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Film titles starting with V

V for Vendetta
Set against the futuristic landscape of totalitarian Britain, the story of a young working-class woman, Evey, who is rescued from a life-and-death situation by a masked man known only as 'V.' Incomparably charismatic and ferociously skilled in the art of combat and deception, 'V' ignites a revolution when he urges his fellow citizens to rise up against tyranny and oppression. As Evey uncovers the truth about 'V's' mysterious background, she also discovers the truth about herself. She becomes his ally in his plan to bring freedom and justice to a cruel and corrupt society.
DVD 4476
Va savoir Who knows? /
DVD 1407
Va, vis et deviens Live and become /
A young boy who isn't an orphan is transported away from his home during Operation Moses at a Sudanese refugee camp, in order to honor his mother's wishes of finding a better and safer life.
DVD 5330
Vacances de Monsieur Hulot
Presents a series of humorous impressions and incidents at a seaside Brittany resort involving the accident-prone Mr. Hulot. Principally visual humor. There is no story: simply a series of comic mix-ups and casual caricatures. Soundtrack is mostly ambient sound.
DVD 3009
Vacas
A saga spanning over half a century of the twisted goings on between families in Northern Spain. From the Carlist Wars of 1875 to the Spanish Civil War in the thirties, the fathers, sons and grandsons are locked in an absurdly stubborn and emotionally exhausting conflict. Sometimes there seems to be no escape from how family ties dictate our fate.
DVD 1178
Vaccine war
Now, in 2015, measles, mumps, and whooping cough are all making a comeback. Building on years of research, this updated documentary explores both the roots of the vaccine debate, and the latest chapter in the heated controversy: Are parents who choose not to vaccinate their children putting the health of our nation at risk? This is a compelling and timely report on an issue that remains highly emotional and deeply divisive.
DVD 11249
Vagabond
An aimless drifter wandering through the wintry French countryside encounters violence, hunger, fear and cold, yet touches the lives of the people she meets with her own ideas of freedom.
DVD 664
Vajra sky over Tibet [central Tibet] /
Traveling through Himalayan terrain, this video offers a direct experience of the most revered temples, monasteries and festivals still surviving in Tibet.
DVD 9892
Vākūnish -i panjūm The fifth reaction /
DVD 4193
Vakvagany Dead end /
Vakvagany is a film developed from archival home movie footage shot between 1948 and 1964 in and around Budapest, Hungary. The footage suggests unhealthy relations between the parents and the children and sparks questions about the father's job returning goods stolen from Jews during the war.
DVD 3058
Valentine Road
"In 2008, eighth-grader Brandon McInerney shot classmate Larry King at point blank range. Unraveling this tragedy from point of impact, the film reveals the heartbreaking circumstances that led to the shocking crime as well as the aftermath." --Movie website.
DVD 11580
Valerie a týden divů Valerie and her week of wonders /
A bewitching fairy tale about a young girl's coming of age. Valerie discovers the world is not what it seems after she gets a pair of magical earrings. Her quaint little village is actually a haven for blood-sucking vampires. Her grandmother is really an evil old crone. The local farmers are lechers, and the town's priest harbors strange desires.
DVD 4296
Valerie and her week of wonders
A bewitching fairy tale about a young girl's coming of age. Valerie discovers the world is not what it seems after she gets a pair of magical earrings. Her quaint little village is actually a haven for blood-sucking vampires. Her grandmother is really an evil old crone. The local farmers are lechers, and the town's priest harbors strange desires.
DVD 4296
Valkyrie
Based on the incredible true story of Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg and his ingenious assassination plot targeting Adolf Hitler, this engrossing thriller reenacts the daring operation to eliminate one of the most evil tyrants the world has ever known.
DVD 6616
Valley of the wolves: Iraq
Feature film that uses as a starting point the real-life capture and detention of 11 Turkish special forces soldiers and 13 civilians by American soldiers in the northern Iraqi town of Sulaymaniyah, an action that became infamous in Turkey as the "Hood Incident." Alemdar, a former Turkish intelligence agent, sets out to Iraq with several colleagues to avenge the death by suicide of a friend who was humiliated in the incident.
DVD 8422
Valley uprising Yosemite's rock climbing revolution /
In the campgrounds of Yosemite valley, climbers carved out a counterculture lifestyle that clashed with the values of the National Park Service. But up on the walls, generation after generation has pushed the limits of climbing, vying amongst each other for supremacy on Yosemite's cliffs. This film recounts the history of Yosemite's climbing tradition: half a century of struggle against the laws of gravity-- and the laws of the land.
DVD 12893
Valmont
Set in 18th century France, this is the story of two bored aristocrats, and the havoc they wreck when they decide to play sexual games with people's lives.
DVD 1693
!Vamanos con Pancho Villa! Let's go with Pancho Villa! /
This classic of Mexican cinema follows the adventures of six young men who leave their rural homes to join Pancho Villa's army. Together the men endure hardship, tragedy, and disillusionment for the cause of the Mexican Revolution.
DVD 4900
Vampire secrets
Uncover the ancient folkloric origins of blood-craving creatures from beyond the grave. Learn how the vampire myth is strongly rooted in Eastern European lore, but how it has also played a role in the ancient cultures of Greece and China as well.
DVD 8485
Vampire thrills
Rollin's third vampire fairy tale follows the misfortunes of two young newlyweds who end up in a strange, medieval castle where they encounter hippies, vampires and two young girls.
DVD 833
Vampires
Describes the achievements of Les Vampires, a secret society of criminals led by Irma Vep. The gang uses kidnapping, poisonous gas, heavy artillery, sexual domination and murder to gain power over the elite of Paris.
DVD 885
Vampire's assistant
Based on the popular series of books by Darren Shan is a fantasy-adventure about a teenager who unknowingly breaks a 200-year-old truce between two warring factions of vampires. Pulled into a fantastic life of misunderstood sideshow freaks and grotesque creatures of the night, one teen will vanish from the safety of a boring existence and fulfill his destiny in a place drawn from nightmares.
DVD 7429
Vampires in Havana
Professor Von Dracula, a vampire scientist, leaves Transylvania for Cuba, and invents "Vampisol," a potion that allows vampires to survive in sunlight. When the Professor announces his intention to donate the formula free of charge to vampires all over the world, the Vampire Mafia from Chicago and the European Group of Vampires from Dusseldorf Germany try to muscle in and steal the formula. The action escalates crazily as an assortment of bad guys, police, vampires and other monsters and our hero with his girlfriend are all caught up in the chase.
DVD 4896
Vampiros en la Habana Vampires in Havana /
Professor Von Dracula, a vampire scientist, leaves Transylvania for Cuba, and invents "Vampisol," a potion that allows vampires to survive in sunlight. When the Professor announces his intention to donate the formula free of charge to vampires all over the world, the Vampire Mafia from Chicago and the European Group of Vampires from Dusseldorf Germany try to muscle in and steal the formula. The action escalates crazily as an assortment of bad guys, police, vampires and other monsters and our hero with his girlfriend are all caught up in the chase.
DVD 4896
Vampyr
"With Vampyr, Danish filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyser's brilliance of achieving mesmerizing atmosphere and austere, profoundly unsettling imagery was for once applied to the horror genre. Yet the result--concerning an occult student assailed by various supernatural haunts and local evildoers in a village outside Paris--is nearly unclassifiable, a host of stunning camera and editing tricks and densely layered sounds creating a mood of dreamlike terror. With its rolling fogs, ominous scythes, and foreboding echoes, Vampyr is one of cinema's great nightmares."--Container.
DVD 663
Vampyr (Motion picture)
"With Vampyr, Danish filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyser's brilliance of achieving mesmerizing atmosphere and austere, profoundly unsettling imagery was for once applied to the horror genre. Yet the result--concerning an occult student assailed by various supernatural haunts and local evildoers in a village outside Paris--is nearly unclassifiable, a host of stunning camera and editing tricks and densely layered sounds creating a mood of dreamlike terror. With its rolling fogs, ominous scythes, and foreboding echoes, Vampyr is one of cinema's great nightmares."--Container.
DVD 663
Vangelo secondo Matteo The gospel according to Saint Mathhew /
"The birth, life, teachings and death on the cross of Jesus Christ presented almost as a cinema-verité documentary. Pasolini's second feature ... is an attempt to take Christ out of the opulent church and present him as an outcast Italian peasant"--Container.
DVD 2370
Vanishing
During a road trip with her husband, a woman is abducted by a methodical, calculating psychopath. Her husband becomes obsessed with learning her fate, and neither time nor the love of another woman can end his tormented quest.
DVD 1346
Vanishing oath
"... the dark frustrations of a Boston doctor who refused to ignore that, every day, we are losing good doctors. Dr. Ryan Flesher's raw and unscripted look at himself and his own place in medicine provides a unique revelation that our modern day healers have long held silent. Being a physician today carries a complexity and responsibility, known only to those whom are expected to tend to the ills of society. But when doctors are suffering themselves - who really cares? We are all patients and come the day that we allow for money to supersede humanity, we all become collateral damage. Dr. Flesher, driven by the altruism that brought him into medicine, with camera in hand, will pull back the curtain. In so doing, he becomes both observer and participant in this unique exploration into the psyche of physicians today... from Boston to San Francisco to Denver and from Ecuador to Maine and back"--Publishers' website (viewed
DVD 8024
Vanishing of the bees
Colony Collapse Disorder has brought beekeepers to crisis in an industry responsible for producing apples, broccoli, cherries, almonds and a hundred other fruits and vegetables. This documentary follows two commercial beekeepers as they strive to keep their bees healthy and fulfull pollination contracts across the U.S. They plead their case on Capital Hill and travel across the Pacific Ocean in the quest to protect their honeybees.
DVD 8211
Vanishing point
Kowalski is a man who's tried to live by the rules, but experience has left him believing that the pretentions of the world offer no salvation and no freedom. Trying to transcend the limits of life, he takes a Dodge Challenger and bets that he can drive from Denver to San Francisco in fifteen hours. With the police soon in pursuit, he attempts to beat the odds, along the way recalling episodes from his past and encountering a supporting cast of characters who assist him, including Super Soul, a blind DJ who describes Kowalski's progress on the air and soon turns him into a cult hero.
DVD 7982
Vanity fair
A made for television mini-series of Thackeray's story of an amoral beauty determined to scheme and seduce her way into Britain's upper classes.
DVD 2138
Vanya on 42nd Street
A group of actors meet to rehearse Chekhov's Uncle Vanya and find the same conflicts in their own lives as are dealt with in the play.
DVD 2490
Vanya on forty-second street
A group of actors meet to rehearse Chekhov's Uncle Vanya and find the same conflicts in their own lives as are dealt with in the play.
DVD 2490
Vaqt
"Lala Kedarnath (Balraj Sahni) is a wealthy and respected trader, a self-made man who prides himself on being the architect of his own destiny. The twists and turns of fate shape the lives of Lala and his family."--Container.
DVD 3754
Vaqta
"Lala Kedarnath (Balraj Sahni) is a wealthy and respected trader, a self-made man who prides himself on being the architect of his own destiny. The twists and turns of fate shape the lives of Lala and his family."--Container.
DVD 3754
Vargtimmen
A brooding artist accompanied by his wife travels to a remote island where he hopes to escape his demons.
DVD 3631
Variety lights
A newly restored print of Fellini's directorial debut. The film features the director's wife and frequent collaborator, Giulietta Masina, and it introduces Fellini's affection for carnivalesque characters and the variety show, both of which influenced much of his later work. The movie features the onstage and backstage antics of a provincial troupe of lovably inept vaudeville performers travelling laboriously from one small town to another for little pay and ever-uncertain receptions.
DVD 1278
Varjoja paratiisissa Shadows in paradise /
An episode in the life of Nikander, a garbage man, involving the death of a co-worker, an affair and much more.
DVD 7292
Varya
Madame Ranevskaya returns to her decaying estate in pre-Revolutionary Russia after an exile in Paris. The estate and its beloved cherry orchard are threatened by Ranevskaya's financial problems, and no one seems able to do anything about it.
DVD 2224
Vasilisa Prekrasnai︠a︡
A retelling of an old Russian fairy tale in which beautiful Vasilissa is rescued from the clutches of the witch Baba Yaga.
