Videos on History

Andrei Rublev strasti po Andreiu 1998

Andrei Sergeevich Mikhalkov-Konchalovskii, Andrei Arsen evich Tarkovskii, Anatolii Alekseevich Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, and Nikolai Grin ko

Story of the famed 15th century icon painter who survives the cruelties of medieval Russia and creates works of art. 1 videodisc (205 min.)

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Crusades 2001

Alan Ereira, David Wallace, Terry Jones, British Broadcasting Corporation, Television Service, Arts and Entertainment Network, History Channel (Television network), and A & E Home Video (Firm)

Chronicles the origins of the Crusades and traces the Crusaders' routes across Europe and details the massacres and looting along the way. 2 videodiscs (200 min.)

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Galileo's "Dialogue" 2001

Galileo Galilei, Donald Sutherland, Owen Gingerich, Maurice A Finocchiaro, and G. V Coyne

A study of Galileo's Dialogue in which he asserted that the Earth was not the center of the universe. Galileo was jailed for heresy for contradicting the traditional teachings of the medieval Church. The video traces the background of the Dialogue, from the Copernican view that the sun is the center of the universe, to the trial of Galileo before the Holy Office. The profound conflicts between science and theology unfold in dramatic reenactments. 1 videocassette (ca. 53 min.)

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Monarchy c2006

David Starkey, David Hutt, David Wilson, Mary Cranitch, Lucy Swingler, Steven Clarke, James Runcie, WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.), Channel Four (Great Britain), Granada Films, Educational Broadcasting Corporation, and Acorn Media (Firm)

Vivid descriptions and analysis of historical personalities with costumed actors, historical locations, and portraits to visually enliven the story of the English crown from the fall of Rome to the 1660s. 2 videodiscs (317 min.)

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The world of the Lindisfarne Gospels  c2004

Michelle Brown, British Library, and Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)

Presents the Lindisfarne Gospels in their historical and cultural context, filmed on location in England and Ireland. 1 videodisc (46 min., 45 sec.)

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A 14th-century Easter matins with The harrowing of hell and Visit to the sepulchre 1989

Andrew Hughes, David Klausner, Bob Rodgers , Alexandra F Johnson, Catharine Monahan, Stephanie Martin, Susan Korstanje, and Andrea Budgey

Includes a complete monastic Easter matins service, and the liturgical dramas The harrowing of Hell and The visitation to the sepulchre, written for the Benedictine nuns of Origny-Ste-Benoite in the 14th century, and performed in a liturgical setting. 1 videocassette (ca. 61 min.)

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All's well that ends well 1980

Elijah Moshinsky, William Shakespeare, Celia Johnson, Ian Charleson, and Angela Down

Delightful scenes and clever characters contribute to the frivolity of this light comedy in whcih Shakespeare uses one of his favorite devices--trickery.  Helena, new wife of the young Count Bertram, resorts to chicanery to win the respect and affection of her husband -- a plot relished by Elizabethan playgoers.  By extolling the cunning of a woman in love, this play exemplifies a typical element of medieval romance. 3 videocassettes (141 min.)

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Andrei Rublev strasti po Andreiu 1998

Andrei Sergeevich Mikhalkov-Konchalovskii, Andrei Arsen evich Tarkovskii, Anatolii Alekseevich Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, and Nikolai Grin ko

Story of the famed 15th century icon painter who survives the cruelties of medieval Russia and creates works of art. 1 videodisc (205 min.)

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Ars Antiqua sounds of a distant tyme 1995

Rick Levy

The musical group Ars Antiqua performs music of the Medieval and Renaissance era using instruments authentic to the time. 2 videocassettes (50 min.)

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As you like it 198-?

William Shakespeare, Paul Czinner, Laurence Olivier, Elisabeth Bergner, Sophie Stewart, Leon Quartermaine, and Henry Ainley

Film adaptation of Shakespeare's well known comedy. A pastoral romance set in the Forest of Arden in medieval France. 1 videocassette (96 min.)

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Basic instinct 1992

Mario Kassar, Joe Eszterhas, Alan Marshall, Paul Verhoeven, Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, George Dzundza, and Jeanne Tripplehorn

A tough but vulnerable detective investigates a murder identical to one described in the latest novel of a cold, calculating and beautiful novelist with an insatiable sexual appetite. 1 videocassette (ca. 123 min.)

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The Birth of the Middle Ages 1989

Rafael Cortes and Robert Lanchester

An introduction to medieval Europe, showing surviving traces to provide a feel of medieval style and practice, and tracing the roots of the fall of civilization and the onset of darkness.  The program traces the fall of Rome, the development of fortified monasteries and their gradual transformation into centers of prayer, work, and the study of ancient learning. 1 videocassette (43 min.)

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The Boys in the band 1984

William Friedkin, Kenneth Nelson, Leonard Frey, Cliff Gorman, and Mart Crowley

This film version of Mart Crowley's play was a landmark in the treatment of homosexuality by the film industry. The plot centers around a birthday party where a heterosexual is unintentionally a guest. 1 videocassette (119 min.)

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The bridge how the medicine of the ancient Greeks came back to Europe through the world of Islam 1998

Ingrid Traversa, Hermann Jamek, and David Collison

Explores the process by which medical knowledge was preserved in the Islamic world during the Middle Ages. 1 videocassettte (50 min.)

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Byzantium from splendor to ruin 1989

Rafael Cortes and Robert Lanchester

This program describes the history, art, and religious significance of Byzantium, its attempts to restore the Roman Empire, its influence in the West, and its heritage. 1 videocassette (52 min.)

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Caravans of gold ; Kings and cities 1984

Basil Davidson

Program 3 traces the routes of the medieval gold trade, which reached from Africa to India and China in the east, and west-ward to the city states of Italy.  Program 4 explores the ways in which the African Kingdoms functioned by visiting Kano in Nigeria, where a king still holds court in his 15th century palace. 1 videocassette (114 min.)

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Carnal knowledge 1985

Mike Nichols, Jack Nicholson, Candice Bergen, Art Garfunkel, Ann Margaret, Rita Moreno, Cynthia O'Neal, and Carol Kane

This trend-setting film examines the sexual triumphs and disasters of two American men as it traces their lives from college days to middle age. 1 videocassette (96 min.)

