Selected New Documentary Titles in Media Services

Check out these documentaries that were recently added to the Media Services collection. Can tropical rainforests be saved? – DVD 3311Two million women: Domestic violence – DVD 3312Orphans of Tibet – DVD 3313Untouchable? – DVD 3314Money lenders: Updated for year 2000 – DVD 3315Retrato de Teresa – DVD 4301Seeing Red – DVD 4303Brincando el charco … Continue reading “Selected New Documentary Titles in Media Services”

Check out these documentaries that were recently added to the Media Services collection.

Can tropical rainforests be saved? – DVD 3311
Two million women: Domestic violence – DVD 3312
Orphans of Tibet – DVD 3313
Untouchable? – DVD 3314
Money lenders: Updated for year 2000 – DVD 3315
Retrato de Teresa – DVD 4301
Seeing Red – DVD 4303

Brincando el charco = Portrait of a Puerto Rican – DVD 6831
Woman with the five elephants– DVD 6832
Land of opportunity – DVD 7572
Passionate politics: the life and work of Charlotte Bunch – DVD 7573
Sun come up – DVD 9560
I’m British but… – DVD 9751
Trading democracy – DVD 9769
Ambush in Mogadishu – DVD 9772

Brand New Full HD LED 3DTV in Media Services!!

It has arrived! Our new super thin amazing 54.6″ 3DTV is here and installed in Room 11. Faculty are welcome to schedule class screenings in the room to experience its amazing picture quality. Students can come in and screen a film in Room 11 as well, as long as there are no class reservations at … Continue reading “Brand New Full HD LED 3DTV in Media Services!!”

It has arrived! Our new super thin amazing 54.6″ 3DTV is here and installed in Room 11. Faculty are welcome to schedule class screenings in the room to experience its amazing picture quality. Students can come in and screen a film in Room 11 as well, as long as there are no class reservations at that time. Student use in on a walk-in basis. Both Media Services small screening rooms (Room 10 and Room 11) are equipped with Blu-Ray DVD players for your viewing pleasure.

Selected New Home Use Titles in Media Services

Check out these titles that were recently added to the Media Services Home Use Collection! Dazed and confused – HU DVD 97Ides of March – HU DVD 2884Manchurian candidate – HU DVD 2885Beginners – HU DVD 2886Melancholia – HU DVD 2888James and the giant peach – HU DVD 3455House of spirits – HU DVD 3456Dangerous … Continue reading “Selected New Home Use Titles in Media Services”

Check out these titles that were recently added to the Media Services Home Use Collection!

Dazed and confused – HU DVD 97
Ides of March – HU DVD 2884
Manchurian candidate – HU DVD 2885
Beginners – HU DVD 2886
Melancholia – HU DVD 2888
James and the giant peach – HU DVD 3455
House of spirits – HU DVD 3456
Dangerous method – HU DVD 3457
Descendants – BLU-RAY DVD 4121
Slither – HU DVD 4122
Essential killing – HU DVD 4124
Dillinger is dead – HU DVD 4302

Killing: Season 1 – HU DVD 4311-4314
Somewhere – HU DVD 4315
Tinker tailor soldier spy – HU DVD 4317
Skin I live in – BLU-RAY DVD 4319
Skin I live in – HU DVD 4319

Magician – HU DVD 5151
Seducing time – HU DVD 6833
Two in the wave – HU DVD 8378
Urbanized – HU DVD 9021
Vanya on 42nd street – HU DVD 9022
Senna – HU DVD 9023
Blood wedding – HU DVD 9821
Carmen – HU DVD 9822
No regrets for our youth – HU DVD 9824
One wonderful Sunday – HU DVD 9825
Scandal – HU DVD 9826
Idiot – HU DVD 9827
I live in fear – HU DVD 9828
Who are you, Polly Maggoo? – HU DVD 9833
Mr. Freedom – HU DVD 9834
Model couple – HU DVD 9835
Wings – HU DVD 9839
Ascent – HU DVD 9840
Osaka elegy – HU DVD 9844
Sisters of the Gion – HU DVD 9846
Women of the night – HU DVD 9847
Age of the Medici – HU DVD 9848
Cartesius – HU DVD 9849
Blaise Pascal – HU DVD 9850
Japanese girls at the harbor – HU DVD 9851
Mr. Thank You – HU DVD 9852
Masseurs and a woman – HU DVD 9853
Ornamental hairpin – HU DVD 9854
Private life of Henry VIII – HU DVD 9855
Rise of Catherine the Great – HU DVD 9856
Private life of Don Juan – HU DVD 9857
Rembrandt – HU DVD 9858
I am waiting – HU DVD 9859
Rusty knife – HU DVD 9860
Take aim at the police van – HU DVD 9861
Cruel gun story – HU DVD 9862
Colt is my passport – HU DVD 9863
Man is not a bird – HU DVD 9864
Love affair, or the case of the missing switchboard operator – HU DVD 9865
Innocence unprotected – HU DVD 9866
Major Barbara – HU DVD 9870
Caesar and Cleopatra – HU DVD 9871
Androcles and the lion – HU DVD 9872
Story of a cheat – HU DVD 9878

