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Black Orpheus
ENG VT0005

Legend of Orpheus & Eurydice unfolds against colorful background of carnival of Rio de Janeiro. In black section of city, Orpheus is a streetcar conductor & Eurydice a country girl fleeing from a man sworn to kill her. 1959. 96 min.


Richard III: The Classic Collection
ENG VT0263

Performances by Laurence Olivier, Claire Bollom, Ralph Richardson, & Cedric Hartwicke. 1956 158 min


Lysistrata
ENG VT0325

Lysistrata is an Athenian woman disgusted by way men have ruined country with endless wars. Rallying other women, she proposes they impose an embargo on sexual relations with their men as long as war lasts. This "sex strike," brings men to their knees. 97 min


Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
ENG VT0421

The traveling hypnotist who performs with his sleepwalking assistant Cesare is a murderer. He believes that Cesare also kills while under the doctor's spell. Francis' sweetheart Jane is attacked & carried off by Cesare, but she manages to escape. During the search to find her, Francis goes to an insane asylum hoping to find Cesare & discovers the director of the asylum is none other than Dr. Caligari. It is then revealed that Francis himself is a patient in a mental institution &, among faces of other inmates, we see Jane & Cesare. 52 min.


Raisin in the Sun
ENG VT0431

A $10,000 insurance check can allow Youngers to finally escape their frustrating life in a Chicago apartment. But, escape means different things to each family member. 128 min


Last Laugh
ENG VT0432

Silent-film told entirely by camera. It's a masterpiece in character development. A pompous old hotel doorman who feels important is demoted because of age. Working in a wash room, he becomes a tragic & broken figure. Then, by a strange turn of fortune, he becomes a millionaire. Scenes are as funny as earlier scenes were pathetic. 1924 74 min


Moyers
ENG VT0458

Explores "image & reality in America"; how public opinion is formed through mingling of fact & fiction in society saturated with images.


Doctor Faustus
ENG VT0463

Dr. Faustus is aging scholar who makes a bargain with devil for youth, knowledge & a dazzling temptress. Sent to distract him from questioning his decision, the devil's disciple, Mephistopheles, lures Faustus into a spellbinding world of spectacular visions & erotic diversions. When scholar encounters a bewitching seductress who transforms from one legendary beauty to another, fate of Faustus' soul is sealed. 93 minutes


Inherit the Wind
ENG VT0497

The "Monkey Trial" of 1925 pitted attorney Clarence Darrow & fundamentalist leader William Jennings Bryan in a clash over teaching of evolution in a Tennessee School & captivated nation. 2 hr 8 min


King Lear
ENG VT0504

Focuses on Lear's relationships with his daughters, presenting all of play's essential elements, while eliminating a number of subplots that have made its staging so cumbersome. Welles' performance as the monarch has been widely recognized as top performance in his career. 73 minutes


Tony Morrison : Portrait of a Writer
ENG VT0505

Profile of a Writer: Ms Morrison has established herself as leading chronicler of black experience in America & as one of America's finest novelists. On eve of publication of her novel Beloved she talks about problems of slavery & its appalling legacy with an approach that is at once warm, generous, intelligent & knowledgeable. 1987 52 min


Master Teaching Series (9/94)
ENG VT0514

Programs designed to promote effective teaching in higher education. 1st program deals with large sized classes & how to maximize student engagement in these classes. 2nd attests to importance of fostering a more ethical learning community.


MidSummer Nights Dream
ENG VT0544A

An enchanting production of comedy of magic, mistaken identity, reconciliation & self-discovery. 2 hr 45 min


MidSummer Nights Dream
ENG VT0544B

An enchanting production of comedy of magic, mistaken identity, reconciliation & self-discovery. 2 hr 45 min


Look Back in Anger
ENG VT0567

Kenneth Brannaugh & Emma Thompson star in production of 1 of great classics of postwar British drama. Play's protagonist is Jimmy Porter who, as a child watched his father die poor & alone & has grown up to be an angry young man who despises establishment & vents his bitterness & frustrations on his wife & her upper-class background. Playwright himself hailed Brannaugh as "the best Jimmy Porter ever. Emma Thompson plays wife who must be made to feel pain equal to Jimmy's so their marriage can survive. 114 minutes


Native American Novelists: James Welch
ENG VT0597

Part Blackfoot, part Gros Ventre Indian, Welch finds his subject matter in his Indian heritage & his plots in human emotions & trials common to all humans. Welch discusses his background, his sources, his vision, & his personal way of particularizing universal. 50 minutes


Native American Novelists: Leslie M. Silko
ENG VT0606

Leslie Marmon Silko's work is strongly rooted in her own matrilineal tribal background. Like all writing of lasting value, it uses particular experiences & places to reveal universal truths. Here, she discusses her own background & interrelationship between her smaller, Indian world & larger, brutal world. 50 minutes


Night & Fog
ENG VT0630

Describes what Nazis did to Jewish people. Very descriptive.


Twelfth Night: Part 1
ENG VT0640A

Play by Shakespeare. Classed as a comedy because order is restored, evil punished & all live happily ever after. Music is major element of play. 165 min.


Twelfth Night: Part 2
ENG VT0640B

Play by Shakespeare. Classed as a comedy because order is restored, evil punished & all live happily ever after. Music is major element of play. 165 min.


Brothers Karamazov
ENG VT0643

Based on Dostoyevsky's story of greed, vindictiveness & lust, video brings 19th century Russia to life in a splendid production. Yul Brynner stars. Karamazov is the father of 4 wildly desperate sons, one of whom is in love with the same woman as his father. Film weaves a web of intrigue & murder. 1957. 2 hr. 27 min


Rappaccinis Daughter
ENG VT0647

Set in 18th century Italy, is tale of a young scholar named Giovani who falls in love with a beautiful girl who tends her father's poison garden. Strange & unearthly beauty of Beatrice masks terrifying curse, which Giovanni must discover. Her father has made her subject of a diabolical experiment. 57 min


Hiroshima Mon Amor
ENG VT0651

French actress enters into brief romance with Japanese architect. She relives a traumatic wartime romance & tries to find truth, love & freedom from past. 88 min


Im a Fool
ENG VT0694

Traveling from town to town during summer of 1919 Andy left his Ohio home in search of adventure & romance as a horse trainer on county fair racing circuit. He learns a bittersweet lesson about life when he meets Lucy at racetrack. He leads Lucy to believe he's wealthy. Soon one lie leads to another until there is no way to tell Lucy truth. Irony is that Lucy & Andy have fallen in love. As Andy admits on his way out of town, all is lost because "I'm a Fool". 38 min


Blue Hotel
ENG VT0698

Nebraska in 1880's; bleak, lonely & far from what you'd expect Wild West to be. For a Swedish immigrant, frontier parlor of The Blue Hotel represents quintessential western fantasy. No one can convince him that his dimestore notions about West are foolish. He sees murderous intentions all around him & in terror he turns everybody against him. Inevitably he attracts tragedy. Who is responsible? The negative Swede or cliquish hotel guests? Story of how society punishes outsiders for being different. 55 min.


