Don's Book & DVD Selections for 2008 

DVDs are mainly on history, with a couple on acting and new media, and a few exceptional feature films and documentaries.  Also we try to buy the source dvds for movies that are studied in the Writing classes.

Student audience: History, Media Studies, Writing, Literature, Community Education, General, Ethnic Studies, Art

1. Best boy [videorecording] : Best man / [presented by] the Association for the Help of Retarded Children, New York City Chapter and Only Child Motion Pictures ; produced directed and edited by Ira Wohl

2. Carrier [videorecording] / an Icon Productions and Carrier Project production ; directed by Maro Chermayeff ; produced by Deborah Dickson and Jeff Dupre

3. Civil War battles [videorecording] / Dastar Corp. presents a Marathon Music & Video production

4. God grew tired of us [videorecording] / [presented by] Newmarket Films in association with Silver Nitrate ; a National Geographic Films/LBS production ; produced by Molly Bradford Pace, Christopher Quinn, Tommy Walker ; written by Christopher Quinn ; directed by Christopher Quinn

5. Growing up online [videorecording] / produced and directed by Rachel Dretzin and John Maggio ; written by Rachel Dretzin ; a Frontline co-production with Ark Media, LLC

6. Guns, germs, and steel [videorecording] / based on the book by Jared Diamond ; series producer, Cassian Harrison ; produced by Lion TV for National Geographic Television & Film

7. Haunted histories collection [videorecording] : the real stories behind history's spookiest phenomena: hauntings, witches, poltergeists, vampires, and more!

8. History of the joke [videorecording] / produced by Triage, Inc. for The History Channel ; produced by Marc Etkind ; director, Dave Greene

9. Hitler : the rise of evil [videorecording] / Alliance Atlantis in association with In-Motion AG in association with The GMPF presents ; producer John Ryan ; written by John Pielmeier and G. Ross Parker ; directed by Christian Duguay

10. I have never forgotten you [videorecording] : the life and legacy of Simon Wiesenthal / from the Moriah Films Collection of the Simon Wiesenthal Center ; Moriah Films ; written and produced by Rabbi Marvin Hier and Richard Trank ; screenplay by Richard Trank ; directed by Richard Trank

11. Inside the actors studio. Leading men [videorecording] / a co-production of The Actors Studio and Bravo Network

12. Jimmy Wales vision : wikipedia and the future of free culture

13. Juno [videorecording] / Fox Searchlight Pictures presents a Mandate Pictures/ Mr. Mudd production, a Jason Reitman film ; produced by Lianne Halfon, John Malkovich, Mason Kovick, Russell Smith ; written by Diablo Cody ; directed by Jason Reitman

14. Just call me Kade [videorecording] / produced, photographed, scripted and edited by Sam Zolten ; a Frameline release

15. Life after people [videorecording] / written, produced and directed by David de Vries ; produced by Vincent Lopez ; produced by Flight 33 Productions for History Television Network Productions

16. Maya Lin [videorecording] : a strong clear vision / a film by Freida Lee Mock, Ocean Releasing presents a Sanders & Mock/American Film Foundation production ; producers, Freida Lee Mock, Terry Sanders ; written & directed by Freida Lee Mock

17. New Europe [videorecording] / Michael Palin ; a Prominent Television production for BBC ; written and narrated by Michael Palin ; series producers and directors, John Paul Davidson and Roger Mills

18. News war [videorecording] / [produced by] WGBH Boston ; executive producer David Fanning

19. Nihon no ichiban nagai hi [videorecording] / Toh_ Kabushiki Kaisha ; seisaku, Fujimoto Masumi, Tanaka Tomoyuki ; kyakuhon, Hashimoto Shinobu ; kantoku, Okamoto Kihachi

20. No end in sight [videorecording] / Magnolia Pictures ; a Representational Pictures film ; producers, Jennie Amias, Audrey Marrs, Jessie Vogelson ; written, directed, and produced by Charles Ferguson

21. Nosferatu [videorecording] : a symphony of horror / directed by F. W. Murnau

22. Once [videorecording] / Bórd Scannán na hÉireann ; Samson Films ; Summit Entertainment ; produced by Martina Niland ; written by John Carney ; directed by John Carney

23. Pixar short films collection. Volume 1 [videorecording]

24. Plagues & pleasures on the Salton Sea [videorecording] / Tilapia Film presents ; produced by Chris Metzler ; directed and shot by Chris Metzler and Jeff Springer

25. Sacco and Vanzetti [videorecording] / a Willow Pond Films production ; directed by Peter Miller ; produced by Peter Miller, Amy Carey Linton

26. Savages [videorecording] / Fox Searchlight Pictures ; written and directed by Tamara Jenkins

27. Slavery and the making of America [videorecording] / WNET New York ; series producer, Dante J. James

28. The best of The Colbert report [videorecording] / [Stephen Colbert]

29. The Darjeeling Limited [videorecording] / American Empirical Pictures ; Cine Mosaic ; Indian Paintbrush ; Scott Rudin Productions ; produced by Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola, Lydia Dean Pilcher, Scott Rudin ; written by Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola & Jason Schwartzman ; directed by Wes Anderson

30. The lost battalion [videorecording] / A & E Television Networks ; David Gerber Productions ; Fox Television Network ; Luxembourg Film Fund ; the Carousel Picture Company S.A. ; producers, Tom Reeve, Romain Schroeder ; writer, Jim Carabatsos ; director, Russell Mulcahy

31. The namesake [videorecording] / Fox Searchlight Pictures, Entertainment Farm, UTV Motion Pictures present a Mirabai Films & Cine Mosaic production ; producers, Lydia Dean Pilcher, Mira Nair ; screenplay, Sooni Taraporevala ; directed by Mira Nair

32. The war [videorecording] : a Ken Burns film / American Lives II Film Project, LLC. ; a production of Florentine Films and WETA Washington D.C. ; produced by Sarah Botstein ; written by Geoffrey C. Ward ; directed and produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick

33. Waitress [videorecording] / Fox Searchlight pictures presents ; a Night and Day Pictures production ; produced by Michael Roiff ; written and directed by Adrienne Shelly