Tolerance in Films
Education International (EI), the world's largest federation of educators, and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) created their Tolerance in Films list to aid teachers in the promotion of democracy, peace, human rights, and tolerance and respect for human rights. The list is comprised of 95 titles.
There are many other materials in our media collection related to tolerance that are not part of this list. To identify other titles, perform keyword searches (example: videorecording tolerance; videorecording diversity; videorecording human rights).
Fletcher Library's extensive media collection includes nearly all of the commercially available titles. The format (videodisc, videotape or DVD) of each available title is indicated by an image. Jump to the Alphabetical Listing of Titles: With Fletcher Library Holdings Noted, or consult the Key to Formats information.
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UNESCO Tolerance Titles Available at Fletcher Library
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A
- Akahige
- See Redbeard
- Al Ard [The Land/The Earth] (1969)
- In Arabic with English subtitle; based on the novel by Abdel Rahman al-Sharqawi.
- Alice in the Cities [Alice in den Stadten] (1974)
- Not commercially available and not owned by the ASU Libraries.
- A footloose 31-year-old journalist on the road from the United States to Europe finds himself with a new traveling companion: a precocious 9-year-old girl named Alice. See director Wim Wender's Alice in the Cities web-page.
- Andrei Roublev (1966)
West Media- Describes the horrors of the Dante-like journey of 15th century monk and icon painter, Andrei Roublev, into medieval Russia. (catalog record)
- Aniki Bobo (1995)
- Not commercially available and not owned by the ASU Libraries.
- Portuguese
- Attracta (1983)
- Not commercially available and not owned by the ASU Libraries.
- Irish
- Avanti Popolo (1988)
- Not commercially available and not owned by the ASU Libraries.
- Two Egyptian soldiers, Haled and Gassan, are stranded in the Sinai desert at the end of the Six Day War in 1967. This compelling and comical saga follows these soldiers' attempts to find safety and water. The pair encounter Israeli soldiers on patrol, and Haled, (an actor as a civilian) attempts a virtuoso performance of Shakespeare's Shylock. Eventually, the "enemies" stride across the sand singing "Avanti Popolo," an Italian revolutionary song whose words neither side understands. An intelligent and artistic satire on the absurdity of war
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B
- Bashu: The Little Stranger (1990)
- Title is being ordered for Fletcher Library.
- One of an increasing number of Iranian films arriving in the United States in the wake of the Ayatolla Khomeini's death, this deceptively simple tale of a young boy orphaned by the Iran-Iraq War was made under government sponsorship but banned, presumably for its pacifist sentiments. Bashu offers eloquent universal messages about racial tolerance and the strength of the family.
- The Battleship Potemkin [Bronenosec Potemkin] (1925)
PN1997 .B77x 1984 VIDEO West Media- A dramatic reenactment of the mutiny aboard the Russian battleship Potemkin in 1905. (catalog record)
- The Battleship Potemkin [Bronenosec Potemkin] (1925)
- PN1997 .B77x 1991 VIDEO West Media
- Recounts the mutiny of Russian sailors in 1905. Includes the Odessa Steps sequence, famous for its revolutionary film editing and cinematic montage. (catalog record)
- Beauty and the Beast [La Belle et La Bete] (1946)
- PN1997 .B364213x 1985 VIDEO West Media
- Dramatized adaptation of the classic fairy tale. Tells the fable of the kindly beast and the self-sacrificing beauty whose love releases the prince in him. (catalog record)
- Beirut oh Beirut! [Beyrouth ya Beyrouth] (1975)
- Not commercially available and not owned by the ASU Libraries.
- The Bicyle Thief [Ladri di Biciclette] (1948)
- PN1997 .L137x 1989 VDISC West Media
- An unemployed man in Rome finds a job as a bill poster for which he needs a bicycle. When the bicycle is stolen, he and his son search for the thief and finally end up stealing another bicycle. (catalog record)
- Bicylces Are For the Summer [Las Bicicletas Son Para el Verano] (1984)
- Not commercially available and not owned by the ASU Libraries.
