Please find a list of new media acquisitions below. A number of these films were suggested for purchase by John Jay faculty members. We welcome your purchase requests online at www.lib.jjay.cuny.edu/info/video/purchase_request.asp. To reserve a film for classroom screening, please complete our online reservation form at www.lib.jjay.cuny.edu/info/video/reservation.asp. You can also borrow films directly from the library's circulation desk.

Film: Key of G

Arnold, R. (Director & Producer). (2007). The key of G. Follows Gannet ("G"), a 22-year-old with Mowat-Wilson syndrome, as he leaves his mother's home to live with a group of artists and musicians who support him. DVD-731

Barbosa, P. & Lenoir, G. (Directors). (2004). I exist: Voices from the Middle Eastern lesbian & gay community. This documentary explores individual journeys of lesbian and gay people of Middle Eastern cultures living in the United States, including the cultural and religious challenges that many endure. DVD-764

Berliner, A., McGrath, J., & Pierreux, J. (Producers). (1997). Ma vie en rose. Six-year-old Ludovic believes he was meant to be a little girl. He expects this error to be corrected, but instead finds only rejection, isolation and guilt--as the intense reactions of family, friends, and neighbors strip away every innocent lace and bauble. DVD-723.

Braverman, C. (Director & Producer). (2008). Abused. The emotionally charged story of Susan Greenberg who, at 19, killed her abusive boyfriend. After 19 years in prison, she sought to have her sentence overturned based on a California state law that allows women convicted of murder to ask a judge for release based on evidence of "Battered Woman Syndrome."DVD-766

Braverman, M. (Director), & Braverman, C. (Producer). (2006). A revolving door. Thirty-three year old Tommy Lennon is struggling with mental affliction and drug addiction. This film focuses on Tommy's struggles and his family's frustration, helplessness, courage and resilience. For 10 years he is stuck in a revolving door of homelessness, drug abuse, mental institutions and jail. DVD-767

Forster, M.(Director). (2008). The kite runner.
Two childhood friends, Amir and Hassan, are torn apart in the aftermath of a kite-fighting tournament. One boy's fearful act of betrayal sets in motion a quest for redemption. After twenty years of living in America, Amir returns to a perilous Taliban-ruled Afghanistan to face the secrets that still haunt him and to take one last daring chance to set things right. DVD-719

Fosse, B. (Director), & Feuer, C. (Producer). (1972). Cabaret.
An egocentric American girl dreams of becoming a star while working in a third-rate Berlin cabaret. DVD-706

Fosse, B. (Director), & Aurthur, R.A. (Producer). (1979). All that jazz.
Based on director Bob Fosse's own extravagant life, this film follows Fosse's alter ego, Joe Gideon (Roy Scheider), in his relentless pursuit of sex, drugs and self-destruction. DVD-709

Glover, J. (Producer). (2008). Unchained memories: Readings from the slave narratives.
Narrated by Whoopi Goldberg with readings by Oprah Winfrey, Ossie Davis and others, this film captures selections from the Slave Narrative Collection, a collection which consists of over 2,000 interviews conducted from 1936 to 1938 with former slaves. DVD-725

Governors State University. (Producer). (2000). Motivational interviewing with William R. Miller.
Lewis and Carlson talk to William Miller about motivational interviewing and how it is designed to help people resolve their ambivalence about changing addictive behaviors. Includes footage of an actual counseling session. DVD-761

Greenwald, R. (Director & Producer). (2004). Outfoxed.
Examines Rupert Murdoch's Fox News Channel (FNC) and its conservative bias in news reporting practices. Includes interviews with former Fox News employees and examines some of the inter-office memos these former employees received. DVD-730

Haroun, M.S. (Director). (2006). Daratt.
Sixteen year old Atim is hired as an apprentice baker by the man who is responsible for the death of his father and who Atim has been sent to kill in revenge. DVD-720

Film: Fatherhood Dreams

Hermannsson, J. (Producer). (2005). The outlaw.
Based on the Icelandic Gísla saga, The Outlaw (Utlaginn) details a blood feud that took place in Viking times. DVD-759

Hill, I. (Producer & Director). (2007). Brooklyn matters.
Exposes how the Atlantic Yards development proposal is being pushed forward by powerful real estate interests and politicians by evading local laws and manipulating community participation.DVD-732

Ivanova, J. (Director & Executive Producer). (2002). Fatherhood dreams.
Documents the lives of four gay men who have always wanted to be dads, and examines the challenges they encounter in realizing their dreams. DVD-728

Jamal, M. (Director). (1993). Women and Islam.
Features Leila Ahmed, professor of women's studies at Amherst. Ahmed challenges prevailing views about Islam and the role of Muslim women. She also explains the origin of the veil and discusses marriage and women's rights within marriage. DVD-700

Jarmusch, J. (Director & Producer). (1991). Night on earth.
Five cities, five taxis, and a group of strangers make for an interesting night. A collection of 5 stories that span continents, time zones, and languages. DVD-760

