MEDIA RESOURCES
(rev 3/98)
Material available at the Lehigh Media Center (LU), English Dept (ask Gallagher), and Bethlehem Public Library.
Not an exhaustive list of local holdings on all aspects of each culture, but a list of films helpful to me and students in Multicultural American literature courses. Corrections and additions gratefully accepted. The first compilation was done January 1996 and was fairly exhaustive. I have made additions to the list periodically since then, but it would be wise to review library (follow browse > subject > videorecordings in SIRSI) and department holdings for material that may have been added. Suggestions for additions or corrections gratefully accepted.
NATIVE AMERICAN CUBAN AMERICAN
AFRICAN AMERICAN JEWISH AMERICAN
CHICANO(A)/LATINO(A)/HISPANIC GAY, LESBIAN, BISEXUAL
ASIAN AMERICAN PERSONS WITH AIDS
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GENERAL
America, America (1963) (168 mins.): During the 1890s, a Greek boy's incredible struggles just to get to America. Directed by Elia Kazan. (LU 1638)
American History Slide Collection (2000 slides): Has groupings on explorers and Early Americans, American Indians, Hispanic Americans, African Americans. (LU SL 47)
Avalon (1990) (126 mins.): Three-generation saga of Russian Jewish family moving from poverty to prosperity starting from the Baltimore suburb of Avalon. (LU 1019)
Distorted Image: Stereotypes and Caricatures in American Popular Graphics, 1850-1922 (60 slides) (LU SL 1)
Emigrants, The (1972) (151 mins.): Immigrant dream: from rock-bound Sweden to Edenic Minnesota for a mid-19th century family. Max Von Sydow, Liv Ullmann. (LU being catalogued)
1492: The Conquest of Paradise (1992) (142 mins.): The discovery and the struggles pertaining thereto. Gerard Depardieu. (LU 1644)
Immigrant, The (1917) (23 mins.): Humorous and hopeful view of the trials of outsiders coming to "the land of liberty" which does not especially welcome them. Charlie Chaplin. (English Dept)
Journey to America (1990) (60 mins.): Journey of European immigrants through Ellis Island. (LU 1286)
We All Came to America (1986) (60 mins.): Immigration from the 18th to the 20th centuries. (LU 939)
NATIVE AMERICAN
Across the Wide Missouri (1951) (78 mins.): Mountain Man changes his views on Indians after marrying on for mercenary reasons. Clark Gable. (English Dept)
Alaska: The Yup'ik Eskimo (1984) (30 mins.): Documentary. Relationship to nature and attempts to maintain traditional roles. (Bethlehem Public)
American Indian Dance Theater (60 mins.): Hoop Dance, Eagle Dance, Apache Crown Dance, Zuni Rainbow Dance, Buffalo Dance. (LU 1499)
Ancestral Voices (1989) (60 mins.): Bill Moyers interviews Joy Harjo and Mary Tall Mountain. (LU 640)
Aquirre: The Wrath of God (1972) (94 mins.): Greedy 16th century Spaniards in search of El Dorado. Klaus Kinski. (English Dept)
Battle at Elderbush Gulch, The (1913) (30 mins.): Cute puppies that Indians want for a dog-eating ceremony (!?) precipitate a vicious war with trigger-happy whites in which the safety of a baby is a concern. D. W. Griffiths. (English Dept)
Billy Jack (1971) (114 mins.): Half-breed Vietnam veteran seeking peace is drawn into violence. Tom Laughlin. (LU 1621)
Black Robe, The (1991) (101 mins.): 17th century Jesuit assigned to convert the Hurons in the wilderness. (LU 1622)
Broken Arrow (1950) (93 mins.): Indian agent tired of senseless fighting and killing makes friends with Cochise, marries an Indian, arranges a truce -- before tragedy. James Stewart, Jeff Chandler. (LU 1624)
Buffalo Bill and the Indians (1976) (123 mins.): Savage look at the Wild West show when Buffalo Bill lures Sitting Bull onto the payroll. Paul Newman. Dir: Robert Altman. (English Dept)
By This Song I Walk (30 mins.): Navajo holy man tells and sings one of his culture's stories. (LU 1688)
Cabeza de Vaca (1993) (108 mins.): Based on the true account of the Spanish conquistadore who wanders from Florida to Mexico over an eight-year trek beginning in 1528. (English Dept)
Central America: The Burden of Time (1991) (57 mins.): The Aztec, Maya, and Inca had sophisticated civilizations that were virtually obliterated by the Conquistadores but which still survive. (LU 1544)
Cheyenne Autumn (1964) (158 mins.): Based on the true story of desperate Cheyenne in the 1860s who leave the Oklahoma reservation to return to their Wyoming homeland. Richard Widmark, Carroll Baker. (LU 1625)
Columbus Didn't Discover Us (1992) (24 mins.): On the occasion of the Columbian anniversary, Native people speak about the devastation of their cultures by the "European invasion." (LU 1505)
Copan (1982) (15 mins.): The archaeological project in this Mayan city. (LU 280)
Dances With Wolves (1990) (181 mins.): Civil War hero wants to see the American frontier before it is gone and is assigned to an abandoned fort with the Sioux his only neighbors. Kevin Costner. (LU 1077)
Daniel Boone (1960) (48 mins. each): Four Disney television episodes. (English Dept)
Daniel Boone (1936) (75 mins.): Heroic biography. George O'Brien. (LU 1811)
Danzante (1992) (28 mins.): Ritual dances of the Aztecs and Mayas performed by the troupe Danza Azteca de Anahuac. (LU 1541)
