Friday Fun: DVD movies & TV shows
Our Law Library’s DVD collection is popular and heavily-used. Can you guess what our top 30 most popular DVDs are? (Check the list below to see how you did!) Are there DVDs that you wish we had, but don’t see on the list? Let us know of recommendations and wishes for future purchases – use our online suggestion form!
The Reserve Collections Room on the second floor of the Law Library houses the DVD collection. You can check out the DVDs at the Circulation Desk. DVDs may be borrowed for 14 days. There is no limit to how many DVDs you can check out.
If you have not yet done so, visit our Reserve room and browse our DVDs. To get you started if nothing leaps out to check out, here are our D’Angelo Law Library staff favorites:
- All About My Mother (part of Viva Pedro: The Almodóvar Collection)
- Battlestar Galactica (TV series)
- Blade Runner
- The Bourne Identity
- The Bourne Supremacy
- The Bourne Ultimatum
- Callan (TV series)
- Cat People (1942)
- Chinatown
- Cooley High
- Criminal Minds (TV series)
- Dead Man
- Fiddler on the Roof
- The Good, the Bad, the Ugly
- H.P. Lovecraft’s Re-Animator
- High Fidelity
- Inspector Alleyn Mysteries (TV series)
- It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
- Jacob’s Ladder
- Let the Right One In (Lat den ratte komma in)
- My Neighbor Totoro
- North By Northwest
- The Princess Bride
- Rashomon
- Sherlock Holmes
- Six Feet Under (TV series)
- The Spanish Prisoner
- What’s Up, Doc?
- The Wire (TV series)
The Muriel & Maurice Fulton Law Library Fund enables us to purchase many of our movies. We started purchasing recreational DVDs in 2006 and now have over 1800 DVDs in our collection. Among them are action flicks, foreign-language films, rom-coms, and cult classics. We have TV series such as The Wire, Freaks and Geeks, The Office, and How I Met Your Mother. We have great UK series such as Foyle’s War, MI-5 (aka Spooks), Callan, Downton Abbey. We have serious law-related movies and TV shows, including the ABA Journal’s 25 Greatest Legal Movies and movies on foreign and international legal themes. Thanks to a gift from the LL.M. Class of 2011, we are starting to buy favorite foreign films on DVD.
The Law Library recently acquired DVDs of the Geoffrey Baer tours around Chicago which originally aired on WTTW11. The “Hidden Chicago” video tour in particular highlights the University’s “Nuclear Energy” sculpture and Rockefeller Chapel. “Ghost signs.” And a cowpath in the Loop!
We also add movies filmed in Chicago to our DVD collection. For example, we have Dark Knight, Eight Men Out (White Sox scandal), The Blues Brothers, The Untouchables, Batman Begins, Music Box, The Lake House, A Raisin in the Sun, Ocean’s Eleven, Barbershop (and Barbershop II), and I, robot. And The Good Wife.
We also have movies filmed in Hyde Park:
Our most popular DVDs in recent years include Big Love, True Blood, Six Feet Under, Arrested Development, The Adventures of Indiana Jones, the Man with No Name trilogy, and the Lord of the Rings trilogy. And, did you guess correctly? Our top 30 all-time highest circulating DVDs are:
