Monarchy

October 5, 2011
Monarchy with David Starkey (Set 1)
Call Number: DVD01045
by:  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.; Acorn Media (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher:  Silver Spring, MD : Acorn Media, ©2006.
Notes: Original Release Date: 18 October 2004 (UK). Music by Andy Price. Hosted by David Starkey. 2 videodiscs (total running time: 317 min.) Volume 1. Episodes 1-3; Volume 2. Episodes 4-6. Acorn Media from the BBC.
Summary: 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.
 
Also see Monarchy set 2 on DVD01046
 
OCLC #: 70915885
Added: October 5, 2011
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Pour La Suite Du Monde

April 27, 2011
Pour La Suite Du Monde or For Those Who Will Follow
Call Number: VHS01477
by:  Michel Brault, Marcel Carrière; National Film Board of Canada 
Format: VHS
Language: French
Publisher: National Film Board of Canada .
Notes: Originally released in 1963 (105  min);
Summary: [?]. 
OCLC #: [?]
Added: April 27, 2011
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L’Acadie, L’Acadie

L’Acadie, L’Acadie or Acadia Acadia?!?
Call Number: VHS01475
by:  National Film Board of Canada
 Format: VHS
Language: [?]
Publisher: National Film Board of Canada.
Notes: Originally released in 1971 (117  min);
Summary: [?]. 
OCLC #: [?]
Added: April 27, 2011
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Le Sel de la Semaine – Jack Kerouac Interview

April 26, 2011
Le Sel de la Semaine – Interview with Jack Kerouac
Call Number: VHS01668
by: Montréal, Québec : Société Radio-Canada, [Sept., 30th, 1998].
Format: VHS
Language: French
Publisher: CBC Radio Canada, Archives Dept., Montreal, Quebec: 1998.
Notes: Originally broadcast in 1967 on the television program, “Le Sel de la semaine”(20 min).
Summary: Fernand Séguin interviews Jack Kérouac about his travels, his childhood, and his writing and inspiration. OCLC #: [?]
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Photographies

April 24, 2011
Photographies
Call Number: VHS01665
by: Herménégilde Chiasson; Diane Poitras; Office national du film du Canada. Studio documentaire Acadie. Programme français.;
Format: VHS
Language: French
Publisher: [Montréal] : L’Office, ©1999.
Notes: Originally released in 1999 (48 min).
Summary:Very popular social activity, photography has also become, over the years, a form of communication of the twentieth century. Eleven Canadian photographers are state of their journey, their research and ideas behind their work. Reflection on the beauty and meaning of images, this documentary allows us to admire quantity of works of renowned artists on the international scene and representative of art photography in Canada and the wide variety of practices and techniques found there.
OCLC #: 49881079
Added: April 24, 2011
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Tu as crié

Tu as Crie (“You Have Cried Out” or Let Me Go)
Call Number: VHS01664
by: Anne-Claire Poirier; Marie Claire Blais; National Film Board of Canada.;
Format: VHS
Language: French
Publisher: Montréal, Que. : National Film Board of Canada, ©1998.
Notes: Originally released in 1999 (98 min)
Summary:In this video, director Anne Claire Poirier enters the world of Montreal’s street people – young drug addicts, prostitutes and people living with AIDS – to reflect upon the events leading to her daughter Yanne’s tragic death. Tu as crié Let me go is one mother’s plea for society to understand the world of drugs and prostitution that draws in so many young people – and to accept some responsibility for the existence of that world.
OCLC #: 48439289.
Added: April 24, 2011
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Barack Obama

April 22, 2011

Barack Obama

Call Number: DVD00659

by Maurice Bisaillon; Samantha Sanders; Julie Trueman; Rodd Houston; Towers Productions, Inc.; Biography Channel (Firm); Arts and Entertainment Network.; New Video Group.;
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: [New York, NY] : A & E Television Networks : Distributed by New Video, [2008], ©2005.
Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 2008 (47 min). Black and White and color.
Summary:Follow Obama through his teenage struggles for self-identity, his student days at Columbia University and Harvard Law School, and his political career in Chicago. Go behind the scenes of Obama’s extraordinarily successful presidential campaign and his journey towards the 2008 Democratic Convention.
OCLC #: 232161697
Added: April 22, 2011
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Gimme Shelter