DVD 3103
Vassilisa the beautiful
A retelling of an old Russian fairy tale in which beautiful Vasilissa is rescued from the clutches of the witch Baba Yaga.
DVD 3103
Vatel
The Duc de Condé's employee, François Vatel, is in charge of cooking, and preparing shows for the French King Louis XIV when he visits the castle of Chantilly, owned by de Condé. If Vatel can impress the King, de Condé will gain his favors, and the destiny of France will change. While the King is visiting and three days of banquets ensue, Vatel falls in love with the King's mistress.
DVD 9470
Vaxxed from cover-up to catastophe /
A documentary alleging that the CDC, the government agency charged with protecting the health of American citizens, destroyed data on their 2004 study that showed a link between the MMR vaccine and autism.
DVD 11780
Věc Makropulos
DVD 9142
Vecchia guardia
This dramatic paean to the Blackshirts takes place in a small village in Italy in October of 1922, on the eve of the fascist "March on Rome", in which King Victor Emanuel III was persuaded to consign power to Benito Mussolini.
DVD 13499
Vecher nakanune Ivana Kupala
"This darkly evocative, poetic and imagistic film is based on several folktales recounted by Nikolai V. Gogol (1809-1852). Cinematically complex and varied, the nonlinear story is told with virtually no dialog and serves mainly as a framework for showing scenes with deeply mythological imagery. It concerns the efforts a young peasant is making to win the hand of a rich man's daughter, in the course of which the peasant is led deeper and deeper into complicity with the evils that surround him"--http://movies.nytimes.com.
DVD 10595
Vechir na Ivana Kupala Eve of Ivan Kupala /
"This darkly evocative, poetic and imagistic film is based on several folktales recounted by Nikolai V. Gogol (1809-1852). Cinematically complex and varied, the nonlinear story is told with virtually no dialog and serves mainly as a framework for showing scenes with deeply mythological imagery. It concerns the efforts a young peasant is making to win the hand of a rich man's daughter, in the course of which the peasant is led deeper and deeper into complicity with the evils that surround him"--http://movies.nytimes.com.
DVD 10595
VEEP.
Former Senator Selina Meyer was a charismatic leader and a rising star in her party with her eye on the White House, then she became Vice President. VEEP follows the whirlwind day-to day existence of Vice President Meyer as she puts out political fires, juggles a busy public schedule and demanding private life, and defends the President's interests, even as she tries to improve her dysfunctional relationship with the Chief Executive.
DVD 9544
VEEP
Julia Louis-Dreyfus returns for a second season in her Emmy winning role as Vice President Selina Meyer in VEEP. As midterm elections loom, Vice President Meyer is scoring higher ratings than the President in several popularity polls, which she hopes will boost her influence and help her curry favor with the chief executive. But despite her best intentions, even the most banal actions can set off unexpected and often disastrous consequences. Her staff is close at hand with a laugh-out-loud combination of personal problems and government-insider antics.
DVD 10926
Veep.
Season three begins with Selina, eying a promotion, courting Iowa caucus voters at a signing for her new book, 'Some new beginnings.' Soon, Selina and her staff, are back in D.C. for Mike's wedding, learn that Secretary of Defense Maddox is resigning; setting Selina up for a possible run in the presidential primaries against Maddox and her nemesis, war-vet Danny Chung.
DVD 10932
VEEP
Former Senator Selina Meyer has accepted the call to serve as Vice President of the United States. The job is nothing like she imagined and everything she was warned about. 'Veep' follows Meyer and her staff as they attempt to make their mark and leave a lasting legacy, without getting tripped up in the day-to-day political games that define Washington.
DVD 11560
Veep
Former Senator Selina Meyer finds that being Vice President of the United States is nothing like she hoped and everything that everyone ever warned her about.
DVD 12303
Veep (Television program).
Julia Louis-Dreyfus returns for a second season in her Emmy winning role as Vice President Selina Meyer in VEEP. As midterm elections loom, Vice President Meyer is scoring higher ratings than the President in several popularity polls, which she hopes will boost her influence and help her curry favor with the chief executive. But despite her best intentions, even the most banal actions can set off unexpected and often disastrous consequences. Her staff is close at hand with a laugh-out-loud combination of personal problems and government-insider antics.
DVD 10926
Veep (Television program).
Former Senator Selina Meyer finds that being Vice President of the United States is nothing like she hoped and everything that everyone ever warned her about.
DVD 12303
Vegetable farmers and their sustainable tillage practices
Explores different approaches to reducing the intensity of tillage while maintaining crop production.
DVD 7332
Vegetable farmers and their weed control machines
Features visits with nine New England vegetable farmers. These farmers explain their weed management philosophy and demonstrate the use of custom-built and trade-name weed management equipment. An educational video on cultivation and flaming equipment.
DVD 7333
Veiled revolution
"Egyptian women were the first Arab women to march in political demonstrations (1919), the first to take off their veils publicly (1923), and the first to receive free secular education (1924). But today the educated grandaughters of those early Arab feminists are returning to Islamic dress, complete with full face veil and gloves. A veiled revolution considers possible reasons for this turn back to tradition--the resurgence of Islamic fundamentalism, the rejection of western values--as Egyptian women speak out"--Container.
DVD 4871
Veiled voices
"Women in the Arab world are redefining their role as leaders in Islam. Veiled voices investigates the world of Muslim women religious leaders through the eyes of three women--in Lebanon, Syria and Egypt"--Container.
DVD 11809
Velikai︠a︡ bitva na Volge
"The Soviet view of the classic battle that changed the course of the war in favor of the Allies. Rare Captured German footage was used that is not found in any other documentary produced by the Allies"--Container.
DVD 7145
Velvet goldmine
It's been 10 years since glam-rock superstar Brian Slade faked his own death and vanished from the spotlight. Now, it's the job of an investigative reporter to locate this living legend and uncover the truth behind his disappearance!
DVD 1893
Vendedora de rosas The rose seller /
13 year-old Mónica and her friends live on the streets of Medellín, Colombia, surviving by selling roses to couples in nightclubs and sniffing glue to escape their desperation and loneliness. Set in the two days before Christmas, the film is a modernization of Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Match Girl, starring a non-professional cast of Medellín street children.
DVD 10338
Vendredi soir Friday night /
It's Friday night in Paris. Laure has just finished packing her apartment, she is moving in tomorrow with her boyfriend. She leaves to go to dinner with friends and gets stuck in the middle of a mass transit strike which has thrown the city into chaos. As Laure takes in the sights and sounds of the city, a stranger approaches the car. She opens the door to the man, who in a single night, will change her life forever.
DVD 3142
Vengeance
Costello is a world-weary but dapper gourmet chef who clearly has violence in his past when he enlists the help of hired assassins to enact his bloody revenge on the Chinese gangsters who nearly killed his little girl.
DVD 8600
Vengeance is mine
A true crime story about Iwao Enokizu, self-styled "King of criminals." Enokizu began his criminal career through a series of murders that made headlines and startled all Japan with a sense of uneasy fascination.
DVD 5731
Vent souffle où il veut
A French Resistance fighter is sent to an infamous prison in Lyon in 1943, where 7,000 of the 12,000 prisoners housed there died either by natural means or by execution. Lt. Fontaine is certain that execution awaits him, and begins planning his escape. For a period of time he goes it alone, but reluctantly takes on a partner. He gets some help from a couple of prisoners allowed to stroll in the exercise yard, but for the most part he is a figure of isolation.
DVD 3059
Ventana The window /
While waiting for his estranged son's visit, eighty-year-old Antonio walks in his fields, reminiscing about his life.
DVD 11129
Venus
Maurice and Ian are successful, but aging actors. The two are close friends whose conversation generally revolves around theatrical shop talk and the infirmities of other aging actors. Ian is fearful that death is right around the corner, so he agrees to let his niece's daughter, Jessie, move in to his flat to care for him. Jessie is a modern woman in her early twenties. She turns out to be a nightmare for Ian, especially since she is a hard-drinking, rude, and dismissive brat. But Maurice sees something else in the young woman, a potential for humanity which blossoms under his kindness and gentle guidance. For Maurice, something else blossoms as well - romantic love for a girl fifty years younger.
DVD 5262
Vénus beauté (institut) Venus Beauty (salon) /
Romantic comedy which follows the life of Angèle, a forty-something woman who makes her living at a Parisian spa and whose life has been a series of hedonistic and reckless one-night stands.
DVD 3793
Venus Beauty Institute
Romantic comedy which follows the life of Angèle, a forty-something woman who makes her living at a Parisian spa and whose life has been a series of hedonistic and reckless one-night stands.
DVD 3793
Venus Beauty (salon)
Romantic comedy which follows the life of Angèle, a forty-something woman who makes her living at a Parisian spa and whose life has been a series of hedonistic and reckless one-night stands.
DVD 3793
Venus boyz
Venus Boyz takes the viewers on an extraordinary journey into the universe of female masculinity. Filmed in New York City and London, this eye-opening documentary uses the performances of drag kings - as a starting point into the topic of transgendering.
DVD 2541
Venus in fur
In a Parisian theatre after a day of auditioning actresses for the play he is preparing to direct, Thomas is distraught that none has what it takes to play the lead female character. He is getting ready to leave when Vanda appears: an unbridled and brazen whirlwind of energy. Vanda embodies everything Thomas hates. She is crude, idiotic, and will stop at nothing to get the part. But when Thomas finds himself backed into a corner and lets her try her luck, he is amazed to see Vanda transformed.
DVD 10710
Venus vs
Features nine documentary films about women in sports, directed by an extraordinarily diverse group of female filmmakers. Executive produced by Jane Rosenthal, these critically-acclaimed films highlight Pat Summitt's remarkable story, Venus Williams' fight for equal pay and the 1999 US Women's World Cup team, among others. An inspirational collection of remarkable and moving films, Nine for IX is certain to appeal to all independent film fans.
DVD 11860
Vera
Follows a solitary, obsessed, cantankerous investigaor-- who happens to be pure genius at her job.
DVD 10109
Vera.
Follows a solitary, obsessed, cantankerous investigator-- who happens to be pure genius at her job.
DVD 10110
Vera.
This is a compelling mystery series, inspired by Ann Cleeves' bestselling novel. Patrolling her patch of northeast England, Vera resolutely pursues the truth in cases of murder, kidnapping, and blackmail. While her manner is sometimes caustic, her single-mindedness gets results.
DVD 10113
Vera.
Northumberland Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope and her partner, Detective Sergeant Joe Ashworth, work to unravel four new crimes.
DVD 11485
Vera
With her caustic wit and singular charm, DCI Vera Stanhope and her trusted right-hand man DS Joe Ashworth face a series of captivating murder mysteries set against the breathtaking Northumberland landscape.
DVD 11487
Vera
Includes four all-new, feature-length mysteries. From the death of a woman found on the Northumberland cliffs to the body of a fisherman pulled out of the sea, these cases prove to be some of the most difficult and emotional in Vera's career.
DVD 12602
Vera
Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope and her assistant Detective Sergeant Aiden Healy work to solve four more perplexing cases, set in rural Northumberland.
DVD 12604
Vera Cruz
During the Mexican Revolution of 1866, two American adventurers sign up to escort a carriage from the palace of Emperor Maximilian I in Mexico City to the seaport of Vera Cruz. Aboard the carriage is a beautiful French countess and a treasure of three million dollars in gold coins. Includes original theatrical trailer.
DVD 2215
Vera Drake
Vera Drake tells of a woman in 1950s England who is devoted to caring for her family, but secretly aids women who want to terminate unwanted pregnancies. When the authorities find her out, Vera's world and family life rapidly unravel.
DVD 3493
Vera (Television program).
This is a compelling mystery series, inspired by Ann Cleeves' bestselling novel. Patrolling her patch of northeast England, Vera resolutely pursues the truth in cases of murder, kidnapping, and blackmail. While her manner is sometimes caustic, her single-mindedness gets results.
DVD 10113
Vera (Television program).
Northumberland Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope and her partner, Detective Sergeant Joe Ashworth, work to unravel four new crimes.
DVD 11485
Vera (Television program).
With her caustic wit and singular charm, DCI Vera Stanhope and her trusted right-hand man DS Joe Ashworth face a series of captivating murder mysteries set against the breathtaking Northumberland landscape.
DVD 11487
Vera (Television program).
