. Ultimately, unable to dissuade his father from committing destructive acts, he betrays his father & strikes off on his own. Director: Peter Werner. 040 Min. VIDEO 1980 Subject: LITERATURE-I Series: AMERICAN SHORT STORY COLLECTION, THE

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 5030 Barton Fink
Summary: Set in Hollywood during the 1940's, "Barton Fink" is a comic satire about creative egos, flash movie moguls, a traveling salesman and a nasty case of writer's block. Directed by Joel Coen. 116 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: DRAMA

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 7491 Batman Forever
Summary: Warner Brothers third film in the Batman series. Based upon Batman characters created by Bob Kane and published by DC Comics. Directed by Joel Schumacher. 122 Min. VIDEO 1995

VH 7490 Batman Returns
Summary: Gotham City faces two monstrous criminal menaces: the bizarre, sinister Penguin and the slinky, mysterious Catwoman. Can Batman battle two formidable foes at once. Directed by Tim Burton. 126 Min. VIDEO 1992

VH 7977 Bats
Summary: Swarms of genetically altered bats have descended upon a sleepy small Texan town and no one is safe. The only hope is to stop the growing tide of bloody devastation is a zoologist who studies bats, her assistant, and the local she riff. Directed by Louis Morneau. 091 Min. VIDEO 2000

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

VH 7444 Beautiful Thing
Summary: Motion picture is set in London's lower class suburbs. Story of a teenager who discovers that he's gay and his love for next door neighbor teenager. 090 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: DRAMA

VH 6345 Beauty and the Beast
Summary: Dramatized adaptation of the classic fairy tale. Tells the fable of the kindly beast and the self-sacrificing beauty whose love releases the prince in him. 050 Min. VIDEO 1996

VH 0934 Bed & Sofa
Summary: Satirical film which points up the social consequences of the Soviet housing shortage. A husband and wife invite a friend to live with them and sleep on the sofa, but soon the husband winds up on the sofa. A landmark film because of humor, naturalism and its sympathetic portrayal of the woman. Ludmilla Semyonova, Nikolai Batalov, Vladmir Fogel. Director: Abram Room. 075 Min. VIDEO 1986

VH 4415 Before the Rain
Summary: In a monastery, a young man must abandon his vow of silence to save a girl from a hate-filled mob. A woman torn between a loveless marriage and a passionate affair finds that fate dictates a decision she could not make herself. A photographer returns to a nation divided by religious hatred and violence. Directed by: Milcho Manchevski. In Macedonian, Albanian, and English with subtitles. 112 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: DRAMA

VH 4487 Belle De Jour
Summary: An erotically charged tale of deceit and desire. Beautiful Catherine Deneuve stars as Severine, a perfect young housewife...who leads a shocking double life. Her loving husband Pierre doesn't know that by day she's a high priced prostitute. But when the dangerous obsession of a customer forces her terrible secrets out into the open, Pierre must decide whether to reject her for what she has done...or accept her for who she is. Directed by Luis Bunuel. 100 Min. VIDEO 1967

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 2631 Bellissimo
Summary: This is an unprecedented reconstruction of the Italian Cinema, not just as an industry, but as an extremely sophisticated art form. This unique film contains clips from world-famous films from the 1940's to the present such as Open City, Divorce Italian Style, 8 ˝ and Seven Beauties. Director Gianfranco Mingozzi. 110 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: LANGUAGE SKILLS

VH 7742 Belly of An Architect, The
Summary: An American architect travels to Rome to set up an exhibition. As he is increasingly obsessed with his wife's adultery and his own failing health, the beauty of Rome becomes the backdrop to his erratic and self-destructive behavior. Directed by Peter Greenaway. 119 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: ARCHITECTURE, DRAMA

VH 7004 Belly Pain
Summary: Coming out of Kingston, Jamaica another authentic and outrageous sex comedy. 080 Min. VIDEO 1992

VH 6681 Berlin-Symphony of a Great City
Summary: A chronological progression of 20 hours in the city's life. 053 Min. VIDEO 1985

VH 2006 Bernice Bobs Her Hair
Summary: Based on a story by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Bernice, transformed from a reticent "ugly duckling" to a sought after vamp by her manipulative cousin Marjorie, becomes so adroit in using the social cliches & conventions that she wins the hearts of all Marjorie's suitors. However, when she is trapped into bobbing her hair to prove her mettle, Bernice loses her new-found beauty. Director: Joan Micklin Silver. 049 Min. VIDEO 1977 Subject: LITERATURE-I Series: AMERICAN SHORT STORY COLLECTION, THE

VH 7411 Best of Amos 'n Andy, Vol. 1
Summary: Four of the hilarious classic television shows from the 1950's. 100 Min. VIDEO 1978

VH 6356 Betrayal
Summary: A place where feelings run high, tempers run short and marriages begin and end with the silence of desperation. Directed by Harold Pinter. 095 Min. VIDEO 1983

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 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 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 4176 Birds, The
Summary: The unexplainable attack on the residents of Bodega Bay by birds of all shapes and sizes is the subject of this classic Hitchcock thriller. Thousands of real birds and nearly 400 trick shots make reality of the seemingly impossible, and lend an air of sheer terror that you will never forget. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. 119 Min. VIDEO 1963

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 7705 Black Dragons
Summary: Motion picture mystery film about the transformation by a Nazi plastic surgeon of six Japanese agents into prominent American industrialists in order to sabotage the U.S. Defense Industry. Directed by William Nigh. 058 Min. VIDEO 1942

VH 3644 Black Like Me
Summary: This is the gripping, real life story of journalist John Howard Griffin, a white man who, during the racial unrest of the 1950's, dyed his skin black and traveled throughout the deep South. The terror and humiliation he suffered became a series of controversial articles (and later a best seller) that focused attention on the racist atrocities this nation chose to ignore. Director: Carl Lerner. 107 Min. VIDEO 1964 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN

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 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 1981 Bleak House, Part 1
Summary: The Dickens story of decay and corruption of 19th century England. 131 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: LITERATURE-I, DRAMA

VH 1982 Bleak House, Part 2
Summary: The Dickens story of decay and corruption of 19th century England. 130 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: LITERATURE-I, DRAMA

VH 7396 Blob, The
Summary: Actor Steve McQueen stars in this classic science fiction motion picture, in which the residents of a small Pennsylvanian town battle a life form from outer space. 085 Min. VIDEO 1958

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 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 7512 Blood On The Sun
Summary: Motion picture drama starring James Cagney and Sylvia Sidney. 093 Min. VIDEO 1945 Series: VIDEO FILM CLASSICS

