Secrecy.   An examination of secrecy in the United States government, exploring the tensions between freedom of information and national security.... between our safety as a nation, and our ability to function as a democracy. DVD  X801 

 Crazy cinématographe [videorecording] : europäisches Jahrmarktkino 1896-1916  Features 50 short films with piano scores from early fairground and traveling cinemas which contributed to the rapid establishment of the cinematograph as a popular medium. "European Cinema of Attractions, 1896-1916" shows, in a varied sequence, rarities from the treasures of European film archives ranging from Danish anarchisit slapstick to Scottish X-ray films and a Belgium film showing a hunt. "Local films from the Greater Region, 1902-1914" presents a forgotten genre which was, in its day, was a real crowd puller ... traveling cinema. DVD X767

Doris Chase collected works. Volume 1. Painter and teacher, sculptor of monumental kinetic forms, Doris Chase is best known as a pioneer in the field of dance for the camera. Beginning in the 1970s, she produced more than fifty videos now regarded as key works in the history of video art. This collection features her most important works. In Full circle: the work of Doris Chase she explains her work in various media from painting on flat surfaces through sculpture in wood, plexiglass, plastic, and metal, to film and videotape. The seven remaining films showcase Chase's film production work in dance. Full circle : the work of Doris Chase / producer, Elizabeth Wood (ca 10 min.) -- Tall arches / choreographer, Mary Staton ; music, Vito Ricci ; dancers, Cynthia Robertson, Mary Staton, Melissa Teske ; produced by Doris Chase (ca. 7 min.) -- Rocking orange / choreographer, Mary Staton ; music, George Kleinsinger ; dancers, Cynthia Robertson, Mary Staton, Melissa Teske ; produced by Doris Chase (3 min. 30 sec.) -- Moon gates / choreographer, Mary Staton ; music, George Kleinsinger ; dancers, Cynthia Robertson, Mary Staton, Melissa Teske ; produced by Doris Chase (5 min.) -- Doris Chase dance series (ca. 8 min.); Improvisation (4 min. 23 sec.) / dancer, Kei Takei -- Doris Chase dance series / dancer, Gus Solomons, Jr. ; music, George Kleinsinger (ca. 8 min.) -- Doris Chase dance series in Brooklyn / dancer, Cynthia Anderson ; music, Laurie Spiegel (ca. 13 min.) DVD X812

Mickey Mouse club presents Annette. 1957-58 season  Chosen by Walt Disney himself as an original cast member, Annette soon became the most popular Mousketeer. Showcased here is her entire series from "Walt Disney Presents: Annette" about a young country girl who moves to the suburbs to live with her well-to-do aunt and uncle and learns to adapt amongst her peers, without changing who she is.  DVD X868

Who Killed Walter Benjamin (Quién mató a Walter Benjamin--) Revisits Portbou, Spain and the suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of Walter Benjamin in 1940, one of the 20th century's greatest thinkers. As an emigrant German-Jew, a radical writer and a fierce critic of Nazism, he would have been well-known to the Gestapo and it is a well documented fact that the Spanish border police were cooperating with the Germans. When he fled from Germany was Benjamin aware that Portbou was a pro-Franco town virtually occupied by the Nazis?  DVD X755

 Le cinéma de mai 68 : une histoire. Volume 1. Features sixteen short documentary films about the student and workers' movements in France which culminated in protests and riots in May 1968.

Disc 1. Le premier mai à Saint-Nazaire / un film de Marcel Trillat et Hubert Knapp (20 min., 1967). -- Berlin 68-Rudi Dutschke / un film de l'ARC, sous la direction de Michel Andrieu et Jacques Kébadian (41 min., 1968). -- La glu / un film de Edouard Hayem (19 min., 1968). -- Cléon / Alain Laguarda (27 min., 1968). -- Nantes Sud Aviation / un film de l'ARC ; Pierre-William Glenn et Michel Andrieu (30 min., 1968) -- Disc 2. Ce n'est qu'un début / un film de l'ARC ; réalisé par Michel Andrieu (10 min., 1968). -- Le joli mois de mai / un film de l'ARC (33 min., 1968). -- CA13, Comité d'action du treizième / un film de l'ARC (40 min., 1968). -- Mikono / un film de l'ARC ; réalisé par Jean-Michel Humeau (11 min, 1968). -- Le Droit à la parole / un film de l'ARC ; sous la direction de Michel Andrieu et Jacques Kébadian (52 min., 1968). -- Avec les cheminots du dépôt SNCF de Paris Sud-Ouest / un film de Fernand Moskowicz (10 min., 1968/2008) -- Disc 3. Oser lutter, oser vaincre / Groupe ligne rouge (Jean-Pierre Thorn, 88 min., 1968). -- Citroën-Nanterre / un film de Guy Devart et Edouard Hayem (63 min., 1968). -- La Reprise du travail aux usines Wonder / Pierre Bonneau et Jacques Willemont (9 min., 1968) -- Disc 4. Écoute Joseph nous sommes tous solidaires / un film de Jean Lefaux (56 min., 1968). -- Les Deux marseillaises / un film de André S. Labarthe et Jean-Louis Comolli (120 min., 1968). -- L'atelier de recherche cinématographie en mai 68 / par Sébastien Layerle (article published in "Le cinéma militant reprend le travail" CinémAction no 110, 2004)  DVD X752

Slow food revolution  This film visits Italy, Mexico, and Australia to record the growing international eco-gastronomic movement known as "slow food movement". In opposition to the "fast food" world, the goal of the movement is to encourage people to slow down and enjoy food, protect traditional culture and the environment, encourage regional food production, and food education. DVD X92