Films are classified according to the following headings: American Literature, British Literature, World Literature, Writing, Literary Technique/Introduction to Literature, Other/Miscellaneous.  A list of the titles of series that are complete or of which PSTCC has a substantial number follows the last heading.  Within the headings the films are classified alphabetically according to titles.

Most of these titles have been added to the PSTCC Online Catalog.  A full description of these titles may be found there.
 
 

American Literature

The Adventures of Mark Twain 1797
Alex Haley 1828
Alice Walker 1832, 2275
Almos’ a Man [The Man Who Was Almost a Man] 25, 2247
An American Indian 1479
American Pioneers (Survey of English Poetry) 738, 1241
American Tongues 033
An Audio-Visual History of American Literature Pt. 1--1291; Pt. 2—1292
August Wilson 1831
Barn Burning 26, 2249
Bartleby the Scrivener 550
The Belle of Amherst (J. Harris as E. Dickinson) 2237
Bernice Bobs Her Hair 27
Benjamin Franklin: Citizen of the World (A & E Biography) 2586
Billy Budd 135
The Birth of a Nation (D.W. Griffiths, dir.) 2123, 2122
The Black Cat 731
Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement 1839
Black Women Writers 1416,1858
The Blue Hotel 2248
Casablanca 2121
The Cask of Amontillado  734 (Edgar Allan Poe: The Principal Works; dramatization); 1804 (narrated, with
 illustrations)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof  (Taylor, Newman) 1693
Charles Johnson 1835
The Crucible (W. Ryder, D. Day-Lewis) 2231
Daisy Miller (C. Shepherd) 2252
The Dance of Souls Departed: Return to Wounded Knee 1843
Death of a Salesman (Hoffman, Malkovich) 645
A Discussion of the Fall of the House of Usher 1466A
The Displaced Person (The American Short Story Collection) 30
The Dutchman  1838
Edgar Allan Poe (A &E Biography) 2587
Edgar Allan Poe: A Concise Biography 2144
Edgar Allan Poe: Terror of the Soul (American Masters Series) 1840
Elizabeth Bishop (Voices and Visions) 1432
Emily Dickinson (The Master Poet Collection) 2251
Emily Dickinson: A Certain Slant of Light 2107
Emily Dickinson (Voices and Visions Series) 1434, 1822, 2245
The Emperor Jones 2233; (P. Robeson) 2254
Eugene O’Neill: Journey into Genius (dramatization of his life starring M. Modine) 2272
Ezra Pound (Voices and Visions) 1441
The Fall of the House of Usher 1465
Fahrenheit 451  (O. Werner, J. Christie) 1801, 2142
Frankenstein (J. Whale, dir.) 1716
Frederick Douglass: When the Lion Wrote History 1841
The Glass Menagerie (J. Woodward, J. Malkovich) 2232
Glooscap (Legends of the Indians Series) 1255
Gloria Naylor  1834
Glory (D. Washington, M. Broderick) 1277
Glory: The True Story Continues 1277A
The Golden Honeymoon (The American Short Story Series) 31
The Grapes of Wrath (H. Fonda, J. Darwell) 786
Greenwich Village Writers: The Bohemian Legacy (includes James, O’Neill, Millay, Cather,
 Ginsberg, Dylan) 2284
The Greatest Man in the World (The American Short Story Series) 23
Hart Crane (Voices and Visions) 1433
Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice (The American Experience Series) 927
Inherit the Wind (S. Tracy, F. March) 2445
An Introduction to Ernest Hemingway’s Fiction  (Eminent Scholars/Teachers Series) 992
An Introduction to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Fiction (Eminent Scholars/Teachers Series) 982
An Introduction to John Steinbeck’s Fiction (Eminent Scholars/Teachers Series) 985
An Introduction to Richard Wright’s Fiction (Eminent Scholars/Teachers Series) 991
An Introduction to Robert Frost’s Poetry (Eminent Scholars/Teachers Series) 984
An Introduction to Thomas Wolfe’s Fiction (Eminent Scholars/Teachers Series) 987
An Introduction to T. S. Eliot’s Poetry (Eminent Scholars/Teachers Series) 986
The Invisible Man (J. Whale, dir.) 1715
Itam Hakim, Hopiit (Hopi storytelling) 1354
Jack London 2277
James Baldwin (Great Writers of the 20th Century) 2295
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket 1829
