This collection features videos and films selected by the staff of the Commonwealth Center for the Humanities and Society. These purchases are made with funds from the University Libraries Koster Fund for the Humanities. Titles are chosen based on how they serve the CCHS mission of "enhancing humanistic scholarship, research, creative activity, teaching, and public awareness."
3 Women (1977) ~ dir. Robert Altman - USA
8 1/2 (1963) ~ dir. Federico Fellini - Italy
42nd Street (1933) ~ dir. Lloyd Bacon - USA
400 Blows (1962) ~ dir. Francois Truffaut - France
Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) ~ dir. Michael Curtiz and William Keighley - USA
Aguirre, the wrath of God (1972) ~ dir. Werner Herzog
Ali, fear eats the soul = Angst essen Seele auf (1974) ~ dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Germany
All that heaven allows (1955) ~ dir. Douglas Sirk - USA
Alphaville: a strange case of Lemmy Caution = une etrange aventure de Lemmy Caution (1965) ~ dir. Jean-Luc Godard - France
Amarcord (1974) ~ dir. Federico Fellini - Italy
...And God created woman = Et Dieu-- crea la femme (1956) ~ dir. Roger Vadim - France
And the ship sails on = E la nave va (1983) ~ dir. Federico Fellini - Italy
Andrei Rublev (1966) ~ dir. Andrei Tarkovsky - Soviet Union
Ashes and Diamonds (1958) ~ dir. Andrzej Wajda - Poland
L'avventura (1960) ~ dir. Michelangelo Antonioni - Italy
Bakery Girl of Monceau ; Eric Rohmer's Six moral tales (1962) ~ dir. Eric Rohmer - France
Ballad of a soldier = Ballada o soldate (1959) ~ dir. Grigori Chukhrai - Russia
Band of outsiders = Bande a` part (1964) ~ dir. Jean-Luc Godard - France
Bank Dick (1940) ~ dir. Edward Cline - USA
Battle of Algiers = La bataille d'Alger (1966) ~ dir. Gillo Pontecorvo - Algeria
Beauty and the Beast = La belle et la bete (1946) ~ dir. Jean Cocteau - France
Bed and Board (1970) ~ dir. Francois Truffaut - France
"Benjamin Bagby's Beowulf (2007) ~ dir. Stellan Olsson
Bicycle Thief (1949) ~ dir. Vittorio De Sica - Italy
Bhaji on the beach (1993) ~ dir. Gurinder Chada - UK
Big Deal on Madonna Street = I soliti ignoti (1958) ~ dir. Mario Monicelli - Italy
Black narcissus (1947) ~ dir. Michael Powell - USA
Black Orpheus = Orfeu negro (1959) ~ dir. Marcel Camus - France
Blob (1958) ~ dir. Irvin S. Yeaworth, Jr. - USA
Blood of a Poet = Le Sang d'un Poete (1930) ~ dir. Jean Cocteau - France
Blow up (1966) ~dir. Michaelangelo Antonioni - Italy
Blue Velvet (1986) ~ dir. David Lynch - USA
Bob le flambeur (1955) ~ dir. Jean-Pierre Melville - France
Boxcar Bertha (1972) ~ dir. Martin Scorsese - USA
BRD Trilogy: the supplements ( ) ~ dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Germany
Branded to kill = Koroshi no rakuin (1967) ~ dir. Seijun Suzuki - Japan
Brazil (1985) ~ dir. Terry Gilliam - UK
Breathless = A bout de souffle (1960) ~ dir. Jean-Luc Godard - France
Brick (2005) ~ dir. Rian Johnson - USA
Brief encounter (1946) ~ dir. David Lean - UK
Burden of dreams (1982) ~ dir. Les Blank - USA
by Brakhage: an anthology ( ) ~ dir. Stan Brakhage - USA
Cache = Hidden (2005) ~ dir. Michael Haneke - France
Celluloid Closet (1995) - USA
Charade (1963) ~ dir. Stanley Donnen - USA
Children of Paradise = Les enfants du paradis (1945) ~ dir. Marcel Carne - France
Chinatown (1974) ~ dir. Roman Polanski - USA
City Lights (1931) ~ dir. Charles Chaplin - USA
Claire's Knee ; Eric Rohmer's Six moral tales (1970) ~ dir. Eric Rohmer - France
Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962) ~ dir. Agnes Varda - France
Closely Watched Trains (1966) ~ dir. Jiri Menzel - Czechslovakia
La Collectionneuse ; Eric Rohmer's Six moral tales (1967) ~ dir. Eric Rohmer - France
Constant forge: a film (2000) ~ dir. Charles Kiselyak - USA
Contempt = Le mépris (1963) ~ dir. Jean-Luc Godard - France
Conversation, the (1974) ~ dir. Francis Ford Coppola - USA
Le Corbeau (1943) ~ dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot - France
Coup de grâce (1976) ~ dir. Volker Schlöndorff
Cranes are flying (1957) ~ dir. Mikhail Kalatozov - Soviet Union
Crazed fruit = Kurutta kajitsu (1956) ~ dir. Ko Nakahira - Japan
Cries and Whispers = Viskningar och rop (1972) ~ dir. Ingmar Bergman - Sweden
Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne = Ladies of the Bois de Boulogne (1945) ~ dir. Robert Bresson
Damned = Gotterdammerung (1969) ~ dir. Luchino Visconti - Italy
Dawn of the Dead (1978) ~ dir. George A. Romero - USA
Day of wrath = Vredens dag (1943) ~ dir. Carl T. Dreyer - Denmark
Death in Venice (1971) ~ dir. Luchino Visconti - Italy
Dekalog = The Decalogue (1988) ~ dir. Krzyzstof Kieślowski - Poland
Devil and Daniel Webster (1941) ~ dir. William Dieterle - USA
Diabolique (1954) ~ dir. Georges Clouzot - France
Diary of a Chambermaid = Journal d'une femme de chambre (1964) ~ dir. Luis Buñel - France
Diary of a country priest = Journal d'un cure´ de campagne (1950) ~ dir. Robert Bresson - France
Dirty Pretty Things (2002) ~ dir. Stephen Frears - UK
Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie = Le Charme Discret de la Bourgeoisie (1972) ~ dir. Luis Bunuel - France
Diva (1981) ~ dir. Jean-Jacques Beineix - France
Divorce Italian Style (1962) ~ dir. Pietro Germi - Italy
Do the Right Thing (1989) ~ dir. Spike Lee - USA
La Dolce Vita (1960) ~ dir. Federico Fellini - Italy
Double Indemnity (1944) ~ dir. Billy Wilder - USA
Double Suicide = Shinju¯ ten no Amijima (1969) ~ dir. Masahiro Shinoda - Japan
Down by Law (1986) ~ dir. Jim Jarmusch - USA
Early Summer = Bakushu (1951) ~ dir. Yasujiro Ozu - Japan
Earth = Zemlia (1930) ~ dir. Aleksandr Dovzhenko - Soviet Union
Element of crime = Forbrydelsens element (1984) ~ dir. Lars von Trier - Denmark
Elena and her men (1956) ~ dir. Jean Renoir - France
Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974) ~ dir. Werner Herzog - Germany
Europa (1991) ~ dir. Lars von Trier - Germany
Eyes without a face = Les yeux sans visage (1959) ~ dir. Georges Franju - France
F for Fake (1972) ~ dir. Orson Welles - USA
Faces (1968) ~ dir. John Cassavettes - USA
Fanny and Alexander (1982, 1984) ~ dir Ingmar Bergman - Sweden
Fat Girl (2001) ~ dir. Catherine Breillat - France
Fighting elegy = Kenka erejii (1966) ~ dir. Seijun Suzuki - Japan
Firemen's ball = Hori´, ma´ panenko (1967) ~ dir. Milos Forman - Czechoslovakia
Fitzcarraldo (1982) ~ dir. Werner Herzog - Germany
Forbidden Games (1952) ~ dir. René Clément - France
French cancan (1955) ~ dir. Jean Renoir - France
Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970) ~ dir. Vittorio De Sica - Italy
General (1926) ~ dir. Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman - USA
Playhouse (1921) ~ dir. Buster Keaton & Eddie Cline - USA
Cops (1922) ~ dir. Buster Keaton & Eddie Cline - USA
General Idi Amin Dada: a self portrait (1974) ~ dir. Barbet Schroeder - France
A Generation = Pokolenie (1954) ~ dir. Andrzej Wajda.
