Jane Sloan Media Librarian jsloan@rci.rutgers.edu June 2006

Research Resources: Subject Research Guides: Media Collections:
Feature Films U.S. 1980s

This guide is a browsing aid to selected titles in the video/DVD collections at Rutgers Libraries. The most up-to-date, accurate, and complete information regarding the libraries' holdings is available only through IRIS, our online catalog.

Absence of malice 1993

Fascinating story about the power of the press. Businessman Paul Newman is wrongfully accused of criminal behavior in a newspaper. He and the investigative reporter responsible for the article work to uncover the truth and clear his name.

1 videocassette (117 min.) :

MEDIA DANA 2-5080 476

The Accused 1989

The victim of a gang rape finds herself battling the legal system as she goes after her attackers and the onlookers who encouraged the assault.

1 videocassette (110 min.) :

MEDIA 2-700

Aliens 1987

Sequel to "Alien", and in a continuation of the original story, Ripley returns to safety among her fellow human beings. She's asked to go back, but the cynical veterans refuse to believe Ripley when she warns them about their enemy.

1 videocassette (138 min.) :

MEDIA 2-596

American pop 1981

The story of four generations whose lives revolve around the beat of American popular music. The story is told in animation with songs by The Doors, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Pat Benatar and Lou Reed among others.

1 videocassette (96 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3772

Annie Hall 1985

Autobiographical love story with incisive Allenisms on romance relationships, fame, and other topics.

1 videocassette (94 min.) :

MEDIA 2-48

Annie Hall 1987

Autobiographical love story with incisive Allenisms on romance relationships, fame, and other topics.

1 videocassette (94 min.) :

MEDIA 2-329

Bagdad Cafe 1988

It's just a greasy spoon and a rusty gas pump until a German housewife on holiday arrives at the Bagdad Cafe.

1 videocassette (91 min.) :

MEDIA 2-693

The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez 1988

On June 12, 1901, Gregorio Cortez (played by Edwad Olmos), a young Mexican man, shoots and kills a sheriff in self-defense. For the next 11 days, he eludes a posse of 600 Texas Rangers in a 450 mile chase across Texas. His manhunt captures the nation's interest and his eventual trial is tainted by the extreme emotions of the country.

1 videocassette (105 min.)

MEDIA 2-607

Batman 1989

A crime fighting vigilante takes on the criminals in a futuristic industrial city.

1 videocassette (126 min.) :

MEDIA 2-829

Betrayed 1989

Cathy Weaver, FBI agent, goes under cover to investigate Gary Simmons, a suspect in the murder of a local radio personality. As she becomes romantically interested in Simmons, Weaver uncovers an extremist group armed for murder.

1 videocassette (128 min.) :

MEDIA 2-820

Bird 1989

Early days -- The hospital -- "Charlie from just aroud" -- 4 a.m. improvisations with Dizzy -- I can't believe that you're in love with me -- Mounted homecoming -- Bebop invades the West -- Calling on Stravinsky -- The recording studio -- Reunion with Chan -- Glory in France -- New York return -- The Southern tour -- Back at Birdland -- Laura montage -- Another daughter -- The drive to La Guardia -- Crisis -- Recalling violet wells with Rodney -- Return to 52nd Street -- Final phone call to Chan -- Balancing act overThe life of legendary jazz musician Charlie "Yardbird" Parker, directed and produced by jazz fan, Clint Eastwood. The film uses actual recordings by Parker with the backgrounds removed, and accompaniment by modern musicians attuned to the Yardbird's improvisations.

2 videodiscs (161 min.) :

JAZZ MEDIA 5 2-809

Bizarre, bizarre Drole de drame : a film 1986

A group of Victorian Englishmen get so enmeshed in lies and disguises, murders and supposed murders, intrigues and romances, that Scotland Yard and the participants themselves are confused.