- Based on the play by Fernando Fernán-Gómez, this story documents the daily life of a middle class family in Madrid, Spain throughout the civil war.
- Bila Nemoc [Power and the Glory; White Disease] (1937)
- Not commercially available and not owned by the ASU Libraries.
- The story pits against each other two worlds: a world of violence, and a world of tolerance. At the head of the first is the Marshal, a dictator intoxicated by power and glory; at the head of the other, Dr. Galen, a medical practitioner. Dr. Galen is backed only by his patients and the 'white disease' - an illness against which medical science is powerless. Dr. Galen is willing to give the world a drug against the infectious white disease provided that preparations for war are stopped, and succeeds only when the Marshal himself is infected with the disease
- Black Girl [La Noire de] (1965)
- Title is being ordered for Fletcher Library.
- A young Senegalese girl leaves to work for a European family in Antibes. The harsh treatment leads her to commit suicide.
- Black God, White Devil [Deus e o Diablo na Terra do Sol] (1964)
- Title is being ordered for Fletcher Library.
- In the barren sertăo of northeastern Brazil, a peasant -- seeking escape from poverty and hopelessness -- changes first into a fanatical priest and then a cangaceiro, a bandit hero.
- The Blood of the Condor [Yawar Mallku] (1969)
- Not commercially available and not owned by the ASU Libraries.
- A dramatization of an actual incident which involved charges of sterilization of Quechuan Indian women without their consent as part of a birth control program administered by the United States Peace Corps.
- The Boy With Green Hair (1948)
- Title is being ordered for Fletcher Library.
- A young child sits quietly at the police station, unwilling to answer questions about himself or how he lost his hair. But when he finds out that his parents are killed in an air raid, his hair turns green. While the townspeople label him as an outcast, fellow war orphans stand behind him, encouraging Peter to turn his green hair into a symbol of the futility of war.
- Bread and Chocolate [Pane e Cioccolata] (1973)
- Title is being ordered for Fletcher Library.
- A comic but poignant portrait of an Italian immigrant working odd jobs in prosperous Switzerland and trying desperately to fit in. Though his work becomes increasingly degrading, he tenaciously refuses to give up and go home. This hapless Everyman is eternally rejected yet ever-hopeful.
- Bronenosec Potemkin
- See Battleship Potemkin
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C
- Camila (1984)
- PN1997 .C36x 1995 VIDEO West Media
- Recounts the true story of a young Catholic socialite from Buenos Aires, Camila O'Gorman, who falls in love and runs away with a young Jesuit priest, Ladislao Gutierrez, in 1847. Eventually they are found and executed by the repressive government. (catalog record)
- A Carnival in Flanders [La Kermesse heroique] (1935)
- Not commercially available and not owned by the ASU Libraries.
- Tongue-in-cheek from start to finish, the story satirizes a favorite wartime theme, the daring and resourcefulness of citizens threatened by invaders. Set in Spanish-occupied Belgium in 1616, the film is noted for its subtle humor, witty acting and magnificent decor.
- Chronicle of the Indians of Quebec [Chronique des Indiens du Quebec]
- Not commercially available and not owned by the ASU Libraries.
- The Citadel [El Kalaa] (1990)
- Not commercially available and not owned by the ASU Libraries.
- Arabic
- City Lights (1931)
- PN1995.9 .C55 C58x 1992 VIDEO West Media
- A tramp wins the love of a blind flower girl and attempts to obtain money from a millionaire to help her regain her sight. (catalog record)
- Cry Freedom (1987)
- Title is being ordered for Fletcher Library.
- Story of Black activist Stephen Biko and a liberal white newspaper editor Donald Woods who risks his own life to bring Biko's message to the world.
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D
- A Dance For Heroes
- See Finzan
- December Bride (1990)
- Title is being ordered for Fletcher Library.
- Set in Ireland at the turn of the century December Bride is the story of a young woman who takes two brothers as her lovers.
