South Asia Feature Films and Documentaries
Videos available at Clemons Library, University of Virginia
(** Indicates also available through the Center for South Asian
Studies)
(# From the series "The Long Search")
Last update 28 Oct 1995
AUTHOR/
TITLE TIME DIRECTOR VIDEO NUMBER
Ahmedabad: Life of a City in India ** 30 min. Spodek VHS 5485
Altar of Fire (Hinduism)** 45 min. Gardner VHS 1063
The Bodhisattva Motivation 60 min. Mettert VHS 3119
Bombay Talkie 115 min. Ivory VHS 3210
Buddhism, Man, and Nature 12 min. Watts VHS 3136
Buddhism: Path to Enlightenment 30 min. Hartley VHS 1960
The Burmese Harp 116 min. Ichikawa VHS 0756
Circles-Cycles: Kathak Dance ** 28 min. Gottlieb VHS 5131
The Colonial Idea 60 min. Galbraith VHS 0293
The Courtesans of Bombay 74 min. Merchant VHS 3215
Dadi's Family ** 59 min. Camerini VHS 0434
Deity Yoga 60 min. Dalai Lama VHS 3120
Emptiness and Great Compassion 90 min. Dalai Lama VHS 3116
Evolution of a Yogi 27 min. Hartley VHS 3898
Faces of Man: Southwest Asia 25 min. Screenscope VHS 4027
Folk Musicians of Rajasthan 48 min. Jairazbhoy VHS 4429
Folk Performers of India 46 min. Jairazbhoy VHS 4431
Footprint of the Buddha # 55 min. Eyre VHS 0223
Forest of Bliss 90 min. Gardner VHS 4529
The Foundations of Buddhist Philosophy 60 min. Mettert VHS 3117
Four Holy Men: Renunciation
in Hindu Society ** 37 min. Elder VHS 5486
The Fourth Stage: A Hindu�s
Quest for Release ** 40 min. Elder VHS 5478
Gandhi 187 min. Attenborough VHS 0912
Gandhi: End of an Empire 53 min. Delannoy VHS 4518
Gunga Din 117 min. Stevens VHS 0899
Heart of Tibet: Intimate Portrait
of the 14th Dalai Lama 60 min. Cherniack VHS 6098
Hinduism and the Song of God ** 30 min. Hartley VHS 3805
Hinduism: 330 Million Gods # 52 min. Eyre VHS 0231
I Am a Monk ** 30 min. Myrdhal/Hartley VHS 4397
In Search of a Holy Man 30 min. Hartley VHS 4389
India and the Infinite 29 min. Smith VHS 3900
India, the Brightest Jewel 20 min. Tidmarsh VHS 3997
India: the Ironies of Empire 50 min. Moriarty/Roberts VHS 4106
An Indian Pilgrimage: Kashi ** 30 min. Elder VHS 5480
Islam: A Pictorial Essay 90 min. Islamic Texts
Society VHS 0017
Islam: An Introduction 23 min. Coughlin VHS 3296
Islam, The Veil and the Future 29 min. Dickerson VHS 0436
Islam: There Is No God But God # 52 min. Eyre HS 0229
Islam Today 30 min. Arnoud VHS 0110
Islamic Art 30 min. Arnoud VHS 0124
The Jewel in the Crown 752 min. Scott/O�Brien VHS 1250
Kamala and Raji: Working Women
of Ahmedabad ** 46 min. Camerini VHS 5489
Kataragama: A God for All Seasons 52 min. Nairn VHS 5272
Land of the Disappearing Buddha # 55 min. Eyre VHS 0226
Legacy, vol. 2:
India, the Empire of the Spirit 57 min. Wood VHS 6512
The Lion's Roar 50 min. Elliott VHS 1806
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer 110 min. Hathaway VHS 1804
Living Yoga 20 min. Aaronson VHS 3804
Loving Krishna ** 40 min. Ostor VHS 3391
The Mahabharata (3 vols.) 328 min. Brook VHS 6056
part 1: The Game of Dice
part 2: Exile in the Forest
part 3: The War
Mahamudra 98 min. Kalu Rinpoche VHS 3153
Mahatma Gandhi: Soul Force 30 min. Grimes VHS 0598
The Man Who Would Be King 129 min. Huston VHS 2340
Mirror of Gesture 21 min. Cornachio VHS 1323
The Nature of the Self 60 min. Dalai Lama VHS 3118
Nepal: Land of the Gods ** 62 min. Rochlin VHS 0579
NEWSTRACK, 9/88 - present 1,000s New Delhi/