Wild by Law
ENG VT0705

Story of Wilderness Act of 1964 & 3 men responsible for its passage; Leopold, Marshall, & Zahniser. More than story of historic struggle to preserve natural world, it provides overview of roots of environmental movement, offering deeper understanding of one of most important issues facing contemporary civilization.


Virginia Woolf: A Room of Ones Own
ENG VT0708

A woman must have money & a room of her own if she is to write fiction. So spoke Virginia Woolf in 1929 as she discussed problems of writer & of women in general. Woolf's talk represents perhaps most persuasive of all her writings on liberty, literature, & role of women in her society. She spoke about writing as a woman, in an age when women were deprived of virtually every possibility of earning their own living. 53 min.


Cleopatra (B)-Part 2
ENG VT0710B

Story of Queen of Nile & her love affairs with Julius Caesar & Mark Antony. 245 minutes


Shermans March
ENG VT0713

Quest for true romance: filmmaker Ross McElwee, after an old girlfriend deserts him, trains his lens with phallic resolve on every accessible women he meets along original route of General Sherman's Civil War March. 157 min


Oleanna
ENG VT0729

Tormentor becomes tormented when student turns tables on manipulative professor in portrait of sex, power & betrayal. Desperate to pass one of her classes, Carol approaches her professor behind closed doors of his office. Words are exchanged; a touch; a glance & what began as a simple meeting between teacher & student spirals out of control. When Carol files harassment charges against him, wheels are set in motion for a high stakes game of cat & mouse with shocking results. How far is too far: Whatever side you take you're wrong. 90 min


To Sir
ENG VT0740

Novice teacher faces class of rowdy punks in film that reflects some of problems & fears of teens in '60's. Sidney Poitier gives one of his finest performances as Thackeray, an out of work engineer who turns to teaching in London's tough East End. The graduating class sets out to destroy him as they did his predecessor by breaking his spirit. But Thackeray, meets challenge by treating students as young adults who will soon enter a world where they must stand or fall on their own. When offered an engineering job Thackeray must decide if he wants to stay. 105 min


Cape Fear (1961)
ENG VT0761

Gregory Peck & Robert Mitchum star in tale of revenge & murder. Mitchum is an ex-con determined to exact a terrible revenge on Peck & his family. Peck plays a small town lawyer whose worst nightmare comes true when the criminal he helped put away returns to stalk his beautiful young wife (Polly Bergen) & teenage daughter. Despite help from the local police chief & a private detective, Peck is legally powerless to keep Mitchum from playing his sadistic game of cat & mouse. Finally Peck must put his family's lives at stake in a deadly trap that leads to one of the most suspenseful & heart-pounding confrontations ever committed to film. 1961. 1 hr 46 min


Cape Fear (1991)
ENG VT0762

Later version of the above film starring Robert DeNiro as the ex-con & Nick Nolte as the lawyer. 1991. 2 hr. 8 min


Birds
ENG VT0763

Unexplainable attack on residents of Bodega Bay by birds is subject of Hitchcock thriller. Thousands of real birds & nearly 400 trick shots make reality of seemingly impossible, & lend an air of sheer terror that you will never forget. The Birds represents Hitchcock at his very best. 1963. 2 hr.


Daisy Miller
ENG VT0764

Daisy Miller is a woman who did as she pleased but seldom pleased anyone but herself. Adapted from Henry James' classic novella about an expatriate American living abroad in Europe with her daffy mother & bratty brother. She is very much ahead of her time as her behavior scandalizes Victorian society of 1878. 1974 93 minutes


Babettes Feast
ENG VT0765

Babette is French chef living among a pious congregation on a desolate coast of Denmark. As cook to 2 elderly, women, she's never called upon to prepare anything more exciting than traditional boiled codfish & soup. She wins 10,000 francs & decides to spend it by creating the most memorable meal consumed even though the villagers will have no idea what they're eating. Treat yourself to this look at life, pleasure & artistic passion. 1988. 102 min


Great Expectations
ENG VT0766

When Pip receives property from an unknown benefactor he starts a new life believing his good fortune has come from an eccentric old woman, only person of wealth he knows. But when his true benefactor reveals himself, Pip must re-evaluate his great expectations & lend a hand to person he met briefly long ago. 119 min


Apocalypse Now
ENG VT0767

Lt. Willard receives orders to seek out renegade military outpost led by mysterious Colonel Kurtz. Willard's mission: "Terminate with extreme prejudice." One of most powerful films of all time, "Apocalypse Now" was nominated for 8 Academy Awards.


Vampyr
ENG VT0768

Story of young man who becomes involved with 2 sisters, one of whom, wasting away with strange sickness, turns out to be victim of vampire. 1931 B&W. 75 min


Ox Bow Incident
ENG VT0769

When a rancher is reported murdered by cattle rustlers, people of Ox-Bow decide to take justice into their own hands & lynch alleged killers. Henry Fonda plays drifter who tries to come to their defense. Stunning indictment of injustice. 1943. B&W 75 min


Sense & Sensibility
ENG VT0770

Tells of Dashwood sisters whose chances at marriage seem doomed by their family's sudden loss of fortune. 136 min


Masque of the Red Death
ENG VT0771

Fearing revolt amongst villagers, Prince Prospero has 2 of them thrown into prison. The men are brought to banquet hall to entertain prince & guests. Each man is forced to cut himself with a dagger, one of which is tipped with poison. When he dies other prisoner is set free. He vows to return. But it is not until Prince's Masque Ball that a mysterious guest appears & transforms his revels into a grisly dance with death! 1964. 89 min


An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge
ENG VT0772

A man is about to be hung, accused of sabotage during Civil War. Story of his final moments on gallows. 29 min