- The Defiant Ones (1958)
- Title is being ordered for Fletcher Library.
- Joker Jackson and Noah Cullen are two convicts on the run. Escaping from a Southern work gang, the two men are bound together by an unbreakable iron chain and separated by an unbridled hatred towards the other
- Deja S'Envole la Fleur Maigre (1960)
- Not commercially available and not owned by the ASU Libraries.
- From Belgium.
- The Deliverance
- See Sadgati
- Der Letze Mann [The Last Laugh] (1925)
- Title is being ordered for Fletcher Library.
- The story of a hotel doorman who is suddenly and summarily demoted because of his age.
- Der Junge Törless
- See Young Törless
- Destiny [Der mud Tode] (1921)
- Title is being ordered for Fletcher Library.
- In a middle-European village a century ago, Death takes a young man just before he is to be married. His lover seeks out the Death figure and pleads with him for her fiance's life. Filled with pity for her, he promises to return her fiance if she can save even one of three lives about to flicker out.
- Deus e o Diablo na Terra do Sol
- See Black God, White Devil
- Die Ehe der Maria Braun
- See The Marriage of Maria Braun
- Dolina Miru
- See Valley of Peace
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E
- E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
- PN1997 .E226x 1988 VIDEO West Media
- A story of a lost alien who befriends a 10-year-old boy named Elliott. (catalog record)
- El Espiritu de la Colmenta
- See The Spirit of the Beehive
- El Kalaa
- See The Citadel
- Elise ou La Vraie Vie [Elise or the Real Life] (1970)
- Not commercially available and not owned by the ASU Libraries.
- Based on the 1967 book by Claire Ethcerelli; focused on the impact of the Algerian war on France.
- Enamorada (1946)
- Title is being ordered for Fletcher Library.
- A rebel general is deeply in love with the daughter of a wealthy landowner. She sees him as far beneath her in social status and so taunts and tricks him until he lashes out at her in anger. Later, the rebel general seeks her forgiveness, but is interrupted in his pursuit of her as government troops are determined to drive the rebels out or have the general's life, and the wealthy landowner's daughter prepares to wed someone else. Based loosely on Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew."
- Europe '51 [Europa '51] (1952)
- Title is being ordered for Fletcher Library.
- An American society woman living in Rome seeks vainly for truth in the chaotic post-war and is committed to an asylum by her husband.
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- Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
- PN1997 .F347x 1992 VIDEO West Media
- Montag, a regimented fireman in charge of burning the forbidden volumes, meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. Suddenly he finds himself a hunted fugitive, forced to choose not only between two women, but between personal safety and intellectual freedom. (catalog record)
- The Falling Leaves [Guiorgobistve Listopad] ()
- Title is being ordered for Fletcher Library.
- Family Life (1971)
- Title is being ordered for Fletcher Library.
- Portarait of a confused young girl whose boyfriend tries to rescue her from an unsympathetic and destructive family.
- Finzan [A Dance For Heroes] (1990)
- Title is being ordered for Fletcher Library.
- Tells the story of two women's rebellion. Nanyuma, a young widow, refuses her brother-in-law, the village fool, when he asserts his traditional right to "inherit" her. Fili, a young girl sent from the city by her conservative father, is brutally circumcised by the village women who are scandalized that she resists the age-old custom.
- For Fun
- See Zhao le
- Forbidden Games [Jeux Interdits] (1952)
- PN1997 .J4448x 1988 VDISC West Media
- When a young Parisian girl is orphaned during WW2, she is taken in by a peasant family. She develops a friendship with their youngest son and together they share a world which adults cannot understand. (catalog record)
- Fresa y Chocolate [Strawberry and Chocolate] (1995)
- Title is being ordered for Fletcher Library.
- With the help of two new friends, a young man learns everything there is to know about things not taught in school.