1 videocassette (87 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3661

Blade runner 1987

Side 1. Prologue: Replicants defined -- ch. 1. Los Angeles, November, 2019 -- ch. 2. "Let me tell you about my mother" -- ch. 3. The sushi bar -- ch. 4. Skin jobs walk the streets -- ch. 5. Nexus 6 -- ch. 6. Rachael -- ch. 7. "Replicants don't have scales" -- ch. 8. Chew the eyemaker -- side 2. ch. 9. "Remember when you were six?" -- ch. 10. Pris meets J.F. Sebastian -- ch. 11. Photo enhancement -- ch. 12. In pursuit of a snake -- ch. 13. Zhora's last dance -- side 3. ch. 14. "Wake up, time to die!" -- ch. 15. Rachael lets her hair down -- ch. 16. Sebastina's apartment -- ch. 17. Batty meets his maker -- ch. 18. Deckard and Pris -- side 4. ch. 19. Battle on the roof -- ch. 20. "She won't live, but then again, who does?" -- ch. 21. The Syd Mead Gallery -- ch. 22. A fan's notes -- ch. 23. The Blade runner trivia test -- ch. 24. Annotated bibliography -- ch. 25. Syd Mead repriseIn the year 2019 in Los Angeles, replicants, genetically engineered human beings of superior strength and intelligence, have been created as labor for the planet colonies. The replicants, which have a life span of four years, start revolts and are forbidden on earth. Four Nexus 6 replicants, which are virtually indistinguishable from humans, commandeer a space shuttle to earth. Rick Deckard is a blade runner, a police officer who hunts down and terminates replicants. His assignment is made much more difficult when he falls in love with another replicant, Rachael.

2 videodiscs (118 min.) : VHS Videotape

MEDIA. MEDIA DANA 7-109 7-110 1303

Blade runner 1999

Los Angeles, 2019: Deckard, an expert "blade runner," must identify and execute four replicants, (genetically engineered beings virtually identical to humans) which have illegally returned to earth from their off-world slave duty.

1 videocassette (117 min.) : DVD

DANA MEDIA MEDIA 1303 2-1705 10-66

Body heat 1981

A likable, unambitious Florida attorney and his siren-like lover plot to kill her wealthy husband.

1 videocassette (113 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5083

Born in flames 1983

10 years after a peaceful socialist revolution in America, women in an imaginary New York City still face the same problems of living in a world dominated by a racist and sexist bureaucracy. Frustration gives way to armed struggle in this fantasy of female rebellion.

1 videocassette (90 min.) :

MEDIA D-154

Born on the Fourth of July 1990

The true story of a young man, Ron Kovic, who's life changes from that of a zealous teen who eagerly volunteers for the Vietnam War to an embittered veteran paralyzed from the mid-chest down. Overcoming both personal and societal obstacles, he becomes a strong voice for patriotic, but disenchanted veterans and citizens alike.

1 videocassette (145 min.) :

MEDIA DANA 2-3186 33

Broadcast news 1988

A romantic triangle in a fresh and fascinating setting of news broadcasting.

1 videocassette (132 min.) :

MEDIA 2-602

Chameleon Street 1992

Dramatization of the exploits of William Douglas "Chameleon" Street, a famous criminal impostor of the 1970s.

1 videocassette (95 min.) :

DANA 1465

Chan is missing 1989

Set in San Francisco, this sleeper concerns a middle-aged Chinese-American cab driver and his wise-cracking young nephew, who discover that their friend Chan Hung has disappeared with $4000 of their savings.

1 videocassette (80 min.) :

DANA. MEDIA 519 2-1304

Clara's heart 1989

Clara Mayfield, a Jamaican housekeeper, enters the Harts' luxurious suburban Baltimore home as an interloper, but her unshakable dignity and bounteous humor act like sunshine on the tight bud of David's soul. He flowers under her care and even fashions his speech after hers.

1 videocassette (108 min.)

MEDIA 2-6669

The Color purple 1987

A young uneducated woman living in the rural South is raped by her father who then forces her to marry a man who beats her. Her life is transformed by the friendship of two women who help her find self-respect and the courage to change her life.

1 videocassette (154 min.) :

MEDIA 2-483

Colors 1988

Two L.A. cops, one a veteran and one a rookie, try to bring peace to the war raging on the streets of L.A.

