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Filmmaking and Film Studies Libraries FILMMAKING AND FILM STUDIES The Media and Reserve Library, located in the lower level of the west wing, has over 9,000 videotapes, DVDs and audiobooks covering a multitude of subjects. For more information on these titles, consult the Libraries' online catalog. 025 Sunset Red DVD-9505 African Violet #1 VHS-3655 1000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse DVD-0048 After Gorbachev's USSR DVD-2615 11 x 14/One Way Boogie Woogie/27 Years Later DVD-9953 Agit-Film VHS-2622 13 Most Beautiful: Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests DVD-2978 Ah, Liberty! VHS-5952 14 Video Paintings DVD-8355 Airport/Airport 1975 DVD-3307 2001: A Space Odyssey DVD-1239 Akira DVD-0315 DVD-0260 DVD-1214 25th Hour DVD-2291 Akran DVD-6838 39 Steps DVD-0337 Alaya VHS-1199 4 Films by Virgil Wildrich DVD-8361 Alexander Nevsky DVD-8367 400 Blows DVD-8362 DVD-4983 56 Up DVD-8322 Alexander Nevsky (Criterion) c.2 DVD-4983 c.2 8 1/2 c.2 DVD-3832 c.2 Alexeieff at the Pinboard VHS-3822 A to Z VHS-4494 Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Collection Bonus DVD-0958 Disc Abbas Kiarostami (Discs 1-4) DVD-6979 Discs 1 Ali: Fear Eats the Soul DVD-4725 Abbas Kiarostami (Discs 5-8) DVD-6979 Discs 5 Alice DVD-4863 Abbas Kiarostami (Discs 9-10) DVD-6979 Discs 9 Alice c,2 DVD-4863 c.2 Aberration of Light DVD-7584 All My Life VHS-2415 Abstronic VHS-1350 All Quiet on the Western Front DVD-1284 Ace of Light VHS-1123 All that Heaven Allows DVD-0329 Across the Rappahannock VHS-5541 All That Heaven Allows c.2 DVD-0329 c.2 Act of Killing DVD-4434 Alleessi: An African Actress DVD-3247 Adaptation DVD-4192 Alphaville c.2 DVD-0369 c.2 8/30/2019 Altair VHS-4492 Apparitions Fugitives VHS-5961 Amarcord DVD-4426 Applause DVD-3277 Amelie DVD-1724 Apple Grown in Wind Tunnel DVD-7357 DVD-1723 Appointments of Anna DVD-4541 American Cinema DVD-0040 Architecture and the Russian Avant-Garde DVD-3563 American Dreams (lost and found)/Landscape Suicide DVD-7160 Argo DVD-7465 (PAL) American Movie DVD-0183 Ariel DVD-6604 American Movie c.2 DVD-0183 c.2 Atomic Cafe VHS-2641 American Short Films DVD-5674 DVD-4165 And God Created Woman DVD-4827 Au Clair de la Lune VHS-5963 And the Pursuit of Happiness DVD-4843 Au Revoir les Enfants DVD-3092 And Then There Were None DVD-0401 Automatic Moving Company VHS-5969 Andre Techine: 4 Film Collector's Edition DVD-7271 Automatic Writing 2 VHS-5563 Andrei Rublev DVD-6634 Autumn Sonata DVD-3525 Anemic Cinema VHS-2891 Avant Garde 1: Experimental Cinema 1920s and 30s DVD-1841 Angus Mustang VHS-3063 Avant Garde 2: Experimental Cinema 1928-1954 DVD-4180 Animal House DVD-1308 Avant Garde 3: Experimental Cinema 1922-1954 DVD-4476 Animations by Jodie Mack: 2004-2014 DVD-9125 Avant Garde: Experimental Cinema of the 1920s and 30s DVD-1841 DVD-9126 Awake, But Dreaming VHS-5970 Anna Christie DVD-2073 Awful Backlash VHS-2934 Annabelle Dances VHS-3844 BaadAssss Cinema DVD-6704 Annie Hall DVD-0852 Babobilicons VHS-2933 Ant Farm Video DVD-2480 Bad Education DVD-1001 Anxious Animation DVD-8373 Badaas