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Cathedral 1995

David Macauley, Catherine Berg, Larry Klein, Mark Olshaker, and David Macaulay

Combines location sequences and animation to show the building of a Gothic cathedral. Begins with a tour of Chartres, Reims, Amiens, Bourges, Beauvais, Notre Dame de Paris, Laon, and the Royal Abbey Church of St. Denis. Discusses life in the medieval era and how churches were a center of life. 1 videocassette (ca. 60 min.)

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The celluloid closet 1996

Jeffrey Friedman, Robert Epstein, Lily Tomlin, Armistead Maupin, Hugh M Hefner, James C Hormel, Steve Tisch, Vito Russo, Sharon Wood, Carter Burwell, and K. D Lang

Assembles footage from over 120 films showing the changing face of cinema homosexuality from cruel stereotypes to covert love to the activist triumphs of the 1990s. Many actors, writers and commentators provide anecdotes regarding the history of the role of gay men and lesbians on the silver screen, taking into account public attitudes, attitudes within the film industry, and official censorship. 1 videocassette (102 min.)

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Ceremony & allegory of the medieval hunt 1984

Atom Egoyan, Charles Telling, and Robin Healey

Looks at the use of the hunt in medieval Europe, its symboic and practical role in maintaining status and power, and its representation in the arts. 1 videocassette (23 min.)

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Charlemagne and the Holy Roman Empire 1989

Rafael Cortes and Robert Lanchester

This program covers the antecedents and the life of Charlemagne, shows life at the court, the life of courtiers and of the peasants, recounts the battle of Roncevaux--site of the epic Chanson de Roland--and counterpoints the glories of the Carolingian renaissance with the everyday realities of hunger, plague, and constant violence. 1 videocassette (31 min.)

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Chinese foot binding the vanishing lotus 2004

Wing Chuen Fung, Joani Tang, Grant Thatcher, Discover China Production, Zhongguo dian ying he zuo zhi pian gong si, Beijing Taiga Film & TV Co. Ltd, Tsui Siu Ming Productions Ltd, and Filmakers Library, inc

Witnesses the experiences of Chinese women who willingly underwent years of suffering to contort their feet into an erotic symbol of beauty and eligibility, a pair of small feet -- three-inch golden lilies. Some of these women tell of the event that branded their lives, confronting the viewer with a custom that subjugated women to a brutal beauty myth. 1 videodisc (52 min.)

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Christians, Jews, and Moslems in Medieval Spain 1989

Rafael Cortes and Robert Lanchester

Due partly to the weakness of its Visigothic rulers, partly to the proximity of Africa, the Iberian peninsula was conquered by Berbers and by Arabs belonging to the Ommeyad Dynasty of Damascous. This program describes the history of Spain from the time of the first landing, in 711, through the nearly 800-year-long war that ended in the expulsion of both Moors and Jews in 1492. 1 videocassette (52 min.)

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The Church ; The town 1993, 1988

Jill Sheppard and Richard Burrows

The Church conveys the nature of the medieval religious experience, describes the hierarchy of the church, and explains the church's involvement in medicine, help for the poor and education. The town examines the establishment and history of a medieval town, including the nature and work of the guild organizations.  Uses Lincoln, England, as the example. 1 videocassette (44 min.)

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The circles of light 1998

Derek Towers, Duccio Scarpelli, Edmund Dehn, Alessandra Masi, Sofia Hodges, Christopher Frayling, and Dante Alighieri

The most celebrated work of Dante is the Divine comedy--a vision of hell, purgatory and heaven that provides a strangely surrealistic view of medieval attitudes on religious dogma and the price of disobedience. In this program, dramatizations of scenes depicting courtly love, sexual love, love of God, and love of the Virgin are featured. 1 videocassette (49 min.)

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The City of God 1989

Rafael Cortes and Robert Lanchester

Covers the church's resurgence during the Middle Ages, including Augustine of Hippo's writings, the Vulgate Bible, the rule of Pope Gregory the Great, monastic life, and the role of the pilgrimage. 1 videocassette (52 min.)

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Coming out under fire c2003

Arthur E Dong, Allan Baerubae, Deep Focus Productions, and Independent Television Service

Gay men and lesbians who were in the United States military service during World War II discuss their experiences with the response of the military establishment towards their sexual orientation. 1 videodisc (71 min.)

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Constance of Rabastens 2000

Avril Benoit, Kate Gillen, David Wesley, and Madeline Jeay

"An illiterate common woman, Constance of Rabastens' visions of the apocalypse and prophecies of the coming of the Antichrist resulted in her imprisonment at the hands of the Inquisition and the Archbishop of Toulouse"--Container. 1 videocassette (24 min.)

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Crescent and cross rise of Islam and age of Crusades Claude Theret, Jean Delumeau, and Sabine Melchior-Bonnet

Describes the rapid rise and spread of Islam followed by the Crusades. Discusses the various orders of Christian monks and their contributions, the Inquisition, witchcraft and magic in the Middle Ages. 1 videocassette (58 min.)

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Crusades 2001

Alan Ereira, David Wallace, Terry Jones, British Broadcasting Corporation, Television Service, Arts and Entertainment Network, History Channel (Television network), and A & E Home Video (Firm)

Chronicles the origins of the Crusades and traces the Crusaders' routes across Europe and details the massacres and looting along the way. 2 videodiscs (200 min.)

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The Dark Ages 1995

Lois LaFond and Joseph Sitko

Discusses the Middle Ages, especially in Britain, and the effects of the fall of the Roman Empire on Europe. 1 videocassette (30 min.)

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David Halberstam's the fifties. Volume 4, A burning desire [videorecording]  1997

David Halberstam, Nancy Button, Alex Gibney, and Edward Herrmann

During this time of social claustrophobia and sexual taboos, a handful of individuals brought a world of suppressed desires into the open. The publication of the famed "Kinsey Report" in particular exposed widespread hypocrisy about sex. 1 videocassette (ca. 50 min.)