Kamal-Eldin, T. (Producer). (1999). Hollywood harems.
Examines Hollywood stereotypes of the East, particularly of the Middle East and the depiction of women. DVD-634

Kennedy, R. (Director & Producer). (2007). Ghosts of Abu Ghraib.
Investigates the political decisions and psychological environment that led to the torture of Iraqi detainees in 2003. Includes interviews with the victims and the guards involved. DVD-724

Kusturica, E. (Director). (2005). When father was away on business.
A six-year-old boy tells his version of why his father could not stay with his family in post-WWII Yugoslavia. In reality, the father has gone to prison for romancing the lover of a high-ranking party member. DVD-708

Leder, M. (Director). (2001). Pay it forward.
When a young man starts "paying it forward" for a social studies project, unusual things happen in this bittersweet and uplifting tale. DVD-722

Lewis, A. (Director & Producer), & Klein, N. (Producer). The take.
Explores how Argentina's 2001 economic collapse, where a prosperous middle-class economy was destroyed during 10 years of IMF policies, impacted the lives of ordinary workers. DVD-677

Mastropolo, F. & Varney, A. (Producers). (2007). Race and sex: What we think but can't say.
John Stossel reports on popular beliefs and views of psychologists which assert that stereotyping is a natural and automatic human process. DVD-762

Newsreel. (Producer). (1971). El pueblo se levanta.
This film captures the compassion and militancy of the Young Lords as they implemented their own health, educational, and public assistance programs and fought back against social injustice in East Harlem. DVD-644

Petrie, D. (Director), & Babbin, J. (Producer). Sybil.
A landmark, classic drama depicting the extraordinary real life of a young woman suffering from multiple personality disorder. DVD-727

Film: The Dhamma Brothers

Phillips, J., & Kukura, A. (Directors). (2007). The Dhamma Brothers.
The Donaldson Correctional Facility in Alabama was the first maximum security prison on the continent to offer a Vipassana meditation retreat. This documentary covers the stories of inmates who participated in the program and raises questions around the role of prisons and the potential for inmates to change. DVD-729

Riker, D. (Director). (1999). The City (La Ciudad).
This gritty black and white film presents four stories of recent Latino/a immigrants to New York City using a cast of amateur actors. DVD-683

Sachs, L. (Director). (2006). States of unbelonging.
Blending experimental and documentary styles, this film offers a portrait of Israeli filmmaker Revital Ohayon who was murdered in a terrorist attack with her two children while on a West Bank kibbutz. DVD-707

Sandoval, C. & Miller, P. (Directors & Producers). (2009). A class apart: A Mexican American civil rights story.
Built around the landmark 1954 legal case Hernandez v. Texas, the film interweaves the stories of its central characters with a broader story of the civil rights movement, and the post-World War II Mexican American struggle against discrimination. DVD-756

Sayles, J. (Director). (2002). Sunshine state.
A portrait of a richly diverse town on a sleepy Florida island threatened by real estate developers. DVD-685

Seligson, T. (Producer). (2004). Inside the jury.
This episode of Against the Law examines how jurors are selected and how juries work. DVD-733

Spielberg, S. (Director & Producer). (2003). The color purple.
The heart-wrenching story of a young black girl in the early 20th century who is forced into a brutal marriage and separated from her sister. DVD-698

Stack, J. & Garbus, L. (Directors & Producers). (1998). The farm: Life inside Angola prison.
Filmed in Angola, Louisiana State Penitentiary, this documentary follows 6 inmates in this infamous, maximum security, 'lifer' prison. DVD-726

Street, M. (Director). (2005). Rockaway.
In the New York neighborhood of Rockaway, which marks the boundary between city and suburb, three high school friends mark the boundary between childhood and adulthood on the eve of their graduation. DVD-684

Toth, F. (Director), & Bachrodt, S. (Producer). (2005). Unknown soldier.
Surviving on Harlem's streets is a battle for L who is forced to become a "street soldier" after his father's death. When L becomes homeless, he is drawn to the hustler lifestyle and crime.DVD-701

Uekrongtham, E. (Director & Producer). (2004). Beautiful boxer.
Based on the true story of Thailand's famed transgendered kickboxer, Parinya Charoenphol (A.K.A. Nong Toom). Charoenphol sets out to master the most masculine and lethal sport of Muay Thai (Thai boxing) to earn a living and to achieve his ultimate goal of a sex-change operation. DVD-721

Weller, R. & Grossman, G.H. (Producers). (2000). Hitler's perfect children.
Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS, established the Lebensborn Foundation in 1935 to breed Aryans. Most of the German Lebensborn children grew into adulthood not knowing that they were the product of a Nazi breeding experiment. DVD-690

Yates, P. (Director), & de Onis, P. (Producer). (2009). The reckoning: The battle for the International Criminal Court.
Approved by 120 countries but challenged by powerful nations such as China, Russia and the United States, the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague is examined by this documentary as it pursues serious crimes of international concern. DVD-687

Prepared by Karen Okamoto, April. 2009  

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