American Studies Film List

Documentaries

Affluenza. (dubbed). 1997.  Dir. John de Graaf.  57 min.

Agueda Martínez:  Our People, Our Country.  1977.  Esperanza Vargas

America:  A Look Back (Series of 11 tapes arranged in chronological order)

            Meet George Washington

            The Journals of Lewis and Clark

            The Real West

            The Civil War

            Mark Twain’s America

            The Innocent Years

            The Great War

            The Jazz Age

            Life in the Thirties

            Victory at Sea

            Not So Long Ago.

American Tragedy.  Lawrence Schiller/Norman Mailer. 2000.  DVD format

Animaquiladora. Lalo Lopez & Alex Rivera. 1997. 10 min.

Appalachian Journey. (dubbed)  1998.  Dir. Alan Lomax, et. all. 60 min.

Bananas is my Business:  Carmen Miranda.  1994.  Helen Solburg. 90 min.

Black Shadows on a Silver Screen. (dubbed) 1986.  Dir. Steven York.  55 min.

Born in Flames.  1983.  Dir. Lizzie Borden. 90 min.

Bronze Screen: 100 years of Latino Image in Hollywood.  HBO/Cinemax.

Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature. 1997. Narrated by Alfrie Woodard

            Program 1: Mulholland’s Dream. 85 minutes

            Program 2: An American Nile. 55 minutes

            Program 3: The Mercy of Nature. 55 minutes

            Program 4: Last Oasis. 55 minutes

Call of the Jitterbug. (dubbed on the same tape with Appalachian Journey. 1988.  Dir. Tana Ross. 

35 min.

Caught Between Two Countries:  A Border School Crisis.  1996.  Dir. Kevin Richard Lee.  28

min. (2 copies)

Celebrating Bird:  The Triumph of Charlie Parker.  1987.  Dir. Gary Giddons. 59 min.

Charlie Rose w/ Henry Louis Gates & Cornel West. April 5, 1996

Classical Images:  A Concert in Nature.  1990.  Alan Henry Coats. 45 min.

Clockwork.  1982.  Eric Breichbart.  25 min.

Color Adjustment. (dubbed) 1992.  Marlon T. Riggs. 88 min.

Colores! Series Distributed by KNME, Channel 5

            Blackdom. 1997, 30 minutes

En Divina Luz. 1990, 30 minutes

            Growing Up Navajo: Teens on the Rez. 2000, 30 minutes

            The Heavens. 1993, 30 minutes

Hopi Prophecy. 1991, 30 minutes

Jimmy Santiago Baca. 1990, 30 minutes

            New Mexico’s Nuclear Enchantment. 1991, 30 minutes

            Pueblo Peoples: First Contact. 1990, 30 minutes

            Trinity: Getting the Job Done. 1995, 60 minutes

            An Understated Sacredness. 1990, 30 minutes

Corpus:  A Home Movie for Selena. 1998.  Dir. Lourdes Portillo. 47 min.

Cronkite Remembers.

Desert Rose, The Struggle to Organize Healthcare Workers in New Mexico, 2002.

The Devil Never Sleeps.  1994.  Dir. Lourdes Portillo.  87 min.

Dream Worlds:  desire, sex, power in music video.  (dubbed) 1995. (3 copies). Dir. Sut Jhally. 57

min.

Empire of the Air: The Men who Made Radio.  1991.  Ken Burns.

Ethnic Notions.  (dubbed) 1994. Marlon T. Riggs. Esther Rolle.  57 min.

Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworker’s Struggle. 1996. Dir. R. Telles & R. Tejada-Flores. 116 min.

Firing Line:  Politically Correct Debate. (dubbed)

Food for Body and Spirit:  A Taste of China series.

From the Heart of the World:  The Elder Brothers Warning.  1993.  Dir. Alan Ereira.  60 min.

Goldberg, Whoopi.  Whoopi Goldberg Live.  1985.