Pearls of the crown – HU DVD 9879
Désiré – HU DVD 9880
Quadrille – HU DVD 9881
Warrendale – HU DVD 9886
Married couple – HU DVD 9887
Come on children – HU DVD 9888
Dying at grace – HU DVD 9889
Memory for Max, Claire, Ida, and company – HU DVD 9890
Sapphire – HU DVD 9891
League of gentlemen – HU DVD 9892
Victim – HU DVD 9893
All night long – HU DVD 9894
Flunky, work hard/No blood relation – HU DVD 9895
Apart from you/Every-night dreams – HU DVD 9896
Street without end – HU DVD 9897
Chains – HU DVD 9898
Tormento – HU DVD 9899
Nobody’s children – HU DVD 9900
White angel – HU DVD 9901
Intimidation – HU DVD 9902
Warped ones – HU DVD 9903
I hate but love – HU DVD 9904
Black sun – HU DVD 9905
Thirst for love – HU DVD 9906
Poto and Cabengo – HU DVD 9913
Routine pleasures – HU DVD 9914
My crasy life – HU DVD 9915

Selected New Documentary Titles in Media Services

Check out these documentaries that were recently added to the Media Services collection. Half Lives – DVD 9360 Kent State – DVD 9698 Napoleon: The End of a Dictator – DVD 9699 Camp de Thiaroye – DVD 9728 Eleanor Roosevelt – DVD 9729 The Long Walk of Nelson Mandela – DVD 9748 Novia Que Te … Continue reading “Selected New Documentary Titles in Media Services”

Check out these documentaries that were recently added to the Media Services collection.

Half Lives – DVD 9360

Kent State – DVD 9698

Napoleon: The End of a Dictator – DVD 9699

Camp de Thiaroye – DVD 9728

Eleanor Roosevelt – DVD 9729

The Long Walk of Nelson Mandela – DVD 9748

Novia Que Te Vea – DVD 9750

Ishi: The Last Yahi – DVD 9752

No Secret Anymore: The Times of Del martin & Phyllis Lyon – DVD 9754

Nuyorican Dream – DVD 9756

Forsaken Cries: The Story of Rwanda – DVD 9757

Style Wars – DVD 9758

Store Wars– DVD 9759

Unfinished Business: The Japanese-American Interment Cases – DVD 9760

Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard: Strange Beliefs – DVD 9768

Bill Moyers Reports: Trading Democracy – DVD 9769

Nuclear Aftershocks – DVD 9773

Living Along the Fenceline – DVD 9774

Jenin, Jenin & Since You Left – DVD 9775

Trinkets & Beads – DVD 9779

War and Peace – DVD 9780

King Gimp – DVD 9790

Hell and Back Again – DVD 9798

Mutantes – DVD 9799

Dot Con – DVD 9780


Selected New Documentary Titles in Media Services

Check out these documentaries that were recently added to the Media Services collection. Dan Rather Reports: Going to Guam – DVD 9676Appointment with the Astrologer – DVD 5657Life 2.0 – DVD 9468His Way: A portrait of Hollywood Legend Jerry Weintraub – DVD 9532Battle for Marjah – DVD 9684Battle for Marjah – BLU-RAY DVD 9684Lives worth … Continue reading “Selected New Documentary Titles in Media Services”

Check out these documentaries that were recently added to the Media Services collection.

