| Boston University
Collection of Non-fiction Videos
Boston University owns a large collection
of non-fiction videos. These are held at the Krasker Library at
565 Commonwealth Avenue. They can be viewed there or rented out.
View as many as you can. Assignments, class work and grading are
based on the assumption that you will be responsible for your own
out of class viewing of documentaries to deepen your critical understanding
of the documentary form.
Well represented are classics of the silent era, of Robert Flaherty's
career, of the British documentary movement led by John Grierson
in the 1930s, and of films made in the same period in the United
States and Nazi Germany.
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Robert
Flaherty:
- Nanook
of the North
- Moana
- Elephant
Boy
- Man
of Aran
- The
Land
- Louisiana
Story
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John
Grierson's unit:
- Drifters
- Song
of Ceylon
- Industrial
Britain
- Housing
Problems
- Night
Mail
- Target
for Tonight
- Fires
Were Started
- A
Diary for Timoth
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Lorentz
and others:
- The
Plow that Broke the Plains
- The
River
- Power
and the Land (Ivens)
- The
Spanish Earth (Ivens)
- Native
Land (Frontier Films)
- Triumph
of the Will (Riefenstahl)
- Day
of Freedom (Riefenstahl)
- Battle
of Russia (Why We Fight)
- Memphis
Belle
- Report
From The Aleutians (Huston)
- San
Pietro
(Huston)
- Let
There Be Light (Huston)
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General
background:
- 90
Degrees South: With Scott to the Antarctic
- Grass:
A Nation's Battle for Life
- Chang:
A Drama of the Wilderness
- Simba:
The King of the Beasts
- The
Silent Enemy
- From
Stump to Ship
- Berlin,
Symphony of a City
- Rain
(Ivens)
- With
Byrd at the South Pole
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Anyone with a special interest in political propaganda in this period
may want to view The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl
(1993), directed by Ray Müller for, among others, the Second German
Television Network and Channel 4 Television in Britain.
Among television documentaries also well represented in Boston University's
Krasker collection are programs from The
American Experience , Nova
and Frontline
. The Library also holds both parts of the series Eyes on
the Prize, Vietnam: A Television History, all the Why
We Fight films made for American government in World War II,
the BBC series Civilisation, and two tapes of documentaries
made in the last years of the Soviet Union. Here are some other
individual titles from the extensive non-fiction collection:
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Aileen
Wuornos: The Selling ...
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The
Long Way Home
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America
Becoming
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The
Lost Archives (WW II in Color)
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The
Atomic Cafe
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Lost
on Everest (Nova)
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Before
We Knew Nothing
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Mein
Krieg (My Private War)
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Blood
of the Beasts
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Microcosmos
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The
Blue Planet
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My
America: or honk ...
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Broken
Noses
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Mystery
of the Master Builders
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Brother
Minister
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Night
and Fog
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Brother's
Keeper
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On
The Ropes
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Carmen
Miranda: Bananas...
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Paradise
Lost
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The
Champagne Safari
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Paris
is Burning
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Crumb
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Partisans
of Vilna
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Deadly
Currents
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People
of the Wind
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Dear
America
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The
Philippines: Life, Death ...
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Death
By Design
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Photo
Wallahs
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Death
in the West
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Radio
Bikini
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Defending
Our Lives
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Regret
to Inform
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Down
and Out in America
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Rosie
the Riveter (Life & Times of)
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The
Eye of the III Reich
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Roger
and Me
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Far
From Poland
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Secrets
of the Titanic
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The
Farm
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Schindler
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The
Farmer's Wife
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Sherman's
March
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Forest
of Bliss
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Shoah
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4
Little Girls
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Solovki
Power
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Gates
of Heaven
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Something
Strong Within
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Girl
Talk
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The
Sorrow and the Pity
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A
Great Day in Harlem
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Stranger
With A Camera
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Gustave
Caillebotte
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Streetwise
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Hands
on a Hard Body
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Suspended
Dreams
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Hard
Metals Disease
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Task
Force South
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Harlan
County USA
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Taking
Pictures
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Harvest
of Shame
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Teena
Brandon Story
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Hearts
and Minds
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The
Thin Blue Line
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Heidi
Fleiss: Hollywood Madam
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35
Up
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Hoop
Dreams
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Times
of Harvey Milk
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Hotel
Terminus
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The
Tourist
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Human
Events
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Trekkies
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I
Am Your Child
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The
Trouble with Evan
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Inside
Life Outside
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Troublesome
Creek
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In
the Blood
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Truth
or Dare
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In
the Land of the Deaf
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Twitch
and Shout
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In
the Name of God
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Umm
Kulthum, A Voice ...
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I
was Stalin's Bodyguard
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Unzipped
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Jackie
Robinson: Breaking ...
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Well
Founded Fear
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Jupiter's
Wife
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The
West of the Imagination
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Kim's
Story
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When
Mrs Hegarty ...
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Kurt
& Courtne
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When
We Were King
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Let's
Get Los
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Wild
Man Blue
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Lodz
Ghetto
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A
Year in a Life of Crime I & II
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Long
Night's Journey Into Day
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Yum,
Yum, Yum!
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Other Video Resources
- Boston Public Library
- Documentary Educational Resources
(Specializes in ethnographic videos)
Location: Watertown
Tel:: 617 926-0491
- Harvard University Film Archive
Address: the Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy St, Cambridge
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