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Title
Call Number Annex Release Year
Absolute Wilson
DVD 2394   2006
Adolf Hitler, 1889-1945
Videotape 14   1976
Affaire de femmes (Story of women)
DVD 1318   1988
Agoniia (Agony: Rasputin)
DVD 1759   1981
Agony: Rasputin (Agoniia)
DVD 1759   1981
Aleksandr Nevsky (Alexander Nevsky)
DVD 457   1938
Alexander Nevsky (Aleksandr Nevsky)
DVD 457   1938
Ali
DVD 129   2001
Alice Walker: a stitch in time
DVD 906   2004
All the mornings of the world (Tous les matins du monde)
Videotape 1260   1991
Amadeus
Videotape 23   1984
American family revisited: the Louds ten years later
DVD 1620   1983
American me
Videotape 1612   1992
American splendor
DVD 1286   2003
Andersen. Zhizn' bez l'i'ubvi: kinoversi'i'a
DVD 2326   2006
Andre Malraux
Videotape 1243   1989
Andrei Roublev (Andrei Rublev)
Videotape 29   1969
Andrei Rublev (Andrei Roublev)
Videotape 29   1969
Andrei Rublev (Andrei Rubl'I'ov)
DVD 53   1969
Andrei Rubl'I'ov (Andrei Rublev)
DVD 53   1969
Andrew Jackson: good, evil, and the presidency
DVD 1910   2007
Anna Akhmatova file (Lichnoe delo Anny Akmatovoi)
DVD 1936   1989
Anne Frank remembered
Videotape 1512   1995
Another road home
DVD 1632   2004
Anton Chekhov
Videotape 34 X 1974
Batallas de San Martin
DVD 2109 v.1-6   2007
Beautiful mind
DVD 2131   2001
Becket
Videotape 692   1964
Before night falls
DVD 262   2000
Berenice Abbott
Videotape 480   1988
Blind spot: Hitler's secretary (Im toten Winkel: Hitlers Sekretärin)
DVD 1679   2002
Blow
DVD 964   2001
Bonnie and Clyde
DVD 13   1967
Bonnie and Clyde
Laserdisc 11   1967
Bonnie and Clyde
Videotape 89   1967
Borges and I
Videotape 3142   1983
Born on the fourth of July
DVD 32   1989
Boys town
Videotape 2764   1938
Bugsy
DVD 768   1991
Bugsy
Laserdisc 42   1991
Cafe con Shandy
DVD 2507   2007
Camille Claudel
Videotape 1246   1988
Capote
DVD 1882   2005
Caravaggio
Videotape 2751   1986
Caravaggio: the final years
DVD 1611   2005
Carmen Miranda: bananas is my business
DVD 1889   1995
Caro diario (Dear diary)
Videotape 1838   1993
Cassatt: impressionist from Philadelphia
Videotape 2403   1975
Chateaubriand l'indompte
Videotape 2583 X 1998
Che: investigating a legend
DVD 2128   1997
Childhood of Maxim Gorky
Videotape 118 X 1938
Christopher Columbus: explorer of the new world
Videotape 3130   1995
Cid
DVD 2100   1961
Cleopatra (1963)
DVD 1351   1963
Coal miner's daughter
DVD 244   1980
Colonel Redl
Videotape 130 X 1985
Color of pomegranates (N-ran guyne)
DVD 319   1968
Comedian Harmonists (Harmonists)
DVD 1691   1997
Cumparsita: el tango uruguayo
DVD 2254   2004
Cun tian de kuang xiang (Rhapsody of spring)
DVD 618   1998
Daens
Videotape 3149   1993
Dans la peau de Jacques Chirac
DVD 1354 PAL   2006
Dear diary (Caro diario)
Videotape 1838   1993
Destiny of a man (Sud'ba cheloveka)
DVD 2575   1959
Diarios de motocicleta (Motorcycle diaries)
DVD 592   2004
Diary of Anne Frank
Videotape 1437   1959
Diego Rivera: art and revolution
Videotape 2585   2000
Diego Rivera: I paint what I see
Videotape 2124   1992
Diego Rivera: the age of steel
Videotape 2008   1978
Dois filhos de Francisco: a historia de Zeze di Camargo e Luciano (Two sons of Francisco: the true story of Zeze di Camargo and Luciano)
DVD 2337   2005
Donald Davie
Videotape 168 X 1988
Dossiers mensuel d'information. Dossier no. 6, Sartre-De Beauvoir (Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone De Beauvoir)
DVD 1636   1967
Dreams are what you wake up from
DVD 942   1989
Edith Stein: eine frau unter dem freuz
Videotape 2411 X 1997
Edward Albee
DVD 938   1995
Edward Said
Videotape 2765   1992
