New Videos - August/September 2008
On DVD:
Vietnam: a television history - DVD TAC-1911 v. 1-4
This is a multi-part series on the Vietnam conflict, covering the history of Indochina, the French wars, and United States involvement, using actual film footage from news and government archives.
Angels in the dust – DVD TAC 1912
Presents the story of Marion Cloete, who left a life of privilege in Johannesburg, South Africa, to open an orphanage that has provided for more than 550 children orphaned by the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Mr. Untouchable – DVD TAC 1913
"This is the true-life story of a junkie turned multimillionaire drug lord. With the first hand testimony of the Godfather himself, Nicky Barnes, who was the most powerful black drug kingpin in New York City history. From humble beginnings, he came to dominate the heroin distribution business. Trusted and trained by the Italians, he set up his own crime family --The Council." – Container.
Treasures III: social issues in American film, 1900-1934 – DVD TAC 1914 v. 1-4
“See the movies that changed America! Prohibition, abortion, unions, atheism, the vote for women, organized crime, loan sharking, juvenile justice, homelessness, police corruption, immigration -- in their first decades, movies brought an astonishing range of issues to the screen. Whether exposing abuse or lampooning reform, films put a human face on social problems and connected with audiences in a new way. Movies were entertainment with the power to persuade.
“This third groundbreaking set in the Treasures from American Archives series presents over 48 films never before seen on video. Over 12 hours of rare cartoons, newsreel stories, serial episodes, advocacy films, and features. Preserved by the George Eastman House, the Library of Congress, the Museum of Modern Art, the National Archives, and the UCLA Film & Television Archive. “ – amazon.com
Art glass: looking at the basics DVD TAC-1915
After a brief history of the Studio Glass Movement, you visit artists in their working studios and learn to identify six processes used in creating art glass.
Made over in America – DVD TAC-1916
"A thought-provoking picture of how the desire for a better self-image operates within consumer culture, and how this desire is fed by [the] media, the medical makeover industry and society at large"--Container.
Point of order – DVD TAC-1917
A compilation of TV coverage of the 1954 McCarthy-Army hearings, where the Army accuses Senator McCarthy of improperly pressuring the Army for special treatment of one of the senator's aides.
Journey into Buddhism – DVD TAC-1918 v. 1-3
In John Bush's Yatra trilogy the first volume examines Buddhist traditions in Laos, Thailand, and Burma. The second examines the intersection of Buddhist and Hindu wisdom traditions and explores the lost civilization of Angkor in Cambodia, including Angkor Wat, Hindu Bali, the jungles of Java, and the seven-level mandala wonder Buddhist Borobudur. The third examines Buddhist traditions in Tibet, visiting temples, monastaries, and festivals, focusing on the Jokhang Temple and the Potala Palace, home to His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Cidade dos homens (City of men) – DVD TAC-1919 v. 1-3
Two best friends grow up together in the "favelas," shanty towns built in the mountains around Rio de Janeiro.
To be seen : street art – DVD TAC-1920
Documentary on street art and the cultural and political significance of this form of artistic expression.
American roots music – DVD TAC-1921 v. 1-2
Features historic and documentary footage of 20th century pioneering artists. Includes blues, country, gospel, folk, Cajun, sydeco, bluegrass, tejano and Native American music.
The color of fear – DVD TAC-1922
Examines the pain and anguish that racism has caused in the lives of North American men of Asian, European, Latin and African descent. Out of their confrontations and struggles to understand and trust each other emerges an emotional and insightful portrayal into the type of dialogue most of us fear, but hope will happen sometime in our lifetime. The intention of the supplementary film study guides is to give the viewer an opportunity to test his or her facilitation skills and to deepen the awareness of self in relation to the world. The CD-ROM contains a series of questions, based on the film, to challenge viewers to reexamine their thinking (and possible assumptions) about the material they are viewing, and the DVD contains the film, divided into vignettes.
The draughtsman's contract – DVD TAC-1923
Set in 17th-century England, an aristocratic wife commissions a young, cocksure draughtsman to sketch her husband's property while he is away-- in exchange for a fee, room and board, and one sexual favor for each of the twelve drawings. As the draughtsman becomes more entrenched in the devious schemings in this seemingly idyllic country home, curious details emerge in his drawings that may reveal a murder.
Control – DVD TAC-1924
Ian Curtis has aspirations beyond the trappings of small town life in 1970s England. Wanting to emulate his musical heroes, he joins a band, and his musical ambition begins to thrive. Soon though, the everyday fears and emotions, fueled by his music, slowly begin to eat away at him. Married young, with a daughter, he is distracted from his family commitments by a new love and the growing expectations of his band, Joy Division. The strain manifests itself in his health. With epilepsy adding to his guilt and desperation, depression takes hold. Surrendering to the weight on his shoulder, Ian's tortured soul consumes him and leads him to commit suicide at the age of 23.