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G
- Gandhi (1982)
- PN1997 .G3144 1990 VIDEO v.1-2 West Media
- Chronicles the life of Mahatma Ghandi beginning with his political activities in South Africa during the late 1890's and ending with his assassination at the hands of a Hindu extremist in 1948. Shows the development of his philosophy of non-violence as he leads the people of India to independence from the British. (catalog record)
- Germania, Anno Zero [Germany, Year Zero] (1947)
- Title is being ordered for Fletcher Library.
- A young boy kills his sickly father and then, unable to live with his action, kills himself. Set in ruined Berlin shortly after World War II.
- The Goat Horn
- See Koziat Rog
- God's Gift
- See Wend Kuuni
- Golden Age [L'Age D'Or] (1930)
- PN1995.9 .C55 A38x 1990 VIDEO West Media
- Surrealistic comedy about two lovers who mock convention and the society intent on preventing them from satisfying their desire. (catalog record)
- The Grand Illusion [La Grande Illusion] (1938)
- PN1997 .G68x 1988 VIDEO West Media
- A classic tale of adventure. Duty and honor conflict in a German prisoner of war camp during World War I, when an aristocratic French officer becomes friends with the commandant yet must cooperate with his comrades in a daring escape. (catalog record)
- Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
- PN1997 .G78x 1986 VIDEO West Media
- An interracial marriage causes both sets of parents to examine each other's level of intolerance. (catalog record)
- Guiorgobistve Listopad ()
- See The Falling Leaves
- The Guns
- See Os Fuzis
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H
- Halk al-Wad
- See A Summer in La Goulette
- He Who Sings Means No Harm [Who Sings Means No Harm]; [Tko Pjeva Zlo Ne Misli] (1970)
- A heart-warming story situated in Zagreb in 1930 talks of life, love and human relations, as seen through the eyes of 6-years old Perica.
- Heimat: A Chronicle (1984)
- Title is being ordered for Fletcher Library.
- A massive chronicle of life in Germany, from 1919 to 1982, as reflected in the fluctuating fortunes of the members of one family, initially peasant-farmers, in the fictitious village of Schachbach in the Rhineland. An extraordinary succession of mostly ordinary events and characters--history seen from ground level--vividly acted by a huge cast of both professional and nonprofessional actors.
- The Holy Innocents
- See Los Santos Inocentes
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I
- I Was Born, But... [Where Are the Dreams of Youth?]; [Umarete wa Mita Keredo] (1932)
- Title is being ordered for Fletcher Library.
- A young father's promotion brings his family to his boss's neighborhood in the suburbs. But it is less rewarding to his sons who are bullied by neighborhood ruffians and feel humiliated by their father's public submission to his boss.
- In the Heat of the Night (1967)
- PN1997 .H4779 1998 VIDEO West Media
- While traveling in the deep south, Virgil Tibbs, a black Philadelphia homicide detective, becomes unwittingly embroiled in a murder case when he is first accused of the crime, and then asked to solve it! Finding the killer proves to be difficult, especially when his efforts are constantly thwarted by the ignorant and bigoted town sheriff. But neither man can solve this case alone. Putting aside their differences and prejudices, they join forces in a desperate race against time to discover the shocking truth. (catalog record)
- Intolerance: Love's Struggle Through the Ages (1916)
- PN1997 .I58x 1990 VIDEO v.1-2 West Media
- Silent, with English subtitles and original organ score.
- Switches back and forth between four separate stories from Babylonian times to the twentieth century to show humanity's inhumanity and intolerance through the ages. (catalog record)
- Iracema (1975)
- Title is being ordered for Fletcher Library.
- In addition to the conflict between economic development and the environment, the development of the Amazon region has also affected the lifestyle and culture of the people. We see this conflict through the eyes of a young truck-driver known as Tiao Great Brazil and a 15-year-old girl Iracema. In their travels along the Transamazon Highway they encounter many people who seek to improve their economic lot despite the power of the landlords and developers. The lyrics of the songs, stressing Brazil's great wealth and growing prosperity, are in sharp contrast to Iracema's decline into prostitution, profanity, violence, alienation, and aimlessness.