Includes four all-new, feature-length mysteries. From the death of a woman found on the Northumberland cliffs to the body of a fisherman pulled out of the sea, these cases prove to be some of the most difficult and emotional in Vera's career.
DVD 12602
Vera (Television program).
Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope and her assistant Detective Sergeant Aiden Healy work to solve four more perplexing cases, set in rural Northumberland.
DVD 12604
Verde que te quiero verde
This video profiles Cuban farmers and scientists working to reinvent a sustainable agriculture, based on ecological principles and local knowledge rather than imported agricultural inputs. In their quest for self-sufficiency, Cubans combine time-tested traditional methods with cutting-edge biotechnology.
DVD 10092
Verdict
Alcoholic lawyer finds a chance to redeem himself by accepting an unwinnable case.
DVD 2348
Verdict on Auschwitz : the Frankfurt Auschwitz trial, 1963-1965
On December 20, 1963, the Frankfurt Court of Assizes began a historic trial. On August 20, 1965, after years of investigation, the 20 months of proceedings concluded with a verdict in one of the most significant trials in German legal history. In the dock were 22 members of the Waffen-SS, who were staff members at Auschwitz. 360 witnesses, including 211 survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau, 54 former members of the SS garrison of the camp, 34 other former SS or police officers and 61 other persons testified. Members of the court even visited Auschwitz-Birkenau--an extraordinary event--as Poland and Germany had no official relationship at the time. This trial brought the German people to grips with the collective amnesia German society had affected in the postwar period. The facts of individual involvement in crimes at Auschwitz-Birkenau were revealed, and individual responsibility for the mass murder of millions assigned. The documentary explores the investigation, the courtroom drama, and the verdict.
DVD 5388
Vérité
Beautiful, troubled Dominique Marceau came to bohemian Paris to escape the suffocation of provincial life, only to wind up in a courtroom, accused of a terrible crime: the murder of her lover. As the trial commences and the lawyers begin tangling over Dominique's fate, Henri-Georges Clouzot's Oscar-nominate film delves into her past, reconstructing her struggle to find a foothold in the city.
DVD 13012
Vérité si je mens Would I lie to you! /
Eddie Vuibert is a man with no job, no family, and no home. One day, after a fight, Eddie sees his luck turning - a rich entrepreneur from the French fashion district hires him, thinking he is Jewish.
DVD 8028
Verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum The lost honor of Katharina Blum /
In the period of several days, Katharina's privacy and her honor are destroyed, first by the police who terrorize her, and then by the yellow press, which creates in her name the image of a politicized Bonnie Parker.
DVD 2205
Vermont 2035 five big questions about the future /
Futurist Atul Dighe discusses the outlook for the state of Vermont over the next 30 years as part of the 30th edition of the George D. Aiken Lecture Series. He explores five questions: What about the youth? What new models of education need to be created? What steps can be taken to help with the balance between personal spirituality in a changing multicultural society? What happens to community and how does it change? What about infrastructure?
DVD 8845
Vermont 2035 human face of globalization /
Dr. Bhagwati discusses the role globalization will play on the outlook for the state of Vermont as part of the 30th edition of the George D. Aiken Lecture Series.
DVD 8846
Vermont 2035 the history & the future of Vermont's landscape /
Author and historian Jan Albers and Darby Bradley give a joint lecture entitled, “The History and the Future of Vermont's Landscape,” as part of the 30th edition of the George D. Aiken Lecture Series. Albers is author of “Hands on the Land: A History of the Vermont Landscape," an award-winning book that has been recognized by the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, the Vermont Book Professionals Association, the Pioneer America Society and the National Arbor Day Foundation. Bradley, past Chair of the Vermont Environmental Board and president of Vermont Land Trust, a nonprofit organization that works with individuals, organizations and communities to conserve land for the future of Vermont will illustrate the current pressures on Vermont's landscape and how they may affect its future.
DVD 5914
Vermont Arts Council presents
Six Vermont artists discuss the role artists play in bringing attention to social and political issues, inspiring people to think about those issues and in some cases motivate change.
DVD 7406
Vermont Civil Union Debate
DVD 6200
Vermont farm to school
DVD 11267
Vermont flood of 1927
Describes the flood of 1927 and the damage it wrought in Vermont and parts of Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
DVD 11794
Vermont is for lovers
"The first installment in The Tunbridge Trilogy, this follows a young New York couple who come to Vermont for their wedding. Unfortunately, the idyllic setting brings out the worst in the couple and before long even the wedding itself is in doubt. But, as the bride and groom court disaster, something extraordinary happens, ushering a conclusion that's wornderfully funny and happily redemptive."--P. [4] of cover.
DVD 6046
Vermont memories
A look at Vermont's past through old film clips and still photos and interviews with Vermonters. Includes steam trains, summer camps and grand resort hotels, Burlington in the 1920's, early politicians, prohibition, and skiing legends, as well as the 1930's tourism film, "Seeing Vermont with Dot and Glen."
DVD 11740
Vermont memories II into the '50s /
Covers Vermont history after World War II. Includes the growth of the car culture, the advent of television, growth of ski areas, and the rise of Vermont tourism.
DVD 11741
Vermont memories III vanished images /
Covers things from Vermont's history that no longer exist. Part I, Yankee ingenuity, includes the marble industry, Chubb fishing rods made in Post Mills, Estey organs manufactured in Brattleboro, logging in the Northeast Kingdom in the 40's and 50's, crackers produced by the St. Johnsbury Cracker Company, and the International Explosives Company in Swanton. Part II, The times, covers the back-to-the-land communes of the 1960's, Bennington Pottery Company which closed in 1913, the affect of the flood of 1927 on the Little River Valley, and relics of the past on Burlington's waterfront. Part III, Fun and adventure, discusses Island Park in Brattleboro, hotels, summer camps, the ski jump featured at the winter carnival in Newport, and racing at Milton's Catamount Speedway.
DVD 11742
Vermont movie : one state, many visions
"Freedom & Unity: The Vermont Movie is a six-part collaborative documentary produced by several dozen Vermont-based filmmakers. Using cinema verite, personal stories, rare footage, compelling interviews and original re-enactments they've created a living testament that explores the history and contemporary culture of the Green Mountain State. Vermonters past and present -- from Abenakis and early settlers, runaway slaves, farmers, historians, politicians, activists, newcomers moving 'back to the land' -- tell how one small state has made a very big difference." -- Insert.
DVD 10212
Vermont speaks for itself a multi-media presentation with tapes, slides, interviews with Vermonters and original country music /
Vermont Speaks For Itself is a 1973 social justice multi-media documentary project produced and distributed by the Vermont Media Collective in the mid-1970s. The documentary uses extensive interviews with Vermonters to illustrate the economic and social conditions faced by Vermont's low-income and working people during that period, backed with additional narration that highlights research and proposes solutions. The film depicts the economic and personal impact of the decline of the family farm and local business for many Vermonters, caused by large development corporations and real estate investors. A traditional string band sound track recorded by local performers accentuates the project. This film was originally produced as a slide-show accompanied by a separate audio track. In 1976, the slide show was transferred to the 16mm BW film format. In 2016, the film was digitized and released on DVD.
DVD 12169
Vermont stories in modern America defining moments in U.S. History : a collaborative effort between Harwood U.S. history students and their community.
Vermont stories in modern America is a video produced by Harwood Union High School U.S. history students. Students in three history classes collected oral histories from Vermonters who had either direct or indirect experiences in defining eras of modern America: World War II, the Cold War, the Korean War, the Red Scare, Vietnam, the Counter Culture Movement, the Space Race, and the Civil Rights Movement.
DVD 10935
Vermont wind looking toward our energy future /
Host Chris McClure explores how we get our electric power today and explains the potential of adding wind energy to our future energy portfolio.
DVD 2877
Vermonters at war World War II : from home front to front lines /
"A look at Vermonters who served in World War II, both at home and on the front lines. Soldiers remember basic training and the shock of combat while those who stayed behind recall booming Springfield factories, farms struggling without young men to work them and the rationing and blackouts that made daily life a constant challenge."--Program guide.
DVD 6567
Vermont's George Aiken balancing freedom & unity.
"Starting at the ripe age of 18, when he became the Master of the Putney Grange, George Aiken proved himself to be a natural leader, and thus began his long career of service to his community, state, and country, culminating in his 34-year tenure as a U.S. Senator. This documentary chronicles the life and times of George Aiken, and the political career that always put what was best for Vermonters first."--back of the DVD case.
DVD 11744
Vermont's great flood
Describes the great 1927 flood in Vermont and its aftermath using a combination of modern and archival film footage. Vermonters Graham Newell and Ken Bessette relate their memories of the flood.
DVD 6568
Vermont's past century
Describes changes in Vermont's way of life during the past century. Includes interviews with Vermonters who have experienced changes such as the coming of electricity and the automobile, women's suffrage, and the flood of 1927, as well as changes in the basic economy with the advent of development in the last half of the century.
DVD 6574
Vermush : Vermont's own mushroom farm, workshop at Hunger Mountain Coop.
"This workshop explore many aspects of identification and cultivation with a focus on gourmet mushrooms from the Green Mountain State of Vermont."--Container.
DVD 8298
Vernon, Florida
Fire up the pickup and head down to this bizarre backwater town with Errol Morris, as he presents a pastiche of fascinating interviews with the weird and wonderful people of Vernon, Florida.
DVD 3872
Veronica Guerin
Veronica Guerin was a relentless crime reporter for The Sunday Independent during the early '90s. Guerin's violent murder in 1996 led to a revision of Ireland's laws and the creation of the Criminal Assets Bureau. Picks up with her pursuit of the underground drug trade in Dublin, which she suspects is led by mobster Martin "The General" Cahill. When Cahill's gang is attacked, she suspects mobster Gerry "The Monk" Hutch is responsible. Not deterred by threats or gunshot wounds, she uses thug John Traynor as an informer to help out her investigation of psychotic mobster John Gilligan.
DVD 8315
Veronica Mars.
In the wealthy, seaside community of Neptune, California, the rich and powerful make the rules. Unfortunately for them, there's Veronica Mars, a smart, fearless 17-year-old apprentice private investigator solving the town's toughest mysteries.
DVD 8396
Veronica Mars.
In season two, the Mars family find themselves embroiled in another season-long mystery hitting closer to home following a new local tragedy. Veronica must also deal with her increasingly complicated romantic life and a whole new school year.
DVD 8397
Veronica Mars.
Teenage sleuth Veronica Mars continues her detective work during her first year as a student at Hearst College.
DVD 8398
Veronica Mars (Television program).
Teenage sleuth Veronica Mars continues her detective work during her first year as a student at Hearst College.
DVD 8398
Verónico Cruz
Follows the life of an Indian boy, from his birth in remote Argentina, to his death in the Falklands/Malvinas war.
DVD 1633
Verónico Cruz = (Deuda interna)
Follows the life of an Indian boy, from his birth in remote Argentina, to his death in the Falklands/Malvinas war.
DVD 1633
Veronika Voss
In 1978 Rainer Werner Fassbinder embarked upon a project to trace the history of postwar Germany in a series of films told through the eyes of 3 remarkable women. The 3 films would garner him the international acclaim for which he had always yearned and place his name foremost in the canon of New German Cinema.
DVD 3204
Versailles
"A documentary about Versailles, a community in eastern New Orleans first settled by Vietnamese refugees. After Hurricane Katrina, Versailles residents impressively rise to the challenges by returning and rebuilding before most neighborhoods in New Orleans, only to have their homes threatened by a new government-imposed toxic landfill just two miles away. [It] recounts the empowering story of how this group of people, who has already suffered so much in their lifetime, turns a devastating disaster into a catalyst for change and a chance for a better future"--Container.
DVD 8107
Versprechen The promise /
East-Berlin, 1961, shortly after the erection of the Wall. Konrad, Sophie and three of their friends plan a daring escape to Western Germany. The attempt is successful, except for Konrad, who remains behind. From then on, and for the next 28 years, Konrad and Sophie will attempt to meet again, in spite of the Iron Curtain. Konrad, who has become a reputed Astrophysicist, tries to take advantage of scientific congresses outside Eastern Germany to arrange encounters with Sophie. But in a country where the political police, the Stasi, monitors the moves of all suspicious people (such as Konrad's sister Barbara and her husband Harald), preserving one's privacy, ideals and self-respect becomes an exhausting fight, even as the Eastern block begins its long process of disintegration.