Supermama DVD-3242 Aperature of Ghostings: Catherine Street VHS-4489 Baghdad in No Particular Order DVD-6275 Apocalypse Now DVD-3440 Baghdad Twist DVD-5202 DVD-6825 Ballet Mechanique VHS-1201 Page 2 8/30/2019 Balseros DVD-5449 Beyond Language: Selected Video Works DVD-9553 Band of Outsiders DVD-0396 Bicycle Thief DVD-0629 Bank Dick DVD-1490 Big Fish DVD-1406 Baraka DVD-4346 Big Sleep DVD-0292 Battle over Citizen Kane DVD-0053 Big Sleep c.2 DVD-0292 c.2 Battleship Potemkin DVD-0468 Biograph Shorts DVD-0358 Battleship Potemkin c.2 DVD-0468 c.2 Biograph Shorts c.2 DVD-0358 c.2 Battling Butler (Keaton) DVD-0637 Birds (Hitchcock Masterpiece Collection) DVD-0948 Beaches of Agnes DVD-4482 Birmingham Black Bottom DVD-8742 Bear Garden VHS-4223 Birth of a Nation DVD-0060 Beauty and the Beast (1946) DVD-0330 Birth of a Nation c.2 DVD-0355 c.2 Beauty and the Beast (1946) c.3 DVD-0330 c.3 Birth of a Nation and the Civil War Films of D.W. DVD-0355 Griffith Beckett on Film DVD-3733 Birth of the Living Dead DVD-7712 Bed and Sofa DVD-1737 Bitter Melons VHS-0929 Before Need VHS-1883 Black Cinema: Silence to Sound DVD-4747 Before We Knew Nothing VHS-1204 Black Film Collection DVD-0532 Behind this Soft Eclipse VHS-5965 Black Is...Back Ain't DVD-4235 Beholder VHS-0786 Black Toons DVD-1849 Bela Lugosi Collection DVD-1107 Blackmail/Easy Virtue DVD-2206 Belle de Jour DVD-3464 Blair Witch Project DVD-1105 Ben-Hur DVD-1542 Bless Their Little Hearts DVD-9976 Berlin: Symphony of a Great City DVD-0031 VHS-0472 Berlin: Symphony of a Great City c.2 DVD-0031 c.2 Bleu Shut VHS-2672 Best of Melies VHS-2931 Blonde Cobra VHS-0457 Best of Resfest, Volume 3 DVD-8384 Blood of a Poet VHS-0581 Best Worst Movie DVD-6283 DVD-0431 Betty in Blunderland VHS-4529 Blood of a Poet c.2 DVD-0431 c.2 Page 3 8/30/2019 Blow-Up DVD-0865 Broad Daylight and Other Times c.2 DVD-8893 c.2 Blue Angel DVD-3425 Broken Blossoms DVD-0360 Blue Kite DVD-0870 Broken Horses VHS-5926 Blue Vinyl DVD-6265 Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in DVD-0189 Hollywood Bob Kick: L'Enfant Terrible VHS-5964 Bruce Baillie, Volume 1 DVD-2528 Body Politic (God melts bad meat) VHS-1730 Bruce Baillie, Volume 2 DVD-7541 Bodyguard (Yojimbo) DVD-2297 Bruce Baillie, Volume 3 DVD-7542 Bontoc Eulogy DVD-2094 Bucket of Blood DVD-1103 Boogie Nights DVD-1641 Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 1 DVD-0991 Born in Flames c.2 DVD-3160 c.2 Burden of Dreams DVD-4179 Boulder Blues and Pearls and... VHS-2189 Busby Berkeley Disc DVD-1077 Bouquet D'Images DVD-9192 Bush Mama VHS-1208 Bouquets 1-10 VHS-4496 Buster Keaton Collection DVD-8404 Bowling for Columbine DVD-0175 Buster Keaton: The Short Films Collection 1920-1923 DVD-3149 DVD-0175 But Then She's Betty Carter VHS-0456 Boy Who Saw Through VHS-0890 Butcher DVD-2195 Boys' Shorts DVD-4423 Butterfly DVD-1025 Brakhage DVD-8397 By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volume 1 DVD-0498 Brand upon the Brain DVD-2383 By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volume 1 c.2 DVD-0498 c.2 Brazil DVD-1014 By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volume 2 DVD-5006 