The longest hatred [videorecording] / a Nucleus production for Thames Television & WGBH ; producer & director,Rex Bloomstein.
PUB INFO -- Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c1995.
DESCRIPT -- 2 videocassettes (2 hours, 30 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
SUMMARY -- Traces anti-Semitism from its earliest manifestations in antiquity to the recent ominous outbreaks in Germany, Russia, and elsewhere.

Fires in the mirror [videorecording] : Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and other identities / KCET/Los Angeles ; produced by Cherie Fortis ; directed by George C. Wolfe; conceived, written and performed by Anna Deavere Smith. PUB INFO -- Alexandria, Va. : PBS Video, c1993.
SUMMARY -- On Aug. 19, 1991 in Crown Heights (Brooklyn, N.Y.) a Hasidic man accidentally runs over a Black boy (Gavin Cato). Three hours later a young Jewish scholar (Yankel Rosenbaum) was murdered by Black youths. Four days of fire-bombing and riots ensued. Smith acts out the roles of these 18 persons involved in the racial conflict, trying to present the differing views of this serious problem. Includes actual film footage of the riots and violence.

For the living [videorecording] / produced by WETA, Washington, D.C.
PUB INFO -- Alexandria, VA : distributed by PBS Video, c1993.
DESCRIPT -- 1 videocassette (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
SUMMARY -- Features the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

In her own time [videorecording]
PUB INFO -- Los Angeles, CA : Direct Cinema Ltd., 1986.
DESCRIPT -- 1 videocassette (VHS) (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
SUMMARY -- Anthropologist Barbara G. Myerhoff studies the Fairfax neighborhood in Los Angeles. Fairfax has a growing population of Jews. Dr. Myerhoff also explores her own relationship to Orthodox Judaism. This was her last work before dying of cancer.

A life apart : Hasidism in America [videorecording] a film by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky.
PUB INFO -- New York : First Run/Icarus Films, 1997.
DESCRIPT -- 1 videocassette (95 minutes) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
PERFORMERS -- Narrated by Leonard Nimoy and Sarah Jessica Parker.
SUMMARY -- A life apart relates the story of the creation of the Hasidic post-Holocaust communities in the United States.

Memories of the Shtetl [videorecording] / directed by Harriet Semegram.
PUB INFO -- Brooklyn, NY : Wonderwomen Enterprises, c1989.
DESCRIPT -- 1 videocassette (22 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. SERIES -- Allegheny College film library.
PERFORMERS -- William Sargeant.
SUMMARY -- Documentary film produced with paintings by the American artist, Samuel Rothbort. Depicts the daily life of 19th century Eastern European Jewry living in isolated ghetto settlements known as Shtetls.

The Sorrow and the pity [videorecording] / Norddeutscher Rundfunk, Societe Suisse de Radiodiffusion, Television Recontre.
PUB INFO -- New York : Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment, 1981.
DESCRIPT -- 2 videocassettes (260 min.) : sd., b&w ; 1/2 in.
SUMMARY -- Examines the occupation of France by the Germans during World War II using reminiscences of individuals and officials involved in the events at the time. Concentrates on the themes of collaboration and resistance.

Europa, Europa [videorecording] / Films du Losange, CCC-Filmkunst Gmbh, Perspektywa Film Unit ; director and screenwriter, Agnieszka Holland ; producers, Artur Brauner and Margaret Menegoz.
PUB INFO -- New York : Orion Home Video, c1992.
DESCRIPT -- 1 videocassette (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
SUMMARY -- The true story of a Jewish teenager who survived World War II by living as a Nazi for 7 years and through 3 countries.

Sophie's choice [videorecording] / ITC Films, Inc.
PUB INFO -- Van Nuys, Calif. : Live Home Video, c1992.
DESCRIPT -- 1 videocassette (152 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
SUMMARY -- Sophie Zawistowska, the tragic Polish Catholic beauty who, having survived Auschwitz, has settled in America after World War II. The time is 1947. Stingo, a 22 year-old aspiring writer from rural Virginia, is drawn to Sophie and Nathan--a madly romantic couple whose instability and flamboyance utterly capture this young man's imagination. The deeper Stingo sinks into these people's lives, the more he learns that each harbors terrible and terrifying secrets.