Dreamtales (1993) (32 mins.): Two animated films about myths and beliefs, one about star/sky myths. (LU 1702)
Drums Along the Mohawk (1939) (103 mins.): Young frontier farmer protects his family from Indian attack on the New York frontier at the time of the Revolution. Henry Fonda, Claudette Colbert. (LU 1642)
Fort Apache (1948) (120 mins.): Cavalry officers represent two opposing styles of leadership in fighting the Native Americans. Henry Fonda, John Wayne. (English Dept)
1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992) (150 mins.) Columbus's voyages to the New World. Gerard Depardieu. (LU 1644)
Gerald Vizenor (1995) (48 mins.): Interview. (LU 2010 #4)
Geronimo and Apache Resistance (1988) (60 mins.): Geronimo's story from the murder of his family, through battles, broken promises, escape from the reservation, to death in exile symbolizes the history of his people. (LU 548)
Hopi: Songs of the Fourth World (1983) (60 mins.): Life, land, philosophy of the Hopi culture. (LU 1774)
How the West Was Lost (1993) (7 part series): Plight of Native American nations, including Navajo, Nez Perce, Apache, Cheyenne, Lakota, Iroquois, Cherokee, Seminole, Dakota, Madoc, and Ute. (LU on order)
I Will Fight No More . . . Forever (1975) (105 mins.): The almost-successful attempt of Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce to elude the U.S. Army in 1877. James Whitmore, Sam Elliott. (LU 1183)
Iisaw (16 mins.): Hopi grandmother tells and sings about coyote. (LU 1689)
In a White Man's Image (1991) (60 mins.): About the Indian schools, experiments to "civilize" the Indians, forcing them into the mainstream, but seen by some as a form of cultural genocide. (LU 1134)
Incident at Oglala (1992) (90 mins.): The story of Leonard Peltier and others of the American Indian Movement -- a 1975 shoot-out on a reservation. (LU 1513)
Indians, Outlaws, and Angie Dembo (1988) (60 mins.): The lady historian who dared to tell the truth about how Whites robbed Oklahoma Indians of their lands. (LU 550)
Ishi: The Last Yahi (1992) (60 mins.): The true story of the last survivor of a small group of Indians who lived in hiding for 40 years after the massacre of their tribe and who finally gave himself up to White society. (LU 1478)
James Welch (1985) (54 min. audio): Interview. (LU AC 490)
James Welch (1995) (48 mins.): Interview. (LU 2010 #2)
Journals of Lewis and Clark (1989) (60 mins.): Recreation of their exploration of the West, using many of their own words. (LU 1543)
Koyaanisqatsi (1983) (87 mins.): Visual tone poem (no dialogue, no characters) juxtaposes Hopi life and prophecies against the madness of modern civilization. The title means "life out of balance." (LU 122 & Prof Gallagher)
Lakota Woman (1994) (118 mins.): Native American woman rises to the challenge of her heritage in a 1973 uprising. (LU 1627)
Last Hunt, The (1956) (108 mins.): Two men hunting the last of the buffalo split when one wantonly kills Indian men and mistreats an Indian woman. Robert Taylor, Stewart Granger. (LU 1628)
Last of the Mohicans, The (1992) (114 mins.): Hawkeye, Cora, Magua, and the rest in the famous Cooper novel. Daniel Day- Lewis, Madeleine Stowe. (LU 1650)
Last of the Mohicans, The (1920) (75 mins.): Silent rendition of the Cooper novel. Wallace Beery. (LU 1663)
Last of the Mohicans, The (1936) (91 mins.): Yet another version of Cooper. Randolph Scott. (LU 2236)
Last Stand at Little Big Horn (1992) (60 mins.): Native American writer James Welch collaborated on this Custer documentary from the native side. (LU 1287)
Leslie Marmon Silko (1995) (42 mins.): Interview. (LU 2010 #3)
Light in the Forest, The (19??) (92 mins.): White boy kidnapped by Indians as a child is forced to return to his family. Fess Parker, James MacArthur. Disney. (English Dept)
Little Big Man (1970) (149 mins.): Based on Thomas Berger's novel. Man captured and raised by Indians has various adventures in both cultures and survives Custer's Last Stand. (LU 1629)
Live and Remember (30 mins.): Sacred traditions of the Sioux: Sweat Lodge ceremony, Hoop Dance, Eagle Dance, songs, oral traditions. (LU 1517)
Lost Kingdoms of the Maya (1993) (60 mins.): Substantial look at Mayan life through cities like Copan, as well as the history of the Classic Maya period (200-900 AD). National Geographic, narrated by Susan Sarandon. (LU 1416)
Lost World of the Maya (1974) (40 mins.): Scholar Eric Thompson shows and explains ruins in such ancient cities as Tikal. (LU 234)
Louise Erdrich & Michael Dorris (1989) (30 mins.): Bill Moyers interviews these contemporary Native American writers -- then at work on their book on Columbus -- about the history and modern condition of the Indians. (LU 941)
Make-Believe Indian: Native Americans in the Movies (140 slides + audio): Influence of early travel narratives, literature, the visual arts, and the wild west shows on the Native American image in the movies to around 1980. (LU SL 71)
Man Called Horse (1969) (115 mins.): British aristocrat captured by Sioux is given a chance to join the tribe. Richard Harris. (LU 1630)
Maya: History of the Maya (1984) (45 mins.): In-depth look at ancient artifacts and temples reveals the rituals and traditions of the wealthiest pre-columban culture, one that lives today. (LU 1486)
