Video List in Alphabetical Order Department of History # Title of Video Description Producer/Dir Year 532 1984 Who controls the past controls the future Istanb ul Int. 1984 Film 540 12 Years a Slave In 1841, Northup an accomplished, free citizen of New Dolby 2013 York, is kidnapped and sold into slavery. Stripped of his identity and deprived of dignity, Northup is ultimately purchased by ruthless plantation owner Edwin Epps and must find the strength to survive. Approx. 134 mins., color. 460 4 Months, 3 Weeks and Two college roommates have 24 hours to make the IFC Films 2 Days 235 500 Nations Story of America’s original inhabitants; filmed at actual TIG 2004 locations from jungles of Central American to the Productions Canadian Artic. Color; 372 mins. 166 Abraham Lincoln (2 This intimate portrait of Lincoln, using authentic stills of Simitar 1994 tapes) the time, will help in understanding the complexities of our Entertainment 16th President of the United States. (94 min.) 402 Abe Lincoln in Illinois “Handsome, dignified, human and moving. WB 2009 (DVD) 430 Afghan Star This timely and moving film follows the dramatic stories Zeitgest video 2009 of your young finalists—two men and two very brave women—as they hazard everything to become the nation’s favorite performer. By observing the Afghani people’s relationship to their pop culture. Afghan Star is the perfect window into a country’s tenuous, ongoing struggle for modernity. What Americans consider frivolous entertainment is downright revolutionary in this embattled part of the world. Approx. 88 min. Color with English subtitles 369 Africa 4 DVDs This epic series presents Africa through the eyes of its National 2001 Episode 1 Episode people, conveying the diversity and beauty of the land and Geographic 5 the compelling personal stories of the people who shape Episode 2 Episode its future. 6 Approx. 60 min. per episode. Color Episode 3 Episode 7 Episode 4 Episode 8 322 Africa Mia (DVD) A compelling testament to a handful of out-cast National Film 2002 women Network committed to live independently – women determined not (NFM) only to survive, but to create a community for themselves, and more importantly, to guarantee the livelihood of their children. 365 Africa the Story of a Eight pro grams span th e years from early civilizations and R.M. Arts 1984 Continent centur ies of slavery to colonial rule and independence. Program 1 Archival film, interviews, eyewitness accounts, and Program 2 dramatic reconstructions emphasize the achievements Program 5 of the African people and the importance of their story. Program 6 Approx. 57 min. per program. Color. 367 Africans (The) 2DVDs Take a journey to 16 African countries to examine Annenberg 1986 Program 1 Program major Media 6 influences on this complex continent: indigenous heritage, Program 2 Program Western culture, and religions. Discover the rich diversity of Africa and confront the problems that have 7 from diff erent forms of government. Program 3 Program 8 Program 4 Program 9 Program 5 374 African World (3 Most of Africa’s rich history has been forgotten by the PBS Home 2000 DVD’s) outside world, overshadowed by images of war, poverty Video 1. Black Kingdoms of the and famine. Now Harvard University professor Henry Nile Louis Gates, Jr. takes a fresh look at the history of the 2. The Swahili Coast continent. In a series of engaging personal journeys on 3. The Slave the trail of great civilizations, cities and centers of Kingdoms learning 4. The Holy Land established long before the arrival of Europeans, he 5. The Road to reveals an Africa most people never knew existed. Timbuktu Approx. 5.5 hours Color 6. Lost Cities of the South 254 After StoneWall The sequel to Before Stonewall, chronicles the history of First Run 2005 lesbian and gay life from the riots of Stonewall to the end Features of the century. Narrated by Melissa Etheridge, it captures the hard work, struggles, tragic defeats and exciting victories experienced since then. It explores how AIDS literally changed the direction of the movement. (88 181 Against the Odds: The Tells how b lack a rtists triumphed over formidable odds. PBS 1995 Artists of the Harlem The period of the 1920s and ‘30s known as the Harlem Renaissance (VHS/DVD) Renaissance encompassed an extraordinary outburst of creativity by African-American visual artists. Racial prejudice & segregation, however, not only kept them out of the mainstream museums & galleries, but threatened the very core of their personal artistic expression. (60 minutes, color) 49 Alexander Nevsky A fusion of image and music, this film depicts Nevsky Sergei 1938 leading the Russians triumphantly in battle against the Eisenstein Germans 215 All Quiet on the Set during WWI, the story follows young German recruits Lewis 1930 Western Front from idealism to disillusionment with the war. Best Milestone Picture, 1929-30. B&W. 132 mins. 288 All the Mornings of the In the dazzling tradition of Amadeus, All the Mornings of Touchstone World (VHS) the World is a seductive tale of music and passion set in Home provocative 17th century France. Brimming with video romance, lust, desire, devotion, revenge and intrigue, it’s the fascinating story of a reclusive composer and his two beautiful daughters, whose lives are forever changed by a flamboyant young student. See for yourself why critics and audiences alike are applauding this magnificent motion picture and celebrated winner of 7 Cesar Awards, including Best Picture! Approx. 