Dan Rather Reports: Going to Guam – DVD 9676
Appointment with the Astrologer – DVD 5657
Life 2.0 – DVD 9468
His Way: A portrait of Hollywood Legend Jerry Weintraub – DVD 9532
Battle for Marjah – DVD 9684
Battle for Marjah – BLU-RAY DVD 9684
Lives worth living: The Great Fight for Disability rights – DVD 9679
American Teacher – DVD 9680
Hungry Hearts – DVD 9685
Aviya’s Summer – DVD 9686
Dirty Pictures – DVD 9687
Granito – DVD 9688
Sons of Tennessee Williams – DVD 9689
Truck Farm – DVD 9690
Bombon el Perro – DVD 9697
Mysteries of Lisbon – DVD 9700
Terror’s Advocate – DVD 9717
Portrait of the Soviet Union: Volume 1 – DVD 9691
Portrait of the Soviet Union: Volume 2 – DVD 9692
Portrait of the Soviet Union: Volume 3 – DVD 9693
Portrait of the Soviet Union: Volume 4 – DVD 9694
Rome: Impact of an idea – DVD 9721
Nine Lives of Marion Barry – DVD 9730
From Philadelphia to the Front – DVD 9749

HOME USE DOCUMENTARY
Revenge of the Electric Car – HU DVD 9712

Part 1 is also available for Home Use:

Who Killed the Electric Car – HU DVD 9711

We’ve got a new Facebook url – Don’t forget to “Like” us!

That’s right, Media Services and the New Media Center now have a new, easy to remember url: http://Facebook.com/AULibMedia Now it’s that much easier to remember where to visit us on Facebook. If you haven’t yet, be sure to visit our Facebook page and “Like” us! On our page you can expect to find updates on … Continue reading “We’ve got a new Facebook url – Don’t forget to “Like” us!”

That’s right, Media Services and the New Media Center now have a new, easy to remember url: http://Facebook.com/AULibMedia

Now it’s that much easier to remember where to visit us on Facebook. If you haven’t yet, be sure to visit our Facebook page and “Like” us! On our page you can expect to find updates on AU Library events, New Media Center software training schedules and reminders, Vimeo and Youtube trailers for recent documentary and Home Use Collection films, links to new acquisition lists, and reminders about film screenings happening around campus.

Selected New Documentary Titles in Media Services

Check out these documentaries that were recently added to the Media Services collection. Minik: The Lost Eskimo – DVD 117On the Ropes – DVD 154Pimps Up, Ho’s Down – DVD 160Bomb It – DVD 968Monumental: David Brower’s Fight for Wild America – DVD 980Thomas Berry: The Great Story – DVD 981How to be a man … Continue reading “Selected New Documentary Titles in Media Services”

Check out these documentaries that were recently added to the Media Services collection.

Minik: The Lost Eskimo – DVD 117
On the Ropes
– DVD 154
Pimps Up, Ho’s Down – DVD 160
Bomb It
– DVD 968
Monumental: David Brower’s Fight for Wild America
– DVD 980
Thomas Berry: The Great Story – DVD 981
How to be a man – DVD 9291
How to be a Woman – DVD 9292
Let’s Get Frank – DVD 9293
Private/Seeds/West Bank story – DVD 9301
Must Read After my Death
– DVD 9313
Tambien la Lluvia – DVD 9314
Magic and Bird: A Courtship of Rivals – DVD 9315
Living in Emergency – DVD 9316
Kartemquin Films Collection: The Early Years: Vol. 1 1967 – 1968 – DVD 9317
Small Act
– DVD 9318
Eika Katappa
& Der To der Maria Malibran – DVD 9353
Girl Power: All Dolled Up – DVD 9244
Fambul Tok – DVD 9333
Call Me Malcolm – DVD 9335
Jane’s Journey – DVD 9484
Cazadores de Utopias – DVD 9485
Economics of Happiness – DVD 9488
H.I.J.O.S. El Alma en Dos – DVD 9490
Strategic Teacher – DVD 9491
Harvest [La Cosecha] – DVD 9492
Climate Refugees – DVD 9493
Sitting Bull: A Stone in My Heart – DVD 9495
Acting in Film: Michael Caine – DVD 9496
Eames: The Architect and the Painter – DVD 9497
Fall from Grace – DVD 9498
Fruit of Our Labor: Afghan Perspectives in Film – DVD 9504
Jim Crow’s Museum – DVD 9505
Women, War and Peace – DVD 9511
Not My Life – DVD 9512
Visual Acoustics – DVD 9514
Sewing Woman – DVD 9515
Romantic Warriors
– DVD 9518
Witches in Exile – DVD 9570
If you are the one – DVD 9576