(See GWIS list) min. TV Today VHS 4472
No Longer Silent ** 57 min. Deschamps VHS 3349
Ocean of Wisdom 29 min. Mehrotra VHS 5728
A Passage to India 163 min. Lean VHS 2115
Reflections on the Long Search # 52 min. Eyre VHS 0222
Requiem for a Faith: Tibet ** 28 min. Hartley VHS 1961
The River 99 min. Godden/Renoir VHS 4432
Saints and Spirits 25 min. Abbassi VHS 5983
Serpent Mother 27 min. Moore VHS 3387
Shakespeare Wallah 120 min. Jhabvala/Ivory VHS 1995
Sherpas 53 min. Ortner VHS 5950
Some Women of Marrakech 53 min. Davies VHS 3257
Song of Ceylon 96 min. Wright VHS 0845
Sons of Shiva 27 min. Gardner VHS 1838
The Sound of Wisdom ** 57 min. Brentano/Hartley VHS 4395
Storm over Asia 70 min. Pudovkin VHS 0971
The Sufi Way ** 30 min. Smith VHS 0301
Tantra of Gyuto: Sacred Rituals
of Tibet ** 52 min. Rochlin VHS 0515
Thief of Baghdad 132 min. Walsh VHS 0279
Three Paths: Hinduism,
Buddhism, Taoism 18 min. Hartley VHS 1959
Tibet: The Bamboo Curtain Falls ** 50 min. Jayston VHS 1376
Tibet: The Lost Mystery ** 50 min. Normanton VHS 1692
Tibetan Buddhism: Preserving
the Monastic Tradition ** 26 min. Bastian VHS 5476
Tibetan Medicine: A Buddhist
Approach to Healing ** 29 min. Maher VHS 0527
Timeless Village of the Himalayas:
A Pilgrimage to Deoprayag, India 35 min. Das VHS 5275
Transformations of Myth through Time� 767 min. Campbell/Cox VHS 6061
part 7: The Way to Enlightenment: Buddhism
part 8: From Id to the Ego in the Orient: Kundalini Yoga, part 1
part 9: From Psychology to Spirituality: Kundalini Yoga, part 2
part 10: The Descent to Heaven: The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Trip to Awareness: A Jain Pilgrimage ** 30 min. Hartley VHS 3561
A Veiled Revolution (Islam) 27 min. Gaunt VHS 0439
Village Man, City Man ** 38 min. Elder VHS 5479
Voices of the People: The Elections
in India, 1977 ** 30 min. Kothari VHS 5487
The Wages of Action: Religion
in a Hindu Village ** 47 min. Elder VHS 5488
Womanpower: The Hidden Asset 50 min. Hanneman VHS 1072
FOREIGN LANGUAGE VIDEOS (with subtitles)
Aboorva Ragangal (Tamil) 100 min. Balachander VHS 4467
Aparajito (Bengali) 108 min. Ray VHS 0557
The Black Tulip (Russian)� 27 min. Parviainen/
Safarov VHS 4366
Devi (Bengali) 90 min. Ray VHS 0559
Distant Thunder (Hindi) 92 min. Ray VHS 1393
Giaurvam (Tamil) 95 min. Sundaram VHS 4464
The Home and the World (Bengali) 130 min. Ray VHS 1071
Homecoming (Soviet languages)� 17 min. Chubakova VHS 5328
Kalyug (Hindi) 100 min. Benegal VHS 4100
Kathalikka Neramillai (Tamil) 95 min. Sridar VHS 4463
Mere Jeevan Saathi (Hindi) 126 min. Nagaich VHS 3394
Mirch Masala (Hindi) 90 min. Mehta VHS 4126
Mirza Ghalib (Urdu) 380 min. Singh VHS 5927
Moondru Mudichu (Tamil) 100 min. Balachander VHS 4465
Mudhal Mariyanthai (Tamil) 80 min. Raja VHS 4092
Nayakan (Tamil) 90 min. Manivannan VHS 4090
Palum Pazhamum (Tamil) 75 min. Velmani VHS 4091
Parasakthi (Tamil) 90 min. Panju VHS 4064
Pather Panchali (Bengali) 112 min. Ray VHS 0555
Prahlad Maharaja (Hindi) 99 min. ITV Productions VHS 5511
Salaam Bombay (Hindi) 114 min. Nair VHS 4751
Two Daughters (Bengali) 114 min. Ray VHS 3216
Vasantha Malligai (Tamil) 100 min. Prakashrao VHS 4466
The World of Apu (Bengali) 103 min. Ray VHS 0558
**Also part of the Center collection
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