The Chosen [videorecording] / Twentieth Century-Fox Corporation.
PUB INFO -- Farmington Hill, MI : CBS/FOX Video, c1983.
DESCRIPT -- 1 videocassette (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
SUMMARY -- Two teenagers at the time of the Normandy invasion in 1944 are friends but they are divided by the same thing that unites them--their faith. Though both are devout Jews, there's a subtle difference. Danny is an Hasidic Jew, brought up to accept faith blindly by his father--an ultra-orthodox rabbi who rejects the 20th century for the special joys of centuries--old tradition. Reuven, on the other hand, has been brought up by his father who is a secular scholar, to question everything around him.

The Indian and his homeland [videorecording] : American images, 1590-1876 / Finley-Holiday Film Corporation.
PUB INFO -- Whittier, Calif. : Finley-Holiday Film Corp., c1990, c1988.
DESCRIPT -- 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
SUMMARY -- Provides a 300-year survey of the impact of European civilization on the New World - in particular, its devastating effect on the lives and cultures of the American Indians.

Native land [videorecording] : nomads of the dawn / Primal Mind Foundation in association with Alvin H. Perlmutter, Inc. and the Native Land Foundation ; producer/director, John Peaslee ; executive producer, Alvin H. Perlmutter ; writer, Jamake Highwater.
PUB INFO -- New York : Unapix Entertainment, c1996.
DESCRIPT -- 1 videocassette (VHS) (58 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
SUMMARY -- Combines narration and visual imagery to inform the viewer from the perspective of Native Americans about answers to age-old cosmological questions.

Primal mind [videorecording] / produced by the Primal Mind Foundation in association with Alvin H. Perlmutter, Inc.
PUB INFO -- [New York] : Unapix Entertainment, 1996.
DESCRIPT -- 1 videocassette (ca. 58 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
SUMMARY -- Hosted by Jamake Highwater, incorporates scenic views, still photographs, and vintage footage in examining the contrasts between traditional native American concepts and European-based American cultures. Focuses on differences related to art, nature, architecture, and time.

Sacred ground [videorecording] / Freewheelin' Films Ltd.
PUB INFO -- Los Angeles, CA : Distributed by Wood Knapp Video, 1991, c1977.
DESCRIPT -- 1 videocassette (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
SUMMARY -- The story of the American Indian and his relationship to the land.

War against the Indians [videorecording] / produced, directed, written, and narrated by Harry Rasky.
PUB INFO -- Toronto, Ont. : Canadian Broadcasting Corporation : Distributed by CBC Educational Sales, c1992.
DESCRIPT -- 3 videocassettes (ca 170 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
CONTENTS -- v. 1. The feather and the cross -- v. 2. The hunter becomes the hunted -- v. 3. The dispossessed.
SUMMARY -- Story of the conflict between the Indians and the United States.

El norte [videorecording] = The North / Independent Productions ; directed by Gregory Nava ; produced by Anna Thomas.
PUB INFO -- Farmington Hills, Mich. : CBS/Fox Video, c1984.
DESCRIPT -- 1 videocassette (141 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
SUMMARY -- Beginning in the remote mountain jungles of Guatemala, awash with the lushness of nature and the rainbow colors of the Mayans, this highly-acclaimed drama about a brother and sister seeking a better life centers on two young Indians. When their father is killed by government soldiers and their mother taken away, they set out for the "promised land" to the north--El Norte.

My family [videocassette] = Mi familia / Francis Ford Coppola presents a New Line Cinema release in association with Majestic Films and American PlayhouseTheatrical Films . PUB INFO -- [S.l.] : New Line Home Video : [Sold exclusively by] Turner Home Entertainment, c1995.
DESCRIPT -- 1 videocassette (approx. 121 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
SUMMARY -- A powerful, three-generation epic saga of the Sanchez family as told by the eldest son. From the very beginnings of his father's adventurous journey from Mexico to California in the 1920s, to his brother Chucho's tragic rebellion of the 1950s, to the stark realities of modern day, the struggle to live the American dream is sometimes darkened but never diminished.

