Locating Films at Columbia University

Films held in the Columbia Libraries are primarily VHS, Laserdisc and DVD formats.

Locate films in CLIO by using the following suggested searches:

Title:
Enter the title and select “Title Search”
Use the Quick Limit “Video Recordings”

Author:
You can use the author search for director, producer, screenwriter, actors (generally principal actors)
Note: Quick Limit does not apply to this search

Keyword:
Use keyword if you recall only a part of the title or if you want to pair a director and title
Use the Quick Limit "Video Recordings"
Example: kurosawa samurai dvd

Browse film titles:
A useful search for browsing is subject heading search.
You can browse a listing of all of our feature films, documentary films, foreign language films.

Here are a few subject headings :

• Feature films


• Foreign films


• Documentary films


• Comedy films


• Historical films


• Horror films

For foreign language films:
Subject headings include:

• motion pictures, spanish (or any applicable language)

Or,

• 
  Use the “Pre-Select Limits” option to select a language, e.g., “Spanish”
  Perform a keyword search on the word “films”
  Select the Quick Limit “Video Recordings”
  
  Perform a keyword search for the word "videorecording"
  Narrow your search by adding additional keywords: "videorecording and