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- The Puritan revolution; Cromwell and the rise of parliamentary democracy
- Format: VHS
Location: General
Call Number: DA405 .P8 1989
Description: Shows how the revolt of Parliament against Charles I in the 1640's, under the leadership of Oliver Cromwell and the Puritans, destroyed the absolute power of the monarchy and directed England on the road to parliamentary democracy
- Vatel
- Format: DVD
Location: Video Rental Collection
Call Number: Shelved by title
Description: The Duc de Condé 's employee, François Vatel, is in charge of cooking, and preparing shows for the French King Louis XIV when he visits the castle of Chantilly, owned by de Condé . If Vatel can impress the King, de Condé will gain his favors, and the destiny of France will change. While the King is visiting and three days of banquets ensue, Vatel falls in love with the King's mistress
- Fitzcarraldo
- Format: VHS
Location: Video Rental Collection
Call Number: Shelved by title
Description: Story of a man obsessed with the ambition to make his fortune and build his own personal opera house in the jungle
- Fitzcarraldo
- Format: DVD
Location: Video Rental Collection
Call Number: Shelved by title
Description: Story of a man obsessed with a dream to build his own personal opera house in a remote Peruvian town
- Marie Antoinette
- Format: DVD
Location: Video Rental Collection
Call Number: Shelved by title
Description: The retelling of France's iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette. From her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at 15 to her reign as queen at 19 and to the end of her reign as queen and ultimately the fall of Versailles
- Napoleon
- Format: VHS
Location: Video Rental Collection
Call Number: Shelved by title
Description: Depicts Napoleon's rise to power, famous military battles, and intimate personal life
- Hard times
- Format: VHS
Location: Video Rental Collection
Call Number: Shelved by title
Description: This two-fisted action drama is about a drifter suddenly caught up in the fight game during the great depression. Chaney wins a few tough illegal fights barefisted but Speed's carelessness with his money and indebtedness to a gang of thugs forces Chaney to fight one last match with Street, a huge monster of a man
- Les misérables
- Format: VHS
Location: Video Rental Collection
Call Number: Shelved by title
Description: Set in early 18th century France, Jean Valjean, a thief who has turned his life around as the result of an unexpected act of mercy, must overcome the machinations of scoundrels and the pursuit of Inspector Javert in order to protect the illegitimate daughter of a former employee
- Il gattopardo; The leopard
- Format: DVD
Location: Video Rental Collection
Call Number: Shelved by title
Description: Recounts the years of Italy's Risorgimento-when the aristocracy lost its grip and the middle classes rose and formed a democratic Italy.
- Lagaan; once upon a time in India
- Format: DVD
Location: Video Rental Collection
Call Number: Shelved by title
Description: An arrogant British Army captain forces a bet on a group of farmers. If they can win a cricket match against the army team, they will not have to pay the tax called lagaan for three years
- Animal farm
- Format: VHS
Location: General
Call Number: PR6029.R8 A6 1999
Description: Tells of the revolt of the animals of Manor Farm against their human masters. Led by the pigs Snowball (Lenin) and Napoleon (Stalin), the animals attempt to create a utopian society. Soon, however, Napoleon gets a taste for power, drives out Snowball, and establishes a totalitarian regime as brutal and corrupt as any human society
- Animal farm
- Format: DVD
Location: General
Call Number: PR6029.R8 A6 1999a
Description: Tells of the revolt of the animals of Manor Farm against their human masters. Led by the pigs Snowball (Lenin) and Napoleon (Stalin), the animals attempt to create a utopian society. Soon, however, Napoleon gets a taste for power, drives out Snowball, and establishes a totalitarian regime as brutal and corrupt as any human society
- The grapes of wrath
- Format: VHS
Location: Video Rental Collection
Call Number: Shelved by title
Description: The migration of the Joad family to California from their dust-bowl farm in Oklahoma during the Great Depression is depicted in this immortal film of the Steinbeck classic
- The grapes of wrath
- Format: DVD
Location: Video Rental Collection
Call Number: Shelved by title
Description: The migration of the Joad family to California from their dust-bowl farm in Oklahoma during the Great Depression
- The grapes of wrath
- Format: VHS
Location: Video Rental Collection
Call Number: Shelved by title
Description: The migration of the Joad family to California from their dust-bowl farm in Oklahoma during the Great Depression
- Conspiracy
- Format: DVD
Location: Video Rental Collection
Call Number: Shelved by title
Description: A dramatic recreation of the Wannsee Conference of January 20, 1942, where the Nazi Final Solution phase of the Holocaust was devised
- Sophie Scholl; die letzten tage = the final days
- Format: DVD
Location: Video Rental Collection
Call Number: Shelved by title
Description: The true story of Germany's most famous anti-Nazi heroine, Sophie Scholl, the fearless activist of the underground student resistance group, The White Rose. The last six days of Sophie Scholl's life is dramatized, from arrest to interrogation, trial, and sentence in 1943 Munich. Unwavering in her convictions and loyalty to her comrades, her cross-examination by the Gestapo quickly escalates into a searing test of wills as Scholl delivers a passionate call to freedom and personal responsibility that is both haunting and timeless
- Dr. Strangelove, or, How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb
- Format: VHS
Location: Video Rental Collection
Call Number: Shelved by title
Description: A satire in which the President and his military advisors struggle ineptly to avert a holocaust after a psychotic Air Force general launches a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union
- Dr. Strangelove, or, How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb
- Format: DVD
Location: Video Rental Collection
Call Number: ZD 2154
Description: A satire in which the President and his military advisors struggle ineptly to avert a holocaust after a psychotic Air Force general launches a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union
- Good bye Lenin!
- Format: DVD
Location: Video Rental Collection
Call Number: Shelved by title
Description: Alex's proud, socialist mother falls into a coma for eight months. When she wakes, her heart is weak, so Alex has to keep the secret that the Berlin Wall has fallen and capitalism has triumphed. What begins as a little white lie turns into a major scam
Movie Research
How to Find Film Reviews, Articles and Essays
In order to find a review, it is important to know the year the film was released. The following online databases will direct you to reviews. These databases are located on the Library web site under the category General Research Databases.
OnLine Resources
- Academic OneFile
- Covers 1980 to the present.
- Academic Search Premier
- Covers 1984 to the present.
- Essay & General Literature Index
- Covers 1985 to present. Used for identifying essays in books length collections.
- JSTOR
- Literature Resource Center
- Criticism and biographical information.
On the Library web site under Newspaper Research Databases.
- New York Times and New York Times Historical
- Covers 1851 to present.
On the Web
- Film Literature Index
- This database contains approximately 700,000 citations to articles, film reviews and book reviews published between 1976-2001.
Reference Sources in the College of DuPage Library
- Film Review Annual
- Ref PN 1995. F465 (1981- )
- Film Review Index
- Ref PN 1995 .F468 1986
- Index to Critical Film Reviews
- Ref PN 1995 .B69 1975x
Magill's Cinema Annual : Ref PN 1993.3 .M34 (1982-)
- New York Times Film Reviews
- Ref PN 1995 .N4 (1913-2000)
- Variety Film Reviews
- Ref PN 1993 .V36 (1907-1996)
This guide was last updated 21 January 2008.
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