The Perez family [videorecording] / the Samuel Goldwyn Company presents a Samuel Goldwyn Company production ; a film by Mira Nair.
PUB INFO -- Los Angeles, Calif. : Samuel Goldwyn Home Entertainment : Evergreen Entertainment, c1995.
DESCRIPT -- 1 videocassette (135 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
SUMMARY -- Free-spirited Dottie Perez is leaving Cuba for America, her head filled with dreams of movies, mascara and dates with John Wayne. Strait-laced Juan Perez is headed for a reunion with Carmela, the wife he hasn't seen in 20 years. But when an overworked immigration officer mistakes Dottie and Juan for husband and wife, the stage is set for a merry marital mix-up, and some very unpredictable romances.

The Joy Luck Club [videorecording] / Hollywood Pictures.
PUB INFO -- Burbank, Calif. : Hollywood Pictures Home Video : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video ; [S. l.] : DVS Home Video, c1994.
DESCRIPT -- 1 videocassette (139 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
SUMMARY -- Follows the story of four lifelong friends, whose lives are filled with joy and heartbreak, and shows how their experiences have affected the hopes and dreams they hold for each of their children.

Sunrise on Mulberry Street [videorecording] / written, produced, directed by Tom Tam.
PUB INFO -- New York : Oishi Movies, Inc., 1999.
DESCRIPT -- 1 videocassette (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
PERFORMERS -- Alexa Zee, John E.S. Kim, Jackson Ning, Deborah Pan.
SUMMARY -- "Shocked by the news of two teenage sisters' suicide in Chinatown, Tom Tam wrote a fictionalized account about the conflict between parents and children that led to the destruction of an immigrant family in its members' pursuit of freedom and happiness."--Container.

The Color purple [videorecording] / Warner Brothers.
PUB INFO -- Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, c1991.
DESCRIPT -- 1 videocassette (VHS) (154 min.) : sd., col., stereo ; 1/2 in.
SUMMARY -- An uneducated woman living in the rural American south who was raped by her father, deprived of the children she bore him and forced to marry a brutal man she calls "Mister" is transformed by the friendship of two remarkable women, acquiring self-worth and the strength to forgive.

Do the right thing [videorecording] / a Forty Acres and a Mule Filmworks Production; produced, directed, and written by Spike Lee.
PUB INFO -- Universal City, CA : MCA Home Video, c1989.
SUMMARY -- This powerful visual feast combines humor and drama with memorable characters while tracing the course of a single day on a block in theBedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn. It's the hottest day of the year, a scorching 24-hour period that will change the lives of its residents forever.

The African American cinema. I. Oscar Micheaux's Within our gates (1919) [videorecording] / written, directed and produced by Oscar Micheaux.
PUB INFO -- New York : Unapix Consumer Products, c1995.
DESCRIPT -- 1 videocassette (79 min.) : sd., b&w ; 1/2 in. 1 film guide ([4] p. : 18 cm.)
SUMMARY -- This earliest surviving silent feature directed by an African-American tells the story of a young African-American woman who seeks a Northern white patron for a Southern school for Black children. The scenes of lynching and attempted white-on-Black rape may be a response to D.W. Griffith's The birth of a nation.

The African American cinema. II. The scar of shame (1926) and Sissle and Blake (1923) [videorecording] / [presented by] the Library of Congress and Smithsonian Video.
PUB INFO -- New York : Unapix Consumer Products, c1995.
DESCRIPT -- 1 videocassette (80 min.) : sd., b&w ; 1/2 in. + 1 film guide ([4] p. : 18 cm.)
SUMMARY Sissle and Blake: a short filmed in Lee De Forest's New York studio with his sound-on-film process in 1923, four years before Hollywood began to experiment with sound. Pianist Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle perform their jazz composition "Affectionate Dan" and a jazzed-up spiritual. Scar of shame: In no film was the racial theme more apparent than in this story about an ill-matched marriage between a black concert pianist and a poor, lower class black woman. Secretly ashamed of her, the young man keeps his wife hidden from his socially-prominent middle-class mother. Despite the melodrama, it is a strong statement on the issues of class and the color caste system which existed within the African-American community. This was the first film of the Colored Players Film Corp. of Philadelphia.

