Visual Media
From ancient times to the present day, the culture of Greece in art, music, performance, literature, and dance have captivated the world. Please consider visiting our online video streaming media resources that have material on Greek culture as well as the DVDs and video tapes in the library catalog.
Suggested Subject Headings
These subject headings can be used to search our library catalog using a "Subject" search. All subject headings are from the Library of Congress.
Motion Pictures, Greek
Foreign Films
Foreign Language Films
Films
Additionally, you can start a search on a type of film (action adventure) and narrow by format (movie) and language (Greek, Modern (1453-)).
Films in the Catalog
Clash of the titans [videorecording]Publication Date: 2010Location: Undergraduate Media Collection
Call Number: DVD PN1997.2 .C53746 2010
Also available at Residence Hall libraries. Catalog summary: The 1981 mythological fantasy adventure Clash of the Titans is resurrected in this remake from Incredible Hulk director Louis Leterrier. Discovered at sea as an infant by a weary fisherman, demigod Perseus (Sam Worthington) grows up with no real knowledge of his celestial origins until his watchful guardian, Io (Gemma Arterton), informs him that he is the offspring of Zeus (Liam Neeson). When Zeus' brother Hades (Ralph Fiennes) casually wipes out Perseus' family, the grieving son vows to show the gods just what kind of damage humankind can inflict on its creators.
300 [videorecording]Publication Date: 2007Location: Undergraduate Media Collection
Call Number: DVD PN1997.2 .T474448 2007
Copies also available at Residence Hall Libraries. Catalog summary: In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army in the mountain pass of Thermopylae. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the enemy in one of the most famous last stands of history.
Athens [videorecording] : The Dawn of DemocracyPublication Date: 2007Location: Undergraduate Media Collection
Call Number: DVD DF277 .A84 2007
Catalog summary: Historian Bettany Hughes goes on search of the real truth about democratic Athens, 2500 years ago. It has been revered as the birthplace of philosophy, art, science and the greatest political idea of all time; democracy.
Secrets of the Parthenon [videorecording]Publication Date: 2008Location: Undergraduate Media Collection
Call Number: DVD DF287.P3 S43 2008
Catalog summary: For 25 centuries the Parthenon has been shot at, set on fire, rocked by earthquakes, looted for its sculptures, and disfigured by misguided restorations. Now, a team of architects and engineers is investigating the many mysteries of this icon of Western civilization : How did the ancient Greeks design and build their masterpiece so quickly?- To telefteo psemma [videorecording] = A matter of dignity / byPublication Date: 1991Location: Oak Street Library [request online]
Call Number: VIDREC 791.4372 T555
A girl from a wealthy family on the verge of bankruptcy is forced to marry a boring Greek-American millionaire whom she fundamentally despises.
Notes: Videocasette release of 1957 motion picture, made in Greece. In Greek, with English subtitles. - Young Aphrodites [videorecording] byPublication Date: 2007Location: Undergraduate Media Collection
Call Number: DVD PN1997 .Y686437 2007
Skymnos, a young shepherd's son, falls in love with a young girl. When another shepherd kidnaps the young girl for himself, Skymnos wants to die in the waves. Based on the Greek myth of Daphnis and Chloe.
Greek dialogue; English subtitles. 
To vlemma tou Odyssea [videorecording] = Ulysses' gaze / by Call Number: 1997Location: Oak Street Library [request online]
Call Number: VIDREC 791.43658 T55
Traces the journey of a Greek-American director across the Balkans in search of several lost reels of film shot by the Manakia Brothers, who were pioneers of cinema in that part of the world. In English and Greek with Greek subtitles.- Angel [videorecording] byPublication Date: 2000Location: Undergraduate Media Collection
Call Number: DVD PN1997 .A5445 2000
Angel, a young handsome Athenian attempts to escape his abusive alcoholic father and the grinding poverty of his daily life by falling in love with a macho sailor. But survival on the margins proves risky and difficult so Angel's lover persuades him to work the streets as a transvestite prostitute.