The Grand Army of Starvation.  Dir. Stephen Brier

Great Events of the 20th Century Series

            Volume 1: 1900 – 1912    46 minutes

            Volume 2: 1913 – 1926    46 minutes

            Volume 3: 1927 – 1939    46 minutes

            Volume 4: 1939 – 1953    57 minutes

            Volume 5: 1953 – 1968    59 minutes

            Volume 6: 1969 – 1981    59 minutes

            Volume 7: 1982 – 1995    59 minutes

Headline Stories of the Century. Newsreels from 1920 – 1965.

Hearts and Minds. (Vietnam).  1974.  Dir. Bert Schneider.

Heaven will Protect the Working Girl: Immigrant Women in the Turn of the Century.  Dirs. Bender, Brown, Vasquez

Hell or High Water

The Hopi. From the American Indian Video Series. 1982.

Hopi Prophecy:  Land and Life Japan.  1987.  Dir. Kiyoshi Miyata.  75 min.

Hopi:  Songs of the Fourth World.  Ferrero Films.

How Else Am I Supposed to Know I’m Still Alive.  1993.  Dir. José Luis Valenzuela.  33 min.

The Hunt for Pancho Villa. Dir. Paul Espinosa.

Imagining Indians.  1994. Dir. Victor Masayesva, Jr.  1 hr. and 30 min.

In the Life:  Highlights/Vol. I.  Dir. Bob Diamond.  45 min.

In the Life with Dick Sargent.  1992.  Dir.  Bob Diamond.  30 min.

In the Life with Lily Tomlin.  1992.  Dir. Bob Diamond. 30 min.

Is Wal-Mart Good for America? 2004. From PBS’ Frontline Series. 60 min.

The Judds. (dubbed).

Keeping the Earth: Religious & Scientific Perspectives on the Environment. 1996. Narrated by James Earl Jones. 27 min.

Labor Movement:

            Singing for the Union. Produced by the Labor Institute of Public Affairs. 1985. 30 min

            Would You Cross a Picket Line? 13 min.

Lady Day:  the many faces of Billie Holiday. 1991.  Matthew Seig, Ruby Dee. 60 min.

La Ofrenda:  The Day of the Dead.  1988.  Dir. Lourdes Portillo.  56 min.

The Lemon Grove Incident.  Prod & Dir by Paul Espinosa.  (acquired 2003)

Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery. 1997. Dir. Ken Burns. 240 minutes

Liberty Weekend produced by ABC News, documents the 4th of July Celebration 1986.

Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter by Connie Field.  (acquired 2003)

Life Magazine in Camelot:  The Kennedy Years.

Madonna A&E documentary and “Like A Virgin” and “Erotica” videos. (dubbed).

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Memories of the 1960s. (A series of 5 cassettes)

            1960-1961

            1962-1963

            1964-1965

            1966-1967

            1968-1969

Los Mineros. Dir. Paul Espinosa.

Midnight Ramble:  The Story of the Black Film Industry.  (dubbed). 1994.  Dir. Bestor Cram. 

Pearl Bowser.

The Missions of California. 1998. Narrated by R.J. Adams. 58 minutes

Mujería I:  The Olmeca Rap. 5 min.

Navajo Talking Picture. (dubbed) 1987.  Dir. Arlene Bowman. 25 min.

Navajo Weaver: Susie Benally.

The New Asylums. 2004. From PBS’ Frontline Series

Paul Robeson:  Here I Stand.  1999.  Dir.  St. Clair Bourne.  117 min.

The Performed World.  58:40

Profile of a Writer: Toni Morrison. 52 min.

Prostitution:  A Matter of Violence Against Women.  52 min.

The Pure.  Dir. Scott Rankin.  58 min.

Quilts in Women’s Lives.  Ferrero Films

Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles.

Redwood Summer.  1992.  30 min.

