Films Added to Library Collection

Abe Osheroff : One Foot in the Grave, the Other Still Dancing. 46 Minutes.
CT275.O735 A2 2009. "From the front lines of the Spanish Civil War to the picket lines of the U.S. labor movement to the struggle for civil rights in Mississippi to work for human rights in Nicaragua, people know Abe Osheropeopff as an activist who threw himself into the fray with rare energy and enthusiasm through his 92 years. In this riveting documentary, Osheroff reflects on the meaning of that activism and the ideas that animated his actions in movements for social justice."-- Container.

Blind Spot, Peak Oil. 54 Minutes. HD9560.5 .B555 2009. A documentary about the current oil and energy crisis and its effect on the environment. Includes interviews with sociologist William R. Catton, evolutionary biologist Jason Bradford, environmental analyst Lester Brown, NASA's James Hansen, author Bill McKibben, and others.

Camp Amache. 5 Minutes. Streaming video available free via the Archaeology Channel. Camp Amache in Southeastern Colorado was one of 10 War Relocation Authority, or internment,
camps where US authorities forced Japanese-Americans to live after the bombing of Pearl
Harbor in World War II. Home to nearly 7,300 internees from 1942 to 1945, it now is a
National Historic Landmark. In 2008, Dr. Bonnie Clark of the University of Denver led a field school at the site, which is threatened by bottle-collecting and cattle-grazing. http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/video/campamache.html

A Collection of 2007 Academy Award Nominated Short Films. 190 Minutes.
PN1993.9 C65 2008. Live action short films: Om Natten = In the night (At night) (2007) - Il supplente (The substitute) (2006) -- Le Mozart des pickpockets = The Mozart of pickpockets (2006) -- Tanghi Argentini (2006) -- The Tonto woman (2007) -- Animated short films: Madame Tutli-Putli (2007) / -- Même le pigeons vont au paradis = Even pigeons go to Heaven (2006) -- Prokofiev's Peter & the Wolf (2006).

Cranford. PN1992.8.H56 C7364673 2008. 2 videodiscs. Cranford, in 1842, is a market town in northwest England. It is a place governed by etiquette, custom and above all, an intricate network of ladies. For spinsters Deborah Jenkyns, the arbiter of correctness, and Matty, her demurring sister, the town is a hub of intrigue. Handsome new doctor Frank Harrison has arrived from London; a retired Captain and his daughters move in across the street and preparations for Lady Ludlow's garden party are underway. But news comes that shakes the town: a railway line from Manchester is coming to Cranford.

¿De dónde eres?: spiritual origins of the Latino/Hispanic experience in
Southern Colorado = Where are you from? 16 Minutes. F775 .D4 2009. "From the early days of Hispanic settlement in southern Colorado to the influx during the stormy days of the Mexican Revolution in the 1920s, to today's increasingly complex mix of people from all over Latin America and the Caribbean who call the Pikes Peak region their home, there is a
multifaceted and rich culture here that needs to be recorded," De dónde eres? Advisory
Committee Co-Chair Dr. José Barrera said. "The De dónde eres? initiative exists to develop
and collect oral, written, and visual resources that document the lives, customs, and
histories of the southern Colorado Hispanic/Latino Community."

Eijanaika. 151 Minutes. PN1997 .E353 1990. A view of Edo-period Japan set in 1866 on the eve of Japan's Meiji Restoration. In Japanese, with English subtitles.

Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero. 120 Minutes. HV6432.7 .F35 2004. TV program Frontline illuminates the myriad spiritual questions that have come out of the terror,
pain, and destruction of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York.

Global Banquet. HD9000.6 .G556 2001. Discussion of corporate farming and its global effects. Part 1. Who's invited? (25 min.) -- Part 2. What's on the menu? (25 min.).

Grave of the Fireflies. Includes English dubbed and Japanese versions and English
subtitles. PN1997 .H678 2002. 88 Minutes. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1988 in Japan and in an English version in 1992. Two orphans in war-time Kobe, Japan, face fire-bombs, hunger, homelessness, and despair as the war and their lives come to an end.

Memorias de las tres Colonias = Memories of the Three Colonies . 57 Minutes. F784.F56 M46 2008. “Memorias de las Tres Colonias,” a collection of oral interviews by six families who share memories of their lives in the Andersonville, Alta Vista and Buckingham neighborhood. The conversations capture the thoughts and feelings of local Hispanic family members who participated in the production of sugar from sugar beets during the middle years of the twentieth century. The interviews cover a wide range of topics from food to family, religion to social justice, and work to cultural celebrations.

Passing Strange. 135 Minutes. M1500 .P37 2010. A young man leaves behind his mother and life in a Los Angeles neighborhood and sets out on a journey of self-discovery in Europe during the 1970s in order to find his purpose in life through his music. Produced and directed by Spike Lee; A theatrical stage production of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical.

Pedro Calderón de la Barca. 20 Minutes. PQ6300 .P43 2007. Pedro Calderón de la
Barca would become one of Spain's most important dramatists, dominating the latter half of Spain's Golden Age of theatre. He studied law, and began writing plays in his
twenties, later serving as the court dramatist for Philip IV. Calderón wrote more than
70 secular plays and 80 autos sacramentales. As a dramatist, he had a keen dramatic sense, a lofty philosophic imagination, a wealth of poetic diction, and was a typical representative of
the devout, chivalrous, patriotic, and artificial society in which he moved.

What's the Matter with Kansas? 90 Minutes. F686.2 .W43 2009. Focuses on the political beliefs of Kansas citizens, particularly the intersection of evangelical Christianity and conservatism.

White Light, Black Rain: the Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 85 Minutes. D767.25.H6 W45 2007. In August 1945, the world was transformed in the blink of an eye when American forces dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and then Nagasaki. The destruction was unprecedented and the bombings precipitated the end of World War II. Contains archival footage and stunning photography. Interviews are from both Japanese survivors and the Americans who believed that their involvement would help end a brutal conflict.

Why Save a Language? 27 Minutes. PM205 .W537 2006. Representatives from tribes in North and South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Washington, and Oregon, all of whom have indigenous language programs, discuss how the indigenous languages were broken by residential schools and why the indigenous languages should be saved as the language of religion, culture and cultural identity and as storehouses of environmental knowledge. They discuss the positive effects on children of learning the tribal language from an early age.

Auraria campus faculty members: Do you need the Library to acquire a film or films to support your teaching? Contact Ellen.Metter(at)ucdenver.edu.