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ID # Title Film Type Playing Time Release Date Color or BW Description Keywords Volume Notes Links
272D
Mayas, Aztecs, and Incas
DVD
N/A
mermaid tales
N/A
493
Message, The: The Story of Islam: 2 parts
N/A
Islam
7
Metropolis
feature length film
120 min
1927
Color and B&W
Silent film fantasy of a futuristic city and its mechanized society.
20th century, Europe, Germany, industrialization, modern age, silent movies
silent film **This video is missing, October 17, 2006, also November 13, 2006, Feb. 7, 2007.
242D
Metropolis
feature length
82 min
Color and B&W
Silent film fantasy of a futuristic city and its mechanized society.
20th century, Europe, Germany, industrialization, modern age, silent movies
396
Metropolis: A Big Stink: City Sewer Systems
N/A
cities, industrialization, social history, urban history, urban life
395
Metropolis: Bright Lights, Big City
N/A
cities, industrialization, social history, urban history, urban life
397
Metropolis: Lights, Lines, and Heavy Fines
N/A
cities, industrialization, social history, urban history, urban life
635
Mill Times
video
60 min
Color and B&W
The animated story centers on a small New England community similar to Pawtucket, Rhode Island, where the first textile mill in America was established by Samuel Slater
18th century, 19th century, Industrial Revolution, Mill towns, New England, textiles, United States
290D
MindWalk
DVD
112 MIn
1990
Color
A film for passinate thinkers. A US politican visits his poet friend in Mont., St. Michael, France. While walking through the medieval island discussing their philosophies of life they happen upon Sonja, a scientist in recluse, who joins in their conversation. The two men listen to the ideas of this brilliant woman and discuss how her ideas can work in their own politician and poet lives.
brilliant woman., medieval island, Passionate thinkers. France, scientist in recluse, Sonja
613
Miracle Maker: The Story of Jesus
claymation
87 min
N/A
no description
Christianity
514
Miss America
documentary
96 min
2002
N/A
Follows the story of the Pageant from its beginnings in 1921, while exploring what it means to be an "ideal" American women. Combining rare archival footage and still photographs with never-before-seen live footage of the Pageant today, the film features on-camera interviews with a host of distinguished commentators including Gloria Steinem, William Goldman, Bess Meyerson, etc
20th century, beauty pageant, Gloria Steinem, United States, womens history
197D
Miss Bala
DVD
113 minutes
2011
Color
An aspiring beauty queen finds herself in the wrong place at the worst possible time in this explosive crime thriller set amid Mexico's increasingly violent drug war. After witnessing a shooting in a nighclub, the young woman is kidnapped and forced to work for ruthless gangsters in order to keep her dreams-and her family-alive.
Beauty queen, crimethriller, drug war, kidnapped., Mexico, nighclub, shooting
75
Mission, The
feature length film
125 min.
Color and B&W
A powerful epic about a man of the sword (Robert DeNiro) and a man of the cloth (Jeremy Irons) who unite to shield a South American Indian tribe from brutal subjugation by 18th century colonial empires
18th century, Catholic Church, colonization, indigenous tribes, missionaries, South America
259
Mississippi America
N/A
Documents an important chapter in the history of the Civil Rights Movement.
20th cnetury, African American history, Civil Rights Movement, Mississippi River, race relations, racial issues, racism, Southern history, U.S. history, United States
22
Mont St. Michel
documentary
56 min
Color and B&W
Documentary on Mont. St. Michel. Treasures of France series.
churches, Europe, France, Mont St. Michel, religion
Sure of France Series **This video is missing, October 17, 2006. Missing November 13, 2006, February 7, 2007.
27
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
feature length film
125 min.
Color and B&W
Frank Capra film starring Jimmy Stewart about corruption in Washington
Congress, Frank Capra, Jimmy Stewart, politics, U.S. history, Washington DC
264D
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
DVD
130 mins
1939
B&W
A small town idealist, Jefferson Smith (James Stewart) answers the call to duty when he is unexpectedly named to fill a vacant seat in the U.S. Senate. Determined to do some good, he sponsors a bill to create a national boy's camp, unaware it threatens to undermine a graft scheme sponsored by his home state's crooked political machine. Framed and threatened with expulsion, Jefferson takes to the Senate floor, where he attempts to prove his innocence in one of the most rousing climactic scenes in screen history.
politics, U.S. Senate
32
Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet
DVD
?
2002
Color and B&W
Tells the story of the seventh century prophet who changed world history in 23 year, and continues to shape the lives of more than 1.2 billion people.
7th century, Muslim, Prophet
**This dvd is missing from the department, 2/7/07.
544
Murder of Emmett Till
60 min
Color and B&W
Money, Mississippi, August 1955, a fourteen-year-old black boy whistled at a white woman. Not realizing he had broke the unwritten laws of Jim Crow South until three days later when two white men dragged him out of bed in the middle of the night beat him brutally then shot and killed him. The killers were arrested and charged but quickly acquitted by and all-white jury.
20th century, Jim Crow South, Mississippi, race relations, racism, Southern history, United States