Remembered Earth: New Mexico’s High Desert. 2006. From Idaho Public Television. DVD

Ritual Clowns.  1988.  Dir. Victor Masayesva, Jr.  18 min.

Savage Acts: Wars, Fairs & Empire 1989-1904.  Dirs Bender, Brown, Vasquez.

Secret History of…Sideshows and Showman. 1999. From The Learning Channel. 50 minutes

Seneca Reflections:  Celebrating 150 Years of Women’s Rights.  1998.  24 min.

Senorita Extraviada: Missing Young Woman, 2002.  Lourdes Portillo

Significant Hazards.  1984. Dir. Lee Richardson, Berstror Cram, Charles Meyer.  24 min.

Singer, Beverly R.  1994 Video Book.  6 min.

Sitting Bull & the Great Sioux Nation. 1993. From The History Channel’s Real West series. 50 minutes

Smothered.  2002 Dir M. Muldaur.

The Spirit of Crazy Horse.  1990.  Dir. James Locker.  60 min.

A Spirited Place: The Arts of New Mexico. 1990. Produced by Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico. 60 minutes

The Story of Television, 1956(?)

Style Wars.  Tony Silver & Henry Chalfant

Tapping the Legacy:  Seeking a Sustainable Water Supply.  Prod. for Public Works Dept. City of

Albuquerque.  27:57 min.

The Times of Harvey Milk.  1985.  Dir. Robert Epstein, et. al. 60 min.

To Protect Mother Earth (Broken Treaty II).  1989.  Dir.  Joel Freedman.  59 min.

Tongues Untied.  Director:  Marlon Riggs.  55 minutes

Uncle Tom’s Cabin – abridged dramatization of the book by Harriet Beecher Stowe.  57 min.

Up South: African-American Migration in the Era of the Great War.  Dirs. Vasquez, Bender & Brown

Varela, William – Eight Super 8 Films by Willie Varela.  55 min.

            Recuerdos de Flores Muertas

            James Brounghton

            George Kinchar

            Becky’s Eye

            Stan and Jane Brakhage

            Fearless Leader

            Sound Decisions

            In Progress

Vietnam:  A Television History.  Homefront USA/ Vol. 6.  “The End of the Tunnel/1973-75.

The Way West. 1995. Dir. Ric Burns

            Westward, the Course of Empire Takes Its Way (1845 – 1864)

            The Approach of Civilization (1865 – 1869)

            The War for the Black Hills (1870 – 1876)

            Ghost Dance (1877 – 1893)

We Interrupt this Program:  Featuring 3 Historic TV News Dramas.

4 April 1968 – the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

14 June 1985 – the hijacking of TWA Flight #847

17 October 1989 – San Francisco earthquake

We Shall Overcome:  The Song that Moved a Nation.  1989.  Dir.  Jim Brown.  58 min.

Who Owns the Past?: The American Indian Struggle for Control of Their Ancestral Remains. 1999. Director Jed Riffe. 56 minutes

Woven by the Grandmothers: 19th Century Navajo Textiles. 1998. 30 minutes

Feature Films

2001:  A Space Odyssey.  1968. Dir. Stanley Kubrick.

American Me. 1992 Dir. Edward James Olmos

. . . and the Earth did not Swallow him.  1995. Dir. Severo Pérez.

The Atomic Cafe.  1982.  Dir. Pierce Raffety, Jayne Loader.

The Atomic City, Dir Jerry Hopper, 1952

The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez.  1983.  Dir. Robert M. Young

Basic Instinct.  1992. Dir.  Paul Verhoeven.

The Best Years of Our Lives.  (2 copies) 1946.  Dir. William Wyler

Blood In,  Blood Out:  Bound by Honor.  1993.  Taylor Hackford.

Blood of Jesus.  1941.  Dir. Spencer Williams

A Boy and His Dog. (dubbed)  1975.  Dir. L.Q. Jones.

Boys Don’t Cry.  1999. Dir. Kimberley Peirce.