Paving America – DVD 9592
Siege: La Toma – DVD 9594
Please Vote for Me – DVD 9597
Legacy of Peace – DVD 9610
New Recruits – DVD 9617
Memory of the Camps – DVD 9618
Bhangra Generation – DVD 9619
Sisters of the Screen – DVD 9624

California’s Lost Tribes – DVD 9631
Price of Renewal – DVD 9632
New Los Angeles – DVD 9633
Ripe for Change – DVD 9634

Wild China – DVD 9644
Ister – DVD 9655

Swastika
– DVD 9661
Black Magic – DVD 9663

Films of Jay Rosenblatt Vol 1 now available in Media Services

Collage films that use educational movies from the 1950s and 1960s, newsreels, Hollywood clips, historical footage, home movies and other found footage to present the subject of the film. These films span the first decade of Rosenblatt’s cinematic career. DVD 8994 Jay Rosenblatt site The Smell of Burning Ants

Collage films that use educational movies from the 1950s and 1960s, newsreels, Hollywood clips, historical footage, home movies and other found footage to present the subject of the film. These films span the first decade of Rosenblatt’s cinematic career.

DVD 8994

Jay Rosenblatt site

The Smell of Burning Ants

Filmography – Jewish Studies

The Media Services contribution to the Library Subject Guides is a selective list of video holdings in the American University Library. Filmographies are created by doing multiple keyword searches in the ALADIN catalog to capture as many titles on a topic as possible. For complete up-to-date holdings (including VHS tapes) please refer to the library … Continue reading “Filmography – Jewish Studies”

The Media Services contribution to the Library Subject Guides is a selective list of video holdings in the American University Library. Filmographies are created by doing multiple keyword searches in the ALADIN catalog to capture as many titles on a topic as possible. For complete up-to-date holdings (including VHS tapes) please refer to the library ALADIN catalog (www.catalog.wrlc.org)

Most streaming videos listed are available exclusively to AU students, staff and faculty after an online authentications by AUID#.

Here’s a sneak peak at what can be found in the JEWISH STUDIES Filmography

2000 years of freedom and honor the Cochin Jews of India. 1997. 1 videodisc (80 min.). Jews arrived in India over 1900 years ago. Throughout the years, though deeply loyal to India, they prayed for their return to Zion. Film captures the conflicting emotions of two generations of Cochini Jews. The elderly, heartbroken by the mass emigration of the younger generation to Israel, and their children, who as young parents could only envision a bright future as Jews in Israel. Explores the religious, cultural and economic life of the Cochini Jews in the native India and also follows the younger generation to a new life as Israelis. DVD 5907

Blacks & Jews. 1997. 1 video file (85 min.). Early in the 20th century black and Jewish Americans joined forces against bigotry and for civil rights but in the late 1960’s each group turned inward and the coalition fell apart. This film examines the history of this collaboration and recent racial conflicts between Afro-Americans and Jews and attempts at understanding and reconciliation, with particular emphasis on events in New York City and Oakland, California. DVD 5698 and Streaming video

Budrus. 2011. 1 videodisc (82 min.). They not only save the village, but the Barrier is pushed back behind the Green Line into No Man’s Land. In the process, Ayed and Iltezam unleash an inspiring, yet little-known, movement in the Occupied Palestinian Territories that is still gaining ground today. In an action-filled documentary featuring archival footage of this movement from its infancy, Budrus will inspire and challenge audiences worldwide. DVD 8309

Dreamers and builders. 2006. 1 videodisc (60 min.). “The early builders of the Zionist vision, pioneers of the Third Aliyah and the Fourth Aliyah of the 1920s, have been captured on film for time in memoriam by the father of Hebrew film, Ya’akov Ben Dov. Based on three films – Return to Zion, Rebirth of a New Palestine, Romance of Palestine – which were considered lost for more than 70 years”–Container. DVD 7146

The Jewish Americans. 2008. 2 videodiscs (360 min.). Chronicles the 350 year saga of immigrants who gradually wove themselves into the fabric of American life without abandoning their cherished traditions. DVD 3812 and Streaming video
part 1
part 2
part 3

Shtetl. 2009. 1 videodisc (180 min.). Tells the homecoming story of two elderly Polish-American Jews who return to their families’ small village from which most of the Jews had been sent to Treblinka’s gas chambers. Captures these pilgrims as they face old neighbors, some betrayers, some saviors. Interviews Polish Jews in America and Israel who were holocaust survivors or emigrated in the late 1930’s. DVD 5865

See the full Jewish Studies filmography here.

