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Librarian: Christine Kickels
Office: SRC 3050
Phone: (630) 942-2313
E-mail: kickels@cod.edu
At the movies
The Library owns a number of documentaries about the ‘60s as well as quite a few feature films from the time. The documentaries will usually be found in the general collection, while the feature films are in the rental collection. All can be found in the Library catalog. Here are some examples:
Documentaries
- 4 Little Girls
- F334.B69 A24 1998
- 13 Seconds: A Look Back At The Kent State Shootings
- LD4191.O72 C26 2005
- Berkeley in the Sixties
- E 841 .B47 1993
- Change, Change
- E 839 .C4 1983x
- Chicago 1968
- JK2313 1968 .C44 1995
- The Chicago Riots
- F548.9.N4 C54 2002
- Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
- DS 559.5 .D432 1987
- The Fabulous ‘60s (10 volumes, each covers one year)
- E 839 .F3
- Making Sense of the Sixties
- HN59 .M35 1991
- Political Advertising of the ‘60s
- JF2112.A4 P65 1972
- The ‘60s (drama, from a 1999 miniseries)
- PN1992.77 .S597 1999
- The Speeches of Malcolm X
- BP223.Z8 L57 1997
- The Speeches of Martin Luther King
- E185.97.K5 A23 1988
- Watts, Riot or Revolt?
- F869.L89 N44 2002
Feature films
(includes year of release, and whether the library has it on VHS and/or DVD)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- 1968, VHS, DVD
- 8 ½
- 1963, VHS, DVD
- The Battle of Algiers
- 1965, VHS, DVD
- Blow-Up
- 1966, VHS, DVD
- La Dolce Vita
- 1960, VHS, DVD
- Dr. Strangelove
- 1964, VHS, DVD
- Easy Rider
- 1969, VHS, DVD
- Fail Safe
- 1964, VHS, DVD
- The Graduate
- 1967, VHS, DVD
- Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
- 1967, DVD
- In Cold Blood
- 1967, VHS
- In the Heat of the Night
- 1967, VHS
- A Man and a Woman
- 1966, VHS
- The Manchurian Candidate
- 1962, VHS, DVD
- Midnight Cowboy
- 1969, VHS, DVD
- The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
- 1964, VHS, DVD
- The Virgin Spring
- 1960, VHS
- War and Peace
- 1968, VHS
- The Wild Bunch
- 1969, DVD
- Woodstock
- 1970, VHS
- Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
- 1963, VHS
- Z
- 1969, VHS
Books about movies
- Medium Cool: The Movies of the 1960s.
- GENERAL COLLECTION PN 1993.5.U6 M655 1990
- 70 Years of the Oscar:The Official History of the Academy Awards
- REFERENCE COLLECTION PN1993.92 .O82 1999
- The Sixties: 1960-1969. (History of the American Cinema, v. 8)
- GENERAL COLLECTION PN1993.5.U6 H55 1990 vol. 8
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