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Death in Venice 1981, 1971

Luchino Visconti, Nicola Badalucco, Dirk Bogarde, Marisa Berenson, Bjørn Andresen, Silvana Mangano, and Thomas Mann

An aging, homosexual world-famous composer and conductor pursues his obsessional quest for ideal beauty in Venice, Italy circa 1911. Drawn to a lovely young boy, his secret love is unrequited, and he succumbs to cholera when an epidemic hits the Lido Isle. 1 videocassette (VHS) (131 min.)

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The Decameron 1985?

Giovanni Boccaccio, Franco Citti, Minetto Davoli, Jovan Jovanovi c, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Vincenzo Amato, Angela Loce , and Giuseppe Zigaina

Pasolini's rendition of several of Boccaccio's tales from The Decameron.  Boccaccio's tales reflect on the eternal foolishness of man, but also display fasacinating details of 14th-century Italian life. 1 videocassette (116 min.)

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Denmark 1902-1914 she! 1989

Noël Burch, Channel Four (Great Britain), and Facets Video (Firm)

Examines the psychological realism and innovative filmmaking techniques exhibited in early Danish silent films. Shows how the creativity of key figures in early Danish cinema and the feminism and liberal sexual attitudes in Denmark contributed to the sophistication found in these early films. 1 videocassette  (26 min.)

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Discovering the music of the Middle Ages 1987

Bernard Wilets

Examines the religious and secular music of the Middle Ages, describes the musical instruments of the period, and surveys the social milieu. 1 videocassette (20 min.)

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The disputation a theological debate between Christians and Jews 1991

Geoffrey Sax, Jenny Reeks, Hyam Maccoby, Toyah Willcox, Bernard Hepton, Christopher Lee, Helen Lindsay, Bob Peck, and Alan Dobie

Recreates through dramatization a public theological debate between Christians and Jews, which were common during the in Middle Ages. This one, held in Barcelona in 1263 under the authority of King James of Aragon, has Rabbi Moses ben Nachman debating with Pablo Christiani, a Jew converted to Christianity. 1 videocassette (65 min.)

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Distant voices 1978

Mick Jackson, David Kennard, and James Burke

Host James Burke traces the connection between medieval advances in the science of warfare, the discovery of large silver deposits in Czechoslovakia, the discovery of natural laws, and the invention of modern telecommunications. 1 videocassette, (52 min.)

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Douceline de Digne 2000

Avril Benoit, Kate Gillen, David Wesley, and Madeline Jeay

"A 12th century French mystic, Douceline de Digne established the first community for laywomen devoted to caring for the sick and the poor"--Container. 1 videocassette (24 min.)

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Erotikus a history of the gay movies 1986?

An extremely well produced, excellently written, and cleverly edited film history of gay movies from the earliest art-pose films, the films first seen in male movie houses, the gay movie as an art form, and finally the hardest of the hard-core. 1 videocassette (54 min.)

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Erotique 1997

Brandon Chase, Lizzie Borden, Christopher Wood, Vicky Herman, Susie Bright, Monika Treut, Michael Sombetzki, Ana Maria Magalhăes, Eloí Calage, Clara Law, Teddy Robin, Eddie L. C Fong, Clarice Lispector, Kamala Lopez, Bryan Cranston, Priscilla Barnes, Camilla Soeberg, Michael Carr, Claudia Ohana, Guilherme Leme, Tim Lounibos, and Hayley Man

An anthology of four erotic short films with a distinct female point of view. 1 videocassette (120 min.)

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Europe awakes L'eveil de l'Europe 2001

Mahmoud Hussein, Philippe Calderon, Paul Barrett, Tony Lévy, Danielle Jacquart, Jean Jolivet, and Henri Bresc

As dissension mounted between the rival Arab dynasties in Baghdad, Cordoba, and Cairo, Christendom rallied to oppose the Muslims in Spain and Jerusalem. This program plots out the decline of the Caliphate and the acquisition of Arab knowledge by Europeans starved for Islam's intellectual riches. The rise of feudalism and papal authority, the gradual defeat of the Muslim rulers in Spain, the Seljuk ursurpation of Abbisid power in the Near East, and the Crudades are explained, along with the concerted efforts of Catholic authorities to translate the vast libraries of Arab scientific and philosophical texts. 1 videocassette (26 min.)

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Everyman a moral play 1991

Bob Morris, Pierre Brulatour, Umit Celebi, and Johnny Kline

A live performance of the the medieval play in which Everyman, summoned by Death to go on a pilgrimage, entreats all of his friends, Fellowship, Kinship, Goods, Knowledge, Strength and other abstractions, to go with him, but finds that only Good Deeds will accompany him. 1 videocassette (53 min.)

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The Experiments 1997

Philippa Lowthorpe, Dearblha Molloy, June Rose, Anna Massey, Rosalie Crutchley, Barbara Ewing, and Ken Bones

This program features two bizarre 19th century experiments in which women are the subjects. In the first, entries from the personal diary of Dr. James Barry are used to dramatize the female physician's lifelong masquerade as a man. The second story dramatizes the relationship between poet Arthur Munby and Hannah Cullwick. 1 videocasette (30 min.)

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The Feudal system 1989

Rafael Cortes and Robert Lanchester

This program covers the social and economic organization of Europe in the Middle Ages: life in a farming hamlet; roles of the feudal lord, tenant farmers, and serfs; construction of the medieval castle; the medieval social organization; the role of the Church and clergy; courtly love and other literary inventions. 1 videocassette (52 min.)

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The films of Kenneth Anger: Volume two c2007

Kenneth Anger, Puck Film Productions, and Fantoma Films (Firm)

Six short films by underground filmmaker Kenneth Anger, originally produced from 1964-2002. 1 videodisc (91 min.)

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Fires of faith 1998

Christopher Frayling and Derek Towers

This program discusses papal reactions to church dissidents. Thirteenth-century fragmentation of religious orders into various sects is examined. 1 videocassette (50 min.)

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Frederick II the last emperor 1998

Christopher Frayling and Derek Towers

This program traces the life and times of Frederick II, and his attempts to consolidate imperial power in Italy at the expense of the papacy in the 13th century and the influences from Islamic and Jewish cultures. 1 videocassette (50 min.):

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From field to feast 1996

Terence Sailly, Lisa Binnie, and Gabrielle Roddy

With a focus on the banquet as the most varied medieval culinary experience, this video discusses popular foods from the land, sky, and sea to their final presentation at the feast. 1 videocassette (23 min.)