Filmography – Films on Filmmaking and Filmmakers

The Media Services contribution to the Library Subject Guides is a selective list of video holdings in the American University Library. Filmographies are created by doing multiple keyword searches in the ALADIN catalog to capture as many titles on a topic as possible. For complete up-to-date holdings (including VHS tapes) please refer to the library … Continue reading “Filmography – Films on Filmmaking and Filmmakers”


The Media Services contribution to the Library Subject Guides is a selective list of video holdings in the American University Library. Filmographies are created by doing multiple keyword searches in the ALADIN catalog to capture as many titles on a topic as possible. For complete up-to-date holdings (including VHS tapes) please refer to the library ALADIN catalog (www.catalog.wrlc.org)

Most streaming videos listed are available exclusively to AU students, staff and faculty after an online authentications by AUID#.

Here’s a sneak peak at what can be found in the FILMS ON FILMMAKING & FILMMAKERS Filmography:

American movie :the making of Northwestern. Sony Pictures classics. 2000. 1 videodisc (104 min.). Documentary of the two-year effort by Mark Borchardt to finish his “no-budget horror film, Coven.”. DVD 131

Baadasssss! 2004. 1 videodisc (109 min.). A candid portrait of Melvin Van Peeble’s struggles as a young, black director during the society-shifting 70’s. Determined to make a film that matters, Melvin deals with two-faced backers, a rag-tag crew, threatening creditors, and various shades of Hollywood hypocrisy. With everything on the line, his only choice is to stick to his guns and do whatever it takes to get his neo-blaxploitation epic to the audience for which it was envisioned. DVD 2941

Chop socky Cinema Hong Kong. 2005. 1 videodisc (55 min.). This offers an in-depth look at Hong Kong’s wu xia film legacy and its influence on global cinema. From its earliest roots in Beijing Opera to Quentin Tarantino’s tribute to Hong Kong martial arts action in Kill Bill, Vol. 2. All of the bases are covered, from Hong Kong cinema’s first martial-arts hero, Wong Fei Hung, to the balletic choreography of Chang Che. Includes the “one-punch” impact of Bruce Lee and the evolution of kung-fu comedy as epitomized by Jackie Chan. The Hong Kong technique of editing-in-camera is thoroughly demonstrated in a multi-screen sequence, and abundant film clips provide tantalizing samples of the genre’s classic films. DVD 1207

Forbidden Hollywood collection. 2009. 1 videodisc (152 min.). Wild Bill: Explores the life and directorial times of William A. Wellman. The men who made the movies: Wellman shares many stories and speaks bluntly of the producers with who he has worked and describes his remarkable star-making and star-spotting abilities. He was responsible for helping actors win Oscars and discovered such notable actors as James Cagney and Gary Cooper. DVD 5794

Kurosawa. 2002. 1 videodisc (215 min.). A documentary of Japanese director Akira Kurosawa featuring his family, colleagues and critics from Japan and America commenting on the man and his films. Includes excerpts from many of his famous works. DVD 392

A letter to Elia. 2010. 1 videodisc (82 min.). Martin Scorsese directs and narrates this look at director Elia Kazan. From his triumphs with films such as On the Waterfront to his controversial naming of names during the McCarthy hearings, Kazan is shown in all his complexity. DVD 7741

Nanook revisited. 2005. 1 videodisc (55 min.). The filmmakers revisit Inukjuak, the Inuit village where Flaherty filmed Nanook of the North. Examines the realities behind the ground-breaking documentary and the changes since it was made almost 70 years ago. Shows the reactions of the Inuit living in the village, to the film, and also looks at the inaccuracies and staged scenes in the original. DVD 6795

Sidney Lumet. The directors. 2002. 1 videodisc (60 min.). Profile of director Sidney Lumet, featuring extensive film clips and interviews with actors who have worked with him. DVD 570

Stanley Kubrick: A life in pictures. Stanley Kubrick collection. 2001. 1 videodisc (143 min.). Documentary about the career of director Stanley Kubrick, drawing on Kubrick archives and offering an intimate portrait of his life among family and friends. DVD 2787

See the full Films on Filmmaking and Filmmakers filmography here.