VH 7422 Blood On The Sun
Summary: In pre-WWII Tokyo, an American newspaper editor runs an explosive story revealing Japan's warlike intentions toward China and the U.S. 094 Min. VIDEO 1945

VH 5022 Blood Simple
Summary: Abby is cheating on her saloon keeper husband, Marty. The object of her affections is Ray, one of Marty's bartenders. Marty hires Visser, an unscrupulous detective, to kill them but Visser has other, more lucrative plans of his own. Directed by Joel Coen. 096 Min. VIDEO 1983

VH 5306 Bloody Child, The
Summary: A young U.S. marine, just back from the Gulf War, is arrested while digging a grave in the middle of the Mojave Desert for his murdered wife, whose bloodied body lies in the backseat of his car. 085 Min. VIDEO 1996

VH 4485 Blowup
Summary: A close up of mid sixties London. Peek into London's sexy, steamy fashion world where seductions are as free as young girls' spirits and the music is as devastating as the drugs. Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. 102 Min. VIDEO 1966

VH 5040 Blue
Summary: A young woman is left devastated by the unexpected death of her husband and child. She retreats from the world around her, but is soon reluctantly drawn into an ever widening web of lies and passion as the dark, secret life of her husband begins to unravel. Directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski. 098 Min. VIDEO 1993

VH 1548 Blue Angel, The
Summary: A stuffy professor foolishly becomes infatuated with an immoral singer at the Blue Angel cabaret. After marrying her and casting his lot with her troupe he is increasingly degraded and humiliated and comes to a tragic end. Director: Josef Von Sternberg. 098 Min. VIDEO 1985

VH 8072 Blue Angel, The
Summary: A middle-aged schoolmaster becomes infatuated with and marries a singer from a sleazy café. When she leaves him for another man he returns to his school as a broken old man, and dies. Directed Josef von Sternberg. 095 Min. VIDEO 1985

VH 2007 Blue Hotel, The
Summary: The time is the 1880's. A young Swede arrives at the hotel of a moody, frontier Nebraska town. He anticipates the Wild West of dime novels & parlays that anticipation into his own death. A fateful card game results in accusations of cheating, a fight & a violent climax. 055 Min. VIDEO 1977 Subject: LITERATURE-I Series: AMERICAN SHORT STORY COLLECTION, THE

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 5032 Blue Velvet
Summary: Clean cut college boy Jeffrey Beaumont thinks that his North Carolina hometown is a normal as Mayberry. But when he discovers a human ear in a field near his home, he's catapulted into an alluring, erotic murder mystery involving an emotionally disturbed nightclub singer and a drug addicted sadist. As his investigation leads him deeper and deeper into their depraved existence, Jeffrey finds himself not only obsessed with this dark, enigmatic underworld, but questioning his own morality as well. 136 Min. VIDEO 1986

VH 5495 Boat is Full, The
Summary: A drama of five Jews who escaped from Germany and attempted to elude deportation by posing as a family that qualified to stay in Switzerland. Direct ed by Markus Imhoff. 104 Min. VIDEO 1980 Subject: HOLOCAUST Series: JEWISH HERITAGE VIDEO COLLECTION

VH 2366 Body and Soul with Paul Robeson
Summary: The first screen appearance of Paul Robeson has him cast in a dual role as a conniving preacher and his good brother. The preacher preys on the heroine, making her life a misery. Objections by censors to the preacher's character caused him to be redeemed and become worthy of the heroine's love Director: Oscar Micheaux. 080 Min. VIDEO 1924 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN

VH 7662 Body In The Library, The
Summary: Detective and mystery television program drama in which Miss Marple investigates how a corpse wound up in the home of Col. and Mrs. Bantry. Directed by Silvio Narizzano. 151 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: DRAMA Series: AGATHA CHRISTIE'S MISS MARPLE

VH 7394 Body Snatcher, The
Summary: A story about a doctor in Edinburgh in 1831 who is forced to deal with grave robbers and murderers to obtain corpses in order to study human anatomy. 077 Min. VIDEO 1945

VH 5496 Border Street
Summary: A tragedy about an old tailor who tries to save his daughters and others in the Warsaw ghetto. Culminates with the uprising of 1943, when Jews, supported by the Polish underground, take up arms and die fighting. Directed by Aleksander Ford. 115 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: HOLOCAUST Series: JEWISH HERITAGE VIDEO COLLECTION

VH 7746 Borom Sarret
Summary: The story of a cart-taxi driver who goes to the city to make a living, but out of sympathy with other poverty-striken people, works for free and goes hungry himself. In Wolof and French with English subtitles. 020 Min. VIDEO 1963 Subject: DRAMA

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 7978 Bowfinger
Summary: With the help of the nerdy brother of Hollywood's biggest star, an ambitious and sexy ingenue, and an over-the-hill diva, Hollywood's least successful director stops at nothing to get his latest low-budget film produced. Includes on-location interviews with the actors. Directed by Frank Oz. 097 Min. VIDEO 1999

VH 8416 Boycott
Summary: Set in the period just prior to the Islamic Revolution, the story is inspired by the filmmaker's own painful experiences. Valeh, a member of a leftist organization, is arrested and sentenced to death. In prison, he reconsiders his beliefs and comes to doubt the validity of the ideas for which he has been condemned. At the same time, his prison comrades are pressuring his to make a sacrifice for their cause. Written and directed by Moshen Makhmalbaf. 091 Min. VIDEO 2001 Subject: DRAMA, MIDDLE EAST

VH 6452 Boys Don't Cry
Summary: The story of the life of Teena Brandon, a transgender youth who preferred life in her male identity as Brandon Teena. Directed by Kimberly Pierce. 118 Min. VIDEO 2000

VH 7575 Boys of St. Vincent, The, Part 1
Summary: Part one dramatizes the emotional and sexual humiliation experienced by boys in a Newfoundland orphanage run by the All Saints Brothers. Tells the story of ten year old Kevin who rebels against the authoritarian rule. Directed by John N. Smith. 186 Min. VIDEO 1996

VH 7576 Boys of St. Vincent, The, Part 2
Summary: Part 2, fifteen years have passed, and the government holds a public inquiry into abuse at the orphanage. Kevin recounts his torment at the hands of Brother Lavin, who is now married and the father of two children. Directed by John N. Smith. 186 Min. VIDEO 1996