The Brave One.  1956.  Dir. Michel Ray.

Break of Dawn.  1990 (originally released in    )  Dir. Isaac Artenstein.

Cabeza de Vaca.  1992.  Dir. Nicolás Echevarría.

Captain from Castile. 1947. Dir. Henry King

Chasing Amy.  1997.  Dir. Kevin Smith

Chinatown. 1974. Dir. Roman Polanski

Cinderella. (Disney feature cartoon).  1950.  Dir. Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi

The City (La Ciudad). 1999. Dir. David Riker. In Spanish & English, with subtitles

The Color Purple.  1985.  Dir. Steven Spielberg.

A Day Without a Mexican. 2004. Dir. Sergio Arau

Daughters of the Dust.  1991.  Dir. Julie Dash.

Do the Right Thing.  1989.  Dir. Spike Lee.

Dumb and Dumber.  (dubbed).  1994. Dir. Peter Farelly, Bobby Farelly.

EdTV.  (dubbed).  1999.  Dir. Ron Howard

El Norte. 1984 Dir. Gregory Nava

E.T.  1982.  Dir. Steven Spielberg.

Fatal Attraction.  1987.  Dir. Adrian Lyne.

Fatal Attraction.  (dubbed) 1987.  Dir. Adrian Lynne

Giant.  1956.  Dir. George Stevens.

Girlfight.  2000.  Karyn Kusama.

The Graduate.  1967.  Dir. Mike Nichols.

Grand Avenue.  1996.  Dir. Daniel Sackheim

The Great Outdoors.  1988.  Dir. Howard Deutch.

The Green Berets. 1968. Dir. John Wayne and Ray Kellogg

Hairspray.  1988.  Dir. John Waters.

It’s A Wonderful Life.  1947. Dir. Frank Capra.

Juárez.  1939. Dir.  William Dieterle.

Jurassic Park.  (dubbed). 1993.  Dir. Steven Spielberg.

King Of Jazz.  (musical). 1930.  Dir. John Murray Anderson.

La Bamba.  1987.  Dir. Luis Váldez.

La Pastorela.  Dir. Luis Váldez. (theater production)

Last Temptation of Christ.  1988. Dir. Martin Scorsese.

Lethal Weapon.  1987.  Dir. Richard Donner.

Lone Star.  1996.  Dir. John Sayles

Love Story.  (2 copies).  1960.  Dir. Arthur Hiller.

Making Love.  1982.  Dir. Arthur Hiller.

Men with Guns, 1998.  Dir. John Sayles

The Little Mermaid.  (Disney feature cartoon). 1989.  Dir. John Musker, Ron Clements.

Mi Vida Loca/My Crazy Life.  1994.  Dir. Allison Anders.

Midnight Cowboy.  1969.  Dir. J. Schlesinger

The Milagro Beanfield War.  1988. Dir. Robert Redford.

Mildred Pierce.  1945.  Dir. Michael Curtiz.

The Misfits.  (dubbed). 1961.  Dir. John Huston.

Modern Times.  1936.  Dir. Charlie Chaplin.

Motel Hell.  (dubbed and on the same tape as Fatal Attraction). 1980. Dir. Kevin Connor

Natural Born Killers.  1994.  Dir. Oliver Stone.

Night of the Living Dead.  1968.  Dir. George A. Romero.

Nobody’s Girls:  Five Women of the West.  1995.

The Omen. 1976.  Dir. Richard Donner.

Paris Blues.  1961. Dir. Martin Ritt.

Pinero.  2001.  Dir Leon Ichaso.

Pleasantville.  1998.  Dir. Gary Ross.

Pocahontas.  (Disney feature cartoon).  1995.  Dir.  Mike Gabriel, Eric Goldberg.

Pretty Woman.  1990.  Dir.  Garry Marshall.