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Galileo's "Dialogue" 2001

Galileo Galilei, Donald Sutherland, Owen Gingerich, Maurice A Finocchiaro, and G. V Coyne

A study of Galileo's Dialogue in which he asserted that the Earth was not the center of the universe. Galileo was jailed for heresy for contradicting the traditional teachings of the medieval Church. The video traces the background of the Dialogue, from the Copernican view that the sun is the center of the universe, to the trial of Galileo before the Holy Office. The profound conflicts between science and theology unfold in dramatic reenactments. 1 videocassette (ca. 53 min.)

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The Golem Der Golem 1985

Henrik Galeen and Paul Hermann Wegener

Set in medieval Prague, the Rabbi gives life to the Golem who falls in love with the Rabbi's daughter and brings fear to the emperor's court. He is destroyed by an innocent child. Based on the legend of the Golem, a popular figure in Jewish tradition. 1 videocassette (94 min.)

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Henry IV 1979

William Shakespeare,  Jon Finch, Anthony Quayle, and David Gwillim

A richly colorful panorama of Medieval English life, ranging from the uncertain future of his son and his people, to rural Gloucestershire, where old Justice Shallow reminisces about his lost youth. There is a passage of time which brings the older generation closer to the grave and allows the young prince to prepare himself for leadership. The play ends with the death of Henry IV, the banishment of Falstaff, and coronation of Prince Hal as Henry V. 2 videocassettes (151 min.)

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Henry V 1995

Laurence Olivier, Robert Newton, Felix Aylmer, Leslie Banks, Renee Asherson, William Walton, William Shakespeare, and Leo Genn

Adaptation of Shakespeare's patriotic historical drama that celebrates the English nation and the greatness of its King. Includes medieval battle sequences with a recreation of the Battle of Agincourt. 2 videodiscs (139 min.)

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The Hero's adventure 1988

Joseph Campbell, Bill D Moyers, Catherine Tatge, David Grubin, and Alvin H Perlmutter

"Long before medieval knights charged off to slay dragons, tales of heroic adventures were an integral part of all world cultures. Campbell challenges everyone to see the presence of a heroic journey in his or her own life"--Cassette container. 1 videocassette (60 min.)

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A hidden life 2006

Rachel Dretzin Goodman, Muriel Soenens, Barak Goodman, Will Lyman, Ark Media (Firm), WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.), and PBS Video

"On May 6, 2005, the residents of Spokane, Washington, awoke to one of the strangest headlines in the town's history: 'West Tied to Sex Abuse in '70s, Using Office to Lure Young Men.' The popular, socially conservative Republican mayor of Spokane, Jim West, had been outed by the town's newspaper The Spokesman-Review. The paper told the sordid story of a man with two lives: in public, he had once sponsored legislation forbidding gays from teaching in public schools, while in private, the paper alleged, he was trawling for young men online, using the trappings of his office to lure them into sexual relationships. But as bizarre as the revelations were, so too were the newspaper's methods. For months, a middle-aged 'forensic computer specialist' had posed as an 18-year-old boy online, engaging the mayor in a relationship that became more and more intimate, ultimately exploding on the front page of the newspaper. Frontline investigates the complex relationship between politics, sexuality, fear and judgment in one all-American town--Container. 1 videocassette (60 min.)

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Hirohito Japan in the 20th century 1989

"The life of emperor Hirohito spans nearly the twentieth century and coincides with Japan's passage from the Middle Ages to the future.  This program covers the highlights of the twentieth-century Japanese history, counterppoing the ritualized life of the Imperial family with the turbulent events that took Japan from tragedy to triumph"--Container. 1 videocassette (59 min.)

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The Illustrated handscroll tale of Genji 1993

Murasaki Shikibu, Tokio Suzuki, Tsuneo Fukada, Margaret Miller Kanada, and Beth Lischeron

Presents and describes the 12th century handscroll version of Genji monogartari (The tale of Genji), an 11th century Japanese novel which centers on the romantic relationships and adventures of the noble hero, Genji. 1 videocassette (60 min.)

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Images of women in American society in the twentieth century 1941-1975

Robert Cummings, Lucille Ball, Mary Tyler Moore, Robert Young, Donna Reed, Diahann Carrol, Freeman F Gosden, Charles J Correll, and Ed Gardner

Deals with the stereotypical "traditional" images of women in American society, from the 1940's to the 1970's.  The same theme emerges in all of the television shows and commercials: women should be beautiful, good, and interested only in being subordinate to the needs of men and family.  These "standards" appear to apply to American women, regardless of race or social class. These film clips show how, despite the great progress that American women have made in this century, sexual steoreotypes still persist. 3 videocassettes (VHS) (260 min.)

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The jeweled city 1998

Christopher Frayling and Derek Towers

This program offers a narrated tour of the cathedral, along with a historical portrait of the political and religious fervor of the medieval architects who saw it through to completion. 1 videocassette (50 min.)

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Jews in Medieval Spain two films on one video 1996, 1995

Beth Hatfutsoth

These two films examine the life of Jews in medieval Spain.  The first follows the story of three families who were expelled from Spain in 1492 and emigrated to Portugal where they were forced to convert to Christianity and live as Marranos.  The second illustrates what everyday family life was like for Jews as depicted in illuminated manuscripts of the period. 1 videocassette (21 min.)

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Julian of Norwich 2000

Avril Benoit, Kate Gillen, David Wesley, and Madeline Jeay

A 14th-century English mystic who enclosed herself for life in order to fully develop her relationship with God after a series of revelations, Julian of Norwich and her writings are still studied by Christian theologians. 1 videocassette (24 min.)

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The killing of Abel 1987

David Klausner, Michael Edmunds, David Parry, Jaimie Beaton, David Parry, David Follis, and Allan Park

Presents an anonymous 15th-century English play from the Towneley or Wakefield cycle, based on the Biblical story of Cain and Abel. 1 videocassette (ca. 40 min.)

