NEPAL / HIMALAYA-RELATED FILMS
Videos, Films and DVDs available in Uris Media Center or Kroch Asia Libraries.
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| GENERAL INTRODUCTIONS | ||||
| Nepal: Land of the gods (1985) | Uris | Video 403 | 1 videocassette (VHS) (62 min.) | Examines the ancient civilization still thriving in this Himalayan kingdom, focusing on Nepal's unique mixture of Buddhism and Hinduism. |
| Exploring the Himalayas: Nepal & Kashmir (1990) | Kroch Asia | DS485.H6 E96 | 1 videocassette (VHS) (approx. 60 min.) | Video tour of Srinagar, Leh, and Zanskar in Kashmir and Katmandu, Annapurna Mountains, Trisuli River, Chitwan National Park, and Mount Everest |
| Land of the living Gods, Kingdom beneath the sky (1995) | Kroch Asia | DS493
.L36x Shelved at Asia Video #280 |
1 videocassette (VHS) (ca. 52 min.) | (interesting footage of Kumari and of Kagbeni, but dreadful commentary) |
| Journey into the Himalayas (1986?) | Kroch Asia | DS485.H6 J87 Shelved at Asia Video #249-255 | 7 videocassettes (each ca. 30 min.) | A team led by Keith Adam spent five months in the Himalayas, filming from Kashmir in the west to the remote kingdom of Bhutan in the east. |
| Destination: Nepal (1991?) | Kroch Asia | HC60.5
D4765 #2190 |
1 videocassette (10 min.) | A cultural and social tour of Nepal, with a focus on the Peace Corps presence in that country |
| HISTORY | ||||
| Spices [Mirch Masala] (1990) | Kroch Library Asia | PN 1997 M67 1990 | 1 videocassette (VHS) (98 min.) | Set in the 1940's, this film explores an Indian community's reaction to an oppressed, impoverished woman's plight involving British colony tax collectors |
| Freak street to Goa : immigrants on the Rajpath (1988) | Uris | Video 901 | 1 videocassette (VHS) (60 min.) | Profile of four men who migrated to India and Nepal during the 60's to escape Western materialism, and who chose to stay permanently in the East. |
| RELIGION IN THE HIMALAYAS | ||||
| The wages of action: religion in a Hindu village (1979) | Uris | Film 32 | 1 film reel (47 min.) 16 mm. | Set in Soyepur, a village near Benares, India, this film discusses Hinduism and how it touches every aspect of a villager's life from birth to death. |
| Exploring the religions of South Asia: #2 Living Hinduism (1975) | Uris | Video 334, #2 | 1 videocassette (30 min.) | |
| Exploring the religions of South Asia: #7 The Buddha and South Asia (1975) | Uris | Video 334 #7 | 1 videocassette (30 min.) | |
| Exploring the religions of South Asia: #8 Himalayan Buddhism (1975) | Uris | Video 334 #8 | 1 videocassette (30 min.) | |
| 330 Million gods (1977) | Uris | Video 354 | 1 videocassette (55 min.) | Visits various sites in India and observes the performance of several types of religious ceremonies |
| Valley of gods (1995) | Kroch Asia | BL2030.N3
V35x 1995 Shelved at Asia video #2857 |
1 videocassette (61 min.) | A production of Nepal TV. Captures the religious traditions of Nepal as celebrated in elaborate ceremonies |
| Hindu sacraments of childhood (1969) | Uris | Film 59 | 1 film reel (25 min.) 16 mm | Describes certain sacramental "cleansings" which mark passage from one critical juncture of life to the next. |
| Hindu sacrament of thread investiture (1969) | Uris | Film 63 | 1 film reel (14 min.) 16 mm | Explains that the sacrament of investiture is considered by many Hindus as the single most important vital event in a pious young man's life. |
| Hindu temple rites: bathing the image of god (1969) | Uris | Film 35 | 1 film reel (appr. 18 min.) :16 mm | Portrays the role of domestic worship routines in devotional Hinduism. |
| How a Hindu worships: at the home shrine (1969) | Uris | Film 73 | 1 film reel (16 min.)16 mm. | |
| Hindu ascetics | Kroch Library Asia | BL1226
.H66 1989 |
1 videocassette (48 min.) | A look at the practices of some of India's holy men--sadhus, fakirs, and yogi |
