IDS 101: Beauty, Mystery and Terror of Color: Websites and Films

Mankind finds a mysterious artifact buried on the moon and with the intelligent computer HAL 9000, sets off on a quest to Jupiter.

Four years after Chris and Annie Nielsen lose their children in a traffic accident, Chris himself is killed and finds himself reunited with his children in a beautiful and astonishing afterlife,

In a hospital on the outskirts of town, Roy Walker, an injured stuntman, begins to tell young Alexandria, a fellow patient with a broken arm, a fantastical story about 5 mythical heroes.

Stylized biography of noted eighteenth century Armenian poet and troubadour Sayat Nova, based on his writings. It depicts the poet's life in eight sections, from childhood to death, rich with symbols of sacred and secular Armenian life.

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.

Cecilia is a poor waitress whose only escape is the thrill and excitement of going to the movies. Suddenly, while watching her favorite movie, the leading man jumps out of the picture to be with her.

A handsome, wealthy bachelor has a sexy girlfriend, the finest things money can buy, and an envious friend who schemes to murder him and assume his identity.

A vulnerable young woman, whose blind trust in a man leads her into a New Orleans bordello, endures the hardships of that life, but is eventually driven to murdering her lover.

With no market for his herd, the master of a vast cattle ranch and his son decide to head the first cattle drive over the now famous Chisholm Trail, past the Red River, into Missouri.

Victoria Page is a young ballerina caught between her love for Julian Craster, the composer rehearsing her company's orchestra, and her artistic devotion to Boris Lermontov, her ballet master.

A young boy in Paris makes friends with a red balloon that has a mind of its own.

The true story of the love affair of John Reed, American Communist, journalist and activist and Louise Bryant, writer and feminist.

Jota, a troubled former pop star is the sole witness to the crash of a motorcycle ridden by a young woman. After learning of the woman's amnesia Jota pretends to be her lover, naming her Lisa and creating a fictitious life for her.

The final installment in the director's trilogy named after the colors of the French flag, Red is the story of a beautiful young woman and her meeting with an unusual stranger- a meeting that leads her down a path of intrigue and secrecy.

Alex and his droogs Georgie, Dim, and Pete are bored. Alex loves Ludwig van, milk bars, and mayhem. One night a botched burglary ends in murder....

Soldier of Orange offers a movie-view of World War II as seen in the Netherlands by civilians and members of the underground during the Nazi occupation.

The story of a woman who is gradually becoming insane. While taking a rest cure she becomes obsessed with the wallpaper...

The story of a U.S. Calvary captain's last days in service on the western frontier in 1876.

The year is 1939. The life of a young peasant girl in Northern Shaanxi province is changed forever by a Communist soldier sent out to collect folk songs for the use of revolutionary armies.

John Wayne leads his Special Forces troops against a deadly and determined enemy.

A man looks back on his life as a boy in a small Welsh mining town. His reminiscences reveal the disintegration of his closely knit family, while capturing the sentiments and issues of their time.

The legend of two snakes, ghost spirits, who assume the form of beautiful women to learn what it is to be human and the self-righteous monk who tries to destroy them.

Comedy mystery about a mad killer who is dispatching patients on the operating table in a remote provincial English hospital during World War II.

A college student stumbles across a bizarre mystery and wants to know more. The strange world he's found lurking beneath the picture-postcard veneer of his hometown is about to become much stranger.

A middle-aged instructor at a boys' prep school becomes infatuated with a singer from a sleazy cafe....

Two poor children dream they are searching for the Blue Bird of Happiness with the aid of a magic diamond that reveals the soul of all things.

A young woman is left devastated by the unexpected death of her husband and child. She retreats from the world around her, but is soon reluctantly drawn into an ever-widening web of lies and passion...

Derek Jarman lays bare his physical and spiritual state in a narration about his life, his struggle with AIDS and his encroaching sightlessness

Told from the perspective of a young boy, Tʻieh-tʻou, it traces the fate of a Beijing family and their neighbors through the political and social upheavals in 1950's and 60's China.

Set in a fishing village off the Dalmatian coast of Italy. Tells the story of Squarciò, a fisherman who uses dynamite instead of nets.

Provides a panorama of 2000 years of architecture, painting and sculpture. Studies the art masterpieces as reflections of the Western culture that produced them.

A comprehensive record of the greatest achievements in the history of western art from the medieval era to the post-impressionist world,from Botticelli to Van Gogh.

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Forty-eight lectures of thirty minutes each by William Kloss, independent art historian with Smithsonian Associates, the Smithsonian Institution.

Shows how people's actions and emotions can be influenced by the subtle power of colour. Explains the "rules" of colour and how colours can be combined to achieve certain effects.

Mysterious tale of a man whose life disintegrates when his beautiful wife of six months deserts him. Forced to begin anew, he rebuilds his life, only to plan a dangerous scheme of vengeance against her.

The classic musical about two guys that become a popular song and dance team and play at a resort for charity.

A gangster escapes from prison to take revenge on the people that murdered his mother.

Once upon a time there was a little girl named Carmen, who never knew her mother. She learned the art of her father, a famous bullfighter, but was hated by her evil stepmother. One day she ran away with a troupe of dwarves, and became a legend. A re-telling of the classic 'Snow White

During the turbulent, anti-establishment late-1960s, an upperclassman at U.S. Grant Military Academy scrambles to clear his name when he is accused of a plebe's mysterious murder.

Portrait of the relationship between Edith Bouvier Beale and her grown daughter, Little Edie, once an aspiring actress in New York who left her career to care for her aging mother in their East Hampton home, and never left again.

Against a background of the Rio carnival, a black tram driver accidentally kills his girlfriend, and after seeking her in the nether regions kills himself to be with her

This is an unforgettable movie about humanity and survival after the 1945 atomic catastrophe that changed the world forever.

Douglas Fairbanks in the swashbuckling role of a nobleman who becomes the most feared pirate on the high seas.

Nina is a ballerina in a New York City ballet company. Her life, like most in her profession, is completely consumed with dance....