Subject Guides: Film and Video Studies: Find Films & Videos at Fogler

Finding Films in Fogler Library

Search URSUS for DVDs and streaming video.

To find DVDs in the University of Maine System (all campuses), go to URSUS, click on Advanced Search, and in the Material Type field select Video Recording. Then enter your search terms in the box at the top of the page. If there are videos with the status "Available" from libraries other than Fogler, you can request them through URSUS.*

To limit your search to Fogler-only materials, select the University of Maine Catalog from the dropdown menu next to the search bar.

*Not all libraries lend their videos.

Interested in recently acquired DVDs? Check out this list! (NB: This list includes CDs and DVDs.)

To find streaming video, follow the instructions above and select Streaming Video rather than Video Recording.

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A couple of databases with educational videos, documentaries, and other films of interest are:

Academic Video Online
Documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, field recordings, commercials, and raw footage. Users will find thousands of award-winning films, including Academy®, Emmy®, and Peabody® winners. Academic institutions will find the most frequently used films for classroom instruction, plus newly released films and previously unavailable archival material.
SWANK Digital Campus
Major Hollywood and independent feature films selected by the University of Maine system for online courses.

For faculty/instructors: Contact your subject specialist to place a film request for a film not owned by Fogler Library. Include the course number, course title, film title, the semester needed, and if you need audio description. Please give at least 4 weeks' advance notice.

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Most of our videos that are available through URSUS will be educational or academic in nature. For example:

Waste Land
Call number: Streaming video
Located just outside Rio de Janeiro, Jardim Gramacho, Brazil, is the world's largest garbage landfill. Modern artist Vik Muniz works with the so-called catadores, the men and women who pick through the refuse, to create art out of recycled materials.

Speaking in Tongues by Marcia Jarmel & Ken Schneider
Call Number: Orono Circulation Desk DVD LC3733.S36 S65 2010

Closely following four very different local public-schoolers through an academic year, the producers draw on subtle nuances of the kids' stories to illustrate the complex shades and permutations of bilingual schooling.
Standing on Sacred Ground: Islands of Sanctuary
Call Number: Orono Circulation Desk DVD BL580 .S778 2013

Native Hawaiians and Aboriginal Australians resist threats to their sacred places in a growing international movement to defend human rights and protect the environment.
Too Big to Fail
Call Number: Orono Circulation Desk DVD PN1992.77 .T66 2012

Offers an intimate look at the epochal financial crisis of 2008 and the powerful men and women who decided the fate of the world's economy in a matter of a few weeks.

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Some of our videos will be more popular, often because they have been used in classes. For instance:

Casablanca
Call Number: Orono Circulation Desk DVD PN1997 .C37 2012

The romantic lovers' triangle between the impossibly heroic Czech Resistance leader Victor Laszlo, his beautiful wife Ilsa and her ex-lover, cynical American Rick Blaine.
Thelma & Louise
Call Number: Orono Circulation Desk DVD PN1997 .T43 1991

A waitress and a housewife try to get away from their boyfriend and husband for a weekend but instead end up on a crosscountry crime spree.
Medicine Man
Call Number: Orono Circulation Desk DVD PN1995.9.M44 M43 1999

Sean Connery plays Dr. Robert Campbell, a brilliant but unorthodox scientist racing against time in his bold research for a cure against cancer.

If you're looking for films on DVD not owned by Fogler Library, try checking your local library or requesting films we don't own through MaineCat or Interlibrary Loan.