VH 7707 Boys Of The City
Summary: Motion picture starring "The East Side Kids" as troubled youths, who are sent to the country under adult supervision instead of reform school. The street kids soon find themselves helping solve a murder and a haunted house. Directed by Joseph Lively. 064 Min. VIDEO 1940

VH 4184 Brainwaves
Summary: When Suzanna Love gets into a paralyzing accident, her husband, Keir Dullea, agrees to try a newly developed treatment called the "Clavius Process." At first it seems she's had a miraculous recovery. But then nightmarish hallucinations plunge her into a paranoiac state. Dullea's investigations lead him to the source of her psychotic personality, and to the shocking truth behind the "Clavius Process." Director: Ulli Lommel. 083 Min. VIDEO 1982

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 5062 Bread and Chocolate
Summary: An Italian immigrant works odd jobs in prosperous Switzerland and tries desperately to fit in. Though his work becomes increasingly degrading, he tenaciously refuses to give up and go home. Directed by Franco Brusati. 109 Min. VIDEO 1974

VH 3721 Breakfast Club, The
Summary: They were five teenage students with nothing in common, faced with spending a Saturday detention together in their high school library. At seven a.m., they had nothing to say, but by four p.m., they had bared their souls to each other and become good friends. Director: John Hughes. Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, and Ally Sheedy. 092 Min. VIDEO 1985

VH 5041 Brideshead Revisited, Book 1
Summary: Nostalgia for a vanished past begins in Oxford. Charles Ryder meets dazzling, boyish and flamboyant Sebastian Flyte. As the youngest son of the aristocratic Marchmain family, he introduces Charles to a charmed and glittering existence. Directed by Charles Sturridge and Michael Lindsay-Hogg. 098 Min. VIDEO 1981 Subject: DRAMA

VH 5042 Brideshead Revisited, Book 2
Summary: Charles and Sebastian visit the self-exiled Lord Marchmain and his mistress in Venice. Charles finally meets the eccentric, very Catholic and compellingly charming Marchcmains - headed by the pious and willful Lady Marchmain. Directed by Charles Sturridge and Michael Lindsay-Hogg. 098 Min. VIDEO 1981 Subject: DRAMA

VH 5043 Brideshead Revisited, Book 3
Summary: Sebastian recognizes that his family is stealing his friend. Despairing, he drowns his sorrows in alcohol. When Sebastian runs away, Charles is blamed for his escape. Meanwhile, his sister Julia blossoms into full womanhood and captivates all. Directed by Charles Sturridge and Michael Lindsay-Hogg. 098 Min. VIDEO 1981 Subject: DRAMA

VH 5044 Brideshead Revisited, Book 4
Summary: Rex agrees to adopt the Catholic faith so he can marry Julia. But Bridey, her eldest brother, shatters their plans when he discovers that Rex is a divorcee, thereby negating any chance of being married in a Roman Catholic church. They marry in a Protestant church despite family disapproval. Directed by Charles Sturridge and Michael Lindsay-Hogg. 098 Min. VIDEO 1981 Subject: DRAMA

VH 5045 Brideshead Revisited, Book 5
Summary: Charles' and Julia's respective marriages begin to fail. By chance, they meet on a luxury liner and they become embroiled in a romantic love affair. Once more, Charles returns to Brideshead - this time as Julia's lover. Directed by Charles Sturridge and Michael Lindsay-Hogg. 098 Min. VIDEO 1981 Subject: DRAMA

VH 5046 Brideshead Revisited, Book 6
Summary: Lord Marchmain returns to Brideshead Castle to die. Displeased with his rightful heir, he decides to rewrite his will. His health rapidly declines and once more his family urges him to embrace the Catholic church. Directed by Charles Sturridge and Michael Lindsay-Hogg. 098 Min. VIDEO 1981 Subject: DRAMA

VH 1970 Bridge to Terabithia
Summary: A touching story of two friends who together create a secret & imaginary kingdom. Director: Eric Till. 058 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: LITERATURE-I Series: WONDERWORKS FAMILY MOVIE

VH 5742 Brighton Beach Memoirs
Summary: A humorous look at growing up in Brooklyn during the 1930s. Fifteen-year old Eugene Jerome is desperately trying to uncover life's mysteries, but his family keeps hiding the clues. Directed by Gene Saks. 110 Min. VIDEO 1987 Series: JEWISH HERITAGE VIDEO COLLECTION

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 7441 Broken Hearts Club, The- A Romantic Comedy
Summary: Motion picture comedy of a "coming-of-age" storyline. 096 Min. VIDEO 2000 Subject: DRAMA

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

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

VH 8056 Buffalo Soldiers
Summary: Fact based story about the all-black U.S. Cavalry Troop H which protected the Western territories in post Civil War times. Directed by Charles Haid. 095 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN

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 7671 BullDog Drummond Double Feature
Summary: Motion picture double feature (Bulldog Drummond Comes Back (1937); Bulldog Drummond's Bride (1939)) of the adventures of Bulldog Drummond. 119 Min. VIDEO 1937

VH 7421 Bulldog Drummond Escapes
Summary: Motion picture of Bulldog Drummond solving a case of murder and imprisonment on the foggy English moors. 067 Min. VIDEO 1937

VH 7404 Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police
Summary: Bulldog Drummond's wedding is placed on hold as he searches for buried treasure and a crazed killer. 054 Min. VIDEO 1937

VH 5016 Burnt By the Sun
Summary: Nikita Mikhalkov directs and stars as Colonel Serguei Kotov, a hero of the Revolution who is spending the summer in the country with his young daughter, his wife and her eccentric family. But when his wife's childhood love suddenly appears, the idyllic summer day takes a surprising turn. Directed by Nikita Mikhalkov. 134 Min. VIDEO 1994

VH 8266 Butterfly Wings
Summary: "Carmen becomes pregnant, hoping for a boy to carry on her husband's name. Guilt and fear however, keep her from breaking the news to Ami, her shy and sensitive six-year-old daughter. The new baby's birth soon triggers a series of nightmarish events." -- Container. 109 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: DRAMA

VH 2632 Cabiria
Summary: The story concerns a girl- Cabiria who is separated from her parents du ring the Punic Wars in the Third Century B.C. In her odyssey through the world o f ancient Rome, she encounters the eruption of Mt. Etna, capture by pirates, the barbaric splendor of Carthage, human sacrifice and Hannibal crossing the Alps. With meticulous care to costume and set design, Cabiria was shot in North Africa, Sicily and the Italian Alps. Director: Federico Fellini. 123 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: LANGUAGE SKILLS