Bamako – DVD TAC-1925
Melé, a bar singer, and her unemployed husband Chaka are on the verge of breaking up. In the courtyard of the house they share with other families in Bamako, the capital city of Mali, African civil society representatives have taken proceedings against such international financial institutions as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, whom they blame for Africa's woes. As numerous trial witnesses air bracing indictments against the multinational economic machinery that haunts them, life in the courtyard presses forward.
Coma – DVD TAC-1926
Explores the mysteries of the injured brain and its ability to heal. The special goes inside a top U.S. medical facility for the treatment of head trauma and follows four coma survivors over the course of a year. Includes film not originally featured.
The fall of the Roman Empire – DVD TAC-1927
Marcus Aurelius Antonius, the philosopher-emperor of Rome, summons his empire's governors and princes to his German war headquarters for a Pax Romanus. He confides to his daughter, Lucilla, that his adopted son, Livius, will succeed him instead of his more unstable heir, Commodus. Overhearing this, Cleander, a blind prophet loyal to Commodus, presents Marcus with a poisoned apple. After the funeral, Livius, who does not share Lucilla's ambition for himself or Rome, allows Commodus to proclaim himself emperor. While pestilence ravages Rome, Commodus continues his vain, licentious behavior. He ultimately neglects to deal with all symptoms of unrest and banishing anyone reminding him of his responsibilities.
Nanjing (Nanking) – DVD TAC-1928
Tells the story of the Japanese invasion of Nanking, China in the early days of World War II and focuses on the efforts of a small group of unarmed Westerners who established a Safety Zone where over 200,000 Chinese found refuge. Told through deeply moving interviews with Chinese survivors, archival footage, and chilling testimonies of Japanese soldiers, interwoven with staged readings of the Westerners' letters and diaries.
The American ruling class – DVD TAC-1929
Is there an American ruling class, and if so, how do you join? Two hapless Yale grads embark on a star-studded journey of meetings with America's establishment to unearth some uncomfortable answers and find out the truth about what the future really holds for them. A dramatic, musical, documentary satire on class in America that attempts to answer the question "Who rules America?".
American farm – DVD TAC-1930
"In a little town in upstate New York, a close-knit family struggles over many decades to hold onto a small dairy farm. With extraordinary candor and heartbreaking intimacy, this poignant documentary brings to light the true story of an American family: their hopes and dreams, their triumphs over tragedy, the modern conflicts that divide them and the love that binds them together. At the center of this world, Langdon "Lanny" Ames, the fifth generation to work this land, stands proud. Yet Lanny is faced with an uncertain future when all of his children turn away from the family tradition to build new lives elsewhere. Featuring new footage never seen in theatres, this Collector's edition DVD is a moving portrait of a vanishing way of life"--Container.
The Charles Burnett collection – DVD TAC-1931
Killer of sheep: An African-American slaughterhouse worker searches for tiny moments of beauty in his predominantly bleak life. My brother's wedding: A young African-American man navigates his conflicting obligations while trying to figure out what he really wants in life.
A walk to beautiful – DVD TAC-1932
A look at the lives of three Ethiopian women, rejected by their husbands and ostracized by their communities, who leave home in search of seeking treatment for obstetric fistula. The program follows them walking for hours on their journey to transportation to a special hospital in Addis Ababa where they find solace for the first time in years, and stays with them as their lives begin to change.
Che Guevara, donde nunca jamás se lo imaginan – DVD TAC-1933
Using archival film and photo materials, Cuban director Manuel Perez paints a personal portrait of Che Guevara, the legend and symbol of revolution.
Women of Latin America – DVD TAC-1934 v. 3, 4, 7, 9, 10, 11
This series looks at Latin America through its women. Some of them transport drugs across borders, fight in rebel armies, bear children in poverty, search for sons and daughters who have vanished during political oppression, and generally bear the burden of living a third-world existence. Other women, teachers, engineers, deputies, ministers and even a president, contribute their stories. But it also shows the struggle against great odds to survive racial and class discrimination, revolution, political injustice and chronic economic instability.
v.3. Chile, the drama to hope = Chile : from drama to hope
v.4. Cuba, the children of Fidel = Cuba : the daughters of Fidel
v.7. Mexico, rebellion of the Llorona = Mexico : rebellion of the weeping women
v.9. Nicaragua, red to violet = Nicaragua : from red to violet
v.10. Puerto Rico, paradise invaded
v. 11. To be a mother in Latin America
Momentos con Fidel – DVD TAC-1935
Cuban director Rebeca Chávez uses archival film and audio material to create a collage of important moments in Castro's political and personal life, including his re-definition of Cuba's role after the collapse of the Communist Bloc.