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Kinsey 2005

Campbell Scott, Barak Goodman, Twin Cities Public Television (Saint Paul, Minn.), Ark Media (Firm), British Broadcasting Corporation, and Television Service

Through interviews with Alfred Kinsey's research assistants, his children, people who took his sex questionnaire, and historians, this documentary assesses Kinsey's remarkable achievements. 1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.)

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Kinsey c2005

Bill Condon, Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Chris O'Donnell, Peter Sarsgaard, Timothy Hutton, Frederick Elmes, Carter Burwell, Fox Articles+ Pictures, Qwerty Films (Firm), Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc

Kinsey is a portrait of a man driven to uncover the most private secrets of the nation, and journey into the mystery of human behavior. His 1948 book Sexual Behavior in the Human Male irrevocably changed American culture and created a media sensation. 1 videodisc (118 min.)

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Knights Templar c1997

Steven R Talley, Leonard Nimoy, Filmroos Inc, A & E Home Video (Firm), Arts and Entertainment Network, and New Video Group

Explore the legends and history of the Knights Templar, mysterious sword welding monks known for their fanatical courage. 1 videocassette (46 min.)

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Lancelot du lac 1995

Luc Simon, Laura Duke Condominas, Robert Bresson, Jean Yanne, and Jean-Pierre Rassam

Set in the last days of the doomed quest by Lancelot and the rest of King Arthur's knights for the Holy Grail, this is a tale of the end of the age of chivalry and the death of a dream. 1 videocassette (80 min.)

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The life and times of Sara Baartman "The Hottentot Venus" 1998

Zola Maseko, Philip Brooks, Harriet Gavshon, Phillip V Tobias, François-Xavier Fauvelle, Yvette Abrahams, Steve Martin, and Brian Daubney

A documentary film on the life of a Khoi Khoi woman who was taken from South Africa in 1810 and exhibited as a freak across Britain. The image and ideas for "The Hottentot Venus" (particularly the interest in her sexual anatomy) swept through British popular culture. A court battle waged by abolitionists to free her from her exhibitors failed. In 1814, a year before her death, she was taken to France and became the object of scientific research that formed the bedrock of European ideas about black female sexuality. 1 videocassette (52 min.)

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Light on the stones the medieval church of Vézelay 1991

Georgia Wright and Cynthia Cederroth

Intended to give students the experience of visiting a Medieval church and of hearing music contemporary with the church.  Vézelay was chosen and the script written to emphasize the difference between Romanesque and Gothic architecture, and to suggest how a rather typical plan functioned and was modified. 1 videocassette (24 min.)

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Lohengrin 1988

Richard Wagner, Brian Large, Wolfgang Weber, Cheryl Studer, Dunja Vejzovi c, Plácido Domingo, Hartmut Welker, Georg Tichy, Robert Lloyd, and Claudio Abbado

The medieval romance of the Swan Knight, who comes miraculously to the rescue of the falsely accused Elsa of Brabant is enacted against a background of chivalric and religious pageantry and made vidid by Wagner's powerful, richly scored music. 2 videocassettes (180 min.)

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Love 2003

Tracey Moffatt, Gary Hillberg, and Women Make Movies (Firm)

Clips, from chaste black-and-white Hollywood classics to more full-flooded fare from the '60s and '70s, showing women's love, lust, longing and revenge. 1 videocassette (21 min.)

MEDIA 2-7812

 

Macbeth 1987

Brian Large, Luca Ronconi, Giuseppe Verdi, Francesco Maria Piave, Goetz Rose, David Griffith, Renato Bruson, Mara Zampieri, James Morris, Dennis O'Neill, Claus Endisch, and Giuseppe Sinopoli

Shakespeare's tragedy of ambition, murder, madness and revenge in medieval Scotland as set to music by Giuseppe Verdi. 1 videocassette (150 min.)

MUSIC 217

 

Maedchen in uniform 1987

Christa Winsloe, Leontine Sagan, Hertha Thiele, and Dorothea Wieck

Living in the prison-like confines of a Nazi boarding school, a young  girl finds herself choked by the institution's strict regimentation and rigid discipline. Under the unbending rule of a matriarchal staff, she falls in love with the school's only caring teacher. When the principal finds out about the affair, her harsh punishment drives the girl to the brink of suicide. 1 videocassette (VHS) (89 min.)

MEDIA 2-347

 

The Making of a manuscript 1974

A. G Rigg, Bob Rodgers, and Carolyn Eisen

Discusses in detail the production of medieval manuscripts and how, through the centuries, many have disappeared due to poor care in preservation, fires, and other reasons. 1 videocassette (23 min.)

DANA 606

 

The man who envied women 1985

Yvonne Rainer, William Raymond, Trisha Brown, Larry Loonin, and Jackie Raymal

"With the unique style that characterizes her work, Rainer explores issues of sexuality, aging, power relations and political activism in The Man Who Envied Women. Around a familiar theme-the breakup of a marriage-Rainer constructs an honest, graceful and wickedly funny account of a self-satisfied womanizer, a man 'who knows almost too much about women.' Along the way, she reveals the oppositions we create, not only between theory and action, the conscious and the unconscious, intellect and emotion, and our personal and global concerns"--Distributor's Web site. 1 videocassette (125 min.)

MEDIA 2-5493

 

Margery Kempe 2000

Avril Benoit, Kate Gillen, David Wesley, and Madeline Jeay

Topics such as bridal mysticism are discussed, along with Kempe's pilgrimage to Jerusalem. 1 videocassette (24 min.)

MEDIA 2-3991

 

A marriage 1997

Julia Ford, Sophie Thursfield, Beth Tuckey , Susan Lee Hayward, David Bacon, Philippa Lowthorpe, and Dearbhla Molloy

In 1920, British historians broke the code in Anne Lister's journal, to discover the first pre-twentieth century written account of a sexual relationship between women. This dramatization, tells the story of her relationship with a local married woman, with whom Anne, too, considered herself married. 1 videocassette (30 min.)