1 videocassette (127 min.) :

MEDIA 2-690

A Cry in the dark 1989

Meryl Streep captured her third New York Film Critics Award and her eighth Oscar nomination in 11 years of moviemaking for her portrayal of Lindy, who lives the nightmare of seeing a wild dog carry off her infant, then endures a travesty of a trial by the courts and media.

1 videocassette (VHS) (122 min.) :

DANA 90

Desert hearts 1995

Vivian (Shaver) is an English professor who goes to Reno for a quickie divorce in 1959. While waiting at a dumpy dude ranch for the final divorce papers, she meets the beautiful and sensuous Cay (Charbonneau).

1 videocassette (91 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2583

Desperately seeking Susan 1985

A bored New Jersey housewife who fantasizes about the ads in the personal section of the newspaper want ads shows up at a rendezvous between two lovers. She gets bumped on the head, which leads to a case of amnesia and opens the door to intrigue and love.

1 videodsic (104 min.) :

MEDIA 10-19

Desperately seeking Susan 1999

A bored New Jersey housewife who fantasizes about the ads in the personal section of the newspaper want ads shows up at a rendezvous between two lovers. She gets bumped on the head, which leads to a case of amnesia and opens the door to intrigue and love.

1 videocassette (104 min.) :

DANA 1526

Do the right thing 1989

Spike Lee's powerful film combines humor and drama with memorable chararcters while tracing the course of a single day on a block in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn, New York.

1 videocassette (120 min.) :

DANA. MEDIA 55 2-838

Eat a bowl of tea 1989

In New York's Chinatown of the late 1940's, young Ben Loy, fresh out of the service, has his whole life spread out before him--including a job, an apartment and a marriage arranged by his father.

1 videocassette (104 min.) :

DANA 511

Eight men out 1989

Based on the real-life scandal of 1919, the film tells the story of eight baseball players who plan to throw games for money, and the scorn and anger the scheme earned them.

1 videocassette (120 min.) :

MEDIA 2-744

El Norte 1984

Beginning in the remote jungles of Guatemala, the film chronicles the lives of a brother and sister who, after their father is killed by government soldiers, strike out on a perilous journey to reach the "promised land" in the north, America. Once there, their troubles do not end, for they are "illegals" in an alien culture.

1 videocassette (141 min.) :

DANA. MEDIA 6 2-49

The Elephant Man 1980

Based on a true story, the film examines the complex emotional experiences faced by John Merrick, the "Elephant Man", when he is discovered by a dedicated surgeon. Rescued from his degrading life as a circus freak, Merrick is given a chance to live his last years with comfort, respect, and dignity.

1 videocassette (124 min.) :

DANA 1522

The Empire strikes back 1997

Star wars -- The empire strikes back -- Return of the JediThe battle to save the galaxy from the evil Empire rages on. Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Princess Leia and Chewbacca face attack by the Imperial forces and its AT-AT walkers on the ice planet Hoth. While Han and Leia escape in the Millenium Falcon, Luke travels to Dagobah in search of Yoda. Only with the Jedi Master's help will Luke survive when the dark side of the Force beckons him into an ultimate duel with Darth Vader.

1 videocassette (ca. 127 min.) :

DANA. DANA. DANA 1058 cassette 1 1058 cassette 2 1058 cassette 3

Excalibur 1998

The legends of King Arthur live in the last great battle between magic and reality.

1 videocassette (141 min.) :

DANA 1100

Fiddler on the roof 1988

Tevye is a poor Jewish milkman with five unmarried daughters to support in a villiage in Czarist Russia. With a sharp tongued wife at home and growing anti-Semitism in the villiage, Tevye talks to God about his troubles. His people's traditions keep him strong when his existence is as precariously balanced as a fiddler on a roof.

2 videocassettes (180 min.) :

MEDIA. MEDIA 2-657 cassette 1 2-658 cassette 2

A Fish called Wanda 1989

Jewel thief Wanda Gershwitz (Curtis) is every Englishman's dream of the sexy American babe: brash, bright-eyed, and buxom. Barrister Archie Leach (Cleese) is the quintessential Englishman: polite, poised, and nearly comatose. Under normal circumstances, they might never meet...but in "A Fish called Wanda" they're about to come crashing together in a hilarious clash of cultures.