April 21, 2011
Gimme Shelter – The Rolling Stones
Call Number: DVD00869
by David Maysles; Albert Maysles; Charlotte Zwerin; Ellen Giffard; Rolling Stones.; Maysles Films.; Janus Films.; Criterion Collection (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher:   [New York] : Criterion Collection, 2000.
Notes: Film originally released, c1970 (91 min). Features: never-before-seen performances of the Rolling Stones at Madison Square Garden in 1969, including “Little Queenie,” “Oh Carol,” and “Prodigal Son”; backstage outtakes; audio commentary by directors Albert Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin, and collaborator Stanley Goldstein; excerpts from KSAN Radio’s Altamont wrap-up, recorded December 7, 1969; Altamont stills gallery; original and re-release theatrical trailers; filmographies for Maysles Films and Charlotte Zwerin; restoration demonstration.
Program notes (43 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.) inserted in container.
Summary: A documentary on the Rolling Stones’ 1969 American concert tour and a concert at Altamont Speedway where security guards killed an audience member. Includes appearances by Ike and Tina Turner, Jefferson Airplane, and the Flying Burrito Brothers. Contains: Jumping Jack flash ; (I can’t get no) satisfaction ; You gotta move ; Wild horses ; Brown sugar ; Love in vain (Rolling Stones) –I’ve been loving you too long (Ike & Tina Turner) –Honky tonk woman ; Street fighting man (Rolling Stones) –Six days on the road (Flying Burrito Brothers) –The other side of this life (Jefferson Airplane) –Sympathy for the devil ; Under my thumb ; Street fighting man ; Gimme shelter (Rolling Stones) –The making of Little Queenie –Little Queenie ; Oh Carol ; Prodigal son (The Rolling Stones) –Backstage with Mick, Ike and Tina.
OCLC #: 56197065
Added: April 21, 2011
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Maryland Deathfest: The Movie

April 18, 2011
Maryland Deathfest: The Movie
Call Number: IND00010
by: David Hall; Ryan Taylor; Evan Harting;
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Handshake Productions;
Notes: Originally released in 2010 
Summary: After 8 years, over 200 different bands representing 20 countries, and several venue changes, the Maryland Deathfest (or “MDF” for short) has developed into the premier metal festival in the United States, and one of the most talked about festivals internationally.
OCLC #: [?] additional information from production website
Added: April 18, 2011
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Quatre femmes d’Égypte (Four Women of Egypt)

April 13, 2011

Quatre femmes d’Égypte (Four Women of Egypt)
Call Number: VHS01655
by Tahani Rached; Eric Michel; National Film Board of Canada.;
Format: VHS
Language: French
Publisher: [Montréal] : Office national du film du Canada, ©1997.
Notes: (90 min) This moving film won the public award and the prize for feature-length documentary at the International Documentary Film Festival in Odivelas, Portugal, and the audience award and the prize for best documentary at the Arab Screen Independent Film Festival in London, England. It also screened at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1998.
Summary: How can people get along when their beliefs collide? Tahani Rached probes this question in Quatre femmes d’Égypte (Four Women of Egypt), a portrait of four friends who couldn’t be more different. Muslim, Christian, or non-religious, they all love their country but have radically different visions of what that society should be, ranging from a secular or socialist state to an Islamic one. This moving film won the public award and the prize for feature-length documentary at the International Documentary Film Festival in Odivelas, Portugal, and the audience award and the prize for best documentary at the Arab Screen Independent Film Festival in London, England. It also screened at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1998.
OCLC #: 437575653
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Warrior songs

April 10, 2011

Warrior Songs – King Gesar
Call Number: VHS01654
by Tom Perlmutter; Renée Blanchar; Cécile Chevrier,Yo Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax, Peter Serkin, National Film Board of Canada.;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Publisher: Montréal : National Film Board of Canada, ©1997.
Notes: English original documentary produced by Great Eastern Cine Productions Ltd., in association with Les Productions du Phare-Est inc., in co-production with the NFB (English Program/Documentary – East – Halifax), with the participation of Telefilm Canada, in association with Bravo!, The Nova Scotia Film Development Corporation, Film New Brunswick, Vision TV, CFCF-12 Montreal and with the financial support of the Cable Production Fund and Rogers Telefund;Based on: King Gesar / by Peter Lieberson and Douglas Penick.
Summary: The legendary warrior-king Gesar of Ling is brought to life in this operatic interpretation of an ancient Tibetan legend. Music, dance and storytelling are blended to recount his battle against demons threatening to enslave humanity.
OCLC #: 631987634
Added: April 13, 2011
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What does she want : women with a past