DVD 12351
Vertical ray of the sun
Three sisters-Lien, Khanh, and Suong-whose parents have recently died come together on the anniversary of the mother's death, preparing the memorial dinner. The men in their lives include their brother Hai, and husbands Kien and Quoc. The family is, however, prey to all the romantic entanglements, confessions, secrets, passions and troubles that eventually ensnare all. With Chekhovian decorum, the film examines the domestic emotions and small eruptions of feeling that punctuate the slow, vaguely sorrowful serenity of the sister's daily lives.
DVD 5462
Vertical Thinking, a Johannesburg Biography
In the first two of William Kentridge's "drawing lessons," "the South African filmmaker argued that rationality has often served as a mask for power and control, as ideas of what is 'rational' privilege one group's understanding of reality over another's," says Harvard Magazine. Kentridge carries that theme forward in this lecture - which is anchored by his short animated film Mine - as he delves down into "the legacy of his home country's multiple strata of historical violence.
DVD 10970
Vertigo
Scottie Ferguson, a San Francisco police detective is forced to retire when a freak accident gives him a severe case of acrophobia. Ferguson is hired by a rich shipbuilder to follow his wife who is behaving suspiciously and might be planning suicide. He falls in love with her, she is later murdered and Ferguson becomes demonic in his desire to re-create her in another woman.
DVD 3047
Very best of the Ed Sullivan Show
Clips that illustrate the wide variety of entertainers who appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show -- from jugglers to singers, comedians to rock bands. Also includes interviews with some of the featured guest stars.
DVD 6077
Very best of the honeymooners
DVD 2691
Very British coup
A steel-worker is elected prime minister of Great Britain on a very radical socialist platform. When he calls for the dismantling of all nuclear weapons on British soil, a group composed of spies, diplomats and businessmen attempts to bring him down.
DVD 5719
Very long engagement
Mathilde is waiting desperately for her fiance to return from the war. When bad news arrives she refuses to believe he is dead. Instead, she begins her own investigation into his infantry, hiring a private detective and piecing together his war stories.
DVD 3689
Very long engagement
Lesbians Edie and Thea recount how their improbable romance ignited a lifelong journey around the world and through history. Though touched by events like the civil rights movement and the Stonewall riots, Edie and Thea's relationship transcends politics and is a shining example of love's ability to endure.
DVD 8769
Vessel
Vessel begins with a young doctor who lived by the sea, and an unlikely idea. Rebecca Gomperts, horrified by the realities created by anti-abortion law around the world, felt compelled to challenge this. Her method: to provide abortions on a ship in offshore waters. Her project, Women on Waves, begins as flawed spectacle, a media frenzy, faced with governmental, religious, and military blockades. But with each setback comes a more refined mission, until Rebecca has the revelation that she can use new technologies to bypass law -- and train women to give themselves safe abortions using WHO-sanctioned protocols with pills. We witness the creation of an underground network of emboldened, informed activists, working at the cutting edge of global reproductive rights, who trust women to handle abortion themselves. Vessel is Rebecca's story: one of a woman who heard and answered a calling, and transformed a wildly improbable idea into a global movement.
DVD 10732
Viaggio in Italia (Motion picture)
Among the most influential films of the postwar era, Robert Rossellini's Journey to Italy charts the declining marriage of a couple from England on a trip in the countryside near Naples. More than just the anatomy of a relationship, Rossellini's masterpiece is a heartrending work of emotion and spirituality.
DVD 10445
Viaje al corazón de la frontera
In this provocative documentary film, director Rodrigo Reyes reimagines the Mexico/U.S. border as a mythical place comparable to Dante's purgatory. Leaving politics aside, he takes a fresh look at the beauty of the border and the people caught in its spell. Shot during a 4-week roadtrip in a dilapidated can with a crew of only three people, Reyes had captured a stunning mosaic of compelling characters and broken landscapes that live on the US-Mexico border, crafting a devastating reflection on the flaws of human nature and the powerful absurdities of the modern world.
DVD 11864
Vice
Christian Bale stars as Dick Cheney in this epic tale of how a bureaucratic Washington insider quietly became the most powerful man in the world. Co-starring Amy Adams, Steve Carell, and Sam Rockwell, it is a darkly comic look behind the scenes of American politics.
DVD 13015
Vice (Motion picture)
Christian Bale stars as Dick Cheney in this epic tale of how a bureaucratic Washington insider quietly became the most powerful man in the world. Co-starring Amy Adams, Steve Carell, and Sam Rockwell, it is a darkly comic look behind the scenes of American politics.
DVD 13015
Vicious.
Tells the comedic story of aging partners Freddie and Stuart, two men who have lived together in their Covent Garden flat for nearly 50 years. Freddie was a budding actor and Stuart worked in a bar when they first met, but their careers are pretty much over and their lives now consist of entertaining their frequent guests, making sure that their aged dog Balthazar is still breathing, and hurling caustic insults at each other.
DVD 11233
Vicious.
Tells the comedic story of aging partners Freddie and Stuart, two men who have lived together in their Covent Garden flat for nearly 50 years.
DVD 11234
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Two American women, one engaged to be married and the other sexually flirtatious, both become romantically involved with a painter while on vacation in Barcelona, only to find they have competition in the form of the painter's ex-wife.
DVD 6329
Victim
Melville Farr, a closeted, married barrister who bravely takes on a blackmailer targeting a group of vulnerable gay London men from various walks of life.
DVD 8040
Victim of two cultures : Richard Rodriguez.
Presents Rodriguez' experiences of growing up in America as the son of immigrants, the loss of his "Mexican soul", and his first exposure to American culture. Discussion focuses also on the differences between Mexican and American cultures, including Rodriguez' observations on America's growing sense of loss and the essence of American society today.
DVD 6893
Victims of homophobia seek asylum in Canada
"Paul Émile D'Entremont travels the world to tell the stories of five asylum seekers who flee their native countries to escape homophobic violence. They face hurdles integrating into Canada, fear deportation and anxiously await a decision that will change their lives forever. All five remain hopeful their adopted land will show them the compassion they deserve. Around them, lawyers and support groups mobilize as Canada's openness to refugees comes under threat. Last Chance champions the cause of sexual minorities who refuse to deny their core identity. It brings to light the reality of people who boldly and bravely assert their differences against all odds."--Container. Trudi is a lesbian from Jamaica; Jennifer is a transgender woman from Beirut, Lebanon; Carlos is a gay man from Colombia; Zaki is a gay man who was imprisoned in his native Egypt for being homosexual; and Alvaro is a gay man from Nicaragua. The film shows them at various stages in their attempts to emigrate to Canada.
DVD 10364
Victor Anicet, céramiste et artiste martiniquais
Interview during an exhibition of artist's work at the Université Antilles-Guyane in November 2001.
DVD 7044
Victor Anicet, Martinican Ceramists, Artist and Historian
Interview during an exhibition of artist's work at the Université Antilles-Guyane in November 2001.
DVD 7044
Victor Hugo's Les Miserables
Hugo's story of escaped convict Jean Valjean, who is aided by a good bishop and pursued relentlessly by the fanatical Inspector Javert, expresses the author's humanitarian interest in the suffering of the common people.
DVD 5890
Victor Victoria
A poverty-stricken singer in Depression-era Paris becomes convinced that the only way she can earn a living on the nightclub circuit is to masquerade as a man who impersonates women. Then she meets the man of her dreams.
DVD 2051
Victoria & Abdul
The extraordinary true story of an unexpected friendship in the later years of Queen Victoria's remarkable rule. When Abdul Karim, a young clerk, travels from India to participate in the Queen's Golden Jubilee, he is surprised to find favor with the Queen herself. As the Queen questions the constrictions of her long-held position, the two forge an unlikely and devoted alliance with a loyalty to one another that her household and inner circle all attempt to destroy. As the friendship deepens, the Queen begins to see a changing world through new eyes and joyfully reclaims her humanity.
DVD 12523
Victoria & Albert
Vol. 1. "Kept isolated from the court by her domineering mother, Victoria seems unprepared for the throne when King William IV dies. But the teenage queen shows surprising strength and resolve, defying her mother's schemes to seize power, and puts her full faith in the political counsel of Lord Melbourne, the Prime Minister."--Container. Vol. 2. "The changing political fortunes of Lord Melbourne finally afford Albert the opportunity to become involved in the affairs of state - a role Victoria had previously resisted."--Container.
DVD 3331
Victor/Victoria
A poverty-stricken singer in Depression-era Paris becomes convinced that the only way she can earn a living on the nightclub circuit is to masquerade as a man who impersonates women. Then she meets the man of her dreams.
DVD 2051
Vida conyugal Married life /
Un par de enamorados se casan con la intención de vivir juntos hasta que la muerte los separe. Cuando el amor desaparece y la infidelidad los sustituye, la esposa resuelve el problema en forma poca ortodoxa: matar al esposo. "The story of a couple that gets married with the idea of 'living together until death do them part'. However, as years go by, the couple faces the common problems of marriage. Jacqueline, the wife, decides to solve these problems by recurring to an unorthodox method: killing her husband.
DVD 2442
Vida secreta de las palabras
Hannah, a recluse who wears a hearing aid, is forced by her employer to take a vacation. On holiday she finds a job on an oil rig caring for Josef, a burn victim who has temporarily lost his sight. Hannah's job is to care for Josef until he is stable enough to be transferred. There is almost no one on the rig, except a cook, an oceanographer and a few others out at sea. Hannah tends to Josef and he slowly breaks her shell of silence.
DVD 5139
Vidas sêcas
A family and their dog struggle to survive in drought-stricken Northeast Brazil.
DVD 4908
Video guide to financial statements
Explains for non-financial managers the job of evaluating and comparing financial statements using examples from the records of two imaginary restaurants.
DVD 8674
Video McLuhan
Presents the most complete video record of communications theorist Marshall McLuhan. Using video footage from the 1940's to the late 1970's, this program traces the development of McLuhan's thinking and takes the viewer through McLuhan's rise to prominence on the world stage. McLuhan discusses and argues his themes in the classroom, on the lecture circuit, on TV talk shows and newsmagazine programs.
DVD 12420
Video works : volume 1
DVD 11886
Videodrome
A cable TV executive discovers an underground TV show called Videodrome, a hyperviolent torture show. His quest to find the origin of the show may result in the loss of his sanity.
DVD 3412
Videogramme einer Revolution Videograms of a revolution /
An analysis of the revolution in Romania in 1989, covering events in the first five days, from December 21 when Ceaucescu made his last speech to December 26, the day the dictator was executed. Material from Romanian television broadcasts and footage taken by amateur videographers provide multiple perspectives of events.
DVD 4298
Videograms of a revolution
An analysis of the revolution in Romania in 1989, covering events in the first five days, from December 21 when Ceaucescu made his last speech to December 26, the day the dictator was executed. Material from Romanian television broadcasts and footage taken by amateur videographers provide multiple perspectives of events.
DVD 4298
Videos of Sadie Benning,
Contains five videos by Sadie Benning who uses an inexpensive camera and toys, drawings, and scrawled diary entries to record the thoughts, feelings and images that reveal her emerging lesbian sexuality.
DVD 12269
Videos of Sadie Benning
Contains three videos by Sadie Benning who uses an inexpensive camera and toys, drawings, and scrawled diary entries to record the thoughts, feelings and images that reveal her emerging lesbian sexuality.
DVD 12270
Videoworks
Contains five videos by Sadie Benning who uses an inexpensive camera and toys, drawings, and scrawled diary entries to record the thoughts, feelings and images that reveal her emerging lesbian sexuality.
DVD 12269
Videoworks.
Contains three videos by Sadie Benning who uses an inexpensive camera and toys, drawings, and scrawled diary entries to record the thoughts, feelings and images that reveal her emerging lesbian sexuality.
DVD 12270
Videoworks : volume 1
DVD 11886
Vie d'Adèle - chapitres 1 et 2
The colorful, electrifying romance that took the Cannes Film Festival by storm courageously dives into a young woman's experiences of first love and sexual awakening. Blue is the Warmest Color stars the remarkable newcomer Adèle Exarchopoulos as a high schooler who, much to her own surprise, plunges into a thrilling relationship with a female twentysomething art student, played by Léa Seydoux. Directed by Adbellatif Kechiche, this finely detailed, intimate epic sensitively renders the erotic abandon of youth. It has captivated international audiences and been widely embraced as a defining love story for the new century.
