Jacqueline Solis
Librarian for American Studies
jsolis@email.unc.edu
919.962.1151

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Making your own documentary film

Visual Storytelling: The Digital Video Documentary, an easy-to-read how-to guide for making low-budget documentaries by Nancy Kalow from the Center for Documentary Studies. Lots of practical advice.

Films

1920's

Our Hospitality (Academy Award Winner for Best Actor - Buster Keaton); 65-V2395
Coquette (Academy Award Winner for Best Actress - Mary Pickford); 65-V4358

1930's

Jezebel (65-V358; 65-DVD1818)
Gone with the Wind (65-V621; 65-DVD49)

1940's

The Little Foxes (65-V725; 65-DVD1811)
All the King's Men (Academy Award Winner - Best Picture); (65-V1058, 65-DVD741)

1950's

Baby Doll (65-V788; 65-DVD3020)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (65-V53; 65-V1438; 65-DVD1127; 65-DVD3127)
A Street Car Named Desire (65-V159; 65-DVD1819; 65-DVD3126)

1960's

Cool Hand Luke (65-DVD5015)
Screenplay - PN1997.T593 1962a)
In the Heat of the Night (65-V400; 65-DVD577)
Cape Fear (65-V3428)

1970's

Deliverance (65-V10; 65-DVD573; Screenplay - PN1997.D4229 1971a)
Nashville (65-V3; 65-DVD2369)
Norma Rae (65-V197; 65-DVD1156)
Where the Lilies Bloom (65-V9863)
The Jerk (65-V2858; 65-DVD361)
Smokey and the Bandit (65-V5)
Pretty Baby (65-V850)

1980's

Crimes of the Heart (65-V1439; Screenplay - PN1997.C863 1986a)
Driving Miss Daisy (65-V2569; 65-DVD1816; Screenplay - PN1997.D77 1988a)
Places in the Heart (65-V699; 65-DVD1814; Screenplay - PN1997.P51553 1983a)
The Trip to Bountiful (65-V1269; Screenplay - PN1997.T686 1985a)
Steel Magnolias (65-V2518; 65-DVD379; Screenplay - PN1997.S674 1988a)
Bull Durham (65-V1950; Screenplay - PN1997.B7926 1987a)
The Big Easy (65-V1683; Screenplay - PN1997.B4285 1985a)
School Daze (65-V1931; 65-DVD520)
Mississippi Burning (65-V2207)
Coal Miner's Daughter (65-V1550; Screenplay - PN1997.C66335 1979a)
The Color Purple (65-V1435; 65-DVD1119; Screenplay - PN1997.C7256 1985a)
Miss Firecracker (65-V2444)

1990's

Ballad of the Sad Café (65-V3429)
Cookie's Fortune (65-V7515)
Fried Green Tomatoes (65-V3517; Screenplay - PN1997.F7375 1991a)
The Gingerbread Man (65-V6996; 65-DVD1502)
The Long Walk Home (65-V3040; Screenplay - PN1997.L695 1988a)
The Man in the Moon (65-DVD2095)
Cape Fear (remake) (65-DVD3858; Screenplay - PN1997.C2775 1990a)
Sling Blade (65-V6341; 65-DVD1102)
Forrest Gump (65-V4941; Screenplay - PN1997.F58 1993a)
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (65-V7732; 65-DVD335)
The Waterboy (65-V7215)
My Cousin Vinny (65-V5332)
Mississippi Masala (65-V3550)

2000's

Junebug (65-DVD2843)
The Ladykillers (remake) (65-DVD1851)
O Brother, Where Art Thou (Based on Homer's Odyssey) (65-V8389; 65-DVD909; Screenplay - PN1997.O145 1999a)
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (65-V8480; 65-DVD1015; Screenplay - PN1997.D5385 2000a)
Drumline (65-DVD3568)
Sweet Home Alabama (65-DVD1097)
Big Fish (65-DVD1572)
Cold Mountain (65-DVD1762)
Monster's Ball (65-V8417; 65-DVD937; Screenplay - PN1997.M673 2001a)
The Notebook (65-DVD2124)
Because of Winn-Dixie (65-DVD2435)

Documentaries

100 Proof (65-V9352)
Alan Lomax: American Patchwork, a collection of Lomax's music shoots in Mississippi, Appalachia, and New Orleans, 1978-1983
All Day and All Night: Memories from Beale Street Musicians (65-V4022)
America 's Castles. Grand Plantations (65-V4191)
Among Brothers: Politics in New Orleans (65-V1611)
The Art & The Artisans of Southern Furniture (65-V9783)
Blues Like Showers of Rain (65-V4153)
Boneshop of the Heart: Folk Offerings from the American South (65-V4144)
Bright Leaves (65-V9161)
Brother Outsider: The Life of Baynard Rustin (65-V9072)
Built on the Rock: old country churches of the Southern Appalachians (65-V8977)
Cajun Country: Don't Drop the Potato (65-V4019)
Carter Family: Sara and Maybelle (65-V4003)
Catfish, Man of the Woods (65-V4046)
Chairmaker (65-V4178)
Dr. Frank: The Life and Times of Frank Porter Graham (65-V4905)
Engineering Disasters: New Orleans (65-DVD3238)
Fast Food Women (65-V4067)
February One (65-V9207)
Fixing to Tell About Jack (65-V4044)
Go Fast, Turn Left: Voices from Orange County Speedway (65-V4250)
Greensboro: Clash with the Ku Klux Klan (65-V4233)
Gullah Tales (65-V4005)
Harlan County , U.S.A. (65-V187)
The Highwaymen: Florida 's Outsider Artists (65-DVD2427)
Jazz Parades: Feet Don't Fail Me Now (65-V4016)
The Jolo Serpent Handlers (65-V6230)
Land of Promise: The Jews of South Carolina (65-V8886)
Last of the Mississippi Jukes (65-DVD2595)
A Man Named Pearl (65-DVD7241)
Ray Lum, Mule Trader (65-V4010)
Sermons and Sacred Pictures (65-V4089)
Shalom Y'all: The Documentary Film (65-DVD2370)
Smokestack Lightning: A Day in the Life of Barbecue (65-V9215)
Sounds of a Southern Christmas (65-V4185)
Talking Feet: Solo Southern Dance, Buck, Flatfoot and Tap (65-V4100)
Tell About the South: The Story of Modern Southern Literature (65-V7154)
Three Mountain Tales (65-V4034)
Tobacco Money Feeds My Family (65-DVD2762)
Tribute to Carl Perkins (65-V4075)
Voices of North Carolina: Language, Dialect, and Identity in the Tarheel State (65-DVD2206)
Where Are We? : Our Trip through America (65-DVD3327)

Television

Hee Haw
Beverly Hillbillies
The Waltons
Petticoat Junction
The Andy Griffith Show

Andy Griffith Papers, 1949-1997,
This collection contains films, videotapes, and scripts from Andy Griffith's television shows including The Andy Griffith Show and Matlock. There are also films of Griffith's motion pictures A Face in the Crowd, No Time for Sergeants, and Onionhead; scripts for The Andy Griffith Show, Mayberry R.F.D., Matlock, and other productions; photographs of Griffith; letters from Griffith to his parents while a student at the University of North Carolina; audio discs by and belonging to Griffith.