The future is unwritten – DVD TAC-1936
Documentary follows the life of musician and political activist Joe Strummer.
On VHS:
The boys in the band – VHS TAC-1953
A heterosexual is accidentally invited to a homosexual gathering at a birthday party, and tension builds as tempers fray.
A boy and his dog –VHS TAC-1954
An adaptation of Harlan Ellison's novella about a misogynistic society in the post World War IV civilization of 2024.
The Brothers Karamazov – VHS TAC-1955
Tells the story of four wildly disparate brothers in 19th century Czarist Russia, who stand to gain an inheritance from their father, and together they weave a web of intrigue and murder.
On CD:
"Singles" - The Smiths - Compact disc TAC-291
"My aim is true" - Elvis Costello - Compact disc TAC-292
"Ultramega OK" - Soundgarden - Compact disc TAC-293
"Riot Act" - Pearl Jam - Compact disc TAC-294
"Orchestral works" - Maurice Ravel - Compact disc TAC-295
"Classic old-time music from Smithsonian Folkways Recordings" - Compact disc TAC-296
"Rostropovich" - Mstislav Rostropovich - Compact disc TAC-297
"Bilder einer Austellung" - Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky - Compact disc TAC-298
"Concerto pour piano, no. 1" - Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky - Compact disc TAC-299
"Clarinet concerto" - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Compact disc TAC-300
"Bachianas brasileiras" - Heitor Villa-Lobos - Compact disc TAC-301
"Trumpet concertos" -Wynton Marsalis - Compact disc TAC-302
"Sinfonietta" - Leos Janácek - Compact disc TAC-303
"The young person's guide to the orchestra, op. 34, and Four sea interludes from Peter Grimes, op. 33a (Benjamin Britten); Variations on an original theme, op. 36, Engima (Sir Edward Elgar)" - Compact disc TAC-304
"Piano concerto no. 1" - Johannes Brahms - Compact disc TAC-305
"Adagio for strings" - Samuel Barber - Compact disc TAC-306
"Horn concertos nos. 1-4" - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Compact disc TAC-307
"Scheherazade" - Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov - Compact disc TAC-308
"Sinfonia concertante ; Concertone for two violins" - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Compact disc TAC-309
"Concerto & quintet" - Robert Schumann - Compact disc TAC-310
"War requiem" - Benjamin Britten - Compact disc TAC-311
"Wozzeck" - Alban Berg - Compact disc TAC-312
"Einstein on the beach" - Philip Glass - Compact disc TAC-313
"Porgy and Bess" - George Gershwin - Compact disc TAC-314
"The orchestral masterpieces" - Béla Bartók - Compact disc TAC-315
"The cunning little vixen" - Leos Janácek - Compact disc TAC-316
"El amor brujo = Love the magician; Noches en los jardines de España = Nights in the gardens of Spain ; El sombrero de tres picos = The three-cornered hat - three dances" - Manuel de Falla - Compact disc TAC-317
"The rite of spring" - Igor Stravinsky - Compact disc TAC-318
"Works for orchestra, etc." - Witold Lutoslawski - Compact disc TAC-319
"Chôros 1-7" - Heitor Villa-Lobos - Compact disc TAC-320
"Boulez conducts Boulez" - Pierre Boulez - Compact disc TAC-321
"Harp concerto, op. 25 ; Estancia : ballet suite, op. 8a ; Piano concerto op. 28" - Alberto Ginastera - Compact disc TAC-322
"Synaphai" - Iannis Xenakis - Compact disc TAC-323
"Carmina Burana" - Carl Orff - Compact disc TAC-324
"Music for 18 musicians" - Steve Reich - Compact disc TAC-325
"Mysterious mountain" - Alan Hovhaness - Compact disc TAC-326
"Pines of Rome ; Fountains of Rome ; Metamorphoseon modi XII" - Ottorino Respighi - Compact disc TAC-327
"Serge Prokofiev: Selections" - Sergey Prokofiev - Compact disc TAC-328
"Shadi Torbey, basse, David Miller, piano, Lionel Lhote, baryton, Daniel Blumenthal, piano" - Compact disc TAC-329
"Rhapsody in blue ; Concerto in F ; An American in Paris" - George Gershwin - Compact disc TAC-330