Mississippi burning [videorecording] / Orion Pictures Corporation.
PUB INFO -- New York : Orion Home Video, c1989,1988.
DESCRIPT -- 1 videocassette (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
SUMMARY -- Set in Mississippi in 1964, this is a fictionalized version of the case of the murder of three young civil rights workers, the FBI's attempts to find the missing boys and the clash between the authorities and the locals in a Klan-dominated town.

Once upon a time---when we were colored [videorecording] / Bet Pictures ; directed and produced by Tim Reid.
PUB INFO -- Los Angeles : Republic Pictures, c1996.
DESCRIPT -- 1 videocassette (ca. 113 min.) : sd., col., stereo. ; 1/2 in.
SUMMARY -- The film tells the story of growing up in the segregation-era South, in a community that faced adversity and held together with amazing dignity and grace.

To kill a mockingbird [videorecording] / Universal International ; screenplay by Horton Foote; produced by Alan J. Pakula ; directed by Robert Mulligan.
PUB INFO -- [Universal City, Calif.] : MCA Universal Home Video, c1998.
DESCRIPT -- 1 videocassette (152 min.) : sd., b&w ; 1/2 in.
SUMMARY -- Two children in a small southern town are thrust into an adult world of racial bigotry and hatred when their lawyer father chooses to defend a black man unjustly accused of raping a white girl.

Waiting to exhale [videorecording] / Twentieth Century Fox ; a Deborah Schindler/Ezra Swerdlow production.
PUB INFO -- Beverly Hills, Calif. : Fox Video, 1996.
DESCRIPT -- 1 videocassette (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.

The Women of Brewster Place [videorecording] Phoenix Entertainment Groups.
PUB INFO -- Los Angeles, CA : J2 Communications, c1989.
DESCRIPT -- 2 videocassettes (180 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
SUMMARY -- Oprah Winfrey plays Mattie Michael, a middle-aged woman whose life has been full of misfortunes. Now she is living in a tenement on a dead-end ghetto street. She becomes an adopted mother and a leader to the other women.

Classified X [videorecording] / La Sept ARTE, Les Films d'Ici, Ecoutez Voir, Yeah Inc. in association with Channel Four ; a film by Melvin Van Peebles.
PUB INFO -- [S.l.] : WinStar Home Entertainment, 1998.
SUMMARY -- Examines the treatment of black characters throughout the history of American cinema, using examples from classic films beginning with footage by Thomas Edison in 1903 to the present, tracing how Hollywood has aided and abetted the public perception of the African-American. From its earliest days, Hollywood reflected society's fear of blacks and countered with wish-fulfilling images of African-Americans as servile, ignorant, superstitious, or untrustworthy.

I have a dream [videorecording] / Maljack Productions, Inc.
PUB INFO -- [Oak Forest, Ill.] : MPI Home Video, c1988.
DESCRIPT -- 1 videocassette (VHS) (ca. 25 min.) : sd., b&w ; 1/2 in.
SUMMARY -- Martin Luther King's famous speech.

Alice Walker [videorecording] : a portrait in the first person.
PUB INFO -- Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities, c1994.
DESCRIPT -- 1 videocassette (28 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
SUMMARY -- Jim Hanley interviews Alice Walker author of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel, "The color purple". Her discussion touches on a variety of topics including family violence and the position of black women in America.

Brother minister [videorecording] : the assassination of Malcolm X / 3rd Millennium Entertainment Group Inc.
PUB INFO -- Greenvale, NY : 3rd Millennium Entertainment Group, c1995.
DESCRIPT -- 1 videocassette (115 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 1/2 in.
SUMMARY -- This story is told through the eyes and voices of Malcolm's friends, his former enemies, assassination experts, dramatic re-enactments, rare archival footage and photographs, and the disclosure of recently declassified FBI and NYPD counterintelligence documents. Contains only 11 minutes of narration.