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J
- Jeux Interdits
- See Forbidden Games
- Johnny Guitar (1954)
- PN1997 .J48x 1995 VIDEO West Media
- When the railroad finally comes to a frontier boomtown, so does trouble. An enterprising business woman not only controls the nearby profitable gambling, she's also been buying up enough property to make her the most powerful person in town. Her arch rival sets out to stop her and force her out of town. The arrival of Johnny Guitar, delays, but cannot prevent, a violent showdown between the two power-hungry women. (catalog record)
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K
- Kes (1969)
- Not commercially available and not owned by the ASU Libraries.
- Chronicles the boyhood experiences of Billy, son of a northern miner whose expectations lead no further than following his father into the pits when he reaches manhood. The northern way of life and the general atmosphere of depression in the smoky mining towns are magnificently evoked. Billy himself is a very ordinary child, doing the morning paper round, reading Desperate Dan on the way to school and playing football. Everything changes when he finds Kes, an injured Kestrel who he nurses and cherishes back to health. Kes becomes Billy's bestfriend and the boy's obsession with learning the ways of the hawk at last give him a purpose and the once empty landscape assumes new dimensions. Tragedy, howefer, awaits as Billy and Kes are forced to face reality.
- Koinoniki Sapila [Social Decline] (1932)
- Not commercially available and not owned by the ASU Libraries.
- Koziat Rog [The Goat Horn] (1972)
- Title is being ordered for Fletcher Library.
- A tale of vengeance set during the days of Turkish dominance (17th century). A goat herder leaves his wife and child to raze in the mountains. During his absence, the wife is raped and murdered by a gang of invaders. The herder returns to raise and train the daughter to avenge the death of her mother.
- Kradetsat na Praskovi [The Peach Thief] (1964)
- Not commercially available and not owned by the ASU Libraries.
- A wife of a Bulgarian Army officer falls in love with a Serbian prisoner at the end of World war II.
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L
- L'Albero Degli Zoccoli
- See The Tree of Wooden Clogs
- L'Age d'Or
- See Golden Age
- La Belle et La Bete
- See Beauty and the Beast
- La Grande Illusion
- See Grand Illusion
- La Kermesse Heroique
- See A Carnival in Flanders
- La Noire de
- See Black Girl
- La Strada
- See The Road
- La Strategia del Ragno
- See The Spider's Stratagem
- Ladri di Biciclette
- See The Bicycle Thief
- The Land/The Earth
- See Al Ard
- Largo Viaje [A Long Journey] (1990s)
- Not commercially available and not owned by the ASU Libraries.
- Chronicles a young Chilean boy's experiences.
- Las Bicicletas Son Para el Verano
- See Bicycles Are For the Summer
- The Last Laugh
- See Der Letzte Mann
- Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
- PN1997 .L383x 1989 VDISC West Media
- The story of T.E. Lawrence, the heroic and troubled man who organized the Arab nations to fight the Turks in World War I and then, having reached a pinnacle of power in Mideast politics, retired to postwar military obscurity. (catalog record
- Le Corbeau
- See The Raven
- A Long Journey
- See Largo Viaje
- Los Olvidados [The Young and the Damned] (1950)
- PN1997 .O425x 1989 VIDEO West Media
- Systematically resists conventional solutions to juvenile delinquency and poverty in order to dramatize the need for more radical solutions. Characters are treated as morally responsible human beings. (catalog record)
- Los Santos Inocentes [The Holy Innocents] (1984)
- Not commercially available and not owned by the ASU Libraries.
- A rural Spanish family dreams of rising out of poverty and changing their life of subordination.
- Love's Struggle Through the Ages
- See Intolerance: Love's Struggle Through the Ages
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M
- Man of Ashes
- See [Rih as-sid]
- The Marriage of Maria Braun [Die Ehe der Maria Braun] (1978)
- PN1997 .E3643 1992 VIDEO West Media
- This allegorical story of post-war Germany revolves around a young woman as she strives for material wealth while ignoring human values. (catalog record)
- A Matter of Life and Death
- See Stairway to Heaven
- Muna Moto [Somebody Else's Child] (1975)
- Not commercially available and not owned by the ASU Libraries.