VH 5284 Call to Remember, A
Summary: A gripping story of a family's poignant emotional journey. After enduring unspeakable heartache during the Nazi occupation of WWII, Paula and David build a new life together in America, raising their two teenage sons Jake and Ben. A hidden chapter in their family history is reopened, however, when Paula receives "A Call to Remember." 051 Min. VIDEO 1998

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 4280 Cantor's Son, The
Summary: Based on the life of Moishe Oysher, this is the story of a Jewish lad who leaves his native Belz with a troupe of wandering performers. The talented youth, now an adult, reaches the shores of America, but is barely able to subsist. After landing a job as a custodian, he is discovered as having an unusually fine voice and he gains immediate fame. That success, though, seems meaningless as he longs to return home to Eastern Europe to celebrate his parents golden anniversary. Directed by: Ilya Motyleff. 090 Min. VIDEO 1937

VH 8131 Capitalismo Selvagem / Savage Capitalism
Summary: A romance between a reporter and a mining company executive crumbles when the executive's wife, long presumed dead, returns. The reporter discovers the company's true plans to mine the interior of Brazil despite the ecological ruin it would cause. 086 Min. VIDEO 1994

VH 7377 Carefree
Summary: Motion picture, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, in which a patient falls in love with her psychoanalyst. 093 Min. VIDEO 1938

VH 3332 Caro Diario
Summary: Three chapters from director Moretti's own life. "On My Vespa" the director takes off on a personal tour of Rome. "Islands", Moretti and friend Gerardo travel to a series of island communities including Salina, dominated by only children. "Doctors" finds Moretti experiencing a misdiagnosed medical crisis. 098 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: LANGUAGE SKILLS

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 7423 Carry On Nurse
Summary: In this motion picture, the men's ward in a British hospital declares war on their nurses and the whole hospital. 086 Min. VIDEO 1958

VH 8138 La Casa de Bernarda Alba
Summary: Set in rural Spain at the turn of this century, the scene is a cloistered household managed by a newly widowed mother of five daughters. Under the shadow of the church and the tyranny bred from a need to protect the reputation of the family, the matron represses her daughters by enforcing an eight year mourning period. The tensions build rapidly among the imprisoned women, with a demented grandmother playing a role resembling that of a Greek chorus. Eventually, the natural spirits of the daughters circumvent Bernarda, but with tragic results. Directed by Mario Camus. 101 Min. VIDEO 1996

VH 5018 Casablanca
Summary: Casablanca, an easy city to enter, but much harder one to leave, especially if your name is on the Nazis' most wanted list. And heading that list is Czech Resistance leader Victor Laszlo, whose only hope is Rick Blaine, a cynical American who sticks his heck out for no one especially Victor's wife, Ilsa, the exlover who broke his heart. So when Ilsa offers herself in exchange for Laszlo's safe transport out of the country, the bitter Rick is forced to decide what's more important- his own happiness or the countless lives that hang in the balance. Directed by Michael Curtiz. 103 Min. VIDEO 1943

VH 7513 Cash
Summary: Motion picture comedy about a man, who finds a stolen roll of cash. Directed by Zoltan Korda. 073 Min. VIDEO 1934 Series: VIDEO FILM CLASSICS

VH 7454 Casper
Summary: A paranormal expert and his daughter bunk in an abandoned house populated by 3 mischievous ghosts and one friendly one. Directed by Brad Silberling. 101 Min. VIDEO 1995

VH 5543 Cast a Giant Shadow
Summary: Shot in Israel with the Israeli Army as battlefield extras, the film chronicles General Marcus's efforts to turn a green military into a super efficient fighting machine. Directed by Melville Shavelson. 142 Min. VIDEO 1966 Series: JEWISH HERITAGE VIDEO COLLECTION

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 7748 Ceddo
Summary: A religious conflict characterizes this drama set in late 19th century Senegal when the local king becomes a Muslim and decides to break up the small Catholic congregation in the village of the Ceddo. Directed by Ousmane Sembene. 112 Min. VIDEO 2001

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 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 4214 Charlie Chaplin's Keystone Comedies
Summary: Six one reel comedies which Charlie Chaplin filmed in 1914, the first year he made movies. 1. Making a Living (A Busted Johnny), 2. The Kid Auto Race, 3. Busy Day, 4. Mabel's Married Life, 5. Laughing Gas (Laffing Gas), 6. The New Janitor. Silent in black and white. 059 Min. VIDEO 1914

VH 4215 Charlie Chaplin's Keystone Comedies, Volume 2
Summary: Three more of Chaplin's hilarious Keystone Comedies, made during his first amazing year in the movies. 1. His Trysting Place (s), 2. Getting Acquainted, 3. The Fatal Mallet. 060 Min. VIDEO 1914

VH 4216 Charlie Chaplin's Keystone Comedies, Volume 3
Summary: Three of Chaplin's hilarious Keystone Comedies, made during his first year in the movies. 1914. 1. Caught in a Cabaret, 2. The Masquerader, 3. Between Showers. 059 Min. VIDEO 1914

VH 4217 Charlie Chaplin's Keystone Comedies, Volume 4
Summary: Four more of Chaplin's hilarious Keystone Comedies, made during his first year in the movies. 1914. 1. Caught in the Rain (in the Park), 2. His Million Dollar Job (A Film Johnnie), 3. Mabel's Busy Day, 4. The Face on the Bar-Room Floor (The Ham Artist). 054 Min. VIDEO 1914

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 7390 Check And Double Check
Summary: Motion picture in which Amos 'n' Andy find themselves in the middle of a love triangle and end up aiding the hero and heroine. 077 Min. VIDEO 1930

VH 4278 Child in Two Worlds
Summary: In an effort to give their children a chance for life, many Jewish parents sent their children into hiding in Christian foster homes during WWII. This film focuses on five Jewish war orphans, now all in their fifties and sixties, how they survived the war, and how they all eventually returned to their roots. Directed by: Willy Lindwer. 060 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: HOLOCAUST

VH 3134 Chilly Scenes Of Winter
Summary: Good-looking Charles is an ordinary guy surrounded by extraordinary people. First, there's his batty mother, an aging womanizing roommate, who helps share the household expenses by letting Charles pay for everything. His secretary is lightly overweight but starved for love, and his neurotic boss wants Charles to untangle his son's sexual problems. Director: Joan Micklin Silver. 096 Min. VIDEO 1993

VH 7505 China Seas
Summary: Motion picture suspense on the high seas, starring Clark Gable and Jean Harlow. Directed by Tay Garnett. 088 Min. VIDEO 1935 Series: DIAMOND JUBILEE COLLECTION