Eleanor Roosevelt: a restless spirit
DVD 2037   1994
Elephant man
Videotape 177   1980
Elizabeth Bishop
videotape 649   1988
Elvis: story of a legend
Videotape 2112   1993
Emily Dickinson
Videotape 651   1988
Emperor Jones (w/ Paul Robeson: tribute to an artist)
DVD 1450 pt.1   1933, 1979
Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Jeder fur sich und Gott gegen alle)
DVD 1051 v.1   1974
Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Jeder fur sich und Gott gegen alle)
Videotape 186   1974
Entrevista: Manuel Puig
Videotape 2903   1977
Entrevista: Octavio Paz
Videotape 2906   1977
Erin Brockovich
Videotape 2847   2000
Estos fueron los palacios
Videotape 1062   1983
Eugene O'Neill: a documentary film
DVD 2468   2005
Eva Peron
Videotape 2050   1996
Evening with Kevin Smith
DVD 803   2002
Every child is born a poet
DVD 488   2003
Ezra Pound
Videotape 658 X 1988
Farewell (Proshchenie)
Videotape 2611   1992
Female closet
Videotape 2025   1998
Fidel
DVD 351   2001
Fidel Castro
DVD 1528   2005
Fighting 69th
Videotape 2595   1940
Francois Mitterrand : le roman du pouvoir
DVD 1353 PAL   2001
Frida Kahlo: portrait of a woman
Videotape 1263   1991
Frida Kahlo: portrait of an artist
Videotape 1371   1983
Frida Kahlo: portrait of an artist
Videotape 2589   1999
Fridericus: der Alte Fritz
DVD 1646 PAL   1937
Fritz Lang: circle of destiny
DVD 436   1998
From the journals of Jean Seberg
Videotape 1818   1995
Fundi: the story of Ella Baker
DVD 999   1981
Funny girl
DVD 2282   1968
Galileo: the challenge of reason
Videotape 218   1970
Galileo's battle for the heavens
Videotape 2657   2002
Gandhi
Videotape 1660   1982
Gebruder Skladanowsky (Trick of light)
DVD 1329 v.6   1995
Georgia O'Keeffe
Videotape 827 X 1977
Gloria Steinem: Ms. America
Videotape 3131   1995
Goya : his life and art
Videotape 235   1960
Grand jack
Videotape 2721   1987
Great philosophers: Aristotle
Videotape 2329   1987
Great philosophers: Hegel and Marx
Videotape 1755   1987
Great philosophers: Plato
Videotape 2328   1987
Hail Caesar
Videotape 1993   1997
Harmonists (Comedian Harmonists)
DVD 1691   1997
Hart Crane
Videotape 650   1988
Hawaii's last queen
Videotape 1511   1997
Heinrich Schlieman
Videotape 2179   1966
Hildegard of Bingen
DVD 603 v.1   2000
Himmler the mystic
Videotape 940   1990
Histoire d'Adele H. (Story of Adele H)
Videotape 1277 X 1975
Hitler, ein film aus Deutschland (Our Hitler, a film from Germany)
DVD 2408 pt.1-2   1977
Hotel terminus: the life and times of Klaus Barbie
Videotape 3152   1988
How to draw a bunny
DVD 1300   2002
Hua hun (Soul haunted by painting)
DVD 692   1994
Huey Long
Videotape 1618   1985
Hughes' dream Harlem
DVD 1282   2002
Hungarian princesses: Elizabeth and Margaret
DVD 603 v.2   2000
Hurricane
DVD 1559   1999
Husserl, Heidegger and modern existentialism
DVD 729   1997
I know why the caged bird sings
Videotape 3113   1978
I, doll
Videotape 1711   1995
Ida B. Wells: a passion for justice
DVD 1384   1989
Im toten Winkel: Hitlers Sekretärin (Blind spot: Hitler's secretary)
DVD 1679   2002
Immortal Ibsen
DVD 960   2004
In motion with Michael Moschen
Videotape 720 X 1991
Inner world of Jorge Luis Borges
Videotape 278   1973
Inside Hitchcock
Videotape 279   1973
Isabel Allende: entrevista
Videotape 1183   1986
Ivan the Terrible
Videotape 2668   1944, 1946
Jackie O: in a class of her own
Videotape 3132   1995
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: in a class of her own
Videotape 3132   1995
Jacques Derrida
Videotape 2431   1992
Jacques Lacan: la psychanalyse reinventee
DVD 281   2002
James Baldwin
Videotape 871   1990
