http://www.lasalle.edu/library/content.php?section=about&group=about&subgroup=departments&page=new_in_av Latest additions to the Connelly Library's Audio Visual Library. http://connelly.lasalle.edu/search/ftlist View the entire video collection list. http://connelly.lasalle.edu/record=b576032 MySpace. YouTube. Facebook. Friendster. Nearly every teen in America is on the Internet every day. They socialize withfriends and strangers alike. Peers inside the world of thiscyber-savvy generation through the eyes of teens and their parents, who often find themselves on opposite sides of a new digital divide http://connelly.lasalle.edu/record=b575530 Focuses on the physiological, psychological and emotional changes a woman goes through during the postpartum period. Discussesthe importance of emotional support and patient education during the postpartum phase of care http://connelly.lasalle.edu/record=b575962 3D animation and non-technical narration make the stages of laboreasy to understand. Combining detailed animation of the laborprocess, live birth footage, and parents describing theirexperience of labor and delivery, this program is an anatomy lesson and a birth story, all in one http://connelly.lasalle.edu/record=b575960 Provides complete, up-to-date, and accurate information on medical interventions. Guides parents step-by-step through eachprocedure with an even-handed presentation of benefits and drawbacks http://connelly.lasalle.edu/record=b575996 During the course of one day in 1987 in communist Romania, Otiliahelps her friend and college roommate Gabita get a late-termabortion. At the time, any sort of birth control, least of all abortion, was illegal in Romania http://connelly.lasalle.edu/record=b576034 The tale of a 1943 WWII French Algerian unit facing discrimination by its European counterparts due to prejudice and ignorance. The French armed forces are preparing to land troops in Europe to win back their homeland from the AxisPowers, but they cannot accomplish their task withoutrecruiting men from their African colonies http://connelly.lasalle.edu/record=b575452 A country boy (Cliff) who travels to Kingston to make it big as a reggae singer is ruthlessly exploited, first by his employer, then by the producer of his hit record. At last he becomes a pot-pushing desperado in an effort to live up to the code of hisfavorite movie heroes http://connelly.lasalle.edu/record=b575215 The wife of a 19th century General sells the earrings her husband gave her on their wedding day to pay off debts, which sets off a chain reaction of deceit that includes her husband, his mistress,and her lover http://connelly.lasalle.edu/record=b575451 The gods must be crazy: For five thousand years, things have stayed pretty much the same for Xi and his fellow Bushmen. Then one day, an empty Coke bottle drops magically from the sky and life goes topsy-turvy in the face of this generous "gift of the Gods." http://connelly.lasalle.edu/record=b575218 Biographical film about the life of Lee Miller, model, news photographer, and friend to a variety of 20th century artistic figures http://connelly.lasalle.edu/record=b575749 Journey through the exciting world of chemistry with Nobel laureate Roald Hoffmann as your guide. The foundations of chemical structures and their behavior are explored through computer animation, demonstrations, and on-site footage at working industrial and research labs http://connelly.lasalle.edu/record=b575751 Records and relates the lives of the women of Gee's Bend, Alabama, who for more than 150 years have made quilts reflecting their history and daily lives. Having worked in isolation for generations and continuing to inhabit the remoteplantation land their parents once slaved, they have received unexpected attention from the artistic world http://connelly.lasalle.edu/record=b575750 Marnie (Hedren), a compulsive thief and liar is caught. Hercaptor (Connery) impulsively marries the frigid, disturbed girl in an attempt to discover the reasons for her ongoing anti-social behavior http://connelly.lasalle.edu/record=b575646 Peter (Segel) has his heart broken by Sarah Marshall (Bell), his girlfriend of five years. Sarah is an actress on a televisioncrime series. After breaking up with Peter, she moves on with herlife and her new boyfriend, Aldous (Brand), a British rock star http://connelly.lasalle.edu/record=b575626 We find Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte, and Miranda four years after the television series ended. After moving in together in an impossibly beautiful New York apartment, Carrie Bradshaw and Mr. Big make a rather arbitrary decision to get married. The wedding itself proves to be anything but a hasty affair--the guest list quickly blooms from 75 to 200 guests, and Carrie's simple, label- less