Bartleby
ENG VT0773

Young clerk rebels against his employer by responding to demands to do work by saying, "I prefer not to". This is carried on at absurdum until office is in chaos because other employees must do Bartleby's work. His boss is unable to fire him & eventually has him placed into a mental hospital. Why the boss simply doesn't fire him crux of the film. 1972. 79 min


How To Make An American Quilt
ENG VT0779

A Berkeley graduate student is spending the summer at home of her grandmother & great aunt. Their house is a quiet haven where she intends to finish her latest thesis & think over a marriage proposal. When she meets sexy, smoldering Leon things get complicated. As she wrestles with her decision women in her grandmother's quilting bee confide stories of loves that shaped their lives. Brings unbridled passion, true love, betrayal, joy & heartbreak vividly to life in a way that celebrates finding your way & following your heart. 1995. 1 hr 57 min


Barn Burning
ENG VT0785

Southern tenant farmer sets employer's barn on fire when he thinks he's been treated unfairly. His son is horrified. The farmer escapes justice for lack of proof but he & his family are told to move on. No sooner do they move than he is offended by his rich new employer. Torn between trying to win his father's acceptance & aversion to what his father will do the son must act quickly. Shows the complex world of class divisions & family relationships through a boy's attempt to liberate himself from hatred & poverty. 1985. 40 min


Ivanhoe
ENG VT0786

Return to world of knights & maidens in adaptation of Sir Walter Scott classic. Set against 12th-century England story follows one brave man's attempt to restore Richard The Lion-Hearted to throne stolen by his brother. 1952. 1 hr 47 min


Meet John Doe
ENG VT0787

Protesting corruption in society, John Doe writes to a newspaper declaring his plan to commit suicide on New Year's Eve. An overwhelming response from readers turns John Doe into an overnight celebrity. Unfortunately John Doe doesn't exist. He was invented as a prank by a reporter. The down & out fellow chosen by newspaper to play John Doe is pushed into limelight & becomes flagbearer of everyday man. 1940 130 min


Handmaids Tale
ENG VT0808

Once upon a time in near future a country called Gilead went wrong. Ecological disasters ravaged land resulting in war, political turmoil & sterility. Only a few women can still bear children. They were called Handmaids. Captured trying to escape Gilead, Kate soon befriends Moira in prison like training center for few surviving fertile women. Moira escapes but Kate is sent to home of Commander. Her role is to bear commander's child for his infertile wife but revolutionaries have other plans for Kate. Passionate drama explodes as Kate breaks free & strikes a fatal blow for revolution. 109 min.


House Made of Dawn
ENG VT0809

Story of outcast Native American & his search for destiny in a world that doesn't know him. Abel is young man who experiences mystical visions of his ancestors, one of whom leads him into a real-life gun battle with a villainous cowboy. After serving prison time for manslaughter, he is sent to LA where he falls under spell of Tosamah, a charismatic leader. An outsider in another man's world, Abel fights to resurrect spirits of his once proud people & find a home in a strange land that was once his own. 77 min.


Jane Eyre
ENG VT0820

Jane Eyre is young woman whose will to overcome a life of hardship leads her into a romance with a handsome gentleman. Swept up in possibility of a happy new life, Jane is shattered when terrible, untold secrets from his past are revealed. William Hurt & Charlotte Gainsbourg are featured. 116 minutes


Bastard Out of Carolina
ENG VT0837

Anney Boatwright gives birth to an illegitimate child nicknamed Bone. Although she grows up in South Carolina in the 50's Bone & her mother share deep & loving bond. Bone's stepfather is jealous of the bond between them. 108 min


Women of Brewster
ENG VT0839A

Examines group of women neighbors in same slum who have been affected by misguided idealism. Luciela can't detach herself from an untrustworthy husband; life in fast lane has run aground for Etta Mae; after bright lights of NY have dimmed Kiswana has renounced her middle class roots bringing her into conflict with her mother. Serving as matriarch is Mattie, a woman with an unshakable resolve to create a better life for herself & those she loves. 180 min


Women of Brewster Place
ENG VT0839B

Examines group of women neighbors in same slum who have been affected by misguided idealism. Luciela can't detach herself from an untrustworthy husband; life in fast lane has run aground for Etta Mae; after bright lights of NY have dimmed Kiswana has renounced her middle class roots bringing her into conflict with her mother. Serving as matriarch is Mattie, a woman with an unshakable resolve to create a better life for herself & those she loves. 180 min


Changeling
ENG VT0859

Jacobean parody of Shakespeare written in 17th century. Beatrice is contracted to marry Alonzo but is in love with Alsemero. She hires deviant DeFlores to kill Alonzo. DeFlores, enamored of Beatrice is blind to the price he will pay. 92 min


Helen of Troy
ENG VT0874

Arrows rain death. Courageous soldiers clamber up stone walls. Swords clang, men shout, fires rage. Yet waves of combatants storming Troy are turned back. To defeat undefeatable requires brains as much as brawn. So Greeks, feigning withdrawal, offer a gift of treachery; a mammoth wooden horse that secretly houses their fighting men. 141 min.


Antigone - Movie
ENG VT0875

Sophocles' drama of heroine who defied the state to bury her brother, casualty of a desert war. 85 min. 1990


Knights of the Round Table
ENG VT0876

Newly crowned King of England dedicates his reign & fellowship of Knights of Round Table to ideals of peace, justice & chivalry. Supporting Arthur in his vision are Queen Guinevere, Sir Lancelot & Merlin. Lancelot & Guinevere are torn between their love for one another & their loyalty to king. Plotting against Arthur are his halfsister Morgan LeFay & her evil consort, Modred. 1953 1hr 56 min.


Camelot (A)
ENG VT0877A

Legend of King Arthur has enchanted generation after generation. His perfect kingdom was shattered because of tragic passion between Queen Guenevere & knight Lancelot. 180 min.


Camelot (B)
ENG VT0877B

Legend of King Arthur has enchanted generation after generation. His perfect kingdom was shattered because of tragic passion between Queen Guenevere & knight Lancelot. 180 min.