| Mahabharata (2001) | Kroch Library Asia | BL1138.25 .C49 2001 Also on VHS shelved at Asia Video #17-40 |
16 DVDs (94 episodes, 45 mins. ea.) | Presents the epic tale of the civil war between two royal houses of ancient India, the Pandavas and the Kauravas. |
| Ramayan | Kroch Library Asia | BL1139.25 S124 Shelved at Asia DVD #570-581 Also on VHS shelved at Asia Video #42-67 |
12 DVDs (2951 min.) | A video adaptation of the Indian epic poem R_am_ayana. |
| The Lord of the Dance: destroyer of illusion (1985) | Uris | Video 532 | 1 videocassette (VHS) (108 min.) | Records the annual Mani-Rimdu festival which originated in Tibet but now survives only in Nepal. Filmed in a remote region of Nepal near the Tibetan border. |
| Incarnate Buddha: kings of the dragon country : Buddhism in Bhutan (1991) | Kroch Library Asia | BQ400.B5 I36 1991 | 1 videocassette (37 min.) | A basic introduction to the history and practice of Buddhism in Bhutan. |
| Buddhism: the path to enlightenment (1978) | Kroch Library Asia | BQ882 .B92 Shelved at Asia Video #152 | 1 videocassette (35 min.) | Traces the life of the Buddha from his birth, through his years as a wandering mendicant, to his later years as a religious leader. |
| Diamond path: Hinduism and Buddhism intermingle in Nepal (1991) | Kroch Library Asia | BL1156.3
.D53 1991 Shelved at Asia Video #12 |
1 videocassette (35 min.) | A basic introduction to the history and practice of Hinduism and Buddhism in Nepal. |
| Himalayan shaman of northern Nepal (1991) | Kroch Library Asia | BL2033.5.S52 H644 Shelved at Asia Video #1733 | 1 videocassette (15 min.) | Documents the work of a shaman in Northern Nepal. Highlights his treatment with herbs, spells, and chants for a family's troubles. |
| Himalayan shaman of southern Nepal (1991) | Kroch Library Asia | BL2033.5.S52
H645 Shelved at Asia Video #1734 |
1 videocassette (13 min.) | Documents the work of a "curer" in a remote village in Southern Nepal. Highlights the herbs, spells and potions he uses, the types of clients he helps, and the role he plays in the everyday life of the villagers. |
| Shamans of the blind country (1991) | Kroch Library Asia | BL2370.S5
S53 Shelved at Asia Video #129-131 |
3 videocassettes (224 min.) | The film pursues the main features of the Great Inner Asian tradition of shamanism, as preserved in the secluded society of the Northern Magar in Central West Nepal. |
| Buddhism comes to America (1990) | Kroch Library Asia | BQ732
.B92 1990 Shelved at Asia Video #153 |
1 videocassette (30 min.) | Dr. Richard Clarke, spiritual head of the Living Dharma Center, talks about what attracted him and his students to Buddha and what Buddhism means to him. |
| Damu tian zang tai = Celestial burial (2001) | Kroch Library Asia | On order | A documentary film about the Tibetan celestial burial in Damu Monstery of Tibet. | |
| Heart of Tibet (1991) | Kroch Library Asia | BQ7935.B777
H43 |
1 videocassette (60 min.) | An intimate portrait of the 14th Dalai Lama during a visit to Los Angeles. |
| Buddhism: the great wheel of being (2000) | Kroch Library Asia | BQ349.S5
B83 200 Shelved at Asia video #2652 |
1 videocassette (52 min.) | This program presents the tenets and history of the belief system founded on the teachings of Buddha as practiced in Sikkim. |
| PEOPLES AND LIFEWAYS | ||||
| Sherpas: the Himalayas' conqueror (1995) | Kroch Library Asia | DS493.9.S5
S54 1995 Shelved at Asia video #2865 |
1 videocassette (45 min.) | Examines the changing face of Sherpa society. |
| Sherpa (1984) | Uris | Video 345 | 1 videocassette (28 min.) | Through observing the experiences of one family, looks at the life, traditions, and customs of the Sherpas of Nepal. |
| Sherpas (1981) | Uris | Video
578 |
1 videocassette (VHS) | This program looks at the contrasting lives of three brothers from Thami: a farmer, a Buddhist monk, and an expedition guide. |
| Gurkha country (1991) | Kroch Library Asia | DS493.9
M3 G973 1991 Shelved at Asia Video #281 |