Gertrud (1964) ~ dir. Carl T. Dreyer - Denmark
Gimme Shelter (1970) ~ dir. David Maysles - USA
Golden Coach (1953) ~ dir. Jean Renoir - France
Good morning = Ohayo (1959) ~ dir. Yasujiro Ozu - Japan
Gospel according to St. Matthew (1964) ~dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini - Italy
Grand Illusion = La grande illusion (1938) ~ dir. Jean Renoir - France
Grapes of wrath (1940) ~ dir. John Ford - USA
Hamlet (1948) ~ dir. Sir Laurence Olivier - UK
Harder they come (1973) ~ dir. Perry Henzell - Jamaica
Harlan County USA (1976) ~ dir. Barbara Kopple - USA
Häxan, witchcraft through the ages (1922) ~ dir. Benjamin Christensen - Sweden
Hearts and Minds (1974) ~ dir. Peter Davis - USA
Heaven Can Wait (1943) ~ dir. Ernst Lubitsch - USA
Hidden Fortress (1958) ~ dir. Akira Kurosawa - Japan
High and low (1963) ~ dir. Akira Kurosawa - Japan
Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) ~ dir. Alain Resnais - France
Honeymoon Killers (1969) ~ dir. Leonard Kastle - USA
Hoop dreams (1994) ~ dir. Steve James - USA
Hopscotch (1980) ~ dir. Ronald Reame - USA
Hour of the Wolf (1968) ~ dir. Ingmar Bergman - Sweden
I am curious - blue (1968) ~ dir. Vilgot Sjoman - Sweden
I am curious - yellow (1967) ~ dir. Vilgot Sjoman - Sweden
I Vitelloni (1953) ~ dir. Federico Fellini - Italy
Ikiru = To live (1952) ~ dir. Akira Kurosawa - Japan
Imitation of life (1934) ~ dir. John M. Stahl / (1959) ~ dir. Doulas Sirk - USA
In the Mood for Love = Hua yang nian hua (2000) ~ dir. Wong Kar-Wai - Hong Kong
Ingmar Bergman collection: supplemental materials ( ) ~ dir. Ingmar Bergman - Sweden
Ingmar Bergman makes a movie = Ingmar Bergman gor en film (1961) ~ dir. Ingmar Bergman - Sweden
Insomnia (1997) ~ dir. Erik Skjoldbjærg - Norway
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) ~ dir. Phillip Kaufman - USA
It Happened One Night (1934) ~ dir. Frank Capra - USA
It's a wonderful life (1947) ~ dir. Frank Capra - USA
Ivan the Terrible = Ivan Groznyi (1945) ~ dir. Sergei Eisenstein - Soviet Union
Jubilee (1977) ~ dir. Derek Jarman - UK
Jules and Jim = Jules et Jim (1962) ~ dir. Francois Truffaut - France
Juliet of the Spirits = Giulietta degli spiriti (1965) ~ dir. Federico Fellini - Italy
Kagemusha (1980) ~ dir. Akira Kurosawa - Japan
Kanal (1957) ~ dir. Andrzej Wajda - Poland
Killers (1946/1964) ~ dir. Robert Siodmak / Don Diegel - USA
Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976) ~ dir. John Cassavettes - USA
Kwaidan = Kaidan (1965) ~ dir. Masaki Kobayashi - Japan
Lacombe, Lucien (1974) ~ dir. Louis Malle - France
Lady Eve (1941) ~ dir. Preston Sturges - USA
Lady from Shanghai (1947) ~ dir. Orson Welles - USA
Last Tango in Paris (1972) ~ dir. Bernardo Bertolucci - Italy
Last Temptation of Christ (1988) ~ dir. Martin Scorsese - USA
Last Waltz (1978) ~ dir. Martin Scorsese - USA
Last Wave (1977) ~ dir. Peter Weir - Australia
Leopard (1963) ~ dir. Luchino Visconti - Italy
Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2005) ~ dir. Wes Anderson - USA
Little Women (1994) ~ dir. Gillian Armstrong - USA
Lola (1981) ~ dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Germany
Lone star (1996) ~ dir. John Sayles - USA
Long Good Friday (1979) ~ dir. John Mackenzie - UK
Lord of the Flies (1963) ~ dir. Peter Brook - USA
Love me tonight (1932) ~ dir. Rouben Mamoulian - USA
Lost honor of Katharina Blum = Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum (1975) ~ dir. Volker Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta
Love in the Afternoon ; Eric Rohmer's Six moral tales (1972) ~ dir. Eric Rohmer - France
Love on the run (1979) ~ dir. Francois Truffaut- France
Loves of a blond (1965) ~ dir. Milos Forman - Czechoslovakia
M (1931) ~ dir. Fritz Lang - Germany
Magic flute = Trollflojten (1975) ~ dir. Ingmar Bergman - Sweden.
