New Videos - May 2007
On DVD:
Drugs: Deadly Highs - DVD TAC-1212
Addresses the stark downside of drug abuse through the sobering experiences of three teens.
Prescription for Trouble: Use and Abuse - DVD TAC-1213
The difficulties caused in the lives of young people by drugs are compounded by a culture that subtly advocates medication as the answer to many different problems. Experts put forth explanations for the explosion in the abuse of legal drugs, and demonstrate how the abuse is addictive and dangerous.
The Little Foxes - DVD TAC-1263
Regina Giddens is a woman who will stop at nothing to outwit her brothers in running the family business, even if it means sacrificing the health of her husband or the love of her young daughter.
Grey Gardens - DVD TAC-1264
Portrait of the relationship between Edith Bouvier Beale and her grown daughter, Little Edie, once and aspiring actress in New York who left her career to care for her aging mother in their East Hampton home, and never left again. The aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis feed their cats and raccoons and rehash their pasts behind the walls of their decaying mansion, Grey Gardens .
The Beales of Grey Gardens - DVD TAC-1265
After Grey Gardens , the portrait of the relationship between Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter Little Edie, spawned everything from a midnight-movie cult following to a Broadway musical to an upcoming Hollywood adaptation, the filmmakers went back to their 1976 vaults to create this tribute to both the Beale women and their legion of fans.
After Innocence - DVD TAC-1266
Tells the dramatic and compelling story of seven men that were exonerated after being imprisoned for decades and released after DNA evidence proved their innocence.
Key Largo - DVD TAC-1270
A hurricane swells outside, but that is nothing compared to the storm that rages inside the hotel at Key Largo . There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up. He holds at gunpoint the hotel owner Nora Temple, her invalid father-in-law and ex-GI Frank McCloud. McCloud's the one man capable of standing up against the belligerent Rocco. But postwar world realities may have taken all the fight out of him.
Alfie - DVD TAC-1271
Alfie is not really a bad sort. It's just that he has an overwhelming desire for the opposite sex...The film that turned Michael Caine into a major star, "Alfie" is a ribald and wild comedy, filled with sex and sin. Under the surface, however, is a darker strain, a lingering tragedy about the taker and the taken.
Barbary Coast - DVD TAC-1272
A ruthless gambling boss cannot win the love of the girl he made into a star attraction in his California saloon during the Gold Rush.
East of Eden - DVD TAC-1274
Cal Trask is considered the "bad" son of taciturn Salinas Valley lettuce farmer Adam Trask. Although Cal always means well, he just can't stay out of trouble. Neither is Cal able to match the high esteem in which his father holds his "good" brother Aron. Only Aron's girl friend Abra and kindly old Doctor Sam seem to be able to see the essential goodness in the troublesome Cal . In an effort to win his father's love, Cal purchases a fresh lettuce crop to replace the ruined beans that threatened to bankrupt his family. But Adam rejects the gift and comes to realizes that Cal knows that Kate is Cal and Aron's mother, whom both boys thought was long dead.
Rodgers & Hammerstein's The Sound of Music - DVD TAC-1275
Maria is a spirited young woman who leaves the convent to bring love and music to Austrian widower Captain von Trapp and his seven children.
Body Heat - DVD TAC-1276
A lawyer has a love affair with a woman and gets involved in a plot to kill her husband.
A Letter to Three Wives - DVD TAC-1277
Delicious Americana showing reactions of three women who receive a letter from the town flirt who has run off with one of their husbands. Based on John Klempner's novel.
Fahrenheit 451 - DVD TAC-1278
Montag, a regimented fireman in charge of burning the forbidden volumes, meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. Suddenly he finds himself a hunted fugitive, forced to choose not only between two women, but between personal safety and intellectual freedom.
High Society - DVD TAC-1279
In this sophisticated musical comedy, a society wedding is being arranged in Newport , Rhode Island . The beautiful Tracy Samantha Lord is to marry George Kittredge. However, Tracy 's ex-husband, the songwriter C.K. Dexter-Haven, has never stopped loving her and has hopes of winning her back. A New York scandal sheet reporter and photographer arrive to cover the wedding and complicate the tangled romances.