Maya Lords of the Jungle (1980) (60 mins.): A look at the Mayas. (LU 1542)
Mission, The (1986) (125 mins.): Mercenary slave trader undergoes conversion as Spanish, Portuguese, and the Jesuits fight for the Native Americans in 18th century South America. Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons. (LU 1654)
More Than Bows and Arrows (1992) (60 mins.): Contributions of the Indian to the development of the U.S. and Canada. Narrated by N. Scott Momaday. (LU 1520)
Mystery of the Anasazi (1976) (60 mins.): Unknown culture that preceded the Navajos. (LU 149)
N. Scott Momaday (1983) (69 min. audio): Interview. (LU AC 489)
N. Scott Momaday (1995) (45 mins.): Interview. (LU 2010 #1)
Nanook of the North (1922) (69 mins.): Robert Flaherty's early documentary of an Eskimo family battling the elements. (English Dept)
Native Americans (1994) (approx 50 mins. each): Describes the Native American cultures in each of five distinct geographical parts of the country. (LU 2096)
Odyssey: The Chaco Legacy (1980) (60 mins.): The puzzlingly sophisticated genius of the Chaco Canyon inhabitants. (Bethlehem Public)
Odyssey: The Incas (1980) (60 mins.): A look at the Incas of South America. (Bethlehem Public)
Odyssey: Myths and Moundbuilders (1980) (60 mins.): Theories about the mounds found throughout the mid-west and south. (Bethlehem Public)
Odyssey: Seeking the First Americans (1980) (60 mins.): Explores Clovis Man, 11,000 years ago or even earlier. (LU 1521)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) (129 mins.): Native American has climactic role in the search for freedom from a repressive world. Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher. (LU 378)
Pocahontas (1995) (81 mins.): Disney version of this classic vision of harmony across the races. (English Dept)
Pocahontas (1995) (50 mins.): A&E documentary. (LU 2100)
Popol Vuh: The Creation Myth of the Maya (1989) (60 mins:): Animated, using authentic images from Maya art and ceramics. (LU 1773)
Powaqqatsi (1990?) (100 mins): Visual collage showing the conflict between the growth of technology and small indigenous cultures. Cf. Koyaanisqatsi above. (LU 897)
Powwow Highway (1989) (91 mins.): A Cheyenne sets off on a modern vision quest in a '64 Buick. (Bethlehem Public)
Pueblo Peoples: First Encounters (1991) (30 mins.): Reaction to the first Spanish invaders in 1539-1540. (LU 1523)
Sacred Ground (1977) (60 mins.): Attachment to the earth: kivas, pueblos, mountains in the Northwest, Valley of the Sun, the Moundbuilders, Devil's Tower, Pipestone, Lake Onondaga. (LU 1524)
Searchers, The (1956) (119 mins.): Obsessed Indian-hater searches for years for a niece taken captive, perhaps to kill her. John Wayne, Jeffery Hunter, Natalie Wood. (English Dept)
Seasons of the Navajo (1985) (60 mins.): Portrait of a traditional Navajo family: ties to land, kinship, hard work, tradition. (LU 1525)
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) (103 mins.): Veteran army captain refuses to retire with the job not done as Cheyenne go on the warpath in the days after Little Big Horn. John Wayne, Joanne Dru. (English Dept)
Silent Enemy (1930) (120 mins.): Silent film with sound prologue by Chief Yellow Robe. Civilization destroying the Indian way of life. (LU 1527)
Sixteenth Century Perceptions of Latin America: Civil or Savage? (1988) (30 mins.): Interrogates the ideology of the encounter between Europe and Latin America through maps and other images. (LU 1528)
Songs of Indian Territory (1988) (38 mins.): Sampler of Indian musical heritage focusing on modern Oklahoma tribes: Ponca, Kiowa, Comanche, Creek. Green Corn Dance on location. (LU 1031)
Soldier Blue (1974) (105 mins.): White woman stolen by Indians and one soldier survive an Indian raid, grow to love each other, and provide the emotional point of reference for the ultra-violent retaliatory massacre at Sand Creek. Candice Bergen, Peter Strauss. (LU 1632)
Spirit of Crazy Horse (1990) (60 mins.): Modern Sioux struggle to retain ancestral homeland in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Militant confrontations of the 1960s and 1970s at sites like Wounded Knee. (LU 1531)
Spirit of the Mask (1993) (50 mins.): The spiritual and psychological power of masks in Native cultures. (LU 1703)
Squanto: A Warrior's Tale (1995) (102 mins.): Kidnapped and taken to England, Squanto struggles to return to New England, where he becomes a hero. Disney. (English Dept)
Sun Dagger (1993) (59 mins.): The discovery of an Anasazi celestial calendar in Cahco Canyon. (LU 1704)
Surviving Columbus (1992) (120 mins.): The long struggle for survival of the Pueblo Indians. (LU 1861)
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969) (98 mins.): The hunt for a young Native American who has killed in self-defense. Robert Redford, Katherine Ross, Robert Blake. (LU 1634)
They Died With Their Boots On (1941) (141 mins.): The story of Custer as hero. Errol Flynn, Olivia de Haviland. (LU 1635)
Thunderheart (1992) (118.mins.): Part-Indian FBI agent is called to reservation to help capture a radical protestor and taps into his ancestry in the process. Val Kilmer, Sam Shepard. (English Dept.)