wedding gown gives way to an enormous creation that makes her look like a gigantic cream puff http://connelly.lasalle.edu/record=b575645 Tony Stark (Downey) is the complete playboy who also happens to be an engineering genius and the owner of a weapons factory inherited from his father. While in Afghanistan demonstrating his company's new missile he is wounded and captured by insurgents. His captors want him to assemble a missile for them but instead he creates an armored suit and a means to prevent his death from the shrapnel left in his chest by the attack http://connelly.lasalle.edu/record=b575562 Germany, 1936. Salomon "Sally" Sorowitsch (Markovics) is the kingof counterfeiters. He lives a life of cards, booze, and women. Suddenly his luck runs dry when he is arrested by SS Sturmbannfuhrer Friedrich Herzog (Striesow) and thrown into the Mauthausen concentration camp. There, Salomon exhibits exceptional skills and is soon transferred to the upgraded camp of Sachsenhausen. Upon his arrival, he once again comes face to face with Herzog, who is there on a secret mission. Hand-picked for his unique skill, Salomon and a group of professionals are forced to produce fake foreign currency under the program Operation Berhard http://connelly.lasalle.edu/record=b516681 Captures the 1960s events in Berkeley, Calif. -- the birth of theFree Speech Movement, civil rights marches, anti-Vietnam War protests, the counter-culture, the women's movement, and the rise of the Black Panthers. Archival footage is interwoven with present-day interviews of participants and 18 songs from the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, Joan Baez, The Band and the Jefferson Airplane http://connelly.lasalle.edu/record=b574779 Explores the theory and practice of critical thinking in the professional life of a nurse. Focuses attention on the role that nurse Eunice Rivers played in the ethically murky Tuskegee Syphilis Study and how her participation may be interpreted today in the context of critical thinking http://connelly.lasalle.edu/record=b575086 Depeche Mode on concert tour, accompanied by a special bus-full of fans, ending in the Rose Bowl in Pasadena http://connelly.lasalle.edu/record=b574771 Based on Judith Haynes' book, Getting Started with English Language Learners, this 15-minute video will illustrate essential preparation for ELL classes. This program explains the principles and stages of second language acquisition, shows how to make newcomers feel welcome, and demonstrates organizational tips for the ELL classroom http://connelly.lasalle.edu/record=b574769 Encourage cultural responsiveness and nurture sociocultural consciousness in the classroom http://connelly.lasalle.edu/record=b575216 An international team of sophisticated thieves attempt to steal a jewel-encrusted dagger from an Istanbul museum with animpregnable security system http://connelly.lasalle.edu/record=b575217 Harry Langdon's comic film persona of the wide-eyed innocent bewildered by the world around him was an inspiration to his contemporaries and film audiences of the 1920s. This collection brings together his body of work which was previously scattered, damaged or otherwise unavailable http://connelly.lasalle.edu/record=b575224 A former CIA analyst (Ford) vacationing with his family in London helps thwart a terrorist attack on a member of the Royal Family and becomes the target of the Irish terrorist whose brother he killed http://connelly.lasalle.edu/record=b575223 Screwball comedy about two high school students who face a difficult history exam. With the help of a time-traveling messenger they round up some historical heavyweights for their class project! http://connelly.lasalle.edu/record=b575199 Interviews with eyewitnesses and historians and newsreel footage show how heroic Europeans, Russians, and Americans worked to recover and repatriate the art of Europe looted by the Nazis during World War II http://connelly.lasalle.edu/record=b574840 Contains 13 music videos by the 1990s independent rock group Pavement, a documentary about the band, as well as concerts given July 1999 in Seattle, Washington, and November 1999 in Manchester, England http://connelly.lasalle.edu/record=b574882 Examples of Maya Deren's work evoke and exemplify the American avant-garde film movement of the 1940s and 1950s http://connelly.lasalle.edu/record=b574154 Six women Holocaust survivors, currently living in Los Angeles, bear witness to the female experience of life in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps http://connelly.lasalle.edu/record=b574994 Satirical look at a large metropolitan hospital where the patients die of neglect, the interns chase the nurses, the head of the hospital contemplates suicide and there is someone killing off the staff