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  1. Lost Garden, The: The Life and Cinema of Alice Guy-BlachÉ (1995 Video)

    Director
    Marquise Lepage
    Producer
    Josée Beaudet
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Hire (film) Sale (video), Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 53 min.

    Biography of Alice Guy-Blaché, the world’s first woman film-maker who, from the moment she saw the Lumière brothers’ first moving picture, fell in love with movies and progressed to director of all...

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  2. Nollywood Babylon (2010)

    Director
    Ben Addelman; Samir Mallal
    Subject
    Film studies; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 74 minutes), $ Canadian 59.95

    Nigeria’s film industry, Nollywood, is the third largest in the world—an unstoppable economic and cultural force that has taken the continent by storm and is now bursting beyond the borders of Africa....

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  3. In Darkest Hollywood: Cinema and Apartheid (1994 Video)

    Director
    Peter Davis; Daniel Riesenfeld
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, unknown), £28.00 (individual rate)

    Examines the role of cinema in both supporting and attacking apartheid. Questions Hollywood’s commitment to racial stereotypes and reluctance to depict black heroes. Uses archival film, discussion and...

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  4. Christopher’s Movie Matinée: Haphazard Adventures in Flower Power Cinema (1968)

    Director
    Mort Ransen
    Subject
    History; Social Studies

    In 1968, in Yorkville (Toronto), the NFB provided a group of hippies with cameras, film and a few NFB film crew members so they could make a film illustrating their lives and their world. The footage they...

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  5. Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary - Special Edition (2009)

    Director
    Pepita Ferrari
    Subject
    Film studies; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (97 minutes), $22.46

    From cinema-vérité pioneers Albert Maysles and Joan Churchill to maverick moviemakers like Errol Morris, Werner Herzog and Nick Broomfield, the world’s best documentarians reflect upon the unique power...

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  6. CinÉma VÉritÉ: Defining the Moment (1999 Video)

    Director
    Peter Wintonick
    Producer
    Eric Michel; Adam Symansky
    Subject
    Film studies; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 103 min., £19.99 (inc)

    A history of non-fiction films, looking at the pioneers, the techniques and the equipment. Considers the main influences on documentary film-making, and shows clips of cinéma vérité classics including...

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  7. Visions of Africa: Colonial Cinema I. Films from Central Africa, 1940s - 1960s (2012)

    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 56 minutes), £28.00 (individual rate)

    Collection of films mostly made by government of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, during the 1940s, 19550s, and 1960s. Contents include the following films: Mary’s Lucky Day (Lux toilet soap commercial); The Box...

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  8. Thunder Rock (1942 Film)

    Director
    Roy Boulting
    Producer
    John Boulting
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Feature film. A former political journalist, who feels helpless in the face of the rising tide of Fascism in the 1930s, becomes a lighthouse keeper in Canada. He is visited by the ghosts of immigrants from...

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  9. Rameau’s Nephew by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) By Wilma Schoen (2002)

    Subject
    Art; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL SECAM, 266 minutes), 27 Euros

    Each of Michael Snow’s works, spanning across painting, sculpture, video, film, photography, holography, drawing, publishing and music, invites the viewer to experience, question and contemplate the...

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  10. Out on a Limb: The Films of Caroline Leaf (1999 Video)

    Director
    Caroline Leaf
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 87 min., 1999 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

    A compilation of films by American animator Caroline Leaf. 1: (1974, 8 min). Based on an Inuit story, illustrates the folly of marrying a creature who is not of one’s own kind. Leaf worked with Inuit crew...

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