Maltese Falcon (1941) ~ dir. John Huston - USA
Man Bites Dog (1992) ~ dirs. Remy Belvaux, Andre Bonzel, Benoit Poelvoorde - France
Man with a movie camera (1929) ~ dir. Dziga Vertov - Soviet Union
Manhattan (1979) ~ dir. Woody Allen - USA
Marriage of Maria Braun (1979) ~ dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Germany
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) ~ dir. Robert Altman - USA
Mean Streets (1973) ~ dir. Martin Scorsese - USA
Meet me in St. Louis (1944) ~ dir. Vincente Minnelli - USA
Midnight Cowboy (1969) ~ dir. John Schlesinger - USA
Mildred Pierce (1945) ~ dir. Michael Curtiz - USA
Million = Le Million (1931) ~ dir. Rene Clair - France
Mon Oncle (1958) ~ dir. Jacques Tati - France
Mona Lisa (1986) ~ dir. Neil Jordan - UK
M. Hulot's Holiday = Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (1973) ~ dir. Jacques Tati - France
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1974) ~ dir. Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones - UK
Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) ~ dir. Terry Jones - UK
Murmur of the Heart (1971) ~ dir. Louis Malle - France
Mr. Smith goes to Washington (1967) ~ dir. Frank Capra - USA
Mrs. Soffel (1984) ~ dir. Gillian Armstrong - USA
My Brilliant Career (1979) ~ dir. Gillian Armstrong - Australia
My Darling Clementine (1946) ~ dir. John Ford - USA
My Life as a dog = Mitt liv som hund (1985) ~ dir. Lasse Hallström - Sweden
My Metier (1995) ~ dir. Torben Skjodt Jensen
My Night at Maud's = Ma nuit chez Maud (1969) ~ dir. Eric Rohmer - France
My Night at Maud's ; Eric Rohmer's Six moral tales (1969) ~ dir. Eric Rohmer - France
My Own Private Idaho (1991) ~ dir. Gus Van Sant - USA
Names Live Nowhere = Les noms n'habitent nulle part (1994) ~ dir. Dominique Loreau - Belgium
Nanook of the North (1922) ~ dir. Robert J. Flaherty - UK
Naked City (1948) ~ dir. Jules Dassin - USA
Naked lunch (1991) ~ dir. David Cronenberg
New York, New York (1977) ~ dir. Martin Scorsese - USA
Night and Fog = Nuit et brouillard (1955) ~ dir. Alain Resnais - France
Night and the city (1950) ~ dir. Jules Dassin - France
Night at the Opera (1935) ~ dir. Sam Wood - USA
Night Porter (1974) ~ dir. Liliana Cavani - Italy
Nights of Cabiria (1957) ~ dir. Federico Fellini - Italy
North by Northwest (1959) ~ dir. Alfred Hitchcock - USA/p>
Notorious (1946) ~ dir. Alfred Hitchcock - USA
Nous la liberté (1931) ~ dir. René Clair - France
On the Waterfront (1954) ~ dir. Elia Kazan - USA
Onibaba = Demon woman (1964) ~ dir. Kaneto Shindo - Japan
Opening Night (1977) ~ dir. John Cassavettes - USA
Ordet (1955) ~ dir. Carl T. Dreyer - Denmark
Orpheus = Orphee (1949) ~ dir. Jean Cocteau - France
Passion of Anna (1969) ~ dir. Ingmar Bergman - Sweden
Peeping Tom (1960) ~ dir. Michael Powell - UK
Persona (1966) ~ dir. Ingmar Bergman - Sweden
Pickup on South Street (1953) ~ dir. Samuel Fuller - USA
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) ~ dir. Peter Weir - Australia
Point Break (1991) ~ dir. Kathryn Bigelow - USA
Pornographers, The = Jinruigaku nyumon (1966) ~ dir. Shohei Imamura - Japan
Posto, Il (1961) ~ dir. Ermanno Olmi's - USA