DVD 10168
Vie de Bouddha Life of Buddha /
Chronicles the story of Prince Siddhartha and his spiritual transformation into the Buddha.
DVD 3373
Vie de chat
In Paris, a cat who lives a secret life as a cat burglar's aide must come to the rescue of Zoe, the little girl he lives with, after she falls into a gangster's clutches.
DVD 9274
Vie de Jésus The life of Jesus /
Life of Jesus follows the life of 20-year-old Freddy. When he's not at the hospital getting treatment for his epilepsy, Freddy spends his free time--and he has plenty of it--hanging out with his pals. The boys have had little schooling and are chronically unemployed. For entertainment, they race around town and through the French countryside on their motorbikes. Life changes for Freddy when Kader, the teenage son of an Arab family, enters the picture. Freddy and his friends are already threatened by Kader for being gainfully employed when none of them can find a job. When the fearless Kader stubbornly and aggressiveley pursues Marie, Freddy's girlfriend, Freddy and his pals take out their latent jealousy and anger in an astonsihing way, which dramatically alters all of their lives.
DVD 728
Vie en rose
Raised in a brothel, then wrested from the only life she knew by her father, so they could join the circus, Edith Piaf spent her teen years on the streets. She is finally "rescued" by a crime figure who gives her career a start and, ultimately, by her international success and final illness. Always frail, sickly, malnourished, and wildly temperamental, she was often on drugs or alcohol and was always in search of true love. Middleweight boxer, Marcel Cerdan, captures her heart and gives her something to live for, besides her music--at least for a while.
DVD 5217
Vie est belle
La Vie est belle tells the rags to riches story of Kourou, a poor rural musician who realizes that to succeed in today's music world he must go to the city and break into radio and television. In Kinshasa he uses his wit and talent to win a beautiful wife, trick his greedy boss and succeed in singing his "theme song" on national television. Although the film is primarily entertainment, it reveals much about class divisions, male-female relations, the desires of the urban poor, and the economic and social problems confronting rural immigrants to the cities of Zaire.
DVD 6798
Vie et rien d'autre Life and nothing but /
Two years after World War I, Major Dellaplane helps two women search for the men they have lost in the war.
DVD 5644
Vie rev̂ée des anges Dreamlife of angels /
Optimistic hobo Isa, with her life in her backpack, has a gritty existence on the road, going from one town to another through northern France, working factory jobs and selling cards. After she loses a garment-factory job, her coworker Marie lets Isa share space in her Lille living quarters, an apartment belonging to a hospitalized mother and daughter. Isa goes through two tempestous relationships, while becoming fascinated with the girl who lived in the apartment but now lies in a coma at the hospital.
DVD 925
Vie sur terre Life on earth /
A film about the significance of the start of the 21st Century for people still struggling to enter the 20th. Abderrahmane Sissako's solution was to improvise a 'fictional documentary' out of daily life in Sokolo, his father's village in Mali near the southeastern corner of Mauritania. He then overlaid these vignettes with readings from Aimé Césaire ... Behind all of this, he weaves the melancholy tones ["Folon"] of the great Malian tenor, Salif Keita and music by other artists.
DVD 1966
Viehjud Levi Jew-boy Levi /
A Jewish cattle dealer finds that Nazi propaganda has inflamed one of his favorite rural German communities, complicating both his business arrangements and his plans to marry a local farmer's daughter.
DVD 8276
Vieil homme et l'enfant The two of us /
A Jewish boy living in Nazi-occupied Paris is sent by his parents to the countryside to live with an elderly Catholic couple until France's liberation. Forced to hide his identity, eight-year-old Claude bonds with the irascible, staunchly anti-Semitic Grampa, who improbably becomes his friend and confidant.
DVD 5181
Viele die eine Ahnung haben von ihren Möglichkeiten und ihren Bedürfnissen und trotzdem das herrschende System in ihrem Kopf akzeptieren durch ihre Taten und es somit festigen und durchaus bestätigen
Effi Briest is a radiant beauty, a vivacious blend of naivete and intelligence, forthrightness and willful self interest. She is married when very young to a much older Prussian diplomat and carried away to a remote Baltic port where she drifts into a brief, passionless affair with a local womanizer. The full effects are felt only later, in a chilling manifestation of the Prussian legal code.
DVD 1967
Vieques worth every bit of struggle /
Discusses the people's protest against the U.S. Navy's controversial use of Vieques, a municipality of Puerto Rico, as a military training, exercise and deployment base. Uses interviews with residents, military spokespeople and leaders, scenes of military maneuvers, naval bombings and protest demonstrations to explore what the naval presence has meant for Vieques and its people. It looks at the issues that led up to the referendum on the future of U.S. involvement on Vieques.
DVD 4574
Vier Minuten Four minutes /
Jenny is young but her life is over. She has been locked up in a women's prison for killing someone, and she would do it again. Buried beneath her impenetrable facade, however, Jenny has an invaluable musical talent. When a 80-year-old piano teacher Traude Krueger discovers the girl's terrible secret, her raging brutality and her dreams, she makes it her mission to retransform Jenny into the musical wunderkind she once was.
DVD 6483
Vierde man The Fourth man /
An alcoholic novelist meets a widowed hairdresser. He begins to wonder if she murdered her former husbands and if he'll be next.
DVD 2027
Vietnam War
An immersive ten-part series that tells the epic story of one of the most divisive, consequential and misunderstood events in American history. Complete series adapted for classroom use, plus discussion guide with correlated clips.
DVD 12440
Vietnamese Americans the new generation /
Through candid interviews with first- and second-generation Vietnamese Americans, this program documents the process of assimilation into American culture of refugees from the former Republic of Vietnam. Topics includes stresses on the family unit caused by cultural and generational differences, gang membership and drug abuse among the young, anti-Vietnamese racial bias, and feelings about relations between the U.S. and Vietnam.
DVD 6939
View from a grain of sand [three women, three wars : stories of survival from Afghanistan] /
Shot over a three-year period in the refugee camps of north-western Pakistan and in the war-torn city of Kabul, three women's personal stories are portrayed within the larger context of international interference, war, and the rise of religious fundamentalists in Afghanistan.
DVD 5538
View from here
An extraordinary video diary of living with AIDS. Told with guts and humor by longtime companions Tom Joslin and Mark Massi, this powerful documentary celebrates the human spirit while capturing the emotional challenges of living with a fatal illness.
DVD 2418
View to a kill
DVD reuse
Views on Mies van der Rohe
Featuring stylish cinematography and an evocative jazz score, REGULAR OR SUPER illustrates many of Mies' classic buildings -- including a Montreal gas station built in the '60s -- combining these striking facades with observations from some architecture superstars, including Rem Koolhaas, Elizabeth Diller and Phyllis Lamber, which are interlaced with anecdotes from customers and neighbors of the gas station, plus comments from his biographer and family members.
DVD 9725
Vigo
'Even among cinema's greatest legends, Jean Vigo stands alone. The son of a notorious anarchist, Vigo had a brief but brilliant career making poetic, lightly surrealist films before his life was cut tragically short by tuberculosis at age twenty-nine. Like the daring early works of his contemporaries Jean Cocteau and Luis Buñuel, Vigo's films refused to play by the rules. This set includes all of Vigo's titles' -- Container. À propos de Nice: What starts off as a conventional travelogue turnes into a satirical portrait of the town of Nice on the French Côte d'azur, and its wealthy inhabitants. Taris: A short documentary about the swimmer Jean Taris, notable for Vigo's innovative techniques Zéro de conduite: In a repressive boarding school with rigid schools of behavior, four boys decide to rebel against the administration on a celebration day. L'Atalante: When Juliette marries Jean, she comes to live on his ship, on board of which are, besides the two of them, only a cabin boy and the strange old second mate Père Jules. Soon bored by life on the river, Juliette slips off to explore the nightlife when they come to Paris. Angered by this, Jean sets off, leaving Juliette behind. Overcome by grief and longing for his wife, Jean falls into a depression and Père Jules goes and tries to find Juliette.
DVD 10242
Viĭ
A young priest is ordered to preside over the wake of a witch in a small old wooden church of a remote village. This means spending three nights alone with the corpse with only his faith to protect him.
DVD 2340
Vikings
Journey into a thrilling ancient world in this epic new series about history's bravest and most brutally fearsome warriors; Vikings. Ragnar, a would-be Viking chieftain, longs to fulfill his destiny as an explorer and conqueror, alongside his ambitious brother Rollo and loyal wife Lagertha. But as Ragnar leads daring raids in distant realms across the ocean, treacherous forces in his Norse homeland conspire against him.
DVD 10333
Vikings.
Armed with more power and greater responsibility, Ragnar's desire to seek out and conquer new kingdoms remains unquenchable. Loyalties shift as friends turn to foes and unlikely alliances are formed. Amidst all the war and political confusion, not a single soul is spared in the name of supremacy.
DVD 10996
Vikings (Television program).
Journey into a thrilling ancient world in this epic new series about history's bravest and most brutally fearsome warriors; Vikings. Ragnar, a would-be Viking chieftain, longs to fulfill his destiny as an explorer and conqueror, alongside his ambitious brother Rollo and loyal wife Lagertha. But as Ragnar leads daring raids in distant realms across the ocean, treacherous forces in his Norse homeland conspire against him.
DVD 10333
Vikings (Television program).
Armed with more power and greater responsibility, Ragnar's desire to seek out and conquer new kingdoms remains unquenchable. Loyalties shift as friends turn to foes and unlikely alliances are formed. Amidst all the war and political confusion, not a single soul is spared in the name of supremacy.
DVD 10996
Viktoria
Follows three generations of women in the final years of the People's republic of Bulgaria and the early years of the new governement. Dreaming of the west, Boryana, determined not to have a child in a communist Bulgaria is blessed with a child. The child, Viktoria, is missing a belly button and declared the country's Baby of the Decade. Boryana takes care of Viktoria until she's 9, and then they push away from each other. Can they be brought together in this hard time?
DVD 11910
Village
In a quiet, isolated village in olde Pennsylvania, there lies a pact between the people of the village and the creatures who reside in the surrounding woods. The townspeople do not enter the woods, and the creatures do not enter the village. The pact stays in tact for many years, that is until the headstrong Lucius Hunt seeks medical supplies from neighboring towns beyond the woods. Animal carcasses begin to appear around the village, causing the elders to fear for the safety of the village, the sanctity of the pact, and so much more.
DVD 4477
Village at the end of the world
Shot over the course of a year in Northern Greenland, the film intrudes audiences to a remote village with more dogs than people. The film focuses on four townsfolk from the tiny population of 59: Lars, the only teenager; Karl, the huntsman who has never acknowledged that Lars is his son; Ilanngauq, the outsider who moved to Niaqornat after meeting his wife on-line; and Annie, the elder who remembers the ways of the Shaman and a time when the lights were fueled by seal blubber. In this astutely constructed real-life drama, we see how the economic and ecological future of the community is more fragile than its hardy inhabitants.
DVD 11930
Village called Versailles
"A documentary about Versailles, a community in eastern New Orleans first settled by Vietnamese refugees. After Hurricane Katrina, Versailles residents impressively rise to the challenges by returning and rebuilding before most neighborhoods in New Orleans, only to have their homes threatened by a new government-imposed toxic landfill just two miles away. [It] recounts the empowering story of how this group of people, who has already suffered so much in their lifetime, turns a devastating disaster into a catalyst for change and a chance for a better future"--Container.
DVD 8107
village français
This French drama chronicles the impact of World War Ii German occupation on a small village in central France.
DVD 11697
Village Français
This French drama chronicles the impact of World War II German occupation on a small village in central France. As the residents come under the pressures of war, they make choices that are inspiring and heartbreaking.
DVD 11696
Village français = A French village.
This French drama chronicles the impact of World War II German occupation on a small village in central France. As the residents come under the pressures of war, they make choices that are inspiring and heartbreaking.
DVD 11696
Village français A French village.
The blockbuster French drama, chronicles the impact of World War II on a small village in central France. The German occupation changes the life of the village of Villeneuve forever, and as its residents come under the pressures of war, they make choices that are inspiring and heartbreaking. In this gripping drama, ordinary citizens become patriots, traitors, Nazi employees or activists.
