To aid in the selection of video's for your class and research needs, we've created a large number of filmographies on many subject areas. If you'd like to suggest a new filmography or ask that an existing one be updated, please contact mediaservices@american.edu.
Anthropology and American Studies
Art and Art History
Business and Public Administration
Communications and Journalism
Economics
Education
Film Studies, Film Genres and National Cinema
Foreign Languages and Area and Regional Studies
Health and Fitness
History
International Service, US Foreign Policy and Peace and Conflict
Jewish Studies
Justice and Law
Literature
Math, Statistics and Computer Science
Performing Arts
Philosophy and Religion
Physical Sciences and Environmental Science
Political Science
Psychology
Sociology
Women's and Gender Studies
Titles available on DVD as of June 2011.
Includes films with combat and/or wartime settings.
This is a selective list of video holdings in the American University Library. Filmographies are created by doing multiple keyword searches in the ALADIN catalog to capture as many titles on a topic as possible. For complete up-to-date holdings (including VHS tapes) please refer to the library ALADIN catalog (www.catalog.wrlc.org)
Courage under fire. 2000. 1 videodisc (117 min.). "When Lt. Colonel Nathaniel Serling is asked to review the posthumous candidacy of the first woman to receive a Medal of Honor, he finds himself plunged into an apparent cover-up surrounding the actions that led to her death. As he struggles to uncover the truth, he also finds himself forced to confront his own tormenting demons."--Container. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 1904
Three kings. 2000. 1 videodisc (115 min.). Absurdly comic tale set after the end of the Gulf War. Three restless American foot soldiers left out of Operation Desert Storm's high-tech warfare go on a renegade mission to plunder $23 million in Iraqi gold stolen from Kuwait and become involved in a democratic uprising that spins their lives out of control. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 89