Visions of the Arawaks (1994) (70 mins.): Poetic rendering of the life of the group, especially of the women, whom Columbus "discovered." Based on paintings by Penny Slinger. (LU being catalogued)
Way West, The (1994) (90 mins, each): Four-part series about Indian - White battles from the Gold Rush till after Wounded Knee. "Westward, the Course of Empire Takes Its Way," "The Approach of Civilization," "The War for the Black Hills," "Ghost Dance." (LU 1867, listed in the catalog under individual titles)
West, The (1996) (9 tapes, 60-90 mins. each): History of our movement west includes much on Native Americans. (LU 1901)
Where the Spirit Lives (1989) (97 mins.): Indian children in western Canada taken by trickery from their homes to a Mission School. (LU 1167)
Winds of Change: A Matter of Choice (1990) (60 mins.): To remain on the reservation or to move out into the broader society is the choice faced by young American Indians today. Profile of three families. (LU 1535)
Winds of Change: A Matter of Promises (1990) (60 mins.): The plight of the Indians in today's society. The Onondaga of New York, The Navajo in Arizona, and the Lummi in Washington -- all nations within a nation, trying to preserve their cultures. (LU 1536)
Yaqui Cur, The (1913) (16 mins.): Indian learns enough of the Bible to be considered a coward and ostracized by his tribe, but another element of Christian virtue regains his esteem at the cost of his life. D. W. Griffiths. (English Dept)
AFRICAN AMERICAN
African American Cinema. Two-part series containing Oscar Micheaux's Within Our Gates (1926), The Scar of Shame, and others. (English Dept)
Alice Walker (1988) (30 mins.): Interview. (LU 765)
Alice Walker (1981) (46 min. audio): Interview. (LU AC 360)
Alice Walker (1992) (30 mins.): Documentary. (LU 1686, pt. 4)
Amazing Grace (1990) (90 mins.): History, impact, various versions of this spirit-lifting song written by a slave trader who turned against the trade. Bill Moyers. (LU 1412)
Amistad (1998) (155 mins.): African American slaves on trial for revolting and killing owners. Morgan Freeman, Anthony Hopkins. Dir: Steven Spielberg. (LU 2403)
August Wilson (1992) (22 mins.): Documentary. (LU 1686, pt. 5)
Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974) (106 mins.): Woman who began life as a slave and lived to march for civil rights at age 110. Cicely Tyson. (LU 322)
Backlash: Race and the American Dream (1991) (56 mins.): Focus on former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke's senate campaign highlights the rise of racism in politics. Strong anti-black statements by politicians and common people. Klan footage. (LU 1411)
Bird (1988) (161 mins.): Clint Eastwood's direction of the life of jazz musician Charlie "Yardbird" Parker. (Bethlehem Public)
Birth of a Nation (1915) (187 mins.): Vicious portrayal of African American in portrayal of the lives of two families before and after the Civil War. D. W. Griffiths. (LU E46)
Black Athena (1991) (52 mins.): The debate over Martin Bernal's book that posits African origin of Greek culture. (LU 1155)
Black Is . . . Black Ain't (1995) (86 mins.): Marlon Riggs film that explores the experience of those who feel "too black" as well as those who feel "not black enough" in order to describe African American identity. (LU 1916)
Black Like Me (1964) (107 mins.): White writer changes the color of his skin to experience life as a black man in the south. Based on a true story. James Whitmore. (LU 1240)
Black Women Writers (1989) (60 mins.): Phil Donahue show: Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, Michelle Wallace, Ntozake Shange, Angela Davis. (LU 682)
Blues Like Showers of Rain (1970) (30 mins.): Country Blues by Otis Spann, J.B. Lenoir, Little Brother Montgomery, Willie Thomas, Sunnyland Slim, Robert Lockwood, Lightnin Hopkins, James Brewer, Speckled Red. (LU 1500)
Boyz N the Hood (1991) (112 mins.): In a tough neighborhood a father attempts to steer his son right. (LU 1795 & Bethlehem Public)
Celebrating Bird: The Triumph of Charlie Parker (1987) (60 mins.): Documentary with substantial examples of his music. (LU 1502)
Celluloid Black: Images of Blacks in Film (60 slides + audio): Examples from silent films to about 1980. (LU SL 70)
Charles Johnson (1992) (27 mins.): Documentary. (LU 1686, pt. 1)
Chicago Blues (1972) (50 mins.): City blues singers: Johnnie Lewis, Willie Dixon, Floyd Jones, Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, J.B. Hutto. (LU 1503)
Color Adjustment (1991) (90 mins.) (1948-68/50 mins.; 1968 on/40 mins.): Portrayals of blacks on television from early unflattering images to later unrealistic images of success and prosperity. From Amos n' Andy to Cosby. (LU 1156)
Color Purple (1985) (154 mins.): Woman born in the south raped by father, deprived of children, forced to marry gains strength and self-worth. Whoopi Goldberg. (LU 772)
Coltrane Legacy (1970) (60 mins.): Documentary with substantial clips from television performances. (LU 1504)
Dark Passages (1995) (50 mins.): Documentary of African slavery. (LU 1887)
Day to Remember: August 28, 1963 (30 mins.): Documentary on the March on Washington and Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech. (LU 937)
Do the Right Thing (1990) (120 mins.): A single day in Bedford- Stuyvesant on the hottest day of the year. Spike Lee, Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee. (LU 825)
Driving Miss Daisy (1989) (99 mins.): Relationship of long-time black chauffeur with Miss Daisy. Jessica Tandy, Morgan Freeman. (Bethlehem Public)
Dutchman (1967) (55 mins.): The Amiri Baraka play. White woman entices, taunts, kills Black man with middle-class aspirations. (LU 1507)
Emperor Jones (1933) (74 mins.): Based on Eugene O'Neill play. Black man deposes ruler of a Caribbean island. Paul Robeson. (LU 1018)
Ethnic Notions (1987) (60 mins.): Documents the origins, meanings, and effects of such terms as Sambo, Coon, Tom, Mammy, Pickaninny. (LU 1508)
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Frederick Douglass: When the Lion Wrote History (1994) (90 mins. each): Three-part series on his life. (LU 1865)
From Jumpstreet: Gospels and Spirituals (30 mins.): Development and characteristics, relating contemporary music to original functions and settings. (LU 1095)
Four Girls and Toni Morrison (1993) (29 mins.): Four girls discuss Morrison as a role model. (LU 1696)
Gloria Naylor (1992) (21 mins.): Documentary. (LU 1686, pt. 2)
Go Tell It on the Mountain (1985) (100 mins.): Based on the autobiographical novel by James Baldwin. (Bethlehem Public)
Gone with the Wind (1939) (231 mins.): Perhaps "the" Plantation movie. Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh. (LU 153)
Good Mornin' Blues (1979) (60 mins.): Blues music from origins to World War II. (LU 1511)
Glory (1989) (122 mins.): Story of the first black regiment to fight for the North in the Civil War. Denzel Washington, Matthew Broderick. (English Dept.)