Malcolm X [videorecording] : El Hajj Malik El Shabazz.
PUB INFO -- [S.l.] : Xenon Home Video : Solar Home Video, c1991.
DESCRIPT -- 1 videocassette (60 min.) : sd., b&w ; 1/2 in.
SUMMARY -- A documentary showing the life of Malcolm X, his leadership in the Black Muslim movement, and his influence on black Americans and African nations.

Malcolm X : make it plain [videorecording] / produced and directed by Orlando Bagwell ; co-produced by Judy Richardson ; executive producer, Henry Hampton.
PUB INFO -- Boston, MA : WGBH : [Audio enhanced by] DVS Home Video ; [Alexandria, VA] : Distributed by PBS Video c1994.
DESCRIPT -- 1 videocassette (150 min.) : sd., col., b&w ; 1/2 in.
SUMMARY -- "This definitive biography weaves together interviews, archival footage, photographs, and an original score to portray the fascinating intellectual journey of a complex man whose ideas resonate today"--Container.

The Real Malcolm X [videorecording] : an intimate portrait of the man / production of CBS News.
PUB INFO -- Beverly Hills, CA. : CBS News : Fox Video, c1992.
DESCRIPT -- 1 videocassette (VHS ; 60 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 1/2 in.
SUMMARY -- CBS News examines the facts of the extraordinary life of Malcolm X in exclusive, never-before-shown footage and excerpts from some of his most important speeches. Family, friends, and contemporary artists discuss his legacy in the black community.

Frederick Douglass [videorecording] : when the lion wrote history / co-produced by WETA-TV and ROJA Productions.
PUB INFO -- Atlanta, GA : Turner Home Entertainment, 1994.
DESCRIPT -- 1 videocassette (90 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 1/2 in.
SUMMARY -- Archival materials and Douglass' autobiographical writings are used to present the story of his life.

Kennedy v. Wallace: A crisis up close [videorecording]
PUB INFO -- Los Angeles, CA : Direct Cinema Limited, 1991, 1987.
DESCRIPT -- 1 videocassette (60 min.) : sd., b&w., with col. sequences ; 1/2 in.
SUMMARY -- Title on container: Kennedy versus Wallace. Title on cassette: Kennedy vs Wallace. A segment from the television program: The American experience. Host, David McCullough. A film originally made in 1963 of Pres. Kennedy & Gov. Wallace during the confrontation over desegregation of Alabama schools. Re-edited to include thoughts of Nicholas Katzenbach and Vivian Malone.

Harlem diary [videorecording] : nine voices of resilience / Discovery Channel in association with Gabriel Films presents a film by Jonathan Stack, Terry Williams, Susanne Szabo Rostock.
PUB INFO -- Bethesda, MD : Discovery Communications, Inc. [production company] : Distributed by Discovery Channel Video, 1995 [distributed 1996]
DESCRIPT -- 1 videocassette (VHS) (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
SUMMARY -- Nine Harlem youths use notebooks and video cameras to tell the story of their lives, under the direction of author and socio-ethnographer Terry Williams.

Hoop dreams / a production of Kartemquin Educational Films and KTCA Television station, Chicago ; directed by Steve James ; produced and screenplay by Fred Marx, Steve James, Peter Gilbert.
PUB INFO -- [S.l.] : New Line Home Video : Turner Home Entertainment, 1995, c1994.
DESCRIPT -- 1 videocassette (176 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
SUMMARY -- Follows the high school careers of two young men from inner-city Chicago as they pursue their dream of playing professional basketball.

Only the ball was white [videorecording] / WTTW Chicago ; produced & directed by Ken Solarz.
PUB INFO -- Oak Forest, Ill. : MPI Home Video, 1992, c1980.
DESCRIPT -- 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 1/2 in.
SUMMARY -- Pays tribute to the many top-flight baseball players from the Negro Leagues. Documents a bygone bittersweet era in baseball and the men who were denied stardom by the color line.