MEDIA 2-5305

 

Medieval drama from sanctuary to stage  2000

Duncan Foster, Arthur Pritchard, Michael Fields, Joe Barrett, Douglas Anderson, Alexandra F Johnston, Meg Twycross, and Hildegard

"This definitive program traces the development of medieval drama, from Hildegard von Bingen's musical morality play Ordo Virtutum (The ritual of the virtues) to the seminal Everyman.  Featuring extended excerpts from these influential works, as well as from The second shepherd's play and the 1998 staging of the Mystery Cycle in York, England, the video also establishes the genre's socioreligious context."--Container. 1 videocassette (48 min.)

MEDIA 2-315

 

Medieval London 1991

Benny Green

This program is the second tape in the six part series of London: The making of a city.  It covers the rebuilding of Westminster Abbey in the Gothic style; the building of the first permanent stone bridge across the Thames; the reasons for Southwark -- London's first Suburb; the Black Death of 1348; the growth of London as Columbus' Discovery shifted the axis of power from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic; and the birth of rules governing life in the incredibly crammed and teeming city of London.  1 videocassette (ca. 20 min.)

MEDIA 2-1690

 

The Medieval manuscript art and function 1988

Johan Heestermans

Shows how medieval manuscripts came into being: how illuminations were accomplished and what materials were used, how scriptoria functioned, which titles were selected.  The program also explains the combinations of artistic talent and imagination, religious devotion, and intellectual integrity that enabled the artists and artisans of the monasteries to play so crucial a part in the survival of Western culture. 1 videocassette (30 min.)

MEDIA 2-1652

 

Medieval theater the play of Abraham and Isaac 1974

H. Kaye Dyal, Christopher Shelton, and Will Geer

Uses a medieval mystery play about Abraham and Isaac to relate medieval drama, as a means of social control, to the attitudes of the aristocracy and the religious doctrines of the church. 1 videocassette (26 min.)

DANA 1367

 

The Meiji period (1868-1910) 1989

Jean Antoine and Robert Lanchester

"The arrival of Commodore Perry in 1854 set the stage for Japan's dramatic leap from the Middle Ages into modernity.  In 1868, the last shogun gave way to a 15-year-old Emperor who dressed in Western-style clothes.  Edo became Tokyo, education became a national passion, and the dichotomy between ancient shared values and new imported styles and forms deepened."--Container. 1 videocassette (53 min.)

MEDIA 2-3238

 

Merlin, Arthur and the Holy Grail 1998

Three programs reveal the connection between the elusive Merlin, the enchanting King Arthur, and the renowned chalice used by Christ at the Last Supper. 1 videocassette (ca. 78 min.)

DANA 1144

 

Le moine et la sorcière Sorceress 1990

Suzanne Schiffman, Pamela C Berger, Annie Leibovici, George Reinhart, Tcheky Karyo, Christine Boisson, and Jean Carmet

Story of a medieval French healer and her perseverance against a righteous monk, who comes to her village looking for heretics to condemn. 1 videocassette (98 min.)

MEDIA 2-5666

 

Mother wove the morning a one-woman play 1992

Judith Montell, Gail Dolgin, and Carol Lynn Pearson

A powerful look at sixteen women throughout history, including a paleolithic woman, an Egyptian priestess, a Biblical woman, a Gnostic woman, a medieval witch, a shaker deaconess, and others whose lives dramatize the search for God the mother. 1 videocassette (ca. 135 min.)

MEDIA 2-2240

 

Ordo virtutum the ritual of the virtues 1997

Hildegard, Hans Petri, and Ferenc van Damme

The 12th century medieval Music-drama, Ordo Virtutum (The Ritual of the virtues) is arguably the oldest surviving 'Opera'.  Sung throughout to music which combines the meditational qualities of Gregorian chant with lyrical emotional expression. 1 videocassette (70 min.)

MUSIC 334

 

The origin of liturgical drama 1991

Marcy Epstein, Michael Edmunds, Nuala Fitzgerald, Diane Lynne Droste, Anne Spencer, Marian Condrashoff, and Kevin Flynn

Reproductions of medieval paintings, and quoted liturgical texts from the period are used to trace the development of liturgical drama from the 10th century to the mystery cycles of the 14th and 15th centuries. 1 videocassette (35 min.)

MEDIA 2-5718

 

The Peasants' revolt 1381 1994.

Mark Ormrod and Steve Gillham

This is the powerful story of an extraordinary episode in medieval history which reconstructs Wat Tyler's fourteenth century uprising against Richard II.  "The Peasants' Revolt" also features expert analysis by Mark Ormrod, Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of York. 1 videocassette (55 min.)

MEDIA 2-2624

 

The Peasants' revolt ; The castle 1993, 1988

Jill Sheppard and Richard Burrows

The Peasants' revolt depicts the living and working conditions of peasants in the 14th century.  The lives of the peasants are recreated by modern dramatic actors. The Castle takes the viewer on an architectural tour through English history.  The film explores what life was like in medieval castle and examines the changing role of the castle in military strategy. 1 videocassette (44 min.)

DANA 430

 

The perfumed garden 2000

Yamina Benguigui, Alain Wieder, Philippe Dupuis-Mendel, Naima Alaoui, Mohamed Lasly, Sept/Arte (Firm), Dominant 7 (Firm), Bandits Longs (Firm), and First Run/Icarus Films

Through interviews with men and women of all ages and classes this film explores the myths and realities of sensuality and sexuality in Arab society, a world of taboos, of erotic literature and films. 1 videocassette (56 min.)

MEDIA 2-6332

 

Printing transforms knowledge 1986

James Burke

Describes the transformation of the medieval world, which had to rely largely on memorized knowledge and the spoken word, when Gutenberg discovered printing. Covers the increase in literacy, the secularization of learning, and the acceleration and systematization of knowledge. Also discusses the contribution that printing made to the Protestant Reformation and the beginnings of nationalism. 1 videocassette (52 min.)

MEDIA 2-5123

 

The Psychomachia by Prudentius the battle of the human soul 199-

Malcolm Cobley, A. G Rigg, and Prudentius

The Psychomachia was written by the 4th century Spanish-Latin writer Prudentius, and is one of the first full personification allegories of Western literature.  It deals with the medieval belief of the personification of man's virtues and sins.  In this film it is retold in pictures from the eleventh century Anglo-Saxon manuscript Cotton Cleopatra C.VIII, now in the British Museum Library. 1 videocassette (22 min.)