Harlem Renaissance and Beyond (2 sections, approx 20 mins. each): Colorful documentary covering the Renaissance and the generation of writers following. (LU 1882)
Harvest of Shame (1960) (53 mins.): Degradation and exploitation of migrant workers. Edward R. Murrow. (LU 1512)
Hoop Dreams (1995): The reality about basketball as the route to success. (LU 1791)
I Have a Dream (30 mins.): Martin Luther King's August 28, 1963 speech at the March on Washington. (LU 938)
In Motion: Amiri Baraka (1983) (60 mins.): Follows this activist and poet the two weeks before he is jailed for resisting arrest. (LU 834)
James Baldwin -- The Price of the Ticket (1990) (87 mins.): Intellectual biography. (LU 1692)
John Wideman (1992) (26 mins.): Documentary. (LU 1686, pt. 6)
Jungle Fever (1991) (135 mins.): Forbidden love between black man and white woman. Spike Lee. (LU 1974 & Bethlehem Public)
Klan: A Legacy of Hate in America (1982) (30 mins.): History and more modern activities of the Klan. Footage of Klan ceremonies and leaders. (SR 3)
Ladies Sing the Blues (1985) (60 mins.): Complete songs by Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, Billie Holiday, Ida Cox, Sister Rosetta Tharp, Connie Boswell, Dinah Washington, Ruth Brown, Lena Horne, Sarah Vaughan, Helen Humes, Peggy Lee. (LU 1516)
Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday (1990) (60 mins.): Documentary with ample clips of her singing. (LU 1515)
Langston Hughes (1988) (60 mins.): Bio-critical survey of his life and work. Voices and Visions series. (LU 562, part 6)
Last Supper, The (1976) (110 mins.): Slave revolt in 18th century Cuba showing the slave side. (LU 1081 & English Dept)
Looking for Langston (1989) (45 mins.): A "meditation" on the life of Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance, exploring black and white gay identities. (LU 1605)
Malcolm X (1992) (201 mins.): Life of the Black nationalist leader. Denzel Washington. Spike Lee directs. (LU 1790 & Bethlehem Public)
Malcolm X: Make It Plain (1994) (150 mins.): In-depth biography. (LU 1728)
Marcus Garvey: Toward Black Nationhood (1983) (45 mins.): Life and work of pioneer Black nationalist leader. (LU 1226)
Maya Angelou (1981) (60 mins.): Bill Moyers interview. (LU 645)
Maya Angelou: Rainbow in the Clouds (1992) (58 mins.): Angelou speaking out about church work. (LU 1888)
Midnight Ramble (1994) (60 mins.): Early Black film-making, especially Oscar Micheaux. (LU 1729)
Mississippi Burning (1988) (127 mins.): Murder of civil rights workers in 1964 Klan-dominated Mississippi town. Gene Hackman. (LU 801)
Mississippi Masala (1992) (118 mins.): Asian Indian woman falls in love with an African American in Mississippi and both encounter racism. Denzel Washington. (LU 1608)
Mo' Better Blues (1990) (129 mins.): Talented jazzman obsessed by music and indecisive about women. Denzel Washington, Spike Lee. (Bethlehem Public)
Native Son (1992) : Film version of the Richard Wright story of Bigger Thomas, who murders a white girl. Akosua Busia, Matt Dillon. (LU 1610)
Paule Marshall (1984) (82 min. audio): Interview. (LU AC 488)
Question of Color (1992) (58 mins.): Color consciousness within the Black community, especially among women. (LU 1693)
Quilombo (1984) (114 mins.): Runaway slaves in 17th century Brazil set up a self-governing community. (LU 1440 & English Dept)
Raisin in the Sun (1961) (128 mins.): Clash of different "cultures" in one Black family in post-WWII Chicago. Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee. (LU 936)
Roots (1977) (6 videos, about 90 mins. each): Television mini- series traces family history from Africa through struggle to freedom in America. LeVar Burton, Ben Vereen, Cicely Tyson. (LU 1455)
Roots of Resistance: A Story of the Underground Railroad (1989) (60 mins.): A little broader than the title indicates since it begins with life on the plantation. (LU 1097)
Rosewood (1997) (142 mins.): Based on a 1923 event in which a white mob razes a Florida town. Ving Rhames, Jon Voight. (English Dept.)
Royal Federal Blues (1990) (45 mins.): Story of the African American Civil War soldiers. (LU 1234)
Saturday Night, Sunday Morning: The Travels of Gatemouth Moore (1992) (70 mins.): Follows his transition from Blues to Gospel, from the world of music to the world of God. (LU 1694)
Son of Africa: The Slave Narrative of Olaudah Equiano (1996) (28 mins.): Docudrama. (LU being catalogued)
Sonia Sanchez (1990) (30 mins.): Interview. Shows her a political poet responding to such things as the Move incident in Philadelphia. (LU 1530)
Songs Are Free (1991) (60 mins.): Bill Moyers interviews Bernice Johnson Reagon whose group Sweet Honey in the Rock affirms and embodies the spiritual strength of music in the Black culture. (LU 1098)
That Rhythm, Those Blues (1988) (60 mins.): Blues of the 1940s and 1950s. (LU 553)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) (129 mins.): White lawyer defends a Black man unjustly accused of rape. (LU 266)
Toni Morrison (1983) (78 min. audio): Interview. (LU AC 346)
Toni Morrison (1992) (25 mins.): Documentary. (LU 1686, pt. 3)
True Malcolm X Speaks (1993) (120 mins.): Portrait of his life from archival materials. (LU 1239)