James Lawson
Videotape 2744   2000
Jean Cocteau's Orphic trilogy
DVD 1521 pts.1-3   1930, 1950, 1960
Jeanne d'Arc: "Le Pouvoir et l'Innocence"
Videotape 1169   1989
Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone De Beauvoir (Dossiers mensuel d'information. Dossier no. 6, Sartre-De Beauvoir)
DVD 1636   1967
Jeder fur sich und Gott gegen alle (Enigma of Kaspar Hauser)
DVD 1051 v.1   1974
Jeder fur sich und Gott gegen alle (Enigma of Kaspar Hauser)
Videotape 186   1974
Jeder fur sich und Gott gegen alle (Mystery of Kaspar Hauser)
Videotape 1448   1974
Joe Louis Story
DVD 685   1953
John Adams
DVD 2247   2008
John Henrik Clarke: a great and mighty walk
DVD 926   1996
Jolson story
DVD 1527   1946
Jorge Luis Borges (Memorioso)
Videotape 1 X 1984
Juan Peron
Videotape 2139   1990
Kandinsky: a film
Videotape 980 X 1986
Kundun
Videotape 2211   1997
Kurt Vonnegut
DVD 940   1983
Laissez-passer (Safe conduct)
DVD 1317   2002
Lance Loud!: a death in an American family
DVD 1619   2003
Langston Hughes
Videotape 654   1988
Langston Hughes: his life and times
DVD 941   2003
Lawrence of Arabia
DVD 1147   1962
Lawrence of Arabia
DVD 1347   1962
Lawrence of Arabia
Laserdisc 54   1962
Lawrence of Arabia
Videotape 1530   1962
Leo Brouwer
Videotape 2865   1979
Leonardo da Vinci: Mind of the Renaissance
Videotape 2591   2002
Lichnoe delo Anny Akmatovoi (Anna Akhmatova file)
DVD 1936   1989
Life and death of Frida Kahlo
Videotape 366   1976
Life of Emile Zola
DVD 633   1937
Life of Leonardo da Vinci
Videotape 2533   1971
Louis Prima: the wildest
DVD 69   1999
Luther
Videotape 375   1973
Machuca
DVD 1459   2004
Machuca
DVD 1494   2004
Machuca
DVD 645 PAL   2004
Madness of King George
DVD 447   1994
Madonna: Truth or dare
Videotape 1921   1991
Malcolm X
DVD 1641   1992
Malcolm X
Laserdisc 14   1992
Marco Polo: journey to the East
Videotape 3128   1995
Maria Cano
DVD 1819   1990
Marie Antoinette (1938)
DVD 1404   1938
Marie Antoinette (1938)
Videotape 2761   1938
Marie Antoinette (2006)
DVD 1408   2006
Mei Lanfang
DVD 1706   2004
Mein liebster Feind (My best fiend)
DVD 1067 v.6   1999
Memoire: des souvenirs (Remembering memory: Cixous on Cixous)
Videotape 2430   1999
Metallica: some kind of monster
DVD 1563   2004
Midwife's tale
Videotape 1620   1997
Moj Nikifor (My Nikifor)
DVD 2355   2004
Moliere
Videotape 423   1978
Mongol: the rise of Genghis Khan
DVD 2340   2007
Monster
DVD 1567   2003
Morfii
DVD 2537 PAL   2008
Motorcycle diaries (Diarios de motocicleta)
DVD 592   2004
My best fiend (Mein liebster Feind)
DVD 1067 v.6   1999
My father's glory (Gloire de mon pere)
Videotape 2252   1990
My Nikifor (Moj Nikifor)
DVD 2355   2004
Mystery of Kaspar Hauser (Jeder fur sich und Gott gegen alle)
Videotape 1448   1974
Nancy Reagan: President's leading lady
Videotape 3133   1997
Nat Turner: a troublesome property
DVD 1280   2003
New world
DVD 1897   2005
Nixon, a presidency revealed
DVD 1457   2007
N-ran guyne (Color of pomegranates)
DVD 319   1968
Our Hitler, a film from Germany (Hitler, ein film aus Deutschland)
DVD 2408 pt.1-2   1977
Out of Africa
DVD 2464   1985
Out of the ashes
DVD 2433   2003
Padre padrone
Videotape 2034   1977
Patton
Videotape 474   1970
Paul Robeson: tribute to an artist (w/ Emperor Jones)
DVD 1450 pt.1   1979, 1933
Persepolis
DVD 2373   2007
Peter the First (Petr Pervyai)
Videotape 1420 X 1937
Petr Pervyai (Peter the First)
Videotape 1420 X 1937
Pianist
DVD 180   2002
Ponce de Leon, the first conquistador
Videotape 3129   1995
Primo Levi-- een levensschets (Suicide of a camp survivor: the case of Primo Levi)
Videotape 1365   1991