Pygmalion (1938) ~ dir. Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard - UK
Raging Bull (1980) ~ dir. Martin Scorsese - USA
Rashomon (1950) ~ dir. Akira Kurosawa - Japan
Rambling Rose (1991) ~ dir. Martha Coolidge - USA
Ran (1985) ~ dir. Akira Kurosawa - Japan
Ratcatcher (1999) ~ dir. Lynne Ramsay - UK
Rebel without a cause (1955) ~ dir. Nicholas Ray - USA
Red Beard = Akahige (1965) ~ dir. Akira Kurosawa - Japan
Red River (1948) ~ dir. Howard Hawkes - USA
Richard III (1955) ~ dir. Laurence Olivier - UK
River (1951) ~ dir. Jean Renoir - France
Royal Tenenbaums ( 2001) ~ dir. Wes Anderson - USA
Rules of the Game = La regle du jeu (1939) ~ dir. Jean Renoir - France
Ruling class (1972) ~ dir. Peter Medak - UK
Les Salades de l'amour: the supplements (1957,2000) ~ dir. Francois Truffaut - France
Salesman (1968) ~ dir. David Maysles - USA
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1954) ~ dir. Inagaki Hiroshi - Japan
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (1955) ~ dir. Inagaki Hiroshi - Japan
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island (1956) ~ dir. Inagaki Hiroshi - Japan
Sanjuro (1962) ~ dir. Akira Kurosawa - Japan
Scarlet Empress (1934) ~ dir. Josef von Sternberg - USA
Scenes from a Marriage = Scener ur ett aktenskap (1973) ~ dir. Ingmar Bergman - Sweden
Schizopolis (1996) ~ dir. Steven Soderbergh - USA
Searchers (1956) ~ dir. John Ford - USA
Secret Honor (1984) ~ dir. Robert Altman - USA
Serpent's egg (1977) ~ dir. Ingmar Bergman - Sweden
Seven Samurai (1954) ~ dir. Akira Kurosawa - Japan
Seventh Seal (1957) ~ dir. Ingmar Bergman - Sweden
Shadows (1959) ~ dir. John Cassavettes - USA
Sherlock Jr. (1924) ~ dir. Buster Keaton - USA
Our Hospitality (1923) ~ dir. Buster Keaton & Jack Blystone - USA
Shock Corridor (1963) ~ dir. Samuel Fuller - USA
Shop on Main Street (1965) ~ dir. Jan Kadar and Elmar Klos - Czechoslovakia
Short Cuts (1993) ~ dir. Robert Altman - USA
Shut up & Sing (2006) + dirs. Barbara Kopple & Cecilia Peck - USA
Silence (1963) ~ dir. Ingmar Bergman - Sweden
Singin' in the Rain (1952) ~ dir. Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen - USA
Sisters (1972) ~ dir. Brian De Palma - USA
Slacker (1991) ~ dir. Richard Linklater - USA
Smiles of a Summer Night (1955) ~ dir. Ingmar Bergman - Sweden
Solaris (1972) ~ dir. Andrei Tarkovsky - Russia
Some Like it Hot (1959) ~ dir. Billy Wilder - USA
Spirited Away (2001) ~ dir. Hayao Miyazaki - Japan
Stagecoach (1939) ~ dir. John Ford - USA
Stella Dallas (1937) ~ dir. Merritt Hulburd - USA
Stolen Kisses (1968) ~ dir. Francois Truffaut - France
Story of floating weeds = Ukigusa monogatari (1934) ~ dir. Yasujiro Ozu - Japan
Strada, La (1954) ~ dir. Federico Fellini - Italy
Stray dog = Nora inu (1949) ~ dir. Akira Kurosawa - Japan
Streetcar Named Desire (1951) ~ dir. Elia Kazan - USA
Strangers on a train (1951) ~ dir. Alfred Hitchcock - USA
Sullivan's travels (1941) ~ dir. Preston Sturges - USA
Summertime (1955) ~ dir. David Lean - UK
Supplements: 3 films by Louis Malle ( ) ~ dir. Louis Malle - France
Supplements the DVD titles: Murmur of the heart ; Lacombe, Lucien ; Au revoir les enfants.