1 videocassette (108 min.) :

MEDIA 2-984

Fool for love 1985

Explores the passionate love/hate relationship between a cowboy drifter, Eddie, and his long-time love, May.

1 videocassette (108 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1445

Frantic 1991

The story of an American doctor's desparate search for his kidnapped wife through the back streets of Paris.

1 videocassette (120 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2836

The Glass menagerie 1987

Drama about people who live on the fine line between fantasy and reality. Tells the story of Amanda (Woodward), a strong-willed woman who attempts to impose her shattered dreams into the life and personality of her shy, reclusive daughter Laura (Allen). Laura is dominated by her mother, but finds solace through the attentions of her troubled brother Tom (Malkovich) and Jim (Naughton), a "gentleman caller", and her glass figurines.

1 videocassette (134 min.) :

DANA. MEDIA 658 2-1348

Glory 1990

The heart-stopping story of the first black regiment to fight for the North in the Civil War.

1 videocassette (122 min.) :

DANA. MEDIA 1091 2-1642

Go tell it on the mountain 1985

"To be Black in America. To seek both salvation and understanding in the journey of a family from the rural South to 'big city' Harlem. To be a young boy struggling to earn the approval of a self-righteous and often unloving stepfather."--Container.

1 videocassette (97 min.) :

DANA. 1420

Good morning, Vietnam 1987

An irreverent, non-conformist deejay is imported by the Army for an early a.m. radio show in 1965 Saigon. He blasts the formerly staid, sanitized airwaves with a constant barrage of rapid-fire humor. The G.I.s love him, but the brass is up in arms!

1 videocassette (121 min.) :

MEDIA 2-686

The Good mother 1989

Discovering true passion for the first time in her life, Anna's life couldn't have been more perfect. But shocking charges against her force her to prove that she is a good mother.

1 videocassette (104 min.) :

MEDIA 2-807

Gorillas in the mist the adventures of Dian Fossey 1989

Based on the true story of young anthropologist Dian Fossey who travels to the African mountains to study the rare gorillas.

1 videocassette (129 min.) :

MEDIA 2-772

Gung ho 1986

When Michael Keaton persuades a Japanese auto firm to reopen his home town's defunct auto factory, he's a hero. But when the Japanese hire him to enforce their policies among his American co-workers, he goes from hero to zero.

1 videocassette (111 min.) :

MEDIA 2-490

Hairspray 1988

It's 1962, when cool was king and th Madison was the fave rave of the Hit Parade. Tracy Turnblad has the biggest bouffant on the block, and all the right moves to be a star on Baltimore's homegrown dance show, "The Corny Collins Show." An outrageous comedy from John Waters.

1 videocassette (92 min.) :

MEDIA 2-656

Hannah and her sisters 1986

The story of three sisters and their relationships with each other, their husbands and other men with whom they are involved.

1 videocassette (103 min.) :

MEDIA 2-487

Hollywood shuffle 1987

Bobby Taylor is your basic struggling actor. He works at the Winky Dinky hot dog stand and auditions for that one, perfect role that will make him a star.

1 videocassette (81 min.) :

MEDIA 2-597

House of games 1987

A woman psychiatrist, trying to help a patient whose life has been threatened, is drawn into the dangerous but provocative underworld of a smooth-talking con man.

1 videocassette (102 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3821

Housekeeping 1988

This noncomformist comedy is about an eccentric Aunt Sylvie, who arrives in the small Pacific Northwest community of Fingerbone to care for her two orphaned nieces.

1 videocassette (117 min.) :

MEDIA 2-713

In the heat of the night 1988

This academy award winning drama takes places in the deep south, involving a black policeman from Philadelphia and a local red-neck police chief trying to solve a murder mystery.

1 videocassette (110 min.) :

MEDIA 2-698

Ironweed 1988

A bittersweet story of the harsh realities of life in the streets for homeless people during the depression.

1 videocassette (135 min.) :

MEDIA 2-761

Lady in white 1988

On Halloween, 1962, the sleepy town of Willowpoint Falls wakes up forever. Locked overnight in the school cloakroom, the victim of a Holloween prank, young Frankie Scarlatti witnesses an eerie apparition--a girl-ghost in the grip of a mysterious killer. Suddenly, Frankie himself is grabbed and almost strangled. Hovering between life and death, he has another vision--of the same girl, begging him to expose the killer and put her spirit to rest.