DVD 11695
Village français A French village.
The German occupation changes the life of the village of Villeneuve forever, and as its residents come under the pressures of war, they make choices that are inspiring and heartbreaking. In this gripping drama, ordinary citizens become patriots, traitors, Nazi employees or activists. Beginning with the Germans' arrival in June 1940, they endure five years of rationing, fighting and betrayals, and strain to keep some semblance of their existence intact.
DVD 12224
Village français (Television program)
The blockbuster French drama, chronicles the impact of World War II on a small village in central France. The German occupation changes the life of the village of Villeneuve forever, and as its residents come under the pressures of war, they make choices that are inspiring and heartbreaking. In this gripping drama, ordinary citizens become patriots, traitors, Nazi employees or activists.
DVD 11695
Village français (Television program).
The German occupation changes the life of the village of Villeneuve forever, and as its residents come under the pressures of war, they make choices that are inspiring and heartbreaking. In this gripping drama, ordinary citizens become patriots, traitors, Nazi employees or activists. Beginning with the Germans' arrival in June 1940, they endure five years of rationing, fighting and betrayals, and strain to keep some semblance of their existence intact.
DVD 12224
Village français (Television program : 2009).
The German occupation changes the life of the village of Villeneuve forever, and as its residents come under the pressures of war, they make choices that are inspiring and heartbreaking.
DVD 11699
Village (Motion picture)
In a quiet, isolated village in olde Pennsylvania, there lies a pact between the people of the village and the creatures who reside in the surrounding woods. The townspeople do not enter the woods, and the creatures do not enter the village. The pact stays in tact for many years, that is until the headstrong Lucius Hunt seeks medical supplies from neighboring towns beyond the woods. Animal carcasses begin to appear around the village, causing the elders to fear for the safety of the village, the sanctity of the pact, and so much more.
DVD 4477
Village of dreams.
A nostalgic tale of twin boys' daily life in a small village of Japan in 1940's. Based on the account of popular children's book artist, Seizo Tajima and his twin borther Yukihiko Tajima, who is also an artist.
DVD 662
Village of the damned
Village of the damned: A shocking tale of strange, emotionless children who plot to destroy their small English village. Children of the damned: Six children that no one seems to know where they came from and when a psychologist attempts to find out the future of mankind is placed in jeopardy.
DVD 6087
Village of the damned (Motion picture : 1960)
Village of the damned: A shocking tale of strange, emotionless children who plot to destroy their small English village. Children of the damned: Six children that no one seems to know where they came from and when a psychologist attempts to find out the future of mankind is placed in jeopardy.
DVD 6087
Ville Louvre Louvre City /
This documentary film provides rare backstage look inside one of the world's most famous museums, the Louvre. The museum reveals itself to a film crew showing the work of a great museum which takes place behind the scenes and is rarely, if ever, seen by the public.
DVD 6846
Ville musulmane
Although the first towns the Arabs founded during the expansion of Arabia were only vast campsites, it was not long before their temporary dwellings gave way to the magnificent signature architecture of Arabian culture. What was it like to live in the Arab cities of the Abbasid dynasty, grand oases of refinement and innovation? This program describes key centers of the Muslim town, including the mosque and the souk, and the roles of the prince, the doctors of the law, and the leaders of the various social groups in keeping order within the community.
DVD 2866
Vincent
Van Gogh's life is traced against a backdrop of his paintings in this one-man drama. The tragic genius of Van Gogh is captured in remembrances by his brother--the one who was his patron, his critic, and his closest friend. Framed by a prologue and epilogue containing more about the Van Gogh's lives.
DVD 10049
Vincent & Theo
This is a passionate story of an obsessive artist driven by inexorable demons and his alternately devoted and despairing younger brother, who seems unable to live with him or without him.
DVD 4350
Vincent who?
Looks at the legacy of the case of Vincent Chin, a young Chinese American man who was attacked and killed at his bachelor's party at a suburban Detroit bar by current and former autoworkers who were unhappy with competition from Japanese auto manufacturers. The case attracted wide attention after Chin's attackers struck a plea bargain and were sentenced to three thousand dollars in fines and three years in prison, time that they never were required to serve after posting bail. Indignation by the Asian American community and others led to further charges being filed against the perpetrators. The film explores how the murder of Vincent Chin continues to have meaning to society today, as well as how the hate crime remains unknown or forgotten in many Americans' minds.
DVD 7370
Vingt-quatre jours
"When Ilan Halimi is kidnapped for ransom because [he is] Jewish and supposedly rich, his family and the police start a race against time to save him from the tortures of the 'gang of barbarians'."--IMDB.
DVD 11029
Vinyl
A New York music executive in the 1970s hustles to make a career out of the city's diverse music scene.
DVD 11730
Vinyl (Television program).
A New York music executive in the 1970s hustles to make a career out of the city's diverse music scene.
DVD 11730
Violence, manhood & American culture
In this highly anticipated update of the influential and widely acclaimed Tough Guise, pioneering anti-violence educator and cultural theorist Jackson Katz argues that the ongoing epidemic of men's violence in America is rooted in our inability as a society to move beyond outmoded ideals of manhood. In a sweeping analysis that cuts across racial, ethnic, and class lines, Katz examines mass shootings, day-to-day gun violence, violence against women, bullying, gay-bashing, and American militarism against the backdrop of a culture that has normalized violent and regressive forms of masculinity in the face of challenges to traditional male power and authority. Along the way, the film provides a stunning look at the violent, sexist, and homophobic messages boys and young men routinely receive from virtually every corner of the culture, from television, movies, video games, and advertising to pornography, the sports culture, and US political culture. Tough Guise 2 stands to empower a new generation of young men - and women - to challenge the myth that being a real man means putting up a false front and engaging in violent and self-destructive behavior.
DVD 9960
Violence, media, and the crisis in masculinity
Looks systematically at the relationship between the images of popular culture and the social construction of masculine identities in the U.S. at the end of the 20th century. Jackson Katz argues that there is a crisis in masculinity and that some of the guises offered to men as a solution (e.g., rugged individualism, violence) come loaded with attendant dangers to women, as well as other men.
DVD 3790
Violent cop
Detective Azuma is a Dirty-Harry style rogue cop who often uses violence and unethical methods to get results. While investigating a series of drug-related homicides, Azuma discovers that his friend and colleague, Iwaki is supplying drugs from within the police force. After Iwaki is murdered and Azuma's sister is kidnapped, he breaks all the rules to dish out his particular form of justice.
DVD 661
Violent Hawaii
Describes how the forces of nature -- earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, etc. -- have created a tropical paradise.
DVD 3986
Violent years
[The violent years] (57 min.) "Good-girl-gone bad Paula, rebelling against her rich parents, leads three high school hellcats in robbing a gas station, throwing a pajama party with older men, and molesting a couple at lovers lane. But when the gang is hired to wreck a classroom for the Commies, "cop killer" is added to Paula's resume..."--Container. [Girl gang] (63 min.) "When not engaged in marijuana make-out parties, these joypopping Jezebels commit robberies to feed their heroin habit, until a botched holdup leaves rich kid Wanda with a slug in her side."--Container.
DVD 1998
Violent years ; Girl gang
[The violent years] (57 min.) "Good-girl-gone bad Paula, rebelling against her rich parents, leads three high school hellcats in robbing a gas station, throwing a pajama party with older men, and molesting a couple at lovers lane. But when the gang is hired to wreck a classroom for the Commies, "cop killer" is added to Paula's resume..."--Container. [Girl gang] (63 min.) "When not engaged in marijuana make-out parties, these joypopping Jezebels commit robberies to feed their heroin habit, until a botched holdup leaves rich kid Wanda with a slug in her side."--Container.
DVD 1998
Violeta se fue a los cielos
The extraordinary story of the iconic poet, musician and folksinger Violeta Parra, whose songs have become hymns for Chileans and Latin Americans alike. Director Andres Wood traces the intensity and explosive vitality of her life, from humble origins to international fame, her defense of indigenous cultures and devotion to her art.
DVD 10661
Violeta went to heaven
The extraordinary story of the iconic poet, musician and folksinger Violeta Parra, whose songs have become hymns for Chileans and Latin Americans alike. Director Andres Wood traces the intensity and explosive vitality of her life, from humble origins to international fame, her defense of indigenous cultures and devotion to her art.
DVD 10661
Violette
"The daughter of a respectable middle-class couple, Violette Nozière leads a disreputable double life. Far from being the innocent young girl her parents mistake her for, she spends her nights with dissolute young men in the Latin Quarter of Paris. To acquire money for her latest lover, Violette resolves to commit and unthinkable crime."--Container.
DVD 6236
Violette
Violette LeDuc is one of the foremost French writers of the twentieth century. In a beautifully mounted production, director Martin Provost depicts LeDuc's extraordinary life, from her low beginnings as the illegitimate daughter of a servant girl to becoming ensconced in France's literary elite. Violette LeDuc is determined, obsessed even, to make something of her life. Writing is her ticket out of misery, and with the encouragement and mentorship of Simone de Beauvoir, she achieves renown.
DVD 10741
Violette Nozier
"The daughter of a respectable middle-class couple, Violette Nozière leads a disreputable double life. Far from being the innocent young girl her parents mistake her for, she spends her nights with dissolute young men in the Latin Quarter of Paris. To acquire money for her latest lover, Violette resolves to commit and unthinkable crime."--Container.
DVD 6236
Violin
In rural Mexico, during the peasant revolts of the 1970s, Plutarco, his son Genaro and grandson Lucio lead double lives. On the one hand, they are simple country musicians, and on the other they actively support the peasant guerrilla movement against the oppressor government. When the army occupies the village, the rebels are forced to flee and leave their ammunition behind. Making the most of the fact that he looks like an inoffensive violinist, Plutarco has a plan: to recover the munitions hidden in his cornfield. His music enraptures the captain, but he still has to get his hands on the ammunition.
DVD 6985
Violín The violin /
In rural Mexico, during the peasant revolts of the 1970s, Plutarco, his son Genaro and grandson Lucio lead double lives. On the one hand, they are simple country musicians, and on the other they actively support the peasant guerrilla movement against the oppressor government. When the army occupies the village, the rebels are forced to flee and leave their ammunition behind. Making the most of the fact that he looks like an inoffensive violinist, Plutarco has a plan: to recover the munitions hidden in his cornfield. His music enraptures the captain, but he still has to get his hands on the ammunition.
DVD 6985
V.I.P.s
Elite passengers waiting for London-to-U.S. flights get fogged in, and have to deal with their problems rather than run from them.
DVD 5871
Virgen de los sicarios Our lady of the assassins /
An older writer, Fernando, returns to his hometown, Medellin, Colombia. There he falls in love with 16-year-old assassin, Alexis. After Alexis is killed, Fernando hunts for his killer in the Medellin slums and falls in love with Wilmar, a boy who resembles Alexis.
DVD 1894
Virgin spring
A peasant girl is raped and murdered in 14th century Sweden. When her killers seek shelter in her father's house, he kills them to avenge her death. Soon a spring appears from where the girl was killed and her father sees this as a sign from above.
DVD 4299
Virgin suicides
When school hunk Trip Fontain convinces the beautiful but sheltered Lisbon sisters to go to the prom, the romantic fantasies of a group of neighborhood boys threaten to come true--until all are engulfed in a stunning chain of events that will change their lives forever.
DVD 2137
Virginia Woolf : A room of one's own
Eileen Atkins' one-woman stage performance recreates Virginia Woolf's talk to the women of Girton College, Cambridge. A call to women to declare their independence, talent and freedom to write, think, love and labor, and to control their own destinies, yet realize necessary communion on all levels between men and women.
DVD 3930
Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway
As Clarissa Dalloway prepares for an elaborate party, she remembers another summer in the past, when she was a beautiful young woman. Her preparations are interrupted by the unexpected arrival of a former suitor from that long-ago summer. As the day of the party unfolds, Mrs. Dalloway's life also becomes strangely intertwined with a young man she never meets, but whose tragic fate strikes a chord of truth, deep in her soul, that she cannot deny.