Odyssey
ENG VT0878

Set in heroic age of mighty warrior-king Odysseus as his victorious return from Trojan War becomes a decade long quest to reach his homeland & his faithful wife, Penelope. Aided by goddess Athena, Odysseus braves all terrors & temptations of a mysterious world matching wits with a fantastic array of beings both mortal & monstrous. 165 min


Accidental Tourist
ENG VT0892

Where can you find your favorite hamburger in Paris? How many packets of laundry soap do you need on a trip to Atlanta? Ask Macon Leary. He's The Accidental Tourist whose guidebooks are revered by home loving business travelers who prefer the carpet path between the microwave & VCR over flight path between NY & London. What do you do when your ex wife comes back into your life while a ditzy dog trainer named Muriel also tugs at your heart. Don't ask Macon. He doesn't have a clue. 1989/ Color/ PG rated/121 min


Lover
ENG VT0897

French teenager engages in affair with wealthy Chinese heir in 1920s Saigon. For 1st time in her life she has control & wields it deftly over her lover throughout a series of meetings. But though lovers are able to transcend differences in age, race & class; theirs is a future that French colonial Vietnamese society will never allow. Brilliantly captures essence of sexual awakening & forbidden desire like no other film has done before. 1 hr 51 min


Good Mother
ENG VT0906

Every passion has its price. For Anna Dunlap a recent divorcee & mother of a young daughter, Molly, price may be devastating. Discovering true passion for first time in her life after meeting artist Leo Cutter, Anna's life couldn't be more perfect. But shocking charges against young woman place her newfound lifestyle under scrutiny, shattering her relationship & forcing her to prove that she is a good mother. 104 min


Joy Luck Club
ENG VT0918

Tells story of 4 friends whose extraordinary lives are filled with joy & heartbreak. Their lifelong friendship reveals a mosaic of startling events & conditions that have shaped their lives & how these experiences have affected hopes & dreams they hold for each of their children. 139 min


Dangerous Liaisons
ENG VT0922

Is an opulent minuet of "nasty, decadent fun". Settings are 18th century. Characters are Merteuil, the rich widow; Valmont, predatory rake; & Madame de Tourvel, whose beauty & virtue doom Valmont to violate his personal credo: don't fall in love. 120 min


Ballad of the Sad Café
ENG VT0926

A Southern-Gothic love triangle revolves around the eccentric Miss Amelia. Plain faced & unhappy she is shocked to learn that Marvin Macy, a charming con man, has fallen in love with her. More shocking she agrees to marry him. But her public humiliation of her weak-willed husband sets him on course for revenge. Climaxing in an unforgettable battle of wills Marvin does his best to break America's spirit & her heart. 100 min


1968: The Year That Shaped a Generation
ENG VT0928

Year that saw TET Offensive in Vietnam, assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. & Robert Kennedy, police riot at Democratic Convention in Chicago, a near revolution in France & Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. Thirty years later & on eve of new century we have a chance to look back & reflect on what it meant for the world. 60 min


Out of Africa
ENG VT0929

True story of Karen Blixen who with her philandering husband runs a coffee plantation in Kenya in 1914. To her astonishment she soon discovers herself in love with land, its people & mysterious white hunter. 2 hr 41 min


Rise of Greek Tragedy Sophocles
ENG VT0945

Explains tragedy as a form & to acquaint audiences with what is probably its foremost example. Using tragic masks production emphasizes modernity & eternity of play as well as its lasting emotional impact. 45 min


Member of The Wedding
ENG VT0953A

Frankie Addams, motherless 12 year old struggles with awkwardness of adolescence & dreams about life's possibilities. When she's not picking fights with her cousin John she shares dreams of fine, traditional family life she has never known with her kindhearted nanny. But after Frankie's older brother announces his engagement & upcoming wedding the young girl misunderstands what is happening & plans to join them on their honeymoon. When newlyweds nix idea a rejected Frankie runs away from home & discovers harsh realities of adult world. 91 min


Jack Kerouacs Road
ENG VT0998

Revolutionized form of American journalism; did not understand English until he was 6 years old. Grew up in Massachusetts he spoke French. Shows how his restless seeking embodied a pattern of emigration. Most famous novel is On the Road. 55 minutes


Wuthering Heights
ENG VT1000

Emily Bronte's tale of love & passion comes alive in film starring Juliette Binoche & Ralph Fiennes. Story of 2 generations of Earnshaw & Linton families as their lives & fortunes intertwine in a complex web dominated by passionate relationship between doomed lovers Heathcliff & Cathy. 1992 107 min


Kerouac
ENG VT1016

Jack Kerouac found style in Thomas Wolfe & Walt Whitman & beat of his free-flowing prose in jazz. A mystical figure he searched for answers by bumming across Mexico & US & settling in San Francisco during heyday of its literary renaissance, experimenting with drugs & Zen Buddhism. His life is examined, beginning with his impoverished boyhood through his development as one of most important modern American authors; to his self-destructive demise at age of 49. Kerouac is an accurately detailed documentary & moving drama.


Twelfth Night
ENG VT1034

Outlandish tale of troublesome twins who win hearts of an entire kingdom is more relevant & funnier today than when it was first performed almost 4 hundred years ago. 133 min


Prosperos Books
ENG VT1036

Prospero, a magician, inventor & Duke of Milan is exiled by his enemies & set adrift in a small boat with his beautiful daughter Miranda. They land on an enchanted island inhabited by nymphs & spirits. With help of 24 magical books, Prospero transforms his new world into a miniature Renaissance kingdom & uses his unearthly powers to wreak revenge upon his enemies. 2 hr 14 min


Born on the Fourth of July
ENG VT1055

Portrayal of Vietnam veteran Ron Kovic. Based on a true story film follows young Kovic from a zealous teen who eagerly volunteers for Vietnam War to an embittered veteran paralyzed from the mid-chest down. Deeply in love with his country, Kovic returned to an environment vastly different from the one he left, & struggled before emerging as a brave new voice for the disenchanted. 2 hr 25 min


Shawshank Redemption
ENG VT1056

Morgan Freeman plays Red Redding, a lifer who knows what it takes to cope with bleak hopelessness of Shawshank State Prison. Tim Robbins is new inmate Andy Dufresne, a quiet banker convicted of murders he didn't commit. Red is sure this mild newcomer won't last a night before he cracks. Red is wrong. Andy's will earns Red's respect & friendship & his resourcefulness brings hope & change to entire prison. Andy is full of surprises & he saves his best for last, leading to one of most satisfying finales in movie history. 142 min


Kids
ENG VT1085

Powerful & passionate, colorful & compelling, KIDS is 24 frenetic hours in lives of a group of teenagers who believe they are invincible. With breathtaking images from one of world's most renowned photographers Kids is a deeply affecting, no-holds-barred landscape of words & images depicting with raw honesty experiences, attitudes & uncertainties of innocence lost. 102 min