Eyes on the prize [videorecording] : America's civil rights years, 1954-1965 / WGBH Boston ; produced by Blackside, Inc. and Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
PUB INFO -- Alexandria, Va. : PBS Video, c1986-1987.
DESCRIPT -- 6 videocassettes (360 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 1/2 in. + 1 guide ([20] p. : ill. ; 30 cm.)
SUMMARY -- History of the civil rights movement in the United States. Uses archival footage and interviews with participants in the movement.

Eyes on the prize II [videorecording] : America at the racial crossroads, 1965-1985 / WGBH Boston ; produced by Blackside, Inc. and Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
PUB INFO -- Alexandria, Va. : PBS Video, c1986-1987.
DESCRIPT -- 8 videocassettes (480 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 1/2 in. + 1 guide ([24] p. : ill. ; 28 cm.)

Just Black? [videorecording] : multi-racial identity / produced by Francine Winddance Twine, Jonathan F. Warren.
PUB INFO -- New York : Filmakers Library, [1980?]
DESCRIPT -- 1 videocassette (57 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
SUMMARY -- Presents interviews with several articulate young men and women of mixed racial heritage. Each has one black parent and one white, Asian or Hispanic second parent. They share their views on their struggle to establish, acquire and assert a racial identity. Their experiences lead one to question whether there is room in America for a multi-racial identity. As these young people speak of their hopes and frustrations, they all reveal the tension of having their multicultural background overlooked and being classified as having one racial identity.

American apartheid [videorecording] / [produced by] BBC Worldwide / Films for the Humanities & Sciences.
PUB INFO -- Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 1998.
SUMMARY -- Examines African-American equality in today's society, and questions whether past racial gains are slowly being eroded, and whether a new wave of racial disharmony is gathering force.

Apartheid's last stand [videorecording.]
PUB INFO -- [Alexandria, Va.] : Distributed by PBS Video, 1992.
DESCRIPT -- 1 videocassette (57 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
SUMMARY -- Examines how President F. W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela have pushed through the peace process and made major compromises in negotiating the end of white minority rule in South Africa.

A class divided [videorecording] / produced and directed by William Peters ; correspondent, Charlie Cobb ; written by William Peters, Charlie Cobb ; a production of Yale University Films for Frontline ; produced for the Documentary Consortium by WGBH Boston.
PUB INFO -- Washington, DC : PBS Video [distributor], c1985.
SUMMARY -- Documents a reunion of Iowa teacher Jane Elliott and her third-grade class of 1970, subjects that year of an ABC News television documentary entitled "The eye of the storm". Shows how her experimental curriculum on the evils of discrimination had a lasting effect on the lives of the students.

Race against prime time [videorecording] / written, produced and directed by David Shulman; New Decades Productions.
PUB INFO -- San Francisco, Calif. : California Newsreel, 1985.
DESCRIPT -- 1 videocassette (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
SUMMARY -- Documentary which explores how television news coverage of violent racial conflicts acts in complicated ways to exacerbate community and individual conflicts.

Fires in the mirror [videorecording] : Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and other identities / KCET/Los Angeles ; produced by Cherie Fortis ; directed by George C. Wolfe; conceived, written and performed by Anna Deavere Smith.
PUB INFO -- Alexandria, Va. : PBS Video, c1993.
SUMMARY -- On Aug. 19, 1991 in Crown Heights (Brooklyn, N.Y.) a Hasidic man accidentally runs over a Black boy (Gavin Cato). Three hours later a young Jewish scholar (Yankel Rosenbaum) was murdered by Black youths. Four days of fire-bombing and riots ensued. Smith acts out the roles of these 18 persons involved in the racial conflict, trying to present the differing views of this serious problem. Includes actual film footage of the riots and violence.

The "Rodney King" case [videorecording] : what the jury saw in CA v. Powell / Courtroom Television Network ; producers, Peter Aronson, Kristin Jeanette-Meyers; director, Dominic Palumbo.
PUB INFO -- [Oak Forest, Ill.] : MPI Home Video, c1992.
DESCRIPT -- 1 videocassette (116 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 1/2 in.
SUMMARY -- Presents the key portions of both the prosecution and defense cases. Condenses 150 hours of gavel-to-gavel coverage and includes the 81 second amateur videotape which recorded the events that occurred during the evening of March 3, 1991.