Foreign Correspondent - DVD TAC-1280
A reporter sent to Europe to cover a peace conference falls in love with a diplomat's daughter, but discovers that her father is the head of a Nazi spy ring.
Lost Horizon - DVD TAC-1281
Fleeing war-torn China , a small planeload of people is hijacked to an idyllic valley in the Himalayas where time has virtually stopped. There Conway, a British diplomat, falls in love with a beautiful woman, and is asked to remain in Shangri-La as its new leader.
Cimarron - DVD TAC-1282
Epic western about the Cravat family settling the Oklahoma prairie. Yancy Cravat is a newspaperman and lawyer who helps found the town of Osage . An adventurer, he finds town-life stifling and seeks his thrills even further into the frontier. His wife ends up becoming a town leader when his absences leave her no other choice.
Booth Tarkington's Alice Adams - DVD TAC-1283
Social climber Alice tries to push her clodhopper family to the background and assumes airs to win the love of an amiable, wealthy young man.
An Injury to One - DVD TAC-1284
Documentary on the early 20th century American labor history in Butte , Montana , and shows how the history of Butte was shaped by the Anaconda Mining Company. Chronicles the death in 1917 of Wobbly organizer Frank Little, who was abducted and hanged from a railroad bridge.
Cleopatra - DVD TAC-1285
Cleopatra tries to increase her power with help from the Roman Empire . Both Julius Caesar and Mark Antony fall for her. After Caesar's death Cleopatra seduces Mark Antony, but the couple soon faces certain doom.
Little Big Man - DVD TAC-1286
Jack Crabb is 121 years old. And he's done it all. He's been a full-fledged Cheyenne , an Indian fighter, a snake oil merchant, master gunman, drinking buddy of wild Bill Hickok, colleague of Buffalo Bill, and is the only survivor of Custer's Last Stand. Crabb is either the Old West's most neglected hero or the biggest liar ever to cross the Mississippi . Little Big Man is Jack Crabb's story.
Darling - DVD TAC-1287
A London photographer's model proceeds from an immature marriage into a series of shady affairs-- first with a television talker, then with a slick promotion man, and ultimately in a palazzo as the loveless wife of an Italian prince. After becoming a prisoner of her own success through these disastrous affairs, she realizes the awful price she has paid for happiness. This is a slashing social satire and a devastating spoof of the television-advertising age.
The Last of the Mohicans - DVD TAC-1288
The love of Hawkeye, rugged frontiersman and adopted son of the Mohicans, and Cora Munro, aristocratic daughter of a British colonel, blazes amidst a brutal conflict between the British, the French and Native American allies in colonial America .
All the President's Men - DVD TAC-1289
True story of the Watergate break-in that led to the political scandal of the decade.
Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much - DVD TAC-1290
Story of an doctor touring Morocco with his wife and child who accidentally becomes involved in an anarchist plot to assassinate a foreign diplomat in London .
Love Me or Leave Me - DVD TAC-1291
Jazz age singing sensation Ruth Etting had it all, but it took more than talent to make it big. Her rise to fame at the hands of her Chicago gangster boyfriend turned her life off stage into a world of fear and abuse.
William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar - DVD TAC-1292
An adaptation of the classic Shakespeare play, chronicling the events around the assassination of Julius Caesar.
Groundhog Day - DVD TAC-1293
A romantic comedy about a weatherman caught in a personal time warp where it is Groundhog Day again, and again, and again. First he uses this to his advantage, but then he realizes that he might be doomed to spend the rest of eternity in the same place, seeing the same people, and doing the same thing every day.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers - DVD TAC-1294
Filmy spores fall from space over San Francisco , and the city blossoms with beautiful new flora. People take the flowers home and as they sleep, the plants creep over them, devouring their bodies and stealing their identities--everything except their emotions, their uniqueness, their souls.