Buena Vista Social Club
ENG VT1086

Reveals astonishing life stories, vibrant personalities & unforgettable music of talented but long-overlooked performers who collaborated on legendary album 'The Buena Vista Social Club' with guitarist Fy Cooder. From crumbling barrios of their native Havana to their triumphant, sold out concerts in Amsterdam & NY, it's an emotional journey into passion, pride & humanity of artists whose music sparked a world wide musical phenomenon! 105 min


Gladiator
ENG VT1127

The General who became a slave. The slave who became a Gladiator. The Gladiator who defied an empire. A dazzling combination of vivid action & extraordinary storytelling that critics call 'a stunning, explosive, breathtaking epic!' 2 hr 35 min


All Quiet On The Western Front
ENG VT1131

A devastating story of war & a generation destroyed. In 1914 a group of German schoolboys, idealistic & inflamed with youthful patriotism, set off to fight in the 'glorious' war. During their brutal basic training disenchantment begins: then, boarding a train for the front they see wounded being rushed back to hospitals. They begin to grasp the grim reality of war. On their first night in action they come under heavy attack. In the trenches they begin to fall. Their youth is stripped away by violence & the boys become as sullen as veterans do. When Paul (Richard Thomas) shoots a Frenchman & watches him die he realizes futility of war. Wounded he returns home to a different world, a place where he cannot fit in. Sent back into battle he meets destiny on a day when the German High Command Communiqué states, 'All Quiet on the Western Front.' 131 min


Soldiers Home
ENG VT1132

(By Ernest Hemingway) Harold Krebs went off to fight WWI. Then he came home & found he wishing it had never ended. To Ernest Hemingway, the hardest part of war was coming home. This is the essence of the video - a story with many similarities to the experience of our Vietnam veterans. Harold finds he doesn't fit in anymore. He's outgrown his old life & now needs peace & quiet to work things out for himself. Yet he's pressured by his loving but misunderstanding mother to rejoin a community in which he feels alien. An intense & personal character study from the giant of literature, Harold discovers going home is never easy - & maybe it isn't even possible. 41 min


Life And Death In Britains Ancient Theatres
ENG VT1134

Ancient Mysteries with Leonard Nimoy travels the world to explore the hidden secrets of our ancient past a past that has much to tell us about the present and future. From the timeless legend of Atlantis to the secrets of ancient healing that are just being rediscovered today, this fascinating series uncovers an astonishing wealth of drama & wisdom buried in time. 50 min


Remember The Titans
ENG VT1170

A stirring & uplifting film based on a reallife drama. Remember The Titans is a rousing celebration of how a town torn a by resentment, friction & mistrust comes together in triumphant harmony. The year is 1971. After leading his team to five winning seasons, football coach Bill Yoast is demoted & replaced by Herman Boone, tough, opinionated & as different from the beloved Yoast as he could be. How these two men overcome their differences & turn a group of hostile young men into champions plays out in a remarkable & triumphant story full of soul & spirit. You & your family will never forget the Titans. 114 min


Where The Heart Is
ENG VT1171

Sometimes life's closest, most powerful ties are not those we're born with but the ones we create along the way. Ashley Judd & Natalie Portman star in this offbeat slice of life about a down on her luck southern teen who, after gaining 15 minutes of fame for giving birth to "The Wal-Mart Baby" begins to put her life together with the help of the kind, quirky strangers who become her surrogate family. It is an inspiring celebration of love, friendship & self worth. 120 min


Fried Green Tomatoes
ENG VT1172

Step back in time to the sleepy little Southern town of Whistle Stop. Kathy Bates & Jessica Tandy star in this remarkable drama that had critics raving & continues to keep audiences captivated. In Fannie Flagg's best selling novel, this heartwarming tale depicts the strength of the human spirit through laughter, devotion & a special friendship that defies all obstacles. 2 hr 17 min


Sophies Choice
ENG VT1176

A drama set in 1947 post-World War II, Brooklyn. Meryl Streep plays Sophie Zawistowska. Kevin Kline plays her lover Nath The story revolves around Sophie's struggle as a Polish-Catholic immigrant in the U.S. who had survived a Nazi concentration camp. The lovers' drama unfolds through the observations of a friend & would -be writer, Stingo. As the trip grows closer, Stingo discovers the hidden truths that they each harbor, resulting in a narrative that is both captivating & moving. 150 min


Business Communication - WRITING
ENG VT1208

Video on business communication writing. 20 min


Writing For Results
ENG VT1209

What writing skills separate those who communicate effectively with their writing from those who don't? The goal of writers, whether they be students or professionals, is to achieve some end result from their writing. For students, the desired result can be getting a good grade, being accepted by their school of choice, or receiving a job offer. Professionals hope to inform, persuade, & motivate...their success in achieving these results affects future promotions & raises. This video teaches step by step procedures for Writing For Results. Students see the importance of determining & understanding their audience & defining their desired result. They learn how to: select a subject; gather material; record research; organize thoughts; present a final product that accomplishes the desired result. Students of all writing levels will benefit from this lesson in de-mystifying the writing process.


Richard III
ENG VT1212

Shakespeare's immortal tale of ambition, lust, & murderous treachery is brilliantly updated in this riveting masterpiece. In 1930's Britain, a savage civil war between two royal families has just concluded. But even as the newly installed King Edward takes the reins of power, his ruthless, physically deformed younger brother Richard sets in motion a monstrous scheme to claim the crown for himself. Enlisting the aid of equally duplicitous allies in the court, Richard embarks on a merciless, single-minded campaign of betrayal, seduction & cold-blooded murder to achieve the goal that has obsessed him all his tortured life: to be king...at any price. Starring Ian McKellen, Annette Bening, Jim Broadbent, Robert Downey, Jr, Nigel Hawthorne, Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith & John wood. Color 1995 1 hr 44 min


Metaphysical Poets
ENG VT1214

In a reaction against Elizabethan-period poetry, 17th-century English poets such as John Donne, George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, & Andrew Marvell began writing in a new style. Although derisively dubbed "metaphysical" because of its unseemly - that is, intellectual - nature, metaphysical poetry soon became appreciated for its remarkable blend of emotion & erudition, as evidenced by complex conceits, unconventional imagery, & the avoidance of smooth & regular meter. This program spotlights the works of the genre's founder, John Donne, as Dr. Daniella Havenstein of Oxford University & Judith Aldridge of the University of Central England interpret & analyze some of his best-known poems, along with the works of other metaphysical poets. 30 min