http://connelly.lasalle.edu/record=b574993 Biographical film about Japanese film director Kon Ichikawa http://connelly.lasalle.edu/record=b574883 Documentary of the Voudoun religions of Haiti. Presents rituals performed by the Rada, Petro, and Congo cults, whose devotees commune with cosmic powers through invocations, sacrifices, and possession http://connelly.lasalle.edu/record=b574461 A playful car thief (Belmondo) accidentally shoots a policeman, then hides out in Paris with a hip American girl (Seberg), trying to hustle enough cash for a getaway. Hoping to get him out of her apartment, she betrays him to the law, but he refuses to flee, facing his fate with an absurd stoicism modelled on his hero: Humphrey Bogart http://connelly.lasalle.edu/record=b574456 Recently orphaned, Flora (Beckinsale) ignores the sage advise of Mrs. Smiley and moves to the country to live on a decrepit farm with her eccentric relatives, where she finds ample material for the novel she wishes to write http://connelly.lasalle.edu/record=b574459 A portrayal of the three-and-one-half years of Jesus' public ministry as recorded in the Gospel of Luke http://connelly.lasalle.edu/record=b574453 A feature film on the life, death and resurrection of Jesus, adapted word for word from the Gospel of John in the Good News Translation Bible http://connelly.lasalle.edu/record=b574452 Using thematically representative scenes from Andrei Tarkovsky's films, Sokurov captures the great director's struggle between personal expression and state-supported supression. Focuses on his abscence and what he left behind. Funeral footage http://connelly.lasalle.edu/record=b574457 Comedy in five acts http://connelly.lasalle.edu/record=b574308 Film about the "family reunion," the French government's euphemism for a 1974 law allowing Algerian wives to rejoin their husbands working in France. Strong-willed Zouina parts tearfully from her mother in the port of Algiers; once in France, she and her three small children are at the mercy of her mother-in-law and confused by the strange customs of their local grocer and garden-obsessed neighbor. The radio is her only window on life and on the women of this new country http://connelly.lasalle.edu/record=b574348 Jack Skellington is the King of Halloween. He becomes bored with the same routine every year. He decides to take a walk in the woods. There, he discovered a door leading to Christmastown and decides to spread Christmas joy to the world. When he is back in Halloweentown he shows his friends what Christmas is like, and he suggests doing Christmas this year instead. But things do not go as planned when Oogie Boogie, an evil gambling boogey man, plots to play a game with Santa Claus' life and creates a nightmare for all the good little boys and girls everywhere. Although Sally attempts to stop him, Jack embarks into the sky on a coffin-like sled pulled by skeletal reindeer http://connelly.lasalle.edu/record=b574309 Acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami (A taste of cherry, Through the olive trees) pays homage to Yasujiro Ozu, the brilliant Japanese filmmaker whose spare but evocative style has been a major influence on Kiarostami's work. Canny and sublime, the 74-minute film is comprised of five takes of a beach on the Caspian Sea, all focusing on the ocean, comprised of virtually no camera movement and enveloped in rapturous natural sound. Richly poetic and shot on a hand-held DV camera. The five extended, apparently single-take sequences include: 1. The camera accompanies a piece of wood with which the waves are toying at the beach. 2. People are walking along by the seaside. Older people stop, look at the waves, then walk away. 3. Indistinct shapes on a beach in winter. A group of dogs. A love story. 4. Ducks noisily cross the frame in one direction, then the other. 5. A pond; nighttime; frogs; a chorus of sounds, then a storm, and finally dawn http://connelly.lasalle.edu/record=b574377 After seeing a less-than-conventional psychiatrist (Cox) for her problems at home who gives her too many prescriptions and bad advice, a mother (Bening) ends her marriage and sends her young son (Cross) to live with the doctor and his odd family. Set in the 1970s http://connelly.lasalle.edu/record=b570540 Writer/dirctor David Novack examines the explosive forces that have set in motion a groundswell of conflict between the coal industry and residents of West Virginia. Faced with toxic ground water, the obliteration of 1.4 million acres of mountains, and a government that appeases industry, the heroes launch a valiant fight to arouse the nation's help in protecting their mountains, saving their families and preserving their way of life http://connelly.lasalle.edu/record=b570683 Documentary film which looks at how