VH 5755 Chinatown
Summary: The plot is a labyrinth of successive revelations having to do with Los Angeles water reserves, land rights, fraud and intra-family hanky-panky, climaxing in Los Angeles's Chinatown on a street that seems no more mysterious than Flatbush Ave. 131 Min. VIDEO 1974

VH 7120 Chocolat
Summary: When a single mother and her young daughter move to rural France and open a chocolate shop - with Sunday hours - across the street from the local church, they are met with some resistance from the rigidly moral community. But as soon as the townspeople discover their delicious products, their attitudes begin to change. Directed by Lasse Hallstrom. 122 Min. VIDEO

VH 2733 Christ Stopped at Eboli
Summary: CHRIST STOPPED AT EBOLI, Francesco Rosi's award-winning adaptation of Carlo Levi's classic, is an intelligent and visually-rewarding film. It stars Gian Maria Volonte as Carlo Levi, a political exile banished to a village in Southern Italy in 1935 by Mussolini for his anti-fascist writings. It is the story of Levi's experiences in an alien world of poverty and quiet despair, where he discovers that human values are stronger than values of the state. The 118 Min. VIDEO 1983

VH 8060 Chronicle of a Disappearance
Summary: Deceptively simple and executed with a documentary feel, this drama is a series of vignettes or tableaux, some "real life, " some fantasy. It represent s a highly personal journey home for ex-patriot Palestinian filmaker Elia Suleim an. The film is divided into two sections. The first presents the sleepy existence in the Arab part of Nazareth, while the second takes a more political view of the city with disturbing images of Arab people trapped in a cultural identity crisis, exemplified by a young Arab woman who wants more independence. Directed by Elia Suleiman. 085 Min. VIDEO 1999

VH 7750 Chungking Express
Summary: Tasty takeout isn't the only thing served hot at this little fast food place, the lives and loves of its colorful customers also criss-cross over the counter. From a lovesick cop and a mysterious blond to a free-spirited girl pursuing a secret love, spicy romance is the specialty of the house. Directed by Kar-wai Wong. 102 Min. VIDEO 1996

VH 2742 Cinema Paradiso
Summary: The story of a lifelong love affair with the movies. Tells of a young boy in a small Italian village, where the only pastime is a visit to the movies at the Cinema Paradiso. Enchanted by the flickering images, Salvatore yearns for the secret of the cinema's magic and is overjoyed when Alfredo, the projectionist, agrees to reveal the mysteries of movie making to him. As their friendship grows, so does Salvatore, growing older with his good friend. Director: Giuseppe Tornatore. 121 Min. VIDEO 1990

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 8244 Cleopatra, Tape 1
Summary: Story of the life of Cleopatra, queen of ancient Egypt from her ascension to the throne at age seventeen through her struggle for power and her loves and entanglements with Julius Caesar and Marc Anthony. A great love story woven around the establishment of the Roman Empire. Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Tape 1 of 2. 248 Min. VIDEO 1963

VH 8245 Cleopatra, Tape 2
Summary: Story of the life of Cleopatra, queen of ancient Egypt from her ascension to the throne at age seventeen through her struggle for power and her loves and entanglements with Julius Caesar and Marc Anthony. A great love story woven around the establishment of the Roman Empire. Directed by Mankiewicz. Tape 2 of 2. 248 Min. VIDEO 1963

VH 4700 Clockers
Summary: A "clocker" is a 24 hour drug dealer, and Strike is the hardest working one on the streets. But for Strike, time is running out. When the local drug kingpin tips Strike off about an opportunity for advancement, a rival dealer ends up dead, and Strike suddenly finds himself caught between two homicide detectives. Directed by Spike Lee. 129 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: DRAMA, AFRICAN-AMERICAN

VH 2351 Close Encounters Of The Third Kind-The Special Edition
Summary: Director Steven Spielberg has filmed additional scenes and added previously cut material for this unique re-release of his UFO classic that convinced millions that "we are not alone." Richard Dreyfuss, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon and Francois Truffaut. 132 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: DRAMA

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 7162 Clueless
Summary: A rich and wildly popular Beverly Hills teenager with a lawyer father, is compelled to live in a world in which fashion and popularity are the only criteria for success. When her popularity and luck sag, however, she must face the fact that she is as "clueless" about life and love as everyone else. 097 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: DRAMA

VH 7584 Cocoon
Summary: When the Antareans, advanced beings from another planet, arrive at an old age home in Florida, the senior citizens there get a second chance at being young in this story of youth, old age, and how people choose to live their lives. Directed by Ron Howard. 117 Min. VIDEO 1985

VH 7405 Colgate Comedy Hour: Anything Goes
Summary: 1954 Colgate Comedy Hour presentation of "Anything Goes". 053 Min. VIDEO 1954

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 1178 Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
Summary: The story revolves around a 20 year reunion taking place at a five-and-ten cent store for a James Dean fan club formed in 1955. Director: Robert Altman. 109 Min. VIDEO 1982 Subject: AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 5528 Commissar
Summary: In this drama set against the Russian Civil War, a tough Red Army commander's military career is disrupted by an unwanted pregnancy. Forced to stay with a poor Jewish family until her child is born, she finds herself transformed by the warmth and compassion of her hosts. She must ultimately decide whether to rejoin her troops or stay with her child. Directed by Alexander Askoldov. 105 Min. VIDEO 1993 Series: JEWISH HERITAGE VIDEO COLLECTION

VH 8268 Confessing To Laura
Summary: Set during a violent civil war in Columbia which occurred after the assassination of liberal leader Jorge Elieser Gaitain in 1948. Three people are trapped in Laura's house during a riot, setting the scene for an unforgettable night. Directed by Jaime Osorio Gomez. 085 Min. VIDEO 1994

VH 2633 Conformist, The
Summary: Jean-Louis Trintignant plays a rising young follower of Mussolini who must assassinate his former professor, now in political exile, to demonstrate his loyalty to the Fascist state. Bertolucci's breakthrough film makes total use of the medium to seduce us with gilded images of a decadent society. He equates the rise of Italian fascism with the psychosexual life protagonist for whom conformity becomes an obsession after a traumatic homosexual experience. Director Bernardo Bertolucci. 108 Min. VIDEO 1971 Subject: LANGUAGE SKILLS

VH 7164 Conversation, The
Summary: A provoking mystery-suspense drama exploring the morality of privacy. The story focuses on a surveillance expert, who conducts a routine surveillance job only to later find himself suspicious that he has become an unwitting player in a murder scheme. 113 Min. VIDEO 1974 Subject: DRAMA