Paradise Lost
ENG VT1215

Patterned after Greek & Roman classics, yet achieving a voice of its own by defying the strict dictates of classical subject matter, Milton's epic poem is a masterwork of overwhelming proportions. His diverse & often awesome use of language creates an effect even more surreal & powerful than Dante's Inferno. This program features probing analysis by Professor Thomas Winnifrith, University of Warwick, & Professor Robert Wilcher, University of Birmingham, who dissect the key passages of the work. Topics include Milton's cration of hell as one of the great imaginative accomplishments of literature. Also examined are the poem's anti-Catholic tone; the use of the Narcissus myth; the weak, headmaster-like characterization of God; Eve as the strong, archetypal woman; Satan as hero; & criticism of Milton as a mysogynist. A brief biography of Milton highlights philosophica debates of the period & reveals the work as product of it time. 29 min


King Lear (Russia - 1971)
ENG VT1238

King Lear (Russia - 1971) Directed by Grigori Kozintsev B&W/English subtitles 140 min


Taming of the Shrew
ENG VT1255

Elizabeth Taylor & Richard Burton sparkle & amuse as Katharina & Petruchio in william Shakespear's comic look at male chauvinism & women's lib in the 16th century. Petruchio, a poverty-stricken gentleman from Verona, journeys to Padua in search of a wealthy wife. There he encounters the fiery Katharina, a selfwilled shrew who leads Petruchio on a merry chase before he successfully circumvents her attempts to avoid marriage. Their honeymoon becomes a humourous battle of wit & insult with kate as determined to maintain her independence as petruchio is to "tame"her. when the embattled couple returns to Padua, Kate helps Petruchio win a wager that his is the most obedient of wives. But in reality, the shrewish Kate has found a more effective way to dominate her mate. 122 min


Waiting For Godot
ENG VT1274

A key work in modern theater & acknowledged throughout the world as a classic, Beckett's most famous play is shown here in a definitive film version starring Zero Mostel & Burgess Meredith as the two remarkable tramps, Vladimir & Estragon. They wait for the perhaps mythical personage, Godot, & through their suffering, patience & often hilarious wit, transcend themselves to become a portrait of the suffering of mankind itseof. This Waiting for Godot is a remarkable performance of one of the most important plays of the twentieth century. 102 min black and white


Barabbas
ENG VT1291

This is the fictionalized story of Barabbas based on a fascinating passage in the New Testament: when Pontius Pilate asks the people of Jerusalem whom they want freed - Jesus of Nazareth or Barabbas. And though he is set free, the event is one that haunts Barabbas for the rest of his life. After watching his former lover, Rachel, being stoned to death for her belief in Jesus, Barabbas returns to his life of thievery. Arrested again, he is sent to the sulphur mines & then to a gladiator school where he witnesses yet another friend give his life in the name of the Nazarene. It is only at the end, when Barabbas himself faces crucifixtion, that he discovers his faith. 134 min


Revising Prose
ENG VT1296

Video on how to revise prose; by Richard A. Lanham.


Gattaca
ENG VT1299

Engrossing sci-fi thriller about an all-too-human man who dares to defy a system obsessed with genetic perfection. Hawke stars as Vincent, an "In-Valid," who assumes the identity of a member of the genetic elite to pursue his goal of traveling into space with the Gattaca Aerospace Corporation. However, a week before his mission, a murder marks Vincent as a suspect. With a relentless investogator in pursuit and the colleague he has fallen in love with beginning to suspect his deception, Vincent's dreams steadily unravel. 106 min


Training Day
ENG VT1300

Rookie cop Jake Hoyt wants to stop crooks, not become one. But staying on the right side of the line that separates cop from criminal will be more challenging than anything he's faced. Because Hoyt's senior partner for the next 24 hous is Alonzo Harris, an undercover narc meaner than any of L.A.'s mean streets. In a powerful departure from his frequent good guy roles, Denzel Washington plays the fiercely charismatic Harris. Crusing the 'hood in his flashy low rider G-ride, laying down the patter of his twisted crimefighting logic, Harris both attracts and repels as he becomes the kind of thug he's supposed to collar. 122 min


All Quiet on the Western Front
ENG VT1313

Unlike most "message" films which date themselves almost immediately, Lewis Milestone's low-key unpolished and deeply-felt screen adaptation of the Rich Maria Remarque anti-war novel has lost little of its original impact. Years after its release it was still being banned in countries mobilizing for war. The plot follows a group of young German recruits in World War I through their passage from idealism to disillusionment. As the central character Paul Baumer declares, "We live in the trenches and we fight. We try not to be killed - that's all." "All Quiet" is an anthology of now famous scenes: Paul trapped in a shell crater with a man he has killed; the first meeting of the recruits and the veterans; infantrymen being mowed down to machine-gun visual rhythms; a moonlight swim with French farm girls; Paul's pacifist speech to his astonished schoolmates; and the final shot of the soldier's hand reaching for a fatal butterfly. B & W 2 hrs 12 min


Bringing Down a Dictator
ENG VT1317

In the year 2000 in a war barely noticed outside Yugoslavia the indicted war criminal Slobodan Milosevic fought to hold power. he controlled a battle hardened army, a tough police force, and most of the news media. But he underestimated his opponents led by a student movement called Otpor who attacked the regime with ridicule, rock music and a willingness to be arrested. Their courage and audacity inspired others to overcome their fear and join the fight. 56 min


Godfather
ENG VT1327A

Sicilian clan's rise and near fall from power in America, masterfully balancing the story between the Corleones' family life and the ugly crime business in which they are engaged. based on Mario Puzo's best-selling novel. 171 minutes


Godfather
ENG VT1327B

Sicilian clan's rise and near fall from power in America, masterfully balancing the story between the Corleones' family life and the ugly crime business in which they are engaged. based on Mario Puzo's best-selling novel. 171 minutes


Glass Menagerie
ENG VT1331

One of Tennessee Williams' best and most poetic works is lovingly brought to the screen by director Paul Newman in this magnificent film based on the landmark Broadway play. the touching drama about people who live on the fine line between fantasy and reality tells the story of Amanda (Joanne Woodward), a strong willed woman who attempts to impose her shattered dreams into the life and personality of her shy, reclusive daughter laura (Karen Allen). Although dominated by her mother, Laura finds solace through the attentions of her troubled brother Tom (John Malkovich) and Jim (James Naughton), a "Gentleman Caller". The immortal play, filled with some of Williams' most poignant and powerful prose, is forever captured in this splendid film. 2 hr 14 min