the town of Sugar Land, Texas has changed since the 1950s http://connelly.lasalle.edu/record=b570391 A statement of the dehumanizing effects of slavery and a plea for reparations with written text and art work by Jahaziel set to musical accompaniment http://connelly.lasalle.edu/record=b574077 This demonstration DVD presents three clinical vignettes of a therapist working individually with members of an Arab American family. The authors explore each demonstrated counseling session in terms of diversity of presenting issues, treatment goals, appropriate interventions, and helpful cultural knowledge. A concluding discussion explores overall issues within the family and community systems http://connelly.lasalle.edu/record=b574075 On October 12, 1995 Jonny Gammage, a 31-year-old African-American business man and philanthropist, was pulled over by five white police officers for no apparent reason. During the ensuing struggle, to which the only witnesses were the police themselves and two civilians, Gammage was asphyxiated. There was shock and revulsion in the community, and thousands, both black and white took to the streets to protest ... Yet despite the marches and rallies in Gammage's behalf, and three criminal trials, the police were never punished. The film examines the criminal justice system and the procedural relationships among the law enforcement officers, the Coroner's office, the District Attorneys, and the courts http://connelly.lasalle.edu/record=b574074 Bobby Gordon Oatway, a convicted pedophile in jail in B.C., is released on mandatory supervision to a Toronto halfway house. The Hedrick sisters, one of whom he had married, and some of whom he abused, talk about their experience and their desire to let people know about him. Protests begin in the Toronto area where the halfway house is located, and a tense situation develops. Oatway is ostracized by other inmates of the house, the community is angry with Corrections Canada and the staff who is supervising Oatway. In the end, he decides to return to jail in B.C., where he has three more years to serve http://connelly.lasalle.edu/record=b574073 Filmed on location in Dallas and Los Angeles, the documentary follows the lives of 5 American Muslim families during Ramadan http://connelly.lasalle.edu/record=b573848 A film about the culture of an immigrant community (Detroit, Michigan) that takes as its point of departure the performance of the Bani Hilal epic by a story-teller from Egypt. Shows the differences between the desire of the older generation to maintain cultural heritage and the ways in which ethnic memory alters for the newer generation http://connelly.lasalle.edu/record=b573937 The moving story of Peter Jepson-Young, a Canadian physician who died of AIDS. Week-by-week he documented his illness on TV for Canadians and became a national symbol http://connelly.lasalle.edu/record=b572588 The Caped Crusader (Keaton) returns to do battle with Catwoman (Pfeiffer) and the Penguin (DeVito) http://connelly.lasalle.edu/record=b572389 The turbulent life of Daniel Johnston, a genius musician battling manic depression. A favorite with artists such as Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Beck, and many others, this film views the singer-songwriter-artist through his art and interviews, and in the eyes of his fans http://connelly.lasalle.edu/record=b573662 A dramatic retelling of the life of Edith Piaf (Cotillard), considered one of the great performers of France and "the soul of Paris." Raised in a brothel, taken to work in a circus by her father, and eventually abandoned, she spent her teen years on the streets. Finally "rescued" by a gangster who gives her career a start, Edith achieves international success, despite recurring frailty, illness, wild moods, and drug and alcohol problems http://connelly.lasalle.edu/record=b573661 In the wake of his parents' murder, disillusioned heir Bruce Wayne (Bale) travels the world seeking the means to fight injustice and turn fear against those who prey on the fearful. With the help of his trusted butler Alfred (Caine), detective Jim Gordon(Oldman) and his ally Lucius Fox (Freeman), Wayne returns to Gotham City and unleashes his alterego, Batman, a masked crusader who uses strength, intellect and an array of high-tech weaponryto fight the sinister forces that threaten the city http://connelly.lasalle.edu/record=b573686 This program "chronicles the experiences of a new generation of college students, in this case over the course of 16 weeks of intergroup dialogue on the U.C. Berkeleycampus. As they confront themselves and each other about race, they discover they often lack awarenessof how different their experience of campus life is from their peers, to the detriment of an inclusive campus climate" count=30227