VH 6685 Conversations with Willard Van Dyke
Summary: Still photographer and film maker Willard Van Dyke discusses his long and productive career in photography, and comments on his successes, failures, and regrets as he is seen reminiscing with longtime friends Ralph Steiner and Joris Ivens. Includes excerpts from his films on which he worked as cameraman and from programs he produced for several television series. 058 Min. VIDEO 1981

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 7415 Country Gentlemen
Summary: Motion picture of two charming swindlers (Olsen and Johnson) trying to stay two steps ahead of the district attorney. 054 Min. VIDEO 1936

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 4242 Crash of the Moons
Summary: Two civilizations are threatened when their twin worlds head for collision. Director: Ray Kellogg. 072 Min. VIDEO 1963

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 7972 Crocodile Dundee
Summary: A free spirited Australian who hunts crocodiles with his bare hands, stares down giant water buffaloes, and drinks mere mortals under the table, faces the ultimate torture test, --a trip to New York City. Directed by Peter Faiman. 098 Min. VIDEO 1986

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 5570 Crossfire
Summary: Story begins with the murder of a Jew, who is brutally beaten in a hotel room. The finger of suspicion points to a troubled young soldier and to another soldier who openly admits his bigotry. It's up to a detective with a strong moral conscience to solve the mystery. Directed by Edward Dmytryk. 086 Min. VIDEO 1947 Series: JEWISH HERITAGE VIDEO COLLECTION

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 5571 Crossing Delancey
Summary: The grandmother of a 30-something year old woman in New York decides her granddaughter should be married, and hires a matchmaker. Isabelle, the granddaughter, who considers herself successful and happy, is appalled, but humors her grandmother and agrees to meet the marriage prospect. Directed by Joan Micklin Silver. 097 Min. VIDEO 1997 Series: JEWISH HERITAGE VIDEO COLLECTION

VH 1888 Crows and Sparrows
Summary: The portrayal of a dramatic struggle between tenants and landlords on the eve of the Communist revolution. 111 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: EUROPEAN STUDIES Series: PERSPECTIVES ON CHINESE CINEMA

VH 4719 Cruel Story of Youth
Summary: About the disillusionment that took hold in Japan following WWII. At t he 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 8062 Culture Jam
Summary: Pranksters and subversive artists attempt to cause a bit of brand damage to corporate mindshare. "We follow three outlandish jammers: media tigress Car ly Stasko, Reverend Billy of the Church of Stop Shopping, and Jack Napier with t he Billboard Liberation Front. Armed with the tools of their trade, these jammers hijack, subvert and reclaim corporate media space. Directed by Jill Sharpe. 051 Min. VIDEO 2001

VH 5544 Cup Final
Summary: In June 1982, in response to repeated terrorist attacks on its citizens, the Israeli army invaded Lebanon. This film takes place during the second week of that war, which just happens to coincide with the World Cup soccer tournament in Europe. Directed by Eran Rikilis. 107 Min. VIDEO 1992 Series: JEWISH HERITAGE VIDEO COLLECTION

VH 4192 Curfew
Summary: A young woman rushes home so she doesn't break her curfew, only to find two killers with time on their hands waiting for her. Director: Gary Winick. 086 Min. VIDEO 1988

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 7559 Cyclist, The
Summary: Originally released as a motion picture in 1989, film is the story of an Afghan guest worker in Iran, who needs to obtain money to pay for medical care for his desperately ill wife. 075 Min. VIDEO 1989

VH 2009 D. P.
Summary: Stan Shaw, Rosemary Leach & Julius Gordon. Against the ravaged background of post-World War II Germany, a black orphan encounters a black soldier who in the only other black he has ever seen. First aired on PBS. 060 Min. VIDEO 1985 Subject: LITERATURE-I, AFRICAN-AMERICAN Series: AMERICAN SHORT STORY COLLECTION, THE

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 8158 La Dama Del Alba
Summary: When a mysterious lady on her way to Santiago appears in an Asturian village and is given shelter, the grandfather of the family is obsessed with the fear that she might corrupt his grandchildren. 095 Min. VIDEO 1994

VH 6947 Dancehall Queen
Summary: In the gritty world of the Kingston ghetto, there are few ways out. Fortunately Marcia, a humble street vendor struggling to survive as a single mother, discovers the world of the dancehall. Through it she finds more than great music and hot relationships: she finds a way to a better life. Directed by Don Letts and Rick Elgood. 096 Min. VIDEO 1997

VH 7618 Dances With Wolves
Summary: Story of a Civil War hero who travels west where he is assigned to an abandoned fort. His nearest neighbors are members of a Sioux tribe, and they gradually become friends. He marries a woman from the tribe and ultimately must make a decision about the tribe and their life when he realizes what their fate will be at the hands of the white man. Directed by Kevin Costner. 181 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: DRAMA

VH 5025 Dangerous Liaisons
Summary: Set in 18th century France, this is the story of two bored aristocrats and the havoc they wreak when they play dangerous games with people's lives. The beautiful widow Merteuil challenges rakish Valmont to seduce a virtuous young married woman, never suspecting that he would violate his personal credo and fall in love. Directed by Stephen Frears. 120 Min. VIDEO 1988

VH 5572 Daniel
Summary: Daniel depicts the famous trial and story of Paul and Rochelle Isaacson. Their son Daniel can't escape his past, a past that torments him and his sister with shattering memories of their parents' execution for espionage. Daniel embarks on a painful journey through three historical decades of dissidence and demoralizing struggles with the help of his wife, lawyer, and adoptive parents. Directed by Sidney Lumet. 129 Min. VIDEO 1984 Series: JEWISH HERITAGE VIDEO COLLECTION

VH 2915 Danzon
Summary: A film festival winner and critical favorite, DANZON is a surprising love story about a woman who finally discovers the passion that has been missing from her life. Maria Rojo, in an award-winning performance, stars as Julia, a Mexico City telephone operator whose tame, predictable life is enlivened only by the ballroom dancing she enjoys each week. When her dance partner, Carmelo, suddenly disappears, Julia stuns her friends by impulsively following his trail. 103 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: LANGUAGE SKILLS

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 5065 Das Boot, Part 1
Summary: This is an authentic undersea adventure inspired by the actual experiences of a WWII German photojournalist. Directed by Wolfgang Petersen. 117 Min. VIDEO 1997