"This is a long drive for someone with nothing to think about" - Modest Mouse - Compact disc TAC-331
"Louder than love" - Soundgarden - Compact disc TAC-332
"Stoner witch" - Melvins - Compact disc TAC-333
"Le bal masqué : cantate profane for baritone and chamber orchestra on the poems of Max Jacob ; Trio for piano, oboe, and bassoon ; Le bestiaire, ou, Le cortège d'Orphée : six songs for voice with chamber ensemble on the poems of Guillaume Apollinaire ; Sextet for piano, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and horn" - Francis Poulenc - Compact disc TAC-334
"Erwartung : op. 17 ; Pierrot lunaire : op. 21 ; Lied der Waldtaube : version for chamber orchestra" - Arnold Schoenberg - Compact disc TAC-335
"Houdini" - Melvins - Compact disc TAC-336
"Murmur" - R.E.M. - Compact disc TAC-337
"Pussy whipped" - Bikini Kill - Compact disc TAC-338
"New day rising" - Hüsker Dü - Compact disc TAC-339
"Squeezing out sparks" - Graham Parker - Compact disc TAC-340
"The mind is a terrible thing to taste" - Ministry - Compact disc TAC-341
"Third symphony ; Quiet city" - Aaron Copland - Compact disc TAC-342
"Oiseaux exotiques" - Olivier Messiaen - Compact disc TAC-343
"Ancient voices of children ; Music for a summer evening" - George Crumb - Compact disc TAC-344
"Soli e duettini" - Milton Babbitt - Compact disc TAC-345
"Legend, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf" - Richard Strauss - Compact disc TAC-346
"Edvard Grieg" - Edvard Grieg - Compact disc TAC-347
"Violin concertos" - Max Bruch - Compact disc TAC-348
"Music by Johann & Carl Stamitz" - Johann Stamitz - Compact disc TAC-349
"Rossini overtures" - Gioacchino Rossini - Compact disc TAC-350
"Overtures" - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Compact disc TAC-351
"Orfeo ed Euridice" - Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck - Compact disc TAC-352
"Change of the century" - Ornette Coleman - Compact disc TAC-353
"Symphony no. 1" - Ellen Taaffe Zwilich - Compact disc TAC-354
"Symphony no. 5, H. 310 ; Fantaisies symphoniques (Symphony no. 6), H. 343 ; Inventions, H. 234" - Bohuslav Martinu - Compact disc TAC-355
"Symphonies of wind instruments ; Symphony of Psalms ; Symphony in three movements" - Igor Stravinsky - Compact disc TAC-356
"Symphony no. 2 ; Symphony no. 4" - Michael Tippett - Compact disc TAC-357
"Symphony no. 4" - Gustav Mahler - Compact disc TAC-358
"Symphony no. 5, op. 47 in D minor ; Symphony no. 9, op. 70 in E-flat major" - Dmitrii Dmitrievich Shostakovich - Compact disc TAC-359
"Symphony no. 9" - Gustav Mahler - Compact disc TAC-360
"Symphony no. 3 ; Ragtime dances ; Robert Browning overture" - Charles Ives - Compact disc TAC-361
"Symphony no. 10 in F-sharp minor" - Gustav Mahler - Compact disc TAC-362
"Gustav Mahler : Selections" - Gustav Mahler - Compact disc TAC-363
"Symphonies nos 4 and 5" - Jean Sibelius - Compact disc TAC-364
"Symphonies, nos. 5, 7, 8 & 9" - Antonín Dvorák - Compact disc TAC-365
"Symphony no. 5 'Di tre re' ; Symphony no. 3 'Liturgique' ; Pacific 231" - Arthur Honegger - Compact disc TAC-366
"Szell conducts Richard Strauss" - Richard Strauss - Compact disc TAC-367
"The chairman : (foxtrot for orchestra) ; Christian zeal and activity ; Two fanfares for orchestra: Tromba lontana ; Short ride in a fast machine ; Common tones in a simple time" - John Adams - Compact disc TAC-368
"Second edition" - Public Image Ltd - Compact disc TAC-369
"American industrial ballads" - Pete Seeger - Compact disc TAC-370
"Meat Puppets II" - Meat Puppets - Compact disc TAC-371
"Disintegration" - The Cure - Compact disc TAC-372
"The four symphonies ; Manfred overture" - Robert Schumann - Compact disc TAC-373
"String quartets, op. 20" - Joseph Haydn - Compact disc TAC-374
