Video Lab
Circulation
We have an extensive collection of program-related videos and DVDs that can be viewed in our video or computer labs during our regular hours:
Monday – Friday 9am to 4:30pm.
We are closed during regular school holidays.
We do not allow the borrowing of videos outside the VRC. Also, Professors will often leave videos on reserve for their classes. These videos are available in the VRC, and must also be viewed in our lab.
Other Boston University Film/Video Resources
Krasker Film/Video Libray
Geddes Language Center
Reserving the Lab
Scheduling the lab for classes is done on the calendars outside the labs. Please notify us of any reservation you wish to make, as we might have some dates/times that might already be booked.
VIDEO LIST
83 AG and Experimental Films; 74 min total
A Great Tree Has Fallen; 1973; 23 min
A Little Gothic Castle; 22 min
Alexander the Great; 1989
American Visions volumes 18; 1996; 60min
- Republic of Virtue
- The Promised Land
- The Wilderness and the West
- The Gilded Age
- A Wave from the Atlantic
- Streamlines of Broad lines
- The Empire of Siquir
- The age of Anxiety
America’s Civil Rights; 1995; 120 min
- Awakenings (19541956) and Fighting Back (19571962
- Ain’t Scared of Your Jails (196061) and No Easy Walk (19611963)
- Mississippi: Is This America? (19621964) and Bridge to Freedom (1965)
- The Time Has Come (19641966) and Two Societies (196568)
- Power! (196698) and The Promised Land (196768)
- Ain’t Gonna Shuffle No More (1964 1972) and A Nation of Law (1968 1971)
Andy Goldsworthy: Rivers and Tides; 2004; 90 min; DVD
Arata Isozaki; 58 min
Art:21 Art in the 21st century; Season 1 & 2; 2003 PBS; 7.5 hours; DVD
Art of Indonesia: Tales from the Shadow World; 1990; 28 min
Arton’s Gandhi; 1985; 72 min
Arts of Ghana; 2002; 60 min; DVD
Bernini Architect: The Great Problem Solver; 1997; 30 min
Bernini Sculptor; 1996; 33 min
Beyond Utopia: Changing Attitudes in American Architecture; 58:29
Bone, Flesh, Skin: The Making of Japanese Lacquer; 14:12
Border Banjo; 1990; 52 min
Borromini: The Extraordinary Architecture of the Baroque; 1996; 35 min
Botticelli’s Calumny of Apelles; 12 min
Boudu: Saved From Drowning; 1932; 84 min; DVD
Bridging NY; 2002; 60 min
Brooklyn Bridge; 1981; 58 min
Building Big
- Domes; 2000; 60 min
- Dams; 2000; 60 min
- Skyscrapers
- Tunnels
- Bridges
CAPITAL OF EARTH: The Maroons of Moore Town; 1979; 40 min
Carlo Scarpa; 1997; 58 min
Chicago, City of the Century; 2003; 270 min/3 tapes
China Raising Vols IIII; 1996; 50 min each
Christo’s Valley Curtain; 1972; 28 min
Church and Mosque: Religious Architecture in Venice and Istanbul; 2001; 30 min
Cities for People
Cologne: Portrait of a Cathedral; 15 min
Compassion Exile: The Story of the 14h Dalai Lama
Damrell’s Fire; 2005; 57 min; DVD
David Hockney and Philip Haasi Day on the Grand Canal with the Emperor of China; 1991; 47 min
Deconstructivist Architects; 56:39
Diego Rivera: Portrait of an Artist; 1986; 35 min
Dorothea Lange; 1999; 13 min
Dream Window: Reflections on a Japanese Garden; 57 min
Exploring the Mandala; 1992
Feng Shui: The Chinese Art of Design and Placement Guide to Health, Wealth and Happiness; 1995; 60 min
Fire in the East; 1986; 28 min
FLW and the Story of the Guggenheim; 1993; 52 min
FLW: Falling Water; 1989;56 min
FLW: House on the Waterfall; 1989; 30 min
FLW: Portrait of an Artist; 1983; 75 min
Fontainebleau; 24 min
Forbidden City: The Great Within; 2002
Frank Gehry; 57 min
Frank Lloyd Wright: vols 111; 1998; 82 min
French AG; 41 min total
Frida Kahlo: Portrait of an Artist; 1983; 62 min
Gandhi; 1992; 25 min
Glories of Medieval Art: The Cloisters; 1989; 27 min
Greek Vases in the British Museum; 30 min
Griottes of the Sahel; 1991; 12 min
I’ll Sing for You; 2003; 73 min; DVD
I.M. Pei: First Person Singular; 1997; 90 min
Images of Korea; 17 min
Imperial Rome, Ostia, and Portus: Ancient Architecture and Technology; 2001; 59 min
Imperial Tombs of Urina; 60 min
Isamu Noguchi: Stones and Paper; 1997; 56 min
Jackson Pollock: Portrait of an Artist; 1987; 52 min
Japan Society “Shinto”; 50 min
Japan: 3 generations of AvantGarde architects; 59:10
Jim Dine: A Self Portrait on the Walls
Journal Graphic Charlie Rose; 60 min
Journey Through Ancient Pompeii; 2000; 31 min
Journey to Remote Japan; 60min
Kalachakra Mandala: A Virtual Journey through the Kalachakra Kosmos and its Mandala Palace on top of Mount Mezu; 1998; 7min
L’Atalante; 1934/2001; 87 min; DVD
Le Corbusier: Villa Savoye; 25 min
Leonardo da Vinci: The Mind of the Renaissance; 2002; 53 min