Up From Slavery: The Story of Booker T. Washington (1990) (60 mins.): Docudrama: from slavery to Tuskegee. (LU 1143)
Wild Women Don't Have the Blues (1989) (60 mins.): Lives and music of such pioneering singers as Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Alberta Hunter, Ethel Waters, Ida Cox. (LU 1695)
Women of Brewster Place (1988) (200 mins.): Struggle for new life by a group of ghetto tenement women. Oprah Winfrey, Robin Givens, Cicely Tyson. (LU 820)
Writer's Work with Toni Morrison (60 mins.): Bill Moyers interview, in her Arkansas home town. (LU 1533)
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And the Earth Did Not Swallow Him (. . . y no se lo trago la tierra) (1994) (99 mins.): Based on Tomas Rivera's work of the same name. Survival of migrant workers. (LU on order)
Ballad of Gregorio Cortez (1982) (105 mins.): Chase and trial of a Mexican who kills a sheriff in self-defense, based on the popular corrido. Edward James Olmos. (LU 1042)
Border, The (1981) (107 mins.): El Paso border guards harass wetbacks. Jack Nicholson, Harvey Keitel. (LU 1623)
Born in East L.A. (1987) (85 mins.): Bumbling Mexican-American gets caught without identification in an INS raid and gets deported. Cheech Marin. (LU 1764)
Buried Mirror: Reflections on Spain and the New World (1991) (5 parts, 60 mins. each): Especially Part 2, "The Conflict of the Gods," in which Cortes meets the Indian world. (LU 1264)
Cabeza de Vaca (1993) (108 mins.): Based on the true account of the Spanish conquistadore who wanders from Florida to Mexico over an eight-year trek beginning in 1528. (English Dept)
Chicano! (1996) (57 mins.): History of the Mexican-American civil rights movement. (LU 1848)
Chulas Fronteras (1976) (58 mins.): Mexican-American border music. Lyrics tell stories of mixed allegiances and migrant work. (LU 1636)
Conquest of Mexico (1991) (35 mins.): Examination of the conquest of the Aztecs by the Spaniards. Some recreation of scenes. (LU 1000)
El Norte (1984) (141 mins.): Guatamalan brother and sister flee oppressive society to Mexico with the further dream of crossing into the Promised Land of "The North." (LU 245)
Go Back to Mexico (1992) (57 mins.): Immigration problems on the Mexican border. (LU 1718)
Harvest of Shame (1960) (53 mins.): Degradation and exploitation of millions of migrant workers, focusing mainly on blacks and whites, but the situation was the same for the Chicanos. (LU 1512)
La Bamba (1987) (103 mins.): Rock star Richie Valens' rise to fame, from the barrio to stardom before accidental death. (LU 1626 & Bethlehem Public)
Los Mineros (19??) (58 mins.): The fifty-year battle of Mexican American miners in Arizona for fair labor practices. Dir: Luis Valdez. (LU 2079)
Mexican American: An Historic Profile (30 mins.): From the Spanish Conquistadores to the present. (LU 1519)
Milagro Beanfield War (1989) (118 mins.): Residents of a New Mexico village find themselves in conflict with land developers. (LU 1631 & Bethlehem Public)
New Found Land (1972) (52 mins.): Part 1 of the America series by Alistair Cook. Emphasis on the Spanish and French explorations. (LU 73)
One River, One Country: The U.S. - Mexico Border (1986) (50 mins.): Bill Moyers documentary. A look at the "third country" emerging along the Rio Grande. (LU 1292)
Rudolpho Anaya (1982) (55 min. audio): Interview. (LU AC 486)
Salt of the Earth (1953) (90 mins.): Struggles of striking Mexican American mine workers in New Mexico. (LU 900 & Engl Dept)
Salvador (1985) (122 mins.): Journalist covers the brutal war in El Salvador. James Belushi, James Woods. (LU 1053)
Sixteenth Century Perceptions of Latin America: Civil or Savage? (1988) (30 mins.): The encounter of Europe and Latin America mainly through maps and other visual representations. (LU 1528)
Stand and Deliver (1988) (103 mins.): Real-life story of teacher who refuses to give up on barrio high school students. Edward James Olmos. (LU 1633)
Surviving Columbus (1992) (120 mins.): The long struggle for survival of the Pueblo Indians. (LU 1861)
Touch of Evil (1958) (108 mins.): Murder mystery involving a corrupt police officer and a narcotics agent in a squalid town on the Mexican border. Orson Welles, Charlton Heston. (English Dept)
Zoot Suit (1981) (104 mins.): Group of Mexican Americans sent to prison during the 1940s Zoot Suit riots. Edward James Olmos. (LU 1772)
ASIAN AMERICAN
All Orientals Look the Same (1991) (6 mins.): About stereotypes. (LU 1550)
Ancestral Voices (1989) (60 mins.): Bill Moyers interviews Garrett Hongo. Power of Word series. (LU 640)
Black Sheep (1991) (6 mins.): About stereotypes. (LU 1550)
Body, Soul, and Voice (1992) (28 mins.): Stereotypes of and harassment and violence against Asian American women. (LU 1551)
Broken Blossoms (1919) (68 mins.): Chaste love of a white woman by a Chines American man. Lillian Gish. D. W. Griffiths. (English Dept)
Carved in Silence (1988) (45 mins.): Story of Angel Island, the "Ellis Island of the West," where prospective Chinese immigrants were detained and questioned. (LU 1501)
Charlie Chan at the Opera (1936) (68 mins.): Phantom of the opera murder mystery. Werner Oland, Boris Karloff. (LU 740) Other Chan movies LU 741-44.