MEDIA 2-5722

 

Quills 2001

Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, Joaquin Phoenix, Michael Caine, Philip Kaufman, Julia Chasman, Nick Wechsler, Fox Articles+ Pictures, Industry Entertainment, Walrus & Associates, Hollywood Partners, and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc

History's most infamous sexual adventurer lives in a madhouse, where a beautiful laundry maid helps him smuggle his erotic stories to the printer. 1 videocassette (124 min.)

MEDIA 2-7191

 

Rites 1991

Penny Dedman and Debra Michaels

This program explores the custom of female circumcision which has been commonplace throughout history and is still practiced in many cultures. It discusses the efforts of women throughout the world to stop the practice. 1 videocassette (52 min.)

MEDIA 2-2591

 

Romance and reality; Man, the measure of all things 198-?

Michael Gill, Kenneth Clark, and Ann Turner

Romance and reality surveys the development of Western Civilization during the 13th century.  It depicts a world of chivalry, courtesy and romance as evidenced in the emergence of courtly love as the ultimate in aesthetic and ascetic devotion.  In Man, the measure of all things, Kenneth Clark discusses the early Renaissance by examining the Art and civilization of Florence, Urkino, and Mantra.  He presents works by Botticelli, Masaccio, Bellini, Giorgione, Van Eyck, Alberti and others. 1 videocassette (100 min.)

DANA. MEDIA 186 2-2150

 

The Saint and the scholar 1998

Christopher Frayling, Christopher Salt, Luke Williams, Aidan McCann, and Karen Hayes

Rapid change in 12th century Europe from rural to urban styles led to an intellectual crisis of how best to come to God: through mysticism or rational analysis. At the center of this crisis stood Peter Abelard, radical philosopher-theologian and developer of dialectial scholasticism, and Bernard of Clairvaux, Cistercian monk and mystic. The conflict between them caused Abelard to be accused of heresy by the Council of Sens in 1142. 1 videocassette (49 min.)

MEDIA 2-1775

 

Sex in a cold climate 2003

Stephen Humphries, Dorvia Kirwan, Testimony Films, Channel Four (Great Britain), and Cinema Guild

This film follows the stories of four young women, detained between the 1940s and the 1960s, in Magdalen Asylums, run by corrupt and sadistic Catholic nuns in Ireland. The purpose of the asylums was to correct the supposed sexual deviance of young women. 1 videocassette (50 min.)

MEDIA 2-6504

 

Sexual orientation issues in the U.S.A  1993

Tony Labriola, J. Q Adams, Vernon Huls, Jovita Baber, Robert Schwitz, and Allan Shore

Part one talks about homosexuality, the difficulties of gays and lesbians in establishing open relationships, homophobia, and violence against homosexuals. Part two discusses the experiences of individuals who were denied equality because of their sexual preference and specifically "The Forgotten Boy Scouts," an organization of individuals expelled from scouting because of their sexual orientation. 2 videocassette (120 min.)

DANA. DANA 226 cassette 1 226 cassette 2

 

Sexual stereotypes in media superman and the bride 2004

Gavin Richards, Stephanie Turner, Charlie Stafford, Julie Covington, Jayne Meadows, Thames Television, ltd, and Films for the Humanities (Firm)

This program explores the history of sexual stereotypes as presented in the media.  Film clips, television advertisements and sitcoms, and so-called documentaries from the 1940s, 50s, and 60s show men as domineering masters, and women as their doting subordinates.  As a classroom teaching tool, the program encourages discussions regarding the media's continuing role in reinforcing sexual stereotypes, as well as the ongoing sexual biases that nurture them. 1 videodisc (35 min.)

MEDIA 10-256

 

Shadows of forgotten ancestors Tini zabutykh predkiv 1994

Sergei Paradzhanov, Mykhailo Kotsiubyns kyi, Ivan Chendei, Ivan Mykolaichuk, Larysa Kadochnikova, and T Bestaieva

The heartbreaking story of Ivan and Marichka, whose love blooms, only to brutally die, in the remote Carpathian Mountains of medieval Russia. 1 videocassette (99 min.)

DANA 540

 

She drank, she swore, she courted girls --she even chewed tobacco : passing women in 19th century America 1983

Liz Stevens, Estelle B Freedman, and Allan Bérubé

Uses archival photographs and original artwork, with voiceover narrative, to illustrate the history of women who "passed" as men in mid-to-late 19th and early 20th century America. They passed for a variety of reasons, including sexual orientation, "men's wages", and political opportunities. 1 videocassette (33 min.)

MEDIA 2-5276

 

Simone de Beauvoir 1989

Josée Dayan, Malka Robowska, and Simone de Beauvoir

A unique opportunity to get to know de Beauvoir as she speaks candidly about her relatioship with Sartre, her friendship with Camus, the evolution of her political views, her sympathy with the student revolution of 1968, as well as her views on feminism, abortion, sexual fidelity, aging, and death. 1 videocassette (110 min.)

MEDIA 2-843

 

The Skin of our teeth ; The Great thaw  198-?

Michael Gill, Kenneth Clark, Peter Montagnon, and Edwin Astley

The Skin of our teeth defines civilization and gives a synoptic view of the thousand years between the fall of Rome an the rise of the great Gothic period.  It compares and contrasts high and primitive arts as embodied in the head of Apollo Belvedere and an African tribal mask.  The second film, The great thaw, surveys the development of Western civilization during the 12th century, which ranged from restless curiosity to system and order, as evidenced in the construction of the Abbey of Cluny, the work of Abelard and St. Thomas Aquinas, and the rebuilding of Chartres Cathedral. 1 videocassette (100 min.)

DANA 185

 

St. Clare of Assisi 2000

Avril Benoit, Kate Gillen, David Wesley, and Madeline Jeay

Provides a biography of Clare's life along with an in-depth analysis of Clare's relationship to the Church and to her peer St. Francis. 1 videocassette (24 min.)

