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Film Databases & Catalogs
- Ethnographic Video Online, Volume I-II: Foundational Films This link opens in a new window Ethnographic Video Online, Vol. I-II: Foundational Films contains classic and contemporary ethnographies, documentaries and shorts from every continent, providing teachers visual support to introduce and contextualize hundreds of cultural groups and practices around the world.
- Ethnographic Video Online, Volume III: Indigenous Voices This link opens in a new window Ethnographic Video Online, Vol. III: Indigenous Voices contains documentaries, feature films and shorts made by and for indigenous people and communities. Topics are simultaneously local and global, with particular emphasis on the human effects of climate change, sustainability, indigenous and local ways of interpreting history, cultural change, and traditional knowledge and storytelling.
- Ethnographic Video Online, Volume IV: Festivals and Archives This link opens in a new window Ethnographic Video Online, Vol. IV: Festivals and Archives contains award-winning titles from contemporary ethnographic film festivals. The collection also includes field recordings and edited films by students and faculty from universities and institutions around the world, including Berkeley Media and Manchester's Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology.
- Ethnographic Video Online, Royal Anthropological Institute Teaching Edition This link opens in a new window Ethnographic Video Online, Royal Anthropological Institute Teaching Edition contains a curriculum-aligned collection of videos and segments curated to support the teaching of introductory anthropology courses. Each video and segment within this collection are accompanied by a teaching guide providing background information, lesson plans, and classroom exercises and activities.
- BU Libraries Search (BULS) This link opens in a new window BU Libraries Search provides a single place to search for a wide variety of academic material provided by the library. The material covered by the search includes books, journals, scores, video and audio recordings, and other physical items held by the library. The search also covers ebooks and ejournals owned by the library, as well as online material provided by the library from a variety of sources.
- Academic Video Online This link opens in a new window Academic Video Online delivers more than 67,000 titles spanning a range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more. It includes documentaries, films, demonstrations, and other content types. Films in the Boston University Libraries catalog are licensed to Boston University for educational and research use only, for BU students, faculty, and staff.
- Kanopy This link opens in a new window Kanopy is a provider of documentaries, training films, and theatrical releases available as streaming video. Clips from the videos can be embedded in presentations or shown in class. Films in the Boston University Libraries catalog are licensed to Boston University for educational and research use only, for BU students, faculty, and staff.
- BU Geddes Language Center Catalog The Center has over 5000 titles of audiovisual materials in over 30 languages/disciplines. Use the following links to find a title or browse the listings.
Browse Films
- 37 Uses for a Dead Sheep (streaming, Academic Video Online) The Pamir Kirghiz are a tribe of some 2,000 people from the Pamir region of Central Asia. For the last 27 years they have lived in exile in Eastern Turkey. In 2005 an Anglo-Turkish film crew arrives in their village to work with the tribe to tell their story.
- Ataturk, Founder of Modern Turkey (streaming, Academic Video Online) This documentary tells the colorful story of Mustafa Kemal, later known as Ataturk, the charismatic leader of Turkey after the first World War - as it traces the rise of modern Turkey, which acts as a bridge between Europe and the Middle East. Along with archival footage, there are commentaries from experts such as Professor Vamil Volkan and Geoffrey Lewis, and interviews with his adopted daughter, Ulku, with Suleyman Demirel, President of the Turkish Republic, and with the Patriarch of the Orthodox Church.
- Sufi Soul (streaming, Academic Video Online) From the Whirling Dervishes of Turkey to the qawwali music of Pakistan, Sufism has produced some of the world's most spectacular music celebrated by Muslims and non-Muslims alike. Dalrymple's film traces the shared roots of Christianity and Islam in the Middle East and discovers Sufism to be a peaceful, tolerant and pluralistic bastion against fundamentalism.
- La Turquie (streaming, Academic Video Online) This French-language documentary, directed by Jean-Marc Sanchez, features Celine Hue in Turkey.
- Orhan Pamuk: Facing Up to Turkey's Past (streaming, Academic Video Online) Orhan Pamuk, Turkey's best-known modern novelist and winner of the Nobel prize in 2006, became a pariah overnight for speaking out about the Turkish role in the Armenian genocide.
- Son of the Olive Merchant (streaming, Academic Video Online) For their honeymoon, Anna and Mathieu traveled to Turkey with their camera in hand to learn about Mathieu’s Armenian heritage and to learn what modern day Turks think about the Armenian Genocide that occurred in 1915. Sadly, Turkey denies the Genocide for a variety of reasons including that the crimes was actually committed by Armenians against the Turks.
- Ararat (dvd) Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan exlpores his Armenian heritage in this drama. A film-within-a-film, ARARAT follows a film crew as they make a movie, by the same name, about the 1915 Siege of Van, where over a million Armenians were killed at the hands of Turkish troops.
- Mommo (dvd) Part of local Turkish legend, "Mommo" is the name given to a bogeyman used by parents to bring their children into line, but 9-year-old Ahmet (Mehmet Bulbul) and little sister Ayse (Elif Bulbul) have larger, real-life worries to contend with after their widower father abandons them to marry anew. Will their new guardian--their ailing grandfather--manage to find them a stable new home?
- Three Monkeys (dvd) An up-and-coming politician attempts to conceal his involvement in a hit-and-run accident, convincing his driver to plead guilty on his behalf in exchange for future favors. When the politico fails to win his election bid, the secret bargain looms over both families and becomes a dangerous factor as the jailed man's wife falls into a secret affair with the man who put him there. Noirish drama from Turkey.
- Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (dvd) In the course of a long evening, a small caravan of cops and prosecutors combs the Anatolian steppes in search of a buried murder victim, led by suspects with only hazy recall of the alleged incident. As the night and the investigation wear on, more than just the details of the crime come to light.
- Turkey's Tigers: Integrating Islam and Corporate Culture (dvd) For years, Turkey has been run by a stridently secular business and political elite, while its devout Muslim citizens have been pushed to the political and economic fringes. But now, even the most committed Muslims are embracing Western-style capitalism and commerce - and are ascending in Turkish society at the ballot box and in big business. This PBS Wide Angle documentary captures a modern face of Islam rarely seen in the American media. The program follows prominent members of Turkey's up-and-coming business community - including two rival fashion entrepreneurs, one of whom has founded his company on Islamic principles - as they develop and carry out their manufacturing and marketing strategie