1 videocassette (19 min.) | Narrated by anthropologist John Hitchcock, this film documents a field trip by Dr. Hitchcock and his wife Patricia as they travel to a mountain community of the Magar people in Nepal. |
| Himalayan farmer (1991) | Kroch Library Asia | HD8039.F3
N35 Shelved at Asia Video #746 |
1 videocassette (16 min.) | Documents the life of a Himilayan farmer and his family in a small village in Nepal. |
| Between time a Tibetan village in Nepal (1984) | Uris | Video 533 | 1 videocassette (VHS) (30 min.) | A documentary about a Tibetan agricultural village, which has remained virtually unchanged for four centuries. |
| North Indian village (1993) | Kroch Library Asia | HN690.K46
N86 1990 Shelved at Asia Video #764 |
1 videocassette (32 min.) | A study of the village life of Khalapur, India, filmed between 1953 and 1955 at the Cornell University India program field station. |
| Caste at birth (1991) | Kroch Library Asia |
DS422.C3 C36 1990 |
1 videocassette (52 min.) | Examines the social conditions of India's lowest caste, the "untouchables." |
| Himalayan herders (1997) | Kroch Library Asia | DS495.8.M28
H56 1997, Shelved at Asia Video #1760 |
1 videocssette (76 min.) | An intimate portrait of a temple-village in the Yolmo valley of Central Nepal. |
| WOMEN AND GENDER | ||||
| Dadi’s family (1981) | Uris | Video 515 | 1 videocassette (58 min.) | An intimate portrait of several generations of women in a village family in India. |
| Devi: the goddess (199?) | Uris | Video 576 Also available in Kroch Asia Shelved at Asia Video #1116 |
1 videocassette (ca. 95 min.) | The father-in-law of Daya, a ravishingly beautiful young Bengalese girl, becomes convinced that she is a reincarnation of the Hindu goddess Kali. |
| Modern brides (1985) | Uris
|
in process | 1 film reel (ca. 30 min.) | |
| Moksha (1992) | Kroch Library Asia | HQ1058.515 M715 1992 | 1 videocassette (83 min.) | This video documents, through interviews, the lives of 5 Bengali widows who reside in Vrindavan. |
| India cabaret (1985) | Kroch Library Asia | PN1949 S7 I39 1985 | 1 videocassette (60 min.) | Examines the rules and double standards of India's patriachal society. Focuses on a group of female strippers who work in a nightclub in the suburbs of Bombay and the customers who lead traditional family lives. |
| No longer silent (1987) | Uris | Video 380 | 1 videocassette (57 min.) | A critical look at the traditional role of women in India, focusing on the problems arising from the dowry laws and the desire to have male children. |
| Knowing her place (1990) | Kroch Library Asia | E184
K73 1990 Shelved at Asia Video #1836 |
1 videocassette (40 min.) | The complex experience of Vasundara Varadhan, an Indian-American woman, with cross-cultural conflict and "cultural schizophrenia" is revealed through close examination of four generations of her family. |
| Father, son and holy war (1994) | Kroch Library Asia | HQ1090.7.I4
F25 1994, Shelved at Asia Video #818a and 818b |
2 videocassettes (120 min.) | Examines the connection between religion, violence and male identity in India today . |
| Sudesha (1983) | Kroch Library Asia | SD414.I5
S94 1983 Also at Uris: Video
1295 |
1 videocassette (30 min.) | From one of India's leading women directors comes this story of an Indian woman whose active participation in the Chipko movement challenges the rules of Indian society and women's traditional roles. |
| Once this land was ours (1992) | Kroch Library Asia | HD6073.A292
I44 1992 Shelved at Asia Video #736 |
1 videocassette (18 min.) | A poetic documentary about women agricultural workers in India and their struggle to provide for their families. |
| The witch!: myth or reality? (1999) | Kroch Library Asia | In Process | 1 videocassette (ca. 37 min.) | On witch craft and social condition of women in Nepal. |