- This film of extraordinary artistic maturity is a reflection on power systems in Africa, the loss of traditional values and the recent primacy of money.
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- Night and Fog [Nuit et Brouillard] (1955)
- D805 .G3 W632x 1983 VIDEO West Media
- French with English subtitles.
- Award winning documentary using actual black and white footage shot inside Hitler's concentration camps. (catalog record)
- Noce en Galilee
- See Wedding in Galilee
- Nuit et Brouillard
- See Night and Fog
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O
- Oka Dorie Katha [The Outsiders]
- Not commercially available and not owned by the ASU Libraries.
- Os Fuzis [The Guns] (1964)
- Not commercially available and not owned by the ASU Libraries.
- A group of soldiers in Bahia descend on a small town to defend a food warehouse from the starving local population.
- The Outsiders
- See Oka Dorie Katha
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P
- Pane e Cioccolata
- See Bread and Chocolate
- Pather Panchali
- See The Song of the Little Road
- Paths of Glory (1957)
- PN1997 .P3675x 1999 VIDEO West Media
- During World War I on the French front, a Colonel is asked by the French General Staff to take a hill at any cost. After the mission is a disaster, the Genrals order the arrest of three soldiers for cowardice and the Colonel defends them. (catalog record)
- The Peach Thief
- See Kradetsat na Praskovi
- Philadelphia (1993)
- PN1997 .P4822x 1994 VDISC West Media
- Story of two lawyers who join together to sue a prestigious Philadelphia law firm when the firm fires one of them because he has AIDS. (catalog record)
- Pixote: Survival of the Weakest [Pixote: a Lei do Mais Fraco] (1981)
- PN1997 .P524x 1997 VIDEO West Media
- A realistic dramatization of the brutal underworld inhabited by Brazil's unwanted children, based on the novel Infancia dos mortos by Jose Louzeiro. (catalog record)
- Power and the Glory
- See Bila Nemoc
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Q
- No film whose title begins with the letter "Q" was selected by UNESCO.
R
- Raining Stones
- Title is being ordered for Fletcher Library.
- A man on government assistance will do anything to take care of his family, even if it is beyond the law.
- The Raven [Le Corbeau] (1943)
- Title is being ordered for Fletcher Library.
- A mysterious letter writer terrorizes a small French town.
- Redbeard [Akahige] (1965)
- Title is being ordered for Fletcher Library.
- A vain young doctor learns a valuable lesson from the dedicated director of a clinic for destitute patients
- Rih as-sid [Man of Ashes] (1986)
- Title is being ordered for Fletcher Library.
- Like any groom, Hachemi is anxious about his approaching marriage, but not for the usual reasons. Anonymous alleyway graffiti challenging the manliness of his best friend, Farfat, overshadow the upcoming ceremony. Hachemi's concern is for himself as well as his friend, because he and Farfat share a childhood secret: as apprentices they were both molested by Ameur, the carpenter who trained them. While Farfat makes plans to run away to Tunis, a nervous Hachemi makes a more personal journey of self-discovery.
- The Road [La Strada] (1954)
- PN1997 .S7743 1992 VIDEO West Media
- The story of a slow-witted innocent who falls for an abusive circus strongman. (catalog record)
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S
- Sacco e Vanzetti [Sacco and Vanzetti] (1971)
- Title is being ordered for Fletcher Library.
- Drama about the 1921 Massachusetts trial and execution of two Italian-American immigrant anarchists for murder.
- Sadgati [The Deliverance] (1981)
- Not commercially available and not owned by the ASU Libraries.