DVD 1471
virginity movement's war against women
The United States is obsessed with virginity from the media to schools to government agencies. The Purity Myth is an important and timely critique of about why this is so, and why it's problematic for girls and women. Analyzing cultural stereotypes and media messages, Jessica Valenti reveals the overt and hidden ways our society links a woman's worth to her sexuality rather than to values like honesty, kindness, and altruism. With intelligence and wit, this film exposes the legal and social punishments that women who dare to have sex endure, while presenting a powerful argument that evaluating girls and women on their sexuality needs to stop.
DVD 9185
Viridiana
Viridiana, who is about to become a nun, does her utmost to maintain her Catholic principles, but her lecherous uncle and a motley assemblage of paupers force her to confront the limits of her idealism.
DVD 4300
Virtual reality assets for psychology and rehabilitation
Dr. Rizzo discusses aspects of virtual reality and how it can be utilized for psychology and rehabilitation.
DVD 2511
Visages villages Faces places /
Filmmaker Agnès Varda and photographer JR set out on a trip through France to meet locals and produce epic sized murals and form an unlikely friendship along the way.
DVD 12640
Vision
DVD 2356
Vision aus dem Leben der Hildegard von Bingen = from the life of Hildegard von Bingen /
The story of Hildegard von Bingen, a 12th century Benedictine nun, who was one of the first women to preach and interpret Biblical scripture.
DVD 8106
Vision from the life of Hildegard von Bingen
The story of Hildegard von Bingen, a 12th century Benedictine nun, who was one of the first women to preach and interpret Biblical scripture.
DVD 8106
Vision of Fairview Gardens
Tells the story of Fairview Gardens, a 12-acre farm located in the Galena Valley, north of Santa Barbara. Managed for the past two decades by visionary farmer/photographer/author, Michael Ableman, the farm is a model of sustainable food production and community development.
DVD 4762
Visions of light the art of cinematography /
The story of cinematography as seen through the lenses of the world's greatest filmmakers and captured in classic scenes from over 125 immortal movies. Traces the evolution and innovations of cinematography beginning in an era when the movie camera was a marvelous invention, and examines how the filmmaking process was complicated by new cinematic trends and technologies.
DVD 917
Visions of prophecy
"Examines the options available to women living in the 12th through 15th centuries and how some subverted traditional roles in order to discover and express their own freedom, dignity, and power."-- container.
DVD 2769
Visions of prophecy : voices of power
"Examines the options available to women living in the 12th through 15th centuries and how some subverted traditional roles in order to discover and express their own freedom, dignity, and power."-- container.
DVD 2769
Visions of Utopia
Explores the history of a unique community, created in 1936 under the name Jersey Homesteads with funds from the U.S. Resettlement Administration. In this radical social and economic experiment, 120 families of Jewish garment workers moved from New York City to settle in the cooperative, which included a coat factory, farms, and a consumer outlet. Includes archival footage and interviews with the original cooperators and their children.
DVD 10978
Visit to postwar Iraq
Post-war Baghdad, April 2003. Ambivalent reaction of residents to US and Allied troops. Collapse of basic services, looting, chaos, street demonstrations. Socio-political/religious fractures exposed by power vacuum. Role of Shia Muslim clerics and US-backed exiles. Prospects for future stability and peace.
DVD 2778
Visitor /
Walter Vale is a widower who teaches economics at a Connecticut university. He lives alone and is no longer motivated by his work. In New York to present a paper at a conference, he goes to the apartment that he has not visited in some time, but has kept since his wife was alive, only to discover a young couple living there. Despite their great cultural differences, Walter befriends Tarek, a Syrian citizen and drummer, and gradually builds a friendship with Esi, his girlfriend from Senegal. One day, when returning from Central Park with Walter, Tarek is arrested for jumping a stuck subway turnstile, despite the fact that he had paid. The police discover he does not have legal papers and transfer him to an immigrant detention center in Queens. Feeling responsible for and connected to Tarek, Walter decides to stay in New York to help and support him. Not hearing from her son, Tarek's mother arrives from Michigan to find out why, and she and Walter support one another while they attempt to free Tarek.
DVD 5977
Viskningar och rop Cries and whispers /
Tells the story of three sisters, one of whom is dying of cancer, and their housekeeper all of whom are searching for sprirtual peace in a world that seems to offer only disorder and despair.
DVD 1588
Vissinokipos
Madame Ranevskaya returns to her decaying estate in pre-Revolutionary Russia after an exile in Paris. The estate and its beloved cherry orchard are threatened by Ranevskaya's financial problems, and no one seems able to do anything about it.
DVD 2224
Visszaesok = Forbidden relations /
Based on a true story about the forbidden love between a brother and sister.
DVD 4196
Visual acoustics the modernism of Julius Shulman /
Celebrates the life and career of Julius Shulman, the world's greatest architectural photographer, whose images brought modern architecture to the American mainstream. Shulman captured the work of nearly every major modern and progressive architect since the 1930s. His images epitomized the singular beauty of southern California's modernist movement and brought its iconic structures to the attention of the general public.
DVD 9746
Visual guide to breastfeeding
Demonstrates breastfeeding techiniques and addresses common concerns that new mothers express. Some of the topics covered include: how to know a baby is getting enough milk, breast compressions, avoiding sore nipples, how to get a baby to latch, colicky babies, how to increase intake of breastmilk by the baby, using a lactation aid, and risks of formula feeding.
DVD 6549
Vita è bella Life is beautiful /
A charming but bumbling waiter who's gifted with a colorful imagination and an irresistible sense of humor has won the heart of the woman he loves and has created a beautiful life for his young family. Then that life is threatened by World War II.
DVD 729
Vital signs crip culture talks back /
DVD 8535
Vitelloni
This film compassioniately details a year in the life of five young men lingering in post-adolescent limbo, dreaming of adventure and escape from their small town and struggling to find meaning in their lives.
DVD 3384
Vito the life of gay rights activist Vito Russo /
On June 27, 1969, a police raid on a Greenwich Village gay bar took a surprising turn when patrons decided it was time to fight back. As a riot erupted outside the Stonewall Inn, a new era in the gay rights movement was born. Vito Russo, a twenty-three year-old film student was among the crowd. Over the next twenty years, Vito would go on to become one of the most outspoken and inspiring activists in the LGBT community's fight for equal rights.
DVD 9422
Vittorio De Sica's The children are watching us
A four-year-old boy is trapped in a loveless family with his suicidal father and his adulteress mother.
DVD 9716
Vitus
At six, Vitus is both incredibly talented and wonderfully precocious. When it becomes evident that he has an exceptionally high IQ and can play piano like a young Mozart, expectations run high. His parents love him, his grandfather understands him, but no one knows the truth - that his real genius is in his heart.
DVD 5769
Viva Cuba
In a tale akin to "Romeo and Juliet," the friendship between two children is threatened by their parents' differences. Malú is from an upper-class family and her single mother does not want her to play with Jorgito, as she thinks his background coarse and commonplace. Jorgito's mother is a poor socialist who is proud of her family's social standing, and places similar restrictions on her son. What neither woman recognizes is the immense strength of the bond between Malú and Jorgito. When the children learn that Malú's mother is planning to leave Cuba, they decide to travel to the other side of the island to find Malú's father and persuade him against signing the forms that would allow it.
DVD 6926
Viva la causa! 500 years of Chicano history /
An introduction to the history of the Mexican American people from their origins in Europe's invasion of the American continent up through World War II, through the Chicano Movement years to the present day. Includes archival footage and music ranging from corridos to rap.
DVD 12044
Viva Las Vegas
Musical about a race car driver who comes to Las Vegas hoping to win the Las Vegas Grand Prix.
DVD 581
Viva Mexico!
Que viva Mexico!: A film document of the history of Mexico, presented in four novellas: Sandunga, an exposition of Tehuantepec jungles and the peaceful lifestyles of their inhabitants; Manguei, a love story about a poor peon and his bride; Fiesta, devoted to bullfighting and romantic love; and Soldadera, a portrayal of the 1910 revolution in Mexico as depicted in the frescoes of Siqueiros, Rivera, and Orosco. "With sequences devoted to the Edenic land of Tehuantepec, the savage majesty of the bullfight, the struggles of the noble peon and the hypnotic imagery of the Day of the Dead, [the film] is a vivid tapestry of Mexican life."--Container, Romance sentimentale: Eisenstein's first sound film, this experimental 1930 short is a dazzling symphony of images and sounds, made in collaboration with Alexandrov and Tisse. Misery and fortune of woman: A 20 minute excerpt from an ultra-rare 1929 film by Eisenstein, Alexandrov and Tisse intended to encourage legal and sanitary birth/abortion clinics in Europe. A dramatization of the plight of working class women.
DVD 2381
Viva Riva!
Riva is a small-time operator who has just returned to his hometown of Kinshasa, Congo after a decade away with a major score: a fortune in hijacked gasoline. Wads of cash in hand and out for a good time, Riva is soon entranced by beautiful nightclub denizen Nora, the kept woman of a local gangster. Into the mix comes an Angolan crime lord relentlessly seeking the return of his stolen shipment of fuel.
DVD 8644
Viva Zapata!
The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppressive dictatorship of president Porfirio Diaz in the early 20th century.
DVD 9997
Vive l'amour
Bizzare love triangle in Taipei, Taiwan between a chic real estate agent, a street merchant, and the young gay man who spies on the couple's trysts.
DVD 660
Vive le Tour! Humain, trop humain ; Place de la republique /
Vive le tour!: "An energetic evocation of The Tour de France"--Container. Humain, trop humain: "A meditative investigation of the inner workings of a French automotive plant"--Container. Place de la republique: "An entertaining snapshot of the comings and goings on one street corner in Paris"--Container.
DVD 8889
Vivement dimanche Confidentially yours /
When businessman Julien Vercel is accused of murdering his wife and her lover, he hides in his office to avoid capture. It is up to his secretary Barbara, who is secretly in love with him, to prove his innocence.
DVD 762
Vivre sa vie
A series of twelve vignettes portray an aspiring young actress' descent into prostitution.
DVD 717
Viy
A young priest is ordered to preside over the wake of a witch in a small old wooden church of a remote village. This means spending three nights alone with the corpse with only his faith to protect him.
DVD 2340
Vladimir Lenin voice of revolution /
Biography profiles the fanatical philosopher who was catapulted to power by an incredible combination of passion, luck and unlikely alliances.
DVD 8323
Vlast Power.
Documentary on the rise and fall of Russian oil executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
DVD 7941
Vlemma tou Odyssea Ulysses' gaze /
A Greek-American director travels in the Balkans in search of lost reels of film shot by the Manakia brothers, pioneers of cinema. Along the way he encounters the conflict still raging in the Balkan states.
DVD 19
Vocabulary of change : Angela Davis and Tim Wise in conversation
"Angela Davis and Tim Wise, two of this country's leading racial and social justice scholar-activists joined moderator Rose Aguilar on stage for a rare, unscrioted and free range conversation on the state of contemporary global politics. They explore how our culture's uncritical embrace of pervasive individualism, the myth of meritocracy, and entrenched institutional inequality has led to racialized public policy, the privatization of education, health care and the environment, and the commodification of many of our basic needs, including water and food. Through bold discourse, witm and an optomism of the will, Angela and Tim call for new vocabularies - a different kind of fluency and a different quality of literacy. With a shared reverence for historical memory and today's activism, they invoke the power of a new language to restore clarity and to unify global communities."--Opening screen.
DVD 10153
Vocabulary of change Angela Davis, Tim Wise in conversation /
"Angela Davis and Tim Wise, two of this country's leading racial and social justice scholar-activists joined moderator Rose Aguilar on stage for a rare, unscrioted and free range conversation on the state of contemporary global politics. They explore how our culture's uncritical embrace of pervasive individualism, the myth of meritocracy, and entrenched institutional inequality has led to racialized public policy, the privatization of education, health care and the environment, and the commodification of many of our basic needs, including water and food. Through bold discourse, witm and an optomism of the will, Angela and Tim call for new vocabularies - a different kind of fluency and a different quality of literacy. With a shared reverence for historical memory and today's activism, they invoke the power of a new language to restore clarity and to unify global communities."--Opening screen.