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall (The American Short Story Series) 24
John Steinbeck 2278
John Wideman 1830
Joyce Carol Oates 2276
Kate Chopin: The Joy that Kills 1245
Kate Chopin: Five Stories of an Hour (5 versions of the short story) 2244
Langston Hughes (Voices and Visions) 1437
The Last of the Mohicans (3 versions) 199 (1936;R. Scott, B. Barnes); 1694 ( 1977; S. Forrest, N. Romero);
2209 (1992; D. Day-Lewis, M. Stowe)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Shelley Duvall’s Tall Tales and Legends) 1799
The Legend of the Corn (Legends of the Indians) 1252
Leslie Marmon Silko: Native American Novelist 2559
Long Day’s Journey into Night (Robards, Hepburn, R. Richardson) 862
Lorraine Hansberry: The Black Experience in the Creation of Drama 2279
The Lottery 1805
The Making of a Poet: E. E. Cummings  2274
The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg (The American Short Story) 32
Marianne Moore (Voices and Visions) 1439
The Masque of the Red Death (R. Corman, dir.; V. Price) 1462
Moby-Dick (G. Peck) 1356
Modern American Drama: O’Neill—Long Day’s Journey into Night (History of Drama) 998
Moowis, Where Are You Moowis? (Legends of the Indians) 1254
Murders in the Rue Morgue (B. Lugosi) 1463
Nathaniel Hawthorne (discussion) 2282
Native Son (Great Books; discussion) 2281
The New England Transcendentalists 2528
Our Town (1977;H. Holbrook, N. Beatty, B. Bel Geddes) 787
Our Town (1940; W. Holden, M. Scott, B. Bondi) 2256
The Path of Life (Legends of the Indians) 1250
The Path of Souls (Legends of the Indians) 1253
Paul’s Case (The American Short Story) 28
The Portable Phonograph 1806
The Private History of a Campaign that Failed 1675
A Raisin in the Sun (D. Glover, E. Rolle) 2236
Rappaccini’s Daughter (The American Short Story) 29
The Raven and Other Poems (Poe: The Principal Works) 1247
The Return of the Child (Legends of the Indians) 1257
The Revolt of Mother (The American Short Story) 1798
Richard Wright: Black Boy 1836
Robert Frost: A First Acquaintance 729
Robert Frost (Voices and Visions) 1436
Robert Lowell (Voices and Visions) 1438
The Scarlet Letter 1249, 1249A, 1249B, 1249C
Searching for a Native American Identity 1856
The Snowbird Cherokees 2148
The Stories of Maxine Hong Kingston (The Moyers Collection) 2285
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951; V. Leigh, M. Brando, K. Hunter) 2235
Surviving Columbus: The Story of the Pueblo People 1589
Sylvia Plath (Voices and Visions) 1440
The Tall Woman (Wilma Dykeman) 1620
The Tell-Tale Heart (Poe: The Principal Works) 1246
The Tell-Tale Heart (The Short Story Collection II; S. Jaffe, A. Cord) 1800, 2143
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage 2280
Thomas Jefferson (Ken Burns, producer) 2375, 2375A
Thomas Jefferson: Philosopher of Freedom (A & E Biography) 2583
Thoreau’s Walden 733
The Time, Life and Works of Edgar Allan Poe 1823
Toni Morrison 1833
T.S. Eliot (Voices and Visions) 1435
Twelve Angry Men (1957; H. Fonda, M. Balsam, J. Klugman)
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1987; P. Rashad, S.L. Jackson) 1821
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Films for the Humanities; abridged version of the George Aiken play) 735
Understanding John Steinbeck’s Fiction (Eminent Teachers/Scholars) 990
Understanding Thomas Wolfe’s Look Homeward Angel (Eminent Teachers/ Scholars) 988
Understanding T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (Eminent Teachers/Scholars) 981
Understanding William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying (Eminent Teachers/Scholars) 989
Wallace Stevens (Voices and Visions) 1442
Walt Whitman (Voices and Visions) 1443
Walt Whitman: Against the Odds 732
West Side Story 1907
William Carlos Williams (Voices and Visions) 1444, 2246
William Faulkner (Famous Authors Series) 2250
The Winter Wife (Legends of the Indians) 1256
The World Between (Legends of the Indians) 1251
The Yellow Wallpaper 2550
 