The Spirit of St. Louis - DVD TAC-1295
Biography of Charles Lindbergh from his days of precarious mail runs in aviation's infancy to his design of a small transatlantic plane and the vicissitudes of its takeoff and epochal flight from New York to Paris in 1927.
The Naked Spur - DVD TAC-1296
Smooth-talking outlaw Ben Vandergroat reasons to his captors, three bounty hunters thrown together by chance. They're taking him to justice in Abilene , but Ben has other ideas.
The FBI Story - DVD TAC-1297
The story of the FBI unfolds through the eyes of one of its agents. During his career he investigates gangsters, swindlers, the Ku Klux Klan, Nazi agents and cold war spies.
The Tobacco Conspiracy - DVD TAC-1298
This France-Canada co-production goes behind the scenes of the huge tobacco industry, whose economic power has been expanding for five decades at the expense of public health. A gripping investigation covering three continents, Nadia Collot's film exposes the vast conspiracy of a criminally negligent industry that conquers new markets through corruption and manipulation. To confront the tobacco cartel, anti-smoking groups are organizing and scoring points, but the fight remains fierce. With its diverse viewpoints, shocking interviews and riveting images, the Tobacco Conspiracy deftly defines the issues in a complex situation where private interests and the public good collide.
The Stratton Story - DVD TAC-1299
The true story of Chicago White sox pitcher, Monty Stratton. Stratton suffers a devastating hunting accident which leads to the amputation of one leg. Learning to walk with an artificial limb, he struggles to resume his career.
The Cheyenne Social Club - DVD TAC-1300
In Cheyenne Social Club, saddle-weary Texans are surprised to find they've inherited a Wyoming brothel and must defend it against a gun-wielding gang.
Forbidden Hollywood Collection Vol. 1 - DVD TAC-1301
In the early 1930's, before Hollywood began enforcing a self-imposed Production Code, many films allowed for extraordinary frankness including nudity, adultery and prostitution. In this restored and remastered three-movie collection, three daring young actresses are featured in racy, riveting star vehicles. In this restored and remastered three-movie collection, three daring young actresses are featured in racy, riveting star vehicles. Jean Harlow is a red-headed secretary who hooks the company's married boss, while carrying on with chauffeur Charles Boyer. A young soldier is forced to give up Mae Clarke when his well-to-do family learns she's a prostitute, in Waterloo Bridge . Finally baby-faced Barbara Stanwyck sleeps her way up the corporate ladder in a New York bank, not caring who gets hurt.
Rosita - DVD TAC-1302
When a nine-year-old Nicaraguan girl becomes pregnant as a result of a rape, her parents--illiterate campesinos working in Costa Rica --seek a legal therapeutic abortion to save their only child's life. Their quest triggers a battle over whose life has precedence, and pits them against the governments of Nicaragua and Costa Rica , the medical establishment, and the Catholic Church. As the story gains international media attention, its repercussions spread across Latin America and Europe .
The Great Philosophers: A History of Western Philosophy - DVD TAC-1303 pt. 1-15
Host Bryan Magee talks to scholars and philosophers from all over the world to explore the vast canvas of Western philosophy, from Plato to Wittgenstein.
The Amazing Story of Kudzu - DVD TAC-1304
Relates the story of kudzu from its introduction into the United States at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition. Seen as a nuisance by some people because of its fast-growing capabilities, the kudzu plant is also being used in making kudzu tea, kudzu syrup, fried kudzu leaves, kudzu baskets, etc.
China Blue - DVD TAC-1305
Examines the conditions of a factory in Shaxi , China , where mostly young women workers produce blue jeans for the western market in the age of globalization. Illuminates the economic pressures applied by Western companies and their human consequences.
Jungfrukällan (Virgin Spring) - DVD TAC-1306
A peasant girl is raped and murdered in 14th century Sweden . When her killers seek shelter in her father's house, he kills them to avenge her death. Soon a spring appears from where the girl was killed and her father sees this as a sign from above.