DVD 10153
Vocabulary of change : in conversation with Angela Davis and Tim Wise
"Angela Davis and Tim Wise, two of this country's leading racial and social justice scholar-activists joined moderator Rose Aguilar on stage for a rare, unscrioted and free range conversation on the state of contemporary global politics. They explore how our culture's uncritical embrace of pervasive individualism, the myth of meritocracy, and entrenched institutional inequality has led to racialized public policy, the privatization of education, health care and the environment, and the commodification of many of our basic needs, including water and food. Through bold discourse, witm and an optomism of the will, Angela and Tim call for new vocabularies - a different kind of fluency and a different quality of literacy. With a shared reverence for historical memory and today's activism, they invoke the power of a new language to restore clarity and to unify global communities."--Opening screen.
DVD 10153
Voces inocentes Innocent voices /
In war torn 1980's El Salvador, Chava, an eleven-year-old boy, suddenly becomes the 'man of the house' in a time when the government's army is forcibly recruiting children for civil war. As his single mother fights to protect her children, their village becomes both playground and battlefield. This is about life, love, the hope of peace, and the ennobling power of the human spirit. Based on a true story.
DVD 6295
Voice
Rapid change from traditional to modern life in Nunavut, like many post-colonial societies, has concentrated power, wealth and information in a few hands. Far-reaching decisions are being made daily by a mostly-unelected political elite with minimal input from under-informed citizens scattered over enormous distances. With no elected legislature in place until April 1999, Inuit organizations and their government advisors made these decisions on trust. 'Soft' media coverage is provided by these same insiders themselves: government agencies like CBC radio/TV and Government of NWT Information Networks, or the Inuit establishment through politically-controlled sources like IBC and TVNC. The absence of independent Inuit media scrutiny means there is little criticism or public debate about these important decisions. Nipi examines fundamental questions of democracy, power and change in Nunavut and indirectly in Canada itself: in education, religion, gender, lifestyle, the distribution of economic development and the make-up and inner structure of the new leadership class.
DVD 5959
Voice of the moon.
DVD 6784
Voices
Jerry is that chipper guy clocking the nine-to-five at a bathtub factory, with the offbeat charm of anyone who could use a few friends. With the help of his court-appointed psychiatrist, he pursues his office crush. However, the relationship takes a sudden, murderous turn after she stands him up for a date. Guided by his evil talking cat and benevolent talking dog, Jerry must decide whether to keep striving for normalcy, or indulge in a much more sinister path.
DVD 11419
Voices & visions
The lives and works of 13 renowned American poets are interpreted through dramatic readings, archival photographs, dance, performances, and interviews in this inspiring series. Illustrative poems in each program are accompanied by insights into their historical and cultural connections. The series covers the terminology of poetry and the larger role of poets in American and world literature studies.
DVD 8776
Voices from L.A. ten years later
Kim-Gibson's follow-up to "Sa-i-gu" looks into the past and present to question how much has changed in the last ten years following the 1992 L.A. riots. Interviews with a multi-ethnic set of first-hand witnesses reveal that living conditions have deteriorated and that few remedies have been administered to the communities most stricken.
DVD 4947
Voices from Los Angeles ten years later
Kim-Gibson's follow-up to "Sa-i-gu" looks into the past and present to question how much has changed in the last ten years following the 1992 L.A. riots. Interviews with a multi-ethnic set of first-hand witnesses reveal that living conditions have deteriorated and that few remedies have been administered to the communities most stricken.
DVD 4947
Voices from the sugar woods
A documentary of the sugaring process in Vermont leading to "pure Vermont maple syrup."
DVD 3282
Voices of a people's history of the United States
Historian Howard Zinn and writer Anthony Arnove are joined by artists and actors to present dramatic readings of selections from their book, Voices of a people's history of the United States.
DVD 6470
Voices of a people's history of the United States
"On October 22, 2004, Howard Zinn was honored by the New York Society for Ethical Culture. Friends and supporters came to hear readings from Zinn's Voices of a People's history of the United States, the companion book to A people's history of the United States, which collects first hand accounts of U.S. history from the perspectives of common people and political activists. Democracy Now's Amy Goodman hosted an evening of readings by actors, activists, and authors..."--Container.
DVD 7305
Voices of a people's history : readings of Howard Zinn
"On October 22, 2004, Howard Zinn was honored by the New York Society for Ethical Culture. Friends and supporters came to hear readings from Zinn's Voices of a People's history of the United States, the companion book to A people's history of the United States, which collects first hand accounts of U.S. history from the perspectives of common people and political activists. Democracy Now's Amy Goodman hosted an evening of readings by actors, activists, and authors..."--Container.
DVD 7305
Voices of change
This documentary program presents an example of Black South African anti-apartheid culture. By means of poetry, music, politics and social life Blacks express their feelings against apartheid. Includes interviews with Black South African intellectuals.
DVD 5320
Voices of Irish women political prisoners
The voices of women prisoners take us on a journey to Northern Ireland, a journey into and out of prison, a journey of personal and political struggle and growth. Through interviews, news footage and recovered letters--many written in tiny print on squares of toilet paper and smuggled out of jail--Thompson's film provides a sobering account of the travails of Irish women political prisoners.
DVD 4932
Voices of Muslim women from the US south
The film tackles how Muslim women carve a space for self-expression in the Deep South.
DVD 11397
Voices of the world
Linguists investigate why some languages become global and others disappear and how language and identity are connected. They also discuss the state and fate of Livonian, Dogon, Mlabri, Changsha Hua, Naqxi, Pitjantjatjara, Pintupi, and Tutunaku.
DVD 5562
Voices of the world : the extinction of language and linguistic diversity
Linguists investigate why some languages become global and others disappear and how language and identity are connected. They also discuss the state and fate of Livonian, Dogon, Mlabri, Changsha Hua, Naqxi, Pitjantjatjara, Pintupi, and Tutunaku.
DVD 5562
Voices project movie
"Shout it out is an original musical based on the lives of Vermont teens. The feature film is an adaptation of the ... original stage musical The Voices Project that toured ... across Vermont in 2005. [The film] tells the story of a group of teenagers making their way through high school ... [and] follows them through some of the more tumultuous moments of teenagehood: academic pressure, friction with peers, teachers, and parents; trying to fit in, trying to find one's self, fear of the future, nostalgia for the past, friendship, and first love" -- container.
DVD 6242
Voie lactée The milky way /
Two French beggars on their way to Spain's holy city of Santiago de Compostela meet stigmatic children, crucified nuns, and others on their pilgrimage.
DVD 9361
Voina.
A Siberian soldier leads a British actor into war-torn Chechnya to rescue the latter's girlfriend from Islamic extremists.
DVD 6404
Voĭna i mir
Napoleon's army advances through Europe, and the high society of St. Petersburg discusses philosophical matters: What sets history in motion? The ambition of an emperor, the hastiness of a tsar, or the talent of a military commander? The destiny of Russia is inseparable from that of Andrei Bolkonsky, Pierre Bezukhov, and Natasha Rostova.
DVD 1913
Voĭna i mir
The fates of three souls-- the blundering, good-hearted Pierre; the heroically tragic Prince Andrei; and the radiant, tempestuous Natasha-- collide amid the tumult of the Napoleonic Wars in Russia. The film conjures a sweeping vision of grand balls that glitter with rococo beauty and epic breathtaking battles.
DVD 13145
Voĭna i mir (Motion picture)
The fates of three souls-- the blundering, good-hearted Pierre; the heroically tragic Prince Andrei; and the radiant, tempestuous Natasha-- collide amid the tumult of the Napoleonic Wars in Russia. The film conjures a sweeping vision of grand balls that glitter with rococo beauty and epic breathtaking battles.
DVD 13145
Voix spirituelles
Documentary about the desolute and dangerous lives of the Russian soldiers stationed along Tajikistan-Afghanistan border.
DVD 3461
Volcán
"A dreamlike depiction of the daily lives of Mayans living on a coffee plantation at the base of an active volcano. A ... fusion of fact and fable, this ... film is an immersive journey into its characters' customs and beliefs, chronicling with unblinking realism disappearing traditions and a disappearing people"--Container.
DVD 12979
Volcano
Something unspeakably chilling is heating up The City of Angels. Beneath the famed La Brea Tar Pits, a raging volcano has formed, raining a storm of deadly fire bombs and an endless tide of white-hot lava upon the stunned city.
DVD 2249
Volcano above the clouds
200 miles south of the equator, Kilimanjaro has both equatorial and arctic conditions. Five distinct climatic zones inhabit the slopes of this 19,340-foot peak. Atop, a geologist takes viewers back to the dawn of time when the continent of Africa split.
DVD 3592
Volcano saga Iceland, 1985 /
After a car wreck, a woman experiences a dream fantasy of a woman living in Iceland 1,000 years ago; special visual effects provide a surrealistic ambience.
DVD 12062
Volver
Raimunda lives in Madrid with her daughter Paula and her drunk husband Paco. Her sister, Sole, is separated and works clandestinely as a hairstylist for women. Years ago, in the sisters birth village, they lost their parents in a fire in La Mancha. Their aunt, Paula, still lives in the village and continues to speak about her sister Irene, mother of the two sisters, as if she were still alive. When the old aunt dies the situation changes and the past returns(volver).
DVD 930
Voortrekkers Winning a continent /
This feature film from 1916 tells the story of South Africa's Boer pioneers in their epic trek across southern Africa in search of new land. It concentrates on the struggle against Zulu inhabitants, which the Boers eventually won at the Battle of Blood River in 1938. But it is of course history told from the point of view of the conqueror, and shows us a zulu enemy heathen, Treacherous, and barbaric. This is "history" just as mythologized as the American conquest of the West, concealing brutal conquest and theft of land.
DVD 7790
Vor The thief /
A tale of passion, betrayal and innocence lost, as seen through the eyes of an impressionable young boy. Set in post-World War II Russia.
DVD 672
Voskhozhdeniye The ascent /
Tracks two Byelorussian peasant soldiers - one on the path to redemption, the other to hell - as they try to evade Nazi forces during World War II.
DVD 6002
Vote
One hundred years after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, it tells the dramatic culmination story of the hard-fought campaign waged by American women for the right to vote, a transformative cultural and political movement that resulted in the largest expansion of voting rights in US history.
DVD 13353
Voulez-vous danser avec moi Come dance with me /
When her husband is found standing over the body of a murdered dance instuctor, Brigitte Bardot goes undercover to find the real killer and is drawn into a shady Parisian underworld.
DVD 988
Vous n'avez encore rien vu You ain't seen nothin' yet /
Based on two works by the playwright Jean Anouilh, this film opens with a who's-who of French acting royalty being summoned to the reading of a late playwright's last will and testament. This is an alternately wry and wistful valentine to actors and the art of performance from a director long fascinated by the intersection of life, theater and cinema.
DVD 10358
Voyage du ballon rouge
Simon is dealing with the increased fragility of his loving yet preoccupied mother, Suzanne. When a Taiwanese film student, Song, is hired to help care for Simon, a unique extended family is formed. The two become completely dependent on each other, yet both are lost in separate dreams mirrored by a delicate, shiny red balloon.
DVD 6533
Voyage in time
This film chronicles Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky as he searches locations and explores ideas for his next feature film. He travels through the Italian countryside with Italian screenwriter Tonino Guerra.
DVD 3254
Voyage of the damned
A group of German Jews, trying to avoid Nazi oppression in Germany, leave on a ship bound for Cuba and freedom, only to be forbidden to leave the ship when they reach Havana.
DVD 643
Voyage to danger
After twenty years, Detective Zenigata has been taken off the Lupin case. With a new assignment and an aching heart, he seeks friendship in the one man he could never catch, the indomitable Lupin the Third.
DVD 3114
Vozvrashchenie The return /
Having a fatherless childhood, young brothers Andrei and Ivan have grown closer than most siblings. But when they least expect it, the father the boys have never known returns. Under the cool midnight sun of a coastal Russian summer, the boys eagerly hop into a car for a fishing trip with a complete stranger they absolutely need to believe is their father. As they travel deep into the wilderness, their journey devolves from vacation to boot camp to father-son love triangle and ultimately to a test of wills that pushed to the brink of violence.
DVD 3614
Všichni moji blízcí All my loved ones /
Inspired by the real life heroics of Nicholas Winton who saved hundreds of Czech Jewish children from the Nazis. The Silberstein's are a large and close knit extended family living in Czechoslovakia. Believing in the decency of mankind, they don't pay heed to the Nazi threat. They finally realize the true horror of what is coming, but it is too late. Making the toughest possible decision, they must decide if they will turn their young son, David, over to Nicholas and risk never seeing him again.
DVD 3715