Research Guides: IDS 101: Enemies, Friends, Allies? The Path of Nonviolent Resistance: Finding Films

Film Collection

The library’s collection of video recordings support and enrich the curriculum and include a core of classic motion pictures important to a liberal arts education. The library primarily collects video recordings that support the curriculum and are directly related to classroom instruction. The library secondarily purchases representative films of many periods, genres, and countries in an effort to document the history of film. All of our videos are listed in the library catalog; if on DVD, they can be checked out of the library for home use.

Foreign Language Films

The Tale of the Three Lost Jewels
Call Number: Hatfield Library AV Video (DVD) PN1995.91.A8 T2 2001
Shot in the final, turbulent days of the Israeli occupation of the Gaza Strip, this first-ever Palestinian feature film centers upon a love story between two adolescents in a time of war and danger.
Notre Musique
Call Number: Hatfield Library AV Video (DVD) PN1995.91.F7 N675 2005
A witty and lyrical reflection on war through the ages. The film is structured into three Dantean Kingdoms: Hell, Purgatory and Heaven...also follows the parallel stories of two Israeli Jewish women, one drawn to the light and one drawn towards darkness.
La petite Jerusalem
Call Number: Hatfield Library AV Video (DVD) PN1995.91.F7 P34 2006
The story of two Sephardic Orthodox immigrant sisters living in a Jewish suburb of Paris, both of whom are struggling to reconcile their philosophical & religious ideologies with their romantic desires.
The Band's Visit
Call Number: Hatfield Library AV Video (DVD) PN1995.91.H4 B55 2008
The Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra arrives in Israel from Egypt for a cultural event. Once there, they find the expected delegation is not there to meet them...
Ushpizin (Guests)
Call Number: Hatfield Library AV Video (DVD) PN1995.91.H4 U84 2006
An ultra-Orthodox Jewish couple experiences a very eventful Succoth.

Documentary Films

Waltz with Bashir
Call Number: Hatfield Library AV Video (DVD) DS87.53.W35 2009
An animated motion picture based on events in the director's own life, involving his attempts to both remember and verify his wartime experiences on an Israeli Army mission during the Lebanon War.
Budrus
Call Number: Hatfield Library AV Video (DVD) DS119.76 .B838 2010
Tells the story of a Palestinian father and daughter who united Arab and Israeli factions to create a non-violent movement and save their village from destruction by Israel's Separation Barrier.
Encounter Point
Call Number: Hatfield Library AV Video (DVD) DS119.76.E53 2007
The story of an Israeli settler, a Palestinian ex-prisoner, a bereaved Israeli mother and a wounded Palestinian bereaved brother who risk their safety and public standing to press for an end to the conflict.
5 Broken Cameras
Call Number: Hatfield Library AV Video (DVD) DS119.76.F58 2012
5 Broken Cameras is a deeply personal, first hand-account of non violent resistance in Bil'in, a West Bank village threatened by encroaching Israeli settlements.
Wall
Call Number: Hatfield Library AV Video (DVD) DS119.76.M87 2005
Simone Bitton, a Jewish woman born in Morocco who identifies with both Arab and Jewish cultures, examines the personal, cultural, and monetary costs of the Israeli West Bank Barrier, a wall being built to separate Israelis and Palestinians.

Musical Films

West Bank Story
Call Number: Hatfield Library AV Video (DVD) PN1995.9.E96 C65 2007
A short musical film about falafel stands, based on Romeo and Juliet in A Collection of 2006 Academy Award Nominated Short Films
Slingshot Hip Hop
Call Number: Hatfield Library AV Video (DVD) ML3918.R37 S55 2009
Palestinian hip hop groups DAM (from Lydd or Lod), PR (Gaza), along with young women Abeer (Lydd), and duo Arapeyat (Akka or Acre), who are also harassed for being independent women performing on stage.

West Bank Story - The Musical (Online Version)
West Bank Story is a musical comedy about David, an Israeli soldier, and Fatima, a Palestinian fast food cashier - an unlikely couple who fall in love amidst the animosity of their families' dueling falafel stands in the West Bank.

IDS 101: Enemies, Friends, Allies? The Path of Nonviolent Resistance

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