Prisoner of paradise
DVD 1359   2002
Proshchenie (Farewell)
Videotape 2611   1992
Puppetmaster (Xi meng ren sheng)
DVD 144   1993
Queen Margot (Reine Margot)
Videotape 1276   1994
Rainer Maria Rilke
Videotape 2304   2000
Red Pomegranate
Videotape 1351 X 1968
Reds
DVD 1524   1981
Reds
Videotape 521   1981
Reine Margot (Queen Margot)
Videotape 1276   1994
Remembering memory: Cixous on Cixous (Memoire: des souvenirs)
Videotape 2430   1999
Retour de Martin Guerre (Return of Martin Guerre)
Videotape 526   1982
Return of Martin Guerre (Retour de Martin Guerre)
Videotape 526   1982
Rhapsody of spring (Cun tian de kuang xiang)
DVD 618   1998
Ricardo Piglia
Videotape 2928   1988
Richard Wright, Black boy
DVD 2151   1994
Richard Wright: Black Boy
Videotape 1333 X 1994
Richest man in the world
Videotape 1642   1997
Riding in cars with boys
DVD 2095   2001
Riopelle
Videotape 3050   1982
Rise to power of Louis XIV (Prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV)
Videotape 533   1966
River runs through it
DVD 2114   1992
Robert Frost
Videotape 653   1988
Robert Lowell
Videotape 655   1988
Robert Penn Warren
Videotape 536 X 1984
Robert Penn Warren memorial service
Videotape 537 X 1989
Rocket: Maurice Richard: the man, the legend
Videotape 2768   1998
Romero
Videotape 1374   1989
Ruby Sales
Videotape 2747   1998
Ruth Bernhard
Videotape 482   1983
Safe conduct (Laissez-passer)
DVD 1317   2002
Salad house (Salata baladi)
DVD 2319   2007
Salade maison (Salata baladi)
DVD 2319   2007
Salata baladi (Salad house)
DVD 2319   2007
Salata baladi (Salade maison)
DVD 2319   2007
Schindler's List
DVD 2211   1993
Schindler's List
Videotape 1438   1993
Sergeant York
Videotape 2089   1941
Sergei Eisenstein, autobiography
Videotape 3158   1996
Seven years in Tibet
DVD 1869   1997
Shadowlands
DVD 19   1993
Siqueiros: artist and warrior
Videotape 2274   1998
Sir John Soane: an English architect, an American legacy
DVD 1301   2005
Somebody up there likes me
Videotape 1956   1956
Soul haunted by painting (Hua Hun)
DVD 692   1994
Sound of music
DVD 1308   1965
Star of Africa (Stern von Afrika)
DVD 1334   1957
Stern von Afrika (Star of Africa)
DVD 1334   1957
Story of Adele H (Histoire d'Adele H.)
Videotape 1277 X 1975
Story of women (Affaire de femmes)
DVD 1318   1988
Sud'ba cheloveka (Destiny of a man)
DVD 2575   1959
Suicide of a camp survivor: the case of Primo Levi (Primo Levi-- een levensschets)
Videotape 1365   1991
Sylvia Hyman: eternal wonder
DVD 1600   2007
Sylvia Plath
Videotape 657   1988
T. S. Eliot
Videotape 652   1988
Tati story
DVD 1589   2002
Testament d'Orpheé, ou, Ne me demandez pas pourquoi (Testament of Orpheus, or, Do not ask me why)
DVD 1521 pt.3   1960
Testament of Orpheus, or, Do not ask me why (Testament d'Orpheé, ou, Ne me demandez pas pourquoi )
DVD 1521 pt.3   1960
Thomas Jefferson
Videotape 3136 pt.1-2   1997
Tina in Mexico
DVD 565   2002
Trick of light (Gebruder Skladanowsky)
DVD 1329 v.6   1995
Two sons of Francisco: the true story of Zeze di Camargo and Luciano (Dois filhos de Francisco: a historia de Zeze di Camargo e Luciano)
DVD 2337   2005
Unreasonable man
DVD 1546   2006
Velazquez
DVD 1529   2006
Vetka sireni
DVD 2534 PAL   2007
Vie en rose
DVD 1888   2007
Wonderful horrible life of Leni Reifenstahl
DVD 70   1993
Worlds of Mei Lanfang
Videotape 2843   2000
Xi meng ren sheng (Puppetmaster)
DVD 144   1993
Yo soy Pablo Neruda
Videotape 685   1974
Yo, sor Alice
DVD 1081   2001
Young Mr. Lincoln
Videotape 799   1939
Zu, Warriors of the Magic Mountain
Videotape 2358   1983


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