L.A. is burning [videorecording] : five reports from a divided city / produced and directed by Elena Mannes; co-produced and directed by Karyn J. Taylor ; written by Elena Mannes.
PUB INFO -- [Boston] : WGBH Educational Foundation ; Alexandria, VA : PBS Video [distributor], c1993.
DESCRIPT -- 1 videocassette (ca. 77 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 1/2 in.
SUMMARY -- Frontline revisits Los Angeles one year after the April 1992 riots. A chronology of events shortly after the Rodney King verdict announcement through the next 72 hours of mob violence is examined from five different perspectives.

Fourteen days in May [videorecording]
PUB INFO -- Sydney : ABC, 1988.
DESCRIPT -- 1 videocassette (VHS) (85 min.) : sd., col ; 1/2 in. + Teacher's guide (7 p. ; 28 cm.)
SUMMARY -- Edward Earl Johnson was sentenced to death for murder in Mississippi in 1979. He spent 7 years on Death Row and always maintained his innocence. He was executed in 1986 but evidence came to light after his death which confirmed his innocence. The program discusses the case and the nature of race relations in the South of the United States.

The price of racism [videorecording] / BBC ; producer/director, Dev Varma ; assistant producer, Emma Hewitt.
PUB INFO -- Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 1998.
DESCRIPT -- 1 videocassette (40 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
SUMMARY -- This program brings viewers face-to-face with the mindless ugliness and irrevocable consequences of racism. Examining five case studies in which racism led to violence, we see how each act destroyed not only its victim, but others as well, including the perpetrator.

The birdcage [videorecording] / Icarus Production ; United Artists Pictures ; directed and produced by Mike Nichols ; screenplay by Elaine May.
PUB INFO -- Santa Monica, CA : MGM/UA Home Video, c1996.
DESCRIPT -- 1 videocassette (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
SUMMARY -- The story of a middle-aged gay couple's comic encounter with a self-righteously straight and conservative family: Armand and Albert reluctantly accept young Val's intention to marry the daughter of a conservative Senator, but when the fiancee's family comes to visit, the wholehousehold is turned upside down.

La cage aux folles [videorecording] / Les Productions Artistes associes/Da Ma produzione/United Artists ; un film de Edouard Molinaro.
PUB INFO -- Culver City, CA : MGM/UA Home Video, c1990, 1979.
DESCRIPT -- 1 videocassette (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
SUMMARY -- A farce involving a flamboyant homosexual couple's attempt to appear to be conventional parents in front of the prospective in-laws of the son of one of the men.

In & out [videorecording] / Paramount Pictures presents in association with Spelling Films; written by Paul Rudnick ; produced by Scott Rudin ; directed by Frank Oz.
PUB INFO -- Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount, [1998]
DESCRIPT -- 1 videocassette (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
SUMMARY -- When a former student tells the world that a high school teacher is gay, the man tries hard to assert his manliness.

ABC News Saturday night special. Same sex marriage : coming out.[videorecording]
PUB INFO -- [New York] : ABC News Productions, 1998.
DESCRIPT -- 1 videocassette (41 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
SUMMARY -- Shows gay and lesbian couples preparing for their wedding ceremony. Originally broadcast on Saturday night special, February 14,1998.

And the band played on [videorecording] / HBO Pictures.
PUB INFO -- New York: HBO Video, 1993.
DESCRIPT -- 1 videocassette (VHS) (140 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
SUMMARY -- Follows the struggle of a handful of strong-willed men and women who took on the fight to save lives in the face of a mysterious illness now called AIDS.

The celluloid closet [videorecording] / a Telling Pictures Production.
PUB INFO -- Canada : Norstar Home Video/Malofilm Video, c1996.
DESCRIPT -- 1 videocassette (ca. 102 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 1/2 in.
SUMMARY -- Assembles footage from over 120 films showing the changing face of cinema homosexuality from cruel stereotypes to covert love to the activist triumphs of the 1990s. Many actors, writers and commentators provide anecdotes regarding the history of the role of gay men and lesbians on the silver screen.