Chinese Gold (1988) (40 mins.): Chinese emigrants to Southern California's "Gold Mountain" in the 19th century punctuated by interviews with 2nd and 3rd generation Chinese Americans from that area. (LU 833)
Conversations: Before the War, After the War (1986) (30 mins.): Three fictional characters discuss personal feelings about World War II incarceration. (LU 1552)
Deer Hunter, The (1978) (183 mins.): Effect of Vietnam and the war on a group of Pittsburgh steel workers. Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep. (LU 1602)
Dim Sum Take Out (1988) (12 mins.): Shatters stereotypes. Five Chinese American women explore how they dealt with cultural and class legacies. (LU 1506)
Dragon Seed (1944) (149 mins.): Based on the Pearl Buck novel. Trouble in a Chinese village after the Japanese invasion. Katherine Hepburn. (LU 1776)
Family Gathering (1990) (30 mins.): Asian American woman penetrates the family silences about internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. (LU 1509)
Flash Gordon (1936): Twelve episodes of this serial in which the Asian-like Ming wants to conquer the universe. (English Dept)
Flower Drum Song (1961) (133 mins.): Mail-order bride competes for affection. Musical. Nancy Kwan, Jack Soo, James Shigeta. (LU 1777)
Good Earth, The (1937) (138 mins.): Pearl Buck novel about a Chinese family devastated by greed. Paul Muni, Luise Rainer. (LU 1781)
Joy Luck Club (1993) (139 mins.): The conditions that shaped the lives of four friends, the hopes for their children. (LU 1782)
Lost Horizon (1937) (132 mins.): Group stumbles into Shangri-La. Ronald Coleman, Jane Wyatt. Frank Capra. (English Dept)
M Butterfly (1993) (101 mins.): Relationship in which a Chinese diva spy manages to conceal a gender secret because of cultural stereotypes. Based on David Henry Hwang's play. (LU 1588)
Madame Butterfly (1995) (129 mins.): Film version of the Puccini opera. (English Dept)
Manzanar (1971) (16 mins.): A Nisei recollects his experiences at the Japanese American internment camp during World War II. (LU 1518)
Maxine Hong Kingston (1986) (52 min. audio): Interview. (LU AC 487)
Maxine Hong Kingston: Talking Story (1990) (60 mins.): Kingston's life and work. (LU 1204)
A Personal Matter: Gordon Hirabayashi versus the United States (1992) (30 mins.): The 43-year struggle to overturn World War II internment as a violation of Constitutional rights. (LU 1553)
Rambo: First Blood, Part II (1985) (95 mins.): Rambo on a dangerous but compromised mission to locate Vietnam POWs. Sylvester Stallone. (LU 1780)
Rashomon (1952) (83 mins.): Four different reports on the murder of a gentleman in feudal Japan and the seduction of his wife. (LU 421)
Sayonara (1957) (147 mins.): The problems of inter-cultural love and marriage. Red Buttons, Marlon Brando, Miyoshi Umeki. (LU 594)
Seven Samurai (1954) (160 mins.): Japanese farmers hire professional swordsmen to protect them from bandit raids. (LU 1059)
Sewing Woman (1982) (14 mins.): Chinese woman determines to survive -- from an arranged marriage in China to work in America's garment factories. (LU 1526)
Slaying the Dragon (1988) (60 mins.): Movie images of Asian American women as the evil Dragon Lady, the seductive Suzy Wong, and the subservient Geisha girl. (LU 1529)
Stories of Maxine Hong Kingston (1989) (2 parts, 30 mins. each): Bill Moyers interviews Kingston. (LU 1532)
Talking History (1982) (30 mins.): Stories of journeys to and life in America by five outspoken Asian women. (LU 1534)
Teahouse of the August Moon, The (1956) (124 mins.): The army sets out to rehabilitate Okinawa after World War II. Glenn Ford, Marlon Brando, Machiko Kyo. (LU 1783)
Thief of Bagdad, The (1924) (140 mins.): Mongol Prince and Dragon Lady-type slave are the villains. Douglas Fairbanks, Anna May Wong. (LU 1778)
Voices of Memory (1989) (60 mins.): Bill Moyers interviews Li- Young Lee. Power of the Word series. (LU 640)
Why is Preparing Fish a Political Act? (1991) (20 mins.): Poet Janice Mirikitani gives her personal experiences as an Asian American woman. (LU 1554)
World of Suzie Wong, The (1960) (129 mins.): Romance between American writer and Chinese prostitute. William Holden, Nancy Kwan. (LU 1567)
Year of the Dragon (1985) (136 mins.): Chinese crime activities in New York. Mickey Rourke. (LU 1784)
PUERTO RICAN
Badge 373 (1973) (116 mins.): Cop suspended for killing a Puerto Rican goes after man responsible for killing his partner, battling the Mob and Puerto Rican gunrunners. Robert Duvall. (LU 1579)
Blackboard Jungle (1955) (101 mins.): Teacher's idealism fades in inner-city New York school. Glenn Ford, Ann Francis, Vic Morrow, Sidney Poitier. (LU 1581)
Crossover Dreams (1985) (85 mins.): Popular Puerto Rican Salsa star abandons his culture in futile quest to make a commercial crossover. Ruben Blades. (LU 1765)
Fort Apache, The Bronx (1981) (120 mins.): Police station in the Bronx is more fort than precinct house. Paul Newman, Edward Asner. (LU 1583)
An Island in America (30 mins.): Cultural, social, and economic life of Puerto Ricans in the U. S. (LU 1514)
Puerto Ricans (1993) (30 mins.): Three generations of family members share memories of Puerto Rico, explore motivations for traveling to America, and discuss the state of their culture here. (Bethlehem Public)
Show of Force (1989) (93 mins.): Reporter at Puerto Rico television station attempts to uncover the story of a man killed perhaps for political reasons. Amy Irving, Robert Duvall. (LU 1596)
West Side Story (1961) (130 mins.): Romeo and Juliet in Puerto Rican New York. George Chakiris, Natalie Wood. (LU 600)
CUBAN AMERICAN
El Super (1979) (80 mins.): Cuban exile, working as a building superintendent in New York, longs to return to his homeland, or at least to Miami. (LU 1766)
Improper Conduct (1984) (110 mins.): Interviews with intellectuals and homosexuals persecuted under Castro. (LU 1604)
Mambo Kings (1992) (104 mins.): Ambitious Cuban brothers come to New York to make it as musicians. (LU 1589 & Bethlehem Public)
Scarface (1988) (170 mins.): Cuban hustler who comes at Mariel and recognizes that money is everything in the land of opportunity muscles his way to the top of a cocaine cartel. Al Pacino. (LU 1595)
JEWISH
The Chosen (1982) (107 mins.): Two young men divided by different approaches to their faith. (LU 1661)
Diary of Ann Frank (1959) (150 mins.): Young girl and family hiding from the Nazis. (LU 1179 & Bethlehem Public)
