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• Movies by country
• Subject headings for film types and genres
• Searches for Film / Cinema documentaries
• Using the Library Catalogue indexes to find films
• Useful websites

Movies in the Library

Important:Warning - licensing restrictions may apply to DVDs and videos

The Library purchases DVDs and videos with an educational licence where this is available and as funds allow. However some DVDs and videos may be licensed for private home use only and exclude all other forms of use (this will usually be stated on the container). More ...

Browse by country

Use these links to browse titles of feature films (generally fictional films with a running length of 40 minutes or more) on DVD and video. Documentaries on the film industry are listed as eg. 'American cinema'. For the location details of any film, click its title to bring up the full catalogue record.

North America America / USA American cinema Canada Canadian cinema Mexico Mexican cinema	Middle East Afghanistan Iran Iraq Israel Middle Eastern cinema Palestine Turkey
South America Latin American cinema Argentina Brazil Chile Columbia Cuba	Africa African cinema Algeria Benin Mali Morocco Senegal South Africa Tunisia
Western Europe Belgium Britain / England British cinema France French cinema Germany German cinema Italy Italian cinema Spain	Asia China Hong Kong Chinese / Hong Kong cinema India Japan Japanese cinema Korea Korean cinema Mongolia Philippines Singapore Taiwan Vietnam
Eastern Europe & Scandinavia Czechoslovakia Denmark Finland Hungary Poland Polish cinema Russia / USSR Russian cinema Scandinavian cinema Sweden Yugoslavia	Australasia / Pacific Australia Australian cinema New Zealand New Zealand cinema Papua New Guinea

Note: A director's national identity or origin may not be indexed or identified in catalogue records for his or her individual films. For instance, the Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski's Trois couleurs films are catalogued as French. Use the DVD/Video Keyword index to search for films by individual director, e.g. kieslowski

Subject headings for film types & genres

• Adventure films
• Animated films
• Biographical films
• Childrens films
• Comedy films
• Detective and mystery films
• Documentary films
• Drama (films)
• Experimental films
• Fantasy films
• Feature films
• Film adaptations
• Film noir
• Gangster films
• Horror films
• Martial arts films
• Musical films
• Science fiction films
• Shakespeare films
• Short films
• Silent films
• Vampire films
• War films
• Western films

NB: The above subject headings will retrieve only those records which have been catalogued to include these terms - not necessarily all films of this type or genre held. For instance, not all Westerns held in the Library have been given the subject heading "Western films" (e.g. Stagecoach and other films starring John Wayne ).

Searches for film / cinema documentaries

• Motion picture* (industry or history)
• Motion picture* directors
• Motion picture* actors
• Cinematography or cinematography or screenwriters
  
  

Using the Library Catalogue indexes to find films

Catalogue index

Use to search for:

DVD/Video title alphabetical
Exact titles of films, e.g. king kong or angel at my table

DVD/Video keyword
Title keywords e.g. lord rings ; subject keywords e.g. films zealand ; author keywords (for director or actor) e.g. campion or " jackson peter" or " wayne john"

Global keyword
Films and books relating to a subject, e.g. "film noir" , or director, e.g. "hitchcock alfred" , etc.

Subject alphabetical
Subject headings such as Feature films or Short films (subdivided by country) - useful because these are the standard subject headings given to all films, on video or DVD.

Subject keyword
Subject headings such as Motion pictures (subdivided by country) - this is the standard subject heading for books about cinema and film history.

Useful websites

IMDb
Internet Movie Database : good for checking film details.

MRQE
Movie Review Query Engine : good for finding online film reviews.