Dolls House
ENG VT1332

Joseph Losey's beauty and powerful production brings new dimensions to Ibsen's classic tale. Jane Fonda stars as the spirited young woman whose acts correspond to the battles waged today by women's liberation. David Warner is Torvald the husband who rejects the wife who has given everything to make the marriage work. Jane Fonda as Nora, the "model wife," commits forgery and risks destruction in order to save her husband's health...but then, in one of the theatrical literature's most resounding gestures she closes the door on her husband and children to begin a new life alone. 99 minutes


Gawain and the Green Knight
ENG VT1335

This beautiful dramatized version of the late-14th-century poem offers a bonanza to the English teacher: one of the best known of the Arthurian legends, a portrait of life in Arthurian days as the Pearl Poet imagined it, a baker;s dozen of discussion topics about human virtue and human imperfectibility--and a fascinating plot involving a challenge by the Green Knight(green is of course the color of magic), who departs Arthur's castle holding his own head, which Gawain has just lopped off; Gawain's quest to keep his word and prove his worthiness while remaining alive; and the very moral surprise ending. 76 minutes


Beowulf and the Roots of Anglo-Saxoon Poetry
ENG VT1336

Beowulf is the oldest written epic in English literature. In this program, Dr. Robert DiNapoli-- teaching fellow in Old and Middle English at the University of Birmingham, England--and Professor John Burrow of Bristol University examine th symbolism and the influence of Christianity in Beowulf and other masterpieces of English and Germanic poetry. The Wanderer, The Seafarer, The Dreamn of the Road, and The Battle of Maldon are also analyzed. The program is an indisputable aid in teaching this watershed period in Western literature. 31min: approx. run time


Queen Margot
ENG VT1341

A classic tale of intrigue and forbidden love, Queen Margot is the powerful hit universallly aclaimed by critics. Thrown into a political marriage of convenience by her ruthlessly power-hungry family, the beautiful Margot soon finds herself hopelessly drawn into their murderous affairs. It's then she realizes that her only hope of escape lies somewhere between the heroic soldier who loves her and the enemy husband who could save her.


Wit
ENG VT1348

Based on the 1999 Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Margaret Edson, WIT features the Academy Award winning actress Emma Thompson in a movie directed by Academy Award-winning director Mike Nichols. Vivian Bearing is an English Professor with a biting wit that educates but also alienates her students. With her teaching and life both rigidly under control, Vivian would never let down her defenses, until the day comes when they are taken down for her. Diagnosed with a devasting illness Vivian agrees to undergo a series of procedures that are brutal, extensive and experimental. For eith months her life must take an unchartered course. No longer a teacher, but a subject for others to study, Vivian Bearing is about to discover a fine line between life and death that can only be walked with wit.


Who Owns The Past
ENG VT1353

This outstanding documentary relates the powerful history of the American Indian struggle for control of the ancestral remains. In 1990, after a long struggle between Indian rights groups and the scientific establishment, the Native American Graves Repatriation and Protection Act (NAGPRA) returned to Indian people the right to control the remains of their ancestors. For American Indians, this was perhaps the most inportant piece of civil and human rights legislation of the 20th century. Skeletons and grave goods that had been gathering dust in museums around the country could come home again, and Indian graves would be protected from further descreation. Indian people were not only being heard; their moral claims on their past were being turned into law. Now a new case is testing these claims. The discovery of a 9,000-year-old skeleton on the banks of the Columbia River near Kennewick, Washington, has re-ignited the conflict between antrhopologist and Indian people over the control of human remains found on the ancestral Indian lands. Anthropologist insist these remains hold the key to America's past and must be studied for the benefit of mankind, while many Indian people believe the exhuming and studying them is a desecreation of their ancestors. Ar the heart of the conflict are two very different and seemingly irreconcilable belief systems. Who Owns The Past? uses the Kennewick Man case as a frame to explore the roots of this conflict, roots that reach bacl to the beginnings of American history.


Return Of Navajo Boy
ENG VT1354

Set in the stunning landscape of Utah's Monument Valley, this uniforgettable, universally acclaimed documentary chronicles the extraordinary saga of how a rediscovered 1950s silent film reel leads to the return of a long-lost brother to his Navajo family. Since the 1930s, members of the Cly family have lived in Monument Valley and appeared as subjects in counless photographs, postcards, and Hollywood westerns-even in a home movie by legendary director John Ford and a propaganda film by a uranium miming company. 1997 filmmaker Jeff Spitz resurrects an old 1950s film called Navajo boy and was able to track down the original subjects, the Cly family, to show it to them. Family matriarch Elsie Mae Cly Begay saw-on film-the faces of her late mother and, most heart-wrenching of all, her infant brother, who had been adopted by white missionaries and never heard from again. The vintage movie prompts Elsie to tell her family's story for the first time, from their work with filmmakers and tourist to the injurious effects of unranium mining on their health and culture. Through a news story about the rediscovery of the old Navajo Boy film, Elsie's long-lost brother, named John Wayne Cly after the movie star, dicovers his own lost heritage and travels to Utah for an emotional reunion with his brothers and sisters. The Return Of Navajo Boy weaves the Cly family's voices, feelings, and personal stories into a powerful, revelatory depiction of one Native American family's experiences over the last century. The film cast a revealing light on the Native American side of the picture-making and of the human cost of uranium mining in the Southwest.


Scotland
ENG VT1420

Burgers, fries....and a side of mayhem. Welcome to McBeth's where fast food and ambition make up a daily special filled with murder and mystery, 70's style. color/104 minutes/rated R


Gospel According To St. Matthew
ENG VT1433

This is one of those rare achievements appreciated by widely varying audiences. Italy's controversial writer-poet-director has avoided the over-dramatization so characteristic of films on Jesus' life. Pasolini's unconventional approach is reflected in his use of rugged Italian landscapes, costumes of coarse material and faces without makeup. Pasolini's Christ is a man who preaches with urgency; feels deeply for the afflicted people around him; experiences anguish, impatience and anger. The film is a beautifully simple recreation of a human drama, set against the everyday life of the times. VHS/Black & White/136 minutes/Not Rated


Pilots Wife
ENG VT1441

Kathryn Lyons perfect life takes a jolting nose-dive after news of a fatal mid-air explosion aboard Flight 274, piloted by her husband. The tension ratchets up a notch when the black box is recovered revealing shocking rumors that the crash was possibly caused by her husband have secretly been a terrorist? was her entire life with him a lie? VHS/Color/PG-13/89 Minutes


Nancy Drew: The Mystery of the Diamond Triangle
ENG VT1491

Color/ 47 Min./ Not Rated After Nancy and her girlfriend, George (Jean Rasey), see an automobile run off the road, Nancy tells her boyfriend, Ned Nickerson (George O'Hanlon), to report it to the sheriff. Later the sheriff tells Nancy that his men could not find any signs of an accident, and that the road has been closed for a long time. Nancy attempts to unravel the bizarre occurance on her own, and soon finds herself in the midst of danger.