Gerald Stern: Reading Selected Poems (1992) (60 mins.): Reading and commenting on his own work. (English Dept)
Hester Street (1974) (89 mins.): Orthodox Jewish immigrant woman joins her already assimilated husband in Lower East Side 1890s New York and tries to cope with "America." (LU 1646)
Hungry Hearts (1922) (80 mins.): The movie made from the Anzia Yezierska novel. (LU 1785)
Jazz Singer, The (1927) (89 mins.): Cantor's son must decide between life as a jazz singer or a cantor, between his own wishes and his father's. Al Jolson. (LU 1648)
Pawnbroker (1965) (120 mins.): Holocaust survivor runs a Harlem pawnshop and fights for hope. Rod Steiger. (LU 1522)
Schindler's List (1993) (197 mins.): Businessman becomes unexpected savior of 1,000 Jews during the holocaust. (LU 1637)
Voices of Memory (1989) (60 mins.): Bill Moyers interviews Gerald Stern. Power of the Word series. (LU 640)
GAY, LESBIAN, BISEXUAL
Before Stonewall (1986) (90 mins.): Gradual emergence of gay and lesbian movements from the 1920s through the Stonewall riot in 1969. (LU 1580 & English Dept)
Boys in the Band (1970) (119 mins.): Straight man's appearance at a gay birthday party opens some wounds. William Friedkin. (LU 1582)
Desert Hearts (1985) (91 mins.): Divorcee gradually enters a lesbian relationship and then must decide whether to stick with it. (English Dept)
48 Hours: Gay Bashing (1990) (60 mins.): Violence against homosexuals, outing, organized movements for and against homosexuals, Mother's Day for a lesbian mother, interview with a killer of a gay, attempts to "convert" a lesbian. (LU 1510)
Fried Green Tomatoes (1992) (130 mins.): Repressed lesbian love during the 1920s. (LU 1584)
Gays and Violence (approx 15 mins.): Prime Time Live segment. (Prof Gallagher)
Glen or Glenda (1953) (64 mins.): Now campy study of transvestism. Bela Lugosi, Lyle Talbot. (English Dept)
God Hates Fags (approx 15 mins.): 20/20 segment on a viciously anti-gay minister. (Prof Gallagher)
Henry & June (1990) (136 mins.): Writer Anais Nin embarks on a voyage of sexual discovery after meeting writer Henry Miller. Lesbian scenes. Fred Ward, Maria de Medeiros. (LU 1586)
Improper Conduct (1984) (110 mins.): Interviews with intellectuals and homosexuals persecuted under Castro. (LU 1604)
Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985) (119 mins.): Gay man in South American jail fights to keep his sanity by telling stories about his favorite movies. William Hurt, Raul Julia. (English Dept)
Looking for Langston (1989) (45 mins.): A "meditation" on the life of Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance, exploring black and white gay identities. (LU 1605)
Lost Language of Cranes (1993) (85 mins.): Son comes out with great effect on his family. (LU 1587)
M Butterfly (1993) (101 mins.): Relationship in which a Chinese diva spy manages to conceal a gender secret. (LU 1588)
Maedchen in Uniform (1931) (87 mins.) Young girl's love affair with a caring teacher in a regimented Nazi boarding school is discovered. (English Dept)
Midnight Cowboy (1969) (113 mins.): Harsh realities of New York male prostitute world. Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight. (LU 846)
Naked Civil Servant, The (1980) (80 mins.): Biography of Quentin Crisp, who came out long before it was fashionable to do so. John Hurt. (English Dept)
Personal Best (1982) (124 mins.): Young lesbian athlete comes of age. Mariel Hemingway. (LU 1592)
Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) (100 mins.): The cult classic! (LU 1594)
Tongues Untied (1991) (55 mins.): Marlon Riggs' controversial tribute to the complexity of Black gay life from homophobia and racism. (LU 1771)
Torch Song Trilogy (1988) (120 mins.): Aging drag queen attempts to find domestic bliss. Harvey Fierstein, Matthew Broderick. (LU 606)
Victor/Victoria (1982) (133 mins.): With the help of a gay friend, a lady singer passes herself off as a man, gaining success and eventually a wealthy husband. (English Dept)
Voices and Visions (1988) (60 mins. each): Bio-critical surveys of Elizabeth Bishop (1), Hart Crane (2), Emily Dickinson (3), Langston Hughes (6), Walt Whitman (12). (LU 562)
Word is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives (1977) (130 mins.): Interviews with many gays and lesbians from 18 to 77. (LU 1599)
PERSONS WITH AIDS
Absolutely Positive (1991) (approx 75 mins.): 11 HIV-Positive people tell their stories. (Prof Doty)
a.i.d.s.c.r.e.a.m. (1988) (6 mins.) and Ecce Homo (1989) (7 mins.): Two Jerry Tartaglia films protesting AIDS as a convenient excuse to desexualize gays and terminate the gay liberation movement. (English Dept)
And the Band Played on (1993) (140 mins.): Expose of government mishandling of the AIDS crisis. Matthew Modine, Alan Alda. (LU 1577)
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989) (80 mins.): The stories of 5 AIDS victims on the NAMES Project Memorial Quilt told by their loved ones. (LU 1348)
Intimate Contact (1987) (150 mins.): Middle-class wife's world crumbles as she and her husband try to hold their marriage together after he contracts AIDS from a prostitute. Claire Bloom. (LU 1767)
Living Proof: HIV and the Pursuit of Happiness (1993) (72 mins.): HIV-positive people living life to the fullest, combating the image of the victim given in the popular media. (LU 1768)
Longtime Companion (1990) (100 mins.): The effect of AIDS on a small group of friends and lovers. (LU 1193)
Men in Love (1991) (87 mins.): Man returns ashes of lover who dies from AIDS to Hawaii. (LU 1590)
Parting Glances (1986) (90 mins.): Love story about a book editor, his current lover, and a former lover dying of AIDS. (LU 1769)
Philadelphia (1993) (125 mins.): AIDS sufferer sues after he is fired from a law firm. Denzel Washington, Paul Hanks. (LU 1593)
Positive (1990) (80 mins.): New York gay population's response to the AIDS epidemic, activism generated by such people as Larry Kramer. (LU 1620)
Video Against Aids (3 tapes, 2 hrs. each): Collection of 22 independently produced works "united only in their passion to combat ignorance and to tolerate no opposition in the battle for a cure." (Prof Doty)
A Virus Knows No Morals (1985) (84 mins.): Black comedy savagely burlesques all aspects of the AIDS crisis. (English Dept)
Voices From the Front (1992): Testing the Limits Collective. Activist
voices. (Prof Doty)