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Our Featured Video for November is The Best Years of Our Lives directed by William Wyler.
Call Number: PN1997.B425 2000
Summary: Recounts the problems faced by three returning veterans of WWII as they attempt to pick up the threads of their lives. Captain Derry is returning to a loveless marriage, Sergeant Stephenson is a stranger to a family that's grown up without him, and sailor Parrish is tormented by the loss of his hands.
Performers: Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo, Cathy O'Donnell, Hoagy Carmichael, Harold Russell, Gladys George, Roman Bohnen, Ray Collins, Victor Cutler.
Based on: Based on a novel by MacKinlay Kantor. The Library owns 5 titles by Kantor.
Awards: Academy Awards (1947): Honorary award (Russell), Best actor (March), Best director, Best film editing, Best music, Best picture, Best supporting actor (Russell), Best writing, screenplay.
American Film Institute Top 100 movies, 2007 (10th anniversary edition) - number 37.
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Mediagraphies
Our mediagraphies are subject specific lists of videos available at VC/UHV Library. Each video title links directly to our Catalog, so you can determine more about the item (such as: format, length, and find out if it is "checked in" and ready for use. Summaries and content notes are provided to help you determine if the video will be useful to you.
Feature Films
The Media Center has a large number of feature films. Mediagraphies link to Feature Films on DVD and Feature Films on VHS, as well as a comprehensive list.
American Film Institute
The VC/UHV Library collects the AFI's List of 100 Best Movies, which celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2007. We have recently updated our holdings by purchasing DVD copies of all 100 movies. To find movies from the list in our catalog, use the general keywords American Film Institue and then limit the results of your search by the VC/UHV Media Library from the pull-down menu of limits.
Use the link above in the second bullet to search our Catalog for the AFI's 100 Best Movies. You will actually get a list of 112 movies, because we have two versions of some and some titles from the 1997 list and the 2007 list.-
Academy Awards
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences came into being in 1927. It "is a professional honorary organization composed of over 6,500 filmmakers." This site contains a link to the official Academy Awards database. You can search this database by different indexes, including character, nominee, film title, award title, dance number, and more.
Independent Spirit Awards
The Independent Sprit Awards began in 1984 with an award called FINDIE (Friends of Independents) and changed to the Independent Spirit Awards in 1986. Many sites, including the Internet Movie Database, have lists of film festivals worldwide.
YouTube
One of the main places to go for video on the Internet is YouTube. First on the Internet in 2005, YouTube is for "watching, sharing, and commenting on videos."YouTube is a subsidiary of Google, and a Google search for YouTube allows you to search YouTube right from the results list. According to YouTube statistics, "every minute, ten hours of video is uploaded to YouTube."