1 videocassette (113 min.) :

MEDIA 2-688

Last exit to Brooklyn 1990

Stunning in its raw intensity, Last Exit to Brooklyn chronicles the lives of a colorful group of small-time hoods and hustlers in post-war Brooklyn.

1 videocassette (103 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3434

Lean on me 1989

The fact-based story of high school principal Joe Clark, who armed himself with a bullhorn and a Louisville Slugger and slammed the door on losers at Eastside High in Paterson, New Jersey.

1 videocassette (109 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2811

Look who's talking 1990

Mollie is a single working mother who's out to find the perfect father for her child. Her baby prefers a cab driver turned baby sitter who has what it takes to make them both happy.

1 videocassette (96 min.) :

DANA 484

Los dos mundos de Angelita The two worlds of Angelita 1983

A story about a nine-year-old girl who has moved from her home in Puerto Rico to New York City and finds fitting into a new school overwhelming.

1 film reel (73 min.) :

MEDIA. MEDIA 5-673 reel 1 5-674 reel 2

The man who envied women 1985

"With the unique style that characterizes her work, Rainer explores issues of sexuality, aging, power relations and political activism in The Man Who Envied Women. Around a familiar theme-the breakup of a marriage-Rainer constructs an honest, graceful and wickedly funny account of a self-satisfied womanizer, a man 'who knows almost too much about women.' Along the way, she reveals the oppositions we create, not only between theory and action, the conscious and the unconscious, intellect and emotion, and our personal and global concerns"--Distributor's Web site.

1 videocassette (125 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5493

Manhattan 1984

Isaac Davis is a successful comedy writer whose wife, having left him for another woman, is now embarking on a book about their failed marriage. Isaac happily consoles himself in the arms of an adoring 17-year-old schoolgirl, until he meets someone closer to his own age.

1 videocassette (96 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3009

Marie 1985

Marie, as the first woman to head the State Board of Pardons and Paroles, finds herself caught in a deadly game of graft, slander, and murder as she tries to expose the corruption.

1 videocassette (113 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1354

Matewan 1988

The bloody Matewan massacre was the Alamo of the fierce struggle that raged in the coal fields of West Virginia in the 1920's. "Matewan" draws on the same moral brawn that Steinbeck and Ford flexed in "The Grapes of Wrath" and celebrates the same compelling virtues.

1 videocassette (100 min.) :

MEDIA. MEDIA 2-462 2-5444

The Mikado 1999

1 videodisc (150 min.) :

DANA 4

The Milagro beanfield war 1988

When a Chicano handyman from the Milagro Valley decides to irrigate his small beanfield by "borrowing" some water from a large and potentially destructive development site, he unknowingly sets off a chain reaction that erupts into a humorous culture clash.

1 videocassette (118 min.) :

MEDIA DANA 2-1882 1698

Millay at Steepletop 2001

A loving tribute to the great American poet. The brilliance and passion of her life is captured by the images of her home, readings of her most famous poems, interviews with her sister and exclusive archival footage.

1 videocassette (37 min.) :

DANA 1660

Mishima a life in four chapters 1997

The story of the life of Japan's most prolific modern author, who killed himself on the entranceway to the Japanese Eastern Army Headquarters after he was blocked in his bid to take it over.

1 videocassette (121 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5386

Mississippi burning 1988

The disappearance of three young civil rights workers brings a horde of FBI investigators to a small Mississippi town.

1 videocassette (127 min.) :

MEDIA 2-760

Moonstruck 1997

Loretta, an "unlucky in love" Italian widow, suddenly finds romance through the intervention of the Manhattan moon. With her wedding to a close friend just weeks away, she has the misfortune to meet and fall hopelessly in love with his estranged younger brother.--Container.

1 videocassette (102 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3834

New York, New York 1989

Jimmy Doyle and Francine Evans become romantically involved, marry, and develop a professional working relationship as musicians. Their drive and ambition which attracted them to each other originally, ultimately pulls them tragically apart. This musical is a salute to the Big Band Era of the 30's and 40's.