Living Memory: Six Sketches of Mali Today; 1993; 53 min; DVD
Manhatta; 9 min
Masai Manhood; 1991; 53 min
Masters of Illusion; 1991; 30 min
Mathematics of Architecture: Building By Nurbus; 1997; 25 min
Matsukaze
Meier; 58:37
Michelangelo Part One; 35 min
Mies: 58 min
Ming Garden; 1983; 28 min
Monet: Legacy of Light; 1990
Morocco, Body & Soul GNAOUAS; 1990; 26 min
Mount Koya
Mr. Oh: 4 Korean Calligraphers; 20:30 min
Musee du Louvre: Understanding a National Institution; 2001; 50 min
Mystic Vision, Saued Ast: The Tradition of Thargka Painting; 1996; 28 min
Myth, Man and Metal: Bronze Sculpture of Ancient Greece and Rome; 1996
Nam June Paik: Lessons from the Video Master by Skip Blumberg; 2007; 47:15 min; DVD
Nature Perfected; 1995; 112; 30 min/ each
- Paradise on Earth
- Ancient Spirits: China and Japan
- The Heritage of Rome
- Garlands of Repose
- Gardens of Conquest
- New Perspectives
- The Landscaping of England
- Moving On
- Glory and Grandeur
- The Machine and The Garden
- Grounds for Change
- The Genius of the Place
New Historic; 35 min
New York: A Documentary Film; 1999; 120 min
- The Country and the City
- Order and Disorder
- The Pioneer and the People
- Sunshine and Shadow
- Cosnopolis
New York: A Documentary Film; 2003; 180 min
- The Center of the World
Nigerian Art Kindred Spirits; 58 min
Nomads on the Savanna; 1994; 30 min
Nova: Saving the Sistine Chapel; 1988; 60 min
OM Ungers; 59:13
OPEN SCORE by Robert Rauschenberg; 2007; DVD
Palladio; 57 min
Pandora’s Box: The Roles of Women in Ancient Greece; 1995; 47:25
Philip Guston: A Life Lived; 59:02 min
Picasso: Magic Sex Death; 2001; 151 min; DVD
Pierodella Francesca; 10 min
Portrait of a Artist: Andy Warhol; 1987; 79 min
Postmodernism; 2001; 29 min
Ralph Erskine; 58:30
Renaissance: A Fresh Look at the Evolution of Artisan Art: The Pure Radiance of the Past: The Revival of Ancient Arch; 60 min
Reuzo Piano; 1998; 56 min
Riddle of the Dome: Florence Cathedral and Filippo Brunelleschi; 2001; 30 min
Robert Irwin: The Beauty of Questions
Robert Venturi and Denise ScottBrown; 58:14
Rome Revisited; 1995; 45 min
Rome: Art and Architecture Parts 1 and 2; 1994; 39/31 min
Running Fence; 1991; 59:21
Ruskin’s Journey: Teaching People to See; 2000; 48 min
Sand Painting: Sacred Art of Tibetan Buddhism; 1991; 27 min
Secrets of Lost Empires: Inca; 1997; 60 min
Secrets of Lost Empires; 1997; 60 min
- Obelisk
- Pyramid
- Stonehenge
- Coliseum
Shishu: Japanese Garden; 2001; 53 min; DVD
Sinking City of Venice; 2002; 60 min
Skyscraper: The Vertical Masterpiece; 1998; 44 min
Spiral Jetty
Stirling; 59:38
Tadao Ando; 59:07
The Big Dig
The Big Dig; 2002; 60 min
The Chicago World’s Fair of 1893; 1976; 16:30
The Death of an African King: The Funeral of the Omanhene of Takyiman; 90 min; DVD
The Frozen Music of FLW; 1989; 23 min
The Great Utopia: The Russian and Soviet AG, 19151932; 1992; 42 min
The Great Wall of China; 1997; 50 min
The Keys to Kingdom (19741980) and Back to the Movement (1979 min1980’s)
The Life and Times of Sara Baartman; 1998; 50 min; DVD
The Media and Palazzo Vecchio; 50 min; 1989
The Mende; 1991; 51 min
The Miracle of Palladio; 43 min
The Mystery of Picasso; 1956; 75 min; DVD
The Order: Cremaster 3; 2003; 120 min; DVD
The Quiltmakers of Gee’s Bend; 2004; 60 min; DVD
The Renaissance: Origins of the Modern West; 30 min each
- Episode 101 Machiavelli and the Media
- Episode 114 Beginnings of Modern Science
The Shock of the New Vol 4 of 8
The Silk Road II
1998; 150 min
- Across the Pamir
- In Search of Wisdom
- Beyond Baghdad
- The Soghdian Merchants
- Across the Karakum Desert
- All Roads Lead to Rome
The Silk Road
1990; 55 min
- Across the Taklamakan Desert
- The Art Gallery in the Desert
- A Heat Wave Called Turfan
- KhotanOasis of Silk and Jade
- Journey into MusicSouth Through the Tian Shun Mountains
1992; 55 min
- Glories of Ancient ChangAn
- Two Roads to the Pamirs
- The Dark Castle
- In Search of the Kingdom of LouLan
- A Thousand Kilometers Beyond the Yellow River
- Through the Tian Shan Mountains By Rail
The Tale of Genji; 1993; 60 min
The Tuareg; 1991; 60 min
The Universal International Exhibition, Paris; 1900; 25 min
The Wodaabe; 1990; 52 min
Thomas Jefferson: A Film by Ken Burns; 1996 2 tapes 3 hrs each
Tina in Mexico; 2002; 60 min
Treasures of the Sunken City: 1997; 60 min
Under the Roofs of Paris (Sous les Taits de Paris); 2002; 92 min; DVD
Unknown Eiffel; 28:28
Vincent; 1981; 88 min
William Kentridge: Drawing the Passing; 1999; 50 min
World’s Fair Archival Video, vol1: Ford and a Century of Progress, Scenes of the NY Worlds Fair for 1940; 29 min