Tootsie - DVD TAC-1307
Michael Dorsey is an out-of-work actor who makes himself up as a woman to get a job. When his girlfriend, Sandy , fails an audition for a soap opera, Michael dresses up as "Dorothy Michaels" and lands the part. All goes well until "Dorothy" falls in love with beautiful co-star, Julie, and Julie's father, Les, falls for "Dorothy."
La ley de Herodes (Herod's Law) - DVD TAC-1308
When in San Pedro de los Saguaros, the mayor is lynched by a group of indigenous people, the old junkyard operator Juan Vargas is named the Temporary Municipal President. This makes him believe that his dream of power is going to come true; but when confronted with the problems of the place, he decides to resign. However, his boss obliges him to stay by telling him that he's been touched by Herod's Law and gives to him the constitution as an aid and a gun. He soon discovers the delights of power applying the law along the way and provoking reactions that get out of control.
El lugar sin límites - DVD TAC-1309
La Manuela, a transvestite, lives in a brothel run by his daughter. When his daughter is threatened, La Manuela steps in to protect her with tragic consequences.
The World of Flowering Plants - DVD TAC-1310
Learn about the intricate lifecycles of anthophytes through the use of microscopic imaging, time-lapse photography, cut-aways, dissections, computer modeling and graphics. This program is divided into five separate 10 minute segments designed for lower and upper secondary school students.
The Kingdom Protista - DVD TAC-1311
Explains the three different groups of protists: animals, plants, and fungi, the diseases they can cause, and the importance of protists in balancing our ecosystem.
From Rock to Sand to Muck: All the Dirt on Soils - DVD TAC-1312
All aspects of soil are discussed: definition, functions, composition, properties and erosion.
Father of the Bride - DVD TAC-1313
Chaos reigns when the beautiful daughter of a family casually announces her plans to marry. What follows is a warmly humorous story, with wedding preparations, ruffled egos and the unavoidable meeting with the prospective in-laws.
The Seeds of a New Era - DVD TAC-1314
This program looks at genetically modified foods and the controversy surrounding the issue.
My Country, My Country - DVD TAC-1315
Documentary providing an intimate portrait of Iraqis living under U.S. occupation. The principal focus is Dr. Riyadh ( Riyadh al-Adhadh), an Iraqi medical doctor, father of six, and Sunni political candidate who is an outspoken critic of the occupation but passionate about the need to establish democracy in Iraq . As his waiting room is filled daily with patients suffering the physical and mental effects of ever-increasing violence, Dr. Riyadh struggles to understand the tragic contradiction of the U.S. occupation of Iraq and its project to spread democracy through the Middle East .
Dune - DVD TAC-1316
Story of the desert planet Dune and a revolt against its evil controllers.
Hazardous Inheritance - DVD TAC-1317
Discusses the effects of workplace environmental hazards on the reproductive processes of males and females. Describes how hazards such as mercury, ethyl propane, formaldehyde, and ethylene oxide can cause infertility, miscarriage, stillbirth, birth defects, and childhood cancer. Examines these dangers from medical, legal, and workplace health and safety perspectives.
Taking Our Bodies Back: The Women's Health Movement - DVD TAC-1318
Explores ten critical areas of the women's health movement, from the concept of self-help to the issue of informed surgical consent. The film documents a growing movement of women to regain control of their bodies. It shows women becoming aware of their rights in dealing with the medical industry. The film explores: self-help, birth at home, abortion, high school women's support group, breast cancer, research, the gynecological exam, drug company attitudes, hysterectomy, health care of women of color.
Beauty in Aging: Exploring the Self-images of Women as They Age - DVD TAC-1319
How do women view themselves as they get older? This compilation film uses excerpts from four videos to explore the self-images of women as they age in our society. From a woman who contracts Bell's Palsy (which leaves one half of her face paralyzed) to nursing home beauty pageant finalists to 85-year-old Zelda who continues to take life by storm, the video allows women to speak for themselves as they define and redefine themselves through the transitions of aging.
Elder Abuse: Five Case Studies - DVD TAC-1320 & guide
In interviews with five actual victims of abuse, counselors explore their clients' financial, emotional, and health problems and the effect these had on their ability to lead independent lives. The role of counselors is demonstrated as they assist patients in exploring available options.