Pumping Iron.  1976.  Dir. Robert Fiore, George Butler II. (dubbed and on the same tape as Fatal Attraction)

A Question of Silence.  1991.  Dir. Marleen Gorris.

Quiz Show.  1994.  Dir. Robert Redford.

Rambo:  First Blood Part II.  1985.  Dir.  George P. Cosmatos.

Rebel Without a Cause.  1955.  Dir. Nicholas Ray.

The Ring.  (dubbed). 1958.

Robocop.  1987.  Dir. Paul Verhoeven. 

Salt of the Earth.  1954.  Dir. Henry Biberman.

Sankofa.  Dir. Haile Gerima.

Saturday Night Fever.  1977.  Dir. John Badham.

Scar of Shame.  1927.  Dir. Frank Peregini.

Scarface. 1932.  Dir. Richard Rosson, Howard Hawks.

School Daze (dubbed on Midnight Ramble tape/beauty parlor scene).  1988.  Dir. Spike Lee.

The Searchers.  (2 copies) 1956.  Dir. John Ford.

Seguín. 1982. Dir. Jesús Salvador Treviño

Sleeping Beauty.  (Disney feature cartoon). 1959.

Some Like it Hot. (2 copies). 1959.  Dir. Billy Wilder.

Spaceballs. (dubbed).  1987.  Dir. Mel Brooks.

Splendor in the Grass. 1961.  Dir. Elia Kazan.

Star Wars.  1976.  Dir. George Lucas.

Sugarcane Alley.  1983.  Dir. Euzhan Palcy.

Sweet Sweetback’s Baadassss Song.  1971.  Dir. Melvin Van Peebles.

The Terminator.  1984.  Dir. James Cameron.

The Terminator Collection.  Dir. James Cameron.

            includes The Terminator and Terminator II:  Judgement Day.

The Truman Show.  1998.  Dir. Peter Weir.

The Watermelon Woman. 1997.  Dir. Cheryl Dunye.

West Side Story.  1961.  Dir. Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins.

Where the Boys Are.  1960.  Dir. Henry Levin.

Within Our Gates.  (Part of The African American Cinema I series).  1919.  Dir. Oscar

Micheaux.

Woman of the Year. (dubbed). 1942.  Dir. George Stevens.

Working Girl.  1988.  Dir. Mike Nichols.

The World of Suzie Wong. (dubbed). 1960.  Dir. Richard Quine.

Television Episodes

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet.  (2 episodes): 

All in the Family:  20th Anniversary Special.  1991.

Beavis and Butthead:  Chicks n’ Stuff.

The Brady Bunch.  (2 episodes):  “Honeymoon” (1st episode of series) and “Here We Go

A’Campin’”

Charlie’s Angels.  Angels in Chains  (2 episodes)

Classic TV From the 50s and 60s:  Animated Commercials

Ellen Series Finale

Ellen: Out on Oprah and The Episode and Primetime Live: Ellen’s Folks

Gidget: Beach Blanket Gidget (3 episodes)

Honeymooners.  (2 episodes):  “TV or not TV” and highlights

Howard Stern.

I Dream of Jeannie – A Genie in Training (3 episodes)

I Dream of Jeannie – Jeannie’s Seein’ Stars (3 episodes)

I Love Lucy.

LA Law (dubbed on same tape with Northern Exposure)

Law and Order (dubbed)

My So Called Life (dubbed on same tape with Roseanne: Thelma & Louise)

Northern Exposure (dubbed 1st episode on same tape with LA Law).

Roseanne (dubbed March 1, 1994)

Roseanne:  Interview with Larry King. (on same tape with Roseanne 3/1/94)

Roseanne: Thelma & Louise/Riot Grrlz and Darlene’s Wedding

Roseanne: Darlene & boyfriend and Death of Father

The Simpsons.

The Simpsons, Best of.

South Park.

Star Trek: Klingon O. (on tape with Roseanne: Darlene & boyfriend)

Television – The First 50 Years (2 tape set) 1998.

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