- A peasant of the Untouchable caste who does odd jobs for a wealthy landowner is ordered by the landowner to chop up a large tree trunk with an axe. Working in full sun, hungry and malnourished, the peasant dies while doing the job, and his body just lies by the road used by the villagers. What can be done with the dead body no one will touch? Come nightfall, shielded from view, the landowner takes it upon himself to drag the body by a rope to a public charnel ground. View images of the movie, courtesy of the SatyajitRay.Org web-site.
- Sergeant Jim
- See Dolina Miru
- Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
- See Tini Zabutykh Predkiv
- Shoah (1985)
- D810 .J4 S48x 1986 VIDEO v.1-5 & guide West Media
- Dialogue in original languages; English subtitles.
- The Nazi extermination of Jews is examined through interviews of survivors, witnesses and perpetrators and through footage of the sites of the death camps and environs as they appear today. Those interviewed include Jewish survivors of the death camps and the Warsaw ghetto uprising, Polish farmers and villagers who lived near the camps and Nazis who worked in the camps and the ghettos. (catalog record)
- Shunko (1960)
- Not commercially available and not owned by the ASU Libraries.
- Argentinean
- Smultronstallet
- See Wild Strawberries
- Social Decline
- See Kinoniki Sapila
- Somebody Else's Child
- See Muna Moto
- The Song of the Little Road [Pather Panchali] (1952-1955)
- Title is being ordered for Fletcher Library.
- Story of a rural family cursed with bad luck. Father Hari is a dreamer and poet, while his hard-working wife struggles to feed the family. But Durga, a free-spirited and petty thief, brings tragedy to the family in a moment's carelessness.
- South [Sur]
- Not commercially available and not owned by the ASU Libraries.
- A love affair set against the background of contemporary Argentinian politics.
- The Spider's Stratagem [La Strategia del Ragno] (1970)
- Title is being ordered for Fletcher Library.
- Revisiting the village in the Po Valley where a man was murdered by Fascists in 1936, reveals the man was a traitor executed by his own men.
- The Spirit of the Beehive [El Espiritu de la Colmenta] (1973)
- PN1997 .E837x 1988 VIDEO West Media
- Spanish with English subtitles.
- A moving and poetic journey into the haunted world of a child's inner life. (catalog record)
- Stairway to Heaven [A Matter of Life and Death] (1947)
- Title is being ordered for Fletcher Library.
- During World War II, an English pilot survives a jump from his burning plane due to an angel's incompetence. Caught in a nether world between heaven and Earth, and in love with an American radio operator, he must plead his case before a heavenly tribunal.
- Strawberry and Chocolate
- See Fresa y Chocolate
- A Summer in La Goulette [Halk al-Wad] (1995)
- Title is being ordered for Fletcher Library.
- Set in 1967 just prior to the outbreak of the Six Day War
- Sur
- See South
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T
- Teorema [Theorem] (1969)
- PN1997 .T416x 1988 VIDEO West Media
- Italian with English subtitles.
- A mysterious young man visits the family of a wealthy Italian industrialist. The film raises questions concerning the nature of faith in contemporary society. (catalog record)
- Ti Ekanes Ston Polemo Thanassi
- See What did You Do in the War, Thanassis?
- Tini Zabutykh Predkiv [Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors]; [Wild Horses of Fire] (1965)
- Title is being ordered for Fletcher Library.
- The heartbreaking story of Ivan and Marichka, whose love blooms, only to brutally die, in the remote Carpathian Mountains of medieval Russia.
- Tko Pjeva Zlo Ne Misli
- See He Who Sings Means No Harm
- To Vlemma tou Odissea
- See Ulysses' Gaze
- The Tree of Wooden Clogs [L'Albero Degli Zoccoli] (1978)
- PN1997 .A32225x 1990 VIDEO West Media
- Italian with English subtitles.
- Deceptively simple tale of a small community of peasants in Italy at the turn of the century. It follows four families through the seasons, and shows the seemingly small events that influence their lives and the love they feel for the land and their families. (catalog record)
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- Ulysses' Gaze [To Vlemma Tou Odissea] (1995)
- Title is being ordered for Fletcher Library.