VH 5066 Das Boot, Part 2
Summary: This is an authentic undersea adventure inspired by the actual experiences of a WWII German photojournalist. Directed by Wolfgang Petersen. 091 Min. VIDEO 1997

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 4954 David Copperfield
Summary: The tale of David Copperfield is the classic tale of success triumphing over adversity. Directed by: Delbert Mann. 118 Min. VIDEO 1969

VH 7668 Day Of The Triffids, The
Summary: Motion picture science fiction horror film about blinding meteorites and walking man-eating plants. Directed by Steve Sekely. 094 Min. VIDEO 1963

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 7510 Deadly Thief, The
Summary: Motion picture drama, starring Rex Harrison, about a deadly contest to steal a precious jewel. 096 Min. VIDEO 1979

VH 3383 Death Becomes Her
Summary: Oscar-winning actresses Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn star with Bruce Willis in Robert Zemeckis' outrageously entertaining comedy about greed vanity, sex, immortality, life and death. Director: Robert Zemeckis. 103 Min. VIDEO 1992

VH 2741 Death in Venice
Summary: Abroad on a solitary rest holiday in Venice, composed Gustav Aschenbach is to all the world reserved, distinguished, civilized. But one day he glimpses a vision of ideal beauty - and instantly abandons himself to a secret passion, one that will carry him to his doom. Director: Luchino Visconti. 131 Min. VIDEO 1971

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 0938 Death of a Salesman
Summary: A social drama about an aging traveling salesman who recognizes the emptiness of his life and commits suicide. Dustin Hoffman, Charles Durning, Kate Reid, Stephen Lang, John Malkovich. Director: Volker Schlondorff. 135 Min. VIDEO 1986 Subject: DRAMA

VH 2743 Decameron, The
Summary: Eight tales from 14th century Naples, including the seducing nuns, the three jealous brothers who murder their sister's lover, the wizard who could change his wife into a burro, and the story of a false saint. Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini. 116 Min. VIDEO 1990

VH 6652 Deceived
Summary: Adrienne Saunders' perfect life as a wife, mother and career woman disintegrates into a confusing world of betrayal and deception. After her husband apparently dies in a mysterious auto accident, Adrienne discovers a series of shocking truths about him and chilling evidence of a deadly scheme that threatens her life. Directed by Damian Harris. 108 Min. VIDEO 1992

VH 7971 Deconstructing Harry
Summary: Harry Block has gone through three wives, six psychiatrists and dozens of girlfriends during his long literary career. But when Harry writes a bestseller about his best friends, his best friends become his worst enemies. Now, instead of going back to his old school to be honored for his literary achievements, Harry's going straight to hell. Directed by Woody Allen. 096 Min. VIDEO 1997

VH 7509 Deep In My Heart
Summary: Motion picture musical, starring Elliot Arnold, Jose Ferrer, and Merle Oberon, about a composer writing a hit song. Directed by Stanley Donen. 132 Min. VIDEO 1954 Series: MUSICALS GREAT MUSICALS COLLECTION

VH 7177 Deer Hunter, The - Part 1
Summary: Tracks a group of steelworkers from a Pennsylvania blast furnace to the coal hunting grounds of the Alleghenies to the lethal cauldron of Vietnam. It is a drama of friendship and courage and of what happens to these qualities under stress. 183 Min. VIDEO 1978 Subject: DRAMA

VH 7178 Deer Hunter, The - Part 2
Summary: Tracks a group of steelworkers from a Pennsylvania blast furnace to the coal hunting grounds of the Alleghenies to the lethal cauldron of Vietnam. It is a drama of friendship and courage and of what happens to these qualities under stress. 183 Min. VIDEO 1978 Subject: DRAMA

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 7713 Deliverance
Summary: Motion picture about four men who test themselves against the wilderness. Directed by John Boorman. 105 Min. VIDEO 1972

VH 7398 Dementia 13
Summary: A motion picture in which a woman drives her spouse to a heart attack. The family holds onto the memory of a sister who drowned years ago and a series of axe killings which create the background for this story. 075 Min. VIDEO 1963

VH 7799 Desiree
Summary: The tale of an unknown officer named Napoleon, a queen by the name of Desiree, and the rich and powerful Josephine. Directed by Henry Koster. 110 Min. VIDEO 1954 Subject: EUROPEAN STUDIES

VH 7378 Devil And Daniel Webster, The
Summary: Movie classic in which a lawyer (Daniel Webster) argues in a court before a jury of the damned, for the release of the soul of a young farmer (Jabez Stone) from the devil. 109 Min. VIDEO 1941

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

VH 7704 Devil's Party, The
Summary: Motion picture drama about how five children from the slums (Hell's Kitchen) are now grown up, but in danger. Directed by Ray McCarey. 065 Min. VIDEO 1938

VH 5037 Devils, The
Summary: Centers on the staggering true life dementia of events in 1634 France. A priest who's submitted to his own passions is accused of lewdness and sorcery. A sordid mass exorcism is ordered for him and for an allegedly demon possessed convent. And it all climaxes in the maddening public spectacle of burning the priest alive. Directed by Ken Russell. 103 Min. VIDEO 1971

VH 5500 Diary of Anne Frank, The, Pt. 1
Summary: Dramatization of a young girl's diary describing the lives of eight people who hide in an Amsterdam attic for two years to avoid arrest by the Nazis. Directed by George Stevens. 170 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: DRAMA, HOLOCAUST Series: JEWISH HERITAGE VIDEO COLLECTION

VH 5501 Diary of Anne Frank, The, Pt. 2
Summary: Dramatization of a young girl's diary describing the lives of eight people who hide in an Amsterdam attic for two years to avoid arrest by the Nazis. Directed by George Stevens. 170 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: DRAMA, HOLOCAUST Series: JEWISH HERITAGE VIDEO COLLECTION

VH 7201 Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome
Summary: Fictitious character detective drama. 065 Min. VIDEO 1947 Subject: DRAMA

VH 6419 Dinner Game, The
Summary: Friends have weekly dinner parties and compete to see who brings the "dumbest" guest. One guest surprises his hosts. 085 Min. VIDEO 2000

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 7171 Dirty Dozen, The
Summary: A WWII drama in which an army major selects 12 men convicted for crimes of violence and offers them their freedom if they will complete a dangerous mission behind Nazi lines. Directed by Robert Aldrich. 165 Min. VIDEO 1967