BRD Trilogy: Marriage of Maria Braun/Veronika DVD-0362 Cabinet of Dr. Caligari DVD-0015 Voss/Lola Breath (Jang) VHS-5958 VHS-0577 Breathless DVD-1353 Cabinet of Dr. Caligrari (Kino) DVD-8405 Bridges Go Round VHS-0628 Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer VHS-2191 Brighter Summer Day DVD-8759 Cabiria DVD-4331 Brightness (Yeelen) c.2 DVD-4583 c.2 Calcutta DVD-4842 Broad Daylight and Other Times DVD-8893 Calder's Circus VHS-0106 Page 4 8/30/2019 California Trilogy (PAL) DVD-7158 Chain DVD-1979 Camel Music VHS-0622 Chan is Missing DVD-4211 Cameraman's Revenge and Other Fantastic Tales DVD-5120 Chaplin Mutuals DVD-1004 Cameraman's Revenge and Other Fantastic Tales c.2 DVD-5120 c.2 Charlie Chaplin Collection (Discs 1-3) DVD-0911 Discs 1 Cameraperson DVD-9855 Charlie Chaplin Collection (Discs 4-5) DVD-0911 Discs 4 Cannibal Tours VHS-5172 Charlie Chaplin: The Forgotten Years DVD-2041 Cantor's Son DVD-6613 Children at Reahumou Play VHS-3064 Capitalism: A Love Story DVD-5939 Children Making a Toy Hammock VHS-3067 Careful DVD-4420 Children of Paradise DVD-4714 Carmen/The Cheat DVD-8409 Chinese Classic Animation: Te Wei Collection DVD-4256 Carrie (1976) DVD-0989 Chinese Ghost Story DVD-0628 Casablanca DVD-0226 Chronic DVD-8726 Casablanca c.2 DVD-0226 c.2 Chronicles of a Lying Spirit DVD-3591 Case of the Grinning Cat DVD-3270 Chumlum DVD-7358 Casting a Glance (PAL) DVD-7159 Cinematic Jazz of Julie Dash VHS-5735 Castro Street VHS-0621 Cinematic Souvenirs of America VHS-3904 Cat People (Kinski) DVD-0996 Cinematographe en 1895 VHS-5936 Cat People/Curse of the Cat People DVD-1003 Citizen Kane DVD-0052 Catalog DVD-8720 City of Lost Children DVD-5866 Cats of Mirikitani DVD-3531 Claire's Knee DVD-4923 Catskill Honeymoon DVD-6589 Class Relations (PAL) DVD-8144 Cave of Forgotten Dreams DVD-6755 Cleared for Landing DVD-2614 Cecelia Condit Videoworks, Volume 1 DVD-7399 Cleo from 5 to 7 DVD-0327 Cecelia Condit: Videoworks Volume 2 DVD-9971 Cleopatra (Taylor) DVD-2087 Celebration DVD-3493 Clockwork Orange DVD-4238 Celestial Subway Lines/Salvaging Noise DVD-4054 DVD-1512 Celluloid Closet DVD-0184 Clockwork Orange c.2 DVD-1512 c.2 Page 5 8/30/2019 Close Encounters of the Third Kind DVD-0842 Corpus Callosum DVD-2084 Closely Watched Trains DVD-3424 Country Boys DVD-0998 Close-Up DVD-1023 Couple in the Cage: Guatianaui Odyssey DVD-3448 Club Native DVD-5834 Cowards Bend the Knee DVD-3130 Coconut DVD-7589 Cowards Bend the Knee c.2 DVD-3130 c.2 Coffee Colored Children VHS-2427 Crash (Holly Hunter) DVD-3368 Collected Shorts of Jan Svankmajer DVD-8419 Creative Process (McLaren) DVD-0374 College (Keaton) DVD-0638 Creature Comforts Season 1 DVD-2427 Color of Pomegranates DVD-0388 Creature Comforts Season 2 DVD-2428 Color Rhapsodie VHS-1337 Creature from the Black Lagoon DVD-1115 Coloring Book for the Harpist DVD-5609 Cries and Whispers DVD-2211 Comedie et Magique de Melies VHS-2976 Crisis DVD-2074 Comedy, Spectacle and New Horizons DVD-0321 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon DVD-0741 Comedy, Spectacle, and New Horizons c.
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