Nancy Drew: Nancy Drews Love Match
ENG VT1492

Color/ 47 Min./ Not Rated When Nancy runs into former classmate, Karen Phillips, she sees her steal jewelry in a department store. She purses Karen and discovers that she is constantly watched by a private detective hired to keep her out of trouble. Karen is now a famous tennis star and Nancy is hired in the detective's place to watch over her during an important Las Vegas tournament. When her cover as a sportswriter is blown, Nancy pretends to be the date of faous tennis champion Sandor Castelli. As the make-believe "love match" starts turning into the real thing, Nancy finds herself caught in the volley danger as the finals turn into what could be the pretty detective's last game.


Nancy Drew: The Mystery of the Solid Gold Kicker
ENG VT1493

Color/47 Min./Not Rated Nancy faces one of her toughest investigations when evidence suggests that football star Chip Garvey (Mark Harmon) is guilty of homicide. Chip attends a victory party where Nancy and her girlfriend George are among the guests. After leaving, George returns for her handbag and sees Chip standing over a prostrate girl, Paula Clark. In Chip's hand is a broken crystal vase. When nancy and George return to the scene of the alleged crime, both the girl and the shattered vase have disappeared. Only the ever persistent Nancy can unravel who's out to frame Chip and why, but not without putting herself at enormous risk.


Nancy Drew: The Mystery of the Ghostwriters Cruise
ENG VT1494

Color/47 Min/Not Rated A relaxing cruise on a luxury liner turns into a perilous nightmare for Nancy and her gang after one of the men on board, a world-famous mystery writer, receives death threats. When author, John Addams, and his niece, Cathy, become the victims of several bizarre attempts on their lives, Nancy finds the one vital clue that can save him and races against time to thwart any possible murders from taking place. But solving this mystery means adding her own name to the killer's list of would-be victims.


An Occurance At Owl Creek Bridge
ENG VT1575

Based on a sotry by Ambrose Bierce A man stands on a railroad bridge...looking into the swift water below. His hands are tied behind his back. Is there an escape in the water? A brooding mysterious story from a master of civil War stories. 19 mins.


Goodbye Girl
ENG VT1430

No actors, thank you. Paula McFadden knows: in romance, they all follow the same stage instruction: Exit. Take today, for example. Without warning, Paula's actor boyfriend split for a big movie role in Europe and sublet the Manhattan apartment they shared. The new tenant's name: Elliot Garfield. Profession: actor. Richard Dreyfuss (Elliot) and Marsha Manson (Paula) say hello to comedy zingy repartee and bitter-to-best romance in The Goodbye Girl, a lustrous charmer featuring Dreyfuss; Academy Award winning Best Actor performance. Neil Simon's Oscar-nominated screenplay deftly combines battle-of-the-sexes appeal with an off-broadway subplot whose scenes "are the funniest since Mel Brooks staged Springtime for Hitler (in The Producers)" (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times). This sunny salute to a love that walks in out of the rain also nabbed 1977 Oscar nominations for Best Picture Actress (Manson) and Supporting Actress (Quinn Cummings as Paula's wise-beyond-her-years daughter). VHS/COLOR/111min


Looking For Richard
ENG VT1129

Pacino assembled an all-star cast including Winona Ryder, Kevin Spacey, Alec Baldwin, and Aida Quinn. The camera follows the cast and crew throughout rehearsals, eavesdropping on the behind-the-scenes process that goes into creating characters and mounting a production. With appearances from Sir John Gielgud, Kenneth Branagh, Vanessa Redgrave, James Earl Jones, and Kevin Kline. VHS/PG-13/1996/Color/112 Minutes


Charles Dickens Hard Times
ENG VT1367

Starring Alan Bates, Bob Peck, Bill Paterson, Harriet Walter and Richard E. Grant. This theatrical BBC adaptation brings Charels Dickens' darkest novel to magnificent life. Classic Dickensian comic characters such as the pompous Bounderby (played by Alan Bates), the bored and decadent Harthouse (Richard E Grant) and the cheery circus ringleader Sleary (Peter Bayliss), mask the intensity of a thrilling story that strikes at the very foundations of our industrial society. "Look how the mills are always going and our only end is in death. Look how you're always right and we're always wrond and still it gets harder and harder. Look on it M'am and tell us if it isn't a fair muddle." Coketown, a dark, soot-filled, gloomy Northern mill town, fills the pockets of its businessmen with wealth and wears down the very souls of its workders. Yet to mill owner Bounderby and teacher Gradgrind, it is a model society, guided by science, money and the incessant and endless drive of the system. It is the system, bereft of the warmth of love or spark of life, which stifles those wh grow up within it. So when Gradgrind's children Tom and Louisa, finally discover differing means of escape and the excitement of true passion, tey shed a devastating light into the darkness that smothers coketown. VHS/COLOR/102min/BBC production


Cleopatra (A)-Part 1
ENG VT0710A

Richard Burton, Rex Harrison and Elizabeth Taylor star in one of the greatest screen spectacles ever made-the story of the Queen of the Nile and her love affairs with Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony. The film is distiguished by supurb performaces from Burton and Harrison (nominated for an Oscar), but at its center is Elizabeth Taylor in one of the most glamorous roles of her career. Astounding n scope and grandeur, the picture won Oscars for cinematography, sets and special effects. Its famous moments include moviedom's most flamboyant entrance- Cleopatra's dazzling arrival in Rome. Bolstered by a talented supporting cast and utterly stunning backdrops, here is a truly epic portrayal of a woman who conquered two of Rome's greatest soldiers, affected the course of history, and became synonymous with beguiling beauty-CLEAOPATRA. VHS/COLOR/246 minutes/NOT RATED