Films

Streaming Video Options

Kanopy Streaming Video
Over 10,000 videos, including the Media Education Foundation package and Kanopy BASE package. Users may submit a request for videos that the library is not currently subscribed to.
Films on Demand
Streaming video access to one title: Flappers: The Birth of the 20th Century Woman

This photograph depicts a group of men and a film crew on board SS
SIERRA. The photograph was taken in August 1929 at Circular Quay
during the welcoming and celebrations of the arrival of Australia's
first Movietone News truck.

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Film Reviews

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Film reviews can be found in the following databases. Log-in required when accessing from off-campus:

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New York Times (1851-2009)

Film & Television Literature Index

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Article Databases

JSTOR

Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive

Literary Reference Center

Academic Search Complete

Websites

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Entertainment Weekly

E! Online

Films in the Library

Students can check out DVDs from the Library, using their student ID card.

Inglourious basterds
Call Number: PN1997.2.I545 2009
During World War II, a group of Jewish-American guerilla soldiers, led by Lt. Aldo Raine, become known as "The Basterds." They are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis.
The boy in the striped pajamas [videorecording] by Heyman, David, 1961-
Call Number: PN1997.2.B69 2009
ISBN: 9780788884023
Publication Date: 2009
Set in Poland during World War II. Innocent and naive 8-year-old Bruno is bored and restless in his new home. Ignoring his mother, he sets off on an adventure in the woods. He comes across a high fence which separates him from the people he can see through it. Soon he meets a young boy in striped pajamas, and a surprising friendship develops.
Casablanca by Warner Home Video
Call Number: PN1997.2 .C37 1999
ISBN: 079074399X
In World War II Morocco, seething with European refugees desperate for passage to neutral Lisbon, only a world-weary and bitter nightclub owner can help his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.
Schindler's list [videorecording]
ISBN: 9781417002108
The story of a Catholic war profiteer, Oskar Schindler, who risked his life and went bankrupt in order to save more than 1,000 Jews from certain death in concentration camps.
The War by Ken Burns
Call Number: D811.5.W37 2007
ISBN: B000R7NBMK
Publication Date: 2007
Creating epic documentaries about war is nothing new for Ken Burns, nor is the subject of the Second World War, which never ceases to be a popular subject of films and TV shows. Yet with The War, Burns has definitely succeeded in breaking new ground, exploring in depth the effect of the war on common Americans, and not just the soldiers of The Greatest Generation that fought it.