British Literature

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Speckled Band 132
Antony and Cleopatra (Complete Dramatic Works of W.S.; Blakely, Lapotaire) 1483
As You Like It (Complete Dramatic Works of W. S.; H. Mirren, R. Pasco) 1484
Beowulf 727, 1762
The Bronte Sisters (52 min.)  1825
Charles Dickens: A Tale of Ambition and Genius (A & E Biography) 2585
Chaucer (Survey of English Poetry) 1243
Coleridge: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Ken Russell, dir.; D. Hemmings, D. Warner) 2226
The Comic Spirit (humor in Shakespeare: Midsummer, 12th Night, Two Gentlemen) 2153
Congreve’s The Way of the World 2238
Contemporary Theatre: Beckett—Waiting for Godot (B. Meredith, Z. Mostel) 997
Discovering Hamlet 2490
Doctor Faustus (Burton, Taylor) 1391
Early English Drama: Second Shepherds’ Play, Quem Queritis, Abraham and Isaac (History of
Drama Series) 1001, 1763
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 2227
Everyman 2229
Excalibur 1461
Five Poems by Ted Hughes 2228
Frankenstein (J. Whale, dir.) 1716
Frankenstein: The Making of a Monster (Great Books) 2527
Gawain and the Green Knight 1411
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift (A Guide to Understanding Literature Series) 2219
Hamlet (L. Olivier, E. Herlie) 506 (Parts A, B, C)
Hamlet (M. Gibson, G. Close) 1692
Henry IV, Pt. 1 (Films for the Humanities; M. Pennington, M. Cronin) 973
Henry IV, Pt. 2 (Films for the Humanities; M. Pennington, M. Cronin) 974
Henry IV, Pt.1 (Complete Dramatic Works of W. S.; J. Finch, D. Gwillim, T. Piggott-Smith) 1490
Henry IV, Pt. 2 (Complete Dramatic Works of W. S.; J. Finch, D. Gwillim, T. Piggott-Smith) 1490A
Henry V (L. Olivier, dir. and actor; R. Newton, R. Asherson) 716 A, B
Henry V (The Complete Dramatic Works of W. S.; D. Gwillim, J. Boisseau) 1485
Henry V (K. Branagh, dir. and actor; E. Thompson) 1396
A History of the English Language 1767
Introduction to English Poetry (A Survey of English Poetry Series) 1413
The Invisible Man (J. Whale, dir.) 1715
Jane Eyre (W. Hurt, C. Gainsboroug) 2210
Joyce, Yeats, and Wilde 2225
Julius Caesar (Complete Dramatic Works of W.S.;R. Pasco, K. Michell, C. Gray) 1489
King Lear (L. Olivier, A. Calder-Marshall, D. Rigg, D. Tutin) 400 A, B, C, D
King Lear (M. Hordern, J. Shrapnel, N. Rodway, M. Kitchen) 1486, 1486A
Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (A Guide to Understanding Literature Series) 2223
The Last Journey of John Keats 2526
Legend of Arthur 1803
The Luttrell Psalter 1766
Macbeth (Complete Dramatic Works of W. S.; N. Williamson, J. Lapotaire) 1487
Macbeth (T. Nunn, dir; I. McKellan, J. Dench) 1389, 1389A