The Last King of Scotland - DVD TAC-1321
Chronicles Idi Amin's rise and fall. Amin's despotic reign of terror is viewed through the eyes of Nicholas Garrigan, a Scottish doctor who arrives in Uganda in the early 1970s to serve as Amin's personal physician. His perspective as an outsider causes him to be initially impressed by Amin's calculated rise to power and he grows increasingly monstrous. A pointed examination of how independent Uganda (a British colony until 1962) became a breeding ground for Amin's genocidal tyranny. Amin is both seductive and horribly destructive. Garrigan grows increasingly prone to exploitation.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - DVD TAC-1322
A restored version of the spaghetti western tale of greed, revenge and epic warfare. Three ruthless outlaws avidly search for a treasure chest containing $200,000.
The Queen - DVD TAC-1323
An intimate, moving portrait of Queen Elizabeth and Tony Blair following the untimely death of Princess Diana. The Queen's restrained reaction causes a public relations debacle that Prime Minister Blair must defuse. The two struggle to reach a compromise between what was a private tragedy for the Royal family and the public's demand for an open display of mourning.
The Enforcer - DVD TAC-1324
When Detective Harry Callahan stops a liquor store hostage standoff in his own no-nonsense way, he gets busted back to personnel, but not for long. When terrorists rob an arms warehouse and go on a blood-soaked extortion spree, San Francisco 's leaders quickly seek out Callahan. This is the third of five Dirty Harry films. Tyne Daly co-stars as Harry's new partner.
Who Shot My Brother? - DVD TAC-1325
Documentary film about corruption in Colombia . Filmmaker German Gutierrez attempts to find out who shot his brother Oscar Gutierrez, a political activist in Colombia .
Magnum Force - DVD TAC-1326
A mysterious wave of assassinations is sweeping the San Francisco underworld. Detective "Dirty Harry" Callahan (Eastwood) discovers why: sharpshooting rookie policemen have turned vigilante.
Sudden Impact - DVD TAC-1327
In the aftermath of a brutal rape, a beautiful woman has begun to hunt down her attackers. Harry has to find her and stop her before she kills again or her attackers find her.
The Dead Pool - DVD TAC-1328
San Francisco police detective "Dirty Harry" Callahan learns his name is on an underground betting pool for celebrities who will die. With his new partner, a Chinese-American karate whiz, Dirty Harry must track down the killer while evading a TV reporter who is hounding him and avoiding death himself.
A Nightmare on Elm Street - DVD TAC-1329
When her best friend Tina is brutally murdered, teenager Nancy suspects the killer isn't Tina's boyfriend but rather a much more horrifying figure from her dreams. Convinced that this vicious murderer is stalking her friends and killing them as they sleep, Nancy enters a desperate race against time to bring him out of her dream world and stop the bloodbath...before she falls asleep and becomes his next victim.
A Tale of Two Teens: The Space Between - DVD TAC-1331
An engaging and informative documentary about the AIDS pandemic in Africa as seen through the eyes of two young girls, an American and South African teenager, featuring the music of the Dave Matthews Band and U2.
The Naked Feminist - DVD TAC-1332
This documentary challenges the mythology surrounding women in the porn industry head on through a series of candid interviews with pornstars, academics and feminists. Includes interviews with Jane Hamilton (aka. Veronica Hart), Candida Royalle, Annie Sprinkle, Sharon Mitchell, Nina Hartley, Marilyn Chambers and Ginger Lynn Allen. Also includes a behind-the-scenes look at the making of one of Christi Lake 's videos.
Gremlins - DVD TAC-1333
Billy Peltzer's father buys him a new cuddly pet. But heed these three warnings: Don't ever get him wet. Keep him away from bright light. And the most important thing, the one thing you must never forget: no matter how much he cries, no matter how much he begs ... never, never feed him after midnight .