Coming out under fire [videorecording] / [presented by] Zeitgeist Films ; a Deepfocus production ; an Arthur Dong film.
PUB INFO -- New York : Fox Lorber ; sold by Orion Home Video, c1995.
SUMMARY -- Gay men and lesbians who were in the United States military service during World War II discuss their experiences with the response of the military establishment towards their sexual orientation.

Lavender limelight: Lesbians in film [videorecording]
PUB INFO -- New York, NY : First Run Features, 1997
DESCRIPT --1 videocassette (57 min.) : sd. col. ; 1/2 in.
SUMMARY -- Cheryl Dunye, Rose Troche, Jennie Livingston, Monika Treut, Maria Maggenti, Su Friedrich, Heather MacDonald. Intimate conversations with lesbian film directors, including clips from their works, in which they explore their sexual identity, growing up gay, inspirations and techniques of filmaking, Hollywood vs. Indie and love and sex, on screen and off.

Paris is burning [videorecording] / Prestige ; Off White Productions ; produced and directed by Jennie Livingston.
PUB INFO -- [United States] : Fox Lorber Home Video : Orion Home Video, 1992, c1990.
DESCRIPT -- 1 videocassette (76 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
SUMMARY -- Documentary about the young homosexual men of Harlem who originated "voguing" and turned these stylized dance competitions into glittering expressions of fierce personal pride. A story of street-wise urban survival, gay self-affirmation, and the pursuit of a desperate dream.

Silver lake life [videorecording] : the view from here / produced & directed by Tom Joslin and Peter Friedman; produced in association with Channel Four Television, London and J.P. Weiner Productions, Inc. ; Betelgeuse Productions.
PUB INFO -- New York : New Video, c1994.
DESCRIPT -- 1 videocassette (99 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 1/2 in. VHS.
SUMMARY -- Presents the story of Tom Joslin and Mark Massi, a gay couple who both have AIDS. Documents their life together and the process of living with AIDS.

The adventures of Priscilla, queen of the desert [videorecording] / PolyGram Filmed Entertainment in association with the Australian Film Finance Corporation presents a Latent Image/Specific Films production.
PUB INFO -- New York : PolyGram Video, 1995.
DESCRIPT -- 1 videocassette (VHS) (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
SUMMARY -- Three drag queens from Sydney hit the road for Alice Springs in a bus dubbed "Priscilla". Their outrageous costumes, disco music and dancing get some pretty interesting feedback at every stop along the way.

The Crying game [videorecording] / Miramax Films ; produced by Stephen Wooley ; written and directed by Neil Jordan.
PUB INFO -- Van Nuys, Calif. : LIVE Home Video, c1992.
SUMMARY -- A haunting, humorous and shocking romantic thriller about Irish terrorists, their hostage and the hostage's exotic girlfriend.

Glen or Glenda? [videorecording] / written and directed by Edward D. Woods, Jr.
PUB INFO -- Los Angeles, Calif. : Rhino Home Video, 1995, c1953.
DESCRIPT -- 1 videocassette (63 min.) : sd., b&w ; 1/2 in.
SUMMARY -- Often mentioned by critics as the worst film ever made, Glen or Glenda is about a transvestite who can't figure out how to tell his girl that he likes to wear her clothes.

M. Butterfly [videorecording] / The Geffen Film Company.
PUB INFO -- Burbank, Calif. : Warner Home Video, 1994, c1993.
DESCRIPT -- 1 videocassette (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
SUMMARY -- Story of a French diplomat and a Beijing Opera star who carry on a love affair over almost 20 years before the diplomat discovers something shocking about his lover.

Orlando [videorecording] / Adventure Pictures ; a co-production with Lenfilm, Mikado Film, Rio, Sigma Filmproductions ; with the participation of British Screen.
PUB INFO -- [Burbank, Calif.] : Columbia TriStar Home Video, c1994.
DESCRIPT -- 1 videocassette (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
SUMMARY -- Orlando, an English nobleman, defies the laws of nature with surprising results. Immortal and highly imaginative, he undergoes a series of extraordinary transformations that humorously, hauntingly illustrate the eternal war between the sexes.