April 7, 2011
What does she want : women with a past

Call Number: VHS01649

by Lyn Blumenthal, Maureen Clavel, Hannah Alderfer, Barbara Kruger, Lynn Tillman, Hene Seglove, Mindy Faber, Ardele Lister, Brana Miller, Fronza Woods, Max Almy, Willard Van Dyke
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: New York, NY : Video Data Bank, ©1987.
Notes: Originally released in 1987 (72mins.);” What does she want ; program six: We are not sugar and spice and everything nice” contains 8 shorts from a larger feminist project.
Summary: “We are not sugar and spice and everything nice” takes us from teenaged girls with their mothers, to a teenaged girl who leaves home; from girls constructing themselves in the “image” of women, to women deciding on a different image; and from the family that stays together, to the couple that is dissolving its marital bond, revealing many different views of relatedness and relationships.
Includes: Hene Seglove’s Mom Tapes (1972, b&w, 1 min); Mindy Faber’s Suburban Queen (1985, color, 7 min); Ardele Lister’s Split (1981, color, 20 min); Brana Miller’s That’s It Forget It (1985, color, 5 min); Fronza Wood’s Killing Time (1978, b&w, 9 min); Chevrolet Impala Commercial (1950, b&w, 2 min); Max Almy’s Modern Marriage (1979, color, 3 min); Willard Van Dyke’s This Charming Couple (1950, b&w, 22 min).
OCLC #: 317400053
Added: April 7, 2011
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Le 7e voyage de La Mouette

April 6, 2011
Le 7e Voyage de La Mouette or “The Seagull’s 7th Tour”
Call Number: VHS01648
by  François Aubry; Louise Dupont; Philippe d’ Hauterive; Jacques Turgeon; Office national du film du Canada. Programme du Québec.
Format: VHS
Language:  French
Publisher:[Montréal] : Office national du film du Canada, ©2001.
Notes: Originally released in 2001 (52 mins.);
Summary: This sensitive and beautiful French-Canadian documentary is set along Canada’s beautiful coast in Moyenne-Côte-Nord, where Louise and Philippe along with their three sons, Simon, Felix, and Etienne have fallen on hard times and have just been evicted from their home. Meanwhile, in different part of the country, The Seagull Drama Troupe is setting out on their 7th Canadian tour, this time by way of the maritimes along Newfoundland. On one of their stops in a small sea village, the Seagull troupe is joined by the d’Hauterive family who used to be traveling balladeers and marionette players. As the Seagull Drama Troupe and friends travel across the gorgeous Canadian countryside making music and art, they meet Louise, Philippe and sons.  Both the down-and-out family and the eclectic troupe will be changed forever on the extraordinary journey of the Seagull’s 7th Canadian tour!
OCLC #: [?]
Added: April 6, 2011
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Une histoire de femmes

Une histoire de femmesor A Wives’ Tale.
Call Number: VHS01642
by Sophie Bissonnette; Martin Duckworth; Joyce Rock; Ateliers audio-visuels du Québec.;
Format: VHS
Language:  French, English subtitles
Publisher: [Montréal] : Ateliers Audio-visuels du Québec, 1980.
Notes: Originally released in 1980 (73 mins.);
Summary: Documentary account of the role played by the wives of the striking INCO workers in the 10-month 1978-79 strike in Sudbury, Ontario, and of the conflicts and tensions between the Wives Supporting the Strike committee and the union.
OCLC #: 222604068.
dded: April 6, 2011
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Le grand remue-ménage

Le grand remue-ménage or The Big Sweep.
Call Number: VHS01641
by Sylvie Groulx; Francine Allaire; Ginette Bergeron; Productions de l’envol.; Centre d’essai Conventum.;
Format: VHS
Language:  French, English subtitles
Publisher: [Montréal] : Cinéma libre, 1989.
Notes: Originally broadcast in 1978 (70 mins.);
Summary: Under the attitudes and words of Gogui colores, 9, and Champ, 29, hiding the transmission belts that bring men and women conform to roles that society expects of them.
OCLC #: 319809711.
dded: April 6, 2011
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Divine carcasse