The Gold Rush - DVD TAC-1334
The Little Tramp searches for gold and love in the Klondike . Includes both a restored version of the original 1925 silent film, and the 1942 re-issue, the latter featuring a new score and narration written and spoken by Charles Chaplin.
Period: the End of Menstruation? - DVD TAC-1335
This timely and necessary documentary interviews physicians, health practitioners, cultural critics, and a variety of women from around the country who fall on both sides of the menstrual suppression debate: from those who maintain that technology should make menstruation virtually obsolete to those who see menstruation as defining the essence of being female.
Serving in Silence: the Margarethe Cammermeyer Story - DVD TAC-1336
Drama based on the court-martial of Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer who was discharged from the military for being a homosexual.
Modern Times - DVD TAC-1337
A devastating satire on the effects of mass production on the lives of factory workers. Shows Charlie as a factory worker, jailbird, night watchman, and a singing waiter. Primarily a silent film with music and sound effects, but voices emanate from TV sets and radios.
They Shoot Horses Don't They? - DVD TAC-1338
The lives of a disparate group of contestants intertwine in an inhumanely grueling dance marathon.
Kiss Me Kate - DVD TAC-1339
Two squabbling, 20th-century ex-marrieds are cast as squabbling Renaissance romantics in a musical version of "The Taming of the Shrew". On stage they fight it out and backstage they continue to clash.
American Graffiti - DVD TAC-1340
Four teenagers come of age on their last summer night before college in 1962.
The Life of Emile Zola - DVD TAC-1341
Explores the career of the novelist who championed the cause of France 's oppressed.
Primary - DVD TAC-1342
A political documentary of the 1960 Wisconsin Democratic presidential primary campaigns in which Senator John F. Kennedy upset Senator Hubert H. Humphrey.
Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment - DVD TAC-1343
In June 1963, President John F. Kennedy and his brother, U.S. Attorney General, Robert Kennedy, forced one of the gravest racial confrontations of the 20th century. Despite a federal court order, Alabama Governor George Wallace vowed he would prevent 2 black students from entering the all-white University of Alabama . Watch as the crisis unfolds, capturing the story from all sides up until the dramatic end.
Vygotsky's Developmental Theory: An Introduction - DVD TAC-1344
Vygotsky's theories are now basic to an understanding of cognitive psychology. Using visuals from his native Russia , Margaret Mead's anthropological films and footage of American classrooms, students are introduced to the thought of development thinking.
Akira Kurosawa's Dreams - DVD TAC-1345
Eight episodes exploring many aspects of humankind and man's need to harmonize with nature. Based on Akira Kurosawa's actual dreams.
I'm From Hollywood - DVD TAC-1346
Tales of Andy Kaufman's bizarre and hilarious adventures in the world of big time wrestling.
Rene Clair's And Then There Were None - DVD TAC-1347
Ten people, strangers to each other, are invited to a lavish estate on an island. The tension mounts as, one by one, they are murdered.
High Sierra - DVD TAC-1348
A gangster's hard-boiled persona finds itself at war with his compassionate side - a side that will ultimately be his downfall.
The Great Escape - DVD TAC-1349
A World War II melodrama about the escape of British and American flyers from a maximum-security German prison camp.
On VHS:
Ballistospore Discharge in Basidiomycetes - Videorecord TAC-1917
Explores the mechanism for violent spore discharge in mushrooms and other basidiomycetes. Due to certain morphological and physiological properties of the spore wall, two liquid droplets are formed. When these two droplets coalesce, the surface area reduction generates energy used in spore discharge. Investigations are made with itersonillia perplexans, a widespread fungus that is easily grown in culture. This film introduces the organism, shows the process preceding spore discharges, and presents experiments.
Food for Tomorrow: Critical Issues in Global Agriculture - Videorecord TAC-1918
Explores core issues critical to answering the question: Can agriculture be made productive in a sustainable way?
De Madres a Madres - Videorecord TAC-1919
Discusses the De Madres a Madres program to encourage expectant mothers to seek early prenatal care, and how it strives to empower a community to take care of its health concerns by assessing the needs of its people.