Major Barbara (W. Hiller, R. Harrison) 2230
The Merchant of Venice (The Complete Dramatic Works of W. S.) 1488
A Midsummer Night’s Dream 1208, 1208A
Milton (Survey of English Poetry) 1244
Le Morte d’Arthur 2036
Looking for Richard (A. Pacino’s production of Richard III)
My Fair Lady (musical; A. Hepburn, R. Harrison) 399
Oliver Twist (D. Lean, dir.; A. Guinness, R. Newton, A. Newley) 2218
Othello (L. Fishburne, K. Branagh, I. Jacob) 2146
Othello (L. Olivier, F. Finlay) 2253
Othello (Complete Dramatic Works of Shakespeare; A. Hopkins, B. Hoskins)  1707, 1707A
Paradise Lost (A Guide to Understanding Literature; focuses on women’s roles) 2221
The Play of Abraham and Isaac 2239
Playboy of the Western World  Pt.1—979, Pt. 2—980
Playing Shakespeare: Exploring a Character 507
Playing Shakespeare: Passion and Coolness 508
Playing Shakespeare: Rehearsing the Text 2479
Playing Shakespeare: Set Speeches and Soliloquies 2154
Playing Shakespeare: Using the Verse 2480
A Prologue to Chaucer 1414
The Rape of the Lock (A Guide to Understanding Literature) 2222
The Restoration Theatre: From Tennis Court to Playhouse 2217
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 2226
Romeo and Juliet (F. Zeffirelli, dir.; O. Hussey, L. Whiting) 2373
A Room of One’s Own (Eileen Atkins as Virginia Woolf) 1393, 1612
The Secret Sharer 670
Shakespeare and his Stage: Approaches to Hamlet 996
Shakespeare and his Theatre: The Globe 2478
Shakespeare and the Globe 1388
Shakespeare Is Alive and Well in the Modern World 1399, 1399A
Shakespeare: A Day at the Globe 1794
Shakespeare’s Imagery: The Poet’s Eye 728, 1415
Shakespearean Tragedy 2035
Shakespeare Workshops: Measure for Measure 2452
The Staging of Shakespeare’s Plays (Eminent Scholars/ Teachers) 1778
The Story of English  1613, 1614, 1615, 1616, 1617
A Survey of English Poetry (series)
A Tale of Two Cities (J. Wilby, J. Mills) 1409, 1409A
The Taming of the Shrew (Taylor, Burton) 1397
The Tempest (Burton, Remick, McDowell) 975
The Tempest (Complete Dramatic Works of W. S.; M. Hordern, P. Guard, W. Clarke) 1491
T.S. Eliot (Voices and Visions) 1435
Understanding T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (Eminent Teachers/Scholars) 981
Waiting for Godot (B. Meredith, Z. Mostel) 503
The Wife of Bath by Geoffrey Chaucer (A Guide to Understanding Literature) 2220
William Shakespeare: A Life in Drama (A & E Biography) 2427
William Wordsworth: William and Dorothy (Ken Russell, dir.; D. Warner, F. Kendall, D. Hemmings) 2224
William Wordsworth (Survey of English Poetry) 1242
Wordsworth and the English Lakes 1825
The York Cycle in the Fifteenth Century 1779
The Yorkshire of the Bronte Sisters 1826
 