April 3, 2011
Divine carcasse.
Call Number: VHS01636
by Dominique Loreau; Etienne de Grammont; Phillippe Woitchik; Alphonse Atacolodjou; Simonet Biokou; Fidele Gbegnon; Szymon Zaleski; Underworld Films (Firm); California Newsreel (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language:  French, English subtitles
Publisher: San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, ©1998.
Notes: Originally released in 1998 (60 mins.);
Summary: “Divine Carcasse is an unusual hybrid, a half fictional, half ethnographic film. It is a study in cultural contrast, between a desacralized, materialistic European view of reality and an animist, pre-industrial African one. Belgian director Dominique Loreau has described her film as an encounter with another culture, another way of relating to the world, objects and death, one that challenges our own relationships to the world”–From the California Newsreel Web site.
OCLC #: 42688486.
dded: April 3, 2011
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Cinema in Senegal

Cinema in Senegal.
Call Number: VHS01634
by Larry Kardish; Paulin Soumanou Vieyra; Ousmane Sembène; Stephan Chodorov; Roger Englander; Camera Three Productions.; Creative Arts Television (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language:  French, English Voiceover
Publisher: Kent, Conn. : Creative Arts Television, [19967].
Notes: Originally released in 1978 (27 mins.);
Summary: Following a five week program at the Museum of Modern Art on film makers in Senegal, Larry Kardish interviews Senegalese film directors Paulin Soumanou Vieyra and Ousmane Sembene on the growth of the number of films from Senegal, the production of these films, and cultural influences. Includes clips from their films to illustrate points.
OCLC #: 36217194.
dded: April 3, 2011
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Documentary Masterpieces By John Grierson: Five Documentaries Circa 1931 to 1960

April 1, 2011
Documentary Masterpieces By John Grierson: Five Documentaries Circa 1931 to 1960
Call Number: VHS01631
by John Grierson; Robert Joseph Flaherty; Len Lye; Julian Huxley; Hilary Harris; Gaumont British Picture Corp.; Templar Film Studios.; Great Britain. Post Office. Film Unit.; New Era Films, Ltd.; Treasure Chest (Firm); Contemporary Films (Firm); Clyde Shipbuilders’ Association.; Films of Scotland (Organization); Hollywood’s Attic (Firm;
Format: VHS
Language:  English
Publisher:Burbank, Calif. : Hollywood’s Attic, 1996.
Notes: Originally released between 1931-1960(Aprox. 75 mins.); In Black and White and Color
Summary: A compilation of documentary films. Industrial Britain examines Britain’s factories and mines during the early 1930s. A colour box is an experimental film in which abstract images dance across the screen to Latin music. Granton trawler is about fishermen engaged in dragnet fishing off the coast of Scotland. The private lives of the gannets is a study of the behaviour patterns and lives of a bird colony of gannets situated on Grassholm Island, Wales. Seawards the great ships examines the Clyde River in Scotland to observe men assembling materials, constructing, and launching a variety of vessels.
OCLC #: 40795621
dded: April 1, 2011
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September 1939

September 1939
Call Number: VHS01629
by Fredrick Gavsie; Frank Willis; Video Images (Firm); Zodiak Films;
Format: VHS
Language:  English
Publisher:  Sandy Hook, Conn. : Video Images, 1985.
Notes: Originally released in 1961(Aprox. 60 mins.); Black andWhite
Summary: Documentary of the Nazi attack of Poland in September, 1939, the Polish surrender, and the beginning of World War II.
OCLC #: 19997276
Added: April 1, 2011
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Le sang des bêtes

Blood of the Beasts
Call Number: VHS01628
by Georges Franju;
Format: VHS
Language:  French
Publisher:  [USA] : Mad Phat, [2003?]
Notes: Originally released in 1949(Aprox. 22 mins.);
Summary: An early example of ultra-realism, this movie contrasts the quiet, bucolic life in the outskirts of Paris with the harsh, gory conditions inside the nearby slaughterhouses. Describes the fate of the animals and that of the workers in graphic detail.
OCLC #: 318617730
Added: April 1, 2011
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