- A Greek-American director travels in the Balkans in search of lost reels of film shot by the Manakia brothers, pioneers of cinema. Along the way he encounters the conflict still raging in the Balkan states
- Umarete wa Mita Keredo
- See I Was Born, But...
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- Valley of Peace [Sergeant Jim]; [Dolina Miru] (1995)
- Not commercially available and not owned by the ASU Libraries.
- A group of run-away war orphans in search of a mythical peaceful valley befriend an African American aviator who has crashed behind enemy lines.
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W
- The Way
- See Yol
- Wedding in Galilee [Noce en Galilee] (1987)
- PN1997 .N56x 1989 VIDEO West Media
- In Arabic and Hebrew with English subtitles.
- The elder of a Palestinian village in Israel is given permission to hold a traditional wedding for his son on the condition that the Israeli military governor and his staff be guests of honor at the ceremony. (catalog record)
- Wend Kuuni: Le Don de Dieu [God's Gift] (1982)
- Title is being ordered for Fletcher Library.
- A mute foundling is raised in an African village by a weaver and his family. The mute regains his powers of speech only after a shock, then reveals his origins and reasons for dumbness.
- What did You Do in the War, Thanassis [Ti Ekanes Ston Polemo Thanassi] (1971)
- Not commercially available and not owned by the ASU Libraries.
- Greek
- Where Are the Dreams of Youth?dt>
- See I Was Born, But...
- White Disease
- See Bila Nemoc
- Who Sings Means No Harm
- See He Who Sings Means No Harm
- Wild Strawberries [Smultronstallet] (1957)
- PN1997 .S62x 1991 VDISC West Media
- Swedish with English subtitles.
- A distinguished professor emeritus who lives alone with his housekeeper can only come to terms with his egocentricity by traveling back in time to his earliest youth, finding there the seeds of his failure as husband, lover, father. This film deals with the phenomena of old age wherein childhood memories return with ever-increasing clarity while great stretches of the prime of life vanish into obscurity. (catalog record)
- Wild Horses of Fire
- See Tini Zabutykh Predkiv
- Willy Reilly and His Colleen Bawn (1920)
- Not commercially available and not owned by the ASU Libraries.
- Adaptation of William Carleton's book "Willy Reilly and His Dear Colleen Bawn." The main story is the love of a Catholic gentleman for a Protestant heiress.
- A World Apart (1988)
- Title is being ordered for Fletcher Library.
- Barbara Hershey plays a journalist in South Africa in 1963. When she defies the government on apartheid, she becomes the first white woman arrested under the 90-day Detention Act.
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- No film whose title begins with the letter "X" was selected by UNESCO.
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- Yaaba
- Title is being ordered for Fletcher Library.
- A young girl and her cousin Bila happen upon an old witch outcast by their village many years before. Although forbidden by his parents to have any contact with the old lady, Bila is drawn to her mystique and the fear she brings to the village.
- Yawar Mallku
- See The Blood of the Condor
- Yol [The Way] (1983)
- Title is being ordered for Fletcher Library.
- A portrait of modern Turkey as seen through the eyes of five prisoners granted furlough to visit their families.
- The Young and the Damned
- See Los Olvidados
- Young Törless [Der Junge Törless] (1966)
- Title is being ordered for Fletcher Library.
- At an Austrian boys boarding school in the early 1900s, shy, intelligent Toörless observes the sadistic behavior of his fellow students, doing nothing to help a victimized classmate until the torture goes too far.
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- Zhao le [For Fun] (1900s)
- Not commercially available and not owned by the ASU Libraries.
- Old Mr. Han retired from his receptionist job at the Chinese opera theatre. While in the park one day he ran into a bunch of old folks singing Chinese opera for fun. Han joined them and helped them organize a club and participate in the local festival. While the group becomes bigger and more formal, conflicts begin between the members, and they soon grow tired of Han's bossy way of running the group. Han resigns from the group, but soon realizes that he needs them as much as they need him.
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