VH 3475 Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The
Summary: A masterpiece of surrealistic satire. An all star French cast assembles for an elegant dinner party, but whenever they try to eat, something happens to interrupt them. Brilliantly mixes biting social satire with bold surrealistic invention as the dinner party serves to lampoon such targets as diplomats, wealthy socialites and even radical terrorists. Director: Luis Bunuel. 100 Min. VIDEO 1972

VH 7519 Dishonored Lady
Summary: Movie picture drama starring Hedy Lamarr and Dennis O'Keefe about a beautiful woman who has everything except happiness. Directed by Robert Stevenson. 082 Min. VIDEO 1947 Series: VIDEO FILM CLASSICS

VH 2008 Displaced Person, The
Summary: The inhabitants of a 1940's Georgia farm find their lives disrupted by a Polish refugee family. The strong work ethic practiced by the foreigners makes their less-productive, if not lazy, neighbors regard them with caution and contempt. Irene Worth, John Houseman, Henry Fonda, Shirley Stoler, Lane Smith and Earl Jones. 058 Min. VIDEO 1977 Subject: LITERATURE-I Series: AMERICAN SHORT STORY COLLECTION, THE

VH 6590 Divine Carcasse
Summary: Half fictional, half ethnographic, the film is a study in cultural contrasts, between a desacralized, materialistic European view of reality and an animist, pre-industrial African one. It follows the physical and metaphysical progress of a 1955 Peugeot automobile imported to Benin, Africa, by a European expatriate. Directed by Dominic Loreau. 060 Min. VIDEO 1998 Series: LIBRARY OF AFRICAN CINEMA

VH 6416 Divorce, Italian Style
Summary: Baron Pepe Cefalu is tired of his wife and begins directing his amorous attentions toward his teenage cousin and begins to plan in earnest to kill his wife in a fit of passion when he finds her unfaithful to him. But first he must arrange for his wife to have a lover so that she may be unfaithful. 106 Min. VIDEO 1992

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 5366 Dolores Claiborne
Summary: Eighteen years ago the town accused Dolores Claiborne of murdering her husband in cold blood. Now a woman lies dead and a witness finds Dolores standing over the body. Her daughter is the only one who can save her life. 132 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: DRAMA

VH 6496 Dominick & Eugene
Summary: A Childhood accident left Dominick partially brain damaged. He lives with his brother, Eugene in a working class neighborhood in Pittsburgh where Eugene is a medical student. Dominick's job as a garbage collector is putting Eugene through school. 111 Min. VIDEO 1988

VH 5024 Don Juan DeMarco
Summary: Is this dark handsome stranger truly Don Juan, the legendary lover who has seduced a thousand women? Dr. Jack Mickler's job is to find out. But as he begins to explore the fantasy world of Don Juan DeMarco, Mickler's own broken spirit is reborn, and the spark between him and his wife is rekindled, all due to the incredible passion for life of a most remarkable young man. Directed by Jeremy Leven. 092 Min. VIDEO 1995

VH 8139 Don Juan Tenorio
Summary: Don Juan Tenorio, the risky seducer from Sevilla who always acts spurred by challenges and pushed by other people, is conquered by dona Ines' simplicity and purity. Her clean love implies the forgiveness and the salvation of the untiring seducer. Directed by Gustavo Perez Puig. 139 Min. VIDEO 1994 Series: VIDEOANTOLOGIA DE LA LITERATURA ESANOLA; NO. 11

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 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 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 5023 Dr. Strangelove
Summary: Fueled by paranoia and a fanatical sense of patriotism, two psychotic generals trigger an ingenious, irrevocable scheme to attack Russia's strategic targets with nuclear bombs. The brains behind the scheme belong to Dr. Strangelove, a wheelchair bound nuclear scientist with bizarre ideas about mankind's future. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. 091 Min. VIDEO 1963

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 7533 Dressed to Kill
Summary: The music boxes are the only clues that Holmes has to work with to find the location of bank notes stolen from the Bank of England. Directed by Roy William Neill. 072 Min. VIDEO 1946

VH 7368 Dressed To Kill
Summary: Sherlock Holmes uses his deductive powers to solve the case of music box killings. 072 Min. VIDEO 1946 Series: SHERLOCK HOLMES

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

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

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 4284 Dybbuk, The
Summary: Years after their parents had made a pledge that they marry, a young couple meet and fall in love. The father of the young man had long before perished and the young woman's father, forgetting his vow, keeps the two apart. The film is the story of unfulfilled love, of broken promises, and of the supernatural, as the "dybbuk", the persona of the youth, enters his beloved's body and possesses her. Directed by Michal Waszynski. 120 Min. VIDEO 1937

VH 6774 Earth
Summary: A love story set within the upheaval and violence of 1947 India in which much of the action is seen through the eyes of a little eight-year-old girl named Lenny. The movie opens in Lahore of 1947 before India and Pakistan became independent. 104 Min. VIDEO 2000 Subject: ASIAN STUDIES Series: INTERNATIONAL CINEMA

VH 5529 East and West
Summary: In a comedic film about assimilation and Jewish values, sophisticated New Yorker Morris Brown travels back to his village to attend his niece's traditional wedding. There he encounters the rambunctious Millie, whose hijinks include boxing, and teaching other young villagers to shimmy. Mollie meets her match, however, in an engaging young yeshiva scholar who forsakes tradition and joins the secular world to win her heart. Directed by Ivan Abramson. 085 Min. VIDEO 1991 Series: JEWISH HERITAGE VIDEO COLLECTION

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 7012 Eat A Bowl Of Tea
Summary: In New York's Chinatown of the late 1940's, young Ben Loy, fresh out of the service, has his whole life spread out before him, including a job, an apartment and a marriage arranged by his father. Directed by Wayne Wang. 104 Min. VIDEO 1989

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 5102 Ecstasy
Summary: A poignant tale about a beautiful young girl and her unhappy marriage to a much older man. Although she marries to please her father, her loveless life compels her to run away with a younger lover. 067 Min. VIDEO 1933

VH 7413 Ed Wynn Show, The
Summary: The Ed Wynn Show episode with guest star Diana Lynn and featuring the Lud Gluskin Orchestra. 026 Min. VIDEO 1949

VH 0932 Elephant Man, The
Summary: Based on a true story, the film examines the complex emotional experiences faced by Joseph Merrick, the "Elephant Man" when he is discovered by a dedicated surgeon. Rescued from his degrading life as a circus freak, Merrick is given a chance to live his last years with comfort, respect, and dignity. John Hurt, Anthony Hopkins, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller. Directed by: David Lynch. 124 Min. VIDEO 1980

VH 7744 Emitai
Summary: This film depicts th