"Bitches brew" - Miles Davis - Compact disc TAC-375
"Symphonies ; Cello concertos" - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - Compact disc TAC-376
"The First two records" - Bikini Kill - Compact disc TAC-377
"Ionisation ; Amériques ; Density 21.5 ; Offrandes ; Arcana ; Octandre ; Intégrales" - Edgar Varèse - Compact disc TAC-378
"Deep listening" - Pauline Oliveros , Stuart Dempster, Panaiotis - Compact disc TAC-379
"Mudhoney" - Mudhoney - Compact disc TAC-380
"Percy Aldridge Grainger" - Percy Grainger - Compact disc TAC-381
"Sonata for flute, oboe, cello & harpsichord (1952) ; Sonata for cello & piano (1948) ; Double concerto : for harpsichord & piano with two chamber orchestras (1959-61) - Elliott Carter - Compact disc TAC-382
"Naked City" - John Zorn - Compact disc TAC-383
"Tabula rasa" - Arvo Pärt - Compact disc TAC-384
"Sequenzas" - Luciano Berio - Compact disc TAC-385
"The Asch recordings. Vol. 1-4" - Woody Guthrie - Compact disc TAC-386
"Mahler 6" - Gustav Mahler - Compact disc TAC-387
"Symphony no. 3, op. 44 ; Symphonic dances, op. 45" -Sergey Vasil'yevich Rachmaninov - Compact disc TAC-388
"Symphonies no. 1 & no. 15" - Dmitrii Dmitrievich Shostakovich - Compact disc TAC-389
"Symphony no. 13, in B flat minor, op. 113 : 'Babi Yar'" - Dmitrii Dmitrievich Shostakovich - Compact disc TAC-390
"Sinfonie Nr. 3, Op. 36 = Symphony no. 3, op. 36 ; Drei Stücke im alten Stil = Three pieces in old style" -Henryk Mikolaj Górecki - Compact disc TAC-391
"Symphony no. 1" - John Corigliano - Compact disc TAC-392
"Hits" - The Birthday Party - Compact disc TAC-393
"Low-life" - New Order - Compact disc TAC-394
"Don't you know who I think I was? : the best of the Replacements" - The Replacements - Compact disc TAC-395
"Clarinet & flute concertos : Wind quintet" - Carl Nielsen - Compact disc TAC-396
"Bernstein conducts Stravinsky and Ravel" - Igor Stravinsky, Leonard Bernstein - Compact disc TAC-397
"The planets" - Berliner Philharmoniker - Compact disc TAC-398
"Orchestral works" - Toru Takemitsu - Compact disc TAC-399
"Sir Thomas Beecham conducts Delius" - Frederick Delius - Compact disc TAC-400
"Orchestral works" - Jacques Ibert - Compact disc TAC-401
"The Firebird ; Petrushka" - Igor Stravinsky - Compact disc TAC-402
"Concierto de Aranjuez ; Fantasia para un gentilhombre" - Joaquín Rodrigo - Compact disc TAC-403
"Piano concerto no. 3 ; Violin sonata no. 1 ; Piano sonata no. 7" - Sergey Prokofiev Compact disc TAC-404
"Orchestral works : Schoenberg ; Webern ; Berg" - City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra - Compact disc TAC-405
"Konzert für Violoncello und Orchester ; Lontano für grosses Orchester ; Doppelkonzert für Flöte, Oboe und Orchester ; San Francisco Polyphony : für Orchester" - György Ligeti - Compact disc TAC-406
"Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune : modern French music for flute" - Wolfgang Schulz - Compact disc TAC-407
"Peter and the wolf (Prokofiev) ; Carnival of the animals (Saint-Saëns) ; Eine kleine Nachtmusik (Mozart) - Compact disc TAC-408
"La création du monde ; Saudades do Brasil (4 dances) ; Le bouf sur le toit ; Saudades do Brasil (complete)" - Darius Milhaud - Compact disc TAC-409
"Orchestral works" - Claude Debussy - Compact disc TAC-410
"Violinkonzert = Violin concerto = Concerto pour violon (Alban Berg) ; Gesungene Zeit = Time chant = Le temps chanté (Wolfgang Rihm)" - Compact disc TAC-411
"Gayane suites nos. 1-3" - Aram Ilich Khachaturian - Compact disc TAC-412
"Appalachian spring ; Billy the kid ; Rodeo" - Aaron Copland - Compact disc TAC-413
"Symphony no. 4, op. 29 (Carl Nielsen) ; Le poème de l'extase (Aleksandr Nikolayevich Scriabin)" - Compact disc TAC-414
"Symphony no. 5, op. 100 in B-flat major ; Lieutenant Kijé suite : op. 60" - Sergey Prokofiev - Compact disc TAC-415