MEDIA 2-3778

 

To syngen and to playe music and instruments in Chaucer's day 1973

Bill Somerville and David N Klausner

Descriptive study of some of the styles of music and of instruments common to the late fourteenth century. 1 videocassette (25 min.)

MUSIC 403

 

Tools in medieval life 1981

Bert S Hall, Robin P Healey, and Michael Edmund

Examines the tools used in the Middle Ages and their impact on the life of the period including the technologies of agriculture, textile production, clocks, mills, mining, transportation, and painting. 1 videocassette (30 min.)

DANA 604

 

The Traders 1993, 1988

Jill Sheppard and Richard Burrows

Uses sheep and the wool trade to demonstrate the importance of trade in the medieval period.  Shows the relationship between the rural Cotswold and Bruges, Belgium. 1 videocassette (22 min.)

DANA 432

 

The Viking sagas 1997

Ralf Moeller, Ingibjörg Stefansdöttir, Sven-Ole Thorsen, Michael Chapman, Dale Herd, Paul R Gurian, New Line Cinema Corporation, New Line Productions, Inc, and New Line Home Video (Firm)

Ralf Moeller is battling the barbaric forces of darkness. Only the protection of the magical ghost-sword, the teachings of a legendary warrior and the love of a beautiful woman can hope to sustain him in his struggle for victory, revenge and redemption. 1 videocassette (83 min.)

MEDIA 2-7339

 

Vikings and Normans 1989

Rafael Cortes and Robert Lanchester

This program covers the Viking sea proness, Viking influences in England and Scotland, and Viking explorations;  trade with the Far East 300 years before Marco Polo and the discovery of America 500 years before Columbus; the Viking presence as far as the Black Sea; encounters between Slavs and Vikings. 1 videocassette (52 min.)

DANA. MEDIA 196 2-3230

 

Visions of prophecy 2000

Avril Benoit, Kate Gillen, David Wesley, and Madeleine Jeay

"Examines the options available to women living in the 12th through 15th centuries and how some subverted traditional roles in order to discover and express their own freedom, dignity, and power"--Container. 1 videocassette (24 min.)

MEDIA 2-2648

The weddynge of Sir Gawen and Dame Ragnell a Middle English romance 1999

Linda Marie Zaerr

The video provides a valuable classroom resource by capturing the medieval performance tradition completely in Middle English, but in a format students will readily understand. In this analog of Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Tale, Zaerr uses costumes and a beautiful outdoor set to enhance the storytelling. 1 videocassette (45 min.)

MEDIA 2-5271

 

The Western tradition 1989

Eugen Joseph Weber

Program 19 discusses the growth of a new social order as Europe tries to restructure with the merging of the Roman and German societies.  Society begins to divide into peasant, clergy and noble classes.  Program 20 examines how society stabilizes into the feudal order of nobles to protect property and people, cleric to protect their souls, and the peasants to provide food for everyone. 1 videocassette (55 min.)

DANA 580

 

Where the heart roams 1987, 1994

Paul George Csicsery

Meet Barbara Cartland, Janet Dailey, Jude Deveraux, Rebecca Brandewyne and more in this look into the world of romance writers and their fans.  Authors and editors debate about sexual content of romantic novels, types of characters, and even how to write about kissing. 1 videocassette (81 min.)

MEDIA 2-3386

 

Will we ever learn? 1992

Aviva Ziegler, Janet Bell, and Norman Swan 

The final part of a four part series investigating the relationship between history, destiny and disease. Part 4 draws together ideas from the series to show that we do not easily learn from history or the available information around us.  Examines similarities between the current AIDS outbreak and a Syphilis outbreak in the 16th century.  Also looks at killers such as tobacco, excess salt and fat and concludes that many diseases could be eradicated if we had the will. 1 videocassette (52 min.)

MEDIA 2-2865

 

Women in the middle ages 1992

Gail Singer, Amy Bodman, Jacqueline Murray , and Gale Garnett

How did women live in Medieval times?  What did they do?  This video focuses on their daily lives as administrators, as nurses and wives, and as women in religious life.  Uses excerpts from period texts accompanied by music and sound effects to vividly illustrate the viewpoint of both noble and peasant during the period 1150-1400 A.D. 1 videocassette (22 min.)

DANA 603

 

The women's kingdom 2006

Xiaoli Zhou, Brent E Huffman, German Camera Productions, and Women Make Movies (Firm)

"Keepers of the last matriarchal societies in the world, Mosuo women in a remote area of southwest China live beyond the strictures of mainstream Chinese culture -- enjoying great freedoms and carrying heavy responsibilities. Filmmaker Xiaoli Zhou takes a fascinating journey into the heart of The Women's Kingdom to discover a society of powerful women whose future is on the brink of change." -- from the publisher's description. 1 videodisc (22 min.)

MEDIA 10-1145

 

Wonders of the African world with Henry Louis Gates, Jr 1999

Henry Louis Gates, Nick Godwin, and Helena Appio

Documentary film presents Henry Louis Gates, Jr. on the journey from Zanzibar to Timbuktu, the Nile River Valley to Great Zimbabwe, the slave coast of Guinea to the medieval monasteries of Ethiopia in search of the lost wonders of the African world. 3 videocassettes (ca. 360 mins.)

MEDIA                     DANA 2-5253 -  2-5255       3 cassettes    1781 3 cassettes

 

The world of the Lindisfarne Gospels  c2004

Michelle Brown, British Library, and Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)

Presents the Lindisfarne Gospels in their historical and cultural context, filmed on location in England and Ireland. 1 videodisc (46 min., 45 sec.)

MEDIA 10-692

 

WR-- mysteries of the organism 2007

Duesan Makavejev, Milena Draviac, Jagoda Kaloper, Ivica Vidoviac, Zoran Radmiloviac, Tuli Kupferberg, Neoplanta Film, Janus Films, Cinema 5, and Criterion Collection (Firm)

This documentary-fiction film begins as an investigation into the life and work of controversial psychologist and philosopher Wilhelm Reich and then explodes into a free-form narrative of a beautiful young Slavic girl's sexual liberation. Banned upon its release in the director's homeland, this art-house smash is both whimsical and bold in its blending of politics and sexuality. 1 videodisc (85 min.)

MEDIA 10-1506