| We know how to do these things: birth in a Newar village, Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, December 17, 1980 (1998) | Kroch Library Asia | GT2465.N35
W4 1998 Shelved at Asia Video #1848 |
1 videocassette (40 min.) | |
| Highway to hell: A film on trafficking of girls from Nepal to India (2000) |
Kroch Library Asia | Video 3770 | 1 videocassette (38 min.) | Examines the plight of Nepalese girls tricked into leaving home, often with the promise of marriage or legitimate employment, then sold to brothels in India. |
| POLITICS | ||||
| The killing terraces (2001) |
Kroch Asia | DS495.6
.K55 2001 Shelved at Asia video #3249 |
1 videocassette (45 min) | Documents the political conflict in Nepal that resulted in the start of the "People's War" in 1996. |
| The living of Jogimara | Kroch Asia | In process | 1 videocassette | A f ilm about 17 young men from Jogimara village in Dhading district who were killed by security forces while they were building an airport in Kalikot. |
| ACTIVISM, CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT | ||||
| Meena cartoon. (UNICEF 1999) | Kroch Asia | ON ORDER | ||
| Voice of Nepal (1990) | Uris | Video 899 | 1 videocassette (16 min.) | A documentary of the Nepalese struggle for multi-party democracy and human rights |
| ENVIRONMENT | ||||
| Forest managers of hindu kush Himalaya (1998) (ICIMOD) | Kroch Asia | TD171.5.H54 F67 1998a Shelved at Asia video #1008 |
1 videocassette (40 min.) | Coverage of an environmental protection program for the forests of the Hindu Kush region of the Himalayas. |
| Community forestry, the language of life (1996?) | Library
Annex |
SD657.H5 C66 1996a | 1 video cassette (21 min.) | |
| Mountain risk engineering (1991) | Library Annex | TE229.8 M68 1991a | 1 videocassette (23 min.) | A film on the application of risk engineering for promoting environmentally sound road construction in the Himalayas. |
| Nepal: on top of the world c1990, 1996 | Kroch
library |
HC
425 N473 #710 |
1 videocassette (25 min.) | Deforrestation |
| Turf Wars conservation claims in the Great Himalayan National Park (2001) |
Kroch Library Asia | QL84.5.I4
T87 2001a Shelved at Asia video #1356 |
1 videocassette (38 min.) | Explores the conflicts around conservation and development from the perspectives of local villagers, Forest Department officials, biologists and engineers. |
| Nepal at risk : Community Development and the Environment (1993) | Kroch Library Asia | HD75.6
.N47 1993 Shelved at Asia Video #725 |
1 videocassette (50 min.) | Examines the impact that economic development has had on Nepal's environment and studies efforts being made to encourage sustainable development. |
| MOUNTAINS AND MOUNTAIN CLIMBING | ||||
| Annapurna, a woman's place (1980) | Kroch Library Asia | GV199.44.N462
A562 1980 Shelved at Asia video #688 |
1 videocassette (45 min.) | Documents the American Women's Expedition to Annapurna, the first Americans and the first women to ascend the world's 10th highest mountain, Annapurna, Nepal. |
| Adventure: fishing in the Himalayas | Kroch Library Asia | SH667.H5 F63 | 1 videocassette (58 min.) | |
| Trekking in Nepal | Uris | Video #1031 | 1 videocassette (13 min.) | Travelogue advertising trekking tours of Nepal organized by Mountain Travel. Follows one trek from Kathmandu to Gokyo Ridge in the Himalayas. |
| NEPALI MOTION PICTURES | ||||
| ¯Andh¯i ber¯i : Nep¯al¯i kath¯anaka calacitra = Aaandhee beree (1999) | Kroch Library Asia | In process | 1 videocassette | |
| Basant¯i h¯av¯a / Y¯adava Kharelak¯a calacitrak¯a g¯itaharu ; sang¯itak¯ara ´Sambh¯ujita B¯asakot¯a | Kroch Library Asia | In process | ||
| Lobh¯ip¯ap¯i [videorecording] / patakath¯a, g¯ita, tath¯a nirde´sena Y¯adava Kharela ; sang¯ita ´Sambhuj¯ita B¯asakot¯a. | Kroch Library Asia | In process | ||
| Lobh¯ip¯ap¯i [videorecording] : Y¯adava Kharelako Nep¯al¯i kath¯anaka calacitra, 1998 | Kroch Library Asia | In process | ||
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