Suzanne's Career ; Eric Rohmer's Six moral tales (1963) ~ dir. Eric Rohmer - France
Tanner '88 (1988) ~ dir. Robert Altman - USA
Taste of Cherry (1997) ~ dir. Abbas Kiarostami - Iran
Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933) ~ dir. Fritz Lang - France
Testament of Orpheus, or, Do not ask me why = Le testament Orphee, ou, Ne me demandez pas pourquoi (1959) ~ dir. Jean Cocteau - France
That Obscure Object of Desire = Cet obscur objet du désir (1977) dir. Luis Bunuel - France
Third Man (1949) ~ dir. Carol Reed - UK
Throne of Blood = Kumonosujo (1957) ~ dir. Kurosawa Akira - Japan
Through a Glass Darkly (1961) ~ dir. Ingmar Bergman - Japan
Time Bandits (1981) ~ dir. Terry Gilliam - UK
Tin drum = Die Blechtrommel (1979) ~ dir. Volker Schlöndorff - Germany
To be or not to be (1942) ~ dir. Ernst Lubitsch - USA
Tokyo Story = Tokyo monogatari (1953) ~ dir. Yasujiro Ozu - Japan
Traffic (2002) ~ dir. Steven Soderberg - USA
Umberto D (1952) ~ dir. Vittorio De Sica - Italy
Vagabond = Sans toit ni loi (1985) ~ dir. Agnès Varda - France
Vanishing = Spoorloos (1988) ~ dir. George Sluizer - Netherlands
Variety Lights = Luci del varieta (1950) ~ dir. Federico Fellini - Italy
Veronika Voss (1982) ~ dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Germany
W.C. Fields: 6 short films ( ) ~ dir. [ ] - USA
Waiting for happiness (2002) ~ dir. Abderrahmane Sissako - France / Mauritania
Walkabout (1971) ~ dir. Nicolas Roag - Australia
We all loved each other so much = C'eravamo tanto amati (1969) ~ dir. Ettore Scola - Italy
White Sheik = Lo sceicco bianco (1952) ~ dir. Federico Fellini - Italy
Wild Strawberries = Smultronstallet (1957) ~ dir. Ingmar Bergman - Sweden
Winter Light = Nattvardsgasterna (1962) ~ dir. Ingmar Bergman - Sweden
Wings of Desire (1987) ~ dir. Wim Wenders - Germany
Withnail and I (1986) ~ dir. Bruce Robinson - UK
A Woman is a woman(1961) ~ dir. Jean-Luc Godard - France
Written on the wind (1956) ~ dir. Douglas Sirk - USA
Woman Under the Influence (1974) ~ dir. John Cassavettes - USA
Yi Yi = A one and a two (2000) ~ dir. Edward Yang - China
Yojimbo (1961) ~ dir. Kurosawa Akira - Japan
Youth of the Beast = Yaju no seishun (1963) ~ dor. Seijun Suzuki - Japan