2 videocassettes (164 min.) :

MEDIA. MEDIA 2-752 cassette 1 2-753 cassette 2

Orphan train 1988

This is a fictionalized story of the Children's Rescue Mission in New York in the 1850s. A young social worker, a newspaper photographer, and a group of slum kides travel across the country by train to new lives in the American west.

1 videocassette (144 min.) :

DANA 235

Peggy Sue got married 1987

Peggy Sue gets the opportunity to go back in time and change the course of her life... with surprising results!

1 videocassette (103 min.) :

MEDIA 2-687

Pennies from heaven 1991

A musical drama about a young sheet-music salesman during the Depression who is doomed forever to believe in the lyrics of the songs he sells.

1 videocassette (108 min.) :

MEDIA 2-6047

Powwow highway 1989

Eager to receive his "warrior's vision," a mammoth, childlike Montana Cheyenne named Philbert hits the trail to enlightenment astride his trusty war pony: a derelict '64 Buick Wildcat. Then he gets tangled up in the political vendetta of fiery renegade Buddy Red Bow. Suddenly, Philbert's vision quest accelerates into a riotous montage of spirit-guided detours, unintentional crime, and blazing gun battles with the Feds!

1 videocassette (91 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1141

Pubis angelical 1988

While in her hospital bed, a woman reflects on her life and the roles men have played in her life, against a backdrop of Argentine political events.

1 videocassette (117 min.) :

DANA 637

The Purple rose of Cairo 1985

A depression-era waitress' fantasy comes true when her screen idol steps out of the film to be with her. The on-screen actors, however, are stranded in a scene they can't escape and the movie producer is panic-stricken at the leading man's desertion.

1 videocassette (82 min.) :

MEDIA 2-592

Raging bull 1990

Side 1-5. Raging bull (129 min.) -- side 6. Supplementary section: The original theatrical trailer. Publicity and production photographs. The shooting script. The storyboards. Jake La Motta vs. Robert De Niro. Film influences on Raging bull: force of evil; On the waterfront; The Quiet man. Jake La Motta's boxing career. Jake La Motta's career record. The film of the decade. Siskel and Ebert on Raging bullRobert DeNiro stars as champion boxer Jake La Mottaa, who rose from the streets of the Bronx to the height of his sport only to find disillusionment and corruption as well as fame.

3 videodiscs (128 min.) :

MEDIA. MEDIA. MEDIA 7-66 7-67 7-68

Ragtime 1996

This vivid, high-energy human tableau interweaves the lives and passions of a middle class, small town family against the scandals and events of a transitional America in 1906.

2 videocassettes (114 min.) :

MEDIA. MEDIA 2-3135 cassette 1 2-3136 cassette 2

Raising Arizona 1987

Flaky comedy about an odd couple (an ex-con and a former law-enforcement officer) who, when they find they can't have a child of their own, decide to kidnap one of a set of quintuplets.

1 videocassette (94 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1806

Reds 1991

The true story of the love affair of John Reed, American Communist, journalist and activist and Louise Bryant, writer and feminist. Woven into the story are America's great playwright, Eugene O'Neill, anarchist and feminist, Emma Goldman, Bolshevik leader, Gregory Zinoviev and other notable figures whose lives were shaken by the Russian Revolution.

2 videocassettes (195 min.) :

MEDIA. MEDIA 2-5561 cassette 1 2-5562 cassette 2

The right stuff 1991

The true story of Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, John Glenn, Scott Carpenter, Walter Schirra, Gordon Cooper, and Deke Slayton - the original seven Mercury astronauts chosen to launch the U.S. into space travel.

2 videocassettes (193 min.) :

MEDIA. MEDIA 2-3452 cassette 1 2-3453 cassette 2

Roger & me 1990

Michael Moore tries to do what every working stiff dreams of: talk to the man at the top. Moore's efforts to meet General Motors chairman Roger Smith and persuade him to visit Moore's hometown of Flint, MI provides the framework of a film that uses humor to devastating effect. The movie lampoons corporate America as it shows how the working men and women of Flint cope with economic setbacks.