World Literature

The Africans 1725
Afrique, Je Te Plumerai (Africa, I Will Fleece You) 1865
Agamemnon 976
Anne Frank Remembered 2145
Antigone 409, 737
Aspects of the Commedia Dell’arte 1786
Aspects of Neo-Classic Theater 1394
Birth of Modern Theatre: Chekhov--Uncle Vanya 1002
The Changing Audience of Theatre 1706
The Cherry Orchard (M. Stapleton, D. Moffat) 1398
Chinua Achebe (The Moyers Collection) 1857
A Clash of Cultures (The Africans) 1816
Classical Comedy: Aristophanes—Women in Power 993
The Comedy of Manners: Moliere—The Misanthrope (E. Petherbridge) 515, 999
Contemporary Theatre: Beckett—Waiting for Godot 997
A Doll’s House (J. Stevenson, T. Eve) 2147
Every Man for Himself and God Against All (W. Herzog, dir.; story of Kasper Hauser) 841
Everyone’s Child (Library of African Cinema; Zimbabwe) 2367
Femmes Aux Yeux Ouverts [Women With Open Eyes] (Library of African Cinema) 1863
Finzan: A Dance for the Heroes (Library of African Cinema; Mali) 2366
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Magical Realism 1859
Gawain and the Green Knight 1411
Guimba the Tyrant (Library of African Cinema; West Africa) 2024
Hedda  (G. Jackson, P. Stewart) 1390
I, Claudius 1950-1956
Kabuki 1387
Legacy of the Shoguns 536
Les Miserables (musical) 2124
Madame Bovary (in French with Eng. Subtitles) 1412
The Mahabharata—The Game of Dice1274; Exile in the Forest 1275; The War 1276
Medea (Z. Caldwell, J. Anderson, M. Ryan) 356
Molière and the Comèdie Francaise 1395
Monday’s Girls (Library of African Cinema) 1864
Myths and Legends: Mirrors of Mankind 381
The Odyssey  Pt. 1—845, Pt. 2—846
Oedipus at Colonus (A. Quayle, J. Shrapnel, J. Stevenson) 977, 978
Oedipus the King (M. Pennington, C. Bloom, J. Gielgud) 1976
Phèdre (Jean Racine; Marie Bell; French with subtitles) 1392
The Power of Myth: Joseph Campbell (Bill Moyers)  665 A-F
Rashomon 842
The Rise of Greek Tragedy: Sophocles—Oedipus the King (The History of Drama) 995, 2487
The Role of Theatre in Ancient Greece 1705
Schindler’s List 1708, 1709
Seven Samurai (A. Kurosawa, dir.) 2320
Smiles of a Summer Night (Ingmar Bergman, dir.) 843
The Swampdwellers (play by Wole Soyinka) 2438
The Sword and the Chrysanthemum (Japan) 534
Taafe Fanza: Skirt Power (Library of African Cinema; Mali) 2365
Tartuffe de Molière (French with subtitles; G. Depardieu) 2234
Theatre of  Social Problems: Ibsen—Hedda Gabler (History of Drama) 994
Theatre of the Absurd: Pirandello—Six Characters in Search of an Author (History of Drama) 1000
Understanding Don Quixote 840
Usiku: An African Folk Tale 1712
Zan Boko (Library of African Cinema; Burkina Faso) 2369

Writing

Crediting Your Sources 1945
Critiquing the Argumentative Essay 1944
Developing the Composition 1947
Models of Non-Fiction Writing: Presenting an Argument 1934
Peter Elbow On Writing 1851
Proofreading and Editing Skills 1659, 1660, 1661
The Write Course 1948
Writing about Literature 1946
Writing as a Process: A Step by Step Guide 1949
Writing the Argumentative Essay 1943

Literary Techniques/ Introduction to Literature

Literary Visions (series used with Eng. 1020 video course) 1222-1234
Myths and Legends: Mirrors of Mankind 381
Writing about Literature 1946
 

Other/Miscellaneous

The Atomic Café 2603
Everest: The Death Zone (NOVA) 2374
Everest (D. Brashears, dir.; 1996 disaster) 2393
To Be a Woman and a Writer 1611 (19th and 20th c. women writers)
The Making of Everest: On Location in the Death Zone (D. Brashears, dir.)
Memory of the Camps 1698
Thinking Skills: Introduction to Critical Thinking 436
West Side Story 1907

Series
The American Short Story
Eminent Scholars/ Teachers Series
A Guide to Understanding Literature
History of Drama
Legends of the Indians
Library of African Cinema
Literary Visions (used with Eng. 1020 video course) 1222-1234
The Power of Myth: Joseph Campbell 665 A-F
A Survey of English Poetry
Voices and Visions