110 min. Color 304 All The President’s In the Watergate Building, lights go on and four Warner 1976 Men (DVD) burglars Brothers are caught in the act. That night triggered revelations that drove a U.S. President from office. Washington reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein grabbed the story and 129 Amelia Earnhart The stor y of th is gr eat female p ioneer of aviation. Nancy Porter 1993 437 Amandla! A Revolution in four-part Harmony. Tells the story of K’Wela 2003 black South African Freedom music and the central role Productions it played against apartheid. The first film to specifically consider the music that sustained and galvanized black South Africans for more than 40 years. Amandla’s focus is on the struggle’s spiritual dimension, as articulated and embodied in song. 576 American Sniper The mission is to protect his brothers in arms Warner 2014 while being a prime target of insurgents. Despite Pictures the danger, as well as the toll on his family at home, Chris serves through four harrowing tours of duty in Iraq, personifying the spirit of the SEAL creed to “leave no one behind.” But upon returning to his wife, Taya, and the kids, Chris finds that it is the war he can’t leave behind. 516 America Before History books traditionally depict the pre-Columbus National 2009 Columbus Americas as a pristine wilderness where small native Geographic villages lived in harmony with nature. But scientific evidence tells a very different story: When Columbus stepped ashore in 1492, millions of people were already living there. America wasn’t exactly a “New World,” but a very old one whose inhabitants had built a vast infrastructure of cities, orchards, canals and causeways. But after Columbus set foot in the Americas, an endless wave of explorers, conquistadors and settlers arrived, and with each of their ships came a Noah’s Ark of plants, animals—and disease. In the first 100 years of contact, entire civilizations were wiped out and the landscape was changed forever. Approx. 90 minutes 143 American and Lewis Critically acclaimed documentary which portrays the life Nina 1984 Hine and times of America’s pioneer social photographer. Rosenblum He recorded the development of Industrial America, with specific attention to the 14 million men, women, and children that poured through Ellis island to join the industrial work force. 37 American Cowboy A documentary on the life of the American cowboy on the 1991 Western frontier. The presentation discusses Native American relations as well as the Hollywood glamorization of the cowboy. 421 American Idealist In the shadow of the war in Vietnam and assassinations PBS 2002 (Sargent Shriver) and rebellion at home. Sargent Shriver launched a string of social inventions and arguably touched more lives than any leader since Franklin D. Roosevelt. 247 Amistad Based on a true story, the movie chronicles the incredible DreamWorks 1997 journey of a group of enslaved Africans who overtake Home their captor’s ship and attempt to return to their beloved Entertainment homeland. They are brought to the US and charged with murder. 543 Andrew Marr This boxed set contains The History of Modern Britain, a BBC 2009 Collection BAFTA-winning account of the events that have shaped ND IT’S THE 2 our lives since the end of the Second World War and REGION The Making of Modern Britain, in which Andrew Marr considers the birth of the modern era in the tumultuous first half of the 20th Century. 418 Animated & Soviet From the 1920s to the 1980s, the Soviet regime ordered Jove Films 2006 Propaganda the production of dozens of animated propaganda films. 4 (DVD’s) Their target audience was the Soviet Union itself, and their goal was to win over the hearts and minds of the Soviet people. From the October Revolution to Perestroika While many of these films are sharply anti-American, 1. American anti- Capitalist, and anti-Fascist, they combine with their Imperialists harsh political themes a striking originality and beauty in 2. Fascist graphic design that is reminiscent of amours Russian posts Barbarians art from the 1920’s. 3. Capitalist Sharks 2 hours documentary and 6 hours animated 4. Onward to the Shining Future: Communism 86 And The Band Played Based on Randy Shilts’ best-selling book about the HBO On scientific discovery of the virus which causes AIDS (copy) 395 An American in Paris (2 Gene Kelly, producer Arthur Freed, director Turner 2008 DVD’s) Vincente Minnelli and a skilled production team Entertainment 1.