1 videocassette (91 min.) :

DANA. MEDIA. MEDIA 450 2-955 2-5965

Saigon year of the cat 1983

Set in Saigon, 1974, film focuses on Bob Chesnau who cannot convince his superiors at the American Embassy that all signs point to an imminent invasion by the Vietcong. He meets and falls in love with Barbara Dean, a British bank employee, but their time together is threatened.

1 videocassette (106 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5558

Sammy and Rosie get laid 1996

Rosie's radical politics land her in everyone's bed but Sammy's--but if they want to inherit Rafi's fortune, they'll have to come up with the grandchild he wants.

1 videocassette (101 min.)

MEDIA 2-3601

School daze 1988

A music-filled, off-beat contemporary comedy that takes an unforgettable look at black college life.

1 videocassette (114 min) :

DANA, MEDIA 590, 2-664

School daze 1988

A music-filled, off-beat contemporary comedy that takes an unforgettable look at black college life.

1 videocassette (114 min) :

DANA 590

Sex, lies, and videotape 1988

Erotic comedy about a long lost college friend who drifts back into town and into the lives of a self-involved philanderer, his angelic wife, and her saucy sister.

1 videodisc (ca. 99 min.) :

MEDIA 10-24

She must be seeing things 1992

A lesbian lawyer fears that her lover, a filmmaker, may turn to heterosexuality as the result of her latest film project about a 17th century nun intent on leaving her convent.

1 videocassette (94 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5705

She's gotta have it 1986

A young woman who loves sex refuses to give up any one of her three boyfriends; instead, they must learn to cope with their dilemma.

1 videocassette (84 min.) :

MEDIA 2-694

The shining 1980

A young boy and his parents spend the winter in a resort hotel which is possessed by ghosts.

1 videodisc (142 min.) :

MEDIA 10-97

Sister, sister 2001

"In this chilling tale of the supernatural, sisters Charlotte and Lucy Bonnard live together in the gloomy mansion that they've turned into a guest house. But when a mysterious young man enters their lives, the sisters are forced to confront a dark past filled with forbidden passions and deadly secrets."--Container.

1 videocassette (91 min.) :

DANA 1416

Smithereens 1982

"The world belongs to Wren. She's nineteen and awash in the boundless energy of someone determined to make it big in the world of rock'n'roll....It doesn't matter that Wren can't sing, or play an instrument, or write songs; or that her aggressiveness is often rewarded with a black eye or busted lip. Desperation makes people do dangerous things"--Container.

1 videocassette (93 min.) :

DANA vid4

A soldier's story 1991

Near the end of World War II, a proud black army attorney is sent to an army base to investigate the ruthless shooting death of a black sergeant. He learns that the sergeant was a vicious man who served the white world and despised his own roots. The attorney's job is to find out who is guilty--black or white.

1 videocassette (102 min.) :

MEDIA MEDIA 2-3986 2-854

Solomon Northup's odyssey 1984

Focuses on the true story of Solomon Northup, a free Black man from Saratoga, N.Y., who was kidnapped in 1841 and forced into slavery in Louisiana for twelve years.

1 videocassette (113 min.) :

DANA. DANA 1422 1422

Something wild 1986

Charles Driggs, a respectable Wall Street tax consultant, decides to embark on a wild but ultimately dangerous weekend with LuLu, whose ex-husband happens to be a violence-prone ex-con.

1 videocassette (113 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1753

Special bulletin 1991

A story about terrorists threatening to detonate a nuclear bomb in the Charleston area. Presented as if it were live news coverage.

1 videocassette (94 min.) :

MEDIA 2-6163

Stand and deliver 1988

A high school math teacher at East Los Angeles' Garfield High, inspires his inner-city students to overcome some of the barriers that inhibit their achievement.

1 videocassette (103 min.) :

DANA 1652

Stand and deliver 1988

The dynamic saga of real-life heroes determined to conquer a foe few people dare to confront: the National Advanced Placement Calculus Exam.

1 videocassette (103 min.) :

MEDIA 2-808

Tap 1989

A promising but disillusioned tap dancer is torn between his craft and the fast track life of a high-stakes thief.

1 videodisc (110 min.) :

JAZZ 13

The Thin blue line 1988

A real-life drama about a 16-year-old who was arrested for the killing of a Dallas policeman, but swore that a hitchhiker had committed the crime.

1 videocassette (101 min.) :

MEDIA 2-682

Times Square 2000

Two runaways living on the line in a tough town and the deejay who helps them channel their anarchistic energies toward stardom.

1 videocassette (111 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5318

Tootsie 1987

Michael Dorsey is an unemployed actor who cannot find work in New York. When his girlfriend does not get a part in a soap opera series, Michael dresses up as a woman and lands the part. Michael as "Dorothy Michaels" is a hit in the series. Only his agent and roommate know Michael's true identity. All goes well until "Dorothy" falls in love with beautiful co-star, Julie and Julie's father Lee, falls for "Dorothy.".

1 videocassette (116 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1842

Trading places 1989

"Two rich men arrange a wager on the effects of environment over heredity, and arrange for a con man and a stockbroker to change places."--Halliwell's Film and video guide, 5th ed.

1 videocassette (118 min.) :

DANA 639

True West 1987

A powerful, yet funny, confrontation between two brothers set in the contemporary West.

1 videocassette (VHS) (110 min.) :

DANA. MEDIA 89 2-1380

Tucker the man and his dream 1989

Tucker is a dynamic engineer and an enthusiastic showman who envisions the car of the future. He manages to build a fleet of them--only to have his factory shut down by Detroit's Big Three automobile manufacturers.

1 videocassette (111 min.) :

MEDIA 2-773

Videodrome 1999

A pulsating science fiction nightmare about a world where video can control and alter human life.

1 videocassette (89 min.) :

MEDIA 2-6205

Walker 1988

The story of the real-life American soldier of fortune, William Walker, who declared himself president of Nicaragua in 1855 and ruled that country for two years.

1 videocassette (95 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3162

Wall Street 1988

An ambitious young Wall Street broker whose quest for new clients leads him to a financial wizard with genius for making money. The broker is led into the illegal but lucrative world of corporate espionage and insider trading.

1 videocassette (126 min.) :

MEDIA 2-595

Wall Street 1995

An ambitious young Wall Street broker whose quest for new clients leads him to a financial wizard with genius for making money. The broker is led into the illegal but lucrative world of corporate espionage and insider trading.

1 videocassette (126 min.) :

DANA 477

Who framed Roger Rabbit? 1989

A tale of a man, a woman and a rabbit in a triangle of trouble (partial animation).

1 videocassette (104 min.) :

MEDIA 2-811

Witness 1985

When a young Amish woman and her son get caught up in the murder of an undercover narcotics agent, their savior turns out to be hardened Philadelphia detective John Book, who runs head-on into the non-violent world of a Pennsylvania Amish community.

1 videocassette (112 min.) :

DANA 1651

Working girl 1989

A witty romantic tale of life in the corporate jungle. A Wall Street secretary poses as her boss, forming an alliance with a Wall Street investment banker and strives to climb the corporate ladder.

1 videocassette (115 min.) :

MEDIA 2-867

Working girls 1987

With humour and candor, producer Lizzie Borden recreates a typical day in the life of a middle class brothel in New York City, and lets the viewer share the experience of women paid to guarantee satisfaction as told from a woman's perspective. The film treats prostitutes less as stereotypes and more as people--people with feelings, concerns, goals and dreams--just like anybody else.

1 videocassette (93 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1868

Year of the dragon 1988

Deep in the secret heart of New York's Chinatown lies a criminal menace a thousand years old, the triad, a network of ruthless corruption and power. As the new godfather of the organization, Joey Tai decides it's time to war on the entrenched interests, both Italian and Oriental, in the lucrative drug trade. A confrontation ensues between Joey Tai and Captain Stanley White and only one will survive.

1 videocassette (136 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5004

Zoot suit 1991

A group of Mexican-Americans are sent to San Quentin unjustly for the death of a man at Sleepy Lagoon. Based on the acutal case and zoot suit riots of 1940's Los Angeles.

1 videocassette (104 min.) :

DANA. MEDIA 2-1826 2-1826